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Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research, “ Light! More light '."—Goethe. “Whatever doth make manifest is light.”—Pa rtf. tlol. —January to Jcccmbcr, 1900. ONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, At 110, St. Martin’s Lane, W.C. LONDON : THE FRIARS PRINTING ASSOCIATION, LIMITED, 2(>A, TUDOR STREET, E.U. Digitized by Google INDEX. Invisible Interlopers, 112 fter-Death States. By ‘Quaestor ,Vita* ’31), 70,S3 Toaster, The Meaning of, 209 After-Death States. By Thomas Atwood, Ego,’Some Experiences of the. By Charles Inward Light, 237 A 175,196, 221 Dawbarn, 332, 344 ' Agnostic Journal,’ 613 Ego, The Nature and Possibilities of the, 393 unior Spiritualists’ Club Conversaziones, 168, 592 American Contemporaries, Our, 130 Egypt: Recent Discoveries, 480, 489 American Spiritualists’ Convention, 534 Electronic, 2 Eminent Experimenters’ Opinion on Mediumship, AndnS, Fate of. A Clairvoyant Vision, 462 J^aradja, Princess, Experiences of, 379, 513 Animals and Immortality, 321, 359 405 Animals, Clairvoyant Powers of, 46, 347 Episodes, Recent. By ‘ An Old Correspondent,’ 353, 367, 382, 493, 498, 530 Animism and Sir William Crookes, 62, 95, 223 Everitt, Mr. and Mi’s., Tour in the North, 479, 554 Animism or Spiritualism ? 346, 413 eading Articles— Evil, The Mission of, 338, 374, 388, 421 Advent-tide, 574 Animistic Theory, 82, 123,124, 322 Experiences of Joseph Barker, 394 LAnother Good Confession, Rev. S. E. Cooney, Answers to Questions, by the Controls of Madame M.A., 538 Montague, 135 Experiences of Rev. Arthur Chambers, 547 A Solemn Hour, 620 Answers to Questions, by the Controls of Mrs. E. W. Experiences of Princess Karadja, 379 Bible Spiritualism. 414 Wallis, 98 Experiences of Gen. F. J. Lippitt, 455 Biogen and the Lite Professor Elliot Cones, 430 Church Awakening, The, 354 Answers to Questions, by the Editor, 8, 35, 53,119, Church of the Spirit, 490 207 Cluster of Questions Discussed, 550 Apparition in the Throne Boom at St. Petersburg, Concerning Pity, 502 163 ast, Prolonged, 143 Cosmic Consciousness, 246 Apports of Flowers, &c., 81, 219 Fateful Fridays, 401 Cure for Care, 562 Arch-Natural Immortality, 41 F Death, The Great Promotion, 478 Father’s Return. A Wonderful Spiritual Experience, Dr. Flournoy, a Patient Professor, 526 Argentine Spiritualist Federation, 525 292 Dr. Hyslop. A Notable Surrender, 198 Astrology, 226, 274, 350, 383, 417, 458, 460, 472, 475, Flowers, Apport of, 81, 219 Dr. Minot J. Savage's ‘ Life Beyond Death,’ 66 495, 507, 609 Forecasts. By ‘ An Old Correspondent,’ 597 Dr. Paul Carns' ‘Soul of Man,’ 282 Astrology, A Discovery in Solar Etheric Causes by Foreign Reviews, 81, 100, 107, 125, 148, 163, 173, 197, Dowsing and Divining, 588 F. Alban Long, 585 224, 233, 280, 298, 327, 380, 387, 609 Early Christians ami the Resurrection of the Automatic Drawings of M. Desmoulin, 587, 594 * Body, 90 Friends, The, Incidents in the Lives of, 64, 79 Easter Hope, 174 Automatic Writings. Interesting Experiences, 357, Evolution of the Spirit, 234 386, 403 God Explains Man, 442 God is Spirit, 6 arker, Joseph, Experiences of, 394 God Still Inspires, 598 enesis, The Original Book of, 470 God, The New Thought of, 378 B Bible, The, and Spiritual Phenomena, 425 Growing a Soul, 102 Body and Soul, 322 G Ghost, Photograph of a, 371 God, In the Light of. By Lilian Whiting, 283 In the Beginning—God, 300 Body, Dead, What Causes Disintegration of? 220 Immortal Life on Earth, 390 230, 247, 259 ‘Light.’ No. 1,000,114 Body, Soul, and Spirit, 613 London Spiritualist Alliance, 78 Love and Fear, 30 Brittan, Samuel B., an Early Spiritualist, 260 Man, The Rise of, 54 Britten, Mrs. Hardinge, A Clairvoyant Vision of, 357 allucination, Collective, 316 Malay Magic, 210 Britten Memorial, 172 H Haslam, Rev. H. K., Sermon preached by, 511 New Year Message, 18 Borderland Phenomena, 274 Haunted Houses, 118, 238, 283, 452 Our Poor Relations : The Other Animals, 366 Haweis, Rev. H. R., Address by, 211, 563 Players for the Dead, 186 Burial Alive, 566, 615 ‘Referee’s’ Verdict, 162 Haweis, Rev. H. R., Pulpit Psychic Experiences, 347 Revolutionary Book—Herbert Spencer’s ‘ First Healer, A Remarkable, 230 Principles,’ 154 erebral Forces, A Register of, 561 Healing, The Gift of, 316 Riddle of the Universe, 514 C Certainty, Conditions of, 32 Heaven, The Gateway to, 116 Science Asks us in, 294 Charms, 325 Scotch Critic—' The Glasgow' Evening Times,’222 Here and Hereafter, 226 Scott Holland’s Glimpse, 270 Christian or Mental Science ? 334 Hodgson, Dr. Richard, Concerning, 79 ‘Christian World, The,’and Communion with the Sparrow's Fall, The, 466 Dead, 178 Home Colony, Proposed, 598 Spiritual Ideal, Can we Live up to it? 258 Home for Spiritualism Wanted, 572 Storms, A Spiritual View of, 42 Church, Spiritualist. Is it Needed ? 305, 322, 325, ‘ The Churehwoman ’ and the Fascinating Subject, 347, 360, 365, 407, 419, 435 , 509, 607 Hopps, Rev. J. P., Address by, 55, 534, 551 138 Church Mystical, The. By Dr. George Wyld, 463 Horses and Dogs as Ghost Seers, 46 ‘The Churehwoman ’ and the Teachings of Lilian Circle, Private, Notes of, 15, 26, 43, 50 Hospital, Proposed Psychic, 227, 242, 299, 311, 335 Whiting, 330 Circles, Spirit, French v. English, 505 Howell, Walter, Address by, 160 Hie Incarnation, 610 ‘ The Spectator' and its Review of Flaininarion's Clairvoyance or Thought Reading ? 406 Human Heart, Cry of the, 310 Work, ‘ L’lnnocence,’ 318 Clairvoyance, The Power of Thought upon, 208 Hypnotism and Curative Magnetism, 190 The Spirit Temple, 150 Collective Hallucination, 346 Hyslop, Dr., and Spiritualism, 185 Telepathic ii Trow and Dr. T. J. Hudson, 402 Colville, Mr. W. J., Address by, 3, 20, 68 Useful Admissions by the Society for Psychical Research, 126 Common-Sense People. Who are they? 333 Vacant Smile. Dr. Andrew Wilson and Spiritu­ Conditional Immortality, 603 alism, 342 Conditions, 60 dealising the Real and Realising the Ideal. Liberty and Growth, 225 Congress of Religion in Chicago, 109 I Address by Mr. Walter Howell, 160 Life, The Better Way of, 365 Consciousness, Planes of, 5 ‘ If a Man die shall he live again ?’ 320 Life, The Compound Law of. By Dr. Purdon, 350,362 Control, A Medium’s Thoughts on, 393 Illustrations— Light Inward, 237 Conversion of a Sceptic, 369 M. Desmoulin, 587 Lightning, Effects of, 259, 266, 286, 278, 368, 440, 471, Coimsel to American Spiritualists. By ‘ Qiuvstor Rev. H. R. Haweis, M A., 211 531, 561 Vitie,’ 4S3 Dr. Richard Hodgson, 79 Lippitt, Gen. F. J., Personal Experiences of, 455 Cremation, 183 ‘ Lina,’ from ‘ Les Sentiments, la M unique, et le Geste,’ 92 London Spiritualist Alliance— Crookes, Sir William, and Animism, 62, 95, 223 Madame Montague, 301 Address by Mr. W. J. Bonlding, 103 Crookes, Sir William, on ‘Life ’ and ‘Matter,’ 130 W. Stainton Moses, 114 Address by Mr. W. J. Colville, 3, 20 Cultus, New, The, 446 F. W. Thurstan, M.A., 139 Address by Rev. IL R. Haweis, M.A., 211 Miss Rowan Vincent, 539 Address by Rev. John Page Hopps, 55, 534, 551 Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson, 55 Address by Mr. Walter Howell, 160 Miss Lilian Whiting, 7 Address by Mr. A. Roland Shaw, 515, 522 anger Ahead ? 451 Address by Mr. Robert M. Theobald, M.A., 599, Dead Body, Causes of Disintegration, 220, Immortality, Arch-Natural, 41 607, 621 D 230, 247, 259 Immortality of Animals, 321, 359 Address by Mr. F. W. Thurstan,.M.A., 139, 152, I Death, Cheering Aspects of, 520 Immortality, Conditional, 603 575, 588 Death, Experiences at the Point of, 558 Immortality, Here and Hereafter, 17 Address by Mrs. M. H. Wallis, 86, 98 Immortality in the Flesh, 390, 406, 435 Annual Report, 127 Death, Life after the Incident of, 356 Answers to Questions, by Madame Montague, 135 Death, To be Worthy of, 293 Immortality, the New Thought of, 400, 416, 42S Conversaziones, 55, 211, 491 Deceased Husband comes for his Wife, 191 Improvisations of the Spirit. Address by Rev. John Drawing Room Meeting, 575 Defoe, Daniel, a Spiritualist, 201 Page Hopps, 55 Experience Meetings, Js7, 199, 609 Development through Mediumship, 505 Inspiration, 331 Scheme to Widen and Strengthen, 447 Diet, Pure, 579 Inspiration and Infallibility, ISO Love Bird. A Parable, 458 Lynd, W., Address by, 491 Divine Being, The, or Becoming, and Philosophic Inspiration, Present-Day, 268 Recognition, 22 International Psychological Congress, 105, 431 Double, The, 621 International Psychological Institute, 411 jyjagnetic Healing. Theory of a Universal Fluid, Drawing Medium, 29 International Psychical Science Institute, 326, 443 Drawings, Automatic, 587, 594 International Spiritualistic and Occult Congress, Magnetic Influence, Sensitiveness to, 299 Dreams and Presentiments, 261 220, 443, 486, o03, 511, 527, 540 Magnetic Society for London, Need of, 551, 584, 615 Dreams, Prophetic, 7, 65, 317, 399 Invisible Forewaniers, 176 624 Digitized by INDEX. Man: His Psychical Potentialities a,nd Relation­ ain in Creation, 531 Sleep, Thoughts about, 263, 273, 281 ships. Address by Mr. E. W. Wallis, 243 P Pain: Is it Inevitable? 281 Social Meetings for Inquirers, 434, 484, 532, 555 Manifestations, Unique, 42(5 Palmist, Death Foretold by a, 47 Society for Psychical Research. Presidential Man and His Relationship to God, 453 Palmist Prosecution, 285, 323, 341,361, 418 Address, 315 Manchester Spiritualist Alliance, 320 Paris, Formition of Institutes for Psychical Solar Etheric Causes, A Discovery in. By F. Alban Man’s Creative Thought-Power. By Charles Daw- Research at, 32 >, 411, (ill Long, 585 barn, 285, 295 Paris Spiritualistic and Occult Congress, 220, 413, Sorrow and Night, 396 Man’s Place in Nature. By Charles Dawbarn, 230, 486, 503, 511, 527, 540 Space and Matter, 263 250, 202 Personal Experiences, 405, 469 Sparrows, Fall of the. Senilon by Rev. H. K. Mason, Professor R. Z., Experiences in Spiritualism, Personal Experience of a Midland Rector, 259 Haslam, 511, 543 444 Personation, A Case of, 123 Spirit Guide Helps a Soldier, 183, 380 Materialisation of Animals, 199, 227 Psychical Research.
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  • Spiritualism

    Spiritualism

    HISTORY, PHENOMENA, PHILOSOPHY, AND TEACHINGS OP SPIRITUALISM. [ b EGISTEEED AS A NEW8PAPEB FOB TBANSMXSSION IN THB UNITED KINGDOM AND ABBOAD.] N o. 268.— 'Vol. V I.] LONDON, MAY 21, 1875. [D o u b l e S h e e t —P s ic e l| d . MALCOLM TAYLOR (Vignette). 'j HABBY BASTIAN (Vignette). 322 THJ5 MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. M ay 21, 1»75. who departed this life at Paris shat very morning at one THE CONCLUDING SEANCES OP MESSRS. BASTIAN o’clock. Be lad been described by Mr. .Taylor in the dark AND TAYLOR. seance, but was the first to manifest at the aperture in material We give this weak a form of pictorial illustration which will form, and was promptly recognised by his brother, the origi­ be new to Qttr readers, . Jt ttjpresents occurrences connected nator of the “ Ronalds’s circle.” Thus, in less than twenty-four with the closing Messrs. Bastian and Taylor. hours this spirit appeared again in palpable form, after having On Tuesday evening, May 4th, Mr. P. Wilson was present, on thrown off the physical body. Other phenomena took place of our behalf, to make a sketoh for the Medium. On that occa­ an equally interesting nature; but respecting these, and the sion “ Mrs. Potts,” wife of a gentleman whose name has appeared manifestations of Mr. Ronaldos brother, Mrs. Woodforde has ■ as a member of Mr. Ronalds’s cirole, manifested as Bhe had promised us a more detailed account, whioh We hope to place done on previous occasions. The white figure in the drawing is before our readers next week.