Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00608)

The Mahatmas and Their Letters: A Bibliography 
by Daniel H. Caldwell

A. Testimonials to the Existence of the Mahatmas/Receipt of
Mahatma Letters
See: http://mahatmas.net

B. Major Texts of the Mahatma Letters
See: http://mahatmaletters.net
http://www.theosophical.ca/EarlyTeachings.htm

C. Miscellaneous Sources of Mahatma Letters

D. Facsimiles of Mahatma Letters

E. A.P. Sinnett---Major Recipient of Mahatma Letters

(1) Sinnett's Works on the Mahatma Letters

(2) Sinnett's Search for the Mahatmas

F. Major Works on the Mahatma Letters

G. Miscellaneous Studies on the Mahatma Letters

H. Some Controversies Surrounding the Mahatma Letters

(1) Handwriting/Textual Analysis of the Mahatma Letters

(2) Esoteric Buddhism---The Initial Controversy (1883)

(3) The Kiddle Incident (1883-1884)

(4) The Kingsford-Maitland Controversy (1883-1884)

(5) The Arthur Lillie Controversy (1884)

(6) The Mars-Mercury Controversy

(7) The Prayag Letter Controversy

(8) The Hare Brothers' Controversy

(9) The Hugh Shearman Controversy

I. The Process of Precipitation

EXCERPTS FROM THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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F Major Works on the Mahatmas and Their Letters

Barborka, Geoffrey A. The Mahatmas and Their Letters. Adyar,
Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1973. xviii +
422 pp.

Codd, Clara M. Theosophy As The Masters See It. Adyar, Madras,
India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1926. viii + 369 pp.

Hanson, Virginia. Masters and Men: The Human Story in The
Mahatma Letters. Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing
House, 1980. xxix + 417 pp. (hardbound)

Hanson, Virginia. An Introduction to The Mahatma Letters: A
Study Course. Wheaton, Illinois: Department of Education, The
Theosophical Society in Amrica, 1983. 97 pp.

Hanson, Virginia. "Notes on The Mahatma Letters to A.P.
Sinnett." Ojai, California, 1986. Typescript. xi + 326 pp.

Hare, William Loftus and Hare, Harold Edward. Who Wrote the
Mahatma Letters? London, England: Williams & Norgate, 1936. 326
pp.

Hastings, Beatrice. Defence of Madame Blavatsky. Volume 1.
Worthing, England: The Hastings Press, 1937. 60 pp.

Jinarajadasa, C.J. Did Madame Blavatsky Forge the Mahatma
Letters? Adyar, Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House,
1934. 55 pp.

Jinarajadasa, C.J. The "K.H." Letters to C.W. Leadbeater.
Adyar, Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1941.
109 pp.

Johnson, Paul. In Search of the Masters: Behind the Occult Myth.
South Boston, Virginia: The Author, 1990. iv + 305 pp.

Linton, George E. and Hanson, Virgina. Readers' Guide to The
Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett. Adyar, Madras, India: The
Theosophical Publishing House, 1972. xxi + 308 pp.

Neff, Mary K. The "Brothers" of Madame Blavatsky. Adyar,
Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1932. vi + 125
pp.

Sinnett, Alfred Percy. The Occult World. London: Tribmer & Co.,
1881. 172 pp.

Sinnett, Alfred Percy. Esoteric Buddhism. London: Trubner &
Co., 1883. xx + 215 pp.

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H2 The Kiddle Incident (1883-1884 and later)

(Items are in chronological order of publication)

Kiddle, Henry. "Esoteric Buddhism," [Letter to the Editor.],
Light (London, England), September 1, 1883, p. 302.

Sinnett, Alfred Percy. "Mr. Sinnett's Reply to Mr. Kiddle,"
[Letter to the Editor], Light (London, England), September 22,
1883, p. 424.

Olcott, Henry Steel. "The Theosophical Society," [Letter to the
Editor], Light (London, England), October 11, 1884, pp. 417-418.

Olcott, Henry Steel. "The Kiddle Mystery," [Letter to the
Editor], Light (London, England), November 17, 1883, p. 504.

Massey, Charles Carleton. "The Theosophical Society and Its
Critics," [Letter to the Editor], Light (London, England),
November 17, 1883, pp. 504-505.

Morgan's article in Dec. 83 Theosophist

T. Subba Row's article in Dec. 83 Theosophist

Kiddle, Henry. "Koot Hoomi," [Letter to the Editor.], Light
(London, England), December 8, 1883, p. 540.

Morgan, Ellen H. "A Defence of Madame Blavatsky's Views and
Phenomenal Abilities," [Letter to the Editor], The Medium and
Daybreak (London, England), January 4, 1884, pp. 5-6.

Sinnett, A.P. Appendix to 4th edition of The Occult World.

Moses, Stainton. His Review of Sinnett's Appendix.

Quodlibet. "The Kiddle `Explanation,'" [Letter to the Editor],
Light (London, England), July 26, 1884, p. 304.

Massey, Charles Carleton. "The Explanation of the `Kiddle
Incident' in the Fourth Edition of the Occult World," Light
(London, England), July 26, 1884, pp. 307-309.

Massey, Charles Carleton. "Mr. Arthur Lillie on the Kiddle
Incident," [Letter to the Editor], Light (London, England),
August 9, 1884, p. 323.

Kiddle, Henry. "More on the Theosophical `Rosetta Stone,'"
[Letter to the Editor], Light (London, England), September 20,
1884, pp. 386-387.

Coleman, William Emmette. "Henry Kiddle and the Mahatma, or H.K.
Versus K.H.," The Carrier Dove (San Francisco, California),
January, 1891, pp. 5-6 and February, 1891, pp. 39-41.

etc/ etc

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H8 The Hare Brothers' Controversy

(Items are in chronological order of publication)

Hare, William Loftus and Hare, Harold Edward. Who Wrote the
Mahatma Letters? London, England: Williams & Norgate, 1936. 326
pp.

Stokes, H.N. "Demolishing the Mahatmas," The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), June-July 1936, pp. [1-7]

Fortune, Dion. [Book Review of Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?]
The Inner Light (London, England), July, 1936, pp. 185-189.

Thomas, Margaret A. "Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?", The
Canadian Theosophist, Vol. 17, August 15, 1936, pp. 167-170.

Stokes, H.N. "Did H.P. Blavatsky Write These Mahatma Letters?",
The O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), August-September,
1936, pp. [1-4]

Stokes, H.N. "The Hare Twins and `A Libel on a Laureate,'" The
O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), August-September, 1936,
p. [10].

Cox, Harold R.W. "Who Wrote the March-Hare Attack on the
Mahatmas?," The Canadian Theosophist, October 15, 1936, pp.
225-243.

Ryan, Charles J. "Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?" The
Theosophical Forum (Point Loma, California), October 1936, pp.
253-263.

Stokes, H.N. "The Bogus Mahatmic Americanisms of the Brothers
Hare," The O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), October 1936,
pp. [1-7].

Editorial in Occult Review, Oct. 1936.

Savage, Helen. "The Hare Attack Repulsed," The Occult Review
(London), October 1936, pp. 251-256.

Stokes, H.N. "Choice Tidbits from the Hares' Book on The Mahatma
Letters," The O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), November
1936, pp. [1-5].

Cousins, James. H. "The Blavatsky Riddle Again," The
Theosophist (Adyar, Madras, India), November, 1936, pp. 152-156.

[Gardner, Mrs. Adelaide] "The Real Problem of The Mahatma
Letters," The Theosophist (Adyar, Madras, India), November, 1936,
pp. 156-157.

Ryan, Charles J. "An Important Correction," [Letter to the
Editor], The Canadian Theosophist, December 15, 1936, pp.
326-338.

Stokes, H.N. "The Hare Brothers' Arsenal of `Duds,'" The O.E.
Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), December 1936, pp. [1-5].

Wood, Ernest. "The Masters' Signatures," The Theosophist (Adyar,
Madras, India), Vol. 58, December 1936, pp. 259-262.

Hudson, Irne Bastow. "Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?" Answered.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: The Author, 1936. 47 pp.

Stokes, H.N. "The Hare Brothers on the Motives of H.P.
Blavatsky," The O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), January
1937, pp. [1-5].

Hare, William Loftus and Hare, Harold Edward. "The Mahatma
Letters," [Letter to the Editor], The Occult Review (London,
England), January 1937, pp. 52-53, and continued on pp. 55, 57,
59 and 61.

Stokes, H.N. "The Hares Use a Boomerang in Rebuttal," The O.E.
Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), February, 1937, pp. [1-2.]

Stokes, H.N. "The Hares on He-Mahatmas and She-Mahatmas," The
O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), March 1937, pp. [1-7]

Hare, William Loftus. "William Loftus Hare in Rebuttal," The
O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), March, 1937, pp. [7-8].

Stokes, H.N. "Mr. Hare Contradicts Himself about Mahatma
Letters," The O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), March,
1937, pp. [8-9].

Hare, William Loftus. Letter to the Editor. The Canadian
Theosophist, April, 1937, pp.

Smythe, C.T. Reply to Hare, C.T., April, 1937, p.

Stokes, H.N. "A Trip to Reviewland---Hare Reviewers on Parade,"
The O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), April, 1937, pp.
[1-6].

Jinarajadasa, C. "Did H.P. Blavatsky Invent the Mahatmas?", The
Theosophist (Adyar, Madras, India), May, 1937, pp. 105-109.

Stokes, H.N. "A Trip to Reviewland---II," The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), May-June, 1937, pp. [1-4].

Stokes, H.N. "Letter to `The Occult Review' About the Hare
Brothers," The O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), July,
1937, pp. [6-7].

Alberti, Amalia de. "H.P. Blavatsky and the Press," The Modern
Mystic (London, England), July 1937, pp. 18-20.

Stokes, H.N. "A Handwriting Expert De Luxe," The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), August, 1937, pp. [4-6].

Hare, William Loftus and Hare, Harold Edward. The Mahatma
Letters: Alibi and Post Mortem Defences. Letchworth, England:
G.W. Wardman, 1937. 20 pp.

Stokes, H.N. "The Hare Volcano Erupts Again," The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), December, 1937, pp. [5-8].

Hastings, Beatrice. Defence of Madame Blavatsky. Volume 1.
Worthing, England: The Hastings Press, 1937. 60 pp.