The Mahatmas and Their Letters: Attention---Alan Bain and other interested parties
Nov 07, 1996 01:09 PM
by Blavatsky Foundation
Alan, thanks for your posting on the Mahatma Letters. The reason I asked
you for your sources is because I did NOT know what sources YOU were
referring to
when you made a summary statement concerning the MLs. Below you will
find parts of a bibliography I composed some time ago on the MLs. I have
excerpted some relevant parts to post on Theos-l. Daniel
P.S. I will comment in a second e-mail on two or three statements
made by Gilbert in his introduction to Lillie's pamphlet.
The Mahatmas and Their Letters: A Bibliography by Daniel H. Caldwell
{Extracts only}
A. Testimonials to the Existence of the Mahatmas/Receipt of Mahatma Letters
B. Major Texts of the Mahatma Letters
C. Miscellaneous Sources of Mahatma Letters
D. Facsimiles of Mahatma Letters
E. A.P. Sinnett---Major Recipient of Mahatma Letters
(1) Sinnett's Works on the Mahatma Letters
(2) Sinnett's Search for the Mahatmas
F. Major Works on the Mahatma Letters
G. Miscellaneous Studies on the Mahatma Letters
H. Some Controversies Surrounding the Mahatma Letters
(1) Handwriting/Textual Analysis of the Mahatma Letters
(2) Esoteric Buddhism---The Initial Con-troversy (1883)
(3) The Kiddle Incident (1883-1884)
(4) The Kingsford-Maitland Controversy (1883-1884)
(5) The Arthur Lillie Controversy (1884)
(6) The Mars-Mercury Controversy
(7) The Prayag Letter Controversy
(8) The Hare Brothers' Controversy
(9) The Hugh Shearman Controversy
I. The Process of Precipitation
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F Major Works on the Mahatmas and Their Letters
Barborka, Geoffrey A. The Mahatmas and Their Letters. Adyar, Madras,
India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1973. xviii + 422 pp.
Codd, Clara M. Theosophy As The Masters See It. Adyar, Madras, India:
Theosophical Publishing House, 1926. viii + 369 pp.
Hanson, Virginia. Masters and Men: The Human Story in The Mahatma Letters.
Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980. xxix + 417 pp.
(hardbound)
Hanson, Virginia. An Introduction to The Mahatma Letters: A Study Course.
Wheaton, Illinois: Department of Education, The Theosophical Society in
Amrica, 1983. 97 pp.
Hanson, Virginia. "Notes on The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett." Ojai,
California, 1986. Typescript. xi + 326 pp.
Hare, William Loftus and Hare, Harold Edward. Who Wrote the Mahatma
Letters? London, England: Williams & Norgate, 1936. 326 pp.
Hastings, Beatrice. Defence of Madame Blavatsky. Volume 1. Worthing,
England: The Hastings Press, 1937. 60 pp.
Jinarajadasa, C.J. Did Madame Blavatsky Forge the Mahatma Letters? Adyar,
Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1934. 55 pp.
Jinarajadasa, C.J. The "K.H." Letters to C.W. Leadbeater. Adyar, Madras,
India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1941. 109 pp.
Johnson, Paul. In Search of the Masters: Behind the Occult Myth. South
Boston, Virginia: The Author, 1990. iv + 305 pp.
Linton, George E. and Hanson, Virgina. Readers' Guide to The Mahatma
Letters to A.P. Sinnett. Adyar, Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing
House, 1972. xxi + 308 pp.
Neff, Mary K. The "Brothers" of Madame Blavatsky. Adyar, Madras, India:
The Theosophical Publishing House, 1932. vi + 125 pp.
Sinnett, Alfred Percy. The Occult World. London: Tribmer & Co., 1881. 172 pp.
Sinnett, Alfred Percy. Esoteric Buddhism. London: Trubner & Co., 1883. xx
+ 215 pp.
H2 The Kiddle Incident (1883-1884 and later)
(Items are in Chronological order of publication)
Kiddle, Henry. "Esoteric Buddhism," [Letter to the Editor.], Light (London,
England), September 1, 1883, p. 302.
Sinnett, Alfred Percy. "Mr. Sinnett's Reply to Mr. Kiddle," [Letter to the
Editor], Light (London, England), September 22, 1883, p. 424.
Olcott, Henry Steel. "The Theosophical Society," [Letter to the Editor],
Light (London, England), October 11, 1884, pp. 417-418.
Olcott, Henry Steel. "The Kiddle Mystery," [Letter to the Editor], Light
(London, England), November 17, 1883, p. 504.
Massey, Charles Carleton. "The Theosophical Society and Its Critics,"
[Letter to the Editor], Light (London, England), November 17, 1883, pp. 504-505.
Morgan's article in Dec. 83 Theosophist
T. Subba Row's article in Dec. 83 Theosophist
Kiddle, Henry. "Koot Hoomi," [Letter to the Editor.], Light (London,
England), December 8, 1883, p. 540.
Morgan, Ellen H. "A Defence of Madame Blavatsky's Views and Phenomenal
Abilities," [Letter to the Editor], The Medium and Daybreak (London,
England), January 4, 1884, pp. 5-6.
Sinnett, A.P. Appendix to 4th edition of The Occult World.
Moses, Stainton. His Review of Sinnett's Appendix.
Quodlibet. "The Kiddle `Explanation,'" [Letter to the Editor], Light
(London, England), July 26, 1884, p. 304.
Massey, Charles Carleton. "The Explanation of the `Kiddle Incident' in the
Fourth Edition of the Occult World," Light (London, England), July 26, 1884,
pp. 307-309.
Massey, Charles Carleton. "Mr. Arthur Lillie on the Kiddle Incident,"
[Letter to the Editor], Light (London, England), August 9, 1884, p. 323.
Kiddle, Henry. "More on the Theosophical `Rosetta Stone,'" [Letter to the
Editor], Light (London, England), September 20, 1884, pp. 386-387.
Coleman, William Emmette. "Henry Kiddle and the Mahatma, or H.K. Versus
K.H.," The Carrier Dove (San Francisco, California), January, 1891, pp. 5-6
and February, 1891, pp. 39-41.
etc/ etc
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H8 The Hare Brothers' Controversy
(Items are in Chronological order of publication)
Hare, William Loftus and Hare, Harold Edward. Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?
London, England: Williams & Norgate, 1936. 326 pp.
Stokes, H.N. "Demolishing the Mahatmas," The O.E. Library Critic
(Washington, D.C.), June-July 1936, pp. [1-7]
Fortune, Dion. [Book Review of Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?] The Inner
Light (London, England), July, 1936, pp. 185-189.
Thomas, Margaret A. "Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?", The Canadian
Theosophist, Vol. 17, August 15, 1936, pp. 167-170.
Stokes, H.N. "Did H.P. Blavatsky Write These Mahatma Letters?", The O.E.
Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), August-September, 1936, pp. [1-4]
Stokes, H.N. "The Hare Twins and `A Libel on a Laureate,'" The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), August-September, 1936, p. [10].
Cox, Harold R.W. "Who Wrote the March-Hare Attack on the Mahatmas?," The
Canadian Theosophist, October 15, 1936, pp. 225-243.
Ryan, Charles J. "Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?" The Theosophical Forum
(Point Loma, California), October 1936, pp. 253-263.
Stokes, H.N. "The Bogus Mahatmic Americanisms of the Brothers Hare," The
O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), October 1936, pp. [1-7].
Editorial in Occult Review, Oct. 1936.
Savage, Helen. "The Hare Attack Repulsed," The Occult Review (London),
October 1936, pp. 251-256.
Stokes, H.N. "Choice Tidbits from the Hares' Book on The Mahatma Letters,"
The O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), November 1936, pp. [1-5].
Cousins, James. H. "The Blavatsky Riddle Again," The Theosophist (Adyar,
Madras, India), November, 1936, pp. 152-156.
[Gardner, Mrs. Adelaide] "The Real Problem of The Mahatma Letters," The
Theosophist (Adyar, Madras, India), November, 1936, pp. 156-157.
Ryan, Charles J. "An Important Correction," [Letter to the Editor], The
Canadian Theosophist, December 15, 1936, pp. 326-338.
Stokes, H.N. "The Hare Brothers' Arsenal of `Duds,'" The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), December 1936, pp. [1-5].
Wood, Ernest. "The Masters' Signatures," The Theosophist (Adyar, Madras,
India), Vol. 58, December 1936, pp. 259-262.
Hudson, Irne Bastow. "Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?" Answered. Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada: The Author, 1936. 47 pp.
Stokes, H.N. "The Hare Brothers on the Motives of H.P. Blavatsky," The O.E.
Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), January 1937, pp. [1-5].
Hare, William Loftus and Hare, Harold Edward. "The Mahatma Letters,"
[Letter to the Editor], The Occult Review (London, England), January 1937,
pp. 52-53, and continued on pp. 55, 57, 59 and 61.
Stokes, H.N. "The Hares Use a Boomerang in Rebuttal," The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), February, 1937, pp. [1-2.]
Stokes, H.N. "The Hares on He-Mahatmas and She-Mahatmas," The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), March 1937, pp. [1-7]
Hare, William Loftus. "William Loftus Hare in Rebuttal," The O.E. Library
Critic (Washington, D.C.), March, 1937, pp. [7-8].
Stokes, H.N. "Mr. Hare Contradicts Himself about Mahatma Letters," The O.E.
Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), March, 1937, pp. [8-9].
Hare, William Loftus. Letter to the Editor. The Canadian Theosophist,
April, 1937, pp.
Smythe, C.T. Reply to Hare, C.T., April, 1937, p.
Stokes, H.N. "A Trip to Reviewland---Hare Reviewers on Parade," The O.E.
Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), April, 1937, pp. [1-6].
Jinarajadasa, C. "Did H.P. Blavatsky Invent the Mahatmas?", The
Theosophist (Adyar, Madras, India), May, 1937, pp. 105-109.
Stokes, H.N. "A Trip to Reviewland---II," The O.E. Library Critic
(Washington, D.C.), May-June, 1937, pp. [1-4].
Stokes, H.N. "Letter to `The Occult Review' About the Hare Brothers," The
O.E. Library Critic (Washington, D.C.), July, 1937, pp. [6-7].
Alberti, Amalia de. "H.P. Blavatsky and the Press," The Modern Mystic
(London, England), July 1937, pp. 18-20.
Stokes, H.N. "A Handwriting Expert De Luxe," The O.E. Library Critic
(Washington, D.C.), August, 1937, pp. [4-6].
Hare, William Loftus and Hare, Harold Edward. The Mahatma Letters: Alibi
and Post Mortem Defences. Letchworth, England: G.W. Wardman, 1937. 20 pp.
Stokes, H.N. "The Hare Volcano Erupts Again," The O.E. Library Critic
(Washington, D.C.), December, 1937, pp. [5-8].
Hastings, Beatrice. Defence of Madame Blavatsky. Volume 1. Worthing,
England: The Hastings Press, 1937. 60 pp.
[This is an incomplete version of what I have more recently updated. DHC]
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