Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00844)

What is worse?
A racist bishop or a bi sexual bi-shop


Christina









--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
<carlosaveline@...> wrote:
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> Imaginary and false: so is C. W. Leadbeater's description of inter-
racial relationships in 19th century Brazil (or any other Latin 
American country).    
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> He talks about "mutual hatred"  among  Indians, Spaniards and 
Negros.  He also says there was there was an intense hatred of these 
three "races"  together, against the "half breeds or half-castes". 
(1)   By doing this, Leadbeater  of course ignores some simple 
facts:  
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> * There are no castes and no half-castes  in South America,  let 
alone Brazil; 
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> * Spanish people never dominated the Portuguese-speaking country 
called Brazil; 
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> * Inter-racial conflicts never had that kind of collective 
intensity in Latin America;  especially not in Brazil, and even less 
from 19th century on.  
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> Yet C.W.L.  writes, at pp. 168-169: 
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> "Indian, Spaniard and Negro alike despised them [the half-castes] 
(...). So strong were those feelings that, when it came to 
enlistment in the army, the other races absolutely declined to serve 
in the same regiment with the halff-castes,  and these people 
therefore had to be drafted into regiments by themselves, so  that 
there existed in the army regiments of both types, and their 
feelings towards each other were decidedly unfriendly. At the time 
when my story begins these feelings of scarcely-veiled hostility had 
at last broken out into actual warfare." 
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> Leadbeater goes on (pp. 169-170) to describe a mutiny involving 
racial issues. This is  even less likely to have occurred than 
Leadbeater's famous `personal visits' to the planets Mars and 
Mercury, where he `saw' physical plane cities and agriculture with 
very particular details. 
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> History books and Historians  inform us there were no such 
conflicts involving Indians in Brazil. There were no racial armed 
conflicts around here from the beginning of 19th century. Ethnical 
miscigenation and cross-cultural communication   were  big enough 
to  prevent that. 
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> In another posting,  we'll see young Leadbeater, an "Initiate",  
proudly killing Indians in South America, at the age of 13.  
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> Regards,   Carlos. 
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> (1)  "The Perfume of  Egypt", by C. W. Leadbeater, sixth edition, 
TPH Adyar, 265 pp., 1978.  See especially pages 167-169. 
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