Correspondence to the Editor, The Path magazine. Regarding “The Vahan states that the American Section has seceded from the main body of the T.S.”

Culled by Robert Hutwohl^[1]

Dear Sir and Brother: — The Vahan states that the American Section has seceded from the main body of the T.S. This is not true in my opinion. I know of no other T. S. than the one started in America. My diploma (dated December 29, 1882) is signed by General Doubleday, President pro tem., and William Q. Judge, Secretary. Colonel Olcott was at that time absent in India as a Delegate of the American T.S. I acted as the Delegate of the Parent body of the T.S. to the Indian division at Adyar in 1883 at their anniversary meeting, and I reported back to New York. Thus the real T.S. in America has merely reasserted its original independence and refused to surrender its freedom to the foreign elements which have crept into the outside Branches.

I have often been tempted to write to . . , but my inner conviction

tells me that it is useless to reason with the unreasonable. It is also useless to use persuasion; for the “crisis,” which is now over, was intended as a test for the separation of the black sheep from the white ones — the unspiritual from the spiritual; — to change a man’s mind by argument would be only to spoil the test, and keep the person in a place to which he does not belong and for which he is not fitted. The law of Karma will soon straighten out things and put them into that shape in which they ought to be.

Yours,

Hallein, June 2 1895.                                                                  F. Hartmann.

Note:

^[1] Correspondence to the Editor, The Path magazine, by F. Hartmann [Franz Hartmann]. Regarding “The Vahan states that the American Section has seceded from the main body of the T.S.” The Path 10, no. 5 (August 1895), 160 [Hallein, June 2 1895] Culled by Robert Hutwohl