Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00105)

Compilation not a "letter"
  
   Carlos and I both criticized dan 
calling his "concentration-letter" a 
bonafide letter, because all it is, is 
his own compilation from different places.  
He says other accepted teacher letters 
aren't real letters, because we don't 
have the originals, or they were notes 
on another letter - but all his disclaiming 
examples are entire letters in one piece, origin-
ally, or copies of letters, they are not pulled 
in ands pieced together from all over.  
They all exist originally as one unit or 
manuscript referred to (with slight 
divergences in copies.)  His argument 
is no argument at all, but just another 
bit of cleverness to create a fog - again!
  
     He also claims support for the 
bonafides of the imaginary "letter" by 
the number of people who were fooled by 
it and quoted portions, or what not.  It 
doen't matter how many people were fooled.  
If they were fooled, they're fooled!  I 
notice in the latest Fohat, McDonald 
quotes the E.S. Instruction 5 portion 
of this letter on concentration on the 
"masters living image" (just another 
meat-puppet image!) - but he infers that 
it must be a metaphor for the higher self.  
Well, MacDonald is fooled also, but just 
not as much.  Why would a teacher go to
such a misleading pretext? - causing harm
if misunderstood?
                - jake j.
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  dan writes:
  
<....The original of this "letter" or manuscript has NOT been found yet.
  <But keep in mind that the ORIGINAL of a number of KH letters ARE NOT 
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE or extant.  
  <For example, take these three letters:
  The Views of the Chohan on the TS 
<http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-choh.htm
  First Letter of KH to A. O. Hume
<http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-khaoh.htm
  <Letter No. 10
NOTES BY K.H. ON A "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER" HEADED "GOD" BY HUME, 
INTENDED TO PREFACE AN EXPOSITION OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY (ABRIDGED). 
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-10.htm
  <The originals (that is, in KH's handwriting) of these three letters 
are NOT extant.  But we have COPIES of these letters available.
  <One copy of the Chohan's letter is to be found in LETTERS FROM THE 
MASTERS OF THE WISDOM, Volume 1.  Another copy is to be found in the 
British Library in THE MAHATMA PAPERS.
  <Copies of Letter No. 10 are to be found both in THE MAHATMA LETTERS 
TO A.P. SINNETT and THE EARLY TEACHINGS OF THE MASTERS.
  <Returning to the KH Letter you ask about at the beginning of this 
posting, I have several variant copies of this letter or manuscript.
  <Some copies are more complete than others. I have given some of the 
variant copies on Theos-Talk and on my website....>
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