From a Letter to Kapilnath of 6 July 1990

Please Note: This post from the Open Door category, “INO Schism” contains the views of Shri Gurudev Mahendranath regarding a schism within the INO which culminated in the appointment of a new leadership in 1989. This category is included in our archives as testament to the specific issues and time line of events. These posts are critical of the views and behavior of several people and do not reflect the uplifting concepts and ideals of the INO as a whole. Read on only if you are seeking accurate and reliable information regarding the specific issues involved. A document clearly explaining these issues is under development and will use these letters to validate its accuracy and time line.

In your last letter you mention that you hope “that Mike is coming round,” but there has been no response. I hoped he would make it good, but now I see he has made only chaos and confusion. He seems to have an interest which is not only personal but pure pretend, and the English position is so low and bad that I think it can be ignored. Only if we can find fresh people is it possible to help them.

In my last letter to Vishvanath I said I would recommend him to you for appointment as Imperator for England—not U.K. I asked him to keep in touch with you in all matters. Though the English have been a hopeless lot, Vishvanath is about the best. The defect is that apart from the Twilight Yoga Trilogy, most of these people have not seen or read most of the MSS and [Michael] has suppressed most of the MSS for more than 8 years, in spite of the fact that Dr. Sandy had offered to supply new and interested people with MSS and for free. I think the English rat-race might make a beautiful graveyard…

I think by now you are all swimming back from the island where you all spent Guru Purnima. Impatient to hear about such an important event. You seem to be getting a nice solid crowd, and a real energy centre.

I think the real defect in UK is that they still think in terms of Wand, Circle & Abracadabra. I was staggered to hear from Aleister Crowley—as late as 1937 or 1938—that he still cherished the hope and expectation that—any minute now—someone would discover a magic book, hoary with age, which gave the secrets of magick and the spells and incantations to work wonders. But, in reality, this was not real but the magick of fairy tales.

All my hints at something new and all on a higher level only fell on deaf ears. By an odd coincidence at the end of Mike’s 3 day visit, my last words to him were “Don’t forget, everything new and on a higher level.” But again these words fell on deaf ears.

Going through your miraculous production of The Scrolls and your superb editoring, I did feel some degree of sadness that so few in England, and less in London, have had the opportunity to read through them and the terrible fact that Mike has suppressed them for 8 or 9 years.

Thank heavens that there has been a Pacific seaboard and brightness… If Kailash & Weirdglow Zonules remember, I will be content. Plighted planet indeed. History will be ashamed to record and tell the truth about the most dangerous and evil creature which walks on two feet but whose mind dwells in the dung. Mankind seem to peep at his world through a crack in the brain and only his dreams are born in-sanity. Pun intended.

Che sara sara as they say on Mount Etna. Or sauve qui peut as they say in querulous Quebec. It were ever thus!

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