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A Series of Lessons on the Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India1350
No heat is noticeable, but then the higher rays of sunlight are not heat rays,
as all scientists know. Another point of resemblance to the Actinic Rays of
the sun is shown in another feat in which the fakir places his hand on the fair
skin of a newly arrived European or American, and after holding it there for
about fifteen minutes or a half-hour leaves a “sun-burnt” impression of his
hand on the flesh of the fair-skinned visitor. We would like to hear of the
experiment being tried of placing a covered sensitive photographic plate
under the hand of the fakir so that it might be ascertained whether the
imprint of his hand would appear thereon, as is the case when the X-Ray is
so applied—but so far we have not heard of this last mentioned experiment
having been attempted. In the Germination feat it should be noticed that
the seeds employed are always those of some native quick-growing plants
of India, many of which will sprout naturally in twenty-four hours under the
rays of the Indian sun.
Another feat performed by the same methods is that mentioned by a
few people who have witnessed it, it being a rare one and one which is
seldom manifested or exhibited, and which is known as the Fish Feat. It is
performed by the fakir holding in his hand a glass or tiny bowl of water
in which have been placed a few of the ova or eggs of small native fish
(fertilized, of course), and upon which he concentrates the Prana for about
half-an-hour, along the lines of the methods stated above, the result being
that the ova or eggs would hatch and produce tiny young fish swimming
freely about in the glass or small bowl, just as if they had been hatched
naturally, and in the usual time. The Hindu occultists held that this result is
produced purely by the application of the power of concentrated Prana,
by means of Rhythmic Breathing and Will-Power, as was the germination of
the seed, the phenomena being identical. We have heard of a few isolated
cases in which certain Hindu fakirs have been able to cause the hatching of
the egg of small birds, quite a time however being necessary in such cases, in
one instance the entire day (twelve hours) being necessary to produce the
result. The principle in all of these cases is the same, the application of Prana,