Theos-Talk Archives (May 2008 Message tt00600)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@... wrote:

> problem with idiomatic American.? She was repeating the phrase
> "Eternal Verities" using the proto-American meaning which is
> "eternal truths" but in American idiom it means "Old Wives' Tales"
> or "Outright Lies."? And she kept repeating it, over and over

Rightly English is called by the easterners "the language of liars".
I think that the greatest error of mahatmas and Blavatsky was that 
they gave out their teaching in English. Now no one can be sure what 
they wrote about, as the different native english-speakers may derive 
different meaning from the same paragraph.