Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00293)

In my posting titled "The ULT & the Mahatma Letters" 
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/11964>
I wrote:

". . . Stokes pointed out that four ULT magazine 
(including 'Theosophy' Magazine) subsequently had the practice of 
quoting from 'The Mahatma Letters' but never telling their readers 
that they were quoting from the book entitled 'The Mahatma Letters To 
A. P. Sinnett.' Stokes found that in the years 1928-1933, these four 
ULT magazines had quoted 87 times from the Letters. Stokes wrote:

'Of the 87 quotations from The Mahatma Letters only one gives 
reference; the others afford not the slightest clue to the source, 
not the slightest possibility of the student locating it without 
laborious search. He is not even permitted to know the existence of 
such a book as 'The Mahatma Letters'.'— 'The O.E. Library
Critic,' April, 1934"

Several ULT associates have privately written me complaining about 
what I wrote above. They said they were "offended" by what I had 
written. But I ask in turn: Were the statements not true? Why 
should the truth offend anyone?

Just tonight while researching a totally different subject, I 
stumbled upon the following.

In a recent issue of the "Aquarian Theosophist", I noticed an article 
titled "How the Masters approach an Aspirant". See page 7 at the 
following URL: http://www.teosofia.com/Docs/vol-3-6-supplement.pdf
It should be noted that the "Aquarian Theosophist" is "a U.L.T. 
Publication."  

BELOW I reproduce the article minus the footnotes. Nowhere in the 
main text or the footnotes do I find where these two extracts from 
the Master KH are taken from. To paraphrase Dr. Stokes, the article 
does NOT "afford the slightest clue to the source [for the Master's 
words], not the slightest possibility of the student locating it 
without laborious search"!! 

Could some ULT associate shed some light on this "strange" ULT 
practice?

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"How the Masters approach an Aspirant"

In the following letter to W. T.
Brown, the process of approaching an
earnest pilgrim is described:

"What Damodar told you at Poona is
true. We approach nearer and nearer to a
person as he goes on preparing himself for
the same. You first saw us in visions, then
in astral forms, though very often not
recognized, then in body at a short distance
from you. Now you see me in my own
physical body1 so close to you as to enable
you to give to your countrymen the
assurance that you are from personal
knowledge as sure of our existence as you
are of your own. Whatever may happen,
remember that you will be watched and
rewarded in proportion to your zeal and
work for the cause of Humanity …."

Also in these visits by Master K.H. a
letter to Col. Olcott was left:

"SINCE the commencement of your
probationary term in America, you have
had much to do with me, tho' your
imperfect development has often made you
mistake me for Atrya, and often to fancy
your own mind at work when it was mine
trying to influence and to talk with yours.
Of course, by your own canons of evidence,
you have not until now been a thoroughly
qualified witness, since we have never
previously —to your knowledge — met in
the flesh. But at last you are, and our object
in view in my making the journey from the
Ashram to Lahore was to give you this last
substantial proof. You have not only seen
and conversed with, but touched me, my
hand has pressed yours, and the K.H. of
fancy becomes the K of fact. Your
skeptical action, often running into extreme
conservatism — perhaps the very last trait
that the careless would suggest of you —
has seriously and constantly impeded your
inner unfolding. It has made you
suspicious — sometimes cruelly so — of
Upasika, of Borg, of Djual-K. even of
Damodar and D. Nath, whom you love as
sons. This meeting of ours should radically
change the state of your mind. Should it
not, so much the worse for your future;
truth never comes, burglar-like, thro' barred
windows and iron-sheathed doors.
I came to you not alone of my own
accord and wish, but also by order of the
Maha Chohan, to whose insight the future
lies like an open page. At New York you
demanded of M. an objective proof that his
visit to you was not a maya — and he gave
it3; unasked, I give you the present one:
tho' I pass out of your sight this note will
be to you the reminder of our conferences.
I now go to young Mr Brown to try his
intuitiveness. Tomorrow night when the
camp is quiet and the worst of the
emanations from your audience have
passed away, I shall visit you again for a
longer conversation, as you must be
forewarned against certain things in the
future. Fear not and doubt not as you have
feared and doubted at supper last night: the
first month of the coming year of your era
will have hardly dawned when two more of
the `enemies' will have passed away. Ever
be vigilant, zealous and judicious; for
remember that the usefulness of the
Theosophical Society largely depends upon
your exertions, and that our blessings
follow its suffering `Founders' and all who
help on their work. K.H."
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Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com