THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936.
WEIRD THINGS A HONGKONG DOCTOR SAYS HE SAW
Dead Man Brought To Life
EARLIER this week the "Tele-
graph" published some of the remarkable history of a former University of Hongkong lecturer, Dr. Alexander Cannon.
Dr. Cannon left Hongkong for Lomlon in 1930, after three years in this Colony.
During his stay here, he commenced writing a book that created such a Rensation In London that he WOR asked by the LC.C, to resign his post as psychiatrist and research worker at one of the LC.C, menla} hospitals.
Wonders, believes Dr. Cannon, are simmering in the brain of Man--- wonders that nimost any day now. may flod over and invest the World as we know it with a new menning, and a new majesty.
Telepathy
hypnotion
levitation
Dr.
block magic All the things we sneer at superstitions of the ancients. Cannon believes we are trembling on the brink of their re-discovery:
He nga so in his book, "Invisible Infinence, in which he describes a Journey to the Grand Lama of Tibet,. and dine.com nil sorts of unennny experleners he says he had on the way. Be visited Tibet just before he came to Hongkong, núd much of. the material in the book was written in this 'olony.
'n
Wit described in k arcent review of his tool; (which still emmands trent, attention in psychic vierles) as "the shrest of mortals, who do not extra publicity.
Julin Maregelan writite in: London Soutien Prepoteh sab!!
the
"Dr. Cummon has given bis views in the world in "Invisible inturner" and be is eontent in leave it at that, But I have had ten with lus circl of friends and from them I heard much of the man and his world.
This is how the well-known London writer untinites:
De. Cannon is almost as much an aseptic as any nùe of the Yorris from ,whom he hàn learnt his magic, 11. neither gooksa nor drinks, He ju almost a vegetaring.
Its gen mystery. The L.C.C. mướt trên n h i (EE at lis friends told me he looked a littl- younger than that. Another onld he looked about Atty. According to them, he himself says that he fools. younger that he did fifteen years apo.
"DIE NOW!"
pre-
Fig Tree Withered By Command
Men Floating
"One of our members was lifted by purely mental means"
Across 300-ft.
Deep George
likewise by sitting or standing in frost with a light shining upon the observer's face from an angle of abcut thirly degrees in front of, te The side, and above the level of his eyes; and looking straight in front of him in at the subject, some three or four feet away in an ordinary room-the darker the wall the better and black being the perfect enlour to throw out the sura."
Nat all, of these phenomena are unknown although, of course, the Lhamns have brought the Mind to a higher state than any other living; people.
For instance, Dr. Cannon tells of Fakir (pronounced Fack-ce-er, by the way) who walked for ten minutes on red-hot conls without even blister- ing his feet
According Mrs. Hewat Meken zie, a close friend of Dr. Cannon with whom I spoke, live ennis have been Handled by non-professional
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The following extracts are from! the Hongkong Telegraph for The week, ended July 31, 1915.
DJU
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Lieut. Comdr. A. E. Davey was appointed First Boarding Officer; Lient, A. W. Daily_Second Bord- Tag heer; and Mr. C. J. Thomson host of monks master of the steam tender Stan "Then entered a currying huge flaming torches; and ↑ ley. they having seated themselves' in a
"
This question of age has a
If made his body kn thej liar significance, for in his books, Dr. 12,000-mile journey in something like Cannon refers to certain Professor three hours! X. who says to hum...
was done by means of the This _Have_yuni_rmalised—Ohm-neither Levitation_and_nsportation_plieno-_ your anr I look a day older than weena, Merely by the exercise of his did twenty years ago? To us age will, he raised himself in the air and has consed to enunt; the years matter sent himself across the vast spaces, Bol-I am now one hundred years
When the appointed timé enme for old; but I dare not tell the multitude their journey, Dr., Cannon and The circle, for the room was round. Mr. Chan Kal-mine was
still continued to ebant. The tirent: appointed a member thn, beentire they would come miles Sage set out for Lhama, and wers than prayed, and at that moment to look on me with wonder, for suddenly confronted by a wide, swift eight men entered crying a huge Sanitary Board for look on day more than forty years
impassable river which lay at the heavy of age..
.stone coffin, foot of a 300-ft. deep gorge. Now coveringsstab did they remove, und.
which stone Period of three years. Dr. Cannon then goes on to de, [1st 19" Cuation take up the story?
behold, we saw one whn appeared to scribe the Professor's powers and
fu dunit. tells of a remarkable démonstration ¦. af them.
LANDED SAFELY
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"Un the other side could be seen i Together they appronched an anur friend the Knight Commander, cient fir tree in a siegard. It must in glowing gearlet robes, on horse have been hundreds of years old, buck, with his one arm, looking 167 The Professor addressed il thus
ward us.
Thou hast done well; thou hast "He soon gave us, instructions as weathered the storms of life, thou to how we should cross this gulf, by hast comforted and protected mythe practising of the levitation and soul. Now hast thy time come to transportation phenomena, in which depart from this world of vanity and we hit become, ere this, adept in its nothingners. Die now, and come to perfect manipulation life no more!”
The most astonishing passage in this astonishing book, however, is
Knight Commander. said: Dr. Cannon's description of his visit to the Great Lama of Tibet. HeNow you will require no treasure was on a long journey to investigate and no more clothes; for now we can the mysteries of the East.
materialise all that is needed for the support of the human frail frame."
Two horses appeared out of the alr at within soven hours they reached the Convent.
The doctor and his companion, whom he describes as The Sage, were camping in a cave near the borders of Tibet on their way to the great Llama Convent where the Great
·Lhama dwelt.
STONE COLD
"I was given the privilege of guine down from the golden standard and examining the body. There was
naise, no audible "beart-boats; the bely en stone coll, and the eyes were as one dead for more than one day. I tested the absence of breath by means of a mirror, which did not steam, and the body by lifeless as in the grave.
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Transmission 1
cup-
(6.8.N., G.S.H.) 12.3ft 13.m. Big Ben, A Recital by Valentins
Aksarova (Soprano). 12,35 p.n, Talk.
1.30. The dare Schwiller String
Sertet.
1.30 Des Landon and Horence. Vilds
ham. 1.2 m. The Isidore chwilfer Ateing
Sextet front'd). 2.10 p.m. The News and Annuancements. Greenwich Time Signal at 2.16 p.m.
Transmissioni 2
F
16.8.0, 6.8.ILY 7 m.
ileni Armand the Countles No. 2. 7.30 pm The I.B.C. Danes frebesira.
p.m. Talk. 9.15 pm, Friday Hiblay Concert,
Greenwich Time Blenat al Optr. p.m.
The News and Announcements. 3.20 p.m. A Programme at New, tiramle
phone Itararda,
A mar Lal Kal, 30. residing at No. 85 Gloucester Road, 3rd floor, Then the Great Lhain uttered appeared before Mr. H. B. Lee at "Within the course of a few hours To Dr. Cannon's muazement, the we had made our bodily state fit to
words in a language which was the Central Magistraey yesterday trée withered as they watched, and allow of this great mirnenlous trans- strange und, Jebold, the eyes of the afternoon, charged with having corpse opened. The body gradually his possession dangerous drugs. from that day to this the spot hasportation phenomenon taking place been barren of growth.
by pure mental effort, and in another sut up in its Lomb, and then, assisted moment of time we were both landed the Great thama.
by two
Chief Revenue Olleer A. W. Grim- monks, it walked towards Actually, photographs were taken safely on the other side, but our boys
howed, and re- mitt salt that on July 10, under a of the mirnely but the doctor's and luggage still remained on yonder turned to its coffin, not for general warrant he searched the de- friends declared to me that even fine."
moment taking its eyes off the fendant's house, and found defendant they did produce then they could
Greatest of all Sages, and in a few in the rear cubicle sitting on a bed, harily be regarded as proof to long
"We were then requested to comniore minutes the body
behind a
21 curtain. Thure was * after the event.
mand the boys to return with our lay lifeless."
strong smell of heroin, pills in the luggage to the cave dwellings to "The Grent Lhoma baying mean room, and in
ner he found a the corner await our return),
time read all my thoughts, told me cupboard specially made with flat "The
that what I saw was a rataleptic drawers Instead of sheives. On state far greater than ang Fakir being unlocked he found
inside 20 could produce, and that, in fact, this wire tray, with 9,700 pills on it. innn had been dead some seven another drawer of the same years, that he would not be raised bourd, be found tin of red-hot for another seven years.
charcoal ashes, used for drying the pills. A rattan basket was
also found containing 14,000 heroin pilis. "I was further informed that this 3,700 of the pills were also found, In another tin on the bed a further These are, the sort of amazing
some hundreds of years statements on which Dr. Cannon eld and may Byo for ever-if living was found to contain powders, usual- leather sult-case lying on the bed was dismissed from the L.C.Cand it could be entled. reinstated after he had convinced the
"I asked the Great Lhuma what used in the manufacturing committee that his statements were happened to this man's soul or un-heroin. pills. He asked the defen- true.
conscious mind in the meantime. I dant if the pills and articles found
belonged to him,
and was then informed int he visited
the defendant Mother Earth in various parts, taking repiled in the attirmative. Also on
the premises messages from the Great Lhama, and the
were, onc counting thet
in fact,
tray, ong packet of
of envelopes, one he was the Great Knight Comman- used pll machine, and new der who had taken on another making machine almost unused.
Chinese Revenue Officer D8, cor- body with only one arm; this being ཐ*** sridbolle of the 'Order of the Night Froborated Mr. Grimmitt's statements. Hand"
Mr. H. A. Taylor, the Government standard and throne stood the Greatassed the aura which surrounded three certificates
Dr. Canon and The Sage dis- Analyst testined that he had issued They questioned the newcomer.Lhuin himself. How did he know of the coming
the Great Lhamn. The Sagy sald lure of heat referring to the na "A strange recling crept over us as honour? When and he heard? And
that the aura of a man always fol- The defendant, when asked by Mr. he made it clear that he had received vir eyes discerned him, for there was lowed the contour of his body, while H. B. Lee whether he had anything telepathies communleation from the bluish emanation of about three that of a woman, after following the to say about himself, said, that he Great Lhama himself thousanda - of
line of the head. fell in an oblong to was employed by a Chinese man, miles away.
face of his body; in fuet a visible the knees and then took up the con-who paid him $20 a month in Can-a better market for them. In Kong. aura, which mediums always spenk tour of the legs.
HOW DID HE KNOW?
They were visited by a mysterious personage wearing scarlet rohex, anal abinek enB. This visitor, who was
Friends came to corroborato his on horseback and had only one arm, marvellous stories. declared bigself the Knight Comi
Dr. Cannon gees on with his story mander and emissary of the Greathe and The Sage were taken inta Lhama, and innoeed that Dr. the presence of the Great Lhama... Cannon was to be invested with that supreme honour, Knight Commander
"As we entered in the innermost
of Asin, which is equal to an earl-[room of all the Grand Hall, there at lott..
the East end nt à beautiful golden
.
Time proved that it was so. Dr. Cannon and The Sago decided to await the coming of the summer. before pushing on to the Couvent,
inches thickness covering the sor
uf, when they behold a person during
the trance state.
MIER WAS
SEEING AN AURA
of
Dill
lon Currency, to look after the cup- Trent necounts of their business 32
Kong Moon. # "I can make you see anaura, He added that at the time
The Sage, and anyone can do when the pink pills were manufac
"We could see no one else but the Great God of Learning and Love; I said
Transmission 3
(0.0) G.... G.B.D.). 1. Ben. Cellufol
Bernd Edition.
1,10,8% pim. Kieprise Hem.
- Itbyllem,"
11 pm) A Pymphony Concert. 21.33 pm. The News and Announcements, Greenwich Time Signal al 12 .m. 12.15 m. Hensemper."
12.45 am. The Alpliat, presented by Prask
Hienart.
•
tured, he sent in his resignation, but
overdrawn he had already month's wages and had to stay on, He told the court that the pills manufactured, were not to be sold
In Hongkong as his master could find
Moon. He had been in Hongkong for twenty years and that during that time he had always been honral, Concluding he asked the Magle- rate to deal with his case as soon
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