Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt01116)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "stevestubbs" <stevestubbs@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> So who wrote it? 

Obviously, no one knows, or if someone does, they're not telling.

> It could not have been Judge obviously.

Being dead need not stop people from writing letters, say some.

> Was Olcott 
> writing mahatma letters along with HPB and Damodar? 

There are three letters to Olcott urging him to impersonate K.H. in 
correspondence to Sinnett, two unsigned but one of these at least in 
M.'s handwriting, and the other signed by Hilarion. From TMR:

In June 1883, Olcott received an unsigned Mahatma letter advising 
that "unless you put your shoulder to the wheel yourself Kuthumi Lal 
Singh will have to disappear off the stage this fall." Later the 
same month, Hilarion wrote to Olcott that "Maha Sahib" wanted him 
to "put your whole soul in answer to A.P.S. [Sinnett] from K.H." 
Another unsigned letter, in M.'s handwriting, came two days later, 
warning Olcott "be careful about letter to Sinnett. Must be a 
really *Adeptic* letter." (pp. 173-174)

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?

I'll pass on that but on the topic Damodar, I do not "insist" as you 
just put it, that he survived past 1885. I simply wrote in 
Initiates that "more likely than either of these alternatives 
[Damodar died, or ended up in Tibet] is that Damodar disappeared 
somewhere in India. In February 1886, Olcott wrote HPB, `No news 
from Damodar. Tell me exactly what you know about him, and how much 
I may repeat.'"

KPJ