The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-14

body, but Ii was A thing so utterly
immaterial as to be absolutely invis-
ible to the human eye. I could talk,
walk, see and hear--because ] had all
my sensations with me. the guiding
essence of my brain, too; but really
my voice, for instance. was not audi
bic, because when / opened my spir-
itual mouth Ii was only with the SEN
sation of speaking, and no real sound
was made; or. to put another txpla-
nation before you, my voice had be-
come refined in proportion with the
rest of me, and was pitched in such n
sound wave as the human ear was
not capable of receiving and concen-
tratinS.
At that moment this seemed very
interesting to me, and / settled myself
comfortably back in my chair and
laughed long and loudly. OF course, l
could go back into my own body at
any time. and matters would straight
en- themselves out at once. l sat
speculatively contemplating my body.
1t was an interesting moment
My body was sitting in the chair in
exactly the same position 1 had been
when | left it, or rather, I should say,
we had been when left 1t. bent over
and touched it-or him. He felt warm
and natural, but not as If asleep.
There was no beating of the heart, no
rise or fall of the breast as in breath
ing; the eyes were open and fixed, but
not CLASSY; the joints apparently fiex-
ible, though, of course, could not have
moved one to see-in short. my body
presented every appearance of sus-
pended animation. l resolved not to try
to get back into my body just at pres
ent, and was still sitting there wonder
ing about my double self when the
door opened and my sister, the one
who brought the letter, came in; she
was my favorite, and we were great
friends. She glanced at me, and, sup
posing was asleep, drew a chair over
to the window and waited for me to
awaken.
The fire was burning brightly in the
crate, and, as ill-luck would have it,
bright little coal sprang out and fell
on my lap-that is, the lap of my body.
1t seems that there was yet some sort
of a connection between us, because
while the coal burnt into the leg of
my body it was / who felt the sensa-
tions. I rushed over to myself and
attempted to brush it off. OF course, 1
could not. The pain was really unbear-
able, and, forgetting my state, 1 called
to Mary, my sister; of course, she did
not hear mel This was worse dilem-
ma than before. l decided at once to
resume my proper condition, when,
Il Il
not know how.
1t was true-I had been SO constant
ly occupied in endeavoring to get out
of myself as it We're. that / had COM
pletely omitted to learn the way to get
in! This was worse than anything
previous. l forgot all about the glow
ing coal which was still burning me,
in the dreadful possibility which rose
before me. Suppose they should bury
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cation forever, or at least until my
body resolved itself into it's primordial
elements? knew, of course. my spir-
it would never die. and if my body did
turn to dust, would my spirit so with
those of other departed beings as the
Bible teaches us, or would the fact that
l had taken my spirit in my own
hands, as it were, condemn me to wan
der forever in my present state?
l certainly felt my spiritual hair
turn gray What would become of Ger
aldine? Would 1 ever see her again, or
would she ever see me? sWould she at
last forget me and marry some one
else and force me to stand powerless
looking on? l ground my spiritual teeth
in rage and anger and clenched my
spiritual hand and cwore-but what
was the use of swearing? / could not
do anything. / was too utterly eth
haunt anyone, too ephemeral for a
ghost event.! oh, horrori / thought my
brain would give way. 1 thought of
everything L could recall to help me
out.
l had dabbled little in hypnotism,
and had experimental surreptitiously
on various. members of my family,
principally on my sister Mary, and
with some effect Now, hypnotism is
the controlling of one will by another
The will is an essential attribute of .he
spirit, there Smoothing gross about It,
1t is true that the weakest and most
physically imperfect specimens of this,
two-fold race of ours sometimes pos
sess the most powerful wills, plainly
then body, physically considered, had
nothing to do with this. will power
which is the secret of hypnotic force
Apparently / had my will power in
better shape for use than at any time
in my corporate body. had 1t sepa-
rated, under command, and could con-
centrate it more easily and advantage
ously. I would try it.
I got up, made the usual passes and
ordered Mary to come and throw that
coal off my leg. She did so at once.
was delighted. She stood abashed end
silent in the presence of the, to her,
hidden force controlling her. 1t flashed
upon me in an instant I could cause
her to open the volume OF Archidechus
an turn the pages for me. JOY! No
sooner said than done.
sat down beside her and willed her
to do as directed. hastily made her
turn to the part which treated of the
resumption of the relationship; a. new
disappointment awaited me-the learn
ed Archidechus stated that the indf-
vidual in the case he studied had new
er assumed his normal condition. and
that the means of doing so were en-
tirely unknown to him That took
my last hopel
Mechanically I released Mary from
the influence and then waited to see
what she would do. Her glance fell
upon me and she looked at me Won
deringly.
why" she said. how long Harry
sieeps!" She touched him on the
shoulder, Harry Harry and
then she looked in his face and scream
ed.
The family, the servants, every one.
came running in. They filled my little
room, and after narrowly escaping he
ing crushed to death by our fat cook.
who Historically sank back in the
chair in which was sitting, l walked
over to the corner of the room and
waited. They picked him up and laid
him on the bed and tried all the sim
pie remedies they knew to revive him.
One poured brandy down my physical
throat-imagine the sensation in INV
spiritual one-another one chafed NV
hands; one wetted q towel and struck
me repeatedly with 1t; the oId-fash-
Toned feather was held under my
physical nose-imagine my spIrftual
sensation q thousand times fntens,f;ad