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science with religion, the existence of God and the immortality of
man's spirit may be demonstrated like a problem in Euclid."
From the beginning, says Hodson, the theosophical movement was
under the supervision of certain adepts and initiates belonging to that
branch of the Great White Brotherhood known as the Brotherhood of
Luxor. Among its members were Serapis Bey, who gave instructions to
Blavatsky, and Polidorus Isurenus, recorder of the Luxor Brotherhood,
who instructed Hodson, as did another master known as Tutuit Bey.
Leadbeater says that he and other cofounders of the Theosophical
Society such as Blavatsky, Besant, and Colonel Olcott, had all "seen"
some of the masters and that many other members of the society had
seen one or more of them.
In the early days of the society, when Blavatsky first developed
higher faculties, the masters, say theosophists, frequently materialized
so that all could see them, though they were not in their physical bod-
ies. Only in a few cases would both the adept and the person who saw
him be in a physical body. Blavatsky often recounted how she met the
Master Morya in London's Hyde Park in 1851 when she was sixteen
and he had come over with a number of other Indian princes to attend
the first great international exhibition. Later, when she lived for some
time in a monastery in Nepal, she claims to have seen three of the mas-
ters constantly in their physical vehicles and to have been initiated by
them into the mysteries.
According to Leadbeater, some of the masters have more than once
come down in their physical bodies from their mountain retreats in
India: Colonel Olcott spoke of having seen two of them on such oc-
casions, Master Morya and Master Koot Hoomi. Leadbeater also re-
ports two such encounters. One was with the master the Comte de St.
Germain, also known as Prince Rakoczy, whom he tells of meeting
walking down the Corso in Rome, dressed as an Italian gentleman.
"He took me up into the gardens on the Pincian Hd, and we sat for
more than an hour talking about the Society and its work."
St. Germain is described by Leadbeater as not especially tall but
very upright and military in his bearing."He has the exquisite courtesy
and dignity of a grand seigneur of the eighteenth century, member of