— 'Surely, I shall not.'"[Sinnett continues:] "And surely she has not. Forthwith she determined to take the law and her future life into her own hands, and — he left her 'husband' for ever, without giving him any opportunity to ever even think of her as his wife." Sinnett says that Mr. Blavatsky himself was ready to agree in the divorce. He tried to get a formal divorce on the reason that "his marriage had never been more than a form, and that his wife had run away; but Russian law at the time was not favourable to divorce, and the attempt failed." Next Blavatsky (Hahn) has left Russia and voyaged "ten long years in strange and out-of-the-way places — in Central Asia, India, South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe." Occult phenomena in Russia Blavatsky's unusual psychic abilities, that had manifested even in her childhood and adolescence, during her travel significantly increased and determined, and she returned to Russia, having many occult powers. In the town of Pskoff Blavatsky had performed occult phenomena under follows classification: Direct and perfectly clear written and verbal answers to mental questions — or "thought-reading". Prescriptions for different diseases, in Latin, and subsequent cures. Private secrets, unknown to all but the interested party, divulged, especially in the case of those persons who mentioned insulting doubts. Change of weight in furniture and of persons at will. Letters from unknown correspondents, and immediate answers written to queries made, and found in the most out-of-the-way mysterious places. Appearances and apport of objects unclaimed by any one present. Sounds as of musical notes in the air wherever Mme. Blavatsky desired they should resound. One time Blavatsky had caused raps inside the glasses of a skeptical professor with such force that they were knocked from his nose. In reply to a somewhat frivolous lady who had asked what is the best conductor for the production of such raps, the table spelt out 'gold', and the next minute this lady rushed out of the room with her hands inflicted on her mouth, as she had felt the raps on her gold artificial teeth. Blavatsky has transformed weight of small table so that Leonid Hahn, her brother, couldn't lift it. Then she recovered it to a normal weight, and Leonid raised the table as a feather. Sinnett informs, according to Jelihowsky's narrative: "At one moment as we sat at supper in the