Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-08-27
1HsosopHy's DARK MYSTERIES.
A Western Mans Experience While Try
ing To Penetrate Its Secrets.

lux ~ htuttTitte It's srSfets.
You see, il was in this way: | got TO
reading up on this theosophy business
and orru';ism ~ please a girl. She
was n NIs>.r girl ana dead on To all oi
II. Tea mpH'hs ago | was as ignorant
pardon iae-ls you are. Ny thoughts
were all vi today. Figured ON nothing
more striG;ls ,inn the grain market and
seventh envelopes, and carna didn't
disturb my peace Of mind. was a
creature nf today, earthly in every es-
%sential, and still, ! hope, a gentleman.
Well. | mct this girl. She's a Chi
rago girl, too, and as bright as they
make 'em. She had just returned from
Europe, where she had zone after
graduation, and was thoroughly imbued
with this idea of theosophy and Bud
dhism, Say. she wa way up, dead
on 10 il all, AMI she sprang. ideas upon
me that knocked me out. | didn't
know what an astral body or a seventh
envelope was when | met heron the
dead, | didn't-but she explained, lent
me books, and gradually | began to
get interested in theosophy and occult
ism.
| read Rlavatsky and she was too
strong Tor Inc. So the girl began Civ
ing me a milk diet Of things | never
heard of before. / evolved into a dual
st-undcrstand. not a duclist-and
finally got into evolution. We'll, that
settled il. The first thing knew I was
longing to penetrate the veil and delve
In the mysteries revealed only TO the
chosen.
The girl told me the ncrcs.arits-she
hadn't done il. bur she knrw-of com
munication with the great universal
center of life. and ] went IN Tor all Of
'en
She insisted on ontinrsc. diet and
eonstapt study q and d sire fur the
ma1ann>S - bpi ~. " | say. / rot
7,,s,.. ul a.4t llH u|UI really, uld mmn
in q moment a madness / SIT q few
dollars ou1 uf a., bauk, bou rim IN the
authorities on rhoosophy aud started
for Ihts-roat h.lerirau dcscr' ~ gat IN
with the myS, g.uus lie who sleeps be-
meath the Cdrcasins,
had Il tcI SOM provis,l ms Of the
plainest sorl-nO meat, understand;
meats fgtHl-uu cigar. nothing 10
drink; only a lot Of books. tie neces-
saries of existence and a lot OF faith.
In fact had more faith and hope than
anything else. She said it would he a
long and hard trial. All entire abncca-
ton of 'rii, spiritual puriiration and
perfect physical confluence. and | was
lcua! .u A..t,4-1 Uli.
Well. | camprd out. studied. drank
water, ate dry bread and concentrated
MY mind. laid awake nights trying
w hear the music of The spheres, pierce
the darkness for distant .Tsonality
and al ;iEgt, but il didn't 20.
| sta.l for six weeks, and during
that rhine laborcl earnestly and faith
fully for the sign that never came. But
| guess the veil was about six feet
thick, ] couldn't pierce ii anyway,
and III lose MI | gained every day in
dreams Of stock markets. Nassar girls,
dinners and other earthly things dur
ing the nights,
She said six weeks ought to be enough
in my evolved state, and / staid six
without weakening. But say, when
"Wednesday of the fifth came around |
vas hungry, dirty and thirsty-hun-
grier and dirtier and thirstier than |
V er was ia my life before. ! was lone
ON too, and wanted a smoke more
than | ever wanted anything before. |
dreamt of the club. but I'stuck il out.
and when the six weeks were up TO the
hour ] left tent and all ard made a
break for "A railroad station.
i came directly on here and went to
see my preceptress in ~theosophical lore
Us DOL ~ could get a shave and a
bath and a meal. But | found she had
married q Boston professor, a follower
Of Blavatsiy, and so | came down to
the club. Never go in for theosophy,
Or astral bodies, or Vassar girls, or oc.
sultism, old man-it's q dangerous and
hungry study-but get "a smattering Of
il If you can. The girls are out Of
sight, and you've got to know what an
astral body and a substratum Of the
soul is. It's the fad now; get on to it,
but don't try to penetrate the veil. 1t
can't be done. Interview in Chicago
Mail.