Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00268)

John,

To answer your question, I most say that the fact that the TS was 
hardly know in England in 1877, do not mean that Blavatsky wasn't. I 
don't say that she was very famous, but people with interests in 
Spiritism and Spiritualism hade probably head of her, partly for 
here writings. The second thing is that there exist teachings within 
the "occult" Freemasonry, which is pointing toward to/on HPB, for 
several reasons, and as you know Yarker was a very active and 
interested Mason, and also was interested in what then was 
called "occultism" (today, within the Theosophical Movement, we may 
perhaps call it the Western Esoteric Tradition) and 
Spiritism/Spiritualism .

And to answer your question, they (Blavatsky and Yarker) most have 
been corresponding for some time, when he signed her diploma. 

The organist Theosophical work in England started with the arrival 
in London of Dr. Wyld (former recording secretary in the Parent TS 
of New York), during the late 1878 (he left New York, just before 
Blavatsky and Olcott started their "trip", first to England and 
after that to India, the 17th of  December 1878, so he most have 
arrived London in December 1878, and he meet HPB and HSO in London 
during their two weeks stay around new year 1878/79).

By order from the TS in New York he founded the British Theosophical 
Society, which later becomes Mr. Sinnett's London Lodge.

Carl

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, samblo@... wrote:
>
> Carl
>    Thanks so much what a great read that was. A real storehouse of 
most 
> interesting histories. One thing that immediately pops up in my 
mind relates to 
> Note # 84 where mention is made of the forming of the Theosophical 
Society in 
> 1875 and says Theosophical Society was hardly known in England in 
1877 and goes 
> on to say Yarker did not met Madame Blavatsky until she was in 
England at the 
> end of 1878 and appears to have given her a Masonic initiation. 
Then I ask how 
> is it that Blavatsky's Masonic Diploma is dated 24 November 1877 
and signed by 
> Yarker a year earlier than the meeting in England?
> 
>   I posted an excerpt from the Photographic reproduction of her 
Masonic 
> Diploma which is part of Vol. II "H. P. B. SPEAKS" in an earlier 
recent post.
> 
> John
> 
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