Theos-Talk Archives (September 2002 Message tt00085)

Brian, do you know about these encounters with the Master K.H.?

William T. Brown gives the following narrative of his meetings with 
the Master K.H.:

"...Lahore has a special interest, because there we saw, in his own 
physical body, Mahatma Koot Hoomi himself. On the afternoon of the 
19th November [1883], I saw the Master in broad daylight, and 
recognized him, and on the morning of the 20th he came to my 
tent....On the evening of the 21st, after the lecture was over, 
Colonel Olcott, Damodar and I were sitting outside the shamiana, 
(pavilion or pandal), when we were visited by Djual Khool (the 
Master's head Chela, and now an Initiate), who informed us that the 
Master was about to come. The Master [KH] then came near to us, gave 
instructions to Damodar, and walked away. On leaving Lahore the next 
place visited was Jammu, the winter residence of His Highness the 
Maharajah of Cashmere....At Jammu I had another opportunity of seeing 
Mahatma Koot Hoomi in propria persona. One evening I went to the end 
of the `compound,' (private enclosure) and there I found the
Master awaiting my approach. I saluted in European fashion, and came, 
hat in hand, to within a few yards of the place on which he was 
standing....After a minute or so he marched away, the noise of his 
foot-steps on the gravel being markedly audible…." Quoted from
W.T. Brown's pamphlet Some Experiences In India, 1884, pp. 15-17.

Brian, you may counter that only naive and foolish Theosophists would 
believe such an account but consider the following.

In the book IN SEARCH OF THE MASTERS (p. 242) the scholar K. Paul 
Johnson assures his readers that: 

"K.H. did INDEED visit Olcott, Damodar and Brown on the edge of 
Lahore." caps added.

And several years later Johnson in his SUNY book titled INITIATES OF 
THEOSOPHICAL MASTERS, p. 40, again wrote:

"Damodar had GENUINELY met Koot Hoomi outside Lahore and at the 
palace of Ranbir Singh [at Jammu]....This is one of the great TRUE 
Mahatma stories of Theosophical history...." caps added.

Brian, if you have a better explanation then please give it to us.

Daniel H. Caldwell

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