Year: 1877

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 of .he East -Wenaers Of Marie.

 New York World: Mme. Blavatsky is a Russian countess, who now lives on Eighth avenue in this city, and is a cor, responding secretary of the Theosophicai society-the same which conducted the cremation of the late Baron de Palm.

 Mime. Blavatsky has spent some thirty years of her life in oriental countries, and, mystic by nature, has embraced the Buddhic faith. A profound scholar and a remorseless critic, she Is fearless III her attacks on what she holds to be error, wherever it is found. The reporter had called to learn about magic.

 |" But of the actual operation of magic the working of wonders--what nave you seen7o ',

 What have I seon 2. Look there And Mime. BlavstsKy pointed to win dow--not the ci,e with blue glass sash, but an0ther. IT.,

 The reporter looked, and promptly dropped his pipe. Across the window was passing a shadow, that of ltsen was not remarkable but the shadow was net cast from the inside, and there were certain reasons why it seemed impossible that it could have been cast from the outside. It was clear, dark night. The only lights visible outside the win dows were the street gaslights, the starr and few night t-lights of other keepers of late hours besides the party in Mad anne Blavatsky's room. None of these lights could by any possibility cast the shadow that was seen, as no single one was brighter or nearer than many others. and the shadow was as distinct as if cast by the monday sun. Then, again, the | shadow--if it was really shadow--must have been cast by body very near the window, for it was the exact profile image of man, not distorted or dispro- 1 portionate in any particular, and exactly l iife-size. And another reason why It must have been cast by body near the window lies in the fact that it was sec ond story window, and there was no place nearer than the width of Eighth avenue, where the body could have been, excepting ledge below the window about eighteen inches wide. And the reporter will make affidavit that no solid body passed along that ledge when the shadow passed across the window.

 Of the six persons who sat in the room one besides the reporter was skeptic. All looked carefully. All saw the shadow, and four asserted and two ad- mitted the facts detailed as showing the strange character of the apparition.

 "Colonel Olcott," said Madame Bla- I yatsky. after the examination had been made, "please pull down the curtain y Colonel Olcott complied, and Madame Bavatsky left the room, leaving the company in silent and not altogether comfortable expectancy.

 When she returned she was asked, "What was that ?"

 (" It was a friend of mine. an adept who lives on the Mediterranean, and who is this moment at home. You will hear his music-box in few minutes"

 "Do you really mean that it was really he, and that he has returned to the Med iterranean already 2"

 "I do. It was his astral body. He comes here frequently, and generally ap- pears inside the room. l don't know why he did not come in here tonight unless it was because you were here. went into the next room and spoke with him Listen Do you hear music ?"

 The reporter did not. and for a full minute all was silent. Then there came the sound of music-box playing an un- familiar air.

 cit is a very old box said Mime Bavatsky, "and l wish it played more than two tunes. They set me almost wild at times, do these two tunes"

 " But is that the sound of music box that is playing on the shores of the Med iterranean

 ct is. You carry sound ly means oi the telephone. All that is necessary to do is to establish the current. We can do that with but wire. But this is noth, ing unusual. You will see and hear many such things if you come often to this house. And you may read of far more wonderful things in the books oi travel in the east. l have seen man throw large ball of cord into the ail which unwound as it ascended, one end being fastened to the ground. As the ball unwound it disappeared into the clouds, and the cord remained stationary In few moments the man sent little boy up this cord, pretending to find out what held the other end up. The boy went up and up, till he was lost to sight And he stayed so long that the mar pretended to become enraged, and climbed up after him with drawn sword in his hand, and he too, disappeared from sight. And presently down fell a bloody foot, and then another, then q leg, and then different pieces of the boy all bleeding. We dipped our handker- chiefs in the blsod to see if it really was blood, and it was. At last the boy $ head fell down, and presently the man limbed down. all bloody, and still simu- lating rage. He collected the fragments of the boy that lay around and threw them in heap on the ground. Then he threw cloth over the pieces, and the boy instantly jumped up, alive and we'll. The man and the boy were entirely naked, and the trick, if it was trick, as you will say it was, was done on an open plain, out oi doors. l say it was actually done. There were hundreds of specta- tors. That is the kind of things that eastern magicians de-"

 But why is it, if such things are true, and not tricks, that we of the western countries do not know more of them? Are we not as intelligent as those of the east ?"

 "Our western civilization is young yet, replied the occult "and. as I have said, the mind of the Caucasian is not as well adapted to the perception oi subtle truths. But there are many Europeans wLo are real adopts, and there is quite a number of persons in New York who are studying occultism. Some of them only