The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-04

cal being may bresk under tie strain. for
you re am nos strOnx.r
Indeed. she il mere slip Of = woman
slender. uervous and high strung. and she
mas STEADY gray eyeA she Is accustomed
70 skspticism. bat she answers doubling
questions with - calm an Air Of certainty
= u she wero announcing that the sun
shore iastead u nfseging marvols that
turn the accepted laws OF nature against
themselves and eliminate probability from
the whole scheme Of thinEA
Il have never been where tho head Il.
ebst the spirit part Of me has seen is. Hare
faith thss viii succeed? Indeed, I
have. hope 70 secure IL and make il talk.
not 70 theosophists merely - . cicak mys-
terry. but publicly and 70 any one Who
cares 70 knog the truth.
How did I become Q th>osophistf I
think ! VAS born one. From my earliest
childhood I Vas conscious Of . strange
eompsnionship. Advice was whispered in
my ear when Vas . woman. Nv people
were spiritualists. % there Was nothing TO
startis me IN the manifestations Of . su-
pernatural presence. A grew older the
presence became more tangible and the
kneuIedee came to me that my adviser
\
Why my mother never came any more.
When WAS child it was my dead moth
er's form and voice that addressed me.
The astral told me that he came In that
form not to friehten me-"
Miss Fay told this simply. - IL super
natural visits were the commonssb things
IN the world.
From the adopts Miss Fay skipped to
the reincarnation article in the faith. One
OF the arguments against reincarnation -
gsneraliy received Is that - . man is re-
incarnated - . human infant. and - .
mans soul after death still remains .
conscious and complete entity. the quss-
tion arises, what becomes Of the reincar.
mated spirits knowledge during the baby
hood Of its new existence? Miss Fay gets
round this BY believing that the soul that
lives out one life here IL reincarnatsd in
another planet. and that this is the first
step In the great scheme Of advancement.
Reincarnation proceeds indefinitely. Con-
trary TO Mrs. Bessnt and most other emf
nsnt theosophists. Miss Fay believes in no
retrogression. Movement 10 only upward.
and what he has learned and earned in life
determines . mans position in the next
stage, but II 10 unfaiiingly higher than here
The casting Of the astral is the one thing
above oil others that makes people COM
monty free from ''isms" curious about
theosophy, and Miss Fay knows all about
that, 20 she was asked how she did it.
There il no process abouo il 1t all, /" she
answered. "You simply will it 10. and 20
it il. It 10 not hard TO separate the physi-
cal from the psychic body. You do it
when you sleep. That il all. The physi-
cal body remains ~ IL dead. the mental
counterpart moves. It really 10 the ego
your senses, your mind. II will SIT in .
chair and glass Of water will b behind .
screen in another part Of the room. l viii
It and that glass Of water viii b ct my
mouth. Ny astral has brought it; my
material body has not moved. Ihave done
that thousand times before audiences Of
thousands. There Is no apparatus, no
darkening Of the hall. no possibility of
deception.
There are said &c Be those who can pro-
je6t the astral body across continents and
oceans at will. Mrs. Besant claims that