Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10

In India
There are many men with rare faculties for
manipulating the natural forces of the uni
verse the forces within themselves. and the
external forces. They believe each OF us is
an embryonic Christ. who can work mira
cles and cast out devils. and see and Know
God. Vivckanada. the representative OF
Hinduism at the worlds fair parliament of
religions says that the Yogi proposes to
himself to master the whole universe, TO
control the whole Of nature. He wants TO
arrive at the point where what We call
natures laws will have no influence over
him; where he viii be able to get beyond
them all: he will be master of the whole
OF nature. external and internal: the Prog
ress and civilization of the human race IS
simply this controlling of nature.
There is not muscle in tle body. they
say. which man cannot learn TO control.
Even the heart beats or rests as it is babe.
Such men are young and fresh at l"o. Not
"a hair turns \ friend of Prof. James OF
Harvard tried some of their practices. and
In few months declares that he WaS a
new man. lie had been prone formerly
TO excessive as-'Cude. He accomplished
little because there was great waste OF
ply steal energy. But now he has got out
a book and is Astounding in Vitality and
good spirits. He does Temarka bic physical
fedts, IKE KISSING ms hilctS without pet!u-
ing them. taking but one breath d minute,
suDsisting on the slenderest fare, one meal
a DAY or some such regimen
There are elaborate systems all over india
for reducing the unused energies of men.
Ii is the matter sometimes of HE fairly
from th. cradle to the grave to evoke these
powers to the fun Bat when they are
evoked they repay the lifetime or labor
and death has no more dominion over them.
These men walk In the hitler world and In
the incarnate world alike. And when they
have shuffled off the mortal coil they are
freed forever So they declare.
Are these powers peculiar TO the people of
India? What if you and 1 could evoke
some amazing faculty from within us that
would rule and control things ard free us
from the letters OF fate and nature?
Why is It
That mind is superior to matter. Why can
It control matter? Why can the people who
rely upon the higher forces really and
actually control the lower?
There are many ways of explaining ,his
But however We explain II, and whether We
say il Is Sod power or man power or nature
power or anything else, there are certain
facts that serve to enlighten even the ex-
plantations and which hold true in any case
We may say that our eyes are windows OF
the soul or We may say that they are the
organs of sight. or that they are combina-
ocular paraphernaiis. and that God made
them, or that they developed of themselves
or that we somehow develop them But in
any event the nature of the eye is I'M
changed, and the ma terials composing II
are unchanged. and its action remains the
same.
So with the superphysical powers which
are used and cultivated more and more the
world over And to whatever We attribute
them and whatever We name them, their
oil No
is that they are finer forces They are
forces that work through finer medium
of matter a subtler matter than the ordin-
airy physical -foIces. Sound. We Know,
works through the atmospheric air. Elec-
tricity, we know. works through the ether,
a liner matter than atmospheric ar And
we know that electricity il ever much
stronger and ever so much more rapid than
the sound waves. Feeling. emotion, Is
another force. yet finer. working through
q yet finer medium o! matter. Emotions
sway the world for many men They oper-
ate through q matter real like every other