The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-05

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After forty years OF study in the
realms OF occultism j.. L. Perry, OF
Wilkcsbarrc, witnessed aclimax OF Won
deriul phenomena during a visit 10 this
city within tic last fortnight. Mr.. Perry
is vouched for rs II Of the Oldest rcsi.
dents OF W%ilkcsbarrc aud 4 gentleman.
OF probity, credited with unusual good
sense, whose strengthening adherence
to the beliefs OF thcosoDhy with long
and close study entities his testimony
to consideration.
Mr.. Perry relates what is known;
among theosophists, that not long be-
fore her death Madame Blavatsky APP
pointed as her successor in tls work OF
which she bud been olonstheacknowI-
edged head Henry i. Eoulke, OF Phila'
dclphia. Mr.. Foulkc for many years
has been q student OF illcosophy and a
traveller in Europe and India in search
Of the knowledge OF occult truths.
Madame Blavatsky promised him tho
approval aud guidance OF the mystcri-
Gus powcrs who had directed her OWN
work on earth, assuring him also OF
her personal cooperation from tho un-
seen realms.
Mr.. Foulkc, rs the condition OF his
acceptance OF this appointment, re-
quired unqucstionable manifestations
OF the power Of Madame Blayatsky TO
fulfill her promises. lie requested that
her master should prccipitatc her por-
trait upon CANVAS. indicating also he
v %proninQuity, after the manner
which thc6sophists claim often TO have
witnessed.
TIL: REQUIRED 0 GIVEN.
IN the p%arIors OF Madame Eugene
Beste, the Philadelphia psychic, through
whose occult powers many pictures OF
the departed are said 10 have been
made, Mr.. Perry declares that ho wit
messed the iulfilmcnt OF MIR. FoulkC's
demands. Several c:uvascs had been
for some time prepared and waiting for
the desired precipitation, but without
result. Mr.. Foulke and George Foulken-
stein, now president OF the German
Philosophical Society OF Philadelphia,
had been watching Tor the expected
manifestation, but had just gone away
unsatisfied.
When Mr.. Perry entered Madame
Beste's par!ors she showed him three
~canvasscs which had nothing OH them.
He placed them on i chair with the face
side 10 the wall. The anvas were
put in 4 partially curtained, yet clearly
lighted part OF the room, where every
article OF furniture could be distinctly
seen. Soon there was u smell OF paint.
Madame Bestc observed that the forces
were at work. Alter waiting in silence
for perhaps five minutes, Mr.. Perry eX-
amined the canyaScs and upon one Of
them found 4 correct and beautiful por-
trait OF Madame ~B!avatsky. 1t was re-
cogniZcd by Mrs. Kasc, who had known
her Tor more than twenty years. Dur
ing the time OF the supposed making oil
the portrait Madame Bcstc had otbecn
once within ten feet OF the canvas, and
it was impossible that she should have
placed anything upon it.
BLAvATsKY's FORM APPEARS.
The next morning, according to Mr..
Perry, while he. Madame Bestc and aIrs.
Kasc were looking at the portrait, they
saw in the upper left hand corner OF the
background the gradual appearance OF
4 face and head and finally 4 clean.cut
figure. '"rhcre WIS the whitc-robcd
form OF Madame Blavasky, sitting, says
MIR. Perry, with an expression OF quiet
rcpose upon her countcnance and her
marvelously beautiful hands gracefully
folded. Upon tho window still sits n
Hipdoo idol, an exact picture OF one be-
longing to Mr.. Foulke, which was taken
by him to England some years ago and
loaned to the madame. Below the
with the initials l. U. and S. D., no
doubt intended to refer to the volumes
she has written. Isis Unveiled and
Secret Doctrine
'Thus had the request oil the chosen
one been literally complied with, under
such conditions that no one can accuse
Mr.. Foulkc oil any completely or dup
,licity i'll its production, rs he was not
present and N utter stranger to myself
until l met him the following day, after
he had been sent Tor to look at the mar
Vicious precipitation. What tho effect
will be to the cause OF ticosophy re-
mains to be seen. In itself 1t is 4 phe-
nomcnon calculated to excite wonder
and inquiry into the mysteries around
u.s."
In proof OF Madame Blavatskv's sclec.
ton OF Mr.. Foulkc for the work, which
he feels himself fully accredited to I'M
dertakc, it is declared on good authority
that he has letters from her W hand.
In one OF them she says: "If you wish
to get into this work come over to Eng.
land, and will teach you all about the
philosophy which you do not know at
present, then you will be prepared to
take q leading place among tho jthcoso-
phists OF the whole world" 1sIn another
letter she writes: "Whatevcr happens,
I will sustain you before God and man,
as l always did"
AUTHORITY FROM TIE MASTERS.
Henry B. Foulke had already given
up his large real estate business in Wal.
nut street in order to follow what he
felt to be higher aims OF life in the pur.
suit and dissemination OF occult know.
ledge. He now believes that he has
the backing OF the masters who stood
behind Madame Blavatsky in her work.
10 confirm him in this belief he has re.
ceivcd what he doubts not arc precipi.
tated letters from the masters them.
selves. Some OF these he received while
on board ship at sea, some when alone
in his room in this city. In one of these
letters is written: My dear child, We
have watched over thee through all
tho ages and guided thee through al
the bitter experiences OF thy life. Be
hnneinl: soon the time is coming whnn