Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00012)

I recently ran into a very interesting letter that HPB wrote to "The World"
which speaks for itself. I am excerpting it below and many would enjoy
reading it. 

HPB's fearlessness is legendary. The letter clearly shows how open her life
is and how she dares anyone to dig up any dirt from the past if they can.

In today's cyberworld of e-mail and keyboards, maillists, newsgroups, one
finds from time to time, message posters masquerading under assumed names
because they are not bold enough to stand up and counted for their views
and opinions because they are afraid of being found out who they really are.

mkr

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A Card from Madame Blavatsky (The World, NY, May 6, 1877)

To: The Editor of The World:

Sir:

Since the first month of my arrival in America I began, for reasons
mysterious but perhaps intelligible, to provoke hatred among those who
pretend to be on good terms with me, if not the best of friends. Slanderous
reports, vile insinuations, innuendo, have rained about me........

....At various times I have been charged with (1) drunkenness; (2) forgery;
(3) being a Russian Spy; (4) with being an anti-Russian Spy; (5) with being
no Russian at all, but a French adventuress; (6) of having been in jail for
theft; (7) of being a mistress of a Polish count; (8) with murdering seven
husbands; (9) with bigamy; (10) of being the mistress of Colonel Olcott;
(11) also of an acrobat. Other things might be mentioned, but decency
forbids.....

....But I wish to say for myself just this: that I defy any person in
America to come forward and prove a single charge against my honor. I
invite everyone possessed of such proofs as will vindicate them in a court
of justice to publish them over their own signatures in the newspapers. I
will furnish to everyone a list of my several residences, and contribute
towards paying detectives to trace my every step. But I hereby give notice
that if any more unverifiable slanders can be traced to responsible
sources, I will invoke the protection of the law, which, on the theory of
your national Constitution, was made for heathen as well as Christian
denizens. And I further notify slanderers of a speculative turn that no
blackmail is paid at No. 302 West Forty-seventh Street.

Respectfully,

H P Blavatsky
May 5, 1877

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