The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky 5.

The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky

5.

Dr. William Hubbe- Schleiden

Dr. Hubbe-Schleiden’s first visit to Madame Blavatsky was sometime between September to December, 1884 when she stayed with Gebhards at Elberfeld, Germany. The letter he wrote to Countess Constance Wachtmeister( the lady who was ‘sent’ to help her while she was at Wurzburg) is included in ‘Reminiscences of H. P. Blavatsky and The Secret Doctrine’ by C. Wachtmeister. In this letter of January 1893, he says: “I did not pay much attention to the manner of her work from the standpoint of a hunter for the phenomena, and did not control it for that purpose; but I know that I saw a good deal of the well-known blue K. H. handwriting as corrections and annotations on her manuscript as well as in books that lay occasionally on her desk. And I noticed this principally in the morning before she had commenced her work. I slept on the couch in her study after she had withdrawn for the night, and the couch stood only a few feet away from her desk. I remember well my astonishment one morning when I got up to find a great many pages of foolscap covered with that with that blue pencil handwriting lying on her own manuscript, at her place on her desk. How these papers got there I do not know, but I did not see them before I went to sleep and no person had been bodily in the room during the night, for I am a light sleeper”.

“I must say that the view I took then was the same that I hold now. I never did and never shall judge of the value and the origin of any mental product from the way and manner in which it is produced. And for this reason I withheld my opinion then, thinking and saying: “I shall wait till ‘The Secret Doctrine’ is finished and then I can read it quietly; that will be the test for me, the only one that will be any good.”

“This is the reason why on the night of my last parting from H. P. B., the two ‘certificates’ were given to me. At least I found them in my copy of Hodgson’s S. P. R. Report after I had left her…”

The text of this ‘certificate’, which was a letter from Master M is as follows:

“If this can be of any use or help to Dr. Hubbe-Schleiden—though I doubt it –I, the humble undersigned Fakir, certify that the “Secret Doctrine” is dictated to Upasika partly by myself and partly by my Brother K. H.

M.’. 
 (‘Upasika’ is a Sanskrit term for a female disciple, the masculine noun being ‘Upasak’ ; literally it means ‘the one whose seat is lower (subordinate) to (the Guru)’. The observance and adherence to the inner hierarchy was mandatory to The Brotherhood, and H. P. B. held her Masters in the utmost reverence in her heart and practice.)

The second ‘certificate’ received by Doctor was in blue crayon, and was contained in an envelope similar to the first one, according to Ernst Pieper, the person who made the facsimile copies of the four letters received by the Doctor.

Its text is as follows: “I wonder if this note of mine is worthy of occupying a select spot with the documents reproduced, and which of the peculiarities of the ‘Blavatskian style of writing it will be found to most resemble? The present is simply to satisfy the Dr. that---“the more proof given the less believed.” Let him take my advice and not make these two documents public. It is for his own satisfaction that the undersigned is happy to assure him that ‘The Secret Doctrine when ready, will be the triple production of M, Upasika and the Doctor’s most humble servant.

S.E.C.                                                                                                                                                                      K.H.

The reference; “the documents reproduced” is most probably, to Richard Hodgson’s Report published by ‘The Society for Psychical Research’ in its proceedings, and which was responsible for raising doubts in the minds of people about the existence of the ‘Masters’. We found Dr. Hubbe-Schleiden alluding to the same ‘S.P.R. Report’ at the end of his letter to Constance Wachtmeister quoted above."

[Next; Some excerpts from ‘The Mahatma Letters’ received by A.P. Sinnett]  

   

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