SPIRITUALISM EXTRAORDINARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 180, 30 July 1881, Page 1

SPIRITUALISM EXTRAORDINARY

I was staying lately "ata friend's house, and he gave me the journal of the Theosophical Society of Bombay to read. ts® r f at of theAssociation I find is that matter can. pass through matter. $his,of course, is opposed al : most universally to our prdsent exper- ; I!° ee? a^ d. jwho; assert ; that matter can;and^dpes pass.through ! matter are looked upon as impostor^ or deceived.. It is a pijty- that in all recorded cages in Europe there is mystery ; of procedure, but in this country many instances are given in which there is no room for anything else but the thought that the persons bearing testimony are mistaken. Some years ago several strange .manifestations took place in the house ofaEuropeatt family atSt.Thoinas' Mount, vhe feature'^ 1 them* beingthat mate passed through, matter,'and- on en,'4uWJ I have foun.cUhat similar manifestrttions -occasionally occur ifl Hindu houses; 'What I-wish tb; sa: y, however, is this. My friend hot only took in the ' journal;but he was reading other publications of a/similar character, witK-the ; object of discovering whether the contention could be true, "til tell you why" he said "the subject has interest for me. Four or five years a^o, on ! gomg into my shop one morning, I found a poor Hahomedan standing/near the well in the compound. He wore nothing but a cloth around his loins. Thinking | he might be a thief I askfeil him Whal he was"; about; he answered that the i shade of my frees, and the water were ; inviting, and that he merely wished to ! rest. Concluding that he was a beggar, ; and wishing that Wshould go I ofered i him money, which he refused. I next asked him. ifche wanted anything else, , arid he bbgged.that sonie milk might be given Kin?.; The milk was brought, land he drank it.. , He next asked: for some Ganjabieaf, and this also was sup^ : plied. He ate theJeaf. care^ I fully washed,hb ateahd djarik: tipihing else during tte whole of his stay which I lasted two weeks. Knowing what the man was ; I 'did not interfere with him. He stayed ,ifl the compound of my shop, and my servants under my orders sup. I plied him with milk and ganjah when* |he askfed fbi theiii..' On the third day i he cam6 to me and said, 'you have been ; very kind, I should like to show you : what I caridd; Let me have a rdpee.' jHe touched the rupee, and told me to i market. With my penknife I cut my | initials on it. 'Now send the rupee ''■ (he said) to the bazaar'. I cent it by a servant telling him to purchase sweetmeat with it. The servant went and brought the sweetmeat. The man next held out his hand in the air and said 'Come! come !' in Hidustani, and the ; rupee came into his hand. He handed ;i.t to- me. It was the rupee with my ; initials. He next asked me for my ! watch; which he touched. 'Put it into a :bc^:,' heisftid. it^ot fijChubbVbox out of |m 7 shop, and., with: my, owiii hands put i the watch intoi it^ locking the box, and j patting the siiigle and "duplicateV ji^ip 'injr ;E(C ni^e pass of 1* W qyer the box, and asked me to open i it.-; ,:The watch had disappeared. 'You I will mail itlfi that rqoht,' he sai^ p6mt!jDg^^o my y ab^jt;2o ;yardsTawaywjhich was locked.: < Open j th& door and put your arm "in/ I'did Iso and the watch was dropped into my jpalni.' * .Have r r yoii aiiy objection,' I I asked, 'to my having others(my servanta jwere around, me) to witnees what you ido.' 'Not*t all,'he^aid; I therefore, j day after day, irivjted friends, who came,&s witnessecf ■ various other exj tradrdinary ; feats. Anything '■- touched by the man in my shopcame clean-aWay |to us, and 7yi.k .\7ei*e r: se 7 atec(.iiear thego4P^ns- He broviglit grapes and melons j from the air^ and they, were riot in seaI son. He spokei to something iri tWaif, Isayirig qiiicgl We are waiting!' ;arid Ihen^tiirhing to us would add— !' there it is'comings hold out your hand,' ! and the; fruft wouJd drop into them. On ; asking the man^tp expla|n, he'said there I were spirit^ \u the airj |not disembodied spirits; but spirits j which had their existence theife entirely j * They are cori^ojl^bfo by 1 man aid if | you wish, to go through the same preparation as I have gone through, you can |be equally as powerful,' He professfed I to he-able without the telegraph, to com| imunicafe with his Cruru ;who was in 'Galshmere. When he got more corifijdence in me He" produced sdme paper's :from his cloth, and 04 reading them, 1 saw that they- w;ere certificate^ from men ;of very high position (Europeans land others) in the PuDJabyN. W. Prol Ivinbes; stating that thd bearer hacl exihibited before, them, anil; that, hewas I a persou of extraordinary power. One j morning, 1 on - relchin'g the shpp I wks itbld that he was riot to be fbundi' t.egnl' ito the bazaar^ arid all. about the, town> .but. not a trace of him could be discover- ; ed. ■■ You can understand now, I thmisi, i wiry'l take an interest in th^Th'eogopaf 1 ical: Society, t wish to see whether ; their investigations will laybare the se^ Icrefe of the 1 eitraordiuary power by j which iriatter, can be miade to pass i through \ niatter. If a 1 discovery is to be made it can'be made in India alone, where the race of G;urus has not yet \ ceased td''^xUt.-^-MixdHas Mail, Alpnl 23rdJ.881, : , ;,