Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01597)

>>Again, just my opinion, which is not going to bug me if people don't
> > follow it. (I'm one of the people who immediately recognized what SD
> > meant the first time I saw it as just SD, but then I've seen the book
> > (but don't own it). I think my mother might own own.
> Well, it bugs the hell out of me. The use of initials is a 19th century
> affectation, and, seeing that we're in the 21st century, it's high time
> we brought Theosophy into the 20th.
It seems we agree, if you're saying that it bugs you that people use 
initials instead of saying what they mean. Even though I knew what SD 
meant, it bugs me to see people never say the name of something that a 
visitor might not understand, because it appears they don't want 
strangers to know what it is. (Yes, I'm aware that some people studying 
esoteric topics don't want non-believers to know what they study).

However, I'm guilty of the same thing, so I certainly can't point 
fingers. For example, I remember saying HPB and CWL in the discussion 
about works by Blavatsky and Leadbeater being good or bad.

Speaking of CWL, has anyone here ever wondered if "Charles Wallace" in 
"A Wrinkle in Time" and the other three "Time Novels" ...

The Time Quartet
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0440360374/ref=nosim/recommendations

... might not be named after Charles Wallace L? I know I've always 
wondered if Madeleine L'Engle didn't use some of her spiritual beliefs 
as part of writing those books? (and her various other series, many of 
which include descendents and relatives of Meg and Charles).

I hesitate to say "theosophical" because it seems that some people are 
insisting that "theosophical" can only be used to describe something 
that agrees with certain points of view, where I've always thought of 
"theosophical" (lower case) as being a generic word, like "catholic" 
used in the creed in protestant churches. So I guess I'll have to start 
thinking of a different word, since some people have appropriated it???

Anyway, if you have not read any of Madeleine L'Engle's books (or can I 
say MLE??? just teasing), I highly recommend them. In fact, some of you 
might enjoy *Many Waters* (the fourth book), because a certain spiritual 
person that many of you have studied (or at least knew about long before 
getting into theosophy) does show up in that book by name though he 
isn't named specifically until one of his later appearances. I won't 
name him, because I enjoyed discovering for myself who that person was, 
and I think you'll enjoy discovering it yourself. (I suspected who we 
was a number of pages before he was named).

Just read the comments of other readers on any of these Amazon pages, 
though if you decide to read the books based on the comments on the 
first three, don't read the comments on the fourth, so you can deduce 
the special guest for yourself. (Hint ... it's not Jesus):

The Time Quartet:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0440360374/ref=nosim/recommendations

A Wrinkle in Time, first and possibly the best
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0440498058/ref=nosim/recommendations

A Wind in the Door
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0440487617/ref=nosim/recommendations

A Swiftly Tilting Planet
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0440401585/ref=nosim/recommendations

Many Waters
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0440405483/ref=nosim/recommendations
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