Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00271)

Steve, you wrote:

"According to internal evidence in their own
statements, there was smoking going on in Philadelphia
and New York. And it wasn't a pack of Lucky Strikes
that they were smoking, either, folks. People who
smoke a pack of Luckies don't see flowers coming out
of the walls and a dozen pencils where there is only
one. No, ladies and gentlemen, I submit that this was
a different brand of smokes than one could get from
just any old cigar store in those days."

So are you telling us Steve that you do not believe that genuine 
paranormal phenomena was performed by Madame Blavatsky and her 
teachers?

Are you telling us Steve that you don't believe HPB could 
have "materialized" a dozen pencils from one pencil? That instead,
it must have been a hallucination of Olcott's caused by Blavatsky's 
smoke?

If this is your thinking on the subject, then I guess you don't 
believe Blavatsky genuinely materialized an extra cup and saucer at 
the Sinnett picnic?

Are you actually trying to tell us that you don't believe HPB did any 
genuine physical paranormal phenomena? Brigitte appears to be a 
skeptic of HPB's psychic powers. Where do you stand on the subject?

Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://hpb.cc