Open Letter to the American Section of the Theosophical Society

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 13 pages

Thirteen pages written to the Fellows of the American Section about one man. M.A. Lane had visited the London headquarters and afterwards circulated reports she describes as false and malicious, and the letter exists to answer them and to forewarn the American membership. She states the purpose without euphemism: to tell him to his face that he lies.

What makes the letter more interesting than a simple denunciation is the account of what she says he actually found. He had come, on her telling, to find fraud, evil, interested motives, humbug or charlatanry, and instead found half a dozen of the most earnest men and women working with an unselfishness and singleness of purpose he was unable to understand, let alone emulate. Her claim that he was one of a regular band of conspirators bent on destroying the Society is stated as something she has proof of. A characteristic detail sits alongside the argument: she records feeling, every time his name was mentioned, a cold disagreeable sensation she could not conquer.

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