HPB-SB-11-251: Difference between revisions

Sir,—I forward to you to-day a copy of ''Allen'8 Indian Mail of'' the 12th inst. At page 893 you will find some remarks from a native paper on “The Brothers” and on ''The Occult World.'' That there is such a Brotherhood in existence can hardly be doubtful to those who have lived in India and have gone at all deeply into the study of Occult Subjects. I was, when in India, at one time in possession of some half dozen works (native) on magic, but they passed away from my keeping after a time, as then I hardly looked upon them as anything but curiosities. Much, however, of my Indian experience and many a conversation with intelligent natives have had new light shed upon them by newer knowledge and deeper study, to which I may also add personal experience. Something very interesting may be gathered on the subject of “Occultism” and of the existence of a “Brotherhood” in India, from a study of ''Ghostland.'' According to the account there given the “Brotherhood” seems to consist of both Europeans and Natives, ''(vide'' p. 348). It is a very ''suggestive ''book. By “suggestive” I mean that each time you read it you see more “between the lines” than on the last perusal. The writer was one evidently well acquainted with the natives of India, if not a native himself. I can only find one sentence, in which he has, in his anxiety to veil the identity of his characters, forgotten the “probabilities” and that is where (p. 419) he makes native princes and nobles, rivals for the hand of “Lady Blanche Dudley.” Akas, the fifth element, ether, is held by the Hindus to be more subtle than air, to fill and pervade the universe and to be the peculiar vehicle of life and sound.