Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00231)

Is Master Koot Hoomi a "fundamentalist"
when he writes the following:

"I dread the appearance in print of our 
philosophy as expounded by Mr. H[ume]. 
I read his three essays or chapters on 
God (?) cosmogony and glimpses of the 
origin of things in general, and had to 
cross out nearly all. He makes of us 
Agnostics!! We do not believe in God 
because so far, we have no proof, etc. 
This is preposterously ridiculous: if he 
publishes what I read, I will have H.P.B. 
or Djual Khool deny the whole thing; as I 
cannot permit our sacred philosophy to be 
so disfigured. He says that people will not 
accept the whole truth; that unless we humour 
them with a hope that there may be a 'loving 
Father and creator of all in heaven' our philosophy 
will be rejected a priori. In such a case the less such idiots hear 
of our doctrines the better for both. If they do not want the whole 
truth and nothing but the truth, they are welcome. But never will 
they find us -- (at any rate) -- compromising with, and pandering to 
public prejudices." 
Master Koot Hoomi, The Mahatma Letters, 2nd ed., Letter 54