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TURKEY IN ASIA. — IONIA AND THE GREEKS. 377
firm Spiritualist. In a letter written to the "Universe,"
he said, —
"Many Moslems also fully believe in a power or faculty of the
spirit of man to see, behold, or have an intuitive perception of, things
invisible by the ordinaiy organs of sight. This assertion they sustain
by the frequent examples of individuals having the most correct and
exact knowledge of events occurring at a vast distance from them', — of
visions in which they behold, like pictures passing before their eyes,
scenes of which they have never had any previous knowledge or perception.
. . . These Turkish Spiritualists are always people of well-known
purity and virtue, animated with the highest degree of benevolence, and
deeply interested in the spiritual welfare of others. This belief is
often acted upon and exercised in such a manner by others as to lead
some persons to suppose that Spiritualism and animal magnetism are
one and the same thing; for the pious Moslem believes that he can
effect cures, or at least give relief from bodily sufferings, by prayer,
and the imposing of his hands on the invalid."