tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel

“Enq:  But is your inference a correct one?

 
Theo:  What would you infer if the best pupils of a particular school of singing broke down from over-strained sore throats? That the method followed was a bad one. So I think the inference is equally fair with regard to Spiritualism when we see their best mediums fall prey to such a fate.

 
We can only say:  Let those who are interested in the question judge the tree of Spiritualism by its fruits, and ponder over the lesson.

 
We Theosophists have always regarded the Spiritualists as brothers having the same mystic tendency as ourselves, but they have always regarded us as enemies.

 
We, being in possession of an older philosophy, have tried to help and warn them; but they have repaid us by reviling and traducing us and our motives in every possible way.

 
Nevertheless, the best English Spiritualists say just as we do, wherever they treat of their belief seriously.

 
Hear “M. A. Oxen”, confessing this truth:  “Spiritualists are too much inclined to dwell exclusively on the intervention of external spirits in this world of ours, and to ignore the powers of the incarnate Spirit.”

 
Why vilify and abuse us, then, for saying precisely the same?

 
Henceforward, we will have nothing more to do with Spiritualism. And now let us return to Reincarnation.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky