From Interfaith Committee organizer, World Vaishnava Organization

[Guest guest]

How does one proof documents contain original teachings or not ?

I am so tired of everybody (historians as well as indologists) say one

cannot proof or disprove "The Mahatma Letters " are concocted or not.

 

So for once I have brought up the matter on "Indiancivilisation" list. It is

a rather pro-Annie Besant list, but it has more then seven hundred

people. People have been able to show the "protocols" have been

concocted why for the historical record can one not show this

concerning The Mahatma Letters ? If anybody can show this by giving

concrete examples why, pls post in answer to:

 

IndianCivilization/message/28578

 

The "Mahatma Letters" to Newspaper editor A.P. Sinnet in British

India : "The highest race (physical intellectuality) is the last sub-race of

the fifth -- yourselves the white conquerors. The majority of mankind

belongs to the seventh sub-race of the fourth Root race, Chinamen and

their off-shoots and branchlets (Malayans, Mongolians, Tibetans,

Javanese, etc., etc., etc.) and remnants of other sub-races of the fourth

and the seventh sub-race of the third race. All these, fallen, degraded

semblances of humanity."

 

 

Brian Muehlbach (University of Vienna)

For sample Mahatma Letter see:

http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~muehleb9/mahatmal.html

 

Bhakti Ananda Goswami,

Interfaith Committee organizer, World Vaishnava Organization:

 

H.P. Blavatsky always assumed Arya meant white as in "white" race.

What difference does it make if she used the term "white or the

term "Aryan," when to her they meant the same thing? Whether they

are called the Aryan or White Brotherhood or Aryan or White Ascended

Masters or "Mastered Beings" (currently popular New Age term) makes

no difference if Arayan means white race. The whole root races idea is

based on the erroneous premise that Arya in the Sanskrit literatures

means "white race."

 

The great tragedy is in part that HPB and friends had mastered

something, and had made some interesting and useful connections for

their day. They were uniquely placed by privilege and equipped by

intelligence and education to perform a real service to mankind, but

their enormous egos and other character faults, including ethno-

centrism pervaded their work and spoiled their efforts.

 

They must have had a contempt for the people they defrauded on a

continuous basis, while feigning humility, they sought the triumph of

their "Masters" over all of human history and the transcendent Godhead

of the great religions himself.

 

The fact is that there is nothing in the Mahatma letters, which could not

have been penned by HPB and her educated cohorts. Nothing.

The "wisdom" in them is not evidence of a superior knowledge and

vision, possessed and seen by ancient beings or ageless beings outside

of time. It is the information/knowledge base of persons with a distinct

time-limited frame of reference. Projecting their victorian era esoteric

world-view back onto the history of thought, the authors appear to be

woefully deficient in understanding their "own" so-called Indian sacred

traditions. The speculations of the so-called Masters, about ancient

Egyptian and Indian thought, were quite limited to the information

available to HPB and friends. Their own esoteric studies in

Rosicrucianism, Masonry and spiritism etc. and wide reading in religion,

history, philosophy and the science of their day, was enough to form the

knowledge-base evident in all of the Mahatma letters and HPB's books.

Beyond this information, there is nothing, nothing there.

 

They claim to be Masters of ancient Indian or "Esoteric Buddhist"

tradition, or whatever, but give no evidence of any real mastery of these

traditions at all. At best they appear to be highly educated Westerners

and undisciplined Hindu-Buddhist neophytes.

 

Their "voice" is all wrong for real ancient adepts, and the masterful

content of their letters is laughable. I will ask "what are the authors of

these letters the Masters of? If these letters are their credentials, then

what is their apparent qualification for teaching? Where is the proof in

the letters that these "Mahatmas" are what and who they say they are?

If they knew the truth about "Indian" and Egyptian traditions etc. back

then, then why did they teach so much utter nonsense and mislead

people?" The "Masters" can be exposed just by examining their claimed

expertise. What knowledge is evident in "their" letters? Let us give

these "Masters" an exam on real-world Indo-Asian or Egyptian

traditions. They will fail. Do you think that they will show-up again to

explain to the world why they failed?

 

Surely their self-deluded chelas will rationalize their errors and

omissions and contradictions, but anyone, who not so enthralled to

them, will see that the "Masters" were masters of exactly what HPB and

friends were masters of, and nothing more.

 

I hope to go through some of the Mahatmas' letters to give examples of

the above mentioned errors, omissions, contradictions,

limitations, "voice" problems and other evidence of the so-called

Masters' true identity and qualifications. They were in a sense masters

of whatever it was that HBP and friends had mastered...the Western

esoteric "wisdom" of their time. However they were rank neophytes

when it came to many things that the Mahatmas' claimed mastery of.

Thus the "Masters" should be tested on these things. They made the

claim of mastery, let them explain themselves.

 

Interfaith Committee organizer, World Vaishnava Organization: