Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00574)

Dear Carlos,

Yes please give the bibliographical details, this is the most helpful 
lead I have obtained in a long time, and I certainly am indebted to you! 
I don't suppose a picture of portrait photo of him exists? What 
mediumistic group was Scott-Elliot involved in? Did it have a name or 
was it Sinnet's group? Do we know of any of its members?

Kind regards,

Theo

carlosaveline cardoso aveline wrote:

> Dear Theo,
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> You will find something, at least,  in "Theosophical History".
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> His wife was "Mary", the medium who purported to talk to Masters in séances 
> in the "inner group" organized by A. P. Sinnett.
>
> It was there that C. W. Leadbeater started to "talk to the Masters".  The 
> magazine "Theosophical History" published the revealing "Autobiography" of 
> Mr. Alfred Sinnett, in which he frankly tells all about it.  Scott-Eliot was 
> also a member of such a mediumnistic group.
>
> When Sinnett died, Leadbeater wrote that in the 1890s his "inner group" made 
> important "occult investigations", and so on.  Sinnett also says that Annie 
> Besant joined that
> mediumnistic group after HPB's death, that is, while AB was already the 
> "Outer Head" of the Esoteric School, Adyar.
>
> So it seems that the occult fancies started precisely in Sinnett's inner 
> group with "Mary", a pseudonymn for Scott-Elliot's wife.
>
> I hope that helps, even if marginally.  If you want me to, I can give you 
> the bibliographical  references.
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> Carlos.
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