Correspondence to the Editor, The Path magazine.
By Franz Hartmann[1]
Collated and reformatted by Robert Hutwohl
Note by Robert Hutwohl: F. Hartmann refutes a claim in the Lotus Bleu that letters from Mahâtmâ M. lacked a seal during H.P.B.’s time, citing his own experience with a sealed letter in 1884.
HARTMANN AND MASTER’S SEAL.
Dear Judge:—My attention has been called to an article in the Lotus Bleu (June) in which it is said that the letters of Mahâtmâ Μ. used to bear no seal at the time of H.P.B. If any one will look at page 25 of my Report of Observations, he will find it stated, that on February 5, 1884 I received a long letter bearing the seal of the Master, in Tibetan characters.[2]
Yours very sincerely,
Hallein, July 27, 1895. F. Hartmann.
Notes:
[1] Correspondence to the Editor, The Path magazine. By F. Hartmann [Franz Hartmann]. Regarding, Dr. Hartmann and Master’s Seal. The Path 10, no. 6 (September 1895), 191 [Hallein, July 27, 1895] [Collated and reformatted by Robert Hutwohl, ©2026]
[2] [R. H.—I have examined page 25 of Dr. Hartmann’s Report of Observations, and have not found any mention of a seal or even any Tibetan characters on that page. Dr. Hartmann merely misstated the page number. Page 29 is the content Dr. Hartmann is referring to. I quoted in part: “I took the pincers and was about to close the drawer, when—there lay in the drawer a great envelope, addressed to me in the well- known hand-writing of the Master and sealed with the seal bearing his initials in Thibetan characters.”]