The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-05-31
THE DEVIL, OR WHAT!


j. a Russian countess who now lives on
Eighth avenue in this city, and is a cor
responding secretary Of the ThcOsOphical
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 rcmorseless 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.
But Of the actual operation OF magic
the working OF wOnders--what have
You SEEM
"What have | seen? Look there "
And Nine. Blavatsky pointed to win
dow--not the one with blue glass sash,
but another.
The reporter looked, and promptly
dropped his pipe, Across the window
WIS passing 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 clear, dark night.
The only lights visible outside the win.
dows were the street gasights, the stars
and few night.ljgh Of other keepers
Of late hours besides the party in Mad
anne BIayatskys 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.must
have been cast by 4 body very near the
window, tor it was the exact profile
image Of a man, not distorted or disprO'
portiOnate in any particular, and exactly
llcsi2a. 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 wa1 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 skcptc
All looked carefully. All saw the
shadow, and four asserted and two al
mittcd the facts detailed ~ showing the
sirlnge character OF the apparition.
Colonel OIcott," said Madame BIa-
vatsky, nitcr the examination had been
made, "plcasc pull down the curtain"
Colonel OIcott complied, and Madame
Blayatsky LETT the room leaving the
company in silent and not altogether
comfortable expectancy.
When she returned she was asked,
What was that ?"
"lt was Il friend OF mine, an adept
who lives on the Mediterranean, and
who is this moment ut home. You will
hear his mu .ic-hox in few minutes"
E" DO you really mean that it was really
he, and that he has returned to the Med
iterrancan already ?'
Z" do 1t was his astral body. He
comes here frequently, and generally APP
pears inside the room don't knoY
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 n full
minute ali was silent, Then there came
the sound Of II music-box playing an un
familiar air.
at is u very old boN,' said Nine,
BIavatsky, "and | wish it played more
than two tunes. They set me almost
wild at times, do these two tunes"
&C But is that the sound Of a music. box
that is playing on the shores of the Med
tcrrancan?"
1T is. You carry sound by means OF
the telephone. All that is necessary to
do that with but'a wire. But this iSnoth'
ing unu4nal. 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 ot
travel in the east. ] have seen man
throw a large bail Of cord into the all
which unwUund as it assembled, one end
being fastened to the ground. AS the
bail unwound it disappeared into til,
clouds, and the cord remained stationary
In Il few moments the man sent littl,
hoy up this cord, pretending to find on
what held the other end up. The ho,
went up and up, till he was lost to sight
And he stayed 81 long that the NAL
pretended to become cnraged, AM
climbed up after him with n drawn swor'
in his hand, and he too, disappeared
from sight. And presently down fell t
bloody foot, and then another, then
l., IL ,,i. nI Inn
all Bleeding We dipped our handker
chiefs in the blaod TO sec il it really wa
blood, and it was. At last the boy
head fell down, and presently the ma
climbed down. all bloody, and still simrI
Iating rage. lie collected the fragment
OF the boy that lay around and thre'
them in heap on the ground. The
he threw a cloth over the pieces, and tn
boy instantly Jumped up, alive and vel
The man and the boy were entircl
naked, and the trick, il it was a trick, a
you will say it was, was done on an opej
plain, out OF doors. say il was actual
done. There were hundreds of spccta
tors. That is the kind of things tina
eastern magicians do"
"But why is it, if such things ar
true, and not tricks, that we of tn
western countries do not know more o
them? Are we not AS intelligent a
those OF the east ?"
"Our western civilization is yOun,
yet, replied the occult "and, as | hay,
said, the mind of the Caucasian is not "a
well adapted TO the perception Of subtle
truths. But there are many European,
WHO are real adopts, and there is quite q
number OF persons in New York who arc
studying occultism. Some of them only
study it philosophically, but some are
practicing it, There is one who ba,
several times accomplished the separa.
tion of his astral body from his physical
body. though only for few moments
But can make all this much clearer I,
you, after time, by showing you COP,