Theos-Talk Archives (December 2005 Message tt00202)

"....save us from the impudent distortion of our theosophical 
teachings...."

"....deliver us. . . from . . . the 'Solar Adepts' as they dub 
themselves, and their sun-struck followers. . . ." 

". . . . They plagiarized from our books, set up sham schools of 
magic, waylaid seekers after truth by deceiving them with holy 
names. . . [and] misused and desecrated the sacred science…."

"….Before the appearance of modern Theosophical literature it 
was 'Spirits' and 'Controls' that were ever in the mouths of these 
folk; now the living 'adepts' are served up with every sauce. It is 
ever and always Adepts here, Hierophants there. . . ." 

"The angels from the 'Summer Land' are going out of fashion just 
now, for Spiritualists begin to know better and to discriminate. But 
because the 'adept' idea, or rather their philosophy, begins to gain 
ground, this is no reason why pretenders of every description should 
travesty in their . . . productions the teachings, phraseology, and 
Sanskrit terms out of theosophical books; or why, again, they should 
turn round and make people believe that these were given them by 
other 'Hierophants,' in their opinion, far higher, nobler and 
grander than our teachers."

"The great evil of the whole thing is, not that the truths of 
Theosophy are adopted by these blind teachers, for we should gladly 
welcome any spread, by whatever means, of ideals so powerful to wean 
the world from its dire materialism - but that they are so 
interwoven with mis-statements and absurdities that the wheat cannot 
be winnowed from the chaff, and ridicule, if not worse, is brought 
to bear upon. . . [the Theosophical] movement. . . ."

"How shall men discern good from evil, when they find it in its 
close embrace?"

"The very words, 'Arhat,' 'Karma,' 'Maya,' 'Nirvana,' must turn 
enquirers from our threshold when they have been taught to associate 
them with such a teeming mass of ignorance and presumption. . . ." 

"Though false coin is the best proof of the existence of genuine 
gold, yet, the false deceives the unwary. . . ."

H.P. Blavatsky. "The Year Is Dead, Long Live The Year!," Lucifer 
(London), January, 1889.