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Somewhere about November of last year Indian society in general, and that select portion of it which frequents Simla in particular, was much exercised by the remarkable performances of a certain Madame Blavatsky, who seems to be in those parts all that the celebrated Mrs. Guppy was in London. Through her agency long-lost jewels were restored to ladies: deficient cups and saucers were supplied to picnic parties; letters, by some aerial postal system, were conveyed from eminent “occultists” in Thibet to aspirants on the other side of the Himalayas in a few hours. So far as we have been able to discover from the files of Indian newspapers, these manifestations were treated with the same polite incredulity as they usually meet with here. The phenomena were not denied, but the hypothesis on which {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-219}}
Somewhere about November of last year Indian society in general, and that select portion of it which frequents Simla in particular, was much exercised by the remarkable performances of a certain Madame Blavatsky, who seems to be in those parts all that the celebrated Mrs. Guppy was in London. Through her agency long-lost jewels were restored to ladies: deficient cups and saucers were supplied to picnic parties; letters, by some aerial postal system, were conveyed from eminent “occultists” in Thibet to aspirants on the other side of the Himalayas in a few hours. So far as we have been able to discover from the files of Indian newspapers, these manifestations were treated with the same polite incredulity as they usually meet with here. The phenomena were not denied, but the hypothesis on which {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-219}}
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