Mahatma Letter to Hartmann - LMW 1 No. 28

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Written by: Koot Hoomi
Received by: Franz Hartmann
Sent via: unknown
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Received on: 1884
Other dates: unknown
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Received at: Adyar
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This letter is Letter No. 28 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series. Mahatma Koot Hoomi writes to Franz Hartmann about Damodar K. Mavalankar.[1]

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So long as one has not developed a perfect sense of justice, he should prefer to err rather on the side of mercy than commit the slightest act of injustice. Mad. Coulomb is a medium and as such irresponsible for many things she may say or do. At the same time she is kind and charitable. One must know how to act towards her to make of her a very good friend. She has her own weaknesses but their bad effects can minimised by exercising on her mind a moral influence by a friendly and kindly feeling. Her mediumistic nature is a help in this direction, if proper advantage be taken of the same. It is my wish therefore that she shall continue in charge of the household business, the Board of Control of course exercising a proper supervisory control and seeing, in consultation with her, that no unnecessary expenditure is incurred. A good deal of reform is necessary and can be made rather with the help than the antagonism of Mme. Coulomb. Damodar would have told you this but his mind was purposely obscured, without his knowledge, to test your intuitions. Show this to Mad. C. so that she may co-operate with you.

K.H.

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Context and background

Mr. Jinarajadasa provided these notes about this letter:

Transcribed from the original at Adyar. The letter was received by Dr. F. Hartmann at Adyar in 1884, when both the Founders were in Europe. D. is evidently D. K. Mavalankar.[2]


PER DHC: Date early in 1884. "Board of Control" - The Founders left for Europe from Bombay on February 20, 1884. On February 19, Colonel Olcott appointed the Board of Control, to consist of F. Hartmann, St. George Lane-Fox, W. T. Brown, R. Raghunath Row, G. Muttuswamy Chetty, P. Sreenivas Row and T. Subba Row. FOREWORD

THE original of the letter which follows is in Germany, with the followers of the late Dr. Franz Hartmann. My request to see it, and one or more which I believe he received, was refused. However, I received later from a friend in Czecho-Slovakia a photographic reproduction of the letter. At the time of receiving it, Dr. Hartmann was at Adyar, where Madame Coulomb was acting as housekeeper.

Physical description of letter

The original of this letter is preserved at the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India.

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Notes

  1. C. Jinarajadasa, Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 2011), 69, 160.
  2. C. Jinarajadasa, 160.