Identifier: hourswithghostso00evan (find matches)
Title: Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Evans, Henry Ridgely, 1861-1949 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891 Spiritualism Theosophy
Publisher: Chicago : Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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or the influence she has exerted upon the thought of this latter end of the nineteenth century — I have read all that has been written about her by prominent Theosophists, have talked with many who knew her intimately, and now endeavor to present the truth concerning her and her career. The leading work on the subject is Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky, compiled from information supplied by her relatives and friends, and edited byA. P. Sinnett, author of "The Occult World". The frontispiece to the book is a reproduction of a portrait of Madame Blavatsky, painted by H. Schmiechen, and represents the lady seated on the steps of an ancient ruin, holding a parchment in her hand. She is garbed somewhat after the fashion of a Cumaean Sibyl and gazes straight before her with the deep unfathomable eyes of a mystic, as if she were reading the profound riddles of the ages, and beholding the sands of Time falling hot and swift into the glass of eternity— And all things creeping to a day of doom.
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FIG. 32—MADAME BLAVATSKY. THE PRIESTESS. 217 Sinnetts life of the High Priestess is a strange concoction of monstrous absurdities; it is full of the weirdest happenings that were ever vouchsafed to mortal. We cannot put much faith in this biography, and must delve in other mines for information; but some of the remarkable passages of the book are worth perusing, particularly if the reader be prone to midnight musings of a ghostly character. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the daughter of Col. Peter Hahn of the Russian Army, and granddaughter of General Alexis Hahn von Rottenstern Hahn (a noble family of Mecklenburg, Germany, settled in Russia), was born in Eskaterinoslaw, in the south of Russia, in 1831. She had, says Sinnett, a strange childhood, replete with abnormal occurrences. The year of her birth was fatal for Russia, as for all Europe, owing to the first visit of the cholera, that terrible plague that decimated from 1830 to 1832 in turn nearly every town of the Continent Her birth was qu

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