Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01103)

Friends, 
 
The 1884  Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society, in Adyar,  appointed a broad Committee to advise H.P. Blavatsky as to the best course of action  with  regard to the Coulombs? attacks against the movement.  
 
Those were the same attacks  which Mr. Daniel Caldwell  and Mr. John Algeo have been publicizing for some years now.
 
The Chairman of the 1884 Committee was Mr. Norendra Nath Sen.  Its secretary, Alfred Cooper-Oakley.
 
This is their Report,  dated December 28, 1884: 
 
?Resolved:  That the letters published in the Christian College Magazine  under  the heading ?Collapse of Koothoomi? are only a pretext to injure the cause of  Theosophy, and as these letters necessarily appear  absurd to those who  are acquainted with our philosophy & facts, and as those who are not acquainted with those facts could not have their opinion changed  even by a judicial verdict given in favour of Madame Blavatsky, therefore,  it is the unanimous opin ion of  this Committee that Mdme Blavatsky should not prosecute  her defamers in a court of law.?
 
[Signed:]
 
?Alfred Cooper-Oakley (Secretary), Norendraneth Sen (Chairman),  P. Iyaloo Naidu, Franz Hartmann, M.D.,  Nobin K. Bannerji, Rud. Gebhard,  S. Ramaswamier,  P. Sreenevasa Row,  S. Subramani Iyer,  Naoroji Dorabji Khandalvala,  R. Ragoonath Row,  Gyanendra Nath Chakravartti, M.A.,  T. Subba Row, H. R. Morgan,  M. General.? (1) 
 
So far, the  document. 
 
The important fact in the report of the 1884 Committee  is that is clearly states the obvious reality :  those slanders against  HPB and the Masters of the Wisdom are only ?a pretext to injure the cause of  Theosophy?.  
 
Also,  it is acknowledged that those forged letters ?necessarily appear absurd to those who  are acquainted with our philosophy & facts?.  The Committee is clearly right, but then what are  the motives  (more than one century later) for John Algeo, Daniel Caldwell and a few others to try to adopt those slanders as if they had been written by HPB herself?   I will leave that to the reader. 
 
The Coulombs at least had the trouble to forge the letters they said were written by H.P.B. 
 
Soloviof didn?t even present any forgeries. He just published the libellous texts that  he himself  had created, combined with some sentences from authentic letters, and never showed any ?originals?.   All his work of libels followed the same lines established by  Emma and Alexis Coulomb. 
 
The Coulombs did received a bribe for their ?pioneer? work.  This is well-documented. They took  at least 150 rupees.(2)  Yet it  is not known whether V. Soloviof worked ?on a volunteer basis? for the Vatican and other powerful  enemies of the movement, or if he  received a bribe ? and of how much.    
 
This is the stuff John Algeo and Daniel  Caldwell have been making  propaganda of, in the last few years.    
 
 
Regards, Carlos.  
 
 
 
NOTES: 
 
(1) Reproduced from ?The Coulomb Case?, by Michael Gomes, ?Theosophical History Occasional Papers?, Vol. X, Fullerton, California,  2005,  73 pp., see p. XV.  
 
(2) ?The Coulomb Case?, by Michael Gomes, ?Theosophical History Occasional Papers?, Vol. X, Fullerton, California,  2005,  73 pp., see document at the p. 49, and footnote  78, at p. 29. See also pp. 15-16.  
 
 
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