Theos-Talk Archives (December 2000 Message tt00048)

I ask Art and others: how many mistakes can
you find in this extract BELOW from "Ficitious Tibet"?

For example, it would appear that the writer of this
article believes that one of the
Masters was known by a "semi-fictitious name":

"H Master K" 

Who has ever seen this name in theosophical
literature? Why does he put it in italics?

Does he mean Master KH? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Daniel

"One of the most annoying 
features in the "M Letters" (M for Master) is her use of 
semi-fictitious names, like "H Master K" (Koot Humi). There is, of 
course, no such name in an Indian language or in Tibetan. But in 
the Upanishads, there is a minor rishi mentioned by the 
obviously non-Indo-European name Kuthumi. Just where she 
picked it up I don't know but I suspect she might have seen R.E. 
Hume's Twelve Principal Upanishads which was first published 
by Oxford University Press in the late '80s of the 19th century. The 
silly spelling "Koot Hoomi" was probably due to the occidental 
mystery peddlers' desire to make words sound more interesting 
by splitting them into a quasi-Chinesse series of letters. The 
Master Letters signed "K" are quite clearly Blavatsky's own 
invention; no Indian or Tibetan recluse talks or writes like the 
European feuilleton writer of the early 20th century. In a passage, 
"K" (for Koot Hoomi) criticizes a writer for saying that "the sacred 
man wants the gods to be properly worshipped, a healthy life 
lived, and women loved." "K" comments "the sacred man wants 
no such thing, unless he is a Frenchman." The inane stupidity 
that must have gone into the early converts actually believing that 
an Indian or Tibetan guru would use these European 
stereogibes is puzzling. Yet again mundus vult decipi, and if the 
average Western alien feels she or he can get to the esoteric 
goods, she or he tends to lower the level of skepticism to a 
virtual zero."



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