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{{Style P-Title|MARVELLOUS SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS}} | {{Style P-Title|MARVELLOUS SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS}} | ||
{{Style P-Subtitle|A | {{Style P-Subtitle|{{Style S-Small capitals|A second Ida Pfeiffer with the Eddys — Apparitions of Georgians, Persians, Kurds, Circassians, Africans, and Russians — What A Russians Lady thinks of Dr. Beard.}}}} | ||
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{{Style P-Quote|The following letter was addressed to a contemporary journal by Mme. Blavatsky, and was handed to us for publication in ''The Daily Graphic'', as we have been taking the lead in the discussion of the curious subject of Spiritualism. | {{Style P-Quote|The following letter was addressed to a contemporary journal by Mme. Blavatsky, and was handed to us for publication in ''The Daily Graphic'', as we have been taking the lead in the discussion of the curious subject of Spiritualism. | ||
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But what of that? Dr. Beard knows it to be but a pitiful {{Page aside|34}} trick, and we must submit in silence. People that know me know that I am far from being credulous. Though a Spiritualist of many years’ standing,<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[When H.P.B. pasted the cutting of this article in her {{SB-page|v=1|p=5|text=''Scrapbook''. Vol. I, p. 5}}, she rubbed out the words “a Spiritualist,” substituted for them the words “an Occultist,” and underlined in blue the entire sentence.—''Compiler''.]}}</ref> I am more sceptical in receiving evidence from paid mediums than many unbelievers. But when I receive such evidence as I received at the Eddys’, I feel bound on my honour, and under the penalty of confessing myself a moral coward, to defend the mediums as well as the thousands of my brother and sister Spiritualists, against the conceit and slander of one man who has nothing and no one to back him in his assertions. I now hereby finally and publicly challenge Dr. Beard to the amount of $500 to produce before a public audience and under the same conditions the manifestations herein attested, or, failing this, to bear the ignominious consequences of his proposed exposé. | But what of that? Dr. Beard knows it to be but a pitiful {{Page aside|34}} trick, and we must submit in silence. People that know me know that I am far from being credulous. Though a Spiritualist of many years’ standing,<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[When H.P.B. pasted the cutting of this article in her {{SB-page|v=1|p=5|text=''Scrapbook''. Vol. I, p. 5}}, she rubbed out the words “a Spiritualist,” substituted for them the words “an Occultist,” and underlined in blue the entire sentence.—''Compiler''.]}}</ref> I am more sceptical in receiving evidence from paid mediums than many unbelievers. But when I receive such evidence as I received at the Eddys’, I feel bound on my honour, and under the penalty of confessing myself a moral coward, to defend the mediums as well as the thousands of my brother and sister Spiritualists, against the conceit and slander of one man who has nothing and no one to back him in his assertions. I now hereby finally and publicly challenge Dr. Beard to the amount of $500 to produce before a public audience and under the same conditions the manifestations herein attested, or, failing this, to bear the ignominious consequences of his proposed exposé. | ||
{{Style P-Signature|—H. P. | {{Style P-Signature in capitals|—H. P. Blavatsky.}} | ||
{{Style P-No indent|124 East Sixteenth Street, October 27.}} | {{Style P-No indent|124 East Sixteenth Street, October 27.}} | ||