"Perhaps HPB was not wrong about what she said to the young CWL when she first met him in London, in 1884, after he had written a letter to the spiritualistic journal Light in defense of Theosophy: ‘I don’t think much of the clergy, for I find most of them hypocritical, bigoted and stupid; but that was a brave action, and I thank you for it. You have made a good beginning; perhaps you may do something yet.’"
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N. Sri Ram, Fifth President of the Theosophical Society, said in a Roof talk given on 20 March 1953 at Adyar quoted in T. Subba Row, CWL and Esoteric Teachings Pedro Oliveira, compiler
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