MADAME BLAVATSKY

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 654, 3 November 1909, Page 11

MADAME BLAVATSKY

AN AUCKLAND CONTROVERSY. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, November. 1. Tho Thcosopliists of Auckland have lately beou proudly boasting of the conversion to Theosophy of tho Rov. C. W. Scott-Monerieff, Warden of St. John's College, and novr Canon Mac Murray, of St. Mary's Cathedral, is taking, it tilt at 'Theosophy. In a letter to tho, "Herald" l ue says:—The Rev. C, W. ScottMoncriefl's- belief in tho bdauty- of. Madamo Blavalsky's character i"> a testimony, to tha guilolessness of his soul vathor _ than to his capacity for forming a right' judgment. Ii Madame Blayatsky was all that Mr. ScottMoncrieff believes her to be, then she was very, unfortunate in her associates. Tho Coulombs, who wore her confidants, revealed tho fraudulent nature of her pretensions, but evidently neither their rovelations nor Dr. Hodgson's report ai his investigations will weigh much with Mr. Scott-Moncrieff. Perhaps the witness of Miss May Collins.'who nas Madamo Blavatsky's intimate-friend, and for,a time co-editor with her of the Theosophical paper "Lucifer," may have more credence. Miss Collins says:—"She taught me one great lesson. I leavned from her how foolish, how gullible, how easily flattered human beings are, taken in mass, ller contempt for her kind was on the same gigantic scale as everything else about her, oxcopt her marvellously delicate taper fingers. In all else she was a big woman. She had a greater power over tho weak and credulous, a greater capacity for making black appoar whito, o larger waist, a more voracious appetite, a more confirmed passion fof tobacco, a more ceaseless and insatiable hatred of those whom she thought to bo her ooemjes, a greater disrespect for les convenances, a worse tempor, a greater command of had language, and a greater contempt for the intelligence of hei fellow-beings than I had ever supposed possible to be contained in one person, These, I suppose, must be reckoned as her vices, thougtt whether a creatnro so indifferent to all standards of right and wrong can be hold to have virtues or vices I know not." The weak and crodulous will ever be the easy victims of thoso who havo a genius for. imposture hko Madame Blavatsky.