Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-26
OCCULT SCIENCES.


Dr. j. q. street Interviewed on some
Very Abstruse Questions.
Chicago Inser-Ooean: DR.. j. O. Street,
the celebrated traveller and occultist, who
has travelled over all the inhabitable
globe, was called upon last night at the
Sherman house, by reporter for the
lnter-Oceap, for the purpose of obtain
ing his views on the occult sciences,
theosophy, and metaphysics in which 30,
many OF our advanced minds are inter-
ested at present. The reporter stated
that he had no particular questions to
ask, but would prefer TO have the uoc-
tors views.
He began: ut is quite evident that
mankind is ever IN the presence OF an
infinite and eternal energy from which
all things proceed. There are hidden
forces In nature which no thoughtful
man can deny. The ancient Egyptian
claimed that IN the rock of the mineral
WORLD there existed latent force which
slept in the vegetable kingdom. This
latent force breathed and showed move
ment and energy. In the animal world
the latent force showed impulse, action
and desire. In the physical world this
latent force develops into thought.
which clothes and frames ideas: there
fore, man being the highest epltome OF
this latent force and later known as
spirit energy, can command all inferior
forces under him. ~
The Buddhist and Arayan religions
believed in the beginning that nothing
existed save God, and that man was as q
| mIcrooosm out OF great macrocosm;
that although God was the maker OF the
| universe, He was not creator OF matter,
that matter was uncertain and must al
| ways have existed.
Oanult science nnnRists of the snienaa
of understanding and contracting the
hidden and latent forces In nature.
The Egyptian claimed that there was
primal splendor or divine harmonies
existing in everything, and man at
tuning himself With the divine harmon.
les, being the highest epitome of spirit
| or latent forces in matter. could COM
| mand nature and it would obey. The
Buddhist claimed that the highest Guilt.
| yation of the powers in man must be in
| the subiugation of the personal self, !,
| which could only be accomplished
| through the intense power of the will.
! The Buddhist held that the divine
| sp:rIt and the power of will are to be
found in the male only, and that the
fire. e-hamed male is the occult and the
divine, The Egyptians claimed that the
power was to be obtained only through
the motherhood, in her union with the
fatherhood OF ell things, therefore the
gods,s Isis and Crisis, found In all
Egyptian temples, were the principal
occult power. 1t was to the priests of
! Egypt that Pythagoras aud Plato went
for instruction. The Pythagorean re.
ligion is based cn the principle that a
religion is only true that benefits all
humanity. it was religion based on the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of man. The teachings OF Christ were
based on the same principle, which are
known as the pathway of universal love;
Buddha acting on the male principle
taught religion OF caste and seclusion
that the law of consequence or former
linoarnations was the atmosphere and
ambition OF mans soul in the present
| incarnation
| The reporter here interrupted and
asked the doctor il he thought il
possible for man g double or astral body
TO leave his natural body and go on
through the will and make itself tangible
In other places2
! "Quite true; strange and even impro.
bable as it may appear to you. I, being
q negative. WAS sent out Of this physical
house few weeks since in New York
City to visit AaG inform some friends on
an ocean steamer, 500 miles away at the
time, that on immense log raft was float.
ing of the American coast. The COM
pnny of friends whose power OF will and
concentration OF thought were used by
my astral being ns q connecting link be-
tween the shore and our friends on the
steamer. Immediately after the steamer
arrived and salutations had been ex-
changed, the traveller remarked: II re-
| ceived your message and warning OF
danger, and informed the captain, but
we saw nothing; but personally threw
myself into my astral. and found no OBJ
situations ahead of ne, but discovered
the logs several hundred mileg south"
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