The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-03
NINE. BLAvArsKY. THE FAKIR.

Ex-Member OF the Demi- Monde - In
League With the Devil.
New York Special.
DR.. Elliott Coues, of the Smithsonian
institution, the greatest living ornithoio-
gist. and one of the most eminent theoso-
phists in the country, has been interviewed
by q reporter on the alleged wonders
worked by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel
Olcott in India. and their work through
.'so-cailed theosophical societies" in the
United States. Professor Coues gives his
opinion of Colonel o cott in these words:
"Oicott is naturally an honest. kindly
man, but his wits are oversharpened by the
milestone OF fate. He may be called q
typical Yankee, with ali the worst traits of
that character exaggerated. It's Mngu-
lar irony OF accident that should convert q
sharp New York newspaper man into q
sham high priest of q sham religion. posi-
ton from which he has never been able to
extricate himself"
"B1, how was j. possible for Blavassky to
keep Olcott thus?"
my friend, all things are possible with
God, the devil and woman, and against the
two latter in combination q man stands q
poor chance. Whist chance had this son Of
Adam against such woman as Blavatsky I
None whatever. Every age has its bogus
prophet who became famous. or Infamous.
If you prefer it This being feminine age.
il is only natural that its greatest charlatan
should be sort of she-Cagiiostro. The in
gradients of q successful charlatan are no
conscience. some brains, much courage.
seifishness, vain-glorious ambition, vivid
imagination, good address, ready re- ources,
monumental mendacity and q pious. living
faith in the love of mankind for being hum
plugged. Blavatsky has all these; she only
needed to hitch an Olcott to her car to ride
in the triumph of the sawdust arena
around the world"
facts he had to back up such strong state
ments. told OH early life as a girl in Rus
STA, of her latter life as demi-monde in .
haison with Prince Wittgenstein in Paris,
and still later as o chap spiritualist In Egypt,
from which she was driven by the author
tiles Coues declares that after this Nine.
Blavatsky vas an adventures for year
| and was . Russian spy in New York. Fail
| ing in her political intrigues. she turned to
spiritualism again. and then organized her
little combination with Oicott and went
into the theosophy business ut Madras.
India. He then cites the conclusion of
DR.. Hodgson of the London Society for
Psychical Research, in which the doctor
said that it (particulariy the shrine at
to come from Mahatama were received)
was deliberately arranged with q view to
the secret insertion of letters and other
objects through sliding panel at the back
and regularly. used for the purpose by
Mime. Blavatsky of her agents."
Professor Coues charges that Nine.
Blavatsky was not the author OF her great
success, Isis Underled," but that il was
written nearly altogether by q dead New
| Yorker named De Palm, and that large
parts of the original manuscript were in his
writing, which she passed of as being hers,
| written by the Mahatma who used to visit
her room with his divine inspirations and
miraculous powers of writing with his as
trai hand, while his natural body slept in q
| Thibetan cript. To prove this, in the morn
| ing there would be found sheets of manu-
script In different handwriting-De Palms,
| of course, paimed of as Mahatma's.
"Can you tell me anything of Nine.
Blavatsky's secretary. who / see has
lately been lecturing in this country ?"
You mean Mr.. Bertram Keightley. /
suppose. met him in London in 1884.
| have some money and. by the way, here is
| Buck. in which Buck talks of getting hold,
| with w. @. Judge, of large legacy from
the two Keightleys, TO build up theosoph-
| ical publishing house. Blavatsky has been
pensioner of the Keightleys for several
years, and the whole secret of the Blavat-
| sky-Judge-Buck combination, which makes
| it hang together so doggedly. Is the chance
| that some keightley money may stick TO
| their fingers If they can keep the two young
gentlemen in proper theosophic frame OF
| mind"