The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-08

hand, he had quite regained his composure.
"Bloods" l emulated his calm.
81 see what is coming, but am not con-
strained to reveaL''
"And after anarchy?''
Psychic force will be the great ruling
power"
''And who will exercise the psychic
force?"
''That is hard to say, if they can't dupli-
late me. possess it but I've no revelation
TO cheat the grave. But would you like
this thing on a broad, philosophic basisa
Here am l, as little boy''-Again the
pencil and again a circle and again at the
prospect of pictures the child-'This is the
cyclopean eye, the ego, the individual. If
the other boys jump five feet, Jump ten
and cry 'hoorayp 1 go into the woods with
barrel and | shout into this barrel and
This is bung;"-a circle with small circle
lnslde-"I shout into the bung George
Francis Tram George Francis Trainp
And the woods echo it back, George Fran
els Train! George Francis TRAMP The
citizen illustrates with his hand trumpet
fashion at his mouth and the child is pleased.
81 keep this barrel and l shout into it for
five years. George Francis Train is very
large and the world very small. Then L
travel and / find the universe very large and
George Francis Train very small. This Is
the universe''-and on the paper appears a
big and very ragged circle, dwarfng the lit
tie ones 1t has its name, universe, written
for Identification inside-"Then l utterly
abandon the ego; L give up the individual,
and by so doing attain unto the universal.
BY having nothing
!. !: :. !. !
/ have everything
* by being nothing |
myself am all
~ things.
Nobody can un-
OH ! derstand that by re-
III pudiating the one
SSH gather al things
into the one, and SO
they call me a
CIRCLES OF PSYCHIC crank That's my
INFLUENCE own word: | ap-
piled it first twenty five years ago.
crank turns things. Men never call fool
crank. it's always man of genius.
"But this merging of self in the all is
psychism Mesmerism and hypnotism and
magnetism and electric force are all
branches of it. People are getting gllmpses
into it as into undiscovered countries, and
! you find knowledge of it lying round IN
scattered pockets. We are like Watt when
he saw the cover of the tea kettle rise and
fall and there was just about to flash upon
! him the power steam; or like Morse when
/ he got the $40, 900 for the last mile Of the
telegraph line between Baltimore aud
Washington; or like Edison when heard
the humming of the wire and dreamed OF
the telephone. We are on the brink but
nobody understands"
And it is by this sacrifice of the indivld
ual that you have become able to exercise
psychic power!'
at is like the closure Of the horseshoe
magnet; here let me show you''-The child
bent her head sagely and followed with her
finger the outlines of roughly indicated
horseshoe-'1he longer the bar remains
across it the stronger becomes the mag
netic force. Now have barred my system
against animal food for sixteen years,
take my coffee and my cheese and my bit OF
cracker three times a day. Sometimes
think of doing without food, but l am moi
sure that one sound apple can live untaintet
in such barrel of rotton ones. Yet my
power increases. When l went round the
world [ did not ask the captain of thu
steamer to put on extra coal to enable m'
to beat the record but he did it; psychic
force compelled him."
And can you exercise this psychic force
on individuals!'
Il do not permit myself to do so. Blu
when sitting in Madison square with thu
children / would say to them, Little ones
there is policeman ma