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THE POWER OF KARMA remarks, "is vouched for by the most trustworthy authorities, and the record is therefore made public without further comment, as the incidents are regarded as absolute facts by all who have been brought in contact with them."
In "Powers That Be" I described the experiments I made with a subject under hypnosis, suggesting that she was living further and further back in the deeps of Time. The results obtained from these experiments have aroused such keen interest that the following account of the experiments made by Colonel de Rochas, with a view to the recovery of memory of past lives under hypnotism are worth attention.
In one of these experiments, M. de Rochas attempted to obtain regression in the case of an orphan who had been reared in Beyrout and whose father had been an engineer in the Orient. At ten years of age she thought herself in Marseilles, where she had indeed been at that age, and M. de Rochas was unaware of this. At eight she was in Beyrout and spoke of her father and friends who came to the house. Asked how "good morning" is said in Turkish, she answered, “Salamalec”, a word which in her waking state she had forgotten. At two
