Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00094)

Kym,

Thanks for your comments.

No, the "some" in K.H.'s letter does
NOT refer to other Mahatmas.  You would
need to read the whole letter in context
to know who the "some" refers to.  The year
is 1888 and a number of things are going on
both at Adyar, London and Paris.  I won't
go into the details but your speculation
is not warranted by historical
records of the time period in question.

Again, you write that possibly HPB "was simply
Koot's favorite", etc. etc.

Please reread the other quote I gave in the
same email.

Master KH writes:

""This state of hers [HPB's] is intimately connected with her occult
training in Tibet, and due to her being sent out alone into the world to
gradually prepare the way for others.  After nearly a century of
fruitless search, OUR CHIEFS had to avail themselves of the only
opportunity to send out a European *body*  upon European soil to serve
as a connecting link. . . ." Koot Hoomi in an 1881 letter to A.P.
Sinnett

I add the caps.

OUR CHIEFS, i.e., KH's & M's superiors, had been involved in
the selection of the HPB body/personality that would be used as
"a connecting link".

There's more to this story. . . .

Daniel



Rilke wrote:
>
> Daniel wrote quoting Koot:
>
> >
> >". . . We employ agents---the best available.  Of these for the past
> >thirty years the chief [agent] has been the personality known as H.P.B.
> >to the world (but otherwise to us).  Imperfect and very troublesome, no
> >doubt, she proves to some, nevertheless, there is no likelihood of our
> >finding a better one for years to come
>
> I find the term "some" used by Koot interesting.  Who was the "some" he was
> referring to?  If Koot is talking about the Mahatmas as the "some" then
> this implies there is some doubt among the Mahatmas as to HPB being the
> 'best choice.'  And if this is true, then it further implies a kind of
> "split" among the Mahatmas - which may go further to suggest that HPB may
> not have received a full instruction, perhaps just a limited one - maybe
> she was simply Koot's favorite, and Theosophy is founded upon the views of
> only one or two Mahatmas - which may explain the rise of other belief
> systems which claim the mouth of the Mahatmas, for they may simply be the
> 'chosen ones' of the other Mahatmas (hence, Koot's statement that HPB is
> the best for "years to come," again, suggesting others could possibly come
> forth).
>
> Kym
>
>