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A Series of Lessons on the Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India1348
merely “concentrated their minds on the water,” according to methods
taught by their instructors and masters, and the result followed naturally.
Some attempted to give some fantastic explanation, or to account for the
phenomena by the theory of “spirits,” but these people were suspected
of endeavoring to surround the phenomenon with supernatural “fringes,”
and a close cross-examination generally resulted in their admitting that they
did not understand the real cause underlying their work—they knew that
“it worked,” and that was all. Others, however, who were better informed,
held that it was caused by the manifestation of “Prana” under the control of
their concentrated will, and assisted by their Rhythmic Breathing, and such
is the opinion of Hindu occultists who are familiar with the phenomenon
and who claim that it is merely a simple manifestation of the operation of
Prana generated by the Rhythmic Breath, and directed by the focused
Will. In short, it is merely a more marked manifestation of the same natural
force which is employed in the production of the “magnetized water” so
frequently employed by the “magnetic healers” of the Western world.
We have heard of experiments performed privately by advanced
occultists who were investigating the force-producing effects of water
subjected to concentrated Prana, in which the vessel containing the water
was connected by a pipe attached to a miniature toy steam engine boiler,
the result being that when the effervescence began to manifest in a high
degree the tiny boiler was filled with the “steam” (?) or other ethereal form
of matter arising from the water, and the little engine began to work. We
never have witnessed this experiment, personally, but have heard of several
cases of its having been performed in India. In these cases, however, the
persons capable of exerting the force decline to exhibit the feat in public,
having no desire for notoriety or “fame,” the Hindu mind working along lines
of its own in this respect and which are foreign to the Western point of view
which sees the advantage and virtue of publicity. The Orientals hold firmly
to the idea that the Truth is for the favored few who can appreciate it; the
Westerner holds that Truth should be spread widely among all, irrespective