The Theosophical Path Illustrated Monthly Volume 1, July-December, 1911
Religion
The Theosophical Path Illustrated Monthly Volume 1, July-December, 1911
Theosophy -- Periodicals
The account she gives is, that, returning with a kinswoman to her
house at the head of the Lake, they both beheld a fine gentleman
mounted upon a black horse, ascend through the water along with a
numerous retinue on foot, who all moved together along the surface
towards a small island, near which they again descended under water.
This account is confirmed in time, place, and circumstance, by many
more spectators from the side of the Lake, who are all ready to swear,
and, not improbably, to suffer death in support of their testimony.
Another account says that at the feast, before he first disappeared, he
was engaged in a prophetic relation of the events which were to happen
in the ages to come; and that after he reached the center of the Lake
opposite them, he paused a moment, turned slowly round, looked toward
his friends, and waving his hand to them with the cheerful air of one
taking a short farewell, descended.
Mrs. S. C. Hall relates that an English soldier of the 30th Regiment,
and an Irish comrade, were while she was at Killarney engaged in
plowing up part of the old churchyard in Inisfallen, a work they both
disliked. As they were mooring the boat in which they came to the
island in the morning, a day or so after the work had commenced,
they saw a procession of about two hundred persons pass from the
old churchyard, and walk slowly and solemnly over the lake to the
mainland. Reynolds (the soldier) himself was terribly alarmed, but his
companion fainted in the boat.
He repeatedly afterward saw smaller groups of figures, but no crowd so
numerous.
In answer to our questions, he expressed his perfect readiness to
depose to the fact on oath; and asserted he would declare it if on his
death-bed.
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