THROUGH THE OPAQUE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 14

THROUGH THE OPAQUE

STARTLING CLAIM BY SPANISH

SCIENTIST.

The human vision can penetrate opaque ob^cte, iron, woodj ebony, if developed properly. This, it is claimed. states the Madrid correspondent of the " Chicago Tribune," has beep definitely proved by completed experiments made by the Marquis de Santaoara, the celebrated Spanish scientist, who has just demonstrated the fact before the King and Queen of Spain. The son of the Marquis, Don Joaquin Argamasilla de' la Cerda V Elio, eighteen years old, performed the feat at Court before notaries, and before the Spanish Academy of Sciences. The King and Queen were convinced of the remarkable possibilities "l the newest scientific discovery, and warmly felicitated the aristocratic savant. , .

The Marquis de Santaoara has spent his life in developing the theory of physical possibility oi vision through opaque objects. Hia eon Joaquin is thoroughly normal. In th e demonstration before the Court the Marquis, who is an old fHend of the King, placed his son flat upon his back upon a divan, while a thick 'kerchief was bound over his eyes by a Court official. Another official clipped a newspaper at random, and still another placed "tho clipping in a small iron box and locked it. The Marquis left the room during this proceeding. Upon returning he told his son to read ■what was written' on the newspaper clipping. No person in the room knew what ■vVas on the clipping, as it was taken absolutely at random. The box Was held before .Don Joaquin's eyes, and the youth read the clipping through the [kerchief and the iron box. • The astonishing performance was repeated before the notaries public, and affidavits taken and presented to the Academy of Sciences. \ The .Marquis de Santaoara obtained the results by long experimenting with somnambulistic states. H e has never attempted to use suggestion by 'hypnotism or mesmerism in connection with the experiments. The first results pi'oved that somnambulistic states produce phyaical intensification of visual power. The only reason all sleep-walkers do V,ot bear witneßS to this fact is that, when awake, they no longer remember what they saw during their somnambulism. From this point the Marquis proceeded to tile reproduction of intensified vision by physical means. What these means are he has not revealed so far.

Spanish scientific circles are in a state of great excitement over the discovery Prominent oculists and other scientifffl were invited to both the Court and pfjvate demonstrations, and they a&s<M, that it is absolutely impossible" for Mf hypnotism or occultism to be involved. The discovery is a pure scientific achievement, according to all observers.