Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00429)

Katinka, Daniel and all,
In reading the thread discussions in regard to Leadbeater and the LCC i 
had gone to the posted URL for the LCC and read the Article which was indicated 
by the poster of same, but I also have then read several of the others listed 
on the Home page of the LCC. One of them:



http://liberalcatholic.org/Pub/CWL_Textbook_of_theosophy.asp



"A Textbook of Theosophy" Leadbeater 1912, makes the following unique 
characterization:



"One of these apprentices was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky – a great soul who 
was sent out to offer knowledge to the world some forty years ago."

( Chapter II, para 17)



This rather singular usage in terming Madam Blavatsky as an "apprentice" with 
a small "a" caught my mind and I wondered if this reflected an overtly 
intentional desire to diminish the Prior Agent of Theosophy, H.P.B. in the eyes of 
the then current readers in 1912? I wonder what the Mahatma's might have had as 
a response to this characterization in light that they Letters made reference 
to Blavatsky having been a Developed Adept that had residency as H.P.B. ? 



John




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