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According to [[Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (book)|''Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'']]:<br>
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Cook, Rev. Joseph, a Boston preacher who at one time supported the idea of [[Spiritualism|spiritualism]] but when he went to India in 1882, he denounced both spiritualism and [[Theosophy]]. [[Damodar K. Mavalankar|Damodar]] countered his accusations in the press. [[Morya|M]] calls him "a pump of filth" ([[The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (book)|ML]], p. 267). There is a newspaper clipping about him in [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|HPB's]] scrapbook. [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|ODL]] 2: 329; [[Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement (book)|D]], pp. 178-80; [[A Short History of the Theosophical Society (book)|SH]] index.<ref>George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., ''Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 219.</ref>
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