Theosophy Unveiled Author:John Murdoch Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Leading events during 1884.—The Theosophist party had been joined by Dr. Hartmann, from California, and Mr. W. Q. Judge, of New York. Colonel Olcott, after appoi... more »nting a Special Executive Committee to transact business during his absence, left Bombay for Marseilles, with Madame Blavatsky, on the 20th February, for the benefit of their health and to further the objects of the Society. Meetings were held in London and in different parts of the Continent of Europe. Meanwhile M. and Madame Coulomb were expelled from headquarters for certain reasons assigned. Letters from Madame Blavatsky to Madame Coulomb were afterwards published in The Christian College Magazine, under the title of " The Collapse of Koot Hoomi," and excited some sensation. Madame Blavatsky denied their genuineness in most cases, in opposition to the opinion of several experts. As the question is still subjudice, no use will be made of this correspondence in the following remarks. Colonel Olcott returned to India on the 15th November, followed in December by Madame Blavatsky. According to the latest information available, about ninety Branch Societies were established in the East. Their membership never seems to have been stated. After this general sketch of operations, the objects, andc., of the Society will be considered more in detail. Definition Op Name. Theosophy comes from theos, God, and sophos, wise. Colonel Olcott defines it as " divine wisdom. It was not meant to convey the crude idea of a wisdom similar to that ascribed to any personal god, for the concept of those who coined the term was of an all-pervading eternal Principle in Nature, with which the interior intuitive faculty in man was akin." Lectures, p. 31. Objects Of Society. These are briefly as follows :— First.—To form th...« less