Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01574)

In 1889, H.P.B. pointed out that various people 
had made bogus claims to being in contact with 
her own Masters K.H. and M.: 

"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 . . . ."

"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 and women 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." 

H.P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy, 1889 ed., p. 301