Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00945)

M K Ramadoss wrote:

>Couple of years ago, one of the frequent attendees of our lodge mentioned to
>me about Pryse's experience with HPB. Since I have never seen it, she
>graceously provided me with a copy. BTW, she was not a member of TS nor did
>she joined it. My grateful thanks go to her. Here is the account.
>
>=================================
>
>MEMORABILIA OF H. P. BLAVATSKY
>
>By James Morgan Pryse

>In years past I made hundreds of mesmeric experiments, with different >subjects, sometimes using my prana as a healing force. As H.P.B. was >dying for lack of this vital force, while I, a young man had plenty of it, I >determined to transfer, by a mesmeric process, half my prana to H.P.B. It is >analogous psychically to the transfusion of blood physically. As I began >concentrating to make the transfer H.P.B. called to me, physically but >audibly. "Don't do it; it's black magic." Undeterred, I cabled back to her >"Very well, Old Lady, black magic or not, I'm going to do it anyway" and I >did. 

I don't understand this.  What makes one act white magic and another
black, if not the motive?