New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-28
MRS. BEsANT ARRIVES.
eur WILL LECTURE ON THEosopHY.
- GIVE TWO LECTURES HERE-A TALK ABOUT
MADAME BLAvATsKY.

MADAME BLAVATSKH.
,r-s Annie Besant. the well-known theosophist,
"a yesterday on the City Of Berlin. The steamer
- ~. expected to land her passengers on this trip
go this morning. but the voyage was exceptionally
'es.,h and when the big lnman liner hove in sight
rSs island yesterday forenoon she seemed Ike q
"a, ,ha, had come cut OF the unawaTes. She
s..sss her dock shortly after o'clock but II was
rr,,, AS that the cabin passengers began crossing
Nv ~. sonepsnk Mrs. Besant was one of the last to
- ashore She was met by W. Q. Judge, general
.srv Of the American section OF the Theosophical
s.,ev and was escorted by him to the home OF A. Il.
,..beImcr No l76 Lenox ave-, whsse she received
rs,upe reporter last evening.
NJ. Besant said that the sea voyage was recon-
...s.d 10 her by her physician as means of rest
o. vu, remain until December 0. when she win sail
~ A.. City OF Paris for Liverpool. Meanwhile, how
Mr.. Judge has arranged several lectures for her.
g. s-.i will be given next Sunday evening at CHECKER
nail her subject being Madame Blavatsky and
n,.srnation" The following Sunday evening she
an sueak IN the same place on "Theosophy and Oc-
-,,,snp December she will speak in Philadel-
VA; and lecture has also been arranged for her at
r.. vayne Ind The subjects, however, have not
yet been selected.
yrs Besant spoke encouragngy Of the growing
,.,.,as, in theosophy in Europe and America. The
...,.v IN London propose hereafter to do their
"a American printing press, better adapted to their
~ than anything In England, and the Office and
- will be In charge of james Pryse, for
.,,v al California. For the last ten months" said
~ nessnt the public interest has been greatly in
.-.ased lectured in Liverpool the Friday before
ana avay The crowd was so great we were Obliged
4 sAut the doors. I spoke in st. Jamcs's Hail.
,soo one Of the largest meeting rooms In that city,
"a he house was packed Our weekly meetings In
attended that have
,..o obliged TO start second meeting each week
"a Al NOT seek 10 push our theories down the peoples
,A-osss but we allow them to come OF their own
.,ord We feel II Is our duty to give them chance
a. hear Ms and then if they want to learn more about
=. ,fsy know where to come The clergymen are be-
,rrsug 10 preach on Theosophy in Europe and there
!, uuch excitement. Just before left England
ran. N sec Canon wilberforce, who is wonderfully In
tested in the whole matter, and to a great extent
ga. with uss There has been some controversy Of
~, =, London respecting letters alleged to have been
written to Madame Blavatsky by her teachers in
7hast II was said they were forgeIies and that
w.a,me Blsvatsky had invented them well as the
,sssopary sources whence they were understood to
,,r, sprung Referring to this matter Mrs Besant
sad:
Twas lecturins in London In the hall where the
.=xk on Madame Blavatsky had been made.
snslv said that had received letters in the same
riang and from the same person since Madame
Bkyatskys death, and therefore she could not have
fprced them made this statement vindication
Of her character. Ny statement has been greatly
distorted. What said in exact words was this: You
talk Of her as fraud, and fling about the word as care
kssy Of ore with whom you disagree as Christians
and others threw against me the epthet Of harlot in
the days gone by, and with much truth. i read
the evidence that was said to be against her. l read
the great proofs Of the fraud how she had written
the letters which she said had come to her from the
men who had been her teachers I read the evil
dence Of ". Netherclift the expert, first that the
letters were not written by her and then that they
The expert at Berlin that they were not written
by her. read most carefully the evidence against her.
because I had so much to lose. read II; Judged
it false on the reading; knew it to be false when
came to know her. And here is one fact which may
perhaps interest you much rather curious from the
point Of view that Madame Blavatsky was the writer
Of those famous letters You have known me In this
hall for sixteen and half years. You have never
known me to lie to you. My worst public enemy,
through the whole Of my life, never cast slur upon
my integrity. Everything else they have sullied, but
my truth never and 1 tell you that since Madame
Bavashy left have had letters in the same writing
and from the person. Unless you think that
dead persons writeand do not think sothat is rather
o curious fact against the whole challenge OF fraud.
do not ask You to believe me- but tell you this on the
faith Of record that has never yet been sulled by o
CONSCIOUS lie. IDoSe VINO kllc nor, hucW sic Souo
not very wen commit fraud If she tried. She was the
tlnkest OF hnman beings. II may be said, What
evidence have you besides hers7 Ny own knowledge.
For some time all the evidence had Of the existence
her teachers and the existence Of those socaed alb,
normal powers second hand gained through her 1t
not now and It has not been SO for many months
unless every sense can be at the sans time deceived
Unless person be, at the same moment sane and
insane have exactly the same certainty for the truti
Of those statements as have for the fact that you
are here
Mrs. Besant says the interest in Theosophy is OK
tsnding all over Europe. In Germany there are many
isolated lodges In Greece there Is one; there are
two or three in SPAIN and In France and Italy there
Is one each, and few exist In Russia.