Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00043)

--- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> When Hodgson took "samples" of Blavatsky's handwriting and 
Mahatma
> Letters to a handwriting analyst, it appears that they were not
> originals; they were copies that Hodgson made himself. No wonder his
> analyst said they came from the same person. 

The "experts" (one of whom was not an expert by any standard of 
assessment) were badgered by Hodgson into making those statements.

It was Besant who said Blavatsky disguised her handwriting for 
mahatma letters. In the case of the Prayah letter she did not 
disguie her handwriting, but sent it out in her own script. In that 
case, as in others, the content of the letter is supposed to have 
been that of the mahatma, and not hers.