Theos-Talk Archives (December 1997 Message tt00070)

Mark inquires
> I'm not quite sure what you quote is saying or what your point is. Does
> the post mean that the author is saying that Blavatsky was employing
> this technique to restrict others she felt were a danger [and by so
> doing, caught the disapproval of other European occultists] or that she
> was being made a victim of it herself? If the former, why and to who was
> it directed? If the latter, by whom and for what reasons?

No she was the victim. It was suggested to me that Pascal Beverly Randolph
was involved. The H. B.of L. are certainly candidates, considering how she
attacked them later.
The reason for the imprisonment was that she was deemed a loose cannon in
releasing too much of the secret teachings. Remember the Brahmins were also
concerned that she was revealing too much. (T.Subba Row had a row with her
about this, if my memory serves me correctly.)
 Never before in the modern world had so much been revealed to so many. At
the point when the most interesting of all occult facts were to be
released, the curtain came down.

"The reappearance of Madam Blavatsky has necessitated a total change of the
policy of secrecy hitherto pursued. Whether for good or evil, she has made
public an immense mass of information in regard to matters which, until
quite recently, were never spoken of outside certain societies, but which
is of a character as to commend itself on its own merits to persons from
whatever source it may come."
Harrison

> Whose wearing the white and black hats here? Please clarify.
As Harrison says most occultists disagreed with the imprisonment.


Warm Regards
Bruce