I am but their humble and devoted slave and instrument" is a downright fib. The stereotyped phrase: "It is not I I can do nothing by myself. He could at best forbid her producing phenomena, and to this last extremity he resorted as often as he could, to her friends and theosophists great dissatisfaction.
#Phenomenon or phenomena full
She had to be allowed full and entire freedom of action, the liberty of creating causes that became in due course of time her scourge, her public pillory. was not permitted to forbid her such a course, in so many words. She could never be made to realize the utter uselessness, the danger of such a zeal and how mistaken she was in her notions that she was adding to our glory, whereas, by attributing to us very often phenomena of the most childish nature, she but lowered us in the public estimation and sanctioned the claim of her enemies that she was "but a medium"! But it was of no use. Yes in that, and in that alone, she became constantly guilty of deceiving her friends. From your "European standpoint" it is downright deception, a big thundering lie from our Asiatic standpoint, though an imprudent, blamable zeal, an untruthful exaggeration, or what a Yankee would call "a blazing cock-a-hoop" meant for the benefit of the "Brothers", - Yet withal, if we look into the motive - a sublime, self-denying, noble and meritorious - not dishonest - zeal. Know then, that if she ever became guilty of real, deliberate deception, owing to that "zeal," it was when in the presence of phenomena produced, she kept constantly denying - except in the matter of such trifles as bells and raps - that she had anything to do with their production personally. This eventually generated problems, as Mahatma K. Blavatsky produced a number of phenomena - rarely taking the credit for them, but using them to prove the powers of the Masters of Wisdom. Occult manifestations are produced by the will of the Occultist, that one or a hundred men should see realities, generally hidden from the profane, e.g., certain things and persons thousands of miles away, whose astral images are brought within the view of the audience. This kind of phenomena are produced through the will-power of the occultist:
BlavatskyĪll "phenomena" are but manifestations of natural law, to try to comprehend which is the duty of every intelligent being.
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