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Odd Exp eriences in Her Theo
I sophical Retreat Just Outside
I London, Where
"Past Incarnations"
Absorb the Rich and
Aristocratic Patients
and One Has
All the Sensa
tions of Elab
orate Dinners
Without
I Touching a
II Bit of Food
London, June 25. ..
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iHB DUCHESS OP MAN- ,
CHESTER, who was Helen
Zimmerman of Cincinnati,
Ohio, hat founded a theo sophical
hospital t Isleworth, and London's
smart set Is delightedly supporting
this novel scheme. Visions of past
Incarnations; visions of wonderful
future happenings are Induced by
the injection of a mysterious drug,
and cur of many of the Ills that
; flesh Is heir to is promised.
J The hospital has been In exist
: ence for several months, but the
I general public has known little of
It and its doings. Theo sophists of ,
England, America and Europe are
watching this soul hospital with
f 1 tager, eyes, for if the Duchess Is
I I really successful in her pet project
if this "soul hospital" may become
I the parent of others In other lands.
If The Duke and Duchess of Man
! I chaster are both Theosophists, as
j; are many other, members of the
British nobility. There are scores
l of well-known women In London, in
: I Paris and in New York who have
; j their own yogi or master.
It , was the Duchess who con
ceived the idea of founding 'a hos-
;pltal on theosophlcal lines. The
Duke aided her. Just at the psycho
I ; logical moment the Duke became
Interested, in Dr. Orlando E. Miller,
; an American who claimed to have a
? cure for consumption and its kin-
I dred diseases. The Manchesters
t are very public spirited, very much
interested in the betterment of hu
i inanity. "If I found my hospital,"
said .the generous Duchess, "the
. tuberculosis cure can have a try
out there."
Mr. Zimmerman a Backer.
The Duke had lorfg consultations
with, his wealthy father-in-law, Eu
gene Zimmerman. ' Finally Mr. Zlm-
; merman said: 7
"Find the house and I will finance
the hospital for a year."
Down - at Isleworth was the su
perb country estate belonging to
the head of the Pears family. Mr.
t Pears had just had a most unhappy
domestic experience. The estate he
had spent halt a million dollars on
, was put up for sale. Mr. Zimmer
man and the Duke secured It, and
the Duche and her theosophlst
. friends were; delighted. -
.The estate is one of the hand
; somest places near London. The
mansion was large and sumptu
,: ously furnished, the gardens su
i perb. . : There are acres of lawns
-' an woodland. - It , charmed the
' Duchess's esthetic soul and pleased
u Mr. Zimmerman's ouslness sense.
It was just the place to please the
P very wealthy invalids and near la
I valids of society whose nerves were
"on edge," or whose souls needed
i patching up.
5 The Duke was perhaps more in
! terested in the Miller cur than in
' the soul or nerves departments!
Mr. Ilarold 'McCormick and Mr. J.
R. Hatmaker, formerly Cornelius
Vanderbllt's private secretary, were
. r also interested in Miller. " Mr, M
'. formic. In fact,- was the cause of
-Mi!li.-3 iflp to England, and it was
"Visions" of
v lr' ' "Suddenly the mirror over Jhe mantelpiece dissolved. I found myself looking
v iV' ' into beautiful gardens. Four men were playing cards. They were of Louis XVI.'s
VW " A4? 'f day- A woman came out and Pointe(1 at me' A" arose and fled as though in terror. . . .Had
: WM'A 1 v55r V I actually been looking into a century long past?"
McCormlctf who introduced him to
the Duke. The Duke took the
treatment for nerves before he
went in for the hospital idea, and
was so enthralled with the visions
he saw that he became a firm be
liever in the whole thing and
worked hard for the success of the
hospital and for Orlando E. Miller.
This American has quite a record
in his own country. He ran a
hernia cure in Denver, an asylum
for inebriates near Chicago, and
has been interested in many other
schemes. He has been attacked
by the medical profession in this
country.
While the Duchess was having
the Pears' mansion transformed
into a hospital, London's fashion
ables were agog with curiosity.
The tuberculosis cure was adver
tised by its loving friends and the
Duke and Duchess had many offers
of help.' On the opening day the
Duchess gave a beautiful garden
party. The Dowager Duchess of
Manchester, Lady Paget. Mrs. Will
iam B. Leeds and Mrs. Cornelius
West were in the receiving line. A
member of the royal family, long
known for her theosophlcal beliefs,"
was also a patroness.
Theosophists of all degrees were
there. The scheire appealed to the
leaders of the religion, and they ,
gave it careful consideration. They
wanted to . learn all they could of
the remarkable cure.
The Princess' "Vision."
Of course, there were no patients
at the hospital os the opening day,
but they came vry quickly; there
were the Prince and Princess Von
Hohenlohe among others. The Prin
cess, one of the most charming wo
men of Europe,' took the cure for
nerves, and for what the boyish
Princess called her frayed souL
The drug did not give the Princess
any wonderful visions ' of former
Incarnations.
"I saw only the future," said she
. to a young American patient ' "I
saw myself ruler of a wonderful
city; there were millions of people
in it; they were giants, the women 1
were seven, feet tall and of- great
beauty. The men matched them. I
was their Empress,- and always I
was laden with chains of Jewels.
And, curiously, there were never
any ' children in this remarkable
. , city! , No, the Prince was not with
: ; me. He was having his own
visions! I saw this vision every
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day for five days.
more." ; . . '
The soul cure is expensive, and
yet it has so many followers it is
not always possible to admit them.
The rates are graded according to
the patients' social position or
wealth. The Prince Von Hohenlohe
for instance, it is said, paid $50,000
for his and the Princess' treatment. ,
Miller's tubercular, cure is his chief
est Interest. He has a well-known
licensed physician in charge. This
physician went out to Isleworth as
a patient in the beginning. Then
he went into the scheme himself,
with r Miller, and to-day he is
a stanch believer in all depart
ments of the soul hospital.
A Young American's Experience
, But what Is the treatment? How
is it that seeming miracles are
wrought? The Idea of the visions
is the first point that impresses the
patient But the visions are, after
all but a small part of the cure.
Not all . patients have these
glimpses of their past or future.
Cold, phlegmatic temperaments take
the soul cure stolidly. ,The vision
seer must be intense, must have an
active imagination, must be sensi
tive, responsive.
Undoubtedly, the most thrilling
experience at the soul hospital was
that of a young American singer,
who went under the cure for ca
tarrh. When he arrived he found
patients in the gardens, hoeing, rak
ing, digging. Men of title, who had
never tolled or spun, were tossing
hay in the meadows. . Delicate, high
bred ladies were ' sweeping . the
marble terraces. It was a. busy
scene. '
"Work is part of our cure," said
the doctor in charge. "We. depend
very slightly on drugs -Just -work
and the elevating or the soul and
mind work wonders." . . ' .
The young singer was a theoso
phlst; he gave himself up to the
doctor completely. He was put to
bed in a beautiful room, and there
was a particularly pretty, nurse in
attendance. ' Under the doctor's di
rections he received his first injec
tion of the secret drug.. He tells
his experiences fully. :'
"I did not lose consciousness. "In
fact , not once-during my week's
treatment did I lose consciousness.
I was myself always, and held long,
interesting conversations -with my
pretty nurse.
"The first day I bad a vision of
my future. I saw myself as a great
master, the leader of the whole
theosophlcal faith. ' I . did not live
in Thibet but in the highest peak
of the Rocky Mountains. I had
thousands of followers. My teach
ers were numbered by -the hundred.
There we're men and women teach
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ers and under-masters. But, over
all was I myself, the' great master."
.' This vision passed the first day;
the second ( day the patient realized
that he . was hungry.
"I ' want ' something to, eat," he
sal J when the doctor dropped in.
"Certainly; what will you have?
Just imagine that you are in a res
taurant order everything you want
and you ' shall have it." And he
jabbed the drug in his arm.'
"Sweetbreads creamed broiled
chicken, French artichokes and
my, how crowded this restaurant is,
waiter, and ' how hungry'! all ' these
people seem to be. They are eating
like pigs. There, take the stuff
away. I am not hungry."
This happened for three days.
Always, the patient felt hungry, or
dered what he wanted, and-never
even saw the fooa. He had visions
of eating, but. never ate!, " V
By ' this ' starvation . method all
poisonous gases and ' germs were
supposed to be eliminated from the
system. The drug put the patient
into a subjective state he thought
he had eaten, he felt satisfied, and
yet he knew , that he had not eaten.
The fourth day tne drug was ad
ministered .at 11 o'clock in the
morning. Two hours afterward the
young singer chaffed his nurse
about a locket she was wearing, ate
his foodless lunch and turned to
look at a very beautiful vase on the
mantelpiece.
.What He Saw Through Mirror.
"Suddenly the mirror over the
marble mantel dissolved," he said.
"I found myself looking down into
some beautiful gardens. At one
side was an. exquisitely beautiful
chateau, with a wide marble ter
race. On , the terrace, were ,four
men playing cards at a round table.
, They were men of Louis XVL days.
One sat facing me. He had a
strong, hard face,' bulging eyes and
a marvellous white wig, and was
- dressed In court fashion. All the
men ' wore sumptuous court .. cos
tumes, of velvet and satin. c They
wore real lace ruffles and 'jewels.
Below them In the gardens played
-' f bur. little girls. s A' beautiful woman
' came out on the terrace. .She spoke
to them, then raised her eyes and
looked full into my .eyes! : .
' "She started, turned pale and ap
, parently seemed stunned.' Then
she leaned over and whispered in
the ear of the man facing me. She
pointed . at me. He looked and
jumped wildly up. knocking his gold
. chair backward. The other men
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The Duchess of Manchester (formerly Helen Zimmerman, of
Cincinnati, O.) in Her Ducal Robes and Coronet
looked up also and literally shook
their flats' at me!
"A footman appeared through the
long window, received, an order and
disappeared. The ' men could not
finish their game. In a' short time
a big painted coach, drawn by four
white horses, pranced into sight
There . were four outriders. The
three men, still visibly disturbed,
drove away. The children ran up
to the terrace and their mother
gathered them in her arms. The
father stood like a statue, immovable.
. "I kept my eyes fixed on this
tableau . and called softly to my
nurso. She came over to my bed,
standing just where she could look
into the space over the mantel.
'What do you see there, Miss
P-i ?' I asked. 'Why, nothing, of
course! ' '
, "I described the scene fully, tell
ing the colors of the gown worn
by the woman, , the , names of the
flowers '. everything. But Miss
P- 'Shook her mead. She saw
nothing. .
"Tl.li vlelnn 9AA ' T, J
till, . TiOlUU laucu, . JQbUXUBIl
the next day, and the next It was
always the same. The last day. in
bed the drug was eliminated. The
vision changed.
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The Meaning of the ."Visiona."
"I saw brownies and gnomes
playing about under the trees on
the lawns. I got up and went to
the window. The brownies flew up
in the trees and pelted the gnomes
with leaves. I could not stand it
bo I dressed and went out When
I got within ten feet of the trees
the brownies and gnomes disap
peared. - ' .'
. "This was my last vision. I be
came mentally ' and physically
stronger, but had no more visions."
After leaving' the soul hospital
the patient told his visions to sev
eral leading theosophists in various
cities. They all explained the vis
ions in the same way, although
none knew that any others were
consulted. ; . ,
The vision he saw, they told him
showed 'to him his last .incar-
ntlin -- H was tli on an Ttolla.
chemist who had been brought to
France. by enemies of LouIb XVI.
and Marie Antoinette. He was, an
expert In poisons; ,. He , poisoned
several members of the. royal party
and of the nobility. He was exe
crated by every one, even his em
ployers.. After the Revolution he
was beheaded by the very men re
sponsible for his work. Among the
people he had poisoned were the
. four men who played cards in his
vision!
American, English and French
theosophists have explained - this
vision In this way. Neither the
theosophists, the Duchess of Man
chester, or the doctor admit any
connection between any vision and
the soul cure. It just happened that
the singer, was highly tempera
mental and - imaginative. He saw
much where others might have seen
nothing. .
And London's smart set yearnr
to have a few visions of its own.