Note See also footnote post, p. 56 — Mrs. Besant's "return of the Christ."

[11] This Brahmin is the person referred to in the following passage from Mr. T. H. Martyn's letter to Mrs. Besant of May 20th, 1921 (see ante p. 18):—"Like many of the older members I have known how you and others for quite a long time regarded —— as a Master in the flesh and later had to repudiate him when certain facts indicated the mistake." Italics mine. This is absolutely new to me. In 1894 none of us (so far as I was then aware) regarded Mr. —— as anything more than a chela, so what Mr. Martyn here states must have been a later development, and explains much.

I suppress the gentleman's name out of regard for his present official position in India and his dissociation from Mrs. Besant.