Year: 1877

New York World.l


Nine Blavatsky is a Russian
countess, who now lives on Eighth
avenue in this city, and is CORE
spending secretary of the Theo.
sophical Sooiety-the same which
conducted the cremation Of the
late Baron de Palm. She has spent
some thirty years of her life in ORR
entail countries, and, a mystic by
nature, has embraced the Buddhic
faith. A profound scholar and a
remorseless critic, she is feared in
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 have you SEEM"


"What have | seen? Look therep'
And Mime Blavatsky pointed to a
window-not the one with "a blue
glass sash, but another.


The reporter looked, and prompt
ly dropped his pipe. Across the
window was passing a shadow.
That Of itself was not remarkable;
but the shadow was not cast from
the inside, and there were certain
reasons why it seemed impossible
that it could have been cast from
the outside. 1t was a clear, dark
night. The only lights visible out.
side the windows were the street
gas-lights, the stars and few night
lights Of other keepers of late hours
besides the party in Mime Blayat-
sky'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 noon
day sun. Then again, the shadow
if it was really a shadow-must
have been cast by a body very near
the window, for it was the exact
profile image Of a man, not dis
torted or disproportioned in any
particular, and exactly life.size
And another reason why it must
have been cast by body near the
window lies in the fact that it was
a second-story window, and there
was no place nearer than the width
of Eighth avenue where the body
could have been, excepting II 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 a
skeptic. All looked carefully. All
saw the shadow, and four asserted
and two admitted the facts detailed
as showing the strange character Of
the apparition.


"Colonel 0lcott," said Nine Bla-
vatsky, after the examination had
been made, "please pull down the
curtain" Colonel 0lcott COM
piled, and Nine Blavatsky left the
room, leaving the company in ST.
lent and not altogether comfortable
expectancy.


When she returned she was ask.
ed, "What was that ?"


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


"Do you mean that it was really
he, and that he has returned to the
Mediterranean already?"


81 do. 1t was his astral body,
He comes here frequently, and
generally appears inside the room
! don't know why he did not come
in here tonight unless it was be-
cause you were here. | went into
the next room and spoke to him
Listenl Do You hear musicY"


The reporter did not, and for d
moment all was silent. Then there
came the sound of a music-bo1
playing an unfamiliar air.


at is a very old box" said Nine
Blavatsky. "and | wished it plavec