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{{HPB-CW-comment|[Translation of the foregoing original French text]}} | <center>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Translation of the foregoing original French text]}}</center> | ||
One of our many friends, a distinguished writer and publicist, received a letter about the Theosophists from one of his confrères in America (United States); we inserted it without imagining that it contained errors and a somewhat fantastic story; a letter from Madame H. P. Blavatsky enables us to rectify what we inserted in good faith, and we hasten to do so as a duty, and with pleasure: our friend seems to us to have been misinterpreted by someone who hardly knows her; we have absolute proof of it. This is rather a surprise to us. | {{Style P-Quote|One of our many friends, a distinguished writer and publicist, received a letter about the Theosophists from one of his confrères in America (United States); we inserted it without imagining that it contained errors and a somewhat fantastic story; a letter from Madame H. P. Blavatsky enables us to rectify what we inserted in good faith, and we hasten to do so as a duty, and with pleasure: our friend seems to us to have been misinterpreted by someone who hardly knows her; we have absolute proof of it. This is rather a surprise to us. | ||
Here is, textually, Madame Blavatsky’s letter: | Here is, textually, Madame Blavatsky’s letter:}} | ||
Hardly had I returned from a journey when I found in the June number of La Revue Spirite an article entitled “Les Théosophes—Madame Blavatsky,” a fairly accurate translation of a story published last year in the New York World; this article repeats—quite innocently no doubt—the hallucinations of Mr. American Reporter. | Hardly had I returned from a journey when I found in the June number of La Revue Spirite an article entitled “Les Théosophes—Madame Blavatsky,” a fairly accurate translation of a story published last year in the New York World; this article repeats—quite innocently no doubt—the hallucinations of Mr. American Reporter. | ||
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{{Style P-Signature|H. P. BLAVATSKY.}} | {{Style P-Signature|H. P. BLAVATSKY.}} | ||
NOTE.—We hasten to accept the promised exposition of the system promulgated by Theosophists, and we shall insert whatever our correspondent will kindly send us; we shall be greatly interested in reading it. | {{Style P-Quote|NOTE.—We hasten to accept the promised exposition of the system promulgated by Theosophists, and we shall insert whatever our correspondent will kindly send us; we shall be greatly interested in reading it.}} | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=7|p=258|text=Scrapbook, Vol. VII, p. 258}}, there is pasted a brief cutting entitled “Extreme Measures Advocated.” Neither the source, the date, nor the author are stated. It speaks of Charles Sotheran who, declaring himself a labor Socialist, spoke at a mass meeting of strikers and urged them to take extreme measures against the Capitalist exploiters. To this H.P.B. remarked:]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=7|p=258|text=Scrapbook, Vol. VII, p. 258}}, there is pasted a brief cutting entitled “Extreme Measures Advocated.” Neither the source, the date, nor the author are stated. It speaks of Charles Sotheran who, declaring himself a labor Socialist, spoke at a mass meeting of strikers and urged them to take extreme measures against the Capitalist exploiters. To this H.P.B. remarked:]}} | ||
A Theosophist becoming a rioter, encouraging revolution and MURDER, a friend of Communists is no fit member of our Society. | A Theosophist becoming a rioter, encouraging revolution and MURDER, a friend of Communists is no fit member of our Society. | ||
HE HAS TO GO. | HE HAS TO GO. | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=7|p=306|text=Scrapbook, Vol. VII, p. 306}}, there is pasted the printed copy of the Petition of Bankruptcy against E. Gerry Brown, the former Editor of The Spiritual Scientist. In the list of Creditors we find Col. Olcott with $590, and H.P.B. with $150. H.P.B. marked these sums and wrote in red pencil (much faded now) as follows:]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=7|p=306|text=Scrapbook, Vol. VII, p. 306}}, there is pasted the printed copy of the Petition of Bankruptcy against E. Gerry Brown, the former Editor of The Spiritual Scientist. In the list of Creditors we find Col. Olcott with $590, and H.P.B. with $150. H.P.B. marked these sums and wrote in red pencil (much faded now) as follows:]}} | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=5|p=77|text=Scrapbook, Vol. V, pp. 77-79}}, there is pasted a cutting entitled “Our Sketches from India,” the source and the date of which are unknown. It contains the description of the investiture of several Indian Princes with the Order of the Star of India. At the end of this article H.P.B. wrote in pencil some remarks in Russian. Translated, they read as follows:]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=5|p=77|text=Scrapbook, Vol. V, pp. 77-79}}, there is pasted a cutting entitled “Our Sketches from India,” the source and the date of which are unknown. It contains the description of the investiture of several Indian Princes with the Order of the Star of India. At the end of this article H.P.B. wrote in pencil some remarks in Russian. Translated, they read as follows:]}} | ||
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[These remarks are significantly signed with three dots.] | <center>{{HPB-CW-comment|[These remarks are significantly signed with three dots.]}}</center> | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=5|p=81|text=Scrapbook, Vol. V, p. 81}}, there is pasted a short cutting of eight lines, the source and the date of which are unknown. It has to do with a certain Dr. Scudder who said that the Oriental nations will never become converted to Christianity until their women first become Christians, and that women can be converted only by the personal agency of women who would go there from Christian countries. Hindu women, it would appear, will not listen to male missionaries. Under this H.P.B. wrote in ink:]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=5|p=81|text=Scrapbook, Vol. V, p. 81}}, there is pasted a short cutting of eight lines, the source and the date of which are unknown. It has to do with a certain Dr. Scudder who said that the Oriental nations will never become converted to Christianity until their women first become Christians, and that women can be converted only by the personal agency of women who would go there from Christian countries. Hindu women, it would appear, will not listen to male missionaries. Under this H.P.B. wrote in ink:]}} | ||
I wish the Rev. may get it . . . Anyhow, the Reverend fraud may go to his Christian Hell first. Hindu women will no more listen to female flapdoodle humbugs thanks to the male cheats, who like Scudder go about deceiving the “heathen”—far less heathen than themselves. | I wish the Rev. may get it . . . Anyhow, the Reverend fraud may go to his Christian Hell first. Hindu women will no more listen to female flapdoodle humbugs thanks to the male cheats, who like Scudder go about deceiving the “heathen”—far less heathen than themselves. | ||