Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft: Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and TheosophyEvans, Henry Ridgely
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Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft: Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy
Evans, Henry Ridgely
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891; Spiritualism; Theosophy
World_, the day before the event. Says the _World_:
"The procession will move in the following order:
"Col. Olcott as high priest, wearing a leopard skin and carrying a roll of
papyrus (brown card board).
"Mr. Cobb, as sacred scribe, with style and tablet.
"Egyptian mummy-case, borne upon a sledge drawn by four oxen. (Also a
slave bearing a pot of lubricating oil.)
"Madame Blavatsky as chief mourner and also bearer of the sistrum. (She
will wear a long linen garment extending to the feet, and a girdle about
the waist.)
"Colored boy carrying three Abyssinian geese (Philadelphia chickens) to
place upon the bier.
"Vice-President Felt, with the eye of Osiris painted on his left breast,
and carrying an asp (bought at a toy store on Eighth avenue.)
"Dr. Pancoast, singing an ancient Theban dirge:
"'Isis and Nepthys, beginning and end:
One more victim to Amenti we send.
Pay we the fare, and let us not tarry.
Cross the Styx by the Roosevelt street ferry.'"
"Slaves in mourning gowns, carrying the offerings and libations, to
consist of early potatoes, asparagus, roast beef, French pan-cakes,
bock-beer, and New Jersey cider.
"Treasurer Newton, as chief of the musicians, playing the double pipe.
"Other musicians performing on eight-stringed harps, tom-toms, etc.
"Boys carrying a large lotus (sunflower).
"Librarian Fassit, who will alternate with music by repeating the lines
beginning:
"'Here Horus comes, I see the boat.
Friends, stay your flowing tears;
The soul of man goes through a goat
In just 3,000 years.'
"At the temple the ceremony will be short and simple. The oxen will be
left standing on the sidewalk, with a boy near by to prevent them goring
the passers-by. Besides the Theurgic hymn, printed above in full, the
Coptic National anthem will be sung, translated and adapted to the
occasion as follows:
"Sitting Cynocephalus up in a tree,
I see you, and you see me.
River full of crocodile, see his long snout!
Hoist up the shadoof and pull him right out."
6. The Mantle of Madame Blavatsky.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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