Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00245)

If theosophy is a joke and Blavatsky was a clown, which is what most 
people believe to be true, then why take it seriously?

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> leonmaurer@a... 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