https://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Mahatma_Letter_to_H._S._Olcott_-_LMW_1_No._19&feed=atom&action=historyMahatma Letter to H. S. Olcott - LMW 1 No. 19 - Revision history2024-03-28T21:33:04ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.4https://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Mahatma_Letter_to_H._S._Olcott_-_LMW_1_No._19&diff=46719&oldid=prevSysopJ: /* Context and background */2022-02-01T22:40:07Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Context and background</span></span></p>
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</table>Pablo Senderhttps://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Mahatma_Letter_to_H._S._Olcott_-_LMW_1_No._19&diff=45357&oldid=prevSysopJ: /* Commentary about this letter */2021-05-02T13:10:31Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Commentary about this letter</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Marion Meade''' in her hostile biography ''Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Myth'' could not explain this letter: "How Helena managed </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have </del>this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">letter delivered is impossible to say; it is perhaps the only one </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her drops that cannot be easily explained."<ref>Marion Meade, </del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Myth</del>'' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(New York: Putnam</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1980), 409</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref></del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== Proof against Hodgson theory === </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of course Olcott in his simple guileless way takes the letter as entirely genuine without a thought of questioning it and he is not to be blamed for doing so . . . I have not thought it of the least use to tell Olcott that I do not believe in the authenticity of the letter.<ref>As quoted <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">int </del>C. Jinarājadāsa''The "K. H." Letters to C. W. Leadbeater'' (Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1941), 74.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of course Olcott in his simple guileless way takes the letter as entirely genuine without a thought of questioning it and he is not to be blamed for doing so . . . I have not thought it of the least use to tell Olcott that I do not believe in the authenticity of the letter.<ref>As quoted <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by </ins>C. Jinarājadāsa <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>''The "K. H." Letters to C. W. Leadbeater'' (Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1941), 74.</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>SysopJhttps://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Mahatma_Letter_to_H._S._Olcott_-_LMW_1_No._19&diff=45315&oldid=prevSysopJ: /* Context and background */2021-04-28T02:45:31Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Context and background</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Meantime in London, from 1887, a band gathered round H.P.B., especially of men and women under about thirty-five, composed of the [[Archibald Keightley|two Keightleys]], [[Claude Falls Wright|C.F.Wright]], [[G. R. S. Mead|G.R.S. Mead]], [[Laura M. Cooper|Laura Cooper]], [[E. T. Sturdy|E.T. Sturdy]], [[Walter <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gorn Old</del>|W.G. Old]], and others, who pledged themselves to H.P.B. In addition, they definitely desired to tread the road to the Masters, and enrolled themselves as H.P.B.’s personal disciples. A complication was added to the situation by a fear on the part of [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] that H.P.B. in Europe was organizing a counterpoise to his influence in the Society as President, and was attempting to create an ''imperium in imperio''. The young band round H.P.B. had little knowledge of Colonel Olcott’s record of sacrifices for the Society. They thought of him as ‘the old man’ at Adyar who was obstructing H.P.B.’s plans to serve the cause of the Masters. The Colonel was angry with H.P.B. and her devoted band when he set out from India to put a stop to what he construed to be an insurrection. It was then that the Master K.H. entered into the situation with this letter precipitated in his cabin on board S.S. ''Shannon'', the day before the steamer reached Brindisi. As a result of the letter Colonel Olcott modified his attitude and he smoothed matters in the Society’s administration, so that the [[Esoteric Section|E.S.T.]] might do its work under the sole direction of H.P.B., without the T.S. interfering in its affairs, or being interfered with in its democratic organization by the E.S.T. It was not, however, till 1908 that the T.S. fully regained its original position, with the [[Masters of the Wisdom]] as once more the First Section of the Society.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Meantime in London, from 1887, a band gathered round H.P.B., especially of men and women under about thirty-five, composed of the [[Archibald Keightley|two Keightleys]], [[Claude Falls Wright|C.F.Wright]], [[G. R. S. Mead|G.R.S. Mead]], [[Laura M. Cooper|Laura Cooper]], [[E. T. Sturdy|E.T. Sturdy]], [[Walter <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gornold</ins>|W.G. Old]], and others, who pledged themselves to H.P.B. In addition, they definitely desired to tread the road to the Masters, and enrolled themselves as H.P.B.’s personal disciples. A complication was added to the situation by a fear on the part of [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] that H.P.B. in Europe was organizing a counterpoise to his influence in the Society as President, and was attempting to create an ''imperium in imperio''. The young band round H.P.B. had little knowledge of Colonel Olcott’s record of sacrifices for the Society. They thought of him as ‘the old man’ at Adyar who was obstructing H.P.B.’s plans to serve the cause of the Masters. The Colonel was angry with H.P.B. and her devoted band when he set out from India to put a stop to what he construed to be an insurrection. It was then that the Master K.H. entered into the situation with this letter precipitated in his cabin on board S.S. ''Shannon'', the day before the steamer reached Brindisi. As a result of the letter Colonel Olcott modified his attitude and he smoothed matters in the Society’s administration, so that the [[Esoteric Section|E.S.T.]] might do its work under the sole direction of H.P.B., without the T.S. interfering in its affairs, or being interfered with in its democratic organization by the E.S.T. It was not, however, till 1908 that the T.S. fully regained its original position, with the [[Masters of the Wisdom]] as once more the First Section of the Society.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The triangle with dot in the middle refers to the [[Morya|Master M.]] The incident referred to is as follows. In the U.S.A., [[D. M. Bennett|Mr D.M. Bennett]] was at this time one of the foremost leaders of free-thought and a strong opponent of the narrow bigotry which then passed as Christianity in the eastern States. He was editor of [[The Truth Seeker (periodical)|''The Truthseeker'']]. He had suffered a year’s imprisonment on a charge of blasphemy, Colonel Olcott says, ‘for his bitter — often coarse — attacks upon Christian dogmatism’, and he narrates the story of the trumped up charges against Mr Bennett ([[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''O.D.L.'']], Second Series, Chap. XXII). Mr Bennett arrived in Bombay in January 1882, in the course of a world tour. He had read [[The Occult World (book)|''The Occult World'']], and applied to join the Society. Owing to hostile incidents in Bombay which Colonel Olcott narrates, he ‘hesitated to take him into membership, for fear that it might plunge us into another public wrangle’. It was then that the [[Morya|Master M.]] interfered and ordered him to admit Mr Bennett into membership, giving certain reasons.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The triangle with dot in the middle refers to the [[Morya|Master M.]] The incident referred to is as follows. In the U.S.A., [[D. M. Bennett|Mr D.M. Bennett]] was at this time one of the foremost leaders of free-thought and a strong opponent of the narrow bigotry which then passed as Christianity in the eastern States. He was editor of [[The Truth Seeker (periodical)|''The Truthseeker'']]. He had suffered a year’s imprisonment on a charge of blasphemy, Colonel Olcott says, ‘for his bitter — often coarse — attacks upon Christian dogmatism’, and he narrates the story of the trumped up charges against Mr Bennett ([[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''O.D.L.'']], Second Series, Chap. XXII). Mr Bennett arrived in Bombay in January 1882, in the course of a world tour. He had read [[The Occult World (book)|''The Occult World'']], and applied to join the Society. Owing to hostile incidents in Bombay which Colonel Olcott narrates, he ‘hesitated to take him into membership, for fear that it might plunge us into another public wrangle’. It was then that the [[Morya|Master M.]] interfered and ordered him to admit Mr Bennett into membership, giving certain reasons.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Again, as you approach London I have a word or two to say to you. Your impressibility is so changeful that I must not wholly depend upon it at this critical time. Of course you know that things were so brought to a focus as to necessitate the present journey and that the inspiration to make it came to you and to permit it to the Councillors <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>from without<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>. Put all needed restraint upon your feelings, so that you may do the right thing in this Western imbroglio. Watch your first impressions. The mistakes you make spring from failure to do this. Let neither your personal predilections, affections, suspicions nor antipathies affect your action.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Again, as you approach London I have a word or two to say to you. Your impressibility is so changeful that I must not wholly depend upon it at this critical time. Of course you know that things were so brought to a focus as to necessitate the present journey and that the inspiration to make it came to you and to permit it to the Councillors from without. Put all needed restraint upon your feelings, so that you may do the right thing in this Western imbroglio. Watch your first impressions. The mistakes you make spring from failure to do this. Let neither your personal predilections, affections, suspicions nor antipathies affect your action.</div></td></tr>
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</table>SysopJhttps://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Mahatma_Letter_to_H._S._Olcott_-_LMW_1_No._19&diff=44063&oldid=prevSysopJ at 09:49, 5 July 20202020-07-05T09:49:39Z<p></p>
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</table>SysopJhttps://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Mahatma_Letter_to_H._S._Olcott_-_LMW_1_No._19&diff=44062&oldid=prevSysopJ: /* Context and background */2020-07-05T09:48:10Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Context and background</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Henry Steel Olcott]] wrote in his diary for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">November 22</del>, 1888,<ref>As quoted by Daniel H. Caldwell in [http://theos-talk.com/archives/200211/tt00032.html "The S.S. Shannon Letter from Koot Hoomi"] entry in Theos-Talk discussion group. November 03, 2002.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Henry Steel Olcott]] wrote in his diary for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">August 7</ins>, 1888,<ref>As quoted by Daniel H. Caldwell in [http://theos-talk.com/archives/200211/tt00032.html "The S.S. Shannon Letter from Koot Hoomi"] entry in Theos-Talk discussion group. November 03, 2002.</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>SysopJhttps://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Mahatma_Letter_to_H._S._Olcott_-_LMW_1_No._19&diff=44060&oldid=prevSysopJ: /* Context and background */2020-07-04T21:15:21Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Context and background</span></span></p>
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