The Mahatma Letters: Fabrication and Frame-Up Claims
The Mahatma Letters controversy concerns alleged human manufacture of communications attributed to hidden teachers, and counterclaims that Helena Blavatsky was unfairly framed. The letters, Emma Coulomb’s accusation, the 1885 investigation and contemporary protest have different evidentiary roles. Vernon Harrison’s later criticism challenges methods without proving supernatural authorship. Neither a hostile report nor a sympathetic reassessment can substitute for establishing a document’s provenance.