Theos-Talk Archives (June 1995 Message tl00124)

One more quick comment and this is "secret."

I knew your books contained information which would not be
pleasing and would not be accepted by a number of theosophists.
I knew they would be very controversial.  Didn't you?

The reason that I feel comfortable reading them now is that
people in position within The Theosophical Society are reviewing
them, putting their thoughts on paper, and now that they are
going on record about what you have written, I feel better able
to judge the book rationally myself.  I don't know if this is
morphogenetic or what, but since they have read and evaluated, I
can also handle this task.  See?

If these leaders had instead not reviewed your books, left your
books in the closet so to speak, untouched and unread, I probably
still would have shuffled them to the back of the shelf as taboo
stuff.  This may sound strange, but those reviews actually
encourage people to read them, so don't be too offended, unless
you want to be offended by someone like me, who speaks too often
and too boldly even in the presence of "great minds."

Brenda