The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-05-25
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gs4ft ~ her iio IN oriental countries,
fnd. y mystic ny nature, has embface1
fbe Buddhic filth a profound scholar
srI 70 r~rmofselcss critic che it fearless IN
befattaeks On what che h0ldst " be error,
wherever IL Ia found. The reporter had
called ~ learn about magic
p" Gut u the actual operation Of magic
the working of w0nders-whut have
yau secu ~
" What have I seem Look thcrei'
Nnd Nine. Blavatsky pointed to o win.
dow.-no the one with u blue glass sasi
hat another.
The reporter looked, and promptly
dropPed his pipe. Across the window
was passing q shadow, that Of itself
was not remarkable but the shadow was
not east from the inside, and there were
certain reasons why it seemed impossible
that il could have been cast from the
outside. It was q clear, dark night.
The only lights visible outside the win.
dows were the street rasliehts, the stars
and a few night.lights of other keepers
NJ late hours besides the party in Mad
anne Blavatsky'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
by the MONDAY sun Then, again, the
shadow--if it was really a shadow--must
have been cast by n body very near the
window, for it was the exact profile
image of a man, not distorted or dispro-
portionate in any particular, and exactly
l~ifesiZe. And another reason why it
must have been cast by a body near the
window lies in the fact that it was a sec
ond story window, and there was no
place nearer than the width of Eighth
avenue, where the body could have been,
excepting a 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 adj
mitted the facts detailed as showing the
strange character of the apparition.
Colonel Oleott," said Madame Bla-
vatsky, after the examination had been
made, "plcase pull down the curtain"
Colonel Olcott complied, and Madame
BIsvatsky left the room, leaving the
company in silent and not altogether
comfortable expectancy.
When she returned she was asked,
{ What was that ?"
1t 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 a few minutes"
Do you really mean that it was really
he, and that he has returned to the Med
iterranean already ?"
" do. 1t was his astral body. He
here frequently, and generally APP
pears inside the room. | don't know
why he did not come in here tonight
unless it was because you were here. |
vent into the next room and spoke with
Listen Do you hear music ?"
The reporter did not, and for a full
minute all was silent. Then there came
,he sound of a music-box playing an an $
2amiliar air.
at is a very old box" said Nine. |
.lavatsky, "and | wish it played more t
han two tunes. They set me almost t
Wild at times, do these W tunes" !
"But is that the sound Of a music-boX |
hat is playing on the shores of the Med t
terranean ?" t
1T is. You carry sound by means of :
he telephone. All that is necessary to |
10 is to establish the current. We can
10 that with butsa wire. But this isnoth- t
ng unusual. You will see and hear S
many such things if you come often to S
his house. And you may read of far
more wonderful things in the books of a
,ravel in the east. | have seen n man
throw a large ball of cord into the air d
which unwound as it assembled, one end
,eing fastened to the ground. As the |
,all unwound it disappeared into the |
and the cord remained stationary.
n a few moments the man sent a little I
up this cord, pretending to find out 1
What held the other end up. The boy
vent up and up, till he was lost to sight. j
tnd he stayed so long that the man !
pretended to become enraged, and S
up after him with a drawn sword I
n his hand, and he too, disappeared a
rom sight. And presently down fell a
,loody foot, and then another, then a a
eg, and then different pieces of the boy, t
il bleeding. We dipped our handker-
hiefs in the blsod to see if it really was
,lood, and it was. At last the boys
lead fell down, and presently the man y
limbed down, all bloody, and still simu-
ating rage. He collected the fragments r
# the boy that lay around and threw b
hem in a heap on the ground. Then C
le threw a cloth over the pieces, and the b
instantly jumped up, alive and well. n
The man and the boy were entirely t
laked, and the trick, if it was a trick, as 4
GU will say it was, was done on an open t.
lain, out of doors. | say it was actually n
lone. There were hundreds of specta- c
ors. That is the kind of things that c.
astern magicians do" "
"But why is it, if such things are
rue, and not tricks, that we of the
western countries do not know more of n
hem? Are we not as intelligent as n
hose of the east ?" 81
"Our western civilization is young d
replied the occult land, as L have Il
aid, the mind OF the Caucasian is not as "
yell adapted TO the perception oil subtle Il
ruths. But there are many Europeans o
'ko are real adopts, and there is quite a Il
lumber of persons in New York who are e
tudying occultism. Some of them only a
tudy it philosophically, but some are Ct
racticing it. There is one who has a
sveral times accomplished the separa- b
ion of his astral body from his physical
though only for a few moments.
can make all this much clearer to il