Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00123)

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> I hope this lays to rest this constant bombardment of quotes that appears to 
> be, besides a confirmation of the compiler's beliefs or opinions based on a 
> literal acceptance, a more or less futile attempt to denigrate my own 
> theosophical or occult knowledge and judgment -- which may or may not be correct. But, 
> that's for each of us to find out for ourselves -- without reliance on the 
> statements or opinions of others (no matter who they are or claim to be). 
The problem is that, if you base your belief in the concepts that have 
been promulgated in Blavatsky's works and the Mahatma letters on the 
genuity of the phenomena, then any fakery in the latter implies 
falsehood of the former. Except that gets one into a conundrum, as the 
former emphasize that acceptance of the concepts should NOT be based on 
the authority of the writers, but on their own merits.

Bart