Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-03
Clairvoyance. Lifting of Heavy Weighs
Without Touch and Healing of the Sick.

During the stay of DR.. Eric Da-
vid Even in New York it was rarely
that he would manifest his strange
psychic powers in the presence Of
spectators, and when he did it never
was with the purpose of exciting
wonder or establishment" said DR..
j. NJ. Chalmers, referring to an arti-
Gle describing certain feats of In
dian fakirs. ITO such emotions DR..
Even never appealed. We lived in
the same house, and sometimes on
my return from down town the doc
tor, who had been at home all day,
would describe to me in detail every
incident of my trip from the office
to the house, including the precise
time of my starting. Not less mar
Vicious was his full and accurate
knowledge on any and every topic
that could be suggested. This knowl-
edge he had not acquired through
study and memory, he said, but it
was the omniscient perception that
pertains to the adept of the theo-
sophie faith.
While in the island of Trinidad
of the Windward group OF the West
Indies was present, with several
other witnesses, at one of those
manifestations of spiritual power
over material things that the west
ern mind finds it hardest to conceive
or credit. Three men carrying a
heavy jar of tamarinds, all they
could lift, came into the room where
DR.. Even and l were and set the
r jar on a table. In manner as mat
ter OF course and easy as picking up
pin the doctor extended his hand
above the jar, and, without touch
ing it, raised the jar from the table
and lowered it gently to the floor.
There was no possible chance for
deception III the matter, which was
done offhand before the eyes of all
of us. The men who had brought
in the tsinar;nds were badly fright
ened at the performance They
stared at the doctor and backed out
OF the room and got away as fast as
they could, not waiting for the tip
OF money or drink of rum they had
right to expect.
In one remarkable case in my
knowledge Dr.. Even used his
psychic power for the healing of the
sick. Visiting on an out of the way
island OF the Bermuda group, he
was persuaded by his host to go
with him to see man who for years
had been a sufferer from rheuma-
tism, which, affecting every joint,
had rendered him helpless. On
their arrival at his house they found
the invalid in a reclining chair.
Every attempt to move gave him
exquisite torture, and he was unable
to lift his swollen hands resting on
the blanket spread across his lap.
AS they talked with the sufferer Dr..
Even went to him and took both
his hands in his own. At his touch
the man writhed and screamed in
agony, for a pang severer than any
he had known before shot up his,
right arm and through his whole
body. Then he was free from pain.
Lift your hand, said DR.. Even,
and the man raised his right and
moved his arm about freely, feeling
no pain. Now your other hand..'
And he moved the left hand around
as easily as he had moved the right.
Get up from your chair and walk.
90 to the end of the room and back,
was the next order, and the man,
who had not stood on his feet in
many months, rose from his chair
! and walked easily about the room.
He was cured, and six months later.
when the doctor quilted the Bermu-
da islands, there had been no return
of his malady.
Why don't you use your gifts
TO get wealth and worldly powers' T
would say to the doctor sometimes.
You have the earth at your COM
mand 1t you choose.
/" What do | need that ] do not
possess already!' he said. Why
should waste my thought on value.
less thingss'
TO my question what should do
to become a theosophist he an
! swered:
. You will abstain from all AM.
nal food and wine and sensual
thought, living in poverty and con
Thence and inviting through con
temptation the flowing toward you
of the divine mind After two OF
three years of this life, faithfully
Eracticed, YOU will be fitted to re
'ceive the higher mysteries OF the
faith "-Ne.. E..rl, SIM ii