tktt: The Working Staff Of The T.S.

“Enq:  But you must surely make money by your books, magazines, and other publications?

 
Theo:  The Theosophist of Madras, alone among the magazines, pays a profit, and this has regularly been turned over to the Society, year by year, as the published accounts show.

 
Lucifer is slowly but steadily engulfing money, never yet having paid its expenses – thanks to it being boycotted by the pious booksellers and rivalry stalls. The Lotus, in France – started on the private and not very large means of a Theosophist, who has devoted to it his whole time and labour – has ceased to exist, owing to the same causes, alas!

 
Nor does the New York Path pay its way, while the Revue Theosophique of Paris has only been started, also from the private means of a lady-member. Moreover, whenever any of the works issued by the Theosophical Publishing Company in London do pay, the proceeds will be devoted to the service of the Society.

 
Enq:  And now please tell me all you can about the Mahatmas. So many absurd and contradictory things are said about them, that one does not know what to believe, and all sorts of ridiculous stories become current.

 
Theo:  Well may you call them “ridiculous!””

 
H. P. Blavatsky