The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-24

sometimes become powerful enough TO
create an atmosphere about them in
which these spirits become visible. And, }
Oh the other hand, they often become in
visible themselves. | remember the first
time this was done in my presence. A
fakir was in the room with me, cruuched
down in prayer, and suddenly the fakir
disappeared. was = great skeptic then,
and | pinChei myself to be sure / was
not in p dream. The door was locked,
and ! searched the room carefully. At
length ! stumbled over something which
could not see, and suddenly thy fakir
appeared. I thought even then that !
had been dcluded in some way, but |
ward"
" How do they acquire this power ?"
was the next question.
by the subsection Of the body. YOU
will find that the most of the good spir-
Itual mediums are unhealthy in some
way, and the eastern magiCians reduce
their physical nature until the astral
body betOmes the most powerful Then
they can work like disembodied spirits.
which they really are. But many spirits
during this life and after it are evil.
Not devils---I don't believe iii devils -
but evil disposed. But the seeming Iln-
natural growth of seeds aud voluntary
deviation, and all such feats are I'M
dOubtedly produced by these men. The
black sOrUereEs FOR some reason always
choose mango seed for their marvels,
/ but fakir will make any seed grow into
a plant and bear blossoms and fruit in an
/ hour or tive, And they will sit in the
air yard from The ground for twenty
tact with anything. | have seen all
such things done hundreds OF times, and
so have hundreds of other Europeans
How were you converted TO the
Buddhist faith ?" asked the reporter,
! curiously.
| BY what was to me absolute proof.
! was at a vihara in the northern part of
/ India, and the chief of the gurus of the
! little village showed me things which [
| demonstrated to be truth. For instance
he made me look at a bright tin plate
and fix my thoughts on something |
wished to see. ! thought of my home,
and l instantly saw a room in my fathers
! house. in Russia. Two of my aunts was
| sitting there, one of them reading a
book, the title of which l could read.
And a strange looking hump backed
woman entered the room as ! looked.
wrote home about it and learned,
months afterward, that at that time my
aunts were sitting in that room and one
Of them was reading the book | men
toned. And the hump-backed woman
was Polish gOverness, they had en-
gagged after | had left home and without
my knowledge.
Then the guru threw me into a
trance, first asking me to think of some
. Y,la To irl, I To
some of the most powerful mesmerizers
of Europe have tried to throw me into
mesmeric sleep, and have been utterly
unsuccessful. Prince DOlgOurOuski
tried it, but even he failed. But after
this guru had made a few passes over
my face, and had given me something to
smell and had made me swallow a Ger
tain potion, the ingredients of which
know now, but will not tell, ! instantly
fell into the trance. l had desired to go
to the house OF my dearest friend in Ber-
lin, from whom ! had not heard for a
long time, ] was there at once, and rUng
the dOor-bell An old woman came to
the door, and I asked tor my friend.
Alas said the old woman, she was
buried three months ago. | asked her
/ where she was buried, and she named
the cemetery. Then | had a desire TO
sec the grave, and [ WAS instantly be-
side il, looking through the earth at the
corruption below Suddenly / felt two
arms thrown about my neck, and a kiss
pressed upon my cheek. I looked up
and my friend stood before me, glori-
fed image of what she had been in this
life, but transparent. Some months
later ! heard by letter Of her death, and
years afterward | visited her grave and
recognized it as the place had seen in
NV trance.
D." After this guTu, who was from Pun
: jaub, had thus proved his powers to me
/ was unable to doubt him when he
showed me in similar ways the secrets o
nature, the mysteries of the future life
and the truths that aPpertain to meta
, physics studied them for years, anC
r at last did not believe, but ! knew the
f truth of these things. for l saw them
, felt them, tried them, lived them"
r " But you cannot expect others, whC
! have not had your experience, to follow
. you in your belief" said the reporter.
o " | do not. What is proof to me is II,
proof to the public, and if they will no
p believe eleven million spiritualists be
I CaLSe many of the mediums are hum
' bugs and tricksters they will not taxi
my word of course and | don't expec
, them to. But what [ know ! know
! And these marvels, that seem incredible
| to those who have not seen them---thes
! miracles, as they are called by tn
, Christian church, and tricks as they ar
, called by self styled sCientists---are no
wonders to me, for | understand them.