The old but not so well known Incident (I learned about it via Theos Talk) is the exposed Egyptian Rite within Theosophical Society Aydar, an Esoteric Section within the known Esoteric Section, see f.e. here for a short explanation or here.
Dr. Gregor Tillet was the first, to publish something about it in his paper "Esoteric Schools Within The Theosophical Movement", a paper presented to the Theosophical History Conference San Diego in June 1992 (PDF).
Secret Sections within Theosophical Societies seems not only an Adyar Problem. Dr. Tillet wrote 2013 (see first page of the paper linked above):
This paper was begun as an overview for a book I was intending to write on “secret societies” within the Theosophical movement (including Adyar, Point Loma, ULT, Steiner, and others).
Carlos Cardoso Aveline draws a good overview of the situation specifically in Adyar and regarding the so-called Egyptian Rite in Adyar, which can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th century to Besant and Leadbeater in his article The Fraud in Adyar Esoteric School.
Why these old stories are so important? Two main Reasons, quoted from Avelines article:
The decisive importance of this fact for the theosophical movement as a whole can be realized if one remembers that the Adyar TS has within it some 85 or 90 per cent of the theosophical movement worldwide. It means nine out of ten. [...] The E.R. [Egyptian Rite] has been a blind political instrument, unconsciously used for perpetuating a top-down, “absolute” and popish control of the whole Adyar movement. [....]
The second reason is: We know from the so called final Mahatma-Letter to Besant:
Misleading secrecy has given the death blow to numerous organizations.
Which already is or can be an indication that secret activities are unwanted and wrong according to the founders of the movement, like e.g. an esoteric, secret section within a TS. But Blavatsky herself, and I quote Aveline again, makes it much clearer:
There never was an Occult Society, however open and sincere, that has not felt the hand of the [...] trying to pull it down by every secret means....
[Collected Writings of H. P. Blavatsky, volume XIV, p. 267.]
So each of these secret or occult societies within a lot of the different Theosophical "Traditions" or TS -- if we believe Blavatsky and where is he or she, who could credibly contradict her -- is directly or indirectly in the hands of our "worshippers."
I am not concerned with names or people. The current leader of the Esoteric School is also known, but names do not matter. There is reason and unreason. Two opposites. And e.g. to believe, one has to do with Mahatmas, in a secret theosophical organization, or is on the right path with it, after what was quoted above, is naive and dangerous.
Often they do not intentionally serve the dark side (we don't know, so no one should accuse anyone personally!), but are deluded for sure, maybe like necromancers, who believe they are communicating with angels, whom they follow without question or other more astral influences, which they may not even perceive. The reader of the Secret Doctrine knows about the hidden power of the unreasonableness.
And these secret societies, secret think tanks, so to speak, have a very great, but subtle, influence on the Theosophical Societies and thus on the destiny of the whole movement.
And now put two and two together and a lot of things become clear and explainable.
If this is true, evil tongues might go so far as to say, that large parts of the organized Theosophical Movement is already dead, and the empty, dead shells are still being puppeted by "Unreason". This would certainly do injustice to the many sincere Theosophists and Theosophical organizations, but what about the core of the movement, which is the Societies, run by secret sections?
What would have to be done? All Theosophical Societies (aforementioned or not) should convincingly declare that they do not operate Secret Sections and if they do, dissolve them immediately and forever. Here the members should become active.
What do you think?