III

                                                                                 SPIRITISM

I was still a boy of twelve springs, when solicitous with someone who anxiously investigated the Mysteries of the beyond, I also proposed to inquire, investigate, in the disturbing terrain of spiritism.

Then with the determination of a cleric in the cell, I studied countless metaphysical works. It is worth mentioning authors such as Luis Zea Uribe, Camilo Flamarion, Kardec, Leon Denis, Cesar Lombroso, etc.

The first of a series by Kardec certainly seemed very interesting to me, more, I had to reread it three times with the indisputable spirit of understanding it completely.

Later really become a true bookworm, I confess frankly, unambiguously, that I became passionate with the "Book of Spirits", before continuing with many other volumes of substantial content.

With an impenetrable mind for anything other than studying, I kept myself locked up for long hours inside my house or in the public library, with the obvious desire to seek the secret path.

Now, without presuming to be wise, without any vainglory, I only wish in this chapter to make known the results of my investigations in this field.

                                                                                MÉDIUMS

Passive, receptive subjects, who give their matter, their body, to the metaphysical ghosts of ultra - tomb.

It is unquestionable that the KARMA of Mediumship is epilepsy. Obviously the epileptics were mediums in their previous lives.

                                                                           EXPERIMENTS

1.) Certain Lady, whose name I do not mention, constantly saw the ghost of a deceased woman; the latter told many things in his ear.

In a solemn séance the lady fell in a trance; the obsessing ghost told the aforementioned medium to dig in a certain place of the house, because there - he was told - she would find a great treasure.

The ghost's indications were followed; unfortunately the treasure was not found.

It is unquestionable that this fortune was only a simple mental projection of the subjective psyche of the assistants. Obviously these people were very greedy in the background.

2.) Beyond time and distance. Guest of my host, in his country home, must assert that in those days I witnessed an unusual metaphysical event. 

It is convenient to ratify for the good of my readers, that my last host was, out of all doubt and without any ambiguity, a character too humble, of the race of color.

It is unquestionable that that good gentleman, by the way very generous with the needy, spent, of his property, in rich feasts.

Residing in the hotel among cultivated people or resenting against someone for some reason, was for this good man, something impossible; He certainly preferred to resign himself to the task, with his luck, in the hard misfortunes of work.

Needless to say, that gentleman of yore seemed to have the gift of ubiquity, since he could be seen everywhere, here, there and everywhere.

Any night of those many that distinguished gentleman, with much secrecy invited me to a séance of spiritism. I, in no way, wanted to decline such kind invitation.

Three people gathered under the peasant roof of his ranch, we sat around a table with three legs.

My host, full of immense veneration, opened a small box that he never left on his travels and from it he extracted an indigenous skull.

Later he recited some beautiful prayers and cried out with a loud voice calling the ghost of the mysterious skull.

It was midnight, the sky was overcast with dark clouds that sinister were outlined in the tropical space, it was raining and thunder and lightning made the whole region shudder.

Strange blows felt inside the furniture and then definitely violating the law of gravity, as mocking the old texts of physics, the table was lifted off the floor.

Then came the most sensational; the summoned ghost appeared in the room and passed by me.

Finally the table leaned towards my side and the skull that was on this piece of furniture was placed in my arms.

Stop! My host exclaimed. The storm is very strong and in these conditions such invocations are very dangerous. In those moments a terrible thunder made the face of the invoker pale.

3.) Ambulating a certain day in one of those old streets of the city of Mexico, moved by a strange curiosity I had to penetrate with other people in an old house, where for good or bad, a spiritualist center worked.

Exquisite extra - superior room of many bells and with enough emotive, delicate and major brand people.

Without pretending in any way to expose myself to a risk, I very respectfully took a seat in front of the stand.

To immerse myself in the doctrines of spirit mediums, to discuss, or to begin to throw with evil in friendly terms and with feigned meekness and pietistic poses, certainly it was not my purpose to enter such an enclosure.

I just wanted to take note of all the details with flexible understanding and unique sanity.

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 Patient the sacred brotherhood of mystery, waited with mystical longing voices and words emerged from beyond the grave.

Independent of others in their diagnoses, suitable for something very nefarious, a gentleman of a certain age falls into a trance, convulsive shudders like any epileptic, climbs onto the platform, occupies the rostrum of eloquence and takes the word.

"Here, among you, JESUS of NAZARETH the CHRIST" exclaims with a great voice that wretched possessed.

In those terrifying moments the platform dazzled with candles and flowers - the altar of the Baals - vibrates horrifyingly, and all the devotees fall to the ground prostrate.

I, without wanting to disturb anyone's performance, serenely dedicated myself to studying the Medium with my sixth sense.

Pierced with anguish I could certainly verify the harsh reality of that unusual metaphysical case. Obviously it was a sinister and left impostor who exploited the credulity of others by pretending to be Jesus Christ.

With my clairvoyant sense I observed a black magician dressed in a red blood-colored tunic.

The gloomy ghost stuck between the physical body of the medium, advising the consultants, tried to speak with a Jesus-Christian tone so that the fanatics would not discover it.

After that horrifying session, I retired from the room with the ardent desire never to return there.

4.) To live at pleasure, with your family, of favor, in peace to work, by magic, on the earth, is certainly something very romantic.

However, pouncing on risks is sometimes essential when it comes to procuring as much good for others as possible.

Go through by intellectual walls I wanted to flourish in wisdom and without weakening in forces, I traveled very young to different parts of the world.

Beyond time and distance, in the remote distance of a South American very flexible to the understanding, I had to relate to a spiritualist medium who worked as a blacksmith.

Without ever stumbling into any discussion, that worker worked quietly in his reddish forge.

Strange; mystical bronze figure lord; Athletic personality Cenobite.

Good God! I saw him in sinister and left trance possessed by Beelzebub, Prince of the Demons.

I still remember those dark words with which the power of darkness closed the session: "BEL TENGO MENTAL LA PETRA AND THAT THE ANDUBE SEDRA, VAO GENIZAR LE DES". (then signed: Beelzebub).

Blacksmith paradoxical anchorite. Repent I found him the next day of the left spiritist coven; then he swore solemnly in the name of the eternal living God not to lend his physical body back to the horror of darkness.

Sometimes he surprised him in his forge by consulting very sincerely Kardec's spiritualist devotional.

Later that gentleman of yore invited me full of mystical enthusiasm to other so many exhaustive medium-psychic sessions, where with infinite anxiety he would evoke at: "JUAN HURTADO EL MAYOR".

Without exaggeration, for the good of my beloved readers, I must now assert opportunely that the aforementioned phantom, speaking with the tongue of the medium in trance, boasted of being able to manifest itself through a hundred and fifty mediums simultaneously.

 However, to be pluralized in one hundred and fifty speeches, simultaneous, different, seemed to me at that time something amazing.

It is unquestionable that by that time in my life I had not yet analyzed the issue of the plurality of the “I”, of the ego.

                                                                                 THE EGO

Without wishing to extend myself unusually in digressions of any kind, I very sincerely emphasize that which I have directly experienced fully.

The EGO remark is obviously devoid of any Divine aspect, self - exalting and dignifying.

Allow us the freedom to disagree with those people who presuppose the existence of two "I's"; one of superior type, another of lower class.

Certainly and in the name of truth we certify without any incongruity, the tremendous well-informed realism that there exists only in each subject a PLURALIZED “I” and terribly perverse.

This conviction in the background is based on the lived experience of the author of the present esoteric treatise.

In no way do we need to express immature ideas; we would never commit the folly of asserting harebrained utopianisms.

Our assertion has very abundant documentation in all the sacred books of ancient times.

As a living example of our assertion, it is worth remembering the bloody battles of Arjuna against his beloved relatives, (the“I's”), in the BHAGAVAD-GITA. (The Song of the Lord).

Ostensibly such psychic, subjective aggregates evidently personify the whole set of psychological defects that we carry within each one of us.

In rigorous experimental psychology the bottling of consciousness within such subjective “I's” is patent.

That which continues beyond the grave is therefore the EGO, a bunch of DEVILS-“I”s”, the psychic aggregates.

It is evident and manifests the identification of such psychic aggregates, in spiritist or spiritualistic centers.

It is notorious and evident that these "I's” - Devils" due to their multiplicity, can enter into many mediumnimic bodies - as in the case of Juan Hurtado el Mayor - , for their manifestation.

Any Master of the SHAMADHÍ will be able to clearly demonstrate in ecstasy the following: Those that through the spirit mediums manifest themselves, certainly they are not the souls or the spirits of the dead, but the “I's” - Devils of the latter, the psychic aggregates that they continue further into the sepulchral grave.

We have been told with great emphasis that during the POST - MORTEM states, the mediums become possessed of the Devil - or of the demons - , it is unquestionable that after a certain time they conclude by divorcing themselves from their own Divine being; then they enter the submerged involution of the worlds - hells.

                                                                                              IV

                                                                                     THEOSOPHY

Without boasting in any way with such delicate and multiple concerns of philosophical and metaphysical type, I confess frankly and with all sincerity that I had not yet reached the sixteen springs of my current existence, when I was already engaged in many matters of substantial content.

With infinite anxieties I proposed to analyze in detail the problems of the spirit in the light of modern science.

Very interesting at that time were the scientific experiments of the English physicist William Crookes, distinguished discoverer of matter in the radiant state and Thallium, illustrious member of the Royal British Society.

Sensational seemed to me the famous materializations of the KATIE - KING spectrum in the laboratory, a theme raised by Crookes in his "Measure of psychic force".

Excellent, exceptional, wonderful, I found many sacred themes of antiquity such as: The Serpent of Paradise, The she-ass of Balaam, The Words of the Sphinx , the mysterious voices of the Statues of Mennon at break the day, the terrible MENE - TECEL - PHARES of the feast of Baltasar; the Seraphim of Tehran, Father of Abraham; the Oracles of Delphi; the Betilos or Talking Stones of Destiny, the Oscillating and Magical Menhirs of the Druids; the enigmatic voices of all the necromantic bloody sacrifices, authentic origin of all the classic tragedy, whose indiscreet revelations in Prometheus, the Caforas and the Eumenides, cost the life of the Aeschylus Initiate; the words of Tiresias, the fortune-teller evoked by Ulysses in the Odyssey , at the edge of the pit filled with the blood of the propitiatory black lamb; the secret voices that Alaric heard commanding him to destroy the sinful Rome, and those that the maid of Orleans also heard to exterminate the English, etc., etc., etc.

Taught in good manners and without rehearsing in public speaking to recite in public, at seventeen years of age dictated lectures in the Theosophical Society.

I received the Theosophist Diploma from the hands of Jinarajadasa, illustrious president of that august Society, that in good time I knew personally.

Sure of myself in my character I was then very well informed about the strange and mysterious blows of Rochester, the classic psychic phenomena of the farm of the Eddy, where the same Theosophical Society was born; there were reminders of the Pythonesses of ancient times, knew of haunted houses and post - Mortem apparitions and knew all the telepathic phenomena thoroughly.

Unquestionably, with so much metaphysical data accumulated in my poor mind, I had become a very demanding scholar.

However, I very sincerely wanted to form the heart with the good Theosophist criteria and for that reason I became engrossed with the works that I found in the rich library.

Inexhaustible Spring of Divine Wisdom, I discovered with mystical astonishment in the well-worked pages of the Secret Doctrine, extraordinary work of the Venerable Great Master Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the sublime martyr of the 19th century.

Let's see now the following notes, by the way very interesting:

"1885. In his Diary, Colonel Olcott notes on January 9th." "HPB, has received from Master M., the plan for his Secret Doctrine." "It's excellent, Oakley and I tried to do it last night, but this one is much better."

"The conspiracy of the Coulomb marriage forced HPB, to leave Adyar and travel to Europe in March, HPB, took with him the precise manuscript. When I was preparing to board the ship, Subba Row recommended me to write THE SECRET DOCTRINE and be sent weekly I promised him and I will ... since he is going to add notes and comments and then the Theosophical Society will publish it."

"It was in that year when Master KH wrote: When the Secret Doctrine is ready, it will be a triple production of M., Upasika and mine."

It is evident that such notes invite us to meditation. However, it is ostensible that the VM, interpreted the teachings adapting them to the time.

Exhausted the theoretical studies of Theosophical type, I practiced with intensity RAYA-YOGA, BHAKTI, JNANA - Yoga, Karma - Yoga, etc., etc., etc.

Multiple psychic benefits I obtained with the Yogas practices recommended by that venerated institution.

Since the very meritorious Master HPB, always considered the HATHA - YOGA as something too inferior, I can say that I was never interested in such branch of the Hindustan YOGA.