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{{HPB-CW-comment|N. D. Khandalavala, quoting some short passages from this Letter in The Theosophist, Vol. XX October, 1898 pp. 23-24, states that it was at first intended to be circulated to the Indian {{Page aside|158}}Members, but “was afterwards, for certain reasons, not published.” He was permitted to take a copy of it. With the “climate” prevailing at the time in the Indian T.S., the reasons which Khandalavala does not specify are easy to determine.}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|N. D. Khandalavala, quoting some short passages from this Letter in The Theosophist, Vol. XX October, 1898 pp. 23-24, states that it was at first intended to be circulated to the Indian {{Page aside|158}}Members, but “was afterwards, for certain reasons, not published.” He was permitted to take a copy of it. With the “climate” prevailing at the time in the Indian T.S., the reasons which Khandalavala does not specify are easy to determine.}} | ||
{{HPB-CW-comment|There seems to | {{HPB-CW-comment|There seems to be no reason to doubt the accuracy of a statement by W. E. Coleman in the Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), of September 16, 1893, p. 266, that this Open Letter was sent to India by the intermediary of Bertram Keightley who left London for India, at H.P.B.’s special request, sometime in the Summer of 1890, reaching Bombay August 31, 1890 (The Theosophist, Vol. XII, Suppl. to October, 1890, pp. ii-iii). He was soon elected General Secretary of the newly-formed Indian Section of the T.S. which was chartered Jan. 1, 1891.}} | ||
{{HPB-CW-comment|The Open Letter which follows is one of the most important items of “source material” available today for the use of the future historian of the Theosophical Movement and its many vicissitudes. It deserves a close study on the part of all students.— Compiler.]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|The Open Letter which follows is one of the most important items of “source material” available today for the use of the future historian of the Theosophical Movement and its many vicissitudes. It deserves a close study on the part of all students.— Compiler.]}} | ||