Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00114)

A.P. Sinnett in THE OCCULT WORLD writes the
following about the cup and saucer incident:

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When Madame Blavatsky said it would be very 
difficult, but that if we liked she would try, 
attention was of course at once arrested. Madame 
Blavatsky, as usual, held mental conversation 
with one of the Brothers, and then wandered a 
little about in the immediate neighborhood of 
where we were sitting—that is to say, within a
radius of half a dozen to a dozen yards from 
our picnic cloth—I closely following, waiting 
to see what would happen. Then she marked a spot 
on the ground, and called to one of the gentlemen 
of the party to bring a knife to dig with. The 
place chosen was the edge of a little slope covered 
with thick weeds and grass and shrubby undergrowth. 
The gentleman with the knife [Major Philip Henderson] 
tore up these in the first place with some difficulty, 
as the roots were tough and closely interlaced. Cutting 
then into the matted roots and earth with the knife, and 
pulling away the debris with his hands, he came at 
last, on the edge of something white, which turned out, 
as it was completely excavated, to be the required cup. 
A corresponding saucer was also found after a little 
more digging. Both objects were in among the roots, 
which spread everywhere through the ground, so that 
it seemed as if the roots were growing round them. 
The cup and saucer both corresponded exactly, as 
regards their pattern, with those that had been 
brought to the picnic, and constituted a seventh 
cup and saucer when brought back to where we were 
to have breakfast. Afterwards, when we got home, my 
wife questioned our principal khitmutgar as to how 
many cups and saucers of that particular kind we 
possessed. In the progress of years, as the set was 
an old set, some had been broken, but the man at once 
said that nine teacups were left. When collected and 
counted that number was found to be right, without 
reckoning the excavated cup. That made ten, and as 
regards the pattern, it was one of a somewhat peculiar 
kind, bought a good many years previously in London, 
and which assuredly could never have been matched 
in Simla.
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Notice what Sinnett writes about the pattern of the
cup and saucer. And compare that with what Olcott
wrote:

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He found the ground hard and full of small roots of a young cedar 
tree near by. These he cut through and pulled up to a depth of say 6 
inches, when something white was seen in the black soil; it was dug 
out, and lo! a cup decorated in green and gold, exactly matching the 
others Mrs. Sinnett's servants had brought. 
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How did Blavatsky YEARS IN ADVANCE select a cup and bury
it in Simla so that the pattern would exactly match
the set of cups that was taken on the picnic on Oct.
3, 1880?

This would appear to be a great paranormal feat in
itself!!

If Bart seriously believes this "years before"
burial theory, I have some land in Brooklyn that he
would probably want to buy!! :)

Daniel