Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (22): Difference between revisions

{{HPB-CW-comment|[In connection with a discovery by Dr. Vincent Richards that permanganate of potash was a good antidote against cobra poison.]}}

And should Dr. Richards be prevailed upon to discover as valuable an antidote to the far more virulent poison of the slander-tongued Anglo-Indian missionary, the Theosophists and the “heathen” would vote him a statue—at the top of “Crow’s Nest.”<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[The name of the Founders’ residence in Bombay.—Compiler.]}}</ref>

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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In connection with various emotional outbursts on the part of the Salvation Army in India, and the unsavory reputation of some of its fanatical missionaries.]}}

The correspondent laughs at this; we do not, for we have studied history and believe in cycles and recurring events. To buy the right of caricaturing the Jesuits, society had to spend the lives of fifty millions of human beings burnt alive, tortured to death, and otherwise killed during that period of Christianity when the Church reigned supreme.

{{HPB-CW-comment|[Pertinent quote from Major J. W. Powell, U.S.A., explorer of the Colorado River, regarding Spanish cruelty.]}}

How much less ready to do so, are they of the “Salvation Army?” Were not the strong hand of modern law efficient to repress these “red-hot, blood-and-fire soldiers,” they would not only menacingly hiss but might also burn.

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