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before his enemies necessarily precludes a belief in his resurrection, for he might bave had some good reason for not courting their notice, after getting out of the grave. It all depends on what view we take of his “death. If one believes that he actually died on the cross, then, certainly, there is an end to the resurrection; but if, in harmony with our previous conclusions, we accord to him the power to put himself in deep trance, there is no difficulty about the matter.
Rejecting the Biblical narratives about his doings after the crucifixion, we shall construe the events in our own way. The first thing to see is whether there is any evidence of the power claimed by the higher adepts of Yoga and other mystics to enter, at will, into a state of trance, and become dead to all appearances. That there have been cases of suspended animation no one will seriously deny; and it may be surmised from this that some lamentable burials have taken place in the past in which the persons buried were supposed to be dead, though actually alive and in a trance. Dr. Drayton, M.D., refers to the case of Revd. William Tennant of New Jersey why several times became entranced, and was twice prepared for the grave, his physicians even concluding that he was dead (Human Magnetism, page 59). On the same page he says :
"Many other cases are recorded of suspended animation,' which, it is claimed, can be induced almost at will. The stories told of East Indian fakirs who have voluntarily entered into the trance state and remained apparently dead for even months, have their *witness' testimony, and it is of a character that skepticism respects."
In the 21st chapter of the Law of Psychic Pheno
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