Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00354)

At 12:44 PM 11/21/97 +1100, you wrote:
>> "First a European was her guide, thereupon an
>> >Egyptian, and after that she wrote Isis Unveiled."
>> >In the book H.P.B. Speaks vol 1 p140 we hear that the Mahatma Serapis
>(The
>> >Egyptian) commissions H.P.B. to go to India, 14 November, 1878.
>> >Bruce
>>
>> HPB's guardian has always been the Adept who is known as Master M. So I
>> would take that the above were additional guides?
>>
>> ...MKR...
>
>Yes, MK this seems to be the case.
>"In theosophical literature John King is an undigested lump. We must admit
>this. Thus, in a letter to General Lippitt (H.P.B. Speaks, vol 1,p.84-5
>Adyar 1950) H.P.B. says: "I know John for 14 years. Not a day but he is
>with me." This letter bears the date June 12th 1875; according to
>H.P.B. herself she met John in 1861, i.e. seven years before she met
>Mahatma K.H.! On
>the other hand she says in 1884 that she had never heard of the name John
>King before 1873, further that a portrait which she had painted in an
>extraordinary way ( see H.P.B. speaks vol 1 opp. pge.78) and which she had
>represented as a picture of John King, was actually the Mahatma Hilarion
>whom she had known since 1860 ( see Collected writings, vol 6, p. 271 and
>the compiler's remark on p.280).
>
>"In the same place she says that John King should be regarded as a generic
>name for more than one spirit and that she had known more than one John
>King. A riddle which has not as yet been solved."
>>From an article by H.J.Spierenburg in Theosophical History P.169. My copy
>thanks to Andrew Rooke.
>
>Bruce
>
Thanks for tracking the details.

In the final analysis, to me at least, what she gave to the world is all
important, IMHO. Where the material came from, A, B, C or Z is not critical
to me at least, as a novice.

mkr