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The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett - 1923
By A. T. Barker
Letter No XL
Received about February, 1882.
To your first—there's little to answer : " Can you do anythingto help on the Society? " Want me to speak frankly? W^ell Isay No : neither yourself nor the Lord Sang-yias Himself—so longas the equivocal position of the Founders is not perfectly andundeniably proved due to fiendish malice and a systematic in-trigue—could help it on. That's the situation as I found it, asordered by the chiefs. Watch the papers—all except two or threethe " dear old lady " ridiculed when not positively libelled Olcottattacked by all the hell-hounds of the press and missions. A pamphlet headed ** Theosophy " printed and circulated by the Christians at Tinevelly October 23rd on the day of O.'s arrival there with the Buddhist delegfates—a pamphlet containing the Saturday Review article and another filthy—heavy attack by an American paper. The C. and M. of Lahore hardly missing a day without having some attack and other papers reprinting them, etc., etc. You English have your notions—we have our own upon the subject. If you keep the clean kerchief in your pocket and throw but the soiled one into the crowd—who will pick it up? Enough. We must have patience and do what, meanwhile, we can. My opinion is that if your Rattigan is not quite a scoundrel one of his papers having thrown and throwing daily dishonour upon an innocent woman he would be the first to suggest you the idea of translating and publishing her uncle's letters (to you and herself) in the Pioneer; with a few words in a leader, to say, that a still more substantial official proof is shortly expected from the Prince D. which will settle the vexed question as to her identity for ever at rest. But you know best. This idea may have struck you ; but will it ever be seen in such a light by others?
Suby Ram—a truly good man—yet a devotee of another error. Not his guru's voice—his own. The voice of a pure, unselfish, earnest soul, absorbed in misguided, misdirected mysticism. Add to it a chronic disorder in that portion of the brain which responds to clear vision and the secret is soon told : that disorder was developed by forced vision ; by hatha yog and prolonged asceticism. S. Ram is the chief medium and at the same time the principal magnetic factor, Vv^ho spreads his disease by infection— unconsciously to himself; who innoculates with his vision all the other disciples. There is one general law of vision (physical and mental or spiritual) but there is a qualifying special law proving that all vision must be determined by the quality or grade of man's spirit and soul, and also by the ability to translate divers qualities of waves of astral light into consciousness. There is but one general law of life, but innumerable laws qualify and determine the myriads of forms perceived and of sounds heard. There are those who are willingly and those who are unwillingly—blind. Mediums belong to the former, sensitives to the latter. Unless regularly initiated and trained—concerning the spiritual insight of things and the supposed revelations made unto man in all ages from Socrates down to Swedenborg and ** Fern "—no self-tutored seer or clairaudient ever saw or heard quite correctly.
No harm and much instruction may come to you by joining his Society. Go on until he demands what you will be obliged to refuse. Learn and study. You are right : they say and affirm that the one and only God of the Universe was Incarnated in their gfuru, and were such an individual to exist he would certainly behigher than any *' planetary." But they are idolaters, my friend.Their guru was no initiate only a man of extraordinary purity oflife and powers of endurance. He had never consented to giveup his notions of a personal god and even gods though offeredmore than once. He was born an orthodox Hindu and died aself-reformed Hindu, something like Rechub-Ch-Sen but higherpurer and with no ambition to taint his bright soul. Many of ushave regretted his self-delusion but he was too good to be forciblyinterfered with. Join them and learn—but remember your sacredpromise to K.H. Two months more and he will be with us. Ithink of sending her to you. I believe you could persuade herfor I do not wish to use my authority in this case.
M.
