Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00004)

Leon, you wrote among many other things:

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It's really quite pointless (for me) to discuss 
theosophical concepts with anyone who blindly accepts 
everything written about it by its promulgators as
being absolutely true -- since it comes from the 
mouth of supposed authorities, or people one accepts as 
such... A method of learning that HPB said was an
improper way to approach theosophy -- which should 
be taken with a grain of salt, or as a theory only, 
and questioned thoroughly, until one has subjectively....

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So are you suggesting that I BLINDLY accept EVERYTHING
written about it [THEOSOPHY] by its promulgators
as being ABSOLUTELY true??? If that is your argument, 
then you simply don't understand where I am coming from.

Since you have made what many readers might take as
quite ASSERTIVE statements about what is and is not
possible including what is in Blavatsky's writings,
I thought it would be quite helpful for others readers
(if not for you) to see your statements set side by
side with various statements by HPB, KH, Judge and other early
Theosophists.

Also I was hoping that some readers might try to think
thru some of the issues raised.

Whether an individual reader accepts what HPB and KH
write or what you assert or rejects all of it or does
something else, is up to each reader......

Certainly we should ask hard questions about these
incidents involving the occult but one should also
see how these types of events fit into the Theosophical
teachings given by HPB and her Teachers. I was attempting
in some rough manner to give readers some indications
in this direction.

Certainly sometimes one should read between the lines
and look for a deeper meaning but this is no excuse
for ignoring what is repeated over and over in the
original theosophical literature.

Some of your arguments remind me of arguments made
by followers of Bailey, Leadbeater, Prophet, etc. who say you
shouldn't take what HPB and the Mahatmas say literally but
should look between the lines... At least in some of these
cases these followers are simply trying to wiggle out
of a clear contradiction between what HPB and the Masters
originally wrote and what some later claimant asserts.....

Daniel
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