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| Written by: | Morya |
| Received by: | Henry Steel Olcott |
| Sent via: | unknown |
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| Written on: | unknown |
| Received on: | 20 May 1883 |
| Other dates: | unknown |
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| Sent from: | Calcutta |
| Received at: | probably Bombay |
| Via: | unknown |
This is Letter No. 37 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series. Henry Steel Olcott sent a note to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Mahatma Morya added comments to it.[1]
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[From Colonel Olcott to H.P.B.] THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY — PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Calcutta, Sunday 20/5 [1883] “ANGEL” OF CHEDA LAL, I must congratulate you on the nice mess you made of it in entrusting the up-country missions to that wild lunatic B.L. and then to think of your proposing to go to the expense and trouble of coming to Calcutta and proceeding to the N.W.P. and Panjab to set right the minds of the staunch and true chaps falsely charged by him with maligning me! I’ve read their replies, but I could have drafted them all for you in advance just as well, from my personal knowledge of their characters. Well, let the manure-heap alone for me to fork over when I have had some rest at home. To-day I speak at Bhowanipore, to-morrow at Town Hall here, and to-morrow night I go aboard the Tibre, which is to sail early Tuesday morning. Send the carriage for me at the proper time. I shall be glad to see you again.
[Written across the above, in blue pencil, is the following from Master M. The letter is enclosed in a very small narrow envelope 1 11/12 in. wide, 4 in. long; From the Theosophist Office, ADYAR (Madras), India, addressed:] MOLONEY “LOOKSHUN THAKOORDADA” From M Chohan Rimbochey. Lookshun Thakoordada is mistaken. The “Angel of Cheda Lal” is not to be blamed. The Angel was ordered to consent for a great principle was involved in the trial. We wanted and will always have the inner man whenever offering himself for the tasks. |
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Context and background
Received on December 28, 1881, at Crow’s Nest, Bombay, the Master Himself then appearing. There was also then a letter to S. Ramaswamier, Letter 48 in this volume. This is the last letter of Master M. which is not in His later and better known script.[2]
Physical description of letter
The original of this letter is preserved at the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India.
Publication history
Commentary about this letter
Mr. Jinarājadāsa provided this foreword on the series of letters numbered 28-45:
"CHEDA LAL" - An earnest member of Bareilly Branch.
"MOLONEY “LOOKSHUN THAKOORDADA”" - Moloney was Colonel Olcott’s nickname in New York. How he acquired the second, Lookshun Thakoordada— “grandfather Lakshman”—is not known.
The Master M. usually signed only M. But as Colonel Olcott was sometimes suspicious that a verbal message might be from a pupil only, his Master arranged for the words “Chohan Rimbochey” — “the glorious Chief” — as sign that the message was directly from Him. See Letter 50.[3]