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Mahatmas are really the distinctive feature of Theosophy; it is absolutely nothing without them; and, in our opinion, they are a most farcical swindle Madame Blavatsky created these out of her own fertile imagination, she put them where they could not be found, and she said, "If you want to know anything about them come to me; I am the chosen vehicle of their sublime revelations."
"Folly! fanaticism!" scoffs the Englishman of the nineteenth century. Be it so. I have seen, and I can wait. I have been told that I plunged headlong into Theosophy and let my enthusiasm carry me away. I think the charge is true, in so far as the decision was swiftly taken; but it had been long led up to, and realised the dreams of childhood on the higher planes of intellectual womanhood.
Amyot might find one who would marry her in the defense of his convictions. None, apparently, resorted to such heroic measures; for about two years later I was startled by the announcement that Mrs. Amyot was lecturing in Trenton, New Jersey, on modern theosophy in the light of the Vedas. The following week she was at Newark, discussing Schopenhauer in the light of recent psychology.
In matters of science men deal with facts, while in those other matters they deal with fancies, and the more freedom you give them the greater will be the variety of their preferences. Mrs. Besant's new superstition of Theosophy is, in our judgment, more foolish and less dignified than Christianity.
I cried in alarm, for that familiar twinkle in his eye had been replaced by a strange exaltation. "And what if I have?" "Theosophy!" I cried scornfully "Theology for Atheists! The main contemporary form of the Higher Foolishness." "The Higher Foolishness!" echoed Marindin indignantly. "Yes, the Foolishness of the fool with brains.
Her thin body showed in clear outline against the flames, but her face was a little in shadow. "Madretta," she began, and was silent. "Yes?" said Mrs. Mansfield. "Susan Fleet and I were once talking about theosophy. And Susan said a thing I have never forgotten." "What was that?" "She said: 'It's a long journey up the Ray. I didn't understand.
Wherefore he was held in high reverence, and when the two other gentlemen were hanged for lying the Theosophists elected him to the leadership of their Disastral Body, and after a quiet life and an honourable death by the kick of a jackass he was reincarnated as a Yellow Dog. As such he ate the Ashes of Madame Blavatsky, and Theosophy was no more. The Opossum of the Future
This corruption had a renewal in the Neoplatonic philosophy; but it sprang from the Oriental philosophy of Brahmanism, and blends with its magic and enchantments. Theosophy is no more allied to Christian Science than the odor of the upas-tree is to the sweet breath of springtide, or the brilliant coruscations of the northern sky are to solar heat and light.
When he arrived at his resolve, he went away: what the resolve was, and where he was going, whether to High or Low, to Rome or Islington, to Church or Dissent, or even to Mohammed or Theosophy, or what not, or nothing, nobody asked. Such a foundation had struck many devoted followers of the Founder as little better than a negation or an abdication. The Founder thought otherwise.
'You don't mean to say that you're thinking of her like that? she exclaimed. 'It's no use, Colin. 'Probably not, he answered composedly. 'Tell me, how does she take it? 'Deadly seriously. She's practising Deep-breathing and Concentration to try and drive the man from her thoughts. 'What! Oh, you mean Theosophy and that kind of thing.
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