Mahatma Letter No. 71

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Written by: Koot Hoomi
Received by: A. P. Sinnett
Sent via: unknown
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Written on: unknown
Received on: August 12, 1882
Other dates: none
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Received at: Simla, India
Via: none

This is Letter No. 19 in Barker numbering. See below for Context and background.

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Attached to Proofs of Letter on Theosophy. Received August 12th, 1882.

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Yes; verily known and as confidently affirmed by the adepts from whom —

"No curtain hides the spheres Elysian, Nor these poor shells of half transparent dust; For all that blinds the spirit's vision Is pride and hate and lust." (Not for publication)

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Exceptional cases, my friend. Suicides can and generally do, but not so with the others. The good and pure sleep a quiet blissful sleep, full of happy visions of earth-life and have no consciousness of being already for ever beyond that life. Those who were neither good nor bad, will sleep a dreamless, still a quiet sleep; while the wicked will in proportion to their grossness suffer the pangs of a nightmare lasting years: their thoughts become living things, their wicked passions — real substance, and they receive back on their heads all the misery they have heaped upon others. Reality and fact if described would yield a far more terrible Inferno than even Dante had imagined!

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