Mahatma Letter of M Gebhard from KH - 1884 Sept/Oct
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| People involved | |
| Written by: | Koot Hoomi |
| Received by: | Mary Gebhard |
| Sent via: | unknown |
| Dates | |
| Written on: | late 1884 |
| Received on: | unknown |
| Other dates: | unknown |
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| Sent from: | unknown |
| Received at: | unknown |
| Via: | unknown |
This letter of encouragement from Master K. H. to Mary Gebhard has not been published previously in print.
Page 1 of letter transcription, image, and notes
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The germs that you have been nursing in your innermost heart for thirty years are now rapidly ripening. The harvest time is come. Thus is your hour of opportunity and your crisis. Falter not, sister, when the goal is in sight. Else you will lose much that you have gained. The guests who have thronged your house and burdened you with trouble and anxiety, were gathered here by us for a purpose, and it will be accomplished. And see how Chitteragupa is remembering you already --- in the cases of your children and even of your husband! He so long near you in body but so distant in spirit, until of late. Aye a flood of light, of the sunlight of Theosophy, has entered your house, thro’ the physical and moral gloom of Elberfeld. Keep it shining on the mirror of your “Soul,” sister, wherein you gaze to scan the future. With L.C.H. be friend and sister, she is staunch, true, pure and brave. Her gold is purifying in these furnace fires. So is yours and Mohini and that of all of you. Blessings and thanks. K. H. |
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Context and background
Daniel H. Caldwell provided this introduction in his Blavatsky Archives website:
This short letter from Master K.H. was addressed to Mary Gebhard of Elberfeld, Germany. In The Letters of H.P. Blavatsky to A.P. Sinnett (London, 1925, No. 184), this epistle is described as "a letter received by Mrs. G. one day in her room about 4 to 5 weeks after" her husband Gustav Gebhard had received his letter from Master K.H.[1]
Physical description of letter
Unknown. This letter is in a private collection.
Publication history
This letter has never been published in printed form. It was first made available in 1999 for viewing on the Blavatsky Archives website.
Commentary about this letter
Daniel H. Caldwell provided two footnotes to this letter on his website:
(1) Compare "Chitteragupa" with the following entry in HPB's Theosophical Glossary: "Chitra Gupta (Sk.). The deva (or god) who is the recorder of Yama (the god of death), and who is supposed to read the account of every Soul's life from a register called Agra Sandhani, when the said soul appears before the seat of Judgment. . . . " (p. 82.)
(2) "L.C.H." is Mrs. Laura C. Holloway, an American newspaper journalist then visiting the Gebhard family in Elberfeld, Germany. Mrs. Holloway also received letters from the Master K.H. See A Mahatma Letter to Mrs. Laura C. Holloway. For some of Mrs. Holloway's reminiscences of this time period, see Narratives 13g and 14d of The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky.[2]
Additional resources
Daniel H. Caldwell recommended these resources:
For more background information on this period of Madame Blavatsky's life see Daniel Caldwell's book The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky. For biographical material on the Gebhard family, consult H.P. Blavatsky's Collected Writings, Volume VI, pp. 434-6.
FFor biographical material on the Gebhard family, consult H.P. Blavatsky's Collected Writings, Volume VI, pp. 434-6. Mary Gebhard gave testimony to the Society for Psychical Research about a "vision" she had of the Mahatma Morya. See also Appendix XXXIX of the "First S.P.R. Report on H.P.B."
