Theos-Talk Archives (July 2005 Message tt00118)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" wrote:

> It seems to me that you are simply indulging in
> mere speculation...

First, it was in context of conspiracy theory; it is just one more.
Secondly, it was in line with the policy to ascribe the best motive, 
not the worst. Take an example with HPB. Sometimes she said one thing, 
sometimes another, and those who ascribe to her some vicious motives 
conclude that she was simply lying. Yet we say that different people 
could use her body, so is some inconsistance. It's just a probability 
and maybe even a speculation, but we readily accept it. There are many 
instances from her life which could be explained by deliberate forgery 
and deceit, while we hold other opinion.

> Here is what C.W. Leadbeater wrote in
> his book THE MASTERS AND THE PATH:

> one of the tallest of those heroes fixed me
> with gleaming black eyes, which half-frightened me,

He wrote that book at very end of his life, when he had nothing to 
lose. Do you mean that he has forged his birthdate in order only to 
mention this incident 40 years later? If it is a fancy, it would be 
much easier to invent some another incident which doesn't require 
tampering with a date. BTW, Alice Bailey wrote that Master K.H. came 
right to her home in England when she was 15.

Yet another hypothesis. Leadbeater was born in 1847 and died in the 
age of 6 or so; then he at once reincarnated in 1854. It was one 
incarnation from occult point of view, for it was the same 
personality, so he didn't take a trouble to explain all that and 
regarded 1847 his true birthdate for that incarnation.

Third hypothesis is that both HPB and CWL were humbugs. It explains 
wery well why HPB welcomed CWL - she just recognized a man who was 
very akin to her. Here we ascribe the worst motive to both, so this 
theory should be welcomed by most matter-of-fact people ;)