, 1877-01-28
4 COMING BUDDHIST BOOK.

Afmc+, ,oaav4tsly WAS found yesterday afte
noon sitting by a blue winQov with rose pin
curtains at large library y-taD'c, which occupie
all the available space that was not taken up b
i dess almost as large, in her cosy w'ork-room
She is an ,.tfablc Russian lady, no longer yer,
young and certainly not old. who is known al
over the world rs scholar in various brancne:
Of occult knowledge She WAS member Of tle
commission appointed some time since by tht
Russian Government to Investigate Spiritualisu
| and disscn.s decidedly !roul the report OF that
commission, which was adserse to the claims o1
| Splrltualists Piled up on the table and desk,
acd strewed thick upon the floor, were hundreds
| upon hundreds OF shcets of manuscript, and on
tue circu,nscrihcd space On the table, kept clear
1or reading anG writing, were proof-shcets and
more manuscripts, aud writing materials.
Yes, am writing i book,'' she said in reply
to q question from the reporter. sslt is to be
called The Veil OF Isis anu is in two parts. In
the first part attack science, and in the second
part dognatic theology
"surely you do not attack science,'' said the
startled reporter, wondering what would be left
. No, not science US it is, but the teaching of
modern scientists. Science is true aud bcauti-
ful thing, but these modern scientists Lave not
found out what it is. They. borrow theories
from the ancients, and dress them up in bcautt-
ful, eloquent language, and pass them off for
their own productions. The ideas that Huxley
advanced While hc was over here are all taken
from the aucients, as shall show in tny book
But they don't any of them know what tlley talk
about-Huxlcy, Tsndall. and the rest, They
refuse to Investigate things WHICH are absolutely
demonstrated. and they break their noses over
the origin of matter, which Is correlation Of
SPs na fagy 1ea for conelusion' the an
.Mhat is you5 rclissions' asked the reporter.
"But does not Buddhism hold out annihila-
ton as tho last best good!"
A1f rf oil e.
representations OF ignorant theologians. The
Buddnists say that whatever is beyond the
power OF human language to describe beyond
the reech OF human intellect to conceive
snateSer Is impossible in any measure to 1lu-
derstand is, SO far as man is concerned, non
existent, aud what we term God is therefore non
e1stent- That is, that So far as the under
standing OF man is concerned, God can have no
existence You see 1t is merely Il refinement Of
metaphysfcs: And they believe in the triple
terial body, an astral body and pure soul, or
nous, as the Greek terms it. After the death of
the material ouuy We lead q dual existence, and
finally, when purified, the soul enters niyanaua,
that Is, it reioins tho Crcator''
ssBnt do Buddhis:s believe in spir:ts?n
Most certainly. The lives Of the fakirs il
lcstratc that. 4 European or all American
car hardly Imagine the lives they lead. They
remn ~ one attitude, in Que spot for wears:
absorbed III the contemplation Of their souls Ii
yon put food into the mouth Of one Of them he
will cat it, Il ron don't, lie will quietly sit and
staTve to DEATH Those men arc possessed Of
pure spirits. And they apparently overcome
the laws governing matter. You would not be-
ltevc me If should tell you what | have seen
them 90, aud yet the whole world knows that
the Prince OF Wales saw one Of them Lift him
sell up and sit motionless in 1nil-air ward or
more away from any support -
- BIt what is this astral body you speak off 1, |
:. It IS not spirit and yet not tho matter with
whic. wc arc familiar, It Is imponderablc mat
tee, 1mperscpt'blct to the scnscs.''
arc called spiritual manifestations "t4@'
'Ccrtain}y: The phenomena that are mr.
scntcd as such are perhaps often frauds. Per
maps only one III hundred is 4 genuine corn,
of spirits. hut the one cannot be
lEdSed by the others. It is entitled to scion
llc examination, :lld the reason the scientists
iou't examine it IS because theT arc afraid. |
They explore in all directions till thcy come tn
nut dours, aud they dare not open them for
ear OF returning to the supersritious Of our
nccstoTs, who knew far more than VIC d. But
believe in them because I have seen them.
hese mediums cannot deceive me- / know
norc ABOUT it than they do. I hsre lived for
cen 1Er more wonderful things than they do,
= Tie day after I arrived. in New York she
on:inucd, "h23ing left Paris suddenly Il aid
OF think OF starting until the evening before |
Eartedj, went to.see DR.. Shade. Hc knew | !
as aioreigneT by my accent, but he could not
III II was German or French, or what. He
rote out message in the Russian language,
20. Again, I have had Mrs. Thayer here over
ght- She went to bed and sat writing, as |
ten do, until or in the morning heard
r trying to SAY something in her sleep. Prob
by laughing AcartilyI her matc-ialized grand i.
tcee Was trying to appear. went into her I