Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00363)

Friends,

See Daniel's posting below. 

Using pen names is one thing, and it is perfectly OK;  hiding behind false names to attack parts of the movement is another.  

Creating and impersonating false persons to do that which one does not have the courage to do in the light of the day is depicable, to say the least.  

Only cowards and "agents" do that. I accept that "agents" are not cowards; yet they are worse than that. 


Carlos. 


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Assunto:Theos-World Re: Incognitos and changing names

> There is what some would call a tradition
> of using a pseudonym or incognito [that is, CHANGING NAMES] 
> in some circles of the Theosophical movement.
> 
> For several years I corresponded with a gentleman named Adlai E.
> Waterman.
> 
> It was only later that I discovered that this name was a pseudonym
> (incognito) used by a well-known Theosophical historian who wrote 
> under that incognito one of the best known defenses of Madame 
> Blavatsky against the charges of Hodgson and Coulomb.
> 
> Later when Waterman's book was reviewed in the Journal of the Society 
> for Psychical Research, a writer in the same journal brought this 
> fact up (that is, that Adlai Waterman was an "incognito") and made 
> a "negative" comment about this!!
> 
> See what Leslie Price and the late John Cooper wrote about "Adlai E.
> Waterman" at:
> 
> http://www.blavatskyfoundation.org/
> 
> I remember more than 20 years ago writing to Sylvia Cranston and 
> Joseph Head, co-authors of 2 well-known anthologies on reincarnation 
> and Cranston later was the author of a Blavatsky biography.
> 
> See http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/reincbk2.htm
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/hpbbio2.htm
> 
> Of course, Cranston's real name is Anita Atkins but I only found out
> about that much later.
> 
> Joseph Head's real name is ------ --------.
> 
> And I have talked many times on the phone to Carey Williams who is 
> the co-author of this book:
> 
> Reincarnation:
> A New Horizon in Science, Religion, and Society
> By Sylvia Cranston and Carey Williams
> 
> Carey Williams is the incognito or pseudonym of ------- --------.
> 
> Another example. 
> 
> I have several file folders of material written by Wane Kell.
> 
> See one of Wane's articles at:
> 
> http://www.hctheosophist.com/archives/pdf/hc199806.pdf
> 
> on page 17.
> 
> Several of Wane Kell's articles will also be found in THE ECLECTIC 
> THEOSOPHIST.
> 
> See also one of Wane Kell's contributions at Theos-Talk:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/9jkv9
> 
> Wane Kell is the incognito or pseudonym of ------- -------- who has 
> been for many years a subscriber and poster to various WWW internet 
> Theosophical discussion groups including Theos-Talk.
> 
> William Q. Judge also had many incognitos. See Ernest Pelletier's 
> book for the list of names.
> 
> And of course the modern Theosophical Movement was founded by two 
> individuals behind the scenes who used the famous pseudonymns 
> (incognitos) "Morya" and "Koot Hoomi." HPB even writes that these 
> names are not their real birth names.
> 
> Paul Johnson has written pages of speculation on these "incognitos" 
> of Morya and Koot Hoomi and the supposed real persons behind them.
> 
> Many more examples could be given.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
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