The writer Franz Hartmann throughout his research in esotericism was
witness to numerous paranormal phenomena.
During his foray into spiritualism, he saw objects, flowers, algae and
numerous spirits of all types materialize: men, women, children, of different
races and of different sizes, and what he said about it I have put here.
And later when Franz Hartmann spent 16 months residing in India at the
Central Headquarters of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, he saw materialize
letters falling from the air or appearing in drawers that were locked, and he
also saw materialized a ribbon of silk in front of his eyes, and had an
encounter with Master Morya who was accompanied by two of his disciples.
And what Hartmann said about it, I have put in those four articles:
And Franz Hartmann also had in Adyar several meetings with a black
magician (link). [later I will put it]
And below, there are three phenomena more that he recounted in an
article:
« 1) In 1882, while
at Georgetown, Colorado, I was well acquainted with a certain Mrs. N. D.
Miller, of Denver, one of the most remarkable mediums for spiritistic
phenomena, of whose extraordinary faculties for producing visible and tangible
“materializations” I shall have occasion to speak further on. One day I went to
Denver to visit her. It was a stormy day and we had a sitting together.
Mrs. Miller held a slate, upon
which a bit of a pencil was deposited, under the comer of the table, and within
a minute I received a written message, supposed to be from my father and signed
with his name, in which my father told me that he had something very important
to communicate; but that he could not do so on this occasion, as the conditions
were unfavorable, on account of the weather. He therefore requested me to call
again the next day.
This I did, and almost at once I
received upon the slate another communication in the same to me well-known handwriting
of my father, saying:
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“My dear son! I find that you are not as well as you
imagine. You ought to take good care of yourself, as otherwise you will soon
join us in the spiritland.”
He then gave me a prescription in
Latin, which proved to be one for making black writing ink from extract of
logwood with sulphate of iron, and of this I was directed to take one
tablespoonful every two hours.
The phenomenon was undoubtedly
genuine, but I was not much edified at such nonsense and Mrs. Miller suggested
that it might have been produced by some jocular spirit.
I took leave and as I went away I
followed again the direction from which I had come, when, by turning the next
corner, I found the riddle solved; for there was a big show-window of a
stationery shop, in which, besides some other articles, there stood a lot of
bottles containing black writing ink.
It was now clear to me, that on
coming, when I passed that window, the sight of these ink bottles made an
impression upon my mind, although I had paid no attention and had not even
noticed them.
During my youth I had often amused
myself by making chemical experiments and among other things preparing black
ink. The prescription for it was therefore well known to me and although I did
not think of it, it existed within my subconscious mind, or perhaps within my
aura, and by the mysterious action of mental powers it became impressed upon
the subconscious mind of the medium, which by some means unknown to me caused
the handwriting upon the slate.
Unsatisfactory and imperfect as
this explanation may be, it seems to me far more reasonable than any of those
theories of "trickery” or “imposture” which are frequently called to aid
by ignorant sceptics, and which seem to me idiotic and usually far more
incredible than the presumed action of unknown forces within the subconscious
mind.
Mediums and such sensitive
persons may be compared to living mirrors, in which the thoughts of other
persons, or even thought-currents and ideas existing in the astral light, may
be reflected and produce suggestions, which will be carried out by the unconscious
action of the will of the medium, as it takes place during dreams; for life on
the astral plane seems to be even more of a dreamlife than ours.
2) In the year 1886, after my
return from India, I made, accidentally, the acquaintance of the wife of a
German laborer. This woman was without any better education that than of her
class, but in possession of extraordinary occult powers.
She could cure diseases at a
distance, could heal wounds, ulcers, and sores, and could stop bleeding without
seeing the patient, merely by “sympathetic” remedies, for instance by putting a
blood-stained rag, coming from the patient, into a pot which contained sulphate
of iron, after which the bleeding would cease.
This woman had never heard of
what is called “psychometry,” so I concluded to try an experiment. I gave her a
letter which I had received in a mysterious manner in India. It was a so-called
“occult” letter, supposed to come from a Mahatma in Tibet, and was received
through H. P. Blavatsky.
I asked the woman to hold the
letter to her forehead and tell me what she saw. She did so and gave me a
description of a Buddhist temple with a gilded roof, inscriptions, etc., and
also of people whose dress she described. All this was afterwards published in
the Theo sophist and verified by Blavatsky.
The event seemed very
inexplicable to me, especially as I at that time had some cause to doubt the
genuineness of at least some of the “occult letters” received by me at Adyar. I
remembered afterwards, that, some months before, I had seen myself during a
“dream” in a Buddhist temple in Tibet, and this vision was so vivid, that on
the moment of awakening I still seemed to hear the voices of the white-robed
persons with whom I had spoken in that place.
Now my explanation is that the
objects which I saw during that dream, vision, astral visit, or whatever it may
be called, had impressed their images upon my mind and become impressed upon
the mind of that woman, although I was not thinking of them.
(This time Franz Hartmann was wrong because it is most
likely that he has gone with his astral body to this mysterious place where the
Masters have that temple, because other members of the Theosophical Society
also claimed to have had similar experiences as is the case of C. Ramiah, see link.)
3) The following occurrence may
have had a similar origin:
One night before falling asleep I
saw a series of figures or letters before my eyes. They were very luminous and
written upon the wall, as with some fiery substance. They were so plainly
visible and stayed so long that I was able to copy them as they appeared one
after another.
They were as follows:
I could not read these figures,
but supposing them to be letters of some language unknown to me, I sent the
writing to a professor of Oriental languages at Vienna and to a well-known
German Egyptologist, Professor Lambert. Both of these persons expressed
themselves unable to say what the characters meant.
Perhaps a year afterwards, I had
occasion to see some Tibetan writing and I was struck by its similarity to
these letters. I therefore made two copies of them and sent them to two Tibetan
scholars in India, one of whom was Mr. Dhammapala.
In due time I received answers
from both of these gentlemen, saying that it was Tibetan writing and that its
translation was:
“You are the witnesses of this work.”
I should be glad, if some reader
who knows Tibetan would verify it and send me the Tibetan text. Whether or not
any foreign intelligence had anything to do with the production of this
phenomenon, I am unable to say. »
(Occult Review, May 1907, p.280-281)
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