Can man attain that power, ability and knowledge? After a careful study of these illustrations and our explanations, can you honestly say they cannot be attained by practice, persistency and patience?

Three instances will now be given of modern “miracles,” that are known to most of our readers. The first is the Eastern trick of a fakir throwing a rope into the air and the audience seeing it hanging down with no visible means of support, and then seeing a small boy climb the rope and disappear above in the air.” This has mystified thousands in the East.

Again we will state the law, but in slightly different words: “Whatever one thinks and holds powerfully in mind for the time being, to the exclusion of everything else, can be brought forth into manifestation.”

This trick illustrates the power and ability of the fakir to make use of the law through knowing that what he thinks and holds powerfully in mind will outmanifest itself. For what he does is—only in his mind, however—to throw the rope into the air, see it remain there, and the boy climb it out of sight.

The proof of this is that photographers have taken pictures of the act only to find on the plate or film that the fakir was standing in a tense state of concentration in the picture, with the boy sitting crosslegged on the ground as when the performance began.

This trick of course is the result of long training and much practice, of going through the action of many times in his mind, until the fakir actually “hypnotized” himself into “believing” he was doing it outwardly and the audience witnessing it.

The peculiar part of the phenomenon is that just to the extent that one can actually feel and believe himself going through such action—although only in his mind—will all those whose interest and attention are focused upon the trick witness in their minds—but think they see it with physical eyes—what the trickster thinks he is doing. Proving that there is only one mind and when the interest and attention of a number of minds centers are fixed upon and thereby connected with a more powerful mind center, they become receivers of all that is broadcasted by the more powerful mind center.

The action, processes and powers of the mind, such as we are now describing, is quite generally taught in India, Egypt and