Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00575)

Drpsionic@a... wrote:
> << Notice that nobody really examined his work until after THE SECRET 
> DOCTRINE was written. >>
>
> That is certainly true of Blavatsky, but there are still folks who think that 
> Keely discovered some sort of mysterious energy.
> From the descriptions I have read, I suspect that he really thought he 
had something, and used fakes to keep the money coming in until he could 
come up with the real thing. Certainly, most of the investment money was 
put into R&D rather than living the high life, which is not consistent 
with someone who believed himself to be a total fraud. Of course, the 
fact that it didn't work should give SOME people a clue. He is the 
proverbial man who tried the thing that couldn't be done, and he 
couldn't do it.