The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-05-25

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w. yon think fhat 40 fbh indicate
% spiritual nature ~ theso magiea
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"it doss t5 me- Wa ne fspiy The.
work with ihe ad N spirits ~ the uuf
~ their ancestors ~ the Oriental
veneraie tbeso spirits, and ihe magician
sometimes become ppwcfful enough p
create M atmosphere about them "
which these spirits become visible, And
on HE other hand they often become In
visible Themselves remember the ffs
time this wig done w my presence 4
fakif was IN Che room with me, er0uchet
I down 10 prayer, aud suddenly Che fkiI
/ disappeared was q great skeptie then
and I pinehed myself a. be- sure I wa.
not IN o dream. The door was locked
and I searched the room carefully Al
length I stumbled over something which
I could not see, and suddenly my fakif
appeared. I thought even then that !
had been delHded in some way, but |
saw the same thing many times after.
ward"
" How do they acquire this power 2n
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 becomes 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 in devils 80
but evil disposed. But the seeming uu-
natural growth of seeds and voluntary
deviation, and all such feats are an
doubleday produced by these men. The
black sorcerers for some reason always
choose a mango seed for their marvels,
but a fakir will make any seed grow into
a plant and bear blossoms and fruit in an
hour or two. And they will sit in the
air a yard from the ground for twenty
minutes or longer without being in con
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. l thought of my home,
and | 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 / could read.
And a strange looking hump backed
an entered the room as looked. l
wrote home about it and learned,
months afterward, that at that time my
were sitting in that room and n
them was reading the book | men
And the hump-backed woman
was a Polish governess, they had en-
jagged after | had left home and without
ny knowledge.
Then the guru threw mt into a
rance, first asking me to think OF some
o'aoe to which | wished to go. Now,
ome of the most powerful mesmerlzers
If Europe have tried to throw me into
nesmeric sleep, and have been utterly
unsuccessful. Prince D%olgourouskl
ried it, but ever he failed. But after
his curu had made a few passes over
ny face, and had given me something to
nell, and had made me swallow a GER
ain potion, the ingredients OF which |
now, but will not tell. | instantly
ell into the trance. had desired to go
o the house of my dearest friend in Ber-
in, from whom | had not heard for a
ong timel was there at once, and rung
he door.heIl. An old woman came to1
he door, and | asked for my friend.
Alas, said the old woman, she was
,uried three months ago. | asked her
there she was buried, and she named
he cemetery. Then | had a desire to
ee the grave, and | was instantly be-
ide it, looking through the earth at the
orruption below. Suddenly | felt two
rms thrown about my neck, and a kiss
,ressed upon my cheek. | looked up
nd my friend stood before me, a glori-
ed image of what she had been in this
ife, but transparent. Some months
ater | heard by letter of her death, and
ears afterward | visited her grave and
ecognized it as the place | had seen in
nv trance.
After this guru, who was from Pun
aub. had thus proved his powers to me,
was unable TO doubt him when he
bowed me in similar ways the secrets of
azure, the mysteries of the future life,
nd the truths that appertain to meta
| studied them for years, and
t last / did not believe, but | knew the
ruth of these things, tor | saw them,
Fit them, tried them, lived them"
"But you cannot expect Others, who
not had your experience, to follow
Gu in your belief" said the reporter.
al do not. What is proof to me is no
roof to the public, and if they will not
elieye eleven million ~spiritualists be-
alse many of the mediums are hum
and tricksters, they will not take
~ word, of course, and ! don't expect
hem to-. But what | know l know.
nd these marvels, that seem incredible
!, those who have not seen them--these
l~iracles, as they are called by the
hristian church, and tricks as they are
,lled by self-styled scientists--are not
onders to me, for | understand them" s
DR.. RICHARDSON, of England, who is
wv recognized as a high authority on I
Iatters of domestic hygiene, says that ,
xtv-two degrees Fahrenheit is the right !
sgree of temperature for health, and |
,at those engaged in literary or artistic /
,ork cannot possibly be to careful on :
lis point. If their labor be prolonged y
|, severe, the temperature may be al d
wed to run up to sixty-fve degrees, or
zen seventy degrees. The same rule
pplies to all sedentary persons and f
.ildren studying. Our rooms here are h