THE PURPOSE
Jun 01, 2006 10:43 AM
by carlosaveline
Friends,
What 's the purpose of the question below?
Carlos C. Aveline.
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Data:Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:42:40 -0000
Assunto:Theos-World Was W.Q. Judge doubting one of the Mahatma Letters?
> Was W.Q. Judge doubting one of the Mahatma Letters?
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> H.P. Blavatsky wrote:
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> My Dear Judge,
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> ... in your letter to him [Franz Hartmann] , of Feb. 25th [1885]
> ? (which he received at Naples and gave to me, I have it
> before me)....
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> ...What [do] you mean in your letter to H[artmann] by saying
> that you
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> "hit upon another little matter which places the
> leaders in the position that either great lies have been
> told or Mahatmas are absolutely useless as guides" ?
>
> is a mystery to me.
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> What is it that "happened in London & involved the
> reception of numerous letters from both Mahatmas" and that Mohini,
> the Arundales, O. and HPB know all about it."?. . .
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> I do not know what you mean. If you are still a friend you will
> write to me & say it; if not do as you like. . ."
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> Judge replied to HPB:
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> What I wrote about to Hartmann is [concerning] a ridiculous
> message about Holloway which if it emanated from
> a Mahatma showed lack of knowledge to say the least.
> But let us drop that....
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> Ridiculous message??
>
> Mr. A.P. Sinnett ALSO had doubts about some of the
> these Mahatma Letters.
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> Around July 19, 1884, H.P. Blavatsky wrote to Mr. Sinnett:
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> My dear Mr. Sinnett,
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> It is very strange that you should be ready to deceive yourself so
> willingly. I have seen last night whom I had to see, and getting the
> explanation I wanted I am now settled on points I was not only
> doubtful about but positively averse to accepting. And the words in
> the first line are words I am bound to repeat to you as a warning,
> and because I regard you, after all, as one of my best personal
> friends. Now you have and are deceiving, in vulgar parlance,
> bamboozling yourself about the letter received by me yesterday from
> the Mahatma.
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> The letter is from Him, whether written through a chela or not; and -
> - perplexing as it may seem to you, contradictory and "absurd," it
> is the full expression of his feelings and he maintains what he said
> in it. For me it is surpassingly strange that you should accept as
> His only that which dovetails with your own feelings, and reject all
> that contradicts your own notions of the fitness of things...'
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> Quoted from:
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-133.htm
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> Apparently Sinnett had viewed this Mahatma letter as "absurd" and
> notice HPB's words:
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> "...it is surpassingly strange that you should accept as His only
> that which dovetails with YOUR OWN feelings, and reject all that
> contradicts YOUR OWN notions of the fitness of things..."
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> Absurd? Ridiculous?
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> Food for thought.
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> Daniel
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