The Hickman courier., 1877-06-01
THE DEYIf. OF WHAT!
of So0I aud Body Sisa dow
the Wind0w-The MarVelOuS Fakirs
of the Fast-WOnders of Magic

1hE DEVIL OH W HAT.
the Window-The Marvellous EaLirs
of the Fast-WORder. Of Magic
New York World: Nine. Blavatsky |
is 2 Russian countess, who now lives on I
Eighth avenue in this city, and il a cor I
responding secretary of the Theosophical
society-the same which conducted the |
cremation of the late Baron de Palm.
Nine. Blavatsky has spent some thirty |
years of her lie in oriental countries, |
and, mystic by nature, has embraced |
the Buddhic faith. A profound scholar
and a remorseless critic, she is fearless in !
her attacks on what she holds TO be error !
wherever it is found. The reporter had
called to learn about magic.
1" But of the actual operation of magic |
the working OF wonders--what have
you seen
What have / seen? Look there!"
And Nine. Blavatsky pointed to a win
dow--not the one with 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
not cast from the inside, and there were
certain reasons why it seemed impossible
that it could have been cast from the
outside 1t was n clear, dark night.
The only lights visible outside the win
duws were the street gaslights, the stars
and a few night lights of other keepers
Of late hours besides the party in Mad
anne Blavaisky's room. None of these
lights 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
bv the MONDAY sun. Then, again, the
shadow if it was really shadow-must
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
lite size. And another reason why it
must have been cast by body near the
window lies In the fact that il was a sec
end story window, and there was no
place nearer than the idth OF Eighth
avenue, where the body could have been,
excepting n 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 skeptic.
/ All looked carefully. All saw the
shadow, and four asserted and two ad-
mitted the facts detailed as showing the
strange character of the apparition.
" Colonel OlcOtt," said Madame Bla-
vatsRy. 'fter the examination had been
made, "Pleasc pull down the curtain.
Colonel Olcott compiled, 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 ?"
- It was q friend OF mine. an adept
who lives on the Mediterranean, and
who is this moment ut home. You will
hear his mu Sic;box in a few minutes"
" DO you really mean that it was really
he, and that he has returned to the Med
iterranean already ,"
g I 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
unless it was because you were here /
went into the next room and spoke with
him Listen Do You hear music ?"
The reporter did not. and for a full
minute ali was silent Then there came
the sound of music-box playing an un-
familiar air.
q" 1t Is a very old box" said Nine.
B!avatsky, and wish it played more
than two tunes. They set me almost
I wild at times, do these two tunes"
/ g But is that the sound of a music box
/ that is playing on the shores of the Med
/ iterranean?"
." 1t L.. 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 aud hear
many such things if 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 a man
throw a large ball of cord into the air
which unwound as 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 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 so 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,
al bleeding. We dipped our handker-
chiefs in the blsod to see if ii 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
lie threw a cloth over the pieces. and the
hoy instantly jumped up, alive and well.
The man and the boy were entirely
naked, and the trick, il it was a trick, as
you will say it 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 msgicians do"
But why is it, if such things are
true, and not tricks, that we of the
them? Are we not a. intelligent as
those o. the east 20
Our western civilization is Young
vet, replied the occult "and. "a | have
said, the mind of the Caucasian is not as
well adapted To the perception OF subtle
truths. But there are many Europeans
wko are real adopts, and there is quite a
number of persons in New York who are
studying occultism. Some of them only
study it philosophically, but some are
practicing it. There is one who has
several times accomplished the separa-
tion of his astral body from his physical
body, though only for few moments.
But l can make all this much clearer to
you, after a time, by showing you copy
of the book l am writing--The Veil of
Isis than l can do in conversation
Among the black magicians are the
serpent charmers, who have the same
powers as the psillis of Egypt. They
have as keen sent as dog tor snake,
and will go straight to its hole and dig it
out with their fingers. Many of these
jugglers viii do the same thing as the
fakirs do, and by similar process of in
cantation. | remember. was once in
the bungalow of rich Indian, where a
f,kir and a juggler both per r,ormed their