Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00241)

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> Not to say that HPB would have had to stoop to such mundane levels. But, I 
> like to think of Madame Blavatsky, in addition to her brilliant mind and great 
> oratory, writing, artistic and musical skills, as being a real hearty, down to 
> Earth type of character who liked a good joke and playing harmless tricks on 
> gullible people. Since she easily exposed all the phony phenomena of the 
> spiritualist tricksters -- as the old saying goes -- it takes a good one to know 
> one. ;-) 
That is pretty close to my own thoughts on the matter, although, in 
addition, I think that she used phenomena, real or faked, as an 
attention getter, kind of like a speaker may open a speech with a joke 
to get the audience in a receptive mood for the real message.

Bart