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The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett - 1923

By A. T. Barker

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Letter No XXVI

K.H.'s Confidential Memo about Old Lady. Received Simla, Autumn, 1881.

I am painfully aware of the fact that the habitual incoherence of her statements—especially when excited—and her strange ways make her in your opinion a very undesirable transmitter of our messages. Nevertheless, kind Brothers, once that you have learned the truth ; once told, that this unbalanced mind, the seeming incongruity of her speeches and ideas, her nervous excitement, all that in short, which is so calculated to upset the feelings of sober minded people, whose notions of reserve and manners are shocked by such strange outbursts of what they regard as her temper, and which so revolt you, —once that you know that nothing of it is due to any fault of hers you may, per- chance, be led to regard her in quite a different light. Notwithstanding that the time is not quite ripe to let you entirely into the secret ; and that you are hardly yet prepared to understand the great Mystery even if told of it, owing to the great injustice and wrong done, I am empowered to allow you a glimpse behind the veil. This state of hers is intimately connected with her occult training in Tibet, and due to her being sent out alone into the world to gradually prepare the way for others. After nearly a century of fruitless search, our chiefs had to avail themselves of the only opportunity to send out a European body upon European soil to serve as a connecting link between that country and our own. You do not understand? Of course not. Please then, remember, what she tried to explain, and what you gathered tolerably well from her, namely the fact of the seven principles in the complete human being. Now, no man or woman, unless he be an initiate of the ** fifth circle," can leave the precincts of Bod-Las and return back into the world in his integral whole—if I may use the expression. One, at least of his seven satellites has to remain behind for two reasons : the first to form the necessary connecting link, the wire of transmission—the second as the safest warranter that certain things will never be divulged. She is no exception to the rule, and you have seen another examplar—a highly intellectual man—who had to leave one of hisskins behind ; hence, is considered highly eccentric. The bearingand status of the remaining six depend upon the inherent qualities, the psycho-physiological peculiarities of the person, especiallyupon the idiosyncracies transmitted by what modern science calls''atavism." Acting in accordance with my wishes, my brotherM. made to you through her a certain offer, if you remember.You had but to accept it, and at any time you liked, you wouldhave had for an hour or more, the real baitchooly to converse with,instead of the psychological cripple you generally have to dealwith now. Yesterday it was his mistake. He ought not to havesent her to deliver the message to Mr. Sinnett in the state shewas in. But to hold her responsible for her purely physiologicalexcitement, and to let her see your contemptuous smiles—waspositively sinful. Pardon me, my Brothers and good Sirs, myplain talk. I act but in accord with what was asked from mebyyourself in your letter. I took the trouble to * ' ascertain the spiritand meaning " with which everything in Mr. Sinnett's room wassaid and done ; and though having no right to " condemn " you—since you were ignorant of the true state of things—I cannot other-wise but strongly disapprove of that, which, however muchpolished outwardly would have been even under quite ordinarycircumstances—cruelty still. Buss !