The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-03
THE COLD FACTS.

There 10 of course no limit to the capac-
ity Of honest credulity. Lady Tichborne
and her family lawyer honestly believed
that butcher Arthur orion was her son,
Sir Roger Tichborne, and yet the hon.
est mother and her honest lawyer were
grossly imposed upon, for orion was judi
cially proved to be an impostor and suf-
fered several years imprisonment as PEN
atty for his successful fraud.
Education, good breeding, honesty and
sincerity of character and motive did not
protect poor credulous Lady Tichborne
from imposture, and she was as intelligent,
intellectual and upright person as
any one of the respectable English the
osophists who have published their firm
belief that the late Madame Blavatsky
was all that an ideal high priestess of q
high-toned philosophy should be, never
theless the honest credulity Of these re-
spectacle English disciples Of theosophy
is no answer to an Indictment that rests
on an ugly array Of damaging facts. The
disbelief of English theosophists does not
dispose of evidence, although It recalls the
chivalrous confidence Of the fellow who
found man under his wife's bed, but ac-
cepted her denial of his presence upon the
cheerful ground that he wouldn't believe
his eyes before he believed his wife"
The cold facts are that Blavatsky's inn
posture was finally exposed in India by
one of her confidants, French woman,
Coulomb. The London Society for PSYCHE
cal Research sent DR.. Hodgson to Madras.
His report containing diagrams Of the trap
doors on the Blavatsky stage and fac SIM
lies of Blavatsky's handwriting, proved to
be identical with that of the mythical Koot
Hoomi, caused the total collapse of the
theosophic hoax. The so-called shrine at
Adyar, through which letters purporting
to come from Mahatmas were received,
was arranged with sliding panel at the
back for the insertion Of letters, and regu-
larly used for this purpose by Madame
Blavatsky.
This exposure ended Blavatsky in India
and she fed to Europe to avoid arrest by
the India police. The "shrine" was moth
ing but trick cabinet. first cousin to the
cabinet" of the Eddy Family materializa-
ton fraud, 'shrine" before which the
writer saw Madame Blavatsky worship
ing in 1874, in company with Colonel
Olcott. Olcott was originally newspaper
reporter in New York city; Judge is an
ex-Methodist exhorter. For fifteen years
Blavatsky, Olcott and Judge fed fraud and
nonsense out to folly. Professor Eliot
Coues, Of the Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, in his complete exposure
of Blavatsky's disreputable life and Inn
posture, has this to say of General Sec
rotary" Judge:
The whimsical trio-Blavatsky, OIcott and
Judge-pooled their issues on a farce, which has
since figured as "Theosophy' in three CONT
nents. The thimble-rigging between these
worthless was well calculated to pique public
curiosity and bull the fool market, like three
card monte with king, queen and knave. Bla-
vatsky dealt, Olcott steered aud Judge played
capper.
This meek Hibernian, Judge, who knows both
Olcott and Blavatsky as well as they know each
other, and believes in the Mahatmas no more
than they, undertook to do what brokerage
might be required to float Blavatsky's Esoteric
stock in the United States fool market for the
modest commission of all he could get
Thesosophy is probably harmless faith
or philosophy, but it has more than any
new faith can comfortably carry in the
effort of its respectable believers to weight
it down with the malodorous memory Of
Blavatsky and the dubious record of Judge
and Olcott.