Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00111)

In my opinion there is enough scientific evidence (see for example 
Dean I. Radin's work) to prove the existence of psychic abilities, 
(if one takes away the unrealistic glamour that is projected into it 
by some), the Ganzfeld theory, probably some form of survival after 
death, and a few others. But I am indeed interested to see Daniel 
Caldwell show the results of tests done on private individuals under 
modern laboratory conditions where the person in question:

1)Materializes and de-materializes objects as Blavatsky is claimed to 
have done. 

2) Modern laboratory testings where an individual has dissapeared and 
re-appeared at will (without any equipment).

Wich are some of the occurances Daniel Caldwell claims Blavatsly, 
Morya, and so on where performing, including making it rain in a 
room.

In Hansen's History of the Theosophical Movement, there is a 
revealing comment by Annie Besant. During the, "Judge Affair", she 
made reference to 'the handwriting adopted by HPB in the, "Mahatma 
Letters" and said Judge had stolen it for his own Mahatma letters. 
Also regarding a statement made by Besant in Lucifer after HPB's 
death, Steve Stubb reports: "When HPB died Judge swiped the Chinese 
stationary she used for the," mahatma letters," and started using it 
for his own mahatma letters. It is required that we reject the naive 
interpretations put on these matters by some believers." 

Damodar could have been helpful as a source drawn on by HPB for his 
inside knowledge of Indian religion, as were Subba Row and Mohini. 
The volume of the letters does not require a large network of fellow 
conspirators, or a small one, or in fact any at all. Given what we 
know of HPB's ability to produce a large volume of writing in a short 
time, composing the Mahatma letters in the time period in which they 
appeared is quite within her abilities. The circumstances of the 
letters' delivery would, in a few cases, require some conspirators. 
Among those suggested by other writers have been Damodar and the 
servant Babula; in the case of the Coulombs two witnesses confessed 
to having been part of a conspiracy. 


Already Daniel Douglas Home accused Blavatsky of fraud when she 
claimed to recognise during the seances in Clittenden a silver buckle 
supposedly buried with her father in Russia and materialised in 
Vermont for the occasion. Careful for his own credibility, Home based 
his charge not on the impossibility of materialising objects over 
distance, but on the assertion that the Russians do not burry 
decorations with their dead, adding that Blavatsky had also tried the 
same trick in Paris in 1858.

Particular revealing is that the spiritualistic type phenomena later 
attributed to Morya and K.H. already where touted early on with 
Hurrychund Chintamon as the producer claimed by Blavatsky. 
Chintamon, "revealed as a thief, and who later told C. Massey that he 
had never been even a chela and had no occult powers whatsoever. 
Blavatsky in January 1879, on her way to India, caused a china pot to 
be produced in Massey's presence, and topped that wonder by causing a 
small Indian card case to appear in his overcoat pocket with a slip 
of paper inside bearing Chintamon's signature-proof of the origin of 
the phenomenon." (John Deveney Astral Projection or Liberating of the 
Double and the Work of the Early Theosophical Society, pp 62-63.) 

Brigitte