Theos-Talk Archives (September 2006 Message tt00501)

Daniel, Friends, 

Thanks, Daniel. 

Vernon Harrison's position would be more significant had him kown the full text of the 1900 letter, or if he was a theosophist.

The main question or issue is -- are the ideas in that letter useful in 2006-2007?


Are they meaningful  even now?  And the answer is -- they are. 

Yet those who deny the authenticity of the 1900 letter avoid that subject... 

By the way, thanks, Daniel,  for telling us that you are NOT attached to an "absolute relativism".  

That would lead you  to a kind of "TheoSophistry" (after Prothagoras in ancient Greece)  and to an "Ethical Relativism" similar to the  Sophistic philosophy  defended by Henry Sidgwick (SPR's president in 1886) ) in his pseudo-scholarly idiotic book on ETHICS.  

A book which is in print by now,  and which I had the privilege to examine rather recently.    

 


Regards,   Carlos. 



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Data:Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:26:17 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Carlos on Harrison

> Carlos, you write:
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> . . . Daniel. . . should know that V. Harrison never claimed to know 
> much of the inner side of the movement, or even about the History of 
> the Movement. Just because he did ONE important thing does not make 
> of him an infallible "Authority" on things he did not study. He did 
> not claim being any sort of Central Authority.
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> Carlos, I don't think anyone (certainly not me!) claimed that 
> Harrison was "an infallible 'Authority'" or that he is a "Central 
> Authority". I don't know where these thoughts -- that you bring up -
> - come from...
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> But I do believe he was a KNOWLEDGEABLE examiner of documents and 
> handwriting and in light of his CAREFUL and EXTENSIVE study of the 
> handwriting of the Mahatma letters and also in light of his 
> SIGNIFICANT and IMPORTANT conclusions concerning H.P. Blavatsky in 
> relation to the letters of the Mahatmas, his comments about the 1900 
> KH letter should give us serious PAUSE and reflection.
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> Again Carlos you write:
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> . . . The situation entirely changed with the publication of the 
> FULL TEXT in 1987. I dont think Vernon Harrison had any strong 
> idea of what the Esoeric Section was or is about. He cerainly did 
> NOT read the FULL text of the 1900 letter. Therefore his opinion 
> is outdated.
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> I would be very careful about making such pronouncements such as:
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> "He cerainly did NOT read the FULL text of the 1900 letter."
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> Some of my associates were in correspondence with Harrison in the 
> late 1980s and the full KH letter was known to him.
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> And Harrison's statement about the handwriting of this letter does 
> not depend on the full text. There was enough handwriting available 
> for Harrison to make an adequate comparison. He was even willing to 
> state that the letter was a FORGERY.
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> Again Harrison did not need to know anything about the esoteric 
> section in order to give his expert opinion about the handwriting 
> and style of the 1900 KH letter. His expertise was in documents and 
> handwriting and his opinion was on those aspects.
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> So readers might be somewhat cautious of your statement that "his 
> opinion is outdated."
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