Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00703)

A.P. Sinnett had a remarkable encounter with the Master K.H. Sinnett 
wrote in a brief note of the experience: 

"I saw K.H. in astral form on the night of 19th of October, 1880, --- 
waking up for a moment but immediately afterwards being rendered 
unconscious again (in the body) and conscious out of the body in the 
adjacent dressing-room where I saw another of the Brothers afterwards 
identified with one called 'Serapis' by Olcott, --- 'the youngest of 
the chohans.' " The Mahatma Letters, Letter No. 3a in the first 
three editions. 

Some four years later, while William Judge was in London and on a 
visit to Mr. Sinnett's home, the following interesting conversation 
ensued. Mr. Judge wrote: 

"I asked him [A.P. Sinnett] about his sight of K.H. and he related 
thus: 'He was lying in his bed in India one night [see above], when 
suddenly awakening, he found K.H. standing by his bed. He rose half 
up, when K.H. put his hand on his head, causing him to fall at once 
back on the pillow. He then, he says, found himself out of the body, 
and in the next room, talking to another adept whom he describes as 
an English or European, with light hair, fair, and of great beauty. 
This is the one [adept] Olcott described to me in 1876 and called by 
name -------. Please erase that when read. . . . S[innett] says he 
[the European adept] is very high. . . ." Letters That Have Helped 
Me, Theosophy Company edition, p. 196. 

Notice that this adept called Serapis is described as "English or 
European, with light hair, fair, and of great beauty." 

In 1883, Colonel Olcott was healing people with his 
mesmeric "power". He relates the following experience: 

"On the day in question, while under treatment for his eyes, upon 
which business my thoughts were closely concentrated, [Badrinath 
Babu, the patient] . . . suddenly began describing a shining man whom 
he saw looking benevolently on him. His clairvoyant sight, had, it 
seemed, become partially developed, and what he saw was through 
closed eyelids. From the minute description he then proceeded to 
give me, I could not fail to recognise the portrait of one of the 
most revered of our Masters. . . .[Badrinath] described to me an 
individual with blue eyes, light flowing hair, light beard, and 
European features and complexion. . . . The description...fitted 
accurately a real personage, the Teacher of our Teachers [KH and M.], 
a Paramaguru, as one such is called in India, and who had given me a 
small colored sketch of himself in New York, before we left for 
Bombay. . . ." Old Diary Leaves, Volume III, 430-1 

It is on record that the Master Serapis gave Colonel Olcott "a small 
colored sketch of himself in New York." See Letters from the Masters 
of Wisdom, Series II. 

Concerning Colonel Olcott's mesmeric healing, Master Koot Hoomi wrote 
to A.P. Sinnett: 

"This [healing] is all done thro' the power of a lock of hair sent by 
our beloved younger Chohan to H. S. O." 

This is KH's comment on a newspaper article titled "Cures Effected by 
Colonel Olcott in Calcutta by Mesmeric Passes" that was published in 
the Calcutta Indian Mirror. See The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. 
P. Sinnett, Appendix III, 
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-aps/bl-ap3.htm 

Daniel H. Caldwell

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