Theos-Talk Archives (June 2008 Message tt00136)

MKR,
It is true that Masters chose Blavatsky and Olcott despite their bad
habits like eating non-veg and smoking. In this regard Masters were of
the opinion that Blavatsky had strong personal weaknesses, and despite
those weaknesses Masters chose Blavatsky because there were not
available other better individuals to do the work required at that time. 
It must be noted that better people were not available at the time of
the founding of the TS. Some people wrongly conclude that at any time
it is not possible to get better person than Blavatsky.
One other fellow in TS told me an interesting thing. He said Masters
wanted to do foundation of the TS through Annie Besant. But at that
time Annie Besant was too young and so she was not available for the
work. Because of this reason Masters had to do initial work through
Blavatsky, the less suitable candidate. 
As I understand, weaknesses and mistakes of Blavatsky, Olcott or
anyone else were not justified by the Masters. Blavatsky herself
admitted that she had problems and she regretted but could not change.

Anand Gholap