Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00358)

I have one question:

Would you sell the heretical CWL books ?
> :-|

M. Sufilight

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> My feeling on the matter of CWL is that he was probably a dreadful human
> being, but he was charming company and wrote fun stuff, even if most of it 
> is
> nonsense.
>
> I am more that willing to put up with dreadfulness in people if they are
> charming. After all, just because a person is a professional murderer is 
> no
> reason not to enjoy his jokes.
>
> I rather enjoy Ezra Pound's poetry even though he did propaganda for
> Mussolini.
>
> I go into near ecstacy listening to Wagner and all the nastiness of his
> personal life is never going to change that.
>
> I was, for a brief time, romantically involved with the 
> great-grand-daughter
> of Oswald Boelke, who sort of invented aerial combat.
>
> And you don't even want to think about what my friends do at the local
> dungeon every Saturday night.
>
> So, do I think that Leadbeater was a pedophile and general, all-around bad
> guy? Yes. Do I care? No, not really and there is really no good reason 
> why I
> shoud. Will I go out and burn his books? Of course not. Would I say to
> anyone, "Don't read Leadbeater because he was a bad person?" Don't be 
> ridiculous.
>
> Yes, his stuff is mostly nonsense, but we would be the poorer for not 
> having
> had it. (Think of all the jokes at the expense of the Masters I would not
> have!)
>
> He took the overblown, overly revered, Trans-Himalayan Demigods of HPB and
> transformed them into absurd figures to provide comic relief. For that 
> alone we
> should all be grateful.
>
> Chuck the Heretic
>
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