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{{HPB-CW-comment|view=center|[The following excerpt from a letter is the first item from H.P.B.’s pen in the pages of the Spiritual Scientist:]}} | |||
{{Style P-Title|MADAME BLAVATSKY}} | {{Style P-Title|MADAME BLAVATSKY}} | ||
{{Style P-Subtitle|HER EXPERIENCE—HER OPINION OF AMERICAN SPIRITUALISM AND AMERICAN SOCIETY.}} | {{Style P-Subtitle|HER EXPERIENCE—HER OPINION OF AMERICAN SPIRITUALISM AND AMERICAN SOCIETY.}} | ||
{{HPB-CW-comment|view=center|[Spiritual Scientist, Boston, Vol. I, December 3, 1874, pp. 148-9]}} | |||
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From a letter received from Mme. Blavatsky last week we make the following extracts, want of space alone preventing us from publishing it entire. It is written in her usual lively and entertaining style, and her opinions expressed are worthy of careful study, many of them being fully consistent with the true state of affairs. She says: | |||
{{Style P-Quote|From a letter received from Mme. Blavatsky last week we make the following extracts, want of space alone preventing us from publishing it entire. It is written in her usual lively and entertaining style, and her opinions expressed are worthy of careful study, many of them being fully consistent with the true state of affairs. She says:}} | |||
As it is, I have only done my duty: first, towards Spiritualism, that I have defended as well as I could from the {{Page aside|47}}attacks of imposture under its too transparent mask of science; then, towards two helpless, slandered “mediums”—the last word becoming fast in our days the synonym of “martyr”; secondly, I have contributed my mite in opening the eyes of an indifferent public to the real, intrinsic value of such a man as Dr. Beard. But I am obliged to confess that I really do not believe in having done any good—at least, any practical good—to Spiritualism itself; and I never hope to perform such a feat as that were I to keep on bombarding for an eternity all the newspapers of America with my challenges and refutations of the lies told by the so-called “scientific exposers.” | As it is, I have only done my duty: first, towards Spiritualism, that I have defended as well as I could from the {{Page aside|47}}attacks of imposture under its too transparent mask of science; then, towards two helpless, slandered “mediums”—the last word becoming fast in our days the synonym of “martyr”; secondly, I have contributed my mite in opening the eyes of an indifferent public to the real, intrinsic value of such a man as Dr. Beard. But I am obliged to confess that I really do not believe in having done any good—at least, any practical good—to Spiritualism itself; and I never hope to perform such a feat as that were I to keep on bombarding for an eternity all the newspapers of America with my challenges and refutations of the lies told by the so-called “scientific exposers.” | ||