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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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[199] “Revue des Deux Mondes,” May 1, 1854, p. 531.
[200] We translate verbatim. We doubt whether Mr. Weekman was the first investigator.
[201] Babinet: “Revue des Deux Mondes,” May 1, 1854, p. 511.
[202] De Mirville: “Des Esprits,” p. 33.
[203] Notes, “Des Esprits,” p. 38.
[204] De Mirville: “Faits et Théories Physiques,” p. 46.
[205] See Monograph: “Of the Lightning considered from the point of view of the history of Legal Medicine and Public Hygiene,” by M. Boudin, Chief Surgeon of the Military Hospital of Boule.
[206] De Gasparin: vol. i, page 288.
[207] Crookes: “Physical Force,” page 26.
[208] De Gasparin: “Science versus Spirit,” vol i, p. 313.
[209] Ibid, vol. 1, p. 313.
[210] De Mirville pleads here the devil-theory, of course.
[211] “Des Tables,” vol. i., p. 213.
[212] Vol. i, p. 217.
[213] Crookes: “Psychic Force,” part i., pp. 26-27.
[214] Plato: “Phædo,” § 44.
[215] Ibid., § 128.
[216] “Philosophy of Magic,” English translation, p. 47.
[217] De Mirville: “Des Esprits,” p. 159.
[218] See F. Gerry Fairfield’s “Ten Years with Spiritual Mediums,” New York, 1875.
[219] Marvin: “Lecture on Mediomania.”
[220] “Scientific American,” N. Y., 1875.
[221]
“De par le Roi, defense à Dieu,
De faire miracle, en ces lieux.”
A satire that was found written upon the walls of the cemetery at the time of the Jansenist miracles and their prohibition by the police of France.
[222] Polier: “Mythologie des Indous.”
[223] Genesis vi. 4.
[224] Mallett: “Northern Antiquities,” Bohn’s edition, pp. 401-405.
[225] In the “Quarterly Review” of 1859, Graham gives a strange account of many now deserted Oriental cities, in which the stone doors are of enormous dimensions, often seemingly out of proportion with the buildings themselves, and remarks that dwellings and doors bear all of them the impress of an ancient race of giants.
[226] Dr. More: “Letter to Glanvil, author of ‘Saducismus Triumphatus.’”
[227] J. S. Y.: “Demonologia, or Natural Knowledge Revealed,” 1827, p. 219.
[228] Pausanias: “Eliæ,” lib. i., cap. xiv.
[229] We apprehend that the noble author coined his curious names by contracting words in classical languages. Gy would come from gune; vril from virile.
[230] P. B. Randolph: “Pre-Adamite Man,” p. 48.
[231] On this point at least we are on firm ground. Mr. Crookes’s testimony corroborates our assertions. On page 84 of his pamphlet on “Phenomenal Spiritualism” he says: “The many hundreds of facts I am prepared to attest—facts which to imitate by known mechanics or physical means would baffle the skill of a Houdin, a Bosco, or an Anderson, backed with all the resources of elaborate machinery and the practice of years—have all taken place in my own house; at times appointed by myself and under circumstances which absolutely precluded the employment of the very simplest instrumental aids.”
[232] In this appellation, we may discover the meaning of the puzzling sentence to be found in the Zend-Avesta that “fire gives knowledge of the future, science, and amiable speech,” as it develops an extraordinary eloquence in some sensitives.
[233] Dunlap: “Musah, His Mysteries,” p. iii.
[234] “Hercules was known as the king of the Musians,” says Schwab, ii., 44; and Musien was the feast of “Spirit and Matter,” Adonis and Venus, Bacchus and Ceres. (See Dunlap: “Mystery of Adonis,” p. 95.) Dunlap shows, on the authority of Julian and Anthon (67), Æsculapius, “the Savior of all,” identical with Phtha (the creative Intellect, the Divine Wisdom), and with Apollo, Baal, Adonis, and Hercules (ibid., p. 93), and Phtha is the “Anima mundi,” the Universal Soul, of Plato, the Holy Ghost of the Egyptians, and the Astral Light of the Kabalists. M. Michelet, however, regards the Grecian Herakles as a different character, the adversary of the Bacchic revellings and their attendant human sacrifices.
[235] Plato: “Ion” (Burgess), vol. iv., p. 294.