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A refutation of the claim that H. P. Blavatsky was abandoned by the Masters late in her life, examining the charge and its implications for occultism and brotherhood. +
Judge's tribute to H. P. Blavatsky on her death, written for ''The Path'' shortly after the news reached New York. +
Judge rebukes Col. Olcott's public declaration that H.P. Blavatsky forged the 1881 Mahatma message to the Allahabad Brahmans, and Annie Besant's parallel claim that the same message was not genuine. +
A letter to the Religio-Philosophical Journal responding to Professor Buchanan's criticisms of Hindu thought and Theosophy. +
On concentration and single-minded aim in spiritual practice, illustrated by the Bhagavad Gita's image of the archer. +
On mediums who, after H. P. Blavatsky's death, claimed to channel messages from her, and how implausible and out of character such communications are. +
On the Theosophical standard for conduct and treatment of others, including the Adept's own stated view of how to deal with wrongdoers. +
A factual account of the Theosophical Society's administration, officers, and finances, offered to counter rumors and misunderstandings. +
A response to A. P. Sinnett's article 'Esoteric Teaching', reconciling apparent differences between his exposition and teachings given earlier in America. +
On the Theosophical explanation of hypnotic phenomena in terms of the astral body and the disjunction it produces between the soul and its instrument, and the ethical dangers hypnotism poses absent a true understanding of man's nature. +
On the Theosophical Society's attitude to hypnotism, distinguishing it from older mesmeric practice and warning of its real dangers. +
On the medical profession's belated rediscovery, under the new name "hypnotism," of phenomena long known to mesmerists and to the common people, and on Dr. Dods's forgotten 1850 lectures on "Electrical Psychology" which anticipated the same precautions now urged by Dr. Charcot. +
On members who publicly profess Theosophical ideals of brotherhood while privately holding prejudiced views, and whether this is hypocrisy or simple ignorance. +
Arguing that Theosophists should not shrink from challenging cherished illusions and beliefs, however unpopular, when truth requires it. +
On why, if early humanity had a more ethereal body that lived far longer than Methuselah, modern human life is comparatively short — explained through the physics of atomic cohesion and friction, and the strain of modern mental and emotional life. +
On the real, creative power of imagination as understood in Theosophy and occultism, as opposed to its dismissal by modern Western psychology as mere fancy. +
A reply to a member's complaint that ''The Path'' ignores Branches outside New York, India, and Europe, explaining the practical limits of the magazine's resources. +
On India as a storehouse of ancient wisdom and future spiritual resources for the Theosophical Society, and the need to prepare to draw on it. +
On the real opportunity and duty of Indian Theosophists, with dissenting editorial footnotes by Col. Olcott as editor of ''The Theosophist''. +
An article on the Brahmans' growing distrust of the Theosophical Society over confusion between Buddhism and Brahmanism in its work, and the need to convince Indian Brahmans of the Society's true aims. +