Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00140)

Friends,


Perhaps Daniel is repeating himself a little bit,

as he tries to make  my writings better known.

Haven't you seen this message before?

Peace to him and to all beings,

Carlos.



> From: "danielhcaldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Theos-World Has the Edmonton Theosophical Society created bad 
> "karma".....?
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:57:33 -0000
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> Has the Edmonton Theosophical Society in Canada
> created bad or negative "karma" for publishing the entire
> pamphlet of Emma Coulomb's "lies against the Masters
> and HPB"?
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> Carlos Aveline wrote some interesting thoughts
> about "karma".  Notice how he phrases his words:
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> The disgusting material [in THE ESOTERIC WORLD
> OF MADAME BLAVATSKY compiled by Daniel Caldwell] 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....
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> 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]
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> 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
> "reproduction" or reprint of Emma Coulomb's pamphlet??
>
> In 1995, the Edmonton Theosophical Society (who is
> the publisher of FOHAT where the above comments by
> Aveline first appeared) REPRINTED the ENTIRE 112
> pages of Madame Coulomb's "disgusting" (to use
> Aveline's description) pamphlet.
>
> I only reprinted 3 or 4 pages of the Coulomb pamphlet
> in my book! :)
>
> It should also be noted that there are no publisher's
> comments or notes appended to this Edmonton Theosophical
> Society reproduction to indicate to readers that this pamphlet
> contains "old well-known falsehoods and proven lies"
> (again to use Mr. Aveline's phraselogy).
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> At least I added some notes warning the reader! :)
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> So would Mr. Aveline ALSO conclude that the
> "reproduction [of the entire Coulomb pamphlet] by a
> Publishing House which calls itself 'Theosophical'
> [ETS of Canada] 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" [bad or negative] for "actively
> publishing lies against the Masters and HPB"?
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> If Mr. Aveline can make the kind of comments he has
> about the Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton,
> Illinois, USA publishing my book, is he also willing to
> castigate the Edmonton Theosophical Society for similar
> if not worse actions??
>
> These are just some of the questions and thoughts that
> came to me as I seriously pondered on what Mr.
> Aveline's statements and reasoning actually mean.
>
> Daniel
> http://hpb.cc
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