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The Eleventh Lesson: Hindu Wonder-Working.1339
appearance of some religious teacher preaching new truths—and before
the day is passed the news will be known in every corner of the land, much
to the surprise of the English residents who see that something strange is
occurring, but who will not learn the true cause for several days afterward.
At the time of the native uprisings and revolt, some fifty years ago, the news
of each move was known all over India a few hours after the occurrence, a
fact which baffled the efforts of the English authorities to fathom or explain.
The same is true in India of to-day. As all careful readers of the journals
know, there is in India to-day a strong spirit of revolt against English rule,
and there are many manifestations of unrest. Many careful observers claim
that sooner or later there will be a national uprising among the Hindus, the
result being that the English rule will be over—the yoke cast off. As some
of the Hindus say, “India is a huge elephant lying asleep, beside her being
her keeper—a red-coated boy with a goad in his hand. Some night the
elephant will roll over on the boy, and then there will be no keeper, and
the goad will be useless. Well, however this may be, the fact remains that
in this year 1908 there is a perfect system of telepathic news service kept
up among the different parts of India, whereby the various local readers of
the “underground movement” are kept fully posted on the progress of the
movement elsewhere. In the morning, in some large town, everything will
be moving along as usual, while in the afternoon the English residents will
notice strange glances being cast at them, and sneering smiles and meaning
glances passing between the natives in the bazaars. Some news has been
gained—some word of some point of advantage secured by the plotters.
And the only way that the news travels so quickly is by the telepathic route.
This power of telepathy, and the receptivity to its influence on the part
of the populace generally, renders a Hindu crowd susceptible of being
impressed quite easily by the psychological power of the fakirs who have
reduced mental concentration to a fine art, and who created a condition of
mental illusion as a foundation for their more difficult feats. And not only
are the natives affected by this influence, but Western people who happen