The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
HIS ASTRAL BODY.
QUEER EXPERIENCE OF n PROVI-
DENCE BUSINESS MN.
He Don't Know whether He is In n Posi-
tion TO Prove Some Theosophicai
Doctrines or Not.

One Of the matter -of-fact business men
OF this city was discu ssing theosophy an,
kindred occult matters with the writel
the other day when he suddenly remarke,
that he had an impulse to be confidential
and to relate an experience that he recent
ly had. or thought he had.
"The most extraordinary part of the
whole matter is that / do not know
whether the thing really happened oI
not" said the man.
"You can Judge whether or not I am
person likely to be influenced by such
stuff as Mrs. Besant talked the Other
night, though went to hear her."
/ agreed that he was not one OF the
men l should select as peculiarly suscep.
tible to the semi-supernaJural. and ex
pressed my interest in the circumstance
ne was TO speak OF.
II went home the other day and could
not get into my house or attract the at.
tention OF any member of my family,
though they were all at home and could
see them through the window. do not
habitually carry latch-key, but rely
upon one Of the boys letting ne in, which
tney are always not only willing bu
eager to do. This day that speak of
left my Office at about the usual time and
walked home. do not think that / met
person that i am well acq tainted wi til
on the way up, which makes IL more
difficult to convince myself OF the reality
Of the experience.
When / arrived at my house went
onto the piazza and stepped to window
that overlooks, the parlor and sitting
room, and through which the lads always
spy me and race to open the door for me.
/ looked in at the window. There sat
my wife aud the two boys, as usual, and
exactly as had expected to find them.
raised my hand to tap on the glass
tried to do so, but could make no noise.
My hand seemed to melt away from the
glass. i tried again. Again my hand
seemed not to touch anything. though |
saw that IL reached the glass and seemed
to melt against it.
81 was very much mystified, but did
not begin t. feel at all concerned. With
out stopping to think or reason, reached
toward the handle of the house door.
grasped IL. i felt nothing, and the
handle seemed not to feel anything. /
could not move It,"
~ now began to feel very queerly. /
tried TO rap on the window again, but
could not make a noise. stepped across
cold sweat when i noticed that my boots
made no sound when my feet struck the
floor, which was clean and dry,
Il looked at myself, and seemed the
same as usual TO my eyes. except that
noticed that had no gloves on, and had
walked mile on cold day bare handed
without feeling any discomfort.
Il began TO think. / thought hard
and very clearly and CONF ectedly. l
could not decide what to DO, however
ana after trying to attract attention by
rapping on the window. ringing the bell
ana trying the door, 1t was an impulse
so strong that / did not think at all
H.. o l..e ll...l
aud retrace my steps toward down town
aud my Office.
Every step OF my walk down town is
now vividly in my me nory until
reached the Immediate Vicinity OF my
Office, then 1t was hazy. / remember
reaching the ouIer door, but between
that and my own desk there Is a hiatus.
The next thing ! remember was the
clerk asking me To indorse some checks
so that be could deposit them the next
day, as had told nim etrlier in the day
that should not be at home.
IL was with great effors that |
pulled myself together aud took the pen.
Then 1 discovered that my hands were
numb with the cold and | had TO wait
for them TO get warm. The clerk re-
marked that The Office was very warm
and that i had not been out all day, ey-
deDtly wondering what allied my hands
i asked MIN sharply how he knew had
not been out, and lie was Obliged to con-
fess that he knew nothing except that he
had not noticed me go through the outer
Office.
After little / examined every body
about the place to find il / had been Sc en-
TO 90 out. L merely found tnat had not
been seen at all. Nobody had happened
TO call TO see me, and the men n the Office
had not had occasion TO consult me
found, however, that some letters that 1
had opened just before went home, and
had put away IN pigeon hole To he at
tended TO the next day, had been an
swered and the answers were on my desk
ready to be put in the mail. / could not
recall having written them. 1 tore the
envelopes open aud examined them.
They were properly written and were uu
douDledly In my own peculiar handwrit-
ing. Moreover they were copied in my
private letter book.
Whel i went home again I had no
difficulty IN getting into the house. Ny
wife asked me what allied me. / said
nothing She said that she expected me
about an hour ago, ana had once thought
that had come onto the piazza, but had
found that she was mistaken when she
looked.
said never word I"
Aud when this peculiar story was fin
ished / could say never word IN re-
sponse To the searching aud rather ap.
pealing look OF my friend.
Where was l on that afternoon 2"
said he. did go home, or did 1 write
letters at this d,ski Tue going home
is all can remember"