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Re: Walter Carrithers

Dec 04, 2006 11:27 AM
by carlosaveline


Daniel, 

If you believe that which your reproduce below, why going on with the continuous publicity to the slanders? And why working in that as a volunteer?  As a volunteer worker,  didn't you have anything else, anything better to do?

I see.  Regards,  Carlos.  


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Assunto:Theos-World Walter Carrithers about the Case Against Madame Blavatsky

> The worst onus that can be fastened upon any school or system of 
> philosophy - aside from direct devaluation of the teachings 
> themselves - is that, "it is well-known" that the school was founded 
> and the system revealed by a "charlatan, a proven imposter" or a 
> master of trickery, plagiarism and forgery. If this is accepted - 
> and, to begin with, most people today are not about to doubt 
> the "impossibility" of genuine occult phenomena and Magic -, there is 
> no use in pleading the high ideals of the school or the logic and 
> beauty of the system, since any tentative desire for independent 
> inquiry will have been killed before the prospective inquirer 
> approaches the philosophic considerations, and even if these latter 
> came forcibly to his attention, there will then be an immense barrier 
> of agitated prejudice to be battered down. 
> 
> Realizing this, it is apparently thought by detractors that if they 
> only throw sufficient mud at the woman who gave the teachings of 
> Theosophy to the world they are thereby aptly discrediting the 
> teachings themselves. And as if to counter this kind of attack, 
> objection has been made that if anyone wishes to prove that W. . . . 
> S. . . . wrote bad plays, or R. . . . W. . . . bad music, he surely 
> does not do so by endeavoring to prove that the one was a poacher and 
> the other an immoral man. Now this may be so, but, here again, we 
> have to face the unavoidable moral question of H.P.B.'s phenomena. 
> It is unthinkable that a practised deceiver, stooping low in vile 
> conspiracy to hoodwink her faithful followers by elaborate fraudulent 
> devices, would at the same time be a chosen vessel for the highest 
> kind of spiritual truth and moral guidance, or the occult-endowed 
> associate of such exalted human beings as the Mahatmas of Theosophy! 
> The mind revolts at so monstrous a reconciliation, for if there 
> are "spirit-mediums" of genuine psychic talent who occasionally 
> cheat, is it not said that they are will less automatons driven by un-
> moral astral influences? But one of the prime bases of the Theosophy 
> of Mme. Blavatsky was the reputed occult powers of its Adepts; and 
> so, if their acknowledged agent and representative had to rely upon 
> fraud in absence of such powers but in order to "demonstrate" 
> their "existence," who is there that would be such a fool as to 
> believe that Mme. Blavatsky was the agent of Adepts or, indeed, that 
> there were any Adepts at all? 
> 
> Faced with these difficulties, and the additional fact that 
> the "destroyer" of Mme. Blavatsky was Dr. Richard Hodgson who is 
> recognized as, perhaps, "the greatest" psychical researcher of "the 
> Golden Age of Psychical Research in England", [6] any would be 
> apologist for H.P.B. cannot fall back on philosophical exposition in 
> lieu of specific well-supported replies to what skeptics may bring in 
> guise of concrete disproof and verified accusation against her. That 
> kind of reaction may appeal to a certain type of mind which can 
> voluntarily blind itself to unpleasant short-comings while taking 
> refuge in philosophic abstractions. But such retreat is no 
> substitute for knowledge and courage - or for whatever gratitude the 
> followers of Mme. Blavatsky think they owe to their great Teacher. 
> Neither is it the kind of answer the world respects or that Science 
> demands. What is required in a situation such as this are facts - 
> incontrovertible facts founded on testimony which incredulous critics 
> cannot assail, the testimony not of H.P.B. and her witnesses but of 
> the principal prosecutor and his chief witnesses. Nothing less than 
> this ever satisfied the present writer, nor does he expect the reader 
> to be content with anything else. The commonplace facts of everyday 
> experience seem too much against the possibility of real Magic and 
> genuine occult or psychic phenomena to permit modern man to rely on 
> less. 
> 
> It is safe to calculate that for every ten thousand persons who have 
> heard and believe that Richard Hodgson "exposed" H.P. Blavatsky as a 
> fraud and imposter, not more than one has read his "expose;" and, 
> that for every thousand of his readers, hardly one has ever seen Emma 
> Coulomb's pamphlet. And yet, by logic and every rule of common 
> sense, the latter document takes precedence over all others in 
> standing at the very heart of the controversy raised by the Coulombs, 
> comprising as it does the firsthand unadulterated testimony of the 
> chief accusers, together with documentary "proofs" adduced for their 
> claims. Yet, strange to say, practically no attention was paid to 
> this priceless pamphlet - least of all by indignant Theosophists who 
> put no stock in what Mme. Coulomb might have to say! -, not until, 
> that is, the appearance in 1937 of Mrs. Hastings' booklet, Defence of 
> Madame Blavatsky (Volume II) The "Coulomb Pamphlet". Unfortunately, 
> Mrs. Hastings did not live to complete her promising study of the 
> case. 
> 
> Quoted from:
> 
> http://blavatskyfoundation.org/obituary.htm
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