BLAVATSKY COULD PHENOMENALLY WRITE ON A SLATE

 

 

 

Blavatsky could make writing appear on a slate supernaturally (i.e. without using pens, crayons, pencils or chalk) as several mediums also did phenomenally. And on this subject Colonel Olcott wrote the following in his book “Old Diary Leaves I”:

 

 

« In the department of precipitation of writings and pictures (a term, originally of my own invention, which seems to convey best of all an Idea of the method employed), H.P.B. was exceptionally strong, as will have been inferred from all that has preceded.

 

On an evening of 1875 I sat at the house of the President of the Photographic Section of the American Institute, Mr. H.J. Newton, with a. private medium named Cozine, to witness his slate-writings, which were far more wonderful than Dr. Slade's.

 

The communications came upon the slate in bright blue and red colors; no pencil or crayon was used in the experiment, and I myself held one end of the slate. Upon mentioning this to H.P.B., she said:

 

-        "I think I could do that; at any rate, I will try."

 

So I went out and bought a slate and brought it home; she took it, without crayons or pencil, into a small, pitch-dark closet bed-room and lay upon the couch, while I went out, closed the door, and waited outside. After a very few minutes she reappeared with the slate in her hand, her forehead damp with perspiration, and she seeming very tired.

 

-        "By Jove!" she exclaimed, "that took it out of me, but I've done it; see!"

 

On the slate was writing in red and blue crayons, in handwritings not her own. »

(Chapter 23)