Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00049)

As in a previous post, Brigitte in her email BELOW is
appropriating text from John Patrick Deveney's book on
Randolph and then signing her name to it. In
addition, in the first sentence below of her
appropriated text, she has multilated the text as
given by Deveney and therefore makes a silly mistake. 
The rest of the text is almost verbatim with Deveney's
text.

Why can't Brigitte let readers know that the text of
her emails are taken from Deveney's book? Instead she
signs her name to the text letting people think she is
doing all the work of writing and research.

Daniel H. Caldwell
http://blavatsky.info
http://hpb.cc

--- brigitte muehlegger <bri_mue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> A short piece, published in November 1875 in the
> Spiritual Scientist,
> explains that the "Master Hilarion" had related the
> story of the ageless
> Vic de Lassa (Cagliostro) and his marvelous
> successes with the magic
> mirror in Paris in the early 1860s.
> ,,An Unsolved Mystery," Spiritual Scientist 3, no.
> 25 (November 25, 1875):
> 133-35, reprinted in BCW, 1:151-59.
> 
> The prototype or original of this master may well
> have been one of the two
> mysterious men (one, at least a Near Easterner-a
> Cypriot) who visited
> Colonel Olcott in late 1875 or early 1876 and showed
> him wonders in the
> magic mirror. The elder of the two visitors, Colonel
> Olcott says took out
> of his pocket a painted lacquered case-and asked me
> if I wanted to see
> ,,an Eastern bonhomiere."... Upon opening the case a
> round flat concave
> crystal was displayed to view-he told me to look in
> it-holding it a few inches from my eye and shading
> my eye from the light
> so that there might be no reflected rays cast upon
> the glass-the box
> exhaled a strong spicy aromatic odor-much like
> sandalwood-but still not
> just that-whatever I wished to see-he said I need
> simply think of-only
> taking care to think of but one thing at a time-I
> did as directed.
> 
> At first the eager Colonel simply beheld a scene
> from his past (his mother
> urging him to avoid spiritualism), but then he saw a
> door that ,,came
> nearer and nearer, and grew plainer, until I lost
> consciousness of
> external objects-and seemed to be in the very room I
> had in mind." For
> more than an hour he was transported into strange
> landscapes and enabled
> ,,to call up any spirit I wished to talk with" and
> to remember things
> ,,that had occurred to me when out of the body"
> The letter is printed in Joscelyn Godwin, ,,Colonel
> Olcott Meets the
> Brothers: An Unpublished Letter," Theosophical
> History 4, no. 1 (January
> 1994): 5-9. The letter was written to C. C. Massey
> and W. S. Moses in the
> first half of 1876.
> Brigitte


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