St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-13

would have exonerated.her from the charge.
Without discussing the merits of the book it
may be asserted that the labor involved In its
production was very great.
AS a friend, Nine. Blavatsky was stead
fast and devoted to an unusual degree.
Credulous by nature, she had been imposed
upon by 80 many that she learned to limit
her circle, but up to the time she left Ameri
ca she was always liable to imposition on the
part OF any designing person.
She was unconventional and prded her
self on carrying her unconventionality to
the utmost extremes. She would swear like
dragoon when in anger, and often used in
in pure levity expressions which served no
other purpose than to emphasize her con-
tempt for common usages. Born, so it is
said, OF the best lineage in Russia, she had
been bred and educated not only as lady,
but as an aristocrat. Describing, as she did,
the traditional belief of her family, she dis
carded at the same time the entire system Of
European civilization. During her residence
in America, at least for the writer claims to
know no more about her than was developed
here, she protested against our civilization
as vigorously as against the Christian reli-
gion. The criticism she drew on herself by
this course was merciless, and from civil
Those who knew her best believe her to
have been entirely incapable of a mean act
or dishonest one. The honesty of her ut
terances was often questioned, but never by
those who knew her well enough to under
stand how she was often carried away by her
own eagerness and credulity.
a case in point. A ghost story was start
ed some eight years ago by some unknown
person on the east side of town, near the riv-
er. 1t was declared that the disem bodied
spirit of a Waterman who had been known
in his lifetime as !'Old Shep'' had been seen
around where he had worked, and that 1t
came to certain dock every night in
ghostly boat Many people in the neighbor-
hood of Thirtieth street protested to have
seen this, and among these persons were sew
eral policemen. Nine. Blavatsky was one of
party who visited the river-front one mid
night in hope of seeing the ghost. 1t is use
less to say that no ghost appeared, and a
careful investigation of the story (Which wa
made) failed to develop anything like respec-
table evidence of its truth. Yet Mme Bla-
vatsky always insisted that the story was true
insisted angrily when the story was ridi-
culed. "There are ghosts and ghosts" she
said once to the writer, when she was qnes-
toned about 'Old Shep." 1.-THE air that we
breathe is permeated by subtler fluid that
corresponds to it, as the soul corresponds to
the body of man. 1t is the asttal fluid, and
in it are the thoughts of all men, the pos
sibilites of the acts in the photographers
plate there are images that remain unseen
until revealed by chemical action. So the
last dyuing thought of any person, if 1t be
intense enough, becomes objective, and, I'M
der favorable conditions, is very apt to be
I'M y xyhi la fha
OF this city reported the case of man who
ommtted suicide in his bathroom. A
friend ran for doctor against the earnest
remonstrance of the dying man. On the
way the friend was startled by seeing, for a
moment only, the image of the dying man.
clad only iu his night-shirt, grasping his
pistol and bleeding from his death wound.
This was at a considerable distance from the
house where the suicide was, and the appar-
ition disappeared almost instantly.
THAT was merely the intense desire of the
dying man to stop his friend. 1t became OBJ
jective and visible when the astral man left
the physical. So it is with many other appa-
ritions. In haunted houses the last thought
of the victim Of Il crime may remain, and
the tragedy may be re-enacted thousands OF
times before it fades away 1t is likely in
the case of "Old Shep, the Waterman, that
he does not know he is dead, and his last
thought was probably that he was going his
rounds. SO he will continue TO go his rounds
until that thought fades away, and under
certain conditions he will be visible to the
physical eyes of those around. Many persons
do not know when they are dead, and they
go around afterwards in great perpexity,
sometimes for several days, because no one
pays any attention to them. They feel as
well as ever and talk To their friends, and
are almost frantic at not being able to get any
answers" 1t will be readily seen from this
discourse how impossible 1t was for any one
10 hold controversy successfully with Nine.
B avatsky. Accepting as demonstrated facts
things and thoughts that seem to every day
mortals TO be ingenious dreams, and fatty
denying, as she did, what are held ordinarily
TO be the fundamental proved facts of human
knowledge, there was no common ground of
argument between her and the most of her
antagonists. You can not argue with any
body who will speak disrespcctfuily OF the
multiplication table"
It will be asked, ''What did this singular
woman really believed What was the exact
ground she occupied as controversalst"'
Tue answer is difficult. II could, possibly be
made by digesting "Isis Unveiled" and
stating the IMPORT Of that book in a sentence
II that were a possible task. Probably no
one could do that satisfactorily excepting the
author herself. She would say "Science is a
true and beautiful thing, but these modern
scientists have not found out what IL is.
They borrow theories of the ancients, and
dress them up In beau fnl, eloquent Ian
guage, aud pass them off for their own pro-
ductious. The ideas that Huxley advanced
while in America are all taken fvOm the an
clients, as shall show in my book. But
they don't any OF them know what they are
talking about-Huxley, Tyndall, aud the
rest. They refuse 10 investigate things
which are absolutely demonstrated, aud they
break their noses over the origin OF the mat
ter, winch Is correlation Of spirit, and they
Iea,u, 4.r :. conclusion, the an inhalation of
man. am Buddhist" she said In reply
TO the obvious question which followed the |
statement, "hut Buddhism does not hold out
an Inhalation as the last best good. That is |
one OF the misrepresentation OF ignorant
the Buddhists teach that what
ever is beyond the power Of human language |
to describe, beyond the reach Of human in
tellect to conceive, whatever Is impossible in |
any measure 10 understand, is, so far as man |
is concerned uOn existent, and what we term |
God is therefore nonresident. That is. that |
SO far as the understanding Of man Is con
cerned, God can have no existence. You !
see, II is merely refinement OF metaphysics. |
And We believe in he triple nature Of man.
We believe We are material Gody, an astral |
body, and pure so |, or nous, as the Greek
terms 1t. After the death of the material /
body we lead a d. existence, aud finally, |
when puriie.i. the oul enters nlrawana, that |
is, 1t rejoius he Or at)r. The astral body / |
spoke Of is not spi it, and yet not the matter |
With which We are amlliar. II Is imponder-
able matter, and ordinarily is imperceptible |
the senses. 1t is what st. Paul called "the |
spiritual body"
Speaking Of sp ritualsm and its alleged |
manifestations Nine. Biayatsky 10 the same