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These are <u>foolish</u>, <u>insane</u> ideas of yours about [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Upasika]] | '''NOTE: Bold text was omitted from the published version.''' | ||
These are <u>foolish</u>, <u>insane</u> ideas of yours about [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Upasika]] – Henry – wretched thoughts — the <u>mirage</u> thrown upon your brain by some of those who surround you. '''You are ... the work of 10 years. You are slaughtering your own future, thereby...... that unless you master such vile ..... & ;;; poisons about the <u>innocent</u> – unless you get | |||
Do not take as an excuse your honesty. <u>Honesty</u> without <u>Justice</u> is like a drunken watchman’s <u>bull’s eye</u> — made but to throw light on his own distorted features leaving all around him in greater darkness still. . . You wrong her from begin | Do not take as an excuse your honesty. <u>Honesty</u> without <u>Justice</u> is like a drunken watchman’s <u>bull’s eye</u> — made but to throw light on his own distorted features leaving all around him in greater darkness still. . . You wrong her from begin |
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Written by: | Morya |
Received by: | Henry Steel Olcott |
Sent via: | unknown |
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Written on: | unknown |
Received on: | 1884 |
Other dates: | unknown |
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Sent from: | unknown |
Received at: | unknown |
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This letter is Letter No. 47 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series. Mahatma Morya rebukes Henry Steel Olcott for misunderstanding Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.[1]
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NOTE: Bold text was omitted from the published version. These are foolish, insane ideas of yours about Upasika – Henry – wretched thoughts — the mirage thrown upon your brain by some of those who surround you. You are ... the work of 10 years. You are slaughtering your own future, thereby...... that unless you master such vile ..... & ;;; poisons about the innocent – unless you get
Do not take as an excuse your honesty. Honesty without Justice is like a drunken watchman’s bull’s eye — made but to throw light on his own distorted features leaving all around him in greater darkness still. . . You wrong her from begin |
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ning to end. You have never understood Upasika, nor the laws thro’ which her apparent life has been made to work since you knew her. You are ungrateful and unjust and even cruel. You take maya for reality and reality for illusion. I have said and shall say no more, and now if you don’t listen and believe what I now tell you I shall have to turn Karma into a new direction.
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Context and background
Mr. Jinarajadasa provided these notes about this letter:
1 Received in 1884. One further letter was received by H.S.O. Letter XIX in the First Series, on August 22, 1888.[2]
Physical description of letter
The original of this letter is preserved at the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India.