Mahatma Letter No. 18 - Revision history

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	Pri. a Phil<br>		Pri a Phil<br>
	from [[K.H.]], first letter rec'd on return to India, July 8th, 1881.<br>		from [[K.H.]], first letter rec'd on return to India, July 8th, 1881.<br>
	Containing rough sketch of planetary evolution<br>		Containing rough sketch of planetary evolution<br>
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	* Number 61 penciled at right.		* Number '''61''' penciled at right.
			* '''Pri a Phil''' might be "Pri & Phil" indicating that Sinnett classified this letter as private and philosophical.
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	* The poem '''"Wakeful Dreamer"''' describes an adept who has reached a higher level of [[consciousness]] and cannot be perceived properly by a person whose vision is limited by a lesser state of consciousness, a "narrower circle."		* The poem '''"Wakeful Dreamer"''' describes an adept who has reached a higher level of [[consciousness]] and cannot be perceived properly by a person whose vision is limited by a lesser state of consciousness, a "narrower circle."
	* '''investeth''' is an archaic form of "invests." Here it means "~~saturated~~" or "~~imbued~~."		* '''investeth''' is an archaic form of "invests." Here it means "saturates" or "imbues."
	* '''ingirds''' or "engirds" means "surrounds" or "encloses" or "wraps," as with a belt. Thus, the outer region encircles the person in the narrower circle, and also saturates him, but he is unable to perceive this layer of reality.		* '''ingirds''' or "engirds" means "surrounds" or "encloses" or "wraps," as with a belt. Thus, the outer region encircles the person in the narrower circle, and also saturates him, but he is unable to perceive this layer of reality.

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	But until that day of final triumph someone has to be sacrificed — though we accept but voluntary victims. The ungrateful task did lay her low and desolate in the ruins of misery, misapprehension, and isolation: but she will have her reward in the hereafter for we never were ungrateful. As regards the [[Adept]] — not one of my kind, good friend, but far higher — you might have closed your book with those lines of [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson's "Wakeful Dreamer" — You knew him not —		But until that day of final triumph someone has to be sacrificed — though we accept but voluntary victims. The ungrateful task did lay her low and desolate in the ruins of misery, misapprehension, and isolation: but she will have her reward in the hereafter for we never were ungrateful. As regards the [[Adept]] — not one of my kind, good friend, but far higher — you might have closed your book with those lines of [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson's "Wakeful Dreamer" — You knew him not —

	"How could ye know him? Ye were yet within<br/>		::"How could ye know him? Ye were yet within<br/>
	The narrower circle; he had well-nigh reached<br/>		::The narrower circle; he had well-nigh reached<br/>
	The last, which, with a region of white flame,<br/>		::The last, which, with a region of white flame,<br/>
	Pure without heat, into a larger air<br/>		::Pure without heat, into a larger air<br/>
	Upburning, and an ether of black blue,<br/>		::Upburning, and an ether of black blue,<br/>
	Investeth and ingirds all other lives. . . ."		::Investeth and ingirds all other lives. . . ."

	I'll close. Remember then on the 17th of July and. . . . [Here again six lines in the original have been deleted. — ED.] . . . ., to you will become the sublimest of realities.		I'll close. Remember then on the 17th of July and. . . . [Here again six lines in the original have been deleted. — ED.] . . . ., to you will become the sublimest of realities.
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	*		* The poem '''"Wakeful Dreamer"''' describes an adept who has reached a higher level of [[consciousness]] and cannot be perceived properly by a person whose vision is limited by a lesser state of consciousness, a "narrower circle."
			* '''investeth''' is an archaic form of "invests." Here it means "saturated" or "imbued."
			* '''ingirds''' or "engirds" means "surrounds" or "encloses" or "wraps," as with a belt. Thus, the outer region encircles the person in the narrower circle, and also saturates him, but he is unable to perceive this layer of reality.

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	India. [[Spiritualism\|Spiritualistic]] papers have already opened the campaign in London and the Yankee editors of the Organs of "Angels" will follow suit, the heavenly "[[Spirit Guides\|Controls]]" ejaculating their choicest scandalum magnatum. Some men of science — least of all their admirers — the parasites who bask in the sun and dream they are themselves that sun — are not likely to forgive you the sentence — really much too flattering — which ranges the comprehension of a poor, unknown [[Hinduism\|Hindoo]] "so far beyond the science and philosophy of Europe, that only the broadest minded representatives of either will be able to realize the existence of such powers in man, etc." But what of that? It was all foreseen and was to be expected. When the first hum and ding-dong of adverse criticism is hushed, thoughtful men will read and ponder over the book, as they have never pondered over the most scientific efforts of [[Alfred Russel Wallace\|Wallace]] and [[William Crookes\|Crookes]] to reconcile modern science with Spirits, and — the little seed will grow and thrive.		India. [[Spiritualism\|Spiritualistic]] papers have already opened the campaign in London and the Yankee editors of the Organs of "Angels" will follow suit, the heavenly "[[Spirit Guides\|Controls]]" ejaculating their choicest <u>scandalum magnatum</u>. Some men of science — least of all their admirers — the parasites who bask in the sun and dream they are themselves that sun — are not likely to forgive you the sentence — really much too flattering — which ranges the comprehension of a poor, unknown [[Hinduism\|Hindoo]] "so far beyond the science and philosophy of Europe, that only the broadest minded representatives of either will be able to realize the existence of such powers in man, etc." But what of that? It was all foreseen and was to be expected. When the first hum and ding-dong of adverse criticism is hushed, thoughtful men will read and ponder over the book, as they have never pondered over the most scientific efforts of [[Alfred Russel Wallace\|Wallace]] and [[William Crookes\|Crookes]] to reconcile modern science with Spirits, and — the little seed will grow and thrive.

	In the meantime I do not forget my promises to you. As soon as installed in your sleeping chamber I will try and. . . . [Here three lines in the original letter have been completely erased apparently by the writer thereof. — ED].		In the meantime I do not forget my promises to you. As soon as installed in your sleeping chamber I will try and. . . . [Here three lines in the original letter have been completely erased apparently by the writer thereof. — ED].

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	* '''Scandalum magnatum''' is a defamatory speech or writing.		* '''Scandalum magnatum''' is a defamatory speech or writing against a great individual.

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	*		* '''Scandalum magnatum''' is a defamatory speech or writing.

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	*		*'''Doppelgänger''' (German, "double-walker") refers to an apparition or double of a living person.

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	* '''The book is out''' refers to the publication of [[A. P. Sinnett]]'s first book [[The Occult World (book)\|''The Occult World'']].		* '''The book is out''' refers to the publication of [[A. P. Sinnett]]'s first book [[The Occult World (book)\|''The Occult World'']].
	* '''Art Magic''' refers to ''Art Magic: Or Mundane, Sub Mundane, and Super Mundane Spiritism'', first published in 1876. [[Spiritualism\|Spiritualist]] [[Emma Hardinge Britten]] announced that the book was written by ‘an adept’ of her acquaintance, Louis Constant, for whom she was ‘acting as translator and secretary’.		* '''Art Magic''' refers to ''Art Magic: Or Mundane, Sub Mundane, and Super Mundane Spiritism'', first published in 1876. [[Spiritualism\|Spiritualist]] [[Emma Hardinge Britten]] announced that the book was written by ‘an adept’ of her acquaintance, Louis Constant, for whom she was ‘acting as translator and secretary’.
			* '''Coups de bec''' is French for "pecks," that is, taps or bites with a beak. It is used to mean "cutting or harsh remarks."
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	form but that of a simple logical postulate — if so much — they being capable of absolute and unequivocal demonstration, but to the highest [[Seer]]s. But, I'll give you food for thinking if nothing else.		form but that of a simple logical postulate — if so much — they being capable of absolute and unequivocal demonstration, but to the highest [[Seer]]s. But, I'll give you food for thinking if nothing else.

	The intermediary spheres, being but the projected shadows of the [[worlds of causes\|Worlds of Causes]] — are negatived by the last. They are the great halting places, the stations in which the new Self-Conscious [[Ego]]s to be — the self-begotten progeny of the old and disembodied Egos of our planet — are [[Gestation\|gestated]]. Before the new phoenix, re-born of the ashes of its parent, can soar higher, to a better, more spiritual, and [[Devachan\|perfect world]] — still a world of matter — it has to pass through the process of a new birth, so to say; and, as on our earth, where the two-thirds of infants are either still-born or die in infancy, so in our "[[world of effects]]." On earth it is the physiological and mental defects, the sins of the progenitors which are visited upon the issue: in that land of shadows, the new and yet unconscious [[Devachan#Devachanic ego\|Ego-foetus]] becomes the just victim of the transgressions of its old Self, whose [[karma]] — merit and demerit — will alone weave out its future destiny. In that world, my good friend, we find but unconscious, self-acting, ex-human machines, souls in their transition state, whose dormant faculties and individuality lie as a butterfly in its chrysalis; and [[Spiritualism\|Spiritualists]] would yet have them talk sense! Caught at times, into the vortex of the abnormal "[[mediumship\|mediumistic]]" current, they become the unconscious echoes of thoughts and ideas crystallized around those present. Every positive, well-directed mind is capable of neutralizing such secondary effects in a seance room. The world below ours is worse yet. The former is harmless at least; it is more sinned against by being disturbed, than		The intermediary spheres, being but the projected shadows of the [[worlds of causes\|Worlds of Causes]] — are negatived by the last. They are the great halting places, the stations in which the new Self-Conscious [[Ego]]s to be — the self-begotten progeny of the old and disembodied Egos of our planet — are [[Gestation\|gestated]]. Before the new phoenix, re-born of the ashes of its parent, can soar higher, to a better, more spiritual, and [[Devachan\|perfect world]] — still a world of matter — it has to pass through the process of a new birth, so to say; and, as on our earth, where the two thirds of infants are either still-born or die in infancy, so in our "[[world of effects]]." On earth it is the physiological and mental defects, the sins of the progenitors which are visited upon the issue: in that land of shadows, the new and yet unconscious [[Devachan#Devachanic ego\|Ego-foetus]] becomes the just victim of the transgressions of its old Self, whose [[karma]] — merit and demerit — will alone weave out its future destiny. In that world, my good friend, we find but unconscious, self-acting, ex-human machines, souls in their transition state, whose dormant faculties and individuality lie as a butterfly in its chrysalis; and [[Spiritualism\|Spiritualists]] would yet have them talk sense! Caught at times, into the vortex of the abnormal "[[mediumship\|mediumistic]]" current, they become the unconscious echoes of thoughts and ideas crystallized around those present. Every positive, well-directed mind is capable of neutralizing such secondary effects in a seance room. The world below ours is worse yet. The former is harmless at least; it is more sinned against by being disturbed, than
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	In the meantime I do not forget my promises to you. As soon as installed in your sleeping chamber I will try and. . . . [Here three lines in the original letter have been completely erased apparently by the writer thereof. — ED].		In the meantime I do not forget my promises to you. As soon as installed in your sleeping chamber I will try and. . . . [Here three lines in the original letter have been completely erased apparently by the writer thereof. — ED].

	I hope to be permitted to do so much for you. If, for generations we have "shut out the world from the Knowledge of our Knowledge," it is on account of its absolute unfitness; and if, notwithstanding proofs given, it still refuses yielding to evidence, then will we at the ~~End~~ of this [[cycle]] retire		I hope to be permitted to do so much for you. If, for generations we have "shut out the world from the Knowledge of our Knowledge," it is on account of its absolute unfitness; and if, notwithstanding proofs given, it still refuses yielding to evidence, then will we at the end of this [[cycle]] retire
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