The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

there just as long as you possibly can;
then If you are student of sufsm you
repeat a verse from the koran, or II YOU
are following yogism a mantra from the
vedas and transfer your attention to the
point Immediately between your eyebrows
think about it any longer. when you say
another verse and take the next step,
which is to the root of the tongue.
In this way the complete journey Of
the body is made, with stations at the
end of the breastbone, the naval, and
three points on the spine. When one tries
it a first one will find the attention flicker
and fail after only a few seconds. Later
on the mind can be so handled that one
can focus the mind steadily for ten min
utes at any spot in the body L must be
remembered, and ! assure you IT is a
deadly danger. that the man who seriously
undertakes this mental discipline without
a pure body and mind inclined to God
will surely go insane. Only a chaste man.
who has none of the poisons of liquor or
tobacco or any drug in him, may safely
try this gate"
But after man has disciplined himself
this way Mr.. Webb, what then? What
comes after?"
THE power to draw your mind com
pletely out of your body and do with it
what you choose. / am telling you the
many men who can stand without them
selves and look upon their human form,
just as ! am looking at you now. l, my
self, have done it,"
''You mean that you can separate what
the theosophists call the astral body
from your material form and send it where
yau please?'
Eyes, l have done it,
"Well, can you produce any Of these
other phenomena that people read about
in books Of Indian travel?"
Those are children's tales, false, or else
trickery. There are adopts in sufsm, just
as there are yogis who have mastered
laws of nature that science has not
guessed
have known men who could disin-
tegrate matter and reassemble it at an
other place. ! know men who can produce
what you would call miracles; but they
never do It, II is only jugglers and the
hypnotists who work miracles The adept
knows that phenomena prove nothing I'M
less one understands them, and when
they are understood there is no reason for
producing them
There are Indian jugglers who can take
a crowd Of ten or a dozen persons and
mesmerise them so that they VIII see any
thing the jugglers want them to see
men floating in the air plants growing,
bows climbing up tapes into the clouds
But the yogi never descends to tricks like
this, neither does the sufi They are not
concerned to win belief by wonders, and
they do not want that sort Of belief The
essence of Islam is in the mans own prep
aration of himself, and that is sufism.
How many American Mussulmans are
there now Mr. Webb?"
About eighty. I am surprised there
are so many, in view of the bitter pefse-
cution which the faith as met from the
Christian churches"
isn't that rather small result for
two years work."
''If the work has been directed toward
proselyting IL would be, But no such
effort was ever made. All that j have
tried to do-all that the Mussulmans of
India have asked should be done was that
the truth about Islam should be told in
America 1 suspended the paper which
established because II was not financial
success, and It would not be fair TO tax
our Indian friends when the rupee has
fallen TO half its value. 1 shall lecture
here and in other cities, and do what 7
can to vindieate the memory of that pure
man Of God. Northumberland where that
programme may lead me do not know"