Evening star., 1911-08-27
FINDS THE HUMAN AURA
BY SCIENTIFIC METHOD
London Physician Tells You
Whether or Not It Is on
Straight.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON. August 26.-Is your halo on
straight? No? You don't know? Then
go to DIR. Walter J. Kilner. let him place
you in a dim, mystical light and look at
you through the curious glass cell Of his
filled with a weird blue liquid, and he
can tell you in a minute all about your
halo
Don't laugh: 1t is a cold, solemn. sci
entific fact. DR.. Kilner, reputable ply
sician, formerly in charge of the electri-
cal department of ST. Thomas Hospital
In London, has discovered the human
aura and has written a heavy scientific
treatise about 1t.
1t exists Every human being, he in
sists, has his halo, or nimbus. or phan-
tom, or aura, or whatever you choose
to call it-a spiritual cloud that surrounds
his body-that is invisible to the ordi-
nary eye, but that, under circumstances,
can be seen.
Explains His Method.
Dr. kilner. describes how he sees the
aura. First, the patient is stripped
naked, for such coarse, material things
as clothes, mind you. will impede this
subtle, spiritual essence. Then he is
placed in dim light. about eight feet
from window covered with black serge.
Behind the patient is a black or white
screen-usually black one.
Then the observer takes his position.
He must have just enough light to be
able to see the patient after his eyes
have become accustomed to the darkness.
Having ascertained that he can barely
make out the outlines of the patient. the
observer seizes a small glass cell filled
with a mysterious, deep blue liquid, and
he looks through this liquid at fairly
bright light for half minute. At the
end of that time some alteration Will
server now stands in front of the patient
and looks through another cell Of the
same kind. but with much paler tint.
Faint Cloud Appears.
The observer looks through this paler
cell at the patient for several seconds.
Gradually faint cloud is observed to en-
velop the patient. To we'll trained eyes
the cloud is for the most part blush in
tint. This cloud completely surrounds
the body to a distance varying according
to the health and peculiarities of the pa
tent After death it vanishes entirely.
In cases of disease the outline OF the
cloud curves in, as though 1t We're
shrunken in the neighborhood of the dis
eased parts. Epileptics and those persons
afflicted with Mysteries have the halo de-
veloped more on one side Of the body
than on the other.
DR.. Kilner believes that diagnosis by
halo will become a very important part
of medical practice in the future. All the
doctor will have to do will be to look at
the patients halo to find out where he
Is sick.
Not only does the human aura's shape
and intensity change with the health OF
the body, but it's color varies also. DIR.
Kilner has not gone SO far Yet as to de-
termine what the various colors Indicate
He leaves that to the future. But some
times he sees blue and gray in the aura
and sometimes yellow and green. He has
however, noticed that in cases where a
colored patch Is seen in the aura IT is
usually found to be over some tender or
painful part of the body.
Aura of Three-Fold Nature.
The aura, as described by the doctor. is
of three-fold nature. First there comes
a dark space next to the skin and fitting
it like a glove This DR.. Kilner calls the
'etheric double" At the outer edge OF
this comes the second aura, which is not
luminous, nor can it be seen by rays or
dinarily applicable to the eye. When the
operators eye has been trained or stim
ulated by looking through the blue spec
traurine'' fluid 1t Is seen as gently stri-
ated or granular.
Outside of this comes the third aura. or
nimbus. 1t Is faint entirely structure
less, capable of being Illuminated. but
not luminous" says the doctor.
DIR. Kiner has not yet succeeded in
taking any photographs OF these aurae.
He has decided that their locations Tie
outside of the ordinary visible spectrum"