A niece of Einstein's, in India during the 1960s, paid a special visit to the headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar . She explained that she knew nothing of theosophy or the society, but had to see the place because her uncle always had a copy of Madame Blavatsky 's Secret Doctrine on his desk. The individual to whom the niece spoke was Eunice Layton , a world-traveled theosophical lecturer who happened to be at the reception desk when she arrived