Elbert Benjamine generally avoided polemics and propaganda when discussing spiritual and occult movements of his time. But “those who use the brilliancy of their intellects to suppress truth and to foist ignorance and superstition on society that they may profit by its exploitation” does express his feelings about the influence of Theosophy in the occult scene in the early twentieth century. (And fits my experience of four different Theosophical organizations reacting to academic historical publications in the late twentieth century. kpj) However, in the second passage quoted he explains that what is now called the Earlier Theosophical Society of 1875-1878 in New York taught quite different doctrines of the afterlife.
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