Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00417)

A.P. Sinnett wrote in his book "The Early Days
of Theosophy": 

"About this time [early July 1884] 
Mrs. Holloway, a wonderfully gifted 
American psychic came to stay with us. . . . .
She used to get vivid clairvoyant visions 
of the Master, - could pass on messages to 
me from K.H. and on one occasion he actually 
made use of her to speak to me in the first 
person." p. 27 

But the Master K.H. (in a letter received 
July 18, 1884) pronounced Sinnett's claim 
false and untrue. The Master wrote to Sinnett: 

"You ask me if you can tell Miss Arundale 
what I told you thro' Mrs. H[olloway]. . . . . .
[But] I have never . . . communicated with 
you or any one else thro' her. . . . . She is 
an excellent but quite undeveloped clairvoyante. . . . ." The 
Mahatma Letters, 2nd ed., p. 355 

Despite this emphatic denial by K.H., Sinnett persisted in searching 
for another "channel" to the Master independent of H.P.B. In The 
Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnett, he wrote: 

"On the 26th of April 1886. . . we went . . . to the Albemarle 
Club . . . to meet a lady who was . . . desirous of making my 
acquaintance . . . . . I will give her a fictitious name and call 
her Mary. . . . shortly afterwards I tried a mesmeric experiment 
with her (in accordance with her wish) and obtained remarkable 
results - she went very easily into a trance in which she became 
unequivocally clairvoyant. . . .I became convinced that she 
clairvoyantly saw the mountain region in Tibet where the Master K.H. 
resided. . . . . It became obvious that Mary might become a link 
between myself and the Master. . . . . Mary came to stay with 
us . . . in February 1888 and our regular mesmeric sittings were 
resumed almost every evening, the Master [KH] talking to me through 
her in most cases. In this way I gathered a great deal of 
miscellaneous occult information. . . . . Mary left us to go to her 
own home in May 1888 having had mesmeric sitting almost every 
evening while she was with us, at most of which the Master spoke to 
me, - or rather dictated to her what he wished to say. She would 
pass into a higher condition in which she could be in touch with him 
and be enabled to repeat his words to her in reply to my questions 
or remarks." pp 33 & 38-39 

But again Master KH in a letter (dated August 22, 1888) to Colonel 
Henry S. Olcott denied Sinnett's claim: 

"Since 1885 I have not written, nor caused to be written save thro' 
her [HPB's] agency, direct or remote, a letter or line to anybody in 
Europe or America, nor communicated orally with, or thro' any third 
party. Theosophists should learn it. You will understand later the 
significance of this declaration so keep it in mind. Her [HPB's] 
fidelity to our work being constant, and her sufferings having come 
upon her thro' it, neither I nor either of my Brother associates 
will desert or supplant her." Letters from the Masters of the 
Wisdom, Series I, 1973, p. 45 

Daniel
Blavatsky Study Center
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