Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-04

death he was her right-hand man in this
world, and is said to have been regarded by
her with little less affection than she held
her other intimates in the spirit world.
The Leaders Fall Out.
Some time ago Mrs. Besant and Mr..
Judge fell out. At trial Of their differ
ences held in England recently 1t was al
legged that Mr.. Judge had been engaged IN
writing letters which were conveyed in a
mysterious way to persons processing theos-
'ophy, and purported to be messages from
Mahatma Koot Hoomi, or other infinite in
dividuals who resided in realms of ether
and directed the mundane affairs of those
who approached them in the proper faith
and through the medium of membership in
the Theosophical Society. AS it was the
sworn duty of the theosophists to relig-
iously carry out all the orders received in
missives from Mahatma, and especially
from Mahatma Koot Hoomi, Mrs. Besant,
| as member of the esoteric circle of mum
dane theosophists, and only one degree and
death removed from Mahatma herself.
naturally grew angry at Mr.. Judge for
writing such important documents himself,
and had him called to account
Mr.. Judges defense, according to widely
and generally published accounts of the
trial, was ingenious. He asserted that as
vice president of the Theosophical Society
1t was not his duty to write such letters,
and whatever he did as VIM. @. Judge in
person was none of the business of the So
ciety. Thereupon Mrs. Besant communed
with. her intimates Of the other world and
expelled Mr.. Judge from the society. Mr..
Judge was equal to this emergency and re-
taliated with deadly effect. He got his
Mahatmas together and held a convention
of an astral sort, and then announced that
Mrs. Besant was expelled from the esoteric
circle and all the other intricate offices she
held, and was not worthy the credence or
support of theosophists Affairs were in
this peculiarly aggravated state when Mr..
to this country and establishing a Universal
Brotherhood of Man on this side of the wa
ter which should strictly taboo the Univer-
sal Brotherhood of Man on the other side.
That Is the way the condition of modern
theosophy looks at present.
DIR. Coues Has Something to Say.
With the view of learning something more
about the occult religion, reporter of The
Evening Star called last night upon DR..
Eliot Coues, the distinguished scientist,
who was for several years a member of
the American Theosophical Society, and at
one time it's president.
There is nothing but fraud on the one
hand and folly on the other in this Theo-
sophical Society, and there is not even a
pretense of anything else among those who
conduct the affair."" said DR.. Coues, with
convicting earnestness. "All these social
ed Mahatma letters are fakes, pure and
simple, and the propulsion of the astral
body Is a gigantic joke
You were at one time regarded as a
leading exponent of theosophy," suggested
the reporter.
Not precisely an exponent" said Dr.
Coues. II was merely investigating for
myself as a scientist, as any scientist is
bound to do in matter Of vital interest,
both in it's psychological and its ethical
aspects. 1t is not particularly to my credit
as 1 have stated more than once that
found the Theosophical Society a cesspool
of filth and fraud. owned and operated by
few knaves at the expense of not many
dupes. Average intelligence would dis
cover that without difficulty.
Madame Blavatsky was a wonderful
woman, world wise and world worn, vastly
shrewd and abominably wicked. She started
this theosophical idea in the spirit of a
joke, and finding 1t easy to delude the
credulous continued 1t as a business.
have in my possession her original letters
containing her instructions to her con-
federates and servants as to the manner in
which her disciples were to be fooled. She
set up in Madras what she called shrine
MADAME Blavatsky's Shrine.
This shrine was a cupboard having a
false back which opened into her dressing
room. The faithful would place their petit
tons to the Mahatma Koot Homi in this
closet. BlavatSky would get them and
write answers in blue and red pencil and
put them back. Then the petitioners would
get them and be overwhelmed with spirit
ual fervor. She had a rag baby which
would be stuck on pole and raised to the
window of the Shrine and when the be-
levers would see this at the aperture they
would cry out, My, there's Mahatmav All
this has been proven, and the letters pos
sess containing all her instructions regard
ing the carrying out of this duplicity were
published in an English magazine.
I'm all this country continued Dr.
Coues, there are not more than 400 theos-
ophists, SO called, and I venture TO say
800 of these are dupes of the other six,
and are under the influence of the often
exploded Mahatma Koot Hoami hoax. This
man Judge is an arrant knave, and with
out conscience. 1 don't believe The Star
would publish my knowledge of this man
and his methods. have diagnosed the
average theosophist who joins the society
In two years he either becomes convinced
of it's outrageous swindling character and
leaves 1t or becomes one of the charla-
tans, or has his senses so dulled by the
influences eXerted over him that he remains
a quiescent instrument in the hands of the
manipulators. The Theosophical Society
is Wis, wicked humbug. and that is not
half strong enough to express it,"