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[[File:Boston Courier article.jpg|right|thumb|120px|''Boston Courier'', July 18, 1886]]
The '''Hodgson Report''' was a report by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) on [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]], her performance of psychic [[phenomena]], and the production of the [[Mahatma letters]].
The '''Hodgson Report''' was a report by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) on [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]], her performance of psychic [[phenomena]], and the production of the [[Mahatma letters]].
== ''Boston Courier'' reaction ==


== Testimony by C. W. Leadbeater ==
== Testimony by C. W. Leadbeater ==

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Boston Courier, July 18, 1886

The Hodgson Report was a report by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) on H. P. Blavatsky, her performance of psychic phenomena, and the production of the Mahatma letters.

Boston Courier reaction

Testimony by C. W. Leadbeater

In an article published in The Theosophist, C. W. Leadbeater wrote the following:

I was at Adyar myself when Mr. Hodgson came out there to make that investigation. He was very young and obviously not very well acquainted with psychic matters. I had my own opinion of the way in which he carried out his investigation! I gave him a considerable amount of testimony, but he did not refer to that in any way in drawing up his decision, and I know the same was the case with several others of our people there. He cross-examined us but apparently made no use whatever of what we told him of the honesty of Madame Blavatsky; perhaps he did not believe us; at any rate he sent in a report which induced people to condemn her.[1]

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  1. Charles Webster Leadbeater, "Theosophy and the T.S." The Theosophist vol:1, No. 11 (November, 1930), 941.