Theos-Talk Archives (August 2010 Message tt00256)

On Aug 29, 2010, at 8/29/109:41 PM, Joe wrote:

> Here's the latest...and thanks to everyone.  BTW, it would be interesting to get either a pix or the URL of the pix with Einstein and Tagore.
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> I just received an e-mail from Mr. Ramprakash in relation to the visit to Adyar by Mrs. Wadia:
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> This comes from Mr. Anand Kundaji, a close associate of Mrs. Wadia:
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> "I know nothing about this --  I doubt whether Madame could have been present at Adyar TS -- she never went there as far as I know"
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> So, this appears to throw cold water on the story of Mrs. Wadia visiting Adyar.  I wonder how she would have reacted had she witnessed the donation of an Einstein writing?  Would the donation have become public quite rapidly or would it have been kept quiet?
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> Joe
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, MKR <mkr777@...> wrote:
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>> I hope someone enlightens us about the SD Einstein had.
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>> Mention of Poet Tagore bring up another theosophical connection. Indian
>> National Anthem was his creation and he wrote it when he was a visiting
>> professor at Besant Theosophical School at Madanapalli in South India. He
>> came to the school at the invitation of Cousins, the principal and a
>> theosophist from England, and himself an author and perhaps a poet too. By
>> the way, Madanapalli is also Jiddu Krishnamurti's birth place.
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>> MKR
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>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:56 AM, <Augoeides-222@...> wrote:
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>>> Joe,
>>> Thanks for your post about the Einstein SD donation. I have also wondered
>>> about it but your the first to provide a critical fact about the tale. Like
>>> so many other things involving Madame Blavatsky's terms, names, etc., I have
>>> reached many a dead end when trying to source the actual name, place, item
>>> even when using the monster data searches we have available to us today. It
>>> is disheartening to say the least. It is a synchronicity today though as
>>> earlier I was actually looking at a Photograph of Einstein standing with the
>>> famous Poet Tagore as a result of a unrelated search about Neelkanta
>>> Mahadeva Temple and Chhinnamasta lol! Some times we get unusual contents we
>>> don't expect also.
>>> 
>>> Nice to see you post again, wb,
>>> John
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Joe" <jpfulton314@... <jpfulton314%40cox.net>>
>>> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:38:28 PM
>>> Subject: theos-talk Einstein's Secret Doctrine
>>> 
>>> Several days ago we started posting over on the Theosophical Network
>>> about Einstein's copy of the Secret Doctrine, which is a story related
>>> by Sylvia Cranston and Leon Maurer, among others.
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>>> So far the story goes:
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>>> Einstein's "niece" delivered the book to the Theosophical Library at
>>> Adyar, India. This incident is related in the Sylvia Cranston book, "
>>> HPB;: the extraordinary life and influence of Helena Blavatsky, founder
>>> of the modern theosophical movement, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993, 434;
>>> ibid, Ref: Notes, Part 7, Note 21". Also, according to Cranston, the
>>> volume was given to Eunice Layton in the "mid-1960's", while the
>>> Layton's lived at Adyar, and the donation was witnessed by the wife of
>>> BP Wadia.
>>> 
>>> To date, we have found that Einstein did not have a niece, as his only
>>> sibling, a sister, Maja, died childless. Therefore, we have no
>>> certainty of who it was who delivered the book.
>>> 
>>> Many people in the movement accept this story as fact. If it is
>>> factual, then we need to do what we can to have the volume digitized and
>>> made publicly available to all. Am I concerned about what Einstein
>>> wrote? No, not really. It could be as meaningless as a few scribbles,
>>> or it could provide new insights into the nature of the universe, and
>>> specifically for Theosophists, a new way of understanding the Secret
>>> Doctrine.
>>> 
>>> If anyone has information that will help us track down the story behind
>>> Einstein's Secret Doctrine, please shoot me a message over at
>>> Theosophy.net.
>>> 
>>> Also, please feel free to spread this message around the web to whomever
>>> may help or you feel may benefit.
>>> 
>>> Thanks much,
>>> 
>>> Joe
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