After all, what was one to make of the tales of mysterious Mahatmas in Tibet, of Blavatsky???s own travels there at a time when it was nearly impossible for a white European male, let only a woman, to enter that forbidden land, of letters, tea cups, and other items strangely ???materializing??? out of thin air, of stories about ancient Atlantis and Lemuria plucked from the mystical Akashic Record,