Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00078)

Daniel,

But is it not a collation made up by you? 

Or else, where has the letter been published, please?

There is an ocean of difference between "a collation from various sources" and a Letter from a Master,  agree? 

Carlos. 

 
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Data:Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:07:41 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Quibbling over the word "Letter"?????

> Jake,
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> In your latest posting, you write:
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> (Note: there is no "concentration-letter," but only his [Dan's] 
> compilation from various sources which he [Dan] _calls_ a letter!)
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> Well, readers should be aware that I am not the only one TO CALL it 
> a letter! 
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> Turn to page 696 of Volume XII of HPB's COLLECTED WRITINGS 
> edited by Boris de Zirkoff.
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> In the text of ES Instruction # 5, the quotes on concentrating "on 
> the Master as a Living Man within you", etc. are said to be from a 
> LETTER. 
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> "The above-quoted letter says:...."
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> Among Mrs. Alice Cleather's papers is a document titled:
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> "From a Paper of Notes made from a Master's Letter."
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> This document includes the three KH quotes from ES Instruction #5 
> PLUS more KH attributed passages on concentration and meditation.
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> Basil Crump, Mrs. Cleather's trusted colleague, in an article in THE 
> CANADIAN THEOSOPHIST, August 1942 writes:
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> "The Master K.H., in a LETTER on the difference between the 'White 
> Gelugpas' and the 'Black Dugpas', says : 'It is impossible to 
> worship both sides of Nature at once..... '" caps added.
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> This quote given by Crump is from the same "letter" that we have 
> been discussing!!
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> C. J. Ryan, who wrote the book "HP Blavatsky and the Theosophical 
> Movement - Historical Sketch" (published in different editions by 
> both Theosophical University Press and Point Loma Publications) had 
> a copy of this KH material and at the end of Ryan's copy, one reads:
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> "(Copied from a letter of [triangle of 3 dots] K.H. in the 
> possession of W.Q.J."
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> In my various postings, I have ALSO called this "letter" a document, 
> or a manuscript. 
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> So Jake if you want to quibble and call it something else other than 
> a letter, okay with me!
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> But if in fact you are quibbling about whether "letter" is the 
> appropriate term to use, then see Dr. Hugh Shearman's similar [???] 
> attempt to do the same in regards to "Letter" 10 (in the first 3 
> editions of the Mahatma Letters).
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> In an article in THE THEOSOPHIST, Shearman writes:
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> "Some of these unbalanced attitudes also entered the Mahatma 
> Letters. It is interesting that two of the letters in which such 
> prejudice is most clearly expressed are of dubious authority and 
> provenance. One is Letter 10 which exists only in the handwriting of 
> Mr. Sinnett and is not actually a letter but consists of notes on 
> something written by A. O. Hume. It is headed with the 
> word 'abridged'." Quoted from 
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> So is Letter 10 not actually a letter but only notes?
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> So is the KH Concentration Letter not actually a letter but only 
> notes? 
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> Daniel
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