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vol. 3, p. 222

H. P. Blavatsky Scrapbooks

from Adyar archives of the International Theosophical Society

vol. 3 (1875-1878)

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The Liberal(?) Christian

... and set aside " the most stupendous fact^x of the nineteenth century."

T. B. Taylor, M. D.

Boston, Mass., May 10th, 1875.

x Stupendous fact? – Stupendous fraud!

From Two Windows

He was young—and he saw the South : The bird and the rose were there, And the god with the lifted look And the laurel in his hair. Before him a palace stood;— And the shy wind moved the lace, And showed by the torch of a dream A woman's wonderful face. He was old—and he saw the North : The mountains were fierce and bare, And piteous swords of ice Were thrust at him from the air. A rim blackened the moon ; And in that forlornest place, Wasted with famine and tears, Was, a woman's awful face!

Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt.

A New Contributor

We welcome to our columns a new and most acceptable writer—Mr. Charles Sotheran, an English author of repute, and now the editor of the American Bibliopolist. Mr. Sotheran is a gentleman of extensive reading and ripe culture, who is well-known abroad as the author of several works upon the genealogies and antiquities of the English counties. He has also paid great attention to the literature of the occult sciences, and the article from his pen which appears, in this week’s Scientist, is a brief summary of a most valuable historical paper which he read before the New York Liberal Club, week before last.

The story of Cagliostro's life, as now given, affords us a glimpse at a personage whose deeds and learning were the wonder of his contemporaries—a man of pure life, active benevolence, and, especially, of the strangest psychological powers. He could not only read the lives of those with whom he came in contact, but prophesy their future, heal their diseases, no matter how desperate they might seem, and call up at his pleasure the shades of <... continues on page 3-223 >

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  Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 14, June 10, 1875, pp. 162-3