Alvin Boyd Kuhn (EN) A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom

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this was a whole pictorial design of Rosicrucian symbols, the word Fate, the
name Helen, the phrase "Way of Providence," a monogram, a pair of compasses, and
various letters and signs. No one had touched it since its purchase at the
stationary shop.
2.-Madame Blavatsky caused a photograph on the wall to disappear suddenly from
its frame and give place to a sketch portrait of "John King" while a spectator
was looking at it.
3.-Col. Olcott had bought a dozen unhemmed towels. As his companion was no
seamstress, he bantered her to let an elemental do the hemstitching on the lot.
She told him to put the towels, needle and thread inside a bookcase, which had
glass doors curtained with green silk. He did so. After twenty minutes she
announced that the job was finished. He found them actually, if crudely, hemmed.
It was four P.M., and no other persons were in the room.
4.-Madame Blavatsky once suddenly disappeared from the Colonel's sight, could
not be seen for a period, and then as suddenly reappeared. She could not explain
to him how she did it.
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5.-The increase overnight in the length of her hair, of about four to five
inches, and its later recession to its normal length.
6.-The projection of a drawing of a man's head on the ceiling above the
Colonel's head, where he had seen nothing a minute before.
7.-The precipitation by "John King," in answer to the Colonel's challenge to
duplicate a letter he had in his pocket, of the said duplicate, correct in every
word.
8.-The precipitation of a letter into the traveling bag of a Mr. B. while on the
train, the letter not having been packed there originally.
9.-The same Mr. B. begged Madame Blavatsky to create for him a portrait of his
deceased grandmother. She went to the window, put a blank piece of paper against
the pane, and handed it to him in a moment with the portrait of a little old
woman with many wrinkles and a large wart, which Mr. B. declared a perfect
likeness of his ancestor.
10.-The actual production by an Italian artist, through "his control of the
spirits of the air," during one evening of entirely clear sky, of a small shower
of rain, sufficient to wet the sidewalks. Previously Madame Blavatsky had
created a butterfly, following a similar production by the Italian visitor.
11.-The materialization by Madame Blavatsky of a heavy gold ring in the heart of
a rose which had been "created" shortly before by Mrs. Thayer, a medium whom
Col. Olcott was testing with a view to sending her to Russia for experimentation
at a university there.
12.-The Colonel's own beard grew in one night from his chin down to his chest.30
After the return from Philadelphia psychic events continued with great frequency
at the apartments in New York. In December of 1875, Madame Blavatsky, having
invited a challenge to reproduce the portrait of the Chevalier Louis, reputed
Adept author of Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten's Art Magic, rubbed her hand over a
sheet of paper and the desired photograph appeared on the under side. She had
laid the bare sheet on the surface of the table. Col. Olcott had the opportunity
nine years later of comparing this reproduction with the original photograph of
the Chevalier Louis, and found the likeness perfect, yet the lines would not
meet precisely when the one was superimposed on the other. It could not have
been a lithographic reproduction.
Early in 1878, Mr. O'Sullivan asked Madame Blavatsky for one of a chaplet of
large wooden beads which she was wearing. She placed one in a bowl and produced
the bowlful of them.
For the same gentleman in plain sight of several people, she triplicated a
beautiful handkerchief which he had admired.
To amuse the child of a caller, an English Spiritualist, one day she produced a
large toy sheep mounted on wheels. Col. Olcott claimed it had not been there a
moment before.
On Christmas eve of that year when she and the Colonel, went to his sister's
apartment, Madame expressed regret that she had brought nothing for the
youngsters. But saying, "Wait a minute," she took her bunch of keys from her
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pocket, clutched three of them together in one hand, and a moment later showed
the party a large iron whistle hanging on the ring instead of the three keys.
Col. Olcott had to get three new keys from a locksmith.
Another time to placate a little girl Madame promised her "a nice present," and
indicated to Col. Olcott that he should take it out of their luggage bag in the
hall. He unlocked the already stuffed bag and immediately on top was a
harmonica, or glass piano, about fifteen inches by four in size, with its cork
mallet beside it. Colonel had himself packed the bag, having to use all his
strength to close it, had reopened it on the train, and there was not a moment
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