Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00084)

Carlos, 

You write:

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Daniel,

But is it not a collation made up by you?

Or else, where has the letter been published, please?

There is an ocean of difference between "a collation from various 
sources" and a Letter from a Master, agree?
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Please note what I originally wrote:

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Master K.H. on Concentration 
and Union with the Higher Self
[Collated, abridged and edited by Daniel H. Caldwell 
from several variant copies of Master K.H.'s comments.]

Some of the text below first appeared in an article titled "Judge 
the Act: Not the Person - Adepts and Mediums" which was written by 
Jasper Niemand (pseudonym of Mrs. Julia Keightley) and published in 
The Path (New York), July 1889, pp. 102-103.   Jasper Niemand 
prefaced the text with the following comment:  "...let us read some 
remarks from an Oriental adept which came into our possession many 
months ago."  One of the variant manuscripts has already been 
published as "Some Commentaries on [H.P.B.'s Esoteric] Instructions 
I and II." Another variant copy can be found written on the end 
pages of William Q. Judge's Nov.-Dec. 1888 diary.
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The original of this "letter" or manuscript has NOT been found yet.

But keep in mind that the ORIGINAL of a number of KH letters ARE NOT 
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE or extant.  

For example, take these three letters:

The Views of the Chohan on the TS 
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-choh.htm

First Letter of KH to A. O. Hume
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-khaoh.htm

Letter No. 10
NOTES BY K.H. ON A "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER" HEADED "GOD" BY HUME, 
INTENDED TO PREFACE AN EXPOSITION OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY (ABRIDGED). 
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-10.htm

The originals (that is, in KH's handwriting) of these three letters 
are NOT extant.  But we have COPIES of these letters available.

One copy of the Chohan's letter is to be found in LETTERS FROM THE 
MASTERS OF THE WISDOM, Volume 1.  Another copy is to be found in the 
British Library in THE MAHATMA PAPERS.

Copies of Letter No. 10 are to be found both in THE MAHATMA LETTERS 
TO A.P. SINNETT and THE EARLY TEACHINGS OF THE MASTERS.

Returning to the KH Letter you ask about at the beginning of this 
posting, I have several variant copies of this letter or manuscript.

Some copies are more complete than others. I have given some of the 
variant copies on Theos-Talk and on my website.

In the future, I plan to reproduce ALL varient copies of this 
letter/manuscript in a book and on my website.  

And I hope one day to find the original.

Daniel
http://hpb.cc