Theos-Talk Archives (July 1998 Message tt00138)

July 8th 1998

Dallas Says:

Many thanks,  and so I learn something new. I'm afraid this
detail must have escaped me, as I have only a very dim
recollection of having seen this way, years ago.

So thanks.            Dal.

> From: "Daniel H Caldwell" <blafoun@azstarnet.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 10:28 PM
> Subject: E.O. = K.H.

>SUBJECT:  E.O. =  K.H.
>[ROUGH DRAFT]
>
>Dallas T. wrote:
>=============================>
>Daniel Caldwell replies:
>
>Pam, you're on the right track!!
>
>In August, 1882, Master Koot Hoomi wrote Mr. Sinnett as follows:
>
>"To reconcile you still more with Eliphas [Levi], I will send
>you a number of his MSS.---that have never been published, in
>a large, clear, beautiful handwriting WITH MY COMMENTS ALL
THROUGH.
>Nothing beter than that can give you a key to Kabalistic
puzzles."
>(Mahatma Letters, Letter XXc in the first 3 editions) CAPS
ADDED.
>
>Later in Oct of the same year, Sinnett asked K.H. about these
MSS. and
>KH told Sinnett that they had been sent to A.O. Hume. (Letter
XXIIIb)
>
>Finally in 1883, Hume published (some of)these MSS as THE
PARADOXES OF
>THE
>HIGHEST SCIENCE.
>
>Hume (the translator of Levi's MSS) wrote in his introduction to
this
>book:
>
>"An eminent occultist, E.O., had added a few notes to the MSS.
>BEFORE it reached my hands, and these which I have reproduced
>. . . . merit the most careful attention. . . . "  CAPS ADDED.
>
>K.H. did not call himself E.O.  Apparently Hume decided not
>to identify the writer of the notes as K.H., but simply
>attributed them to an "eminent occultist", "E.O.", that is,
>the Master KH.  I believe A.O. Hume had every right to
>consider Master KH as an "eminent occultist".
>
>More details can be found in H.P.B.'s COLLECTED WRITINGS,
>Volume VI, pp. 258-260; see the footnote by Boris de Zirkoff.
>
>In 1922, the Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Madras, India
>issued a "Second Edition".  A Foreword was added to this
>edition by "C.J."  "C.J" is C. Jinarajadasa.
>
>I could add more but will stop at this point.  I hope this
>clears up any misunderstanding.  Any student of
>THE MAHATMA LETTERS will also want to read E.O.'s notes to
>Levi's MSS.