Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00165)

Concerning H.P.B.'s occult status, the following quotes from the 
Mahatmas indicate her SPECIAL position in relation to them: 

"... imperfect as may be our visible agent — and often most 
unsatisfactory and imperfect she is — yet she is the BEST
available at present. . . . " The Mahatma Letters, 2nd edition, 
Letter 2

"This state of hers 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. . . . " The Mahatma 
Letters, 2nd edition, Letter 26 

"[H.P.B. is] a woman of most exceptional and wonderful endowments. 
Combined with them she had strong personal defects, but just as she 
was, there was NO SECOND to her living fit for this work. We sent her 
to America. . . . " The Mahatma Letters, 2nd edition, Letter 45 

". . . we employ agents -- the best available. Of these for the past 
thirty years the chief 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 -- and your theosophists 
should be made to understand it. Since 1885 I have not written, nor 
caused to be written save thro' her agency, direct or remote, a 
letter or line to anybody in Europe or America, nor communicated 
orally with, or thro' any third party. Theosophists should learn 
it. . . .With occult matters she has everything to do. We have not 
abandoned her; she is not 'given over to chelas.' She is our direct 
agent. . . " Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series, 
5th edition, Letter 19

Caps added in the various quotations.

Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
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