Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-17

Breath on hinf,;>O Buddha, that he may
know what is meet for him.
Slowly the whole hall filed with g
| soft, heated air, aromatic and perfumed
| which swayed around me. Rapidly
| however, it grew cold and sharp; sounds
| of gathering gusts whistled around me,
and then quick, short blasts of wind
succeeded. A great storm seemed brew
| ing; shrieks and wild cries mingled in my
ears. [ was nearly shaken off my feet
| by blast after blast of rushing air; more
fiercely they came; they beat upon me;
/ they hurled me to the ground; the at
mosphere grew like lead; every effort to
breathe was agony; sitting and noisome
! smells seemed forced up my nostrils
while a blackness deeper than the dark
est night surrounded me. I looked up,
and far away through the clouds of va
| por and stencil / saw again the great
grey blue light now only a speck, but
| still there and shining. The storm passed
away and the soft air filed the hail
again.
Again the eight voices cried and 1
thought detected a tremor of fear in the
cry: Teach him the power of earth
| and matter and let him then believe.
81 stood as 1 had before, alone and
ing TO the walls and the lamas stood up
on their raised seats. A dull, red light
began to obliterate the white light that
hitherto lit up the hall. In the midst of
the light and its most Opaque part there
seemed to be CLEANS of lightning, while
low, continuous moaning was heard.
Clouds of dust, becoming instantly more
fiery and more fantastic in shape than
words can say, filed the room and a
deep shadow projecting from behind the
cloud appeared to grow through 1t and
take form. 1 began to see wierd shapes
images of bygone scenes and beings were
fitting by me III the great veil of dust.
l could just recognize faces had known >
things 1 had seen, and yet all unreal, all
hideous, all repulsiYe We're they fan
tastes of my brain conjured by the con-
geries of that cloud of dust and the
fF1ghtful tension that my brain was
undergoing. Now and then they seemed
to approach me, then disappear, and re-
appear again elsewhere. The red whirl
of dust became less trans parent, the light
overhead grew less and less. The groan-
ing, moaning noise increased, the rattle
and shock of falling stones began to be
heard, and shiver seems to rend the
floor of the great room. Still darker and
breath and space even seemed i'm
possible. My arms were weighed down
to my sides, my tottering legs hardly
supported by body, and head pressed
down by the appalling mass of dust. My
brain was Keeling under the continued
strain when a long, low sob pierced the
darkness. The sound seemed to rift the
mass and at the same moment light
again appeared at the farther end of
the hall. The veil of red dust still hung
before my eyes, but the weight seemed
to disappear; the sobbing sound contin-
ued and increased, the light grew fiercer
and f1ercer, until at last [ saw that but
for the veil before me could not have
looked on and lived. The end of the
hall had disappeared, the roof was gone,
the torrent had ceased to flow, and in it's
place there flowed sea of orange fire,
while steel gray flames rushed to the
heavens, licking as it were the very
skies. Behind this awful barrier
rolled a boundless sea of rocks and
earth and precipicea. AS the huge
waves toss in the Atlantic, so rolled
and tossed those pillows of matter,
earth and water, crag and mountain,
fire and vapor, sight more awful no
one can ever see. The boundless space,
the immensely and the grandeur held me
spell bound. For few minutes the
turmoil continued, then the great waves
of earth rose up, the orange sea leaped
into the air, while the fierce flames
licked the crests of the vast waves as
they rolled up the hill. The low moan
of the Travelling world burst into a
great shrek and roar of agony. The
sides of the hall tottered inward.
thought l saw the lamas hurled head
long from their seats into the sea of fire,
while the huge waves of matter toiled
onward in their course of horror to where
l stood.
"Higher and higher they lowered over
my doomed form as they advanced, the
bright flames of steel licking their sides,
as it were, to entlce them to their vic
tim, shrek after shrek of gas and steam
escaping rent the air. Crash after crash
resounded through what was left of the
hall as pillar after pillar fell before the
advancing tide. The pavement, hewn in
the solid rock on which 1 stood, shive1ed
and cracked, while tongues of lightning
like flame burst from beneath my feet. 1
fell headlong and cried aloud for death,
so great was my terror. The scene was
too horrible for mortal mind to bear. L
was witnessing the birth of a world. A |
roar told me the great wave was |
upon me. raised my eyes and through |
the red veil of dust which still surrounded |
me could see tottering over me the NOV
ing mass of earth; the molten waves |
were already scorching my hand stretched |
before me. My last hour had come; 1 |
cried to God for help and succor and |
then l remembered no more -
When he came to he was in bed and /
was congratulated ON his bravery during /
the initiation, for absolute fearlessness,
of death, Is necessary quality
of the hierophant. The defiance or the
contempt of death which is character
stic of the teachings of the Bible is de-
rived from the Eastern occulists.
The most important of the lamaseries
are located in the mountain Businesses OF
Thibet, and thus far all the power of the
English army has not been able to pene-
trate these wilds sufficiently far to give
the hated foreigners or ''TeeIings'' a
chance to look with inf1del eye on the
holes of the lamas.
But very few foreigners have ever been
received into the lamaseries as guests,
and fewer still have received the RITES of |