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The '''Plaster Plaque''' or '''Plaster Cast''' phenomenon involved [[Alfred Percy Sinnett|Mr. Sinnett]] at Allahabad, and [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] and others in Bombay. | The '''Plaster Plaque''' or '''Plaster Cast''' phenomenon involved [[Alfred Percy Sinnett|Mr. Sinnett]] at Allahabad, and [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] and others in Bombay. | ||
== Event at Bombay == | |||
In Bombay, a Paris plaster mould for a portrait had fallen to the floor and broken into several pieces. When the party tried to rearrange the pieces in order to glue them together, they found out the corner was missing. | |||
== Event at Allahabad == | |||
On [[March 11]], 1882, Mr. Sinnett had returned home in the evening to find several telegrams awaiting him. Inside the fastened envelope of one of them he found a little folded note from [[Morya|Master M.]]. Sinnett wrote: | |||
<blockquote>The note made me search in my writing-room for a fragment of a plaster bas-relief that M_____ had just transported instantaneously from Bombay. Instinct took me at once to the place where I felt that it was most likely I should find the thing which had been brought — the drawer of my writing-table exclusively devoted to occult correspondence; and there, accordingly, I found a broken corner from a plaster slab, with M_____’s signature marked upon it. I telegraphed at once to Bombay to ask whether anything special had just happened, and next day received back word that M_____ had smashed a certain plaster portrait and had carried off a piece. In due course of time I received a minute statement from Bombay, attested by the signatures of seven persons in all as regards all essential points.<ref>Alfred Percy Sinnett, ''The Occult World'' (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1969), 163-164.</ref></blockquote> | |||
The piece of plaster plaque was the corner broken off that was missing in Bombay. | |||
==Online resources== | ==Online resources== | ||
===Articles=== | ===Articles=== | ||
*[http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/sinnettdeposition.htm# The Piece of Plaster Plaque Phenomenon] published by Blavatsky Study Center. | *[http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/sinnettdeposition.htm# The Piece of Plaster Plaque Phenomenon] published by Blavatsky Study Center. | ||
Revision as of 15:44, 30 August 2013
The Plaster Plaque or Plaster Cast phenomenon involved Mr. Sinnett at Allahabad, and Mme. Blavatsky and others in Bombay.
Event at Bombay
In Bombay, a Paris plaster mould for a portrait had fallen to the floor and broken into several pieces. When the party tried to rearrange the pieces in order to glue them together, they found out the corner was missing.
Event at Allahabad
On March 11, 1882, Mr. Sinnett had returned home in the evening to find several telegrams awaiting him. Inside the fastened envelope of one of them he found a little folded note from Master M.. Sinnett wrote:
The note made me search in my writing-room for a fragment of a plaster bas-relief that M_____ had just transported instantaneously from Bombay. Instinct took me at once to the place where I felt that it was most likely I should find the thing which had been brought — the drawer of my writing-table exclusively devoted to occult correspondence; and there, accordingly, I found a broken corner from a plaster slab, with M_____’s signature marked upon it. I telegraphed at once to Bombay to ask whether anything special had just happened, and next day received back word that M_____ had smashed a certain plaster portrait and had carried off a piece. In due course of time I received a minute statement from Bombay, attested by the signatures of seven persons in all as regards all essential points.[1]
The piece of plaster plaque was the corner broken off that was missing in Bombay.
Online resources
Articles
- The Piece of Plaster Plaque Phenomenon published by Blavatsky Study Center.
- ↑ Alfred Percy Sinnett, The Occult World (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1969), 163-164.