Excerpt from Hints on Esoteric Theosophy, Vol. 46
So far as their antecedents are concerned I am perfectly satisfied.
I know also that they never have made, and are never likely to make, any money out of this business; and that, on the contrary, they have both spent a good deal of money, out of their own private means, to enable the work of the Society to proceed.
I see no reason to question the genuineness of the phenomena recorded in Mr. Sinnett"s work. They are similar in class, to many of which 1 have had personal cognizance. As you know, without ever becoming a convert to their theories I have, for the last twenty years, whenever I have had the opportunity, worked both in Europe and America, in concert with spiritualists and some of their best mediums.
I know all about mesmerism, so far as it is known to the West; about Reichenbach"s researches, some of which I have verified; and I have read many books treating of, or rather hinting at different phases of Occultism.
There was nothing, therefore, a priori, revolting to my common sense (as they are revolting to that of many men who have never read upon or personally investigated these questions), in the pretensions always set up by the founders of the Tneosophical Society, in every inner circle of this, of being the instruments of an august Brotherhood of Adepts. I by no means believed that any such Brotherhood existed. I was familiar with the popular traditionary history of the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, &c.
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