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A Rascist Bishop

Nov 14, 2006 01:10 PM
by carlosaveline


Christina,

Talking about Wedgwood and Leadbeater? Which do you prefer? 

Carlos. 

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Data:Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:26:58 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Re: A Rascist Bishop

> What is worse?
> A racist bishop or a bi sexual bi-shop
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> Christina
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
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> > Friends, 
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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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> > NOTE:
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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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