Re: Theos-World 'Mahatma' letter to Annie Besant?
Jan 31, 2005 08:35 AM
by stevestubbs
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" <kpauljohnson@y...>
wrote:
> It's also in my book Initiates of Theosophical Masters, and
discussed
> in terms of the relationships between Olcott and Besant and between
> the TS and ES. The letter's perspective strikes me as that of
Olcott
> at the time and its warnings the kind of advice he was trying to
give
> Besant. If she wouldn't listen to the President of the TS when
> warned not to let the ES run the show, then the Master KH needed to
> weigh in. (Not to say HSO wrote the letter but "K.H."'s interests
> and advice coincide with Olcott's at this time.)
So who wrote it? It could not have been Judge obviously. Was Olcott
writing mahatma letters along with HPB and Damodar? Or did he appeal
to his old friend Nisi Kanta Chattopadhyana, whom he knew very well
was the real person behind the KH pseudonym, and ask him to write a
new KH letter?
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