Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl01008)

Alexis wrote:

"I personally believe that
the Mahatma Letters may have been completely the work of HPB...."

Other readers on Theos-l might like to know what other people have
said about HPB having been the author of the Mahatma Letters.

Dr. Vernon Harrision, a  "handwriting expert",  studied the Mahatma Letters
in the British Library and compared them with HPB's letters.  Dr.
Harrison concluded that he could find no clear evidence that HPB
wrote the Mahatma  letters and found significant evidence that she did not
write the letters.

Charles Marshall did a syntactic investigation into the possibility that
HPB forged the Mahatma Letters.  His study supports the finding by
Dr. Harrison that HPB was not the author of the MLs.

In my historical studies, I have found that many Mahatma Letters were
received by Sinnett or Olcott or whomever when HPB was hundreds if
not thousands of miles away.  For example, in 1882, when Olcott was
in northern India (between Allahabad and Calcutta), he received a
K.H. letter to be forwarded to Sinnett.  HPB was hundreds of miles away
at the time at Bombay T.S. headquarters.

Now there is the possibility that HPB psychically produced the letters
from hundreds of miles away.  But if she could do that, then why not
a Master by the name of KH or M?

If anyone wants to read the reports by Harrison and Marshall, I will
be happy to supply the exact citations and references.

Daniel

P.S.  Is the KH letter received on August 22, 1888 by Olcott ( when he
was on board ship in the Mediterrean heading for London) the handiwork
of HPB?  HPB on that date  was in London trying to finish THE SECRET DOCTRINE.