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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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[159] “Spiritualism and Charlatanism.”
[160] Prof. Hare: “On Positivism,” p. 29.
[161] “Journal des Débats,” 1864. See also des Mousseaux’s “Hauts Phén. de la Magie.”
[162] “Philosophic Positive,” vol. iv., p. 279.
[163] Dr. F. R. Marvin: “Lecture on Insanity.”
[164] See Howitt: “History of the Supernatural,” vol. ii.
[165] Prof. Huxley: “Physical Basis of Life.”
[166] Reference is made to a card which appeared some time since in a New York paper, signed by three persons styling themselves as above, and assuming to be a scientific committee appointed two years before to investigate spiritual phenomena. The criticism on the triad appeared in the “New Era” magazine.
[167] Dr. Marvin: “Lecture on Insanity,” N. Y., 1875.
[168] Tyndall: “Fragments of Science.”
[169] Tyndall: Preface to “Fragments of Science.”
[170] Deuteronomy, chap. xvii., 6.
[171] Montesquieu: Esprit des Lois I., xii., chap. 3.
[172] C. B. Warring.
[173] Ammianus Marcellinus, xxiii., 6.
[174] The Rishis were seven in number, and lived in days anteceding the Vedic period. They were known as sages, and held in reverence like demi-gods. Haug shows that they occupy in the Brahmanical religion a position answering to that of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Jewish Bible. The Brahmans claim to descend directly from these Rishis.
[175] The fourth Veda.
[176] Orthography of the “Archaic Dictionary.”
[177] We do not mean the current or accepted Bible, but the real Jewish one explained kabalistically.
[178] “Dissertations Relating to Asia.”
[179] Dr. Gross, p. 195.
[180] Brahma does not create the earth, Mirtlok, any more than the rest of the universe. Having evolved himself from the soul of the world, once separated from the First Cause, he emanates in his turn all nature out of himself. He does not stand above it, but is mixed up with it; and Brahma and the universe form one Being, each particle of which is in its essence Brahma himself, who proceeded out of himself. [Burnouf: “Introduction,” p. 118.]
[181] “Conflict between Religion and Science,” 180.
[182] “Des Tables,” vol. i., p. 213.
[183] Ibid., 216.
[184] “Des Tables,” vol. i., p. 48.
[185] Ibid., p. 24.
[186] Ibid., p. 35.
[187] De Mirville: “Des Esprits,” p. 26.
[188] “Avant propos,” pp. 12 and 16.
[189] Vol. i., p. 244.
[190] Vol. ii., p. 524.
[191] “Medico-Psychological Annals,” Jan. 1, 1854.
[192] De Mirville: “Des Esprits,” “Constitutionnel,” June 16, 1854.
[193] Chevalier des Mousseaux: “Mœurs et Pratiques des Démons,” p. x.
[194] De Mirville: “Des Esprits,” p. 4.
[195] Ibid. “Revue des Deux Mondes,” January 15, 1854, p. 108.
[196] This is a repetition and variation of Faraday’s theory.
[197] “Revue des Deux Mondes,” p. 410.
[198] “Revue des Deux Mondes,” January, 1854, p. 414.