Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00304)

Brian you make me laugh. Now, how could anyone dislike someone that 
versatile, talented, and dare say I influential?

Netemara

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-- In theos-talk@y..., "brianmuehlbach" <brianmuehlbach@y...> wrote:
> Netemara: here the actual reference from Count Witt's Diary about 
> Blavatsky's inkschop ans special writigsckils: 
> 
> "She was next heard of from Odessa, where she emerged in the 
> company of her faithful basso. At that time our entire family was 
settled 
> in that city (my grandparents and father had died at Tiflis), and 
my 
> brother and I attended the university there. The extraordinary 
couple 
> must have found themselves in great straits. It was then that my 
> versatile cousin opened in succession an ink factory and retail 
shop and 
> a store of artificial flowers. In those days she often came to see 
my 
> mother, and I visited her store several times, so that I had the 
> opportunity of getting better acquainted with her. I was especially 
> impressed by the extraordinary facility with which she acquired 
skill and 
> knowledge of the most varied description. Her abilities in this 
respect 
> verged on the uncanny. . . . Consider also that although she never 
> seriously studied any foreign languages, she spoke several of them 
with 
> perfect ease. I was also struck by her mastery of the technique of 
verse. 
> She could write pages of smoothly flowing verse without the 
slightest 
> effort, and she could compose essays in prose on every conceivable 
> subject. Besides, she possessed the gift of hypnotizing both her 
hearer 
> and herself into believing the wildest inventions of her fantasy. 
She had, 
> no doubt, a literary talent. The Moscow editor, Katkov, famous in 
the 
> annals of Russian journalism, spoke to me in the highest terms of 
praise 
> about her literary gifts, as evidenced in the tales entitled "From 
the 
> Jungles of Hindostan" [sic] which she contributed to his magazine, 
The 
> Russian Messenger (Russki Vyestnik)". 
> 
> > > > this web site. K. Paul Johnson in fact flew personally to 
London to 
> > > look at 
> > > > the letters in the British Museum (with Leslie Price) and 
stated 
> > > the J. 
> > > > Godwin demonstration looked the same. 
> > > > 
> > > > Editor: Could the unknown factor described by Harrison, and 
by 
> > some 
> > > > interpreted as "precipitation," not easily be produced by 
writing 
> > > with a 
> > > > colored pencil with the paper resting on the cloth binding of 
a 
> > > book with 
> > > > the pattern determining the clean and sharp effect? 
> > > > 
> > > > K.Paul Johnson: Yes, another writer on Blavatsky once 
> > demonstrated 
> > > this 
> > > > for me and it does produce the same kind of effect as seen in 
> some 
> > > of 
> > > > the Mahatma letters. 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~muehleb9
> > > > 
> > > > --- In theos-talk@y..., "Daniel H. Caldwell" <comments@b...> 
> > wrote: