Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki), Curators (Semantic MediaWiki), Editors (Semantic MediaWiki), Suppressors, Administrators, trusted
15,163
edits
Blavatsky H.P. - Madame Blavatsky: Difference between revisions
Blavatsky H.P. - Madame Blavatsky (view source)
Revision as of 10:36, 10 February 2025
, 10 Februaryno edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
| pages = 46-49 | | pages = 46-49 | ||
| publications = Spiritual Scientist, Boston, Vol. I, December 3, 1874, pp. 148-9 | | publications = Spiritual Scientist, Boston, Vol. I, December 3, 1874, pp. 148-9 | ||
| scrapbook = 1:9 | | scrapbook = 1:9; 3:88-89 | ||
| previous = Zirkoff B. - Elbridge Gerry Brown | | previous = Zirkoff B. - Elbridge Gerry Brown | ||
| next = Zirkoff B. - H.P.B’s Role at the Eddy’s Homestead | | next = Zirkoff B. - H.P.B’s Role at the Eddy’s Homestead | ||
| alternatives = [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v1/y1874_007.htm KH] | | alternatives = [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v1/y1874_007.htm KH] | ||
| translations = [ | | translations = [[:t-ru-lib:Блаватская Е.П. - Мадам Блаватская|Russian]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
| Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
Knowing this country to be the cradle of modern Spiritualism, I came over here from France with feelings not unlike those of a Mohammedan approaching the birthplace of his prophet. I had forgotten that “no prophet is without honor save in his own country.” In the less than fourteen months that I am here, sad experience has but too well sustained the never-dying evidence of this immortal truth! | Knowing this country to be the cradle of modern Spiritualism, I came over here from France with feelings not unlike those of a Mohammedan approaching the birthplace of his prophet. I had forgotten that “no prophet is without honor save in his own country.” In the less than fourteen months that I am here, sad experience has but too well sustained the never-dying evidence of this immortal truth! | ||
What little I have done towards defending my belief, I am ever ready to do it over and over again, as long as I have a breath of life left in me. But what good will it ever do? We have a popular and wise Russian saying that “one Cossack on the battlefield is no warrior.” Such is my case, together with many other poor, struggling wretches, every {{Page aside|48}}one of whom, like a solitary watch, sent far ahead in advance of the army, has to fight his own battle, and defend the entrusted post, unaided by no one but himself. There is no union between Spiritualists, no “entente cordiale,” as the French say. Judge Edmonds said, some years ago, that they numbered in their ranks over eleven million in this country alone; and I believe it to be true, in which case it is but to be the more deplored. When one man—as Dr. | What little I have done towards defending my belief, I am ever ready to do it over and over again, as long as I have a breath of life left in me. But what good will it ever do? We have a popular and wise Russian saying that “one Cossack on the battlefield is no warrior.” Such is my case, together with many other poor, struggling wretches, every {{Page aside|48}}one of whom, like a solitary watch, sent far ahead in advance of the army, has to fight his own battle, and defend the entrusted post, unaided by no one but himself. There is no union between Spiritualists, no “entente cordiale,” as the French say. Judge Edmonds said, some years ago, that they numbered in their ranks over eleven million in this country alone; and I believe it to be true, in which case it is but to be the more deplored. When one man—as Dr. Beard did and will do it yet—dares to defy such a formidable body as that, there must be some cause for it. His insults, gross and vulgar as they are, are too fearless to leave one particle of doubt that if he does it, it is but because he knows too well that he can do so with impunity and perfect ease. Year after year the American Spiritualists have allowed themselves to be ridiculed and slighted by everyone who had a mind to do so, protesting so feebly as to give their opponents the most erroneous idea of their weakness. Am I wrong, then, in saying that our Spiritualists are more to be blamed than Dr. Beard himself in all this ridiculous polemic? Moral cowardice breeds more contempt than the “familiarity” of the old motto. How can we expect such a scientific sleight-of-hand as he is to respect a body that does not respect itself? We ourselves brought upon our heads that shower of abuse lavished by his hand with the dexterity and ability of a drunken London cockney. | ||
Beard did and will do it yet—dares to defy such a formidable body as that, there must be some cause for it. His insults, gross and vulgar as they are, are too fearless to leave one particle of doubt that if he does it, it is but because he knows too well that he can do so with impunity and perfect ease. Year after year the American Spiritualists have allowed themselves to be ridiculed and slighted by everyone who had a mind to do so, protesting so feebly as to give their opponents the most erroneous idea of their weakness. Am I wrong, then, in saying that our Spiritualists are more to be blamed than Dr. Beard himself in all this ridiculous polemic? Moral cowardice breeds more contempt than the “familiarity” of the old motto. How can we expect such a scientific sleight-of-hand as he is to respect a body that does not respect itself? We ourselves brought upon our heads that shower of abuse lavished by his hand with the dexterity and ability of a drunken London cockney. | |||
My humble opinion is, that the majority of our Spiritualists are too much afraid for their “respectability” when called upon to confess and acknowledge their “belief.” Will you agree with me, if I say that the dread of the social Areopagus is so deeply rooted in the hearts of your American people, that to endeavour to tear it out of them would be undertaking to shake the whole system of society from top to bottom? “Respectability” and “fashion” have brought more than one utter materialist to select (for mere show) the Episcopalian and other wealthy churches. But Spiritualism is not “fashionable,” as yet, and that’s where the trouble is. Notwithstanding its immense and daily increasing numbers, it has not won, till now, the right of citizenship. Its chief leaders are not clothed in gold and purple | My humble opinion is, that the majority of our Spiritualists are too much afraid for their “respectability” when called upon to confess and acknowledge their “belief.” Will you agree with me, if I say that the dread of the social Areopagus is so deeply rooted in the hearts of your American people, that to endeavour to tear it out of them would be undertaking to shake the whole system of society from top to bottom? “Respectability” and “fashion” have brought more than one utter materialist to select (for mere show) the Episcopalian and other wealthy churches. But Spiritualism is not “fashionable,” as yet, and that’s where the trouble is. Notwithstanding its immense and daily increasing numbers, it has not won, till now, the right of citizenship. Its chief leaders are not clothed in gold and purple | ||
{{Vertical space|}} | {{Vertical space|}} | ||
{{Page aside|48.1}} | |||
[[File:Hpb_cw_01_48_1.jpg|center|x200px]] | [[File:Hpb_cw_01_48_1.jpg|center|x200px]] | ||
<center>ROBERT DALE OWEN</center> | <center>ROBERT DALE OWEN</center> | ||
<center>1801-1877</center> | <center>1801-1877</center> | ||
<center>(From W.G. Langworthy Taylor’s Katie Fox, New York, 1933. | <center>(From W.G. Langworthy Taylor’s ''Katie Fox'', New York, 1933.</center> | ||
Consult the Bio-Bibliographical Index for biographical sketch.)</center> | <center>Consult the ''{{BCW-page|v=1|p=518|text=Bio-Bibliographical Index}}'' for biographical sketch.)</center> | ||
{{Vertical space|}} | {{Vertical space|}} | ||
{{Page aside|48.2}} | |||
[[File:Hpb_cw_01_48_2.jpg|center|x200px]] | [[File:Hpb_cw_01_48_2.jpg|center|x200px]] | ||
<center>ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS</center> | <center>ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS</center> | ||
<center>1826-1910</center> | <center>1826-1910</center> | ||
<center>(From Sir A. Conan Doyle’s History of Spiritualism, London, 1926. | <center>(From Sir A. Conan Doyle’s ''History of Spiritualism'', London, 1926.</center> | ||
Consult the Bio-Bibliographical Index for biographical sketch.)</center> | <center>Consult the ''{{BCW-page|v=1|p=455|text=Bio-Bibliographical Index}}'' for biographical sketch.)</center> | ||
{{Vertical space|}} | {{Vertical space|}} | ||