Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00144)

Bart's recent comments on the teacup phenomena
and his appeal to "natural explanations" and
"magic tricks" reminds me of what the Master
Koot Hoomi wrote to A. P. Sinnett in 1881.
K.H.'s words below provide some food for thought
in relation to our recent discussion of the "teacup 
and saucer" phenomena.

Daniel

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You seem to admire it [The Saturday Review] -- I do 
not. However talented from the literary point of view, 
a paper which gives vent to such unprogressive and 
dogmatic ideas as the one I came across in it, lately, 
ought to lose caste among its more liberal confreres. 
Scientific men, it thinks -- "do not make at all good 
observers" at exhibitions of modern magic, spiritism 
and other "nine days wonders." This is certainly not 
as it should be, it adds for, "knowing as well as 
they do the limits of the natural (?!!) they should 
begin by assuming that what they see, or what they 
think they see, cannot be done, and should next 
look for the fallacy" etc. etc. Circulation of the 
blood, electric telegraph, railway and steamer argument 
all over again. They know "the limits of the natural"!! 
Oh, century of conceit and mental obscuration! And we 
are invited to, London among these academical rags 
whose predecessors persecuted Mesmer and branded St. 
Germain as an impostor! All is secret for them as 
yet in nature. Of man -- they know but the skeleton 
and form; hardly are they able to outline the paths 
through which the invisible messengers they call 
"senses" pass on their way to man's perceptions; 
their school science is a hot-bed of doubts and 
conjectures; it teaches but for its own sophistry, 
infects with its emasculation, its scorn for truth, 
its false morality and dogmatism, and its 
representatives would boast knowing "the limits 
of the natural." Bus -- my good friend; I would 
forget you belonged to this generation, and are 
an admirer of your "modern Science." Her behests 
and oracular verdicts are on a level with the 
papal -- non possumus.
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