Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00178)

Are you working with the fund for HPB's defense against Adyar's 
continued efforts to demean HPB, perhaps attempting to justify their 
own failures?  If so, I would like to contribute a few dollars to 
that defense.  Please let me know the details.    

Best regards,
Krsanna Duran

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline cardoso aveline" 
<carlosaveline@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> 
> In the year 2000, the Theosophical Publishing House/Quest Books 
published 
> the unfortunate volume "The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky", 
by Daniel 
> Caldwell.
> 
> This 451 pp. book is a collection of testimonies, false and true,  
about the 
> life of  H. P. Blavatsky.  With this book, Daniel Caldwell 
inaugurated a new 
>   "editorial policy" adopted by the Adyar Theosophical Society in  
America , 
> which consists of publishing lies and libels invented by the old 
enemies of 
> H. P. Blavatsky  and of the theosophical movement as if they were 
authentic 
> documents.
> 
> The new editorial "policy" also includes publishing these false 
accusations 
> scattered amidst authentic documents, which makes it harder  for 
the 
> unexperienced student to identify the falsehoods whose effect –  
if 
> unresisted –  would be killing HPB's memory and destroying its 
spiritual 
> vibration at the moral, ethical and occult levels, which are 
inevitably 
> interconnected.
> 
> Thus HPB's image could be apparently put at the same level as some 
other 
> "theosophical" leaders, perhaps. In the disgusting volume "The 
Esoteric 
> World of Madame Blavatsky"  – while believing  the editor has 
selected 
> truthful documents –  the reader will bump into many of the lies 
written 
> against HPB. There he will see two texts by  Emma Coulomb (pp. 35-
36 and pp. 
> 210-215) with no word from the "editor" Daniel Cadlwell admitting 
he is 
> publishing documents which have no trace of truth in them 
whatsoever.
> 
> Caldwell's book also contains two texts by Mr. Solovyov with 
attacks against 
> HPB; one false testimony by Mr. Richard Hodgson, several false 
accusations 
> against HPB made by Moncure D. Conway and many other unjust 
attacks aimed at 
> her who is not here to defend herself.  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. HPB wrote long enough in The Key to Theosophy   about 
the abuse 
> of sacred names, even when the cause of such a desecration is not 
a 
> collection of deliberate lies against the theosophical philosophy.
> 
> 
> 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. In the Preliminary Memorandum of the Esoteric 
Section 
> of  Theosophical Society, issued in 1888, Mrs. Blavatsky made an 
inspiring 
> quotation from the Book of Discipline in the schools of Dzyan and 
from a 
> letter  of a Master: "He who wipeth not away the filth with which 
the 
> parent's body have been defiled by an enemy, neither loves the 
parent nor 
> honours himself. He who defendeth not  the persecuted and the 
helpless (...) 
> has been born too soon in human shape."   I can only humbly aggree 
with 
> these wise words.
> 
> It is true that the editor of "The Esoteric World of Madame 
Blavatsky"  
> wrote at the preface of the book:
> 
> "These reminiscenses by her relatives, acquaintances,  friends,  
co-workers, 
> and enemies  give a vivid portrayal of Madame Blavatsky's 
personality and 
> allow the reader to enter into the historical milieu of her time."
> 
> But he forgot the profound difference between an enemy and a liar.
> 
> An enemy, says the dictionary, is an adversary or an opponent – 
often an 
> honest person.  A liar is a person who tells lies – or who 
knowingly helps 
> propagating them. Enemies may say unpleasant truths and we should 
be able to 
> learn from them. The problem is not with enemies, then, but with 
false 
> testimonies. The editor of  "The Esoteric World of Madame 
Blavatsky"  
> wrongly called "reminiscenses" the old, well-known falsehoods and 
proved 
> lies.  He and TPH-Wheaton considered them  beautiful enough to go 
to the 
> public.
> 
> O o o O o o O o o O
> 
> Best regards,  Carlos.
> 
> 
> O o o O o o O o o O
> 
> 
> NOTE:
> 
> The paragraphs above are part of my text "The Embellishment of 
Truth", 
> published in "FOHAT", the magazine of the Edmonton Theosophical 
Society, 
> Canada, in the Summer 2005 issue.
> 
> O o o O o o O o o O
> 
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