title: Collected Writings of H. P. Blavatsky, Vol. 9 (1888)
author: H P Blavatsky
description: The writings of H.P. Blavatsky, the chief founder of the modern Theosophical Movement, are becoming with every day more widely known. The constitute in their totality one of the most astounding products of the creative human mind. Considering their unequaled erudition, their prophetic nature, and their spiritual depth, they mush be classed, by friend and foe alike, as being among the inexplicable phenomena of the age.
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  The Theosophical Movement 1875-1925
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  Chapter X
  The Formation of the Esoteric Section
  The critical period preceding the formation of the Esoteric Section has been discussed, and its
  various factors and actors commented on from their several points of view, by the only ones
  competent to do so at first hand: by H.P.B., by Col. Olcott, by Mr. Judge, and by the Master
  "K.H." We may examine at this point some of the statements of all of them, in the order named,
  omitting Mr. Judge for the time being, for the sake of logical, no less than of chronological,
  continuity.
  In April, 1886, H.P.B. wrote a long and important letter to Dr. Franz Hartmann in reply to
  questions and problems raised by him. Dr. Hartmann, it will be remembered, was at Adyar
  before, during, and subsequent to the Coulomb charges, the Indian Convention's practical
  desertion of H.P.B., Mr. Hodgson's investigations for the S.P.R., the resignation and departure of
  H.P.B. He