Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-22

schemes, each one of which has been duly ex-
posed. Is the formation of a secret or 'esoteric'
| society, all the members of which are sworn to
J do her bidding without cavil or delay OF
course the gnostic theosophists would stand no
| such nonsense, and you will find the whole
fake laid bare in the Religio-Philosophical
Journal of Chicago. The names of her dupes
will be next in order. But to return to mag
| netism.
.'Take an extreme case. II magnetized
you, mesmerized you, call it what You choose;
IL Iput you in such q state as to make
you subject to my will and made you steal,
commit forgery or murder, the law would
| not punish me. You would be the vic
tim - the powerless, irresponsible victim.
The law could not find the crime had COM
mitted. There is no punishment
FOR THINKING MURDER, FOR EXAMPLE.
81 want to emphasize the dangers there are
in the knowledge Of these occult powers and
forces without the moral stamina to use that
knowledge for good. Take in illustration of
what / say that recent very bad case of the
Boston theosophists, SO fully exposed by
the press. There is a true. real and actual
psychic force. 1t may be used for good or
for evil. Any honest theosophical society
makes a study of this force and attempts
to direct it toward the improvement of man
kind. But such society works quietly and
never strolls about the country to make q
breach of the peace.
BLANATSkr AND THE MAHATMAS.
"But you are still thinking about my eccen-
trio old friend Blavatsky," he added, divining
the reporters mind after pause, during
which he rolled fresh cigarette. II am a
much better friend of Madame Blavatsky's
than are those who ignorantly make fetish OF
her or those who knowingly connive in her
tricks and schemes. l think she is the most
remarkable female organism now embodied on
this planet. She has done and can do some
f,,1A N <hap hnvxA ChA hoa
been guilty of many silly and some thoroughly
bad tricks that bring discredit on her and on
those associated with her. We have to look out
for her all the time. That is one reason
why 1 founded tho Gnostic here. The
trouble with her is that she is never
twice the same, except as regards her famous
'mahatmic myth, which l sometimes think
she lied about SO long and so steadily that she
half-believes it herself. She is cratic. There
are those who would worship her-and she
would let them do it. She would have the ut
most contempt for them, but her vanity would
be tickled by their abject homage. 1t would
still further crafty her to play pranks on them,
to impose the most fragrant frauds upon them,
and to make them her slaves and her amuse-
ment 1t is here where the rub comes and
others who are interested in theosophy
do not propose to permit such things as this II
we can help it, and We think we can. We re-
cognize the wonderful powers of Madame
Biavatsky, and as long as she confines herself
to the proper exercise of these we are in accord
with her. When she trifies with the creduiity
of the weak and assumes the supernatural
to expose 4. We seek but the truth.
and the best means of placing it safely
before the public. Theosophic truth, however
marvellous 1t may seem, when we know it to be
the truth we hold to it and maintain it. We will
not sactlon any 'pious frauds or use any
questionable means to ends however desirable
in themselves. Madame Biavatsky has given
us much trouble by her erratic moods. For
more than year have been talking with her,
warning and advising her. / exceeded all
modesty, but not truth, in my appeals to her,
and told her exactly what should do. But it
Is useless to argue with the old lady when her
back is up. The only thing you can do is to
take it down. / told her if she did a certain
thing she would be exposed. She did it and
the exposure came promptly on schedule time.
And now the dupes who swallowed her bait are
squeaking like rats in trap. 1t is rough on
rats to be sure, but they should not have
signed the foolish pledge. The worst feature
OF II Is that there are some persons whom she
cannot shake off if she would, for they know
all about the original hoax of the shrine at
Adyar in Madras, India. and if they should
'squeaP her game would be up all over the
world. Some Of them presume on this when
they stroll about the country in the guise of
bowling dervishes
I'm seeking truth we must avoid deception
and expose fraud. 1t is our purpose to expose
every fraud there is and to break it up. When
Blavatsky
sTooPs TO FRAUD
she cannot escape exposure. She is not fraud
because she has not powers to operate honestly.
She does things for pure deviltry. Just as
saw man perform magnificent feat in psy-
ehology and Immediately afterward do false
and lmpudent thing that brought prompt ex-
posture, because tine fraud was open to every
body. With Blavatsky this is waywardness
She Is seldom wei balanced. She does not APP
pear to have herself in proper control, except
in the early stages of plotting some
nation for her. She is always willing
to sacrifice her reputation to crafty this
queer kind of vanity. Her friends are those
who want to keep her on the right path and,
II possible, preserve for her some good reputa-
ton. They want her to use her powers in the
pursuit of truth and for good. The fakirs who
cry about are partly her dupes and partly
frauds who have selfish aims To many of the
latter she has exposed herself in some Of her
tricks and they have certain sort Of power
over her. They want to use her to practice on
the dupes. 1t makes them mad to have
frauds exposed and their practices denounced
That Is about the whole story, as / understand
the present situation. But mark you. there is
more to come as this ferment goes on. When
free-thlnking, outspeaking, radical reform
gets rampant on too high horse the Gnostic
L. 3. throws what weight it has on the side of
conservatism. II / had "a thousand gnostics
week ago, as the papers say, have to-day ten
thousand who are gnostic enough to range
themselves squarely on the conservative side of
law, order, and public decorum. This is the
real way to form a nucleus of universal
brotherhood, one Of the avowed objects of
the true theosophical society"