The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
Claim They Are Aided by All.
Powerful Genii, Who Are
Friendly to Man.

Wonderful stories of Thibet are told
by the few travellers who have pene-
trated into that land of magic and
mystery. 1t was there that Nine.
Blavatsky. the high priestess of the
osophy, claimed to have spent seven
year apprenticeship, and it is in this
ABODE OF Lamaism, if anywhere, that
the laws of nature are reversed by the
will of man.
On the marvels of this country OF
demon worship d. Henry Liddell has
contributed highly interesting story
to the current Home Magazine of New
York. extracts from which follow:
Zone Brahmin," he says, by years
OF asceticism. fasting and contempla-
ton, had attained remarkable occult
powers. He could cause himself to be
levitated through the air, and was
once foated over the heads of an as
semblage of devotees at Orissa for a
distance of more than a hundred yards.
He stated that for the performance of
gross feats of a material character the
assistance of earth, or nature spirits,
~ ~NA0AASos Il VI l1S performance OIL
illusory or magical feats of power,
such as flying through or walking up
on the air, resisting fire, producing
objects from afar, causing the abnor-
NAL growth of plants, or the transpor-
tation of things through the air, the
aid of the elementals, or Jinns, is al
ways required, and is readily available.
These beings abound in the ele-
ments, occupying midway position
between the spiritual and material,
and are very powerful. They delight
to aid the human adept, regarding
man as their god, and believing that
the labors they perform in his service
benefit them and help them to ad-
vance in the scale of being.
"The performance of the Bokts, or
woodworking lamas, are quite as
astounding in their way as those of
the Indian fakirs, who are Moham-
medans, or of the Sanyahs or Yogis,
who are Brahmins, but they are usual
ly terrible and revolving. A Thibetan
Bokt, who had wandered from his ma
tive land and penetrated as far as Be
mares, gave an exhibition of his won
derful powers in one of the vast
temples Of the Holy City a few years
ago. He was accompanied and assist
ed by mongrel crowd of half human
compatriots. The exhibition promised
by the wonderful magician was truly
an astounding one. He proposed, in
view of all beholders, to rip up his
abdomen, remove handful of intes-
tines, display them to the spectators
and then return them again. and heal
up the wound by few magical passes,
leaving no vestige of the damages in
ftcted.
when the hour of noon arrived the
lama appeared and took his seat be-
fore the raised altar, on which candles
had been lighted. Before him was a
radiant image of the sun, and on
either side of the altar were grim idols
which had been placed there by the at
tendants.
1.-THE lama was in person a small,
spare man, with fixed, glittering eyes,
an emaciated frame and an immense
mass of long black hair, which floated
over his shoulders. He appeared alto
gether like walking corpse, in whose
head two blazing fires had been light
ed, which cleaned in unnatural luster
through his long, almond-shaped eyes.
He was about 40 years of age, and re-
port alleged that he had already some
four times previously performed the
great sacrifcial act he was now about
to repeat
From the moment this skeleton
figure had taken his seat the 70 fakirs
who surrounded him in a semicircle
began to sway their bodies back and
forth, singing meanwhile loud,
monotonous chant in rhythm with