Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00512)

In an article on Daniel's web page it is claimed that "John King" is 
in fact not a spirit guide , as evidence it is mentioned 
that "According to Sinnett, Madame Blavatsky travelled through Europe 
with Countess B. [Bagration] in 1850. She was in Paris in late 1850 
and left for Canada in July 1851, to visit the Red Indians. From 
Canada she travelled to New Orleans to study with the Voodoos, "a 
sect of negroes (...) addicted to a form of magic practices". 


And: "It must be noted that "now" refers to 1851, when "she had now 
met, as a living man", her strange protector from childhood - and 
that it is to the "power" John King that she said to "have been 
acquainted with from my childhood", as we have previously quoted. It 
is interesting to note that it is usually supposed that Master M. was 
the strange guardianship during her childhood."

And: "This indicates that the John King who instructed Olcott, who 
acted as intermediary in the correspondence with the "Lodge", and who 
appeared in the mediumistic séances at the home of the Eddys was the 
same John King who advised Madame Blavatsky and her companions in the 
early 1850s to "ponder and discuss" their travel plans to South 
America." (http://blavatskyarchives.com/sisson1.htm))
In light of the letter by Rawson himself, the above cannot be true, 
that is Blavatsky was NOT travelling with Rawson to these places. 
See for example message nr.39 at; 
http://www.theohistory.org/notes-queries-archive1.html

The person, close to Blavatsky with a significant impact  
regarding Blavatsky's invented biography and non existent travels who 
spend time in jail for teft is Albert Rawson.
It was revealed that Rawson had been convicted of theft in New 
Jersey in 1851 and had spent the period from September 1851 through 
June 1852 in jail for the crime. Also the papers of Rawson's   
divorce for bigamy in 1864 wher published, which reveal, among other 
things Rawson's whereabouts in the remainder of the early 1850s, all 
of which call into question the presumptive dating of Rawson's 
travels with H.P.B. in Egypt in the same period.

This information is admitted and publishized by Rawson himself 
in "An Open Letter to Elizur Wright", in:
The Truth Seeker, November 22, 1879, pages 749 & 753

Wenn I asked Paul Johnson (who Daniel likes to quote so much now) 
reg. the above he answerred: 
"The implication might be that Rawson was participating in a fraud to 
support HPB's claims of travel and initiations, as of his letters on 
her behalf in 1877/78." 
 
Brigitte