User:SysopJ/My sandbox
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| Written by: | Morya, A. P. Sinnett |
| Received by: | A. P. Sinnett, Morya, H. P. Blavatsky |
| Sent via: | unknown |
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| Written on: | October 1881 |
| Received on: | unknown |
| Other dates: | unknown |
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| 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. This letter is a request for information from M., during the period of time when his usual correspondent, Mahatma koot Hoomi was in retreat. See also Mahatma Letter No. 29, Sinnett's letter dated October 17, and the Cosmological Notes.
Note to H. P. Blavatsky or A. P. Sinnett from M.
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Page 1 of Sinnett letter transcription, image, and notes
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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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is not an unworthy one. I could write reams on this subject. Don’t think I am worrying you with importunate requests. I am not asking for any thing, I wish and hope. But I have too many faults to want others imputed to me which I do not possess. I am not craving for the mere sensation of gaping at wonders but I know what a powerful engine these may be in shaking the foundations of erroneous beliefs in the Western mind |
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so I do not undervalue even the mere unexplained wonders producible by your power. My notion of how best to profit by your kind inclination to help us would be to take that long passage from K.H.’s long letter to me rec’d at Bombay which I have extracted and which is now in our Societys minute book and amplify it at all points, into a complete exposition (as far as that might |
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be possible compatibly with the rules which entrust you) if the Adepts’ knowledge about the origin progress and destinies of human creatures before and after this life. This process of amplification would bring us back to the metaphysical first principles about which Hume has been writing lately ; but though an ..., I think it would practically be the best way of working. But if I do it the work can best be done slowly for I have my daily |
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Pioneer work to do and the bare fulfillment of duty to the paper takes up the greater part of my working energy every day I could not have written even my “Occult World” slight a thing as it is the most of my Pioneer work. It was my holiday house that enabled me to do it. So if I can keep Hume up to the mark the work may be got through quicker that way, and we may the sooner have some substantial teaching to offer to the world. However
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I shall set to work in my own way too (my own slow way, alas!) and I shall try and work so as to render the task of helping me if you are kindly willing as little troublesome as possible. But meanwhile it is most aggravating that we do not get more members. We hoped that the dignified course of not openly seeking to enlist them would be best but |
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dignified passivity on our part does not seem to answer. I should greatly like to get together a respectable group of new members to exhibit to our dear patron when he comes to this life again – But it seems to me a little too soon as yet to run the risk of finally alienating Hume’s sympathies by taking the direction of things out of his hands. It is a tangled situation altogether but I do not by any means despair |
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of its smoothing out by degrees. I shall reply fully to Damodars letter, and submit my answer to your perusal before sending it, in case you think it worthwhile to read it. Really grateful for your recent inclination towards me. Yours very respectfully, AP Sinnett |
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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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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.
Physical description of letter
Three sheets of paper were written on both sides and folded to make 12 pages. Letterhead of The Pioneer was used, as can be seen in the imprints on pages 1, 5, and 9. Notations here by M. are in blue-green 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 sincerely asks M. for assistance in understanding the occult.