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{{Style P-No indent|willing to believe that it is ourselves who were cheating, and turned and threw them about the room. Two days ago, at the house of Madame Babaef, a very heavy family dining table, at which we had just had our tea, began to dance and fly about, jumping on every bit of furniture in the dining-room, until, owing to the supplications of Wladimir, Popof’s youngest brother, who saw something terrific in these proceedings, we were forced to desist.}} | |||
I must tell you that this Popof family is a very extraordinary one; extraordinary, inasmuch as the most weird and unaccountable phenomena, visions and manifestations have for years taken place among its members. They have an uncle, alive to this day, and who resides at Odessa, a marine officer, named Tvorogof. Many years ago, he fell into a lethargy and was pronounced by the doctors dead. The priests had come, and were already chanting the funeral service over his dead body which lay in a coffin, and the undertaker was ready to place it on the hearse. The poor man who, though unable to manifest a sign of life, heard and realised everything that was taking place around him, feeling that he was lost, then made a supreme effort, and in a last desperate, though to others inaudible, cry called to his God for help. At the same instant his right hand was lifted up by some supernatural power and made to strike a heavy blow against the coffin lid. . . The thump was heard by all, and the coffin immediately opened. But the man inside it seemed as dead as ever; and, were it not for the resolute protest of his old aunt, would have been buried nevertheless. As it was, he was left to stand with the coffin opened for several days longer, when finally, at the end of the fifth day he revived. He lived after that for twenty-five years more. Mr. Popof, the father of the family, who are our friends, saw his dead father several times, and described him accurately. His own sister lived unto the last day of her life in the world of wonders and visions. One instance:—At the death of Madame Nelidof, her life-long friend, old Mrs. Popof used to visit the chapel in the Nelidof palace at Kaarsk (where they lived) for the sole purpose of having there interviews with her deceased friend. More than that; it is the firm belief of the whole town, that even after her death, Mrs. Nelidof, who was renowned for her holiness and piety, used to regularly and daily appear in the old chapel, where she had worshipped during her life, and there, approaching the image of the Saviour, pray as if she were alive. The old gentleman, Mr. A. Popof, assured me most solemnly, that many persons of his own family, as well as the children of the deceased, had seen her phantom as if in prayer; among others, Mrs. Nelidof’s daughter, who was married to the Count Kleinmichel. And now, to my own experience with this strange family. | |||
Their son, Volodya, a school-boy of fifteen, is just recovering from an illness of the most dangerous character. An abscess had formed in his lungs which, when burst, discharged an enormous quantity of purulent matter; even now—that is, after more than two months,—the discharge continues night and day into a vessel, through a tube set in the wound made by the operation. This boy it was who supplicated us to give up our communications through the table, assuring us most solemnly that the agency at work was very, very bad; that it was dangerous for all of us. I willingly believe what the boy says, and will tell you why. The fact is that the poor lad had been during a whole fortnight given up by the {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|10-535}} | |||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> The Authoress of this paper, Madame Jelihofsky, is the sister of Madame Blavatsky. We extract the article from the August number of ''The Theosophist'' (Bombay).—Ed. of The S. | |||
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... | {{Style P-No indent|was admitted into her room. She saw a good-looking, gentlemanly Saxon, who, in order, he remarked, that she might not suspect his good faith, showed her his passports. He then proceeded to tell her that he was a “medium,” who had come to Europe on business concerning an inheritance, which business had led him to visit one of the Berlin burial-grounds. It was there that he had made her late husband’s acquaintance. He, the dead man, had asked him to visit his widow, and beg her not to be so despondent and miserable, as her grief was the only impediment to his bliss; he felt far better and happier now, than he had ever felt before, being delivered of his frail body which had caused him so much suffering. The Countess stared at the medium, and felt firmly convinced that she had to deal with a lunatic. But the American, determined to convince her, set to describing the deceased Count’s appearance to the minutest details, even to the dress he had been buried in; and then she believed. Besides that, he informed her that her husband wanted her to know that certain documents which she would very soon need in a forthcoming law-suit for his inheritance, had been concealed by him in the house upon one of their estates. They were hidden in a certain desk in a certain room and in a peculiar-looking note-book. The information proved perfectly correct, and became in time of the greatest importance to the Countess, as the law-suit took place as prophesied, and she easily won it. These are the facts.}} | ||
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.. | W.—The correspondent of the ''Banner of Light'', who signed himself “Fidelity,” wrote to that journal, from London, a general description of the first number of ''The Theosophist'' (published in Bombay) long before any copy of ''The Theosophist'' reached England. Was he a clairvoyant medium? | ||
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willing to believe that it is ourselves who were cheating, and turned and threw them about the room. Two days ago, at the house of Madame Babaef, a very heavy family dining table, at which we had just had our tea, began to dance and fly about, jumping on every bit of furniture in the dining-room, until, owing to the supplications of Wladimir, Popof’s youngest brother, who saw something terrific in these proceedings, we were forced to desist.
I must tell you that this Popof family is a very extraordinary one; extraordinary, inasmuch as the most weird and unaccountable phenomena, visions and manifestations have for years taken place among its members. They have an uncle, alive to this day, and who resides at Odessa, a marine officer, named Tvorogof. Many years ago, he fell into a lethargy and was pronounced by the doctors dead. The priests had come, and were already chanting the funeral service over his dead body which lay in a coffin, and the undertaker was ready to place it on the hearse. The poor man who, though unable to manifest a sign of life, heard and realised everything that was taking place around him, feeling that he was lost, then made a supreme effort, and in a last desperate, though to others inaudible, cry called to his God for help. At the same instant his right hand was lifted up by some supernatural power and made to strike a heavy blow against the coffin lid. . . The thump was heard by all, and the coffin immediately opened. But the man inside it seemed as dead as ever; and, were it not for the resolute protest of his old aunt, would have been buried nevertheless. As it was, he was left to stand with the coffin opened for several days longer, when finally, at the end of the fifth day he revived. He lived after that for twenty-five years more. Mr. Popof, the father of the family, who are our friends, saw his dead father several times, and described him accurately. His own sister lived unto the last day of her life in the world of wonders and visions. One instance:—At the death of Madame Nelidof, her life-long friend, old Mrs. Popof used to visit the chapel in the Nelidof palace at Kaarsk (where they lived) for the sole purpose of having there interviews with her deceased friend. More than that; it is the firm belief of the whole town, that even after her death, Mrs. Nelidof, who was renowned for her holiness and piety, used to regularly and daily appear in the old chapel, where she had worshipped during her life, and there, approaching the image of the Saviour, pray as if she were alive. The old gentleman, Mr. A. Popof, assured me most solemnly, that many persons of his own family, as well as the children of the deceased, had seen her phantom as if in prayer; among others, Mrs. Nelidof’s daughter, who was married to the Count Kleinmichel. And now, to my own experience with this strange family.
Their son, Volodya, a school-boy of fifteen, is just recovering from an illness of the most dangerous character. An abscess had formed in his lungs which, when burst, discharged an enormous quantity of purulent matter; even now—that is, after more than two months,—the discharge continues night and day into a vessel, through a tube set in the wound made by the operation. This boy it was who supplicated us to give up our communications through the table, assuring us most solemnly that the agency at work was very, very bad; that it was dangerous for all of us. I willingly believe what the boy says, and will tell you why. The fact is that the poor lad had been during a whole fortnight given up by the <... continues on page 10-535 >
* The Authoress of this paper, Madame Jelihofsky, is the sister of Madame Blavatsky. We extract the article from the August number of The Theosophist (Bombay).—Ed. of The S.
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was admitted into her room. She saw a good-looking, gentlemanly Saxon, who, in order, he remarked, that she might not suspect his good faith, showed her his passports. He then proceeded to tell her that he was a “medium,” who had come to Europe on business concerning an inheritance, which business had led him to visit one of the Berlin burial-grounds. It was there that he had made her late husband’s acquaintance. He, the dead man, had asked him to visit his widow, and beg her not to be so despondent and miserable, as her grief was the only impediment to his bliss; he felt far better and happier now, than he had ever felt before, being delivered of his frail body which had caused him so much suffering. The Countess stared at the medium, and felt firmly convinced that she had to deal with a lunatic. But the American, determined to convince her, set to describing the deceased Count’s appearance to the minutest details, even to the dress he had been buried in; and then she believed. Besides that, he informed her that her husband wanted her to know that certain documents which she would very soon need in a forthcoming law-suit for his inheritance, had been concealed by him in the house upon one of their estates. They were hidden in a certain desk in a certain room and in a peculiar-looking note-book. The information proved perfectly correct, and became in time of the greatest importance to the Countess, as the law-suit took place as prophesied, and she easily won it. These are the facts.
Tiflis, Russian Caucasus.
<Untitled> (W.—The correspondent of the Banner of Light...)
W.—The correspondent of the Banner of Light, who signed himself “Fidelity,” wrote to that journal, from London, a general description of the first number of The Theosophist (published in Bombay) long before any copy of The Theosophist reached England. Was he a clairvoyant medium?
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London Spiritualist, No. 423, October 1, 1880, p. 167