About this encounter, Annie Besant narrated the following:
« I will tell you about
the first occasion on which I saw my Master. Soon after I had joined the Theosophical
Society, it happened that I was in England at a time when H.P.B. was in
Fontainebleau, France, where The Voice of
the Silence was written.
She wrote me to go over and join
her, which I did with joy. She was living in a delightful old house out in the
country, and I was put in a bed-room near hers, a door connecting the two.
One night I awoke suddenly owing
to an extraordinary feeling that there was in the room. The air was all
throbbing, and it seemed as if an electric machine was playing there; the whole
room was electric.
I was so astonished (for it was
my first experience of the kind) that I sat up in bed, wondering what on earth
could be happening. It was quite dark, and in those days I was not a bit
clairvoyant.
At the foot of the bed a luminous
figure appeared, and stood there from half a minute to a minute. It was the
figure of a very tall man, and I thought, from pictures I had seen, it was H.P.B.’s
Master.
Near him was another figure, more
faintly luminous, which I could not clearly distinguish.
The brilliant figure stood quite
still, looking at me, and I was so utterly astounded that I sat perfectly
still, simply looking at Him; I did not even think of saluting Him. So I
remained motionless and then gradually the figure vanished.
Next day I told H.P.B. what had
happened, and she replied me:
-
“Yes, Master came to
see me in the night, and went into your room to have a look at you.”
This was my first experience of
seeing a Master; it must have been clearly a case of materialization, for as I
have said, I was not in the least clairvoyant at the time. »
(Extract of the article "In
the Twilight" published in The Theosophist,
May 1910, p.1098-1100.)
And on another occasion Annie Besant spoke again about that meeting:
« My first-hand
experience of the Masters had been clear, definite, and absolutely convincing
to me. The experience began in 1889.
In the beginning of the year,
before I joined the Theosophical Society, I was making desperate efforts to
pierce the darkness, and was seeking with passionate earnestness to obtain some
direct evidence of the existence of Soul and of the super physical worlds.
One evening as I sat alone,
concentrating my mind on this longing, I heard the Master's voice, but knew not
whose its was, and after some questions asked by Him and answered by me, came
the promise that I should soon find the light.
A promise quickly verified. As I
did not till later know who had spoken to me, I ought not to put this as
evidence at that time, and it was in the summer of 1889 that I gained my first
direct evidence.
I as in Fontainebleau [staying
with Madame Blavatsky], and was sleeping in a small room by myself; I was waked
suddenly and sat up in bed startled, to find the air of the room thrown into
pulsing electrical waves, and then appeared the radiant astral Figure of the
Master [Morya], visible to my physical eyes. »
(The
Judge Case II, p.37)
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