Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-04

: "Yes," he said, little sadly, II possessed
it, told it and losi it. Tell nothing, II you
would become wise and successful. Tell
:. ing means losing, Why, there are men
: whose mediocre success IN business Is al
rectly due to their ruinous habit of telling
: ell their plans. The Jews have q proverh
: warning people that i'll luck lies IN toe
y con6dipg tongue" :, q,
= Can you give any reason why bad lucE
? comes from telling ones plans to one
friends, or is it a mere supershtionE
!, asked.
: There is q reason, but you may not ap'
a preciste it." said my friend OF the lost Sc
=" cret of eternal youth. There are, l be-
lieve. unseen but intelligent creatures near
us who hear what We say. They may De
-. more interested in somebody elses success
D. than in ours. They see more clearly than
= we that our plans could be pushed TO sd,
vantage by their faVorites, and so they
cart them of and put them into their heads
! By some occult process Then, the trst
! thing we know, somebody comes out ahead
OF Us, with our invention, our book, cur
scheme. whatever it was, and we are no
where
The rs-embodiment theory has many ed.
vocates, some of whom are not theoso'
phists. Glasses in this peculiar philosophy
are taught. The pupils are judges, Writer5,
society men and women, business men, eel
entifc and military men and even minis
tiers of the gospel. The teachers are per
sons who claim to receive light from spirit
usl sources. A few have advanced tar
enough 10 know or fancy they know what
they were in an existence Immediately pre-
ceding this. A military man OF consider
able distinction, o theosophist, believes
that be was q young Hindu initiate who
was killed by su accident. A successful
woman of letters met wise man ABROAD
who could read any ones previous exist,
ence by certain occult methods. de told
her that she had been man in hsr last
hfs-a man who despised women and used
his power To tyrannize over them. She
had paid the penalty in this ex
! is,encs by being q woman, weak IN ply |
sique, and set hsd name cares and du'
,ies thrust upon her. The re,embodimeDt
theory is q grand schsme Of evening up |
Whoever lives selfshly in one life. pays
for it by finding himself suffering tor his
mearness in the next. So strong Is the In
,erest in this subject here that any mention
of it causes general pricking up OF ears
and opening OF eyes heard II discussed
in the presence Of a longtsced minister who
moaestly ayowed bis belief in II, and blush
cd as he said be fels sure that he could trace
himself back into one other life, at least.
Everybody was dying TO know what It was.
he wouldu't tell, but one of his close friends
did. He had been dsshing patron OF fast
horsehesh, cruel to his horses and all other
animals. he was suffering remorse from 1t
in this life, and put himself out nearly every
lay of the world TO befriend horses Queer,
wasn't it2 These people are all sincere In
what they say. Pythsgoras is much quo,
ted and initiated. Some of the theosoph'
lists devote themselves to the upbullding o:
their spiritual nature with faith and ter
yor equal to that OF the snchorites OF old.
Mrs Josephine W. Gables, editor of the
Occult World, at Rochester, is famous tor
being extraordinarily high up in soul mat
tiers. She is described as delicate crea'
ture, with an almost transparent BODY,
who hiss the power to produce soothing In,
aaences. In addition to her editorial
duties, che does the greater part OF the
hOusework for nine bosrders runs hos
pitsl for animals, and manages home Tor
oroaen down spirit media. People visit
her from far, and consider 1t privilege to
so much as enter her presence. Oae won
ders why the powers don't help her
worldly fortunes
Some Of the wealthy people Of New York
are the most Jealous theosopbists. They
open their psrlors to its disciples, aud ex-
press themselves as anxious 10 devote their
lives to it. Some go abroad to be In
structed in its precepts.
There are both philosophy AMI phenom-
ena TO interest the people who investigate
Though it is generally conceded that since
Nine. Blavatsky departed there is no one
10 produce the phenomena or work won.
ders. She did queer things, they say
The highest torego meat eating altogether
They cay that when We are really refined
in spirit We will all shudder at the thought
OF eating flesh. Some 60 so far as to urge
that each person eat in solitude. The OBJ
lection to social eating is that each one
eats some of the bodies Of the other, each
body giving of an invisible substance
Which is absorbed partly by the food, and
thereby conveyed into the bodies OF oil the
other eaters. ! thought OF this when l
came down town in street car one bitter
cold morning not logg since. Each psv-
sons breath made cloud OF steam yard
IN length. going out to be breathed up By
o,hsr bres,hers-Very disagreeabIe were
some OF these bFesths and bodies. 20 we
really do swallow more OF each.other than
are anxious 20.
Among the tales OF queer pheromeps We
herr plenty Of talk about 'sstrSl bodies,
otherwise cur spiritual bodies spoken OF BY
s.. Paul Certain adept" in thsosophy
claim 70 be able 10 disassociRte their az
t-al from their material bodies, and In this
seisd shape roam around. Any shock to
the astral body rs likely to prove fatal to
the life OF the roamer since 1t breaks the
chord thai binds him TO his earthly body,
which sleeps while thiS IS going on.
heard Iads, addicted to travelling id her
astral body, relate some experience recent
IL. She was flying around the air among
some friends, greatly exciting their won
der, but any motion that l1dicatso "isn
10 Law hands on her caused her TO scream
out Don't touch me- don't touch me!
Even in her spiritual form she was aware
Of the danger Of coutac'. A case OF death
from TOO much recreation 10 an astral form
lie whispered among the faithful. 4 lady
in the upps. rank was found ,SaEd in her
bed one morning with only slight bruise
on her temple. Her friends knew that she
was in the habit of making trips
about the city in her astral
5ody, and had heard her tell that
she was often propelled with such force
through the air thai she was afraid OF
striking bsr head on the elevated railroad.
When She vas found dead in heT Bad they
made up their minds that the elevated
railrosd had had done it. The doctor put
forth no such views, but doctors are so
msterialistic," they said. Theosophists
believe that after years OF devotion they
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