141. The Simla Eclectic Theosophical Society. ––EDS.
142. Transcribed from a copy in Mr. Sinnett's handwriting. ––ED.
143. Query 'then'. ––EDS.
144. Tibetan occult works, said to consist of 35 volumes of popular writings and 7 volumes of esoteric writings, with some 14 volumes of commentaries. The Stanzas of Dzyan in The Secret Doctrine comprise the first volume of the commentaries on the 7 secret folios of Kiu-te. –– C-ED.
145. Query, cycles of necessity. –– EDS.
146. William Terry was an Australian member of the Theosophical Society. He had made a number of inquiries about theosophical ideas that seemed of sufficient importance that Sinnett and Hume were persuaded to answer them at length. It was out of this correspondence that the series of articles, "Fragments of Occult Truth," grew originally. –– C-ED.
147. For explanatory notes see next page.
148. Query, should be Antarâla (intermediate state). –– EDS.
149. Transcribed from a copy in Mr. Sinnett's handwriting. –– C-ED.
150. K.H.'s replies to Mr. Sinnett's queries are printed in bold type. — EDS.
151. Those who have not ended their earth rings.
152. Literally — those who will never return — the seventh round men, etc.
153. See back — (1) of your questions.
154. "Fragments of Occult Truth" appeared in The Theosophist, 1881-1883. — EDS.
155. Tibetan: Yuh-Kai.
156. This Mara, as you may well think, is the allegorical image of the sphere called the "Planet of Death" — the whirlpool whither disappear the lives doomed to destruction. It is between Kama and Rupa-Lokas that the struggle takes place.
157. The Planetary Spirits of our Earth are not of the highest, as you may well imagine — since, as Subba Row says in his criticism upon Oxley's work that no Eastern Adept would like to be compared with an angel or a Deva.
158. In Abhidharma Shastra (Metaphysics) we read: — "Buddha taught that on the outskirts of all the Sakwalas there is a black interval, without Sun or moonlight for him who falls into it. There is no re-birth from it. It is the cold Hell, the great Naraka". This is A vitchi.
159. I remark that in the second as well as in the first edition of your Occult World the same misprint appears, and that the word Skandha is spelt Shandba — on page 130. As it now stands I am made to express myself in a very original way for a supposed Adept.
160. See the Abhidharma Kosha Vyakhya, the Sutta Pitaka, any Northern Buddhist book, all of which show Gautama Buddha saying that none of these Skandhas is the soul; since the body is constantly changing, and that neither man, animal nor plant is ever the same for two consecutive days or even minutes. "Mendicants! Remember that there is within man no abiding principle whatever, and that only the learned disciple who acquires wisdom, in saying 'I am' — knows what he is saying."
161. Alone the Shells and the Elementals are left unhurt, though the morality of the sensitives can by no means be improved by the intercourse.
162. Ross Scott traveled from England to India with the Founders. He was secretary of the Simla Eclectic Theosophical Society. Banon was Captain A. Banon, Fellow of the Theosophical Society, a British army Officer. — C-ED.
163. To avoid a fresh surprise and confusion at the news of the fifth keeping company with the sixth and seventh, please turn to page 3, et seq. [p. 192-193] ED.]
164. I did not find time. Will send it a day or two later.
165. Refers to the difficulties Sinnett was having with the proprietors of the newspaper, The Pioneer. — C-ED.
166. The original letter of A.O.H. to K.H. has some passages numbered and underlined with blue pencil by K.H. These are printed [as underlined texts]. The numbers refer to K.H.'s replies, for which see post [Letter No. 70c (ML-20c)]. —ED.
167. French spiritualist and editor of La Revue Spirits, or The Spirits Book, as it came to be known. His real name was Hippolite L.D. Rivail. — C-ED.
168. Query, for 'and though' substitute 'because'. —EDS.
169. Letter from Mr. Sinnett to H.P.B. on the backs of the pages of which is part of a long letter from K.H. [Letter No. 70c (ML-20c)] re queries of Hume's. The [underlined] passages have been underlined in blue by K.H. — ED.
170. See over, [Letter No. 70c (ML-20c)]. — EDS.
171. That vision takes place when a person is already proclaimed dead. The brain is the last organ that dies.
172. Query, insert, the projector. — EDS.
173. Annihilated suddenly as human Egos and personalities, lasting in that world of pure matter under various material forms an inconceivable length of time before they can return to primeval matter.
174. See ante [Letter No. 70A (ML-20A)]. — ED.
175. Two lines in original have been deleted here. — ED.
176. Fragments in K.H.'s writing. — ED.
177. The extracts are in Mr. Sinnett's handwriting. — ED.
178. Nous autokrates. — ED.
179. The portion of A.O. Hume's letter quoted by K.H. [pp. 221], is a facsimile precipitation of A.O.H.'s own writing, and the [underlined] passages in it have been underlined by K.H. — ED.
180. This is something that Hume did do, for he later turned against the Mahatmas and the Theosophical Society. — C-ED.
181. Query, should be Upasaka, the male form of Upasika. — EDS.
182. An Athenian statesman, whose mistress was Aspasia. — C-ED.
183. A friend of Sinnett's, it seems, an author whom Sinnett was trying to interest in Theosophy. Sinnett had shown him two portraits of the Mahatma K.H. which had come into his possession in rather unusual circumstances. — C-ED.
184. These two paragraphs are still in the handwriting of Master K.H. The last paragraph alone is in the handwriting of Master M. — EDS.
185. Letter from Mr. Sinnett to K.H. With K.H.'s Comments printed in bold type. — ED.
186. "I am that I am." — EDS.
187. Devi Muni and Paramahansa Shub-Tung. — C-ED.
188. This refers to the incident mentioned in a recent letter in which Fern was to pass on a letter from the Mahatma to Hume and, because he was annoyed with Hume, hid the letter in his napkin rather than giving it to him directly, thus lending the impression that it was phenomenally received and then lying about it.— C-ED.
189. The numbers in brackets refer to K.H.'s replies, for which see [Letter 85B (ML-24B)]. — ED.
190. K.H.'s replies to the "Famous Contradictions"; the numbers correspond to those which appear in the text of Mr. Sinnett's Queries. See ante [Letter 85A (ML-24A)] — ED.
191. Probably refers to the Swami from Almora, to whom Hume turned for teaching. — C-ED.
192. A large monastery in Tibet just across the border of Sikkim. K.H. must have been at this monastery at the time of writing this letter. — C-ED.
193. Transcribed from a copy in Mr. Sinnett's handwriting. – ED.
194. Transcribed from a copy in Mr. Sinnett's handwriting. – ED.
195. Query 'comes' or 'brings cold.' – EDS.
196. The Swami from Almora. He had written some articles on Adwaitism with which Subba Row had disagreed vigorously. – C-ED.
197. The latter he certainly was, though never very "worthy," for he had always been a selfish, plotting rascal, in the secret pay of the late Gaekwar.