Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01039)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@...> wrote:

> Does Carlos consider the following people as slanderers?

> The following individuals use the Soloviof book as "a legitimate
> source of historical information".

> Michael Gomes
> Nowhere when quoting H.P.B.'s words from this letter, does Mr. Gomes
> warn the reader of his book that he is quoting from false letters.

> Boris de Zirkoff in his writings does the same thing

> In her HPB biography, Sylvia Cranston also quotes from one of
> these HPB letters as found in the Soloviof book. She quotes as 
> though the words in the letter are HPB's.

I think they cannot be defined as conscious slanderers but clearly 
they are not very reliable or even somewhat unscrupulous.
After your warning we should be more careful and critical to their 
works.
Where from could Soloviov fetch the private letters to Aksakov which 
was already dead at that time? If they are in some public archive then 
the reference should be given.
Even if he posessed the original letters he had every possibilities to 
introduce slight changes or make omissions which change the meaning.

Algeo, at least, specifies the source and adds that the original is 
unavailable.