Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-19

newt is simply the ancient faith of
The Tibetan adopts, compound OF
philosophy and science. born of a life
long study of the occult.
He was born near Benares. he says.
and his father was the Rajah Sarak,
his mother the Marquise de Saint
Pierre. Perhaps that is why he is
sometimes taken for an oriental. and
at other times for polished Latin.
He speaks seven languages, from San
scrit to French, fiuently. and English
least we'll of all. He studied under
the Llamas of Tibet, under professors
Paris and spent much time in South
America. Thus it comes about that,
while his doctrine seems to be founded
on the ancient belief of Brahmanism. it
is blended with an admixture of mod
ern science and latter-day psychology.
spiritualism and theosophy.
Received as a prophet by a few, he
has become interesting to many. His
demonstrations. he asserts, are not to
satisfy idle curiosity, but are exhibit
tions of the truths which he seeks to
impart. There is his profession of the
possibility of double vision. By medi-
tation and communion with unseen
powers, he urges, it is possible for man
to develop a vision not dependent upon
optics.
To prove this he has permitted him
self to be blindfolded, bandaged. by
whomsoever will. until his head is
swathed about with cloth. and then he
paints pictures. putting mountain
where you indicate with a pencil, a
house here a fence there. until his
accuracy in locating the points becomes
weird. In the same sort of headgear
he has played dominoes. handling only
the backs of the pieces, and placing
them with unerring accuracy-winning
his game
Harder to understand. perhaps, is his
theory about the astral body, which
incases the material form, yet moves
about on an astral plane.
You go up street. You feel that
some one is near you. You turn. You
see a friend. You have not seen him
with the eye. No, no. You have felt
what eye cannot see and ear cannot
hear" he explains in his broken Eng
lish.
By way of demonstrating this theory
in a material way DIR. Sarak photo
graphs your astral self For one com
pany of Washingtonians he performed
an experiment designed to prove his
point that one may, by exercise of Will.
affect the physical body of another
through influencing his astral body.
First, here is his explanation of the
photography of the astral;
Material objects are photographed
by means of material light. and we say
material with intention. for light is. in
fact. but "A composition of molecules;
therefore il we want to photograph
ethric objects or fuidic forms we must
use ethric light which exists in our
aura
ut is necessary to know first the
secret of the vibrations. because. II
these aura do not undulate, there will
be no possible transmission. and 1t is
Indispensable that the latent light be
made sensitive, that light which Is
called in Sanscrit .akasa.' or astral
light
Thus. as in ordinary photography
light is Indispensable: so in fiuidic pho
Biography the. opposite is the case. for
generally, ordinary or artificial light is
an obstacle. and il is then indispensable
to operate in the most profound obscur-
ity or with feeble yellow light pro-
duced by the reflection of a bright
glass of that color"
II the theory leaves his hearers some.
what puzzled, the demonstration BY
way of proof Is apt to do the same
Taking a camera. on the occasion ir
question. DR.. Sarak proceeded to take 9