The Masters
4.
Dr. William Hubbe-Schleiden, a German scholar who was
greatly interested in the Theosophical doctrine, knew H. P. B. personally. He
speaks of his visit to her when she was staying at Wurzburg while engaged in
the writing of The Secret Doctrine. This was in October 1885. He remained with
her in Wurzburg for a week and saw her writing her magnum opus. He described
how he used to see her at her desk writing copiously, as if from something that
lay open before her on her desk, when in reality there was nothing there to
copy from. He mentions how one morning he woke up to find a great many pages of
foolscap covered with blue pencil handwriting lying on her own manuscript when no person had
been in the room bodily in that room during the night. Onwards from 1886, he
received four letters from the Masters testifying to having aided ‘Upasika” in her
writing. Facsimile copies of those letters were made and preserved in the
archives of The Theosophical Society, Pasadena, California, whereas the original letters fell into the
hands of the Gestapo in 1941 and were presumably destroyed.
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