The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-11
HINDoo JUGGLERY.
Feats Performed by Adopts Apparently
TransoendinR Natural Laws.


DR.. Hensoldt in the Chicago Record.
I have seen many wonderful things.
The three great miracles performed by
the adepts-the rope, the basket and the
mango tree exhibitions have seen many
times. They are all performed in broad
daylight and thousands OF people are usu-
ally crowded around on all sides. I re-
member once in particular when I saw
the mango-tree miracle. A rishi appeared
about 2 O'Clock in the afternoon in the
street of town. Immediately hundreds
of persons surrounded him. He took a
mango and scratching a small hole in the
ground planted it. A few minutes later
great tree more than sixty feet high
took form before me.
1T was complete in leaf, branch and
fruit, the only peculiar thing noticeable
about it was that when the wind blew
its leaves did not stir. In a pirit of in
vestigation 1 walked up to it and touched
it and took hold of some of the leaves.
1t was apparently a real tree. To prove
il further l climbed up the trunk seven or
eight feet Then l returned to my place
in the crowd. The adept sat down and
preached one of the most beautiful SER
mons / ever heard. 1t was a narrative
of the birth tales of Buddha. When he
had finished 1 looked up and the great
tree was gone. On going forward I saw
the rishi dig up the mango fruit and in
through the crowd and was gone.
The rope miracle is still more wonder
ful 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 upright as if it were
a pole. Then hand over hand he climbs
to the top of il. 1t has no visible means
of support at either end When he
reaches the top the rope seems to
lengten upward into the sky, and the
rishi continues to climb until he dsap-
pears wholly from view, not to reappear
Many of the adopts take this method
OF leaving crowd when they have finish
ed their sermons.
THE apparent suspension of the laws
of gravity is common exhibition among
the fakirs. 1 have seen one of them take
his hand away from a cocoanut shell
and leave 1t suspended in mid air A
number of times 1 have taken hold of
it and tried to move it, but all in vain.
When the fakir gets ready he sometimes
gives the word suddenly, the shell yields,
and the man who is tuggng away on it
goes tumbling upon the ground.
1t s 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
standards of morals.
Now I have told all these wonderful
things without saying what 1 really
thought of them. 1 believe that the Hin
docs have come to better and a truer
conclusion concerning lifes mysteries
than we have with all our science Our
advancement has only added to our ma
terial comforts-food, clothing and houses
to live in-but the Hindoo has something
better. He believes both in he past and
IN the future. He has no fear of death.
because he believes that it will only change
his form. His life is spent in the work
more and more behind the curtain and
deeper and deeper into lifes mysteries.
He Is satisfied 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, 1 believe, can be
explained in the terms of@what we call
hypnoum-the power of mind over mind.
What we know of hypnotism is vet
limited, but in the case of the Hindoos
the power is developed to remarkable
degree. Now, 1 don't believe that a rishi
made a mango tree grow in three minutes.
but do believe that his power over the
minds Of the spectators was so great
that they all thought that the tree was
real. In fact, I go further. 1 believe
with Schopenhauer, that what we know
of the material world is only the creation
OF the brain. Mind is all and in ALL"