8/5/2023 0 Comments Unknown mother goose![]() ![]() 1 Modern science demonstrated that the miracles of Christ were electrical phenomena: walking on water, she coolly affirmed, is “a purely electric effort, and can be accomplished now by anyone who has cultivated sufficient inner force”. Corelli was less religiously eclectic than Blavatsky, and continued to make Christianity the centre of her “Electric Creed”, in which God becomes “a Shape of Pure Electric Radiance”, and Christ an “ electric flame or germ of spiritual existence combined with its companion working force of Will-power”. Like Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the originator and high priestess of theosophy, Corelli was vehemently opposed to what she regarded as the vulgar theatrics of spiritualism, and attempted to give her theories of spiritual evolution a rational basis by assimilating ideas derived from contemporary science and technology. In this Corelli echoed the envious hunger for scientific validation that was characteristic of many varieties of late Victorian supernaturalism. ![]() In a series of popular and successful novels starting with the appearance of A Romance of Two Worlds (1886), the English novelist Marie Corelli developed a supernaturalist system centred on the spiritualised powers of electricity.
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