The Van Buren press., 1894-12-01
HINpoo JUooLERY.
Fcats Performed by the Adopts Apparentis
Transcendlng Natural Laws.

| 6INOOO OQ0066ots
| Fc.ts Performed by the Adopts Apparently
Transcendlng Natural Laws.
| I have seen many more wonderful
things. The three great miracles per.
formed by the adepts-the rope, the
basket and the mango-tree exhibitions
Il have seen many times. They are
all performed in broad daylight and
thousands of persons are usually
crowded around on all sides. ! re-
member once, in particular, when
saw the mango-tree miracle. A rishl
appeared about two o'clock in the
afternoon in the street of a town. I'm
mediately hundreds of persons sur.
| rounded him. He took mango ana
scratching a small hole in the ground
planted it. A few minutes later
great tree more than sixty feet h'gh
took form before me.
1t was complete in leaf, branch ana
fruit, the only peculiar thing notice.
able about it was that when the wind
blew its leaves did not stir. In spirit
of investigation | walked up to it and
touched it and took hold of some OF
the leaves. 1t was apparently real
tree. To prove it further climbed up
the trunk seven or eight feet. Then l
returned to my place in the crowd. Inc
adept sat down and-preached one OF
the most beautiful sermons l ever
heard 1t was narrative of the birth
tales of Buddha. When he had finished
l looked up and the great tree was
gone. On going forward l saw the
rishi dig up the mango fruit and IN
spite of all efforts to detain him he
pressed through the crowd and was
gone.
The rope miracle is still more won
derful. A rishi appears IN the center
of the crowd in broad daylight with a
rope in his hand. He throws it into
the air and it remains standing up
right as if it were pole. Then hand
over hand he climbs to the top OF it.
1t has no visible means of sup
port at either end When he reaches
the top the rope seems to lengthen up
ward into the clear sky, and the rishi
continues to climb until he disappears
wholly from view, not to reappear.
Many of the adopts take this method
of leaving crowd when they have
finished their sermons.
The apparent suspensions OF the
laws of gravity is q common exhibit
tion among the fakirs. l have seen
one of them take his hand away from
a cocoanut shell and leave it suspend
ed in mid-air. number of times l
have taken hold of it and tried to move
it, but all in vain. When the falxir
gets ready he sometimes gives the
word suddenly, the shell yields, and
the man who is tugging away on it
goes tum bling upon the ground.
It is my belief that the higher adopts
are missionaries and prophets to their
races. Some of their teachings are
both beautiful and equal to or beyond
our standard of morals.
Now, l have told all these wonder
full things without saying what l real
ly thought of them. l believe that
the Hindoos have come to better
andASa truer conclusion concerning
life's mysteries than we have with all
our science. Our advancement has
only added to our material comforts
food, clothing and houses to live in
but the Hindoo has aomething better.
He believes both in the past and in the
future. He has no fear of death, be-
cause he believes that it will only
change his form. His life is spent in
the work of getting more and more
behind the curtain and deeper and
deeper into life's mysteries. He is sat
isfed, and that is more than can be
said of any man in Europe or America
Many of the wonderful miracles per
formed by, the adopts believe can be
explained in the terms of what we call
hypnotism-th power of mind over
mind.
What we know of hypnotism is yet
limited, but in the case of the Hindoo.
the power is developed to a remarlSa
BILE degree. Now, don't believe tina
rishi made a mango tree grow il
three minutes but | do believe thai
his power over the minds of the spec
tators was so great that they al
thought that the tree was real. IL
fact, l go further. l believe with
Schopenhauer, that what we know OF
the material world is only the creation
Of tho l,ra;n Mind ;s oil and in all -