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The Theosophical Movement 1875-1925

By John Garrigues and others

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Olcott Versus H.P.B.

Sections of the Movement - a breach between the Sections in the first ten years - Olcott and others' failure to defend H.P.B. in 1885 the sign of the rupture - first doubts - then dissent and dissimulation - then temporising - then repudiation of the Occult status of H.P.B. - the long list of "failures in occultism" in the first thirteen years - Coues counted on Olcott's support - Olcott becomes frightened at possible consequences to Society and himself - refuses to align himself with his colleagues but does not openly support Coues - blinded by jealousy and vanity - "Old Diary Leaves" discloses Olcott's inner attitude and struggles - his "pitched battle" with H.P.B. in 1888 over the Esoteric Section - due to his inner doubts and fears - thought H.P.B. and Judge were engaged in "the building up of a new structure of falsehood, fraud and treachery in which to house new idol" - takes Richard Harte back to India with him - Olcott's comments in "Old Diary Leaves" on the events from 1888 to 1890 - obsessed with the importance of the Society - of himself as its President-Founder - changes in the Constitution and articles in The Theosophist - engineered by Olcott to make himself supreme - tries to relegate H.P.B. and Judge to "their proper place" - "Revised Rules" adopted by the "Adyar Parliament - Judge and H.P.B. oppose - supported by the American and British Sections.