Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-21


Hindu. dressed in the peculiar garb Of his
country, came before them, and, leaving .
package, vanished, and no one knew whittier
he came or went.
A WONDERFUL TALE.
"On opening the package they found the
necessary forms Of organization, rules, ETC.,
which were adopted. The inference to be
drawn was, that the strange visitor was
Mahatma, interested in the foundation Of
the society. This wonderful story
of celestial messengers bringing documents
to mortals is not quite fresh. In the pointed
language of the street, it is q chestnut so old
that it is quite moldy, and it has been for
thousands of years one of the cheapest e1-
pedients Of rsscality TO lead confding cred
ulity.
LET us see about these objects Of the
Theological Society. Here is the last num-
Der Of Lucyer, with the objects printed on
the inside of the cover.
'First-To form nucleus OF q o UNIVERSAL
Brotherhood of Humanity without distinc-
tion of race, creed, sex, or color That has
been the dream of every crazy enthusiast
since the world began. Only in this case it
was adopted as blind for knaves to make
money. It has been for years stale
joke among theosophists themselves
that the Universal Brotherhood
is q universal row. Aside from its OBJ
viously dishonest features, it has been found
to be hotbed of base and evil passions,
strife and dissension, jealousy, selhsh am
bition, to say nothing of darker and deeper
depths OF vice, less against the laws OF So
derstand, without further explanation, to
what the practice of animal magnetism may
lead, under the thin guise of initiation into
phallic mysteries,
"The second ostensible object is: 2. To
promote the study of Aryan and other
Eastern literatures, religions and sciences.
How much study of Aryan literature is pro-
NOTED may. be judged by the fact that there
is not a member Of the Theosophical Society
in America who can say the Sanscrit alpha
bet, let alone translate a word in any Ori-
entail language, and few, fancy, who use
the Hindu of the word sAum' on their letter
heads know that it is word. They think
it is
A MYSTIC MONOGRAM
of the Mahatmas. There is body Of ORR
entalists in this country who know all that
is known of Eastern literature, religion and
science, but never heard of one of them as
a member of the Theosophical Society.
Blavatsky herself could not read page of
any: Oriental language to save her life.
8. A third object. pursued by portion
of the members of the society, is to investi-
gate unexplained laws of nature and the
psychical powers of man. This, like the
first object, is not glaringly original, con-
sidering that since the first man in the pre-
historic paleolithic period learned to chip
flint instruments and build fire and cook
his dinner. This third object Of investigating
the physical and psychical laws of the uni
verse has been pursued by portion at least
Of the members of the human race as well as
those of the Theosophical Society"
The Professor goes on to show up various
frauds in which Madame Blavatsky was
conspicuous; claims that her first book, "It
is Unveiled" was not written by her, but
by an eccentric New Yorker, and says that
the real strength of her followers is misrep-
resented by those who meet and hold con-
ventions. He continues:
THEosoPHIsTs FEW.
1.-THE actual operators can be counted on
fingers, without toes. To judge from the
annual reports you mightimagine census
enumerator required to keep tally Of the
Blavatskyites. In point of fact, however,
the United States has Blavatsky's 400, as
New York has a Macallister's like total.
I doubt that the people who have ever
taken the Blavatsky oath of obedience and
paid Judge the dollar for the privilege, are
quite so many as these. But say 400. OF
these, 800 have simply passed in and out.
Of the remaining 100, probably 70 are the
more or less quiescent or Indifferent dupes
of the dozen or two who stay in the swim
for what they can make of the remains of
the original Koot Hoomi hoax"
"The last annual report states that there
are now thirty-six branches of the society in
the United States. Thirty-six into four hum
al
enough for an extra branch I have
known branches to consist of fewer than
four. have known at least two branches
which consisted of nobody-the names
of the branches on Mr.. Judges books be-
ing all there was Of them. all that Is
necessary to found branch is for anybody
to send Mr.. Judge S. for a charter like
this" and here DR.. Coues unfolded an i'm
pressive-looking document, stamped with
gold seal and signed by Blavatsky and
Olcott, "and then give him 81 more for a
diploma like this" producing a linen
backed document Of more modest dimen-
sions. "Thereupon he becomes universal
brother, and
CAN FRATERNIZE UNIVERSALLY
as long as he pleases to send any money to
Mr.. Judge in New York, to Blavatsky in
London, or to Olcott in Madras-and the
latter would immensely prefer direct trans
missal of funds, as he has found it expen-
sive to collect remittances via New York
and London. Sometimes, however, the
formation of new branches is attended with
more ceremony. Take, for example, the
'Blavatsky Lodge'in Washington. There was
here pauper ex-Spiritualist, named An
thony Higgins, who went through the Wood
hull and Claf1in scandals of years ago.
Having hired hall, Mr.. Higgins, in the
company of Mr.. W. @. Judge and Mr..
Archibald Keighter, expounded Universal
Brotherhood to at least 30 Washington
cranks by abusing my humble self for sew
eral hours.
thereafter arose the 'Blavatsky Lodge
consisting of Mr.. Higgins, a woman, and his
son in the teens, with several ladies and
gentlemen OF color: and the next number of
Blavatsky's London organ conveyed felicita-
tions to our noble and worthy Brother Hig-
gins 1t is scarcely necessary to add that
nothing further has been heard of or from
this lodge, except in the vast wilderness of
Mr.. Judges annual report