Clair sinnett biography of mahatma

Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Society in America, The Mahatma letters to A. Sinnett have long been considered to be one of the primary sources of Theosophical teachings. Joy Mills presents the historical background against which the letters were written and examines and comments on passages from a number of the letters.

References are made to the third edition of The Mahatma letters because the chronological edition had not yet been published. There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. We have to first arrange our sentences and impress every letter to appear on paper in our minds before it becomes fit to be read. For the present, it is all I can tell you.

In order to save energy, this process of precipitation was frequently done through chelas. This introduces the possibility of mistakes, especially because the chela is actively participating in the process:. The same as to the precipitation by the chela of the transferred thought upon or rather, into paper; if the mental picture received be feeble his visible reproduction of it must correspond.

And the more so in proportion to the closeness of attention he gives. But the medium and the chela are diametrically dissimilar and the latter acts consciously, except under exceptional circumstances during development not necessary to dwell upon here. Although there are evidences of corrections in the letters after their production, it seems that the Mahatmas did not spend much time proofreading the work of their chelas:.

Moreover, I have to plead guilty to another sin: I have never so much as looked at my letters in print — until the day of the forced investigation. I had read only your own original matter, feeling it a loss of time to go over my hurried bits and scraps of thought. But now, I have to ask you to read the passages as they were originally dictated by me, and make the comparison with the Occult World before you.

I transcribe them with my own hand this once, whereas the letter in your possession was written by the chela. I ask you also to compare this hand-writing with that of some of the earlier letters you received from me. Bear in mind, also the " O. I felt annoyed at her gossip and remarks then ; it may serve a good purpose now. The mistakes are, in part, due to the extremely limited time they had to devote to this kind of correspondence:.

Could you but know how I write my letters and the time I am enabled to give to them, perchance you would feel less critical if not exacting. Writing my letters, then, as I do, a few lines now and a few words two hours later; having to catch up the thread of the same subject, perhaps with a dozen or more interruptions between the beginning and the end, I cannot promise you anything like western accuracy.

From the letters it seems evident that the Masters did not want the letters to be published, at least not in their entirety. In the Summer of A. Sinnett wanted to publish the letters to prove critics that the source for his books was real, but Master K. When our first correspondence began, there was no idea then of any publications being issued on the basis of the replies you might receive.

You went on putting questions at random, and the answers being given at different times to disjointed queries, and so to say, under a semi-protest, were necessarily imperfect, often from different standpoints. Therefore, to put before the world all the crude and complicated materials in your possession in the shape of old letters, in which, I confess, much was purposely made obscure, would only be making confusion worse confounded.

Hence I protest most strongly against your new idea. My letters must not be published, in the manner you suggest, but. The letters, in short, were not written for publication or public comment upon them, but for private use, and neither M. One of the reasons for this is that the Masters usually precipitated the letters in a hurry and the possibility of error was great.

Clair sinnett biography of mahatma

As Master K. Even an " adept " when acting in his body is not beyond mistakes due to human carelessness. You now understand that he is as likely as not to make himself look absurd in the eyes of those who have no right understanding of the phenomena of thought-transference and astral precipitations — and all this, thro' lack of simple caution.

There is always that danger if one has neglected to ascertain whether the words and sentences rushing into the mind have come all from within or whether some may have been impressed from without. That was one of the reasons why, I had hesitated to give my consent to print my private letters and specifically excluded a few of the series from the prohibition.

I had no time to verify their contents — nor have I now. I have a habit of often quoting, minus quotation marks — from the maze of what I get in the countless folios of our Akasic libraries , so to say — with eyes shut. This prohibition was in regards the publication of the whole correspondence. It was desired that the information contained in the letters would be published in suitable ways, and several of the letters were even copied and circulated among Theosophists with the Master's permission.

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