Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Death of Madame Blavatsky

From the Third Missionary Number of The Two Worlds in mid-May of 1891:
Just above this terse snippet is a long piece of W. E. Coleman's, reprinted from The Carrier Dove, intending to demonstrate that HPB was (at the time of the Eddy phenomena at least) well and truly a Spiritualist.
Although "this hasty notice is all that can appear at present," what's coming in subsequent numbers must really be seen, from a disinterested vantage point, as the savaging of the dead.
In the next issue, EHB cranks up the news cycle herself:

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