Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-05-16
ORIENTAL OCCCLTlSM.
A JoErnalist's Views OF the X1ys-
teriouS subject.

terious subject.
}. Mr.. Parsons, for many yea
q editor of the Record Union,
S writing articles upon the subject
o occultism, which are being rea
e with interest everywhere. MI
Parsons is a man of acknowledge
, ability, being one of the most los
| icel writer's the coast ever pre-
duced, unusually well informe
upon general subjects and not I
person ever accused of being any
thing other than q man of sount
i'le@s. He has spent many year.
in India, where he as ,erts are :
sect OF Adopts or Brothers VIII" are
capable of doing things which
seemingly transcend all bounds OF
human possibi tiles. He claims
the following powers for the
| Adopts:
Power to absolutely control
spirits and to make the spirits
Saves to human viii.
| To separate the soul from the
body, allow the body to be buried
for months and to join the soul 20
the body and bring the body to
life again. An officer of the Eng
lish army writing for the Scribner
magazine asserts that he placed a
guard of soldiers over a tomb hewn
from the solid rock in which body
apparently dead remained sealed
up for year and was resurrected
by the Adopts. He further states
that Adopts car communicate with
each other several hundred miles
apart instantaneously through no
otherapparent medium thai. the air.
That they can plant seed in the
ground and inside of five minutes
persons can eat the ripened fruit
off q tree grown from this seed,
Mr.. Parsons alleges to have eaten
fruit thus produced. DR.. Bays Of
San Francisco, who lived in India
fourteen years, soemnly asserted |
to the writer that he had undergone |
a similar experience. Mr.. Parsons
further claims that the Adopts
through spiritual agency can manu-
facture any article instantly, and
relates an instance of seven per-
sons III India going into the woods
to have picnic End on spreading
the table found they had but six
cups and saucers. Madame Bla-
vatsky, author OF "Isis Unveiled"
who belongs to the Adopts, was
asked to produce the seventh cup
md saucer. Her feat is thus de-
,cribed
Madame Blavatsky, as usual, held
conversation with one of the
Brothers, and then wandered about
n the neighborhood of where we
we're sitting-that is to say, within
radius of half a dozen yards from
'ur picnic CLOTH closely follow
ng, waiting to see what would hap
zen. Then she marked spot on
be ground and called one of the
Gentlemen Of the party to bring
nife to dig with. The place chosen
ias the edge of little slope COW -,
red with thick weeds ana grass
I'D shrubby underground. The
entleman with the knife tore up
hese in the first place. with some
as the roots were tough
nd intertwined. Cutting, then,
ITS the matted roots and earth
18th the knife, and pulling away
le debris with MS hands, he came
: last to the elge Of something
hite, which turned out, as it was
excavated, to be the re-
uired cup. A corresponding Il
lucer was SO found after a little =
ore digging. Both objects were
/ among the roots, which spread s.
through the ground, +
} that it seemed as if the roots az
ere growing around them. The r!
'p and saucer both coriesponded
,actly, as regards their pattern, &
it'll those that had been brought n
the picnic, and constituted
venth cup and saucer when
ought back to where we were Co
have breakfast" The author adds 81 81
at the original SCI of china was Al
somwhat peculiar pattern, r.
bought q good many years pre- TT
ously in London, and which as st
redly could never have been Sc
atched in Simla." Fir
The editor of London scientific Re-
urnal visited India to disprove ~
csc stories from scientific stand S
int, and on his return to London s,
'ote an account of the wonderful Ma
lngs he saw, adding: THAT L.
ese things were actually done
ere is no possibi ity Of doubt" T