Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00027)

Anand,

I repeat what I have written to you several times:

You write: "HPB admitted she misunderstood teaching 
given by the Masters."

No she didn't admit that. She wrote:

"...I MAY have misunderstood in many a point both Master and
Old. G...." caps added.

"I MAY have misunderstood"....does NOT mean that she did
misunderstand.

She didn't consider herself infallible and she simply
admitted that she might be capable of making mistakes. 

And please consider what HPB wrote later:

"Now Tookaram writes me a letter. In it he says that S.R. told him 
he was ready to help me and correct my S.D. provided I took out from 
it every reference to the Masters! Now, what's this? Does he mean 
to say that I should deny the Masters, or that I do not understand 
Them and garble the facts They give me, or that he, S.R. knows 
Master's doctrines better than I do?...."

Read the rest of this letter and see what HPB writes.

But Anand, why RELY on what Blavatsky said in your posting or what 
Subba Row may or may not have said about the S.D. when we have the 
following assurances from the Master Koot Hoomi:

"I have also noted, your thoughts about the 'Secret Doctrine.' Be 
assured that what she [HPB] has not annotated from scientific and 
other works, we have given or suggested to her. Every mistake or 
erroneous notion, corrected and explained by her from the works of 
other theosophists was corrected by me, or under my instruction. It 
is a more valuable work than its predecessor, an epitome of occult 
truths that will make it a source of information and instruction for 
the earnest student for long years to come. . . ." Letters from the 
Masters of the Wisdom, Series I, p. 47 

Anand, you seem to want to IGNORE what Master K.H. says above. 
WHY??????? 

The Master says that the Secret Doctrine is "an epitome of occult 
truths that will make it a source of information and instruction for 
the earnest student for long years to come. . . ."

That appears to me a recommendation....and totally opposite of what 
you want to believe.

Show some examples where you think HPB made mistakes ...hopefully 
major mistakes in the SD.

A few....two or three or 5 of them. 

HPB may have made some mistakes ..... but does that negate the worth 
of the SD. 

Please ponder on what KH said in the quote I gave you earlier in 
this letter. 

Are you also trying to say that Leadbeater, for example, never made 
any mistakes comparable to what you think HPB did?

What about his observations of the inhabitants of Mars?

Anand, did Leadbeater make a mistake or two in his observations of 
Mars????

I really wonder if you have carefully thought all of this through.

Show some prime examples of HPB's mistakes and furthermore why we 
should rely on Leadbeater's writings over HPB's writings, if this is 
what you are attempting to prove. 

Daniel
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