Theos-Talk Archives (June 2006 Message tt00022)

Was W.Q. Judge doubting one of the Mahatma Letters?

H.P. Blavatsky wrote:

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My Dear Judge,

... in your letter to him [Franz Hartmann] , of Feb. 25th [1885]
? (which he received at Naples and gave to me, I have it
before me)....

...What [do] you mean in your letter to H[artmann] by saying
that you 

"hit upon another little matter which places the
leaders in the position that either great lies have been
told or Mahatmas are absolutely useless as guides" ? 

is a mystery to me. 

What is it that "happened in London & involved the
reception of numerous letters from both Mahatmas" and that Mohini,
the Arundales, O. and HPB know all about it."?. . . 

I do not know what you mean. If you are still a friend you will 
write to me & say it; if not do as you like. . ."

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Judge replied to HPB:

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What I wrote about to Hartmann is [concerning] a ridiculous
message about Holloway which if it emanated from
a Mahatma showed lack of knowledge to say the least.
But let us drop that....
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Ridiculous message??

Mr. A.P. Sinnett ALSO had doubts about some of the
these Mahatma Letters.

Around July 19, 1884, H.P. Blavatsky wrote to Mr. Sinnett:
  
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My dear Mr. Sinnett, 

It is very strange that you should be ready to deceive yourself so 
willingly. I have seen last night whom I had to see, and getting the 
explanation I wanted I am now settled on points I was not only 
doubtful about but positively averse to accepting. And the words in 
the first line are words I am bound to repeat to you as a warning, 
and because I regard you, after all, as one of my best personal 
friends. Now you have and are deceiving, in vulgar parlance, 
bamboozling yourself about the letter received by me yesterday from 
the Mahatma. 

The letter is from Him, whether written through a chela or not; and -
- perplexing as it may seem to you, contradictory and "absurd," it 
is the full expression of his feelings and he maintains what he said 
in it. For me it is surpassingly strange that you should accept as 
His only that which dovetails with your own feelings, and reject all 
that contradicts your own notions of the fitness of things...'

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Quoted from:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-133.htm

Apparently Sinnett had viewed this Mahatma letter as "absurd" and 
notice HPB's words:

"...it is surpassingly strange that you should accept as His only 
that which dovetails with YOUR OWN feelings, and reject all that 
contradicts YOUR OWN notions of the fitness of things..."

Absurd?  Ridiculous?

Food for thought.

Daniel
http://hpb.cc