For our own part, we regard her neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seers nor as a mere vulgar adventuress; we think that she has achieved a title to permanent remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious and interesting impostors in history. The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine - Page 555edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
| Rebecca Stefoff - 2007 - 100 pages
...made its opinion perfectly clear when it said, "For our own part, we regard [Blavatsky] neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as a mere vulgar...the most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting imposters in history." Blavatsky 's main contribution to magic did not lie in the feats she may or... | |
| Len Platt - 2007 - 181 pages
...Britannica, which does refer, however, to the report: '[F]or our own part, we regard her neither as a mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as a mere vulgar adventuress;...remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious impostors in history.' This is part of the general significance of Blavatsky for Joyce. By any standards... | |
| 1886 - 588 pages
...confederates of the theosophic or Esoteric Buddhist persuasion. The committee say, "We regard her neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seers nor as a mere vulgar...Sanskrit scholar, has been knighted. Prof. W. Robertson Smitb takes the place of the late Henry Bradshaw, the noted librarian of Cambridge University. M. Le... | |
| 1903 - 700 pages
...Isis" must have felt this. He concludes it in these words: "For our own part we regard her neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seers nor as a mere vulgar...of the most accomplished, ingenious and interesting imposters in history." Spiritism ten years ago was so much on the wane that it seemed as if the movement... | |
| 1886 - 588 pages
...to Madame Blavatsky : ' For our own part, we regard her neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seors, nor as a mere vulgar adventuress ; we think that she...accomplished, ingenious and interesting impostors in history.' If, as suggested at the conclusion of Mr. Hodgson's report, Madame Blavutsky was a Russian spy, then... | |
| Edward Hower - 2002 - 324 pages
...neither the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as a mere vulgar adventuress; we think that she has achieved title to permanent remembrance as one of the most...ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.'" Daisy dropped the paper to her lap. "What a statement! D'you think it will finally force her to leave?"... | |
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