Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-16
LIKE JAMES GORDON BENNETT
For The Sunday Gnnette.

~. Ane sunday fazette;
NeW York, April ll.--it was during a
quiet breakfast few days before he
sailed for Italy that ! FIRST came to know
MARION Crawford as q mystic. The con-
Versation had drifted into a discussion of
occult things after a remark / made
about Mr.. Crawfords fondness for green
tea ana his unwillnRness to drink wine.
Why my dear fellow be said, laugl-
ing, II owe hnlt my literary success to
green tea. i was green tea which wrote
/ Mr. Isaacs'"
The reference to "Mr. Isaacs" brought
us naturally 90 astral bodies. Did he be-
lieve In the mystic things treated Of In
those much admired pages? The author
shook his head and assured me that such
was not the case. He had allowed a
mystic theme TO run through the story
merely from It's dramatic attractyeness.
| lie saw the latent possibilities In the
astral body from a stOry-teller's point of
| view, 0nd seized upon them with no
other idea than the hope of making n hit.
The novelist, he holds, Is not TO be held
responsible for the opinions of his charac-
tiers.
IF were TO write such story as
MIR. lsaacs' now" he added, 81 would
make a different book of e. Some day
| may DO il if-if-. You see ! have
learned too much about these thugs TO
treat them unexpectedly or as of trivial
Importance"
The sudden esrnestness Of Mr.. Craw-
fOrd's tone was Impressive. There was
n fixed look In those steady bluish-gruy
eyes which told of queer things he might
say If he wOLld. this man who knows
the world so well from having studied II
i'm many lands. As he sat there silent
slipping his tea / seemed to detect a re-
Bemblnncc 10 someone, yes l saw II now
ihc was enough like James Gordon
Bennett 10 be his brother, younger
brother of course. for Mr. Crawford IS
several years under 30. There was the
same quick way of looking ut you, the
same glance that seemed to bore through
you, the same prominent nose filled IN
ut the point where that organ joins the
forehead and commonly shows hollow.
A ilorid complexion, a sparenesS IN the
face iron gray hair close cut breadth
of shoulders, supporting loose hanging
clothes and an erect carriage with un-
usual height. These | saw were charac-
teristics which the two distinguished
Americans have in common. Then there
was the same magnetic personality which
| has I'm II not only fascination, but
something that gives one vague uneaA-
ness. Mr.. Bennett Is more abrupt than
| Mr.. Crawford, and his eyes shine with
| palcr blue. Mr.. Crnwfords speech ana
| manner are more those of the cultivated
| Englishman.
There is something puzzling in the way
| both these men smile at one ] could
fancy a lion tanner smiling that way.
Mr. Crawford IS u constant smoker,
and always carries with him special
brand of oriental cigarettes lie also
| carries an automatic arrangement Tor
| lighting them which cannot be eItin-
| guished either by hurricane at sea or u
| simeon I'm the desert The cigarettes
under way, we sat In the blue curling
smoke ut our little tnble for couple oil
| = - ha tspw al
! N child while he talked of Aslnuc mys-
| ticism and Of mems souls. Plalniy, ne
wns n believer In much OF which we
prosaic dwellers in western lands know
nothing. IN
Ii win be my pleasant task 70 tell
something Of what ] learned from Marion
| Crawford on this occasion, OF what he
! himself has learned from adopts IN East
ern lore. There are parts OF what ne
! soid strange things, which l am not at
| liberty 70 mention. They IRE personel 70
his own experiences and INVESTIGATIONS
and will be doubtless developed ana pre-
scented fully by himself when ne leel5
that the time Is ripe 10 speak. FOR III al
that ne said there was the-most eh"rhi
'Ns Y on must bear in mind, he
| saiJ Chat 1 myself am merely Il
beginner cropping toward the hghL
only have gone FAR enough 10
be sure that the light Is there. ,,.,,-
If there Is aught of obscurity or lneo-
barence I'm this efisrt TO present Mr..
| CrawfOrd's views on tins dllhcut SUI
| iact the fnult is all my own, Tor noun
INC could be more beautifully lucld thhh
what he said There was no Vusuehvss'
His thoughts came clean cut anu IN luil-
image easy of comprehension. lie knew
SSuuaJSoiy Svbnt he meant and what he
wished 10 say, nor did he hesitate 10 h9-
nil the limitations of his own khoWl-
| aJ,ya or his Ignorance ON certain points
| liz ossnrad me that were IL possible lor
| him 10 do so he would spend peuo1 Vi
vnors i'm the East, principally Japan uu,
ing which time he woulu u9'u ..a ,.tins ~
absolutely TO the study ana pracuSe oi
v,hnt he regards rs the most wohuelln
rhiiosopbic system that has YET peeh SUI
| mitted 10 the reason OF man -.
II h well TO state ut the outset th9,
this system Of philosophy or Fehgioa ~
| NOT necessarily opposed 10 p'"au
| IIristinuity IL is not opposed 10 uuH
nlIi,,joms system, for It includes them an.
AMI regnrls them all as good, IN so ihf
! 49, mo-, tend 10 make man known 70 mn,
sslf Ills read self, his soul YIN ui
1',v5,icism Mr. Crawford Is none the less
today as he has been for years ue'ou'
hS NaM for Sp't the views of this brilliant
writer - ,oo ond women
| ~ tl,at,. lives through ana die Wllhput
~ Gaming 10 know their own SOUS,
'Tbev think they know them, put tnvy
~ yr,istoken What they know are w,
asc,ai souls as they have been modlneH
~ he influences Of heredity, surfounn,t
odncation aud other souls not NY
hines, in human bodies ln9
Changes thus produced IN the feal soel
oro yerv inconsiderable, but me oTlslhul
ancfe,,s Is always there, All rehglQhs
n,o ,,ereiy The effort of man to know nls
own soul. An religions are inope u
lass perfect forms OF selihypnSo II
II when a man is in the eiI-hypno' ~
rance as produced by the wise men oi
India and Japan, that he sees nls INA ia
SOM best. This real soul Is eul ,lii,n W.
aominont self and lies latent a prisouei'
as n were. i'm every human being, ,,,nc
III Is an exceedingly dangerous ,l,lls
for q man uninstruvtcd ia the PloNst,
and precautions Of the east 70 , as,ei ia'ting
See lis dominant self. IL - ilhe VINE
one of the genii in the Arabian Nlsn ~
ami Of lis copper kettle; you haNe ~
means Of knowing whether y VIII plo' W
10 be d good or an evil spirit Nnn ~
this Is said IN jest; the subject - i"' w
serious. l,,oi,,
There are many methods on plou ..,, ~
this self-hypnotic condition ~ Erea'er
or less degree. ] asked Mt Sra ,lS ny, ~