The Letters of H.P. Blavatsky to the American Conventions

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 28 pages

Twenty-eight pages gathering the annual letters Blavatsky sent to the American Section's conventions in her last four years, printed in sequence so the development can be followed. The first went to the second annual convention at Chicago in April 1888; the second to the third convention at Chicago in April 1889; the third to the fourth convention at Chicago in April 1890, read on her behalf by Bertram Keightley.

The last two both belong to April 1891, to the fifth convention at Boston, and were read aloud by Annie Besant — the second of them additional to the first, and the last thing she wrote to the American membership before her death the following month. The warning printed at the head of the collection sets the tone of the later letters and is characteristic of her final year: woe to those who try to convert a noble philosophy into a den for disgusting immorality, greediness for selfish power and money-making under the cloak of Theosophy, for Karma reaches them when least expected. Read together the five letters are the closest thing in the library to a valedictory address.

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