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New York, Dec. 16, 1875. | New York, Dec. 16, 1875. | ||
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<center>From the New York Sun.</center> | |||
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| title = Eastern Wonder Workers | | title = Eastern Wonder Workers | ||
| subtitle = | | subtitle = The Magic Of The Fakirs And The Spiritualism Of | ||
The Western World | |||
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| source title = | | source title = Spiritual Scientist | ||
| source details = | | source details = v. 3, No. 16, December 23, 1875, p. 190 | ||
| publication date = | | publication date = 1875-12-23 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|Col. H. S. Olcott}} addressed a large audience in the | ||
Brooklyn Institute last evening. His subject was “Eastern Magic | |||
and Western Spiritualism.” Premising that the contempt, | |||
anathemas, and derision which always follow the avowal of | |||
unfashionable belief would be his share, the lecturer promised | |||
that it would not be his fault if he did not give the enemies of | |||
Occultism and Spiritualism something to ponder over and explain | |||
away. There is a satisfaction in knowing that, after admitting | |||
all that can be said about the mysticism of the one and the | |||
frauds of the other, both can better afford to enter the fields | |||
of controversy than either of their antagonists. Every existing | |||
religion is the direct descendant of Theogonies, and the | |||
phenomena of Spiritualism are as old as the race itself. | |||
Savants of European reputation have lately seen the Fakir at | |||
work, and have witnessed some of the phenomena of Eastern magic. | |||
The performer works in daylight; he has seven glasses and some | |||
garden mould with which he fills the glasses; a piece of bamboo | |||
is thrust into the mould, and a fig leaf is impaled on each | |||
stick. The fakir, standing four paces distant, remains | |||
motionless for some time, pointing his hand toward the leaves, | |||
until they flutter, rise up the sticks to the top, and fall | |||
motionless to the ground. No test exposes the occult force, | |||
even when clean glasses are brought, and the sticks and leaves | |||
are prepared by the skeptical spectator. | |||
The fakir offers to be the medium of a communication from any | |||
deceased friend. The savant throws into a bag a lot of copper | |||
type, and picking them out one after the other without looking | |||
at them, the leaves rise and fall as certain letters come out, | |||
and by so doing spell the name and date of death of an old | |||
friend of whom he was thinking. The lecturer then described a | |||
number of feats performed by the so-called Eastern magicians, | |||
which were similar in many respect to the manifestations of the | |||
latter day mediumistic power, the only difference being that the | |||
Oriental magic is better and more varied in its manifestations | |||
than is American Spiritualism. It furnishes the clue to every | |||
single mystery of the Bible. We cannot learn how raps are made, | |||
furniture moved, communications written, pictures painted; how | |||
clairvoyants see, or how spirits of the dead and the living are | |||
materialized by reading religio-philosophical journals. That | |||
knowledge comes only with the study of books and many of them. | |||
The magician, the medium, the wise, the educated man, not only | |||
knows the potencies of nature, but knows how to employ them and | |||
make them do his bidding as a child is governed, or a horse is | |||
broken. | |||
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spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.16_1875-12-23.pdf|page=6|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 16, December 23, 1875, p. 186 | spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.16_1875-12-23.pdf|page=6|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 16, December 23, 1875, p. 186 | ||
spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.16_1875-12-23.pdf|page=12|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 16, December 23, 1875, p. 190 | |||
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