The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-23


New York for several days preparing
to organize temple Of the Improved
Oriental Order of Psychic Research. of
which she is the Noble Grand Prophet,
says the New York World. The new
order is a secret society, with a ritual
and various cabalistic signs. Six
chapters have already been organized
in the United States within the past
seven months. The organization en-
braces some Of the elements of The
osophy. Christianity, Spiritualism,
Swedenborgianism and Rosicrucian-
ism, but it is different from all those.
It's object is stated to be the mental
unfolding of the human race by a most
stupendous achievement in research.
THE Truth! The TRUTH is the watch
word of the order, and this essential
to knowledge will be DILIGENTLY sought
after
Mrs. Stevenson is pleasant appear
Ing woman and impresses her hearers
with her earnestness and sincerity of
purpose. She will soon begin holding
public meetings in New York to ex-
plain the object and purposes of the
order to such persons as may be in
terested in the subject.
FACTS TO BE DISCOVERED.
''The first thing we expect to do
said Mrs. Stevenson, lis to discover the
law that governs mind-reading,
thought transference, magnetic heal
ing, psychometry hypnotism, soul
flight and other mysterious phenomena
now attracting notice in many parts
of the world. Some of the many
things we wish to know are these: How
1t is that one mind can control another
so as to suspend the natural action of
its powers and make an obedient ma
chine; what force it is that when a
clean locked slate is hung upon a door,
where no hand has touched it, 1t is
found filled with intelligent messages;
what powers are employed to bring
into visible and audible presence and
recognition a departed intelligence to
manifest itself to us; what power
moves person who knows nothing of
music to play or sing with surprising
skill what force is employed when lit
tie child, who has never been at school,
suddenly speaks Latin and Greek;
what power it Is that by touch can
make well many forms of disease-the
power that seems to control the very
atmosphere and emulate the wonder
worker Of Judea; what power it is that
directs mind a thousand miles away
and leads to the very spot where is hid
vein Of gold. -
cit is not all imaginative, especially
when such possibilities are lot thought
of, and if men have such powers the
fact should be known and the benefit
from their exercise be realized gen
orally in human affairs.
HUMAN BATTERY TO BE FORMED
Mrs. Stevenson says that what is
seen, heard or in any way acted on
here on earth has corresponding feat
ure in the invisible world. In forming
the societies the object is to secure a
union in which there will be strength
The idea is to have the mental facul-
ties of the searehers all devoted to one
end which will be equivalent to gil
gantic human battery which will have
a strength of vibration powerful for
good or evil.
1.-THE ancients met" continued Mrs
Stevenson, received power and exer-
cised it on this principle. The New
Testament tells how. the. disciples met
and received inspiration. In our tenn
pie we have already witnessed won
ders in hypnotism, soul-fiight and other
manifestations of psychic force
She says that the society had its or
igin in an inspiration received by the
founder during a three days trance,
Even the design of the seal of the or
der, segment of the earth under the
rays of star and accompanied by. the
letters S s, was so received, and she
does not know what the letters mean.
Mrs. Stevenson possesses the strange
power that is usually ascribed to the
manifestation of spiritualistic work
ings, though she defines herself as a
negative-sensitive" rather than a me-
dunn. She explains the difference
thus:
"a medium I consider nothing more
nor less than a hypnotic subject, or SEN
sitive-negative, whereas a negative
sensitive or psychic is a person with a
vast portion of mental power, while
not wholly dependent upon the will of
another; one, in fact, who can divine
that others thoughts and Intentions
1.-THE spirit Of the dead may hypnot-
lie a subject as effectually as could a
living person. In this way mediums
are bound in a spell which we do not
acknowledge. We claim that while the
power may come to us from without,
possibly in the guise of spirit, yet
that spirit is not in itself the power.
The spirit is as much a subject Of the
power as we are ourselves. We are
moved by the same force that sends us
the spirit We call it intellectual ener-
gy. We know also that one can put
himself in another's house, for exam
pie, hear people converse and tell them
long afterwards exactly what they
said. We call that seui-fight Then
thought mental teIegraphy
and many other phases of development
are questions that must all be consid-
ered.'' $500
The term "piteous" ist used by Mrs.
Stevenson to describe her own life
She was a frail infant. born at Stock
holm, Tan. /, 1862. She did not walk UNI
til four years old. She learned to talk
as far as recollection goes, she heard
peculiar things in the air.
II used to tell my mother about it,
she said, saying that 4 thought it was
God who was talking. to. me and show
ing me things, but She became invar-
iab1y greatly distressed, said 1t was
sacrilege to think of God coming to
me thus, and I would be whipped.
my mother and I would pray to-
gether for me and when we had finish
ed I would be whipped again.
II ran away from home one day,
taking with me a white apron of my
mothers and prayer-book. The apron
I tied about my shoulders like gown
of minister and standing on some
stone or stump I read and preached
from the sacred volume. For three
days I lived in the woods, eating black
berries that 7 might not starve, and
meanwhile holding constant COM
munion and converse with the spirits
of the air.
"But at length a voice told me to
go home. Your mother has a new hid