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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Written on: | unknown |
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
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 [turning?] the work of 10 years. You are slaughtering your own future, thereby. Know [now?] that unless you master such vile, sinful, suspiciions about the innocent – unless you get |
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rid of them – ... all the offers made by you in the direction ... ... ... to you by Upasika to ... in N.Y. & Penslvnia – that all such ... ... go to naught. The ... ... ... meritorious actions& that .... shall reach me not in the tree of your life. ... .. ... .. 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. ... charges which to ... to make up the ... – ... ... ... ... less forgery, conspiracy, ... ... ... ... You wrong her from be- |
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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.