Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00140)

This January 30, 1898 letter written by Ernest T. Hargrove to 
Katherine Tingley signals the beginning (in one sense) of Hargrove's 
Esoteric School.  An excerpt reads:

"Now, my dear friend, you have made an awful mess of it - that is 
the simple truth. You were run in as O[uter] H[ead] [of the Esoteric 
School] as the only person in sight who was ready to hand at the 
time. We were all of us heartily glad to welcome you, for you solved 
the problem which confronted us - who was to be O.H.; you were a 
sort of neutral centre around which we could congregate. And most of 
us fairly yelled with delight, for you solved our difficulty and we 
had ample proofs that some members of the Lodge were working through 
you and that you had high and rare mediumistic and psychic gifts and 
that you were a disciple of the Lodge. So things went swimmingly for 
a time.

"Our enthusiasm and anxiety to see all go well carried some of us 
too far - carried me too far to the extent of... leading me to use 
my personal influence with people to get them to accept you as O.H. 
I thought it was for the good of the work, but since then I have 
learned better."

In other letters to Mrs. Tingley, Hargrove said:

"...by order of the Master you have ceased to be the Outer Head of 
the E.S.T. in the interior and true sense...."

"The Outer Head to follow you has already been appointed by the 
Master....."

Quoted from:  http://blavatskyarchives.com/garr4.htm#653

Daniel
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