The Theosophical Society, which started out in India with the avowed object of converting the whole world, and which has been sailing of late through stormy seas, has more trouble in store for it. Mr. Henry Burrows, a prominent member of the society, has announced publicly his withdrawal, and his decision has been followed by that of several other ardent adherents of the doctrine. Mr. Burrows writes to The Times of India, Calcutta:
"SIR:— During the past few years I have publicly advocated theosophy in connection with the Theosophical Society. Will you allow me to say as publicly, through your columns, that I have felt compelled to resign my membership of that body. The recent disclosures of fraud which have split the society led me to further investigations, impossible before, which have thoroughly convinced me that for years deception in the society has been rampant—deception to which Mine. Blavatsky was sometimes a party. Both Colonel Olcott. the president of the Society, and Mr. Sinnett, the vice-president, believe her to have been partially fraudulent. To this organization, in which these and other questionable things take place, I can no longer give my recognition and support, and altho I do not in any way give up the essential ideas of theosophy, I leave the society; for, as it now exists, I believe it to be a standing danger to honesty and truth, and a perpetual open door to superstition, delusion, and fraud."
This is looked upon as the beginning of the end of theosophy by the editor of The Times, who expresses his views on the subject as follows:
