Nicholas Weeks
Bodhicitta
Born as Mary Mackay, (d. 1924) a bastard, whose father did not disown her, this English writer of mystic Christ-centered fiction outsold HG Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined. The critics despised her work, yet Queen Victoria and other upper class folk as well as the masses loved her.
G. de Purucker, theosophist, thought she had genuine mystic insight, though with the artistic temperament.
Here is just one fan letter regarding her first work, A Romance of Two Worlds:
Madam,
I trust you will pardon the liberty I take in writing to you. My excuse must be the very deep interest your book, A Romance of Two Worlds has excited in me. I, of course, understand that the story itself is a romance, but in reading it carefully it seems to me that it is a book written with a purpose. . . .
The Electric Creed respecting Religion seems to explain so much in Scripture which has always seemed to me impossible to accept blindly without explanation of any kind; and the theory that Christ came to die and to suffer for us as an Example and a means of communication with God, and not as a Sacrifice, clears up a point which has always been to me personally a stumbling-block.
I cannot say how grateful I shall be if you can tell me any means of studying this subject further; and trusting you will excuse me for troubling you, I am. Madam, Yours truly,
"H. B."
G. de Purucker, theosophist, thought she had genuine mystic insight, though with the artistic temperament.
Here is just one fan letter regarding her first work, A Romance of Two Worlds:
Madam,
I trust you will pardon the liberty I take in writing to you. My excuse must be the very deep interest your book, A Romance of Two Worlds has excited in me. I, of course, understand that the story itself is a romance, but in reading it carefully it seems to me that it is a book written with a purpose. . . .
The Electric Creed respecting Religion seems to explain so much in Scripture which has always seemed to me impossible to accept blindly without explanation of any kind; and the theory that Christ came to die and to suffer for us as an Example and a means of communication with God, and not as a Sacrifice, clears up a point which has always been to me personally a stumbling-block.
I cannot say how grateful I shall be if you can tell me any means of studying this subject further; and trusting you will excuse me for troubling you, I am. Madam, Yours truly,
"H. B."
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