Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01046)

Daniel,

Gomes can make a mistake, can't he? 

Carlos. 

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Data:Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:33:34 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Does Carlos really believe in his own pronouncements??

> Carlos sometime ago on Theos-Talk wrote:
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> Why should anyone EXCEPT a slanderer consider Soloviof a legitimate
> source of historical information?
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> But -- why USING Soloviof as a source if you are not a slanderer?
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> So it would appear that Carlos wants Theos-Talk readers to know that 
> no one but a slanderer would use the HPB letters in the Soloviof 
> volume as a source of historical information.
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> But I ask:
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> Does Carlos consider the following people as slanderers?
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> The following individuals use the Soloviof book as "a legitimate 
> source of historical information".
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> Michael Gomes in his book THE DAWNING OF THETHEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT 
> quotes from two of the HPB letters found in the Solovioff volume.
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> In each instance, Mr. Gomes attributes what is said in these two
> letters to H.P.B.
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> For example, Mr. Gomes writes (p. 185):
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> "She wrote to Alexander Aksakov in October 1877..."
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> and goes on to give a quote from one of the HPB letters in the 
> Soloviof volume.
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> 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.
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> Boris de Zirkoff in his writings does the same thing. He quotes
> H.P.B.'s words from various letters to Askakoff as found in the 
> Soloviof volume. The very letters Mr. Aveline considers false. And no 
> where does Mr. de Zirkoff in these instances warn the reader that he 
> is quoting from the Soloviof volume that contains fake HPB letters.
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> 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. And nowhere does she warn the reader 
> to beware of this letter or the similar letters from Aksakoff as 
> being false. 
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> In other words, we find these three individuals using the Solovioff 
> book as "a legitimate source of historical information".
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> SUMMARY:
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> Gomes, de Zirkoff and Cranston are quoting from HPB letters in the 
> Solovioff volume that Carlos and his team now want to REMOVE from the 
> future "abridged" volume of HPB's letters.
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> So does Carlos really believe in his own pronouncement which reads:
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> Why should anyone EXCEPT a slanderer consider Soloviof a legitimate
> source of historical information?
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> But -- why USING Soloviof as a source if you are not a slanderer?
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> Daniel
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