Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00145)

Koot Hoomi writes in his very first letter
to A.P. Sinnett:

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The vril of the "Coming Race" was the common property 
of races now extinct. And, as the very existence of 
those gigantic ancestors of ours is now questioned 
-- though in the Himavats, on the very territory 
belonging to you we have a cave full of the skeletons 
of these giants -- and their huge frames when found 
are invariably regarded as isolated freaks of nature, 
so the vril or Akas -- as we call it -- is looked 
upon as an impossibility, a myth. 

And, without a thorough knowledge of Akas, its combinations 
and properties, how can Science hope to account for 
such phenomena [as the teacup and saucer]? We doubt not 
but the men of your science are open to conviction; 
yet facts must be first demonstrated to them, they 
must first have become their own property, have proved 
amenable to their own modes of investigation, before 
you find them ready to admit them as facts. If you but 
look into the Preface to the "Micrographia" you will 
find in Hooke's suggestions that the intimate relations 
of objects were of less account in his eyes than their 
external operation on the senses -- and Newton's fine 
discoveries found in him their greatest opponent. The 
modern Hookeses are many. Like this learned but 
ignorant man of old your modern men of science are 
less anxious to suggest a physical connexion of 
facts which might unlock for them many an occult force 
in nature, as to provide a convenient "classification 
of scientific experiments"; so that the most essential 
quality of an hypothesis is not that it should be true 
but only plausible -- in their opinion. . . .

In regard to the production of newly devised and 
still more startling phenomena demanded of her 
with our help, as a man well acquainted with the 
strategy, you must remain satisfied with the
reflection that there is little use in acquiring 
new positions until those that you have already 
reached are secured, and your Enemies full aware 
of your right to their possession. In other words, 
you had a greater variety of phenomena produced 
for yourself and friends than many a regular neophyte 
has seen in several years. First, notify the public 
of the production of the note, the cup and the sundry 
experiments with the cigarette papers, and let them 
digest these. Get them to work for an explanation. 
And as except upon the direct and absurd accusation 
of deceit they will never be able to account for some 
of these, while the skeptics are quite satisfied with 
their present hypothesis for the production of the 
brooch -- you will then have done real good to the 
cause of truth and justice to the woman who is made 
to suffer for it. Isolated as it is, the case under 
notice in the Pioneer becomes less than worthless -- 
it is positively injurious for all of you -- for 
yourself as the Editor of that paper as much as for 
anyone else, if you pardon me for offering you that 
which looks like advice. It is neither fair to 
yourself nor to her, that, because the number of 
eye-witnesses does not seem sufficient to warrant 
the public attention, your and your lady's testimony 
should go for nothing. Several cases combining to 
fortify your position as truthful and intelligent 
witness to the various occurrences, each of these 
gives you an additional right to assert what you 
know. It imposes upon you the sacred duty to instruct 
the public and prepare them for future possibilities 
by gradually opening their eyes to the truth. 
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Quoted from:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-1.htm