Blavatsky H.P. - Coming Events Foretold: Difference between revisions

This is one of those cases of previous foretelling of a coming event, which is least of all open to suspicion of bad faith. The honourable character of the witness, the wide publicity of his Guru’s announcements, and the impossibility that he could have got from public rumour, or the journals of the day, any intimation that the Theosophical Society would be formed and would operate in India—all these conspire to support the inference that Ramalingam Yogi was verily in the counsels of those who ordered us to found the Society. In March, 1873, we were directed to proceed from Russia to Paris. In June, we were told to proceed to the {{Page aside|137}}United States, where we arrived July 6th.<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[A. P. Sinnet in his ''Incidents in the Life of H. P. Blavatsky'', p. 175, gives the date of July 7th, and this latter date is supported by H. P. B. herself in one of her letters to her Russian relatives (''The Path'', IX, Feb., 1895, p. 385). This uncertainty may never be fully cleared up.—''Compiler''.]}}</ref> This was the very time when Ramalingam was most forcibly prefiguring the events which should happen. In October, 1874, we received an intimation to go to Chittenden, Vermont, where, at the famous homestead of the Eddy family, Colonel Olcott was engaged in making his investigations—now so celebrated in the annals of Spiritualism—of the so-called “materialization of Spirits.” November, 1875, the Theosophical Society was founded, and it was not until 1878, that the correspondence began with friends in India, which resulted in the transfer of the Society’s Headquarters to Bombay in February, 1879.