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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In the issue of April 29, 1875, there was published in the ''Spiritual Scientist'' a Circular entitled “Important to Spiritualists” facsimile of which is reproduced herewith. In an Editorial which appears in the same issue, E. Gerry Brown, writing under the heading “A Message from Luxor,” had the following to say:}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[In the issue of April 29, 1875, there was published in the ''Spiritual Scientist'' a Circular entitled “Important to Spiritualists” facsimile of which is reproduced herewith. In an Editorial which appears in the same issue, E. Gerry Brown, writing under the heading “A Message from Luxor,” had the following to say:}} | ||
{{HPB-CW-comment|“The readers of the Scientist will be no more surprised to read the circular which appears on our front page than we were to receive the same by post . . . . . Who may be our unknown friends of the ‘Committee of Seven,’ we do not know, nor who the ‘Brotherhood of Luxor’; but we do know that we are most thankful for this proof of their interest, and shall try to deserve its continuance. Can anyone tell us of such a fraternity as the above? And what Luxor is meant? . . . It is time that some ‘Power,’ terrestrial or supernal, came to our aid, for after twenty-seven years of spiritual manifestations, we know nothing about the laws of their occurrence . . . . We cannot help regarding this as an evil of magnitude, and if we could only be satisfied that the appearance of this mysterious circular is an indication that the Eastern Spiritualistic Fraternity is about to lift the veil that has so long hid the Temple from our view, we in common with all other friends of the cause, would hail the event with joy. It will he a blessed day for us when the order shall be, SIT LUX.”}} | {{Style P-Quote|{{HPB-CW-comment|“The readers of the ''Scientist'' will be no more surprised to read the circular which appears on our front page than we were to receive the same by post . . . . . Who may be our unknown friends of the ‘Committee of Seven,’ we do not know, nor who the ‘Brotherhood of Luxor’; but we do know that we are most thankful for this proof of their interest, and shall try to deserve its continuance. Can anyone tell us of such a fraternity as the above? And what Luxor is meant? . . . It is time that some ‘Power,’ terrestrial or supernal, came to our aid, for after twenty-seven years of spiritual manifestations, we know nothing about the laws of their occurrence . . . . We cannot help regarding this as an evil of magnitude, and if we could only be satisfied that the appearance of this mysterious circular is an indication that the Eastern Spiritualistic Fraternity is about to lift the veil that has so long hid the Temple from our view, we in common with all other friends of the cause, would hail the event with joy. It will he a blessed day for us when the order shall be, SIT LUX.”}}}} | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[At the end of this, Col. Olcott added, most likely long afterwards, in blue pencil now too faint for reproduction:]}} | <center>{{HPB-CW-comment|[At the end of this, Col. Olcott added, most likely long afterwards, in blue pencil now too faint for reproduction:]}}</center> | ||
(but unconscious of any exterior agency. H.S.O.) | <center>(but unconscious of any exterior agency. H.S.O.)</center> | ||
{{HPB-CW-comment|[At the bottom of the Circular, H.P.B. wrote as follows:]}} | <center>{{HPB-CW-comment|[At the bottom of the Circular, H.P.B. wrote as follows:]}}</center> | ||
Several hundred dollars out of our pockets were spent on behalf of the Editor, and he was made to pass through a minor “diksha.” This proving of no avail—the Theosophical Society was established.—[''Script''] (See pages further)—The man might have become a Power, he preferred to remain an Ass. ''De gustibus non disputandum est''. | Several hundred dollars out of our pockets were spent on behalf of the Editor, and he was made to pass through a minor “diksha.” This proving of no avail—the Theosophical Society was established.—[''Script''] (See pages further)—The man might have become a Power, he preferred to remain an Ass. ''De gustibus non disputandum est''. | ||