The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-13
AGASA.
DIsINTEGRATION AND REINTEGRA-
TION OF SOLID ROCK.
Bancroft, the Magician Has u Weird
Experience-The Sleeping Yogi
and the Vanishing Pebble.

Bancroft, the Magician Has Weird
Experience-The Sleeping Yogi
and the Vanishing Pebble.
In former paper 1 have spoken of an
Indian brother in magic" who performed
the mango trick for me and whose thun-
der, think prove with reasonable con-
clusiveness, at all events on paper, have
fairly appropriated. In time the old fell
low, who, if memory is not at fault, had
been dubbed by me Yogi, which he was
not, instead of a frst-class fakir, which
he was, became very friendly, chiefly in
consequence, it would seem, of two things
-one that he brought man to act as in
terpreter between us who was munshi
Gutor by profession and an occultist by
prediction; the other--I told him straight
that his mango trick no longer puzzled
me, and, in proof, did it before him! II
he was surprised he avoided showing it,
but seeming TO admit as a sort of brother
in art he introduced me to some native
gentlemen who were veritable yogis. a
takir, it must be remembered, is an AGO.
lyte or novice of esotericism; a yogi is an
ape / VI hCCull arr d priest Ol tue CUT.
From these gentlemen l heard many
things and saw some things which, at the
risk of taxing the credulity of my read
ers, must be written.
This paper shall be devoted to a de-
scription of agasa, what it is and what
are some of the resultants of its miracu-
lous aid.
Agasa, according to the Hindoo ana
Arabian ecstatics, is another name for
life fluid The marvels that 1 shall pres
entity describe, accomplished by these
yogls in my presence, were accomplished
they claimed, by the aid of the pitris, or
ancestral spirits, and the superabundant
superpotential agasa In their trained and
macerated systems. Spirits they Insisted,
used agasa as a conductor to matter.
somewhat as the electric current uses
copper wire as a travelling medium. In
proportion to the quantity and potency of
agasa In the system so is the power to
work marvels by the aid of spirits. Mag
hetlc fluid, with the assistance of which
much may be done of medical value, is,
most probably, only another name for this
essence of life. Surgeons have of late per-
formed many painless operations using
magnetism and hypnotism instead OF an.
esthetcs. One of these yogi gentlemen
assured me that one could "mutilate tho
BODY lop off the limbs and, with a sulti-
Neht amount or agasa, you can tnstan-
laneously heal the wound Agasa is the
element which keeps the atoms of mat
yer together; the knife or sword sewers
~ the fire expels It from it's Judgment
N those atoms; put the agasa back 10
me severed or burned parts before they
nave had time to tester or wither ana
tne parts must reunite and again become
whole as beforel 1t is by virtue of agasa
mat seed terminates in the ground and
grows up to be a tree, with leaves. fruit
ana fiowers. Pour streams of agasa on
Ihe seed and you quicken IN a minute
"hat would else, with less Of life fluid.
occupy a month to grow" (The impl-
Ituon here in connection with the mango
tIoWing trick is evident / used ant 5
eafth' which Is pregnant with formic
Secla' 50, undoubtedly. did my venerable
itI'end, the fakir. The yogi implied that
ne could achieve the same result with
asasa') Charge stones or other inani-
ti'iale objects with agasa drawn from a
a l'uinan body, and spirits can make such
y. ooJects move, fly. swim or travel hlther
~ tnlther at Will; IN short, it IS through
cue cue power OF agasa-by which / mean
rsi ~ the life of things-that peternatu-
90 ''arVels could be wrought, provided al