Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00749)

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On the Honesty of the Founder:

MS. KATINKA WRITES A LETTER TO  “FOHAT”.

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Dear Friends,

Seeing that “Fohat” magazine consistenly defends H.P. Blavatsky’s  honour as 
an honest and decent woman, Ms. Katinka Hesselink, from The Netherlands, 
felt she had to interfere -- and wrote a letter to the Editor.(1)

Ms. Katinka probably calls herself a Theosophist, and certainly is a member 
of the Adyar Society, besides being, it seems, a follower of Paul Johnson’s  
ideas.

For Ms. Katinka, “the  real Blavatsky” is that imaginary and fraudulent  
person which was entirely invented by Blavatsky’s libelers. Katinka wrote:

“It is from the work of people like [Daniel] Caldwell and [John] Algeo that 
the real Blavatsky can perhaps be seen.  Blavatsky DID perform phenomena.  
She also probably faked a few.”

Who says so?

Katinka is implicitly quoting Solovyof and the Coulombs, without having the 
nerve, though, to quote them openly, as they are universally  recognized as 
mere liars.

This absence of evidence against HPB’s innocence is one of the reasons  why 
Paul Johnson, John Algeo and other libelers as Katinka herself  rather 
“suggest” that  HPB was a fraud, instead of clearly stating it. These 
persons can use only gossips and innuendos, for which there is no need  of  
evidence.

Katinka writes that “Blavatsky was no saint and never claimed to be one”.  
What does Katinka mean by the widely Roman catholic term “saint”? Is it an 
irony?

Blavatsky was not a ADEPT and never claimed to be one. Blavatsky was not 
beyond making mistakes and never claimed to be so.  But by saying that HPB 
was “not perfect” Katinka means she was “not honest”.

Well, no one can be an aspirant to lay discipleship if one is not as honest 
to himself and to others as he can.  The level of truthfulness has to 
steadily increase  if he will ever turn into a lay chela.  A REGULAR chela, 
on the other hand,  has to have an even higher level of truthfulness, which 
implies a good  deal of “viveka”, discernment.

HPB was a regular chela and more. She also an Initiate,  that this, someone 
who is essentially truthful in everyone he or she does, and has a high 
degree of  viveka, vairagya and compassion.

What Katinka is implying in her statements is that HPB was no disciple, or  
that the whole idea of  discipleship is false.  Katinka’s viewpoint  is in 
fact Solovyof’s point of view. The only difference is that this time it is 
being defended inside the theosophical movement and by the tactics of 
innuendos and “maybes”.

Katinka is projecting over HPB, as Paul Johnson and John Algeo do, the 
entire falsehood of discipleship  as it is described by C. W. Leadbeater and 
Annie Besant.  These people are trying to build an alternative image of HPB 
as an extension (in psychoanalytical terms,  a “projection”) of  Mr. 
Leadbeater’s ideas, which they have consciously and unconsciously absorbed 
and adopted as their own. (Leadbeater’s description of discipleship is 
entirely different from the one we see in the Mahatma Letters and in HPB’s 
writings -- and utterly based in his own false clairvoyance.)

Naturally, Ms. Katinka did not have the courage defend in her letter to 
“FOHAT” the accuracy of the sources according to which HPB “faked 
phenomena”.

Katinka presents herself as a modern and rational mind, yet she can’t do the 
most basic task of any real researcher: to examine the accuracy of his or 
her sources of information.  She naturally has strong reasons not to do 
that!

The motto of the Adyar Society is,  even today, “There Is No Religion Higher 
Than Truth”.

If those Adyar members who defend the idea that the founder of  the Society  
faked phenomena had any self-esteem and self-respect, they would abandon 
such a Society.

If they think a Society for Truth was created by a fraudulent woman, what 
are  they doing there?  I wonder why  they call themselves “theosophists”.

Best regards,   Carlos Cardoso Aveline, from Brazil.

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NOTE:

(1) “FOHAT” magazine, Vol. IX,  Number 4,  Winter 2005, p. 77.


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