The Osceola times., 1877-05-26
THE DEVIL. OR WHAT
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New York World: Nine. Blavatsky
Is Russian countess, who now lives on
Eighth avenue in this city, and il cor.
rcsponding secretary Of the TheoDphical
.ec;ety-the same which conducted the
cremation Of the late Baron de Palm.
Nine. Blsvatsky has spent some thirty
yean of her lie In oriental countries,
and, q mystic by nature, has embraced
the Buddhic faith. A profound scholar
and q remorseless critic, she Is fearless In
her attacks on what abe holds TO be error,
wherever II Il found. The reporter had
called TO learn about magic.
+" But Of the actual operation of magic
the working OF wondes-what have
you seen 2"
"What have I seen! Look there I"
And Mime. Blavatsky pointed to a win.
dow--not the one with a blue glass sash,
but another.
The reporter looked, and PROMPTLY
dropped his pipe. Across the window
was passing a shadow, that Of itself
was not remarkable but the shadow was
net cast from the inside, and there were
certain reasons why 1t seemed impossible
that II could have been cast from the
outside. II was clear. dark night.
Tue only lights visible outside the win.
dows were the street gaslights, the stars
and few night-lights Of other keepers
Of late hours besides the party in Mad
anne Blsvatsky's room. None Of these
iights could by any possibility cast the
shadow that was seen, as no single one
was brighter or nearer than many others,
and the shadow was as distinct as If cast
by the MONDAY sun. Then, again, the
shadow---if it was really shadow unjust
have been cast by body very near the
window, tor it was the exact profile
image of man, not distorted or dispro-
portionate In any particular, and exactly
life-sise. And another reason why II
must have been cast by a body near the
window lies in the fact that II was Sec
ond story window, and there was no
place nearer than the width Of Eighth
avenue, where the body could have been,
excepting ledge below the window
about eighteen inches wide. And the
reporter will make affidavit that no solid
body passed along that ledge when the
shadow passed across the window.
OF the six persons who sat in the room
one besides the reporter was a skeptic.
All looked carefully. All saw the
shadow, and four asserted and two ad-
mitted the facts detailed a. showing the
strange character of the apparition.
Colonel Olcott," said Madame Bla-
vatsky. after the examination had been
made, "please pull down the curtain"
Colonel Olcott complied, and Madame
Blavatsky lett the room, leaving the
company in silent and not altogether
comfortable expectancy.
When she returned she was asked,
What was that :"
"lt was a friend Of mine, an adept
who lives on the Mediterranean, and
who is this moment at home. You will
hear his music-box in few minutes"
Do you really mean that it was really
he, aud that he has returned TO the Med
iterrsnean already"
81 do. 1t was his astral body. He
comes here frequently, and generally ap-
pears inside the room. ! don't know
why he did not come in here tonight
Jules 1t was because you were here.
vent into the next room and spoke with
him Listen Do you hear music ?"
The reporter did not, and for u full
minute al was silent. Then there came
the sound Of music-box playing an un-
familiar air.
cit is very old box, said Nine.
Blavatsky, "and wish it played more
than two tunes. They set me almost
wild at times, do these two tunes"
" But is that the sound of music box
that is playing on the shores of the Med.
iterranean? ?"
at is. You carry sound by means of
the telephone. All that Is necessary to
do is to establish the current. We can
do that with but'a wire. But this is moth.
ing unusual. You will see and hear
many such things il you come often to
this house. And you may read of far
more wonderful things in the books Of
travel in the east. have seen man
throw a largo ball OF cord into the air
which unw0und AZ it ascended, one end
being fastened to the ground. As the
ball unwound it disappeared into the
clouds, and the cord remained stationary.
In few moments the man sent a little
boy up this cord, pretending to find out
what held the other end up. The boy
went up and up, till he was lost to sight.
And he stayed 80 long that the man
pretended TO become enraged, and
climbed up after him with drawn sword
in his hand, and he too, disappeared
from sight. And presently down fell a
bloody foot, and then another, then
leg, and then different pieces OF the boy,
all bleeding We dipped our handker.
chiefs in the blood to zee II IL really was
blood, and it was. At last the boys
head fell down, and presently the man
climbed down. all bloody, and still simu-
lating rage. He collected the fragments
of the boy that lay around and threw
them in heap on the ground. Then
he threw cloth over the pieces. and the
boy instantly jumped up, alive and we'll.
The man and the boy were entirely
naked, and the trick, If 1t was trick, as
you will say 1t was, was done on an open
plain, out OF doors. / say it was actually
done. There were hundreds OF specta-
tors. That is the kind of things that
eastern magicians de-"
But why is il, il such things are
true, and not tricks, that we of the
western countries do not know more of
them? Are we not as intelligent as
thoee OF the east 2"
"Our western civilization is young
yet. replied the occult "and, as / have
said, the mind Of the Caucasian is not as
we'll adapted W the perception OF subtle
truths. But there are many Europeans
wko are real adopts, and there ia quite a
number Of persons in New York who are
studying occultism. Some of them only
study ID philoeophicallv but .or,o -