Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00301)

Ali 
The book you referred was " saved by a Spirit" .
In this book he describes the fight for surviving in a jungle where the english were building a railroad.
By the description seems either Guatemala, Peru or Bolivia.
Fantastic: Some years ago I read it and found much inconsistency and a ficctional flavor in the entire book.
If CWL proclaimed that these books were educational - theosophically speaking - he´d better confess that much was ficction, because many get their first introduction to Theos. by his works.So gess how mistaken may the beginners be?!
I don´t believe that the totality of his book is a lie, as much as don´t believe that the entire SD have no faults.
The comparison is rough but everything which men write has its percentage of inaccuracy.
Man lies, Nature doesn´t.
No matter how well informed, evr´ything that gets out of his brain, is aninterpretation.

Krishtar



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Ali wrote (among other things)

>....He told Jinarajadasa, and later Annie Besant, that 
the boy was the reincarnation of his younger brother Gerald who had 
died in an encounter with bandits in South America in 1862 when CWL 
was 15. He also told the same story in print although I don't 
recall the title in which it appeared. Problems with the story: CWL 
had no brother Gerald, had never been to South America, and was only 
8 in 1862. ....



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