Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Henry Steel Olcott

Intro
It seems that in 1886, MGA was busy sending letters all over the world about his “Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya” and how it would contain 300 arguments. MGA seems to have also sent a letter to Henry Steel Olcott and the “Theosophist” magazine and society, which was operating out of Madras, India (edition of Sep-1886). Alexander Russel Webb read this article (see the scans in the below) and began sending letters to MGA from the USA. How much did MGA pay for this advertisement? MGA was lying about having 10,000 rupees.

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason (member of Huguenot Lodge #448, now #46) and the co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped create a renaissance in the study of Buddhism. Olcott is considered a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in interpreting Buddhism through a Europeanized lens.

This entire scenario was posted in the Ahmadiyya Gazette of 2017 and written by Dr. Tahir Ijaz.

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“Theosophist” magazine, Sep-1886, published from Madras, India

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