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| subtitle = | | title = Mr. Bennett in India | ||
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| source title = Truth Seeker, The | | source title = Truth Seeker, The | ||
| source details = New York, Saturday, March 18, 1882 | | source details = New York, Saturday, March 18, 1882 | ||
| publication date = 1882-03-18 | | publication date = 1882-03-18 | ||
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... | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title|Mr. Bennett in India.}} | ||
{{Style P-No indent|From the ''Theosophist'' we learn that the Theosophical Society of India held their anniversary meeting on January 12th, at which meeting Mr. Bennett was one of the speakers. Col. Olcott gave an account of the work the society had performed in the past year, and alluding to the proposition of the ''Bombay Gazette'', that he and Joe Cook should get up a religious controversy, said that he had not the time to answer Cook, but that, perhaps, “Mr. D. M. Bennett, editor and proprietor of ''The Truth Seeker'', one of the greatest organs of the Western Freethought movement,” might have a few words to say upon the subject. Mr. Bennett did have a few words to say, and gave Cook’s religion a thorough overhauling. The speech, together with the other proceedings, will appear in his letters in the proper place. At its conclusion he and Col. Olcott were complimented and warmly thanked by many Hindoo and Parsi gentlemen. In the published proceedings Mr. Bennett is introduced to the public of India by the following note:}} | |||
{{Style P-Quote|This famous Infidel agitator against Christian orthodoxy is a strong-built gentleman, of medium hight, with a large intellectual forehead and a pleasant voice. He was reared as a ‘Shaker,’ a sect of celebrated Christian mystics in America, who are universally esteemed for their pure moral character and industrious habits. His religious views having changed, Mr. Bennett at the age of 27 left them and went out into the world to fight a life-long battle for Freethought. Eight years ago he established ''The Truth Seeker'', a weekly journal, which now has 50,000 readers, and has written and published scores of tracts and leaflets besides ten or more books against Christianity. He became so dangerous an opponent that, at last, the orthodox party availed themselves of a convenient pretext, and had him sent to prison for selling a physiological work of which he was neither an author nor a publisher, and which the book trade were then selling, and are still selling, with impunity, thousands of copies! The fact appears in Mr. Bennett’s address.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|These proceedings made Joe Cook so angry that in his lectures in Bombay he went out of his way to defame the character of Mr. Bennett, Col. Olcott, and many native gentlemen of irreproachable character. He was immediately challenged to prove his statements by Pandit Dayanand Saraswati Swami, Col. Olcott, and Mr. Bennett, of whom the last mentioned sent the following challenge:}} | |||
{{Style P-Quote|Crow’s Nest Bungalow, Mahalakshmi, Jan. 18, 1882.<br /> | |||
Sir: You have defamed my character, impugned my motives, and cast a slur upon the whole Freethought party who take the liberty of thinking for themselves. That the Indian public may know whether your several statements are true or false, I shall make, on Friday evening, at 5:30, at the Framji Cowasji Institute, a public statement. On that occasion I invite you to meet me face to face and answer the statements I shall make. Your failure to do so would be construed into an inability to substantiate reckless allegations flung out under the protection of a crowd of sympathizers.<br /> | |||
Should you plead other engagements, I may say that to meet your calumnies I have myself put off my engagement. Like yourself, I am on a voyage around the world, and have no time to waste.<br /> | |||
For the whole truth,<br /> | |||
Yours, etc.,|D. M. Bennett.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|Of course Cook failed to respond, but the meeting came off and “was the most overwhelming triumph the society has ever had in the Bombay presidency. The building was crowded to suffocation and the enthusiasm of the native audience knew no bounds.”}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|The proceedings were reported and distributed in India, but have not yet reached us. That Cook’s vile aspersions fell upon rather steril soil is proved by the fact that at the next lecture in Bombay, as we learn from the ''Theosophist'', he “was more hissed than applauded, and a deputation of natives was sent to the Theosophical headquarters to ask the founders to reply to these aspersions. In accordance with this wish Col. Olcott and Madam Blavatsky, in company with Captain Banon, who was visiting them at that time, proceeded on the following day to hear Mr. Cook’s last lecture. Their appearance at the Town Hall was greeted with such a thundering and prolonged applause that it must have stirred up the lecturer’s guilty conscience, as he opened his discourse with the cowardly remark to the address of the native audience reminding them ‘of the presence of four policemen’ at the door of the hall. It was altogether, the simultaneous appearance in Bombay of Joe Cook and Mr. Bennett—falsehood and truth—made a pretty lively time for the native. Cook was probably a revelation to them of a hitherto unknown phase of Christianity, and undoubtedly created a sensation akin to what might be experienced by a colony of bees upon the sudden dropping into their midst of a rather overgrown and particularly vicious monkey.}} | |||
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| author = | | author = M. A. (Oxon.) | ||
| author signed = M. A. (Oxon.) | |||
| title = Spirit Teachings | | title = Spirit Teachings | ||
| subtitle = | | subtitle = Second Series | ||
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| source title = Light | | source title = Light | ||
| source details = v. 2, No. 68, April 22, 1882, pp. 191-92 | | source details = v. 2, No. 68, April 22, 1882, pp. 191-92 | ||
| publication date = 1882-04-22 | | publication date = 1882-04-22 | ||
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... | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title|Spirit Teachings.}} | ||
{{Style P-Subtitle|Second Series.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|This series of Spirit-Teachings, like the former, is made up of selections from a great mass which have been automatically written during a series of years. They are selected on no other principle than that of printing what has been valuable to the person for whom they were originally given, in so far as this can be done without trenching on what is merely of personal and private application. The latter consideration excludes a great mass of what would otherwise be interesting and valuable matter. The phraseology has been preserved, as far as possible, intact, names only being omitted. The series follows directly on the first, from which, indeed, it is separated only by the accident of its publication in another journal, and after some considerable interval of time. The publication is resumed in deference to many repeated requests.}} | |||
{{Style P-Signature|M. A. (Oxon.)}} | |||
{{Style P-Align center|No. XX.}} | |||
{{Style P-Quote|[At this time many friends desired to have in a volume the Teachings that had been printed from time to time. I thought that they had done their work, and, being on record, might be left as they were. Moreover, they had not been selected with any view to continuous publication, but almost at random out of a great mass—some twenty-four volumes, some of large size—and of the mass the most striking were left out on account of the private nature of their contents. I print what was then said because some of my friends will be interested in learning the view taken, from a Spiritual point of view, of their request. I may say that since this was written the corrections necessary have been made, and a mass of matter is ready for publication when required.]}} | |||
{{Style P-Quote|''I know that it is proposed to reprint the Teachings, and you said something the other night. Will you repeat it for me?''}} | |||
{{Style P-Quote|We said only that we were not disposed to lay down any rule, save that we desire you to use discretion. Those which you have printed are but fragments, and imperfect. When we first began to communicate with you in this way we found your mind in a strange state. To you Orthodox Truth, as conceived of in your mind, was Truth Absolute. We had to make it Relative. The task, as you now see, was not easy. Had we rudely shocked your belief in things religious you would have turned away. Yet we were forced to break down error. How was it to be done? You see now the cautious and sparing hand with which the seeds of truth were sown. You see now that many answers to your queries contained only so much truth as you could understand and receive. Hence some statements made in answer to your queries contain only partial truth. None, mark you, are false: but many are only partly true. You must consider whether it is wise to put these forward. Again, your phase of mind was peculiar to yourself. We do not think that many would be in similar case. Consequently the arguments we addressed would not be applicable to others. We know indeed that many have found in our words new views of truth, and have assimilated them. But it has been because their minds had previously been drawn to similar opinions. And they would be but few comparatively. The mass of men would not understand nor appreciate them. Yet again, the end for which they have been put forward to others has been answered. They have demonstrated to such as can receive it the independent action of Spirit on your mind. An active mind ready to weigh and prove all that is said is seen in communion with an intelligence external to itself: and the fact of Spirit communion receives another proof. This is done, and it is the important point. Once more, the question is premature. You must first complete the series before you decide. From this you will gather our opinion that no publication should take place; assuredly not for the present. But we do not meddle with your world in these matters. You must decide as you see fit. Only if your position should be adverse to our opinions, we claim the right of revising and correcting what we have said. It will be well at any rate that this should be done; and you may well arrange the printed Teachings in a book, so that we may be able to comment on them when we deem it necessary. This done, you can settle finally.}} | |||
{{Style P-Quote|''Yes, I will interleave them in a book. It will be good for me''}} | |||
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light_v.02_n.68_1882-04-22.pdf|page=7|Light, v. 2, No. 68, April 22, 1882, | light_v.02_n.68_1882-04-22.pdf|page=7|Light, v. 2, No. 68, April 22, 1882, p. 191 | ||
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