Theosophical Mahatmas: From Theosophy’s Sacred Teachings in “The Key to Theosophy,” Part 2 of 2

The Enquirer asked further: “But if the Masters exist, why don’t they come out before all men and refute once for all the many charges which are made against Madame Blavatsky and the [Theosophical] Society?” […]

The Theosophist explained: “In what way can such an accusation injure her in reality? Did she ever make money on their presumed existence, or derive benefit, or fame, therefrom? I answer that she has gained only insults, abuse, and calumnies, which would have been very painful had she not learned long ago to remain perfectly indifferent to such false charges. For what does it amount to, after all? Why, to an implied compliment, which, if the ignorant, her accusers, were not carried away by their blind hatred, they would have thought twice before uttering.

To say that she has invented the Masters comes to this: She must have invented every bit of philosophy that has ever been given out in Theosophical literature. She must be the author of the letters from which ‘Esoteric Buddhism’ was written; the sole inventor of every tenet found in the ‘Secret Doctrine,’ which, if the world were just, would be recognized as supplying many of the missing links of science, as will be discovered a hundred years hence. By saying what they do, they are also giving her the credit of being far cleverer than the hundreds of men, (many very clever and not a few scientific men,) who believe in what she says— inasmuch as she must have fooled them all! If they speak the truth, then she must be several Mahatmas rolled into one like a nest of Chinese boxes; since among the so-called ‘Mahatma letters’ are many in totally different and distinct styles, all of which her accusers declare that she has written.” […]

“The Masters look at the future, not at the present, and every mistake is so much more accumulated wisdom for days to come. That other ‘Master’ who sent the man with the five talents did not tell him how to double them, nor did he prevent the [ignorant] from burying his one talent in the earth. Each must acquire wisdom by his own experience and merits. […]”