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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Rosicrucianism in New York|1-54}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Rosicrucianism in New York|1-54}} | ||
{{Style P-No indent|Of late Rosicrucianism has been brought to the front by the advent in the States of a Russian baroness{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|?!!}}, Madame H. P. De Blavatsky. 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.}} | |||
<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|the assemblage.}}</center> | |||
Col. Olcott is well known as the author of “People from Another World,” and its account of the Eddy manifestations at Chittenden, Vt. His experience as a lawyer and a war detective might be supposed to guard him against deception, and he stands newspaperial fire nobly. | |||
''Il Conte'', the Secretary once of Mazzini, a representative of Italy’s needs and wrongs, commands interest by his fund of general information. | |||
Mr. Sotheran harmonized the elements. | |||
Judge M., of New Jersey, represented the judicial mind, and his poetic wife graces any gathering. | |||
There was present also a Boston gentleman whose name has figured in Col. Olcott’s reports. Mr. M. has been in many lands, travelled miles by the hundred thousand, is a practical scientist, served his country in the suppression of the African Coast slave trade before the war, journeyed with Livingstone, loves his many flowers, which love him back again, and brings a store of things new from his treasury. It was for him that the heather had been brought spiritually from Scotland, and it was pleasant to hear the story from him. The centre of the group was | |||
<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|madame de blavatsky,}}</center> | |||
{{Style P-No indent|who is certainly a most original and interesting woman to meet. The journals have complained of her cigarettes, but Orientation fastens many habits upon tourists. Madame speaks English with a strong accent, but with remarkable fluency and accuracy, distinguishing nicely its delicacies and quickly understanding its allusions. She wears the military jewel described by Col. Olcott — brought, as is averred, from her father’s Russian tomb to her through a spirit who talked Russian, in presence of the Eddys. She said she valued it more than any ornament except her fantastic Rosicrucian jewel which she wore about her neck. She is perhaps forty years old, strong-built, brusque and generous appearing. Interesting were the stories she had to relate about her residence in Asia and Africa — like Lady Mary Wortley Montague, living long away from the sight of European women. Marvellous were her narratives of her attempts at commerce, selling a cargo for cocoanuts which the unseaworthy ship could not bring away. Strange sights had she seen among the tribes of sorcerers in Africa; a negro, who, by black art, could submit to seventeen shots while the muzzle touched his body, causing each bullet to describe a triangle, spin into the air and finally bury itself in the earth; and a child whirled about in the air by invisible hands.}} | |||
<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|in general}}</center> | |||
{{Style P-No indent|It would be discourteous to detail the minutiae of a friendly conversation where there was no attempt at publicity or magic display; or offer notions about it. The Phallic element in religions; the souls of flowers; recent wonders among the mediums; history; Italian character; the strangenesses of travel; chemistry; poetry; Nature’s {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB crossed out|duality}} {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|trinity}}; Romanism; Gravitation; the Carbonari; jugglery; Crook’s new discoveries about the force of light; the literature of magic — were among the topics of animated discussion lasting till after midnight.}} | |||
If Madame Blavatsky can indeed bring order out of the chaos of modern spiritism she will do the world a service. Col. Olcott declares that till he met her he had no philosophy which could adequately explain the contradictory phenomena he witnessed, but now he sees “confusion, order in his path.” | |||
<center>{{Style S-Small capitals|reflections.}}</center> | |||
Meanwhile occurs this suggestion. If Siam and Hindostan have possessed this sacred truth, why are they so behind the age in their progress? Without it, behold what the Anglo Saxon has done for the earth and himself. Nor does it require a profound observance of the moral and humane condition of the Occident as compared with the Orient, to conclude that whatever we may lack in metaphysics, we are in no wise behind in the practices of the domestic virtues and philanthropy. Yet far be it from any mind to doubt that there may yet be something more to learn; “more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” | |||
{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|Written by Rev. D<sup><u>R</u></sup> Wiggin. This article provoked itre wisth of that Rev D<sup><u>R</u></sup> Bellows; hence he wrote another one, on “Sorcery and Necromancy” and pitched into us.}} | {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|Written by Rev. D<sup><u>R</u></sup> Wiggin. This article provoked itre wisth of that Rev D<sup><u>R</u></sup> Bellows; hence he wrote another one, on “Sorcery and Necromancy” and pitched into us.}} | ||
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{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|<nowiki>#</nowiki> On that evening the first idea of the Theos. Society was discussed.}} | {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|<nowiki>#</nowiki> On that evening the first idea of the Theos. Society was discussed.}} | ||