Mahatma Letter to H. S. Olcott - LMW 2 No. 39

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Written by:	Morya
Received by:	Henry Steel Olcott
Sent via:	unknown
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Received on:	2 June 1883
Other dates:	unknown
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This is Letter No. 39 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series. Mahatma Morya is still frustrated with T. Subba Row and asks Colonel Olcott to intervene. See also previous letter, No. 38.

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Page 1 transcription, image, and notes

Unless you put the shoulder to the wheel yourself Kuthumi Lal Singh will have to disappear off the stage this fall. Easy enough for you. Go to lecture to-day. Try to shame Subba Row into activity. There’s a letter for him. Pass it off to him someway. He is reproached therein for refusing to help the M. Society and lecture and for not getting shares. It will be a great shame and the “Brothers” will lose caste unless something is done for that journal. You can do if you try. Nothing

NOTES:

• M. Society indicates the Madras Branch of the Theosophical Society.
• shares means buying shares in the Phoenix Venture to establish a new newspaper sympathetic to the Theosophical Society.
• lose caste means to lose social position.

Page 2

that you could not do in the name of Chohan Rimbochey and using it when needed. Indeed if it proves utter failure, no one will believe much in poor K.H.’s powers. Either this or think how to get out of this.

No need signing — but let it be a collective signature.

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NOTES:

• Chohan Rimbochey is the signature used by Mahatma Morya as a sign to Olcott that M. was the direct author of a message. It means "the Glorious Chief."

Context and background

Mr. Jinarājadāsa commented:

Received June 2, 1883.

"M. Society" - Madras T.S.

"shares" - In the Phoenix venture, for the success of which the Master K.H. strove hard.

Physical description of letter

The original of this letter is preserved at the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India.

Commentary about this letter

Mr. Jinarājadāsa provided this foreword on the series of letters numbered 28-45:

I have arranged the letters which follow, so far as possible, in the order in which they were received. On some, Colonel Olcott has made a memorandum of the date. For others, I have been able to get the date from his Diaries. There are a few, however, of which I am fairly certain as to the year, because of the first script of Master M. referred to already [see Morya:Writing style], but there is no indication anywhere as to the month. Some of the letters bear no signature.