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From H. P. Blavatsky Theosophical Articles, Vol. III
Madam,–Since you have published a posthumous letter of my Master and beloved friend, the late Éliphas Lévi, I think it would be agreeable to you to publish, if judged suitable, a few extracts of the many manuscripts in my possession, written expressly for, and given to, me by my ever-regretted MASTER.
To begin, I send you–"Stray Thoughts on Death and Satan" from his pen.
I cannot close this letter without expressing the deep indignation aroused in me by the base diatribes published in the London Spiritualist against your Society and its members. Every honest heart is irritated at such unfair treatment, especially when proceeding from a man of honour as Mr. Harrison (Editor of the Spiritualist) who admits in his journal anonymous contributions that are tantamount to libels.
With the utmost respect, I remain,
Madam, Yours Devotedly,
Marseilles, July 29, 1881
Editor's Note.–It is with feelings of sincere gratitude that we thank Baron Spadalieri for his most valuable contribution. The late Éliphas Lévi was the most learned Kabalist and Occultist of our age, in Europe, and every thing from his pen is precious to us, in so far as it helps us to compare notes with the Eastern Occult doctrines and, by the light thrown upon both, to prove to the world of Spiritualists and Mystics, that the two systems–the Eastern-Aryan, and the Western or the Chaldeo-Jewish Kabala–are one in their principal metaphysical tenets. Only, while the Eastern Occultists have never lost the key to their esotericism, and are daily verifying and elaborating their doctrines by personal experiments, and by the additional light of modern science, the Western or Jewish Kabalists, besides having been misled for centuries by the introduction of foreign elements in it such as Christian dogmas, dead-letter interpretations of the Bible &c., have most undeniably lost the true key to the esoteric meaning of Simeon Ben Jochai's Kabala, and are trying to make up for the loss, by interpretations emanating from the depths of their imagination and inner consciousness. Such is evidently the case with J. K., the self-styled London "Adept," whose anonymous and powerless vilifications of the Theosophical Society and its members are pertinently regarded by Baron Spadalieri as "tantamount to libels." But we have to be charitable. That poor descendant of the Biblical Levites–as we know him to be–in his pigmy efforts to upset the Theosophists, has most evidently fractured his brain against one of his own "occult" sentences. There is one especially in the Spiritualist (July 22), to which the attention of the mystically inclined is drawn further down as this paragraph is most probably the cause of the sad accident which befell so handsome a head. Be it as it may, but it now disables the illustrious J.K. from communicating "scientifically his knowledge" and forces him at the same time to remain, as he expresses it, "in an incommunicable ecstatic state." For it is in no other "state" that our great modern adept, the literary man of such a "calibre" * [Footnote * To accuse a literary man of my calibre of ignorance, is as amusing a mistake as it would be have been to charge Porson of ignorance of Greek," he writes in the Spiritualist of July 8…"The occult is my special subject, and …there is but little… that I do not know," he adds. Now, the above sentence settles the question at rest with us. Not only an "adept" but no layman or profane of the most widely recognized intellect and ability, would have ever dared, under the penalty of being henceforth and forever regarded as the most ridiculously conceited of –Æsopus' heores — to use suc a sentence when speaking of himself! So stupidly arrogant, and cowardly impertinent has he shown himself behind the shield of his initials to far better and more worthy men than himself, in his transparent attacks upon them in the above-named Spiritualist–that it is the first and certainly the last time that we do him the honour of noticing him in these columns. Our journal has a nobler task, we trust, than to be polemizing with those, whom in vulgar parlance the world generally terms –bullies–Ed. Theos.] that to suspect him of "ignorance" becomes equal, in audacity, to throwing suspicion upon the virtue of Caesar's wife–could possibly have written the following lines, intended by him, we believe, as a lucid and clear exposition of his own psycho-Kabalistic lore as juxtaposed to the "hard words," "outlandish verbiage," "moral and philosophical platitudes," and "jaw-breakers" of "the learned Theosophists."
These are the "gems of occult wisdom" of the illustrious Jewish Kabalist who, like a bashful violet, hides his occult learning under two modest initials.
"In every human creature there lies latent in the involitional part of the being a sufficient quantity of the omniscient, the absolute. To induce the latent absolute, which is the involitional part of our volitional conscious being, to become manifest, it is essential that the volitional part of our being should become latent. After the preparatory purification from acquired depravities, a kind of introversion has to take place; the involitional has to become volitional, by the volitional becoming involitional. When the conscious becomes semi-unconscious, the, to us, formerly unconscious becomes fully conscious. The particle of the omniscient that is within us, the vital and growing, sleepless, involitional, occult or female principle being allowed to express itself in the volitional, mental, manifest, or masculine part of the human being, while the latter remains in a state of perfect passivity, the two formerly dissevered parts become re-united as one holy (wholly) perfect being, and then the divine manifestation is inevitable." Very luckily, J.K. gives us himself the key to this grandiloquent gush: "necessarily" he adds, "this is only safely practicable while living in uncompromisingly firm purity, for otherwise there is danger of unbalancement–insanity, or a questionable form of mediumship."
The italics are ours. Evidently with our immaculate "adept" the "involitional, occult or female principle" was not allowed to express itself in the volitional mental, manifest, or masculine part" of his being, and–behold the results!!
For the edification of our Hindu readers, who are unprogressive enough to refuse reading the lucubrations of "J.K.," or follow the mental "grand trapeze" performed by this remarkable Adept" on the columns of the Spiritualist, we may add that in the same article he informs his English readers that it is "Hindu mystification, acting on Western credulity" which "brought out the Theosophical Society." "Hindu philosophy" according to that great light of the nineteenth century is no "philosophy" but rather mysticism." . . . "Following the track of the mystifying and mystified Hindus they (the Theosophists) consider the four above faculties (Sidhis of Krishna) Anima, Mahima, Laghima and Garima to be the power they (we) have to strive for." "Indeed, what a ludicrous confusion of effect with cause"!
The fracture of the brain must have been serious indeed. Let us hope that timely and repeated lotions of "Witch-Hazel" or "the Universal Magic Balm" will have its good effects. Meanwhile, we turn the attention of our Hindu readers and students of Occultism to the identity of the doctrines taught by Éliphas Lévi (who, too, is contemptuously sneered at, and sent by the "Adept" to keep company with "Brothers," Yogis, and "Fakirs") in every essential and vital point with those of our Eastern initiates.
Death is the necessary dissolution of imperfect combinations. It is the re-absorption of the rough outline of individual life into the great work of universal life; only the perfect is immortal.
It is a bath in oblivion. It is the fountain of youth where on one side plunges old age, and whence on the other issues infancy. 1 [Footnote 1. Rebirth of the Ego after death, The Eastern, and especially Buddhistic doctrine of the evolution of the new, out of the old Ego.–Ed. Theos]
Death is the transfiguration of the living; corpses are but the dead leaves of the Tree of Life which will still have all its leaves in the spring. The resurrection of men resembles eternally these leaves.
Perishable forms are conditioned by immortal types.
All who have lived upon earth, live there still in new exemplars of their types, but the souls which have surpassed their type receive elsewhere a new form based upon a more perfect type, as they mount ever on the ladder of worlds; 2 [Footnote 2. From one loka to the other; from a positive world of causes and activity, to a negative world of effects and passivity. –Ed. Theos.] the bad exemplars are broken, and their matter returned into the general mass. 3 [Footnote 3. Into Cosmic matter, when they necessarily lose their self-consciousness or individuality or are annihilated, as the Eastern Kabalists say. –Ed. Theos]
Our souls are as it were a music, of which our bodies are the instruments. The music exists without the instruments, but it cannot make itself heard without a material intermediary; the immaterial can neither be conceived nor grasped.
Man in his present existence only retains certain predispositions from his past existences.
Evocations of the dead are but condensations of memory, the imaginary coloration of the shades. To evoke those who are no longer there, is but to cause their types to re-issue from the imagination of nature. 4 [Footnote 4. To ardently desire to see a dead person is to evoke the images of that person, to call it forth from the astral light or ether wherein rest photographed the images of the Past. That is what is being partially done in the seance-rooms. The Spiritualists are unconscious NECROMANCERS. –Ed. Theos.]
To be in direct communication with the imagination of nature, one must be either asleep, intoxicated, in an ecstasy, cataleptic, or mad.
The eternal memory preserves only the imperishable; all that passes in Time belongs of right to oblivion.
The preservation of corpses is a violation of the laws of nature; it is an outrage on the modesty of death, which hides the works of destruction, as we should hide those of reproduction. Preserving corpses is to create phantoms in the imagination of the earth; 5 [Footnote 5. To intensify these images in the astral or sidereal light. –Ed. Theos.] the spectres of the night-mare, of hallucination, and fear, are but the wandering photographs of preserved corpses. It is these preserved or imperfectly destroyed corpses, which spread, amid the living, plague, cholera, contagious diseases, sadness, scepticism and disgust of life. 6 [Footnote 6. People begin intuitionally to realize the great truth, and societies for burning bodies and crematories are now started in many places in Europe. –Ed. Theos.]
Death is exhaled by death. The cemeteries poison the atmosphere of towns, and the miasma of corpses blight the children even in the bosoms of their mothers.
Near Jerusalem in the Valley of Gehenna a perpetual fire was maintained for the combustion of filth and the carcasses of animals, and it is to this eternal fire that Jesus alluded when he says that the wicked shall be cast into Gehenna; signifying that dead souls will be treated as corpses.
The Talmud says that the souls of those who have not believed in immortality will not become immortal. It is faith only which gives personal immortality; 7 [Footnote 7. Faith and will power. Immortality is conditional, as we have ever stated. It is the reward of the pure and good. The wicked man, the material sensualist only survives. He who appreciates but physical pleasures will not and cannot live in the hereafter as a self-conscious Entity. –Ed. Theos.] science and reason can only affirm the general immortality.
The mortal sin is the suicide of the soul. This suicide would occur if the man devoted himself to evil with the full strength of his mind, with a perfect knowledge of good and evil, and an entire liberty of action which seems impossible in practice, but which is possible in theory, because the essence of an independent personality is an unconditioned liberty. The divinity imposes nothing upon man, not even existence. Man has a right to withdraw himself even from the divine goodness, and the dogma of eternal hell is only the assertion of eternal free-will.
God precipitates no one into hell. It is men who can go there freely, definitively and by their own choice.
Those who are in hell, that is to say, amid the gloom of evil 8 [Footnote 8. That is to say, they are reborn in a "lower world" which s neither "Hell" nor any theological purgatory, but a world of nearly absolute matter and one preceding the last one in the "circle of necessity" from which "there is no redemption, for there reigns absolute spiritual darkness." (Book of Khiu-te.) –Ed. Theos.] and the sufferings of the necessary punishment, without having absolutely so willed it, are called to emerge from it. This hell is for them only a purgatory. The damned completely, absolutely and without respite, is Satan who is not a rational existence, but a necessary hypothesis.
Satan is the last word of the creation. He is the end infinitely emancipated. He willed to be like God of which he is the opposite. God is the hypothesis necessary to reason, Satan the hypothesis necessary to unreason asserting itself as free-will.
To be immortal in good, one must identify oneself with God; to be immortal in evil, with Satan. These are the two poles of the world of souls; between these two poles vegetate and die without remembrance the useless portion of mankind.
Editor's Note.–This may seem incomprehensible to the average reader, for it is one of the most abstruse of the tenets of Occult doctrine. Nature is dual: there is a physical and material side, as there is a spiritual and moral side to it; and, there is both good and evil in it, the latter the necessary shadow to its light. To force oneself upon the current of immortality, or rather to secure for oneself an endless series of rebirths as conscious individualities–says the Book of Khiu-te Vol. XXXI, one must become a co-worker with nature, either for good or for bad, in her work of creation and reproduction, or in that of destruction. It is but the useless drones, which she gets rid of, violently ejecting and making them perish by the millions as self-conscious entities. Thus, while the good and the pure strive to reach Nipang (nirvana or that state of absolute existence and absolute consciousness–which, in the world of finite perceptions, is non-existence and non-consciousness)–the wicked will seek, on the contrary, a series of lives as conscious, definite existences or beings, preferring to be ever suffering under the law of retributive justice rather than give up their lives as portions of the integral, universal whole. Being well aware that they can never hope to reach the final rest in pure spirit, or nirvana, they cling to life in any form, rather than give up that "desire for life," or Tanha which causes a new aggregation of Skandas or individuality to be reborn. Nature is as good a mother to the cruel bird of prey as she is to the harmless dove. Mother nature will punish her child, but since he has become her co-worker for destruction she cannot eject him. There are thoroughly wicked and depraved men, yet as highly intellectual and acutely spiritual for evil, as those who are spiritual for good. The Egos of these may escape the law of final destruction or annihilation for ages to come. That is what Éliphas Lévi means by becoming "immortal in evil," through identification with Satan. "I would thou wert cold or hot," says the vision of the Revelation to St. John (III. 15-16). "So then because thou art, lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." The Revelation is an absolutely Kabalistic book. Heat and cold are the two "poles," i.e., good and evil, spirit and matter. Nature spues the "lukewarm" or "the useless portion of mankind" out of her mouth, i.e., annihilates them. This conception that a considerable portion of mankind may after all not have immortal souls, will not be new even to European readers. Coleridge himself likened the case to that of an oak tree bearing, indeed, millions of acorns, but acorns of which under normal conditions not one in a thousand ever developed into a tree, and suggested that as the majority of the acorns failed to develop into a new living tree, so possibly the majority of men fail to develop into a new living entity after this earthly death.
Satan is merely a type, not a real personage.
It is the type opposed to the Divine type, the necessary foil to this in our imagination. It is the factitious shadow which renders visible to us the infinite light of the Divine.
If Satan was a real personage then would there be two Gods, and the creed of the Manicheans would be a truth.
Satan is the imaginary conception of the absolute in evil; a conception necessary to the complete affirmation of the liberty of the human will, which, by the help of this imaginary absolute seems able to equilibrate the entire power even of God. It is the boldest, and perhaps, the sublimest of the dreams of human pride.
"You shall be as Gods knowing good and evil," saith the allegorical serpent in the Bible. Truly to make evil a science is to create a God of evil, and if any spirit can eternally resist God, there is no longer one God but two Gods.
To resist the Infinite, infinite force is necessary, and two infinite forces opposed to each other must neutralize each other. 9 [Footnote 9. And evil being infinite and eternal, for it is coêval with matter, the logical deduction would be that there is neither God nor Devil–personal Entities, only One Uncreated, Infinite, Immutable and Absolute Principle or Law: EVIL or DEVIL–the deeper it falls into matter, GOOD or GOD as soon as it is purified from the latter and re-becomes again pure unalloyed Spirit or the ABSOLUTE in its everlasting, immutable Subjectivity. –Ed. Theos.] If resistance on the part of Satan is possible the power of God no longer exists, God and the Devil destroy each other, and man remains alone; he remains alone with the phantom of his Gods, the hybrid sphynx, the winged bull, which poises in its human hand a sword of which the wavering lightnings drive the human imagination from one error to the other, and from the despotism of the light, to the despotism of the darkness.
The history of mundane misery is but the romance of the war of the Gods, a war still unfinished, while the Christian world still adores a God in the Devil, and a Devil in God.
The antagonism of powers is anarchy in Dogma. Thus to the church which affirms that the Devil exists the world replies with a terrifying logic: then God does not exist; and it is vain to seek escape from this argument to invent the supremacy of a God who would permit a Devil to bring about the damnation of men; such a permission would be a monstrosity, and would amount to complicity, and the god that could be an accomplice of the devil, cannot be God.
The Devil of Dogmas is a personification of Atheism. The Devil of Philosophy is the exaggerated ideal of human free-will. The real or physical Devil is the magnetism of evil.
Raising the Devil is but realizing for an instant this imaginary personality. This involves the exaggeration in one's self beyond bounds of the perversity of madness by the most criminal and senseless acts.
The result of this operation is the death of the soul through madness, and often the death of the body even, lightning-struck, as it were, by a cerebral congestion.
The Devil ever importunes, but nothing ever gives in return.
St. John calls it "the Beast" (la Bête) because its essence is human folly (la Bêtise humaine).
Éliphas Lévi's (Bonœ Memoriœ) creed, and that of his disciples.
We believe in a God-Principle, the essence of all existence, of all good and of all justice, inseparable from nature which is its law and which reveals itself through intelligence and love.
We believe in Humanity, daughter of God, of which all the members are indissolubly connected one with the other so that all must co-operate in the salvation of each, and each in the salvation of all.
We believe that to serve the Divine essence it is necessary to serve Humanity.
We believe in the reparation of evil, and in the triumph of good in the life eternal.
H.P. Blavatsky
Theosophist, October, 1881


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MIAMI (AP)-- LeBron James' foul-free streak is over.
The Miami Heat forward was called for a foul against Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka with 7:57 left in the first quarter of the teams' NBA Finals rematch on Tuesday, marking the first time since Dec. 8 that James was whistled for a personal.
James went 254 minutes, 7 seconds of on-court time without being called for any personals, though was assessed one technical during that span for arguing a play where he thought he was fouled. He was called for backing into New Orleans' Lance Thomas with 2:30 left in the first quarter of that game on Dec. 8.
His first foul on Tuesday came when he tried to block a dunk attempt by Ibaka, who made one of the two resulting free throws.

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Trump bucks protocol on press access
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation's leader.
Trump flew from New York to Washington on his private jet without that "pool" of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect.
Trump's flouting of press access was one of his first public decisions since his election Tuesday.
Trump's meeting with Obama on Thursday will be recorded by the pool of White House reporters, photographers and TV cameras who cover the president.
News organizations had for weeks tried to coordinate a pool of journalists who could begin to travel with Trump immediately after Election Day if he won election. But his campaign did not cooperate with those requests and his senior advisers refused Wednesday, the day after the election, to discuss any such press arrangements.
Trump also broke from tradition as a candidate, refusing to allow a pool of campaign reporters, photographers or cameras to fly on his plane as he traveled to events.
Every president in recent memory has traveled with a pool of journalists when they leave the White House grounds. A pool of reporters and photographers were in the motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas.
The pool was just steps away from President Ronald Reagan when he was shot outside a hotel in the District of Columbia, and was stationed outside his hospital room as he recovered. The pool also travels on vacation and foreign trips and at times captures personal, historic moments of the presidency.
News organizations take turns serving in the small group, paying their way and sharing the material collected in the pool with the larger press corps. The pool also covers official events at the White House when space doesn't allow for the full press corps.
The Associated Press is among those reaching out to Trump advisers about press access.


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Question: In connection with what, at a tonsure to monasticism, is the one
receiving the schema given a new name?
Answer: Monasticism is a free-will
renunciation from the good and values of the world. At the tonsure the future
monk gives vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to his spiritual
constructor. The departure from the world from ancient times is an image of
death. The one born to a new life receives a new name. According to Holy
Scripture, a name is not simply a distinguishing mark for a person, but
expresses the essence and meaning of the named. The Lord told the Patriarch:
"As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of
many nations. Neither shall they name any more be called Abram, but thy name
shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee" (Gen 17:4-5).
A name is
given to the one being tonsured. The future monk hears his name for the first
time during the tonsure. From that moment on he feels himself a new person.
It is the
same thing with the tonsure to the Great Schema. Although the vows of the Great
Schema are the same as with the Small Schema, the strictest rules are laid upon
the tonsured. This means yet another birth, which is accompanied by a change of
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A Woodstock Moment – 40 Years Later
On a whim, a young duo went to the legendary festival only to be captured in a memorable image by photographer Burk Uzzle
On August 15, 1969, Nick Ercoline was tending Dino's bar in Middletown, New York, while his girlfriend of ten weeks, Bobbi Kelly, sat on a stool, sipping nickel draft beer and listening to the news on the radio. In the past 30 days, Senator Ted Kennedy had driven off a bridge at Chappaquiddick Island, the Apollo 11 astronauts had planted a flag on the moon and the Charles Manson family had murdered eight Californians, including actress Sharon Tate, in Los Angeles. In the soft green hills of Catskills dairy country, such events seemed worlds away.
That Friday night, however, waves of American youths were surging toward Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles up the road, for three days of something called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. A hush fell over Dino's as newscasters told of epic traffic jams and crowd estimates rising to 500,000. When they heard a rumor (false, it turned out) that a glut of cars had shut down the New York State Thruway, the 20-year-old sweethearts could no longer resist. "We just got to thinking, we were never going to see anything like this the rest of our lives, ever," Nick says.
Earlier that same day, photographer Burk Uzzle, a Life magazine alumnus and a member of the elite Magnum photo agency, had driven upstate from Manhattan with his wife and two young sons to camp on the trout-filled Neversink River. Uzzle had declined an invitation from Newsweek to cover Woodstock, thinking he would just duck in and shoot it his way instead, then retreat to his campsite. "I really don't like to work on assignment, to tell you the truth," he says. "Because then I'm obligated to do what editors want me to do, and that's usually the wrong thing."
As Uzzle walked amid Woodstock's many potential disasters—rain, drugs, food and water shortages—he felt something of an Aquarian spirit in the air. "I'd say to my colleagues down by the stage, 'Hey, you guys, it's incredible out there. The girls are taking their clothes off. The guys, too. It's really beautiful,' " he recalls. "And they'd tell me, 'No, no, no, the editor wants me to stay here and get Ravi Shankar.' "
On Saturday morning Nick and Bobbi, with friends Mike Duco, Cathy Wells and Jim "Corky" Corcoran, a Vietnam veteran fresh from the Marines, set off in Corcoran's mother's 1965 Impala station wagon down country lanes and across cow pastures. In standstill traffic a few miles from Bethel, they parked the Impala, flagged down a van full of naked hippies, then walked the final stretch to Yasgur's farm. A spaced-out Californian named Herbie tagged along, carrying a wooden staff with a plastic butterfly dancing from the tip. The group claimed a patch of mud on the rim of a slope. "It was a sea of humanity," Bobbi says. "Someone with a guitar here, someone making love there, someone smoking a joint, someone puking his brains out, the din of the music you could hear over all of this—a bombardment of the senses."
Early Sunday morning, Uzzle, happily stuck at Woodstock, left his makeshift tent with two Leicas strapped round his neck. "Gracie Slick of Jefferson Airplane was singing, bringing up the dawn," he remembers. "And just magically this couple stood up and hugged." They kissed, smiled at each other, and the woman leaned her head on the man's shoulder. "I just had time to get off a few frames of black and white and a few of color, then the light was over and the mood was over," Uzzle says of what would become his best-known photograph. His subjects never noticed.
One night in 1970, Corcoran brought the just-released Woodstock soundtrack album to Bobbi's apartment. The cover showed a vast hillside strewn with sleepy bodies and a couple locked in a tired, happy embrace. "That's Herbie's butterfly," Nick said, his eye going to the bright spot of color. Corcoran told him to look again. "Oh, hey! That's Bobbi and me!" (Over the years, several people have seen themselves as the couple on the album cover. Corcoran, cropped out of that image, appears in the full frame, lying in an Army blanket. "There is no doubt in my mind that it's me and Bobbi and Nick Ercoline," he says.)
After that first shock of recognition, the couple gave little thought to the photograph for nearly two decades, until Life tracked down Bobbi for a 20th-anniversary article in 1989. "After hearing our story," she says today, "I think some people are disappointed that we were not..."
"...Full-fledged hippies," Nick says.
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Trial court's extended admonition to petitioner's only witness to refrain from lying, coupled with threats of dire consequences if witness did lie, effectively discouraged the witness from testifying at all and deprived petitioner of due process of law by denying him the opportunity to present witnesses in his own defense.
Certiorari granted; 480 S. W. 2d 398, reversed.
The petitioner was convicted of burglary in the Criminal District Court of Dallas County, Texas, and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for 12 years. He appealed, raising several claims of error, among them an allegation that the trial court had violated his constitutional rights by "threatening and harassing" the sole witness for his defense, so that the witness refused to testify. The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas affirmed his conviction, 480 S. W. 2d 398 (1972). We grant the motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari and reverse the petitioner's conviction.
The record shows that, after the prosecution had rested its case, the jury was temporarily excused. During this recess, the petitioner called his only witness, Leslie Max Mills, who had a prior criminal record and was then serving a prison sentence. At this point, the trial judge, on his own initiative, undertook to admonish the witness as follows:
On appeal, the petitioner argued that the judge's conduct indicated a bias against the petitioner and deprived him of due process of law by driving his sole witness off the witness stand. The Court of Criminal Appeals rejected this contention, stating that, while it did not condone the manner of the admonition, the petitioner had made no objection until the admonition was completed, and there was no showing that the witness had been intimidated by the admonition or had refused to testify because of it.
We cannot agree. The suggestion that the petitioner or his counsel should have interrupted the judge in the middle of his remarks to object is, on this record, not a basis to ground a waiver of the petitioner's rights. The fact that Mills was willing to come to court to testify in the petitioner's behalf, refusing to do so only after the judge's lengthy and intimidating warning, strongly suggests that the judge's comments were the cause of Mills' refusal to testify.
The trial judge gratuitously singled out this one witness for a lengthy admonition on the dangers of perjury. But the judge did not stop at warning the witness of his right to refuse to testify and of the necessity to tell the truth. * Instead, the judge implied that he expected Mills to lie, and went on to assure him that if he lied, he would be prosecuted and probably convicted for perjury, that the sentence for that conviction would be added on to his present sentence, and that the result would be to impair his chances for parole. At least some of these threats may have been beyond the power of this judge to [409 U.S. 95, 98] carry out. Yet, in light of the great disparity between the posture of the presiding judge and that of a witness in these circumstances, the unnecessarily strong terms used by the judge could well have exerted such duress on the witness' mind as to preclude him from making a free and voluntary choice whether or not to testify.
In Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14, 19 (1967), we stated:
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[ Footnote * ] Cf. United States v. Winter, 348 F.2d 204, 210 (1965), where Judge Weinfeld, writing for the Second Circuit, stated:
The facts before us do not, in my opinion, justify the Court's summary disposition. Petitioner Webb (who, on a prior occasion, had been convicted on still another [409 U.S. 95, 99] burglary charge) was apprehended by the owner of a lumber business. The owner, armed with his shotgun, had driven to his office at three o'clock in the morning upon the activation of a burglar alarm. When he entered the building, the owner observed a broken window and an assortment of what he regarded as burglary tools on his desk. When men emerged from an adjacent room, a gun fight ensued. Two intruders escaped, but the owner, despite his having been shot twice, succeeded in holding the petitioner at gunpoint until police arrived.
Although the admonition given by the state trial judge to the sole witness proffered by the defense was obviously improper, sufficient facts have not been presented to this Court to demonstrate the depth of prejudice that requires a summary reversal. The admonition might prove far less offensive, and the conduct of the trial judge understandable, if, for example, as is indicated in petitioner's brief, p. 8, prepared by counsel and filed with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the witness were known to have been called for the purpose of presenting an alibi defense. Against the backdrop of being caught on the premises and of apparently overwhelming evidence of guilt, offset only by a bare allegation of prejudice, I would deny the petition for certiorari and, as the Court so often has done, I would remit the petitioner to the relief available to him by way of a post-conviction proceeding with a full evidentiary hearing. *
[ Footnote * ] Petitioner's counsel assured the Court of Criminal Appeals that the witness would not have been called "unless he had been previously interviewed and found to be helpful to the appellant's cause." Brief for Appellant on First Motion for Rehearing 7, Webb v. Texas, 480 S. W. 2d 398 (Ct. Crim. App. Tex. 1972). An evidentiary hearing would allow petitioner's trial counsel to outline the testimony that was expected from the witness.
A prior trial is mentioned in the record. An evidentiary hearing might reveal events at the prior trial that justified the trial judge's unusual concern about possible perjury. [409 U.S. 95, 100]
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Methodology: I started logging TCP/IP addresses with each purchase in September, so unfortunately, I only have 4 month's worth of data, but that's still enough to be interesting. I purchased a "TCP/IP to country" database from IP2Location and wrote a script to determine which country purchasers come from. I was fairly impressed with IP2Location's database, as Usenet is abuzz with the complexities of converting TCP/IP addresses to countries. For example, you can check the .country on the reverse dns name, grep whois entry of the domain that owns it, or grep the whois of the ISP controlling the TCP/IP address. When I hand checked a few, the database was correct (based on the techniques Usenet said to try). Perhaps more importantly, I found few mistakes when comparing (customer entered) CD shipping addresses with the country derived from their TCP/IP address.
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* The Christmas season has seen an increase in the gap, likely fueled by Christmas gift purchasing. Otherwise, the 63%/37% split is fairly stable.
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* This chart shows how the top 4 countries in our non-USA sales are doing.
* The percentages in the chart are the percentage of non-USA sales that each country is responsible for (i.e.: the UK being responsible for 17% of non-USA sales).
* We've seen a big rise in the past 4 months in Canadian sales, from 10% to 18% of the non-USA total.
* France has seen a modest increase (4% to 7%) while Germany has had a modest decrease (10% to 6%). We think this is due to more press interest in France, and less press in Germany.
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* this chart shows how much, on average, each country volunteers to pay for an album of music on Magnatune.
* Italy ($9.12), Austria ($9.05), UK ($8.78), Switzerland ($8.64), France ($8.62), Germany ($8.49) pay the most.
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* Only the top 25 countries were considered for this chart, as the countries which purchase very little on Magnatune have not enough purchases to be statistically significant.
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the patient was stabbed just outside the hospital at the taxi rank. his friends immediately carried him into casualties. my friend and colleague happened to be there at the time. he immediately saw that the stab was probably to the heart and the patient was in trouble.
my friend grabbed the gurney and charged off to theater. amazingly enough he got the patient onto the table almost immediately (very nearly unheard of in kalafong). similar to my previous story, by the time he put knife to skin, the patient was in exitus.
the surgeon ripped his sternum open at double quick time. the pericard was a large sack of blood. the heart just couldn't compete against this and had stopped beating (this is not good). the surgeon opened the pericard and drained the blood. this allowed the heart to start beating again. unfortunately with the first contraction a stream of blood shot out of the left ventricle.
a steady hand and a few stitches later and the heart was no longer leaking. all that was left was to close.
the next morning, when i heard the story i was pretty impressed. a general surgeon had moved into a domain that he was not fully comfortable with and managed to pull a patient through that had actually been stabbed in the heart and that in the left ventricle. when he presented the next morning, once again the professor ripped into him.
it seems, according to the professor that the correct entry should have been a thoracotomy (between the ribs) rather than a sternotomy (through the middle chest bone). the small matter of getting the patient on the table literally about 10 minutes after the incident and pulling a guy through that had received an essentially fatal wound seemed of little concern. at a stage the prof even attacked my bewildered friend personally. as usually we all sat in silence. it was not the first time and it would not be the last time that this happened. we had all at some or other stage experienced the wrath from on high and it was just his turn.
at a stage my friend rose from his seat in a seething rage. he stood for a moment. he then seemed to realise that the safest move for his career would be to just sit down again. this he then did, but i'm sure i saw steam rising from his head.
after this fiasco, i went to him and said that despite what anyone says i thought he had pulled off something amazing. i even wrote a message on the tea room notice board saying that he was the man. he laughed at this and all seemed better.
18 comments:
- dr_clairebear said...
it's so frustrating when your professors berate you for doing something right just because it wasn't done in the conventional or accepted way.
I can understand why they would choose to point our minor mistakes and reinforce learning at a time when the experience is fresh, but i don't believe that it should be done in such a harsh manner and that it should detract from the junior doctor's accomplishment. Done that way, it stops being a desire to teach and descends into trying to steal back the younger one's thunder by stressing the point that, "I'm still better than you." - May 13, 2008 2:35 am
- rlbates said...
I second Dr Clairebear's comment and yours that your friend "was the man"!
- May 13, 2008 2:52 am
- Devorrah said...
I think bongi is the man for saying adorable things like "tea room".
- May 13, 2008 3:16 am
Might I ask about the picture accompanying the story - is there really such a monument anywhere, or is the picture manipulated somehow?
- May 13, 2008 7:27 am
Ah yes, learning by humiliation. It's the medical fraternity's way. And it is exactly that: I'm the professor/consultant and I know better than all of you and don't you forget it. I think it stems from the fact that most doctors grow up being more intelligent than everyone else they know, then they get into medicine and everyone's about as intelligent or even more intelligent than them. It turns some into competitive monsters. And it's especially easy to beat down junior guys so they can feel better about themselves.
- May 13, 2008 10:33 am
- Bongi said...
samson, to tell the truth it's just a picture i came across and liked. i don't know if it's a real monument.
- May 13, 2008 9:11 pm
- Midwife with a Knife said...
I'm beginning to suggest that you must be a jerk to teach medicine in South Africa.
- May 14, 2008 12:36 am
Midwife, alot of the teachers in S.A. medicine are really great, but most of the ones highest up are 'jerks'. Suppose people get like that in any position of power.
- May 14, 2008 9:34 am
- Bongi said...
midwife, it is not a rule, but in surgery the training seems tougher than it need be. i personally experienced it as pretty bad and maybe that's why it is thustly reflected on my blog. i always used to tell the junior guys to show no weakness because it seemed to put the profs into a feeding frenzy.
- May 14, 2008 11:41 am
Hello! I'm a Canadian student of medical laboratory science. I found your blog a few days ago and have spent every afternoon since then reading it. I've finally read my way through the entire archives!
Your blog is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for providing this snapshot into your life. - May 14, 2008 7:20 pm
- Bongi said...
anonymous, thank you for your flattering comments.
- May 14, 2008 8:08 pm
- the annester said...
when i was a cosmo, my intern on call treated a guy with sstab heart in casualty with "front room" thoracotomy (ant-lat approach). she did it with the supervision of our senior mo and with no surgeon on call as back up, it was really the only option for the patient. she found the hole in heart, and managed to close it, but the guy still died. the body was sent for autopsy, and after about a week, the prof at forensics phoned her to crap her out and ask what was she thinking to do such a thing. he also mentioned that she had "missed" the other hole in the patients chest: in his aorta. she was devastated. i think she was pretty brave and just trying to do her best! mortality of untreated stab heart = 100%, so why not try save the dude?
the point of this story is that this sort of humiliation and tortore doesnt only happen in academic settings, also in little district hospitals... - May 15, 2008 11:31 am
- Jeffrey Parks MD FACS said...
Hey Bongi, good story as usual. I think I would have wanted to fill that Prof's pericard with blood myself...
- May 15, 2008 3:54 pm
- make mine trauma said...
If I am ever in S.A. and I am stabbed in the ventricle, promise me Bongi, proper technique and finesse be dammed, just get the knife out and sew me up so I can be on my way!
- May 16, 2008 3:29 am
It took some time, but the picture is actually Andrzej Pityski's Katyn Memorial in Jersey City, USA. What you cannot see from the angle you have shown, is that the officer's hands are tied behind his back; so this is not just a backstabbing, but an outright execution.
The doctor getting a thorough,unfair scolding from his superior - as we all have had to endure in the course of our carrieres - doesn't have his hands tied, nor is it an execution. The doctor lives on, works on, and if he is wise, he can always say to himself "Thank God that I am not like that" and, more importantly, "Pray to God that I will not turn into something like that" - May 16, 2008 8:33 am
- Greg P said...
This is all part of the disease that afflicts those who no longer take emergency call, yet have a need to counteract their self-perceived subconscious impotence - snipe at the people out in the trenches. And to carry the analogy further, it's easy to snipe at your own "soldiers" from behind (well behind) the lines.
- May 18, 2008 4:43 pm
Good point Greg P. And the longer time the general has stayed out of the trenches, the more averse he will be to re-entering those trenches. And yet the general yearns for the bloom of his lieutenant's days...and hates those who still actually are lieutenants.
- May 18, 2008 10:11 pm
- Sid Schwab said...
Not to defend the professor, who is a jerk and could easily have made his point in a much better way: but I think it's true that when rapid access to the heard is needed for a stabwound, it's quicker to do a "hockey stick" thoracotomy, cutting between the ribs and then up a few costal cartilages. The trap door can be opened in seconds that way.
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Easter and spring are just about here, and so we made the cutest bunch of deco mesh carrots on the block (click here to learn more about deco mesh). Keep scrolling down for our easy tutorial on how to make these hanging carrots using deco poly mesh, wire and ribbon. Happy crafting!
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These products are available at www.MardiGrasOutlet.com, and will come to about $35, with extra material to make more than 3 carrots. (To make the three carrots, we used approximately 3 yards of the 21" wide orange deco mesh, and less than 1 yard each of the 10" green deco mesh rolls. About 4 yards of the aluminum craft wire were used, and about 12 feet of the thinner floral wire. A little over 3 yards of the jute ribbon were used.)
STEP 1: Make the wire carrot frame
Cut two pieces of the Aluminum Craft wire. One should be twice as long as the other. Our carrots were all slightly different sizes. You should make the two wires 18" and 36" long, give or take a few inches. The finished wire carrot frame just has to fit within the 21-inch wide deco mesh.
Fold the long wire in half and make a point at the bend for the carrot's point. For the top of the carrot, connect the two loose ends together by wrapping the wire ends around each other. Push the wire form into a carrot shape as shown above.
To make the carrot three-dimensional and not flat, use the short length of wire and attach it lengthwise to the carrot shape. It should stand up a few inches higher than the flat carrot shape.
You will eventually need short wire ties to attach the deco mesh to this carrot frame. Use the thinner floral wire and cut about 15, 3-inch pieces.
STEP 2: Cover the frame with deco mesh
Using the 21"x10yd roll of metallic orange deco mesh, cut 3 pieces that are about 10-inches wide, or wide enough to go around the front of the carrot. Layer or stack evenly on top of each other.
With the mesh placed curl side up, put the wire frame inside the curl. This is where you can see why the wire frame can be no wider than 21-inches, the width of the deco mesh roll.
Starting at the carrot tip, use pieces of the floral wire you cut to attach the mesh to the wire frame. Work from the back of the carrot, and poke the floral wire through the layers of mesh and around the wire frame. Twist the floral wire to secure. Go back and forth from each side, working your way up to the carrot top. You will need a wire every few inches.
This is the finished back view of the carrot. Go back and add more floral wire where needed. Tuck the extra mesh under the middle wire frame. You can also tie some floral wire across the back to help make the form sturdier.
Trim the extra floral wire sticking out or tuck into the mesh at the back to hide it. Now your carrot is bendable as well.
STEP 3: Make the green carrot tops
Using the two rolls of the emerald and moss/apple 10" wide deco mesh, cut 4 square pieces and place them curl side up.
Going one at a time, tie the center of the mesh with a length of floral wire. The wire should be about 2-inches from the bunched tip. Then tie all four sprays together to make one bigger bunch.
Now attach the bunch to the back top of the carrot, using more floral wire to secure.
STEP 4: Make 2 more Carrots and Tie with Jute Ribbon
Repeat the steps above to make two more carrots. They can be slightly different shapes and sizes like the ones we made.
Cut 3 pieces of the Jute Ribbon that are each about 1 yard long. For each carrot, tie one ribbon around the top. Then tie a knot to secure all three carrots together.
Looking for more Easter decoration ideas? Check out our Twig Works Cross Tutorial.


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You can watch a video of a meteorite impacting the moon at the npr.org website.
Why does the impact produce white light?
I understand that the impact is like an explosion, but there is no air on the moon to burn material. If it was the result of superheating rock from the impact, then why does it fade so fast. White light emitted by heated rocks should last longer as it takes time to cool.
We can see meteorites breaking up in Earth's atmosphere as a streak of light, but there is no atmosphere on the moon.
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It's Independence Day weekend coming up and we're getting ready to rock out and blow up some cans with Black Cats. So in preparation of the the fireworks menagerie, we're gonna give you more bang for your buck on this week's Crib Sheet. Before everyone goes out to stick explosives into other containers and shoot bottle rockets off, please remember to be careful, especially your hands. They need to be healthy to handle the frosty beverages over the weekend and later on in the fall for college football. Now here's this week's Crib Sheet:
- Mark your calendars, the Michigan vs. Notre Dame game September 12 at 3:30 pm ET. Both programs are looking to rebound and we should be witnessing a treat as two boisterous head coaches fight for their jobs.
- To no surprise, the BCS rejected the Mountain West's proposal of an eight team playoff. Hopefully this will end the playoff talk for awhile. We all know this is not going away forever.
- Texas student assistant coach Matt Nader got a big ole gun pulled on him at the golf course last week. Apparently he was arguing with a Texan and he later showed up with a gun ready to go. Seeing as this all took place in Texas, I'm not too surprised. Crazy thing was the gun toting Texan was 73, talk about a cranky golfer.
- After another death and settlement from complications due to sickle cell traits at Rice University, the NCAA will start recommending that test for sickle cell issues be conducted at universities. After this and the death of former Missouri Tiger Aaron O'Neil, it would make more sense to require the testing of players for these issues. The NCAA and schools make bank off of these kids, let's make sure they get taken care of while they promote the schools on the field.
- Look out Missouri Tigers, the kid of a maybe future NFL Hall of Famer is coming your way in Derrion Thomas. He wasn't high up on anyone's radar due to only one year of playing high school ball, but he does look and play like his dead dad. Let's hope this walk on will do well over in Columbia. My advice to Derrion: remember to wear a seat belt.
- USA Today has a profile of Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing. It looks like it's another one of those, short Big 12 quarterback come from behind stories. The difference this time is Kansas might actually have what it takes to win the big game. They did it on the Orange Bowl, maybe it's their year this year. Sorry Chase Daniels, have fun trying to play for the Redskins.


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Sunday, May 11, 2014
Is This Church the Birthplace of Bourbon?
They may not have been Kentucky's earliest distillers but the English Catholics who migrated to the American Holy Lands beginning in 1785 played a disproportionate role in establishing the bourbon industry there. Many of the names of those First Families are familiar to bourbon fans today.
Holy Cross parish, in Marion County, is known as the birthplace of Catholicism in Kentucky. It was established in 1785 when "a league" of sixty Catholic families was formed in Maryland. Each pledged to migrate to Kentucky and agreed to settle in the same area for mutual support, to increase their chances of getting a priest, and to establish a church.
Until 1787, Mass was held in private homes. Under Father William DeRohan, the first chapel was built at Holy Cross. A grotto today marks where this structure, the first west of the Alleghenies for Catholic worship, was built. The present brick church was built in 1823.
The whiskey families associated with the Maryland migration include the Beams, Boones, Cecils, Dants, Haydens, Mattinglys, Medleys, Pottingers, Wathens, Wheatleys, and Willetts. They mostly settled in Nelson, Marion, and Washington County.
(Holy Cross history is courtesy of the Archdiocese of Louisville.)
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- boone said...
Well Chuck, I will give this one my shot and bein's that I like to be a smart ass at times I will create my "history" at will. Gezzzzzz :)
This picture does not reflect the full flavor of what that little church represents. If ya back up a bit the entire yard is a gravesite. On each side leading up to the front door marks the graves of our bourbon ancestors who passed before us. Basil Hayden ... he was Catholic and helped lead the group to Nelson County...under the guidance of Daniel Boone (there's some of the create your history stuff) that may or may not have happened lol...There is a "Kentucky Historical Marker in front of the church. It tells the tale about Basil Hayden. Mr. Hayden was a Distiller. His grandson opened a distillery and named one of his labels "Old Grand Dad"...Daniel Boone's grandchildren were happy with his choice but saddned he didn't name one after him lol...
Lovin' and livin' the bourbon life in Kentucky!
Bettye Jo Boone
7th Generation Jacob Beam
Great granddaughter of Joseph L. Beam first Master Distiller of Heaven Hill aka Old Heaven Hill Springs - May 11, 2014 at 10:26 AM
- Oscar said...
Those names read like a short list of a who's who of the bourbon world.
- May 11, 2014 at 10:30 AM
Chuck, thank you for posting this article. I am a direct descendant of Basil Hayden. I own a great book on the family history and have learned so much about the Haydens. Here is quick family line:
Basil Hayden sr.
Basil Hayden jr.
William Basil Hayden
Leo Hayden
Mary Clemence Hayden (Goellner)
Clarence Goeller
Mary C. Goellner (Meier)
Joe Meier (me)
I have some great stories. - May 11, 2014 at 1:12 PM
Poured myself a Mother's Day Old Grand-Dad Bonded and club soda, then sat down to cruise the blogs.
Once I hit this post, my choice seemed quite prescient. Great story, and cool to hear from the descendants of those great families. - May 11, 2014 at 3:52 PM
The history of bourbon makes it all the more enjoyable
- May 11, 2014 at 9:56 PM
That's very interesting Chuck, one of the things that struck me when I first visited the area (circa-2002) was the omnipresent Catholic presence.
Are there early centers of bourbon-making in Kentucky that go against the grain so to speak and are associated with one or more Protestant denominations? E.g., the ministers who may have had a connection to early bourbon development such as Elijah Craig, were some of these Protestants?
- May 12, 2014 at 3:06 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
Elijah Craig was a Baptist.
Temperance wasn't much of an issue until later, after the Civil War. That's when the role of Catholics and Jews became more significant, as Protestants abandoned the business under pressure from their religious community. Catholic and Jewish distillery owners never felt that pressure from within their own faith community. - May 12, 2014 at 4:52 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
The Craig comparison is apt because he came with a group of followers who intended, as the Maryland Catholics did, to establish a kind of colony. The difference is that the Maryland Catholics did it on a much grander scale and remained a cohesive group, arguably right up to the present.
- May 12, 2014 at 5:06 PM
Very interesting, thanks, it looks like the Catholic and Jewish roles were of a supplementary and reinforcing nature rather than primary - not to diminish their importance, of course.
Gary - May 12, 2014 at 7:00 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
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I have made another book, but this time it is a book focued on art. An Artbook.
The book is now available in my store for signing as, Improvisations on a theme by Michelangelo.
Improvisations on a theme by Michelangelo
Motifs From the Sistine Chapel Painting of the Garden Of Eden and the Expulsion
By Randy Dillon
Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is considered by many to the the quintessential artwork not only of Michelangelo's life, but also in the sponsorship of the Roman Catholic Church into the arts. Many refer to the work as Michelangelo's ceiling.
The modern artist Randy Dillon decided to take upon as a project to create improvisations of two sections of Michelangelo's Ceiling having to do with the motifs of the Garden of Eden.
In all, there are twelve original works of art with fifteen close-ups to give a better view of how the interpretations played out among the major characters within the theme.
Page Count: 42
Size: 8″ x 10″
Language: English
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