# Cecils answer why H in J H Christ **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 29, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419 "2005-10-29T03:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419/61 "2005-11-04T16:34:11Z")
aHA! I’ve been looking for a good sig line. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419/62 "2005-11-04T16:36:28Z")
Umm, why didn’t my sig line show up just then? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419/63 "2005-11-04T18:46:44Z")
This thing needs to be put out of it’s misery… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419/64 "2005-11-04T21:26:30Z")
For the amusement of those who may not be familiar with Madame Blavatsky, [here is a passage from her own supporters in the Theosophy society](http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/authorship-of-secret-doctrine.htm) describing how she did her research: > [@](#): > > A writer in the spiritualistic journals took great pains to show how many books the first work seems to quote from, and the conclusion to be arrived at after reading his diatribes is that H.P.B. had an enormous library at her disposal, and of course in her house, for she never went out, or that she had agents at great expense copying books, or, lastly, **that by some process or power not known to the world was able to read books at a distance** , as, for instance, in the Vatican at Rome and the British Museum. The last is the fact. She lived in a small flat when writing the first book and had very few works on hand, all she had being of the ordinary common sort. She herself very often told how she gained her information as to modern books. No secret was made of it, for those who were with her saw day after day that **she could gaze with ease into the astral light and glean whatever she wanted**. (Bolding mine) All the wonderful claptrap about odd gods in Egypt and confusions of names and associations between Egypt and India are the product of Madame Blavatsky gazing into the astral plane and reading books that were hundreds or thousands of miles away. (Good research if you can manage it.) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419/65 "2005-11-04T21:38:56Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > For the amusement of those who may not be familiar with Madame Blavatsky, [here is a passage from her own supporters in the Theosophy society](http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/authorship-of-secret-doctrine.htm) describing how she did her research:(Bolding mine) > > All the wonderful claptrap about odd gods in Egypt and confusions of names and associations between Egypt and India are the product of Madame Blavatsky gazing into the astral plane and reading books that were hundreds or thousands of miles away. (Good research if you can manage it.) Man, I could have used that in college years back when the temperature outside was about 4 F and the Library was a half mile walk across campus, with the wind blowing in off Lake Ontario! It also reminds me of Joseph Smith Jr.'s method for translating the golden plates. Hey, Tom, can I start a thread on Mme. Blavatsky’s Lemurians? Pleeeeeeze? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419/66 "2005-11-04T21:41:33Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > All the wonderful claptrap about odd gods in Egypt and confusions of names and associations between Egypt and India are the product of Madame Blavatsky gazing into the astral plane and reading books that were hundreds or thousands of miles away. (Good research if you can manage it.) Hey! That’s what I do all day long. Only I calls 'em online databases. She was just ahead of her time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419/67 "2005-11-04T21:55:48Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > > [@tomndebb](#): > > > > All the wonderful claptrap about odd gods in Egypt and confusions of names and associations between Egypt and India are the product of Madame Blavatsky gazing into the astral plane and reading books that were hundreds or thousands of miles away. (Good research if you can manage it.) > > Hey! That’s what I do all day long. Only I calls 'em online databases. She was just ahead of her time. 🙂 [Definition of the Akashic Records.](http://paganwiccan.about.com/library/weekly/aa120302akashic.htm) And the [Akashic Records website](http://www.akashicmusic.com/). Ain’t the Internet wonderful! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419/68 "2005-11-05T01:44:01Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > [Definition of the Akashic Records.](http://paganwiccan.about.com/library/weekly/aa120302akashic.htm) And the [Akashic Records website](http://www.akashicmusic.com/). Ain’t the Internet wonderful! 😉 Dam, everything I’ve ever done or thought. Man!! Do you suppose there’s a delete key? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-answer-why-h-in-j-h-christ/328419.md?page=3)