The Alleged Himalayan Brothers
The assertion that a secret Brotherhood exists in the fastnesses of the Himalayas, who, from their mountain home, can produce psychological manifestations in various parts of the world, has been forcibly advanced both among Spiritualists and the general public, this time by Mr. A. P. Sinnett, who is known both in London and in India as a good literary man, and much attention has been given to the subject in the last three numbers of this journal. Any evidence that a section of the psychological phenomena can be produced by human beings still in the body, would be welcomed on all hands, as an enlargement of the domain of the experimental branch of Spiritualism, and as tending, by bringing the phenomena more under control, to enlarge knowledge of the subject, and to furnish a means of protecting mediums from the moral and other dangers which sometimes beset them. But on carefully examining the details of the facts published by Mr. Sinnett, it seems to us that they strongly point in the direction of Madame Blavatsky being but a strong physical medium, mistaken or hallucinated in her theory. Nobody but herself has publicly testified to having seen one of these Himalayan Brothers; a statement has, however, been made that Colonel Olcott has occasionally seen some of them, but as yet no direct utterance from him on the point is before the world at large.
A second assertion is, that Madame Blavatsky can produce some of the minor phenomena by her own will-power.
On carefully reading and accepting Mr. Sinnett’s description of the phenomena on which he bases his belief, it seems to us that they point away from his conclusions instead of supporting them, and the reasons for not agreeing with him have been published. In the first three or four years during which intelligent inquirers come much into contact with the marvellous phenomena of Spiritualism, the mind, after first accepting their reality, is usually somewhat at sea after being dragged from its old moorings, and it takes a long time and much unwilling experience, to become certain of the general untrustworthiness of the <... continues on page 11-130 >
Editor's notes
- ↑ The Alleged Himalayan Brothers by unknown author, London Spiritualist, No. 462, July 1, 1881, pp. 1-3
Sources
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London Spiritualist, No. 462, July 1, 1881, pp. 1-3