Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00404)

Jake,


Thanks a lot for your insightful posting. 

Indeed, using false names, and -- in the case of "David Green" and "Terry Brown"  -- impersonating  non-existing individuals for the purpose of better slandering and creating gossips & dissention inside the movement, is very far from the good and ethical use of pen names or  mystical names. 

In Brazilian criminal law, using false names for hurtful purposes has an interesting name: "crime of ideological falsehood".

But of course in our movement I do not think anybody has come to the point of having false identity cards.  

As to slandering, it  can only lead one to jail if the slandered people is alive.  For that reason, Solovyof had to wait for HPB's death to publish his "materials" -- as  H. Olcott correctly wrote.   Nowadays, the Algeos and Caldwells  of  the TSA are legally free to use all those falsehoods. Legally, not karmically.  And they do not have blessings from Adyar for that. 


Regards,  Carlos. 







 
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Assunto:Theos-World Re Using Pen-names

> Re Using pen-names
> 
> 
> Using pen-names for writing articles 
> I think is OK, and common practice. I 
> think HPB used "Radai Bai"(?) for writing 
> "The Caves and Jungles of Hindustan" for 
> a Russian paper, or otherwise. Judge 
> used them too. This is an innocent 
> practice, directly related to article 
> & book writing. But it is not the same 
> thing as using a phoney name to harrass 
> people, that you would not risk doing 
> with your real name.
> 
> 
> Pen-names can be used for financial 
> and personal protection. If someone 
> thinks there is not persecution of 
> theosophists, then he is just blind or 
> naive. Carrithers (Adalai Waterman), 
> had his house attacked by armed men, 
> Endersby had someone try to run him 
> off the road (explained in "Theosophical 
> Notes"), and there are endless cases 
> never reported. This can all be explained 
> away, to coincidences, etc. - but the 
> real reason is that there are different 
> spheres of influence in occult nature. 
> If you attract the attention of the 
> wrong influences, strange things can 
> happen. The half-wit that attacks you 
> doesn't know why - he just knows "I 
> just don't like that guy!" 
> Anita Atkins also originally used her
> real name in some Blavatsky defense work
> (as appearing in 60's "Theosophical Notes.")
> (repost below)
> 
> 
> - jake j.
> 
> ------------- 
> 
> <6b. Re: Incognitos and changing names
> 
> danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com 
> danielhcaldwell
> Date: Sat Dec 9, 2006 9:35 am ((PST))
> 
> 
> of using a pseudonym or incognito [that is, CHANGING
> NAMES] 
> in some circles of the Theosophical movement.
> 
> 
> named Adlai E.
> Waterman.
> 
> 
> was a pseudonym
> (incognito) used by a well-known Theosophical
> historian who wrote 
> under that incognito one of the best known defenses of
> Madame 
> Blavatsky against the charges of Hodgson and Coulomb.
> 
> 
> Journal of the Society 
> for Psychical Research, a writer in the same journal
> brought this 
> fact up (that is, that Adlai Waterman was an
> "incognito") and made 
> a "negative" comment about this!!
> 
> 
> about "Adlai E.
> Waterman" at:
> 
> http://www.blavatskyfoundation.org/
> 
> 
> Cranston and 
> Joseph Head, co-authors of 2 well-known anthologies on
> reincarnation 
> and Cranston later was the author of a Blavatsky
> biography.
> 
> See
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/reincbk2.htm
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/hpbbio2.htm
> 
> 
> only found out
> about that much later.
> 
> 
> 
> And I have talked many times on the phone to Carey
> Williams who is 
> the co-author of this book:
> 
> 
> A New Horizon in Science, Religion, and Society
> By Sylvia Cranston and Carey Williams
> 
> 
> ------- --------.
> 
> Another example. 
> 
> 
> Wane Kell.
> 
> See one of Wane's articles at:
> 
> http://www.hctheosophist.com/archives/pdf/hc199806.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> Several of Wane Kell's articles will also be found in
> THE ECLECTIC 
> THEOSOPHIST.
> 
> 
> Theos-Talk:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/9jkv9
> 
> 
> -------- who has 
> been for many years a subscriber and poster to various
> WWW internet 
> Theosophical discussion groups including Theos-Talk.
> 
> William Q. Judge also had many incognitos. See Ernest
> Pelletier's 
> book for the list of names.
> 
> 
> founded by two 
> individuals behind the scenes who used the famous
> pseudonymns 
> (incognitos) "Morya" and "Koot Hoomi." HPB even
> writes that these 
> names are not their real birth names.
> 
> 
> these "incognitos" 
> of Morya and Koot Hoomi and the supposed real persons
> behind them.
> 
> 
> 
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