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... | Sir,—In the ''Revue Spirits ''for December we find, in a summary of the work accomplished by the ''Society of Psychological Studies, ''at Paris, for the month of October, the following remarks, which conclude the article by the secretary:—“As you see, the work accomplished during this month has been excellent: to deny that the Society is progressing would be contrary to all evidence. | ||
“It is even probable that psychical Studies at Paris are about to make real progress. The medium Husk is with us, and the phenomena that he produces are so strange to the observer, so astonishing, that they must be patiently studied in order to give an accurate description of them. The committee under which these special and consecutive ''stances ''occur, will not pronounce upon them until after long and severe investigation; the more the facts which it analyses merit its attention, the more careful must it be; it should indeed be the more reserved for the reason that, if true, they must destroy a multitude of scientific allegations which have passed as sacred truths.” | |||
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We are indebted to the Theosophists, as they are also to Spiritualism, for bringing forward knowledge in the psychological sphere which had been long an utterly dead letter to the average Englishman, and still more so to the average philosopher, much as we are indebted to him who believes that he has fathomed the depths and the heights of nature with his scalpel, his telescope, his spade and hammer, and most of all with his own wonderful brain-power and self-esteem. | |||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-334}} | We, however, continue to rejoice in the belief that the theory of the “elementary,” the “astral man,” in other words, the spiritless soul, as held by the Theosophists, is indeed the veriest unproved theory possible; and under whatever forms or subdivisions theories on the body, soul, and spirit may be now elaborated, this is certain, that the theory of the spiritless soul never has been, and never can be put before us того characteristically or more austerely, if at the same time with more honest conscienciousness, than it was by Col. Olcott, president of the Theosophical Society, {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-334}} | ||
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