Theos-Talk Archives (February 2009 Message tt00382)

Dear Anand

I see you have returned to theostalk.

Perhaps you missed my last post to you.

I repeat it here for your consideration and response.

Regards
Nigel

> Dear Anand
> 
> On a number of previous occasions over the past few years 
> you have repeatedly accused Madame Blavatsky of 
> "many mistakes" and the letters of the Mahatmas as 
> "pseudo" (false.) 
> 
> Also on a number of occasions I and others have asked you 
> to provide evidence to substantiate your claims.
> 
> Once again you have failed so to do.
> 
> The assertions I make about the lies and frauds of 
> Bishop Leadbeater are based on substantial evidence 
> from reliable sources, eg; theosophical historians 
> Dr James Santucci and Dr Gregory Tillett; long time 
> theosophical researchers and teachers including Jerry 
> Hejka-Ekins and Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn and theosophical 
> authors Margaret Thomas and Alice Leighton Cleather to 
> name just a few.
> 
> Anand, if you are going to make bold accusations in an
> international forum with potentially hundreds of readers, 
> you have to expect for your accusations to be questioned 
> and their credence demanded. 
> 
> Accusations such as you make are not simply idle chit chat.
> They are powerful statements that can potentially influence 
> many people.
> 
> Do you not feel any sense of responsibility towards students
> of Theosophy?
> 
> Do you not realise that, despite your protestations to the 
> contrary, you are in effect expecting people to believe what 
> you are saying without providing any substantive proof?
> 
> Your style of authoritative pronouncement, with no evidence to 
> establish that authority, is precisely the mindset and writing 
> style produced by Bishop Leadbeater and Dr Besant where they 
> expected people to blindly comply with their decrees.
> 
> For those of you in this forum who are tired of this endless 
> challenge please consider the broader picture.
> 
> Theosophy was reintroduced to the western world for significant
> reasons, among which was to bring about a new way of thinking, 
> "?a new continent of thought?" A mindset where evidence and 
> proof are important considerations in the search for the truths 
> of existence.
> 
> "I hope to be permitted to do so much for you. If, for 
> generations we have "shut out the world from the Knowledge 
> of our Knowledge," it is on account of its absolute unfitness; 
> and if, notwithstanding proofs given, it still refuses yielding 
> to evidence, then will we at the End of this cycle retire into 
> solitude and our kingdom of silence once more.... We have 
> offered to exhume the primeval strata of man's being, his basic 
> nature, and lay bare the wonderful complications  of his inner 
> Self ? something never to be achieved by physiology or even 
> psychology in its ultimate expression ? and demonstrate 
> it scientifically. It matters not to them, if the excavations 
> be so deep, the rocks so rough and sharp, that in diving into 
> that, to them, fathomless ocean, most of us perish in the dangerous 
> exploration; 
> for it is we who were the divers and the pioneers, and the men of 
> science have but to reap where we have sown. It is our mission to 
> plunge and bring the pearls of Truth to the surface; theirs ? to 
> clean and set them into scientific jewels. And, if they refuse to 
> touch the 
> ill-shapen oyster-shell, insisting that there is [not], nor 
> cannot be any precious pearl inside it, then shall we once more 
> wash our hands of any responsibility before human-kind. For 
> countless generations hath the adept builded a fane of imperishable 
> rocks, a giant's Tower of INFINITE THOUGHT, wherein the Titan 
dwelt, 
> and will yet, if need be, dwell alone, emerging from it but at the 
> end of every cycle, to invite the elect of mankind to co-operate 
> with him and help in his turn enlighten superstitious man. 
> And we will go on in that periodical work of ours; we will not 
allow 
> ourselves to be baffled in our philanthropic attempts until that 
day 
> when the foundations of a new continent of thought are so firmly 
> built that no amount of opposition and ignorant malice guided by 
> the Brethren of the Shadow will be found to prevail."
> Mahatma Letters to AP Sinnet, No. 18 Chr George Linton and
> Virginia Hanson.
> 
> "?a giant's Tower of INFINITE THOUGHT?"! 
> 
> Perhaps this suggests not blindly following and complying with a 
> proven liar and fraud and moreover, not allowing unsubstantiated 
> accusations to go unchallenged.
> 
> To do otherwise is to be co-dependent, as one who supplies alcohol
> to an alcoholic just to keep the "peace."
> 
> Regards
> Nigel
>