B912 <=> B914 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 913]

“’And when he had begun to prepare himself to employ that cure, then on one sorrowful day for him, in one of the large European cities, in the jostling caused by some demonstration, he fell under an “automobile,” and although not quite killed, he received very serious bodily injuries.

“’Owing to these injuries, firstly, his own life flowed for several months under a “lapse of memory,” and secondly, because of the absence of conscious and intentional direction on his part of the ordinary life of his wife, the process of the terrible disease flowed in her at an accelerated tempo, chiefly because during his illness she took constant and anxious care of him without sparing herself.

“’And so, when this poor friend of mine finally regained consciousness, he soon saw to his horror that the disease process in his wife was already in its last stages.

“’What could he do? What could be done . . . since owing to the consequences of the injuries he had received he was bereft of every possibility of preparing himself and of elaborating in himself the vibrations of the quality needed for the cure he had learned, of destroying in man that terrible disease.

“’Thereupon and in view of all this and seeing no other way, he resolved to have recourse to that means of curing this illness which the representatives of contemporary European medicine employ and thanks to which, they allege, it is possible, as it were, to destroy in man that disease.

“’Namely, he decided to have recourse to what are called X rays.

“’The treatment with the said rays was begun.