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The Report of the S.P.R. 1885

(Society for Psychical Research)

 

 

 

Madame Blavatsky resigned from Theosophical Society when Coulomb charges were made public but resignation was refused by Colonel Olcott. HPBwrote London Times and Pall Mall Gazette denouncing the charges as a conspiracy.

 

HPBand Colonel Olcott returned to India at end of 1884 with HPB insisting that the charges most be countered by court proceedings against the Coulombs but Olcott and the majority of Society members were opposed to legal action. The Adyar Convention declines to defend HPB while affirming their belief in her bona fides and it became apparent the Colonel Olcott and A P Sinnett are now suspicious and mistrustful of HPBShe resigned from the Society and left India early in 1885 and never returned.

 

Mr. Hodgson was in India during the Convention and desertion of HPB by Theosophists. He was powerfully affected by the luke-warmness and doubts of leading Theosophists and returned to England to submit his report to Committee of S.P.R.

 

Hodgson's findings were adopted by Committee in June, 1885 and the report of the S.P.R. published following December. – The report reached the conclusion that HPB's phenomena were fraudulent and were a long-continued conspiracy to deceive public. Hodgson stated that the Coulomb letters and Mahatma letters written by "One of the most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history".

 

The Report of the S.P.R. examined critically shows it to be wholly ex parte - no safeguards were employed to ascertain and render justice. The investigation was that of a rival society controlled by Spiritualists. The S.P.R. was not at all interested in philosophy or ethics and was avid for phenomena and was generally ignorant of Occultism.

 

The report contained contradictions and inconsistencies and relied wholly on Mr. Massey's suspicions, the Coulomb charges, and the opinions of the London handwriting experts - Mr. Massey's suspicions were shown to be without tangible foundation and the Coulombs shown out of their own mouths to be lying tricksters.

 

At first the handwriting experts declared that the Mahatma letters could not have been written by HPB and then, at Hodgson's solicitation, reversed their opinion

 

There were cases of clearly reversed and contradictory opinions with the testimony of obviously hostile witnesses being accepted with positive reliable witnesses (over 100 of theses) being written off as victims of hallucination.

 

There was also an accusation that HPB was a Russian spy opposed to British rule in India.

 

 

 

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