The general impression which remains in the minds of many of the public is that H.P. Blavatsky invented the Mahatmas, and that she buttressed this invention with various forms of impersonation and trickery, including among them the concocting of letters in various handwritings supposed to be written by the Adepts. Jinarajadasa explains and presents the evidence from several sources that indeed the Mahatma letters were a forgery.