The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13
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copyright, 1909, by John Elfreth Wat,
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So many of our men OF achievement arc
becoming devotces OF mysticism that we
may commence to question whether the
podern tendency Is. after all. toward a
more material plane.
n lawsuit recently revealed that nc
less a light than Paul Morton. ex-secre
tary OF the navy, and now one of the
leading hnanclcrs OF New York. had been
tho president OF the ASsocia ton for the
Study of Ancient Wisdom, organized by
the followers OF Sri Agumya Guru Param-
hamsa, the dread tiger Mahatma OF
India lately condemned 10 four months
IN n London prison for insulting women
who had responded to his advertisements
for a typcwritist. MIR Morton had sub
Rcribed SlOo 10 the cause and another d!-
sciplc OF tho seer had been Nine. Emma
Eames, the diva. Abroad this tiger Ma
latma. had found disciples equally eX-
eltcd. He was introduced i'm England by
the famed Professor Max Muller OF OK
ford, upon whose recommendation Lon
don received him with open arms and in
his Life and Letters You viii lind Pro-
only real saint or yogi who has ever
come to England. II was after making
this splash IN London that the yogi came
10 New York proclaiminc: Il am god; /
Another cN-rabinct officer who has FOR
come time been Interested in the occult
sciences is Lyman }. Cage. secretary OF
the treasury IN the Mckinley cabinet.
lIo has for some years been an Interested
member Of that organization of ghost
hunters, the Society for Psychical Re
search, and recently he built himself a
cottage near to Mime. Katherine Ting
loy's temple within the Thcosophist coll
ony at Point Iona. Cal. where the much
discussed Raja Yoea school is located,
q S,nlf Al snc sls.
ball star and sporting goods man, also
went into retirement lately Upon its
being announced THAI Mr.. Gaco had Joined
the thcosophists in response to u dream
suggestion, he gave out the statement
that he had not hcen invited ~ join the
society. but would consider IL an honor
to be. Here are two noted iiuancicrs with
established reputatio rs leaders Of mon
captains OF Industry. il YOU like.
Noted Editors Tegt.
a no less solid man who is now an en-
thusiastic dcvotco Of the mystic sciences
is DR.. lsaak X. Funk. the head of tho
nails, and the editor OF the Standard Die
tionarr. Some time ago IL was announced
that Dr.. Funk had been the principal in
most interesting psychic experiment.
1Ic shut himself in q room In Brooklyn at
the same witchinS hour when, by prcar-
ranscment> - group OF people in a room
at Lyons. y. Y. were hypnotZed and
commanded TO concentrai ic on Dr.. Funk.
Thcn when the doctor, in his room drew
fish. lis said the hypuotized ones at
Lyons said FISH. while when he raised
his arm toward the ceiling they cN-
claimed. "Hc points upward.
When DR.. Funk was compiling the
Standard Dictionary he wished TO use q
drawing OF the widows mite An an
oient coin worth hundreds Of dollars, 4
specimen was found in tho possession OF
a friend of Henry Ward Bcccher, who ar
ranged that his friend, Dr.. Funk, could
borrow il,
Then Beecher died and time passed
without the doctor thinking more about
the matter until some time ago, when he
was Investigating a SplrituaiisL medium,
who announced a communication from The
departed divine. Beechcr reminded DIT.
Funk that the 'widow's mite" had never
been returned. and directed him 10 seek II
IN tho editors office safe under Il stack of
old papers. Then Or, Funk searched as
directed and. he alleges. found the coin
Just where the supposed spirit said il
would he, but whore no one. not even the
rasher, had suspected that ii had so long
rsposed. These and other alleged expert
ences have brought the learned lexicog
rsphcr TO the conclusion that there are
whole classes Of phenomena which point
clearly 10 the operation OF intelligent
forces that exist outside Of what we know
as human bodies" He. however. refuses
- declare himself spiritualist.
Ealniin Garland and astral" Forms.
Uamin Garland. the novelist, is also