Blavatsky Study Center


Are the 8 Historical Claims Below True and Accurate?

Are the 8 historical statements below true and accurate?

What evidence is there to support each of these statements?

If you read these 8 statements in a new book dealing with the history of the modern Theosophical Movement, would it matter to you?

Would you write to the author and/or publisher?? If so, why?


(1) Annie Besant was appointed before Mme. Blavatsky's passing in 1891 as her successor in Outer Headship of the Esoteric Section.

(2) DK states that much of the Mahatma Letters is HPB's own work and not actual dictation from her Masters.

(3) During all the troublous period 1893-6 Mr. Crosbie shared to an extent unknown and undreamt of by others in the burdens and the confidence of Mr. Judge.

(4) Mr. Leadbeater was one of H.P.B.'s nearest and most trusted pupils in whom she had awakened the powers since so splendidly used in the service of the Society that he might become a great Teacher.

(5) The Theosophical "succession" of Mrs. Tingley thus becomes lost in a morass of psychic delusion, of claims and counter-claims. If the "evidence" for it be accepted, Judge becomes a guileless psychic and a virtual "disciple" of Mrs. Tingley. If the evidence is rejected, Mrs. Tingley becomes at best a self-deluded woman, at worst a charlatan, and so, also, her close supporters.

(6) Crosbie claimed to have left Pt Loma because he asserted he was in contact with HPB and the Masters, and he continued to make this claim thereafter.

(7) Born in 1847, the young Charles Leadbeater saw the Master Morya in London during the time of the great 1851 London Exhibition.  See Gregory Tillett's comments on Statement (7).

(8) During all the troublous period 1893-6 Katherine Tingley shared to an extent unknown and undreamt of by many in the burdens and the confidence of Mr. Judge.