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| item title = The Knout | | item title = The Knout | ||
| item subtitle= As Wielded by the Great Russian Theosophist | |||
| item author = Blavatsky H.P. | | item author = Blavatsky H.P. | ||
| volume = 1 | | volume = 1 | ||
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| publications = Religio-Philosophical Journal, Chicago, Vol. XXIV, March 16, 1878, p. 8 | | publications = Religio-Philosophical Journal, Chicago, Vol. XXIV, March 16, 1878, p. 8 | ||
| scrapbook = 4:235-236 | | scrapbook = 4:235-236 | ||
| previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Dr. | | previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Dr. Slades Final Triumph | ||
| next = Blavatsky H.P. - Madame Blavatsky on Indian Metaphysics | | next = Blavatsky H.P. - Madame Blavatsky on Indian Metaphysics | ||
| alternatives = [https://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/the-knout/ UT]; [https://www.blavatsky.net/index.php/knout B] | | alternatives = [https://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/the-knout/ UT]; [https://www.blavatsky.net/index.php/knout B] | ||
| translations = | | translations = [[:t-ru-lib:Блаватская Е.П. - Узел|Russian]] | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|view=center|[Religio-Philosophical Journal, Chicago, Vol. XXIV, March 16, 1878, p. 8]}} | |||
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''Mr. Editor:'' | ''Mr. Editor:'' | ||
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The pretext for two columns of abuse—suggesting, I am sorry to say, parallel sewers—is that Miss Emily Kislingbury, in an address before the B.N.A. of Spiritualists, mentioned Colonel Olcott’s name in connection with a leadership of Spiritualism. I have the report of her remarks before me, and find that she neither proposed Colonel Olcott to American Spiritualists as a leader, nor said that he had wanted “leadership,” wanted it now, or could ever be persuaded to take it. “It is seriously proposed,” says Mr. Coleman, “by our trans-atlantic sister, Miss Kislingbury, that American Spiritualists should select as their guardian guide—Col. H. S. Olcott!!” If anyone is entitled to this wealth of exclamation points it is Miss K., for the charge against her from beginning to end is simply an unmitigated falsehood. Miss K. merely expressed the personal opinion that a certain gentleman for whom she had a deserved friendship, would have been capable, at one time, of acting as a leader. This was her private opinion, to which she had as good a right as either of her defamers—who, in a cowardly way, try to use Colonel Olcott and myself as sticks to break her head with—have to their opinions. It may or may not have been warranted by the facts—that is immaterial. The main point is, that Miss K. has not said one word that gives the slightest pretext for Mr. Coleman attacking her on this question of leadership. And yet, I am not surprised at his course; for this brave, noble-hearted, truthful and spotless lady occupies too impregnable a position to be assailed, except by indirection. Some one had to pay for her plain speaking about American Spiritualism. What better scapegoat than Olcott and Blavatsky, the twin “theosophical gorgons”! | The pretext for two columns of abuse—suggesting, I am sorry to say, parallel sewers—is that Miss Emily Kislingbury, in an address before the B.N.A. of Spiritualists, mentioned Colonel Olcott’s name in connection with a leadership of Spiritualism. I have the report of her remarks before me, and find that she neither proposed Colonel Olcott to American Spiritualists as a leader, nor said that he had wanted “leadership,” wanted it now, or could ever be persuaded to take it. “It is seriously proposed,” says Mr. Coleman, “by our trans-atlantic sister, Miss Kislingbury, that American Spiritualists should select as their guardian guide—Col. H. S. Olcott!!” If anyone is entitled to this wealth of exclamation points it is Miss K., for the charge against her from beginning to end is simply an unmitigated falsehood. Miss K. merely expressed the personal opinion that a certain gentleman for whom she had a deserved friendship, would have been capable, at one time, of acting as a leader. This was her private opinion, to which she had as good a right as either of her defamers—who, in a cowardly way, try to use Colonel Olcott and myself as sticks to break her head with—have to their opinions. It may or may not have been warranted by the facts—that is immaterial. The main point is, that Miss K. has not said one word that gives the slightest pretext for Mr. Coleman attacking her on this question of leadership. And yet, I am not surprised at his course; for this brave, noble-hearted, truthful and spotless lady occupies too impregnable a position to be assailed, except by indirection. Some one had to pay for her plain speaking about American Spiritualism. What better scapegoat than Olcott and Blavatsky, the twin “theosophical gorgons”! | ||
What a hullabaloo is raised, to be sure, about Spiritualists declining to follow our “leadership.” In my “Buddhistico-Tartaric” ignorance, I have always supposed that some | What a hullabaloo is raised, to be sure, about Spiritualists declining to follow our “leadership.” In my “Buddhistico-Tartaric” ignorance, I have always supposed that some- | ||
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