Theos-Talk Archives (March 2008 Message tt00080)

Hi Nigel,

You wrote :

"From my perspective, humanity's gullibility and
misguided forms of acceptance, often influenced by
powerful occult energies, know no bounds and ensures
we are to remain the mere playthings of the Brothers
of the Shadow for some time to come."

Yes we are, all of us to some extent gullible and misguided but we 
do from time to time have insights and do good deeds as well.

>From my current point of view CLW's writings by on large taught 
fairly balanced spiritual values and tolerance for others and these 
writings no doubt have encouraged people to try and develop those 
principles as well and brought some light into the world.

I have problems with this concept of "brothers of the shadow" it 
smacks too much to me of "Satan and his demons", aren't we all a 
mixture of  good and bad and sometimes we are under "shadows" and 
then sometimes more influenced by the "light", isn't paradox and 
contradiction evident in all facets of life?

Cheers
Perry


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "nhcareyta" <nhcareyta@...> wrote:
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "plcoles1" <plcoles1@> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting doco.
> > Perry
> > 
> > 
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8575648331106173390&hl=en
> >
> 
> Dear Perry
> 
> Thank you for this most interesting documentary
> of yet another fraud and liar duping his 
> followers. 
> I remember reading his work The Teachings of Don 
> Juan in the early seventies.
> It reminds me of one Cyril Hoskin a k a T Lobsang 
> Rampa, another of like kind, who many of us young 
> seekers absorbed, in our gullible innocence, as a 
> truthful and honest person. 
> 
> What is quite extraordinary to me is that, despite 
> unequivocal evidence of their fraud and lies, 
> their deceptions and hypocrisy and their utterly 
> discredited fantasies, they still have followers 
> who believe in them and much of what they say.   
> 
> What is even more extraordinary to me is that 
> among so-called theosophical truth-seekers Bishop 
> C W Leadbeater is still accepted as a person of 
> credibility and even adoration. 
> Others accept him and his fantasies simply because 
> some of his writings happen to copy what other 
> genuine truth-tellers have said or written before 
> him.
> 
> At least Mr Castaneda only claimed to have been 
> taught by a Yaqui shaman. 
> 
> And Mr Hoskin only claimed to be a Tibetan Lama. 
> 
> Bishop Leadbeater claimed to be in contact with the 
> "Supreme Director of evolution on this globe", 
> perhaps his most supreme fantasy, amongst many others.
> 
> From my perspective, humanity's gullibility and 
> misguided forms of acceptance, often influenced by 
> powerful occult energies, know no bounds and ensures 
> we are to remain the mere playthings of the Brothers 
> of the Shadow for some time to come.
> 
> Kind regards
> Nigel
>