Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00151)

Two questions:

1) What caused Blavatsky to stop producing psychic
phenomena?

2) What led her to make the following statement in
"The Key to Theosophy" (1889), section 14:

"As for our best Theosophists, they would also in this
case far rather that the names of the Masters had
never been mixed up with our books in any way. With
few exceptions, most of such works are not only
imperfect, but positively erroneous and misleading.
Great are the desecrations to which the names of two
of the Masters have been subjected. There is hardly a
medium who has not claimed to have seen them. Every
bogus swindling Society, for commercial purposes, now
claims to be guided and directed by "Masters," often
supposed to be far higher than ours! Many and heavy
are the sins of those who advanced these claims,
prompted either by desire for lucre, vanity, or
irresponsible mediumship. Many persons have been
plundered of their money by such societies, which
offer to sell the secrets of power, knowledge, and
spiritual truth for worthless gold. Worst of all, the
sacred names of Occultism and the holy keepers thereof
have been dragged in this filthy mire, polluted by
being associated with sordid motives and immoral
practices, while thousands of men have been held back
from the path of truth and light through the discredit
and evil report which such shams, swindles, and frauds
have brought upon the whole subject. I say again,
every earnest Theosophist regrets to-day, from the
bottom of his heart, that these sacred names and
things have ever been mentioned before the public, and
fervently wishes that they had been kept secret within
a small circle of trusted and devoted friends." 


Pedro




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