Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00095)

In MAHATMA LETTER #9 (received in early July 1881),
Master K.H. wrote to Mr. A.P. Sinnett:

"As regards the Adept -- not one of my kind, good
friend, but far higher -- you might have closed your
book with those lines of Tennyson's 'Wakeful Dreamer'
-- you knew him not -- 

'How could ye know him? Ye were yet within
The narrower circle; he had well nigh reached
The last, which, with a region of white flame,
Pure without heat, into a larger air
Up-burning, and an ether of black blue,
Invests and ingirds all other lives. . . .' "
[ http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-9.htm
]

Mr. Sinnett must have had some question about whether
this was really a quote from Tennyson.

In a subsequent letter [ML #49 received August 5,
1881] K.H. replied to Mr. Sinnett's comment and
inquiry:

"Quotation from Tennyson? Really cannot say. Some
stray lines picked up in the astral light or in
somebody's brain and remembered, I never forget what I
once see or read. A bad habit. So much so, that often
and unconsciously to myself I string together
sentences of stray words and phrases, before my eyes
and which may have been used hundred years ago or will
be hundred years hence, in relation to quite a
different subject. Laziness and real lack of time. The
'Old Lady' called me a 'brain pirate' and a
plagiarist, the other day for using a whole sentence
of five lines, which, she is firmly convinced, I must
have pilfered from Dr. Wilder's brain as three months
later, he reproduced it in an essay of his on
prophetic intuition. Never had a look into the old
philosopher's brain cells. Got it somewhere in a
northern current -- don't know. Write this for your
information as something new for you, I suppose. Thus
a child may be born bearing the greatest resemblance
and features to another person, thousands of miles
off, no connexion to the mother, never seen by her,
but whose floating image was impressed upon her
soul-memory, during sleep or even waking hours, and
reproduced upon the sensitized plate of living flesh
she carries in her. Yet, I believe, the lines quoted,
were written by Tennyson years ago, and they are
published."
[ 
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-49.htm ]

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