The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-05
SPIRIT PICTURE
Theosophists Excited Over an
Astral Appearance
or Nine. Blavatsky-Her Portrait Painted by
an Unseen Hand-ReDutable People
Relate the story.
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch. |
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.-TheosOphists and
spiritualists here are excited over the al
legged astral appearance of Nine Blavatsky
and her performance of occult marvels,
outdoing all phenomena credited to mahat-
mas In MIR. Sinnett's book, 1.-THE Occult
World" The medium is Mrs. Eugene
Beste, who has for many years been known
as theosophist and medium for ''materi-
alizations" and "spirit pictures Her sit
ter in this instance was H B. Foulke, for
merly president of the Philadelphia branch
OF the Theosophical society, who stood high
in Nine. Blavatsky's confidence during the
last ten years of her life. Mr. Foulke as
serts that Nine. Blavatsky, soon after her
death, appeared to him in dream and
promised to give him an occult portrait of
herself as testimony of her special friend
ship and favor. He accordingly brought
piece of canvas, 15x20 inches in size, to
Mrs. Beste's room last Thursday night.
President Falkenstein, of the Ger
man Iheosophlcal society, accom-
panied him. After pinning the
white canvas to portieres, separating
the front and back parlors on the first
floor, the three sat for an hour in silence
awaiting developments. At the end of an
hour they turned up the lights No re-
suits were visible and the two men de-
parted promising to return on the morrow.
Immediately after the departure of
Foulke and Falkenstein, j. r. Perry, a
wealthy manufacturer of Wilkesbarre
was shown to the parlor on the second
floor. Mrs. Beste went up to see him.
They had been talking together at Mr..
Perry's home, when the medium suddenly
cried out, "Ihere is an astral. She is
beckon1ng US to go down stairs"
What followed is thus related by Mr.
Perry: Entering the back parlor Mrs.
Beste directed my attention to the canvas
and portieres. 1 examined the portieres
mark upon it. Mrs. Beste then pre-
ceeded me into the front room
where we sat for about ten minutes.
Then luminous figure, which Mrs. Beste
recognized as the astral she had~seen up
stairs, again appeared and waved her right
hand to US with the words, 1t is done,
uttered in deep and solemn voice. The
figure vanished, apparently right through
the closed portieres. At the same moment
the door opened and the odor of fresh paint
filled the room. We went into the back
parlor and | examined the canvas There
was nothing Oh the outer side | turned it
over and on the side that had been toward
toward the curtain l was amazed to see
full length portrait OF Nine. Blavatsky,
where few minutes before there had been
only clean white canvas. 1t seemed as if
in the very act of passing through the Dor
tiers the astral had lett her counterfeit pre-
sentiment upon the canvas. The paint was
still wet, as if it was q picture fresh from
the artists hands"
MIR. Perry says that while Mrs. Beste.
Mrs. Case and himself were examining the
picture the following day the outlines of a
man appeared on the canvas. Then the
figure of Koot Hoomi was distinctly shown.
The latter was Nine. Blavatsky's mahatma.