The herald., 1895-11-17

fully overs all this realm. Still no at
i, tempt should be made to force or over.
| persuade any man TO accept any more oi
| it than appeals to his own intellect. since
| vicarious progress is entirely impossible
and each must think for himself.
| Much has been said and written about
! spifitualism, but no explanation so far
has been satisfactory. because none has
been complete or scientific. When the
astral light-known to science in its
lower pain as ether-is understood, its
action will clearly explain the whole
mystery OF spiritualism. Science teaches
that no force can be destroyed. Thsos-
ophy teaches that thought has force and
substance. A medium is being satur-
ated with this astral light and sensitive
to its vibrations. and through his sensi-
tive organism these tn 1ughts and amo-
tons stored in the astral light reach US.
The mediums individuality is destroyed
by the continual flow through him of the
thought and personality of others. and
often serious nervous conditions are
brought about. The adept knows and
controls these forces of nature. The
medium is controlled by them without
understanding th~m. THIS collective
mass of thought stuff in the astral light
acts as q great hypnotizipg machine. and
is the true cause of panics, booms, Teviv.
ais and all such movements.
Christian science and oil forms of men,
tai or science healing are but modihed
forms of q west IN Yoga, the true results
OF which those who practice it do not
know. BY concentration of the mind
they govern certain pranic or vital cur
rents of the astral light of which they
nave no knowiedge, only having found
that certain thought processes produce
certain effects. The result of the process
is according to a Law t,ey do not under
stand and is independent of their the.
cries and beliefs.
Mesmer, under commission from the
aderts at the council of Luxor, gave to
the world partial knowledge of an &C.
cult power which We now call hypnUt-
ism. The right use and the abuse of this
power are two very different things. Its
use to control the brain or destroy the in
dividuality of person is never justi ia
BILE except in the case of idiots criminals
or insane people and the hypnotist will
be held:forever responsible by justice for
the use he makes of his power. To hyp-
notize ones own lower nature into sub
lection to the higher self would be to
make the power blessing. The BRAID"
method of hypnotiSm by gazing at
crystal reduces the brain vibration to that
of the mineral kingdom. break the will
and places the mind on the sup-human
plane, and is practice to be avoided.
Theosophy classes all this supefphysical
phenomena, by whatever name called, as
psychism. They are all Dut phases of the
development of the new sixth sense and
to be possessed in full only by the new
sixth race developing in America. The
great development of the nervous temp
erament is producing a race OF people who
VIII be able to reg sier higher vibrations
of the ether, and SO learn the spiritual
laws of nature. The aim OF theosophy is
to instruct the man of the future to avoid
psychism in its dangerous forms, and to
teach true occultism which is the study
of the universal mind. The true occulIst
never allows any astral power to over
come his intelligence.
The questions which followed at the
close OF the lecture showed how attentive
They were clearly answered by Mr..
Clark. rhe subject of the lecture next
tuesday, evening at the same place was
as Manatmas, VINO and Where
Are Theyf
THE LIBEL CASE.
The case of Rev. H. Elliott Ward. ar.
rested on com plant sworn out by Aug
ustus Lang, druggist, charging him
with criminal libel, came up this morn
ing in Justice Youpg's court in Los An.
yeles. A number of witnesses from this
,ity we're subpoenaed, including City
u hltuuis Ol1y EuuISudI DuCu-
man, Recorder Rossiter, w. S. Gilmore
Ind others.
The alleged libel, it will be RENE n ber-
I'd, is found IN a copy Of the Christian
church paper, The Reminder. in which
paragraph was published in which the
word outlaw is used, to which Mr.. Lang
objected and which constituted the |
ground of the action.
The deputy district attorney and II. A. |,
Appel, ESQ.,, appeared for tine plaintiff |
md Rush and Davis attorneys for the de. |
endant. The morning was spent in an !
of witnesses for the prose- |
ution. The defense then moved to dis I
Miss the case wi :nOut taking any testi- |
nony at all, which ction was taken and |
he matter was brought to close, unless
he plaintiff should carry out his ex-
PRESSED intention of bringing the case up
efore another justice.
A BIG FIRE.
The immense barn on the corner of |
catalina avenue and Del Mar street, be-
ongIng to S. A. d. Clark, burned to the
ROUND this evening. The contents, 300
ons of hay and straw, five horses, a
ailer, three or four wagons and sundry