Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00606)

In the following extract from an article 
titled "Lodges of Magic" (Lucifer, October, 1888),
H.P. Blavatsky describes the root of A.P. Sinnett's
"problem". She doesn't name Sinnett in particular
but historical research indicates that Sinnett 
is the person she is referring to.  

"...Occult truth cannot be absorbed by a mind 
that is filled with preconception, prejudice, 
or suspicion. It is something to be perceived 
by the intuition rather than by the reason; 
being by nature spiritual, not material. Some 
are so constituted as to be incapable of 
acquiring knowledge by the exercise of the 
spiritual faculty; e.g. the great majority of 
physicists. Such are slow, if not wholly 
incapable of grasping the ultimate truths 
behind the phenomena of existence. There are 
many such in the Society; and the body of the discontented are 
recruited from their ranks. Such persons readily persuade themselves 
that later teachings, received from exactly the same source as 
earlier ones, are either false or have been tampered with by chelas, 
or even third parties. Suspicion and inharmony are the natural 
result, the psychic atmosphere, so to say, is thrown into confusion, 
and the reaction, even upon the stauncher students, is very harmful. 
Sometimes vanity blinds what was at first strong intuition, the mind 
is effectually closed against the admission of new truth, and the 
aspiring student is thrown back to the point where he began. Having 
jumped at some particular conclusion of his own without full study 
of the subject, and before the teaching had been fully expounded, 
his tendency, when proved wrong, is to listen only to the voice of 
his self-adulation, and cling to his views, whether right or 
wrong...."
Quoted from:
http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/hpb/LodgesOfMagic.htm

In was at this very time (1888) that Sinnett believed
H.P.B. had been "supplanted" by "Mary".

And Master Koot Hoomi in his August 1888 letter to
Colonel Olcott deals with Sinnett's "belief":

"Her [Blavatsky'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. . . . This you 
must tell to all: — With occult matters she has everything to do.
. . . She is our direct agent. . . . "  
Letters from the Masters of Wisdom, Series 1, Letter 19

Daniel
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