Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00412)

Daniel,

Here is a further example of the objection I posted to you earlier.

Jerry



Daniel H. Caldwell wrote:

> Anand,
>
> You are telling us that:
>
> "Mr. Leadbeater was far more advanced and so he 
> corrected many of the mistakes made by earlier writers."
>
> I assume you also include Master Koot Hoomi
> among the "early writers" who made mistakes. And that
> you believe Leadbeater corrected the mistakes of 
> Koot Hoomi....
>
> Am I right or wrong in my assumptions?
>
> Consider the following.
>
> Koot Hoomi in his letters supports the view of
> life after death which CONTRADICTS the one put
> forth by Leadbeater.
>
> You don't have to believe me on this.
>
> Even a member of the Theosophical Society (Adyar)
> has admitted in an Adyar TPH publication that there
> are DIFFERENCES between the after death processes as 
> given in the letters of the Mahatamas and the process 
> as given later by Leadbeater. The late Helen V. Zahara observed:
>
> "The original statements in the Theosophical Society regarding the 
> after death processes were given in Letters of the Mahatmas to A.P. 
> Sinnett. . . . One must, however, note that a different description 
> of the after death process appears in some works by theosophical 
> writers. One such exponent was C.W. Leadbeater, a notable 
> clairvoyant, who recorded what he saw of after death 
> conditions. . . . This [Leadbeater's version] would seem to be at 
> variance with the original teaching." 
> So Anand, who made the MISTAKES??? Koot Hoomi or Leadbeater? 
> Again in THE SECRET DOCTRINE, we find that H.P. Blavatsky and the
> Master Koot Hoomi CORRECTED the "erroneous notion" promoted by
> A.P. Sinnett that Mercury and Mars belong to the earth chain of 
> globes.
>
> See: http://blavatskyarchives.com/moderntheosophy.htm#2 
> This is confirmed by the Master Koot Hoomi in his letter
> to Colonel Olcott:
>
> "Since 1885 I have not written, nor caused to be written save thro' 
> her [HPB's] agency, direct or remote, a letter or line to anybody in 
> Europe or America, nor communicated orally with, or thro' any third 
> party. Theosophists should learn it. You will understand later the 
> significance of this declaration so keep it in mind. Her [HPB's] 
> fidelity to our work being constant, and her sufferings having come 
> upon her thro' it, neither I nor either of my Brother associates 
> will desert or supplant her." Letters from the Masters of the 
> Wisdom, Series I, 1973, p. 45 
> Yet years later, Leadbeater promotes this "erroneous
> notion" of Sinnett's.
>
> So Anand, who made the MISTAKES??? Koot Hoomi or Leadbeater? 
> Furthermore, how do you know "Mr. Leadbeater was far more 
> advanced...."? 
> Concerning H.P.Blavatsky's special position in relation to the 
> Masters, the following quotes from letters of the Mahatmas K.H.
> and M. indicate her unique status:
>
> "[H.P.B. is] a woman of most exceptional and
> wonderful endowments. Combined with them
> she had strong personal defects, but just
> as she was, there was no second to her living
> fit for this work. We sent her to America
> . . . . " The Mahatma Letters, 2nd edition,
> Letter 45.
>
> "... imperfect as may be our visible agent —
> and often most unsatisfactory and imperfect
> she is — yet she is the best available at
> present. . . . " The Mahatma Letters, 2nd
> edition, Letter 2.
>
> "This state of hers is [H.P.B.'s] intimately
> connected with her occult training in Tibet,
> and due to her being sent out alone into the
> world to gradually prepare the way for others.
> After nearly a century of fruitless search, our
> chiefs had to avail themselves of the only
> opportunity to send out a European body. . . . "
> The Mahatma Letters, 2nd edition, Letter 26.
>
> ". . . we employ agents — the best available. Of these for the
> past thirty years the chief has been the personality known as H.P.B.
> to the world (but otherwise to us). Imperfect and very troublesome,
> no doubt, she proves to some, nevertheless, there is no likelihood
> of our finding a better one for years to come — and your
> theosophists should be made to understand it. Since 1885 I have not
> written, nor caused to be written save thro' her agency, direct
> and remote, a letter or line to anybody in Europe or America, nor
> communicated orally with, or thro' any third party. Theosophists
> should learn it. You will understand later the significance of this
> declaration so keep it in mind. Her fidelity to our work being
> constant, and her sufferings having come upon her thro' it,
> neither I nor either of my Brother associates will desert or
> supplant her. . . . This you must tell to all: — With occult
> matters she has everything to do. . . . She is our direct
> agent. . . . "
> Letters from the Masters of Wisdom, Series 1, Letter 19.
>
> Anand, notice what Master Koot Hoomi says about Madame
> Blavatsky:
>
> "With occult matters she has everything to do. . . . She is our 
> direct agent. . . . "
>
> Yet you tell us that Mr. Leadbeater was far more advanced. How do 
> you know that?
>
> Food for thought.
>
> Daniel
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