Theos-Talk Archives (August 2010 Message tt00265)

Thanks much.  I just posted over at Theosophy.net.

Joe

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Augoeides-222@... wrote:
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> Joe, 
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> Well as i said i was Googling for the Goddess "Chhinnamasta" on Google Images here: 
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> Chhinnamasta Google Search 
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> >>>http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1424&bih=703&q=Chhinnamasta&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g-s1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=<<< 
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> And found this in the Icon listings: 
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> Do you see?: My Years With Rabindranath Tagore 
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> >>>http://fleuve-souterrain.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-years-with-rabindranath-tagore.html<<< 
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> You need to scroll down a little to see the Photograph, 
> Best regards, 
> John 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe" <jpfulton314@...> 
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 6:41:42 PM 
> Subject: theos-talk Re: Einstein's Secret Doctrine 
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> 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. 
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> > > 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 
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> > > 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. 
> > > 
> > > 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. 
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> > > 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. 
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> > > Also, please feel free to spread this message around the web to whomever 
> > > may help or you feel may benefit. 
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> > > Thanks much, 
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> > > Joe 
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