“Mr. Johnson: Theosophy cannot be preached to a man who has an empty stomach.
Mme. Blavatsky: Among Theosophists there are far more with hardly filled stomachs, and yet they try to do what they can. I know many of them who have hardly money enough to get food.
Countess Wachtmeister: They would starve in India to enable them to join the Theosophical Society. On joining formerly they had to pay a certain fee. Some of these Hindus have starved themselves for a week, so as to enable them to join the Theosophical Society. They have done it, not only once or twice, but again and again.
Mme. Blavatsky: What I want to put are the rules of the Theosophical Society at the end – rules and so on. A selection, of course.
Mr. Kingsland: You mean the objects?
Mme. Blavatsky: No, the rules as they are in India.
Mr. B. Keightley: Only a selection.
Mme. Blavatsky: Then to give how many branches we have and their names, and everything.
A Lady: I think that would make a very good impression, the immense number of people that have joined the Society, and the number of branches.
Mme. Blavatsky: You see, we have one-hundred and seventy-three branches, but in India alone there are one-hundred and twenty-nine or one-hundred and thirty.
Now, in America we have about twenty-four, and six which are forming; here, we have six or seven branches in England. It is growing very rapidly, and really, there are as many Theosophists who don’t know what the Theosophical Society is as there are outsiders.
Mr. Johnson: I think that book will do splendid work for the cause.
Mr. Kingsland: Most undoubtedly.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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