Upon one occasion, we witnessed in Bengal an exhibition of willpower that illustrates a higly interesting phase of the subject.

An adept in magic made a few passes over a piece of common tin, the inside of a dish-cover, that lay conveniently by, and while regarding it attentively for a few moments, seemed to grasp the imponderable fluid by handfulls and throw it against the surface. When the tin had been exposed to the full glare of light fora bout six seconds, the bright surface was suddenly covered as with a film. Then patches of a darker hue began coming out of its surface; and when in about three minutes the tin was handed back to us, we found imprinted upon it a picture, or rather a photograph, of the landscape that stretched out before us; faithful as nature itself, and every color perfect. It remained for about forty eight hours and than slowly faded away. This phenomenon is easily explained. The will of the adept condensed upon the tin a film of aksa which made it for the time being like a sensitized photographic plate. Light did the rest. In: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis unveiled, a master-key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology, New York/London 1892, p. 463-464