The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-31
THE SAINT OF THE YAQUIs.
Something About the Young Mag
netic Healer of Mexico.

many numfuSS. ScientiStS n.lNt tOutluu-
ed that light, electricity, and magnetism
are produced by vibrations of some
| thing which they call 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 n 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 a 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 hex She is
tail ana Sight, Will a SNttts vain ''@~>f
! 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, unlettersd girl believes IN
| herself. at any rate.
| 81 asked her TO show me how she treated
patients. She took my right hand IN ner
| 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
1 power in the thumb, occult ana other
| wise. When persons are chronicaily as
| couraged and down on their luck, me
| thumb droops and sinks inside the palm
| Sometimes Teresa treats patients by
| stroking them upon the head, face, or
\ body She says she feels that is the
right way, and this is all she knows
| about it,
| ~ heard somewhere that the gorgeous
| rainbow tinted aurora boreaifs OF the
polar regions Is nothing more or iess
| than the play Of the cosmic ether cur
rents. | asked Teresa IL when treating
she saw colors before her eyes and
"HOh. YES, she replied Sometimes
| when 1 stroke people ! seem 10 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, L usually see
| him in white light
| Il determined to test the matter. 1 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
had never heard of me till | entered her
door for the purpose of obtaining an inter-
| view which / hoped might make interest
| ing reading. l 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 a minute or two
Tits strange. I don't understand. I
see your right side in white light, but
| your left-it Is like smoke around it.
THE young woman does not know Of
any blood other than Mexican, OF pure
IT, her afrad a
| 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 did
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.
She began her rninistrations among the
| 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
peculiar way. She had no schooling to
speak of, never has had and says that to
this day she can do no 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 adj
vocate. Like Joan of Arc. Santa Teresa
hears soundIess voices that guide her.
But do they never guide you wrong?'
e If they told me to do anything wrong
| would not obey them. she answered,
which is 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 to use that arm and hand
in dressing herself. Sometimes cures are
wrought in one treatment. but when per-
CONS 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-
| unity beautiful head and face, with hair
loating down to its shoulders. She still
sees the same radiant face. When she is
about to give treatment. sometimes it
| suddenly with her. and just it APP
| pears she feels a cold wave thrill over
| ler. Spirit mediums say sometimes that
hey experience the same sensation of
,Old as they pass under the influence
But whether this lovely spirit of her Wis
Ons is man or woman Teresa does not
know to this day.
Besides healing people the girl
breaches as solemnly and emphatically
she knows how harmony. good will.
and friendship among mankind. Friend,
ship gives force and light. she says, and
without light the eye cannot see. Her
psychic vision has shown her that lack
u harmony and friendship among people
| causes disease and poverty.
Does the girl ina CINE 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
| entity the color currents of the great
,osmic ether begin to float and play be-
core your yelled vision Try likewise
whether friendship and harmony give
light and force
THAT | do know to be true.