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{{Style P-Title|THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY}}
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<center>ITS ORIGIN, PLAN AND AIMS</center>
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[Printed for the Information of Correspondents]}}<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[This is the New York Circular drafted mainly by Colonel H. S. Olcott and which was ready for distribution on May 3rd, 1878. A packet of these was given to Dr. H. J. Billing to take to London, and another to Countess Lydia de Pashkoff to take to Japan. As Col. Olcott points out himself (Old Diary Leaves, I, 399-400): “In drafting the New York circular it occurred to me that the membership of, and supervising entities behind, the Society would be naturally grouped in three divisions, viz., new members not detached from worldly interests; pupils, like myself, who had withdrawn from the same or were ready to do so; and the adepts themselves, who, without being actually members, were at least connected with us and concerned in our work as a potential agency for the doing of spiritual good to the world. With H.P.B.’s concurrence I defined these three groups, calling them sections, and sub-dividing each into three degrees. This, of course, was in the hope and expectation that we should have more practical guidance in adjusting the several grades of members than we had had-— or have since had, I may add.”<br>
{{HPB-CW-comment|[Printed for the Information of Correspondents]}} <ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[This is the New York Circular drafted mainly by Colonel H. S. Olcott and which was ready for distribution on May 3rd, 1878. A packet of these was given to Dr. H. J. Billing to take to London, and another to Countess Lydia de Pashkoff to take to Japan. As Col. Olcott points out himself (Old Diary Leaves, I, 399-400): “In drafting the New York circular it occurred to me that the membership of, and supervising entities behind, the Society would be naturally grouped in three divisions, viz., new members not detached from worldly interests; pupils, like myself, who had withdrawn from the same or were ready to do so; and the adepts themselves, who, without being actually members, were at least connected with us and concerned in our work as a potential agency for the doing of spiritual good to the world. With H.P.B.’s concurrence I defined these three groups, calling them sections, and sub-dividing each into three degrees. This, of course, was in the hope and expectation that we should have more practical guidance in adjusting the several grades of members than we had had-— or have since had, I may add.”
Col. Olcott specifically states that the passage beginning: “As the highest development . . .” and ending with “unseen universes” was written by H.P.B. The important words: “the Brotherhood of Humanity” were here used for the first time, and the Circular!ar is devoid of any mention of Spiritualism or phenomena.<br>
Col. Olcott specifically states that the passage beginning: “As the highest development . . .” and ending with “unseen universes” was written by H.P.B. The important words: “the Brotherhood of Humanity” were here used for the first time, and the Circular!ar is devoid of any mention of Spiritualism or phenomena.
There can he very little doubt of the fact that the inspiring guidance of the Adepts was back of the actual wording of this Circular. It is a document of primary importance in the history of the Theosophical Movement.—Compiler.]}}</ref>
There can he very little doubt of the fact that the inspiring guidance of the Adepts was back of the actual wording of this Circular. It is a document of primary importance in the history of the Theosophical Movement.—Compiler.]}}</ref>


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IX. No fees are exacted, but those who choose may contribute towards the Society’s expenses. No applicant is {{Page aside|378}} received because of his wealth or influence, nor rejected because of his poverty or obscurity.
IX. No fees are exacted, but those who choose may contribute towards the Society’s expenses. No applicant is {{Page aside|378}} received because of his wealth or influence, nor rejected because of his poverty or obscurity.


Correspondence with the parent body may be addressed to
<center>Correspondence with the parent body may be addressed to
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“The Theosophical Society, New York.”</center>


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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=7|p=113|text=Scrapbook, Vol. VII, pp. 113-14}}, there is a cutting of three columns from the New York Herald of May 13, 1878. It is an article written, according to H.P.B’s own notation, by Col. H. S. Olcott, and entitled “Muzzling the Indian Press.” Its subtitle is: “The Vernacular Press Act for the Suppression of Native Newspapers—Passed at a Single Sitting of the Viceregal Legislative Council, March 14, 1878.”}}<br>
{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=7|p=113|text=Scrapbook, Vol. VII, pp. 113-14}}, there is a cutting of three columns from the New York Herald of May 13, 1878. It is an article written, according to H.P.B’s own notation, by Col. H. S. Olcott, and entitled “Muzzling the Indian Press.” Its subtitle is: “The Vernacular Press Act for the Suppression of Native Newspapers—Passed at a Single Sitting of the Viceregal Legislative Council, March 14, 1878.”}}


{{HPB-CW-comment|At the end of this cutting, H.P.B. pasted the colored picture of a lion caught in a net, and a mouse gnawing away the net, and wrote the following:]}}
{{HPB-CW-comment|At the end of this cutting, H.P.B. pasted the colored picture of a lion caught in a net, and a mouse gnawing away the net, and wrote the following:]}}
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