The times., 1901-03-31
THE SAINT OF THE YAoUIs.
Something About the Young MnE-
netfc Healer of Mexico.


cd that light, electricity, and magnetism
are produced by vibrations Of a some
| thing which they cali the cosmic ether
because they do not know what else To
name it.
Perhaps the cures wrought by Santa
| Teresa. the Mexican magnetic healer, are
effected through vibrations among the
currents of this same cosmic ether. We
know there is healing virtue in light and
warmth 1t really should add to the re-
| spect with which we regard q seeming
| miracle when we find there is a scientific
explanation for it. Besides, it makes the
miracle easier TO believe Santa Teresa
| says when she treats patients she feels
| vibratory thrills running through and
through her toward the patient. Some
| times these are so powerful that she does
not lay hands on the patient, but stands
| a foot or two away. and even then the
| force whatever it is, that proceeds from
her is so strong it causes the person
! treated to sway back and forth.
The healer herself, young woman Of
perhaps twenty-five. is now in New York
| City.
In relating an interview held with her
| a writer in the "Press-Post" says:
| She makes no charge, but accepts
| whatever the patients give her. She is
| tall and slight, with a sweet. dark face,
! wearing the innocent, trustful expression
! of a child There is no guile or humbug
! in that face 1t is certain that the sim
| ple-minded, unlettered girl believes IN
| herself. at any rate.
Il asked her 10 show me how she treated
patients She took my right hand IN her
| right my left in her left, thus crossing
| our wrists. pressed her thumbs close
| against mine and looked into my eyes.
| OF old it was held that there is great
| power in the thumb. occult and other
| wise. When persons are chronieaily dls-
| couraged and down on their luck, the
| thumb drooDs and sinks inside the palm.
| Sometimes Teresa treats patients by
| stroking them upon the head, face, or
| right way, and this is all she knows
| about it,
! u heard somewhere that the gorgeous
| rainbow tinted aurora borealis OF the
polar regions is nothing more or less
| than the play of the cOsmtc ether cur
rents | asked Teresa if when treating
| she saw colors before her eyes and
oh. yes, she replied. Sometimes
| when l stroke people seem TO throw on
| colors from them, but these are disease
! colors and are ugly, not beautiful. Some
/ times pretty colors mingle around them
| When a person is in health, | usually see
| him IN white light
| Il determined 10 test the matter. was
| in good health, but had lame arm. the
| result Of an accident. | did not tell Ie-
| resa She could not have known for she
| door for the purpose of obtaining an inter-
| view which | hoped might make interest
| ing reading. 1 asked Teresa, the saint or
| the Yaquis. what kind of light she saw
| around me. She took my hand and cast
her eyes downward for minute or Two
| Then she said:
| see your right side in white light but
| your Ieft-it is like smoke around it.
The young woman does not know OF
| any blood other than Mexican, Of pure
| MIS- descent
| age of sixteen. on the Caborra ranch one
day she sank into trance. In that state.
dead and alive, she remained three
| months and eighteen days.
$ I did not know anything she says.
| I did not know that | was alive dld
| not eat anything They fed me on little
| spoons of milk, but l did not take of 1t
| myself.
When she came out of this trance, she
! began to heal.
| Yaqui Indians who lived in Sonora, along
the Yaqui River. \ mysterious link seems
somehow to bind her to them They
| adore her as a deity and call her their
| mother and their madonna. Her name Of
| saint she obtained among the tribe in a
| peculiar way. She had no schooling to
| speak of. never has had and says that to
| this day she can do more than read
| and write She went to school only six
| months in all. but in that time learned
| with rapidity that seemed to the simple
| Yaquis miraculous. compared with their
| own snail pace progress in bOokish knOwl-
| edge. They concluded that none but
| saint could take her letters so quickly, so
they named her their saint To this day
| and always she is their champion and ad-
| vocate. Like Joan of Arc, Santa Teresa
| hears soundleSS voices that guide her.
But do they never guide you wrong?
[ asked
IF they told me to do anything wrong
would not obey them, she answered,
which is a very good way to follow guild
ance in general.
''One of the cases recently treated by
her was that OF a lady whose arm was
oaralyzed so that she could not move il
at all After five visits to Teresa she
was enabled 10 use that arm and hand
in dressing herself. Sometimes cures are
wrought in one treatment, but when per
sons come to her from mere curiosity she
can do nothing for them, Teresa says.
| After coming out of the trance at the
| age OF sixteen the girl frequently saw
| n visions, waking and sleeping. a radi-
| Intly beautiful head and face. with hair
1oating down TO its shoulders. She still
sees the same radiant face. When she is
tbout TO give treatment. sometimes it
suddenly with her. and Just as il ap-
| pears she feels d cold wave thrill over
| ler Spirit mediums say sometimes that
| hey experience the same sensation of
cOld as they pass under the influence.
| But whether this lovely spirit OF her yis-
.ons is man or woman Teresa does not
Know TO this day
Besides healing people the girl
breaches as solemnly and emphatically
as she knows how harmony. good will,
ship gives force and light. she says, and
without light the eye cannot see Her
| 9sychic vision has shown her that lack
| u harmony and friendship among people
| causes disease and poverty.
| Does the girl imagine all this? | do
| not know. Try for yourself. Sit in
| silence in some quiet spot a little while
| With gently closed eyes and see if pres
| antly the color currents of the great
| ,osmic ether begin to float and play be
sore your veiled vision. Try likewise
| whether friendship and harmony give
| light and force.
That / do know to be true.