Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00261)

So was Master Koot Hoomi ALSO a jokester faking 
the precipitation and materialization of a letter???

Bart appears to believe that HPB's occult
phenomena were faked using conjuring techniques.

So does Bart also contend that the Mahatma Koot
Hoomi FAKED the following precipitation of
a letter?

Henry Olcott testified to the SPR as follows:

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I have seen Mahatma Koot Hoomi in the body. While at 
Lahore I received from the Mahatma Koot Hoomi, 
through one of his associates --- a former pupil --- 
an intimation that he would visit me in the body. 
On the second night of my stay, I was awakened while 
asleep in my tent by someone putting his hands upon me. 
In the instant of awaking, having a vague impression 
that this might be an intruder, I seized him with both 
hands, at the same time asking him in Hindustanee who 
he was. He replied, "Do you not remember me?" 
The tone of the voice immediately recalled the Mahatma 
Koot Hoomi, and it then flashed across my memory 
that I was to have been visited by him. In the 
next moment I was in full consciousness, and let 
go my hold of him, slipping my hands down the whole 
length of his arms to his hands, having first caught 
him by the shoulders. So I felt the substance of 
his arms all the way down. A brief colloquy ensued, 
and he then, as I lay in bed, took my left hand, 
and placing the fingers of his right hand into 
contact with my palm, I felt growing up, as it 
were, some substance underneath his fingers. 
In another moment he closed my hands upon this 
substance, said something more to me, bade me 
"Good-night," and went out of the tent. I then 
got up, and, going to the light burning in the 
tent, found that what he had left me was a small 
package enveloped in Chinese silk. On opening 
the package, I found within a letter in a Chinese 
envelope to my address. (Colonel Olcott here 
exhibited the package.) The note is of a personal 
character, and need not be printed; but I will 
allow you gentlemen to read it. The handwriting 
of the communication is identical with that of 
the many communications received at various times 
by Mr. A. P. Sinnett and many other persons. 

MR. MYERS: This letter was received without the intervention of 
Madame Blavatsky? 

COLONEL OLCOTT: Madame Blavatsky was at Madras at that time, a 
distance of perhaps 2,500 or 3,000 miles. 

MR. MYERS: The light in the tent was sufficient to allow you to 
distinctly recognise the features of your visitor? 

COLONEL OLCOTT: Yes. 

MR. MYERS: Whom you had seen in the astral body? 

COLONEL OLCOTT: Yes ... I am prepared to affirm that his hand was 
absolutely empty when he placed it in my palm, and that this packet 
was formed --- or, to use a current phrased, materialised --- upon my 
own hand. 

MR. MYERS: Of course, people [like Bart???] would say that conjurers 
would slip these things down their sleeves. 

COLONEL OLCOTT: Yes, but that was not possible in this case. The 
sleeves worn by Asiatic people are very large and flowing, not tight 
like ours. . . . 

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The above letter from Koot Hoomi is preserved in the archives
of the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Madras, India.

A facsimile of the letter will be found on pp. 25-28 of Volume VI of 
HPB's COLLECTED WRITINGS.

Notice what the Master KH writes in this materialized letter:

"At New York you demanded of M. an objective proof that his
visit to you was not a maya - & he gave it [the turban seen at
http://theosophy.info/moryaturban.htm ]; 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....."

So was this letter from K.H. merely an "illusion of
solidity" as Leon might say or palmed off on Olcott
by the Master Koot Hoomi as Bart might say?

I guess KH was also prone to play jokes on people too!

Daniel
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