Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00225)

Now Bart, you are grasping at staws my friend. 
Tell me Bart... can you answer the question below?
As I asked Nick, a simple "yes" or "no" is all that is needed, but if 
you evade the question... the truth will be plain to see.

> Please, forgive me for assuming you are an American, in the same 
> book, AAB also suggests that "the American is intensely critical of 
> other people, but often blind to and always resentful of 
criticism. 
> Yet there is as much to criticize in America as there is as there 
is 
> in any other nation." pg 27
> 
> Do you believe this my friend? 
> 
> Most sincerely,
> Suzanne
> 





--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> "Suzanne " wrote:
> > I think it is a very dangerous thing to cut and paste bits and 
pieces
> > of ones thoughts and pass judgements on the totality of that 
persons
> > thinking....
> 
> Please show me where my cuts changed the meaning of anything 
that I
> quoted. I had pointed out that, given a copy of PROBLEMS OF 
HUMANITY, I
> could easily show a dozen problems I had with Alice Bailey. I have 
many
> more; it is just that the chapters "THE JEWISH PROBLEM" and "THE 
NEGRO
> PROBLEM" are the easiest to find bigoted and factually wrong 
items. I
> could, for example, go into the use of the planet "Vulcan" in her
> esoteric astrology, when the explanation of the non-existence of the
> planet Vulcan was one of the first major scientific validations of
> Theosophical thought (which means that a belief in its existence 
goes
> AGAINST Theosophical thought, at least as previously taught by
> supposedly the same Adepts). I could have pointed out her thoughts 
on
> homosexuality, for example. 
> 
> I was answering the charge that Theosophists cannot provide 
specifics
> with their problems with Alice Bailey. 
> 
> Bart
> 
> 
> Bart