Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00041)

Hallo all,

My views are:

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

Well - what about the fact that it possibly offers Wisdom ?
Something which is very absent in the Sceptic's vocabulary.


from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <leonmaurer@aol.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 4:31 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Leon, I love your "take" on the cup and saucer but
I do have a question


>
> In a message dated 06/30/04 12:23:04 AM, stevestubbs@yahoo.com writes:
>
> >If theosophy is a joke and Blavatsky was a clown, which is what most
> >people believe to be true, then why take it seriously?
>
> My tongue in cheek comment about what "I would like to think," doesn't say
> that I actually think (or know) she was a "clown" and theosophy a "joke."
Those
> are your words.
>
> No matter what some "people" (I doubt if "most" can be backed up with any
> evidence) think or believe (without direct knowledge or study) about the
teacher
> or what she taught -- theosophy stands on it own merits and has no
> relationship to the personalities of its promulgators.
>
> Besides, what reason is there to believe that HPB wasn't that sort of
person
> (or worse) before she met her Master, became his disciple, and converted
to a
> believer in the "esoteric Budhism" or theosophy taught by them. Wasn't
> Milarepa a nasty and evil black magician and a murderer before he became
enlightened
> and a saintly teacher of compassionate Buddhism as well as Abbot of his
sect
> in Tibet after his Master Tilopa died?
>
> So, even if HPB was a great jokester among her friends, and knew about and
> could reproduce all the tricks played by the phony psychics -- what has
that to
> do with the inherent seriousness of the theosophy she transmitted (as
coming
> directly from the mouths of the Masters), or her own seriousness in all
the
> commentaries and articles she wrote about it?
>
> I'll leave it to Bart to speak for himself.
>
> Len
>
> >--- 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
> >
> >
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