Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00165)

Dear Editor of FOHAT.

I have already sent one reply to certain comments made
by Carlos Cardoso Aveline in a recent FOHAT article
concerning my book THE ESOTERIC WORLD OF MADAME
BLAVATSKY. I would like to add to those comments.

Concerning certain material in my book THE ESOTERIC
WORLD OF MADAME BLAVATSKY, Mr. Aveline wrote:

"The disgusting material includes utter
disrespect for two Sacred Teachers and Their names, in
one of the libels signed by Emma Coulomb. Its
reproduction by a Publishing House which calls itself
'Theosophical' is something which surpasses and goes
relatively far beyond the limits of absurdity....
As to this kind of action, there are two levels of
karma: the karma of actively publishing lies 
against the Masters and HPB, and the karma of anyone
who knows about this and does nothing. This will not
be the karma of earnest students...." [FOHAT, Summer
2005, p. 32]

Trying to understand Mr. Aveline's reasoning in this
matter, I wonder if his above comments about "beyond
the limits of absurdity" and the creation of karma
("bad" I assume) would ALSO apply to a 1995
photocopied "reproduction" of Emma Coulomb's
pamphlet??

In 1995, the Edmonton Theosophical Society (who is
also the publisher of FOHAT) reprinted the ENTIRE 112
pages of Madame Coulomb's "disgusting" (to use
Aveline's description) pamphlet. 

There are no publisher's comments or notes appended to
this reproduction to indicate to readers that this
pamphlet contains "old well-known falsehoods and
proven lies" (again to use Mr. Aveline's phraselogy).

So would Mr. Aveline also conclude that the
"reproduction [of the Coulomb pamphlet] by a
Publishing House which calls itself
'Theosophical' is something which surpasses and goes
relatively far beyond the limits of absurdity...."????

Furthermore, would Mr. Aveline also agree that the
Edmonton Theosophical Society as publisher of this
reprint has generated "karma" for "actively publishing
lies against the Masters and HPB"?

These are just some of the questions and thoughts that
came to me as I pondered on what Mr. Aveline's
statements and reasoning actually mean.

Daniel H. Caldwell
Blavatsky Study Center
http://hpb.cc