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| source title = Spiritual Scientist
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| source details = v. 3, No. 18, January 6, 1876, p. 209
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''To the Editor of the Spiritual Scientist:''
{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Sir}}: In your issue of the 23d appears a short article relating to my letter “Important Caution” that appeared in the Banner of Light; now I am quite certain your remarks were intended in the utmost kindness, but my attention has been called to them by more than one person who understands from the wording that I repudiate being mixed up, &., with Col. Olcott. Madame Blavatsky, and the Theosophical Society, and that I consider the association of my name in this connection as the slander of which I complain.
Permit me to beg that you will at once repair this injurious error, and point out to your readers, as I do to you, that it is not the ''association of my name'' with Col. Olcott, Mme. Blavatsky, or the Theosophical Society that I complain of. I am most happy to number both the lady and gentleman among my most esteemed acquaintances, whilst I regard my connection with them and the Theosophical Society as a great privilege, and the official position to which I have been named in that society as a mark of distinction which I have felt pride in accepting.
What I desired to convey, by my notice in the Banner of Light, and what I thought I had plainly and unmistakably stated, was, that the publication of the book, for which I am acting as secretary, namely, “Art Magic,” had nothing whatever to do with Col. Olcott, Mme. Blavatsky, or the Theosophical Society, and that the continued reiteration that it was so related was a gratuitous assumption on the part oi those who made it, and a “rank falsehood.”
I felt compelled to state the circumstances of ray acquaintance with Col. Olcott and the talented lady whose name has been so often and so ''inhospitably'' dragged before the public, to show upon what slight grounds envy and detraction can found a charge of “conspiracy,” “complicity,” &c., but I never dreamed that the necessary duty of disentangling my client’s business from my own private affairs could have led to the supposition that I was repudiating my friends, and denying my connection with a society of whose membership I have every reason to feel proud. Pray, Mr. Editor, do me the favor to re-read my Banner notice and help me as far as possible to retrieve the very erroneous impression the above quoted paragraph may convey.
I must also call your attention to your closing statement, namely, “that twenty names have been struck off the subscription list by the author.” This is true; the author deeming naturally enough, that those persons who could busy themselves by criticizing a work they have never read a line of, and take pains to circulate such slanders concerning ray connections with that work, as would annoy me and-injure others who had nothing at all to do with it, were not exactly the ''worthy students with whom he wished to share the occult of his studies''—but to those who have read your notice, Mr. Editor, and ''not my concluding remarks'' in the Banner, namely that these erasures had left twenty vacancies, which twenty interested persons who really wish to be benefited by studying a noble work on Mundane, Sub-Mundane, and Super Mundane Spiritism, might fill up—your notice implies, as my correspondents inform me, that twenty names had been struck off because there was twenty too many. This is not the case, however, and I wish it understood, that though several of these vacancies have been filled up there are still a few left, and those who do not fear to learn something more to-morrow than they know to-day, may have the opportunity of doing so by applying to me at once for the remaining vacancies.
Very faithfully yours,
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| source details = v. 3, No. 20, January 20, 1876, p. 235
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A SATISFACTORY TEST PROPOSED BY COL. OLCOTT.</center>
''To the Editor of The Spiritual Scientist'':
{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}}: — It is the easiest thing in the world for Mrs. Hardy’s mediumship to be proved beyond dispute, and without subjecting her to the pain or indignities which too often mediums are forced to suffer at the hands of uninventive investigators.
It only requires that the vessel contaning the melted paraffine, together with a suitable cushion upon which to lay
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spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.18_1876-01-06.pdf|page=5|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 18, January 6, 1876, p. 209
spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.20_1876-01-20.pdf|page=7|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 20, January 20, 1876, p. 235
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