Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00265)

--- In theos-talk@y..., "brianmuehlbach" <brianmuehlbach@y...> wrote:
> Why burden ? If someone claims Elvis is alive and he lives on 
> Mars with his a wife and 14 children, why "we" have the burden to 
> establish whether this claim is true or not ?

You only have to do so if it is a matter of interest. Since you post 
so frequently, it must be a matter of interest whether the mahatma 
letters are what they say they are or what you say they are.

I 
> don't see a major mystery in the fact that that some of the 
letters, such 
> as the Shannon letter, could not have been delivered other then by 
> either HPB or Damodar. 

In her bio, even Marion Meade said the Shannon letter was a mystery.

> Even Paul Johnson

I respect him, but his beliefs do not constitute evidence of anything.

> In fact Steve, no Indian/Thibetan/or Oriental person in their 
right mind 
> would write what these so called "Mahatmas" wrote like" "The 
highest 
> race (physical intellectuality) is the last sub-race of the fifth --
yourselves 
> the white conquerors.

"White" in India referred to the Bramin caste, which was believed to 
be the ancestor of the British, a la the Aryan invasion and migration 
theory.

> So with "White" Brotherhood was clearly intended just that, 
whoever 
> wrote this clearly identified himself/herself with white "Aryan" 
not even 
> Indian.

Not true. The "white" lineage of Tibet (Kargyu lineage) has nothing 
to do with white skin an more than the Nyingma has to do with red 
skin or the Gelugs has anything to do with yellow skin.

Besides, Blavatsky never used the phrase "white brotherhood." That 
was Mabel Collins who did tht. The term was popularized by 
Leadbearter, who claimed to be hobnobbing with mahatmas on a moment 
by moment basis, as well as doing all sorts of other improbable 
things.