The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-14
X RAYS NOT new.
Views OF Dinshar Festopjee Chad
Tally, indian Scientist.
PRINCIPLE is OLD HE DECLARES
The eParsss Eaison'' says Many Dlseoy-
cries Ars Made In His country HIS PEI
sullar Theory ofwhaf the X Rays Are.
His PIansln America.

Il
His PIansin America.
The New York Times contains the fol-
lowing:
Dinshnr Pestonjee Ghadially, known
In India as the .Pnrsee Edison" late.
eiectricianto his Highness Maharaj RAJ
ma sahib OF Dholpur Central India, and
also late telephone superintendent of
Dholpnr state. is in the city on a tour
of the world.
1t was Dinshar who electrified the
members of the Aldlne Club Monday
night. on the occasion Of their Jubilee
reception, by impromptu remarks, in
the course ofswhich he said, the prin-
| ciple of the Roentgen y rays was not
| new 10 the East.
Dinshar yesterday explained to a re-
| porter for the New York Times his
I name and the Parsee system of nomen-
! clature. "Dishur" Is his own name.
| II means emperor OF Religion" "Pes-
tonjee" Is his fathers name. II means
zone with the Holy Body. "Ghadt-
| ally" explains the situation. 1t means
matchmaker.
"a Parsee reading my visiting card"
he explained. would know all about
me. He would read 'Dinshar. the son
OF Pestonjee. the matchmaker.
The Parsee is OF slight build, and
below the average height. He wears
a small black inustache, and his coal
black hair and eyebrows ana dark
Indian skin are relieved by the large,
soft, glowing black eyes common to the
East. he talks excellent English. fluent
and grammatical. Although not yet
twenty three years old, he has been a
lecturer six years on q variety of deep
subjects connected with electricity.
magnetism, odic force. light. and va
rious phases of the vital forces.
His father, leading repairer,of chro-
nometers In Bombay. being OF orthodox
] views, was opposed to his sons enthu-
siastIc study of electricity and kindred
subjects.
my father went to bed Mt 10 o'clock"
he said. 81 used then to creep into the
room and begin my; studies, l; worked
all night, and when my father rose at
5 o'clock in the morning, retired TO
sleep for three hours"
Dinshar'S ardor was unquenchup!e.
| During the lonely hours of the night
he worked away at the manuscript OF
a book which was to be the first fruits
OF his studies. His father knew nothing
of It. At length 1t was shed-thirty-
two thousand pages in thirty-one chap
ters, the work OF six years and the re-
suit of untirng effort. But II shared
a fate similar to that which overlook
the second volume Of carlysle's French
Revolution" The index was already In
the hands of the publishers when the
body OF the work was stolen with Dim
shar's valise at the station of Hydera-
bad, and nothing has been heard OF IT
since. l.
Dinshar is not only Parsee. He is
a Zoroastrian. He wears grand medal
of the Independent Order of Good Tenn
plars, and Is a member of those nu-
merous societies in India and the East
which believe that there are latent
In man forces of a kind that can raise
him to the condition and power of a
god, IL properly cultivated and devel-
oped.
He never leaves his head uncovered,
wearing Parsee turban by day and a
tight-ftttng skull cap at night The
| magnetic extremities OF the body he
believes should always be covered, so as
to prevent the loss of vital magnetism,
which is otherwise always passing out
of the body and being wasted.
From time inlmemorial, he said IS IT.
ting on the edge of his bed In his as
celtic quarters, india has been the
home of spiritual culture and spiritual
discovery. Most of the discoveries, So
called. of modern Western science, were
] known In the East ages before. They
were laughed at and ridiculed by the
scientists of the West, until, forced
finally to take note of them. they
changed their names and paraded them
as their own discoveries. Mesmerism
~
sand years in India, offer an eloquent
example in this.
"The x rays; yesl They are Won
derfil, indeed, and am probably the
first Parsee to hear of them, for when
| l left India two months ago there was
no nowiedge abroad OF the discovery
THE Xsray is lower manifestation
Of the astral light on the physical plane,
| and as such has long been known to
| Eastern ocullsts.
"The fourth dimension of matter, or
the heterogeneous state, otherwise
known as the ultra magnetic state. or
| the radiant medium. exists everywhere.
| In the East we have always believed
| In It, 1t even exists in the pores of
| matter, and is capable of permeating
| the most solid body, so-called. Were
| this medium not existent. what is CO.
hesion or repulsion? What is gravity?
| For, without the combining energy of
the ultra gaseous particles, and with
out their correlative affinity, the whole
mass OF the world would dlsintegrate
and fall to pieces.
ut has been known all along that
\ light is capable of travelling without
| air, for the atmosphere extends only
| some 200 miles above the earth. But
| light cannot travel without vibrations,
and the astral light Is the vibrations
| of that ethereal medium which brings
| the light to our atmoshere.
| Some persons ask, Why can't we
| see that vibration? Why is II that the
| Eastern adopts can show to US that
light as ordinary light, etc? ask, Has
| any Western scientist ever seen cleo
trlcity moving? might as well say,
Let them show 1t to me. or will not
believe In electricity. All, but II ap-
| peals to other senses. you say. we see
the effects Of electricity even II we do
| not see it moving Remember, then.
electricity Is physical agent. The
astral light is an ethereal agent. Phys
ical forces can be recognized by phys
| lcal means; astral. or ethereal. forces
can only be recogized by the ethereal
| eye. which Is only to be developed after
passing certain stage Of vigorous
mental culture.
mThe East has never known in Its
physical bearing the Roentgen x ray,
but has known the very principle that
] Ruides Il, The Eastern masters of the
| occult knew the fundamental, hidden,
occult principle OF the rays. Nobody
has ever seen these rays, and they are
physical, How can you, then, expect
| * aoo tim rnya (which are fnr more