Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00867)

Gregory,

Thanks.

In fact, soon after I saw the fraud and corresponding denial strategies going on around CWL/AB, which took place by the years 2000-2001, I was contacted by a theosophist from USA who was working on the project of a biography in defence of Leadbeater. 

It seems such a project did not prosper, and for a strong reason: lack of evidences in favour of CWL.

There has been some 20 years since your book "The Elder Brother" was published. The "official" policy towards it - as towards the facts which it helps document -- is still pure denial... at least publicly. 

This won't go on eternally. 

Regards,  Carlos. 






 


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Data:Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:43:19 +1100 (EST)

Assunto:Theos-World Leadbeater's Brazilian Railways

> Carlos' reference to important reseach on Leadbeater's claims about
> alleged rebellions and railways in Brazil can be supplemented by published
> sources which show that the only railway line constructed in Bahia between
> 1855 and 1885 was that from Calçada to Paripe begun in 1856 and completed
> in 1860 by the Bahia and S. Francisco Railway Company Limited. The company
> was liquidated in 1901 and, indeed, had essentially been a British
> company. See P.C. da S. Telles "A History of Brazilian Railways", transl.
> By Paul E. Waters. Bromley, P.E. Waters & Associates, nd; J.S. Duncan
> "Public and Private Operation of Railways in Brazil", New York, Columbia
> University Press, 1932; Lucia Lamounier "The ?Labour Question? in
> Nineteenth Century Brazil: railways, export agriculture and labour
> scarcity" Working Paper No. 59/00 Department of Economic History London
> School of Economics, London, 2000.
> As I have previously commented, "historians" within Theosophical groups
> tend to be either lazy or incompetent or both (or, perhaps, dishonest) and
> don't bother doing basic research on readily available published sources.
> A quick check of published sources - in English - on Brazilian history
> would have dealt with the "rebellion" claim very quickly.
> 
> Dr Gregory Tillett
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