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The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett - 1923

By A. T. Barker

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Letter No LXXXVIII

My g^ood friend—it is very easy for us to give phenomentalproofs when we have necessary conditions. For instance—• Olcott's magnetism after six years of purification is intenselysympathetic with ours—physically and morally is constantlybecoming more and more so. Damodar and Bhavani Rao beingcongenitally sympathetic their auras help—instead of repelling andimpeding phenomenal experiments. After a time you may becomeso—it depends on yourself. To force phenomena in the presenceof difficulties magnetic and other is forbidden. As strictly as fora bank cashier to disburse money which is only entrusted to him.Mr. Hume cannot comprehend this. And therefore is " indignant ' ' that the various tests he has secretly prepared for us haveall failed. They demanded a tenfold expenditure of power sincehe surrounded them with an aura not of the purest—that of mistrust, anger, and anticipated mockery. Even to do this muchfor you so far from the Headquarters would be impossible but forthe magnetisms O. and B. R. have brought with them—and I coulddo no more. 

K. H.
P.S. —Perhaps, tho' I could put down for you to-day's dateMarch the nth, 1882.