Mahatma Letter of Sinnett to/from M - 1881-11-??

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Quick Facts
People involved
Written by: Morya, A. P. Sinnett
Received by: A. P. Sinnett, Morya
Sent via: unknown 
Dates
Written on: Early November 1881
Received on: unknown
Other dates: unknown
Places
Sent from: Simla or Allahabad
Received at: unknown
Via: unknown

This letter has not been published previously. A. P. Sinnett wrote to Mahatma Morya, who added a note and gave the original to H. P. Blavatsky to preserve.

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

Note written in blue ink ..................:
Read and destroy. Fear not everything lovely M ... ... ... I am in his ... by your deed Yes – your deed is not the meri... K.H. – ... Kashmir he is now stiff for a month, passing his Samadhi of three months before his final initiation and - it is ...t... trial which not one out of three pass it happily. ... if I send you Hume’s answer to Saturday Review. Ratigan Pioneer’s pro ... forced the bottle[-]nosed Editor of C & M [Gazette] to publish it. I will send you the Tribune full of in and out defense Mr Hume sent editors to the best papers to Hindu [Hindoo] Patriot, A B Patrika Englishman etc. if they all printed them

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Page 1 of Sinnett letter transcription, image, and notes

[Letterhead: The Pioneer, Allahabad.]

To M ...

I am more than pleased to find you are getting to tolerate me to some extent. In that case it will not ... you to receive letters from me and you can ... .............

I should like you to read a letter I wrote to my boss and friend, your brother (from a very full heart) on my way up here, at Soleni! It would probably show you, even more than my mere words for you can as we say read between the lines –

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what I feel about him. But for me, a better assurance that there may be some good stuff in me than is afforded by the fact that I appreciate him, is even conveyed in the blessed certainty I have that he entertains a real regard for me, in spite of all my earthiness. As for that I have never resolved not to try and shake it off, but that would be a large undertaking; I have never yet felt sure that I could carry it through, nor has my revered friend ever explicitly

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enjoined me to do so, I fear he does not think I could carry it through. My ambition has hitherto been to be useful to him, and you all in my own small way, in the world when my daily work, and to some extent my tastes and habits chain me. I am not too proud to look for my reward in your protection and help upwards somehow, in the end, and in some closer acquaintance with him ultimately, for which as I have sat reading his letters my heart has often ached with desire. Pardon for once the egotism of the letter. I am

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trying to introduce myself to you.

You speak of my thirst for phenomena. I do not thirst for any thing that can be called tamasha. What I do long for is the privilege of direct communion with the Occult World and him especially. That may involve the exercise of phenomenic powers on your side, but the thing I aspire to is the personal communion not the display of magic. I do not say I am worthy of this, but the aspiration at all events

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Context and background

Master M. was corresponding with Sinnett during the period in late 1881 when Master K.H. was in retreat. M. responded to many questions from Sinnett and A. O. Hume, resulting in the Cosmological Notes. The Master became annoyed by Hume and addressed his concerns in a lengthy letter, Mahatma Letter No. 29. The current letter is a response by Sinnett, who evidently believed he had been invited to act as an editor to M.'s letter before it could be delivered to Hume.

Physical description of letter

Two sheets of paper were written on both sides and folded to make 8 pages. Letterhead of The Pioneer was used, as can be seen in the imprints on pages 1 and 5. Notations by M. are in blue ink, although he generally used red 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. Sinnett goes into full editorial mode, critiquing M.'s style of addressing Hume, and proposing changes in wording.

Additional resources

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