The masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky 7 Precipitation

The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky

7.

Excerpts from Mahatma Letters To Sinnett:

Precipitation

From Letter2 Section1 On Adept:

The adept is the rare efflorescence of a generation of enquirers; and to become one, he must obey the inward impulse of his soul irrespective of the prudential considerations of worldly science or sagacity…Your desire is to be brought to communicate with one of us directly, without the agency of either Mad, B. or any medium….Your idea would be to obtain such communication either by letters—as the present one—or by audible words so as to be guided by one of us in the management and instruction of the Society. You seek all this, and yet you say that hitherto you have not found “sufficient reason” to give up your “modes of life” directly hostile to such communications. This is hardly reasonable.

Same Letter on Motives:

“Your motives are (1) The desire to receive positive and unimpeachable proofs that there really are forces in nature of which science knows nothing; (2) The hope to appropriate them some day—the sooner the better, for you do not like to wait—so as to enable yourself—(a) to demonstrate their existence to a few chosen western minds; (b) to contemplate future life as an objective reality built upon the rock of Knowledge—not of faith; and finally, (c) to learn—most important this, among all your motives, perhaps, though the most occult and the best guarded—the whole truth about our Lodges and ourselves; to get in short, the positive assurance that the “Brothers” –of whom everyone hears so much and sees so little are real entities, not fictions of a disordered hallucinated brain. Such viewed in their best light appear to be your motives in addressing me. …..”

“To our minds then, these motives, sincere and worthy of every serious consideration from the worldly standpoint, appear ‘selfish’. …”

“They are selfish because you must be aware that the chief object of the T.S. is not so much to gratify individual aspirations as to serve our fellow men; and the real value of this term “selfish”, which may jar upon your ear, has a peculiar significance with us which it cannot have with you……Yet you have ever discussed only to put down the idea of a universal Brotherhood, questioned its usefulness, and advised to remodel the T. S. on the principle of a college for the special study of occultism. This, my respected and esteemed friend and Brother—will never do!”

Most of the Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett were not ‘precipitated’, but exchanged in the normal mode—by post or via a worldly, human courier.

From Section1 Letter 3B.

The difficulty you spoke last night—with respect to the interchange of our letters, I will try to remove. One of our pupils will shortly visit Lahore and the North West Provinces, and an address will be sent to you which you can always use; unless, indeed, you would prefer corresponding through—pillows. Please do note that the present (letter) is not dated from a ‘Lodge’, but from a Kashmir valley.

About ‘Precipitation’ and the ‘precipitated’ letters;

Though there are allusions to these phenomena at some places among the “Letters”, there is no explanation provided for them. The following allusion occurs in Letter6, Sect. 1.

“For whether I “precipitate” or dictate the letters myself, the difference in time saved is very minute. I have to ‘think’ it over, to photograph every word and sentence carefully in my brain before it can be repeated by “precipitation”. As the fixing of chemically prepared surface of the images formed by the camera requires a previous arrangement within the focus of the object to be presented, for otherwise—as often found in bad photographs—the legs of the sitter might appear out of all proportion with the head, and so on, so we have to first arrange our sentences and impress every letter to appear on paper in our mind before it becomes fit to be read. For the present , it is all I can tell you. When science will have learned more about the mystery of the ‘lithophyl’ (or ‘lithobiblion’), and hoe the impress of leaves comes originally to take place on stones, then will I be able to make you better understand the process.”

Another allusion:letter33:Section 3: “precipitation”

“Very often, our very letters are written in our handwritings by our ‘chelas’. Thus last year, some of my letters to you were ‘precipitated’.

Allusion to the more general practice of writing the letters in the ordinary way:Letter8:Sect.1

“Time is precious and writing material still more so. “Precipitation”-- in your case having become unlawful; lack of –whether ink or paper—standing no better chance and I being far away from home, and at a place where a stationer’s shop is less needed than a breathing air, our correspondence threatens to break very abruptly unless I manage my stock in hand judiciously.”

One more allusion to precipitation and I take a break:

“I believe you are now satisfied with my portrait made by Herr Schmiechen and as dissatisfied with the one you have? Yet all are like in their way. Only while the others are the productions of chelas, the last one was painted with M.’s (Master Morya) hand on the artist’s head, and often on his arm. “