A. Yes, in all pictures of Christian artists this light is represented as shining about the bodies of their holy personages. The same belief is found to have existed in other religions. 349. Q. _What historical incident supports the modern theory of hypnotic suggestion?_ A. That of Chullapanthaka, as told in the Pālī Commentary on the _Dhammapada_, etc. 350. Q. _Give me the facts._ A. He was a bhikkhu who became an Arhat. On that very day the Buddha sent a messenger to call him. When the man reached the Vihāra, he saw three hundred bhikkhus in one group, each exactly like the others in every respect. On his asking which was Chullapanthaka, every one of the three hundred figures replied: "I am Chullapanthaka." 351. Q. _What did the messenger do?_ A. In his confusion he returned and reported to the Buddha. 352. Q. _What did the Buddha then tell him?_ A. To return to the vihāra and, if the same thing happened, to catch by the arm the _first_ figure who said he was Chullapanthaka and lead him to him. The Buddha knew that the new Arhat would make this display of his acquired power to impress illusionary pictures of himself upon the messenger. 353. Q. _What is this power of illusion called in Pālī?_ A. _Manomaya Iddhī_. 354. Q. _Were the illusionary copies of the Arhat's person material? Were they composed of substance and could they have been felt and handled by the messenger?_ A. No; they were pictures impressed by his thought and trained will-power upon the messenger's mind. 355. Q. _To what would you compare them?_ A. To a man's reflection in a mirror, being exactly like him yet without solidity. 356. Q. _To make such an illusion on the messenger's mind, what was necessary?_ A. That Chullapanthaka should clearly conceive in his own mind his exact appearance, and then impress that, with as many duplicates or repetitions as he chose, upon the sensitive brain of the messenger. 357. Q. _What is this process now called?_ A. Hypnotic suggestion. 358. Q. _Could any third party have also seen these illusionary figures?_ A. That would depend on the will of the Arhat or hypnotiser. 359. Q. _What do you mean?_ A. Supposing that fifty or five hundred persons were there, instead of one, the Arhat could will that the illusion should be seen by all alike; or, if he chose, he could will that the messenger should be the only one to see them. 360. Q. _Is this branch of science well known in our day?_ A. Very well known; it is familiar to all students of mesmerism and hypnotism. 361. Q. _In what does our modern scientific belief support the theory of Karma, as taught in Buddhism?_