Theos-Talk Archives (May 2004 Message tt00113)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Hodgson has been pretty much discredited.

Not true where the authorship of the mahatma letters is concerned. I 
have studied the matter carefully and believe he was clearly right 
about that. It appears Blavatsky claimed the letters were written 
under dictation, but not that they were written by the mahatmas 
themselves.

Other aspects of Hodgson's methodology were clearly flawed and some 
of his conclusions are untenable. Despite that, he documented some 
valuable information theosophists would prefer to have swept under 
the rug. If this info had been suppressed we would be poorer today 
for it. I do wish he had been properly trained in the rules of 
evidence and investigation and had published a better report. 
Unfortunately ther same is truer of every one of the incompetend 
defenders of theosophical fundamentalism who have damned Hodgson in 
print for the past century. His work has never been properly 
critiwued.

You may not have said all the miracles were magic tricks, but someone 
spoofing your name did.