Mahatma Letter to Hartmann - LMW 2 No. 73: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 24: | Line 24: | ||
{{Col-begin|width=98%}} | {{Col-begin|width=98%}} | ||
{{Col-break|width=55%}} | {{Col-break|width=55%}} | ||
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. [[Emma Coulomb|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 [[Emma Coulomb|Mme. Coulomb]]. [[Damodar K. Mavalankar|Damodar]] would have told you this but his mind was purposely obscured, without his knowledge, to test your intuitions. Show this to [[Emma Coulomb|Mad. C.]] so that she may co-operate with you. | 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. [[Emma Coulomb|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 [[Emma Coulomb|Mme. Coulomb]]. [[Damodar K. Mavalankar|Damodar]] would have told you this but his mind was purposely obscured, without his knowledge, to test your intuitions. Show this to [[Emma Coulomb|Mad. C.]] so that she may co-operate with you. | ||
::K.H. | ::K.H. | ||
{{Col-break|width=3%}} | {{Col-break|width=3%}} | ||
Revision as of 13:40, 24 February 2020
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| People involved | |
| Written by: | Koot Hoomi |
| Received by: | Franz Hartmann |
| Sent via: | unknown |
| Dates | |
| Written on: | early 1884 |
| Received on: | early 1884 |
| Other dates: | unknown |
| Places | |
| Sent from: | unknown |
| Received at: | Adyar |
| Via: | unknown |
This letter is Letter No. 73 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series, in which Mahatma Koot Hoomi tells Franz Hartmann and the Board of Control how to work with Emma Coulomb, the Adyar housekeeper, in the absence of Madame Blavatsky.[1]
< Prev letter in LMW 2
Next letter in LMW 2 >
Page 1 transcription, image, and notes
|
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.
|
2019 scan:
|
NOTES: |
Context and background
Mr. Jinarajadasa provided this background information:
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...
At the time of receiving it, Dr. Hartmann was at Adyar, where Madame Coulomb was acting as housekeeper.[2]
Physical description of letter
Mr. Jinarajadasa described the letter in this way:
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.[3]
Publication history
This letter was first published in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series. The first publication of the 1936 facsimile shown above was in Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters? by William Loftus Hare and Harold Edward Hare (London: Williams & Norgate, 1936).[4]
Commentary about this letter
Additional resources
See the Blavatsky Archives website for more information about this letter.
Notes
- ↑ C. Jinarajadasa, Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series (Adyar, Madras,India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925), 130-132.
- ↑ C. Jinarajadasa, 130-131.
- ↑ C. Jinarajadasa, 130.
- ↑ These notes are derived from Blavatsky Archives website.