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for <^0D PSYCHICAL and SPIRITUAL STUDIES

QUARTERLY REVIEW

No. 55 MARCH 1968 Contents include: page Let the Poets Speak 8 Vera Staff Kingdom-Mysticism 14 C. Harrison That Awful Word “Psychic!” 7 Rev. Dr. K. G. Cuming Their Silent Witness .. 7 Rev. Edna Rowlingson God is Love ...... 15 W. Tudor Pole This Adventure Called Life 16 Percy E. Corbett

ONE SHILLING & SIXPENCE (U.S.A, and CANADA—25 Cents) The Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies Headquarters: 5/6 Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S.W.l (01-834 4329) Founder—Lt.-Col. Reginald M. Lester, F.J.I. President—The Worshipful Chancellor The Rev, E. Garth Moore, M.A., J.P. Vice-President—The Bishop of Southwark Chairman—Lt.-Col. Reginald M. Lester, F.J.I. Vice-Chairman—The Rev. Canon J. D. Pearce-Higgins, M.A., Hon. C.F. General and Organizing Secretary—The Rev. Bertram E. Woods Hon. Secretary Youth Section—Miss O. Robertson Patrons: Bishop of London Bishopof Portsmouth Rrv. Dr. Maurice Barnett Bishop of Birmingham Bishop of Worcester Rev. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead Bishop of Bristol Bishop of California, U.S.A. Canon The Ven. A. P. Shepherd Bishop of Carlisle Bishop of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Rev. Lord Soper Bishop of Chelmsford Rt. Rev. Dr. G. A. Chase Rev. Dr. Leslie Newman Bishop of Chester Rev. Dr. W. R. Matthews E. J. Allsop, J.P. Bishop of Chichester -'Ven. E. F. Carpenter George H. R. Rogers, C.B.E., M.P. Bishop of Colchester (of Westminster Abbey) Dr. R. Crookall Bishop of Crediton Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, U.S.A. Countess of Lichfield Bishop of Exeter Very Rev. Lord Macleod Beverley Nichols, Esq. Bishop of Hereford Rev. Canon E. T. Davies Dr Raynor Johnson Bishop of Oxford Rey. Canon C. F. Harman Sir George Trevelyan, Bart., M.A. And others prominent in the Church, Science and Public Life who have expressed their sympathy with the general purposes of the Fellowship, as set out in the prospectus, without thereby necessarily endorsing all the individual views put forth in this Review or at local meetings of the Fellowship Members of Council— Chairman—Lt. Col. Reginald M. Lester, F.J.I.; Vice-Chairman—The Rev. Canon J. D. Pearce- Higgins, M.A., C.F.; E. J. Allsop, Esq., J.P.; Mr. J. E. Atterbury; The Rev. A. Barham, B.D.; Miss M. Brice-Smith; Mrs. G. O. Brown; The Rev. Dr. K. G. Cuming, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.; Mr. P. Corbett; Robert Crookall, D.Sc., Ph.d.; The Rev. Richard Hall; The Rev. Canon C. F. Harman; The Rev. Chas. Harrington; Miss P. Harrold; Major E. G. Lang; Mrs. Helen Greaves; Mrs. R. M. Lester; The Rev. J. Macdonald, M.A., Ph.D., B.D., S.T.M.; The Rev. H. Martin, M.A., B.D.; Mr. Malcolm Myers; Rev. A. E. Reynolds; Miss O. Robertson; Mr. G. Stoneman; Mrs. W. Toyne; Mrs. G. Vivian, B.A.; The Rev. G. S. Whitby, M.A., B.D.; The Rev. Bertram E. Woods Committees— Executive: Chairman—Lt.-Col. Reginald M. Lester " Healing Central Advisory: Chairman—The Rev. Bertram E. Woods. Hon. Secretary—Mrs. R. M. Lester Assistant Secretary—Miss H. Tutin Study of Mysticism: i Chairnum—The Rev. Richard Hall Hon. Secretary—Mrs. Hilton Johnson Study of Psychic Phenomena: Chairman—The Rev. Canon J. D. Pearce-Higgins, M.A. Hon. Secretary—The Rev. Allan Barham, B.D. Scientific Research: Chairman—Rev. G. S. Whitby, M.A., B.D. Hon. Secretary—Mr. H. V. Bearman AIMS AND OBJECTS aims and objects of the Fellowship are summarised below, but can be read in fuller detail in the official prospectus. Fellowship, founded in 1954, exists for the study of the wide reaches of the paranormal and extra sensory perception in their relation to the Christian faith.. The field of study includes psychical phenomena, mysticism, creative meditation and spiritual healing. The psychical includes such phenomena as telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, precognition and psychokinesis. There are two classes of membership: Members and Associates. Those eligible for membership must be members of churches affiliated to the World Council of Churches, the British Council of Churches, the Roman Catholic Church ora Church of the orthodox tradition which believes in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of the world. Members of other Christian bodies not falling within these categories are eligible for Associate Membership as the Council may from time to time determine. The Fellowship is entirely dependent for its funds on the generosity of its members. The minimum subscription is 20/- per annum, which includes the Quarterly Review free. Those who can subscribe more are asked to do so, and Covenants are greatly appreciated. The Fellowship is an ecumenical body of Christians from Churches of various doctrines and traditions, who have in common a desire to advance psychical and spiritual studies by the exchange of ideas and experietces. This Review exists to provide a forum for such exchanges, which do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone except the individual contributor. i THE CHURCHES’ FELLOWSHIP FOR PSYCHICAL AND SPIRITUAL STUDIES QUARTERLY REVIEW

MARCH 1968 No. 55

Hon. Editor - - Reginald M. Lester, Headquarters: 5/6 Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S.W.l (01-834 4329)

RETREAT FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS OBERAMMERGAU, 1970 The first Retreat specifically for Officers and A suggestion has been made that the C.F.P.S.S. Council members of the Fellowship is to be held might care to arrange a party, through Inter at Benifold, Surrey, from the 19th to 21st March Church Travel, to visit the Passion Play at Ober­ inclusive. It is felt that, as the quarterly Council ammergau in 1970. To give some idea of the meetings are confined wholly to very full business response to this suggestion, will any members agenda, the members have no opportunity for any interested please let Col. Lester know. period of quiet meditation together, at winch times so much guidance often comes. Commenting on this, the General Secretary says: “The idea behind this is that we should try to give 1968 IONA PILGRIMAGE to those present a vision of the Cosmic and eternal Owing to an influx of young people from various context of our work as a Fellowship. So we have Scottish educational colleges to Iona during the chosen the title of our theme as ‘The Fellowship latter part of May, it has been found necessary to and the Kingdom’, to express the idea that Christ cancel our Fellowship’s second week Pilgrimage came to found a new race and set up a new King­ there. We shall, therefore, be confining this year’s dom. The new race is made up of the New Man, Pilgrimage to the one week only, from the 18th to one who has attained the full stature of manhood 24th May inclusive. As a result the accommoda­ in Christ, and who has capacities and gifts and tion is now fully booked. It is regretted that graces to fit the New Age. We are concerned with many who had booked the second week have had the nature and gifts of the New Man, and how he to be disappointed. can be developed”. The full programme will shortly be issued to all The programme for the Retreat has been worked who have made definite bookings. The medita­ out by the Rev. Bertram Woods and Canon C. F. tions will be again taken by Miss Elaine Cochrane, Harman. Two of the sessions will be taken by special request, with readings by the Rev. respectively by the Rev. Dr. K. G. Cuming and Edna Rowlingson. Col. and Mrs. Lester will Col. Lester. It is regretted that the maximum conduct the evening Healing Meditation Services accommodation of 24 available has not made it in the Michael Chapel. Among the speakers at possible to accept all Council members at the the early evening sessions will be the Rev. Charles Retreat. Harrington, Mrs. Diana Myers and Miss Barbara Crump. We shall also have with us the Rev. Arthur Smith from our Cheltenham branch, and we hope the Rev. Dr. K. G. Cuming, if his parochial THE QUARTERLY REVIEW COVER duties permit of his absence at that time. There was a wide divergence of views from members regarding the new cover of the last issue. The Editor agrees with those who commented GRACE ROSHER adversely. It must, however, be explained that owing to some misunderstanding the lettering It is with much regret that we have had news was printed black on the blue background instead that Miss Grace Rosher has undergone a major of white. Members may consider the present operation. We are very glad, however, to hear that cover an improvement, but some amendment of she came through it remarkably well and is making the lettering and lay-out is probably still necessary. a good recovery. In the meantime our healing The Council will reconsider this at their next prayers go out to her over the period of her meeting later this month. convalescence. 1 and His universal design”, rather than await some :: i spectacular revelation. / MENT Mrs. Phyllis Wadsworth, Editor of Beyond, the quarterly magazine of The Guild of Prayer and Spiritual Healing, also has this to say on the recent Of recent months predictions have been made from predictions: “We do not know what these great certain sources of some spectacular manifestation events will be, when exactly they will come, nor in the skies, referred to in some quarters as the the form in which they will manifest. The years “Second Coming”, to occur on a specific date. of preparation left to us may be many or they may When this has not occurred on the predicted date, be few”. And she echoes the views of our Fellow­ many of those who believed have been disillusioned ship when she says: “What we are sure of is the and lost their faith. necessity for each one of us to make these acts of Although one does not doubt the sincerity and preparation, through prayer, meditation, a cleans­ honesty of those who issued these predictions, it ing of mind and heart, and, wherever possible, in does demonstrate the dangers of making such rigid practical ways in the environment in which one prophecies for a given date. We are reminded lives.” that Jesus warned: “Take heed that ye be not R.M.L. deceived, for many shall come in my name, saying, ‘I am Christ, and the time draweth near ’. Go ye not therefore after them ”. CROYDON ONE-DAY CONFERENCE Admittedly there are many signs at the present On Saturday, April the 27th, a one-day Confer­ time that some great revelation may be imminent, ence will be held by our Croydon Branch, starting that will lead man to a higher spiritual awareness— at 11 a.m., at which the first speaker will be the but when and in what form we know not. “No Rev. D. A. Bretherton. At the afternoon session man shall know the day nor the hour—not even the a lecture will be given by Mr. David Ash, son of angels.” Writing on this matter in The Voice Dr. Michael Ash. The Conference Chairman will Universal, Major Tudor Pole observes: “Those be Col. Lester. with eyes to see and ears to hear can begin to In the evening, the Conference will close with a discern the Message that He is bringing, even if Healing Meditation Service, with the laying-on of the Messenger may not be clothed in form at hands, conducted by Col. and Mrs. Lester, at St. present or be outwardly discernible. Our Elder Matthew’s Church, Croydon. Brothers, carriers of the imprimatur of the eternal Further particulars are available from Mr. Frank Christ, usually come among us quietly and un­ Pottage, 42 Addington Road, Sanderstead, Surrey. announced. No blare of spiritual trumpets heralds their arrival. We should not presume to predict the time or circumstances of an event, which in any case is dependent on factors far FOR YOUR DIARY beyond our comprehension, but each awakening March 19/21—Officers’ and Council Members’ soul, according to his vision and capacity, can help Retreat at Benifold, Surrey. to prepare the way. We can ‘look within’ and „ 23—Birmingham Youth Congress. bring forth the WORD, the Christos, waiting to be „ 26—College of Psychic Science: 7 p.m. awakened from within the citadel of our own Lecture by Rev. Bertram Woods being. . . . But we can resist being carried on “What is man—an assessment away by the clamour of those who predict either of Psychical Research”. catastrophe on the one hand or phenomenal April 27—Croydon One-day Conference. apparitions in the skies accompanied by cosmic „ 27—Healing ‘Teach-In’ at St. Andrews fireworks on the other; or those who give ‘dates’ Hall, Norwich. for and descriptions of an Advent”. May 3/5—Southern Region Conference, Mr. Ronald Beesley, principal of the College Bournemouth. of Psycho-therapeutics, also refers to this subject „ 9/11—Spiritual Unity of Nations Con­ in his own journal. “We can sense a new awaken­ ference at Brighton. ing in the world, and soon much that now appears „ 17/19—Northern Conference, Scar­ as evil will be at peace, and antagonism, cruelty and borough. wrong feelings . . . will pass away,” he says, adding „ 18/24—Iona Pilgrimage. that the new awakening to the world of the future „ 25—West Midland Conference. is very much in our own hands, our hearts, our July 5/7—Pleshey Conference. minds and spirits. Sept. 3/6—Metropolitan Conference at It is for us to make our contribution to the New Whitelands College, Putney, Age now dawning, by creating “a state of being London. within ourselves which is in harmony with God 2 NORTHERN AREA CONFERENCE booked, but those who are prepared to share double twin- The Northern Conference will be held at Gibson’s Hotel, bedded rooms can be still accommodated at that hotel where Scarborough from the evening of Friday, 17th May until the comprehensive conference charge is £6 6s. Od. Both after lunch on Sunday, 19th May, 1968. The inclusive single and double rooms are available at nearby hotels and charge for the weekend is £4 12s. 6d. particulars may be obtained from Mrs. N. Wilmot, 7 Lumby Information sheets and application forms are now Drive, Ringwood, Hants. (Tel. Ringwood 3846), to whom available from the Conference Booking Secretaries Mr. all applications (together with a stamped addressed envelope) and Mrs. A. E. Watson, 25 The Grove, Hipperholme, should be made. Halifax, Yorks, (s.a.e. please). For those not staying at conference hotels, the lecture fees are 2s. 6d. a lecture (members and non-members) or Programme 12/6d. for a season ticket. Friday, 17th May 6.30 p.m. Dinner. THE METROPOLITAN CONFERENCE 1968 7.45 p.m. Opening of Conference. 8.00 p.m. Col. F. O. Adams: “Road of Return’ ’ (Evidence This is being held at Whitelands College, for a Christian understanding of Reincarna­ Putney, London, S.W.15, September 3-6. The tion.) speakers are: Sir Victor Goddard, Miss Ann Saturday, 18th May 8.30 a.m. Meditation. Dooley, Rev. Donald Bretherton, Dr. Ford 9.00 a.m. Breakfast. Robertson, Miss Ena Twigg, Canon J. Pearce 10.00 a.m. Rev. G. P. Smailes: “The Significance of Higgins and Rev. Bertram Woods. The Maurice Coincidence”. Elliott Memorial Lecture is being given this year 11.30 a.m. Mrs. A. L. G. Dower: “Healing by Radionic Therapy”. by Rev. Dr. Kenneth Cuming during the Confer­ 1.00 p.m. Lunch. ence. 2.00 p.m. Meeting of the Northern Area Council. (The Metropolitan Conference lectures, 1967, are 6.00 p.m. Dinner. now available: 2/6 each lecture, post free.) 7.00p.m. Mr. Christopher Hills: “Psychic and Spiritual aspects of Nuclear Evolution”. 8.15 p.m. Mr. David Ash: “Some aspects of the ability to SOUTH WEST REGION CONFERENCE Heal”. The 1968 South West Region Conference will Sunday, 19th May 8.30 a.m. Meditation. again be held at Trecarn Hotel, Babbacombe, 9.00 a.m. Breakfast. Torquay, from Monday, 28th to Thursday, 31st 10.00 a.m. Miss E. Baerlein: “Understanding of Radionic October. The full programme, with costs, will Therapy”. be published in our June issue. All applications 11.30 a.m. Rev. Brinley H. Davies: “A Healing Odyssey”. 12.30 p.m. Close of Conference. to the Regional Organiser, Mr. J. E. Atterbury, 1.00 p.m. Lunch. 14 Buckeridge Avenue, Teignmouth.

1968 SOUTHERN REGION CONFERENCE EAST ANGLIAN CONFERENCE 1968 The Fourth Southern Region Conference, to be held at After the successful 1967 Conference this year’s Bourne Hall Hotel, Poole Road, Bournemouth, from tea­ time on Friday, 3rd May until lunch on Sunday, 5th May, will be held on July 5th, 6th and 7th at Pleshey is already largely booked. The programme is as under: Grange, near Chelmsford (by kind permission of Friday Mrs. Molly Matthews). 4.30 p.m. Tea and get-together. This year’s theme will be “Imagination, Intuition 6.00 p.m. Opening Service. and Inspiration”, with time put aside for discussion. 7.00 p.m. Dinner. 8.00 p.m. Conference opened by Lt. Col. R. M. Lester. Among the speakers there will be the Rev. Rev. Richard Hall: “On breaking the Richard Hall, Canon Andrew Glasewsci, Miss E. Psychic Sound Barrier”. G. Mountford, Mrs. Ella Hall and the Rev. Saturday Bertram Woods. 8.15 a.m. Meditation. applications appreciated by 10.00 a.m. Rev. Kenneth G. Cuming, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p.: Early would be “The Spiritual Return of St. Francis of Mrs. Matthews. Assisi’ ’. 11.30 a.m. Mrs. Barry Miron: “Healing through the WEST MIDLAND REGION CONFERENCE Manifestation of Radiation”. 1.00 p.m. Lunch. Afternoon free. The 6th Annual One-day Conference will be held 5.00 p.m. Rev. Canon Andrew Glasewski: “Angels, their at The Old Palace, Worcester (adjoining Cathedral) Nature, Functions and Relation to Man”. on Saturday, 25th May, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The 6.00 p.m. Question Time. 7.00 p.m. Dinner. Chairman will be the Rev. W. A. Barham and the 8.00p.m. Miss Ursula Roberts: “A Medium’s View of speakers will include Mr. Paul Beard (“The After­ Some Bible Happenings”. death Picture”); Mrs. Margery Steven (“My Heal­ Sunday ing Story”); and Rev. Richard Hall (“Dimensions 8.15 a.m. Meditation. 10.00 a.m. Mrs. Diana Myers: “The Practice of Meditation of the Interior Life”). Tickets (payable in advance) and its Value”. from Mrs. P. Holgreaves, Yew Tree Cottage, 11.30 a.m. Rev. Bertram Woods: “What is Man?” Bringsty, nr. Worcester: Morning coffee 10d.; 12.30 p.m. Conference closed by Lt. Col. R. M. Lester. lunch 7/6d.; tea 2/-. Lectures 3/- per session, 1.00 p.m. Lunch. All single rooms at the Bourne Hall Hotel have been payable at door. 3 MIDLAND REGION YOUTH CONFERENCE THE ROSELALEHAM TRUST The third of our Youth Congresses has been At last year’s Torquay Conference, Mrs. Clarice arranged to take place at Dr. Johnson House, Bull Toyne, founder and president of the above Trust, Street, Birmingham on Saturday, the 23rd March. and a member of the C.F.P.S.S., had an informal It will be opened at 10.30 a.m. by Col. Lester, and discussion with Col. and Mrs. Lester to consider a among the speakers will be Chancellor the Rev. suggestion that the Trust should be incorporated E. Garth Moore (on “Evidence for Life after into the The Churches’ Fellowship. Death”); Miss Ursula Roberts (on “The Power of Col. Lester placed this proposal before the Thought”); the Rev. Bertram Woods (on “Many F.P.S.S.C. Executive Committee, and Mr. and Mrs. Avenues of Healing”); Miss Vera Staff (on “An Toyne did likewise with their own Committee. Introduction to E.S.P.”); Mr. Percy Corbett (on Both Committeess unanimously approved the “The Dangers of Dabbling”) and Col. Lester (on following motion: “Bridging Science and Religion”). “Resolved that subject to the agreement of The The final session will be an “Any Questions?” Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual panel. The Congress will close with a short talk Studies, the Roselaleham Trust be incorporated on the formation of Youth Groups in the Region, into the Churches’ Fellowship, on the understand­ and the latter part of the evening will be open for ing that members of the Trust be accepted as informal discussions in small groups. members of the C.F.P.S.S. if they so wish, and Admission for the whole day or part thereof is that the funds of the Trust be transferred to the 5s. excluding refreshments. All enquires to the C.F.P.S.S.” Rev. Allan Barham, Willoughby Vicarage, Rugby, This motion was submitted to the full Council Warwickshire. of the C.F.P.S.S. at its December Meeting and unanimously approved, with the slight amendment of the added words “and are so entitled” after “if they so wish”, as it was pointed out by both Committees that there might be a handful of Rose­ MORE NEW BRANCHES laleham members who did not fall within the There has been splendid progress in Dorset. membership qualifications of the C.F.P.S.S. Con­ New branches have been formed at Poole and stitution. These, however, would probably be Lyme Regis. A Study Group has been formed at admitted as Associates. Maiden Newton, near Dorchester and enquiries The Council warmly welcomed the proposed are being made about forming one at Wimborne. merger, as the aims of the two organisations were Any member who is not yet taking part in these so very similar, and Mrs. Toyne has been a highly activities and wishes to do so should contact the regarded and active member of the C.F.PjhSkfor Regional Organiser, Mr. Percy E. Corbett. many years. A large number ^f Fellowship Opening meetings have been arranged at Lym- members are already members of the Trust, and ington on the 26th February, when the speakers it has been noticeable that at the Conferences of will be Canon Harman, Col. Lester and Mr. both organisations many of the same speakers Corbett; Guildford, on the 4th April; Southampton have been on the programmes. Thus there has been on the 17th April, and a One-day Conference at a considerable duplication of work and expenditure. Croydon on the 27th April. We hope to hold a In her January News Letter, Mrs. Toyne writes: Youth Congress in Reading in May, and an Open “This letter heralds the opening of a new chapter Meeting at Dorchester in May. in our work.... I trust we may all proceed together In Devon, a Study Group has been formed at in the joy of comradeship, in the union of kindred Exmouth, preparatory to its development as a spirits, working together as a service to one another Branch. and to humanity at large.” At the December Council meeting, Col. Lester moved from the Chair that Mrs. Toyne be elected to the Council, and this was unanimously agreed. HULL BRANCH ANNUAL DINNER At the time of going to press, an Extraordinary A successful and enjoyable annual dinner was General meeting of the Roselaleham Trust is held last month by the Hull branch, at which some taking place to give formal approval to their 50 were present. The after-dinner speaker was Committee’s motion of incorporation. Mr. Colin Watson, who took as his subject U.F.O.’s, under the title of “Many Mansions”. The chairman was Mrs. Jessie Marsden. Non-Members who wish to be on the Quarterly Hull branch is the next area, after Exeter and Review mailing list should notify Headquarters, Birmingham, to be planning a Youth Congress. and enclose the annual subscription of 7/- to Details will be given in our next issue. include postage. 4 SPIRITUAL UNITY OF NATIONS HEALING TEACH-IN A three-day International Conference, organised A Teach-In presenting the mid-Twentieth Cent­ by the Spiritual Unity of Nations movement, is ury Approach to Spiritual Healing, sponsored by to be held at Hove, Sussex, from the 9th to 11th The Home Counties Association of Spiritual May, under the title theme of “What We Can Do Healers, is to be held in St. Andrews Hall, Norwich, Together”. on Saturday, April 27th, comprising an afternoon This movement was founded by Joseph and and evening session. Louise Busby and, last year, Col, Lester accepted The aim of this teach-in is to provide an oppor­ an invitation to serve on the International Board of tunity for a free expression of opinion upon a Advisers. He says: “I did so because I believe this common platform by the many and varied branches movement is doing great work in its efforts to of the Healing Ministry, to show that the various promote world peace.* It is only through the avenues of Healing are complementary, and not spiritual unity of nations that warfare can ever be competitive, and to seek the common denominators eliminated”. which bind them all together. There is an increasing trend for a coming to­ Many sections of social and devotional thought, gether of many organisations aiming at bringing as well as the medical profession, have been a greater spiritual awareness to man today. At approached to provide eminent speakers, who this Conference there will be representatives from include the Rt. Rev. The Bishop of Thetford, Mr. a number of such bodies, and from various nations. Harry Edwards, the Rev. Bertram Woods, Dr. The Mayor of Hove will open the Conference, Maurice Barnett, Mr. Michael Bulman, Brother and among the speakers will be two of our Mandus, leader of the World Healing Crusade, C.F.P.S.S. members—Sir George Trevelyan and Mr. Gordon Turner and others. the Rev. Bertram Woods. Other speakers include Tickets, priced 7/6d., 10/6d., and 12/6d. num­ Bro. Mandus, Dr. Hugh Schonfield, Dr. Douglas bered and reserved; 6/- unreserved, will be available Baker, Dr. Misri, Dr. Rammurti Mishra, Count from George Worsley Ltd., Charing Cross, Nor­ Manfred Keyserling and the Hon. Brinsley le wich. NOR 22J. Poer Trench. Price of admission includes both sessions: it is not Full particulars are obtainable from Mr. Joseph possible to give reduced prices to those attending Busby, Sun House, 49 Portland Road, Hove, one session only. Sussex. Special reduced rates are offered to Churches and ^(Listed in its aims is: “To mobilize the spiritual Groups for block booking of ten seats and over, powers manifesting through the world religions and and those interested should apply to: The Teach-In other spiritual movements, and within the hearts Organiser, Longfield, Denton, Harleston, Norfolk. of the peoples of the world, for the bringing about of (Tel. Homersfield 610). a World Spiritual Unity of Nations99.) GROUP THERAPY

HEALING SERVICES Where two or three are gathered in His Name, Sincerely searching for a glimpse of truth In pursuance of the work of the Healing Ministry From out the midst of heated argument, of the Laity, Col. and Mrs. Lester have been Where love and humour, give and take prevail, invited to conduct further Healing Meditation A unity of purpose will emerge, Services, with the laying on of hands, during the Creating forces that can soothe and heal, coming month, at St. Augustine’s Parish Church, And, in the healing, heighten up the more Dudley, Worcestershire; Buckland Congregational Desire to share the new-found happiness. Church, Portsmouth; St. Matthews Church, Giles Lang. Croydon, and St. Augustine’s, Plymouth. The aims of these Services are to show how lay people can assist their clergy in their own Healing CANON SPENCER ELLIOTT Ministry, and to encourage members to form We have just heard of the passing of another of Healing Meditation and Prayer Groups where no our well-known Patrons, Canon Spencer Elliott, such Church groups exist. who had just completed 60 years in the Anglican priesthood. He was one of the first Patrons of the C.F.P.S.S., joining us in 1954. Annual Subscriptions. Cheques sent by members Recently, he has been living in Canada, where for their annual subscriptions, either to Regional the funeral took place at Calgary on December 30th representatives or to Headquarters, should be last, at which a distinguished gathering was present. made out: “CFPSS” followed by the name of the A Memorial Service was held in Winnipeg by the Region (e.g. “CFPSS, Southern Region”.) Rt. Rev. J. O. Anderson, Bishop of Red River. 5 amount. It only operates if you are paying 8/3d. From the Secretary's Desk income tax in the £1 or more. As I write this the snow is thick upon the ground Last year we benefited to the tune of £300 plus. and the cold envelopes us. When you read it the If you are able to do this, and have not so far, will Spring will be tapping at your windows and you write to the Office for a form of Deed of already holidays and pilgrimages are in people’s Covenant. One important point—when you minds. Also our various Conferences! You will receive the form fill it in, have it witnessed and find information about the Bournemouth (May return immediately because if you are more than 3-5), Scarborough (May 17-19), Metropolitan three weeks late in returning it, it will be invalid. (Sept. 3-6). As I am organising the Metropolitan, Bankers’ Order forms are available from H.Q. I commend it to you as having some excellent on request. speakers and a variety of subjects. Full details B.E.W. will be in the June Quarterly Review. Postal Codes Many members will have received a postal code Book Club. I hope that by the time this magazine to be included in their address. Will all such reaches you, members will have received the members please advise the Fellowship of their second ‘Book Club’ book, and chosen their third codes at once. from the list sent to them. I think the Club has survived the teething troubles of infancy, and has entered upon a healthy and interesting year. We are not sure what the js\ 1968 publications will be, but we can promise ^some interesting books again. So will all members YOUTH SECTION REPORT pay their subscriptions for this year to Mr. A. New recruits are slow in joining but several ■ Woods the Club Secretary. Cheques made out to Under-Thirties who are already members have W the ‘C.F.P.S.S. (Book Club)’, please. Don’t completed the green Eternal Triangle Prospectus forget—the Book Club makes possible the publica­ form (sent out with the March issue) and are now tion of books we could not attempt ‘on spec.’. added to the list for notification of special events. The 400 members guarantee that number of ‘sales’ Two groups meet for study in senior members’ and the more members we have the more we can London homes, and two groups in Exeter and venture. For those considering joining, the Totnes, Devon. annual subscription is £2. By the time this report is published the first A New Healing Venture meeting of educationalists to discuss the possibility On Monday, January 15th a new Spiritual of devising a syllabus of studies in Parapsychology Healing Centre opened at the Lambeth Methodist for Sixth Formers and University tStudents will Mission, Lambeth Road, London, S.E.l. It is have taken place. Our idea is to create a balance a joint venture of the Mission and the Fellow­ with other studies, such as physical science with its ship. They provide the premises and equipment, materialistic approach, by providing evidence for and we provide a team (strictly, two teams) of the reality of phenomena quite apart from the workers. Each Monday there are two sessions— purely religious, yet often relevant and linked to it. 2.30 p.m. to 4.0 p.m., and 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m., We also hope to provide a study course to help and the two teams, each comprising four people, Religious Education teachers to put the subject divide the time between them. Each team com­ across as part of their curriculum, in accordance prises a receptionist, an interviewer/counsellor, with several requests. and two healers. On Sunday evening, January 14th, A request for a talk about the C.F.P.S.S. has a Dedication Service was held, conducted by the been received in the Southern Region from Maiden­ Superintendent Minister of the Mission, and I head Grammar School Sixth Formers. No preached the sermon. The teams and friends were date has yet been fixed for the Southern Youth present to swell the congregation. After the Congress at Reading. service we all adjourned for refreshment, and we Oonah Robertson, were introduced to the folk present.—P.S.—The Hon. Secretary, Youth Section. sessions got off to a good start on the 15th January, and it promises well as a useful and growing centre of healing and counselling. Covenanting is not in these days a religious Towards the Hereafter by Reginald M. Lester. activity, but a financial transaction. It is a means Two copies of this book, now out of print, have of obtaining an Income Tax rebate on your sub­ just come into our hands, and are available at the scription so that the Fellowship benefits to that second-hand reduced price of 7/6d. plus postage. 6 THAT AWFUL WORD “PSYCHIC!” (gnosis), faith, healing, miracles, prophesy, the “discerning of spirits” (what are clairvoyance, By The Rev. Dr. K. G. Cuming, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p. clairaudience, E.S.P., etc., but manifestations of this “gift”)? speaking with tongues (glossolalia), So many orthodox-minded church people and and their interpretation. All are intended to be clergy get somewhat worried and disturbed by the used, says St. Paul, “that the Church may be mere mention of the word “psychic” that it is as edified”. What are all these gifts and powers but well to know what it really means. So delving into “the functions and properties of the Psyche or strictly orthodox Greek dictionaries, both Classical Soul”? So why not study, develop, and then use and New Testament, as well as consulting a Greek them to the “edifying of the Church”? Provided scholar, I have discovered the following meanings we do put them and their use on a proper moral of the word: basis, by “seeking first the Kingdom of God”, Psyche. The soul, spirit, mind: the life within the and learn to trust Him in doing so, where is the physical body: wrong in it? Dare we slam a door of revelation in 1. (Latin equivalent is “anima” or soul, which the face of the Holy Spirit? does not mean “animal”). 2. The soul, as apart and distinct from the body. A FAITH In early Greek: “A departed soul”. In later Greek usage, “The soul within the body” By Elaine E. Cochrane (Latin “animus”). Always the Holy Fire descending, 3. The person himself; i.e., the essential part of Forever Christ’s Mass within the heart. a person. Some stop to pray, some go their way 4. The seat of the desires and passions of the Saying “Thou Holy One depart!” person. But,—always He stays! Waiting----- New Testament Greek. Here the Psyche is consid­ Waiting the broken heart, ered as follows: The upsurge of Love from hidden depths, The breath of Life, the vital force, the essence Waits,—until other loves depart. of a living being, the immortal and indissoluble Then—as the glowing charcoal awaits the incense part of a being. fire, In the Greek version of the commandment: So does the soul come forth to greet the Coming “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Dawn. heart (cardia) and with all thy soul”, the word Soon will the Light ray out in all It’s splendour, here used is again psyche. For “mind” is used The broken parts of life be mended, the Greek word from which we get our “dia­ The heart-aches healed, gnosis”, “knowing within” by reason and And Love Triumphant gather in discernment. The One Eternal Whole. Psychic. “That which appertains or belongs to Within that Mystic Circle pure, the Soul”: the properties of the soul; “having Spirit with spirit shall speak; the qualities of the soul body'9 (psychikon soma). Then we shall understand the pains of earth, So what on earth is there in all that to cause such a The meetings and the partings, flutter in the orthodox dove-cotes? If, as Christians Forgive—and be forgiven, ought to believe, we are immortal souls “made in And take our place within the Godhead the image of God who is Spirit”, then is it not our In Unity Divine. right and proper duty to study who we are and what we are? “The proper study of mankind is Man”. So what is wrong in studying the functions THEIR SILENT WITNESS and properties of our souls? We do not think it By The Rev. Edna Rowlingson wrong to study the properties and functions of the physical body as in Medical Science, nor even the I really feel sometimes that our attitude of functions and properties of the mind as in Psy­ superiority towards our animals is quite unjusti­ chology and Psychiatry. Why then jib at the fied! How often they silently rebuke our lack of study of the Soul and spirit; perhaps our most faith and our slackness in the things of the Spirit! important study of all? It is not only that we have come across many The Bishop of Southwark has wisely said that instances of an animal’s keen awareness of spiritual it is high time the Church “grasped the psychic presences; our animal friends give us an example nettle”. Let the orthodox Church turn for light of faithfulness and of a sense of reponsibility for and understanding to the teaching of St. Paul in the disciplines of the spiritual life, in which we are I Corinthians, chap. 12, 13 and 14. Here indeed often tempted to be neglectful. you find the gifts of wisdom (Sophia), knowledge While we were on Pilgrimage at Assisi, we visited 7 La Verna, the thickly wooded mountain among the On two subsequent visits to the Vet. he has Apennines, into whose deep recesses St. Francis expressed pleasure at Jeannie’s improved condition retired for prayer and meditation, and where he —the growth has gradually disappeared, and he was received the Stigmata. Through the great court­ unable to conceal his surprise at this unexpected yard, with its huge wooden cross, we passed into the development. But we give thanks in the Quiet Church, where the Franciscan Brethren, some of Room, and feel that we might reverently adapt the whom are always in residence at this remote words of our Master and say, “ ‘Out of the mouth sanctuary, were assembling for the procession which of babes and sucklings—and our animal pets—‘thou they make twice daily—down the steep path hast perfected praise!’ ” among the bushes—down the rough, uneven steps to the deep cave overhung with rock, where the Stigmata was given. They go, singing their office LET THE POETS SPEAK and you hear their voices chanting, fainter and Walter de la Mare fainter as they descend, then becoming louder as By Vera Staff they return. And they told us how, one bitter winter’s evening, the snow lay deep, a freezing None of our 20th century poets has to my mind wind was blowing, and icicles hung from every a greater sense of the nearness of the inner or branch. The hearts of the Brothers who were then spiritual world than has Walter de la Mare (I mean at the Sanctuary, failed them and they decided not spiritual in the broadest sense, of non-material or to attempt the perilous descent. But in the morning non-physical, rather than specifically religious). when they went out, they saw on the snow along Yet he has the eye of a scientist as well, he looks the track and down the steps all the way to the into things minutely, penetratingly, and he has a sacred grotto, the marks of little paws and claws, particular gift for observing the minuscule—witness the feet of the birds and all the little creatures of the his novel The Midget, a unique study of a human wild, who had made the Pilgrimage instead of the creature of less than mortal size. Brothers. They felt the silent rebuke of the little What he saw with this keen eye he interpreted brothers and sisters of the woodland, who had done for us in lyrical verse of a most lovely quality, their holy office for them, and ever since then, no deceptively quiet and simple, stimulating the matter how fierce the blast, how deep and dangeous reader’s imagination to see and hear sights and the snow, they had never once missed their diurnal sounds of the natural and animal world which else Pilgrimage. had gone unnoticed. He achieves his effects by We have heard of the wonderful work being what is withheld rather than by what is expressed; carried on by those who are used as channels for it is how people react that matters to de la Mare animal healing and of the way in which the crea­ (says Lord David Cecil), and the last thing to look tures respond to this ministry. It is, I imagine, a for in his work is an explanation. “Don’t hope field of study, in which much remains to be for it,” says the poet himself, “no more than in investigated; but I would suggest that much more life!” consideration should be given to the question as to It is a popular fallacy, says R. L. Megroz, that how far animals can evolve of themselves without his range was narrow. conscious treatment, to a keener sensitiveness and He has been called the greatest English poet of response to an atmosphere charged with spiritual childhood: he had a particular understanding of influence and healing power. children, quite realistic and unsentimental (see the We have two ‘Scotties’, the older of whom— poem “Dry August Burned”, about the child and Jeannie—was examined some time ago, by the the dead hare). He had also the art of appealing ‘Vet’ and pronounced to be in a very serious to the child mind, and he himself retained certain condition. Tablets were prescribed in order to give characteristics of childhood—for instance, the Jeannie a little strength, and it was decided to try power to dream in the mind. He says: “Children to keep her as long as possible, but no hope of are contemplatives, solitaries, fairies, who sink recovery was held out. again and again out of the noise and fever of exist­ We have a Quiet Room, where morning and ence into a waking vision”. He believed that evening Prayer and Meditation are held. Both children could understand more than adults little dogs are invited—but not compelled, to join realize, for “How can you tell what others know?” us. Sheena the puppy, is rather intermittent in her he asked. Children live in a world peculiarly attendance, but Jeannie is most regular and their own, and for them facts are the liveliest of punctual, solemnly marching in ahead of us and chameleons. He also says: “Aren’t children taking up her position. It has happened that, if sometimes old, just as old people may be young?” overcome by fatigue at night, we have decided to The same understanding is shown in studies of omit Devotions for once—the sight of Jeannie, the unfortunate, the criminal in the dock, and stretched out on the floor, ready, and waiting to animals, even insects. begin, has acted as a rebuke and a recall to duty! De la Mare has also been called one of the 8 great writers of English dream poetry. His com­ his philosophy too, even a credo—by implication. mand over the world of dream and vision is unsur­ As might be expected, his work has a great sense passed, says Lord David Cecil, and his penetration of tranquillity: into the spiritual regions of man’s experience is “And quiet did quiet remain.” deeper than is to be found in the work of any of his And there is neither arrogance nor egoism. A contemporaries. Andrew Lang found that he had delightful story occurs in Lord Brain’s (then Sir a fairy way of writing . . . “it is what his verse Russell Brain) little book Tea with Walter de la suggests that we should take careful note of”. Mare of Thomas Hardy showing de la Mare a Though he creates a dream atmosphere, that is not poem of his own and saying “I don’t much like to say that he wrote of an unreal world. He shows that line: how would you put it?” “That”, said the outer world as the expression of an inner one de la Mare “was like God asking one how to name and is therefore in the truest sense a symbolist. an emu!” . He is concerned with profound issues that confront There is also an amount of evidence of his the human soul—the significance of experience, personal beliefs in this same little book. He the meaning of life and the nature of the world deplored the decay of religion. He remarked how around us. Has the world, he asks, any objective much the idea of divinity had gone out of life, existence? Or is it a reflection of our minds? In and what a loss that was. To be in love was to his story called “The Return” he says: “As for recognise the divine in the loved one, and to be what we call the laws of Nature, they are pure divine yourself. He said: “God is like an element, assumptions to-day and may be nothing better all pervading, like the air”. His sense of Divine than scrap iron tomorrow”. And elsewhere he Immanence is most beautifully shown in “The said “Consider man’s abysmal impudence—the Scribe”. He looked outward also: might we not be same universe for all? How do you know?” encountering in space tenuous matter which might He is filled with a sense of the fleetingness of influence humanity for better or worse? He referred things. Persistently you will find what Megroz to a pamphlet sent him by someone who sought calls the “Eternity Dream” with its sense of loss to prove by numerical method that the Bible was and hunger for the evanescent beautiful, as in the of superhuman origin. De la Mare thought it poem Memory. strange that anyone should think it necessary to O Angel Memory that can prove that. Why, you had only to read a chapter Double the joys of faithless man! or two to see that it could not be of purely human He believes it springs from the unconscious memory origin (so much for the Bishop of Woolwich !).- of a distant ancestry: He wondered why we should boggle at the “No man knows miraculous: he said, “I can swallow Jonah and Through what wild centuries the Whale”. Roves back the rose.” He thought we cultivated our sensibilities too (“All that’s Past”) little: there was much more that we might be aware This perpetually recurring nostalgia is insepar­ of. We do not use our imaginations enough. able from de la Mare’s work. One must associate Telepathy he believed to be almost continuous. He it with his sensitivity for the ideal world of another thought that what we are evolving from was of dimension. He must have felt an exile from it. much less importance than what we are evolving to. He knew well the suffering soul and its painful He asked if the things which we know when we growth. But behind the ephemeral world of come into this world are not more important than temporary incarnation lies an eternal universe of the things which we learn here. He and Russell spiritual forces which he does not profess to under­ Brain talked about the unconscious source of stand. He is much concerned with death, but as a dreams and poetry, and the poet said: if we know gateway. If he has a philosophical doctrine that they don’t come from the conscious mind, we (presented obliquely) it is: man should realize the ought surely to be able to find out more about spiritual nature of the universe, or he will lay his where they do come from. Is it certain that they soul open to attack by the forces of destruction. come from you? Can we be sure that they don’t It is said that the poet is the bridge-builder, come from another intelligence? For de la Mare, spanning the gulf between nostaliga and fulfilment. writing a poem meant being in an abnormal This bridge we must experience crossing before we condition. . reach the beatific vision. He had read Tyrrell’s book on “Apparitions — We learn little of de la Mare’s personal life from a subject which never failed to interest him, but in his work: either he was reserved, or his mind was a different way from the psychical researcher. too full of music, imagination and dream which he “Take the Society for Psychical Research”, he considered more important for poetry. A few said, “what self-respecting ghost would co-operate autobiographical notes are to be found in the last in their tests?” He took ghosts for granted as poem in the collected edition (called, character­ visitants from a world not normally seen—excep­ istically Dreams), and there you will find some of tionally interesting, in no way unexpected, and to be enjoyed for their own sake (see “Voices”). There is creation. (Thus one part of Russell Brain includes in his little book an hydrogen and two parts of oxygen converge account of the last scene of de la Mare’s earthly to create water.)” life: “We spoke a little, and I took his hand. Then, Teilhard affirms that at the level of man, he has after a pause he said: ‘All these onlookers! There already passed through the phases of divergence are so many of them. I wonder where they come and convergence, but has not yet emerged as a new from’. He died a few hours later.” creation. I like to think a whole company of poets had In the physical aspect, Teilhard is undoubtedly come to welcome him, who wrote: right, but what about the mental and spiritual? O Poesy, of wellspring clear, Did not the Early Church emerge as a new Let no sad science thee suborn, creation? Who art thyself its planisphere! We have always been taught to think of our All knowledge is foredoomed, forelorn— Lord’s ministry in terms of atonement and sacrifice, Of inmost truth and wisdom shorn— but supposing, in the light of modern knowledge, Unless imagination brings we shift the emphasis elsewhere. Suppose His Its skies wherein to use its wings. main objective was to set forward His Father’s business of creation through evolution! Here was READERS’ FORUM mankind stagnating in mental and spiritual ‘divergence’. Each man minding his own business in Choice of Positive Thinking preference to God’s. Having Himself emerged—the The article on the above subject by ‘Anon’, New Adam, He then gives us a complete demonstra­ raises important questions. Is an honest recogni­ tion of how the process of evolution in man can tion of the facts of evil and suffering to be described be speeded up. He calls twelve men out of as ‘negative thinking’? We cannot disregard the ‘divergence’ into ‘convergence’, out of which facts without deceiving ourselves, and there is emerges a new creation—a new state of conscious­ something to be said for the traditional theology ness—the Early Church. about ‘sin’. We remain at the phase of ‘divergence’, because Dr. Rebecca Beard, in her book Everyman's we never truly and fully ‘converge’ as the Disciples Mission, says that negative attitudes (in other did. It is the phase of ‘convergence’ therefore people) can be reversed by our own positive that we desperately need to study and practise. thought; but in my experience that is often not the S. D. Field case. I wonder what experiences your readers have Willesden, (Lt.-Col. the Rev.) > had on the matter? I feel there is a problem to be London, N.W.10. solved here before we can make our prayers really effective. Could prayer groups make Divine Healing experiments in this connection? In the report in the December Quarterly Review, Michael Marson. of Dr. Michael Ash’s lecture at the Metropolitan Crawley Hill, Conference, it is said that Dr. Ash pointed out Camberley, that Jesus never mentioned the Almighty in His Surrey. healings. I find this difficult to accept in view of— When Two or Three . . . St. Luke 11, v. 20; St. John 5, v. 19-20 and v. 36; chap. 6, v. 28-29; chap. 11, v. 41-44, and chap. 14, I have been introduced to the Teilhard Review, v. 10. which sets out in simple terms de Chardin’s Grace Lester. philosophy. I believe his views tend to support Torquay. and enlighten the thesis of my recent article. Here are some relevant quotes: Healing See-saws 1. “The universe is an evolution ... the under­ Being, comparatively speaking, a newcomer to standing of evolution is man recognising the Spiritual Healing I am hesitant of voicing opinions Creator at work”. or criticisms of views expressed by others better 2. “At the level of the existence of the cell, as informed than myself, but Mr. Basil De Mel’s also in the case of the atom and molecule, we find interesting article “Healing See-saws and Dialogues” once again the three phases of evolution: does provoke comment and perhaps one who plays (a) Divergence of different species of molecell- a very minor role in the field of non-medical ular beings. healing may be a good source for this comment. (b) Convergence of colonies on an optional Firstly, the Spiritual healer would welcome the basis. opportunity to collaborate with the medical man (c) Emergence of the multicellular organism... and, most probably, many medical men would At each emergence something new appears gladly encourage this desire, were it not for the that surpasses all that has gone before. prejudice of the B.M.A. with regard to fringe 10 medicine. Here lies one reason for the continua­ God’s instrument for healing”, it is only because tion of the see-saw. of the neglect and even rejection of the healing Secondly, I do not think any sensible healer channels God gave us that the surgeon is thought would wittingly deter his or her patients from seek­ to be necessary. ing orthodox medical treatment. In fact, most Jesus said: “These things that I do ye shall do healers welcome a blending of the two forms of also, and even more”. Then why do we not do healing, believing that the spiritual soothing of the them? There are plenty of these healing channels soul and mind enables the physical treatment and around, they should be discovered, developed, natural recuperative powers of the body (particu­ and used. larly the latter) to do their best towards restoration If the money which is spent on medical research of good health. However, the majority of sufferers in all its branches were to be used instead for seek spiritual healing as a last resort and “My research and development of spiritual healing, doctor tells me I shall have to learn to live with it” the time would come when drugs and surgery were is an all too familiar statement in the healing things of the past. sanctuary. Arthur Johnson. Thirdly, it may be true that non-medical healers East Wittering, tend to emphasise the power of Spirit in healing Sussex. and claim success where other factors may have *(The Fellowship’s policy is that Spiritual Healing should made the larger contribution, but this, I feel, comes be complementary to medical treatment, and not in place largely from the sub-conscious and does so to of it.—Ed.) boost the healer’s confidence as a proven channel for the healing power; a necessary quality not to be The Cemetery Chapel confused with pride and boastfulness. As regards large scale checking of results; what Following on my letter in the last issue about the a medical man may judge as a failure could be a passing of my friend’s husband, you may be success for non-medical healing. For example, the interested to read this extract from the Vicar’s sufferer in the advanced stages of cancer who is monthly parish letter: granted a painless interim followed by a peaceful “I believe it would be true to say that, amongst passing may well have received this grace through the many things that fail to give the sense of the the intercessions of Spiritual healing. The effect joy, hope, and victory of the Christian religion of this influence on the soul’s progress to the next (including some services), the cemetery chapels stage of existence cannot be judged by earthly could usually and justifiably be put first. No standards but the comfort experienced by the wonder, then, that today, for the first time in my bereaved when they see their loved one go over life, I am happy to have had the privilege of painlessly can be measured here and now. officiating in a cemetery chapel, well-nigh perfect. E. S. Bredin. It was in North London, where the Altar occupied Ilford, the central position, with its cross and floral Essex. decorations. On the left was the elevated platform of the Crematorium, opposite to the desk provided for the officiant. But on the right of the Altar and Mr. Basil De Mel omits one very important on the east wall of the Chapel, there was a wide aspect in his article on medical versus non-medical and open door, through which could be seen the healing. garden bathed in brilliant sunshine, with a vista I refer to the many who might well have lived of verdure stretching as far as eye could see. A to a ripe and healthy old age had they sought counterpart, so it seemed, of that fuller life beyond, spiritual healing before submitting themselves which God had prepared for them that love Him; to unsuccessful medical treatment, particularly the gateway to life everlasting. Nigh unto the surgery.* place where Jesus was crucified for us and our One thing is certain, it is far easier to cure, by salvation, there was a garden, the garden of the spiritual healing, such diseases as cancer, before Resurrection. To those who looked through the surgery has taken place than after. open door, thoughts like these came to mind. Many healers have the frustrating experience of ‘Thanks be to God, Who giveth us the victory being foiled in their attempts to heal, by members through our Lord, Jesus Christ’.” of the medical profession, who will, with complete Mary P. Lewis. disregard for the healer, administer powerful Salutary Mount, drugs, the effect of which is to nullify healing. Exeter. There are varying degrees of skill and ability among doctors and surgeons, and so it is with A Heavenly Perfume? healers, and it is essential that a strong healer be chosen for the more chronic diseases. We had for many years a little blue budgerigar Regarding the statement that “The surgeon is whom we loved, and who without doubt loved us; 11 she was very tame and loved to come out of her asked anxiously if she was all right, as she had felt cage and share our life in the evenings. She would the previous nights that she was in great danger. sip milk from a teaspoon, play with my husband’s The next step was to have the house exorcised as cuff links and call Mam-Mam, if I went from the soon as possible, and two days later she and I went room. down to the cottage with an Anglican priest. On Her favourite pleasure was to have a “bath” on arrival he proceeded to exorcise the house and its a damp lettuce leaf on my lap rolling from side to surround very thoroughly: then blessed the house, side then on to her back! To our grief she died. and afterwards prayed for the poor ghost. My husband buried her in the garden, and put the When it was all over I had a strong feeling that cage in the boxroom. My sorrow at losing her was all was now well, and that we had been able to help very great. the man. The house resumed its happy atmosphere, and there was no more trouble. I had no occasion to go into the boxroom for W. Valentine. some days, but when I did the room was filled with perfume! I stood amazed, and looked round to see what could be the cause. There was nothing in the room but my ironing board, sewing basket, etc. I looked at the empty cage and walked towards it—the perfume became stronger and stronger, it was if all scented flowers were blooming together. This Super-Sense: A Beginning (Document for Survival) lasted three days, gradually getting fainter, yet by Hugh Callaway, pp. 101 (Mitre Press, no one else could smell the perfume. 16/- net). There is no doubt in my mind the perfume came This well written little book offers, as the author from the cage and was sent to comfort me. explains, “a far-reaching alternative to the inner despair of many individuals today, who can find Dorothy Walsh. little personal inspiration or hope for the world”, Weybridge, through the usual orthodox channels. The book Surrey. combines testimony of supersensible experiences, psychical and spiritual, with extracts from Christian Some years ago a friend of mine had an un­ and Oriental sources and the writings of modern pleasant experience in her country cottage, to Masters. which she went at weekends. It was an old house, The underlying theme is our need to take a step but the atmosphere had always been happy—until forward in consciousness, and that this expanded one night when she was wakened about midnight consciousness has to be fundamentally spiritual, with the consciousness that someone ghostly was “but there must be corresponding mental develop­ in the room. Her dog, who was in his basket at the ment in order to maintain a true equilibrium other side of the room, lay growling continually between the spiritual and the everyday life, and a but seemingly not daring to move. She lay quite true integration of them”. still, hearing the church clock strike at intervals, There are some unusual and striking illustrations until after about an hour the visitor departed, and and four appendices. she and the dog went peacefully to sleep. The following morning the woman who looked The Story of Pierre, by Tom Bribson (Regency after the cottage for her came in. In the course of Press Ltd., 10/6d. net). conversation she spoke of a man who had committed This story traces the lives of the inhabitants of suicide a few days before; adding that he had lived a small French village, from the tragic accident in this cottage at one time, (a fact my friend had suffered by the foremost character—Pierre Garston not known), and always said it was the happiest —to his unhappy adolescence. Then he is suddenly time of his life. given the opportunity of complete happiness, not on chance but by following the Law of Love. Here The next night passed without anything happen­ we see how one person’s faith can influence the ing, but the following one the same experience was lives of a whole community. repeated, the dog behaving as before. This time, There is a foreword by the Bishop of Birmingham however, the ghost’s visit was longer, and at one and a comment by the Rt. Rev. Canon H. Gibney, point he gave a deep sigh close to her bed, and she Provost of St. George’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, felt that he was trying to get into her body. She lay Southwark, who writes: “This is a fascinating immovable but praying, and at last said “ In the story of the miracle of a cripple boy”. Name of Jesus Christ be gone ”, and he went. The following morning she returned to London, The Missing Link, by I. Yvonne Smith. where she was rung up by a Scottish friend who This 23-page booklet by one of our C.F.P.S.S. 12 members, is extremely scientific in its contents, Avalon, while Mrs. Margaret Salmon, hon. and well illustrated by diagrams. It deals with secretary of our Truro branch, has an interesting such matters as the prevention of diseases; an article on one of the Holy Wells of Cornwall. antidote to nuclear, chemical or biological warfare; R.M.L. Light (the origin of all life); and a treatise on the Universal System. It comprises an extract from The Miracles and the Resurrection: Review by the author’s previous work: Treatise on the Canon J. D. Pearce-Higgins. S.P.C.K., 13/6d. Discovery of the Alternative Fact of Nature. Pp. 104. A stiff dose of contemporary theology is not a The Humanist-Christian Frontier, by Geoffrey L. bad antidote from time to time. Here we have five Heawood, pp. 251 (The Boltro Press, 15/-net). longish essays by leading theologians, Prof. I. T. This book is by a distinguished layman of the Ramsay of Oxford, Dr. Boobyer, Rev. F. N. Davey, Church of England. It is in many ways contro­ Rev. Michael Perry and Prof. Henry J. Cadbury on versial and thought-provoking in its survey of matters which are of supreme interest to all modern Christianity and modern Humanism, and C.F.P.S.S. members. It is a somewhat discouraging the author sets out to see where they can find symposium, and shows the negativeness of most common ground. He emphasises the urgency of modern orthodox thinking. this for educational rethinking, and the need for I must confess I could hardly make head or tail the churches to re-examine their idea of God. of Prof. Ramsay’s long essay written from the angle He contends that the Christianity which the of linguistic philosophy dealing with the use of the humanist has rejected has usually been a completely words Miracle and God. I cannot imagine any inadequate version, and considers that today’s linguistic philosopher being convinced by his needs can only be met by a far wider and franker arguments since he does not define what he means reappraisal of our common hopes, uncertainties by God, or indeed miracle, and therefore his whole and purpose. It is this larger field that the book argument falls to the ground. Dr. Boobyer, who explores. is a really remarkable phenomenon among scholars, A former headmaster, Mr. Heawood was later some years ago wrote a book on the Transfiguration, general secretary of the Central Advisory Council in which he was at pains to show that it was a post­ for the Ministry. Resurrection appearance which had somehow got misplaced in the gospels, but in the whole course of Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides, by C. W. the book never once asked the question ‘ what Lindsay-Blee, pp. 98 (Regency Press, 16/- net). happened at the event?’! ! Similarly here, while The author is another C.F.P.S.S. member, and quite sensibly discussing the objections to miracles this book examines present and past beliefs of from a philosophical point of view, and rejecting mankind, and the recorded experiences on which the scepticism of Home and others, and while even they were founded, together with their modern daring to cross swords with those like A. M. Farrer counterparts and to see where they lead. and others (who would have us accept the miracles On the matter of Guardian Angels, Plato is on ‘ faith ’ alone), he never once asks what happened quoted: “God has placed by every man a guardian at any of the events recorded of our Lord’s ministry. angel, to whom he has committed the care of the He rejects the nature miracles as impossible, and man; a guardian who never sleeps and is never apparently will only accept the healing miracles. deceived”. Like F. N. Davey in the following essay (on healing) There are two useful chapters in the latter part he is more concerned with the miracles as * signs ’, of the book on “Awareness and Communication” as acted parables, indicating the nature of the and “Devils, Elemental and Familiar Spirits”. activity of God and of his Kingdom, and as being The book is well written, but the author might entirely secondary to the ‘ preaching ’. But if the have found it more advisable to have used only the miracles didn’t happen, what is the good of having first half of the title, which is really the main theme spurious acted parables? ! ! So I turned on more of the contents. hopefully to Michael Perry’s contribution on There are two chapters of letters of comments Preaching the Resurrection, since he wrote the and experiences, including several from members Easter Enigma, and is one of the few modern of the C.F.P.S.S., to which the author makes younger theologians who has any knowledge of acknowledgment. parapsychology. Nor was I altogether disappointed. At least here was greater realism, and an intelligent In the current issue of The Chalice Well Messenger use of the critical studies of the gospel narratives, are several articles from C.F.P.S.S. members. which must be used before we rush in with a para­ Major Tudor Pole, founder of the Trust, records normal explanation of the events recorded. This his important address given at their Annual was the valuable part of his Easter Enigma, of General Meeting, and one of our patrons—Lord which the first part gave a splendid account of the Macleod, writes a fraternal greeting from Iona to Resurrection narratives, objections to them, and 13 a reasonably constructive and conservative estimate individual spiritual body which we all hope to of the stories. But once again he shows a limitation have—and then suddenly this body becomes the in his understanding of the scope of the paranormal Eucharist, and then the Church. I sympathise with and is more or less tied down to the prevailing and Mr. Perry, and wonder whether he has not shied fashionable acceptance of mental phenomena as at the last fence in the theological Grand National respectable, and physical phenomena as incredible. at which the rider Christ becomes unseated from So he rejects outright the story of Elisha recover­ the horse Jesus. Is it remotely possible that there ing the axe-head from the water, “ unless the narra­ is a distinction between the Logos, Christ, and tive (II Kings, 6, 6) merely means that the prophet Jesus the Son of Mary, and that the former is still fished the axe-head out with a stick he cut down ”, incarnate in the Eucharist and potentially at least but is prepared to accept the evidence of para­ in the Church, while Jesus survives as an individual psychology with regard to the ‘ clairaudience of discamate in his own spiritual body? Elisha, who telleth the king of Israel the words that Or is it that the whole conception of the nature thou speakest in thy bedchamber ’ (II Kings, 6, 12). of God is completely deficient? This is certainly But it is easily overdone, he says, and in a footnote the impression I got from the other writers, especi­ adds that ‘ most people think the late C. L. Twee­ ally Prof. Ramsay and Mr. Davey, who seem to dale and G. Maurice Elliott overdid it ’. have still just that sort of concept of a divine external Yet if D. D. Home could levitate an accordion meddler in natural laws which Dr. Robinson was across the room and cause it to play tunes, I cannot so rightly at great pains and cost endeavouring to find it a priori impossible to believe that Elisha destroy in ‘ Honest to God These are weighty could have used his powers of producing ectoplasm matters to which the answer cannot yet be given, to save the sons of the prophets from a severe crisis but which may well be a costly one when it is given. at a time of shortage of the precious iron—or that The final essay by Prof. Cadbury of Harvard, God would not have aided and abetted or approved! seemed to turn Jesus, whose Thought is discussed Still, the essay is refreshing compared with the under the title “ Intimations of Immortality in the others, especially when we come to the last para­ thought of Jesus ” into a rather agnostic modernist graph after a great deal of theologising about the professor of the vintage of about 50 years ago, and significance of the Resurrection. At least Mr. Perry I derived little help or comfort from it. I suspect realises that the Resurrected Christ is a Living that Jesus knew a great deal more about the unseen Christ, with us now, and we need not merely look world than Dr. Cadbury has ever guessed possible. to his ‘ coming ’ in the future. ‘ The tense is present, Now perhaps members of C.F.P.S.S. will see and there is no need to wait.’ Then he continues. why it is necessary to go very slowly in our work, ‘ Finally Jesus has a body. The doctrine of the and to have the theological wisdom of the serpent, immortal soul which slips from its outworn physical as well as the evidential impeccability of the dove, husk at death is not Christian. The body is for the whenever we open our mouths in public or put Lord (I Cor., vi, 13). Not necessarily the flesh and pen to paper. blood body (I Cor., xv, 20) but some form of expres­ sion there must be with some form of continuity with what has gone before. Admittedly here the parallel between Jesus and ourselves breaks down. KINGDOM-MYSTICISM His flesh and blood body disappeared from the By C. Harrison earth. Ours will not, but we may follow Paul in believing that we have a ‘ spiritual body ’ which Some of the more difficult sayings of Jesus, will be revealed when our present flesh and blood involving what is sometimes called realised eschat­ covering has been removed from it (II Cor., v, Iff). ology or foreshortening of historical perspective, No Christian should neglect, or suppress or pamper would seem to entail the problem of time. In some his body. If we are risen with Christ (Col. iii, 1-7) way, in his own self-awareness Jesus appeared to we are to treat our bodies in a Christian way, transcend time as we ordinarily understand it, because if the seed is damaged the flower may fail actualising futurity in immediacy. In other words, to open.’ This is finely put, but now theological he spoke from the standpoint of timeless endurance; verbiage and linguistic confusion steps in and we and that is why his essential teaching is always are told ‘ The Risen life is life in a body, just as relevant, having an independence both of historical Christ lives in his body the Eucharist, and his body setting and the language-forms in which it was the Church. Our duty as we share in the risen life originally uttered. is to act in Christ’s world and bring to bear on it the One of the principal problems of time is that of life of Jesus and the power of the Resurrection ’. determining what we call “now”. Time itself is a I confess myself baffled by this sudden flight into ceaseless flow of events, like “an ever-rolling theological abstraction—Jesus has a body—an stream”. There are no literal fixed points in it. It expression of some form of continuity with what is, of course, much more than the hours which are has gone before—which presumably means the regulated by the motions of a clock, or the apparent 14 daily progress of the sun or the stars across the sky. flux of sensuous experience. There we discover These are only recurrent events within a vast the perpetuity of now, where we have our real, our complex of events which make up human experi­ consistent, our abiding and meaningful life. Those ence and human history. Indeed, time is now who have entered into, this awareness fully, have seen as a dimension of space, as well as a means of indeed entered into that abounding or eternal life, measuring duration. The real point is that in the which cannot be affected by any accident of physical ceaseless flow of events it is impossible to mark an circumstance, and subsists in the eternal love of exact point which can be called “now”. For the God, which is its essence. moment one thinks of now in relationship to the When Jesus said: “The Kingdom of Heaven is time-flow, it has receded into the past, and some­ within you or in your midst”, he was saying some­ thing of the future has fleetingly succeeded it. thing which completely transcended both time and Nevertheless, in spite of this, for the practical space. He was saying that here and now all the purposes of human existence and intercourse, the essentials of the state of existence relative to the need for the concept of definite points of time is divine order of things can be comprehended and both imperative and indispensable. As a matter enjoyed in instant, living experience. The influence of fact, time is a purely human invention, created of the Kingdom has an inevitable impact upon for human convenience. One would have little moral and social history; but its reality as a or no sense of time in outer space. But since the dynamic force can alone be found in the inner, abstraction is so useful, so important to man on psychological realm of now. Man can never know earth, where are we to seek for the reality of now? the true personal benefits of the Kingdom until Only, it would seem, within ourselves; in the he has that force and principle of life within structural peculiarities of our psychical make-up himself which is the Divine Order in esse. Not as we stand related to our environment. “lo here or lo there” as indicated in particular The importance of grasping the implications of social, ethical or historical processes, are we to seek this principle cannot be overstressed in considering the Kingdom; but within the abiding reality of a some of the teaching of Jesus, where he compresses special quality of life which does not depend upon into our temporality so much that is of a superla­ outward circumstances or historical fulfilments, tive and eternal significance. Christians have even while it embraces these things in the ambit always been tempted to regard some of his life­ of its effects and purposes. principles as counsels of perfection, to be relegated to a future when men will somehow have grown more amenable to such teaching—excepting, of GOD IS LOVE course, the authentic saints, whom they regard as By Wellesley Tudor Pole the subjects of some kind of special supernatural grace. Many good and thoughtful Christians strongly But this is altogether out of keeping with the desire to believe in a God of infinite love, despite actual mission and ministry of Jesus as portrayed the apparent fact that this all powerful Being appears in the gospels, and reflected in the whole compass both to allow and to tolerate pain, cruelty and of New Testament writings. Nowhere has the injustice in human affairs. Theology has never immediacy and urgency of the gospel message equipped itself to explain this age-old conundrum been better expressed than by Paul: “In all this, or to discover the key to its solution. remember how critical the moment is. It is time God is depicted by so many of our teachers as a for you to wake out of sleep, for deliverance is kind of super human “man” who doles out His nearer to us than it was when first we believed”. blessings to the minority He favours, and subjects (Rom. 13:11.) 6 ‘The hour of favour has now come: the rest of us to pain, sorrow and despair. now, I say, has the day of deliverance dawned”. Finite understanding is quite incapable of (2 Cor. 6:2.) To this one might add John’s usage equating this seeming paradox, yet I believe that of the term “eternal life”, as something to be clues are available. experienced here and now. If we try to define the supreme Creator as a Now is a psychological concept, without which Principle, the principle underlying all Life, Love rational and coherent human experience would be and Wisdom there is the danger that we may think impossible. It is when we allow our consciousness of “God” in terms of a machine rather than as a to become decentralised or diffused by too much supreme and eternal Mind. Whilst we shrink from attachment to, and reliance upon, externalities, the idea of offering our worship and our prayers that we create a false sense of immediacy or nowness, to a machine, we can perhaps grasp the conception seeking our satisfactions in things which, in the of a universal Intelligence, permeating the whole nature of the case, continually elude and frustrate of Creation and through whom the principle of us. Only within ourselves, with proper regard for Life, Love and Wisdom manifest unceasingly. the selves of others, can we discover the reality and It is wise to remember that there is no manifesta­ unity of now, which abides amid the everlasting tion of life and mind which does not contain within itself the Divine attributes of the Godhead. energy spent to date on moon and spatial probes Should you agree with me so far, then you will would have proved sufficient to rid our planet of probably accept the thesis that God the supreme famine altogether. Here in fact, is one instance Principle has provided Man with a certain measure where the choice has been ours to make. of Free Will, and access at all times to the ability Omnipotence? Yes, but (so far as our planet is to receive and utilise His love to the full extent of concerned), through the agency of human channels, our various capabilities and our Will to Good. aided by those unseen Christ-inspired Energies This Love, under human conditions, can only and Beings who are always ready to hear and to operate through us as its channel of activity. This respond to our Call. Man himself contains within is my firm belief. Used rightly it can ultimately himself the seeds of Omnipotence and Salvation. solve all our human problems; destroy famine and To think otherwise is to refuse our birthright and wars, disease, injustice, sorrow, pain and cruelty to negative its very existence. in every form. But only through us as its medium The fundamental question that remains and to of manifestation. which we humans can give no satisfying answer is God does not pour out His beneficence like this: How can a God, the Creator of perfection, rain from the skies, intermittently, externally and visualise Life forms which can become subject to haphazardly. This beneficence can only operate imperfection? through us, both as individuals and communities. Inevitably we are now in the regions of surmise. There is enough of it and to spare, to solve all our At some point in the very distant past it would seem problems, if we use the gift of Freewill rightly. that a hitch took place in the orderly advance of Surely it stands to reason that to the extent the the evolutionary process. As a result, and prob­ creative Principle grants a measure of Freewill to ably for millions of years, devolution stepped in. His “children” to the same extent does He limit The seeds of evolution appear to have been stamped the exercise of His Omnipotence in their affairs? underground, but their germinating power, al­ (An instance of transfer of power from the Creator though stagnant during this very lengthy period, to the created.) To regain absolute Omnipotence has never become sterile. it would be necessary for God to deprive man of his Human reasoning at its present stage of compre­ free will altogether. No doubt this could happen hension, is bound to postulate the thesis that what should we abuse the power we possess beyond a we call the Fall of Man into matter did actually prescribed and fore-determined limit of Divine take place. We cannot prove this belief and it is toleration. (A return of the stage of robots?) useless to try to do so. What I for one do believe, It is not God who tolerates and condones this however, is that we are now at a point in human world’s woes but we ourselves, because we do not history where the devolutionary process is being use the ever-flowing bounty of Love in our own gradually turned in a progressive direction once lives and actions. more. In this respect, God cannot operate behind our Let us pray that this is so, and work for it.. . backs or against the free will which is our heritage. Yes, God is Love. And we can prove it—The For the reasons given above, it is surely true to more love we reflect and share with one another, believe that God cannot intervene over our heads the greater will be the supply available to us. A and put the world right independently of our willing supply that is infinite, boundless, never failing and co-operation? eternal. To take concrete examples. When the truth of this realisation is recognised There is ample air, light and water freely avail­ and utilised, we shall be on the first lap of the road able to us (subject to the adequate redistribution leading to the arrival of “Heaven on Earth”. of the latter) to enable man to convert all this planet’s desert areas into fruitful granaries. Even as matters stand today, given proper and rapid ‘THIS ADVENTURE CALLED LIFE’ distribution, there are enough foodstuffs available By Percy E. Corbett to banish famine everywhere. And in regard to the An adventure is something positive. It is the population explosion, we have the power and the act of venturing into something new which involves means to bring this dangerous situation under taking risks. Our great English explorers were control. Indeed, if we do not do so, Nature will adventurous. They sailed into uncharted seas, take a hand and bring about decimation in her risking shipwrecks, cannibals and wild animals. own, and in fact, seemingly cruel way, mainly They brought material wealth and glory to England. through the propagation of killing diseases of a It is the adventurous spirit which conquered world-wide scale. Everest and the North side of the Eiger. There is In order to halt the crumbling of the moral an invisible urge which causes men and women to standards of our modem civilisation, a revision emigrate to new countries and situations which of priorities, long overdue, is urgent. It is estimated become a constant adventure into the unknown. for instance, that less than half the money and continued on next page 16 In seeking universal truths, one has to broaden The Bridge of Life is a delightful autobiography one’s mental horizon and be like a spaceman look­ of a noted Northern Ireland preacher, who had a ing down on earth. 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