Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00210)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> 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.

Mabel Collins was not the reporter. William Butler Yeats was the 
reporter. And yes, Yeats had much to say about HPB which was of 
great value. He was a friend and admirer of hers. Also, it was 
Mabel Collins and not HOB who had the affairs with the chelas, and 
HPB had a child named Yuro so the fatasy that she was celibate is 
just thay, unless you believe Immaculate Conception was one of her 
occult powers.

Another story you might find interesting was the affair between 
Mohini Chatterjee, who was married to a woman in India, with a Miss 
Leonard while he was in London. HPB made the public statement that 
Miss Leonard seduced Mohini, and Miss Leonard sued for libel (or 
threatened to). She did not deny that the affair took place, but 
maintained that Mohini pursued her instead of the other way around.

Then we have the "celibate" Leadbeater, who admittedly gad nothing to 
do with women becaue his lover was the "celibate" Jinarajadasa, and 
who was busy molesting Krishnamurti and his brother.

I think all the chant in TS literature about "celibacy" and how 
everyone in the TS and among the mahatmas was "celibate" can all - 
all of it - be safely discounted as embarrassing nonsense.