Theosophical Society,
H P Blavatsky
Letter from A O Hume
on the
subject of a mysterious appearance
of a letter
from his master
MY
DEAR BROTHER,
I
may hope at some future time to be able to answer your note of the 1st August
more
fully and more satisfactorily than is now possible. That the Brothers exist
I
now know, but the proofs that I have had have been purely subjective and
therefore
useless to any but myself—unless indeed you consider it a proof of
their
existence that I here, at Simla, receive letters from one of them, my
immediate
teacher, dropped upon my table, I living alone in my house and Madame Blavatsky,
Col. Olcott and all their chelas, etc., being thousands of miles distant.
I
have certainly devoted my life or what little remains of it to the furtherance
of
the cause of Theosophy hoping and believing that I may thereby do some little good
both by helping to lead many to join us on the platform of Universal love and
charity and some few to join us on the higher platform of spiritual
self-culture.
As
to what good the Brothers have done either to myself or others I am not in a
position
to reply—I am not even a chela—only a lay disciple and know little more of what
the Brothers do than yourself—but if you consider the establishment of the Theosophical
Society a good thing, then this is one at any rate of the good things done by
the Brothers for others, and if you think it a good thing for me that I have
turned away altogether from all worldly objects of desire and am devoting
myself entirely to trying to do good for others, then I suppose we may say that
this is a good thing which the Brothers have helped to do for me.
Yours fraternally,
A. O. HUME.
Theosophical Society,