THE INTERNATIONAL HHj t v s V ï O v 1 PSYCHIC GAZETTE * < f e $ No. 2 1 4 . V o l . 19. J U L Y , 1931. P rice Six pen c e N et H r* * *£ " And yet here were people gathered from all comers N t Our Outlook Tower. of the globe to do homage to a country girl in her teens % who lived 500 years ago, exercised her psychic gifts, H n served her country, and paid the penalty with her life. " The countries that fully recognise and use the powers * ^ V JEANNE D’ARC AT DOMREMY. ( L | of the Spirit and realise that the dead are not dead will H m a k e s h e r s e l f k n o w n t o a n E n g l i s h become the saviours of the world.” SENSITIVE. Madame Bishop Anderson said—” When the flame C^Sj was lit in the Old Market Place, an immense crowd «a ï |RS. E. A. COLTMAN, the author of an looked on, but I saw with other eyes. I saw a large MI excellent Spiritualist book, published golden cross facing the spot of the m artyrdom , and there eight years ago on “ Sunshine’s ” story stood Jeanne d’Arc, attired in silvery armour and with and mission, based on notes taken at seances with her hair flowing behind her, seated on a white charger. When she moved around the sacred spot she and the the late Miss Sarah M’Creadie, was at Domremy, horse seemed to move through the people. Her expression Jeanne d’A rc’s birthplace, early in June. W rit­ was alternately very sad and wonderfully happy. Her ing us from the Hotel de la Pucelle, Domremy, sadness was because she saw that the people did not on June 7, she says :— realise her living presence. I sensed that her one great thought was gratitude to the mothers and sisters of RESS ■ " I have waited to write till I had an indication from France for their love and adoration. She feels greatly Our Friends on the O ther Side. It is, I think, La Pucelle attached to them and gave me the idea that their faith herself who directs me to write now. °ck, Sew would be greatly tried in tim e to come. She was imploring “ She came yesterday as we were in the woods near one and all of them to open their minds and hearts to Coussey, and spoke so charmingly to my son John. If K g c , stamped the Truth which would be revealed to them, namely, only I had a * French ’ pen I would reproduce o f w h a t some that she was still with them. All this adoration has been she said. "When a Spirit takes such entire possession of brought about by the angels and saints, who are making me as she did there, I do not find it too easy to recall the M.B.P.S.,1 every effort to tear down the veil of superstition which is exact words. obo -analyst. m«J obscuring all religion to-day. She was saying in her " But she was so full of fun. She laughed with John band print on sand spirit— Seek not for the living among the dead, for there Line and prospects, j] about * running over the country on a wheel '—he has are no more dead, and if th at were not true this celebration , i f - , to/6, £ i a. ■ just done a 3,000 mile tour of France on his motor-bicycle. would never have been held.” •USE,” I She had the gaiety, m errim ent, and irresponsibility of a light-hearted child— such élan!— an alm ost fairy touch, MR. WILLIAM HOPE AS A LECTURER. toad, CatfordJ joined with a profound understanding and gentleness. M r . W i l l i a m H o p e , the celebrated spirit- t a lis m a n ! " None of that high Seriousness of the Elder Saints ! photographer of the Crewe Circle, is one of (and I say this w ith all truthfulness, for Saint Catherine of Sienna, ‘ The Great Catherine is a very intim ate friend the homeliest lecturers who ever appeared 5T H O U of our little company, with m any others). High Endea­ on a platform. We remember seeing him l (Near tkt Jfafl vour—yes, but with such a joyous simplicity. As you lecture to a fashionable West End audience and M. Forthuny know her, I know you will understand. in his shirt-sleeves and best native done, and he PIRITUAUSTS I There for an hour, by the side of the road that runs jo N D O N . through those woods, she stayed—' Jeanne et Jean ! ' was as jocular and as much at home as if he : night a Gas. m as she said. A wondrous stillness. Nearby a nightingale were chatting to a gaping group of urchins madot ijjj, made rippling music. Answering notes came from afar in a village ! in the deep woods. As we drove back to this village the He lectured to a crowded audience on I Can the Spirits meadow flowers were radiant—thanks to her blessing ! of the Dead be Photographed ? | in the Central Hall, [. ROWE " I doubt if La Pucelle could have sprung from any Belfast, on J u n e 4, under the auspices of the Belfast other com er of France. Even five centuries ago I expect Readings by n Spiritualists' Alliance. He showed a large number of the people were distinguished from the other natives of photographs of deceased people whose pictures had S Inspiration. La Belle France by their vigour and forcefulness. All the appeared on his negatives as " extras," alongside their D., LONDON,! bells of the little Church opposite are ringing— La Pucelle relatives who had come as sitters to his seances. He would greet you ! As do m y son and I.” also showed photographs taken of these spirits during SPIRITUALISTS AT ROUEN. their earth-life, which were convincing evidence that they were who they claimed to be. Mr. Hope said :— ELLIS, A m o n g o t h e r British Spiritualist pilgrims to " This is called spirit-photography, but I cannot say «G A T E , N. Rouen for t h e Jeanne d’Arc 500th anniversary that it is so, for no one knows w hat a spirit is. I do not Tube Station) celebrations, were Miss Louise Owen, whose offer you these pictures as works of art, but it has taken lireoyance, ftyi remarkable spirit painting of The Christ hangs me over twenty years to get them together. Their value *r time» by «pf** lies in the ' extras ’ (spirit faces) which appear on them . o f 3 X S O N L Y AC on the walls thousands of Spiritualist homes If anybody can tell me how they got there I would be throughout t h e world, and Madame Bishop very glad to hear it. We have thousands of failures, me C u e ! « Anderson, t h e well-known clairvoyant. but if we get even one * extra' taken under straight­ forward circum stances it is some proof of the continuity On being asked how the ceremonies had impressed of life after death." her. Miss Owen said— “ I was very deeply sensible of te and Cla* 1 Among the photographs shown on the screen was one profound spiritual influences at the moment when the of Lady Crookes, wife of Sir William Crookes. Sir sacred flame in the Old Market Place was lit on the j t o 6 William, after he was eighty years of age, travelled Friday evening. Jeanne seemed to me to be hovering to Crewe to have this photograph taken, and he himself H I I 1 o v e r t h e scene with a hallowing influence, felt more or told us, w ith tears in his eyes, that it was unlike any other COTTAGE toss by all around. That was a distinct contrast to the photograph that had ever been taken of his wife, for it prwnp nnH pageantry of the Saturday procession and showed her as she was during her last illness, and m any the brilliant evening illuminations, during which the relatives and friends had recognised that it was she i c ro w d s seemed almost to have forgotten the poignant and no one else. Then the photograph of a youth was nature of the tragedy they were commemorating and its shown, and this Mr. Hope said, had been recognised by a spiritual significance. M ayor of Paisley as a picture of his dead son. Two faces 1 1 w a s pleased to see the many beautiful children R e s e * * 18 on another photograph had been claimed by a Belfast and y o u n g people taking part in the ceremonies, and man as those of his sons who had been drowned at I wondered they had ever been taught that whether Portrush. An Indian lady's face appeared on another ■ R t h e g i f t s Jeanne had could still be attained spiritual which plate and Mr. Hope said in his humorous way, *' The and used by the more sensitive souls among them. I*5 o f Hindu gentleman wrote and told me that the ‘ extra * I doubt it, French people refuse for the majority of the was his first wife.” The photograph of a motor-cycle, to acknowledge Jeanne's psychic the naturalness of taken from a newspaper, showed the form and face of its faculties, and regard them as supernatural and unique, S p t f * 1 owner who had been killed in an accident. a n d a a a portion of history that cannot be repeated. A representative o f the Belfast N ew s L e t t e r had a ” If a F r e n c h girl in her teens now came forward and successful sitting with Mr. Hope during his visit and s c * * * * * * Mated that she heard voices and saw visions, and c o u l d testifies, ** I am content that no human agency was toad the French nation out of its Materialism into a employed in the taking of these photographs. » , . • more spiritual outlook, she would probably be put in an I am convinced that' faking ' of any kind was impossible." say him, or harshly treated aa a rogue and vagabond. J.L. ÀâSÜ^' aK: f § g g L 146 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. Jnfo jgj

Preparations for the Hague Spiritualist Congress. A r t h u r f | By MRS. C. H. NOE. fjjl the REL u r i n g the i ALLO ! HALLO ! Holland calling ! write you some further information about the comb. Congress. O f course, I cannot tell you much yet for^jj W h y ? W herefore ? D Ford, <>f is still plans and projects. public demc To express its satisfaction because the time " Let me begin by giving some names of members ¡| for the International Congress of Spiritualists is Mrs. de Crespigny, for the British College ; Miss E. Stead powers to great ai rapidly approaching. Because we Dutch, people for the W . T. Stead Borderland Library; Mrs. Eshelbv Queen’s Halls, in of few words, want to show our appreciation by for the Calgary First Spiritualist Church, Canada; Mr* private work he i Sasport, for the Spanish-Am erican Spiritualist Association British College of getting all in readiness for the welcoming of our of New York C ity; Mrs. Sofia de Kuhn, from Cordoba fellow-Spiritualists the world over, whom we Argentina; Mrs. Dora A. West, from Boston; Mrs! headquarters of the want to receive in that old-fashioned hospitable and Mr. Rishi, from Bom bay; Mr. and Mrs. Koom, On Sunday morr way we generally extend to foreign visitors we Second Spiritualist Church, Minneapolis; Mrs. Cad! sermon in the G rot wallader, Chicago; Mr. Carl Carleson, Stockholm; honour and sympathise with. of The Future.” I Professor Dr. Rothy, with the wonderful healing medium, a row of private r Here we are all wanting to show the best we have in Mrs. K. Wunderlich, from Budapest (Hungary); Captain our little country in the shortest space and the easiest Ponerides, Constantinople ; Professor Dr. G. Pioli, Mian j event were some manner. For those who can extend their visit, there Mrs. and Mr. McGuire, Toronto ; Mrs. Millott Severn, coming from far ai are short excursions to Amsterdam with its museums, Brighton. Also Dr. Viguier, Paris; Dr. Yvon Costa, memorable service, diamond cutteries, its old and new quarters ; with, quite Brazil; and Mr. George N. Adan, Brussels. Stobart, whose reac near, the great Ymuiden sluices, through which the big " I have now 128 members enrolled. England seems ocean liners reach its harbour; the Isle of Marken and to h a v e th e intention to send us 150 others, France may hymns, with special i quaint Volendam; the enormous engineering works send 50, Germany will probably send more than before, worship in their m e for the draining of the Zuider Zee— the changing of a Belgium suffers too badly from the exchange rates to rather treacherous inland sea into fertile plains, where send many members, but there is still plenty of time THI already the conquered land gives its harvest of oats to send us intimations. Mr. F ord b e g a n b y s i a n d w h e a t ! " The Organising Committee are waiting for the list in a transition period, t Many will want to visit Rotterdam, with the Hook of speakers and papers from the International Federation, had become almost a s of Holland. It is the centre of shipbuilding, and the in order to make the programme of the sections and of Many things in th e orthi centre of Westland miles of vegetable and fruit growing, the festivities. be untrue, and people's with endless acres of glasshouses, from which the most ” I think that the Sunday afternoon may be reserved of confusion, so that Ch luscious grapes are sent all over the world. for a visit to the Peace Palace, and the Sunday evening empty the w o rld o v e r . The Hague, which is the real concentration point for for Mrs. Meurig Morris, if " Power " should decide to American ch u rch es h a d our September activities, is the third largest city of the come hither. had closed the doors o f 1, Netherlands. As the residence of our beloved royal " Professor Rothy will read a paper about the healing while Germany had lost i family, and the seat of our Government, it is a city of medium, Mrs. Wunderlich, and probably she will give period. political international importance. It is our beautiful a demonstration of her healing force. A lot of sick persons Not long ago Mrs. St. garden town, surrounded by lovely suburbs, in springtime have asked to be healed. I am preparing a list of invalids, distinguished A n g lic a n cl< unique with the splendour of fields of flowering hyacinths " Mr. Hope, of the Crewe Circle, comes with Mrs. the Church Congress. Hi and tulips, our justifiable pride and glory, that stretch Buxton, and Miss Stead will give a p a p e r on and a Sunday there had been right to old historical Haarlem town, made famous by the demonstration of the Communigraph. Mr. Mclndoe has attendances w a s te n pec painters of A rt’s Golden Age, the great Masters of the old offered a lantern slide address, and Mr. Hannen Swafier in the choir a n d p u lp it t Dutch school ! will address the Congress. told the clergym an that t] Then at fifteen minutes’ distance from The Hague is " In short, there is so much to be fitted in that it will of people from the Gro 1 Scheveningen, the famed seaside resort, with its be difficult to have time for all the lecturers. W e shall room, because there they try to have some amusements, but I believe that it is promenade, boulevard, and excellent bathing accom­ wanted. Theirs was not modation. Its wide clean sandy beach will call you for a better to leave that to the members themselves. There religion capable of demon is opportunity here for everyone to amuse himself. There fresh breath of ozone before or after Congress hours. ence of all persons se e k in g will be an exhibition of Dutch Spiritualist paintings. The Hague is already feeling an influence of ardent The prophet John in th expectation which is slowly getting hold of the general M y opinion is that the Congress with be a great success.” holy city, the new Jerusa population. Active preparations are being made for the north, south, east and we: s h m September Convention ! The Hague's lure of historical That was his vision of thi souvenirs is felt by visitors from all parts of the world, CONAN DOYLE MEMORIAL FUND. be, and was really a picti but it is now wondering what kind of gathering will H E Hon. Treasurer of this Fund received the What had the East give be this Congress ! Is Spiritualism indeed of such inter­ following donations from May 19 to June 18 present ? The great myst national importance as some attribute to it ? The Press, T and no great religion hai alas, does not give much information. It sometimes inclusive, amounting to ¿ 70, which, with atmosphere of mysticism, grudgingly publishes an article when it cannot well be £1,166 10s. 2d. previously acknowledged, brings it was possible for the : refused, but when rumours of the coming psychic the total donations to date to ¿ 1,236 10s. 2d. invisible universal Spirit demonstrations reach the public, they come from private EIGHTH LIST OF DONATIONS. nothing, had come from 1 sources, and penetrate quietly through a wall of Vereeniging van Spiritisten " H a r- s. d. self-dedication, prayer an indifference and incredulity, by the little gateway of £ monia " (per Mr. H. G. the Eastern wall of the h .e| curiosity. That is the opening we workers have to use N ed erbu rg) 0 0 The next contribution 1 at the right moment for our Spiritualistic propaganda ! 25 The Spiritualist Community i l 0 South. Beauty, Music, 1 No wonder that our handful of Dutch Spiritualists 9 Jas. F. Bowerman, Esq. ... 0 ^ these beautiful things— look forward to the active and energetic efforts on behalf 5 5 Mrs. J. S. Courtauld 0 the Churches in Southern 1 of the Cause of our British neighbours over the North 5 5 Miss Margaret Fuller 0 0 Then came a time when | Sea. W e want to learn more about your work, whose 5 The Order of Christian Mystics, ^ ¡ ¡ ¡ § i or accompanied by 3 every phase we hope to take up here in good time. We W ash in gton 0 expect great things from this Congress, and we want 4 15 impulse was added whi H. Blackwell, Esq. 0 to do our utmost to encourage your coming, with your 3 3 Jp. of reason had arrived John L. Johnson, Esq., Nat. delegates and friends. llpi reasoning to the doci Military Home, California o 1 i Surely though slowly we are getting convinced of the L ^ t philosophers, the grea vast importance of the Spiritualist Movement. We feel Bowes Park and Palmers Green l °f the world had com 2 0 0 the need for forming one undivided Spiritual League of Church (per F. A. Gooch, Esq.) °ught about the Reforms Société d'Etudes Psychique de Nations ! We will conduct you to that magnificent began within tt 0 donation of Andrew Carnegie— the imposing Peace Genève ...... 2 0 The Austin Publishing Co., Los to acceP* and Palace of the world, and may we all do our bit to help s development and i fulfil its noble aim ! Angeles (per B. F. Austin) ... 1 0 t> Friends, the larger your number the more gratified Emanuel Arganoza, Esq., San contrih. ? e Satfts of the W< we will be. W e joyfully anticipate your arrival 1 Diego, California ...... 1 0 5 S t h a s H a llo 1 Hallo ! Holland has spoken I 1 1cism 1 ? a ti®6 when the ¿ 6 6 1 0 S ¿SSl ?2? seQse Of the NEWS FROM THE PRESIDENT. Amounts of ¿1 and under :— Miss Helen D. Priding struggle i Chas. L. Hyde, Esq. ; Third Spiritualist Church S x MR. P. G O ED H ART, President of the Cleveland; A. Hodges, Esq.,’ Miss M. Durham; M , » h i c h - t h e Waters ; ” Auntie Matt.' ; E. A. Wilson p world aI Organising Committee of the Congress at The ^ * tr a t® ? £ strati°n of th Hague, kindly sends us some further information Donations should be sent to the Honorary V S v*sible and a b o u t the arrangements. He s a y s Mr. A. C. Grigg, Lloyds Hank, Ltd., u i US Probably you have been expecting that I might Street, London, W.j. V ¿ K c w ? 11 fr°m th» J u ly . 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 147

n j»t a Arthur Ford : Preacher, Lecturer and Demonstrator. \ \ NX THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE . . . MARGERY’S MEDIUMSHIP. MURING the past month the Rev. Arthur would be a blend of Catholicism, Christian Science and I Ford, of New York, U.S.A., has given Spiritualism. If anyone were foolish enough to believe that the age r»* Ht* b $l> D public demonstrations of his versatile of miracles was past he was simply not aware of what was powers to great audiences in the Grotrian and going on in the world. So-called miracles were really psychical phenomena. That these do occur to-day no K f r o ^ f Queen’s Halls, in addition to the important well informed and intelligent man could deny, and they ® S o l S Í í private work he is carrying on daily at the were going to determine the nature of the Church of British College of Psychic Science and at the to-morrow. The next great advance Spiritualism would K f ; H i,VHr,! . headquarters of the Spiritualist Community. make would be in the realm of healing, giving people a Km, c!~* Q\ On Sunday morning, June 7 , he preached a personal experience of the power of God to heal them sermon in the Grotrian Hall, on “ The Religion and to keep them whole. Jn«atyf1 healijí>¿S * % The religion of the future would not be a rigid orthodoxy. of The Future.” In front of the hall there was The Church unconsciously was in higher hands and could *• G. f i i ' S a a row of private motor-cars as long as if the *■ Millos o not help being coloured by the psychic wave now sweeping Dr. Yw aev€tfil event were some new play or opera, people over the world. Many of its doctrines had been found to coming from far and near to be present at a be irrational, and Spiritualism had introduced common- seis VD" S sense. Spiritualists to-day were the most important |_ E a g w d ^ , memorable service, conducted by Mrs. St. Clair people in the world, though many were humble and un­ hen. K n O Stobart, whose readings, prayers and beautiful learned, for they were laying foundations of a great and nore hymns, with special music, represent Spiritualistic stable religion in place of the dying orthodoxy. The xchangg rates A worship in their most refined expression. pillars of the new temple were Hope, Justice, Truth and Love, and its crowning pinnacle was the glorious fact of (1 plenty of t j THE SERMON. Survival, with certain communication between this world and the next. i ting for the % Mr. Ford began by saying that organised religion was Some messages, clairaudiently heard by Mr. Ford, were tionai Federa^] in a transition period, and " The religion of the future ” then given to various members of the congregation, who ¡e sections and q had become almost a slogan in the newspaper press. recognised the names and descriptions of their spirit Many things in the orthodox religions had been found to friends, and the appositeness of their talk which was as may be resell be untrue, and people’s minds were at present in a state familiar as if they were still present in the flesh. > Sunday eveoi of confusion, so that Christian churches were practically empty the world over. A recent census showed that THE LECTURE. should decide ¿I American churches had lost half a million members and On Tuesday night, June 7, Mr. Ford lectured on the had closed the doors of 1,800 churches in the last five years famous " Margery ” medium ship, in the Queen’s Hall ibout the heaU while Germany had lost two million members in the same under the auspices of the Spiritualist Community and ily she will gh»| period. the British College of Psychic Science— Mr. Hannen lot o f sick penal Not long ago Mrs. St. Clair Stobart and he had met a Swaffer presiding. ; a list of invaiial distinguished Anglican clergyman who had just come from Mr. Ford told his audience of about 2,000 persons that »m e s with Mai the Church Congress. He told them that on the previous long before he became a professional Spiritualist he had nap«r on «aim Sunday there had been ten churches whose average been sitting with ” Margery." He was one of the earliest Mr. Mclndoel attendances was ten people ! There were more people sitters in the Margery groups, and had watched the develop­ Hanncn Swafcl in the choir and pulpit than in the pews. Mrs. Stobart ment of the various phenomena from the beginning. told the clergyman that they were turning away hundreds The lantern slides he was showing were flash-light photo­ Bd in that i t « of people from the Grotrian Hall meetings for want of graphs taken during the experiments, and had been lent urers. W e hil room, because there they got the kind of instruction they him for this lecture by Dr. Crandon, " Margery’s ” husband, >elieve that i: (I wanted. Theirs was not a religion of mere faith but a who was one of the outstanding surgeons in Boston,U.S.A. emselves. The I religion capable of demonstration in the individual experi­ Notwithstanding his activity in the Spiritualist world, s himself. Therl ence of all persons seeking earnestly the truth. and his wife's fame as a medium. Dr. Crandon's reputation :u a list painting [ The prophet John in the Revelation said, “ I beheld the had not suffered in the least, and now he was performing a g re a t success holy city, the new Jerusalem. It had three gates on the more major operations than ever before. north, south, east and west, and the City lies four square." Originally “ Margery " had gone to see a- medium in That was his vision of the Kingdom of God which was to order to ridicule this new interest of her husband. She L FUND, be, and was really a picture of the Future Church. was then told she was herself a medium and began to sit nd received ¡É What had the East given to the religion of the past and at a table with a few friends in a spirit of fun. Remark­ present ? The great mystics of all time had been Orientals, able phenomena at once occurred and from that time 1 19 to Jane ij and no great religion had ever begun excepting in the " Margery’s ” mediumship developed, until it was now 0, which, wit atmosphere of mysticism. Mysticism, the realisation that famous all over the world, some of the most eminent men vl edged, brind it was possible for the individual soul to contact the of science having gone to sit with her. She was not a ,236 10s. 2d. invisible universal Spirit, without which religion was professional medium and had never received a cent of nothing, had come from the East and had taught them compensation for her services. All she had done was given IONS. self-dedication, prayer and worship— the three gates in in a scientific spirit for the sake of truth and knowledge. £ * ' 1 the Eastern wall of the new Jerusalem. She was a lady of great charm, culture and high social The next contribution to religion had come from the position, and while all sorts of accusations had been 25 0 • South. Beauty, Music, Poetry, Art, and Ritualism— thrown at her— as at all mediums— no person who had I i [ all these beautiful things— had been born and fostered in ever sat with Margery Crandon had ever been able to 5 5 ; the Churches in Southern lands. place his finger on any incident and say he had found g 5 g Then came a time when they found mysticism no longer Margery in fraud. The people who spoke of her " frauds ’ ’ alone, or accompanied by music, art and beauty, but a had never seen any of her demonstrations. Most of the 5 1 1 new impulse was added which came from the North. The pictures had been taken under scientific test conditions. age of reason had arrived when people began to apply The first picture showed Margery in deep trance in her IS 0 their reasoning to the doctrines of the Church, and the plate-glass cabinet, her ankles and wrists bound with 3 I great philosophers, the great scientists, the critical think­ piano wire so tightly that blood was often drawn from ers of the world had come from the North, and they them, yet she never complained. The second showed I I brought about the Reformation. A work of purification the apparatus used while direct-voice phenomena were and reform began within the Church, but the Church was being produced. It was a tube of water, whose mouth­ unwilling to accept it and the inevitable happened, the piece she held so firmly in her lips that if she made the Church's development and influence declined. slightest movement it would be indicated by a cork at Then the gates of the W est were opened, and the only the upright end of the tube. No vocal sounds of her own contribution the West has ever made was Spiritualism. could be produced while she held on to this mouthpiece. It came at a time when the Church had lost its sense of A bell-box apparatus was shown by means of which Mysticism, its sense of the presence of the Divine, and spirits could ring a bell, but which no person in the room was engaged in a struggle for life by maintaining forms could possibly operate. Houdini, the conjurer, had and rituals from which the Spirit had been lost. It was craftily played a trick with this apparatus to make it then the Western world came along with its definite unworkable even by the spirits. 1% f*É f| scientific demonstration of the living power of the Invisible Photographs were shown of ectoplasm of two grade*, deO r e p o r t to penetrate the visible and make itself known. Spirit­ (1) the coarser kind which could be seen by the physical ualism was meeting the needs of the people of to-day and eye, which was used for materialisations, and (2) a much was saving religion from the past errors of the Church. finer substance, invisible to the physical eye, known as r j k ,Mr. G. K. Chesterton when recently asked at New York teleplasm, which was used by spirit operators to mould what would be the religion of the niture replied that it (Coniinutd on /Mg* 138.) ' i ** ------148 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. M , 1931, Judges and Council in the Spheres : A Great Boo| By " A FRIEND OF GEORGE R. SIMS.” NE of the supremely interesting things have been unthinkable to him before the fact of to my mind is to know what the celebrities transition. When his eyes opened upon an extraordinary beautiful country and he found himself surrounded y O of this world have found in the next. Research. • old-time friends whom he had had very little hope m Edw ard G a r* That is why, in collaboration with R. H. Saunders, ever seeing again, it seemed to him a figment of Jy seeking fo r sc we wrote “ The Return of George R. Sims.” imagination, but by degrees he was able to understand but he stress* And now we have by an author who, like myself, a little of the wonders of that wonderful world :— or esoteric Sj ” There are here cities towns, and undulating ising o r refin\ wishes to remain anonymous, a wonderfully countries, and each city and town is governed by interesting volume recording descriptions of the means oforga a central body, and all regulated with undeviating He was long l next world and its activities by well-known justice and order. he lived alt f judges and counsel, who returned through the ” The harmony and beauty of it all—the air Windsor, seen late Miss Sara Harris and other trance mediums, throbbing with music and the whole atmosphere he fo u n d m uc blended and interblended with sweet harmonies- and were as ready and as anxious to help in the Mr. Thurstan seemed to me at times unbelievable. o f m ysticism a production of this book as Sims was in his. ” I felt I was in the presence of a wonderfnl best know n m The book, published by John M. Watkins at seven- governing Power who ruled by love, and I gradually M ovem ent. and-six, is entitled “ Talks with Spirit Friends, Bench and learnt to draw near and supplicate for knowledge Bar.” It gives us illuminating descriptions both of and help from that Great Central Authority whom PIRITUALIT " crossing the bar ” and of what these eminent men, we call God. quality whicl many of them so well known to us in this life, have found ” I have been on this side of life some considerable SSpiritualist si on " the Other Side.” time, and I feel my best work and efforts have been MARSHALL HALL FINDS “ REST AND HEALTH here, but ail my work on earth, all its experiences, It may come a AND SATISFACTION.” have been the foundation of the work I now do.” superconsciousness Sir Edward Marshall Hall, whose privilege it was, “ NO MARITAL UNHAPPINESS HERE ” SAYS LORD be daily develop« he reminded the author on his return a few weeks after ST. HELIER. practically as we j his death, ” to have a working knowledge of the after-life,” Lord St. Ilelicr, the famous Sir Francis Jeune, Judge Spirituality is r was " happy to say that his hopes were not built of the Divorce Court, has found, of course, as the Founder upon sand,” and that he has found ” rest, health and of our Faith said twenty centuries ago, that in the next mere mystical qus satisfaction ” there. At a later sitting he said :— world there is no marrying or giving in marriage, 11 so formal religious a ” I have found God’s love and providence that work of adjustment,” he says, ” is one thing I lost, practical use only vindicated, the promises and all. The wonderful for which 1 am decidedly thankful ” :— accounts that have from time to time been ” No marital unhappiness exists here; the law the fundamental eJ transmitted to earth describing the beauty and the of attraction and repulsion is in operation and we but lies latent lik grandeur (of the next world) are more than realised, cannot evade it. Each individual is attracted to surface and, like goj and in fact fall short of the reality. I have found whom he or she is allied in sympathy and love, and and brought to th< great comfort and a serenity of mind that really they live together as * soul mates j in harmony pass description.” and love. vastly increase ou Sir Frank (Francis) Lockwood had, as so many have, ” Any goodness, kindness, unselfishness oi any and psychic enjoyr a fear of death, but found " on my entrance to this land sacrifice you have made on earth you are rewarded will have all lesser j of hope and glory (no apologies to Elgar) my dread and for here. And there is happiness and joy for those Why has this se fear were unfounded :— who do just their plain duty, and try to live up to " I found a wonderful and natural world, with tho standard of what they really know they should.’’ so long and so fool unlimited scope and possibilities, and I also found MR. JUSTICE BRAY’S EXPERIENCE OF DYING. have a clear conce that I had an entirely re-energised body, with every Mr. Justice Bray does not think he slept at all during and spirituality imp faculty enlarged. his transition. He remembers a dreamy feeling of floating " What to me seemed so delightful and natural, through sweet scented air and tall pine trees, with fragrant SPIRITL my people and friends whom I believed gone for perfume around him, and then he found himself surrounded I I Spirit ” does not ever, met me. We do not die, we only change our by old friends and colleagues who quickly reassured him “ a spirit ” is not appli residence.” and made him feel unspeakably happy in the thought been removed from ( “ NO GLORIFIED ARCADIA FOR ALL ” : MR. that indeed he was enjoying old friendships again and matter, out of normal si JUSTICE HAWKINS’ WARNING. living free from weariness of the body. [ o f cosmical energy ma When we come to the judges we get, as we might To Dr. Blake Odgers, K.C., the extraordinary feeling exhibits that vital anc expect, more serious impressions, with certain reminders during transition of his real self from his outer body was it has to that title ' that those who consciously and constantly sin on earth an unforgettable experience. To his great surprise he worketh in us is marke. will have to pay a perfectly natural and unescapable soon became aware of familiar faces and friends around animation, artistic cr< penalty in heaven. The change from the lighter mood him, and was convinced that he was in a world utterly expression, refinement j of the K.C.'s to the more serious words uttered by the unknown to him—“ a world that no flights of imagination endurance, health and judges is a notable feature of the communications. The could ever have pictured for him ” :— are often superior in tt K.C.’s are K.C.'s still, and the judges are still judges. ” 1 am still amazed at its vastness, its beauty, its ¡ ¡ I l f ! 1 1 the Spirit Lord Brampton, better known to us as Sir Henry homelike atmosphere, the various institutions, its right to be called ” spirit (Mr. Justice) Hawkins, says that on his transition he unerring laws, its order and discipline, its well-paved J l l f l f l » depirte ” gradually ” became aware that he had left the world streets, broad thoroughfares, stately houses and M “ e . sPmt world ” behind him and found the new world was very like that magnificent scenery.” matter m various stages which he had left :— CHILDREN AND ANIMALS IN THE NEXT WORLD. some below that of ou? ” The exact locality one finds oneself in, after The author's wife, but for whose passing, he tells us. death, is quite a question of one's life on earth ; these communications would not have been made, has it is not a glorified Arcadia where all are ushered Quex, her dear old bulldog, with her, and she desires into to live ' happy ever afterwards,’ as the story­ celestial ”). ©then ‘‘ all who have lost pet animals to know that their love Spirit, in otj. books say. AU have to go through various upholds and keeps them here.” disciplinary processes analogous to what Catholics She also wishes to impress us with the fact that “ little Process of becoml ° rdi ^tes, calle? q k g to b call a purgatorial state, but to those who have led children who come here are cared for and loved by—well. kinetic ^ sta n ce, a fairly serviceable life there is everything to be 1 call them beautiful angel women, and they bring the gained by coming here.” little ones back to earth regularly to enable them to expansion into T *118 frc What are their activities, one asks ? Well, ho says, obtain and retain tho memory of their parents”-'* f°rms and things l0Wer 81 there are many different channels there through which delightful message fully confirming all that we have I ^Wtis thefn . they can work. He himself is discharging duties similar, heard before about children in the Spirit World. a spac^® dow m a ci only in a spiritualised form, to those on earth. They Apart from the assurance they convey of the nearness Jto. those fiem!*1 subs have enrolled him as a sort of administrator over a certain of our spirit friends the messages are designed, the author Resting ®^s °* tense territory. And he also has under his care ” a certain tells us, to bring home to humanity the fact that co®' ^ripUcityo^61* a r class of men who come here from your world, men who munication between the two worlds is a Divine provision £ ^ v ,duyJ'points, Su were in my old profession, and I am, of course, myself that man changes but slowly after death, that the natut* studying and learning these greater laws.” He is also of his reception and status on the other side depends up® helping to mould the minds of certain statesmen still 0?® nNlVEReTi“ ' tho life ho has lived here, that the so-called dead ^ er Ml HSA L f on earth, and he remarks drily " it is like trying to mould living in a world as real, as substantial and as natural *! concrete.*' this ouc, and that all legitimate earth activities W LORD JUSTICE KENNEDY'S SURPRISE. their correspondences there. It was a noble MSI U^r^^riirAin £ Mr. Justice Kennedy (he was finally a Lord of Appeal, and it has boon carried out, with tho willing co-operat*1® the author may remember), says the idea of finding himself of these eminent lawyers now in the Spheres, iu a nuuiu S M o eiest after death in an ordinary everyday sort of world would entirely worthy of tills great and most fascinating subj* l i p s t p i natu B i g the The Practice of Spiritual Development. B y FREDERIC THURSTAN, M.A.

M r. Frederic Thurstan has for over fifty years been one of ” O the full life within us'and around the outstanding figures in Spiritualism and Psychical That meets all motion and becomes its soul I ” B N i X Research. He was the friend of Frederic Myers, and this view of nature as the " breath of Spirit ” in ' I m Edward Gurney and Serjeant Cox, who led the way in these thought-impelling lines :— b „ > 4 ‘ted seeking for scientific proofs of psychical phenomena, " But what if all of animated Nature mér but he stressed the greater importance of subjective Be but organic harps diversely framed, % or esoteric Spiritualism as the method of spiritual­ That tremble into thought as o ’er them sweeps, y of ¡t % ising or refining our bodies and souls (or psyches) by Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, ie wk , I "hoi® J. ^ means of organised intercourse between the two worlds. At once the soul of each and joyance everywhere I ” He was long known as “ The Riverside Mystic ,” f o r This brings us to the clear conception that our Spirit *ble. larn<£ he lived all the year round on a houseboat at Old is but the manifestation and the realisation in us of the Windsor, seeing and talking with the departed, whom eternal omnipotence and communion of the Unknown 1nc® of » he found much the same as they used to be on earth. God Himself. ‘ov«. and W % , M r. Thurstan is a leading authority on every phase Are then God and Spirit identical terms ? Jesus locate for i®%£ o f mysticism and occultism and developed some of the thought and felt so when He revealed to the Woman of |ltnÜ A a t i r o ^ l best-known mediums in the early history of the Samaria, ” God is Spirit.” Therefore the more we M ovem en t. recognise Spirit working in us, to will and to do, to grow and to realise and actualise, the more we know and feel life some cousin 1PIRITUALITY should be the fundamental ourselves identical with the Divine. The entity who has and efforts S ì | quality which everyone calling himself a completely realised this identity with the Divine Unity •». all it. expajSl S Spiritualist should aim to possess. has reached the celestial grade of vibratory consciousness. ie work I no» It may come as a surprise to most that the SPIRIT A RIVER OF LIFE. 1E R E " SAYS superconsciousness of our spiritual nature can Spirit, indeed, is the river of life, flowing through our be daily developed as systematically and as innermost core of being, our seed-germ of speciality, into Francis Jeune, a more and more perfect expression of that uniqueness, course, as the Fo*J practically as we develop our psychic nature. in a scheme of harmonial co-operation towards the ago, that in the*! Spirituality is not, as generally supposed, a evolution of our self-consciousness— first as a part of ing in marriage, *v mere mystical quality, to be attained only by terrestial group-soul, next as an associate of solar celestial " is one thing I jJ formal religious and moral discipline, and of love-circles, and lastly as completely merged in the ocean of divine cosmic consciousness. practical use only for some future state. It is As a " spirit ” then we are each in an eternal conscious­ exists here; the y the fundamental element of our present nature, in operation aady ness and perfect, and out of time and space and change. " Never the Spirit was not; the Spirit will cease to be idual is attracted i but lies latent like a reef of gold beneath its surface and, like gold, if it can only be discovered never.” □pathy and love,] But as an expression, each moment, of this eternal mates ' in hanaj and brought to the surface and refined, it will flow of becoming into existence, we are never perfect; vastly increase our powers for self-expression we are always changing ; identifying ourselves more and unselfishness u and psychic enjoyment. Those who possess it more with newness and otherness. rth you are rewa^l will have all lesser gifts at their command. It is here where the necessity for the practice of spiritual css and joy for ■ development comes in. If our Spirit is a river of life, ind try to live opl Why has this secret of secrets been ignored flowing through set and appointed banks and scenery, r know they should so long and so foolishly ? It is because so few we must learn to let our skiff be carried on it on full ENCE OF DYING. I have a clear conception what the terms spirit current, and note the passing circumstance, and allow he slept at all don and spirituality imply. no impeding growth of weeds to make that current imy feeling of float! sluggish. le trees, with fragni SPIRITUAL QUALITIES. If our Spirit is a ray of energy flowing to us on earth hd himself surround " Spirit ” does not mean “ a spirit,” and the term from some central sun of our solar system, we must quickly reassured I “ a spirit ” is not applicable to any entity because it has learn to bask in the direct ultra rays of the light, and not been removed from our physical grade of vibratory to confine our activities to the mere lunar reflected light appy in the tho of our normal intellectual consciousness. Thereby we friendships again u.| matter, out of normal sight, but on account of the current of cosmical energy manifesting in it ; and the more it shall get more animation and more psychic instinctiveness. Bj exhibits that vital and creative energy the more right Intellectuality makes us only night-livers, spirituality extraordinary fowl it has to that title. The grade of “ the spirit ” that makes us wake to an intense day. m his outer body1 worketh in us is marked by the exhibition in us of zest, Spiritual development in short means growing into his great surprise! animation, artistic creativeness, self-realisation, self- more sensitiveness to Spirit Within. 98 and friends aroesil expression, refinement in love, and harmony, patience, '* For not in far-off realms of space the Spirit has its ,as m a world uttflifj endurance, health and attractiveness. W e in the flesh throne, I flights of imagini^l are often superior in these qualities to denizens of the In every heart it findeth place, and waiteth to be region we call the Spirit World, and have therefore more known. istness, its beauty, right to be called ” spirits ” than such. Thought answereth alone to thought, and soul rious institutions, The region the departed dwell in should not be specified with soul hath kin, |S its well'!** as the | spirit world.” It is a world of matter still—of The Outward God he findeth not, who finds not stately houses **\ matter in various stages or staves of vibratory energy— God within.”— F. H . Hosmer. 5 below that of our normal sensory and intellectual THE RECOGNITION OF “ SPIRIT.” consciousness— (these might be called the " elementary " It is not then the Spirit in us that requires developing H E N E X T WORp “ astral ” world)— and some graded above it— (these [or but the recognition of it. Now the faculty for its e passing, he |1$| be called ” etherial,” " metetherial,” " radiant,” might recognition is not our intellectuality, but some more have been math ” celestial ” ). her, and she dS§| interior and immediate intuitive vision which the Spirit, in other words, is the eternal and universal intellectual world of to-day is only recently coming to know that the* process of becoming to b e; sometimes, in latent passive recognise, under various titles. Ouspensky calls it the [states, called Substance, sometimes in actual states of “ New or Third Organ,” using Bacon's terminology. i the fact that x kinetic work passing from states of undefined radiant Theosophists call it " Cosmic Consciousness.” N ew r and loved |§ expansion into lower states of existence in thought Thought Mental Scientists call it ” Superconsciousness,” | and they i S forms and things. as opposed to psychic subconsciousness. Mystics have circuit of a time process of energy r to enable Spirit is the flow in a always called it the ” Illuminated Vision.” Hindu into a space-area of substance or universal essence, and Yoga and Veda calls it ” Samadhi.” We Spiritualists t their [into those fields of tensed ethers we call consciousness, I aU | should know it as Spirituality, since it is the intelligence manifesting therein a multiplicity of qualities at a which constitutes us as Spiritualists. Then perhaps we n B | 8 9 linultipiicity of points. Such points appear, into existence, shall no longer be subjected to the gibe that ” the very nvey ° ' r L < las individual seed-germs, expanding their special nature last thing Spiritualists know or show is— Spirituality.” i l l by growth in cells, tissues, organisms. Now we know what it is that we are called upon to THE UNIVERSAL COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS. develop we can set more readily about the task. Over aU this process of the | glory o f going on and Spirituality is a new form of intelligence differing becoming to be,” this going out for experience or function, diametrically from intellectuality. It is a new form of and this returning home for rest and recuperation, the subjective awareness that alone can make us conscious universal Cosmic Consciousness is brooding as an of the working of the Divine Life and intelligence through immanence of celestial love and wisdom. us. The more we can recognise the Divine in us the ¿si **d In short, Spirit includes all we call life-consciousness, more we can call upon it and employ it. It pays to get m 1 and all we call nature. Coleridge described thin view ourselves on to the central cosmic power station and, M l of life as Spirit in the words by knowing it, short circuit with it. It will increase our IS iB I 150 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. July, 1931, potential, and keep the storage batteries of our organic single eye, and distinguishes only the good or perf^i 1 system constantly replenished. Intellectuality cognises by seeing itself as distinct fro» the thing; Spirituality by becoming one and identical b y R. H. SPIRITUALITY versus INTELLECTUALITY. with the object—so that subject and object beconnt identical—the energy in you and in otherness coming Thé following art Let us therefore examine this spiritual mode of from the same fountain head. Intellectuality knows by N i n e t e e n t h CentuS intelligence recently beginning to be recognised in the ideas, perceived by thought; Spirituality knows by it is a reasoned r e p l West, but long known to adepts in the East. To begin sensing as a conviction or impulse, and perceives by enemy o f S p iritu a lis m with we must particularly note that the light that feeling or by the heart. Intellectuality reaches is respectable pages. Spirituality lends for vision is at the exact opposite pole conclusion by a slow process of comparison and thought • to that given by Intellectuality. It rests on an opposite Spirituality cognises in a flash by immediate knowledge' HE witch-doc scale of balance. Therefore in exact proportion one like when you affirm " I am, I exist, I live.” You do not their diabolic disappears the other appears. If one goes up the other need to reason or argue about it. You know and yon T men and won goes down. know you know. The one pole, however, in a flow of energy, or on a Intellectuality cognises a thing by a long sequence o| part in the mediu rotating field, is ever passing into the other; and so impressions requiring time and space. Spirituality whose great aim in it is that in the field of consciousness in each of us cognises the whole of detailed vision in one focal point, by fair means or Intellectuality is constantly passing into Spirituality, like the pin-point in a camera obscura. What it has of this obsession in and vice versa, but we are not aware of it any more than cognised comes as a sudden conviction and we require we are aware of the rotating positions of the axis of our to bring it out into the intellectual light, and let it throw appearing in the earth. its ray reflected on a screen before the normal intellectual Century, where the If we stop thinking in words or things or pictures for self can make use of the knowledge acquired. search of records of a moment, the spiritual awareness starts and we realise The art of developing Spirituality therefore is the art When criticism of ] life. If we sleep and the intellect is silent, we realise of suppressing temporarily our Intellectuality. But here by a sincere sceptic u our Spirit more fully and when we return to intellect we is just where the difficulty lies. It is not easy to stop its truth or otherwise, lose that realisation. thinking in words and thoughts. I propose therefore some time in travers: The two forms of awareness are very different, and so in other articles to reveal the secret that various schools this travesty of Spiriti can be easily distinguished by anyone after practice. of adepts and mystics have professed to have discovered dissection of the many Intellectuality sees by double vision. It recognises a which may help us to master this difficulty. I will begin statements the article thing or a quality by recognising at the same time its next month with the ” Process of Spiritualist Develop­ importance its verbiage opposite. It sees good and evil. Spirituality sees with ment known historically as the Quietist.” fourteen pages of gross and barbed by bitter unacquainted with the Faith and Patience in Mediumship. permitted. The writer's indictm« B y “ HEATHER B.”, Author of “ Light on the Foothills,” etc. second-hand and tainte OW very impatient we must appear to our inwardly a polished mirror to reflect the Spirit of the is from personal expei form of psychic phenon Guides and Friends in the Beyond, for to Christ, and have been developing and practising in yom daily life the “ Gifts of the Spirit ” ; all unknown to classed with Spintualisn H them life is not measured and ruled by time yourself you are throwing out a light, which radiate Mention is made of " as with us. We will hope that they remember around you, and it is visible to those on the Other Side. they ? No names are ] how the span of our earth-life is limited, and so You have been building into your etheric double qualfta known ” medium could Five pages are actually forgive us this impatience— our wish to attain and powers that are shining in your aura, spreading about you an atmosphere that impregnates all yom produced by " cracking quickly. surroundings. You are a spiritual medium attract^ miter states, no psychics I am speaking of Spiritual Attainment, in those Higher Ones in the Beyond, who need every quality t&ese phenomena in his which we feel that our progress is so slow and of medium to help mankind. Probably they have beet mediumship these raps | from the sensitive, and our retrogressions so many and frequent ! Yet watching and guarding your spiritual development with loving care. It is not by accident or chance that souk same moment of time am there is no doubt that every form of impatience in trouble have been brought into touch with you, and amount of acrobatic woi hinders progress. Growth cannot be hurried; that you maybe have been instrumental in making the and Anger joint ” theory it is under the great scheme of creation, and is flowers to bloom in the gardens of some lonely hearts. It is the sheerest nor Talk to your Guides and Invisible Helpers. You may these crudities, or by the regulated by spiritual law which is timeless. not see them in any outward form, but you will sense though both, when prodi Perhaps this impatience is implanted in human their nearness. You will feel their influence, and as yw of proving that a force e nature to counteract its opposite, apathy and offer yourself for service and consecrate your life with O’DONNELL “ H EL indolence, and to prompt man to “ work while noble purpose, most surely | They ” will give you valuable work to do. Thus you are a spiritual medium of a high But with our high-gra it is yet day ! ” and, like all virtues, is only a order. You are of inestimable worth to | Those ’’ who Mrs. Roberts Johnson, fault when carried to excess. are guiding the destinies of Man under the Great Ruler Mr. Maskell—you get not But there is no doubt that impatience does hinder of all. of using half-baked meet the very object we have in view, especially in the matter for fraudulent ones, the of prayer, and also in any effort made to get into touch this type, there would ha with those on the other side of the veil. We are inclined that is if the desire to to expect instantaneous answers to our prayers, and so doubtful if such a desire O’Donnell himself helped fail in patient waiting and steady expectancy, both THANKSGIVING. ] necessary conditions. rapping, and with fraud ii Faith and patience are essential to a receptive attitude can such an attitude resul Thank God for life ; in Springtime, when the head The friend of the writ« in all our dealings with the Spiritual and the Unseen ; of whom so much is writ impatience frustrates our desire to get nearer; it closes Is full of hope, and every life is part trickster in more senses t the doors of approach. Of Nature’s orchestra, whose joyous lay As an example of what great faith and patience is being a " psychic expert, Of ecstasy, resounding, greets the day. A B C of the subject. Soi needed in developing mediumship of a high quality, in a public hall to produce I will cite the case of two ladies to whom I was introduced means he liked, a recogni not long ago, and with whom I was privileged to have Thank God for Summer, in whose smiling face of mine who had passed aw. a sitting. They told me that it had taken them five Shines victory and achievement, in the race years sitting twice a week to get the Direct Voice in a from the platform, but ait red light. Their guides would not be satisfied with From nascent bud to glorious full-blown pride Yet every week Mr. Hope, anything less than that they both should remain normal O f love and life— completed, satisfied— Brothers, all possessed of ti and sit in a dim light. Just think of the faith and patience ?ocure such photos on pla mto the camera by the sitt« required for two separate individuals to persevere for T o tread with slower steps towards Autumn days. five long years before having proof that their patience Let us see what Elliott would have its reward ! They, of course, were receiving When leaves are falling ; memories golden rays “ Umpet mediumship, a j help and direction and encouragement from their guides Lie scattered round in brown or crimson leaf; knows far less of thai all the time, as do all those who endeavour to co-operate And who shall think of death, or loss, or grief? *®usement of psychic ra with their unseen Helpers. Alas, there are many faint l18 operated by wireless. hearts who fail in attainment by failing in faith and solatii Or dread the Winter ? in whose bosom deep °u When it is remen patience. S? I*** iQ operation sona These words may perhaps come under the notice The latent germ of life shall only sleep te *uown. and that ventri of one who deplores having no psychic gifts. You may For one brief hour, until the Immortal Breath Vj ‘krkness. think you are not at all mediumistic. Grieve not on O f Spring wakes, leaps, triumphs over death m m * fh V¥®. must nil« that account, for if you have been preparing your soul s thisPr» by silent communion with the divine on all planes, if you have striven to live and be both outwardly and S. FREAKLEY-BR11TA1N n iy hi J u ly , 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE 151 Urt A

s y Medium Hunting as Pursued To-day. B y R. H. SAUNDERS, Author of " Healing through Spirit Agency," etc. •cs The following article was sent to the Editor of the by sitters themselves and listen to the voices of the N i n e t e e n t h C e n t u r y , who declined to publish it, tho ugh so-called dead. Our good friends the sceptics are bowled i j n i * it is a reasoned reply to a vitriolic article by an avowed over there, day after day. Darkness is not essential v > * enemy of Spiritualism, which had appeared in his usually for trumpet mediumship, although spirit voices are respectable pages. stronger when the light rays are excluded. It is forgotten ^ s lH E witch-doctors of the African jungle with by our critics that it is of little moment what theories their mental gymnastics suggest to account for the t' «%, I their diabolical “ smelling out ” of innocent voices; it is not the voices themselves that produce P % r-« T men and women have their modern counter­ evidence, but the nature of the communications. part in the medium hunter of the present day, HONESTY OF MEDIUMS. •*at , whose great aim in life is to discredit Spiritualism £ Mrs. Wriedt, as well known in England as in the U.S.A., W . **0 by fair means or foul. We get an illustration has during Afty years given 10,000 sittings, at which of this obsession in the article by Elliott O'Donnell 100,000 people have attended, and no shadow of suspicion s o appearing in the May issue of the Nineteenth has ever rested upon her mediumship, nor upon that of Century, where the writer goes back to 1848 in the other sensitives I ’ve mentioned, who have satisAed O the keenest intellects in the world, and brought evidence K search of records of lapses with mediums. and satisfaction to unnumbered thousands. to S When criticism of psychic phenomena is undertaken To compare the feeble experiences of Elliott O’Donnell, * « 0 by a sincere sceptic who is really desirous to ascertain who has the temerity to pose as an investigator of flou its truth or otherwise, it may be worth while devoting 8< Spiritualism, is like comparing a rushlight to a powerful o some time in traversing the arguments seriatim , but electric beam. I this travesty of Spiritualism is so absurd that a serious We are also informed that the Spheres are ” overrun dissection of the many absolutely untrue and half-true with would-be wits and braggarts, chiefly concerned in b* D&<*% statements the article contains would endow it with an consuming cocktails and brandies.” Can the writer importance its verbiage in no way deserves. And yet as really believe such stuff ? I f so, such credulity far fourteen pages of gross mis-statements, bora of ignorance transcends any that may be shown at seances. Sheer and barbed by bitter* prejudice may influence some ignorance alone is responsible for such fustian. unacquainted with the subject, a brief reply should be The dipsomaniac who passes over is in no way changed permitted. by the transition, except that he has lost his physical tc. The writer’s indictment has been mostly drawn from body. His mental and moral equipment, whatever it second-hand and tainted sources, and what little there may be, is precisely as it was. He awakes in the Spheres Spirit of y is from personal experience is limited to the crudest with that burning desire for drink that obsessed him *“ ng ia y j form of psychic phenomena, and no more entitled to be when on earth, and sensible spirit doctors know well how unknown J classed with Spiritualism than jazz is with Mozart. to deal with these unfortunate souls, and wean them from (rich ndgy Mention is made of " well-known mediums ”— who are desire for alcohol. They impress them with the belief * Other Sat j they ? No names are given, for the reason no ” well- that they are consuming it, until the craving gradually ibl< ^utfat known ” medium could be responsible for such rubbish. dies out. And because we get a reference here and there a. *pns Five pages are actually devoted to " raps,” and whether on rare occasions to this longing, our critics are pleased fees all produced by ” cracking toe or Anger joints,” as the to enlarge it into a sort of ” alcohol on tap ” in I attr «liter states, no psychical researcher ever dreams of using the Spheres 1 very qi these phenomena in his investigations. Yet in genuine CONJURER’S IMITATIONS. y have mediumship these raps come twenty to thirty feet away That some of the phenomena can be to all appearance rpment from the sensitive, and in a dozen places at nearly the same moment of time and in daylight; and a considerable duplicated by conjurers no one disputes, though it is but ;e that f a fraction of what constitutes psychic phenomena, and ith you, amount of acrobatic work would be needed by the " toe and Anger joint ” theory I I have had many delightful hours when Maskelyne and makiag i It is the sheerest nonsense to judge Spiritualism by Cook were at the old Egyptian Hall. But what sane ely heart* I these crudities, or by the frivolity of tambourine tapping, person can compare a conjurer with a ton of apparatus, j. You «* though both, when produced genuinely, serve the purpose a stage with all sorts of gadgets and confederates, with jU wi« of proving that a force exists outside the normal. a medium who enters one’s own house, unknown to any and a* but the host, without an ounce of apparatus and in a few O’DONNELL “ HELPS ” THE PHENOMENA I ¿ur life minutes, with no preparation, generates psychic wonders, you vaJ® But with our high-grade mediums— like Mrs. Wriedt, enforcing conviction, and ranging from spirit photographs, Mrs. Roberts Johnson, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Garrett and spirit voices, materialisations or spirit lights ? utn it * Mr. Maskell— you get nothing of this kind, and if, instead Really, our friend the writer may take it that Tho*^ 1 8?| of using half-baked mediums, or raking the muck heap Spiritualists are far from the deluded asses they are Gre for fraudulent ones, the writer had experimented with assumed to be, but muster amongst themselves the this type, there would have been a different tale to tell— intelligentsia of the world. that is if the desire to record truly existed. One is Many pages are devoted to fraud, but is there any doubtful if such a desire is there, for we are told that subject, or work, into which fraud cannot enter ? The O’Donnell himself helped the ” phenomena ” along by records of crimes for which mediums have been success­ rapping, and with fraud in intention and execution, what fully arraigned are as white to black, and as one to a can such an attitude result in but dissatisfaction ? thousand, compared with those of which clergymen and The friend of the writer, the notorious Mr. Marriott, doctors have been convicted, yet the lapses of the medium of whom so much is written in adulation, has proved a provide copy greedily seized upon by journalists who, §§ trickster in more senses than one, and is very far from with leaded type, give a prominent position to the case. being a ” psychic expert,” being ignorant of the very It is overlooked that more fraudulent mediums have A B C of the subject. Some years ago I challenged him been exposed by Spiritualists themselves, who are more in a public hall to produce on a photographic plate by any concerned to keep their subject clean, than by outsiders, means he liked, a recognisable likeness of any relative yet the writer goes back eighty years for material, and of mini» who had passed away. He accepted the challenge though raking through records all these years can produce from the platform, but after the meeting he backed out. less than a dozen cases of proven trickery, and upon this I Yet every week Mr. Hope, Mrs. Deane, and the Falconer flimsy foundation wishes your readers to assume that Brothers, all possessed of the gift of supernormal pictures, phenomena are usually faked. In the absence of any secure such photos on plates bought, held, and loaded discovery of fraud we get such unworthy innuendoes as m into the camera by the sitters themselves. ” the medium could,” or ” the medium might,” have ■ Let us see what Elliott O'Donnell has to say about done so and so. W hat right has the writer to make trumpet mediumship, a phase of psychic phenomena any such assumption ? It was not found that it had i f he knows far less of than his stock "raps.” To the been done. amusement of psychic researchers we are told that Professor Ricliet is invoked to support the story. it is operated by wireless, or that ventriloquism is the It is an unfortunate selection, for after thirty years of \A ; solution. When it is remembered that trumpet medium- Psychical Research, he was so impressed with the truth W ship was in operation some Afty years before wireless of the facts of psychic phenomena that he termed them was known, and that ventriloquism breaks down utterly ” brutal facts.” r p darkness, we must rule these brilliant theories out. We are told, in quite a serious manner, that the writer Moreover, there is at this present moment a lady medium, ” never got raps in the least degree unearthly,” and as M*». Murphy Lydy, giving public sittings at the British raps can only be heard when contacting material jollege of Psychic Science, 15 Queen's Gate, in broad substances— be it a toe joint,” wood or metal—we are I or electric light, when the trumpet can be held left in doubt as to what an unearthly rap would sound like. 1 1 \ (^ kI y , m B THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 1 5 2 / * % 193|

THE Two days later, on Sunday, July 13, a 2 Memorial Service was held in the Albert mpf OUR International Psychic Gazette Of this our special correspondent truly wrote- A MONTHLY ® “ No man has ever before been so honoured by s 1 The Independent Monthly Organ of an immense gathering at a Memorial Service, p* Spiritualism and Psychical Research. celebrities of the stage, for famous artists in vari^ spheres, for the great soldiers and sailors of Britain f* A ll communications forth« Publishing, Editorial, or Advsr- dignitaries of the Church, and for the statesmen (T h ia C tising Departments should be addressed to— England, there have sometimes been hundreds, 2! sometimes a few thousands, paying homage to the* 69, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.CX memory in churches and cathedrals. But here were « least ten thousand people on a summer Sunday evenin' (and many more were unable to gain admission) T H E M A R had assembled to honour the Great Crusader—the Supreme Spiritualist.” Our Continental J and Recollection Lest We Forget ! The loving thoughts and emotions of this article this ntoi at Rouen, contth THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF SIR ARTHUR’S g re a t au d ien ce w ere b e a u tifu lly expressed eloquent tributes by Mr. George Craze, who became the sav PASSING. her visions and presided, th e R e v . G . V a le Owen, who has | ULY will ever be a memorable month in himself now joined the throng on the Other N our May nun J the history of Spiritualism. Side, the Rev. C. Drayton Thomas, Mr. Ernest I anniversary oi On July i, 1930, S ir A r t h u r Co n a n Oaten, and Mr. Hannen Swaffer ; and then Mrs. d’Arc, which D o y l e headed a deputation to the Home Estelle Roberts described m any deceased friends May 30, in the ( around an ornan Secretary pleading, as a very tired Warrior after she saw present with members of the audience, many exhausting campaigns, for civil and While doing so she suddenly broke off and looking B e — lit this tin religious freedom for Spiritualists and their over to Lady Conan Doyle, exclaimed, "Sir but with veneratio persecuted mediums. Arthur is here ! He is here ! " A little later To-day we can At 9.15 on the morning of July 7, he passed she went over to her Ladyship and said— “ I have homage that was r peacefully into the spiritual world, in the loving a message for you. Sir Arthur is here and he by England, Franc presence of his devoted family, at Windlesham, wants me to tell you ------." Here her voice a whole w e e k 's re Crowborough, Sussex. The news came to us dropped so that only Lady Doyle and her family throughout the o as a great shock on the shores of Picardy ; it heard the message, which was of a private nature. and this was exp was so unexpected that we had posted a holiday Lady Doyle afterwards stated that she was by the most dist letter to him only the night before. convinced that the message came from her personalities. Th( On July 11 his mortal remains were laid a few husband. Mrs. Roberts said she first saw Sir penetrated the hej feet in front of the garden hut in which he had Arthur during the two minutes’ silence, and that crowds who had created many of the immortal works which had when she was giving messages she saw him province, from Gi made him famous all over the world. That will distinctly and heard “ his fine clear voice, which far d is ta n t c o u n tr i ever remain a sacred spot, with its line of tall could not be mistaken.” This was the evidence We avowed Spi fir trees, standing as sentinels behind, and in for Sir Arthur’s speedy Return to show that he world can only b years to come may become a resort of pious was not dead, but as alive and loving as before. Spirit, rejoiced i pilgrimage for those who sincerely loved him It was a triumphant moment for Spiritualistic recognition of the ] and share his love for the cause of Spiritualistic T ru th . of the Maid of Truth, to which he devoted the last most And now a year has passed by. In the hearts of voyance an d . clai strenuous years of his life. The Daily Telegraph Spiritualists all over the world the memory of Sir Arthur her own day as t is as fresh and bright as ever. A scheme for erecting therefore experie correspondent present at the funeral wrote :— some permanent Memorial that would help to carry on his high ideals—some central home bearing his name witnessing — nori '* The burial this afternoon was simple and beautiful— Materialism whi intimately typical of the great, generous soul that had in which the Spiritualists of all nations visiting London passed. It was a Spiritualist funeral, and running might foregather and find a cordial fraternal welcome, thronging multit through the whole of the service was an insistence, not with a hall for meetings, a reading-room and library, of thousands to and a college of some sort for the development under only on the immortality of the spirit, but on the belief the same spiritua in its ability to return to the scenes in which its earthly pure spiritual conditions of psychic faculties, for which where Jeanne dV clay had lived, worked and loved. . . Two or three there is so great a need—such a Memorial has been hundred people were surrounding the lawn when the promoted and a Committee, including Lady Conan Doyle in 14 3 1. and members of her family, appointed to carry it out. coffin, covered with crimson roses, was borne out of the H E R SI ivy-clad house. . . . It was on a picture of singular Subscriptions have been received from grateful Spirit­ pastoral peacefulness that the sun blazed down." ualists in many countries, but it is right that it should Let us never de now be put on record that the scheme has been hampered of the grand spiri Sir Arthur's last words had been to his wife, from the very beginning by certain London leaders of the Movement who feared that such a Memorial might filled the Old M “ You are wonderful ! ” a sweet recompense for interfere with the pecuniary interests of their own marched in proce: all her love and devotion, and Lady Doyle’s flourishing Societies. A foolish dread and an ungrateful bridge where Jea own triumphant tribute to her husband's noble thought! for assuredly these Societies would to-day have into th e r iv e r fi life and glorious work for humanity was read been still struggling in a very small way but for Sir Arthur having lifted them, by his ardour, his personality, and proved to us wit] as part of the funeral service, as follows :— the lavish use of his own money, on to a more prosperous Spirit still lives “ Sir Arthur will continue his work for the spreading and dignified position in public esteem. A Conan Doyle manner loyally pi Central Home for Spiritualism, instead of being detri­ of this great knowledge which soothes the mourner’s a fo rm id a b le a r m heart, which proves immortality, and which will mental to their material interests, would, we believe, have be assembled, wl eventually alter the whole human outlook upon helped and strengthened them, while it consolidated the human affairs and so uplift the world. work which Sir Arthur did with such perfect disinterested­ Figure or an Ide; ness for the whole Movement. “ His great spirit will help all those who are trying noble ideal. It seems obvious that the scheme as at first adumbrated to open the people’s eyes to this God-given, God-sent must be considerably modified—not from lack of affection That is the coi knowledge. for our great leader, but on account of the foolish fears at Rouen, from t “ He is not dead, but living in a bigger, higher and of persons in a position of influence and authority in the tiie Jeanne d’Arc more wonderful vibration of Life, and able always Movement. We trust that many subscriptions will to come to this vibration. still flow in so that a worthy Memorial may be established that-striking c| “ God bless him for his beautiful and unselfish which will at least save Spiritualism from the reproach always taken pi, life, for his courage and fearlessness, for his never- of seeming meanness and ingratitude to one who deserved failing championship of justice, and for helping those better at their hands, and who now might well say. Omstun celebrat who were in need or in sorrow. in the words of the hymn :— e a r ly d a y s “ Never a thought of self touched his daily life. " I gave my life for thee. *0ngues of firey Q Never did a man more truly and faithfully walk What has thou given me ? ” in His Master’s footsteps.” first C h r is tia n A p ’ May J u ly , 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 153 ? OUR INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE: A MONTHLY RECORD OF SPIRITUALISTIC AND PSYCHIC HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT il THE WORLD, WITH SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. I B y MONSIEUR PASCAL FORTHUNY. A u (This Chronicle is Written in French, and is Translated into English by the Editor.) « SI The Jeanne d’Arc Celebrations at Rouen. .M! THE MARTYRED MEDIUM HONOURED BY THE WHOLE WORLD. Our Continental Editor, in lieu of his usual Chronicle its Hotel de Ville, completely restored after the great and Recollections, has thought it better to devote his fire which destroyed it on December 30, 1926. That article this month to the Jeanne d’Arc celebrations ancient municipal building has now recovered all its 1 at Rouen, commemorating how a very humble medium famous beauty. became the saviour of her country by obedience to But already the visitors were arriving at the Norman her visions and voices.—E d., I.P.G. capital, and the most cordial reception was given to the delegates of the Universities— of Oxford, Cambridge, l N our May number we announced the 500th New York, Montreal, Brussels, etc.— who had come to I anniversary of the martyrdom of Jeanne attend a historical and literary Congress in honour of I d’Arc, which was celebrated on Saturday, Jeanne d’Arc and of Normandy as it was in the fifteenth May 30, in the Old Market Place of Rouen, century. A t the Museum, a magnificent exhibition was opened around an ornamental marble block, with a on May 25, and here were to be seen letters actually signed flaifte—lit this time not with hate and cruelty by the Warrior Virgin, and original manuscripts of the but with veneration and love. Process and Act of Condemnation signed by the inhuman To-day we can affirm that it was a splendid Bishop Pierre Cauchon, along with the pastoral ring and cross of that prelate. homage that was rendered to the Lorraine virgin, by England, France, and the entire world, during A FLICKERING SACRED FLAME. In the evening, at the very spot where Jeanne was a whole week’s rejoicings. There was apparent burnt, a little marble monument in the form of an urn throughout the celebrations a holy solemnity, was unveiled, when the Mayor lit a flickering sacred and this was expressed in discourses delivered flame, similar to that which is kept alight in honour of by the most distinguished religious and civic the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. That picturesque ceremony was repeated on the following days. personalities. The feeling of awe and adoration The organisers of the fêtes seemed to think that a sort penetrated the hearts and souls of the immense of military procession would be appropriate, and it took crowds who had assembled from every French place that day. We recognised its pomp, but thought province, from Great Britain, and from many it more of a popular distraction than a suitable tribute to the gentle Lily of France. That might have been far distant countries. omitted without the programme losing anything of its We avowed Spiritualists, who know that the magnificence. %, world can only be saved by the power of the A young girl, on horseback, carrying a banner in the liâ t tel i l Spirit, rejoiced at this triumphant universal breeze, represented the Maid of Orleans. There were before] recognition of the pure and superlative spirituality also representatives of the Gauls and Franks of old, aalisttj Normans of Rollo’s time, French chevaliers, German of the Maid of France, whose inspired clair­ horse and foot, and even soldiers of Napoleon l I t was % voyance and. clairaudience were condemned in a little too much, and at that moment it struck me that B °!j her own day as the work of the Evil One. We the Spiritualistic character of the fêtes was forgotten. - %GeA-rth^l therefore experienced a profound pleasure in But that is a fleeting criticism, for on the 26th and 27th e r e c m the Spirit resumed all its rights, when in a very beautiful K)kk witnessing — notwithstanding the soul-less I •« ci musical concert cantatas were heard which lifted the Materialism which poisons our epoch—the thoughts of all towards the serenity of the Spheres. iS oir Ir ^ter thronging multitudes, who came in hundreds The British personalities already at Rouen included B of thousands to rejoice together, while voicing Lady Douglas Haig, widow of the Commander-in-Chief Ihavt of the British army, the Mayors of Hastings and Bristol, ifldhç the same spiritual thought in front of the stake and the British Consul at Rouen, who were officially where Jeanne d’Arc gave her life for the Truth received by the Municipality of Rouen on May 28, the ■ voice family cfreets being brightly illuminated in the evening. 5 Si in I431- laturé.Ptffl HER SPIRIT STILL LIVES. ENGLAND’S ACT OF REPARATION. Cardinal Bourne, of Westminster Cathedral, the Roman e was] Let us never despair then of the final triumph >'f*i Catholic Primate of England, was warmly welcomed next of the grand spiritual verities ! The people who ■ta her day, the 29th, by an immense crowd. This was the iw Sirl filled the Old Market Place on May 30, and first time since the Reformation that an English Cardinal » d tha* marched in procession to throw flowers over the had been sent as a legate by the Pope. The Cardinal m bridge where Jeanne’s ashes had been dropped said :— " I am at Rouen to repair what the English soldiery I N himj did 500 years ago. The English are always ready to into the river five hundred years ago, have whichln admit their errors when they see them, and all now see ¡ 9 proved to us with invincible certitude that her that they committed a great injustice to Jeanne d’Arc. Spirit still lives in our midst, and that, in a The entire English people associate themselves with me ■ manner loyally proclaimed or secretly admitted, in this act of homage and reparation." A member of the French clergy replied to this :— “ Your presence '^j A\ a formidable army of Spiritualists at heart can proves that the English nation is a noble nation, which m m be assembled, wherever it can rally around a places righteousness and truth above everything." Figure or an Idea which perfectly expresses its At nightfall, an immense Lorraine Cross, covered by a white veil, was illuminated at the spot in the Seine where noble ideal. the ashes of Saint Joan had been thrown over. And That is the comforting observation we made later there was a watch-night service poignant with at Rouen, from the first annual celebrations of prayer and devotion. the Jeanne d’Arc fêtes. And we remember also But it was on Saturday, the 30th May— the actual m m anniversary date—that the principal ceremonies were that—striking coincidence—these fêtes have held. Around the golden mosaic which marks the spot always taken place at the same time as the of the martyrdom, school children under fluttering flags Christian celebrations of the Pentecost, recalling sang a vibrant hymn to Jeanne. A beautiful statue of those early days when the Spirit descended in the heroine stood up out of a parterre of blue and white tongues of fire and rested on the heads of the flowers. The symbolic flame nickered above its marble amphore. Every house around the square was beflaggcd. first Christian Apostles. anu the people crowded close together in the square, On May 24, just before the great days of this 500th and filled the windows, the housetop*, and the streets anniversary celebration, the d ty of Rouen had re-opened of approach. ¡09* 154 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE Jn/y, 1931.

Ob a high platform were grouped the English Mayors, ancestors having realised it, Jeanne d’Arc rendered in their scarlet robes and three-cornered hats, with possible and permanent our national independence ¡ i , » « j* Mack plumes ; the English ambassador. Lord Tyrrell ; She evidently preserves a providential role to-day. sixty-esght Archbishops, with Cardinal Bourne at their Her mission reminds us God is never disinterested head ; many Ministers of France ; and a distinguished in the fate of His creatures. Always, when necessary delegation from the French Academy. He chooses His instruments. While the liberty of of Jeanne d ^ mankind is ever respected the will of God is acconj. happiness in set JEANNE D’ARC AND PEACE. plished in the government of the world. I speak Many discourses were delivered, loud-speakers carrying in the name of all those in England who believe in them audibly to the uttermost limits of the crowd. the divine justice. Let us pray that Jeanne may M. Gabriel Hanotaux, the Academician, clearly stressed guide and help us in our needs of the present moment the fact of Jeanne d'Arc's spiritual presence in their Jeanne d’Arc, pray for France ; pray for England I ’■ ” I desire ral midst He said :— captive in C re ** To-day, after 500 years, a multitude is here A GREAT PROCESSION. Rouen, The I assembled— French, English, Armagnacs, Bur­ May 31 was the day of a great procession and further the most dire« gundians, soldiers, clerks, men, women, children, religious ceremonies. The procession represented the river which is < natives, and foreigners. All have their eyes fixed entry of Charles VII into the city of Rouen in November, the district of on the spot where Jeanne stood. All see her, for 1449. The retinue included heralds, archers, lords in for my conduct she is in our midst. Her life continues. Many, armour, and prancing horses, caparisoned in azure blue, might come to many have come from the other side of the Channel. sprinkled with golden fleur-de-lis. The king was sur­ ” I was ill wi When this great English people, who fought at our rounded by his pages, wearing golden raiment, helmets and was again side from 1914 to 191S, brings to us so faithful a and gauntlets, and he was accompanied by sixty burgesses when I arrived testimony, when we see at Rouen the Ambassador of Rouen and twenty noblemen, followed by their valets. Eve, and noton < of His Britannic Majesty, how can we fail to bow And one saw again the graceful representative of Jeanne " There were before so noble a participation ! And how can the d’Arc in the midst of two hundred standards, a resuscitated determined to whole of France fail to be moved to the very depth Jeanne, with her long hair streaming in the wind. The mistook their v of its heart, by this ¿lan of England who comes to procession took two hours to pass. At that time the her with hands outstretched ? To-day there is Till late in the evening the French Marseillaise and " My guards sealed, on the spot of the stake, the union of the two English ” God Save the King ” were being equally sung We did not sti peoples who have fought together against war. in the streets. after arriving 1 Jeanne d’Arc is present at this pact of fraternal These songs of joy succeeded the chimes of all the out, only to rei friendship.” bells in Rouen, which had on the 30th all chanted Castle that I sic HER PRODIGIOUS ACTIONS. harmoniously at mid-day—the approximate hour of " We entered Jeanne’s sacrifice. They rang out joyfully, not with There were no n M. Leon Berard, the Minister of Justice, also spoke any sad cadence as if to commemorate the dead, but in terms of the loftiest Spiritualism. He recalled the with a sprightly gaiety, as if to announce the triumphant did not go to the historian Michelet's description of May 30, 1431, as *‘ the resurrection of Jeanne, still alive in the highest spheres, ” On the whe most august day which has ever dawned on the world but often in touch with our own. me. The Engli since the day of Golgotha,” and had then said :— Jeanne d'Arc ai " Everything belongs to the marvellous in the JEANNE AS FORERUNNER OF SPIRITUALISM. preserved a gre history of Jeanne d'Arc. She disconcerts and The month of May, 1931, will rank as a period of one of them, in discourages the most intrepid persons who make; a exceptional spiritual and sentimental importance in the on my horse, sai profession of explaining everything. In vain we history of the fraternal relations between Great Britain " I will scarcely attempt to apply to this young girl the scientific and France. The month of May was precisely Jeanns you are taken, methods which aid us in fixing the principal traits d’Arc’s own month. It was in May when the homely but I looked at of a character We are far from understanding how shepherdess first heard her ” voices,” sounding pure and went away.” she received her genius and inspiration. By what sparkling as the clinking of a sacred sword. It was in influence did this uneducated shepherdess secure May she delivered Orleans, that heart and lily of France. her recognition as Commander-in-Chief during the It was in May she was captured at Compiegne, in front war by the soldiers ? To make her elogy, one must of the closed gates. It was in May she climbed on the first discern in her everything that surpasses our­ block and left in her ashes her heart intact. A FAMILY MI selves, in her prodigious actions and in her progression Jeanne d’Arc is Springtime in the history of France. C towards immortality. The voices she heard gave a She is also the forerunner of modern Spiritualism, and voice to the soul of her country. The people of it is that which all the Spiritualists who came to the T h e S u s s e x C o France love in her a perfect example of spiritual fêtes at Rouen should remember above all. While following accoun patriotism, an example ever alive.” Great Britain proposes to erect some suitable edifice to been erected by And the Minister concluded with an ardent appeal preserve the noble memory of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, for peace among men :— Spiritualism’s Chief Apostle in the twentieth century, in the Windlesha ” May the cult of Jeanne d’Arc,” he said, ” inspire France is preparing to build a chapel to the perpetual A beautiful fami us with sentiments in harmony with this ideal. May honour of Jeanne d’Arc on that tragic spot in the Market Conan Doyle has bt she help us to accomplish our supreme ambition, Place of Rouen, where she sealed her testimony with of the grave, which which is to consecrate our heritage of culture and her life in the fifteenth. of the garden at Wi civilisation to the advancement of the Spirit and In 1890, Cardinal Manning and Cardinal Newman The memorial is the well-being of humanity.” invoked Pope Leo X III to inscribe Jeanne asa" Servant accordance with L; THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR. of God ” in the family of Saints, and this honour was It represents the t later accorded by Pope Benoit XV. Lord Tyrrell in his discourse founded his declarations casting light and 1 on the authority of the famous Scottish author, Andrew JEANNE AND SIR A. CONAN DOYLE. there are a sword ai Lang. ” Before leaving Paris,” he said, “ I read anew In due time history will do similar justice I feel certain to express the sigi the admirable work on ‘ La Puce lie de France * by my to the imperishable memory of the noble soul who and the latter, ligh compatriot, Andrew Lang. I have re-read his story of sacrificed lus life, reputation and treasure in spreading traying the two en the trial of your heroine, finishing with her condemnation the comforting Light of Spiritualism even to the uttermost Arthur Conan Doyle by the Bishop of Beauvais, and I remarked with pleasure parts of the earth. J eanne and Sir Arthur are two great of life into everyor the passage in which Andrew Lang narrates that many landmarks of superlative nobility, linked by a span of respected. of the Canons of the city of Rouen were little disposed five centuries, who will rank together in all future An open book is to condemn Jeanne d'Arc.” Spiritualistic history. of Sir Arthur's lite and delicate leaves ] As one might easily suppose, the ceremony of May 30 A MESSAGE THROUGH A MEDIUM. at the Cathedral was of an extraordinary magnificence. to the author's worn I have received a message, which a mediumistic friend Immediately bene Cardinal Bourne spoke with a noble eloquence in the of mine in Rouen has received professedly from Jeanne purest French. steel true,” these ” We commemorate,” he said, ” the death of d’Arc. Is it in reality from her ? I might be deemed character. The dab Jeanne d’Arc, who was so sadly afflicted and imprudent to affirm it, but I think it merits to be repro­ Sir Arthur are engra abandoned, and who shines so glorious and duced here, for it is not like many other spirit messages- The late Sir Arthi triumphant in the perspective of these five centuries. vague, limited to generalities, and giving counsel full of °f his death was a pc We all bow before this marvellous figure.” charity. This particular message was obtained by automatic writing, and is of interest because it states mto a beautiful gai A BENEFACTRESS OF ENGLAND. facts with positive precision on a series of historical Doyle, where now a The orator then showed in a manner new and details which have still remained unknown, in spite of emulate an atmospl remarkable, which made a great impression, how Jeanne all the researches learned men have made. It expiaras d’Arc had been a veritable benefactress of England. an enigma hitherto indecipherable. No one has ever “ Before she appeared,” said his Eminence, ” our known by what roads Jeanne, as prisoner, was conducted country was too much tied to the destinies of France. from the castle of Crotoy to Rouen, where she was to ead England, free and independent under the Saxon her terrestrial life. In this message, the heroine—if it kings, had been made too tribu tory to continental be she—describes the route she travelled, and that is bo influences by the Norman conquest, and too sub­ ordinary message, as anyone can perceive. I put it on ordinate to French Feudalism. And so, without our record, so that it may perhaps be confirmed (of J o ly . 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 155

contradicted) by the future discovery of documents in This message may have come straight from the heart the old archives still unknown. of Jeanne d’Arc, and there is no great wisdom in ignoring that possibility. It would be truly tragical if the glorified JEANNE’S JOURNEY FROM CROTOY TO Jeanne to-day was compelled to say, " I spoke to you and ROUEN. ye would not listen ; I revealed to you my living presence Here is the te x t:— but you only doubted." I will not speak of my happiness, the happiness of Jeanne d'Arc to-day, the 30th of May— my HEAVEN’S OWN MESSENGER. happiness in seeing the English and French embracing Now that the grand ceremonies of Jeanne d’Arc’s each other as brothers, over the ashes of my wooden 500th anniversary are over, permit me to point a moral. stake of sacrifice. This happiness you feel, since I seemed to feel that the imperishable soul of the Maid you share it in your hearts. was inspiring and presiding over the entire fêtes, and “ I desire rather to think of the days when 1 was hence their beautiful unbroken harmony. What she said captive in Crotoy and when I was conveyed to to our hearts and consciences on that great day of days Rouen. The English led me by the route almost was wise counsel from the Beyond, exhortations to the most direct. In setting out we crossed the mutual kindness and to peaceful accords between all river which is called the Somme, and we left behind peoples. Jeanne d’Arc, during these beautiful days, was the district of Saint Valery. 1 was well guarded, truly hovering over Rouen, Europe, and the world, as for my conductors were afraid that ‘ those of France ’ heaven’s own messenger of peace, as the inspirer of might come to deliver me. fruitful work for the security of to-morrow. This Warrior " I was ill with fever one night in the town of Eu, Maid— the sole Saint who ever gave herself to military and was again ill in that of Dieppe. 1 was cured service— wished more than ever to give us the horror of when I arrived at Rouen, the day before Christmas war and the love of concord. Let us listen then, for her « Eve, and not on Christmas Eve as has been always said. thought comes from the highest heavens. The admirable * ** There were companies of Frenchmen who were spectacles at Rouen would have had little meaning, determined to recover me from the English. They would have been mere useless demonstrations, if now It mistook their way, and were not able to meet me. the instruction of the saintly heroine did not impregnate . At that time there were in France only 11,000 English. the souls of all peoples, and if they did not give to the " My guards did not wish to traverse the forests. Sovereign Spirit the supreme place it ought to hold in i* We did not stop at Arques more than two hours human affairs. In order that this place may be more after arriving there; then in the evening we set and more assured, we must believe in the All-Powerful of out, only to return immediately, and it was in the and recognise the essential role it plays in the accomplish­ *tfc Castle that 1 slept that night. ment of humanity's high destiny. And of this recognition, ten " We entered Rouen by the * Faubourg Cauchoise.* Spiritualism must make new conquests, more and more act There were no more than 600 English in that city. We enlarged over all the earth. tn, did not go to the district of Caudebec, as has been said. It is towards that final victory that we must all work " On the whole route the people did not recognise henceforth with redoubled ardour, stirred to a real living me. The English did not say that they had taken apostlcship by the grandeur of the Apotheosis of Jeanne Jeanne d'Arc and were leading her to Rouen. They d'Arc in May, 193t. preserved a great secrecy and mystery. At Arques PASCAL FORTHUNY. one of them, in giving me to drink, as I was bound on my horse, said mockingly : * You have announced, ” I will scarcely last more than a year." And now Note.— Communications for our Continental Editor you are taken.' Other men around him laughed, should be addressed to Monsieur Pascal Forthuny, but I looked at them so direct in the eyes that they 10 Avenue Frédéric Forthuny, Montmorency, Seine et went away." Oise, France.

A FAMILY MEMORIAL TO SIR ARTHUR ANCIENT ROMAN SPIRITUALISM. CONAN DOYLE. Cic ero , the famous Roman orator, who died forty years before Jesus of Nazareth was born, T h e Sussex County Herald of June 5 gives the following account of a memorial which has just wrote :— " O glorious day, when I shall retire from this low been erected by Lady Conan Doyle and family and sordid scene, to associate with the divine assembly in the Windlesham garden :— of departed spirits; and not with those only whom A beautiful family memorial to the late Sir Arthur I just now mentioned, but with my dear Cato, that best Conan Doyle has been erected by the family at the head of sons and most valuable of men I of the grave, which is situated at the north-east portion " It was my sad fate to lay his body on the funeral of the garden at Windlesham, Crowborough. pile, when by the course of nature I had reason to hope The memorial is of oak, and has been fashioned in he would have performed the same last office to mine. accordance with Lady Conan Doyle’s personal design. His soul, however, did not desert me, but still looked It represents the sun rising out of the darkness and back on me in its flight to those happy mansions, to casting light and comfort to the world. Underneath which he was assured I should one day follow him. there are a sword and a torch, the former being intended " If I seemed to bear his death with fortitude, it was to express the significance of power and knowledge; by no means that I did not most sensibly feel the loss and the latter, light and comfort. The object of por­ I had sustained; it was because I supported myself traying the two emblems is to perpetuate the late Sir with the consoling reflection that we could not long be Arthur Conan Doyle’s desire to instil the essential qualities separated.” of life into everyone, and for which he was so highly BERNARD SHAW’S INFLUENCE. respected. Mr . A. P o r te r , Tattenhall, Wolverhampton, An open book is placed in the centre in remembrance of Sir Arthur’s literary genius, while clusters of long writing in the Daily Express, says :— and delicate leaves which encircle the book are a tribute " As a young man I fell under the glamour of Bernard to the author's wonderful mind. Shaw's verbal jugglery, and would posture before my Immediately beneath are the words “ Blade straight, friends with characteristic Shavian effrontery. steel true," these being meant to memorialise his “ Of course, as one gets older the hollowness of it all character. The date of the birth and death of the late soon becomes apparent. But it is an influence for ill, Sir Arthur are engraved at the foot of the memorial. and should be carefully guarded against." The late Sir Arthur's resting place, which at the time at his death was a portion of a meadow, has been changed T he British Spiritualists' Lyceum Union held its into a beautiful garden by the loving efforts of Lady 42nd Annual Conference at Barrow-in-Furness on May 23 Doyle, where now a profusion of flowers scent the air and and 24, 1931, when Mrs. J. Reynolds presided, and emulate an atmosphere of sacred peace. acknowledged the Civic Welcome. It was reported that 1,032 students sat at the annual examinations under ffi s s the education scheme. The officers for 1931-32 are :— President, Miss E. Elliott; Vice-President, Mrs. J. Mas. G a r r e t t ' s B e n e f i t .— The Spiritualist Com­ Reynolds; Treasurer, Mr. W. Burrows; General Secre­ munity's special meeting at the Grotnan Hall for the tary, Mr. G. F. Knott. Mr. Knott and Mr. Connor were benefit erf Mrs. Garrett, produced a net total of ¿142. appointed delegates to the Triennial Congress of the Mm. Murphy Lydy and the Rev. Arthur Ford, the two International Spiritualist Federation at the Hague, when American mediums, generously gave their services to aid a paper will be read by Mr. A. T. Connor on " Lyceum their English confrere after her distressing illness. Education." J0W[ 136 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE July* 1931. The Church of Scotland’s Retrograde Step. REJECTION OF THE REV. W. A. REID’S PETITION. EN years ago the Church of Scotland made members, feeling that they are not welcome in their a sympathetic step forward towards Spirit­ own Church, are the main supports and leaders of Christian Spiritualistic churches or societies. A clear ¿fti* T ualistic Truth. At its General Assembly word from the General Assembly would retain these held in Edinburgh on May 23 it reversed the within the Church and bring the whole Church into *‘ lapsL t i cer A“ * f " '“'1 process and stepped backwards. It declined to closer harmony with the belief and practices of the by SK i f f h make any precise and definite statement that early disciples. Spirit communication and the exercise of spiritual Mr. Reid said that modern scientific methods of proof had put psychic phenomena beyond any human doubt. gifts as practised by Christ and His disciples, Their Lord had been seen and spoken to by more living is still a recognised part of the spiritual life and persons than were mentioned in the records, and thus the f i f t s k 2 <1'» activities of the Church. Bible had become for them an intensely vivid book. -Still (M 5* * " SZ chi*« The subject was brought before the assembly by the In that connection, the world demanded facts, and would The old c* not be satisfied by appeals to an institution, creed or dogma. Rev. W. A. Reid, M.A., of Glasgow, who eleven years ago o f her t was instrumental in the appointment of a Committee of Merely to accept a creed, any creed, was, at bottom, of A rc o j investigation into supernormal psychical phenomena by credulity and superstition and often, as they knew, led the Church. Mr. Reid, as “ one who had made careful to egotism and conceit. The early disciples would not rpYDFIL. .*! study of the subject for over twenty years, within and have believed without the facts. They had a plethora of testimony from people everywhere that they had got king J without the Church,” now humbly petitioned the General a m ia b le t Assembly that it should make some clear pronouncement the facts, and that spirits, so called, had been recognised which should hasten and welcome the revival of spirit by their writings, their voices, and from photographs, and had been handled and seen, as Jesus was in the Upper communion and the excercise of spiritual gifts within the father s oaru, Church. Room by his disciples. " I do hope I do not give offence to my brethren in the lightly and gra c Among the reasons he cited in support of his petition i were the following :— Assembly,” said Mr. Reid, '] with what I am about to the sward, anc say now. It is perfectly evident that the Church is seemed unhurt OUR LORD'S EXAMPLE. losing any power it had. Much of our Church activities— (1) According to Scripture discamate spirits are some would say two-thirds of our time—are taken up ” Oh, TycU influencing us whether we will or not, and our Lord with plays, dances, whist drives and various amuse­ How swii Himself was in constant communion with both good ments, which are pleasant and harmless enough, but W hiter t and evil spirits, and showed us how to protect our­ of inferior quality to those found outside. They only selves against the evil spirits, or save them, and how lower our prestige and loosen our influence. Most of So the bard had to profit by the good spirits. them must be dropped or they will fall from us like a simply worship] (2) Our Lord specially enjoined those who had worn-out garment. This is ail for our good. We are being celestial. spiritual gifts or capacities to use His method or way losing power that we may gain spiritual influence. We To the sacred in the exercise of them, so that they might be able to shall soon be as the early Church was, and it will be better do with His help even greater things than He had for us and better for the world." daily at sunrist been able to do while on earth. The Very Rev. Dr. White moved that the crave of the in deep reverie s PERSISTENT REPORTS OF PHENOMENA petition be refused. He said that while they had deep realms, aspiring (3) For a period the early disciples were obedient interest in the request of the petitioner and great sympathy truth. and the New Testament records that they healed the with him, he moved that the Assembly meantime should sick, cast out devils, saw visions, and received help consider it inadvisable to issue the statement and the THE SUN W and guidance from discamate intelligences. And pronouncement which the petitioner had asked for. In the grove a c through the centuries we have persistent reports of Mr. William Whitelaw seconded. which stately trees similar phenomena, including testimony that the The Very Rev. Dr. Norman Maclean said this was a the overspreading Master Himself had been seen and spoken to. matter which interested a vast multitude of people in point due east an \ fixed, and at the b (4) In recent years these same phenomena have Scotland. Anybody who had attended a lecture by the late Sir A. Conan Doyle, for example, would realise that an zontally resting up been circumstantially reported in religious circles ; This was the a and some branches of the Church have officially enormous number of people were interested in the ques­ tions involved. The question had also gathered round it worship. Here e\ revived the office of prophet, speaking with tongues, with gladsome soi and healing. The Church of England last year a great number of charlatans, and in order to deal with the charlatanry gathered round the subject, the Church at noon, the Chie: recognised faith healing as one of its activities. The and in the Eye of Rev. C. Drayton Thomas, the well-known psychic should shine on it the seachlight of intelligence and reason. researcher and writer, has received the special sanction He thought the Assembly would make a very great inspired verse, whi of the Methodist Conference to pursue these studies mistake if it dismissed this matter by merely referring to ence. Here, as th and preach them. Devil possession has been reported reports which appeared in the year 1921. There had the darkening earl as fact in the Church magazine, Life and Work. been a tremendous advance in the knowledge of this containing a sure Since 1920, the scientific proofs of Bible psychic subject in the last ten years. He moved that the General be prophets, orat< phenomena have so accumulated as to convince people Assembly receive the petition and appoint a small special best on these occ of the highest intelligence, within and without the committee to consider the general question and to report thdr several abilit Church. Can our Church be silent ? to the next General Assembly. To these people DIVINE HEALING. The Rev. Alexander Spark, Glasgow, seconded. Intelligence or Ins and the Earth th< (5) An increasing number of our ministers and of The Very Rev. Dr. Paterson said that this was a subject of capital importance both on the theoretical and practical they reverencec our faithful laity have got what they consider ample because of all Dh proof of human survival, just as the early disciples side. There seemed to be a very considerable body of got of the survival of their friend, Jesus; and practise evidence to show that survival had been established. the A3“* and spirit communion to their own spiritual uplift, and in The conviction he had arrived at as the result of continued t * “ * on fune some cases to the uplift of the spirits in the darkness. investigation was that spirits did survive, but he did not Pl?Up? ble’ Some can give definite instances of Divine healing. think that those which survived were of a very high order. isith I v ? ' A l* ™ Many bear testimony that they have heard " the They were not devils. They were no worse than the everlasting Gospel preached by angels,” with marvel­ average University undergraduate, but in point of intelli­ B | and Power gence they were inferior both to the Oxford Don and lous completeness of detail. iQteriS \ ihew?eri< (6) What these ask is to be made part of the the Oxford undergraduate, although there might be ^ithdri *r° ubles, religious life of the Church they are so anxious to exceptions. in their for help. They ask a place for spirit communion within A vote was then taken, with the result that Dr. White’s G*rth Mat°hf his k the Church buildings—a little sacred corner, perhaps, motion was carried against that of Dr. Maclean by a where they may help to fulfil the promise of their substantial majority. 1 Lord—" Greater things shall ye do because I go to My Father." is; ffi s k^°b1*Umm« n K (7) In these days of pronounced indifference to < „ l e6n duly ch Christianity and to all other religions it is command- l « « ingly necessary that the facts and experiences of our OUR READERS’ TESTIMONIES. holy religion be proved anew for this generation. It A Lincoln's Inn Solicitor : ” I have read with much tJud^n. »h i is the duty of the Church to do so, else its candlestick admiration and interest your leading article on * Rogues loitered may be moved out of its place. and Vagabonds.' ” Wfi v^pproa •• rev MISTAKES OF THE PAST. A Lancashire Spiritualist : “ I have taken in the Psychic Gazette for many years. I use many of its articles (8) Our Church has made mistakes in this regard for my public work. The reason is that they are reliable. it ’ Tp?* * ** in the past. At this moment many of our faithful Also they are not to be found in any other paper." J u l y , 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 157

The Story of Ty dfil the Martyr it4ff By WILL CARLOS. The story of Tydfil, the Martyr-saint of Glamorgan, was ” It seemeth that the limitations of one’s mind confines communicated psychically to Mr. Carlos by Casedyn, the us to words which can express our general thoughts, but o ld Welsh Bard. It is one of the most poignant incidents (in the spiritual) some super-mind in us breaks from its t* W elsh history, but somehow it has been obscured by confines, and soars in the illimitable, then it is that words the lapse of time. fail us,” she continued. A ll that is certainly known is that Tydfil was decapitated " I have taught thee to seek in Plenydd (wisdom) for by some marauding heathens because she would not the highest truths, such as I could not communicate to renounce her faith, which was a blend of the Druidic thee— things that I have felt rather than heard or seen.” I« & faith with the Christian. ” I can understand thee now, Casedyn, but formerly I became impatient when thou didst vainly seek for words 'Vid ¿ S 1 It is said that from the spot on which her head fell there sprang a fountain of healing water, and certain it is that to gratify my insatiable greed for Truth.” St. Tydfil's Well was noted up to a century ago. Well " Did I not teach thee that Gwyron (service) and Alawn l » « 5 s Street still remains, but the well or fountain has vanished. (ardent love) were the only pathways to attain to The old church at Merthyr Tydfil was dedicated to her. Plenydd ” (fullness). ltÄ “ Thou didst, but I was puzzled about the service, for The name means— Tydfil the Martyr. She was the "Joan I conceived it meant some office in the grove, but now I t S k |fcoi o f A r c ” of her time. pletb) can perceive the deeper meaning— not mere formal service y had but absolute devotion, the surrender of self.” S« Y D F IL, the daughter of Brychan, illustrious ” I remember, too, that thou didst think that Love meant recognised F»phs,*ad king of Mathryn, was tender in years, the human variety of affection.” T amiable in mood, with certain mystic ” Aye, that I did, Casedyn, but now I well know that it Upper implies absolute abandonment to the Divine, to see in It tendencies which had been fostered by her the focus of our desires— the consummation of our highest hren in tike father’s bard, Casedyn. Always she walked as hopes, ‘ the harmonising of all the chords.’ ” a about to lightly and gracefully as though she glided over ' I am proud, my daughter, that thou hast achieved so Church u the sward, and the very flowers under her feet high a comprehension ; but thou wilt go further, I trow.” activities— seemed unhurt by her passing. He ceased speaking, realising that she was again lost e taken ap to the material sense, and he reverently waited for her to >us amuse- " Oh, Tydfil, sweet daughter of Brychan, speak. It was habitual, for she was not only his king’s lough, bat H ow sw ift were th y feet on the heather. child, but was becoming something more, because now They only Whiter than blossoms of lilies.” indeed she was a daughter of the Divine. Most oi So the bard had sung, and the roughest warriors PREMONITIONS OF HER DESTINY. a us like a simply worshipped her as though she were a Presently she came back to earth, and she spoke, her 1. We are voice low, her manner sybil-like. " Casedyn,” cried she, uence. We being celestial. "I have seen in the invisible a portent of evil. ' My love ill be better To the sacred grove near her home, she went and service are to be tested before I can aspire higher. daily at sunrise, noon and sunset, and there Pray thou for me, Casedyn, that I may be enabled to stand srave oi the in deep reverie sent out her soul into the spiritual the test, and prove my worthiness to enter Plenydd ” had deep realms, aspiring to drink deeply of spiritual (the state of Gwynfyd, white or pure world). sympathy ” W hat hast thou seen ?” Íme would truth. ” That I have to fight human love, and yield my life, i and the THE SUN WORSHIP OF THE DRUIDS. for the sake of Divine Love.” ed for. In the grove a circular space had been cleared, around ” Nay, nay, not that, my daughter; surely there is no which stately trees formed the pillars of the temple, and peril for thee ? ” ” The fiat hath gone forth, and I must abide by it, this was a the overspreading foliage made an effective roof. At a point due east an upright shaft of unhewn stone had been Casedyn, and do not thou endeavour to persuade me to people is the contrary. Farewell, I must retire to prepare for the [tins; by the fixed, and at the base of it another had been placed hori­ zontally resting upon tw o shorter ones. fray.” Llite that an As she moved away the old man’s eyes dwelt upon her the qws- This was the altar and the rostrum for the Druidic worship. Here every day the priest hailed the rising sun beauty and her grace, and he was unwilling to think that red round it a tragic death awaited her. x> deal with with gladsome songs of thanksgiving. Here, every day at noon, the Chief Druid stood in the Face of the Sun However, he hastened to his great friend Serenwr, the Church and in the E ye of Ligh t to deliver his message, mostly in Astrologer of the Court. and reason, inspired verse, while all the people stood in awe and rever­ “ Serenwr, hast thou perceived in the stars aught of the very great ence. Here, as the declining sun shot his last beams over destiny of Tydfil ?” referring to the darkening earth, the worshippers chanted a requiem, “ I have, Casedyn, and am troubled about communicat­ There had containing a surety of his re-arising. All who aspired to ing it to Brychan the king, for his soul is wrapped up in idge of this be prophets, orators, bards, or minstrels gave of their her. The Sun cometh to the conjoined Mars and Venus the General best on these occasions and were ranked according to during the coming year— an omen of love and tragedy, and jdl sped*! their several abilities it falls in the sign which heralded her birth.” 1 to «pod To these people Fire represented the Divine, Air the ” What is thy interpretation of it ?” Intelligence or Inspiration, Water the Psychic Faculties, ” That there will be a dawn of love, with tragic conse­ and the Earth the Material Life. quences.” They reverenced the Sun as the symbol of the Divine, ” She hath not yet known or felt love for a man, though because of all phenomena in Nature it was the most some of our noblest youths have made endeavour to awake constant and glorious. All their dead were committed to her interest.” the flames on funeral pyres, so that the corrupt should be ” W ithout success, I ween ?” incorruptible, and the mortal put on immortality. “ Aye, of a surety. She tells them all her love is Plenydd, Alawn and Gwyron were the trinity of their centred on things eternal, not on earthly happiness. Her faith, which were equivalent to our ideas of Wisdom, sire would have her wed, but she will not consider it.” Love and Power. ” Shall I tell the king, Casedyn ?” It was the period when the Romans were forced by ” It is thy duty, Serenwr, but word thy communication internal troubles, with the Goths at their very gate, to wisely. If thou couldst have given him news of awaking withdraw their forces from this country, leaving Brychan love in her soul he would welcome the tidings ; but how in charge of his kingdom, under the title of Regulus of wouldst thou define the danger ? ” Garth Mathryn, for he was recognised by them as a just ” I know not, for I cannot well define it. Perchance it and virtuous man, much beloved by his people. may imply a love ultimately fractured by a quarrel, or W m i its consummation prevented by a lover’s tragic death ; or t wf? t f £ TYDFIL AND CASEDYN. even her death in childbirth : and other meanings might One summer morning after the hymn to the rising sun be applied to it.” had been duly chanted, and the priests and people had ” I have i t ; say that some danger or sorrow awaits her dispersed, Tydfil had remained at her devotions, and through love, but that Fate must decide the issue.” Casedyn, who was as fond of her as if she was his own ” That were an easy task I But would Brychan be child, loitered until she rose to move away. content ? would he not muddle me with questions, and He approached her and gently asked : ” What vision force from me reluctantly the truth ?” hath been revealed to thee this day, O daughter of Light ?” ” Give him first the alternatives : keep the fatality to ” Words cannot compass thoughts in themes like these, the last. But first con thou over the matter again so as to d Casedyn ; as well thou knowest, she replied. be sure of thy ground.” » ° 0 & ' True, my child ; even as the clouds obscure the orb of W ith this counsel Serenwr agreed and tire friends parted, light.” both deeply moved by a sense of pending woo.

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TYDFIL SEEKS STRENGTH FOR HER ORDEAL. residence, he solicited a private interview as he • Tydfil on her part had glided over the moss-paved portant matters to discuss. Brychan, in his privatea ^ avenue leading to her home, and pausing to speak to no ment, received him cordially, for he had learned to one went straight into her own little chamber, where she his forecasts. ^ threw herself on her knees at the bedside. Serenwr first detailed the signs and aspects which h She prayed that Divine power would be given her to worried him, and frankly told the king that though nf fulfil her part, whatever it might prove to be. signs were omens of ill, yet they could in a measure h» She searched her soul for any uncleanliness, for unkind guarded against. thought, for foolish gratification, determined that nothing '* Strange that this confirmation comes from thee should stand between her and her duty. After a while a Serenwr, ’tis but this morning my daughter hath herselj great peace stole over her consciousness, and she felt related how she hath foreseen trouble and tragedy through assured that the chastening to come would only be to fit love. It was revealed to her in the sacred grove but yester her for the goal she so much desired. morn.” Serenwr spent the night in his search for the planetary ” It is a striking coincidence, O Brychan, and should put indications he had mentioned, and having calculated all thee on thy guard.” the planets’ places for the time in question, saw that the ” Hast thou told aught of this to others ?” signs were ol a complex nature implying the coming of ” Only to Casedyn, and that after Tydfil had the a foe, a battle, a victory, then the love, and at last the portent.” tragedy. Hoping that the last might be averted by a " Tell it to none ! Tydfil will keep her own counsel. warning and watchful care, he decided to make the facts Thou and I and Casedyn will anon talk the matter over.” known to the king in privacy. Going to the Plas, the royal (To be continued).

ARTHUR FORD, Preacher, Lecturer Etc.—(Continued from page 147.) any part of the human body they wished to reproduce. dad, I want to speak to you.’ (The father recognised One picture showed ectoplasm flowing from ” Margery’s ” this and also the name John, who came with Arthur.) mouth. That haul been drawn from Margery's own vocal Your son says he is quite happy over here. He came organs for the purpose of voice phenomena, and if the over in 1 9 1 6 . Is that true ? (’ Yes.’) He was an direct voices heard resembled Margery’s own voice that engineer, shot down in France, and is very happy to greet fact was admitted to be more a proof of the genuineness you to-night. He says grandfather Robert is here also. of the phenomena than otherwise. I hear the voices of two tiny children, one dark and Margery’s deceased brother Walter had proved the fact the other with beautiful golden curls. They may be twins. of his survival by the most approved methods of scientific They come with uncle Ernest to greet their mother. The 7 , 1 identification, namely thumb-prints, of which he had pro­ name sounds like Alston, and I hear Edith. They bring duced 75, all authentic ; and some submitted to Scotland through a whole world of love. Had they lived, they Yard had been so certified by the experts there. Walter would now be about 19 or 20 years of age.” (Claimed.) Th had also been able to give an impression of his thumb on A " Fred ” came to greet his wife Sophia, and wanted a larger scale, but otherwise exactly like his own thumb to send a message to Dome. He was anxious for his wife —a feat no living person could perform. to try to get messages through for herself. He thought Another interesting part of her mediumship was cross­ she would succeed. The wife’s father and mother also to correspondence with a circle sitting 500 miles away at the manifested, and brought someone through who had never same moment, when parts of a message would be given to come before. THE LEADING each circle which could only be understood when the parts ” I see a man here, and I hear the name Henry Burgin were brought together for examination. (recognised). f „ 3 fg 136» At the conclusion of this highly instructive and brilliant­ ” I see a gentleman standing there with a clerical collar. Wigmore Street» ly illustrated lecture, the chairman mentioned that Dr. He says, * My name is John Mackenzie ’ (' yes, and he was Tillyard, the greatest biologist in Australasia, had been a clergyman '). He says something about love to Margery. absolutely convinced by his sittings with Margery and ” I hear an unusual name like Roach. (' Yes.') Is wrote— ” Whether science under its present limitations the name Arnold Roach ? (‘ Yes.’) can ever hope to offer any explanation, philosophic or ” I hear somebody else calling out George Henry, who INSPIRATIC otherwise, of these extraordinary phenomena I very much wants to speak to his daughter Norah. (This test was doubt, but my object is to record that they do occur, that claimed by a lady in the top gallery.) I also hear the they are part of the phenomena of nature, and that name Elizabeth. (‘ Right.’) A young chap stands here Dear Sir,—In your jun herself J. Milton, writes science can only ignore them at the peril of its own future who says he is your brother. I get the impression that writing.” existence as a guiding force in the world.” he was knocked down by a car or aeroplane. He says She avows herself nev THE CLAIRAUDIENCE. I That is my sister Norah ; tell her that Arthur is here.’ and says :—” since then (Correct.) The following are some of the things heard munication whenever aw " I hear the name Harris O’Brien (not recognised). I playing, my messages cor clairaudiently by Mr. Ford and offered to certain hear the name Alie. (A lady claimed the name.) You May I utter a grave members of the audience as having reference are Alie, and your husband who was a colonel is bringing correspondent cuts the along Harris O'Brien who was shot on the Indian frontier. to them :— a week for a limited peri He was a lieutenant when your husband was only a captain. that there is trouble in si ” I hear a man’s voice speaking. He gives the name You will find his name in your husband’s notebooks. of Arthur Henderson, and wants to speak to someone ” Did you know a Hindoo chap with a difficult kind of called Jim. He seems to be a brother. Then I hear the Indian name ? He says he went to Oxford and that your CAN YOU EXP name Hazel.” father was his tutor. Your father and mother are both in (The lady to whom this test was given said— ” Hazel is the spirit world and they are greeting you. Your brother Dear Sir,— Can you my name, Jim is my husband, and Arthur is a friend in Arthur comes with them, and someone is asking your why some who have th the spirit-world.") forgiveness for what happened three or four years ago. them, pass away from Mr. Ford continuing— " Another spirit says he is He was a student. He wants to send his love to your quite young, ana others Douglas, and he wants to greet you with his love. Then sisters Minnie and Ethel.” still living and totterin there is Bertie (lady— * my husband’s brother ’), and And so the messages went on with never a failure in in the grave, as it were Arthur says he wants to speak of someone who had two going straight to the persons for whom they were intended. I have read about hal legs broken in a motor accident (‘ my own brother'). Mrs. Murphy Lydy followed with a demonstration and about a dozen of 3 ” Someone gives the name Gordon, Braemar (claimed). of direct voices in the light, but what happened in that to me, but none of the He is not your father but your grandfather. He was a case was only known to the persons who put their ears and searching for. Can nobleman, for I see the ribbon of his Order. He was to the long trumpet. The process seemed to be rather Thanking you very muc decorated by Queen Victoria. This is the first time he tedious to the audience, the " listeners ” giving no audible has ever reached you, and he says you are in a position information as to any voices they may have heard. where you need guidance. I hear the name Fred (' an “ MEDIUMS NOT RC uncle '), who says something about William Horne (‘ yes, Dear Sir,— I read yc I know the name '). You married his grandson (‘ yes ’). June issue of the Gazette The Rev. G. Vale Owen, who died on March 8, 1931. He wants to greet you because you are going to close some that at least one Spirit aged 61, left £565. His will was dated February 16, door and keep it closed. It is a cryptic message. significance of the impor ” Someone else comes who says she is Madeline, and and bequeathed all his property to his wife, Mrs. Rosa Ann Owen, absolutely. that after all there is wishes to send a message to her son Arthur. He is getting Persecuted mediums. ready to take the examination for the naval cadetship. Mrs. Meurig Morris's visit to Torquay was a Surely the point yoi Is that true ? (Lady—* quite right,’) wonderful success. The Torquay Times devoted six ” I hear another name which sounds like Arthur. He columns to a descriptive article by Mr. A. K. Chesterton va ? a person musi is a soldier lad, looking for his mother. He was evidently and a full report of ” Power’s ” sermon. Mrs. Tweedale. " in his stati in the Engineers. He says his mother has travelled about who presided, said that Spiritualism was the only move­ hpon?!? again8t and I 400 miles to be here to-night, and he just had to greet her ment in the world through which a man could verify for i f i i ® « used with a message of love (claimed). Where did you come himself that there was a hereafter, and that it was possible the riKhtsatJonal Spiritu from ? (' Newcastle.') to communicate with those dear ones who had gone ” Another boy says, ‘ 1 am Arthur Darwen. There, from them. Byth, S fe: 1 J?uPpo< F»nd? y hide their ligh \y, 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 159

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7 , 0 0 0 “ HOLIDAYS ABROAD ” The most comprehensive system of Continental travel ever published - 600 pages to GEORGE LUNN’S TOURS LTD. THE LEADING ORGANIZERS OF ESCORTED TRAVEL ON THE CONTINENT 136, Wigmore Street, W.l. Telegrams : GEORGLUN, LONDON. Welbeck 6600 (10 lines) Letters to the Editor. INSPIRATIONAL WRITING. as to the subscriptions given to the Fund, and what has 30, Woodstock Road, W.4. been done with them, have been conspicuous by their D e a r Sir ,—In your June issue a correspondent signing absence. I am sure that some detailed report at the herself J. Milton, writes with reference to “ inspirational present time would give workers in the cause much writing." greater confidence than they can have when left in total She avows herself new to the Spiritualist movement, ignorance, and encourage mediums to go forward fearlessly and says :—" since then, I have been in constant com­ in the practice of their spiritual gifts.—Yours faithfully, munication whenever awake. Night or day, working or FIFTEEN YEARS A SPIRITUALIST. playing, my messages come through." May I utter a grave warning, and suggest that your “ POINTS FOR DISCUSSION.” correspondent cuts the communications down to twice Cambom. a week for a limited period each time. Otherwise I fear S i r ,—There are certain statements made by some that there is trouble in store.—Yours faithfully, Spiritualists that seem to me to be irrational, and which H. ERNEST HUNT. certainly greatly influence thinking people against them. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE RIDDLE? One of the worst is that spirits come back who are not aware they are dead, but think they are still in the Meerut, India. flesh. It is palpably unbelievable that anyone could Dear Sir,—Can you or any of your readers explain die and not be aware of the tremendous change. why some who have their whole life as it were before Again, I cannot believe that the long trance addresses them, pass away from this earth when they are still or so-called inspired writings come from spirits. They quite young, and others who have " lived their life " are tell us nothing whatever that we cannot surmise, and still living and tottering on this earth with one foot if it be so easy to give these long sermons why so hard to in the grave, as it were ? give real information ? I have read about half a dozen books on Spiritualism, These things I am certain are from the subconscious and about a dozen of your magazines which were lent mind. We have alleged spirits teaching re-incarnation, to me, but none of them told me what I was looking and others denying it. There cannot surely be any and searching for. Can you explain the riddle, please ? doubt about the facts of the matter on the spirit side, Thanking you very much.—Yours faithfully, and these contradictory teachings are also subconscious F. G. WHITBREAD. in my opinion. “ MEDIUMS NOT ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.” I know of numbers of people who, on account of these Dear Sir,—I read your leader on this subject in the things, will have nothing more to do with Spiritualism, June issue of the Gazette with great interest. To discover and I certainly think the matter should be ventilated, that at least one Spiritualistic journal has realised the for the whole movement may be jeopardised by these significance of the important case quoted, gives one hope irrational teachings. that after all there is still somebody left to fight for We need to concentrate on proofs of survival. We persecuted mediums. need no sermons from the other side. We want proofs Surely the point you raise, as to the magistrate's that the soul does survive. If it does we can wait and ruling that a person must be proved to be a rogue and see as regards the nature of the next life. vagabond, | in his status or mode of life," before being I am no enemy to Spiritualism. I am its good frieud, proceeded against and punished as such, will be seized and I think it is time to cleanse the Movement from upon and effectively used by the Parliamentary Committee absurdities which disgust thinkers and retard progress. of the National Spiritualists’ Union when fighting for I cannot believe either that there are spirits who cannot the rights of our mediums in the future. progress without our prayers or help. They are not left by the way, I suppose there still is a Parliamentary to our mercy or neglect, 1 am sure. 1 think my point Committee and Fund ? If so the officials seem to of view is very necessary to be discussed.—Yours truly, modestly hide their light under a bushel, for the reports W. J. FARMER. 160 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE.

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