Theos-Talk Archives (February 2009 Message tt00371)

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. What ultimately counts is the
substance and usefulness of HPB's writings. This, one has to decide for
oneself and do what you want to do with it.

mkr


On 2/27/09, Henry B. Ellak . <henrybellak@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   Interesting.
> I have no opinion on this.
> She could have been faking stuff,  There is some data from some sources
> which say
> this.
>
> I take note of the claims that she faked  stuff but I withhold my opinion
> on it.
>
> Which is better, or wiser,
>
> to be called a faker, and laughed at,
>
> or to be called a real occultist with very real occult power and murdered
> or burned or hung
> for being a witch or something.
>
> I do understand that real Occult Power really scares people, and when
> people are
> in enough fear, they will kill you, if you are the one putting fear into
> them.
>
> So, HPB could be both a fake and a holder of real Occult power at the same
> time.
>
> The fake stuff is so that people laugh at  her, have no fear of her, and
> allow her to live.
>
> end Henry B. Ellak
>
> --- On Fri, 2/27/09, Anand <AnandGholap@gmail.com<AnandGholap%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> From: Anand <AnandGholap@gmail.com <AnandGholap%40gmail.com>>
> Subject: Theos-World Re: C.W. Leadbeater, the greatest occultist-saint of
> all times
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 2:38 AM
>
> Following passages are taken from a book.
>
> " [Blavatsky's housekeeper, Emma Cutting, demonstrated] how she and
> HPB had made a doll together, which they ... manipulated on a long
> bamboo pole in semi-darkness to provide the Master's alleged
> apparitions. Emma had also dropped "precipitated" letters on to
> Theosophical heads from holes in the ceiling, while her husband had
> made sliding panels and hidden entrances into the shrine room
> [adjoining HPB's bedroom] to facilitate Blavatsky's comings and goings
> and make possible the substitution of all the brooches, dishes and
> other objects that she used in her demonstrations [i.e., as purported
> materializations or "apports"]....
>
> The Russian journalist V. S. Solovieff claimed to have caught
> [Blavatsky] red-handed with the silver bells which produced astral
> music [in sÃances].... Blavatsky confessed to Solovieff quite bluntly
> that the phenomena were fraudulent, adding that one must deceive men
> in order to rule them (Washington, 1995). "
>
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