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Talks of The Occult
Virchand R. Gandhi Delivers the First of a Series of Lectures. Mysteries of Hypnotism
The Art Was Practised, He Says, Thousands of Years Ago. Antagonism of the Church to Spiritual Manifestations Gave Rise to Secret Societies.
Virchand R. Gandhi the Hindco philosopher, lectured at 810 Masonic Temple last evening to a fine and inte rested audience. It was the first address of a series to be given on successive Saturday nights at the same place, and all are on the general suject of the occult.
Last night, in particular, he talked about hypnotism, which he defined as a natural sleep artificially produced. He said that all might come to possess this power but that only by high and good thinking and living could it be beneficially exercised. All that was impure in character must be sloughed. off if the best results were to be obtained,
He went into the significance of colours, and said yellow and white represented the highest moral conditions. He said the body gave out different lights, black sometimes, and blue, and these aura were real, if not visible by all.
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He traced the history of hypnotism, and said it was practised thousands of years ago in Greece. It was
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discouraged by the infant church, and to escape this ostracism it was
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