Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00851)

Daniel,

As you know, J. Algeo himself had to admit in his editorial notes that those letters ( 20 per cent in his volume) have "poor legitimacy". 

Which is a radical  understatement for "fake slandering texts".

The trick is, however, that Algeo has put these limited warnings  in such a small type of letters that rare readers will ever see them, and if they see, they will not pay too much attention to  them. 

Meanwhile, there is a policy of denial about CWL's absurdities...

So you people degrade HPB to try to put her at the moral level of CWL.

Is that fair?  Is that true? 


Regards,  Carlos. 






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Data:Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:24:24 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World "false slandering texts"

> Carlos,
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> You write:
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> John Algeo published false slandering texts as if they were HPB 
> originals.
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> You helped him doing that.
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> You created that kind of "editorial policy". Got it now?
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> Now Carlos when you write of "false slandering texts as if they were 
> HPB originals", I assume that you are referring to HPB's supposed 
> letters to Aksakoff that are found in Solovyoff's book.
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> Right?
> 
> If so, then readers should know that such writers as Sylvia Cranston, 
> Michael Gomes and Boris de Ziroff in their books have ALSO quoted 
> from these supposed HPB letters to Aksakoff.
> 
> And these three writers do NOT warn their readers that these letters 
> may contain "false slandering texts". Because of their quoting of 
> passages from HPB letters to Aksakoff, readers of their volumes may 
> get the impression that the letters are genuine and even go to the 
> Solovyoff volume for more extracts! 
> 
> It would be interesting to know what Cranston, de Zirkoff and Gomes 
> thought about your claim that these are "false slandering texts". Of 
> course Cranston and de Zirkoff are dead, but Michael Gomes is alive 
> and well in New York City. Maybe you should write to him and see if 
> he will give his considered opinion about these Aksakoff letters.
> 
> I was hoping he would have written to FOHAT when this controversy 
> first came up and give his considered opinion. Maybe he didn't want 
> to be involved in all the excitement and controversy that you and 
> Bruce stirred up with all your "ad hominem" accusations.
> 
> Furthermore, I was NOT the editor of this volume of HPB's letters.
> The titlepage reads: Edited by John Algeo.
> 
> Yes, I was a member of the Editorial Committee who assisted Dr. Algeo.
> but as far as I know, I had nothing to do with creating "that kind 
> of 'editorial policy'". Whatever you might mean by "editorial 
> policy."
> 
> As I have repeatedly said on Theos-Talk, I originally was giving 
> input and assistance to John Cooper who was at that time the editor 
> of the HPB Letters volumes.
> 
> I never once discussed with Cooper his editorial policy. I merely 
> gave commentary on various historical items, etc. etc. Suggesting 
> where he might find other HPB letters, etc. etc. And sending him a 
> few that I had discovered. etc. etc.
> 
> It is my understanding that starting with Boris de Zirkoff that 
> the "editorial policy" was to include such letters as the letters to 
> Aksakoff. John Cooper accepted this policy AS WITNESS these Aksakoff 
> letters are in his thesis at the University of Sydney and in his 
> manuscript to TPH. It would appear that Dr. Algeo simply continued 
> to follow that policy of de Zirkoff and Cooper.
> 
> When John Cooper died, I gave to Algeo the input on various 
> historical items, bibliographical references, etc. that I had given 
> Cooper.
> 
> It is interesting that in all of your emails about the editorial 
> committee on the HPB letters, that you make statements many of which 
> are plainly wrong and others that I have no idea whether they are 
> true or not. And I was on the committee! Where do you get your info 
> from??
> 
> You give the appearance that you know how this committee worked and 
> you weren't even on it!
> 
> Is this also how you reconstruct Theosophical history? The 
> implications are scary..... :)
> 
> Daniel
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