Theos-Talk Archives (February 2009 Message tt00397)

Here you make a good point!!!
Christina



--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Henry B. Ellak ." 
<henrybellak@...> 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@...> wrote:
> From: Anand <AnandGholap@...>
> Subject: Theos-World Re: C.W. Leadbeater, the greatest occultist-
saint of all times
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.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 séances].... 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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