Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00412)

In September and October 1880, Mme. Blavatsky visited A. P. Sinnett 
at Simla in northern India. The serious interest of Sinnett in the 
Theosophical teachings of Mme. Blavatsky and the work of the 
Theosophical Society prompted H.P.B. to establish a contact by 
correspondence between Sinnett and the two Adepts who were sponsoring 
the Society, K.H. and M.  

>From this correspondence Sinnett wrote The Occult World (1881) and 
Esoteric Buddhism (1883), both of which had an enormous influence in 
generating public interest in Theosophy.  The replies and 
explanations given by the Mahatmas to the questions by Sinnett are 
embodied in their letters from 1880 to 1885, published in London in 
1923 as The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett.  

For a wide array of material on the Mahatmas and their letters, 
see:

http://mahatmaletters.net/

Daniel
Blavatsky Study Center
http://hpb.cc