Show DISrINGUISILED THEOSOPHIST GOI1frslon i of a SraUlionlam Professor Pro-fessor to MysticismHLi TroiTiTtcy nmcerulnp the Future Accor ing the recent reports writes a Vathiiujo CQ correspondent of toe JCew York IItrU Dr Elliott Cou of Wash uif on bus been making a great stir in e rttein cin tea I In New York by his lee tllris upon 3beosopIi Drijotiesfe he presideili Ifthe Washington brunch of 1bOilflIII in tb uougtrr lIe b one of Ihe j I st known of she tcientlsU wlm hve b en connected with tbe dQHtuaonmii uittrtutfon since lia foundation found-ation Although he fa a comparatively young man Fie i + an acknowledged att thorny upon the subject of ornithology Piofeuor Aga stz before his deah paid 1iin the compliment of pavinj that be was the best iiilurnieil itntist ni > on that subject in tue country He first fliquiretl Ibis if iti atuin in safe branch of suoly while hohhlli the Iloi ilion i-lion wf Mir Mii i in lice United State armY He nbtnined through politicnl tnrtue cemleiuHtif 1 servicnt Wxt1itg > IOU For Itiumr live ear < lnoctupieu w detj III eof the quiet nook oJ till miUiMinlin He wa nut upun the pay rullnt that ituuon hut be had full coiuiuanil of its study mid lib was iiiiitd by it J flu Jici in the publication publica-tion of b1S works AfUr n time sour ainiv friend J became jalou of ther I > utation tot he was funking an < i sup getel l tu the war ilrparlmeni that lilt surgwin was jn lancy duty at Was inj tonnixl hal lie was Ixiig unduly fa voreii HM wai orders d MI join bt regiment in New Mexico This wa a great blow to bun as he WH obliged < < to Hive no bli tuilles and qiier life ut the capital Ho did U went for a shunt time but hi sour after resigned and he came hi > ovr innsier Since that time he has made n ore nnd more of n reputation repu-tation In literature and in the field cf hCitntiOc research Tbe fact tlat he has be ome a convert to tiny systt m ol mysticism is mOle burpritiiif to bit intimate in-timate friends than even to those who are merely familiar with his tcantim and lterary work He has nearly all his 1 fe been a ms tenaliit For several years he RIi + a pronounced advocnte of agnosticism Few understand the mean employed to convert tli doctor dud he ia silent upon that subject He it one of the best known figures in Washington society so-ciety or rather has been liil goes out now very litle and appears to toe ihor oujbly satisfied with the joys if the new life found by him in the study and practice of tbeoophy He is quite tall Five years ago he was conquered out of the handsomest men in Washington He is a regular emu red blonde with clear blue eves a good completion and the air und gruce of a man of the world The lower part of nis face a few year ago was ornamented with a neatly trimmed blonde eard and a tnmh twisted yell w nnstache t He used tube tu-be elaborately careful in his dress and had a most gallant reputation among the ladies who were fond of many ad m rers Today his dress il careless his trim beard has grown to almott patriarchal pa-triarchal length his clear blue eye now has a dreamy loorof mjsticisni tin gaze of an opinm eater He has for years been nnincpsantsmoker of cigarettes cigar-ettes Both of his long Iran hand are stained yellow on the inside with the juice of cigarettes Two years lieu be visited Europe During that time he was received by all of the prominent scientific people in London Fans and Berlin Huxley and others made qtitti a social lion of him during his London stay i The doctors development as theo BophU did not become generally known among hU mends until he returned from this European trip About year ago be became actively ide itined with theorgamzed tbeosopbist To stay he appears to be one of the most contenteo of metro tlrhisnbefl is a delusion Ii it is a most happy one for him for it con so es him for the Joss of society aim friend His conversion to Ihii doc rites of mysticism does not appejr to have affected hisaiandingas a scientific man His writings are still in dem mlas they were before it became known tb t he had departed from all orthodox paths I saw the doctor the other day and asked him If it was true that he had said that hecould project his spirit from his body and that he could appear 10 people at a distant place while his ra 1 body was at another He said that this was tree He said further that ibd ability of experts in tbeosopby to project pro-ject their astral bodies had become welftstablished that it was nor longer a subject for discussion The doctor said Tfitha great deal of emphasis that there was a perfect revolution of public sentiment now going on upon this subject sub-ject and with that in view hewished to place a certain prophecy upon the record Markthishea idVwithIii one years time there will be a perfect madrush of people to the front seeking to claim theorig nating of this doctrine I know that it IS not now considered a sound or reasonable doctrine and that peoplewho believe In it are generally regarded as cranks But you will see within the tim I have mentioned an entire change in public opinion upon this subject Dr Cones fellows the example of all of the theosophists by declining to talk very mueh uj on the subject of his belief or his sHe s-He says that he is satisfied and that at the present time tho public is not educated edu-cated up to the standard of appreciating appreciat-ing the theosophists doctrine He and his fellowexperts occupy at the present such a superior plane that all the rest of humanity appears very mall and misguided mis-guided What may be the opinions of tbe people who dwell in this lower plane regarding the select few whet dwell in the uppetplane 15 Lmattci 6f upreme indifference tQ the Intter Dr Coues refuted to discuss the experiments ex-periments which have been made by experts in projecting their astral bodies Perhaps the questions were irreverent from the standard of theosophy The possibilities of theosophy should not escape the attention of newspapers proprietors pro-prietors A first class expert would beery be-ery useful in a newspaper office With his physical body anchored in a first clavfOtfice lie could project his astral body wi h great advantage into 1ioe mysterious conferences of politician hf Xhlevirie aldermen political magnate and Wall street speculators The reports re-ports of an astral body ifitcan roam at will through locked doors and solid walls would make very sensational reading This if an unworked field for even joostenterprisinc American newspapers It is further chimed that t I Coues has reached the height of spiritual I spirit-ual development which he now enjoys I I only through several years of sinless living and upward striving The ct that is fanned gay ea rgoing ma terialistic man of the world has been able to pass rough such a period as thut may b5 regarded aiMnucb more qf anifracle loan wbat his theosopbical InViidsjclaimJor binsAt any rate he represents one of the most peculiar types of eccentric thinkers at Washing j inn Hi tcfentificppsitionbaa given to him a notoriety which would not have been created if he had been a plain ordinary tmmlabonng under an ordinary ordin-ary delusion I |