Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00224)

On Wed, 8 Jan 97, "K. Paul Johnson" <pjohnson@leo.vsla.edu> wrote:

>To Tom Robertson-- historically, the term theosophist has been
>used almost entirely by Christians, 

That's interesting.


>so I don't see how you can
>use them as mutually exclusive categories.  

I did not mean they were entirely mutually exclusive.  I still frequently
quote the Bible, myself.  I only meant that, assuming there must be some
differences between them, or else their going by two different names would
be inappropriate, one must be regarded as superior to the other.  


>As for the wisdom of TPH rejecting my work, that is a much
>deeper and more confusing issue than you seem to recognize.

That is easy to believe, as I know virtually nothing specific about it.  It
has been a while since I wrote what you are responding to, so my memory may
be faulty, but I believe I merely wrote that, in general, a publishing
business is not obligated to publish everything brought to it.  I have no
significant opinion about whether or not they should have published your
book. 


>They took an entire year to decide to reject it, but *never*
>gave me an *iota* of feedback on the research or the literary
>quality.  Seven out of eight Theosophical reviewers were
>favorable (at various levels of strength) so it is quite wrong
>to depict the book as having been widely rejected by the
>Theosophical membership.  

In case you believe I depicted this, I never meant to, as I have no
knowledge of it either way.