Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00074)

Steve,

I see that you did not answer my recent question so I
post it again.

You once wrote:

". . . the only proof we can have of the masters' 
historical existence is testimony from a qualified 
witness, and we have that from Olcott. . . . Olcott's 
testimony is sufficient in my judgment to establish 
their corporeal existence as legal persons. . . . 
I cannot agree with anyone that they were fictions, 
fantasies, imagined beings, trance personalities, 
or any such thing as that unless the Olcott evidence 
can be satisfactorily disposed of. I raised that
question some time ago, and no one has ever addressed 
it, so for that reason I remain stubbornly convinced 
that the mahatmas were real men as they were claimed 
to be."

In light of your recent statements on Theos-Talk, do 
you now retract the above statement?

Daniel
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