THE MIRACLE OF HINDOO YOGIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7949, 26 January 1906, Page 3

THE MIRACLE OF HINDOO YOGIS.

In the Oocult Review there appears a very long but intensely interesting article by Dr. Hienrich Hensoldt, Ph.D., on the adepts and mystics of Hindostan. Dr. Hensoldt baa spent many years in India, Tibet, Burma and Ceylon. He is a man of science ard be used the camera to check the observation of his . eyes. He declares that he has not only seeD the mango trick, but has photographed the tree of illusion! He reminds us that the Hindoo miracles are performed in the open street or square by nude or seminode performers who have no naraphernalia, and who work their miracles in the midst of a crowd. The Fakeer, the Yogi and the Sadhu all perform wonders, but the last named, who are the greatest adepts, never receive pay for their miracles. Dr. Hensoldt describes at length what be saw in a public square in Agra, where a Sadbu with a short, white stick scratched a hole 6in deep in the publio square, in this bole be placed a half-ripe mango, and covered it up. In three minutes the hazy outline of a tree began to appear. -Rapidly it became more distinct, until, in five minutes from the burying of the mango, "there stood as natural a tree as ever I had seen'in my life—a mango tree about 50ft high, and in full foliage, with mangoes on it.'-' It was a weird tree. Not a leaf stirred, and it oast no shade. When he moved nearer to it the tree became blarred, and then vanished. When he resumed his first position, the tree oame back. When be went away further, the tree faded away, again to resume distinctness when he came baok to his, original pqsition. Two English officers, who had not beert present when the fruit was planted, could not see the tree at all. Everybody else saw it. After 20 minutes the Sadhu began to preach. When he had finished the tree had disappeared. The Sadhu then dug up the mango and went away. On another occasion Dr. Hensoldt saw the same thing done by one Ram Singh in a village near Serinagur, in the Punjab. This time be swears he not only saw the tree, but be photographed it, and, stranger still, that be not only touched it, but climbed several feet up its stem!