Book of Dzyan
Sir A belief in the genuineness of The Book of Dzyan — the obvious inspiration behind the letters of Messrs Golen and Gardner (September 15) — displays a naivete which, as Lenin once remarked in another connection, would be touching in a child but is repugnant in persons of mature years
That the book was forged has been known since the 1890s when the American orientalist W. E. Coleman submitted it to a textual analysis and found that it ' was the work of Madame Biavatsky, a compilation in her own language, from a variety of sources , . • [containing] statements copied from nineteenth century books
A summary of Coleman's conclusions regarding not only The Book of Dzyan but other of Blavatsky's forgeries, notably The Voice of the Silence and The Mahatma Letters may be found on pp. 353-66 of the 1895 edition of Vladimir Solovyoff's A Modern Priestess of Isis.
Francis King
Padworth, Reading
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