THE NEW REINCARNATION OF COLONEL OLCOTT

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott died on February 17, 1907 in Adyar, India, at the age of 74.

 

And a few years later Charles Leadbeater assured that Colonel Olcott was soon reincarnate, since in his book "The Inner Life II" he stated that:

 

« Of his future we can say little as yet. By the time that these lines are before the reader, it is probable that he will be again in incarnation. He has earnestly wished this, in order that he may work along with Madame Blavatsky in her present incarnation.

 

How far his desire will be granted, I cannot yet tell. Certainly he will be employed wherever the Masters think that he will be most useful. His great talent is organization, and we have seen that he has already practiced it in Zoroastrianism, in the great missionary enterprise of Buddhism and in the foundation of the Theosophical Society. No doubt he may have similar work to do in connection with the next great religion, and again at the establishment of the Sixth Root-Race.

 

Be that as it may, the great man whom in his last life we knew as Henry Steele Olcott will be ready to bear his part in all such activities, to lead us as he led us before, devoted as ever to the service of his Master, faithful as ever through life and through death. »

(Chapter "Faithful unto death")

 

 

 

That book was published in 1912, and a few years later Annie Besant claimed that Colonel Olcott had already reincarnated:

 

« Henry Steel Olcott ... threw away his mortal body, rested a few years, and then came back among us as a small child, now a child full of promise for the future. »

(Adyar Bulletin, January 1918)

 

 

Annie Besant must have naively repeated what Charles Leadbeater had told her, and that statement was most likely another lie invented by Leadbeater.

 

Subsequently I do not find that these two individuals have returned to speak of the new reincarnation of Colonel Olcott; they probably preferred to stop publicizing that matter, and the most certain is that Henry Olcott has not reincarnated yet but he is in Devachan (the heavenly paradise).