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Story of an Emigtiant. 272
"We believe in heaven and hell as temporary abodes of reward and
punishment. When a man dies his good and evil deeds are weighed on thescales.
First lie guts to heaven to receive his reward, then to hell to suffer in
proportion to his sins. When everything is squared up he again returns to the
world in the form of another being, the same process is repeated again and
atrain, and he can attain perfect bliss only after he has reached such a stage
of development that he can do neither good nor evil deeds, but must lose
himself in the contemplation of God until he finally ceases to exist as an
individual being, and is reunited with God of whom he really constitutes a
part."
Was invited to the home of Col. Gordon to see some proofs of
occulta-tion, which is very wide-spread in India, and witnessed phenomena, which
were so strange, that I hesitate to write them down. I saw heavy
objects moving in the air through the room above our heads, and a man with
the chair on which he sat risi’,nr several feet from the floor without the aid
of any visible force
what-ever. 1 heard a slate pen
cil, moved by an invisible
power, writing on a slate,
and read in plain English
what was written. I also
saw in the same manner a
pen writing on paper with
ink, and felt with my hand
the moisture of the ink. I
know not wherein the
invisible power consisted
which caused these
phenomena, but that such a
power does exist I know for
certain, for in thiscase.at least,
there was no chance for
deception.
At the home of the prince
Tagore I met the renowned
Madame Blavatskv, and
many Hindoo theosophists.
She is a large, corpulent
woman, with intelligent,
though rather coarse,
features. She believes that
she is attended by
Kut-Humis-Lal-Sing, a Buddhistic hermit who is claimed to be two thousand
years old, and have the power of moving his "astral body" as swiftly
as thought to the most distant places. For my part I saw nothing
remarkable among the theosophists, but it is a common belief among the
abdul, my mo 11a m m k da n servant
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