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... | {{Style S-HPB SB. Restored|Judge Dailey, of 16, Court Street, Brooklyn, New York, writes as follows under the date of Deo. 15th, 1881, to ''The Banner of Light'' of Boston, Mass.:—}} | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Restored|In the course of the evening we seated ourselves at a common round extension-table, for such spiritual manifestations as wo should be favoured with. Five was the entire number of persons present. There was no very marked demonstration for quite a while, with the exception of some vigorous raps from “Samuel,” the Doctor’s control, and some humorous jokes in which “Samuel” delights to indulge. “Samuel was solicited to materialise a hand in the centre of the table, but he responded by a vigorous “No.” He was asked if he would not do something for us, and replied, “Wait;” and wait we did. Suddenly two of the persons sitting exclaimed that they saw something flit around the room and come between Dr. Monck and the person sitting at his left. Dr. Monck, starting as if he had received a shock, exclaimed: “Oh, see!” Glancing at Dr. Monck’s side, we observed what looked like an opalescent mass of compact steam emerging from just below his heart on the left side. It increased in volume, rising up and extending downward, the upper portions taking the form of a child’s bead, the face being distinguished as that of a little child I had lost some twenty years previously. It only remained in this form for a moment, and then suddenly disappeared, seeming to be instantly absorbed into the Doctor’s side. This remarkable phenomenon was re peated four or five times, in each instance the materialisation being more distinct than the preceding one. This was witnessed by all in the room, with gas burning sufficiently bright for every object in the room to be plainly visible. It was a phenomenon seldom to be seen, and has enabled all who saw it to vouch for not only the remarkable power possessed by Dr. Monck as a materialising medium, but as to the wonderful manner in which a spirit draws out and returns the material with which it covers itself, to prove its presence to all who can either hear, see or fee). Few mediums are without their traducers, and I am informed that Dr. Monck is no exception. The remarkable materialisations witnessed by some of the ablest and most truthful men of England through the mediumship of Dr. Monck, in a strong light, and vouched for by them over their own signatures, have been discredited by certain persons both here and in England;}} and as Dr. Monck is now in our own country, pursuing with wonderful success his calling as a healer, it affords me the greatest pleasure to make known to his friends the facts here narrated. | |||
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... | Madame Blavatsky and Col. Olcott appear to have been subjected to much persecution of late by the English and Indian press, the ''Saturday Review ''especially having as usual been especially bitter; it described them as “unscrupulous adventurers.” Col. Olcott’s honourable antecedents have already been published in these pages, and those of Madame Blavatsky are made known in the following paragraph extracted from a letter written by Mr. A. 0. Hume, late Secretary to the Government of India. In consequence of the absence of ''direct ''European testimony, we have all along questioned her opinion as to the producers of the phenomena which occur in her presence, but not her good faith any more than that of any English medium holding his belief as to the powers of the invisibles about him. Mr. Hume says:— | ||
“As regards Madame Blavatsky (in Russia still ‘Son Excellence Madame la Generale Helene P. Blavatsky,’ though she dropped all titles on becoming a naturalised American citizen). She is the widow of General N. V. Blavatsky, Governor during the Crimean War, and for many years, of Erivan in Armenia. She is the eldest daughter of the late Col. Hahn, of the Russian Horse Artillery, and grand-daughter of Princess Dolgorouki of the elder branch which died with her. The present Princess Dolgorouki belongs to the younger branch. The Countess Ida V. Hahn- Hahn was Madame Blavatsky’s father’s first cousin. Her father’s mother married, after her husband’s death, Prince Vassiltchikoff. General Fadeyeff, well known even to English readers, is her mother’s youngest brother. She is well known to Prince Loris Melikoff, and all who were on the staff, or in society, when Prince Michael S. Woronzoff was Viceroy of the Caucasus. Prince Emile V. Sayn Wittgenstein, cousin of the late Empress of Russia, was an intimate friend of hers, and corresponded with her to the day of his death, as has done his brother Ferdinand, who lately commanded some Regiment (Cossacks of the Guard, I think), in Turkestan. Her aunt, Madame de Witte, who like the rest of her family corresponds regularly with her, and indeed her whole family, are well-known to Prince Dondoukoff Korsakoff, at present Governor-General of Odessa. I could add the names of scores of other Russian nobles who are well acquainted with her; for she is as well-known and connected in Russia as Lady Hester Stanhope was in England.” | |||
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... | The Moulvi or Mahomedan priest, who created such a sensation in Calcutta, professed to work instantaneous and miraculous cures of diseases of every description. The ''Indo-European Correspondence, ''describing him, says that “he took up his position by the banks of the Hoogly and was soon surrounded by thousands of people; for, as usual, his fame spread like wild-fire through the city; his method of proceeding was to breathe upon water brought him by the applicants from the sacred but very foul stream in the earthenware vessels commonly used by the people. That the Moulvi has not redeemed, all his promises is pretty certain. A sais who drank of the water has had an attack of cholera, and an old woman a Christian, discarded the medicine she had been taking with profit, for the Moulvi’s water, and straightway died.” | ||
That was a sad beginning. But other papers speak of the many wonderful cures made by the man who, for all we know, might have, under the pretext of breathing upon the water each time, mesmerised it. This would reduce the “miracles” to simple mesmeric phenomena. | |||
The ''Statesman, ''however, in connection with the Mahomedan wonder-worker, gives us so me additional and far more interesting information:—“The excitement caused among the masses in this city by the unexpected appearance of a stranger in it professing to be possessed of supernatural powers—has kept the mob of the city in commotion during the last fortnight, had not yet even partially subsided when it was increased by the appearance on the stage of another individual, known in Calcutta for some time past as a man endowed with genius and capacities of an extraordinary and superhuman character. The object of the visit of the latter to the Commissioner of Police which, perhaps, is not generally known, will be pretty clearly perceived from the following copy of the petition presented to the Commissioner:— | |||
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{{Style P-Align right|“Calcutta, 11th October, 1881.}} | |||
<center>''To the Commissioner of Police, Calcutta.''</center> | |||
“The humble petition of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati Sankarachari Jagatguru, showeth,— | |||
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