Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00157)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "stevestubbs" <stevestubbs@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I found out about The 
> Elder Brother from a reviewe in which the book was treated very 
> favorably. It has been so many years I cannot for the life of me 
> remember whether it was a theosophical publication or whether I 
read it somewhere else. However I know for a fact the book was 
treated well by at least one reviewer.

All the non-Adyar Theosophists who weighed in praised it highly as I 
recall. PLP distributed it for a time. You see, to them CWL is 
fair game for criticism and investigation and they wouldn't dream of 
launching personal attacks on Dr. Tillett for his work. Such 
attacks come only from Adyar loyalists. Yet some of the same 
Theosophists who admire his work and would presumably deplore the 
way Adyar responded to it have been my most vehement attackers. 
Questioning HPB's veracity makes one an enemy of Theosophy whereas 
questioning CWL's makes one a defender thereof. Double standards 
and strange bedfellows are nothing new, but in light of the fact 
that Greg and I admire each other's books and have been mutually 
supportive I find it interesting that we've been anathematized by 
different sets of Theosophists without a lot of overlap. 

Paul