The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-04-14
ADEPTSHIP IN BOSTON.

ADEPTSHIP In BOSTON.
WHAT AN ADVANCED THEosoPHlsT
SAYS OF WHITE MAGIC.
Results that Are Equivalent to Miracles.
How to Rejuvenate the Body by Means
of Thought AIone-PracticaI Talk About
the Mind Cure.
IcTecial Correspondencel
BOSTON, April 81 had talk with an ad-
vanced theosophist yesterday. He claims for
certain Boston theosophists that they have
discovered many of the secrets of ''adept-
hood,n or, as some might term it, ''magic."
But he makes no mystery of necromancy
about it. simply asserting that results equiva-
lent to miracles can and will be soon wrought
through the potency of the control of mind
over matter. In other words, he argues
that thought is an element as real
as water or metal, though invisible That its
| power TO affect results is in proportion to the
ability to concentrate it and the will power
/ to send it out, just as a stream of water is
suing from hose pipe is powerful il proper
tlOn to the amount concentrated and the
pressure or power which projects it; that the
power of SO concentrating thought is depend
ent on a certain mental training: that such
| power constantly increases through such
training and that some of the relative posi-
bilities of such training will be the rejuvena-
tion of the body, the attainment of per-
petual maturity, which will never run
into old age or the loss of any power
mental or physical; but, on the con-
trary, a steady increase as well as
the realization Of q perfect health and
perfect immunity from disease-and the
ability for an almost instantaneous resting
and recuperation of mind and body at any
time during our waking hours-no matter
Eow great the fatigue
"How do you accomplish thatg' asked of
| him.
"Simply by inducing the passive state of
mind. In other words, by ceasing to think
of anything for few moments Interpreted
in another way, it is drawing into ones self
| People have no idea how much strength they
expend in simply thinking. Every thought
represents an outlay of force. People think
| ten thousand useless, burthensome, fretful
| things daily which had better not have been
thought at all Now, this withdrawal into
ones self rests the interior being. 1t enables
it to fill up with new force, which constant
| thinking exhausts." "
"What is the process of withdrawing into
ones selfl'
"Put your mind on spot on the wall for
| two minutes. Or live for the same length of
| time in some recollection pleasant to memory.
Don't strain to do this. Just let your body
be quiet and in as easy position as possible.
| You will find after a little persisency in try
ing that the rest you so bring will come
easier, and that your restlessness will gradu-
ally depart. It is a useful experiment to
make while travelling on the horse cars or
| while waiting for the train or tardy friend,
or in any situation where you have nothing
In particular to do and are tired of doirg it,
Try it, it costs nothing. You can SO gain
some strength of body and clearness of mini
That represents dollars and cents. It was
secret of the first Napoleon's whereby he en-
abled himself to endure the immense strain
of body and mind during his campaigns 1t
is one of the secrets of the Hindoo adept,
whereby he can put his body in a state so as
| to be buried alive and resuscitated after
months of such burial That this has been
done is well attested fact That class OF
men in India do possess extraordinary
powers, apparently contradictory to the
known laws of nature, many British officers
have testified They had simply cultivated
the powers of their interior beings, and like
any other powers these grow by exercise"
What do you mean by ones interior
beingf
Your real self, which is not your body.
Your real invisible self. of which the body is
hut the instrument. Your real self, which is
an organization of invisible element, 1t has
senses like those of the body. but far superior
o it. Our whole race is in the possession
fbaco iotaYiOY. T10yNyars thav NaxE. ,,avpr
',,ad iiteligently"
How do you cure your own sickneSs|
1--WE hold that all disease is caused by states
of mind. To remove the disease we endeavor
TO change the stat of mind If one state of
mind causes weakness, why should not the
contrary state bring health3 That is simply
by thinking health you can bring it, Force
such Imagination on yourself Never mind
if it is what you call imagination fimagin-
| alton can cure you it is cheaper than pills.
1t is certain that imagination does almost kill
many people. We reverse the law. 1t does
work and proves itself by results, II inlreds
are trying it and so curing themselves off sim
pie and even serious ailnaat;."
'How, then should work to cure a coldg
DENY to yourself that you have a cold.
Deny the power of a cold to affect you.
Resist in mind the cold Try not to think of
it. Hold yourself in mind as having no cold
Does that sound to you like nonsenseg"
at does to most people. l replied.
"Well, try it, and keep on trying the next
time you have cold. Did you ever study
the action and state of your mind when you
have IA cold. Areyou not quite unconsciously
saying, or rather feeling, thoughts like these:
Oh dear, I've caught cold. l feel so unpleas-
ant. I'm all stuffed up I've no energy
Then you cough. Your very cough begs for
sympathy You're saying in thought: I'm
50 afflicted Now that's the very state of
mind to keep the cold hanging ON. 1t is
an actual nursing of the cold and not your
self. If anybody eondoles with you, they're
helping the cold to stay. If you're sick
abed and friends come to see you, and
they hear your long story about your
illness and then say I'm SO sorry for
YOU they're hard at work without know
ing it to keep you sick. They're keeping
your illness all the time before you in mind
what should they do!"
"They should say openly or in silent thought
to you: You must get well | refuse to see
YOU in mind as sick You are in my thought
well, strong, cheerful and hearty. Such
outspoken thought of theirs is help to you,
because all thought is force and element 1t
goes from mind to mind. whether spoken or
unspoken. The cheerful hopeful person will
leave force in the sick room to help you,
though he does not say word The gloomy,
evil, foreboding person will leave a force in
the sick room to hurt you, though he does not
speak a word This law is working all the
time with people. Minds are so affect
ing other minds unconsciously for good
or i'll, and as so affecting minds,
affecting also bodies. You cannot re-
main with another person in the same
room without being affected IN some
way by his unspokt thought If in any
way hostile to you it win injure you physi
cally unless, aware of the same, you throw il
off,
saHow should throw IL off9n
'.By opposing it in mind If yon feel un
pleasant with person be sure there IS some
thing in that persons thought opposed to
you You may destroy the evil in his
thought by opposing to it silent conciliatory
thought You should say to him in Thought:
I refuse to be your enemy don't want to
think unpIeasantly OF you The most stub
born nature will in time soften under the IN
nuenet Of shis silent 'mental treatment"
sBut is it ones dntv Sc to esnain constantly
xith such stubborn natiTeF'
No. There is a limit TO all resistance. The
best disposed nature must in time suffer If
compelled to remain and find peace on no
other terms than the constant sending out of
conciliatory thought. Such interviews should
be short
aCan one person influence another in any
xuaxF hv vvI,af ,vc,.x call silent thot1rhtY