Cranston states that a research assistant of hers took on the task of finding Coleman 's alleged 70 passages that HPB plagiarized from '' World-Life '' , and could only find 6 . Coleman himself , far from being an authority on occult material , was a clerk in the Quartermaster Department of the US Army . He was likely not an impartial judge , having written to Coues on July 8 , 1890 , " I emphatically denounced and ridiculed the theory of occultism , of elementary spirits , etc. , before the Theosophical Society was organized in 1875 , and from that time to this I have strenuously opposed Theosophy all the time . " Coleman promised to publish a book that would " prove " his charges against Blavatsky regarding the '' Book of Dzyan '' ; this book and its proof never appeared . The reason Coleman 's book never appeared is that “ Coleman lost his library and his notes in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and died three years later , his book unwritten ”
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Book of Dzyan