Category: The Key To Theosophy (1889): H. P. Blavatsky

"Enq:  But how does this bear on the future of the Theosophical Society?   Theo:  If the present attempt, in the form of our Society, succeeds better than its predecessors have done, then it will be in existence as an organized, living and healthy body when the time come for the effort of the XXth [...]

"Enq:  A truly delightful picture! But tell me, do you really expect all this to be accomplished in one short century?   Theo:  Scarcely. But I must tell you that during the last quarter of every hundred years an attempt is made by those "Masters", of whom I have spoken, to help on the spiritual [...]

"Enq:  But if this danger be averted?   Theo:  Then the Society will live on into and through the twentieth century. It will gradually leaven and permeate the great mass of thinking and intelligent people with its large-minded and noble ideas of Religion, Duty, and Philanthropy.   Slowly but surely it will burst asunder the [...]

"Enq:  Tell me, what do you expect for Theosophy in the future?   Theo:  If you speak of THEOSOPHY, I answer that, as it has existed eternally throughout the endless cycles upon cycles of the Past, so it will ever exist throughout the infinitudes of the Future, because Theosophy is synonymous with EVERLASTING TRUTH.   [...]

"Enq:  Do you reject "Louis" as an Adept?   Theo:  We denounce no one, leaving this noble task to our enemies. The spiritualistic author of Art Magic, etc., may or may not have been acquainted with such an Adept - and saying this, I say far less than what that lady has said and written [...]

"Enq:  The names certainly do occur very frequently now-a-days, and I never remember hearing of such persons as "Masters" till quite recently.   Theo:  It is so; and had we acted on the wise principle of silence, instead of rushing into notoriety and publishing all we knew and heard, such desecration would have never occurred. [...]

"Enq:  But would Mdme. Blavatsky apply this to her own works - the Secret Doctrine, for instance?   Theo:  Certainly; she says expressly in the PREFACE that she gives out the doctrines that she has learnt from the Masters, but claims no inspiration whatever for what she has lately written.   As for our best [...]

"Enq:   Then, what I have heard, namely, that many of your Theosophical writers claim to have been inspired by these Masters, or to have seen and conversed with them, is not true?   Theo:  It may or may not be true. How can I tell? The burden of proof rests with them. Some of [...]

"Enq:    But if you have such wise and good men to guide the Society, how is it that so many mistakes have been made?   Theo:  The Masters do not guide the Society, not even the Founders; and no one has ever asserted that they did: they only watch over, and protect it.   [...]

"Enq:  The S.P.R. now denies completely the existence of the Mahatmas. They say that from the beginning to end they were a romance which Madame Blavatsky has woven from her own brain?   Theo:  Well, she might have done many things less clever than this. At any rate, we have not the slightest objection to [...]