Mahatma Letter to H. S. Olcott - LMW 2 No. 46
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People involved | |
Written by: | Morya |
Received by: | Henry Steel Olcott |
Sent via: | unknown |
Dates | |
Written on: | March 24, 1882 and other dates |
Received on: | 28 December 1881 |
Other dates: | unknown |
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Sent from: | S.S. Vega (at sea) and Bombay |
Received at: | Howrah, Calcutta |
Via: | unknown |
This is Letter No. 46 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series. In it Mahatma Morya asks Henry Steel Olcott to wait....................[1]
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Page 1 transcription, image, and notes
[Envelope bears the following inscription:] Do not open this Olcott till the moment I touch you after the phenomenon which will take place to-night.
[Inside, written on H.P.B.’s letter:] This will certify to you Olcott how right we were in refusing to have anything to say to your Western friends. They are all the same. Let them remain happy and undisturbed with their pisachas and bhuts.
H.P.B.'s letter
My Dear Olcott, This will show to you that I was warned of the dishonest plot and Mr. Eglinton’s intention from the first, and that the whole plan was disclosed to me. Instead of entrapping me—as he hoped—he is entrapped himself. He cannot send letters from a distance without confederates and our Brothers can. The latter is proved to all by the present. And now everyone but ourselves have to bid adieu to the Brothers. THEY will have nothing more to say to the dishonest crew.
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Context and background
Mr. Jinarājadāsa introduced the letter in this way:
The letter which follows is specially interesting. H.P.B. was in Bombay in March, 1882, and Colonel Olcott in Calcutta. She wrote a letter on March 24th and it was delivered the same evening to him phenomenally. The letter dropped from the air as Colonel Olcott records in his Diary:: "At 9 the Gordons and I sat Together. Morya and K. H. appeared at the windows, and notes from Eglinton (from on board the Vega) Morya, K. H. and H.P.B., tied together, dropped through the air on Mrs. Gordon's shoulder. A stupendous phenomenon all round. E. says in his note that he is sending it off by the Brothers to H.P.B. after showing it to a fellow passenger, rs. Boughton, and having her mark the envelope." The message from mster M. is writtn on H.P.B.'s letter to colonel Olcott.
See Letter I of H.P.B.'s letters to A. P. Sinnett.[2]
Physical description of letter
The original of this letter is preserved at the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India.