The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-25
The Mahatma Postal Service.

We have put under seal and in secure
place brief communication addressed to
certain person living not less than five
hundred miles from Printing House square.
and not more than five Thousand miles.
We cordially invite our distinguished
friend. Hierophant OLCoTT. to demonstrate
once and forever not only the truth OF his
theosophical teachings. but also his COM
pete mental sanity and personal verncity,
in either one OF two ways:
l. BY forwarding this letter to the person
for whom it is intended. through the mys-
postal delivery.
2. By ascertaining through Mahatma in
telhgence and communicating to the
public through tho columns Of this or some
other newspaper the contents OF the missive
In question.
The Hierophant returns to his native land
bringing fion India wonderful stories OF
the Mahatma postal service. He is reported
as affirming upon personal knowledge that
letters have been transmitted through this
agency not only to the late Nine. BLAvAT-
SKY and to Mrs. ANNIE BEsANT. but also
to himself. who tells the marvellous tale.
He has seen the Mahatma carriers actually
upon their rounds. On one occasion. for e1-
ample. the Hierophant was awakened from
sleep at Lahore by the entrance Of the astral
body Of a Mahatma. whose body of flesh
and blood was at that moment in
Madras. Thousand miles away. The astral
carrier put his fingers upon the Hierophants
palm. and then there was materiaized a
letter encased in a silken envelope. The
letter was from Madras. whence BLAvArsKY
had awaited herself Of this method Of COM
municatins with her distant friend and dis
ciple. Having performed the errand on
which he had been sent. the Mahatma letter
carrier dematerialized and disappeared. II
didn't see him 60" testfies the Hierophant.
He simply wasn't any more. The letter
from BLAvATskY WAS there. and it was a
very important one
As an old journalist. lawyer. and man Of
the world, the Apostle of Theosophy will
perceive at once the enormous practical
value Of our suggestion to himself and his
cause. Nor should we suppose that the
Mahatmas would I've any slower to appreci-
ate the opportunity. A certificate from
The SIN that either Of the two feats
suggested above has been successfully
performed by the intervention Of adopts
from headquarters. will no worth more for
the propagation ri the theosophir faith and
the regeneration OF society according to the
Herophants ideas. than all Of tho books
BLAvATsKY ever wrote and all Of the leo
lures Col. OLcoTT can deliver IL he lives to
the age OF the minor patriarchs.
Once before this We have opened for the
Hierophant the door tn public confidence.
When he declined THE Suns invitation to
establish his sincerity by levitating himself
gently from the top OF the 1ribunes tall
tower to tho pavement II Printing
House square. he was hardly moro
than beginner and naturally was con-
c"rncd for his bones. Instead Of jumping
from the Tribune tower he sailed for Bonn
bay. Since then the Hierophnnt has spent
seventeen years at the very fountain head
Of occult science in constant association
with the most illuminated members Of adept
society.
II after seventeen years ~ unquestoning
faith and unsclfsh devotion he cannot count
upon the kindness of n single Mahatma in
the whole postal service to carry one little
letter at his request. and that for the sake
OF proving him no fool and no liar. then wn
are decidedly Of the opinion the Herophant
had better quit their company and so into
some other business