Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00145)

Interesting quote. Sure seems to suggest what you say it does. The
Mahatma Letters make it pretty clear HPB was one of a kind, and
according to The Key to Theosophy Only at the end of the 20th century
would her equal come...

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, samblo@c... wrote:
> 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:
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> 
> 
> "One of these apprentices was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky â€" a great
soul who 
> was sent out to offer knowledge to the world some forty years ago."
> 
> ( Chapter II, para 17)
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> 
> 
> 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. ? 
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> 
> John
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