Therefore and precisely because I am an "elderly lady from Russia viâ America," the latter country of unlimited freedom-especially in newspaper personal abuse-has toughened me to the extent of being indifferent as to the sneering and jeering of newspapers upon questions they do not understand at all provided they are witty and remain within the limits of propriety and do no harm but to myself. I have lived long enough in this world of incessant strife, in which the "survival of the fittest" seems to mean the triumph of the most unprincipled, to have learned that when I have once allowed my name to appear in the light of a benevolent genius, for the production of "cups," "saucers" and "brooches," I must bear the penalty especially when the people are so foolish as to take the word "Magic" either in its popular superstitious sense-that of the work of the devil-or in that of jugglery. This private letter having been written about, but not by me, I abandon this special question to be settled between the offended and the offender, and touch but upon the one which concerns me directly. The latter was to be expected, but I would like information upon the following points: (1) How did the editor come into possession of a document stolen from the desk of the President of the Bombay Branch of the Theosophical Society? and (2) having got it, what right had he to publish it at all, without first obtaining consent from the writer or addressee-a consent which he could never have obtained? and (3) how is such an action to be characterized? If the law affords no redress for a wrong like this I am content, at least, to abide the verdict of every well-bred man or woman who shall read the letter and comments thereon. There is a long confidential letter from Colonel Olcott to an officer of our Society, obtained surreptitiously by somebody, and marked "private"-a word showing in itself that the document was never meant for the public eye-and an editorial, principally filled with cheap abuse, and venomous, though common-place, suggestions. IN the issue of the 19th instant of your worthy contemporary, I find over two columns devoted to the doubtful glorification, but mostly to the abuse, of my humble individuality. Theories About Reincarnation and Spirits.Roots of Ritualism in Church and Masonry. ![]()
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