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Old Diary Leaves (2); The True Story of the Theosophical Society
Old Diary Leaves The True Story of the Theosophical Society - 2 Author:Henry Steel Olcott Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam Subjects: Theosophy Religion / Theosophy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get ... more »free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. MADAME BLAYATSKY'S SECOND MARRIAGE. IN giving anything like a consecutive account of early Theosophic days -- by which term I mean to include all days of intercourse between H. P. B. and myself, so far as I can recall them -- I must briefly allude to the cases of precipitation of manuscript by her which are mentioned in my People from the Other World (pp. 455-6-7 and 8). Ostensibly, as above stated, they were given me by John King, of Kamaloca, whilom buccaneer, knighted by His Britannic Majesty Charles II., but now apparently a mere pseudonym of H. P. B.'s elementals. At a stance at her hotel in Philadelphia, on the evening of January 6, 1875, the alleged J. K. doing phenomena, I said : " If you are in reality a spirit, as you pretend, give me some exhibition of your power. Make me, for example, a copy of the last note from E. W. to Mr. Owen that I have in the portfolio in my pocket." No notice was taken of the request that evening, but on the next but one after it, while H. P. B. was writing and I reading at the same table, loud raps sounded, and, uponmy calling the English alphabet, spelt out, " Hand me your dictionary under the table, will you ? " The only dictionary there, was a Russian-English one of H. P. B.'s, which was handed (not dropped, but handed, as if to a something or invisible somebody down there, that could take the bulky volume) beneath as requested. The raps then called for a mucilage bottle, and then for a penknife. These also having been passed under the table, there was momentar...« less