Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00762)

Mr. Leadbeater wrote the following about
Madame Blavatsky:

"Remember that, humanly speaking, without Madame Blavatsky there 
would have been no Theosophical Society, there would have been no 
presentation of all this glorious teaching to the people of the 
West....

Even the Theosophical Society shows only a small part of her work; 
for, for every member of this Society there may well be ten, twelve, 
or twenty non-members who have read the books and acquired much 
Theosophical knowledge. So her teaching has spread out of all 
proportion to the size of her Society. That is what Madame Blavatsky 
has done for us, and for the world, and for that we owe her our love 
and our gratitude. She told us always:

'These are the facts; but do not believe them because I say so. Use 
your own reason and common-sense; give life to the teaching, and 
prove it for yourselves. Don't carp or grumble or criticize;
work.'

We who accepted her challenge, we who followed her advice, soon 
found that her statements were justified, that her teachings were 
true. . . . 

...I should like you to realize the fact, and to keep it ever in 
your minds, that all that we have and all that we have learnt, 
through whatever form it may now be coming to us, we really owe to 
Madame Blavatsky."

Quoted from: HOW THEOSOPHY CAME TO ME