The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-20
PARIS HAS A NEW CULT
BELIEVERS IN THE .INNER MYS-
TERIES" GREATLY ENCOURAGED.
Young Psychometrist Makes AstOund-
ing Observation-Disclosures Of an An
cient 'soothsayer Are Found.

Correspondence OF the indianapolis Journal.
PARIS, Sept. 19.-Belieyers here in the in
ner mysteries and the people with whom
such matters are merely fad are much ex-
ercised over the revelations made by young
psychometrist through the antiquarian
researches of NJ. Gayet.
1t seems a long bark back from the Paris
of to-day to the time of Myrithes. the sooth-
sayer of old Antinoe, but the psychometric
link has been established, according TO the
most incontrovertible evidence Paris laughs.
wonders and looks serious by turns, for if
Communication can be effected with ancient
Antinoe, psychometrically, why not SINH
larly with modern Mars?
Already the vendors of crystals are reap
ing large harvest from wealthy students
of the mystic. but, alas. a genuine psyche
metrist is not born every day. The facts in
the case are that NJ. Gayet, an eminent
French antiquarian. in the course of
searches made in the ancient country of An
tinoe, discovered the tomb of the once fam
Gus soothsayer, Myrithes In the tomb with
the body were found a number of imple-
ments of the woman's craft, notably a mag
ic mirror and a quantity of cabalistic writ
ings. The news of the discovery came to the
tdiS VI a ttitdill tAiItutiy Silltu yOuh5
psychometrist, who requested permission to
handle the mirror. The privilege was
corded him by NJ. Gayet, with results which
were decidedly astonishing to the latter.
The psychometrist described to him faith
fully the country of Antinoe and minute de-
tails of the costumes of the period in which
the magician lived, although at the time
when he took the mirror in his hand he
knew nothing concerning them. NJ. Gayet
was able to gather information from his
statements which rendered all of his dis
coveries thoroughly ineligible. Finally the
psychometrist called up such vivid pictures
of slaughter and horrors that NJ. Gayet had
to ask him to stop. The case, although by no
| means solitary one, is considered the most
remarkable on record. Physicians who ex-
amined the young man say that his ex-
traordinary powers are due to the fact that
his brain vibrates at one hundred pulsations,
whilst that of the ordinary man vibrates at
| fifty-four. In spite of scientific incredulity,
psychometry is considered by many able
minds to be quite natural phenomenon.
COULD THINK TO A STAR.
Professor Crookes asserts that if a man
could lift himself above the influence of ter
restrial gravitation he could preciptate his
| thoughts through space to another man On
any given star with force, accuracy and
| many times the speed of light. The study of
brain waves, like the study of light waves,
| is yet in its infancy. The latter will be much
| advanced when we know more about radi-
UNI. If radium can contain-or absorb-an
| endless quantity of light waves, why, then,
cannot the mirror retain of the brain
waves reflected through it?
| If muscle reading be easy of explanation,
nervous induction and brain waves are
| things which science has never been able to
| master. Yet they most certainly exist. The
| air is full of brain waves it is of sun
beams and starlight. They are sent abroad
unconsciously and in almost all cases I'M
I consciously received. Our mental apparatus
for sending out brain waves is all right,
but the mental apparatus for receiving
them is in an exceedingly crude condition
Perhaps it is not intended that it should be
| fully developed in normal beings, but, in
! that case, one is inclined to ask ''Why
should it have been placed there at ALP
In the opinion of many the day is coming
when psychometry will be a branch of study
| in our colleges. 1t has already received con-
siderable attention in some of them. In one
of the scientific schools here a most inter-