The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (book)

First published in 1923, this volume gathers most of the letters sent by Mahatmas Morya and Koot Hoomi to A. P. Sinnett and A. O. Hume between the years 1880 and 1884. This publication, where the letters were arranged under subjects, underwent three editions. On March 25, 1972, Vicente Hao Chin, Jr. published a fourth edition with the letters arranged in chronological order based on the Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett written by George Linton and Virginia Hanson. This edition also includes brief notes by Hanson regarding the context and circumstances of each letter.

Why A. P. Sinnett?

According to Annie Besant in her book A Study in Karma Mahatma K. H. and Sinnett had created a karmic link.

Many of such helpful karmic links have we seen within the Theosophical Society. Long, long ago, He who is the Master K.H. was taken prisoner in a battle with an Egyptian army, and was generously befriended and sheltered by an Egyptian of high rank. Thousands of years later, help is needed for the nascent Theosophical Society, and the Master, looking over India for one to aid in this great work, sees His old friend of the Egyptian and other lives, now Mr. A.P. Sinnett, editing the leading Anglo-Indian newspaper, The Pioneer. Mr. Sinnett goes, as usual, to Simla; Mme Blavatsky goes up thither, to form the link; Mr. Sinnett is drawn within the immediate influence of the Master, receives instruction from Him, and becomes the author of The Occult World and of Esoteric Buddhism, carrying to thousands the message of Theosophy.

Additional resources

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• The Mahatmas and Their Letters by Steve Schweizer