MAKE GROW UP A PLANT VERY QUICKLY

 

 

The famous French illusionist Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin made famous the trick of growing a small orange tree in few seconds (as shown in the video above). But there are also anecdotes about people who could really accelerate the growth of plants, and below are several examples:

 

 

1) The connoisseur of African magic, Miad Hoyora Korahon, related the following:

 

« Around the year 1860, a man known as “Kongo Brown” lived in the West Indies and was one of the most highly accomplished professors of Obeah ever known in this region.

 

On one occasion Mr. Kongo Brown gave a party at his house, and for the entertainment of his guests, said he would show them something. He first sent out to his garden, and had a plantain ‘sucker’ about eighteen inches long brought in.

 

He then dug a hole in the clay floor of his house, in a corner; and therein planted the said plantain sucker, which was then covered with a sheet. Then he stood up and waved his hands over it, and talked to it in a tongue not understood by his guests.

 

Then he made others things and two hours later, he again turned his attention to the plantain-sucker in the corner. Being uncovered it was observed to have grown under the sheet, and was now about four feet high.

 

Again putting the sheet over it, he held his hands above it for some time, occasionally muttering some words in the unknown tongue, and between times talking to the company. Finally, calling for a knife to cut this bunch of plantains, the sheet was taken off, and there stood a full grown plantain tree, bearing a large and well developed bunch of green — ripe plantains. These were duly cut, and also sent to be cooked.

 

My informants in this case are two old men, who were among the guests on this occasion and helped to consume these victuals. »

(Theosophist, April 1891, p.412-415)

 

 

 

 

 

2) The investigator PJG wrote the following:

 

« Thus “Kongo Brown’s” feat of making the plantain tree spring up in a few minutes has been witnessed by people, in India.

 

A contemporary of della Valle (in the seventeenth century) says he saw it done in a factory yard at Broach.

 

The sorcerer, he says, planted a peg of wood in the ground and offered to make it grow into a tree. He then improvised a sort of tent out of a shirt over the peg, and entering it, began his incantations.

 

From time to time he removed the shirt and showed the company that a young tree had been produced and was rapidly growing. This went on until the spectators saw before them a tree several feet high and laden with fruit.

 

During the operation one of the spectators, observing a rent in the shirt, looked in and saw the sorcerer cut his arm and moisten the peg with his blood.

 

Further phenomena were interdicted by the chaplain of the factory who strongly expressed his disapproval of Christians witnessing and encouraging such performances, and having threatened to refuse the communion to such as persisted in remaining, the proceedings came to a close. »

(Theosophist, December 1892, p.160)

 

 

 

 

 

3) The journalist José María Íñigo Gómez had several programs in Spanish television where he presented enigmatic characters, and when an interviewer asked him who had surprised him the most, he replied:

 

« I was very surprised by a certain Matthew Hennings whom I brought from England and who claimed to be able to grow very quickly the plants with only his will, and he did indeed.

 

We bought a couple of plants that he neither saw nor touched, and which we kept in a dressing room all the time until it was time to take them to the set, and then two hostesses picked them up and took them to the center of the studio.

 

Then Mr. Hennings approached a couple of meters, but he had no contact with the plants, he concentrated and we watched the plants go up and up. The plants did not grow excessively, but we saw clearly how the plants increased in size in some seconds.

 

And that left us very impressed, because the people who weren't there may think that there was some trick, but we who organized everything, we can assure that it is impossible, because we were who bought these plants and the guy had no contact with them and only saw them until the last moment. »

(www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvi8NSAZdYI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OBSERVATIONS

 

At an esoteric level, there are two methods to achieve this feat:

 

The first method consists of bewitching the senses of the spectators to make them believe that they are watching a plant grow rapidly, when in reality that is not happening.

 

And Blavatsky explained that this was the main technique used by the Indian fakirs in ancient times to perform their feats as grow quickly a mango tree. Although today that knowledge is already lost and contemporary fakirs resort to the tricks used by illusionists.

 

And the second method (which is the one that seems to have been used in the three cases mentioned above) is to really accelerate the growth of the plant with the help of the spirits of nature who deal with the development of the plants.