Editing Mahatma (section)

===Criticism===
There has been a great deal of controversy concerning the existence of adepts. Blavatsky's critics have doubted the existence of her Masters. See, for example, W. E. Coleman's exposes.

[[K. Paul Johnson]] in his books<ref>Johnson (1994), Johnson (1995) – p. 49.</ref> speculates that the "Masters" that Blavatsky wrote about and produced letters from were actually idealizations of people who were her [[mentor]]s. Aryel Sanat,<ref>"Aryel Sanat (Miguel Angel Sanabria) is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the American University in Washington, D.C." // [https://books.google.com/books?id=0dHP2f_6k4YC&q=editions:jYIKHxJulMgC About the author of ''The inner life of Krishnamurthy'' in 1999.]</ref> author of ''The inner life of Krishnamurti: private passion and perennial wisdom'', wrote that Johnson "claims in all of his books that there were no Masters at all in early Theosophical Society history, and that Helena Blavatsky invented them (as others had claimed she had invented her travels)". Sanat wrote that Johnson "deliberately ignores the main sources of evidence for their real physical existence".<ref>See [http://www.theos-talk.com/archives/200005/tt00087.html ''Theosophy World.'']</ref> What Sanat thought these were is not made quite clear.