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Can Kill By Thought

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Day
12
Month
August
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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At noon, Priday, Mrs. Annie Besant, the famous English lecturcr, arrived in this city to lecture on Theosophy. Mrs. Besant is well known all over the world and tho announcement of her intcnded visit interested many people and a number of Ann Arbor's prominent society ladies attonded a reception given her at the School of Music in the af ternoon. In the evening about three liundrcd people. mostly f rom the University, attended the lecture to hear the strange doctrines taught by this lady from tho far east. Mrs. Besaut appeared ciad in nativa ludían costumo of white silk. She was introducid by Countess Wachtmeister, of S woeden, and her lecture was interoóting because it dealt with an unusual subject. Mrs. Besant said "During the past, scientifie roen have investigatcd almost entirely in the physieal realm and have lef t out of sight investigations along the line of the mental. Latoly, however, they have turned their attention to the study of psychology and psychic phenomena and are discovering many wonderful things. 'The theosophists of India have for centuries labored to solve the mysterious problems of mind. They have formed a society and admit no one who has not preved a worthy üiid safe man to ontrust with great power. A bad man with tho power po; si b' e to 1 thoosophist could do an immense amount of harm, for it is possible 'oo kill by a thought. Thought is simply vibration generated in a subtle form of ether and the theosophist may send into a man's mind thought vibration more forceful than olectricity, which will cause instant death. "Thought vibration in our mind will awaken similar vibrations in another if the two are harmonious or have the 6ame vibration rate. So mind reading &nd telepathy arepossible and are constantly practiced by theosophists. A man may easily communicate with anothcr miles away by simple thought curronts and theosophists do so as they would telegraph or telephone." Mm. Besant is a firm believer ia transmigration of souls aud in another address said "Depraved souls that have been concerned principally through liie with satisfying their passions, will go to a darle, repellant place appropriate to their nature and tendencies. But oven in this low state the impure eoul is not lef l to itself. "A helping hand is extended to such dograded soul inhabitants and influences are exerted to fit them for habitation in other worlds. The suicido - I mean tho man whose life is taken as a punishment for nis crime against society - is an exception. He enters this low artral state, whero reform is going on, as a disturbar, a counter agent. 'It is a miátake to exercise capital punkhment on murderers, anarchists, or othet' euemios of society. Thus, that lowest state of the astral world is unnocessarily unwisely overpopulated. Those souls already there are furnished extremely bad examples and the influence of the newcomors on them is correspondingly deteriorating. It is for this reason that we have 'epidemics of crime'- groups of crimináisCapital punishment, wherever practiced, is followed by increase of crime.'1 On Saturday morning Mra. Bosant mei, a party of interested persons at the Cook house and organized a theosophical society. The object of this society is to study the occult and perhaps at last to be admitted to the "in ner circle" where they may have the powers that are now elaimed by Theosophists of the old world.

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