New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-23
THE ANEsrnETIC REVELATION.

To the EdttOr o. me TrtbHhe.
SIR: For fourteen years | carried in lone
40 ma ,iie9ce the secret Of tie world, unt IN 1874
pubilsheI" The An,estAete ReveauOl" As journalist
YOU will recall brochure elriting from Allre
runa,sOu an account kind Of rance e. this is Tor
lack Oh becier name," sal Shich had bean usn al
With uim quite up irOr Ills OoybOoI, aud III waich he
had an nt lon Of the genius .oi oeiue HIS letter Is
even yet wit ia last month circulating In english
Iapers attended with discussion OF various abnormal
experience. My publication winch was circulated graf
uitoas y--for felt should maze money ont
of brought me many ett.rs from patients OF anins-
thesia WHO expressed themselves reminded oi thai
unutteraoe appreciation o. existence wich sesns con-
mol tc all active 'ellgedce after the exhiH ation
who had not chanccd upon anist esia III ther-
.peu;ic COURSE experinentei expressly. Dr. Wili III
James, tie lnetapuy,ican Of Harvard University. re-
vievei nav pam hiet in wondering way in Tie atlantic
uDn'tIA AM a tetwarI eXlermsatei on himself an 4
made sons rrsolute attempts to utter the secret II
Mud. Ensl magazine; but his exclam itipns are
hardly Iltellinole not versed in Hrgriisrn A
considerable circle IN London IKE familiar topic OF
the revelation The Ih,r peuc GU te. OF Philadelphia,
IN tue August number, cont Ans guarded and oODscen
toas OF the experience Of Or shoem 'ker OF
at ty which he relates the anestnelic ns ht with
the same wonder AMI difficulty which all patents Gu
counte ami STRANGELY enough. he iancies that ne Is
hrs, Signalling the mystery to the puohc
II seems the, to he legitimate news matter OF
apprehension that the prinordia secret the goal Of
phlso obhy AMI mans most curious aspiration is a
honoogous experience within certain conditions The
ionic does not force sngiy circles.
nut tor all who md interest IN destiny, ssnment aud
emotion CHER order, 1t has an absorbing attrac
inn and 81 far 1t is news But the reader who learns
hi- much about tue an,thetic revelation, and who then
presses the natural inquiry. what The revelation ID o.
rsveals can answered Only III lis own realization OF
II; for us matter is unutterabe IN the philosophical
art Of the pasi and obviously OF phO,oDh
zeal obscurtv yor should be known that this insight
Is no, senerically or necessarily anesthetO Lonse1
pereuce aas iaubarzed my way to THIS wonder IL tue
normal con iiou ard there is philosophy possible IN
vbIch the Truth IL told far to rekn lie
t.e memory OF It, Lying stl Oh ms back IA he ni-ht
al near 10 the awiuI mystery az my
nerve will low; express Il ID rational terms WA
in ,sslbe philosophy had read the true chaiact ?
of the oDuosltian beng and DUt-helug. The
IS we --e 10y lgnt, Know by ihLulhgence But tlr
mistake We 10 not see 10y Z e hght any more thau
"a seq Nv the darkness We usually TANK, a. 70 Inte
oeuce and DISTINCTION that the light were 10 20 out
Tue would ende and 50 It ~ondj Dui we i"resr
that II the 10 go out that would De egua
~ thus for the features ann outlines :" thlhs'
by shades aud cont ssts l@nt acne Wee
wholly auInteil-ble and Useless -9uIe As nlucL 50 a
l,rKness alone AID being, as We ordinarily hse ina
thought would similarly come snort OF tho -xpre,sioi
OF tus my stery, disconnected IN Thought irom uot1e
iug Imu edlate lie and death ale the Two equal win -
n true helng 10 holm necessary The Il The
combination which eKhausts al reality for II Is otal 81
universal having opposite. and Is therefore inevi
| table. aud Deiiher cease nor have become.
Much sort Of talk would repe the readers whOu
desire to attract, aDd whom earnestly advise 10 tes
ne revelation Tor themselves II Is brlef gimI
and however astounding yet utterly harmless teniina
rather to laughter thar 20 te ,rs My special impnis
raj by tts inner ngl' tnOsr Z alosOphicJ Revere
which we're melted by this familiar, aud iich are no
leading tue philosophical Thought OF The world WIZ
| Amsterdam, y. T., Sept :, 1896