Mahatma Letter of Sinnett to/from KH - 1883-09-18

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Written by:	Koot Hoomi, A. P. Sinnett
Received by:	A. P. Sinnett, Koot Hoomi, H. P. Blavatsky
Sent via:	unknown
Dates
Written on:	18 September 1883
Received on:	unknown
Other dates:	unknown
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Sent from:	Weisbaden
Received at:	unknown
Via:	unknown

This letter has not been published previously. A. P. Sinnett wrote to Mahatma Koot Hoomi, who added notes and gave the original to H. P. Blavatsky, with instructions to keep the letter.

Note to H. P. Blavatsky from K.H.

Note written in blue ink across the middle of page 10:

To be kept at your office
by Damodar

KH

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Page 1 of Sinnett letter transcription, image, and notes

My Dear Guardian,

I received your telegram here a day or two ago, with very mixed feelings in which anxiety concerning my future relations with yourself predominated. In the shape the paper project last assumed it certainly was not worthy for its own sake, but anything would have been better than the abrupt termination of my relations with you, which the failure of the Phoenix business seems to threaten judging by the tenor of your last letter. I have always been inclined to believe that these relations would somehow develop and improve, instead of collapsing

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because I was conscious of the perfectly pure hearted sincerity of my own feelings on the subject, and of my loyalty to you, as beyond the reach of “tests” &c [et cetera] while I should as soon look for capricious changefullness on your part as on that of the laws of Nature. Even if this letter remains unanswered - for the present,- I shall still believe that a final dissolution of our relations, even in this physical life is something that cannot take place.

In now very different a spirit, though the colourless lines look much the same on the paper, do I write this letter, which absit omen may end our correspondence for a time, as compared with that in which I wrote to you first from Simla three years ago. As my comprehension of your

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rank in Nature has grown by degrees and with it my reverence and respect so personal affection and confidence in your regard for me (far beneath the level of it tho’ I may be in many ways) have grown too, and have enabled me to write to you easily and intimately,- even more so than when I so faintly perceived who and what you are.

But now to deal with the practical questions of the future. For I am not quite sure whether in releasing me from my promise you retain any feeling that it would be desirable for me to make any further efforts on my own part to bring off the new paper,- or a new paper in India of some sort after all. I might be able to

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Now about my questions.

If a dead infant may be reincarnated on the lines of the old karmic affinities almost immediately, may the half grown boy or girl reincarnate at short periods. Say 1500 years is about the shortest interval for an adult, then may there be all the gradations of intervals in the case of young persons dying with imperfectly developed Karma. Common sense seems to indicate thus.

Is there any essential difference as to their spiritual origin between noxious and innocuous animals. Of course the crude idea about the noxious animals representing the relapse into lower forms of criminal egos once having elevated to a higher level, will not work: but there may be some mystery behind this problem susceptible of explanations.

The planet behind us in our

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Note written by K. H. in blue ink diagonally across the top of page 5.

chain, Mars, and the one in advance being apparently quite material on the same plane of materiality as the Earth now is and that the planets behind Mars and in advance of Mercury, are quite too ethereal to be perceived by physical observations ? There seems too abrupt a passage here from gross materiality to a high order of ethereality.

Spiritualistic cases to which such explanations as I can give seem not to apply keep multiplying on my hands.

Crookes stands in the way one direction with Katie King; fully materialized according to his account time after time always the same highly intelligent and distinct entity.

Drayson tells various stories pointing to accurate knowledge of facts by “spirits” quite outside the knowledge of any sitters also of cases in which predictions by spirits are verified afterwards.

This matter about

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conveyed either spiritualistically or by vision perplexes me very much. A few days ago, Mrs Kingsford had a vision of herself in a Hansom cab meeting with a certain accident of no great importance but precise in its nature. The accident only happened in the course of the day just as foreseen; and yet it could only have occurred by the confluence of a hundred different acts by different people each apparently determinedly free will. Mrs K has had many similar experiences.

Judged by external signs the Indo-British newspaper company looks as if it were hardly destined to acquire an adult karma; as if it might prove one of the failures of Nature we sometimes talk about. But until I hear from you that the enterprise has

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fallen through, I shall continue to believe that it will ultimately float. Only inasmuch as if it should not float, I shall have to recast my plans in life to some extent, I should be glad to know the worst at the earliest moment by telegraph if you would kindly have word sent to me that way, in the event of the scheme being definitely abandoned by you. Of course I hope I may never [word scratched out] receive any such telegram.

Your affectionately as Ever

A P Sinnett

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Context and background

The next known letter from K. H. to Sinnett was Mahatma Letter No. 114 (in chronological numbering system, or No. 83 in the Barker system). It was dated October 8, 1883.

The year of this letter is not stated, but can be derived from what Sinnett wrote about his September 1883 visit to Wiesbaden with members of the Gebhard family in the book Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnett.

Physical description of letter

Two sheets of paper were folded and written on both sides. Notations by K.H. are in blue ink. This letter is in a private collection.

Publication history

This letter has never been published before.

Commentary about this letter

The chief significance of this letter is that it is a rare example of Sinnett's side of his correspondence with the Mahatmas, and that Madame Blavatsky was instructed to preserve it.