The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-07
WHAT THEOSOPHY rs.
The Religion Of Nine. Blavatsky,
the Corpulent Fakir.
DUPEs EXPECT HER TO RETURN.
Crazy tumble OF Mysticism, Ghosts,
sorcerers and observation-disclosures
wrought by the Astral Fluid.

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respondence.l - Three-eyed giants and
black sorcerers, ghosts of the living and
elemental spirits, white magicians and
mysterious wise men dwelling in Thibetan
caves, phantasms of thoughts and all the
most complicated of religions, Theosophy,
have lost by the death of Madame Bla-
vatsky their greatest expounder.
To make clear just why it Is that her fol-
lowers have hopes that she will come back
to earth again in new body, it should be
explained that each human being
consists of seven distinct parasitic
body, the vitality, the astral body,
the spirit and the pure divine spirit.
Thus it appears that, as DIR. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes says, ones individuality is
sort of omnibus, carrying through the
journey of life a number of passengers.
When person dies the body and vitality
are left to slowly dislntegrate and pass
away; but the remaining five principles
hover about together in the atmosphere
for long time. There is a struggle among
them, the animal soul trying to pull down
the human soul and the spirit striving to
lift it up. Finally the human soul is torn
elements is the stronger gets the most of
it. The animal soul and the part of the
human soul attached to it remain floating
about hither and thither near the ground,
forming what is known as the ''astral
she'll" 1t is these shells that under GER
tain conditions become visible to the liv-
ing and are termed GHOSTS"
The individuality of the being thus dis
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into regions above, which are called ''Deva-
chan"--a sort of dreamland-and where
the person enjoys the most exquisite hap
piness, partaking of all the delights which
were most gratifying on earth. These
pleasures, however, are purely ilusory
and exist only in the imagination of the
subject, who floats about for perhaps
thousands of years. disporting himself in
fancy with the friends both dead and liv-
ing whom he loved the most, and indulg-
ing in every qualification conceivable.
AT length the carnal desires of the
creature draw it back from Deyachan
to the world again, where it
is reincarnated in a form that is deter
mined by its actions. good or bad, in its
previous state of earthly existence. This
is the doctrine of 'Karma," which is work
done in the former life, bringing about as
relentlessly as fate reward or punishment
in the next incarnation. If you suffer
from any affection now, you have the con-
ISOLATION of knowing that it is because you
did something wrong In the body you oc-
cupied before your present one. On the
other hand, if you are rich and happy, it is
for the reason you have merlted bliss by
virtuous performance.
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people in the world who do not go, after
death, to Devachan at all. They are the
black sorcerers, who use occult powers for
evil purposes. Mostly, according to Nine.
Blavatsky's assertion, they are Jesuits,
and the facilities they make use of for
may be regarded as the very aristocrats of
crime. In fact, such crime as they indulge
in is not to be even conceived of in the
Imagination of ordinary persons.
They, instead of enjoying ages of
happy dreams after they die, are conveyed
to region of extreme suffering and
misery. 1t is true that this hell is purely
an imaginary one, the woes they undergo
being illusions simply, but their wretched-
ness is not the less on that account. The
very opposites of these black sorcerers are
the good magicians, who, having become
adopts in occultism, employ their arts for
the benefit of mankind. OF this sort are
the famous Koot Hoomi and his brother
Mahatmas, who dwell in the caves of
Thibet, content to attire themselves in
single coffee-bag apiece and other
wise cultivating an extreme asceticism,
while the strange powers at their COM
mand enable them to influence affairs of
individuals and even of nations all over
the world. 1t is the stupendous quality of
these powers that renders it possible for
the adept to do good or to occasion evil on
an enormous scale. 1t is very dangerous
for person with the best intentions to
acquire such knowledge, because there
must always be great temptation to en-
ploy it for selfish purposes, and one may
drift into the damnation of black magic
for sheer want OF self-control.
Although in each person the seven ele-
ments already spoken of exist, most
people in this world have not developed
animal soul, on the plane of which, there
fore, they are said to live. A large min
oritys however, nave got beyond this some
what. and exist on the plane of the human
| soul, while q very few illuminated Ones"
are on the plane of the spirit. Among
these last are the Mahatmas, OF the Hima-
layan caves, from whom Nine. Blavatsky
got her instruction, and through whose
agency she was enabled to execute many
things, which the ignorant would
term miraculous. These sages of the
mountains have selected the most
inaccessible retreats because OF their de-
sire 10 remain undisturbed by the vulgar.
and to withdraw their own minds from all
earthly desires so far as is possible. They
have got so far along in their pursuit of
perfection that no fleshly wishes or pas
sions drew them back from Devaehan to
this world. 1t was their choice to return
in order that they might be useful TO
humanity. Being human themselves, they
must die eventually and return to the
happy dreamland, but they understand
the laws of nature SO well that they live
ordinarily to the age of from 40 to 200
years, without ever appearing 10 be more
| than 80. It is said that they are most
beautiful old gentlemen, Notwithstanding
the fact that they do not set up
for dudes. After one has sue
ceeded in extinguishing all desires of any
kind and has attained actual perfection.
| he becomes planetary spirit, and, in
! company with others, has control over the
| processes of nature. Such creatures of
| light are the highest personalities in the
| universe and are the nearest approxiTra-
| ton TO gods recognized by the theosophist.
| The system of planets called solar by the
I astronomers is not the real system, the
| latter being in fact composed of Mars.
| Mercury, the Earth, and four invisible
| orbs. At first there existed in this world
| a race OF human-like giants of enormous
| size, one-eyed, whose bodies were not
/ of o very dense consistency. They
| made their appearance here about IS 600
| 600 years ago; they had no sex and they
| laid eggs, thus reproducing their species.
Next came the second race, not quite so