The Washington herald., 1908-05-13

And so. continued Won TaTsenheim,
| 'the thing that Ormuz, the Chaldean.
could not do for Ptolemy, King Of
Egypt. I can do for you: and though you
cannot make me grand vizier. you shall
| pay me e100.O00 Yesg'
But what is the process? That's what
want TO get at.
Yes the process. Do you know any
thing of hypnotism?"
Il have seen people hypnotized-eon-
founded fools they looked. too
''It is a lost art-that hypnotism-but
/ [ know OF it what Ormuz, the ChaIdean.
knew, and that is more than any living
man. I know also where the force comes
| from, and the planetary vibrations which
govern it. Astrology now-dO you know
anything Of that?''
Nothing whatever"
you have. not seen the tide turn,
then?"
"Ratheri or course I have"
Then you have seen the effect, with
your eyes, OF a planetary vibration But
| there are many effects you cannot see,
effects which cannot be brought before
your conscious mind. and they are very
many and very strong: so much affecting
the minds Of men, and yet no two people
are susceptible 10 exactly the same vi
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How about tWins?"
'TWins2 Are they not sensitive to the
emotions one Of the other? Oh, but very
much. I cannot make all this process
clear so shortly, but this 1 tell you:
There is a certain electric wave l find
with that wave / change I control the
planetary vibrations OF two men; I fuse
them as two metals-I make them more
/ than tWins-much more"
Vandraken looked incFedulous,
And this also was known 70 TIE Chal-
dean, that each birth 9f man leaves what
We call an aura somewhere on the uni
verse. 1t is ike reflection or shadow
and as the human being changes, So
changes the aura, and every good thought
that is projected by the human mind is
reflected on il; and then. too. the bad.
So that as a man has lived, so viii lis
aura be at his death. An, but they must
be unpleasant things TO look at, some
OF those auras."
Il say" objected Vandraken. you are
going too fast! What, exactly. is an
aura, and where does it live?"
"Ah. l am stupid. mister. / must ex-
plain more careful, more slowly For
/ instance, now. the soul. All the wise
men, al the cleTgymen, say it play hide
/ and-seek inside US" He laughed his
/ cackling laugh And that is very funny
20 me. Where is there room for it? Tn
der the diaphragm? Yes il must be very
little, very tiny, this SOUL" Then his
voice changed. and became as the voice
Of fanatic. mo, no. 1 tell you It is
on your star. the star they say you wefe
born under, of which I will explain later
not confined down here, but at large on
that star, as your body is at large here
On the immaterial plane lives the soul
! the aura-cau it what you will; on the
material plane lives the body"
May I smoker asked Vandraken.
pleasantly He believed Won Tarsenheim
was getting of a conjurer's platter, but
he felt confident that the man was pos
/ sessed of unusual powers.
The occuitist shot a curious glance at
him across the table
Certainly, Q Prince Of Materialists.
You do not, then, believe in any plane
but this?"
I have never given the matter any
thought" answered Vandraken. lighting
a cigar. at simply does not interest me.
this world does. Sull, I am always open
20 conviction, and your theory has its
/ advantage-it keeps the soul at decent
distance, way of on some star, where
il can't bother"
'Distancei distsnce"' cried Won larsen
helm. explosively. Rocks are distant
from one another-there is no such thing
as distance to the soul! Ach Gotti it is
like talking TO a treer He ran his hands
desperately through his black locks.
/ Don't you understand that there can be
no sense Of distance, when you are con
nected with your soul as two telegra ph
instruments are connected? There! tap
Ny-a-- IL -
gland. in it there are three grains of red
| eaTth-theTe is a vibration like a chord
of music. and along that invisible con-
nection the thoughts Of the body travel to
the SOUL and Inspirations Of the soul trav-
el 20 the body, and that little gland is
the receiving and sending instrument"
Your theory inquired Vandraken in
terested. Anything worth weighing ap-
pealed TO his inherited legal and business
mind.
NO" snapped Won Tarsenheim- ct IS
no ones theory. It is a fragment Of truth,
preserved in the books 1 tell you Of
from the days when the truth was
known. and mems brains were capable
of receiving IL. There were no theories
in those days. my friend, and only one
religion-as there would be to-day, If the
! truth of the universe were understood.
There are traces of truth in all religions.
| The recording angel. nowi A mans soul
self is created perfect. and as he de-
faces it, or as he keeps it in perfection,
so is his own record Of his life. Yes. my
friend, each man is hts own recording
angel and I tell you there are some un-
pleasant moments after death. When a
man has To meet his own soul. and see
It as it is, as it was. as it might have
been-that by friend, Is the second death.
! For ] tell you that the survival OF the
fittest is a law which runs all through
the universe; and the soul which is not
in tune with the master chord cannot
live long, for the very harmony with
which il is out of tune will enervate It.
and at an opposite combination of the
planets under which it was created 1t dis
integrates. decrystallizes. and ceases to
| exist as consciousness. Your Bible will
tell you that a geological garden of i'm
/ perfect creatures is kept preserved in
flame No. no. The scrap-pile. my
friend-the scrap-pile. the melting-pot.
and recasting All, yes; 1t was the melt
/ ing-pot and its symbol, the flame, from
which your hell was taken. Ali that is
in my books. It is very interesting, but
for our purpose it leads to this-every
/ thought must be recorded somewhere;
/ there Is ne invention TO prevent that.
| You lead the material life. you deface
| the soul; backward and forward the re-
ffections go from earth TO star, and so
on the human face the record is also
written. This is where my invention
comes in. 1 cannot overcome the law
of record, but I can'-the occultist rose
from his chair and gazed down at Van
/ draken's face ltTiumphantly-'I tell you,
I can transfer ali your thought vihra-
| tlons to the soul of another. provided I
ind a man who is Of the same star who
will permit that I hypnotic him"
"Ah! now you are beginning to talk
business. said Vandraken, putting
thoughtfully at his cigar ITO paw an
other man to stand for the consequences
OF ali l de-thats what I'm after.