Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00242)

Thursday, December 13, 2001

Dear Friends:

I note from the dates of the material quoted [ Hannah Wolfe, and
Albert Rawson ] that they appear in journals AFTER the death of
Mme. Blavatsky (she died May 8th 1891).

These reports were published in 2 separate magazines -- see
below -- Jen. and in Feb. 1892). She had no opportunity to see
or to answer them.

Coleman's reports have been found and shown to be defective long
back, while H P B was still alive.

D. D. Home. never met Mme. Blavatsky while she was alive.
Theosophy Magazine, July 1931, p. 416, Vol. 19. ] Both had
great enmity for H P B.

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel H Caldwell
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:26 PM
To: theos-talk
Subject: Part II: Did Blavatsky smoke hashish and drink alcohol?

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Part II
1


Let me first quote what Hannah Wolff said about
Madame Blavatsky allegedly smoking hashish:

"It was evident from the first that she smoked
tobacco to great excess, frequently, as she
told me, using a pound a day. I soon learned also
that she was addicted to the use of haschish. She
several times endeavored to persuade me to try
the effect upon myself. She said she had smoked
opium, seen its visions and dreamed its dreams, but
that the beatitudes enjoyed in the use of haschish
were as heaven to its hell. She said she found
nothing to compare with its effects in arousing and
stimulating the imagination." THE RELIGO-
PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, Jan. 2, 1892, P. 502

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2

Albert Rawson gives his account of HPB and
her use of hashish in this short passage:

"She had tried hasheesh in Cairo with success, and
she again indulged in it in this city under the care
of myself and Dr. Edward Sutton Smith, who had a
large experience with the drug among his patients at
Mount Lebanon, Syria. She said, 'Hasheesh multiplies
ones life a thousandfold. My experiences are real
as if they wer ordinary events of actual life. Ah!
I have ean xplanation. It is a recollection of my former
existences, my previous incarnations. It is a wonderful
drug, and it clears up a profound mystery."
(FRANK LESLIE'S POPULAR MONTHLY, Feb. 1892, p. 202.)

I believe this is all of the testimony concerning
Madame Blavatsky's alleged use of hashish. Is
there more?

We can all agree that Rawson and Wolff
gave testimony to Madame Blavatsky's
use of hashish. They said it but should
one believe them?

CUT