Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — A Brahmin Who Moves Materials by Will. [ARTICLE]

A Brahmin Who Moves Materials by Will.

Dr. Peebles, who was formerly Cpnsulat cesl the powers of tha average SpiritTrebizond, tells the following, which exualist: The old man said : “If you will take vour seats I will say my prayers ; then I think I shall have power to move any object in this room. ” He prayed most devoutly. I saw on the table a manuscript book; over on the corner weie some peacock plumes or feathers. He went through with his prayers, and burned incense. He then prayed again. “Now,” said the old man, “ I have r the powertomoveby my will. If you please to call it, I will command anything in this room to move. ” I said, “ Will you please to move that book on the stand, command that book and he pointed to it, and said, “ Come this way,” and the book trembled, fell to the floor, and slipped along the floor to his feet. He told the feathers to come out of the case. They leaped around the room. I was astonished. I was surprised. I said, “Tell me how you do this.” He said, “You, an enlightened man, ask a poof Brahmin heathen how ho does this. I believe ifi Brahm, the one living and true God, as you say ; and Bra Gin is powerful. He moves all material things, and just, so fat I become Brab in-like or God-like,, just so fiir as I control my passions, subdue my earthly nature and live in tlie divine, in the same ratio do I have power to move anything within range of toy voice or my radiations. Andso,” said he, “by prayer, by the holy life, I have obtained this divine power from Brahm.” And then he told me how he lived ; about-his bathing, about his food, about his prayers, a most devout life. Before I rosb to go, I said to him that in our country we ate considerable- animal food; He replied, “Ihave so heard.” He said furthermore, ‘‘ I have heard,(hat ip your country you actually eat swine’s flesh. Is it so?” I told him ‘ ‘ Yes, we ate swine. ” Said he, “As the lobster is the scavenger of the sea, swine are the scavengers of the earth. They eat the filthiest food, they are unhealthy and full of scrofula, forbidden by the Vedas. And I have heard you actually kill these hogs, and bury them and eat them when they have beefi six months dead ! Gbbd day,,” said he, and the old man ■would not snake hands with me.