Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00291)

BELOW is Franz Hartmann's testimonial evidence concerning the Mahatma 
Letter that he received. A careful reading of the text shows that 
the letter was not written and planted beforehand. It is only by 
IGNORING crucial parts of the testimony that Steve Stubbs can 
maintain his hypothesis of the planting. It is by this method of 
IGNORING crucial elements in testimony and experiments that skeptics 
of the paranormal deny the validity of such phenomena. These 
skeptics always assume there are ERRORS SOME PLACE in the testimony 
or experiment that invalidate the paranormal explanation. By 
ignoring crucial parts of evidence one can in fact explain away any 
known historical event, e.g. those who deny the reality of the 
Holocaust.

Daniel
http://hpb.cc


HARTMANN'S ACCOUNT:

This morning at half-past eleven I went upstairs to Madame 
Blavatsky's room and had a conversation with her in regard to
society matters. After this conversation the thought came in my mind 
to ask her opinion in regard to a certain subject of which I had been 
thinking. Madame Blavatsky advised me to apply to the Master 
himself, to ask him mentally, and that the Master himself would 
surely answer my question. A few minutes later she said she felt his 
presence, and that she saw him writing. I must say that I too felt 
his influence and seemed to see his face, but of course this 
circumstance will carry conviction to no one but myself. 

Just then another lady came in, to my great annoyance, and expressed 
her wish to have a pair of pincers, which she needed for some 
purpose, and remembering that I had such a pair of pincers in the 
drawer of my writing desk, I went downstairs into my room to get 
them. I opened the drawer, saw the pincers and a few other things in 
there, but no vestige of any letter, as I had removed my papers the 
day before to another place. I took the pincers and was about to 
close the drawer, when --- there lay in the drawer a great envelope, 
addressed to me in the well-known handwriting of the Master and 
sealed with the seal bearing his initials in Tibetan characters. On 
opening it, I found a long, very kind and somewhat complimentary 
letter, treating of the identical questions, about which I had just 
been talking with Madame Blavatsky, besides giving a detailed and 
satisfactory answer to the very question which had so perplexed my 
mind, and a satisfactory explanation of certain matters, which for 
some time had been foremost in my mind, but of which I had said 
nothing at all. 

Moreover, there was in the same envelope a photograph, cabinet-size, 
of the Master's face, with a dedication to me at the back. This 
picture will henceforth be considered as the greatest treasure in my 
possession. 

Now, if I know anything at all, I know that my drawer contained no 
such letter, when I opened it, and that there was nobody visible in 
my room at that time. The letter, giving a detailed answer to my 
question, must have been written, sealed and put into the drawer in 
less than four minutes, while it took exactly forty minutes to copy 
it the next day; and finally, it treated a very difficult problem in 
such an elaborate and yet concise manner, that only an intelligence 
of the highest order could have done the same.