Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00659)

Anand wrote about Madame Blavatsky:

"...she was a chain smoker. Other things are too
horrible to tell."

"Why would I live with somebody who eats flesh,
smokes to name a few habits."

Koot Hoomi wrote about H.P.B.:

"You can never know her as we do, therefore -- none of you will ever
be able to judge her impartially or correctly. You see the surface
of things; and what you would term "virtue," holding but to
appearances, we -- judge but after having fathomed the object to its
profoundest depth, and generally leave the appearances to take care
of themselves. In your opinion H.P.B. is, at best, for those who
like her despite herself -- a quaint, strange woman, a psychological
riddle: impulsive and kindhearted, yet not free from the vice of
untruth. We, on the other hand, under the garb of eccentricity and
folly -- we find a profounder wisdom in her inner Self than you will
ever find yourselves able to perceive. In the superficial details of
her homely, hard-working, common-place daily life and affairs, you
discern but unpracticality, womanly impulses, often absurdity and
folly; we, on the contrary, light daily upon traits of her inner
nature the most delicate and refined, and which would cost an
uninitiated psychologist years of constant and keen observation, and
many an hour of close analysis and efforts to draw out of the depth
of that most subtle of mysteries -- human mind -- and one of her
most complicated machines, -- H.P.B.'s mind -- and thus learn to
know her true inner Self."

". . . we employ agents — the best available. Of these for the
past thirty years the chief has been the personality known as H.P.B.
to the world (but otherwise to us). Imperfect and very troublesome,
no doubt, she proves to some, nevertheless, there is no likelihood
of our finding a better one for years to come — and your
theosophists should be made to understand it. Since 1885 I have not
written, nor caused to be written save thro' her agency, direct
and remote, a letter or line to anybody in Europe or America, nor
communicated orally with, or thro' any third party. Theosophists
should learn it.

"...Her fidelity to our work being constant, and her
sufferings having come upon her thro' it, neither I nor either of
my Brother associates will desert or supplant her. . . . This you
must tell to all: — With occult matters she has everything to do.
. . . She is our direct agent. . . . "