Mental Magic: A Rationale of Thought Reading, and Its Attendant Phenomena, and Their Application to the Discovery of New Medicines, Obscure Diseases ... Mines and Springs of Water, and All Hidden and Secret Things

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. ... See page 51. "When the mind is surrendered up, as a clear glass (or in and to it), SHOWS of the magical world roll in."-- Chief Rosicrucian of all England. We joyfully, gladly went--five of us, her Majesty's officers, on a tour of military inspection, the toils of which were likely to be rewarded by an opportunity of witnessing the dance of Illumination of the MuntraWallahs, or Magic-working Brahmuns, whose strange miracles, worked apparently by the triple agency of Battasahs (rice), Gookal (red powder), and, strangest of all, by means of oval glasses or crystals, but black as night, in which it is reported some very strange things were to be seen. We were all prepared to witness skilful jugglery, for which the residents of Muttra * are renowned, but fully resolved to ascertain, if possible, how it was all done, rejecting, of course, everything claimed to be either supra-mortal, or hypernatural, so far as the underlying principles were concerned. ... It was sheer skill, but such as no European could pretend to equal; yet how the sleeping girl could tell our names, ages, place of birth, and fifty other true facts, she never having seen either of us before, because the dust of Jubalpore was still upon our clothes, we having been but one day in Muttra, was a problem not easily solved. They call it the Sleep of Sialam, and she passed into it by gazing into a dark glass. After reading Lane's story about the Magic Mirror in his "Modern Egyptians;" what De Sacy says in his famous "Exposition de la Religion des Druses ;" Makrisi's account in his "History of the Mamelukes;" J. Catafago and Defremeney in the "Journale Asiatique ;" what Potter affirms as truth in his "Travels in Syria ;" Victor L'Anglois in "Revue d'Orient;" Carl Ritter; Dr. E....