Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00376)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "W.Dallas TenBroeck" 
<dalval14@e...> wrote:

> You ask about such an individual being disciplined or expelled. I 
would
> suggest that that the individual's own Higher Self is attentive and
> attending to the matter. As to the Masters, is it not a matter 
that They
> know how best to deal with? You will recall that with HPB's 
leaving India
> for Europe and Britain (1885) Damodar wrote that the Masters' 
influence had
> almost left Adyar. HPB said the same (article: WHY I DO NOT 
RETURN TO
> India). . Of what use is it for us to try to "double-guess" 
matters out of
> curiosity. Those may not be of our concern. Another point is, I 
recall that
> Masters state they may not interfere with another's Karma. 


Dear Dallas:

I think you were really replying to Cass' post. 

Just a brief comment on your statement regarding the supposed 
withdrawal of the Masters' influence from Adyar after HPB left, in 
March 1885. From several accounts of that episode, it seems HPB was 
really furious with the members of the Executive Committee at Adyar 
for not allowing her to sue the Christian missionaries and the 
Coulombs for defaming her, as they provided distorted and fraudulent 
information to Richard Hodgson, who was investigating phenomena at 
Adyar on behalf of the SPR. The reason given by the Ex. Com. members 
was that any legal action would eventually drag the names of the 
Masters to a court battle, and many Indian Chelas were absolutely 
against it. Still, as someone who had been agrieved, HPB had her 
reasons to pursue that line of action.

In Col. Olcott's Diaries, in several entries for the month of 
January 1907, it is recorded that both Mahatmas M. and K.H. paid him 
visits, "audible and tangible", in the presence of at least two 
witnesses. In one of the last visits, one of the Mahatmas told 
Olcott that his work was over. In spite of the fact that he was 
weak, he got out of his bed and fully prostrated before them, in the 
Indian fashion.

If they had visited him several times during his long life of 
service for the TS, would it not be natural that they would do so 
just before he died? The last visits happened almost exact twelve 
years after HPB lef Adyar.

Many theosophical historians question the testimony recorded in 
Olcott's diaries, and it was even suggested that Leadbeater, who had 
resigned from the TS in May 1906, following accusations against him, 
and was living in Italy at that time, had astrally projected, from 
Europe, virtual images of the Masters to appear at Adyar! 


Pedro