Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00274)

Netemara: here the actual reference from Count Witt's Diary about 
Blavatsky's inkschop ans special writigsckils: 

"She was next heard of from Odessa, where she emerged in the 
company of her faithful basso. At that time our entire family was settled 
in that city (my grandparents and father had died at Tiflis), and my 
brother and I attended the university there. The extraordinary couple 
must have found themselves in great straits. It was then that my 
versatile cousin opened in succession an ink factory and retail shop and 
a store of artificial flowers. In those days she often came to see my 
mother, and I visited her store several times, so that I had the 
opportunity of getting better acquainted with her. I was especially 
impressed by the extraordinary facility with which she acquired skill and 
knowledge of the most varied description. Her abilities in this respect 
verged on the uncanny. . . . Consider also that although she never 
seriously studied any foreign languages, she spoke several of them with 
perfect ease. I was also struck by her mastery of the technique of verse. 
She could write pages of smoothly flowing verse without the slightest 
effort, and she could compose essays in prose on every conceivable 
subject. Besides, she possessed the gift of hypnotizing both her hearer 
and herself into believing the wildest inventions of her fantasy. She had, 
no doubt, a literary talent. The Moscow editor, Katkov, famous in the 
annals of Russian journalism, spoke to me in the highest terms of praise 
about her literary gifts, as evidenced in the tales entitled "From the 
Jungles of Hindostan" [sic] which she contributed to his magazine, The 
Russian Messenger (Russki Vyestnik)". 

> > > this web site. K. Paul Johnson in fact flew personally to London to 
> > look at 
> > > the letters in the British Museum (with Leslie Price) and stated 
> > the J. 
> > > Godwin demonstration looked the same. 
> > > 
> > > Editor: Could the unknown factor described by Harrison, and by 
> some 
> > > interpreted as "precipitation," not easily be produced by writing 
> > with a 
> > > colored pencil with the paper resting on the cloth binding of a 
> > book with 
> > > the pattern determining the clean and sharp effect? 
> > > 
> > > K.Paul Johnson: Yes, another writer on Blavatsky once 
> demonstrated 
> > this 
> > > for me and it does produce the same kind of effect as seen in 
some 
> > of 
> > > the Mahatma letters. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~muehleb9
> > > 
> > > --- In theos-talk@y..., "Daniel H. Caldwell" <comments@b...> 
> wrote: