LBS-Appendix III
This note appears on the margin of a newspaper cutting about the healing powers of H.S. Olcott.
To A.P. Sinnett,
This is all done thro' the power of a lock of hair sent by our beloved younger Chohan to H.S.O.
I pray you friend to show this to the bitter opponents of your Society.
K.H.
Notes
1. One who no longer incarnates but who has chosen to renounce Nirvana until the end of the Manvantara in order to help the struggling pilgrims still on earth.
2. Collected Writings, Vol. VIII, p. 392.
3. Collected Writings, Vol. VIII, P.399.
4. "Rome existed before Romulus founded it." – C-ED.
5. Archimedes. – C-ED.
6. The description of these phenomena will be found in The Occult World: the note on p. 54, the cup on p. 58, and the brooch on p. 68. – C-ED.
7. For the reply of Mahatma K.H. to Hume, see Appendix I of this book. – C-ED.
8. Usual English spelling "Amritsar". – EDS.
9. This concerns the Brooch No. 1 incident and the fact that 9 persons had signed the published statement in support of its authenticity. (The Occult World, p. 72) In Sinnett's write-up of the incident, he had mentioned the possible assistance of the Mahatma K.H., thus making the tenth of those present. – C-ED.
10. A vakil is a native lawyer who speaks English; presumably a person of some education. – C-ED.
11. Sic. But see Letter No. 10, (ML-5) p. 26. – EDS.
12. Query bedimmed. – EDS.
13. Query Mlechchas (barbarians). – EDS.
14. Presumably H.P.B – C-ED.
15. Probably it refers to a chela. – C-ED.
16. The Dalai Lama. – C-ED.
17. The asterisks and numbers refer to the replies in Letter No. 9 (ML-98). C-ED.
18. Dr. Henry Slade was an American medium of quite exceptional talents who was subjected to many tests by H.P.B. and Olcott and picked by Olcott to go to Russia, at the request of the St. Petersburg Scientific Committee, to undergo some tests. See Old Diary Leaves, Vol. I, p. 101 et seq. – ED.
19. The asterisk and numbers refer to [Letter No. 8 (ML-99)] from A.O. Hume on which K.H. comments in this letter. – ED.
20. This refers to the letter written by Sinnett from Simla which H.P.B. received in Amritsar on the 27th and transmitted immediately to the Mahatma when he was en route by train to see her, and to the telegram which he sent from Jhelum. This was discussed in connection with Letter No. 5 (ML-4). Apparently Sinnett had not yet obtained a copy of the telegram, so he was not entirely convinced. Later, Sinnett did get a copy of the telegram, and the circumstances became incontrovertible. – C-ED.
21. Refers to the article of Olcott on the Simla phenomenon intended for T.S. members only, but which was unfortunately published by an Indian paper. – C-ED.
22. "And this is why we go no more to the woods." – C-ED.
23. See Letter No. 5 (ML-4) p. 16. – C-ED.
24. The term "Shaberon" is used to denote a superior adept. Presumably in this instance it is a reference to the Mahachohan. – C-ED.
25. See Appendix I of this volume for this first K.H. letter to Hume. – C-ED.
26. I never said – I did!
27. Lit. man of many forms; an actor who plays many parts. – EDS.
28. Hume's wife and personal secretary. – C-ED.
29. For passages omitted from the Master's original Letter at this point see [pp. 400-401]. – EDS.
30. The avatar who appears at the end of a dark age, or Kali Yug, to dispel its shadows. – C-ED.
31. A mirage. – C-ED.
32. "He did it." – C-ED.
33. The Mahachohan. – C-ED.
34. A reference to the French Baron de Potet who was one of the early investigators of mesmerism. – C-ED.
35. Unsolicited advice. – C-ED.
36. "Mission in the lands of the unbelievers." – C-ED.
37. The adept hero of Bulwer Lytton's occult novel, Zanoni. – C-ED.
38. This friend is his chela, Djual Khul, who was accompanying him on this trip. He is frequently referred to in the letters as "the Disinherited," a nickname given him because he was disinherited when he became a chela of the Mahatma K.H. He is also sometimes called Benjamin. – C-ED.
39. Refers to the phenomenal production of the extra cup and saucer during the picnic at Simla on Oct. 3, 1880. See OW, p. 58, et seq. – C-ED.
40. So, at least, Mrs. S. says; I myself did not search the crockery shops; so too, the bottle filled with water I filled with my own hand – was one of the four only that the servants had in the basket, and these four bottles had but just been brought back empty by these peons from their fruitless search after water, when you sent them to the little brewery with a note. Hoping to be excused for the interference and with my most respectful regards to the lady.
Yours, etc.
THE "DISINHERITED."*
*A nickname for Djual Kool. – EDS.
41. Damodar's letter. See Letters No. 14A and 14B (ML142A and 142B). –C-ED.
42. A well-known spiritualist of Scottish birth but brought up in the United States. He later went to England where he was active in spiritualist circles and became acquainted with Lord Lindsay and other interested persons. – C-ED.
43. H.P.B. – C-ED.
44. The Occult World. – C-ED.
45. The Occult World. – EDS.
46. One of the loftiest peaks in the Himalayas, north of Lake Manasa. – C-ED.
47. A German-born and educated philologist and famous Sanskrit scholar. Translated many oriental works for European readers, his major works appearing in the series entitled Sacred Books of the East. – C-ED.
48. A famous Sanskrit scholar. He traveled extensively in India in connection with his translations of Indian writings. – C-ED.
49. Presumably a making visible. – EDS.
50. The Mahachohan. – C-ED.
51. Sinnett's The Occult World, which had just been published. – C-ED.
52. Anna B. Kingsford was an English spiritualist who played a considerable part in the TS in England and later on was President of the London Lodge. She is best known for her book, Perfect Way, first published in 1881. – C-ED.
53. Query, should be powerful. – EDS.
54. Query, negatives of. – EDS.
55. The Occult World. – C-ED.
56. Alfred Russel Wallace and Sir William Crookes. Crookes was a noted English scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society. For a time he was one of the five counselors of the T.S. He made some remarkable discoveries in what he termed "radiant matter" and, much later on in the letters the Mahatma says that it was his occult research which led to his discoveries. – C-ED.
57. Here three lines in the original letter have been completely erased apparently by the writer thereof. – ED.
58. Here again six lines in the original have been deleted. – ED.
59. This refers to the erasures and deletions from the immediately preceding letter. – C-ED.
60. Presumably the Mahachohan. – C-ED.
61. A young Irishman and British civil servant whom the Founders met on shipboard when they were sailing from England to Bombay 1879, and to whom both warmed at once. Col. Olcott called him "a noble fellow and an Irishman of the better sort." – C-ED.