Category: History - Modern (1750+)
〃 II.— No Mahatmas, no Members! 8 〃 III.— Mystification under Madame Blavatsky 13 〃 IV.— The Psychical Research Exposure 17 〃 V.— Mystification under Mrs. Besant 22 〃 VI.— Enter the Mahatma 27 〃 VII.— Every Man his own Mahatma 32 〃 VIII.— The Adventures of a Seal 36 〃 IX.— The...
As yet, “Isis Very Much Unveiled” remains very much unanswered. The oracles are dumb. “No Dolphin rose, no Nereid stirred”; no Mahatma “precipitated” a reply (as one of them did...
17. PART II.The foregoing chapters appeared in the _Westminster Gazette_, of October 29th, and nine succeeding issues. They attracted wide notice and comment, and were the subject of allusi...
16. CHAPTER XIII.In my first chapter I set out certain conclusions. In succeeding chapters I have given the facts on which my conclusions were based. I now assert that the evidence for those fac...
15. CHAPTER XII.MR. BLOTTON had no hesitation in saying that he had not—he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense. (Hear, hear.) He was bound to acknowledge that personally he entertained t...
11. CHAPTER VIII.From the previous record of Colonel Olcott—described by Madame Blavatsky herself, in an epigrammatically candid moment, as “a psychologised baby”—he is almost the last person wh...
12. CHAPTER IX.He remarked to Judge that he had missed a certain brass seal from among Madame Blavatsky’s relics, and described the Panjab seal and the story of its making; not mentioning, how...
13. CHAPTER X.While the Mahatma was thus stealthily undermining the president, he was also busy strengthening his own outworks. In December one of the doubting ones, the Mr. Keightley who had...
7. CHAPTER IV.“Either she is a messenger from the Mahatmas or else she is a fraud. In either case the Theosophical Society would have had no existence without her.”—MRS. BESANT in _Lucifer_,...
8. CHAPTER V.I have said that the Psychical Research Report put a stop to most of the Theosophic miracles. But there were obvious reasons why the Mahatmas should continue to “precipitate” le...
14. CHAPTER XI.How even a “psychologised baby” like Colonel Olcott came to succumb to a movement for ousting him from office, backed by such methods as we have examined, is to me a mystery. No...
5. CHAPTER II.Before going any further I wish to emphasise one point. This society, as such, must stand or fall with its “Mahatmas.” It should be realised how consistent, in one sense, this m...
6. CHAPTER III.It is no part of my present object to enter at length into the history and character of the late Madame Blavatsky. But a comparison of the earlier phase of the Theosophical Soci...
9. CHAPTER VI.Madame Blavatsky died May 8, 1891. Who was to succeed her as hierophant of the mysteries of Tibet? There was none among her disciples who could aspire to fill that _rôle_ with a...
10. CHAPTER VIIIt was not surprising that the Vice-President, finding the Mahatma so complaisant, should hasten to exploit him to the utmost. The resumption of the broken communication could n...
4. CHAPTER I.This will be one of the queerest stories ever unfolded in a newspaper. Truth, as worshipped by the Theosophists, is indeed stranger than fiction. But it is not here told merely...
3. PART III.—A GENERAL REJOINDER.Frontispiece, Portrait of Mme. Blavatsky 1 Portrait of Mrs. Besant 80–81 Portrait of Colonel Olcott 32–33 The “Mahatma’s Seal” 28 The Envelope Trick 35 Facsimiles of Mahatma Mis...
1. Chapter I.— Introduction 5〃 II.— No Mahatmas, no Members! 8 〃 III.— Mystification under Madame Blavatsky 13 〃 IV.— The Psychical Research Exposure 17 〃 V.— Mystification under Mrs. Besant 22 〃 VI.— Enter...
2. PART II—ANSWERS AND THEOSOPHISTRIES.