Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 December 1897 — Page 3

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A MYSTICISM SflKINE.

THEOSOPHISTS TO BUILD A TEMPLE SCHOOL AND HOTEL.

Practical Men of Business to G1T« a Hall Million to Develop the Occult—A Unlqut Enterprise to Be Called The City ot

Light Overlooking San Diefo Bay.

[Special Correspondence.]

BAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. l.—'The theosophists can always be depended on do something unique, original and striking. The followers of Mma Blavatsky'i cult area singularly earnest and devoted band who do not care in the least ii others smile at them, and such is th( sincerity of their desire to lift mankind out of the lower levels of life that thej

THE TEMPORARY TEMPLE OF MYSTERIES.

are willing to be langhed at if only th€ laughter draws attention to the ladder* they are poking down from the highei planes where they themselves live.

Possibly that is why they have named the institution they are hatching intc life at San Diego a "School For the Revival of Lost Mysteries of Antiquity." Otherwise it would strike the ordinary, untheosophic person that they mighi have found a less fantastic and equally descriptive name for an institution that has a sound financial basis and the backing of solid, practical men of business.

The theosophists have bought and paid for over 200 acres of land on Point Loma, a high promontory that- guard* the entrance to San Diego bay, and it is said that they paid for it without question at such a good round rate tha» the people of the town began to think the boom had come again. The land alone has cost them in tho neighborhood of $40,000. Tho temple and other buildings which are in contemplation will cost some $250,000, and a large hotel and sanitarium, which are already being built, havo put $25,000 into circulation, while othbr improvements which are being planned will call for $150,000 more. Altogether the initial expense of the School For the Revival oi the LoBt Mysteries of Antiquity yill be nearly $500,000. But the institution it tho dearest dream of the believers in theosophy, aud among them are so many men and women of wealth that there it no lack of funds.

Cauie In a Vision.

Among those who are intensely interested in the new project and who are furnishing the money for its realization, as well as tho heartiest mental and moral support, are E. A. Neresheimer, the diamond importer, wbos' place of business is at 20 Maiden lane, Now York iity C. A. Griscom, the vice president of the International Steamship company Dr. J. D. Buck, who has beon for 20 years a professor in the Pulto dical college of Cincinnati. The plans for the buildings are now being perfected in New York. It iB said that Mrs. Katherine Tingley, the leadei of tho society, had a vision while in India during her recent trip around the world in which she saw tho plan of the sohool, the buildings as they will look when completed and the place which must be chosen as its site. It is also said that it is she who, with occult help, is preparing the plans for the building. It was Mrs. Tingley who, nf foundress of the institution, laid the foundation Btone at the exercises held some months ago.

The institution is to bo called the •'City of Light," and it is incorporated under the laws of West Virginia. The plans contemplate the ereotiou of many buildings, but tiiis is to be done slowly, as there is need for them. At present the only one that is in actual course of erection is for a hotel and sanitarium, tinder the supervision of Dr. Lorin A. Wood, formerly of Westerly, R. I. Dr Wood bad lived in Westerly many year* and had there a large and lucrative practice which he gave up for the sake of helping on the fortunes of the City oi Light His hotel and sanitarium will bo ready for occupancy by the new year, and while tho doors aro to be open to all who wish to lodge therein it is not supposed, of course, that ill or traveling theosophists will wish to go elsewhere.

A Floe View.

The site of the mystery sohool on Point Loma is very beautiful—so beautiful indeed that Charles Dudley Warner ham said that it commands one of the three finest views in the world. Point Loma extends along finger of land hall way across the entrance to San Diegc bay, and to the west one looks out over the tumbling waters of the blue Pacific and to the east over the landlocked bay and the shipping gathered there, the towered roof of the Goronado hotel, the city of San Diego, the foothill# and the mountains beyond.

It is the belief of those who are interested in this institution that the people of today are so absorbed in the outer affairs of life—-buying and selling. dressing and dining, making money and spending it—that the inner, high* er nature is neglected and starved. Hie professional man, the businessman* the laboring man and their wives and families are all so occupied with the hurly Irnrly effort of getting money enough to feed their needs am? their desires that they do not give heed to noble aspirations and csihn. sweet ideals, and the theoeophists vfish to build the City of Light as a refage and a help for all who desire to get out of life something more than the usual physical aul mental gratifications. They say that in all ages titer* hare been certain ones who have lived near totb* inner forces of nature, who have realised la their lives the principle of the universal brotherhood of man and for whom

the veils liave fallen down and revealed the realities of life. Lost Mysteries.

The people who attend the Point Loma school will study the lives and the works and the methods of living and thinking of these elect, in whatever age and country they may have been born. And therein is found the reason for the rather fantastical name they have given their institution—the School For the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity. They wish to study and revive the mysteries of life, the things veiled from the great herd of humanity, and as the chosen ones whose life and thought were such that the veils fell from their eyes lived in ancient rathex than in modern times they say "the mysteries of antiquity."

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and living rooms for students and pn pilw. The permanent cornerstone is not put into this building. It will be oi four pieces, each put together in the form of a cup, in a manner known tc theosophist stonemasons. Each pyramid will be furnished by a different country —Egypt, Scotland, Ireland and America. The American stone comes from Six Nations reservation in upper New York state. The foundation stones represent hundreds of oities and states in the United States and abroad, wherevei there are organizations for occult studv interested in the revival of the mysteries.

In the matter of instructors the the osophical theory obtains that all through the ages there have been certain "masters" having knowledge oi matters unknown even to the savants oi science. In the prospectus given out bj the theosophists is this passage:

Six Higher Planes.

"Mankind today has knowledge oi only one of seven planes of nature. That one iB the physical, the lowest and least important of all. It is the purpose oi this school to initiate into the mysteries of the six higher planes. One fundamental thing which will be demonstrated in it is that man is an immortal soul. Every person can develop the power of leaving his body at will if he pursues a certain training. To such the possibility of existence separate from the body becomes a fact, and the question of soul is no longer a theory. This power is one of the many things which will bo proved. "The method of teaching will bo the Platonic, as the teachers will assert certain things to be facta The pupil will accept tiio theory and then receive directions by meanB of which its truth oan be ascertained. He must provisionally accept the statement as true and then test it by praotice. In this way all knowledge becomes so much actual development. "One prinoipal thing that will be proved is that there is no such thing as empty space, but that seeming voids are thronged with intelligent life—intelligences, gods, powers and entities of varied degrees of consciousness, extending in an ever ascending scale from the

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consciousness of an atom to the omniscience of the supreme. All the laws of nature are exeouted by these intelligences, and all forces are directed by intelligent regents."

One of the tenets of theosophical belief is tho dootrine of reincarnation, of many lives of many kinds lived one after another by the soul of each individual. They say, too, that to him whe becomes sufficiently purified and exalted there conies a time when he can remember these past existences, at first indeed by merest vague snatches. But they hope that it may become possible to attain such heights of thinking and living that all the incarnations through which one has y.issed, ages and ages and ages of them taay be unrolled before his memory, lid one of the objects of study and eft^t in the City of Light will be to reach this consummation.

The school will not be for theosophists exclusively. Any one will be welcomed there who wishes to work for humanity, and the only passport will be, so the theosophists declare, belief in and desire to promote the universal brotherhood of man. }it not a bewildering event in this »r /of commercial striving and money orship that there axe solid, serious and practical men of business ready to give $500,000 to suoh a scheme?

FLORENCE Fuses KELLY.

Llfttat Weights by KectrWty. The Philistine says that it has received information from a trustworthy source that Professor Dolbear of Tufts college has devised a system of lifting heavy weights by means of peculiar and powerful electric batteries. He recently caused a mass of stone weighing parhaps five tons to float through the air a distance of 100 yards supported or guided only by a slender pole. Professor Dolbear hopes to be able to apply his system to commercial purposes in the moving of heavy weights.

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He was in doubt. On this particular evening he made up his mind that he would reach the point where doubt ends or know the reason why.

Thus it happened that he, got a little closer to her than usual when he found that they were sitting side by side on the sofa. "Do you ever thinkabout marriage?" he asked. "No," she replied.

Of course that was a lie. Of course he knew that it was a lie and die knew that he knew it. Consequently she wished that she hadn't answered so hastily, but that is so customary in a woman that it should attract no attention. "If I were a woman like

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"Would you?" she inquired carelessly. "Yes, I would," be asserted aggressively. "Perhaps," she suggested tantalisingly, "you wouldn't mind telling me just wh&t course your thoughts would take—-if you were a woman like me." "I don't know that I can give the exact course of reasoning," he answered, fearful that ho might be getting beyond bis depth, "but if I were a woman like you I feel pretty reasonably sure that I would marry a man like—6*7like me."

You do?" she said, coloring a little, but Still speaking in the same tantalising tone. "Yes, I do," he returned doggedly. "Well, if I were a man like, you," she asserted, "I wouldn't expect a woman like me to do anything of the sort until a man like you had asked her to."

It is no trick at all to hold to the course of true love after the mariner once gets his bearings so long as the signal lights continue to burn, and thus it happened that their bark sped merrily on its way.—Chicago PosfcAS

The Uses of Lemons.

The uses of lemons are manifold, and the more we employ them the better we shall find ourselves. For all people, in sickness or in health, lemonade is not only a safe but a remarkably pleasant drink. It is a specific against worms and skin complaints. The pippins crushed may also be mixed with water and used as a drink. Lemon juice is the best antiscorbutic remedy known. It not only cures the disease but, what is better than a cure, it is a preventive. Sailors make a daily use of it for that purpose. It is a good thing to rub the gums daily with lemon juice to keep them in a healthy condition. It prevents chilblains. Lemon used in intermittent fevers is mixed with strong hot blaok tea or coffee without sugar. Neuralgia may be cured by rubbing the part affected with a lemon. It is valuable also to cure warts and to destroy dandruff on the head by rubbing the roots of the hair with it." CteSftJ

A New Year's Gift Heralded. The measureless popularity of Hostettey'J Stomach Bitters has been the jprbwth of more than a third of a century. As In the past, the coming new year will be ushered In by the appearance of a fresh Almanac, clearly setting forth the nature, uses and operation of this medicine of world-wide fame. It Is well worth perusal. Absolute accuracy In the astronomical calculations and calendar will, as before, be valuable characteristics, while the reading matter will include statistics, humor and general information, accompanied by admirably executed Illustrations. The Almanac is Issued from the publishing department of The Hostetter Company at Pittsburgh, and will be printed on their presses in English, German, French, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish, Holland, Bohemian and Spanish. All druggists and country dealers furnish It without cost.

Rebecca Wilkinson, of Brownsvalley, Ind., says: "I have been in a distressed condition for three years from nervousness, weakness of the stomach, dyspepsia and indigestion until my health was gone. I had been doctoring constantly with no relief. I bought one bottle of South American Nervine, which did me more good than any 150 worth of doctoring I ever did in my life. I would advise every weakly person to use this valuable and lovely medicine a few bottles of it has cured me completely. I consider it the grandest medicine in the world." Warranted the most Wonderful stomach and nerve cure ever known. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind. a

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••'This is the room where you issue licenses, ain't it?" inquired the young man, after taking a leisurely survey of the apartment. "Yes," replied the deputy county clerk. "What can I do for you?"

The caller pushed his hat back on his head, winked and beckoned him nearer. "It's like this," he said, in a lower tone. "1 am going to get married and go into the saloon business. How much discount can you give me on the licenses

I take 'em both out at onoe?"—Chiif oago Tribune.

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",K always like .0 have at least one boarder who is a little slow about paying," Mrs. Hashcroft admitted to hei dearest friend. "A man of that kind, especially a young man, is always handy to use up all the chicken necks, the oold biscuits and soon."—India* napolis Journal.

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"An old bachelor," said the sweet girl, "is a man who confesses that he does not think he is smart

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"The funniest thing I ever saw in the line of business?" echoed the leading theatrical manager of Detroit. "It was right here in this city, and I actually laughed till they had to call a doctor to take the kinks out of my ribs. Of course this will handicap the story, for I can never make the incident appear as ridiculous as it was. "We were having a corking show and a big rush at the Whitney Grand. One night, shortly before 8 o'clock, while the house was filling rapidly a large young man came from the inside and asked permission of the doortender to go out. 'Well,' began the man on guard, who is a born jollier, 'it's against the rules of the house to permit any one to leave after occupying a seat, but you look like a reliable citizen, and I'm half disposed to make an exception in your case but I am not oertain that you'll come back.* "Though evidently a 'Bube,' in the parlance of the profession, the fellow had the assurance of a crossroads oracle. 'Oh, I'll be back all right enough!' he said cheerily. 'You needn't worry a minute about me.' "'I don't know about that If I was only sure.' And the joker kept a perfectly straight face. 'I tell you, I'm square,' declared the fellow, with a flourish. 'Here! If you don't want to take my word for it, here's this watch and chain for security that I'll show up before the show begins. "He positively handed over the jewelry as a substantial evidence of his good faith just as though we cared whether we ever saw him again. "—Detroit Free Press. .. Z\

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Logging Railroads.

Time was When the logs were drawn over roads of snow and ice on the great rude sledges to the banks of some river, drawn out on the ice and left until the springtime, when they would be floated down stream to the mills. In some places the system is still in vogue, but in large measure all this has been changed. Logging railroads have been built into the forests, enabling the owners of pine lands to reach forests far from any stream. Spurs from the main branch of the road are built out like the fingers on an enormous hand clutching at the defenseless pines. After a tortuous passage through the paths of the woods the log is loaded upon the skidway—an incline leading down to the railway track. The skids are long, tough poles of tamarack or some hard wood, placed about 20 feet apart. -rf

The logs easily roll down on these skids and are drawn by horses up on the short, wide freight cars, and as fast as one car is loaded another takes its place, until a train of perhaps 80 cars is made up. The road is a very rough one, and the trains are supplied with the best of airbrakes, for the grades are Bteep, and great care must be exercised or the trains will break in two and disaster and possibly loss of life will follow if a part of one of the trains tfreaks away and starts down the grade "Mountain climbers, the powerful engines in use in mining regions, are a part of the equipment of a logging railroad.—"The Story of a Pine Board," by W. S. Harwood, in St. Nioholas.

Deaf Smith's Victory.

At the battle of San Jacinto, when fianta Anna's forces had routed Houston's left wing, a deaf Colonel by the name of Smith did not hear the order to fall back

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"Yea, he's bought an interest in boiler factoty."—Chicago News.

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his example and success on the right wing caused a general rally, which resulted in the total defeat and capture of the Mexican army. There is a oounty in Texas named Deaf Smith in honor of the hero. ,,

t~ Frosen Butterflies.

It if a common experience among mountain climbers to find butterflies frozen on the snow, and so brittle that they break unless they are very carefully handled. Such frozen butterflies on being taken to a warmer climate recover themselves and flyaway.—Philadelphia Beoord.

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There la a Class of Peopl#feferfS Who are injured by the use of coffee Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O. made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 eta. and 25 cts. per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.

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