OLD DIARY LEAVES :
THE HISTORY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY JANUARY 1893- APRIL 1896 :
VOLUME V

CHAPTER I

BUDDHA GAYA AND SARNATH
(1893)

THE year 1893 now opens up before us, and its events
will be found to be very important.

As previously shown, the rumblings of the coming
tempest about Mr. Judge were beginning to be heard.
Towards the end of last year the arrival of Mr. Walter
G. Old of the London staff, with the budget of notes and
memoranda which he had taken, enabled me by
comparing documents to see the depth and fullness of the
treachery which Mr. Judge had long been planning.
I find from my Diary of 1893 that the greater part
of the first day was spent by Messrs. Keightley, Old,
and myself in summarising the cvidence in the case;
and needless to say, all our hearts were filled with
sorrow, for this was almost if not the very first case
of downright perfidy in our Society's history.

Until now the splendid collection of Japanese.
Buddhist Scriptures, which I had brought back from
Japan in 1889, had been lying on our shelves
uncatalogued for lack of expert help; but now Mr
Kawakami, a young priest student of Kyoto, who...