Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00276)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:
> It is not clear to me how Steve knows that the above statement
> is actually true. On what basis does Steve assert that
> "red herrings" were thrown into the record?

You know K.Oaul Johnson documented the fact that there were 
irreconcilable discrepancies between various mahatma accounts and 
that no historical person known to have been associated with HPB can 
be shown to have been one of the mahatmas. His conclusion is that 
the mahatmas were composites, etc. Another possibility is that, to 
guard their privacy various red herrings were inserted into the 
account to prevent sharp eyed people from making a positive 
identiication. If they were real people and otherwise what they said 
they were, this conclusion is inescapable. That makes anny 
identification less than conclusive.