Prometheus, the Light-bringer, Hurled Down

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Down to Earth Series · 37 pages

A thirty-seven page compilation from Blavatsky's writings, arranged in seven parts with an abstract and train of thoughts at the front carrying page references throughout, and closing lists of further reading from the Down to Earth Series and of other selections from her pen.

Part 1 takes Annie Besant's public announcement that she had failed to find truth in the current wave of scientific materialism, and describes her as having entered on the highway of true Freethought and reached a position where no personal preconception or partisan fanaticism overshadows what she sees; the section states the Deity of the writer's position as a universal absolute principle manifesting in humanity as in nature, the spirit in both being one and inseparable, and complains of the fanciful etymology given to the word theosophy in dictionaries compiled by monotheistic lexicographers. Part 2 assembles the press attacks on Theosophists, quoting in turn the London Globe, the Weekly Times and Echo, the Christian Commonwealth, a spiritualistic weekly and the Liverpool Evening Express, and adds a passage addressed to the Chief of the Detective Department of the Government of India. Part 3 deals with false accusations lavished on people whose life and reputation had become a danger to those who envied or feared them. Part 4 gathers material from an American Free Methodist source and fragments of civic ethics from a French vivisector, with a note on the shape of the hand as an index of character and training. Part 5 records Blavatsky's appeal to the law. Part 6, introduced by Boris de Zirkoff, gives her address to all the members of the Theosophical Society in France in the original French and in English. Part 7 notes that the allegations that she was a Russian spy were quietly dropped.

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