The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02

There is large class of people who
are much impressed by what they do
not understand This, doubtless, has
much to do with the following of many
persons who establish some sort of
cult and talk vaguely about the over
soul and the astral world. To be alb
lutely ineligible destroys the charm.
There has recently been started mag
azine which is devoted to exploiting
the psychic, and while it may be ex-
ceedingly Illuminating to the initiated,
it is jargon to one whose mind has
never been directed toward the occult.
The writer has been looking over
copy and finds that she is decidedly
not "in it, so far as occultism goes.
She is torn between a realization of
her own ignorance and desire to call
the subject matter Of the magazine
nonsense. In other words, Marie has
made the painful discovery that she is
not a soul-student. Soul-student is
psychic for scholar.
According to an article in this mag
azine called Psychic Goodness" the
writer says that psychologists have
made the wonderful discovery that
wickedness leaves scars upon the mind
and taints the blood; therefore evil and
sin are to be avoided. Science, it
says. proves that we must be good. We
may, however, be permitted to doubt
some of the writer's statementsp he
says: 1T is liable to be shown now
that the mind Of man has no limit.
This is overwhelming. The writer has
had several glimpses of this; but in
the great scientific meeting in st.
Louis few weeks ago this supernaF
wonder was shining and glowing on
human faces. See in what an intense
psychic place the writer was. 1t was a
room filled with mathematicians How
hard for the general reader to even
think Of these men! First and above
all their minds are as pure as the hui
man mind can be on this planet and
under iron control"
Now leaving out of account that the
above does not seem to mean any
thing in particular, we are willing to-
admit that the thought of a lot of
mathematicians with absolutely pure
minds is certainly overwhelming, but
then we come under the head of the
general reader" who is not expected
to take it in. However, we grasp-with
great regret-the split infinitive in the
quotation even if unable to appreciate
the doctrine. He continues that if a
man has a pure mind and a controlled
We heeEe had lately certainly does not
argue much for the purity of mascu-
line minds, but then We only throw
this out as suggestion.
All joking aside, this magazine and
Its promoters are urging virtue for
its own sake, and to make this earth a
sort of paradise filled with perfect
people. In other words, they would
eliminate sin, not to purify the SOUL so
much as the body. They believe it will
be possible to make this earth a sort
of materialistic heaven. Their ideas
resemble Christian Science in so far
that they believe if they can succeed
in eliminating disease and accident
people may not die at all. Then. too.
they object to drugs.
What they are really driving at it
IS impossible for mere tyro to saw.
and feminine one at that. But we
strongly suspect that it is because of
that very quality Of haziness that this
psychic cult is on the increase. One
thing is certain, they are encourage
and pleading for virtue and so long as
they do that, it makes for good. even
II we cannot all approve of the meth
DDS and motives involved. We have
CLEANED from the perusal of this arti-
Gle that men engaged with mathe-
MATES are supposed to have singularly
pure minds, and that assists some
what. Why mathematics more than
chemistry or law or anything else, we
Know not. We were also impressed
with the scarcity of mathematicfans for
some reason Or another, but as was
said in the beginning, this is due to
ignorance of OCcultiS1O