My dear Wadia:
It was with considerable regret that we read the pamphlet which you so kindly sent us giving the reasons for your resignation from the Theo­sophical Society of which Dr. Annie Besant is the President. It is a pity that such an enthusiastic worker as yourself should have taken such a deplorable step, and it is a still greater pity that you should have circulated this unwise pamphlet which seems to us to lay bare conclusions based on complete misconceptions,-although you assert them, with great emphasis, to be the result of twenty years of mature and honest thought.

Undoubtedly, the Theosophical Society has lost a courageous and per­severing worker and we, who intend to devote our lives to this Society, will feel the absence of your companionship, though,-and it is almost un­necessary to say this,-our friendship will ever be the same. Many are the sincere friends that you have left behind in the movement that you have been so eager to condemn and they will, we are sure, lament with us your withdrawal from our midst. All the· constructive work that you have done in the Theosophical Society will be a happy remembrance of your worth. In this Society so full of renunciation and self-abnegation, where nearly all are unceasingly striving for the enlightenment which we feel our Society is pre-eminently able to bestow, few have been favored with the privileges that Karma has strewn in your pathway. Hence our grief is all the greater.

The tone of your pamphlet convinces us that you have definitely chosen a path wholly different from the one which we intend to follow, and in answering your accusations, we are not urged by a desire to enter upon a controversy with you, personally, or with those who feel it their unfor­tunate duty to attack the Theosophical Society, which is so full of generous forbearance.

The reasons for our entering into this discussion are two. First, there is prevalent in some circles an impression, grotesque in its misconception, humorous in its lack of imagination, that we two are in some manner pro­foundly sympathetic with the views which you have but recently expressed in public, and which you seem to have discussed privately with your friends for some time past. The appearance of your pamphlet gives us the oppor­tunity to present our true point of view. Second, there are naturally in this Society some members who are still balancing the pros and cons, and the perusal of your pamphlet alone would point out the one side of the question and may serve to prejudice them; there will be many who will defend this Society, and we would wish to be numbered among these. Besides this, there are some whose decision will be affected by impulse and we would not like to leave to you the whole field of influence. You see, my dear Wadia, that we are quite frank. We do not wish what we con­sider to be your false judgment to have unchecked sway.