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\n\tRemarks on European Writers <\/font><\/b>
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\non Occultism
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\nHelena Petrovna Blavatsky
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\n\tOn reading La Vie de Mme Blavatsky<\/i>, I had the impression
\nthat there is nothing but vital occultism in her. Her life and work are concerned mostly with the supraphysical worlds and
\nspirits and miraculous powers and Mahatmas. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n\tYou are quite right. She was an occultist, not a spiritual personality. What spiritual teachings she gave, seemed to be based on intellectual
\n<\/i>knowledge, not on realisation. Her attitude was
\nTibetan Buddhistic. She did not believe in God, but in Nirvana, miraculous powers and the Mahatmas.
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\n31 March 1936 <\/font> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nAlexandra David-Neel
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\n\tRecently someone gave me a book called With Mystics and<\/i> Magicians in Tibet
\n<\/i>by Madame Alexandra David-Neel. I am
\nsending you a photograph of her. I was impressed by the hardships she endured and by her study of Tibetan mystics. But I
\ndon’t know whether what she writes is authentic. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n\tThis is a photograph of Madame David-Neel taken long ago
\nwhen she was much younger. Her story about her travels is perfectly authentic. She came here once to Pondicherry and saw
\nme on her way to the North \u2014  that was before the Mother came here. Mother knew her very well in Paris. Even before she went
\nto Tibet she was a Buddhist and deeply versed in Buddhism. As to the authenticity of all in this book (magic, mysticism) Mother
\ncannot say as she has not read it. But she is not a woman with any imagination or invention and has a rather hard positive
\nmind, \u2014  if there are any “travellers’ tales” she is more likely to have heard them than invented them.
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