Theos-Talk Archives (March 2009 Message tt00044)

Dear Anand

As you seem to have found the time to make your most recent 
posts, and have apologised for not answering some questions, 
will you kindly answer this message?

You can be assured you have not answered this previously.

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
> >
>