The Mahatma Letters are letters that were supposedly written by the mystical theosophical Mahatmas to certain theosophists. Letters by the Mahatmas were supposedly written to Helena Blavatsky, A.P. Sinnett, C.W. Leadbeater and others.
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Mahatma Letters Homepage
The Mahatma letters to A. P. Sinnett
Blavatsky and the Mahatma Letters
The Mahatmas and their letters
HPB and the SPR Vernon Harrison's book on the Hodgson report
Mahatma is Sanskrit for "Great Soul." This epithet is applied to people like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (who was so qualified by Nautamlal Bhagavanji Mehta on January 21, 1915 at Kamribai School in Jetpur, India) and is used to refer to adepts, liberated souls, or professionals.
According to some Theosophical and New Age teachings, the Mahatmas are not disembodied beings, but people involved in overseeing the growth of individuals and the development of civilisations.
The replies and explanations given by the Mahatmas to the questions by Sinnett are embodied in their letters from 1880 to 1885, published in London in 1923 as The MahatmaLetters to A. Sinnett.
In a letter to Frau Gebhard, Madame Blavatsky confessed that, to avoid complicated explanations, she had sometimes treated notes as having come directly from the Master in his own handwriting, when she knew that this was not really the case.
Referring to the inadequacy of the chelas who were the real writers of most of the letters, she said that there were passages in some of the letters that were "expressed in such language that it perverted entirely the meaning originally intended".
The letter was dictated to and precipitated by an inexperienced chela when the Mahatma was on horseback and physically very weary after 60 hours without sleep, 48 of which had been spent in the saddle.
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