title: Masters of Wisdom: The Mahatmas, Their Letters, and the Path
author: Edward Abdill
description: <b>Edward Abdill</b>, author of The Secret Gateway: Modern Theosophy and the Ancient Wisdom Tradition, joined the Theosophical Society in 1959. He was twice president of the New York branch and has served on the national board of the Theosophical Society in America. Abdill lives in New York City. His website is www.EdwardAbdill.com
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  HIGHER ETHICS AND DEVOTION SERIES 
  MAHATMAS AND CHELAS 
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  Contents 
  Mahatmas and Chelas 
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  How a Chela found his Guru 
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  The Sages of Himavat 
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  The Himalayan Brothers — do they exist? 
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  Interview with a Mahatma 
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  HIGHER ETHICS AND DEVOTION SERIES 
  MAHATMAS AND CHELAS 
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  Mahatmas and Chelas 
  From Five Years of Theosophy: Mystical, Philosophical, Theosophical, Historical, and Scientific Essays 
  selected from “The Theosophist.”
  1 London: Reeves & Turner, 1885; pp. 92-95. Also, in Blavatsky Col-
  lected Writings, VI pp. 239-41. 
  MAHATMA IS A PERSONAGE, who, by special training and education, has 
  evolved those higher faculties and has attained that spiritual