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Предлагаю сопоставить следующие два фрагмента текста, наглядно иллюстрирующие некоторое, скажем так, несовпадение взглядов на одну историческую личность со стороны Е.П.Блаватской и А.А.Бэйли.

(К сожалению, лучшей ссылки на работы Бэйли в интернете дать не могу, т.к. большой англоязычный сайт, на который обычно ссылаются в таких случаях, убрал все её англоязычные тексты. Вот ещё одна непрямая ссылка. Возможно, Kay Ziatz сможет дать прямую ссылку на соответствующую общедоступную книгу.)

Alice Bailey. "Discipleship in the New Age" II, 331

For instance, the harm done to the Ashram of the Master Morya by H.P.B. in his earlier incarnation as Cagliostro, (Cagliostro, W.R.H. Trowbridge) is only now fading out, and its repercussions affected the whole Hierarchy.

H.P.Blavatsky’s Scrapbook, Vol. I, p. 83

He had known Cagliostro and his wife, and had a portrait of that lady, whose beauty dazzled the courts of Europe. One day he hurried breathlessly into the apartment of a certain nobleman, residing on the Champs Élysées, holding this miniature in his hand and exclaiming, in great excitement: “Mon Dieu!—she has returned—it is she!—Madame Cagliostro is here!” I smiled at seeing the old Count’s excitement, knowing well what he was about to say. Upon quieting himself he told us he had just attended a séance of M. de Lasa, and had recognized in his wife the original of the miniature, which he exhibited, adding that it had come into his possession with other effects left by his martyred father. Some of the facts concerning the de Lasa are detailed very erroneously, but I shall not correct the errors.
I am aware that the first impulse of the facetious critics of Occultism will be to smile at my hardihood in endorsing, by implication, the possibility that the beautiful Madame de Lasa, of 1861, was none other than the equally beautiful Madame Cagliostro of 1786; at the further suggestion that it is not at all impossible that the proprietor of the crystal globe and clicking telegraph, which so upset the nerves of Delessert, the police spy, was the same person, who, under the name of Alessandro di Cagliostro, is reported by his lying biographers to have been found dead in the prison of Sant’ Angelo.
These same humorous scribblers will have additional provocation to merriment when I tell you that it is not only probable, but likely, that this same couple may be seen in this country before the end of the Centennial Exhibition, astounding alike professors, editors, and Spiritualists.
The initiates are as hard to catch as the sun-sparkle which flecks the dancing wave on a summer day. One generation of men may know them under one name in a certain country, and the nest, or a succeeding one, see them as someone else in a remote land.
They live in each place as long as they are needed and then—pass away “like a breath” leaving no trace behind.
ENDREINEK AGARDI, of Koloswar.

[In H.P.B.’s Scrapbook, Vol. I, p. 83, where the above Letter to the Editor of the Spiritual Scientist is pasted as a clipping, the author of it is identified as a pupil of Master M. The town formerly known as Kolozsvár was at that time within the boundaries of Hungary; it is now known as Cluj and is in the Transylvanian District of Rumania; its German equivalent was Klausenburg.
H.P.B. also says that the story, “An Unsolved Mystery” was written from the narrative of the Adept known as Hillarion, who sometimes signed himself Hillarion Smerdis, though the Greek original has only one “l” in it, as a rule. H.P.B. drops the initial mark of an aspirate and uses merely the initial letter “I” as would be the case in Slavonic languages.]

Суть разночтений в следующем.

Бэйли (или Тибетец, если угодно) утверждает, что Блаватская в одном из предыдущих воплощений (видимо, в непосредственно предшествовавшем собственно Блаватской) являлась, вернее, являлся графом Калиостро и в этом качестве навредил Ашраму М.М. и вообще всей Иерархии со страшной силой.

Однако из приведённого фрагмента записной книжки (точнее, альбома с вырезками и комментариями) Е.П.Блаватской cледует, что Калиостро вовсе не умер в тюрьме, а жил настолько долго, что был современником самой Е.П.Блаватской, а следовательно, Калиостро никак не мог быть её предыдущим воплощением. При этом, правда, в готовившемся ЕПБ "Теософском словаре" написано, что Калиостро был послан на помощь Сен-Жермену, но, совершив несколько более-менее фатальных ошибок, был отозван.