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ADMIRATION OF THE SCIENTIST CARTER BLAKE TOWARDS BLAVATSKY

 

 
Dr. Carter Blake was an eminent zoologist and he stated that Blavatsky, despite her few studies, surpassed him in her knowledge of paleontology, and she even knew aspects that few experts in this scientific branch knew.
 
 
 
A PROMINENT SCIENTIST CORROBORATES THE IMPRESSIVE KNOWLEDGE THAT MADAME BLAVATSKY POSSESSED
 
 
Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Carter Blake
 
Dr. Carter Blake, to whom we are indebted for the following remarks, was in 1863 of the secretaries of Section E (British Association for the Advancement of Science). He was born in London in 1840, and has pursued the study of zoology from an early age.
 
His connection with the periodical literature of the scientific world has existed for many years. He was early connected with Her Majesty's Civil Service in the War Office of London and, during the period which succeeded the invasion of Morocco by the Spanish forces in 1859, and the negotiations which were on foot to procure the ransom agreed on for the capture of Tetuan, was secretary to the Moorish Envoys in England.
 
For a long time he was a pupil of and assistant to Professor, afterwards Sir Richard Owen, under whom his geological and paleontological studies were carried on. In 1862 he delivered to the London Institution a series of lectures on The Elementary Principies of Zoology.
 
In the same year he was appointed to aid the celebrated Dr. Robert Knox in the classification of the Museum of the now defunct Ethnological Society of London.
 
He is the author of many detached papers in scientific works and periodicals: Modem Thought Medico-chirurgical Review Edinburgh Review Morning Chronicle Pall Mall Gazette Reader Parthenon Geological Magazine Medical Times, Geologist, Food Journal, Annals of Natural History Anthropological Review, Transactions of Philological Society, Brande's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Arty Alpine Guide, and others, as well as the editor of Knox’: Manual of Zoology, a second edition of which has been recently published.
 
He was one of the original members of the Anthropological Society of London, of which he was honorary secretary at its establishment, and now lives to see it a successful and prosperous institution. In 1866 he was during a lengthened period investigating the geological features of the districts of south-eastern Belgium.
 
He is the editor of Broca's important work on Hybridity in the Genus Homo.
 
In 1867 gave up his official connection with the Anthropological Society, and resided in Nicaragua for nearly a year, where he had opportunities for studying the life and languages of the Indian aborigines in their own homes, and on his return visited New York. He was from 1868 to 1881 Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at Westminster Hospital, and in 1871 reconstructed the Museum of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society according to modern scientific principles.
 
In 1875 he published a work Zoology for Students to which a preface was written by Professor Owen. In 1881 he was translator of Fau's Artistic Anatomy in 1883 author of a Guide to the Fisheries Exhibition, in 1884 Guide to the Health Exhibition and a translation of Rochet's work on The Natural Proportions of Both Sexes, and in 1885 a translation of Dusart's work on Phosphate of Lime.
 
Many translations of Spanish, French, Latin and German works are from his pen; and he has several times lectured in the Natural History Department of the British Museum, under the auspices of Sir Richard Owen. His attainments and his close connection with H.P.B. give value to his opinion on the points with which he deals, and special interest to the following communication. — (Ed.)
 
 
 
 
His opinion on Blavatsky
 
On ordinary lines it is strange that an old, sickly woman, not consulting a library and having no books of her own of consequence, should possess the unusual knowledge that Madame Blavatsky undoubtedly did. Indeed, it is incomprehensible, unless she were of an extraordinary mental capacity, and had spent her whole life in study. On the contrary, from many sources we gain undoubted evidence that Madame Blavatsky's education had not even been carried as far as that of a High School student of the present day.
 
But it is a fact that she knew more than I did on my own particular lines of anthropology.
 
1) For instance, her information was superior to my own on the subject of the Naulette Jaw.
 
2) On page 744 in the second volume of The Secret Doctrine refers to facts which she could not easily have gathered from any published book.
 
3) On page 754, also of the second volume of The Secret Doctrine, the sentence beginning: "If we turn to the new world," and speaking of the existence of "pliocene mammalia and the occurrence of pliocene raised beaches".
 
I remember in conversation with her in 1888, in Lansdowne Road, at the time she was engaged on The Secret Doctrine, how Madame Blavatsky, to my great astonishment, sprung upon me the fact that the raised beaches of Tarija were pliocene. I had always thought them pleistocene — following the line of reasoning of Darwin and Spotswood Wilson.
 
The fact that these beaches are pliocene has been proven to me since from the works of Gay, Istoria Fiscia de Chile Castlenaw's book on Chile, and other works, though these out-of-the-way books had never then come into my hands, in spite of the fact that I had made a specialité of the subject; and not until Madame Blavatsky put me on the track of the pliocene did I hear of them.
 
4) On page 755 in the second volume of The Secret Doctrine, her mention of the fossil footprints from Carson, Indiana, U.S., is again interesting as a proof that she did not obtain her information by thought-reading. When Madame Blavatsky spoke of the footprints to me I did not know of their existence, and Mr. G. W. Bloxam, Assistant Secretary of the Anthropological Institute, afterwards told me that a pamphlet on the subject in their library had never been out.
 
 
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My conlusion is that Madame Blavatsky certainly had original sources of information (I don't say what) transcending the knowledge of experts on their own lines.
 
 
C. Carter Blake.
28, Townshend Road, N.W.
January 27th, 1893.
 
 
(“Reminiscences of H.P. Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine” by Countess Constance Wachtmeister, appendix I-7, p.117-120)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OBSERVATION
 
This is one more testimony that shows that Blavatsky through her telepathy was advised by the Masters of Wisdom when she conversed with the great scientists of her time, and also when she wrote.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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