Percy Edensor Sinnett
Percy Edensor Sinnett, (b. 1877 - d. 1908) commonly known as "Denny", was the son of Patience Edensor Sinnett and Alfred Percy Sinnett.
Bio-Data
Denny was born from Alfred Percy Sinnett and Patience Sinnett on May 16, 1877. His health seems to have been frail from the beginning. H. P. Blavatsky and even the Mahatmas expected Denny to be a strong influence for good, but the expectation was never fulfilled. As his father states in his Autobiography, Denny failed, generally with discredit, in the attempts to make a living.
While young he tried to get a job but was usually dismissed after a short trial. He tried to enter the militia but fail to pass the examination. Then, when the South Africa War broke he went to Cape Town and worked with the force guarding prisoners. He fell in love and married a local lady, without letting his parents know of the fact at the time.
During all this time Denny depended financially on his parents, and when Bottomley swindled A. P. Sinnett out of his entire savings, the difficulty of the situation became acute.
Denny lost his commission as result of bad reports by his superiors, and he returned to England with his wife. Being unable to find a job in London, he soon returned to the Cape where he contracted tuberculosis. When he was at the later stages of the illness he returned with his wife to London. The shock his state produced on Patience was terrible, and during the few weeks that he lived she contracted the cancer of which she finally died.[1]
Denny died on May 11, 1908, leaving a widow with two boys.
The Mahatmas on Denny
In 1882, while Denny was ill, Mahatma K. H. sends a lock of his hair to help with his magnetism.
Something happened to the lock of hair because in 1884 H. P. Blavatsky writes to Mr. Sinnett:
Your friend and Master sent you through me (at least I had it second hand from Djual Khool) a lock to replace the one Dennie had, (what ails the said lock, did he lose or damage it?) but I do not know where I have put it. It’s somewhere in my trunk. I will find and send it to you.[2]
In a letter H. P. Blavatsky sent to A. P. Sinnett, discussing about India and its troubles, there is the following quote:
Master says that the hour for the retirement of you English has not struck nor will it—till next century and that “late enough to see even Dennie an old, old man” as K. H. said some time ago.[3]
This could be interpreted as Mahatma K. H.'s expectation that Denny would live longer, but it could also be just a hint as to the time India when India could break free from the English rule. India's liberation took place in 1947, when Denny would have been 70 years old.
Notes
- ↑ Alfred Percy Sinnett, Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnett (London: Theosophical History Center, 1986), 50.
- ↑ A. Trevor Barker, The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett Letter No. XXXIII, (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 79.
- ↑ A. Trevor Barker, The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett, Letter No. LXXXVIII (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 206.