Theos-Talk Archives (March 2007 Message tt00176)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@...> wrote:

> 
> Here is what C.W. Leadbeater wrote in
> his book THE MASTERS AND THE PATH:
> 
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> 
> Madame Blavatsky has often told us how she met
> the Master Morya in Hyde Park, London, in the
> year 1851, when He came over with a number of
> other Indian Princes to attend the first great
> International Exhibition. Strangely enough, I
> myself, then a little child of four, saw Him also,
> all unknowing. 

But is there any independent proof that that group of Indian princes 
visited London to attend the first great International Exhibition as 
described by HPB in 1851, or even that there was such an Exhibition?  
She might have got the year wrong, and Leadbeater might therefore 
have seen the Master Morya in 1858, or maybe it was at another 
Exhibition, or on some other occasion. A child of four mightn't have 
been too clear about such details.

Are there any reports of these Hindu princes visiting London for some 
International Exhibition in 1851 or some other year in contemporary 
newspapers, for instance?
> 
> Notice also that Leadbeater said he later had a personal
> talk with Master Morya in which the Master
> himself confirmed the incident of 1851. I quote
> again the conversation between Morya and Leadbeater:
> 
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> 
> [Morya said to Leadbeater:]
> "No, that was not the first time. You had seen me before then in my
> physical body. Do you not remember, as a tiny child, watching the
> Indian horsemen ride past in Hyde Park, and did you not see how even
> then I singled you out?"
> 
> I remembered instantly, of course, and said "Oh, Master, was that
> you? But I ought to have known it."
> 
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> 
But note that the Master confirmed the incident, but did not confirm 
the actual year it happened,only that it happened.