Mahatma Letter to H. S. Olcott - LMW 2 No. 47
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| Written by: | Morya |
| Received by: | Henry Steel Olcott |
| Sent via: | unknown |
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| Received on: | 1884 |
| Other dates: | unknown |
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| Sent from: | unknown |
| Received at: | unknown |
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This letter is Letter No. 47 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series. Mahatma Morya rebukes Henry Steel Olcott for misunderstanding Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.[1]
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Page 1 transcription, image, and notes
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NOTE: Bold text was omitted from the published version. These are foolish, insane ideas of yours about Upasika – Henry – wretched thoughts — the mirage thrown upon your brain by some of those who surround you. You are ruining the work of 10 years. You are slaughtering your own future, thereby. Know man, that unless you master such vile, sinful, suspicions about one innocent – unless you get |
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rid of them – that all the efforts made by you in the direction pointed out to you by Upasika 10 y[ears] ago in N.Y. & Pensylvania – that all such efforts shall go to naught. The worm shall devour to their very core the fruits of your most meritorious actions & that fruit shall decay and rot on the tree of your life and made to fall [to] the ground – dust & ashes. Do not take as an excuse your honesty. Honesty without justice is like a drunken watchman's bull's eye – made but to throw light on his own distorted features leaving all around him in greater darkness still. The woman is innocent I tell you. She suffers [?] which cannot be interfered with, but the charges which went to make up the [pu]nishment – are all false, – they a[re] lies, forgery, conspiracy. You wrong her from be[gi]- |
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ning to end. You have never understood Upasika, nor the laws thro’ which her apparent life has been made to work – since you knew her. You are ungrateful and unjust – and even cruel. You take maya for reality & reality for illusion. I have said and shall say no more, & now if you don’t listen & believe what I now tell you I shall have to turn Karma into a new direction.
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Context and background
Mr. Jinarajadasa provided these notes about this letter:
1 Received in 1884. One further letter was received by H.S.O. Letter XIX in the First Series, on August 22, 1888.[2]
Physical description of letter
The original of this letter is preserved at the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India.