Theos-Talk Archives (March 2002 Message tt00067)

Testimony of Henry S. Olcott
October 25, 1888
Approaching Rome, Italy by train

In a letter to H.P. Blavatsky, Colonel H.S. Olcott
wrote:

"[I had] the most unexpected and splendid visit from
M[orya] in the train. I felt so rejoiced. . . . He
was so kind, so loving and compassionate; despite all
my faults and shortcomings, he bears with me and holds
to me because of the useful work I have now and then
done, and of my fervent desire to do my duty. If he
has not told you already, he will; so I shall not flog
my tired brain to describe how he came, talked, looked
and went. Goodnight, Chum -- to you and to all . . .
." 

In his handwritten diary for Oct. 25, 1888, Henry
Olcott penned the following: 

"At 9:30 [I] took train for Rome via Pistoia and Pisa.
In train all night. . . . [I] had a most encouraging
visit from M[orya] in the train." 

Sources: Letter dated Oct. 26, 1888 from Henry Olcott
to H.P. Blavatsky (extract quoted in Hammer on the
Mountain, Howard Murphet, Wheaton, Illinois,
Theosophical Publishing House, 1972, p. 236); Olcott,
Henry S. Diaries. Entry for Oct. 25, 1888.


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Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm
"...Contrast alone can enable us to appreciate things at
their right value; and unless a judge compares notes and
hears both sides he can hardly come to a correct decision."
H.P. Blavatsky. The Theosophist, July, 1881, p. 218.

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