Theos-Talk Archives (October 2008 Message tt00711)

Some of Henry S. Olcott's Testimony
of His Meetings and Encounters with Masters and Adepts
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CASE A: OLCOTT'S ACCOUNT OF MEETING OOTON LIATTO IN NEW YORK CITY

"...I was reading in my room yesterday (Sunday) when there came a tap
at the door---I said 'come in' and there entered the [younger] Bro
[ther] with another dark skinned gentleman of about fifty....We took
cigars and chatted for a while....[Then Olcott relates that a rain
shower started in the room. Olcott continues the account:] They sat
there and quietly smoked their cigars, while mine became too wet to
burn....finally the younger of the two (who gave me his name as Ooton
Liatto) said I needn't worry nothing would be damaged....I asked
Liatto if he knew Madam B[lavatsky]....the elder Bro[ther]...[said]
that with her permission they would call upon her. I ran downstairs---
rushed into Madams parlour---and---there sat these same two identical
men smoking with her and chatting....I said nothing but rushed up
stairs again tore open my door and---the men were not there---I ran
down again, they had disappeared--- I . . . looked out the window---
and saw them turning the corner...." (Olcott's account is given in
full in Theosophical History, Jan., 1994.)

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CASE B: OLCOTT'S ACCOUNT OF MEETING MORYA IN CEYLON

"...on the night of that day [Sept. 27th, 1881] I was awakened from
sleep by my Chohan (or Guru, the Brother [Morya] whose immediate
pupil I am)....He made me rise, sit at my table and write from his
dictation for an hour or more. There was an expression of anxiety
mingled with sternness on his noble face, as there always is when the
matter concerns H.P.B., to whom for many years he has been at once a
father and a devoted guardian. . . ." (Quoted in Hints On Esoteric
Theosophy, No. 1, 1882, pp. 82-83.)

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CASE C: OLCOTT'S ACCOUNT OF MEETING MORYA AT BOMBAY

In his diary for Jan. 29, 1882, Colonel Olcott pens this brief entry:

"M[orya] showed himself very clearly to me & HPB in her garden....
she joining him they talked together...."

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CASE D: OLCOTT'S ACCOUNT OF SEEING MORYA AT BOMBAY WITH SIX OTHER
WITNESSES

"We were sitting together in the moonlight about 9 o'clock upon the
balcony which projects from the front of the bungalow. Mr. Scott was
sitting facing the house, so as to look through the intervening
verandah and the library, and into the room at the further side. This
latter apartment was brilliantly lighted. The library was in partial
darkness, thus rendering objects in the farther room more distinct.
Mr. Scott suddenly saw the figure of a man step into the space,
opposite the door of the library; he was clad in the white dress of a
Rajput, and wore a white turban. Mr. Scott at once recognized him
from his resemblance to a portrait [of Morya] in Col. Olcott's
possession. Our attention was then drawn to him, and we all saw him
most distinctly. He walked towards a table, and afterwards turning
his face towards us, walked back out of our sight...when we reached
the room he was gone....Upon the table, at the spot where he had been
standing, lay a letter addressed to one of our number. The
handwriting was identical with that of sundry notes and letters
previously received from him...."

The above statement is signed by:

"Ross Scott, Minnie J.B. Scott, H.S. Olcott, H.P. Blavatsky, M.
Moorad Ali Beg, Damodar K. Mavalankar, and Bhavani Shankar Ganesh
Mullapoorkar."

(Quoted from Hints On Esoteric Theosophy, No. 1, 1882, pp. 75-76.)

>From Olcott's diary for Jan. 5, 1882,

"Evening. Moonlight. On balcony, HPB, Self, Scott & wife, Damodar....
[etc]...M[orya] appeared in my office. First seen by Scott, then
me....Scott clearly saw M's face....M left note for me on table in
office by which he stood...."

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CASE E: MORYA COMES TO BOMBAY ON AUGUST 4, 1880

On August 4, 1880, Olcott writes that:

". . . a Mahatma visited H.P.B., and I was called in to see him
before he left. He dictated a long and important letter to an
influential friend of ours at Paris, and gave me important hints
about the management of current Society affairs. I left him [the
Mahatma] sitting in H.P.B.'s room...." [Old Diary Leaves, Volume II,
1972 printing, p. 208]"

And Olcott's actual handwritten diary for August 4, 1880 reads:

"M [orya] here this evening & wrote to Fauvety of Paris. He says 5000
English troops killed in Afghanistan in the recent battle. . . ."

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CASE F: MORYA COMES ON HORSEBACK TO BOMBAY IN JULY, 1879

"This same Brother once visited me in the flesh at Bombay, coming in
full day light, and on horseback. He had me called by a servant into
the front room of H.P.B.'s bungalow (she being at the time in the
other bungalow talking with those who were there). He [Morya] came to
scold me roundly for something I had done in T.S. matters, and as
H.P.B. was also to blame, he telegraphed to her to come, that is to
say, he turned his face and extended his finger in the direction of
the place she was in. She came over at once with a rush, and seeing
him dropped to her knees and paid him reverence. My voice and his had
been heard by those in the other bungalow, but only H.P.B. and I, and
the servant saw him." (Extract from a letter written by Colonel
Olcott to A.O. Hume on Sept. 30, 1881. Quoted in Hints On Esoteric
Theosophy, No. 1, 1882, p. 80.)

"[I] had visit in body of the Sahib [Morya]!! [He] sent Babula to my
room to call me to H.P.B.'s bungalow, and there we had
a most important private interview...." (Extract from Olcott's
handwritten diary for Tuesday, July 15, 1879.)

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CASE G: OLCOTT'S ACCOUNT OF MEETING A MASTER AT THE GOLDEN TEMPLE IN
AMRITSAR ON OCTOBER 26, 1880:

"'...at a shrine where the swords, sharp steel discs, coats of mail,
and other warlike weapons of the Sikh warrior priests are exposed to
view in charge of the akalis, I was greeted, to my surprise and joy,
with a loving smile by one of the Masters, who for the moment was
figuring among the guardians, and who gave each of us a fresh rose,
with a blessing in his eyes...." (Old Diary Leaves, Volume III, pp.
254-255, 1974 printing.)

In Olcott's own handwritten diary, the entry for October 26, 1880
reads:

"...In the afternoon we went to the Golden Temple again & found it as
lovely as before. Saw some hundreds of fakirs & gossains
more or less ill-favored. A Brother there saluted H.P.B. and me &
gave us each a rose."

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CASE H: OLCOTT'S ACCOUNT OF MEETING MASTER KOOT HOOMI IN NOVEMBER,
1883 ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF LAHORE, INDIA.

"I was sleeping in my tent, the night of the 19th, when I rushed back
towards external consciousness on feeling a hand laid on me.. . . I
clutched the stranger by the upper arms, and asked him in Hindustani
who he was and what he wanted. It was all done in an instant, and I
held the man tight, as would one who might be attacked the next
moment and have to defend his life. But the next moment a kind, sweet
voice said: 'Do you not know me? Do you not remember me?' It was the
voice of the Master K.H. . . .I relaxed my hold on his arms, joined
my palms in reverential salutation, and wanted to jump out of bed to
show him respect. But his hand and voice stayed me, and after a few
sentences had been exchanged, he took my left hand in his, gathered
the fingers of his right into the palm, and stood quiet beside my
cot, from which I could see his divinely benignant face by the light
of the lamp that burned on a packing-case at his back. Presently I
felt some soft substance forming in my hand, and the next minute the
Master laid his kind hand on my forehead, uttered a blessing, and
left my half of the large tent to visit Mr. W.T. Brown, who slept in
the other half behind a canvas screen that divided the tent into two
rooms. When I had time to pay attention to myself, I found myself
holding in my left hand a folded paper enwrapped in a silken cloth.
To go to the lamp, open and read it, was naturally my first impulse.
I found it to be a letter of private counsel. . . On hearing an
exclamation from [Brown's] side of the screen, I went in there and he
showed me a silk-wrapped letter of like appearance to mine though of
different contents, which he said had been given him much as mine had
been to me, and which we read together. . . ."

"The next evening. . .we two and Damodar sat in my tent, at 10
o'clock, waiting for an expected visit from Master K.H. . . .We sat
on chairs at the back of the tent so as not to be observed from the
camp: the moon was in its last quarter and had not risen. After some
waiting we heard and saw a tall Hindu approaching from the side of
the open plain. He came to within a few yards of us and beckoned
Damodar to come to him, which he did. He told him that the Master
would appear within a few minutes, and that he had some business with
Damodar. It was a pupil of Master K.H. Presently we saw the latter
coming from the same direction, pass his pupil. . .and stop in
front of our group, now standing and saluting in the Indian fashion,
some yards away. Brown and I kept our places, and Damodar went and
conversed for a few minutes with the Teacher, after which he returned
to us and the king-like visitor walked away. I heard his footsteps on
the ground. . . .Before retiring, when I was writing my Diary, the
pupil lifted the portiere, beckoned to me, and pointed to the figure
of his Master [K.H.], waiting for me out on the plain in the
starlight. I went to him, we walked off to a safe place at some
distance where intruders need not be expected, and then for about a
half-hour he told me what I had to know. . . There were no miracles
done at the interview. . .just two men talking together, a meeting,
and a parting when the talk was over. . . ." (Old Diary Leaves,
Volume III, pp. 37-39, 43-45, 1972 reprinting.)
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