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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Theosophical Utterances|11-121}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Theosophical Utterances|11-121}} | ||
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The only passably valid argument against their experience that we know of is, that in dreams the characters exhibit intense individuality, at variance with the ideas of the dreamer; yet if all dreams are of purely physiological origin, and if they can be intensified into a certain class of manifestations, the intensity of apparent individuality is no evidence of the existence of anyone apart from the dreamer. But the physical phenomena of Spiritualism, such, for instance, as the very scientific tying and untying of the ropes around a sleeping medium, indicate that a most determined and, under the circumstances, terrible power apart from himself, is actually at work. | |||
We'' ''have never said that Koot Hoomi or John King is “no embodied human being at all,” and should he glad to know who or what he is. Our only argument has been that Koot Hoomi and John King appear to be of the same fraternity, and that all the evidence before the public tends to show, and with unexpected strength too, that Madame Blavatsky is neither more nor less than a strong physical medium. The onus of proving a difference rests with those who assert its reality. | |||
Hindoos, some of them not veracious, with the soles of their feet tucked under their armpits, and absorbed in holy contemplation of the Absolute, and of the ends of their noses, pass into a state of bodily stupor, and far be it from us to say in what part of the globe their mental activity may possibly then be. While one-half the globe is in sunshine the other is in darkness: who knows where, if anywhere, the mental activity of half the human race may be, while their bodies are asleep? In Spiritualism we have a tangled mass of phenomena it will take centuries to unravel. Those of spontaneous death-bed apparitions and of haunted houses, seem to be ascribable to no cause but the existence after the dissolution of the body, of the spirits of the dead. Some few of the phenomena of mediumship appear to be due to the same cause; but as to the rest, the region is unexplored, and few, if any, are in a position to dogmatise thereupon. If Madame Blavatsky’s “Brothers” or “Todas” (see ''The Spiritualist ''of April 19th, 1878.) have anything to do with the matter, the only knowledge of the fact the world possesses is from her statements, and this it became our duty to the public to point out. The manifestations in her presence seem to be those of strong physical mediumship; some of them do not resemble the narrow range of phenomena now ordinarily obtainable in London, but some years ago''' '''when Mrs. Guppy was in full power, curious open air manifestations wore common enough in her presence in her garden at Holloway. | |||
Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott have done much in India to disseminate knowledge about Spiritualism, and have boon issuing an excellent psychological journal, ''The Theosophist, ''in Bombay. There is no desire on our part to indulge in captious detraction of their utterances or their labours, but the assertion that men exist in the Himalayas who can produce psychological manifestations in any part of the world, is too large to gain acceptance without its foundations being examined. Do those men live in the land, where the Boojum and the Snark loam at will, and where the Jubjub sings its lonely song to the Lady Moon? | |||
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