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Letter №48 p. 3

Search and find in it — if you can, one single word about occult philosophy, or esotericism or anything of that element now so largely infused in the spiritual movement. Ask and enquire whether the very word of "occultism" was not so completely unknown in America, that we find Cora of the 7 husbands, the Zappan woman and talking medium inspired in her lectures to say that the word was one just coined by the Theosophists — then dawning —; that no one ever heard of elementary spirits and "astral" light — save the petroleum manufacturers and so on and on. Well ascertain this and compare. This was the first war cry, and the battle kept raging hot and fierce to the very day of the departure for India. To say and point out to Edison and Crookes and Massey — would sound much like boasting of that which can never be proven. And Crookes — has he not brought science within our bail in his "radiant matter" discovery? What but occult research was it that led him first to that. You know K.H. and me — buss! Know you anything of the whole Brotherhood and its ramifications? The Old Woman


Notes: 

Cora of the 7 husbands refers to Cora L. V. Scott (also known as Cora Hatch or Cora Tappan), one of the best-known mediums of the Spiritualism movement of the last half of the 19th century.

Buss! is an expression used by the Master that means "Enough!"