St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-07-13
IT IS HID FROM US.


Know Magic.
Saved Jamal is one of the three high
caste Hindoo fakirs whom Henry Bal
lentine, formerly consul to Bombay.
has induced to leave their country
against their religious prejudices. and,
under the guidance Of his nephew, Ed
win Rood, come to this country. lie
was asked the other day in New York
to tell something about Hindoo magic.
.Our magic,' he said. ''fes, they
try to learn about it Persons can't
come from England and France and
America to learn about it. One Amer
lean told me he was going TO make .
business of it. You make business
of everything. He said he was going
to get at the bottom Of it If he stayed
in India a year. Think of . year!
/ have been in India thirty
times that long. and if ! stay
thousand years l can't do what
that man was going to do in year.
Ages wouldn't be enough for him to
learn the mysteries that he was going
to give his life and the lives Of genera
tions after him. and then perhaps
some distant descendant might know
something of what he wanted to know.
"You can't make a business OF it.
You must make q religion Of it. And
you can't be converted to the religion;
you must be born in it, and your fore
fathers for generations before you
Sayed Jamal was asked about some
of the wonderful feats performed by
his caste.
"You have heard of things that !
have never seen or heard Of" he an
swered. You people have big eyes and
= large imagination. and you like to
tell what you have seen and make 1t
bigger each time. You like to write
great books ON immense things and
make them grow for your readers
have seen Americans and Englishmen
in India. who have thought they knew
all about our magic, when they had
seen hardly any at all. and then they
have told what perhaps they imagined.
"A man throwing q rope into the All
and then climbing it and disappearing
was never done in India. There is NJ
such thing. think know all that II
done, and this thing is not among
them. Yet every white man WHIT
speaks to me of magic asks about 1t
II is foolish. ! know why it is mo-
true, and you couldn't understand M
if told you.
Then the tall mango trees! An
other story for books There wa
never one more than four feet high
and your travellers write about then
growing into mighty trees 1t is silly
/ know all about the mango. / neve
heard of q white mans imagination
making o ne less than ten feet high.
Il have been asked about theosoph.
many times. That is another western
invention that we know nothing about
II must be some more business
great many persons who think the.
are very wise, and are able to look be
yond the sky, come to India to lear
about theosophy, and they are well re
ceived, because we are always polite t
strangers
"Many of these persons are women
Your women are very strange. The.
come and tell us that theosOphy origi
mated with us, and we listen, and per
haps nod our heads, and they say w
knew it. Then thev talk . great dea
about what we have never heard OF be
fore AID don't believe, and we listel
and don't contradict We don't under
stand them and SO keep silent The.
talk q great deal about the occult, ans
how much we know about things tina
we have never before heard of, AM
don't want to hear Of. Then the.
write books about the wonderful in
formation they got from us
"Yes, your people are clever ut learn
ing about things, and your magician
are cunning but you know nothing
about real magic. about the power
that lie within the religion that
part of q man after being sought 70
through generations, and to whic
every organ and faculty is . servant
And you never can know, for it
knowledge for which you are In ever
way untitled morally, mentally an
physically."-N.Y Y. Advertiser.