Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00163)

I agree,

> From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Theos-World "...it is foolish to say that their [AB/CWL's] writing 
> depended on Blavatsky's"
> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 22:01:57 -0000
>
> Anand,
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> You write:
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> "....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:
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> "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
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