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... | Sir,—Since the qualifications for “adeptship” are being discussed, and individual claims are under review, I am entitled to call attention to the psychical paradox presented to us by a new candidate. It will be strange if the tone and temper of J. K.’s latest communication dispose readers to recognise in him the teacher who “knows.” Nor are men of real attainments found publicly boasting of their “calibre.” But literary arrogance and acrimony leave only a bad taste behind; misrepresentations, whether wilful or ignorant, call for severer judgment. | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-171}} | “As concerns the Theosophical Society,” says J. K., “I perceive that their real object is the reverse of their manifest assertions, and is nothing more than the propagation and furthering of the interests of a disguised priest-craft, as the rules of the Arya Samaj palpably indicate.” Later, he refers to by number (but does not set out) certain rules of the Arya Samaj. He then describes them as “the quintessence of the most impudent samples of Jesuitism,” and adds: “Thus far only to prove that I know enough of the Theosophical Society,” &c. What the attempt to establish such a charge by such evidence does prove, is that he is absolutely ignorant of the Theosophical Society, and of the nature of such relations, as {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-171}} | ||
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