Connecticut western news., 1890-09-03
THEosopHY's DARK MNeTERIEs.
A Western Mans Experience While Try
 ing to Penetrate It's Secrets.

THEOsoPHY's DARK MYeTERIEs. A Western Mans Experience While Try
 ing to Penetrate Its Secrets.
 You see, it was in this way: got to reading up on this theosophy business and occultism to please 8 girl. She was a Vassar girl and dead on to all ot It. Ten months ago was as ignorant pardon meas you are. My thoughts were all of today. figured on nothing more serious than the grain market and seventh envelopes, and carma didn't disturb my peace of mind was a creature of today, earthly in every es- sential, and still, l hope, a gentleman.
 We'll, met this girl. She's Chi cago girl, too, and as bright as they make lem. She had just returned from Europe, where she had gone after graduation, and was thoroughly imbued with this idea of tn aosophy and Bud. dhisn. Say, she was way up, dead on to it all, and she sprang ideas upon me that knocked me out. I 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.
 I read Blavatsky and she was too strong for me. So the girl began giv- ing me milk diet. of things I never heard of before. evolved into dual ist-understand, not a duelist-and finally got into evolution. We'll, that settled it. The first thing I knew I was longing to penetrate the veil and delve in the mysteries revealed only to the chosen.
 The girl told me the necessaries she hadn't done it, but she knew-of com munication with the great universal center of life. and went in for all of lem.
 She insisted on confluence, diet and constant study of and desire for the mateness of being. As I say, I got stuck on the idea, and really, old man, in a moment of madness I got few dollars out of the bank, bought all the authorities on theosophy and started for the great American desert to get in with the mysterious He who sleeps be- heath the Caucasius
 had tent, some provisions of the plainest sort-no meat, understand; {; meats fatal-no cigars, nothing to drink; only lot of books, the neces- saries of existence and lot of faith. In fact had more faith and hope than anything else. She said it would be a long and hard trial, an entire abnega- tion of self, spiritual publication and perfect physical confluence, and was ready to undergo all
 We'll, I camped out, studied, drank water, ate dry bread and concentrated my mind. I laid awake nights trying to hear the music of the spheres, pierce the darkness for existant personality and all that, but it didn't go.
 I staid for six weeks, and during that time labored earnestly and faith fully for the sign that never came. But I guess the veil was about six feet thick. l couldn't pierce it anyway, and I'd lose all gained every day in dreams of stock markets, Vassar girls, dinners and other earthly things dur ing the nights
 She said six weeks ought to be enough in my evolved state, and I staid six without weakening. But say, when Wednesday of the fifth came around was hungry, dirty and thirsty-hun- grier and dirtier and thirstier than ever was in my life before. I was lone some too, and wanted a smoke more than I ever wanted anything before. ] dreamt of the club, but I stuck it out, and when the six weeks were up to the hour I left tent and all and made a break for a railroad station.
 came directly on here and went to see my preceptress in theosophical lore as soon as could get shave and a bath and a meal. But found she had married Boston professor, follower of Blavatsky, and so I came down to the club. Never go in for theosophy, or astral bodies, or Vassar girls, or oc. cultism, old man-it's dangerous and | hungry study-but get smattering o1 it if you can. The girls are out o1 sight, and you've got to know what an astral body and @ substratum of the soul is. It's the fad now; get on to it, but don't try to penetrate the veil It can't be done.-Interview in Chicago Mail.
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