International Psychic Gazette V21 N232 Jan 1933

THE INTERNATIONAL PYSCHIC GAZETTE J L '■ JL No. 2 3 2 . V o l . 2 1 . JANUARY, 1933. P rice Six pen ce Net

reproducing all the details given therein. We can only Our Outlook T ower. compliment the Editor of the International Psychic Gazette for taking up an honest Medium's defence. Our foreign English speaking readers who may wish for more NEW YEAR GREETINGS. ample details on the subject can obtain the above men N this first day of a New Year we cordially tioned paper by applying to 69, High Holborn, London. greet our many readers scattered all It appears that the names of two English noblemen are O over the world, thank them for their involved in this matter. If things took place as related in the paper, and we have no reason whatever to doubt unfailing loyalty and appreciation, and wish the Editor’s word, we can only say that it is indeed sad, them comfort, peace, prosperity, and manifold to use a mild expression, to hear that English noblemen spiritual blessings during the coming year. The who should set the example, should stoop to such dirty, battle for Spiritualistic Truth is everywhere shabby tricks with the sole idea of harming an honest man, probably as the paper gives to understand, with the being won and its enemies are being discomfited bigoted idea of interest for their Mother Church. all along the line ! Do they call that “ Religion ” or is it ” Hatred ? ” J o h n L e w i s , Editor. If such is their religion, well . . . ! ! ! Yet if their P a s c a l F o r t h u n y , Continental Editor. religion is the one we presume, it says : “ Thou shalt not bear false witness.” The same as with Mrs. Meurig Morris, we sincerely hope JOHN MYERS ON THE DONEGALL FIASCO. to see Mr. John Myers, the slandered medium, entirely A HANDSOME BEQUEST. cleared of such cowardly calumny. M r . J o h n M y e r s lectured on “ Spirit Photo DENNIS BRADLEY’S UNIQUE EXPERIENCES. graphy ” to the Lewisham Spiritualist Church Few investigators of Spiritualism have been la st month. so richly rewarded for their sustained The Lewisham Borough News says :— “ Mr. Myers made two exposures during the singing of the hymn, ‘ Come efforts as Mr. Dennis Bradley, the author gentle spirits to us now ; lay your soft hands upon each of i Towards the Stars 1 and jj The Wisdom of brow.’ He stood behind the camera, which was focussed the Gods,” who is presiding at a lecture by Mr. above the heads of the audience, with his left hand to his Shaw Desmond at the Grotrian Hall on head as though in deep meditation. Later it was announced that ‘ thanks to the delightful conditions the January 28. congregation have given us one of the plates shows six The Reverend Rabbi Silverstone, in his new book extras.’ This announcement was greeted by loud noticed elsewhere in this issue, quotes the following applause.” testimonies by Mr. Bradley which appeared in the Daily In the course of his lecture Mr. Myers referred to Lord News of January 15, 1929 :— Donegall’s so-called “ exposure ” in the Sunday Dispatch i During the last six years I have heard at least and said :— 500 different individual voices of spirits talking “ 1 was attacked, but I don’t mind. We all have intelligently to their friends on earth. to be persecuted for this Cause. I am not the first I I have heard spirit voices speaking, and con medium to stand this persecution, and I shall not be versations carried on, in myowa house, in German, the last. I appeal to you all not to judge anybody French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Danish, Basque, too harshly. I have been judged by the world, Chinese, Japanese and idiomatic Welsh. owing to this exposure, as a person who is unreliable. I I have proved that the spirit voices, apart from I can assure you that I have played the game and I the incontrovertible mental evidences they have intend doing so. Never mind what you hear about given, are actual physical and recordable sounds. a medium. As long as he has been tried and proved, With a private telephone laid on by the post office that is all that matters. You cannot convince the to the Columbia Graphophone Company, and two of world all the time. I don’t mind. I am going to their assistants giving signals when to record, nine fight on. All I want is your support.” distinct and individual voices spoke— in English, Mr. J. G. Coates, president of the Victoria Psychic Hindustani, Italian, and Chinese. These records— Research Society, of which Mr. Myers is vice-president, the first psychic sounds ever registered— are in said that he was proud to support Mr. Myers. 1 If the my possession. An important point is that no one whole of the sensational Press claims with one voice that present at this experiment could speak any of these Mr. John Myers is a fraud we say we don’t believe them. languages except English.” We know that Mr. Myers is one of the greatest mediums the Movement has ever seen.” Dr. Silverstone further quotes from the same source :— During December Mr. Myers also lectured and gave “ Dennis Bradley then accepts spirit communica successful public demonstrations of his wonderful gift tions as a scientific fact. He asserts that “ spirits to the Survival League, the District Council of the S.N.U., retain their personal mentalities, memories, and and at Bowes Park, Purley and Ramsgate. He is characteristics, and they possess ethereal replicas receiving invitations to visit many towns throughout the of their earthly bodies. They are tangible beings, country during the coming year. which can touch us, move material objects, and speak to us through their larynxes and mouths.” GOOD OUT OF EVIL. We congratulate the Victoria Psychic Research Society Mr. Bradley received most, if not all, of this trans on its receipt of a welcome legacy of ¿500 from a lady cendent experience through the mediumship of Mr. sympathiser with Mr. Myers during the Donegall attack. George Valiantine. His reappearance on a Spiritualist Tins lady, who was a Roman Catholic, passed over within platform is being awaited with intense interest. a few days of making the bequest. As a token of gratitude THE CONVERTS TO SPIRITUALISM. the Society is arranging to give a series of group sittings in psychic photography at a nominal fee to persons who D r . A lfred R ussel W a l l a c e , O.M., F.R.S.. cannot afford the usual charges. the eminent naturalist and scientist, testifies A BELGIAN VIEW OF THE ATTACK. on page 177 of his famous work on “ Miracles Eoutr la Vérité, a zealous and wide-awake and Modern Spiritualism ” :— Spiritualist monthly published in Brussels, com “ Clergymen of all sects, literary men and lawyers, ments thus on “ The Myers-DonegaU Affaire ” :— physicians in large numbers, men of science not a Just as we were guing to press, the international Psychic few, secularists, philosophical sceptics, pure ma Gazette, November number, reached us. On the first terialists, all have become converts through the over page we were astounded to see printed, in large letters, whelming logic of the phenomena which apiutuaUsrn the title thus worded of an article: "N oble Lord's has brought before them. i akad Exposure ’ of an Honest Medium " " Lord “ And what have we /*«# corn/. 1 Neither science Donegall buustitutes a ¡Slide, Denies it, then C aves In nor philosophy, neither scepticism nor religion* has He also ¡smuggles Plates into the Dark Room ” " l he ever yet in this quarter of a century made one single Editui Interviews Myers and Answers las Accusers.’ convert from the ranks of Spiritualism " We greatly rugtm that tune uud space prevent our 50 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. January, 1933 Spirit Heal ng in Surrey. I* T H E MEDIUMSHIP F MR. W. J. HILL. ■■I- ylf PIR IT healing has come into some pro men, and a powerful Red Indian medic iw*~man, who an* minence in Surrey by the successful brought in for special cases. In the twelve years 1 ha ye S bedn working the spirit doctors have been able to gjyp treatment towards the end of the old year successful treatment, in the m ajority of cases, to hve first time a Spiritualist service and immediately Lady' Caillard has had another meeting with her spirit get a message— “ a very accurate description of m y husband since then— “ a wonderful meeting when 1 niu husband and some intimate particulars that no one but him just as he was in life, when he told me things which he could possibly have known.** no one but he could have known and when 1 was able to Afterwards, from ” an American preacher who had left touch him, stroke his hair and feel the touch of his lips his Church to teach Spiritualism in America ”— a man on m ine.” able to see and hear messages given by spirits Lady Caillard, it is to be hoped, will give us in the course (obviously, one supposes, the Rev Arthur bord) she had of this year another and • longer book in which Su Vincent the most wonderfully convincing evidence that the will be able to record, as in the S im ' booh, just whet messages he gave me could only have come from my h ippoiMid at his passing, and describe the other work! m which he himself the in w h he has met them, «ad hiifhiind * A number of sittings with different mediums followed what they are all doing J a n u a ry , 1933. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 51 Arthur Conan Doyles Convincing P His Survival. EVIDENTIAL PORTRAIT AND WRITTEN MESSAGE.

By THE REV. CHARLES L. TWEEDALE V i c a r o f W e s t o n . M |Y wife, for years past, has had most Two pairs of plates were then exposed and remarkable automatic writing mediumship, developed. The usual precautions were observed especially when sitting with my daughter by us. We used a new packet of plates, signed Dorothy—the two forming a strong combination. on the wrapper with a guarantee that they had Their messages have been marvellous in their not been previously opened. I loaded the slides fore-knowledge and accuracy and have covered myself, and signed the plates through the shutter a variety of subjects, including the great Italian of the slide, after inspecting the slide, lens and earthquake and the overthrow of the city of camera. I carried the slide out to the camera Managua, the deaths of public men, shipwrecks and back to the dark room, where I developed and aeroplane I the plates myself. disasters. A ll Mr. Hope made of them were ful the exposures filled to the day, under my keen in a manner that and critical has been awe inspection. Had inspiring, and he wished to do most of them so, he had no have been placed opportunity to on record in news change or tamper paper offices from with the plates in one week to three any way. I months before the personally event, so putting cleveloped the the forecasts plates after care beyond the possi fully verifying bility of denial. the signature On October io, upon each of 1932, we got a them. message from our On one of the Italian communi first pair of cator S------, to negatives there the e f f e c t that Mr. appeared a splen William Hope, the did likeness of Sir w ell-k n ow n Arthur Conan photogra phic Doyle, smiling medium, was pleasantly. (See coming to us soon. block on next This did not page.) For the appear likely, second pair of as I had no plates we re intention of PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF LETTER arranged the sending for him, sitters, and on one received at Weston Vicarage on October 29, 1932, with normal signature and I paid little we obtained a at foot for comparison. attention to the truly marvellous message. See printed version of text overleaf. result — a long Next Sunday was our Harvest Festival, and message in Sir Arthur’s own hand-writing, and on the Saturday evening (October 15), a certain signed with his identical signature. Mr. H------called unexpectedly at my Vicarage This message covers the greater part of the with a gift of fruit and flowers for the services. plate, and appears in a thin film of ectoplasm After presenting the gift, he astonished me by through which, in the negative, my clerical collar suddenly asking if it would be possible to “ get and the rectangular opening of my vest can be Mr. Hope for a sitting.” discerned. Immediately the forecast came to my mind [Writing to me under date, December 11, 1932, and I assented to the proposition. Mr. William Lady Doyle recognises the spirit face as Sir Arthur’s, Hope arrived at our Vicarage on Saturday, and says of the message, “ There is no doubt whatever October 29, and in the afternoon we exposed about it being my husband’s own writing on the plate.”' four plates. Before we commenced operations, and while Mr. Hope was resting and chatting My signature on the plate shows clearly, with us, my wife mentioned the recent press proving no substitution ; and the fact that I attack on a psychic photographer. Mr. Hope signed the plate through the slide shows that no commented on it, and casually remarked that film bearing the message was inserted in the he had been talking the matter over with Mrs. slide, while inspection of the camera and lens Buxton, his associate medium, and that he proved that none was placed in the lens. felt disposed to give up sitting for the public The remarkable and peculiarly evidential thing and was inclined to sit only for friends. about this wonderful manifestation, apart from The day was dull and gloomy, snow falling at the identity of the writing and signature, is the times. About 2.30 p.m. we commenced the short fact that it relates to ami joins up with the service which Mr Hope invariably holds before conversation casually introduced by mv wife photographing. A hymn was sung and prayer and commented upon by Mr. Hope a tew minutes offer eel. before we held the preliminary sit tine THF INTERNATIONA! PSYCHIC GAZETTE. January, 1933,

The message reads a s follows :— Hope’s psychic powers, These recognised pj( D f a r Horn-. I have every respect for you, tnil's of relatives and friends of whom Ifm». and admiration for your character, and 1 agree that hml never heard, and whose photographs <,r you have been tested too often, and l sympathise with you and Mrs. Buxton. 1 am glad to see you pictures he had never seen ; or of whom, in here with friends. Tell Mrs. Ruxton not to worry. som e cases, no p ic tu re had ever been made because this cloud will pass, and all will be well. during mortal life- blow to smithereens all — Good wishes to all. theories of fraud. On October 31, just before A CONAN DOYLE. leaving my Vicarage, Mr. Hope exposed four On October 31 we sat again, and I obtained the more plates. On two of them came fine pictures following message front Sir Arthur :— of our Italian spirit communicator, S— , of 1 came to g iv e Hope encouragement, for 1 do not whom 1 trust to have much to say anon. wish him to give up, also to convince your friends, fo r it is a perfect fool-proof p ictu re and message. We had not been thinking of Sir Arthur and wore at the time hoping to get evidence of the Further, on November 2, Sir Arthur said presence of persons entirely unconnected with 1 greet you. As you saw, 1 got through with my photo and message. It will do more for spirit him, but this we did not get. photography than all the rest, 1 am sure. 1 am Truly a marvellously evidential experience, and one trying to do great things, and 1 trust through you more proof of the glorious reality of “ The Communion of and Hope to do more. Saints,” of which the Church to-day knows nothing. Up to the time of writing 1 have in vain approached the On October 30 Mr. H ------also sat with Mr. principal Church papers with a request that they should Hope at m y Vicarage, and got a recognised picture publish these facts, only to be met by an obstinate refusal, of a relative. On this occasion he had a very Nearly a year ago l tried to get the Archbishop of Canter striking instance of Mr. Hope’s clairvoyance. bury to allow me to bring Mr. 1 lope up to Lambeth Palace for a demonstration of these things, but he refused, Addressing the gentleman, Mr. Hope gave a When will the dawn show in the Church’s sky ? When minutely accurate description of a woman, will she,awaken to the facts ? whom he saw beside him. This was at once i I £05 A PRESS INVESTIGATION OF SPIRITUALISM. SIR A. CONAN DOYLE’S HISTORIC LETTER. HVE years ago the Sunday Chronicle held F an investigation into Spiritualism which p rofessed to be ju d icia l and impartial. Eminent personages were invited to join the Committee, and these included Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who left it immediately after the paper’s so-called “ Exposure ” of Harold Evans, for “ M asq u erad in g as a G h o st.” T h a t sensational feat was accomplished by some persons present throwing a sheet around the medium while he was in trance and flashing on the lights 1 Sir Arthur then sent us this indignant lettei for publication :— " I should be glad of an opportunity to dissociate myself from this body (the Sunday Chronicle Committee). I have, of course, never belonged to it, but in its early stages, believing the assurances given to me that it was a sincere and honourable inquisition, I gave their represen tatives some advice and my name was legitimately used. " Since that time, however, no advice has been sought or given, and I should wish Spiritualists to understand that I have no possible connection or sympathy with the Com m ittee. " 1 low honourable men and women can countenance an investigation which on its own admission has been a* false as ¡my medium could bo, is beyond my understanding. “ They have suggested non-existent things to SPIRIT EXTRA OF SIR ARTHUR’S clairvoyants (of all people the most sensitive to PORTRAIT suggestion) ; they have pretended to be Spiritualists; received at Weston Vicarage on October 29, 1932, they have claimed false relationships with each other; with normal photograph inserted at top for they have invented dead relatives ; in fact they comparison. have girt themselves round with such an atmosphere of falsehood that it is inconceivable that any true or recognised, and on the plate being exposed and high thing could come near them. the picture developed, the extra p ro ved to be ” Lot me give them a word of advice. It is to dissolve the person seen clairvoyantly. their tainted association and then, abandoning all false hood and mental arrogance, to approach the subject Mr. Hope particularly emphasised the distinct individually, and in a chastened spirit. Let it be done, it central parting of the hair, the appearance of possible, in a private circle formed by themselves in thou something on the head, which might be a cap, own home, I hey will then be in a position to judge the value of their previous performance. but of which he was not sure, and the fact that " I blame myself in the mutter. After the |.11110 she was deeply religious and read her B ible Douglas fiasco, 1 determined never again to help a press a great deal. Investigation. I broke my resolution in this instance I have just had an old photograph shown to It will be the last time, “ But for the general guidance of Spiritualists ui the me by Mr. H ------, one of the first JIaguneotypes, future 1 would suggest that no investigators should evei taken on a solid silver plate, in which the parting have assistance who have not put in a year’s reading, of the hair, the thin and scarcely discernible which shall include Kichet’s ’ Ihnty Years,’ (.'.vookwf cap on the top of the head, and the Bible held 1 Researches,* Crawford*s three volumes, and Schrurick Nothing’s ’ Materialisations ’ in her hands, are all shown. Mr. Hope had " At present it is like letting children loose in

54 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. J a n u a r y , 1933. is a special treat to them, or ’‘ to go to Church ” ; the At their Church, just referred to, there is a glorious, light was withdrawn from them and they were separated loving spirit, and beautiful waves of sound and colour from their companions, who, however, came and asked come from her ; and all join, and the blending makes them to play with them, but they could not until they moving, living, coloured love. Our aura is just the same felt sorry for being naughty. The flowers in their gardens it is living. We may call it our influence; but it is bowed their heads in shame ; or their clothes lost their really ourselves in action. I hope I have made this shiny beautv, and so they understood what wrong meant. clear. HOW THEY ARE TAUGHT. CHILDREN BROUGHT TO EARTH. r»-J Children are taught in special groups, according to Children are sometimes brought to earth to sing and toV>a their aptitudes; but their individuality is never lost. send out their beautiful streams of love ; sometimes they of A Rosie said she had a little house and a little garden all are brought to see their parents, and their joy is great fiii* her own, and they grew bigger as she grew better ; and when they are recognised. Here is a rather startling f(in , they were quite near us. Her time was measured by thing. Rosie and Georgie were brought to earth to learn beco- heart beats, and her space by loving interest. good and evil through us. Our good and bad thoughts One of the teachers said the progress of the spirit children and deeds are explained. An inquirer was informed that was not uniform, but that they never failed. My own a child of i£ years, named Peter, was to be brought up impression is that wiser heads than this teacher chose with him ; and he was incredulous. But if this is true, the pupils ; and that a change of teachers and methods and it may w ell be, it would m ake the most callous watch his steps lest he might cause these little ones to stumble. and environments might be necessary, as these spirit I t is children have as diverse dispositions as our earth children. I fear I m ust stop here, not for lack of material, but M Ultimately there must come even for the still-born a because I think I have said enough to show that these with ou time when they must make a personal choice. spirit children are only being taught in other class rooms th e There is, it seems, a universal language, which is both in God’s Great School. What other explanation can fit ixiachiB sound and colour, and is a living emanation of themselves. better our present circumstances and experiences ? air, t o ■ S u re Rainmaking and Rainmakers. all thi: h as be B y ALEX. MACKINTOSH. with t | N the curve traced by the wheel of Time, it may, with the spiritually untrained thousands who made S u rely frequently happens that beliefs, long despised the supreme sacrifice, be directed against the efforts to I restore order out of World Chaos. To be effectual, the g ift fr as unscientific, rise from the rut of neglect prescription, “ Love your enemies and convert them into s p in tu to the top of the cycloid. friends,” m ust be tried on this side of the Great Barrier! th ese A very recent example of this bouleversement In the Middle Ages the power of controlling the elements of civi is given by the report in Armchair Science that was usually attributed to malign influence. In Shake speare's “ Macbeth,” we have the witches on the heath, N o \ an institute for the artificial production of rain one promising to help another to raise a storm to injure is th e has been organised in modern Moscow. It a sailor, whose wife had insulted the latter. Even the b u t th is claimed that it will also be possible to regulate philosophic Prospero, by his art, at the outset wrecks, or stop the rainfall in different regions of the in “ The Tempest,” the ship carrying his enemies, so is th e as to prepare the way through romance and his " rough country. This winter, it is added, experiments spirit, magic £ for an adjustment of his claims. h a d u are to be made in the Moscow district, with a In modern sensational literature we still find this occult view to combating the snowfall. Thus the faculty favoured by evil-doers. Bram Stoker in his could long-cherished “ superstition ” of Rain Control weird | Dracula ” tells how the Vampire caused a local call tl fog on the river to hide the movements of the vessel in W e is, like Spiritualism itself, so far rehabilitated which he intended to escape from London. as to become worthy of serious consideration by But there are beneficent as well as malefic agencies at laid t scientific experts. work in the Spirit World and the former are surely the irresp The art of rain-making is still pursued quite as a matter more powerful. One example in my own experience naut of course in some parts of tropical Africa. A British must close this brief essay. hits b official, who was on friendly terms with the “ medicine Several years ago, I was asked to attend the funeral of a men,” happened to be present at the crucial point of one little niece, who had passed out in Glasgow. Her mother Y o display of this occult power. He relates how the clouds wished the interment to take place in Inverness, where sch en gathered so ominously that he was doubtful if he could her own kindred had a resting-place. I remember that, th e | get back to his residence, some miles distant, before the as the slender white coffin was being transferred in the to be storm burst. The § Good Men ” (as they are called by early hours of the morning from the bereaved home in the their tribal followers) assured him, however, that no rain northern environs of Glasgow to St. Enoch’s Station, a a re I would fall until he was under shelter. He accepted this gentle shower of rain fell. It ceased when we reached w h a t assurance and hurried home. The last mile of his journey the station. There had been no rain during the previous It was made in inky darkness, but it was not until he had day, nor did any fall later throughout the morning. After gained the cover of his roof that the deluge broke with the long railw ay journey northwards, under a clear, torrential intensity. cold sky, the funeral party reached the Capital of the f i l l Highlands in the forenoon, and the cortege at once In the Old Testament annals a remarkable claim is made be c o t for this faculty as exercised by the prophet Elijah. For started for the cemetery. This beautifully kept three years, we read, he caused a drought in Palestine God’s Acre lies on the terraced slope of a hill (bearing a S g tfi and at the expiry of the time called up the welcome Celtic name, meaning the ” Hill of the Fairies ”), situated ■ raincloud— at first no bigger than a man's hand. Sceptical about a mile to the west of the town. When the coaches w h e n were slowly wending their way across the suspension readers might hint, as an alternative hypothesis, that a so] Elijah was only, like Joseph, demonstrating his clairvoyant bridge which spans the River Ness, and along the Cemetery power, and could foresee the beginning and end of the Road, a kindly shower was falling from the sky, which dry seasons. till then had been, and all the subsequent day was, “ o\ve But if we are to accept as credible the ability, recorded cloudless. by his chronicler, of directing supra-normal fire upon his I noticed the coincidence at the time and, perhaps altar— fire of such furnace-like fury as to lick up a deep subconsciously, wondered how many similar happenings trench of water surrounding the altar— there is really had been remarked by our forefathers “ in the time long no logic in thus selecting or limiting the power of his vanished,” before they crystallised their recognition of a % spiritual helpers. a friendly interest by unseen sympathisers with mourners and merry-makers alike, in the familiar couplet:— The wholesale slaughter of the priests of Baal at the S' termination of this trial of strength between Jehovah Happy is the bride whom the sun shines on ; s , and Baal, fits the semi-barbarous spirit of these far-off Blessed are the dead whom the rain falls on. troublous times. To what extent the subsequent disasters befalling the Israelites might be due to the agency of ss m ¡g these 450 undeveloped souls, thus hurled unceremoniously v r into the astral plane, burning with a sense of impotent A MEMORIAL TO G. VALE OWEN. rage and a desire for revenge, it is difficult to say. S Difficult also it is to estimate how much of the present Mrs. G. Vale Owen and Family are having a stained-glass world misery may be due to the influence of several sanctuary window placed in the Church of St. Margaret million ardent souls so cruelly cut off from this physical and All Hallows, Orford, in memory of the Rev G. Yah i S plane during the late war. Patriotism, honestly opposed Owen who was Vicar there from 1900 to igaa. to similar patriotism, must manifest in the desire to exalt The window will represent St. John on the Island of ¡N one's native country over the rest of the world. It can Patmos and it will harmonise with four other windows * ^ only be vaguely surmised how these warring interests already in the Church. iss January, 1933. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 55 Spirit Teachings for the Present Times—V. THE WORLD CRISIS AND ITS EFFECT ON CIVILISATION.

These Spiritual M essages from the Other W orld have been choose, that he is not an automaton, and even received through mediumistic channels, and are directed apart from any specific divine revelation they towards the World’s Redemption from the present Reign of Materialism, which has only led to widespread must believe in a Creator. ruin and confusion, and towards the coming of the Therefore it is not inevitable that the Kingdom of God on earth, so that all nations may conjunction of all the mechanised forces of the become united in love, peace, and righteousness. past should produce a disruption, for that is not written as a decree in the creative mind. BHE world crisis taking place to-day is the That is why we are now so eager to introduce result of Forces put into operation in the the great thought that as sons of God you have within T past, which seemed good at the time. yourselves a power more dynamic than popes or It is the result of the powers of the material mind, edicts of parliaments, or mechanised strains. without moral and spiritual values. Hence There will soon be called a halt when men will the urge to put together mechanised thought in stand aside realising their impotence in face of world problems. They will realise that there is within them machinery, to travel the seas, to navigate the an innate power to make an atmosphere so that the, air, to dig the mines, to excavate minerals. sublimating and victory-producing power of the Surely the mind of man has been enriched by spiritual world can disarm the subtle power of the all this, you say. Cities have been built, there earth spirit, which has usually been called the devil. has been a knitting together of human interests, If you wish us to say how it will eventuate— with the possibility of a universal brotherhood. whether as a great spiritualising light in the Surely the constructions man has made are a League of Nations, or as a flash in the senate gift from God, and are a reflection of eternal houses of the various nations so that they are spiritual principles ? Why do you attribute to led to some great spiritual realisation and these forces an evil which may lead to a crash sacrifice, or as a world war worse than the last, of civilisation ? or as a great cataclysmic force bringing des Now it is true that every mechanised attribute truction such as that of Atlantis, or as some is the reflection of Divine Principle in matter, great exploding of psycho-mental forces in the but the way man has used it, as of his own right, earth— we say ALL of those things are possible, is the stain, the illusioning product of the earth but they are not fixed or laid down as a cul spirit. If man, having his faculties developed, mination in the scroll of the Divine Mind. had used it as a m oral and spiritual value, he Because Time is in the hands of man, and he could have obviated the dangers of what we may has to realise his mind has its limitations. He call the earth spirit. has to realise he must not barter with, nor lay We cannot say that the responsibility can be down conditions to, but recognise as a supreme laid to-day on any definite group. You are all reality the spiritual, moral law which belongs to irresponsible. You are all caught in the jugger truth, love, and harmony. As soon as he fully naut wheels of this material mechanism which recognises that there are spiritual powers ready has become your master. to come in and take the helm of his ship and help You say yes, and what about the competitive him, then, with those beings he will cleave the sea, schemes of man— the personal aggrandisement, and its brewing storm, with confidence and power. the becoming acute and cunning, the desire To help you we would say that the greatest to be first in the race for worldly things ? These power in the world is the power of thought. It is are all products of the mechanised evil, and behind, and before, and within everything man as what is it all coming to ? an artificer has produced. Thought ensoulled by It is all coming to the surface. The long a spiritual consciousness is the greatest power deep-buried selfishnesses of human kind are being there is. To think in unity while we have objectified in these designs, so that they are been together is making of this group, and one becoming visible and are being realised by the or two others, a power-station of tremendous rational mind. They are producing an impasse— energy. Wireless, and its interesting operations, an impasse which will create a feeling of impotence is only a small evanescent replica of this fact when man will not ask his wheels and steam for we are trying to indicate. a solution. He w ill be compelled by the very Every time you think on what we are giving effects he has produced to call upon a superior you you are radiating it not only around the Power from which he has turned aside. That world, but within perhaps forty dimensions. is the meaning of this great impasse that is You are communicating, awakening. You do coming upon you. not know the tens of thousands of minds attuned But it is not inevitable that all this force to this or that rate of vibration who are receiving and energy of thought which have been cumula the impulse. Do not judge carelessly, in a tive for centuries should be wasted. They can limited, narrow way. The most potential thing be towed into a creative pathway, and be cut is human thought raised to its highest power free from the earth-spirit. But only if the by a spiritual realisation. Thereby you will material life is laid at the feet of the Spirit. enable the love-light that is breaking through to You say that this is nebulous. Do you know this world to become operative, and that can that responsible men, in statesmanlike positions only operate when there is a nexus between the to-day, though they have the will to do, do not human instrument and the Holy Spirit. know how to find the solution of the problem ? The scientists of to-day have come to the i » M conclusion that the purely materialistic hypothesis And the Kingdom of lleaven is within you, and whoso is untenable. They even declare that there is ever shall know himself shall hud it ; for if vo shall a spiritual sphere, that man is not merely truly know yourselves, ye are the sons and daughters of the Father Almighty, and ye shall know yourselves to stimulated protoplasm, but that man is LIFE, be in the city of God, and ye are the city of that he must obey, that he has the ability to Jesus discovered itt Kgypt in 1004 56 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE January, 1933. O v 1 THE In his second find third communications he descnlied his studies of and commentaries on the I lebrew Scripture«, and said that the Light of Revelation ” would never come A u tO N T B i International Psychic Gazette from crabbed students, who, as 1 and many of my time The Independent Monthly Organ of did, bury their eyes, noses, brains, deep in dusty folios Spiritualism and Psychical Research. and spend their days looking for a letter an obscure sign some obscure and learned passage, until their very All communications for the Publishing, Editorial, or Adver natures become steeped in dust and unimportant quips Using Departments should be addressed to— and turns of a word, and so their very spiritual eyes are FRENCH 69, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W .C .i. blinded and grow dim.” In the fourth script he said :— " Now, I will give you a INTERNA 1 little of my history . As you know I lived in the 18th century— a time of great spiritual deadness, and of l a t tim es A Parson’s Purgatory. ' fat parsons,’ who lived grossly, and were engaged in people be learned pursuits rather than in imitating their Lord and should ever i ENJAMIN KENNICOTT, an English divine Master, and caring for the sheep committed to their massacres w and Hebrew scholar, was born at Totnes, charge My people were starving spiritually, B and there arose one, a village carpenter, who fearlessly civilisation. Devonshire, on April 4, 1718, and h • gathered together in his little workshop those who thirsted died at Oxford on September 18, 1783. T h e re for the Truth, and whom I, in my arrogant blindness, In say in g fore, he had long passed from human memory, despised, and there, week by week, led them to the feet for I know and but for short references to his scholarly of their Living God, while I was preaching learned dis mediums to- sertations on obscure and unimportant biblical quibbles. achievements in several encyclopaedias and To my shame I must tell you that I persecuted that there be an< biographies, and two university scholarships at humble servant of God. I called him a canting rogue and between Oxford for the study of Hebrew, founded by his and other vile names, and I did all I could to make life These int< widow in his name, ■ hard for him— and worst society—fina of all, because he would not life on earth had passed be silenced, I forbade him facturers, sc into oblivion. the Lord’s Table, nor would also a greal But n ow “ The His CONAN DOYLE I accept a child born to mere thoug tory of Benjamin him, after we fell out, for freezes the 1 MEMORIAL CALENDAR baptism. . . . He died Kennicott " has just while I was still in charge of of diminish] been published b y S OME two years ago, after the passing of Culham (Oxfordshire), and question th Riders (3/6 net), newly Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a Memorial I buried his body grudg minds of ] Calendar was compiled from his numerous ingly and with irreverence.” dictated by himself prosperity « from the spirit world to works with quotations for every day in the year. So having lived his futile life, | Benjamin Kennicott The Frei Miss Isabelle Major This Calendar, a labour of love, having remained unpublished, has now been presented too passed on and found prevailing Evans, of Johannes to the International Psychic Gazette, and it will himself in purgatory. “ My suggested t burg, South Africa, appear month by month in these pages throughout time came in due course, and this is how he des this year. The Calendar for January occupies and the respectable parson common ta the whole of page 61. made quite a seemly dictions soi cribes himself on the departure for the Heavenly title-page of his con These daily thoughts from the Works of Sir Spheres— to the outward * In view o Arthur will remind all who have this page eye . . “ I had fessions, which appear before them how vast was the field in which mediums de< 150 years after his anticipated a host of angehc he worked and how rich were the fruits of his beings awaiting me; a what they 01 passing :— labours. crown or a wreath of gitea and I consii “ A most unworthy Quotations for the Calendar are taken from leaves, the Roman victor’s among them and valueless priest and nearly one hundred of Sir Arthur’s Romances, crown, would surely be decided upo pastor, one who in life Poems, and Short Stories, including Observations placed on my brow; I they replied was full of honours and from his “ most notorious character,” Sherlock should be suitably attired intentions t valueless empty titles, Holmes, and his works on Spiritualism. For and led to the Presence oi world. We but who insulted and certain notable dates and anniversaries the God Almighty.” steps we m abused his Lord and passages have been selected for their special But that is not what dragged doi Master, and persecuted appropriateness. happened. He seemed They will c one of the humble to fall down, down, down; together in saints of God.” then his eyes began to see This meet Miss Evans narrates in a dimly through a grey mist. one thought preface how Benjamin was introduced to her. In 1930, He was utterly lost and bewildered. He drifted about to appease after months of illness, she was receiving psychic healing lonely for a long, long time. He was stunned and bemused many peopl from an experienced medium, Mrs. V. At that time her and never a thought of prayer came to him. He thought, A WI right hand was all but useless owing to the return of ” Why am I insulted ? Why am I neglected ? ” Then I found 1 neuritis contracted during the Great War. While the came revolt, bitter violent hatred of God, who had in his leading pro medium was massaging her hand and arm, she exclaimed, opinion played a trick on him, and his sleep was broken suburbs. T Hush ! there is someone here who wants to speak.” by awful terrors and dreams, and he cried, ” If there be a from their She said :— God, grant me rest and oblivion from these terrors.” obsessed b} J see a man ; dressed in black clothes ; he is holding Next he became unconscious and found himself in the These medi midst of forms horrible and terrifying. They greeted out a bound Bible, and now he is showing me a bundle of account wc wntten papers. He says his name was Kenny ? Kenny ? him with demoniac shrieks of laughter and told him he was in the palace of pride and self-righteousness. He says, their client No, that’s wrong. He is shaking his head— says Ken— If anvor Kcnn Kermacott, think. He lived in 17—17th ? ” I cursed the day I was born. I cursed Almighty God. 1 ask— “ Wai I think lie says 17th or 1:8th century. Did something 1 swore and vowed that I had lived righteously and had about the Bible ; translated it ? That’s near but not nothing of which to repent me, nor had I done aught to “ I cannot right. He says, ' make that lady's arm and hand well, merit such vile treatment.” tell you w as I think she is going to write for me.' A Spirit Counsellor named Lucis came and urged him there will ” After a few moments of listening the name came from to repentance and unveiled to him the folly of his life as but be con her lips, almost with a shout, ” Benjamin Kennacott ! a priest on earth, and by and by after spells of oblivion because I < Oh ! he's gone.” John the Carpenter came and ministered to him anil led from anno Next day Miss Evans went to a Public Library and found him step by step out of his gross darkness into the Eternal It is simp tin- name Benjamin Kennicott in the Encyclopaedia Light, but that was a long and painful process. my faeulti Britannica, She consulted her Spirit Counsellor, and her That is the outline of the story but it must be read in mty relatic own f ather, who is in spirit-life and her Spirit Guide, full in these remarkable scripts, which cast much vivid And the and they said she might work for this spirit, taking down light on the varied life in the spiritual beyond, where men decision^ w have to be purged from their sins of omission and corn* hi« scripts at fortnightly sittings. ttttderstam mission before they can enter into peace, joy, and progress ac In his first communication, on July 20, *93®» Kennicott —out — war explained to her that he had long desired to communicate Miss Evans has sworn an affidavit before a Commissioner Qi other tl with the earth but had hitherto been unable to find a of Oaths that the book is “ the Truth, the whole Truth, suitable medium. He had been guided to select her by and nothing but the Iruth, and Mr. Pure has. President a scholar spirit named Richard Henry Major, Miss Evans' oi the Psychical Research Group of Johannesburg, aud grandfather, who had once held an official position in the Mr. Sheppard, a member of Couucil, support this usth m t L British Museum, and who said his grandchild would by their testimony. ” jpR fcai be able to work lor him i v * *u 1

M th Peoj,v. January. 1933. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE 57 OUR INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE: A MONTHLY RECORD OF SPIRITUALISTIC AND PSYCHIC HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WITH SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. B y MONSIEUR PASCAL FORTHUNY. {This Chronicle is Written in French, and is Translated into English by the Editor.)

FRENCH MEDIUMS’ PEACE DECISION. SYSTEMATIC SILENCE ABOUT WAR. I think this example of systematic silence about any NTERNATIONAL events are so complex and possibility of war may well be imitated by all the mediums at times so alarming that many thoughtful in the world. For tremendous mischief can be done by I people become naturally anxious lest there such an idea becoming accepted and familiar in people’s minds. Let it therefore be pushed aside ! should ever again be a resort to those wholesale I regret to learn that there is less restraint on this massacres which wipe out nations and annul subject elsewhere. A traveller who has just returned civilisation. from Germany told me only yesterday that in Berlin In saying this I am not merely imagining, particularly there were charlatans on the streets and public squares offering pretended clairvoyance and for I know that many persons are going to predictions for a small coin. mediums to-day and are asking them, “ Will Many of these false mediums are envenoming the minds there be another war, and if so when, where, of their compatriots by saying from the edge of the and between whom ? ” pavements, “ I see that you will soon be taking up arms again, and going forth to war for the salvation and revenge These interrogators belong to every class of of our Fatherland ! ” society— financiers, politicians, scientists, manu One can understand the poisonous effect such incite facturers, soldiers, young men and women, and ments may be causing in the minds of a people still also a great number of mothers, to whom the suffering disappointment from its defeat in the Great War. It appears that the Berlin police are alive to the mere thought of another war being possible mischief and are taking steps to suppress these false freezes the heart. And that nervousness instead prophets, but in spite of that many of them continue of diminishing goes on increasing, so that this to do their devilish work beyond the Rhine. question threatens to eclipse all others in the For myself I think and talk only of Peace, and I think it is the duty of every individual soul in the world to minds of people wishing only for peace and influence the mass-psychology of their nation by refusing prosperity above all other earthly advantages. even to entertain the notion of any future war, and The French Press has taken notice of this instead to preach peace ceaselessly and demand it from prevailing alarmist mass psychology, and has their rulers as an essential element in their permission to govern. suggested that much fear is being fostered by the International differences have always been and perhaps common talk and is being intensified by the pre may always be, but let them be settled by international dictions sometimes published in the newspapers. Judges and Juries in a rational manner, and let the PARISIAN MEDIUMS MEET. decisions be loyally accepted at any cost, for even if they * In view of this state of affairs a number of Parisian should spell disappointment or even injury to a nation's mediums decided to meet the other evening to consider amour propre that would be immensely preferable to the what they ought to do about it. I received an invitation ruthless bloodshed and destruction of the past which and I considered it my duty to attend. On arriving has never accomplished anything to be desired. among them I said I would report what they said and It is because I feel so strongly the necessity for an decided upon in the International Psychic Gazette, and ever-abiding peace and the utter extermination of they replied, “ That is well; make known our sincere internecine warfare in all future time that I have thought intentions to all the English-speaking mediums in the it well to record here the very wise gesture of Parisian world. We believe they will be in accord with us in any mediums in place of my customary Personal Recollections. steps we may agree upon to prevent the world being “ EXPOSURES ” OF MEDIUMS. dragged down by fear into the horrors of another war. They will certainly do as we do; for we shall strive Mr. A. Bruers, writing in La Ricera Psichica together in this good work.” about the English medium, Mrs. Duncan, who This meeting of Parisian mediums was inspired by the was accused by Mr. Harry Price of swallowing one thought and determination to do everything possible cheese-cloths, says :— to appease the anguish that is tormenting the minds of From Home to Madame d’Esperance, from Miller many people. to Paladino, from Bailey to Eva Carrière, from Caracino A WISE DECISION AND GOOD EXAMPLE. to Erto, psychical research chronicles are filled with I found myself, then, in the presence of a number of continuous “ exposures ” of mediums, exposures often leading professional mediums, who live in Paris and its succeeded by new critical “ tests ” and the rehabilitation suburbs. They receive clients every day, and I recognised of the mediums accused. from their first words that their visitors were becoming Eva Carrière, for instance, was accused of committing obsessed by fear. What could be done to calm them I fraud in the presence of Professor Richet, at the Villa These mediums decided peremptorily that never on any Carmen, in Algiers, but afterwards produced phenomena account would they even discuss such a possibility with certified authentic in experiments of the greatest severity. their clients. Similarly, the Australian medium Bailey, denounced for If anyone in the future should come to them and faking “ apports,” had the genuineness of his phenomena ask— ” War ? or No War ? ” the medium would declare— proved by controlled tests. ” I cannot exercise my faculty in that domain. I cannot Mr. Bruers says that if this fatal alternation, now stale tell you whether there will be another war or whether and unprofitable, of first ” fraud ” then " truth ” in all there will be none. Let us speak of something else, mediumistic phenomena, has taught psychical investi but be convinced that my silence on this question is not gators nothing there will be little to hope for in the future because 1 see any war coming, and am restraining myself for that science. from announcing its approach. No, no ; it is not that. The first means of throwing light on this vexed question, It is simply because 1 have determinedly effaced from he says, would be to convince researchers that though my faculty of prevision every thought which can have psychical phenomena are apparently illogical according any relation to a conflict between nations.” to the ordinary laws of physical science and philosophy, And therein 1 think these mediums made a very wise they can only be properly studied by methods appropriate decision, which will have a good result. When the public to supernormal facts, and not merely be declared understand that they will learn nothing at all from them fraudulent because they do not conform to the laws of about warlike eventualities they will speak and think physics or chemistry. Such an attitude, he thinks, is of other tilings, and thus stop the dangerous drift of their even more destructive to orthodox science than uuv over ^anxious thoughts, " fraud ” the mediums can be accused of. | suggested to the mediums that they should draw up a signed declaration of their decision to be published A VERIDICAL CASE. m the Pans Press, They did not accept my suggestion From time to time soldiers killed in the Great as they desired to preserve a strict incognito, and therefore War are reported as coming through to then 1 am all the more pleased to be free to speak here of their conference and of their resolution to decline all war talk relatives for the first time when an opportunity with people who approach them, however pressing. is given to them, 58 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. January, 1933

' fw Mrtapsyc-hische reports an interesting One day her bed burst into flames when she was not , s

A BODY IN THE RIVER. Munich, and one afternoon about (iv< o'clock (,<• |.*¡,4 own gum hi ^ line of head feeling antidotes even lor pmaona Dm Imp manhef The line of heart is unusually long and well developed tom your body to obey you* a g i Me cseMs wtR he t *j*i#*n it rises from three points on the Mount of Jupiter and 10 such a way as to rmtms dimaiwna^w tv*. »peak* eloquently 01 true affection and much goodness of Mary Seaton 60 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. January, 1933

LADY DOYLE AND EECHOFER ROBERTS. beautiful seances in her house. This enabled her to give interesting lectures about her experiences, and her lantern A D Y CONAN DOYLE has made a dignified slides of materialisations drew great and attentive reply to that fanatical distorter of “ The Truth audiences. L about Spiritualism” (C. E. Bechofer Roberts) Mrs. Gobel was a really charming and gifted woman, who grossly insulted the memory of Sir Arthur who without any vanity or pretension made herself universally popular and beloved. Therefore, it is hardly Conan Doyle in his book reviewed in our last conceivable that the leading Dutch Spiritualist Society month’s issue. Her Ladyship says :— " Harmonia,” of which her husband was the founder and My husband was a man without fear or thought of president for a long time, and which owed so much to self, and when, after many years of investigations of their untiring work, was not represented at the funeral. psychic matters, he found this enormously important May the warm sympathy expressed there by her numerous knowledge of personal survival was true, he, with his friends cover that lack of brotherly feeling I usual unselfish spirit, determined to give the plain and We do not doubt that soon we shall find she is continuing simple facts to the people, who are so hungering for her work in the world where no bodily ailment or weakness definite knowledge about the Hereafter.” can touch her, and that whatever sorrows and difficulties she experienced here will be soon forgotten in the heavenly Üi ü Üi bliss and peace she is now enjoying.— c. K. NÒE. A SPIRITUALIST HYMN WRITER. » s » RS. ST. CLAIR STOBART must surely be the greatest hymn-writer of the present OUR READERS’ TESTIMONIES. M age. ' A Faithful Contributor : " The Gazette is not only a She has just published a new edition of her " Spiritual joy to me but such an old friend ! May you long be Songs for Congregational Singing,” which contains 112 preserved to continue your good work ! ” original hymns written by herself. Of these she has also A Worcester Subscriber ; " Your paper still keeps up composed the music for 24, and the melodies for the its most high standard of spirituality, and is always a remaining 88 have all been written by Mr. F. Alford pleasure to read.” Armstrong, the accomplished organist of the Spiritualist A Subscriber in Taringa, Brisbane : “ Your magazine Community. is truly first-class and conducted splendidly, and long may Speaking for ourselves these beautiful hymns form the it last to carry on a great work 1 ” sweetest part of the ever-impressive services at the Grotrian Hall, and we heartily recommend their intro A Manchester Subscriber : “ My wife and I are delighted duction into Spiritualist Churches, Societies, and home to have evidence in the Gazette every month that you are circles generally. still very active in the good Cause, and especially when The book of words and music may be had from the there is someone or something to fight for ! ” Spiritualist Community for 2/3 post free. A Master of Arts : | May I compliment you on your masterly exposé of Lord Donegall. I used to see his » S H articles in the Daily Sketch and to marvel that any A MAKER OF MOCK SEANCES. journalist could write such piffle.” ATHER KNAPP, a member of the Order A Canadian Subscriber : | It is so good to know you of St. Dominic, and operating under the are always fighting for the Right, and trying to crush F Might, in the form of Ignorance, Jealousy and ‘ I am It ’ auspices of the Catholic Guild, has been in very large letters.” lecturing up and down the country, and also at A Wigan Subscriber : ‘‘ I feel I must write and con Brussels and Liège, in Belgium, on “ Spiritism, gratulate you on the masterly way you have conducted Its Errors, and Its Dangers.” the Gazette during the past year, and on your successful We do not here repeat the farrago of venomous false defence of Myers and other honest mediums. I wish you hoods he tells his audiences in order to deride Spiritualism success in all your efforts during the coming year.” and Spiritualists, for these are the worn-out, vulgar, and An Italian Spiritualist Editor : “ I find your magazine insolent jargon of most anti-Spiritualist propagandists, extremely interesting . . . I want to congratulate but we do suggest that the reverend Father goes just a you warmly on the keen way you have dealt with the stage too far when he performs ” mock seances” with the Donegall case in the two skilful articles you wrote on that aid of conjuring tricks. subject. In my next number (A li del Pensiero) I shall We feel certain that all good Catholics must disapprove give a detailed account of this case to our readers.” of this public parodying of a religion which is as sacred to its believers as Catholicism is to themselves. We feel Mr. R. Aird, Queensland, has for the second time, ex equally certain that if any Spiritualists should, by way pressed his warm appreciation of the Gazette by sending of reprisal, give exhibitions of mock masses, accompanied to the Editor one of “ Queensland’s Christmas Hampers of by mendacious ridicule of the respectable priests and Happiness,” full of that enterprising colony’s most dainty honourable people of the Catholic persuasion, there would tropical products. Many thousands of these hampers very soon be scenes of riot and bloodshed. have been sent to the “ dear ones at home in the Old Land as evidence of the love and remembrance of their ¡HR MB ÜÜÜ kinsfolk far away,” and we are grateful to Mr. Aird for THE PASSING OF A WELL-KNOWN DUTCH including us among the happy recipients. SPIRITUALIST. ¡HR Sani ¡HR EVROUW ANNIE GOBEL-NIER- Mrs. Champion de Crespigny’s new play, “ Accessory STRASS, of The Hague, passed on to the after the Fact,” adapted from her novel, “ The Missing Higher Life on the 3rd of December, at Piece," was performed last month to delighted audiences in the Fortune Theatre and the Millicent Fawcett Hall, the age of 77. She was an untiring worker and Westminster. able propagandist while possessed of all her “ Should the Churches Absorb Spiritualism ? ” was brilliant faculties, but during the last four years the subject of an interesting debate at the Grotrian Hall her health had given way and she had to live a on December 10. Mrs. St. Clair Stobart, Leader of the quieter life. Spiritualist Community, and Mrs. Champion de Crespigny, Principal of the British College of Psychic Science, were As a platform speaker, she captivated her audiences, the protagonists. A summary of the chief points in the and her bright personality, combined with her great argument will appear in our next issue. experience of psychic facts and demonstrations, enabled her to reach the most diverse classes of people and to Ante-Natal Foot Prints.— As already noted the print convince them, because from her emanated a spirit of of a certain unborn baby’s foot was obtained through the absolute sincerity and personal devotion. mediumship of Mrs. Margery Crandon, the famous As she was well versed in English, French, and German, American medium. When the child was born the parents she kept in touch with the literature of these countries objected to have the child's foot prints taken for com regarding Spiritualism. She also visited the London parison, and still object. It is hoped that they may yet Spiritualist Congress in 1922 as a delegate from Holland give their consent in the interests of science. and delivered au address there. Several people will w ffi ffi remember her as she went to the Psychic College and met Mi and Mrs McKenzie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Miss Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards the> Stead, Mr. U, Gow, and others. simply unveil them to the eyes of men Srleutlv atto In Holland she met Mr. Vout Peters, when he first imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax came there, and Mis Susannah Harris, the trumpet strong, or we grow ami wax weak, und at last some c-vtsis medium, while the la mous Jack Shepherd held many shows us what we have become. Bishop 'an uary. 1933. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZET 61

CONAN DOYLE MEMORIAL CALENDAR

“ And through it he being dead yet speaketh.” — Hebrews xi, 4 Daily Thoughts from Sir Arthur’s Works

D a y o f D a y o f m on th . m onth. God hath written Himself and His laws very Mr. Lloyd George born Jan. xyth, 1863. broadly on all that is around us, if our poor 17 I find in my Diary that the Prime Minister, dull eyes and duller souls could but read Mr. Lloyd George, invited me to breakfast in what He hath set before us. April, 1917. Nothing could have been more Alleyne in " The White Company.” affable and democratic, for there was no servant Sorrow clears from the mind of youth like the present, and he poured out the tea while I, tarnish of breath upon glass. *' Uncle Bernac.” from a side table, brought the bacon and eggs for both. He had certainly the Celtic power I trust that the record of my life will assure of making one absolutely at one’s ease. the reader that I have preserved a sane and ” Memories and Adventures.” balanced judgment, since I have never been extreme in my views and since what I have Capt. Scott reached the South Pole, 1912. said has so often been endorsed by the actual 18 There are heroisms all round us waiting to be course of events. But never have I said done. I The Lost World.” anything with the same certainty of conviction In some unfortunate way subjects of National with which I now say that this new knowledge 19 welfare are in this country continually subor of Spiritualism is going to sweep the earth and dinated to party politics, so that a self-evident to revolutionise human views. proposition, such as the danger of a nation “ Memories and Adventures.” being fed from without, is waved aside and There is a Power which fashions things for ignored, because it will not fit in with some 4 us, though we may strive to thwart it. general political shibboleth. " Danger.” Lord Avon in | Rodney Stone.” How often at the last instant the cup is dashed Eve of the Epiphany. 20 from the lips. “ Sir Nigel.” 5 “ Look at that Star,” Mahomet, the son of Abdallah said, pointing to a beautiful clear Janglings and wranglings are but on the planet above our heads, “ that is the symbol 21 surface. It is the solid core that underlies of Christ. See how serene and peaceful it every Christian creed which is of importance. shines, like His own teaching and the memory Zachery Palmer in “ Micah Clarke.” of His Life.” “ The Red Star.” Q ueen Victoria died, Jan. 22nd, 1901. Joan of Arc born Jan. 6th, 1412. 22 The Life Beyond is a world of sympathy. Only Next to the Christ, the highest spiritual being those who have this tie foregather. All of whom we have any exact record upon this is sweet and peaceful. It is the long rest earth is the girl Joan. One would kneel cure after the nerve strain of life, and before rather than stand in her presence. new experiences in the future. Preface to Denis' “ Mystery of Joan of Arc.” “ The Vital Message.” To be charitable to the uncharitable is surely the The wisdom of God is beyond our under crown of virtue. ” Through the Magic Door.” 23 standing. The Bishop in Sir Nigel.” They ragged and fought as schoolboys ought, I wonder how many of the preachers who have 8 And learned to play the game. taken advantage of the passage in Sir Oliver You can act the fool at an English school 24 Lodge’s “ Raymond ” about alcohol in order to But it builds you all the same. " Comrades. ” attack the whole New Revelation have re Nelson buried in St. Paul's, Jan. gth, 1806. membered that the only other message which The expression of Nelson’s face was, as I associated alcohol with the Life Beyond is remember it, exceedingly sad and gentle, with that of Christ Himself, when He said— “ I the deep lines upon it which told of the chafing will not drink henceforth of this bruit of the of his urgent and fiery soul. ” Rodney Stone.” vine until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s Kingdom.” I know well that I have it in me to make my ” The Vital Message.” 10 name famous. Sherlock Holmes in “ A Study in Scarlet.” Christ’s bitterest tears have been shed over the misrepresentation which has been made of It is not how fast you go that matters, it is the 25 Him. “ Pheneas Speaks.” 11 object of your journey. Mailey in " The Land of Mist.” Australia Day. Sir Arthur's defence of Edalji, Jan. 12th, 1907. 26 May God protect Australia 12 Officialdom in England stands solid together, Set in her Southern Sea ! and when you attack it, as in the Edalji Case, Though far thou art, it cannot part you need not expect justice. Thy brother folks from thee. " Memories and Adventures.” “ A Hymn of Empire.” Sir Arthur visited Cecil Rhodes' Grave, 1929, If you cut your own path you must expect to 13 Cecil Rhodes, a mighty leader, a man of broad 27 find yourself alone upon it. vision, too big to be selfish, but a difficult man ” The Stark Munro Letters. to appraise with our little human yard-sticks. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable ” Our African Winter.” 28 for the exactness of their learning. One becomes blasé to adventure as one becomes Dr. Watsou in “ A Study in Scarlet.” blasé to all else which the world can give, save 14 only the simple joys of home. The object of life here is to prepare fur the Louis de Laval in ” Uncle Bernac.” 29 next phase of life. The Land of Vhst British Museum opened J an. 15th, 1759. Far the most important thing in my life has 15 The mere thinking and talking of books is in 30 been the psychic quest. itself good, be the .upshot what it may. Memories aud Adventure* ” Through the Magic Door.” For strange effects and extraordinary com* Love and poverty and war, they are all 31 biuatioux we must go to Ute itsclt, which Is 16 experiences necessary to make a complete life. always far more daring thau any effort of the Murtimer iti ” The Three Correspondents,” imagination. —Sheiltxa Holme* 62 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. January, 1933.

b r i e f n o t i c e s o f n e w b o o k s . OCCASIONAL JOTTINGS. B y X. REVIEW BY THE REV. W. A. REID. OCCUPATIONS IN SPIRIT LIFE. D eath C a n n o t S e v e r . By the Rev. Dr. Norman Maclean. Hodder & Stoughton. 3/6 net. ^DHE question is oftei asked, how do spirits occupy This book is frankly an expansion of Dr. Maclean’s l their time in the Beyond ? In much the same way Edinburgh sermons, and its natural limitations must be as they did on earth. The teacher continues to allowed for. It is rather a poetic presentation of the teach, the student to study, the artist to create, and subject from the consciously expanding mind of a Scottish so on. But, over there, they learn to work with an Churchman than a scientific treatise. It is a religious altruistic outlook— for love and not for money or renown. argument founded on what the writer regards as ascer They work in harmony. What is more, they try to tained facts ; and because of his own assured convictions influence people on earth to do the same. he sometimes states his points rather bluntly. I heard a spirit who had been a financier on earth Briefly put, the author believes that human survival speaking the other night at a direct voice seance. He has been scientifically proved, and that Bible psychic said that whereas when on earth he was only interested phenomena must be proved to-day; for “ if these in the financial good of his own country, he now tries happened in the past, they must happen to-day, and if to influence all nations with a view to international they cannot happen to-day, they never have happened.” co-operation. Asked his opinion about America’s war That no appeal to the Bible or to any other authority debt instalment in gold from Britain, he said : " America is sufficient. He believes in a progressive future life, is making a big mistake. Gold is like blood ; it has and consequently in prayers for both the blessed and the no value unless it circulates.” evil dead. Peter, of course, as he says, tells that the JOY IN THE SPIRITUAL REALMS. “ dead ” were preached to, and " The Shepherd of Hermas,” one of the Apostolic Fathers, says that the Spirits often tell us how difficult it is for them repentant dead were baptised by the believing disciples to describe the beauties and joys of life in the Beyond. who had passed on. Earthly language is quite inadequate, they say. A lady ‘‘ Those who denounce psychic research are the real who had passed over returned to tell her daughter about enemies of Christianity,” says Dr. Maclean, who adds that a wonderful garden over there. “ When your spirit is if the Church leaves the demonstration of human survival released from its body in sleep, you join me here,” said to the Spiritualists, “ it need not be surprised at the mother, “ and we are ever so happy together.” " But increasingly empty pews . . . A multitude of these why can't I remember it all when I wake up, mother ? ” modern revelations are so well authenticated that to “ Because, if you could, the contrast would fill you with deny them is like denying the sun at high noon . . . It a longing to dispense with your earth body before the is unreasonable to believe in the warnings and premonitions appointed time; and if this happened, the necessary of a bygone day and deny those of our day.” He believes lessons of earth, in the shape of trials and difficulties, that ‘ the harmony of God’s universe wall not be broken would be lost.” by the crying of even one lost soul.” Nevertheless, the daughter, whose earthly affairs were Dr. Maclean is, of course, a Churchman and possibly causing her much worry, prayed that she might remember a sacramentarian, but not narrow in his views. One her experiences in that spirit garden. One night the feels that he writes from his soul, and in the conviction wish was granted, and she was vividly conscious of being that his owm new light brushes aside some of the clouds with her mother in what seemed to her a condition of that obscure the Eternal Light. It is a book that every paradise. But when the time came to return to her earnest Churchman should read. earth body she did not want to go. “ Oh, let me stay WILLIAM A. REID. here, mother,” she implored ; “ the earth is such an unhappy place ; why should I go back to it ? ” And T he G r e a t B e y o n d . By Rabbi Dr. A. E. Silverstone, her desire to remain in spirit life was so great that had M.A. Stockwell. 2/6 net. it not been for two of her spirit guides, who seized her This is a book of short essays on Resurrection, and hurled her back through space, the life-cord wooif Immortality, Spiritualism, and cognate matters by a have been severed and she would have passed over learned and liberal-minded Jewish Rabbi. It is obviously prematurely. As it was, she returned to her body in the work of a conscientious student who has arrived as the nick of time, and awoke gasping for breath, and far as he can go towards Spiritualistic truth wdth<;ut sweating profusely. venturing into the sea of experience. It will therefore The next afternoon a medium knocked at her door, be instructive to other students and give them an urge and on being admitted said, “ I bring you a special to continue their adventure further until they arrive at message from your mother. She tells me that last night you last at Truth’s own shrine. To believe in Immortality, very nearly passed over.” The medium then proceeded and to be able to give good intellectual grounds for that to describe exactly what had happened to the daughter. belief is good, but to know the joy of actual converse wdth one who has put off mortality and passed to the life beyond A SPIRIT CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS TREE. is better. The Doctor shows that the ancient Jews were B y H. M. E. prohibited from consulting spirits because the necromancy N Sunday, December 11, I had the privilege of of their days was idolatrous, but he says that there is no O attending an unusual Christmas Tree Party, which prohibition against study and investigation for scientific was arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Dell and Miss Sheath purposes. Jewish Spiritualists, of whom there are many, of Farningham, Kent, for the children in the Spirit will welcome this book. Spheres. Of mortals there were seven of us, including T he Ma g ic of A n g els : Talks by “ Dr. Lascelles.” the direct voice medium, Mrs. Robert Johnson. Riders. 6/- net. The tree was beautifully decorated and heavily laden This is the third volume of a series of Sunday evening with toys, and we sat round it in horseshoe formation. addresses delivered by “ Doctor Lascelles ” through the Mrs. Robert Johnson’s controls, David, Joey and Blossom, mediumship of Mr. C. A. Simpson, the well-known spiritual soon greeted us in turn, and described the spirit children healer. crowding round admiringly and choosing their toys. There is a great deal of eloquence and homely vigour Eric wanted a trumpet, and he was told to get it and in these addresses ; and their readers are not likely to blow it. There followed a rustling and shaking of the fall asleep over them, even though they are full of spiritual tree, a trumpet was blown, and when the lights went up and Spiritualistic instruction. It is a book Spiritualists the trumpet was off the tree and lying on the carpet should possess for their own uplift, and it is highly suitable Another boy wanted a whistle, which was also removed for lending round to new inquirers. from the tree and blown. A third boy said he would like “ Dr. Lascelles,” as most of our readers know, inspired the motor-car which, being too heavy to hang, was at Mr. Simpson to start a Guild seven years ago, called the foot of the tree. He was told to wind it up and he “ The Seekers,” to cure all manner of diseases, even as did so, and it ran its little course. During the winding Christ did 2,000 years ago. The work began humbly “ Joey ” remarked, “ it does not sound exactly like a in three rooms and a basement at St. George's Square, Rolls Royce.” Many little girls came too, and all the S W. Healing was done by the laying on of hands and children gave their Christian names and surnames with by “ Harmony Prayer Circles ” for absent-healing by the their home towns, which lay as far apart as Croydon power of prayer. " Dr. Lascelles ” composed the prayers, and Glasgow. They often volunteered quaint bits of and these are printed and used weekly by over 8,000 information about themselves and their families. people, who are all engaged in receiving healing or giving The tree with all its presents was taken to the children’s it to others. The Guild has now handsome headquarters ward of a local hospital on Christmas Day, and the toys at 29 and 33 Queen's Gate, W. This new volume will gave great pleasure to many little mvalids. help to make its beneficent work more widely known. AJr. James Abbott, a former Editor of the ** National Tor little souls on little shifts rely, Spiritualist," Chicago, passed to the Spirit World, on And coward arts of mean expedients try » November 20, 1932,after a short illucss lie was a genial The noble mind will dare do anything but lie friend, a good comrade, and an occasional valued eontn Dryden butor to this Hasette January, 1933. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 63

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