Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00137)

Anand,

You write:

"....it is foolish to say that their [AB/CWL's]
writing depended on
Blavatsky's...."

But maybe it is extremely foolish to say that 
their writing did NOT depend on Blavatsky's.....

Anand, please read the following two statements 
and tell us what they mean if they do NOT mean 
that Leadbeater and Besant claimed that
their teachings AT LEAST IN PART depended upon 
or was based upon HPB's teaching.

I didn't write these statements below. Mr. 
Leadbeater and Mrs. Besant did.

C.W. Leadbeater wrote:

"...without Madame Blavatsky...there would have
been no presentation of all this glorious teaching
[of Theosophy] to the people of the West....I should
like you to realize the fact, and to keep it ever
in your minds, that all that we have and all that
we have learnt, through whatever form it may now
be coming to us, we really owe to Madame Blavatsky...."

Mrs. Besant wrote:

"In order, then, that we may trace man's pedigree
aright, we shall do well to follow the broad outlines
laid down by that great disciple of the Sages,
H.P.B. whom here I salute, with my heart's
gratitude for the light and the knowledge that
she has brought to the modern world. At the very
outset of these lectures, I would acknowledge my
debt to her great work, The Secret Doctrine, from
which the whole plan and innumerable details are
taken; I have added some facts, filled up some
lacunae, bridged some gulfs, perhaps, but most
of the materials are here, and are drawn from
that record of her vast occult knowledge, her
giant grasp of facts."

Daniel
http://hpb.cc