Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00478)

Dear Mr. Johnson,

I beg your pardon, since I'm a newbie here and your research is not my
daily reading, could you please answer a few short questions to avail
my humble self of the essence of your statements. Maybe you've already
created a sort of f.a.q. page somewhere, if so, then would you please
hint me at it. Here are the questions.

1. Are you trying to prove that HPB lied about the nature of her
teachers, who really may have existed?

2. Or are you trying to prove that she lied when asserting their very
existence?

3. If "yes" for 1. or 2. then what is a fact or a set of facts which
make it absolutely impossible for such personages as recorded by HPB
and termed "Masters" to exist? (Please note: I'm not asking about any
reason why things _could_ differ from the HPB's description, I'm
asking about a reason nullifying the possibility of her accounts to be
close to reality.)

4. If for 3. there is no such fact, then why so much buzz? Of course
one can treat HPB's writings as fantasies and invent one's own on the
same subject. So what?

5. Are you trying to prove that some, if not all, stuff which came
from HPB as "theosophy" is nonsense?

6. If "no" for 5. then who cares about the personages? Are you
interested in transitory persons or in knowledge which is supposed to
last much longer?

7. And if "yes" for 5. then once more: what is a fact or a set of
facts which make the tenets of theosophy incompatible with the
reality? And again I'm asking not about rivalling explanations of
things, but about observable facts _inconsistent_ with this particular
one.

Thank you.


Regards,

Vladimir