Theos-Talk Archives (August 2009 Message tt00085)

if the old dear had said that it was entirely her work - it would have been refuted on the grounds that she couldn't have produced such an opus on her own.

Cass


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>From: Anand <AnandGholap@gmail.com>
>To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2009 6:12:07 AM
>Subject: Theos-World Re: Theosophy and "cult factors of religions"
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>It is possible that Blavatsky wanted Olcott, Sinnett etc. to do what Blavatsky wanted them to do and believe and so Blavatsky materialized letters with the content that suited her purpose. The content of Mahatma Letters was actually Blavatsky's thinking. 
>Olcott and Sinnett apparently did not suspect that even if letters were produced miraculously, those miracles were made by Blavatsky and not by Masters! But this mischief created lot of confusion of ideas among Theosophical students and others because many inconsistent and wrong ideas got attributed to Masters, when they had not written those ideas. 
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>--- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, "sampsakuukasjarvi" <sampsakuukasjarvi@ ...> wrote:
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>> Morten,
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>> We Theosophists don't have to believe everything what H.P. Blavatsky or any other teacher says. Maybe you are a little too enthuasistic follower of hers and demand that nobody is allowed to criticize her?
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>> I myself consider HPB more genuine and deeper than, for example, CWL, but I am sure that some of her statements are untrue. She clearly doesn't know much of Tibet, and what she knows, only seems to come from western sources. There is also evidence that the Masters strangely don't know the Tibetan language, though according to HPB they know very well. There is an interesting article "Tracing the Source of Tibetan Phrases" by Antonios Goyios on Daniel Caldwell's website about this ignorance. Daniel told about this article on this forum in April â http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/theos- talk/message/ 50279. I believe that HPB and her pupils wrote many of the Mahatma letters.
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>> What could have been the reason for this possibly fake Tibet connection? There's a theory that the two Masters M and KH WERE real Mahatmas, but that HPB made up their living in Tibet in order to prevent Sinnett from searching for the Masters with an army in India. Maybe it happened this way, who knows? We may speculate.
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>> I don't think that Paul Johnson is an enemy of Theosophy if he says that the Masters were totally unreal. Theosophists don't have to believe even in Masters.
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>> Johnson made a good point that people in religious groups usually don't like historians. It is unfortunately true that also Theosophists attack historians easily. Let's not be a cult or a sect! But Johnson's posts there on another Theosophy forum are difficult and vague, because many readers don't know at all what the words like ARE, CofL and CUT, which he uses, mean.
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>> Sampsa
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