Back to Blavatsky, volume 9

This volume contains the issues of "Theosophy" published from November 1920 to October 1921. "Theosophy" was the journal of the United Lodge of Theosophists, based in Los Angeles. The ULT rejected both Katherine Tingley's Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, and Annie Besant's Theosophical Society Adyar. The United Lodge believed that both main branches of Theosophy had deviated from the original message, identified with Madame Blavatsky and William Q. Judge. This narrow orthodoxy made the ULT reject all innovations, including the clairvoyant revelations of C.W. Leadbeater, Besant's close associate. Indeed, the ULT felt such animus towards Leadbeater that they excised his name every time they quoted Adyar material, replacing it with a blank space!

Unsurprisingly, much material in "Theosophy" are reprints of old articles by Blavatsky and Judge, or excerpts from their books. A long series on Theosophical history meticulously details the various factional squabbles in the movement, always defending the record of Blavatsky and Judge. Even Colonel Olcott, Blavatsky's ostensible number two, is rejected as an exoteric careerist. Another staple of "Theosophy" is the rejection of Spiritualism, and even of spiritual healing (sic). There are also articles criticizing modern science on the basis of Blavatsky's "The Secret Doctrine". I only skimmed this volume, but overall it seems to cover a more diverse array of subjects than vol. 8, reviewed by me elsewhere.