ENCOUNTER OF BLAVATSKY’S AUNT WITH MASTER KUTHUMI

When Blavatsky was in Tibet (in 1870, five years before the Theosophical Society was founded), her family in Russia had not news of her and believe she was dead, but then her aunt was visited at her door by a man of Eastern appearance who handed her a letter assuring her that her niece was safe and that she would be back home within a certain period of time. And the messenger then suddenly vanished before the aunt’s eyes, leaving her alone with the letter in her hand.

The letter said the following:

« To the Honorable,

  Most Honorable Lady,
  Nadyéjda Andréewna Fadeew,
  Odessa.

The noble relations of Mme H. Blavatsky have no cause whatsoever for grief. Their daughter and niece has not left this world. She lives, and desires to make known to those whom she loves that she is well and very happy in the distant and unknown retreat which she has selected for herself. She has been very ill, but is so no longer; for under the protection of the Lord Sang-gyas [Buddha´s Tibetan name] she has found devoted friends who take care of her physically and spiritually. The ladies of her house should therefore make themselves easy. Before 18 new moons shall have risen, she will return to her family. »

And here is a facsimile:

The text is written in French and the letter is not signed, but the handwriting is the calligraphy of Master Kuthumi, as you can see in this another letter of the Mahatma:

Master Kuthumi knew the French language, but not the Russian language, and I suppose that is why he wrote the letter in French, because Blavatsky's aunt even though she was Russian, she also knew the French language.

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When later, the Society for Psychical Research accused Blavatsky of impostor, Madame Fadeew to help her niece wrote from Paris to Colonel Olcott in French on June 26, 1884, and the translation of her letter is as follows:

« Two or three years ago I wrote to Mr. Sinnett in reply to one of his letters, and I remember telling him what happened to me about a letter which I received phenomenally, when my niece [H.P. Blavatsky] was at the other side of the world, and not a soul knew where she was — which grieved us greatly.

All our researches had ended in nothing. We were ready to believe her dead, when (I think it was about the year 1870) I received a letter from him whom I believe you call Kouth-humi [Kuthumi] which was brought to me in the most incomprehensible and mysterious manner, by a messenger of Asiatic appearance, who then disappeared before my very eyes.

This letter begged me not to fear anything, and announced that she was in safety.

My niece spoke of [these Mahatmas] to me, and at great length, years ago. She wrote me that she had again met and renewed her relations with several of them, even before she wrote her Isis Unveiled. If I who have ever been, and hope ever to continue, to be a fervent Christian, believe in the existence of these men — although I may refuse to credit all the miracles they attribute to them — why should not others believe in them?

For the existence of at least one of them, I can certify. Who, then, could have written me this letter to reassure me at the moment when I had the greatest need for such comfort, unless it had been one of those adepts mentioned?

It is true that the handwriting is not known to me, but the manner in which it was delivered to me was phenomenal, that none other than an adept in occult science could have affected it. It promised me the return of my niece — and the promise was duly fulfilled.

I have still, but at Odessa. Immediately upon my return I shall send it to you, and I shall be very pleased if it can be of any use to you. » ⁽¹⁾

On her return to Odessa, Madame Fadeew sent the Kuthumi’s letter to Colonel Olcott, and in the lower left hand corner of the envelope, there is written in Russian, in pencil:

« Received at Odessa, November 11, 1870, about Lelinka [Blavatsky's pet name], probably from Tibet.  Nadejda A. Fadeew. »

The Society for Psychical Research (S.P.R.) accused Blavatsky of forging the letters of the Masters, but this letter shows that this accusation is false because Blavatsky was thousands of miles away when her aunt received this letter.

And similar cases were it with several other letters which were precipitated in one country when Blavatsky was in another. For example, it was the case with the famous letter about Damodar Mavalankar, which Tookaram Tatya wrote and posted in Bombay on June 5, 1886, but Blavatsky at that time being in Italy.

But despite all these evidences and other proofs, the S.P.R. did not care and persisted in accusing Blavatsky of fraudulent.

WHO WAS THE MYSTERIOUS MESSENGER?

Maybe he was Master Kuthumi, or maybe he was his friend Master Morya, or maybe he was a disciple of them. And the strange way how he disappears is because he didn’t use his physical body, but his astral body.

The Masters and his advanced disciples have the ability of materializing his astral body and vanish it at will. And we have several other cases like this. For example:

The Hindu Mooljee Thackersey narrated that on one occasion he gave a letter to Master Morya, but when he turned his back for an instant and then he looked again to see if he was there, Master Morya had disappeared and the road was vacant ⁽²⁾.

And the Colonel Olcott narrated that when Damodar had disappeared, a delivery courier gave him a note where was wrote that Damodar was safe and he would soon return, and a few seconds later the messenger was disappear ⁽³⁾.

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The text of this letter was first published in 1919 by Jinarajadasa in the book “Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom”, first series (letter no. 38), and later republished again in 1925 in the second series, but with the facsimile (letter no. 1). The original letter is preserved in the archives of the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Madras, India. And this is the earliest letter we know from the Masters of the Wisdom.

References

1. Theosophical Society, General Council. Report of the Result of an Investigation into the Charges against Madame Blavatsky Brought by the Missionaries of the Scottish Free Church of Madras, and Examined by a Committee Appointed for that Purpose by the General Council of the Theosophical Society. Madras, India: Theosophical Society, 1885, pp. 94-95.
2. Old Diary Leaves, by Henry Olcott, volume II, chapter 4.
3. Old Diary Leaves, by Henry Olcott, volume III, chapter 5.