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  | previous    = Blavatsky H.P. - “What are you Going to Do About it?”
  | previous    = Blavatsky H.P. - What are you Going to Do About it
  | next        = Blavatsky H.P. - From Madame H.P. Blavatsky to her Correspondents
  | next        = Blavatsky H.P. - From Madame H.P. Blavatsky to her Correspondents
  | alternatives = [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v1/y1875_023.htm KH]
  | alternatives = [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v1/y1875_023.htm KH]
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  | translations = [[:t-ru-lib:Цирков_Б.М._-_Создание_Теософского_общества|Russian]]
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=1|p=54|text=Scrapbook Vol. I, pp. 54-55}}, there is a cutting from a weekly journal. The Liberal Christian, of Saturday, September 4, 1875, which consists of an article entitled “Rosicrucianism” in New York.” It is unsigned but is known to have been written by the Rev. Dr. J. H. Wiggin, the Editor of that Journal. Starting with a superficial survey of Rosicrucian ideas, Dr. Wiggin goes on to relate the circumstances under which he had recently met H. P. Blavatsky. He says:}}
{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=1|p=54|text=Scrapbook Vol. I, pp. 54-55}}, there is a cutting from a weekly journal. The Liberal Christian, of Saturday, September 4, 1875, which consists of an article entitled “Rosicrucianism” in New York.” It is unsigned but is known to have been written by the Rev. Dr. J. H. Wiggin, the Editor of that Journal. Starting with a superficial survey of Rosicrucian ideas, Dr. Wiggin goes on to relate the circumstances under which he had recently met H. P. Blavatsky. He says:}}


{{HPB-CW-comment|“It was just after Col. Olcott’s astounding stories in the Sun about the floral gifts received from the spirits through a Boston medium, that I was kindly bidden by my friend Mr. Sotheran, of the American Bibliopolist, to meet both Madame and the Colonel the following evening in Irving Place; with permission to bring some friends . . .”}}
{{Style P-Quote|{{HPB-CW-comment|“It was just after Col. Olcott’s astounding stories in the Sun about the floral gifts received from the spirits through a Boston medium, that I was kindly bidden by my friend Mr. Sotheran, of the American Bibliopolist, to meet both Madame and the Colonel the following evening in Irving Place; with permission to bring some friends . . .”}}}}


{{HPB-CW-comment|According to Dr. Wiggin’s account, there were present at this gathering: Col. Olcott. Il Conte, “the secretary once of Mazzini,” Charles Sotheran, Judge M. of New Jersey, his wife, Mr. M., a Boston gentleman, and H. P. Blavatsky, who, he says, was “the centre of the group.”}}
{{HPB-CW-comment|According to Dr. Wiggin’s account, there were present at this gathering: Col. Olcott. Il Conte, “the secretary once of Mazzini,” Charles Sotheran, Judge M. of New Jersey, his wife, Mr. M., a Boston gentleman, and H. P. Blavatsky, who, he says, was “the centre of the group.”}}
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The present generation of men gradually evolving from—plants, vegetables, fish and becoming finally Whiskey bottles,—the “Embryonic man” or ancestor of the present race.
The present generation of men gradually evolving from—plants, vegetables, fish and becoming finally Whiskey bottles,—the “Embryonic man” or ancestor of the present race.
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