In her book “Isis Unveiled”, Blavatsky mentioned
the following history:
« At the time
when Abbé Huc was living in Paris, after his return from Tibet, he related,
among other unpublished wonders, to a Mr Arsenieff, a Russian gentleman, the
following curious fact that he had witnessed during his long sojourn at the
lamasery of Kounboum.
One day while conversing with one of the lamas, the latter suddenly
stopped speaking, and assumed the attentive attitude of one who is listening to
a message being delivered to him, although he (Huc) heard never a word.
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“Then, I must go”; suddenly broke forth the lama, as
if in response to the message.
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“Go where?” inquired the astonished “lama of Jehovah”
(Huc). “And with whom are you talking?”
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“To the lamasery of ***,” was the quiet answer. “The
Shaberon wants me; it was he who summoned me.”
Now this lamasery was many days’ journey from that of Kounboum, in which
the conversation was taking place. But what seemed to astonish Huc the most
was, that, instead of setting off on his journey, the lama simply walked to a
sort of cupola-room on the roof of the house in which they lived, and another
lama, after exchanging a few words, followed them to the terrace by means of
the ladder, and passing between them, locked and barred his companion in.
Then turning to Huc after a few seconds of meditation, he smiled and
informed the guest that “he had gone.”
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“But how could he? Why you have locked him in, and the
room has no issue?” insisted the missionary.
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“And what good would a door be to him?” answered the
custodian. “It is he himself who went away; his body is not needed, and so
he left it in my charge.”
Notwithstanding the wonders which Huc had witnessed during his perilous
journey, his opinion was that both of the lamas had mystified him. But three
days later, not having seen his habitual friend and entertainer, he inquired
after him, and was informed that he would be back in the evening.
At sunset, and just as the “other lamas” were preparing to retire, Huc
heard his absent friend’s voice calling as if from the clouds, to his companion
to open the door for him. Looking upward, he perceived the “traveller’s”
outline behind the lattice of the room where he had been locked in.
When he descended he went straight to the Grand Lama of Kounboum, and
delivered to him certain messages and “orders,” from the place which he
“pretended” he had just left.
Huc could get no more information from him as to his aerial voyage.
But he always thought, he said, that this “farce” had something to do with the
immediate and extraordinary preparations for the polite expulsion of both the
missionaries, himself and Father Gabet, to Chogor-tan, a place belonging to the
Kounboum. The suspicion of the daring missionary may have been correct, in view
of his impudent inquisitiveness and indiscretion.
But if the Abbé had been versed in Eastern philosophy, he would have
found no great difficulty in comprehending both the flight of the lama’s astral
body to the distant lamasery while his physical frame remained behind, or the
carrying on of a conversation with the Shaberon that was inaudible to himself. »
(Volume 2, chap. 12, p.604-605)
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