The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-24
THE DEVIL, OR WHAT!
separation g soul and BOdy-ShahOyF on
WtndOW-Thc Marvellous Faktrs
UCtbe EaEt-gOnders Of Magic.

UE he FahI-Ns OndeEs o. Maggie
New York World: Nine. Blavatsky
- a Russian countess, who now lives on (
Eighth avenue in this city, and is a cor
responding secretary of the TheosOphical
-uciety-the same which conducted the
cremation of the late Baron de Palm.
Nine. Blavatsky has spent some thirty
years of her life in oriental countries,
and, y mystic by nature, has embraced
She BuddhiC faith. n profound scholar
and a remorseless critic, she is fearless in
her attacks on what she holds to be error.
wherever 1t is found, The reporter had
called to learn about magic.
50 But of the actual operation of magic
tho working of wOnders-what have
you SEEM
Il What have ! seen? Look there :"
Md Nine. Blavatsky pointed TO il win
dow--not the one with = blue glass sash.
but another.
The reporter looked, and promptly
dropped hts pipe. Across the window
was passing a shadow, that of itself
was EoC remarkable; but the shadow was
not cast from the inside, and there were
certain reasons why it seemed impossible
that 1t could have been cast from the
outside. 1t was a clear, dark night.
The only lights visible outside the win
dows were the street gaslights, the stars
and few night-lights of other keepers
vt 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 shadow.--mtlst
have been cast by body very near the
window, for IT was the exact profile
image Of a man, not distorted or dispro-
portlOnate In any particular, and exactly
ilte-siza. 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,
excertiug 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 SIN persons who sat in the room
one besides the reporter was = skeptic.
All looked carefully. All saw the
shadow, and four asserted and two adj
mltted the facts detailed as showing the
strange character of Incorporation.
Colonel OlcOtt," said Madame Bla-
vatsky, after the examination had been
made, please pull down the curtain u
Colonel Olcott complied, and Madame
Blavatsky lett the room, leaving the
company IN silent and not altogether
comfortable expectancy.
WheT she returned she was asked
WHAT was that2
1t was Il 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. it was his astral body lie
comes here frequently, and generally ap-
pears inside the room. / don't know
Why ne did not come in here tonight
'uless it was because you were here. |
ent into the next room and spoke with
ina Listen DO you hear music ?"
The reporter did not, and for 4 full
minute all was silent. Then there came
the sound of a music-box playing an un
familiar air.
ct. is very old box said Nine
Bjavatsky, and ! wish it played moro
than two tunes. They set me almost
wild ut times, do these two tunes"
" But is that the sound of musiC-bo
that is playing on the shores of the Med
iterranCau2"
the telephone. All that is necessary t
do is to establish the current We cal
dO that with buL'a wire. But this isnoth
ing unusual. You will see and hCa
many such things if you come often t
this house. And YOU may read of ia
more wonderful things in the books Q
travel in the east. | have seen a mai
throw large ball of cord into the al
which unwuund as it assembled, one EN-,
NH.N 1 Il L.
ball UDwOund it disappeared into tn
clouds, and the cord remained stationary
In few moments the man sent a littl
boy up this cord, pretending to find on
what held the other end up. The DO
went up and up, till he was lost to sight
And he stayed so long that the ma
pretended To become enraged, an
climbed up after him with drawn swor
IN his hand, and he too, disappeare
from sight. And presently down fell
bloody foot, and then another, then
leg, and then different pieces of the boy
all bleeding. We dipped our handkel
chiefs in the blaOd to see if it really wa
blood aud it was. At last the boy
head fell down, and presently the ma
climbed down. all bloody, and still STINT
lating rage. lie collected the fragment
of the boy that lay around and tire
them in Il heap on the ground. The
he threw cloth over the pieces. and I'll
boy instantly Jumped up, alive and vel
The man and the boy were entirel
naked. and the trick, if it was trick,
you will say it was, was done on an Ope
plain, out of doors say it was actual
done There were hundreds of spect
tors. That is the kind of things TIN
eastern magicians do"
" But why is it, if such things a
true, aud not tricks, that we of Il
western countries do not know more
them? Are we not as intelligent
those of the east ,"
:" Our western civilization IS your
vet replied the occult land, as | ha'
said. the mind OF the Caucasian is not
we'll adapted to the perception OF subj
truths. But there are many tturOpea
who are real adopts, and there Is quite
number of persons in New York who a
studying Occultism. Some of them on
study il philosophicaly, but some a
practicing it. There is one who h
several times accomplished the sepaI
tion of his astral body from his physiC
body. though only for q few moment
But I can make all this much clearer
Won, after a time, by showing you COZ
Cf the book | am writing---The Veil
Isis--than 1 can DO in conversation.
Among the black magicians arc I
.arDeut- charmers, who have the Sal
nowers rs the psillis of Egypt. Tn
have as keen sent as a dog for snail
and will 90 straight to its hole and dig
ont with their fingers. Many of the
inpglers will do the same thing as t
,aEirs do, and by a similar process of