ENCOUNTER OF ALFRED SINNETT WITH MASTER KUTHUMI

English journalist Alfred Sinnett is famous for having had a correspondence with Master Kuthumi, but before that epistolary exchange was intensified, Master Kuthumi gave to Mr. Sinnett a proof of his existence, and that is why in the third letter that the Master wrote to Mr. Sinnett, he mentioned the following to him:

« My Good “Brother,”

In dreams and visions at least, when rightly interpreted there can hardly be an "element of doubt." . . . . I hope to prove to you my presence near you last night by something I took away with me. Your lady will receive it back on the hill. I keep no pink paper to write upon, but I trust modest white will do as well for what I have to say. »

(Mahatma Letter 3A, p.10)

And Mr. Sinnett wrote the following note:

« I saw Kuthumi in astral form on the night of 19th of October, 1880 — waking up for a moment but immediately afterwards being rendered unconscious again (in the body) and conscious out of the body in the adjacent dressing-room where I saw another of the Brothers afterwards identified with one called "Serapis" by Olcott, — "the youngest of the chohans." [Chiefs]

The note about the vision came the following morning, and during that day, the 20th, we went for a picnic to Prospect Hill, when the "pillow incident" occurred. »

(ML 3A, p.10)

And that “incident” must have surprised him tremendously since after that Mr. Sinnett always showed an enormous conviction that Master Kuthumi was a real being and he was not an invention of Blavatsky as the detractors of the theosophical movement claimed.

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At that time Mr. Sinnett lived in India in the city of Simla, but when his work as editor of the newspaper Pionner finished, he and his wife and son returned back to England in March 1883.

A year later, when William Judge visited London in February 1884, several times he was invited by Sinnett to have dinner with his family and William Judge took the opportunity to talk about that meeting, and about it he later wrote a letter to Jasper Niemand the following:

« I asked him [A.P. Sinnett] about his sight of Kuthumi and he related thus:

He was lying in his bed in India one night [October 19, 1880], when suddenly awakening, he found Kuthumi standing by his bed. He rose half up, when Kuthumi put his hand on his head, causing him to fall at once back on the pillow.

He then, he says, found himself out of the body, and in the next room, talking to another adept whom he describes as an English or European, with light hair, fair, and of great beauty.

This is the one [adept] Olcott described to me in 1876 and called by name xxxxx. Please erase that when read. . . .

Sinnett says he [the European adept] is very high. . . »

(Letters that have helped me, Theosophy Company edition, p.196.)

At that time the name of that mysterious Adept was kept very secret, but we know now that he was Serapis.

And it is interesting to note that Mr. Sinnett's description of Chohan Serapis is the same as Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott made of him, which leads me to consider that indeed Mr. Sinnett probably had an encounter with that great Adept.