Show A SPIEIT PICTURE Theosophists Excited Over an Astral Appearance Of Mme Blavatsky Her Portrait Painted by an Unseen Hand Reputable People Relate tho story Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch PHILADELPHIA Feb 4Theosophists and spiritualists hero are excited over the alleged al-leged astral appearance of Mme Blavatsky and her performance of occult marvels outdoing all phenomena credited to mahatmas mahat-mas m Mr Sinnetts bOOk The Occult World The medium is Mrs Eugenie Beste who has for many years been known as a theosophist and medium for materi alizations and spirit pictures Her sitter sit-ter in this instance was H B Foulke formerly for-merly president of the Philadelphia branch of the Theosophical society who stood high in Mme Blavatskys confidence during the last ten years of her life Mr Foulke assorts as-sorts that Mme Blavatsky soon after her ueatn appeared to mm in a dream ana promised to give him an occult portrait of hersel as testimony of nor special friendship friend-ship and favor He accordingly brought apiece a-piece of canvas 15x20 inches in size to Mrs Bestes room last Thursday night President Falkenstein of the German Ger-man Theosophical society accompanied accom-panied him After pinning tbe white canvas to portieres separating the front and back parlors on the first floor the three eat for an hour in silence awaiting developments At the end of an hour they turned up the lights No results re-sults were visible and tho two men departed de-parted promising to return on the morrow immediately after the departure of Foulke and Falkenstein J R Perry a wealthy manufacturer of Wilkesbarre was shown to the parlor on the second floor Mrs Beste went up to see him They had been talking together at Mr Perrys home when the medium suddenly cried out here is an astral She is beckoning us to go down stairs What followed is thus related by Mr Perry Entering the back parlor Mrs Beste directed my attention to the canvas and portieres I examined the portieres I porteres and canvas on both sides There was no IC C mark upon it Mrs Beste then proceeded pro-ceeded me into the front room I where wo sat for about ten minutes I Then a luminous figure which Mrs Beste recognized as the astral she bad seen upstairs up-stairs again appeared and waved her right hand to us with the words It is done uttered in a deep and solemn voice The I figure vanished apparently right through the closed portieres At the same moment I the door opened and the odor of fresh paint filled the room We went into the back parlor and I examined the canvas There was nothing on the outer side I turned it over and on the side that had been toward toward the curtain 1 was amazed to see a full length portrait of Mme Blavatsky where a few minutes before there had been only clean white canvas I seemed as if in the very act of passing through the por tiers the astral bad loll her counterfeit presentiment pre-sentiment upon the canvas The paint was still wet as i i was a picture fresh from the artists hands Mr Perry says that while Mrs Beste Mrs Case and himself wore examining the picture the following day the outlines of a man appeared on the canvas Then the figure of Koot Hoomi was distinctly shown The latter was Mme Blavatskys mahatma |