Theos-Talk Archives (July 2005 Message tt00153)

 Well done!

David B.



> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" wrote:
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> > It seems to me that you are simply indulging in
> > mere speculation...
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> 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.
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> > Here is what C.W. Leadbeater wrote in
> > his book THE MASTERS AND THE PATH:
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> > one of the tallest of those heroes fixed me
> > with gleaming black eyes, which half-frightened me,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 ;)
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