Theos-Talk Archives (May 2006 Message tt00334)

Daniel Caldwell, 


You should make false dollar bills circulate, so that people have a chance to freely decide which are true, which are false. 

In a drug store, your should deliver both medicines and poisons to people, without labeling them correctly, so that they have a chance to choose which one they like better.

Think about that. 


Best regards,  Carlos Cardoso Aveline






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Data:Wed, 10 May 2006 16:09:39 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Delvers after Truth & "Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky"

> Delvers after Truth & "Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky"
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> ". . . . none but the logician, the investigator, the dauntless 
> explorer should meddle with books like this. Such delvers
> after truth have the courage of their opinions." H.P. Blavatsky,
> ISIS UNVEILED, VOLUME 2, Preface.
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> In regards to Carlos Aveline's comments about the accounts by 
> Coulomb and Hodgson in my book, "The Esoteric World of Madame 
> Blavatsky," I firmly believe that readers should see what the 
> charges against HPB actually were, ESPECIALLY since many of the 
> other accounts by "friendly" witnesses in my book refer to these 
> charges, and even make comments about the charges, etc. 
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> I saw no good reason to hide the "negative" accounts from readers. 
> One might conclude from his various comments that Mr. Aveline 
> doesn't want readers to read these accounts for themselves and come 
> to their own conclusions. 
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> Also by giving these accounts in my book, the reader can start to 
> UNDERSTAND THE RELEVANCE of what the other witnesses say in their 
> accounts. How can one understand the comments and the relevance of 
> the comments of the "friendly" witnesses if one does not know what 
> the "unfriendly" charges are?
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> Furthermore, I was motivated to include them in light of what Madame 
> Blavatsky once wrote: 
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> "...Contrast alone can enable us to appreciate things at their 
> right value; and unless a judge compares notes and hears both sides 
> he can hardly come to a correct decision." (H.P. Blavatsky, The 
> Theoso-phist, July, 1881, p. 218.) 
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> I wanted the reader to be able to compare notes and hear both sides. 
> What is wrong with that? 
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> Doesn't Mr. Aveline want readers to do their own comparing of notes, 
> etc.? 
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> And the editorial notes in my book do call the reader's attention to 
> the conflicting testimony and even to the falsity of the charges 
> against HPB. 
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> Here are some of the editorial notes to the readers: 
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> p. 185: "Her phenomena and the reality of her teachers were both 
> controversial matters, eliciting both believing acceptance 
> (sometimes with independent confirmation) and skeptical rejection, 
> as the following selections will illustrate." 
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> p. 205 "Emma Coulomb later claimed that she collaborated with HPB at 
> Adyar, as she had earlier in Bombay, in producing false phenomena, 
> however her descriptions of what she did are not consistent with the 
> observations of others, who witnessed the phenomena, both Indian and 
> Westerners, as some of the following selections demonstrate." 
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> p. 263: "Meanwhile, a vicious attack on Blavatsky by two of her 
> staff members at Adyar, Alexis and Emma Coulomb, was rapidly 
> building up. . . . She wished to sue the couple, already dismissed 
> from Adyar for their gross libel concerning her supposedly 
> fraudulent production of psychic phenomena. . . . " 
> 
> p. 264: "The Coulomb attack, as was later evident, had no solid 
> foundation whatsoever. It was based on forged and partially forged 
> letters, purporting to have been written by H. P. Blavatsky, with 
> instructions to arrange fraudulent psychic phenomena of various 
> kinds." 
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> p. 264: "In 1963, Adlai Watermam refuted Hodgson's contentions 
> against Madame Blavatsky. . . .Another refutation of some of 
> Hodgson's charges against HPB is Vernon Harrison's 
> article, "J'Accuse: An Examination of the Hodgson Report of 1885," 
> published in The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 
> London, April 1986, pp. 286-310. . . .) 
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> p. 406: "In May 1884, the Coulomb couple were expelled from the 
> Theosophical Society for theft, attempted extortion and 
> slander. . . . " 
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> Furthermore, I specifically selected the material by Coulomb and 
> Hodgson to put in JUXTAPOSITION with other accounts which show that 
> what they (Coulomb and Hodgson) say about, for example, the 
> appearances of the Masters, must surely be off the mark, to say the 
> least or as I believe. . . wrong . . . false. 
> 
> If anything, the accounts by the above "enemies" of HPB found next 
> to other accounts will make the reader . . . THINK . . . about the 
> charges and their validity. 
> 
> And if they are perceptive at all, readers should (at the very 
> least) conclude that the Coulomb/Hodgson charges should not be taken 
> at face value WITHOUT carefully considering other material which is 
> ALSO found in the book or what can be found in greater detail in the 
> Waterman and Harrison books. 
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> Some of the thoughtful readers of my book may actually dig deeper 
> and try to determine for themselves what really happened....Maybe 
> one of those readers may one day write a comprehensive and 
> definitive biography of HPB.
> 
> Let me end this posting with the same quote I gave at the 
> beginning. This quote is certainly one of my favorites quotes from 
> H.P. Blavatsky:
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> ". . . . none but the logician, the investigator, the dauntless 
> explorer should meddle with books like this. Such delvers after 
> truth have the courage of their opinions." ISIS UNVEILED, VOLUME II, 
> Preface.
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> For more about my book, see:
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> http://blavatskyarchives.com/esotericworldam.htm
> 
> Daniel
> Blavatsky Study Center
> http://blavatskyarchives.com
> http://theosophy.info
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