Theos-Talk Archives (December 2010 Message tt00157)

Let me follow up the last post which might have seemed to focus on HPB by mention of 1884, but my current interest is Emma Hardinge Britten's use of pseudonyms which has created an amazingly intricate set of puzzles for scholars.  Will we ever get to the bottom of the mystery of Chevalier Louis? Her biographer Marc Demarest will speak about her at the Church of Light biennial gathering next year, and Leslie Price and Paul Gaunt both have fine articles about Emma in the PsiPioneer for December 2010.  Art Magic is one of the foundational works of the CofL yet its authorship remains as mysterious today as when it appeared in 1876.  My blog post about these new Emma articles provides links, at:
http://theosnet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-we-dont-know-about-one?xg_source=activity

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" <kpauljohnson@...> wrote:
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@ wrote:
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> > The best way to handle such clowns is to treat them as clowns and banish  
> > them with ridicule.  Do not argue with them, do not reason with them.   
> > Simply make fun of them.
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> Simply offer a very clearcut alternative by participating in theosophy.net among a diverse group of scholars and inquirers fully devoted to Open Source Theosophy.  Use of pseudonyms brought on the great crises of the Theosophical movement in the 19th century, and even now blogging about pseudonymous communiques of the early TS provokes another round in the 21st!  Three, two, several, or one individual?  People recommending their own writings while posing as disinterested appraisers of the evidence?  Same issues/questions today as in 1884.
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