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| source title = Spiritual Scientist
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| source details = v. 3, No. 8, October 28, 1875, p. 89
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IN a letter to the Banner of Light Col. Olcott makes several personal explanations concerning his connection with Spiritualism; answers several of the many correspondents who are busily buzzing their opinions concerning his theories, and closes by saying: —
“Occultism is something that ''can'' be tested and proven by all ‘competent’ persons, and is not a mere tangle of assertions and theories. Nay, more, it ''has'' been tested and proven by competent persons a thousand times over, in all countries and in all ages. It is so tested and proven now—in this nineteenth century—and testimony to the fact is borne by some of the most learned, virtuous and unprejudiced of our contemporaries.
“Do you want me to name over the authors who corroborate my statement? It would nearly fill every column of this issue of the Banner. Do you complain that I have given the public no proofs of the existence of elementary spirits and their subjection to human control? I could occupy your paper a whole year without exhausting the accessible supply of anecdotes. If you want a perfect reservoir of authenticated cases of magic (the Jesuit author calls it Demonology, as he does all spiritualistic and magnetic phenomena), read Des Mousseaux’s series of volumes in the French language; if you wish to know what the Chinese and Thibetan thaumaturgic priests perform, read Hue and Schlangentweit. If you would know of the power of man to change his corporeal form and assume whatever shape he chooses, read the memoirs of Simon Magus (who is mentioned by St. Luke), and of Apollonious; reau Pierre Manor’s treatise against the sorcerers; Henry de Coulogue’s “De Lamceis;” the “Vie des Peres du Desert:” read the stories of magic and sorcery brought back from Mexico and Central America by M. Brasseur de Bourbourg; read about the occultism of the ancient Peruvians, in Prescott and Tscuddi. If you wish evidence of ancient occultist practices, read Pausonias, Plato, Cicero, Iamblichus. Tacitus, Herodotus, Manetho, Sanchoniaton, the Sohar and the Egyptian and Jewish Kabbollahs.
“You see that here is a wide enough field of study to test the intelligence and perseverance of the most ambitious champion of Modern Spiritualism. When my windy critics have gleaned over ever so small a corner of it, I would be glad to hear what they think of my ‘unsupported assertions.’
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spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.08_1875-10-28.pdf|page=4|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 8, October 28, 1875, p. 88
spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.08_1875-10-28.pdf|page=4|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 8, October 28, 1875, p. 88
spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.08_1875-10-28.pdf|page=5|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 8, October 28, 1875, p. 89
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