The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-15
ADEPTSHIP IN BOSTON.
WHAT AN ADVANCED THEOSoFHlST
SAYS OF WHITE MAGIC,
Results that Are Equivalent to Miracles.
How to Rejuvenate the Body by Means
of Thought Alone-Practical Talk About
the Mind Cure.

~-~NN--NN 1890
How to Rejuvenate the Body by Means
of Thought AIone-Practical Talk About
the Mind Cure.
Special correspondencel
BosToN, April 81 had a talk with an adj
vanced theosophist yesterday. He claims for
certain Boston theosophists that they have
discovered many of the secrets of adept
hood" 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 stream of water is
suing from hose pipe is powerful in proper
ton 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 reiuvena-
ton of the body, the attainment of a per-
petual maturity, which will never run
into old age or the loss of any power,
mental or physical; but, on the con-
trary, steady increase, as well as
the realization Of a 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
how great the fatigue.
"How do you accomplish thatl" 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. It enables
it to fill up with new force, which constant
thinking exhausts.n
"What is the process Of withdrawing into
ones self"
"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 little persistency in try
ing that the rest you so bring will come
easier, and that your restlessness will gradu-
ally depart 1t is q useful experiment to
make while travelling on the horse cars or
while waiting for the train or a tardy friend,
or in any situation where you have nothing
in particular to do and are tired Of doing It,.
Try it, it costs nothing. You can so gain
some strength Of body and clearness of mind.
That represents dollars and cents. 1t was a
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 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
beingq"
''Your real SELF which is not your body.
Your real invisible self. of which the body is
but the instrument Your real self, which is
an organization of invisible element 1t has
senses like those of the belly, but far superior
to it, Our whole race is in the possession
of these interior powers they have never yet
used intelligently."
"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 state of mind. If one state OF
mind causes weakness, why should not the
contrary state bring heath9 That is, simply
| by thinking health you can bring it. Force
such imagination on yourself. Never mind
, if it is what you call imagination. lfimagin
alton can cure you it is cheaper than pills
, 1t is certain that imagination does almost Kill
many people We reverse the law. 1t doe'
{ work and proves itself by results. Hundreds
, are trying it and so curing themselves of sim
pie and even serious ailments"
"How, then, should work to cure coldf
"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 o
it, Hold yourself in mind as having no cold
. Does that sound to you like nonsensep
at does to most people" replied.
, 'Well, try it, and keep on trying the mex
time you have a cold. Did you ever study
{ the action and state of your mind when yol
nave cOlus AreyOu nOJ qulUe unconSclOuSiJ
Y saying, or rather feeling, thoughts like these
. oh, dear, I've caught cold. / feel so unpleas
{ ant. Pm all stuffed up I've no energy.
A Then you cough. Your very cough begs TO
sympathy You're saying in thought: Tn
D SO afflicted Now that's the very state o
/ mind to keep the cold hanging on. 1t
' an actual nursing Of the cold and not your
4 self If anybody condoles with you, theyr
: helping the cold to stay. If you're sic
abed and friends come to see you, an
g they hear your long story about you
n illness and then say, I'm SO sorry TO
you, they're hard at work without know
ing it to keep you sick They're keepin
: your illness all the time before you in mind.
: "What should they doY"
s "They should say openly or in silent though
v to you: You must get well refuse to SO
q you in mind as sick. You are in my though
2 WELL strong, cheerful and hearty Sue
1 outspoken thought Of theirs Is help to you
/. because all thought is force and element
n goes from mind to mind, whether spoken 0
IS unspoken. The hIerful, hopeful person wi
, leave force in the sick room to help you
4 though he does not say word. The gloomy
4 evil, foreboding person will leave force
|. the sick room to hurt you, though he does nc
= enaak a word This law is working all th