Robert G. Ingersoll
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll was on friendly terms with Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, according to Boris de Zirkoff.[1] He wrote some articles for The Theosophist.
In his collected letters, he is quoted as writing:
I have read a good deal that has been written by Madame Blavatsky, among other things, two large volumes called 'Isis Unveiled'. I have read a great number of essays on the same subjects, and I am perfectly satisfied that what is called Theosophy is simply unadulterated nonsense...." [2]
A footnote adds, "Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote widely on spiritualism and the occult philosophies. Her miraculous pretensions to communion with the other world have since been thoroughly discredited although at her death she left approximately one hundred thousand disciples."[3]
Notes
- ↑ Letter of Boris de Zirkoff to Ingersoll Guild. August 30, 1958. Boris de Zirkoff Papers. Records Series 22. Theosophical Society in America Archives.
- ↑ Eva Ingersoll Wakefield, editor, The Letters of Robert G. Ingersoll (1951), 277. Letter to D. M. Adams of Los Angeles.
- ↑ Eva Ingersoll Wakefield, editor, The Letters of Robert G. Ingersoll (1951), 277. Letter to D. M. Adams of Los Angeles.