Theos-Talk Archives (March 2007 Message tt00180)

Dear Hari

You wrote, "...or even that there was such an Exhibition? 
There certainly was and it was a grand afffair. Please see:
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/1851/1851ov.html

Kind regards
Nigel



--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "hari9896" <hari9896@...> wrote:
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell" 
> <danielhcaldwell@> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Here is what C.W. Leadbeater wrote in
> > his book THE MASTERS AND THE PATH:
> > 
> > ===============================================
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > ===================================================
> > 
> > [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."
> > 
> > ===================================================
> > 
> But note that the Master confirmed the incident, but did not 
confirm 
> the actual year it happened,only that it happened.
>