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find, visit either ourselves or our retreats against Our will. Similarly no
one flying over, traveling, or wandering on the Gobi Desert can see the
remains of the buildings of what was once the Great White Island in
the Gobi Sea. Intruding into our personal privacy and that of the
Government of the Brotherhood as a whole is forbidden and with
such potency that the greatest of the inventions of scientists today and
tomorrow cannot enable one single person to enter our realm against
our wishes."
Yet Koot Hoomi taught Hodson the way to visit him in the valley
where he and other members of the Great White Brotherhood reside
in their physical bodies.And Leadbeater says that over a period of forty
years he visited the masters regularly "during the sleep of the body." He
further points out that in Krishnamurti's book, At the Foot ofthe Master,
its titular author blandly admits in the preface that the words are almost
entirely those of the Master Koot Hoomi. As Leadbeater explains the
phenomenon: "Every night I had to take this boy in his astral body to
the house of the Master, that instructioii might be given him. The
Master devoted perhaps fifteen minutes each night to talk to him, at
the end gathering up the main points.The boy remembered the sum-
mary in the morning and wrote it down." An edition of one million
copies was sold in the United States. Another well-known psychic au-
thor, Alice Bailey, compiler of endless books on theosophy, claims to
have channeled nineteen whole texts from the Tibetan mahatma Djwal
Khul through wide-awake dictation.
As to the precise location of these masters' residences, Leadbeater
describes a certain valley in Tibet or rather "a ravine with slopes cov-
ered in pine trees," where, in the 1930s-whether in fact or fantasy-
lived two of the masters, Morya and Koot Hoomi, occupying houses
on opposite sides of the narrow ravine. Master Koot Hoomi's house is
described as divided into two parts by a passage running through it and
surrounded by a large garden of its own with flowering shrubs and a
stretch of land cultivated by laborers. Master Morya's two-storied
house with glassed-in verandas was said to face the road, where a path
ran down the ravine to a small bridge at the bottom. Master Koot