Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00087)

Philip Haris wrote:

> The Mahatma Letters have errors; the statement that electricity
> heating a resistance does so without loss is nonsense as is the
> statement that Jupiter permanently occults a vast number of
> stars.

That K.H.  may be in error is true as he himself stated "We are
not infallable, all-forseeing "Mahatmas" at every hour of the
day.  Unless in writing to you one of us takes his pen as an
adept and uses it from the first words to the last, in this
capacity he is quite liable to "slips" as any other man."

In addition to that most of his letters were written by
precipitation which need close concentration in the operator and
complete receptive passivity in the reader subject with any
disturbance in either condition the result will be imperfect as
in Kiddle incident.

However, I don't think this is the case with the problematic
ML-23.

In the sentence following Jupiter statement K.H.  warned A.P.
Sinnett that "Draw your inferences and deductions from this...but
beware lest in doing so you sacrifice your humble instructor and
the doctrine itself on the altar of your wrathful Goddess -modern
science.

Sinnett did not do what he had been warned, however, many of us
do.  (me included)

How can K.H.  as an occultist that worth his salt did not know
even ABC of astronomy that Jupiter as a planet revoving around
the sun can't hide stars more than a short period of time?

K.H.  did not state that Jupiter permanently occults a vast
number of stars, the adjective clause "whose little luminous
points hide now from our sight millions upon millions of stars"
which apply to Jupiter and other planets was used in ordinary
sense.

The problem is with "a few of the Raja-Suns they are now hiding".

Does not the statement "There is such a king-star right behind
Jupiter, that no mortal physical eye has ever seen during this,
our Round." mean plainly that this Raja-Star is not a physical
star at the present time and that Jupiter is a veil of this star
or in another word its physical manifestration on our terrestial
plane of perception at the present.

In another round or as a result of shifting in correlation of
space relative to our perception we may observe more of its
physical manifestration as a star which mean that Jupiter will
evolve to be another solar system.

Whether his other statements about property of Jupiter have
merits or not let us compare with work done by modern scientist
Jay M.  Pasachoff, professor of astronomy and director of the
Hopkins Observatory, in his book Contemporary Astronomy .

K.H.  : "Your science has a theory, I believe, that if the earth
were suddenly placed in extremely cold regions-for instance where
it would exchange places with Jupiter-all our seas and rivers
would be suddenly tranformed into solid mountains...  Realize, or
try to imagine the reverse condition, and it will be that of
Jupiter at the present moment.

J.P.  : "Jupiter isn't solid; it has no crustal surface at all.
At deeper and deeper levels, its gas just gets denser and denser,
eventually liquefying.

K.H.  : "The metallic substances of which it is mainly composed
are expanding and gradually tranforming themselves into aeriform
fluids"

J.P.  : "The lower levels of the liquid hydrogen are in the form
of molecules that have lost their outer electrons.  In this
state, the hydrogen conducts heat and electricity.  Since these
properties are basic to our normal terrestial defination of
"metal," we say that the hydrogen is in a metallic state.  This
liquid metallic region makes up 75 per cent of Jupiter's mass.

There may be other statements in his letters that seem to be in
conflict with modern science but instead of a priori accepting
modern science as true and his statements as error may be we
better try to look at the issue and his usage of words from his
point of view which deal mainly with world of force and noumena
and with little interest in science except in the degree of its
potentiality of moral results, and in the ratio of its usefulness
to mankind.