Mahatma Letter No. 40

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Quick Facts
People involved
Written by: Morya
Received by: A. P. Sinnett
Sent via: unknown
Dates
Written on: unknown
Received on: January 1882 - see below
Other dates: unknown
Places
Sent from: unknown
Received at: Allahabad, India
Via: unknown 

This is Letter No. 40 in The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 4th chronological edition. It corresponds to Letter No. 108 in Barker numbering. Letter 41 (109 in Barker numbering) is on the same page. See below for Context and background.

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Page 1 transcription, image, and notes

The man sent by me last night was a Ladakee chela and had nothing to do with you. What you just said about "initiation" is true. Any Fellow who truly and sincerely repents ought to be taken back. As you see I am with you constantly.

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NOTES:

  • Ladakee refers to Ladakh, a region of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state under the control of the Republic of India, but claimed by Pakistan.

Context and background

Physical description of letter

The original is in the British Library, Folio 3. George Linton and Virginia Hanson wrote of this letter and ML-109,

These two notes are in red ink on a single sheet of folded heavy white paper, about 6" X 9" [15.2 X 22.9 cm] in size. One letter is written diagonally across one side and the other is written diagonally across the reverse side.[1]

Publication history

Commentary about this letter

Notes

  1. George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 90.