Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky
1831
- 1891
H P Blavatsky meets
Colonel H S Olcott 1874
Colonel H S Olcott
In 1874 The
Olcott has already
written a favourable article about phenomena
occurring at the farmhouse in the
Olcott spent ten days at
the Chittenden farm which is several hundred mile from
Nre York and came away convinced of the authenticity
of the phenomena. He summarized what he had experienced in fifteen articles,
which launched his career as a psychical investigator. The articles appeared
twice weekly and caught
the attention of H P Blavatsky, drawing her to Chittenden
Olcott describes the
meeting in “Old Diary Leaves”
The dinner
hour at Eddy’s was
All sorts
of cranky people were continually coming and going at Eddy’s to see the
mediumistic phenomena, and it only struck me on seeing this eccentric lady that
this was one more of the sort. Pausing on the door-sill, I whispered to Kappes, “Good gracious 1 look at that specimen will you.” I went straight across and took a seat opposite
her to indulge my favourite habit of character study.
The two
ladies conversed in French, making remarks of no consequence, but I saw at once
from her accent and fluency of speech that, if not a Parisian, she must at
least be a finished French scholar. Dinner over, the two went outside the house
and Madame Blavatsky rolled herself a cigarette, for which I gave her a light
as a pretext to enter into conversation. My remark having been made in French,
we fell at once into talk in that language. She asked me how long I had been
there and what I had thought of the phenomena: saying that she herself was
greatly interested in such things, and had been drawn to Chittenden by reading
the letters in the Daily Graphic: the public were growing so interested in
these that it was sometimes that it was sometimes impossible to find a copy of thepaper on the book-stalls an hour after publication and
she had paid a dollar for the copy of the last issue.
“I
hesitated before coming here” she said “because I was afraid of meeting that
colonel Olcott.” Why should you be afraid of him Madame?” she rejoined “Oh ! because I fear he might write about me in his paper.” I told
her that she might make herself perfectly easy on that score, for I felt quite
sure
Olcott goes on to
comment on H P Blavatsky’s “sexlessness”
It was the voice
of common sympathy with the higher occult side of man and nature ; the attraction of soul to
soul and not that of sex to sex. Neither then, at the commencement, nor ever
afterwards had either of us the sense of the other being of the opposite sex. We
were simply chums ; so regarded each other, so called
each other.
Some base
people from time to time, dared to suggest that a closer tie bound us together,
as they had that that poor, malformed, persecuted HPB had been the mistress of
various other men, but no pure person could hold to such an opinion after
passing any time in her company., and seeing how every look, word and action
proclaimed her sexlessness.
Another meeting with H P
Blavatsky came with the Holmes scandal. Nelson and Jennie Holmes, husband and
wife, were spiritualistic mediums who had been accused
of fraud. H P Blavatsky then arranged for further seances
and for Olcott to witness them to prove their authenticity.
It was rumored that the
Holmes, particularly Jennie, had impersonated Katie King, the daughter of thespirit John King, in a previous séance. In the seance which Olcott witnessed, John King was said to have
spoke again, clearing his daughter of all wrongdoing and "rapping
out" an account of what actually occurred before. His statement cleared
the Holmes, and Katie King appeared in white again. Olcott knew it was not
Jennie Holmes whom he had securely tied up. This strengthened Olcott's belief in psychical phenomena.
After the Eddy and
Holmes investigations Olcott was thought to be a creditable psychical
researcher. When the professors of the Imperial University of St. Petersburg,
at the wish of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, decided to make a
scientific investigation of Spiritualism, they asked Olcott and Helena
Blavatsky to select the most qualified American medium. Henry Slade was their
choice.
From their first meeting
at the Vermont farm Olcott seemed fascinated by
Helena Blavatsky's
psychic power. In those early days
Helena Blavatsky
professed to have been controlled by the spirit of John King during
which
she specialized in automatic writing and supernormal
duplication of letters and other items. In the presence of Olcott and the
Honorable John L. Sullivan she produced a $1,000 banknote which dissolved into
a drawer.
These feats occurred
after the founding of the Theosophical Society in 1875. Olcott, himself,
witnessed more of the Magnificent acts" performed
by Blavatsky than anyone else. This was a major reason why he eagerly assumed
the presidency of the Society.
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