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| title =Old Shep's Ghost
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| source title =Telegram, The
| source title = Evening Telegram, The
| source details = Saturday, March 23, 1878
| source details = vol. XI, No. 3916, March 23, 1878, p. 4
| publication date = 1878-03-23
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We offer our sincere congratulations to Mme. Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott upon the enterprise and self-sacrifice they evinced a few evenings ago in exposing themselves to the cold of midnight to search for a legitimate ghost. It proves that the erudite author of “Isis” and the scarcely less erudite friend are deeply sincere in their belief in the existence of the supernatural and in the power of spirits to make themselves visible to mortal eyes. Nay, we will even go further and express our poignant regret that, after all, Old Shep’s ghost should turn out to be nothing more than a log a lantern. What we need in this age of the world is a genuine ghost can be either heard, seen and felt, or else can give some other indubitable evidence of its actuality. Mme. Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott made a mistake if they think that we have nothing but laughter and derision for the large number of excellent, if somewhat credulous, ladies and gentlemen whom they represent. We have nothing of the kind. On the contrary, we are willing that they should demonstrate what they believe to be true.
Now if the log and the lantern which did duty for Old Shep’s fhost had been non-existent, and if the mysterious light had continued to float at the foot of Thirty-fourth street forever, the Spiritualists would have had an argument upon their side. If every effort made by non-Spiritualists to explain the thing had failed, then the Spiritualists would have had at least some plausible reason for exultation. They would at any rate have had an explanation, which their antagonists were without, and this would have enabled them to take a long stride in advance of the position they at present occupy. But this is not the case. On the contrary, the Spiritualists have been routed and put to slaughter. The fraudulency of Old Shep’s ghost has inflicted upon them a wound from which they will not soon recover.
Apart from this we cannot avoid reflecting upon the unkindness of the wicked people who projected this heartless joke. It was particularly thoughtless to subject two of the principal lights of Spiritualism to the danger of catching cold, to say nothing of catarrh and inflammation of the lungs. While we reprobate the over credulity of these distinguished Spiritualists, we are not so unfeeling as not to sympathize with them in their fruitless and shivering midnight watch.
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| title =Materialization of a Ghost
| title = Materialization of a Ghost
| subtitle = A Spirit That Rose from the Vasty Deep of the East River
| subtitle = A Spirit That Rose from the Vasty Deep of the East River
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| source title =Daily Graphic, The
| source title = Daily Graphic, The
| source details =Saturday, March 23, 1878
| source details = v. 16, No 1562, March 23, 1878, p. 154
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Several score of us, including divines, doctors and editors had watched far into the night for the appearance of the goblin candle on the East River. Mme. Blavatsky had given several impromptu lectures on spirits during the ravening. The Hierophant Coldcutt was also present, being ever persistently snubbed by Mme. Blavatsky.
“Ghost? Oh, yes!” said Mme. Blavatsky, letting the smoke curl up gracefully from her cigarette. “I can tell you all about them. This old man Shep is of the elementary order, Third Sphere, Second Division.”
“I don’t think he’s so far along as that,” said Hierophant Coldcutt, filling his piple.
“Nonsense, Hierophant,” said Blathersky in her brusque way. “You know nothing about it. A knowledge of the sort I imply here is possessed by none save such as have entered the Inner Circle of the Fourth Chapter of the Mysteries of Isis, and that, Hierophant, is further than you’ve gone or will go unless you pay up the regular fifteen cent dues of the Isosistorean Order.”
“You think, then, this is really a spirit carving its ghostly lantern to and fro across the river?” I asked.
“Think?” said Blathersky, scornfully. “No, I know it’s one. Pshaw! you every-day people are so blind. You’ve no idea of the world you live in or the one you don’t live in. Why, the air is full of spirits. {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |7-11}}
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evening_telegram_v.11_n.3916_1878-03-23.pdf|page=4|Evening Telegram, v. 11, No. 3916, March 23, 1878, p. 4
daily_graphic_v.16_n.1562_1878-03-23.pdf|page=2|Daily Graphic, v. 16, No 1562, March 23, 1878, p. 154
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