St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-15

holding book composed of large
number of strips of palmyra leaf, about
two feet long and five inches broad"
held together by the usual strings and
two boards OF deliberately carved and
decorated teak wood.
That was the first view of the adopts
power on the physical plane. Now an
other. One day while wandering
through the valley he was attracted by
huge rock sixty feet high and forty
across the baSe-"a pOrphyritic con-
glomerate, with quartz and flesh-col-
ored feldspar as chief ingredients"
On one side was an opening, which he
entered for distance of eight or nine
PAGES. Mhen the roof and sides con-
verged so that he could not well
60 further, and did not care to
on account of the odor of bats.
While walking about the rock,
studying 1t, chipping off bits with his
geologiStS hammer, he was startled to
see the adept, as if he had arisen out of
the ground. Coomra explained that
this was known as the enchanted rock,
and proposed to explore the cave in it
with him. He was directed to hold his
hammer as candle. with the handle
up. He did so; the adept blew on the
end of the handle and a bright flame,
preceded by cracking noise, sud-
denly burst from the end of the
Eandie.'
They passed through, the hammer
handle meantime more than half con-
srmed, and Wren they emerged Hen
Soldt remarked that there was nothing
unusual i'll the cave. YES, but where
is the rock?" said the adept. Slowly l
turned round, and weird sensation
came over me as L realiZed that the
huge bowlder was no longer there. 1t
had vanished like the airy fabric of
vision, and nothing but an unbroken
eXpanSe OF gravel extended between US
and the cypress-covered bluffs beyond.
L made careful examination of the
| spot where the rock ought to have been,
while Coomra looked Oh with proyok-
ing smile, but my labor was in vain. so
| far as the discovery of any trace was
| concerned. A slantIng hollow in the
ground, surrounded by clump of
| cheuar bushes. was all that was left to
commemorate the late adventure
Hensoldt says that he afterward saw
| the feat of the hammer handle per-
| formed several times, and that is is
| common among the fakirS of the Pun
| jaub, and adds: 1T is one of the few
occult phenomena of which am able
| TO furnish positive explanation"
LUZ VIC pHCiiOuiOuOi VI Tic llSul anu
| then of the stone stumped him. He
| hints solution to be found in the radi-
| cal difference between the philosophy
of the East and of the West. Thus, in
bit Of metaphysical talk. the adept
| exclaimed: Mind product of
matter! What strange reverslo II
Of the truth. Why, it is your
so-called matter which is product
of mind. Without mind theIe is no
such thing as matter" Hensoldt
thought of Berkeley and Schopen-
| hauer, but ventured nothing in reply"
In line with the idea of mind and mat
ter, Hensoldt says of another adept:
He could perform the most astounding
| feats by the mere fat of bis volition. as
| it seemed, and the mango trick re-
ferred to in my paper on 'Hlndo Magic,
| Ill which the illusion was carried so far
as to completely deceive even the sense
OF touch. was not the least of his mar
vels."
| According to Hensoldt, some of these
fears, as that of the hammer handle, are
eXpllcable, and therefore come within
the domain of known law. Why. then,
is there not some really scientific iD-
Quiry made into these other and more
astonishing feats? Why do not some
of the missionaries in India look into
the matter philosophically, as some are
capable of doine? This thing has gone
too far now to be set aside by the state
ment that it is mere trickery, and espe-
| clally that 1t is carried on with the aid OF
His Birthstone Majesty.