Invisible Helpers

her expressed great astonishment and pleasure, saying that when the brave lady so suddenly disappeared from the midst of the fight they had felt certain that she had been struck down.

At the time no sort of explanation was forthcoming, and she returned home in a very mystified condition; but when at a later period she mentioned this strange occurrence to Madame Blavatsky Helena Blavatsky, a primary founder of the Theosophical Society., she was informed that, her karma karma: the law of cause and effect, often used to explain why an individual deserves or receives specific spiritual aid being such as to enable her to be saved from her exceedingly dangerous position, one of the Masters had specially sent someone to protect her in view of the fact that her life was needed for the work.

Nevertheless, the case remains a very extraordinary one, both with regard to the great amount of power exercised and the unusually public nature of its manifestation. It is not difficult to imagine the modus operandi original: "modus operandi" (Latin for "method of operating"); she must have been lifted bodily over the intervening block of houses, and simply set down in the next street; but since her physical body was not visible floating in the air, it is also evident that a veil of some sort (probably of etheric etheric: relating to a subtle, non-physical state of matter in occult science matter) must have been thrown round her while in transit.

If it be objected that whatever can hide physical matter must itself be physical, and therefore visible, it may be replied that by a process familiar to all occult students it is possible to bend rays of light