Theos-Talk Archives (January 2006 Message tt00120)

<...Throughout my studies I have tried to obtain my proofs in a valid form.

What I have seen and experienced is, therefore, very satisfactory to myself, 
though mainly valueless to others.

Each must see for himself, and can alone convince himself....
I said I wanted some tangible proof that he had actually been there, and 
that I had not been seeing a mere illusion or maya conjured up by H. P. B.

When I asked him to leave me some tangible evidence that I had not been the 
dupe of a vision, but that he had indeed been there...

I now exhibit the turban which he took off his head, when I DEMANDED of him 
some tangible proof of his visit.... (caps added)

I wish I had some tangible object to prove to me that he has really been 
here, something that I might handle after he is gone!"

I have been blessed with meetings with this Master and others since then 
....However others less fortunate may doubt, I KNOW....>

individiual lines extracted and quoted from 
http://blavatskyarchives.com/olcottandmahatmas.htm

These words from HS Olcott may give one pause to consider whether Olcott 
thought one would be wise to believe and accept the masters as real based on 
his or anyone's elses eye witness testimony. He constantly asked for proof 
of what he, himself was seeing and so perhaps should we. Either one has met 
a master and knows (and needs no written accounts of the eye witness 
testimony of others) or one has not met a master and therefore (despite 
reading a hundred eye witness testimonies of others) one does not know but 
must rely instead on faith and belief.



peace,



bill





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
To: "Theosophy Study List" <theos-l@list.vnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 12:56 AM
Subject: Henry Olcott's Testimony about His Meetings with the Master Morya


> Henry Olcott's Testimony
> about His Meetings with the Master Morya
> [draft copy]
See:
> http://blavatskyarchives.com/olcottandmahatmas.htm
>
> Daniel
> Blavatsky Study Center