One of the young men said that they had been worshipping and singing in the temple all the previous night and day, and that the chief priest had worshipped with them, giving them from time to time sweet drinks. He cried in ecstatic delight: “Because I prayed and gave my vow, my little wife was saved; the doctor said she must die; she was saved! I am saved!”

As we passed on, the chanting voice of the priest again reached us, this time from within the temple, droning—chanting on and on. Night fell; the moon rose. The sound of the mantrams and the tom-toms gradually died with the lengthening distance as we drove silently away. There was an uncanny feeling in the very stillness of the air. Perhaps the horse felt it too, since now and then he started and swerved aside from weird shadows thrown by the light of the fulling moon. —From The Channel Magazine of April, 1916.

IN THE light of the laws of Mind explained in this issue, the reader perhaps can see how the above seeming miracle was brought to pass.

In the first place the Priest, through long training, had brought his mind to such a state of powerful responsiveness that it accepted whatever he wanted it to believe; and knowing that whatever his mind believed must outmanifest, he simply required it to believe that fire would not burn or hurt in any way anything or anybody until he changed that belief. And of course then it did not.

This belief he had so practiced in his mind, and with such powerful effectiveness, that it influenced every mind watching the incident or participating in it; and knowing there is only one Mind and that every other mind is then a center of Its expression, he also knew from much experience that a belief thus powerfully held in consciousness would naturally broadcast itself to every other interested mind center, and to them it must and would outmanifest.

This belief naturally influenced more than any other the minds of his pupils, because of their being closely attuned to his mind so much so that they willingly and eagerly walked on the burning coals—they likewise knowing the fire would not burn them; which it did not, as witnessed—such being the power of his broadcasted suggestion.

This is one type of the hypnotism known and practiced in the East, and referred to by Dr. Alexander Cannon in our Editorial herein. —The EDITOR.