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Re: Theos-World Re: So was this materialization/precipitation "a big CON" too?

Nov 13, 2002 11:47 AM
by Bart Lidofsky


Steve Stubbs wrote:
> If you have not seen it, there is a very similar story in Lane's
> MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE MODERN EGYPTIANS which was published
> before the TS was formed. So this demonstration has been performed
> by Egyptian maicians for some time. Blavatsky of course studied n
> Egypt.

Among professional magicians, the Egyptian magicians are admired as the
first of the great charlatans (the methods they used are well-known
among magical historians). The last of the great charlatans was, of
course, Count Cagliostro. 

Bart Lidofsky


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