Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00665)

Konstantin,

Thanks. 

Of course no one is the owner of truth.

But Esoteric Science is a science, and things can be  some known. 

Many Leadbeater's books have been abandoned because their  fancies and falsehoods about going to Mars and Mercury;  about the coming of Christ through Krishnamurti;  about black people having only hatred ("The Perfume of Egypt");  about the blood-mixing of white skin people with black skin people and/or with indigenous people only combining the worst of each "race" (!) ("The Perfume of Egypt") , and so on, were just too absurd to go on publishing. 

If they were not proto-nazi, in the case os his "racial" comments in "The Perfume of Egypt". 

His  "Lives of Alcyone" is another collection of absurdities. A book which  you should read some time! 

Again, this is but my view, and  this is a dialogue. 

I am submitting things to your consideration which I consider to be facts, and which I think you can check by yourself. 

I can also give you specific bibliographical indications as to this. 


Regards,   Carlos. 





 

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Assunto:Theos-World Re:Konstantin on HPB and CWL

> Dear Carlos,
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
> wrote:
> 
> > if you have to be false, in order to get a wider public, then you
> > should forget about the wider public and keep to a smaller group
> > of persons, with truthfulness.
> 
> > Especially if your motto is "There is no Religion higher than 
> Truth."
> 
> > Out of respect for the "consumer", so to say, our
> > "product" has to be "worthwhile" and has to have "good quality"
> 
> It would be good and acceptible if we knew for sure where is the 
> truth. But we do not.
> If certain books make people more kind or open-minded, we should 
> promote them, I think, as we probably have no other criteria of truth 
> than the practical one, i.e. in which extent the teaching can decrease 
> our suffering. So on our site we keep not strictly theosophical but 
> also buddhist and rosicrucian books, as they can also help.
> I don't see that those who read Leadbeater rush into ritualism; on the 
> contrary, they try to control their character and their fear of death 
> decreases.
> When using cat metaphor (it is chinese, I think) I didn't take it 
> literally, as Christians would do, in a sence of catching the souls. 
> This metaphor originally means "anything goes", any means which helps 
> should be used.
> And I don't regard myself dishonest when I use certain books, because 
> I really don't know which is true and which is false, so I can't be 
> accused in lie.
> Some people BELIEVE that certain doctrine is truth, but as a rule they 
> don't differ much from followers of the dogmatic religions.
> It's the very fact that the Theosophical society promotes the books of 
> different doctrines differs it from many new-age sects existing now.
> 
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