Madame Blavatsky Rebukes a Sham Theosophist and Bigoted Ass

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 10 pages

Ten pages against a member rather than an outsider, which is what gives the piece its heat. Dr George Wyld was a Fellow of the Theosophical Society and a physician, and had declared to Buddhist philosophers the grand superiority of his Esoteric Christianity over the system of the Buddha, portraying the latter as fruitful of selfishness, human blindness, misanthropy and spiritual death. His shot at Theosophy and the Masters, she notes, was badly aimed and flew wide.

The judgement she reaches is stated as a distinction rather than an insult, and it is the substance of the document: he who unjustly assails the honour of hundreds of his Asiatic brothers, slurs their religion and wounds their most sacred feelings may be a very good Esoteric Christian, but is certainly a very disloyal Theosophist — and has been, she adds, as disloyal to his own Master and Ideal-Christ as he has been to Theosophy. The detail readers remember is smaller: Wyld, whose perceptive faculties she describes as too dusty to admit a single ray of occult light, had thought of the moon as a dustbin.

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