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Page vii
... facts which claimed telling a year ago , was soon told . A second edition is now required , and some further ex- planations must be prepared before I can let this go forth . But these must , I regret to say , for the present be kept ...
... facts which claimed telling a year ago , was soon told . A second edition is now required , and some further ex- planations must be prepared before I can let this go forth . But these must , I regret to say , for the present be kept ...
Page viii
... fact , and at the bitter disgust ex- hibited by various organs of orthodoxy at the idea that there may really be something in Heaven and earth not dreamed of in their philosophy - something sufficiently real to be not merely talked ...
... fact , and at the bitter disgust ex- hibited by various organs of orthodoxy at the idea that there may really be something in Heaven and earth not dreamed of in their philosophy - something sufficiently real to be not merely talked ...
Page ix
... fact that she really was - herself . After showing both these letters to a gentleman on the Viceroy's staff— a neutral person as regards the whole subject , and quite unconcerned with occultism - I posted them with my own hands , and in ...
... fact that she really was - herself . After showing both these letters to a gentleman on the Viceroy's staff— a neutral person as regards the whole subject , and quite unconcerned with occultism - I posted them with my own hands , and in ...
Page x
... fact that I for- warded my letter for General Fadeeff to his care , knowing him to be an old friend of Madame Blavatsky's . He him- self has since sent her letters which I have seen , expressing , besides warm sympathy and personal ...
... fact that I for- warded my letter for General Fadeeff to his care , knowing him to be an old friend of Madame Blavatsky's . He him- self has since sent her letters which I have seen , expressing , besides warm sympathy and personal ...
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... fact that they knew very little . Mystery can only have been loved by charlatans who wish to mystify . The conclusion is pardonable from the modern point of view , but it has given rise to an impression in the popular mind that the ...
... fact that they knew very little . Mystery can only have been loved by charlatans who wish to mystify . The conclusion is pardonable from the modern point of view , but it has given rise to an impression in the popular mind that the ...
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