H. P. Blavatsky: A Great Betrayal

The Australian Crisis 92 An Indictment of Mrs. Besant by a Resigning Member of her E. S. 95 Bibliography 97 There is a very very ancient maxim far older than the time of the Romans or the the Greeks .... It is a maxim all of them them ought to remember—and live accordingly ... a sound and pure mind requires a sound and pure body. Bodily purity every adept takes precautions to keep.... Most of them know this.... But though they have been repeatedly told of this sine qua non rule on the Path of Theosophy and Chelaship, how few of them have given attention to it.... Behold, how many of them are ... debauchees, GUILTY OF SECRET IMMORALITY in more than one form.... Though such a person with any of the faults as above declared [others are named] should fill the world with his charities, and make his name known throughout every nation, he would make no advancement in the practical occult sciences, but be continually slipping backward. The 'six and ten transcendental virtues,' the Paramitas[1], are not for full grown Yogis and priests alone, but for all those who would enter the 'Path.'"