{Received, Simla, June 3+, 1882}
[Parts of this letter are missing. The comments in K.H.'s handwriting are printed in bold type. — Ed.]
Extracts I got for your benefit — pitying your impatience from "Rishi M⸫" — See my note.
It would no doubt cause him considerable inconvenience if he were obliged to change his mode of life completely. You will find from the letters that he is very anxious to know beforehand the nature of the Siddhis or wonder-working powers that he is expected to obtain by the process or ritual I intend prescribing for him.
The power to which he will be introduced by the process in question will no doubt develop wonderful clairvoyant powers both as regards sight and sound in some of its higher correlations; and that the highest of its correlations is intended by our Rishi — M⸫ — to lead the candidate through the first three stages of initiation if he is properly qualified for it.
But I am not prepared to assure Mr. Sinnett now that I shall teach him any of its higher correlations. What I mean to teach him now is a necessary preliminary preparation for studying such correlations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . my proposal into consideration.
As I have been wandering here and there since my arrival here I have not been able to complete my second article with reference to Mr. Oxley's book.
But I will try my best to finish it as soon as possible.
For the present I beg to remain
Your most obedient servant
T. Subba Row {symbols; see handwriting
samples IV}
Coconada. 3rd June 1882
{To} Madam H. P. Blavatsky {symbols; see
handwriting samples IV}
My dear friend, — I strongly advise you not to undertake at present a task beyond your strength and means; for once pledged were you to break your promise it would cut you off for years, if not for ever from any further progress. I said from the first to "Rishi M⸫" that his intention was kind but his project wild. How can you in your position undertake any such labor? Occultism is not to be trifled with. It demands all or nothing. I read your letter to S.R. sent by him to Morya and I see you do not understand the first principles of . . . X
(Contd. Post Letter 76.)
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