Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00587)

In the month of October, 1880, H.P. Blavatsky 
wrote about the "occult phenomena" she performed
including the "cup" and "saucer" phenomenon:

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. . . I have lived long enough in this world of 
incessant strife, in which the "survival of the 
fittest" seems to mean the triumph of the most 
unprincipled, to have learned that when I have 
once allowed my name to appear in the light of 
a benevolent genius, for the production of "cups," 
"saucers" and "brooches," I must bear the penalty; 
especially when the people are so foolish as to 
take the word "Magic" either in its popular 
superstitious sense—that of the work of the 
devil—or in that of jugglery. . . 

. . . I beg leave to further remark that personally 
I never bragged of anything I might have done, nor 
do I offer any explanation of the phenomena, except 
to utterly disclaim the possession of any miraculous 
or supernatural powers, or the performing of anything 
by jugglery—i.e., with the usual help of confederates 
and machinery. That's all. And surely, if there is 
anything like a sense of justice left in society, I 
am amenable to neither statutory nor social laws for 
gratifying the interest of members of our Society, 
and the wishes of my personal friends, by exhibiting 
to them in privacy various phenomena, in which I 
believe far more firmly than any of them, since I 
know the laws by which they are produced, and am 
ready to stand any amount of personal newspaper 
abuse whenever these results are told to the public. . . "
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OCCULT PHENOMENA
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/OccultPhenomena.htm

Daniel
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