The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-10
Separation of Soul from Body.

Nine. Blavatskyis Russian countess,
who now lives on Eighth Avenue in New
York city, and is corresponding secre-
tary of the Theosophical Society-the
same which conducted the cremation of
the late Baron de Palm. ts'ki-.
Nine. Blavatsky has spent some thirty
years of her life in Oriental countries,
and, a mystic by nature, has embraced
the Buddhic faith. A profound scholar
and remorseless critic, she is fearless
in her attacks on what she holds to be
error wherever it is found. The re-
porter had called to learn about magic
"But of the actual operation of magic
working of wOnders-what have YOU
seen?'' n #ti @1- fsaH Htf %
"What have [ SEEM Look therep"
And Mime. Blavatsky pointed to win
dow-not the one with a blue-glass sash,
but another. ~" ,tsf't E.
The reporter looked, and promptly
dropped his pipe. Across the win
dow 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 a
clear, dark night. The only lights visi-
BILE outside the windows were the street
gas-lights, the stars and few night
lights of other keepers of late hours be-
sides the party in Mime. Blavatsky's
room NoneHof these lights could by.
any possibility east 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
noon-day sun. Then, again, the shadow
If it was really shadow-must have
been east by body very near the VIM
dow, for it was the exact profile image
of a man, not distorted or dispropor-
tionate in any particular, and exactly
life-SiZe. And another reason why it
must have been cast by a body near the
window lies in the fact that it was 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 skeptic
All saw the shadow, and four asserted
and two admitted the facts detailed as
showing the strange character of the APP
partition. -
"Colonel Olcott,'' said Nine. Blavat-
sky, after the examination had been
made, "please pull down the curtain
Colonel Olcott complied, and Nine Bla-
vatsky left the room, leaving the COM
pany in silent and not altogether com
Portable expectancy.
When she returned she was asked,
"Wfat was that?" - fzs j}aes}
cit was a friend of mine, an adept
who lives on the Mediterranean, and who
is this moment atlhome. You will hear
his music box in a few minutes
"Do~yeu mean that it was really he,
and that he has returned to the Medi-
terranean alreadyp"v@~ @4@
81 dor It4was his astral body. He
comes here frequently, and generally
appears inside the room. Idon't know
why he did not come in here tonight,
unless it was because you were here I
went into the next room and spoke with
him. Listen! Do you hear music?s
The reporter did not, and for a full
minute all was silent. Then there came
the sound of music-box playing an un-
familiar air. - at-'
at is very old box" said Nine. 1
Blayatsky,s and Iwish it played more
than two old 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
Mediterranean
at is. You carry sound by means
of the telephone. All that is neces-
sary TO do is to- establish the current
We can do that without a wire.
But this is nothing unusual. You
will see and hear many such
things if you come often to this house.
And you may read of far morei wonder-s
full things in the books of travel in the
east. / have seen man throw a large
ball of cord into the air which unwoundl
as it it assembled, one end being fastened
to the ground. AS the ball unwound it
disappeared in the clouds and the cord
remained stationary. In few moments
the man sent a little boy up this cord,
pretending that it was to find out what
held the other end up. The boy went
up and up, till he was lost to sight. And
he stayed up so long that the man pre-
tended to be enraged, and climbed up
after him with drawn sword in his
hand, and he,v too, disappeared from
sight. And presently downzfell a bloody
foot, and then another, then leg, and
then different pieces of the. boy, all
bleeding. We dipped our handkerchiefs
in the blood to see if it was. really blood,
ande il was. AT last the boys head fell