Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00201)

Ali Hassan wrote:
> > (2) There waas plenty of dallying in the TS with the chelas. Mabel
> > Collins got crosswise with HPB for having affairs with two chelas at
> > the same time. Yeats mentioned this in his AITOBIGRAPHIES, which is
> > a literary masterpiece by the way, and said Blavatsky told her: "My
> > dear, I cannot permit you more than one." "Celibacy" among these
> > people was pure myth.
> That's news to me. Was Mabel Collins a reliable source? I know detractors 
> contemporary with HPB tried to sling such charges at her.
> I also read she underwent a physical exam which indicated physical coitus 
> would have been impossible for that body.
Not sure that any of that is relevant; I was talking about sexual 
distraction from within the Mahatmas. They definitely had their vices; I 
still wonder what Moria had in his pipe.

Bart