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Re: Theos-World MAGICK OR MAGIC ?

Apr 18, 2004 10:10 AM
by Bart Lidofsky


stevestubbs wrote:
It was Bart Lidofsky and not I who said she used magic tricks.
I believe that what I said was that some of the reports of her magic had details that were consistent with magic tricks, and odd if it were the real thing. In any case, I conclude from that, and her tendency to exaggerate, that she used trickery to attract attention, but I also notice that, according to all reports, she was careful to point out that these abilities were not to be taken as a sign of spiritual development (which differentiates her from a lot of others who claim their demonstrations of phenomena are proof of their spiritual advancement).

In other words, in my opinion, at the very worst, she used magic tricks to attract attention, and it was a mistake to do so. I am sorry if those who hold the doublethink belief that Blavatsky was infallible (I call it doublethink because she, herself admitted her fallibility, so to hold her to be infallible is to hold two mutually exclusive ideas in one's mind at the same time, and holding them both to be true).

Bart




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