Five Years of Theosophy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 547 pages of information about Five Years of Theosophy.

Five Years of Theosophy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 547 pages of information about Five Years of Theosophy.
of a half-frozen strolling Registrar,” I think something might be gained by the publication of perfectly independent testimony of, perhaps, equal, if not greater, value, though of quite a different character.  With these words of explanation as to the delay in its publication, I resign this paper to the criticism of our sceptical friends.  Let them calmly consider and pronounce upon the evidence of the Tibetan pedlar at Darjiling, supported and strengthened by the independent testimony of the young Brahmachari at Dehradun.  Those who were present when the statements of these persons were taken, all occupy very respectable positions in life—­some in fact belonging to the front ranks of Hindu Society, and several in no way connected with the Theosophical movement, but, on the contrary, quite unfriendly to it.  In those days I again say I was rather sceptical myself.  It is only since I collected the following evidence and received more than one proof of the actual existence of my venerated master, Mahatma Koothoomi, whose presence—­ quite independently of Madame Blavatsky, Colonel Olcott or any “alleged” Chela—­was made evident to me in a variety of ways, that I have given up the folly of doubting any longer.  Now I believe no more—­I know; and knowing, I would help others to obtain the same knowledge.

During my visit to Darjiling I lived in the same house with several Theosophists, all as ardent aspirants for the higher life, and most of them as doubtful with regard to the Himalayan Mahatmas as I was myself at that time.  I met at Darjiling persons who claimed to be Chelas of the Himalayan Brothers and to have seen and lived with them for years.  They laughed at our perplexity.  One of them showed us an admirably executed portrait of a man who appeared to be an eminently holy person, and who, I was told, was the Mahatma Koothoomi (now my revered master), to whom Mr. Sinnett’s “Occult World” is dedicated.  A few days after my arrival, a Tibetan pedlar of the name of Sundook accidentally came to our house to sell his things.  Sundook was for years well-known in Darjiling and the neighbourhood as an itinerant trader in Tibetan knick-knacks, who visited the country every year in the exercise of his profession.  He came to the house several times during our stay there, and seemed to us, from his simplicity, dignity of bearing and pleasant manners, to be one of Nature’s own gentlemen.  No man could discover in him any trait of character even remotely allied to the uncivilized savages, as the Tibetans are held in the estimation of Europeans.  He might very well have passed for a trained courtier, only that he was too good to be one.  He came to the house while I was there.  On the first occasion he was accompanied by a Goorkha youth, named Sundar Lall, an employee in the Darjiling News office, who acted as interpreter.  But we soon found out that the peculiar dialect of Hindi which he spoke was intelligible to some of us without any interpreter,

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