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travelled to Europe. After their departure, a conflict between the Coulombs and the Theosophical Society escalated. The Coulombs tried to blackmail and threaten Blavatsky, whereupon Blavatsky dismissed them. When the theosophists inspected Blavatsky's room after the Coulombs had to leave, they found
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After the Coulombs were dismissed, they went to their Christian missionary friends of the Free Church of Scotland, and gave them letters that were allegedly written by Blavatsky to Emma. These letters suggested that Blavatsky was a fraud. The chaplain George Patterson published extracts from these
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secret doors in her room . Alexis claimed that he constructed these secret doors for Blavatsky. Theosophists have said that Alexis' constructions were obviously newly built, and the secret doors could not be opened or closed silently or without strong effort.
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Christian College Magazine. The incident became well known all over India and also in America and Europe. Blavatsky immediately published a reply in several newspapers. Blavatsky and Olcott then travelled back to India at the end of 1884. Soon afterwards the
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Report of the Result of an Investigation into the Charges against Madame Blavatsky Brought by the Missionaries of the Scottish Free Church of Madras, and Examined by a Committee Appointed for That Purpose by the General Council of the Theosophical
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and tried to find a job for them. As she could not find a job for them, she provided them with a position in the Theosophical Society, where they did various chores, such as cooking and gardening. In February 1884, Blavatsky and
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by Emma Coulomb, from "The Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Phenomena connected with the Theosophical Society,"
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was published, which further damaged Blavatsky's reputation. The report also contained the allegations of the Coulombs.
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published a study on the Hodgson Report. The Blavatsky–Coulomb letters were destroyed by
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H. P. Blavatsky und die SPR, Eine Untersuchung des Hodgson Berichtes aus dem Jahre 1885
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Some account of my association with Madame Blavatsky from 1872 to 1884
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was a conflict between Emma and Alexis Coulomb, on one side, and
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Theosophical Society emblem with the ankh symbol in a seal of Solomon encircled by the ouroboros, topped by a swastika and the om ligature and surrounded by the motto
Helena Blavatsky
William Quan Judge
Henry Steel Olcott
Annie Besant
Isabel Cooper-Oakley
Robert Crosbie
Abner Doubleday
Geoffrey Hodson
Raghavan N. Iyer
Wassily Kandinsky

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