Theos-Talk Archives (December 2005 Message tt00351)

12/31/2005 4:02 AM

Dear Cass

Notes below please,

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cass Silva
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 8:49 PM
To: 
Subject: Re Kindly:

CS	My computer is on the blink at the moment so cannot be consistent
with replies. However, I cannot find the letter you quoted
   
Letter No. 111 was received in July 1833 but no date listed.

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DTB	Letter 101 in the Manila CHRONOLOGICAL MAHATMA LETTERS reads:


Letter No. 101	(ML-57) Rec. January
6, 1883

We come to another long letter. In the original in the British Museum, the
letter consists of 9 folded small sheets of paper. Some words have been
crossed out, and in one place there is some interlining in red ink. On one
of the sheets some of the writing is in dull red ink, although most of the
letter is in the blue habitually used by the Mahatma K.H. A letter from C.C.
Massey of London to the Mahatma is enclosed.

Massey, says the Mahatma, is third on the list of failures. A bit further
down, he says “Four Europeans were placed on probation twelve months ago..
.” These were Massey, Hume, Sinnett, and Fern. So far, only Sinnett “was
found worthy of our trust.”

The Theosophical Society in London had nearly collapsed and efforts were
being made to rejuvenate it under the leadership of Mrs. Anna Kingsford. She
had “conditionally” accepted the post of President although there was some
delay in her taking over the office. She was a vegetarian and
anti-vivisectionist, and in one place the Mahatma states that for these
reasons her phenomena were more reliable than those of most well-known
spiritualists. H.P.B. did not have a very high opinion of Mrs. Kingsford.
According to one letter from H.P.B. to Sinnett (LBS, p. 22), it was Massey
who first proposed her name as President of the British Theosophical
Society.	Received 6-1-83.  

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DTB	Date (1833 ? ) is way ahead of Master's correspondence in 1880-4
with Mr. Sinnett.

HPB was born in 1831


Letter 111 in Barker MAHATMA LETTERS is on p. 446-7 and relates apparently
to something else.  

Is the letter 101 June 1 1883 ? 

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CS	Does anyone know who the Mr Massey is mentioned in this letter?

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DTB	C. C. Massey Refer to SEARCH In 
Manila,	Blavatsky: COLLECTED WORKS  


Charles Carleton Massey, of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law (Vice-President
of the British Theosophical Society).

8Charles Carleton Massey was an English Barrister-at-Law and literateur
keenly interested in Spiritualism. He was one of the ablest metaphysicians
in England and a lucid and scholarly writer on psychic subjects. He visited
the U.S.A. in 1875, and went to Chittenden, Vt. to verify for himself Col.
Olcott’s accounts of the Eddy phenomena Massey became one of the original
“formers” of the T.S. However, after several years of friendship,
differences arose between him and the Founders. He resigned when the Society
for Psychical Research at tacked H.P.B. and gave allegedly damaging evidence
against her. He died in 1905. See Bio-Bibliogr. Index for further data.
    
    
Blavatsky: COLLECTED WORKS Vol 1 (1875)
Scrapbook, I, pp. 20-21, with the statement that “. . . M ... brings
orders to form a Society—a secret Society like the Rosicrucian Lodge. He
promises to help.” In addition to that, she specifically states having
received orders from India “to establish a philosophico-religious Society”
and to “choose Olcott,” and dates this notation “July 1875.”
It is evident, therefore, that the impending formation of such a Society
was already “in the air,” so to say, a considerable time prior to the
gathering at which it was first broached.]
   
[In addition to H.P.B., Col. Olcott and W. Q. Judge, the other “formers”
of the Theosophical Society, to use Col. Olcott’s own expression, were:
Charles Sotheran, Dr. Charles E. Simmons, Herbert D. Monachesi, Charles C.
Massey, W. L. Alden, George H. Felt, D. E. de Lara, Dr. W. Britten, Mrs.
Emma Hardinge-Britten, Henry J. Newton, John Storer Cobb, J. Hyslop, and H.
M. Stevens.
The reader should consult the BIO-BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX at the end of the
present Volume, under the respective names. A special effort has been made
to collect as much information as was possible to obtain concerning at least
some of these individuals. A few of them have remained untraced.—Compiler.]
Blavatsky: COLLECTED WORKS Vol 1 (1875)
   
   
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“The value of the cross,” says Mr. Massey, “as a Christian symbol, is
supposed to date from the time when Jesus Christ was crucified. And yet in
the ‘Christian’ Iconography of the Catacombs no figure of a man appearsupon
the Cross during the first six or seven centuries. There are all forms of
the cross except that—the alleged starting-point of the new religion. That
was not the initial but the final form of the Crucifix.†	S D II
586
    
    
    
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Cass

Bhikshuni Ariya <arhat_buddhism@yahoo.com> wrote:
July 17. Letters of the Mahatmas to A.P.Sinnett...


Cass Silva wrote:
Excellent! Does the 6 June 2006 have any significance in relation to the
King of Light?
Cass

arhat_buddhism wrote:

"The Secret Doctrine" Gupta-Vidya prophecy is fulfilled: proofs shall 
be posted here, one by one.

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DTB	I have no idea what this means. Ask her.[ Bhikshuni Ariya ].

Too mysterious for me. D.


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