Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00742)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@y...> 
wrote:
> Now every section has its own magazine and in such magazines 
different articles are published in different languages. How you can 
conclude that the editors of all this magazines which are connected 
to Adyar refuse to publish articles comparing Blavatsky and CWL's 
teachings? I will tell you here in Greece is not the case, I was even 
asked to write about it by the editor, eventually I will.
> 
Quite right. My experience as an author has been positive with the 
national section journals of Australia, England, Scotland, and 
France. Even in the US, The Quest was entirely open and friendly to 
my ideas, which never ran into the buzz saw until Adyar and the 
American Theosophist came into the picture. Just before John Algeo 
lowered the boom he wrote me that he had not wanted to do it. One 
therefore must assume there is no top-down censorship coming from 
Adyar except in extreme circumstances. (Extreme in my case being a 
rave in the New York Times Book Review, I think, which was the 
beginning of the end.)

Certainly the section journal of the old Canadian Section had no 
problems criticizing CWL; but then that might have something to do 
with their eventual expulsion. I suspect that Perry, living in the 
epicenter of Leadbeaterism, has observed a level of sacred-cow 
avoidance in Australia that might not hold in European countries. 
But it surely would in Adyar which is another such epicenter, and 
probably Wheaton as well.

Cheers,

Paul