Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00140)

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.  


De:theos-talk@yahoogroups.com

Para:theos-talk@yahoogroups.com

Cópia:

Data:Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:30:05 -0000

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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
> 
> E-mail classificado pelo Identificador de Spam Inteligente Terra.
> Para alterar a categoria classificada, visite
> http://mail.terra.com.br/protected_email/imail/imail.cgi?+_u=carlosaveline&_l=1,1165206615.85794.26536.almora.hst.terra.com.br,8345,Des15,Des15
> 
> Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra.
> Scan engine: McAfee VirusScan / Atualizado em 01/12/2006 / Versão: 4.4.00/4909
> Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://mail.terra.com.br/


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]