Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00504)

>>> In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Vladimir <forums@s...> wrote:

> Probably because of HPB. Doesn't look like "teaching by
> example", eh?..

She seemed to admit it herself:

«The chief objection which is always brought by the more self-
indulgent Theosophist against remarks such as these [about
harmful effect of tobacco] is that our great founder Madame
Blavatsky herself smoked. I know this to be true, but it
does not in the least alter the facts which I have stated above,
which I know just as surely from long-continued personal
observation. Madame Blavatsky was in every way so entirely sui
generis, so emphatically a case apart, that I do not think it
reasonable for us to presume that we can safely do what
she did. I have often heard her say: "No one but my Master
understands my case; do what I tell you, not what I do." Also she
once told me that she smoked incessantly "to quiet the vibrations
of this old body, and prevent it from shaking itself to pieces."»

(C.W.Leadbeater, "The inner life")


> it could contain virtually anything besides tobacco. What was it?
> Who knows?

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