Theos-Talk Archives (September 2006 Message tt00235)

Marie,

Thanks. 

First of all, I did not mention that you could comment on the TSA with an intention of being ironical.

I respect you and if we had differences of visions in the past -- my 'memory' for personal disagreements erases such past events almost as soon as they happen.    

As to Algeo's work being slanderous, I am based in the facts as he himself states them in his edition of the so-called "HPB Letters".

Acording to the informations Algeo himself provides, some 20 per cent of the "letters" he publishes in that volume cannnot be traced to HPB, but their origin is basically V. Solovyov, id est, a criminal liar as everyone knows, a slanderer called by H. S. Olcott "fifty times worse than the Coulombs" ("Old Diary Leaves"). Other false letters are traced to the clever persons of the London SPR in the 19th century,whose bias and frauds have been revealed by Vernon Harrison,  Leslie Price and other SPR members  in the 1980s. 

Having worked for ten years with an NGO on environmental law enforcement, including in the ecosystems themselves, I am used to work with evidences. I will try to bring more facts here of the unhappy and unfortunate "work" done by John Algeo.

And I do that not only because you asked me to do so.   I do that because I  hope that, if Algeo will ever publish a SECOND volume of "Letters of HPB", he will improve his work; and, if he will ever publish a second edition of that  first volume with "Letters of HPB -- False and True", he will correct some of his more slanderous editorial practices. 


As you know, Radha Burnier agreed with me that those Letters are "obviously spurious" (her words).   And the first national secretary of the Adyar TS in Brazil (not the "president") wrote a letter to Algeo with her protests over the issue.   

Among several other persons from several countries. 

I have nothing to say about John Algeo as a person. But his editorial practice has been treacherous and I would be happy to see it corrected by himself.  

Peaceful regards,  Carlos Cardoso Aveline.  


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Data:Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:05:11 EDT

Assunto:Re: Theos-World TSA'S MISSION STATEMENT

> Carlos, my knowledge about the power politics of Dr. Algeo is not 
> up-to-date, nor am I priviledged to understand his motivation in using some of the HPB 
> "Letters", which you find slanderous, and I merely find controversial. But, 
> Carlos, I have been wondering if you can provide proof positive that what you 
> have been saying about the controversial "Letters" is true? Or do you merely 
> hold an opinion, one of thousands such, without having real, verifiable 
> evidence that is required to continually make the statements that you make.
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> As to the mission statement, I do not agree with the changes that are being 
> proposed (or have been approved, I know not) because there was nothing wrong 
> with the old mission statement, nor do I approve changing the wording of the 
> 3Objects. Adyar TSA is prone to edit books that were previously written, and 
> not adding anything substantial or new to the edited versions. Perhaps, for 
> once, John Algeo wanted to stun us with something new when he put in the 
> so-called spy letters. I don't know.
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> I do appreciate your passion, Carlos. But, if you have evidence, I am ready 
> to receive it. By the way, we have met, in the 1990s, while we were both 
> attending a retreat at Krotona.
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> Marie
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> John Algeo's power politics and his slandering of HPB in the edition of her 
> "Letters" is much more important than such a re-writing of the mission 
> statement. 
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> Unfortunately, Ms. Katinka actively supported that slandering in a letter 
> published in FOHAT magazine. By adopting the Coulombs' lies and saying that 
> "HPB may have faked phonemena", Ms. Katinka was not kind to the truth of the 
> facts, nor to HPB; and she also lied in the good company of Mr. V. Solovyov and 
> like-minded scoundrels. 
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> Anyway, there still are lots of sincere theosophists in the TSA, some of 
> whom I met personally in the 1990s. Perhaps some of them -- as Marie, for 
> instance -- may give us here an inside perspective on how things are now. 
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> Regards, Carlos. 
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