Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00131)

Mark,

An insightful observation. I think a good case can be made for this 
kind of miscommunication in the Mahatma letters to Sinnett. Many of 
these letters are concerned with clarifying misunderstood points. The 
misunderstandings, as I observed, are more about how one thinks about 
things--much less so about doctrine. 
--j



Mark Hamilton Jr. wrote:

> Not sure if this has been brought up before, but here goes.
>
> I know on many occasions I've misconstrued something that was said by
> a Master, which was later repeated/corrected by them in some form or
> another. Often times concepts are given to you in themes based on
> information you already know, because if you know much about the mind,
> when things aren't crystal-clear to you, your mind fills in the blanks
> as it feels necessary (usually based on how it wants to perceive
> things). This can be proven in the following manner: Raed tihs
> snetnace, it's petrty esay eevn tohugh msot of teh wrods are
> msispeleld. Your mind automatically fixes the little errors it
> perceives almost instantaneously, without your knowlege sometimes. The
> same can be true when you perceive messages from a Master. However, if
> your mind's interpretations are wrong, you will get the wrong message
> (and such is the way if you accidentally interpreted "though" as
> "tough", or similar in my above example).
>
> Usually messages, even from someone who has a reliable contact with a
> master, can be tainted by their own perception. I believe this would
> account for missing or conflicting information that had been recorded.
>
> -Mark H.