A Book of
Fifty-Six Pages, With Thirty Illustrations
C. Jinarajadasa
Image reproduced from page 19 of the present book
The general
impression which remains in the minds of many of the public is that H. P.
Blavatsky invented the Mahatmas, and that she buttressed this invention with
various forms of impersonation and trickery, including among them the
concocting of letters in various handwritings supposed to be written by the
Adepts. When the now notorious report of the Society for Psychic Research was
published in 1885, the public accepted the report as absolutely reliable, for
much evidence seemed to be carefully presented. But even at the time those who
were well informed knew that all the
evidence had not been considered, for in many cases Mr. Richard Hodgson flatly
refused to examine, as having the value of evidence, instance upon instance of
facts which simply would not fit into his conception of H. P. Blavatsky as a
trickster.
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Date of the
present online edition of “Did Madame
Blavatsky Forge the Mahatma Letters?”: March 2017.
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See also in our
associated websites the article “The
Heroic Nature of H. P. Blavatsky”, by C. Jinarajadasa.
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In September 2016, after a careful analysis of the state of the
esoteric movement worldwide, a group of students decided to form the Independent Lodge of Theosophists,
whose priorities include the building of a better future in the different
dimensions of life.
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