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pparently there are known to people in earth life states of being, locali­ their opinions, if they are ties for residence, in really the persons they claim to A the spirit world, which receive,be, settles nothing. In the same each of them, people whose way the question of reincarna­ state of development corre­ tion may be no nearer a sollu- spond most closely to each of tion because one set of spirits these realms. Because of this affirm and others do not know. each medium may receive in­ Probably spirits know no more formation from one or several on the subject, have no way of of these realms; each may knowing, than we know. honestly give what honest There appears to be two spirits report and yet the re­ great bodies of thought in this ports from different mediums world and in spirit realms; one, and from mediums having dif­ mostly Oriental, on both sides ferent controls at different mo­ of death, affirming, the other, ments, may conflict. A friend mostly Western, saying it is of mine is sure there is no God unproved. My own observa­ who has benevolence toward tions incline me to think that mankind, because spirits pur­ Oriental spirits, unaccom­ porting to be Confucius and panied by Western spirits, that Thomas Paine told him so. As is by people of the white race neither of those spirits have, while on earth, do not do effi­ presumably, any more infor­ cient thinking. Philosophy, in mation on that subject than is the Oriental mind, crowds the

161 scientific spirit into compara­ are to be most effective, tive inactivity. 1 have known through Western minds. instances where a group sitting The resisting power of the successfully under control of people who do not accept the American Indians and white truth that spirits communicate people in the spirit world, have is largely due to a refusal to secured only promises, vague stop, look or listen. This is generalizations and meditative due to mental indolence, to a remarks not meaning much, superstitious fear that “God after Oriental spirits gained did not intend us to meddle in unlimited control. Hearing a such things” a view fostered recent lecture in one of the halls by leaders of religious cere­ at Dartmouth College by that monies to cover their own ig­ very sincere and able medium, norance, and to a fear that Mr! William Dudley Pelley, I spiritualism may reveal events was reminded of this danger. in the individual life of which He naturally, possibly cor­ the man refusing to investigate rectly, gives full credit as is ashamed. The mental indol­ authentic statements of abso­ ence will be cured in this life lute truth to the things told or later by pain resulting from him by Asiatic spirits com­ ignorance. That God did not municating at times by psychic intend us to know such things voices in languages very is denied by the fact that Christ ancient, including early Sans­ and his friends showed such krit. These words, phoneti­ things to thousands of people cally recorded by a stenogra­ and taught the gifts of God in pher and translated by a the psychic realm to disciples learned university professor, so that they could heal, speak convey information as to ori­ with tongues and “receive in gins and destinies. But these that same hour” what they messages have the Oriental should say while in danger. characteristics to such an ex­ The world has yet to learn the tent that they failed to interest truth that things held sacredly the audience at Dartmouth private by an individual will, College, as far as I could judge. if revelation would make for Spiritual truths for America evil, never be told by spirits to must be discerned by spirits of any one but the individual our race and presented, if they himself.

CONTENTS

Ma n I s M ore T h a n H is B ody, Sir Oliver Lodge 103 P ersons W it h A S ix th Se n s e , Dr. Willy Jaschke 108 Medium s I H ave K n o w n , Florizel von Reuter 11 a W hy I B elieve in S piritualism , Will Goldston ISO P ow erful S p ir it s , Maina L. Tafe 182 A S outh S ea I sland Control, 0. It. Washburn 18o P hy sica l P h e n o m e n a U nder T est Co n d itio n s, Editor ...... L etters to t h e E ditor 192 THAN HIS BODY M y Sir Oliver Lodge

(Editor's Note: Our general policy is to publish only original articles, and this rule will be departed from only on special occasions, when the importance of the article or the standing of the writer justify it. On the present occa­ sion both these reasons operate. Not only is Sir Oliver Lodge one of the foremost men of science, but he is an outstanding figure in psychic research and all he has to say thereon is worthy of the careful attention of everyone interested in this vital subject. This article originally appeared in the Oc­ tober number of “BEYOND,” published in London, England.) UR m aterial bodies wear out and have to O be left behind; no material objects are perma­ nent, they always decay sonner or later, but the soul of a thing is not in the material presentation. The material side of a picture is canvas and pigment, nothing else would be detected by a microscope; but to such an ex­ amination there is no “picture,” the “soul” or meaning — the reality—has evaporated when the material object is contem­ plated in that analytical man­ ner. So it is with our bodies; dissected, they are muscle and manifestation, but it is a deadly blood-vessel and nerves — a mistake to identify thought and wonderful mechanism; but no personality with any assem­ such examination can detect blage of atoms. The brain is the soul or mind. a pulpy mass of matter, mys­ teriously contrived so as to re­ Mind and Mechanism act to thought, to receive and transmit impressions; but the Mind utilizes and dominates brain does not think, it does not matter; it uses it for purposes plan, nor see, nor hear. Only of demonstration and achieve­ the mind does these mental ment, employs it as a vehicle of things, the brain is its instru- ment. Without it, and its ner­ The faculty of interpretation vous and muscular coordina­ is amazing. By certain ingen­ tion, we should be powerless ious devices we have just learnt to move matter, and therefore how to interpret ether waves powerless to speak or write or into harmony and sense. To convey our impressions or ex­ confuse our real existence with press our thoughts. the instrument is merely Our whole material body is stupid. an assemblage of atoms cun­ The very shape of the body ningly put together so as to depends on nothing material, it make a structure of wonderful does not depend on the nature ingenuity an beauty of adapta­ of the food supplied, as the tion; every part is allotted to shape of a crystal does: the its proper function, and we live same food could equally well here and now by the coopera­ have made a chicken or a pig. tion and harmonious working There is no personal identity in of the whole. That is how we the particles, or in their aggre­ live here on earth, and how we gation; the personal identity make ourselves known to others belongs to the soul, the vivify­ who are in like case. ing, animating principle which The particles which compose put them together and which our body were collected to­ allots to each particle its office. gether from vegetable and ani­ The protoplasmic cell which mal substance, and arranged by enters the blood in the course the indwelling or psychic entity ( f digestion goes to some part which may be called life or cf the tissues and is there soul, and which we do not pre­ arranged according to its local­ tend fully to understand. Hut ity. In one place it will con­ therein lies the self, the char­ tribute to a nail, in another to acter, the memory: not in the a hair, in another to a muscle mechanism. or the skin. Wound the skin, The ear does not hear, it is it is soon restored; cut a nerve, the instrument of hearing: in it heals up again. Marvellous itself it is mechanism, as a tele­ is the process utterly beyond phone is mechanism. our conscious power. Who by The evo does not see, any taking thought could grow a more than a photographic toe-nail, or a tooth, or a hair! camera sees: it is we who see The physics and chemistry of and hear by means of these the process can be studied, but receiving instruments. They the guiding, indwelling, im­ get stimulated by vibrations, manent power eludes our ken. and strangely enough we can All is obedient to law and interpret those vibrations. order; the laws can be formu­ We interpret sense indica­ lated, the process observed and tions into a landscape, or a described by skilled observers; poem, or a work of art. When but that is only the mechanism. we listen to speech, all that we So might wo study the struc­ ree< iy<- i;; vibrations of the air: ture of a bridge, or an engine, the senses of animals receive or a wireless set, but the con- just the same, but they have not reiver or designer would not be the mind to interpret. visible.

k;i To identify the animating sport without permanence, power with the material vehicle without meaning. All our hope is to stultify ourselves and to and faith and charity, all our shut our eyes to reality. A joy and sorrow and self-sacn- violin or an organ is an instru­ fice, going for nothing, blotted ment: but the music requires out and ceasing as a tale that a musician. is told. No R esurrection o f Co rpses W e do n o t R u n l ik e We ourselves are not matter, T r a m c a r s we use matter and discard it; To such theorizers the only the body is our instrument, it notion of survival would be only lasts for a time and then resuscitation of the bodily me­ has to be buried or burnt; it chanism, an attempt at which has served its turn and its par­ is rightly called necromancy, a ticles may now serve another dealing with the corpse. There organism. have been times when it was We ourselves never enter the really believed that the graves tomb; we continue an uninter­ would yield up their dead, that rupted existence. We may there would be a general resus­ probably have another mode of citation, and that our poor dis­ manifestation — another body carded, worn-out agglomerates in that sense—though no longer of earthly particles would be made of m atter; the old ma­ collected "together and be tor­ terial body is dead and done tured or petted to all eternity. with, it will never be resusci­ Emancipate yourselves from so tated by us. There is no resus­ gross a superstition. citation of a corpse, once it is completely dead; that would be In contrast to that, what is no glorified resurrection; that the truth? The truth is that would be either a strange inex­ we ourselves are not subject to plicable miracle, or else a mere mortality, that we do not decay horror. or wear out, that we have a Those who have limited permanent existence beyond the themselves to a material view life of the material, fleshly of existence, and closed their organism which we inherited eyes to reality, necessarily take from the rest of the animal a very low and limited view of creation; that it is the animat­ human destiny, and think the ing, controlling, and dominat­ idea of survival nonsense. If ing spirit which really consti­ the brain is the mind, if all tutes ourselves, and that this memory is stored there, if it is persists apart from the acci­ not only the instrument for dents which can happen to the reproducing and manifesting body, and subject only to those thoughts and ideas, but is the evils which may assault and actual human being—a strange hurt the soul; that we are able notion—then indeed we are to ascend to heights unspeak­ feeble, ephemeral creatures, able, and to descend to corres­ living our thousand months and ponding depths. then returning to the dust The permanent human ele­ whence we came. A futile ment is the character—the will.

165 That is what determines man’s tain what is really the meaning destiny. We have risen above of existence, and get our wills mechanism, we are not coerced, right with that effort which we do not run in grooves like seems to us divine, then beyond a tramcar, we are free to direct these voices we shall attain to our course; we sit at the helm peace and to the service which and can choose our path. Many is perfect freedom. of us are content so long as we I speak of help or guidance. keep clear of obstacles and spin That, too, is a reality ; it is not along the highway, but some forced upon us, but it can be can do more than that; they ours if we ask for it. Multi­ have, as it were, wings, they tudes have lived and striven on can soar out of the dusty high­ the earth, and they are not ex­ ways of vulgar life, at least for tinct. There is plenty of room moments; they can rise into in this great universe, in which freedom and beauty, they can nothing real goes out of exist­ sing like the lark and call us ence. It may go beyond our poor plodders to share in the ken, but it never ceases to be. ecstasy and the beauty and Even the atoms of matter seem majesty of the universe, of permanent. Every fraction of which they are beginning to energy is conserved; there is catch more than a fleeting no destruction: only change. glimpse. So it has been with all who have Man is not fully-developed lived; and we know how some man as yet, when only a few of them have energized and out-top their fellows; the time suffered to help humanity. will surely come when all will be able to realize their birth­ A M ig h ty A rm y at W ork right. Much of the present un­ Think you they will labour rest is a groping after higher no more, will rest and leave us things, a feeling that this world in neglect and loneliness? Not cannot be all, that education so! We are not alone; we are and leisure are objects worth only some of the agents who struggling for; that there are are striving after better condi­ prizes beyond the present scope of the average man. Terribly tions. A mighty army is at mistaken are some of the work; not at the work of de­ efforts: selfishness dogs and struction, but at the work of damages the ideals; but sooner regeneration, stimulation, help, or later all this can be rectified. and guidance. They have not abandoned the conflict, they Mankind is barely civilized are in it still; regarding it now as yet, we have much leeway from a higher standpoint, see­ to make up; but there is plenty ing and lamenting our blund­ of time. For the individual and ers, and ready to lend a helping also for the race there is a mag­ hand. All doubtless subject to nificent prospect ahead; and if a Higher Power beyond our we set our faces firmly towards conception, which yet works by the right, and seek for the law, and by physical means, guidance which is certainly and by agents, in ways which forthcoming, if we try to ascer­ we cannot fathom, but can

166 gladly acknowledge. The des­ and when the average man has tiny of the individual depends reached this altitude, what will largely upon himself. The des­ the peaks be then? tiny of the race depends upon We little know what we may us and upon those who have become, whether as individuals gone before. We are co-workers or as a human race; we have together. but recently risen, we are still That happier state which is in an embryo stage, ugly and called the Kingdom of Heaven unfinished; hardly yet have is the aim and goal; it is to be we attained to childhood. As reached on earth some day. Browning says—likening the Towards that end immortal development of man to the ap­ powers are working. Unruly pearing of the stars out of the wills retard it, greed and strife twilight—one or two first and oppose it; but surely the pow­ then a multitude:— ers of good are the stronger, and in the end will prevail. . . . man is not Man as yet. Nor shall I deem his object served, “Ma n I s N ot Man A s Y et” his end This is a wonderful and Attained, his genuine strength beautiful earth; this episode of put fairly forth, While only here and there a earth-life is plainly of tremen­ star dispells dous importance in the scheme. The darkness, here and there a Some day our ideals will be towering mind realized, some day humanity Overlooks its prostrate fellows: will rise nearer to the possibili­ when the host ties which we now begin to see Is out at once to the despair of are within its scope. For al­ night, ready mankind has thrown up When all mankind alike is Plato and Shakespeare and perfected, Equal in full-blown powers— Newton, like mountain peaks then, not until then, which catch the rising sun be­ I say, begins man’s general fore the valleys and the plain; infancy.

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167 PERSONS WITH A SIXTH SENSE M y Willy K.. Jasehkc, PhJD.

Part I. 0NG before I met, five years ago, the clairvoyant engineer O. in Warsaw, I had heard that he could read a sealed letter, copy a drawing enclosed in non-transparent paper, read 1thoughts, give the main points in the history of some small object that had been handed to him, describe a dwelling which was far away and unknown to him and much else. I wanted, therefore, at any cost to try an experiment with him myself, or, at least to be present at an experiment conducted with him by someone else. After we had become person­ let us try. Will the gentlemen ally acquainted, he expressed please follow me into the next very amiably his willingness to room and be seated.” try systematic experiments Engineer Ossowiecki now with me for the more precise had us cut about sixty rectang­ determination of the nature ular cards of the same size—6 and scope of his extraordinary by 7—out of ordinary bond talents. Delighted by his readi­ paper. On two of these cards ness, I waited four times for Dr. C. and I were to write our him for several hours without monogram together with some becoming vexed. The fifth number of two figures. The time, however, I was unex­ cards that had been thus mark­ pectedly lucky, and Mr. Osso- ed in nencil were placed, writ­ wiecki actually arrived late in ten side downward, along with the evening at the residence of all the rest on a small, smooth, Professor S----- , an anthrop­ low, octagnal table. While this ologist of our acquaintance, was being done, Engineer Os­ where besides the master of the sowiecki, with his back towards house and his wife, there were us was conversing with Prof. present as invited guests, an­ S. and his wife. The cards other psychologist, Dr. C., and were now mixed, so that none I. of us could in any way distin­ At first we enjoyed ourselves guish the cards that had writ­ drinking tea and chatting about ing underneath from those that all sorts of things. Then one of had not. Now Ossowiecki be­ us asked Engineer Ossowiecki gan his work. He seated him­ whether he was well disposed self at the little table, raised that day for experimenting. his head and stared at the ceil­ “Very gladly/’ said the engi­ ing, while at the same time he neer, “although just today I do fingered the cards and shoved not feel especially well, still, them in all directions, touching

168 and searching without, how­ asked that one of those present ever. turning them over. The should write a short sentence four persons present kept his some simple question — on a work under close scrutiny, piece of paper, put the paper watching every movement of into an envelope, seal it, and his hands or eyes and whisper­ hand the letter to him. This ing their observations to each was done. Prof. S. in a remote other. Since we ourselves could corner of the room, wrote some­ not distinguish the cards he thing on a small sheet of paper was seeking, we could not pos­ (about 10 by 15 cm.), folded sibly influence his movements the sheet four times across and then once obliquely, sealed it in by our remarks. a gray envelope, approached us, CLAIRVOYANCE and handed the letter to Mr. The shuffling went on for Ossowiecki. None of those about six to eight minutes. present, except Prof. S., had Then the hands of the clairvo­ any notion of what was written yant stopped on a card. “This there. We looked on while Mr. card has writing on it/’ he said. Ossowiecki felt the envelope “I know it for certain. The with his fingers, placed the let­ first figure is 2, the second 7. ter on his forehead and on his The card is yours,” he said to chest, we listened as his respir­ me. “See for yourself!” ation became more rapid, we I turned the card over and saw him turning red and per­ read the writing on the other spiration breaking out on his side. It was, indeed, my card, forehead. He explained that it the number 27 was really writ­ was especially difficult for him ten on it as well as my mono­ to read that day, that he was gram. The writing had been not satisfied with his perform­ done on a table with a hard sur­ ance and expected that nothing face, so that to the ordinary would come out right. In spite sense of touch, the figures and of that he began to speak a few letters were absolutely indis­ minutes later: “Yes, it is a cernible from either side. question beginning with the After a few minutes, Mr. Os- word ‘Who’. I cannot read it sowiecki guessed in the same very well. The question is manner the other card, Dr. C/s, short, just as I asked. I cannot and named both figures correct­ give the words, but there is ly. The experiment had suc­ something in it about a re­ ceeded. Whether it was a mat­ moval, or about taking a thing ter of clairvoyance or of some away. It is a strange thing. It special form of telepathy be­ is light, it may be liquid, but tween us and Ossowiecki per­ also gaseous; I cannot name it. haps, it is impossible) to de­ It is transparent, but what it termine. I do not want to and really is, I cannot say. I am cannot elucidate the incident slightly tired today, and do not further here—I merely wish to see correctly. I cannot get any­ describe it. thing more.” On the same evening we tried With these words he handed another experiment with the me the letter. The envelope was clairvoyant. Mr. Ossowiecki unhurt. In it was the folded

169 paper. I unfolded it and read how it happens. Likewise, it the following: “Who stole some is not a matter of possible alcohol?” inferences drawn by the me­ The experiment was, there­ dium from his present observa­ fore, more or less successful. tions, or from his actual knowl­ The gist of the question was edge, for the grounds are in­ given correctly though not the sufficient for such conclusions. words.” This is proved by the following case, among other things—with “MODUS OPERANDI” the same engineer Ossowiecki. Several months after the I asked: “Sir, how do you do seance at Prof. S.’s, an elderly it? Have you a sort of picture lady, Mrs. G., came to me, of the folded card and jumble showed me an old-fashioned of the lines, which you attempt gold brooch, told me that she to decipher, or is it something had recently lost this brooch on else? What is going on inside the street and had recovered it you while you are working?” with Mr. Ossowiecki’s help. “No,” said Mr. Ossowiecki, “In what manner? Just how “I do not see the folded sheet was it?” I asked. that I hold in my hand. I see in my thoughts only Prof. S. writing and all at once I know FINDING A LOST BROOCH what he wrote. I see not what She related the following: I am now holding in my hand “Two weeks ago I felt unhappy but what happened before, when I noticed that I had lost when the question was being my beloved brooch, which I had vritten. I always work that inherited from my dear way. All at once there comes mother. I didn’t know what to into my mind the picture of a do about it and wept bitterly. past situation, with a number Then I betook myself to Mr. of details, which I then de­ Ossowiecki and asked him to scribe, and it always turns out help me. We had been person­ to be correct.” ally acquainted and through Evidently we are not dealing hearsay, I had come to know with rays, or with any sort of his unusual gifts with deepest supersensitiveness, for in that admiration. He placed his hand case a folded sheet with writ­ here on my throat where this ing on it can offer at best only brooch always lay, and said: an indecipherable scrawl, as “Wait, dear madam, I see al­ happens when such a paper is ready where you lost your held before an ordinary light brooch. I know already what or the Roentgen ray. The me­ it looked like. And here he de­ dium says that he sees the past, scribed quite correctly the un­ and since what he says agrees usual form of the lost jewel. more than once with what has You are walking down the actually happened, there is no street, the brooch falls off, a reason for declaring it impos­ man dressed in gray bends sible at the outset. (Contra down behind you, takes the facta nullo argumento) though brooch, puts it in his pocket, we have not the least notion of and goes around the corner to

170 the right. I see the street-cor­ a place. Return the brooch to ner. I know very well where her and please give me your ad­ it is, but the man suddenly dis­ dress that I may inform the appears from my sight. I have owner of her rare good for­ a good impression of his face, tune.” 1 shall recognize him, but I do The man brought the brooch not know where he lives, or to Mrs. G. She was delighted just where he has disappeared. and beside herself for joy and I am very sorry, but for the gratitude. In order to put the present I cannot tell you any matter permanently on record, more. Just one word of advice. she came to me at the Psycho­ Inform the police and advertise logical Institute of the Univer­ in the newspapers — perhaps sity and left with me a written you will get your brooch back,’ account of the entire affair. 1 was disconsolate,” said Mrs. When I questioned Mr. Osso­ G. wiecki about it later, he con­ firmed the whole story word “Two days later,” she went for word. As I later made de­ on to say, “I get a letter from tailed inquiries as to Mrs. G.’s engineer Ossowiecki. He in­ credibility and character, I forms me that I shall get my consider it out of the question brooch back. I run at once to that there was here a tacit un­ his house, find him, luckily, at derstanding between the clair­ home, and he tells me the fol­ voyant and Mrs G. for advertis­ lowing : ing or similar purposes. “Yesterday, I was standing In this case we are dealing in line before a window in the once more with seeing the past. Commercial Bank. In front of It is not a matter of inference; me was a man whose face seem­ the only connecting link for ed very familiar to me, only I Mr. Ossowiecki was the spot he could not recollect where I had touched on Mrs. G.’s throat. come to know him. Suddenly Contact with her and lively it came to me: Yes, right! It sympathy for the poor woman’s is surely the man with the misfortune sufficed at once— brooch! He is surely the man there appears to Mr. Osso­ I saw yesterday in my mind as wiecki a short series of pictures I followed him in my thoughts! of the past—vivid and precise It is surely the same gentleman —enough for him to recognize in the gray suit! I stepped the next morning at the win­ nearer and asked, ‘Pardon me, dow of a bank in a city of mil­ did you not happen to find a lions the man whom he had brooch day before yesterday in seen in his mind. Again no M Street?’ The man turned rays—only a special form of pale, stared at me and stam­ recognition—not by the famil­ mered, ‘Yes, but how do you iar way of stimulus and sensa­ know that, pray? I was just tion, but in some other way, going to bring the brooch to the whereby the act of recognition police station and report its and the thing recognized are finding.’ It is no longer neces­ separated by an interval of sary. It is the property of Mrs. time. G. She lives at such and such (Continued on Page 191)

171 LA TRAVELEUR DU VIE

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172 MEDIUMS I HAVE KNOWN AND EXPERIMENTED WITH

P art III. phenomena of the lower varie­ ty. Roumania and Hungaria PHYSICAL PHENOMENA have given us in recent years ITH the term physical Eleonara Zugun and Vilma phenomena I mean, in Molnar (two Poltergeist girls). W this case (1) telekine­ Austria has one of the greatest sis or the moving of objects of physical mediums, Frau Sil- without physical contact; (2) bert of Graz. Bohemia simply the phenomenon of the so-called bristles with physical phenome­ “apporte” (the sudden appear­ na. Some of the recent cases ance of an object which was have been the Nicholsbruger previously in some other room) ; spook affair, the Kotterbach and (3) the materialization of rain of stones, the polter-phe- hands, or complete forms. Of nomena of The Zwieselbauer course the “direct voice” is in girls (examined and certified to itself a great, perhaps the by Dr. Simsa of Prague) and greatest of physical phenome­ the latest number of the Z na, but this branch has been schrift fun Parapsychologie dealt with in Part I of this brings an account of two new series. mediums in Prague who have The great value of physical phenomenal results. Then phenomena is certainly not to there are the famous Schneider be looked for from the ethical brothers of Braunau, on the point of view. On the other Austro-Bavarian frontier, cele­ hand you have the indisputable brated through the labora­ fact that one well-attested case tory - experiments of Baron of simple telekinesis is worth a Schrenck-Notzing, and the hundred mental phenomena of more recent experiments with the most uplifting character Mr. in London; when it comes to convincing a the now aged but still phe­ skeptic. nomenal Maria Vallhardt of Your hard-baked scientist Berlin, and recently the child- who will be unimpressed by the medium Lucie of Charlotten- most beautiful trance-address burg (Berlin) whose phenome­ or verbose automatic-writing na were witnessed and certified will shiver with delight at the to be six Berlin doctors, and sight of a glass or a box rising who turned Berlin topsy-turvy from the table, if he be con­ for a few weeks, the whole sen­ vinced that he has got hold of sation ending in a law-suit both the medium’s hands and is brought by the landlord against treading upon his feet. Middle- the parents for alleged break­ Europe is the home of physical ing of the peace, his claim be-

173 mg, however, dismissed as un­ spook, which was investigated proven and illogical. Berlin and written about by Schrenck- also produced the Uhland-me- Notzing. dium, Miss Elsa Arnhem, who The city of Hamburg had for received an apporte of a gen­ many years one of the greatest uine Uhland poem, hitherto of materializing mediums, Frau non-existent and in the famous Ohlhaver, the wife of a well- German poet’s most approved to-do Hamburg merchant, in handwriting and style. whose presence as many as nine phantom forms appeared POLTER-PHENOMENA simultaneously. Of Ohlhaver’s book “The Dead Live” half-a- A year or two ago, polter- million copies were sold in Ger­ phenomena occurred in a house many in a year, and this book, m , the origin of which an account of his own experi­ were traced to a young servant- ence with his wife, did more girl, who, besides a number of than any other publication for genuine phenomena witnessed the circulation of Spiritualism by three persons (among them amongst the lower classes. a policeman), also, through It is interesting to observe hysterical impulse, committed that in the majority of the various fraudulent manoeuvres cases quoted the phenomena which led the investigating au­ hang around or are attached to thorities, who were, of course, young persons of both sexes of ignorant of psychic phenome­ the lower classes, thus bearing na, to conclude that everything out the Spiritualistic teaching had been humbug, in spite of that physical phenomena of the testimony to the contrary. The primitive variety are invari­ maid was accordingly locked up ably produced by lower or in a nerve-asylum, a simple and earth-bound spirits. One can­ effective way of disposing of not indeed, fancy Shakespeare psychic phenomena! In Catho­ or Goethe attaching themselves lic Bavaria ghosts or polter­ to the person of a serving-maid geists are forbidden, and have or a half-grown lad, but one to be dealt with by the exor­ can easily imagine lower intel­ cising clergy. ligences making use of the mag­ A clergyman’s house in netic fluidum, these adolescents Wurttenberg was, in recent possess in abnormal quantity, years, infested by poltergeists, in order to produce their dem­ who pestered the poor priest to onstrations. Of course, animis- such an extent that he was ob­ tical science professes to ex­ liged to vacate the premises. plain the phenomena without A full account of the phenome­ the intermediation of spirits. na, which included even “direct It seeks to account for all such voice,” was given in the Para- polter-phenomena through sub­ psychical Journal by Dr. Lud­ conscious hysterical impulses wig of the Freising University, of the medium, as well as by a Catholic priest who is an au­ the Freud theories Such hy­ thority amongst the clergy potheses are, however, at best, upon psychic matters. Then a makeshift. Certainly it is pos­ there was also the sible that the subconscious will-

174 power of the psychic may often soles of her feet. I have also unwittingly play a larger role experienced the levitation of a than fanatical Spiritualists will voice-trumpet, which floated admit. Personally, I have never around and touched various sit­ been able to see why some ters by request, all hands being Spiritualists are so loath to al­ controlled. As Frau Vollhardt low man’s incarnate soul any is not trained for Direct Voice, powers of its own. Some Spir­ no voice issued from the trum ­ itualists seem to feel it their pet upon this occasion. Upon duty to attribute every con­ the same evening a flower from ceivable phenomenon to discar- a vase two rooms away, ap­ nates, either because they have peared upon the table and not studied the cases which moved around touching th e clearly indicate incarnate not hands of all present, under discarnate control, or because strict control. Also a sofa to they fear to lessen the evidence the left of the medium, but out for Spiritualism if they con­ of reach, moved up to the table cede anything to the powers of and an ash tray flew across the the living incarnate Soul; room. whereas they really do weaken A strange phenomena often their own case by too fanatical witnessed at Frau Vollhardt’s denial of the doctrines of Anim­ are actoplasmic drawings upon ism. Certainly there seems no the mirrors in her house. The reason why Spiritualism and substance which produces the Animism should not amalga­ forms on the mirrors has been mate to a certain extent. chemically analysed. Frau Vollhardt has also had dermat- PRIMITIVE PHYSICAL ologian phenomena, which take the form of scratches on her PHTNOMENA hands and arms. The first medium for primi­ The most interesting phe­ tive physical phenomena I ex­ nomena of this not very uplift­ perienced was Maria Vollhardt, ing kind were produced by the known to all German connois­ Poltergeist girl, Eleonora Zu- seurs through Dr. Schwab’s gun, who, when at the height book “Telekinesis and of her mediumistic powers was ma,”ascientific record of his two known to bring forth, in the years experiments with her. space of two hours, in broad She is the wife of a respectable daylight no fewer than thirty train-official, and never takes scratches of various kinds, money for her sittings, so there some upon her face, others is no primary reason for fraud upon neck and arms. I have in her case. She is about sixty seen her when raising a glass years of age. Upon the occasion of tea to her lips suddenly start of my first visit to her, rap- and in that instant three or pings were heard upon the wall four red stripes appeared upon in full light. I have seen her her cheek, as though caused by levitated, while both hands long finger-nails. The experi­ were controlled. During the ment of smearing cold-cream levitation my mother and I upon her bare arms was tried. passed our hands under the The subsequent scratches rub- 175 bed away the cream, thus bear­ and the clear-cut physical phe­ ing witness to an outward force nomena of “Margery” of Bos­ independent of the girl herself. ton. There we have scientific Eleonora would sometimes be trained telekinesis and hand- bitten, the teeth-prints being materialisation, coupled with well marked upon the llesh. Oc­ demonstration of the direct- casionally there would be some voice. In the manifold charac­ saliva upon the skin. This was ter of her phenomena, Mrs. analysed and ascertained to Crandon is quite unique, the contain bacteria of an unkempt more so as her demonstrations mouth, such as one of her peas­ take place under control-condi­ ant ancestors might conceivably tions which are only exceeded have had. Who shall solve such in excellence by those of a strange riddle as this? Cer­ Schrenck-Notzing and Harry tainly it pointed to an earth- Price. Mrs. Crandon is search­ bound influence of a gruesome character, if explanation ed to the skin before entering through spiritualistic channels the seance-room (my mother were at all possible. Scientists assisting at the searching on have advanced the theory that the occasion when we were in­ Eleonora—prompted by some vited to a seance). So much weird subconscious maschios- has been written in America ismical impulse a-la Freud— about her phenomena, that I unknowingly tortured herself will, in this case, be brief. We by projecting from her body saw the levitation of a mega­ the astral force which accom­ phone, heard the ringing of the plished these skin mutilations. famous bell-box in red light In a dark room her poker-phe­ (the box being held by me at nomena were remarkably the time) and also experienced strong. I have heard raps like several minor feats of tele­ fist and hammer blows — as kinesis. many as two hundred in one evening—when all hands were Complete candour prompts removed from the table, all me to confess that, when I was present being controlled. Dur­ present, the position of the ing the summer of 1928 all phe­ glass-cabinet in which Margery nomena ceased with Eleonora, is strapped and bound seemed th e cessation corresponding to me disadvantageous, as it with the attainment of sexual stood so close to the wall on the maturity, so it is possible that right side that a continuous sexual hysteria may after all have been the driving under­ control of the right hand was current in this unusual case. impossible. The presence of Dr. Crandon himself to the MRS. CRANDON right of his wife during the ringing of the bell must also (“Margery”) be regarded as a weakness in the There is a vast chasm to be control system. How'ever, I am bridged between such phenome­ aware that since my own ex­ na as those just described, perience in 1925 great improve­ which defy complete analysis, ments have been made both in the and in the con­ THE SCHNEIDER trol conditions, so that this BROTHERS criticism is probably no longer applicable to present condi­ I now come to the most im­ portant and conclusive experi­ tions. Indeed, I understand ments in telekinesis it has been that many experiments have my privilege to witness, those been carried on without the with the Schneider-brothers in presence of Dr. Crandon. Cer­ Baron van Schrenck-Notzing’s tainly the Doctor and his wife psychic laboratory in Munich. have done splendid work for It was owing to the kindness of psychic-science. the late Baron Schrenck that i was awarded this magnificent I must not omit to refer to a opportunity of witnessing phy­ sitting with Mr. Victor Miller, sical phenomena under abso­ of New York, famous for his lutely fraud-proof conditions. materialisation seances. Upon I have been present at about the occasion I allude to, Mr. twenty sittings where the con­ Miller sat in plain view before trol conditions were such as ab­ the cabinet, which consisted solutely to preclude fraud. merely of a pair of curtains I freely confess that the drawn across a bay window. amazing physical phenomena I The cabinet was searched rig­ witnessed have completely orously before the beginning of spoiled me for phenomena, or the seance, and no entrance into so-called phenomena, which take place in sittings where no it was possible, save through control is insisted upon or per­ the room itself. A dim light in mitted. I wish again to state the back of the room showed that I consider in the duty of that none of the spectators all genuine mediums to practise moved, yet I solemnly swear sitting with illumined arm- that, at one time no fewer than bands sewed on their sleeves, a five shadowy forms simultan­ guarantee of good faith which eously emerged from the cabi­ would distinguish them, if car­ net. In the course of the sit­ ried through, from the cheap ting, which lasted over two kind of charlatan for whom too hours, about thirty forms ap­ credulous spiritualists are a peared, some of them shadowy, welcome prey. others well enough built up to I would recommend every show features and contours. It serious investigator of physical was an amazing experience and phenomena the electric control only required one more precau­ apparatus first employed in tion to meet the conditions of Schrenck-Notzing’s laboratory, psychic research. Even if Mr. afterwards perfected and ex­ Miller, however, who was him­ tended by Harry Price in his London laboratory. The appa­ self not searched, had had some ratus, which was designed by white drapery concealed about the late well-known occultist, his person, I do not see how he Karl Krall, is exceedingly sim­ could have caused five forms to ple. It consists of an indicator appear by trickery. upon which appear in red light

177 the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. This in­ At the time when I first saw dicator is placed just above the Willi Schneider, his powers curtains of the cabinet and con­ were on the wane, whereas nects electrically with a contact those of his younger brother board upon which the medium’s Rudi were, and still are, on a feet are placed. The medium level with the best demonstra­ then puts on slippers and gloves tions of . which connect, through electric That is to say when he is in wires, with the indicator, the form, for totally negative sit­ gloves being furthermore fast­ tings are by no means seldom ened to the medium’s sleeves with him until he becomes ac­ and a seal placed over the fast­ customed to the circle or to new enings. The slightest attempt surroundings. to free hand or foot results in the extinguishing of the num­ Rudi’s specialty consists of ber with which the member in moving objects with a mater­ question is connected. The me­ ialised hand which sometimes dium, as well as all the sitters takes the form of a pseudopod, are separated from the field of but often enough seems to be action by a wooden fence, the an independent materialization medium’s place being a yard built up behind the curtains and away from the table upon attached to a form which has which the objects to be moved not the courage or strength to telekinetically are placed. The step forth. table itself is exactly beneath a This is presumably “Olga,” red globe, the light from which the controlling entity, who can be diminished or increased speaks through the mouth of according to the strength of the medium and has, upon rare the phenomena. A chain of occasions, parted the curtains hands was always insisted up­ (as, for example, recently in on. Harry Price, in the recent London at the Price labora­ sittings in Lon­ tory) and allowed the sitters to don, enlarged the electric-con­ catch a glimpse of her ellusive trol by attaching it to all the form. I have seen the curtains sitters as well, thereby disprov­ swell up, as though the form ing the theory of the skeptics behind were pushing against that an accomplice is respon­ them, have seen them agitated sible for the phenomena. It as by a violent wind, so that should not be omitted to remark they flew out over the heads of that, besides the electric and the sitters — though they are arm-band control the medium heavy cloth curtains. is also held hand and foot by one of the experimenters, thus PHENOMENA IN being subjected to a threefold control. It is impossible to de­ RED LIGHT vise a more complete system of I have seen the hand, by good control than this, which has red light, protrude from a slit convinced over 200 skeptical between the two curtains, pick savants in Germany in the up a stick from the table, rap course of the Schrenck-Notzing smartly on the table, then wave experiments. the stick in the air. It is a pret-

178 ty, delicata little luind, quite ETHICAL VALUE OF the reverse of the medium’s PHENOMENA hand; in fact, the hand of a re­ fined lady. Just one word more in con­ clusion concerning the ethical I have seen it raise a twenty value of these phenomena from pound weight from the table, the Spiritualistic point of view. place it on the floor, and later When people ask me why spir­ pick it up and put it back upon its occupy themselves with such the table, an astonishing feat trifling things as picking up of strength, even were it the sticks and waving tambourines, hand of a living person. I always answer: “But do you Tambourines, waste - paper consider such scientific experi­ baskets, illuminated fans have ments in laboratories trifling flown about the room, a zither matters? Do you consider the has been harmoniously played task of proving scientifically by an invisible hand, an illum­ the existence of super normal inated bell rose up in the air, forces a trifling undertaking? floated around for a minute and Are not those spirits (if they a half (timed) while being be spirits) who are charged rung energetically the whole with the directing or perform­ time. ing of physical phenomena un­ der test conditions fulfilling a The length of this last phe­ most valuable service in the nomena enabled all present to cause of psychic science?” Not observe clearly the inanimate every spirit can be a poet, a arms of the entranced medium, philosopher, or a public speak­ with their illuminated arm- er, any more than he could bands. and the intactness of have been one in life; and even the red numbers on the indica­ as in earthly life we need the tor. These are physical phe­ humble craftsman for certain nomena which are worth homely tasks, so must we look end Psychic Science owes a vote to less intellectual souls in of thanks to Baron Schrenck- spirit life to give us those phy­ Notzing for having proved the sical demonstrations w h i c h existence of telekinesis under alone can make an impression scientific conditions which per­ upon the wooden-headed skep­ mit no doubt to spring up in tic. It is all part of the great the breast of any fair-minded scheme of that divine Power person who has experienced the which directs the world’s des­ phenomena. tiny.

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179 WHY I BELIEVE IN SPIRITUALISM B y Will Golds ton A Magician’s frank views on audience whose average age is the most discussed subject above twelve years that he is of the day— by performing miracles. But take WILL GOLDS the apparatus which so cun­ the world famous illusionist, ningly produces a ghost on the Founder and past President stage into a darkened room— of the Magician’s Club, the call yourself a medium and most powerful magicalyour performance a seance— what then? society in the tvorld. It is the lowest and most de­ AM a trickster by profes­ spicable kind of fraud. What­ sion, and a spiritualist by ever the inducement, I ivould belief. It is my business to never supply spirit trick ap­ deceive,1 and to help others to paratus to a man ivho coidd deceive. Tell me you want a not assure me that he intended slate to produce spirit writing, to give only an ordinary con­ and I can make it for you. Ask juring performance. me for a spirit hammer to pro­ I am doing my utmost to duce raps on a table whilst both stamp out the fraudulent me­ your hands are in view, and I dium. He is a pest, a scourge, can supply it. Or perhaps you a bloodsucker. He is prostitut­ would prefer a materialisation ing the noble cause of spiritual­ cabinet, a crystal ball in which ism for his own unworthy ends. messages can be read, or a Thanks to the untiring efforts spirit hand to caress you softly of Sir Oliver Lodge, he is fast in the dark? I can sell you all disappearing from our midst. these things. I can foresee the day, not far hence, when he will be as dead But because I make and in­ as the proverbial door nail. vent this magical apparatus for Yes, it is the spiritualists stage illusions, would you call themselves who are exposing me deceitful? I think not. I these unscrupulous frauds. I am no more deceitful than the wonder how many people real­ fiction writer who uses his ize that fact; it is the strong­ brain to concoct exciting plots est argument in favor of spirit­ for the entertainment of his ualism that I know. The so- leaders. As with me, it is a called “exposures” by unbeliev­ business, and a perfectly hon­ ers in spiritualism—and of late est business at that. there have been many—more Magical performances are often than not prove to be not supernatural. No conjurer something in the nature of a has ever convinced a civilized mare’s nest. You can no more

ISO expose a genuine medium than in my mind, for, frankly, I you can turn chalk into cheese. could not understand it. “Poor Goldston! What a Not long afterwards, I at­ tragedy that he should believe tended a lecture by a Lanca­ in all this spirtualistic bunk!’' shire woman, who stated she That is a remark I have often was an automatic writer. Her heard whispered in the past claims were fully substantiated, amongst my brother conjurers. for I saw her write perfectly Why my sanity should thus be in several foreign languages doubted is beyond my compre­ which were quite unknown to hension. I am a spiritualist her. Sometimes her script was simply because my common crude, at others in perfect cop­ sense compels me. per plate style. And yet I can recall the days From that day I became a when I, too, regarded spiritual­ convinced spiritualist, but it ism as a fraud. To my mind, was quite by chance that I dis­ all spirit mediums were un­ covered that I also had the gift principled scoundrels, and I of . One of decided to enlighten the public, my first efforts in this branch the poor, ignorant people who of spiritualism was to predict were being so artfully tricked the death of a young woman and so easily bled. Yes, I with whom I was acquainted. would write a book showing Two weeks after I had received how the spiritualists effected the message, she committed their alleged psychic phe­ suicide. nomena. I have since attended hun­ dreds of seances in England, With this end in view, I at­ America, and on the Continent. tended a performance of the I have learnt that there are magician Duprez who was able many types of mediums—the to produce a startling and real­ clairvoyant, the physical, the ly ghost-like ghost. I saw how direct voice, the photographic, easy this trick was, and decided the materialising, and the auto­ to attend a number of seances. matic writer to which I have This, I might say, was no easy already referred. I have rea­ matter. On many occasions I lised that spiritualism is as yet was refused admission because a science in its infancy, and it was feared I had come to up­ that the phenomena of to-day set the proceedings. I believe is nothing to what will be seen now, as I did then, that those when the subject is more fully meetings were frauds. understood. At last, however, I managed Recently, London was graced to attend a seance. I remember vuth the presence of the two the price of admission—six­ greatest spirit mediums in the pence — puzzled me consider­ world. I refer to “Margery,” ably, for I wondered how it was the wife of Dr. Crandon, and possible for a conjurer to make Rudi Schneider. It is a matter a living by charging such a of deep regret to me that I small fee. The exhibition of have never seen “Margery” at clairvoyance which followed work. As a conjurer, I am bar­ planted the first seeds of doubt red from her seances.

181 I am therefore, not in a po­ honestly declare that Schneider sition to offer an opinion on the was a fraud. I attended the phenomena produced at her sit­ seance prepared to find trick­ tings. 1 had hoped that in my ery. I was on the lookout for special case, she might have secret traps and hammers and overlooked the ruling against confederates. Hut there were the magical profession, for the none. fact that I am a confirmed Before the sitting, I con­ spiritualist is well-known, both versed with Schneider. He is here and in America. However, young, unsploit, and absolute­ 1 can well understand her veto ly guileless. He is a clever against illusionists, and will engineer, but has not that in­ not grumble because a few ventive turn of mind which must suffer for the majority. would enable him to think out No one knows better than I a clever fake. And, although that the conjurer who has Rudi thinks nothing of his made up his mind never to be seances, he might justly be re­ convinced by spiritualism is garded as the eighth, and per­ more stupid and stubborn than haps the greatest, wonder of a dozen fractious mules. the world. The comparison be­ I was privileged to attend a tween the phenomena he pro­ Schneider seance. It was the duced and conjuring is as a most amazing and enlightening new Rolls-Royce car and a tired experience of my life. As an and aged cab-horse. exhibition of genuine psychic That is why I believe in phenomena, I have never seen spiritualism. I have the evi­ its equal. My brain is still be­ dence of my own senses to wildered by those wonderful guide me and give me hope. At happenings. the present time, spiritualism I have no reason for setting has as great a following as any down these things if they are religion in the world, and it untrue. Indeed, I daresay I will not be long before it is ac­ could make much money from cepted as the greatest of them newspaper articles if I could all.

POWERFUL SPIRITS Who A. re B y Ma3m a JL. Tafe, M.C.E.M. So much is being said in Just what do they mean by psychic circles among those that? The natural inference members of society interested is that a “powerful” spirit is in the science we demonstrate one who was physically (it here regarding someone in their on the earth plane of under­ acquaintanceship w h o h a s standing, a regular Samson. “powerful” or “high” spirits The word power has a psycho­ in his band. logical effect upon us and when heard instantly suggests lowing that, your WILL­ strength; but the vital question POWER either sees to it that is, does it suggest physical you go where food may be had strength as we know it here, or you arrange to have food or does it denote mental brought to you, but either way, strength, the WILL-POWER YOU EAT, and then you have of the disembodied intelli­ created the objective reality— gence ? a full stomach. And what do they mean by It is interesting, amusing “high” spirits? The word and yet most pathetic to ob­ high suggests elevation, but do serve the caliber of intellect they infer these high spirits that usually boasts of his are on a higher plane (thinking “powerful” or “high” spirits. of it in the sense of a place as In our fascinating and un­ so many erroneously do), or limited study we contact many do they try to convey to us the minds here in the material impression of high as an world of expression. Many exalted state of consciousness minds similar to each other as which yhas been glorified by we are in looks, yet different. religious worship or by the Grasp the fundamentals of persistent search for Truth this great science, for it is a and Knowledge; or, do they science. It belongs to ALL mean their vision and intellect races, creeds and colors. You have been broadened to such will find a little time devoted an extent that they can meet to introspection each day and analyze many subjects and affords you a much greater render their decision, based understanding of your own upon the facts involved, with­ spirit attractions (whatever out malice or pretense? they may be) than anything I Thoughts are the language could write about it. The Law of the soul. First, you desire of Attraction was dealt with (either consciously or uncon­ briefly in my article appearing sciously) and that desire causes in the August issue of this mag­ you to think consciously and azine. The July number also your WILL-POWER sets that carried something about it. thought into action. You are In the spirit world so-called the machine, your desire is the we are truly natural spirits and current, and your WILL­ subject to natural laws. There POWER the spark that ignites we cannot defy them as we do your ambition and creates the here. The gangster there asso­ result—the objective reality of ciates with his gangsters, the your own thought. As an illus­ musician with his kind, the tration: You are unaware of student finds his fellows and the operations going on within remains with them. The natu­ your body until your stomach ralist is in company with other ffets empty and you sense naturalists, and the men of hunger THEN your desire to science meet each other too. ecft comes into play; next, your The great law of life is love thoughts of what, when, where end harmony. Think of water. and how you will eat; and fol­ It is governed by natural law

183 and seeks its own level, unless cal mediums who boast of their man interferes. In the same powerful guides because they manner, intellect seeks its level a r e PURELY PHYSICAL over there. While it is true it MEDIUMS getting only such may vary a trilie one way or phenomena through their medi­ the other, yet the variation is umship as the levitation of not so great that a hod-carrier objects and carrying them attracts a President of the about (telekinesis). The intel­ , a scrub-woman lectual background being attracts an Ella Wheeler Wil­ cramped the medium’s idea of cox, nor does a criminal or liar powerful spirits is their ability attract a saint. to carry and move heavy In our seance rooms we are objects, and we find when such told by communicating intelli­ mediums speak of high spirits gences that many over there they think of a place and con­ fail to speak with us through tinually refer to their guides the Direct Voice phase of being high spirits dwelling on mediumship due to the fact the sixth and seventh planes, that as they observe the other etc., etc., — the medium’s spirits “coming through” that limited range of reasoning, you way THEY ARE AFRAID see. That is the type of phen­ THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED omena conjurers have dupli­ with the result that they do cated by trickery and the type fail to make the contact. If of mediums they have taught they desire to speak and have the “uninformed” to believe the WILL-POWER to succeed, constitutes the bulk of spirit­ then they communicate with us ualistic phenomena. Why won­ direct. That is a natural law der then that psychic phe­ over there as well as here. nomena in all its phases have If you can attract a “power­ made slow strides during the ful” spirit, one that is power­ centuries? For ages, physical ful in WILL and at the same phenomena such as referred to time a “high” spirit in intellect, above was considered low, de­ one that has evolved beyond the basing, manifestations of the petty views of life, the unde­ earth-bound souls and the veloped passions of selfishness, works of the devil. Physical envy, hate and revenge, then phenomena was considered the you have indeed surrounded LOWEST TYPE of medium- yourself with those invisible ship while clairovoyance and helpers who work for humanity clairaudience (the mental as a whole and the improve­ ment of us all. Unfortunately, type) was looked upon as the too many people start to unfold HIGHEST. A combination of their psychic qualities with an both the physical and mental inadequate foundation. We sides is most desireable. If you have altogether too many one- can obtain the physical PLUS story mind foundations boast­ the intellectual, then you have ing of their “powerful” and found a real gem in an appro­ “high” buildings of intellect priate setting. No conjurer, who have joined their spirit however great in his illusions, bands. There are some physi­ ( Continued on Inside Back Page)

184 A SOUTH SEA ISLAND CONTROL Owen R. Washburn URING the last week in of Delaware. But the control, January of this year I in a prayer some eight minutes D met in Wilmington, long, would not have been ex­ Delaware, Mrs. Betty Armitage celled in pure speech by any of Laural Street, in that city, writer. Following this control and she, with about ten of her came the spirit of a man of friends, arranged a seance for tremendous physical strength me; no one asking or receiving who shook hands with every any money payment in connec­ one, having a grip of steel, who tion with the matter. could not talk English at all. The first part of the evening This control gave what appear­ Mrs. Armitage remained out of ed to be a ritualistic treatment trance but gave some very good for ill-health to a lady in the mental phenomena. She an­ circle who had long been more nounced by her full name, that or less an invalid. That this is the first and last name, the spirit was Mohammedan was presense of my son’s wife’s evident from the constant repi- mother, who has been in spirit tition of the word “Allah” as land many years, and stated, he implored divine aid. correctly, that I had not re­ Then came a spirit who had cently written to my daughter- been given a name in some in-law and that I should write early seance she had visited, I a letter. After a few other mat­ presume, but at all events an­ ters had been discussed the swered to the name “Trixie”. medium passed into a trance She has been coming in associa­ state but not into sleep. She tion with Mrs. Armitage for continued to her former posi­ about nine years. As she passed tion, sitting or standing in the from earth when five and a half room or walking around. years old she had a little girl’s The first full control was by manner. As I concluded that some woman of wonderful elo­ this was unnecessary I asked quence and ability who, using for information as to many the medium’s body, stood up things and though she retained and gave one of the most beau­ somewhat the childish style she tiful and helpful prayers I have answered with seriousness and ever heard, speaking perfect wisdom. By our chronology she English. The medium is not would be at this time about especially gifted in the use of seventeen. English, though she speaks I asked her how she happened with correctness and is of Eng- to die so young. She replied: hsh birth and long a resident “You are psychic, tell me how

185 did I die.” I replied: “I do not “Because,” said the spirit, know: all I see is that you “they can not endure the con­ were struck in the middle of ditions anywhere except where your body by a spear, probably they are. They are not devel­ a fish spear.” She answered, “I oped enough to live on the bet­ was very badly hurt in that ter levels of the spirit world. way but I did not not die from They become uncomfortable that. I was bitten by a creature and have to come back to the I can not tell you the name of, place where they are. But they as I never have learned the can develop in mind by study English word for it, and I and in every way by being good died.” “Tell me just what hap­ and trying to grow better and pened when you died,” I said. when they do develop they go Trixie answered: “I was in up higher to a better condition. great pain for a long time and They also may develop them­ then I found that I was looking selves by coming back through down on my body. Then I be­ some medium to the material gan to get farther and farther world, to help those still in the away from my body. A silvery material body. In the spirit cord connected me with it but world there are many levels, after a while that broke and I like shelves on the side of a was in the spirit world.” great hill, something, and the I asked: “What sort of a more developed spirits live on place did you find the spirit these higher places. Always world to be?” the people in the undeveloped state can develop and go to a She replied: “It was a real better place if they try. All country; land and water and these spirit spheres come a houses and fields and hills but little way into the sphere that more beautiful than it is here.” is lower; so that always the “Are all the people in the spirits in any place can have same place?” I inquired. the help of spirits that are on “Oh, no,” the spirit replied, a higher level. All the childern “I went to the place where all are taken as soon as they die, children go. This is on a plane by kind people called Spirit higher than that sphere where Mothers, on the higher levels the darkened adult spirits go. and taken very good care of These less developed darkened until they are old enough to spirits In the sphei'e where decide what they wish to try to they are may be compared to be. Always spirits can go to a planted seeds; some mature higher place if they try hard quickly, other take a long time enough and long enough. But to work out their salavation. it takes a long time for some What you call evil people are of them.” undeveloped people. All evil “Do spirits eat,” I asked. that comes from people is from Trixie laughed, “They can, undeveloped people.” if they wish to do so,” she said, “Why do not the undeveloped “but the only ones who wish spirits go where more developed for food are the undeveloped spirits are?” I asked. spirits who live close to the

186 material world; those who do unfair to monopolize the time not progress quickly. The food of the visiting spirit and sug­ satisfies a material want for gested that she converse with such spirits as desire it but the others. The spirit turned to a p ro g ressiv e spirits live on lady present, telling her that thoughts. Such spirits secure she was just sending a box of their power from the whole new clothing to a relative, de­ universe.” scribing the one to whom she was sending it and describing, The spirit did not seem able in detail, with inimitable hu­ to tell me exactly how this is mor, the articles sent. Trixie done but I have the impression said she had watched the lady that the process is something while she was packing the gar­ like a carrying to a further de­ ments and showed that she gree the custom here on earth knew all about the contents of of getting light, heat, power, the gift package. This con­ transportation, chemical and versation was very witty and electrical effects from “the exquisitly funny. whole universe.” Trixie then discussed with me my I then asked; “What will state of health, which was danger­ happen to one in the spirit ously impaired at that time, assured me that the spirit world regarded world who, while on earth, my work in the world as important. being discouraged or sick or Adding that I would have spirit help old, certain to die soon in any to recover and would do so, a promise event, kills himself?” that was fully kept some weeks later. The spirit promised to go with me, Trixie answered very serious­ along with other spirits, to my New ly, “Such a person would be Hampshire home, and they did after­ sorry a long, long time and he ward manifest themselves there. would have a very long time in The foregoing account was writ­ ten substantially as it here appears which to be sorry. You are a but the narrative was returned to part of God; He took your soul Mrs. Armitage, the medium, who from Himself; you are a part had it presented at a seance held for of Him so that His will is in you the purpose of giving Trixie a chance to hear it read and to suggest revi­ and that will is that you live in sions. This spirit did listen to it your earthly body as long as and dictated revisions, so that the you can. If you kill yourself above account as it stands is the you defy the will of God and product of cooperative work between cut yourself off from the action certain spirits and myself. It may seem strange to the un­ of God in you. If you do that informed that a South Sea Island you cut yourself off from God girl, still young, should be able to not only as to His will that you enunciate so profound a philosophy and such wit and wisdom. It should live on earth as long as you can be remembered that she is now one but you cut yourself off as to of the Heavenly Host, long in inti­ everything else. It may take mate association with bright spirits you a very long time to become through whom the love and mind of united fully with God and to God has free passage. We earth people probably owe most of our best begin to progress again.” impulses and highest forms of civi­ lizations to that glorious company As the people present had and it is not strange that one of been very kind in arranging the these should manifest to a wonderful seance for my benefit I felt it degree the divine intelligence.

187 PHYSICAL PHENOMENA UNDER TEST CONDITIONS By The Editor

S I was very interested tied together and the knots in the article written by sealed with adhesive tape which A Mr. Hugh Munro which was marked. appeared in our last issue en­ He was then placed in a titled “An Investigator’s Ex­ strong wooden armchair in the periences with Nino Pecoraro,” cabinet, to which he was tied I determined to have a sitting across the chest, arms and each with Pecoraro at the earliest leg. It is important to notice opportunity. This took place that a separate piece of rope on the 16th of October in the was used for each arm and leg. presence of twenty-eight peo­ We stress this point because it ple. I wish to take this oppor­ is sometimes claimed that by tunity of thanking Mr. Silvey means of a trick well known to for his voluminous notes from conjurers, sufficient slack is which this account is written. obtained by the person being I had intended to record every­ tied to enable them to withdraw thing on our dictating machine their limbs during the seance. but at the last minute we could This, however, is only possible not get it to function, and Mr. when a single piece of rope is Silvey saved the situation by used to tie all the limbs. kindly making stenographic The table was placed about notes. four inches from the curtain, The seance room was the and on it were placed three same shown in our diagram on trumpets, a glass of water and page 80 of the July number, two or three toy musical in- the only difference being that truments. a smaller table was placed in Looking into the cabinet I front of the cabinet, and the found the medium already en­ first circle of chairs was group­ tranced. The lights were then ed around this about two feet turned out leaving a single red from the cabinet. light burning In the center of the room. A record was then On the arrival of the medium played. After the lapse of he was taken into a separate about seven or eight minutes a room and thoroughly exam­ voice, which sounded somewhat ined by Messrs. Fast, Paton, like a child’s, was heard to say Dcwney, Maas and Dr. Willy that the light was too strong. Jaschke. The medium’s coat We were told later on that and vest were removed and his this was the medium’s guide, hands were placed in a pair of who gave the name of Eusapia mittens which were sewn to Pallidino. the sleeves of his shirt by Mr. As the folding doors were Fast. They were then strongly open the light was removed on 188 to the mantlepiece of the next room. This gave sufficient light for me to see the other persons sitting round the curtain and MASTER YOUR to distinguish any movement made. LIFE! The control then mentioned that conditions were good and asked us to open the curtains so that we could see the medi­ um. He was in trance and It Can Be Done the breathing heavily with his head Rosicrucian Way on the back of the chair. The control then asked two of the sitters to change seats, and said they would show us some good phenomena that night. New FREE Book Tells Next a man’s voice came How You May Do It through, saying it was and asked us to send a message to his wife, which he gave. The next voice spoke The Rosicriicians know how! F o r in German and gave the name ages they have demonstrated a of Herman Arbuster of Ham­ greater knowledge and a superior burg, and carried on quite a power over all obstacles in life. lengthy conversation with one Let them help you solve your of the sitters by whom he was problems. Their guidance will re­ recognized. I might here men­ veal psychic laws and Mystic prin­ tion that prior to this sitting ciples which will make you mighty none of the sitters had met and successful in attaining health, Pecoraro with the exception of prosperity, and self mastership. myself. The new free book, "The Light The control then asked us to of Egypt,” will tell you how to sing “Nearer My God to Thee”, change the whole course of your during which the table was life in a short time. W rite a letter rocked violently, the glass of asking for it today. water being upset, and one of the trumpets was overturned. A voice gave the name of White and asked if I remem­ LIBRARIAN Q. A. O. bered him but at the time I could not recollect having ROSICRUCIAN known anyone of that name. In BROTHERHOOD fact, it has only just come into (AMORC) my mind while writing this, that this was the name of a San Jose California Patent Agent in London, Eng­ (Perpetuating the Original and Only land, who took out several pat­ Rosicrucian Fraternity) ents for me, and who passed on during the war.

189 I was then requested to while the trumpets are violent­ place my handkerchief upon ly agitated and eventually fall the table. We were told that if to the floor. we brought a camera to the A voice which announces next sitting that we could ob­ itself as Valentino then asks tain some pictures. that we give a message to his A light was seen between wife, and on one of the sitters the curtains moving with a ro­ undertaking to do so, thanks tary motion which lasted for us and says “good evening.” about half-a-minute. Another voice is heard say­ Dr. Jaschke was asked to ing “Do you know me? I will place a piece of paper upon the show you my hands. I am Lon table, and as we were asked to Chaney. Send word to my sing this was taken up and we family. The trouble was with could hear it rustle in the cabi­ my tonsils.” Someone compli­ net and then it was thrust mented him on his work here through the curtains back and and he says: “I work hard here, forth several times. too.” I was then asked to place my Eusapia says that “Rajah” hand near the curtain and on is there, and he speaks and doing so it is stroked roughly raps lightly three times and half-a-dozen times with what repeats with more force. Mr. appears to be a large hand. My Fast asked for four raps which hand was then grasped with were given in the cabinet. Mr. considerable force and pulled Paton asks if conditions are towards the cabinet. It ap­ good and three loud raps are peared to be large, rough and given. On being asked how warm. Mr. Paton is also asked such loud raps can be made to place his hand there and it without any apparatus the receives the same treatment. voice replies: “Power, power”. One of the trumpets (which During this phenomena some­ had been replaced when it fell) thing is thrown towards me was picked up and lifted about and I find it is my handkerchief two feet above the table and tied in several very tight knots. passed several times in and out The trumpets are moved and of the cabinet. a hand appears taking a piece The control asked me to hold of paper into the cabinet. I a piece of paper on the table asked if I could shake hands and asked Mr. Paton for a and was told that I would be pencil, saying that Lon Chaney informed when I could place my wished to sign his name. We hand near the curtain. were then asked to hold hands The control states that and while doing so we could Rudolph Valentino is going to hear the pencil writing. A talk and asks us to sing and band-like pseudopod was then “La Paloma” is started. A observed moving about the sound like tapping castanets is table. This is then withdrawn heard within the cabinet keep­ and emerging again throws a ing time with the song. The toy piece of crumpled paper at me. horn is taken from the table A strong voice announces “I and also keeps in tune, mean­ am Taft,” and when questioned

190 if he was President Taft, sig­ SEEKERS of the TRUTH nified yes by giving three terif- fic raps. A hand appears and should read writes on the table, tears a sheet off the pad and continued writing until pencil broke. BEYOND The control again asked us The fading EmisK Monthly Magazine to bring a camera for the next hully illustrated and containing sitting. Several other voices <11 tides by the most prominent spoke, and the trumpets were Spiritualist Writers of the day. again levitated and taken in and out of the cabinet. World-wide circulation. The control then said that they were going to push the Yearly subscription $2.00. medium out of the cabinet and Write for a specimen copy. asked that someone should make some passes over him to bring him out of trance. THE ‘BEYOND’ MAGAZINE I had hardly time to remove the table before the armchair 29 Queen’s Gate containing the medium was London, S. W. 7 England pushed about two feet into the room with great force. The medium was still in trance and it would have been impossible DEATH UNVEILED for him to make such a move­ ment even if he had been con­ By Anna Louise Fletcher scious. Upon examination we ♦ found everything intact exactly as when the medium was placed PERSONAL record of experi­ in the cabinet. A ence with many famous me­ diums, and all phases of psychic phenomena, and gives instances of dreams, haunted houses, , levitation, etc. “PERSONS WITH A SIXTH It also contains the testimony ot Mrs. Fletcher before the Congres­ SENSE” sional Committee and Houdmi in (Continued from 171) Washington, on the right ot Unfortunately, despite th e mediums to exercise their gifts. hme and energy I spent, I was $ 1-50 unable to induce Mr. Ossowecki submit to a series of syste­ matic experiments. I had to frovi — potent myself with disconnect- 1 The ' observations and tested nar- SUNSHINE PUBLISHING wives. What I here record, Company k err,‘s to me strange enough to 0 interest to wider circles. 22 5 Fifth Avenue, New York

191 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Sir: as interpreted by me i. e., the The following may be of in­ content—is rather appropriate, terest to readers of “The all other circumstances con­ Direct Voice” : In the last is­ sidered. sue of “The Banner of Life” Perhaps the readers of “The (Boston), Nov. 8th, 1930, is a Direct Voice” will suggest a two column article by Ben better solution of Mr. Adhem’s Adhem reprinted from the puzzle? Liverpool Weekly Post. —J o se ph D e W y c k o ff. The author describes himself Message spelt out by Conan and the happenings at two se­ Doyle in form of Cryptogram ances which he conducted last to Mr. Ben Adhem, author of July in England. “The Eternal Question.” (You doubtless receive “The Banner” and will see the ar­ "GOD LUGGETT DINT” ticle.) Interpretation I am particularly concerned By J o seph D e W y ck o ff with Conan Doyle’s message in G—reat the form of a “cryptogram” as 0 — bscure follows: “GOD LUGGETT D—ont DINT.” L—ife Regarding this message the U—s writer of the aforementioned G—od article, who is also the author G—ave of “The Eternal Question” to E—ternal the fourth edition of which T—he Conan Doyle wrote an “intro­ T—here ductory,” states: D—eath “So far, neither he nor any­ 1— s body else has been able to un­ N—o ravel that mysterious and ap­ T—ruth parently absurd message.” This reads: He asks if any reader can solve the puzzle . . . DONT OBSCURE May I state that my interpre­ THE GREAT tation of the cryptogram is as TRUTH. per enclosure, and in view of THERE IS NO the sceptical attitude of Mr. DEATH. Adhem as known to Conan Doyle and reiterated by him at GOD GAVE US the seance, etc., it appears to ETERNAL LIFE. me that my friend Sir Arthur (Can any mathematician fig­ gave the message in crypto­ ure out the odds of the letters gram form to settle Mr. Ad- in the cryptogram being a co­ hem’s stale refuge to “tele­ incidence ? pathy” and that the message J o se ph D e W y ck o ff.

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POWERFUL SPIRITS cal. STOP AND THINK! ( Continued from Page 18Jf) When a medium tells you of can imitate the communications some great personage (a high giving evidential data such as or powerful spirit) who is come to us in the seance rooms attracted to you who comes as through the Direct Voice phase a guiding influence, ask your­ of mediumship from those who self this question: have passed on but still live “In my present state of and retain possession of their development and under­ intellect. This they CANNOT standing, if that spirit DUPLICATE. lived here on earth now Remember—Your would he associate with or high spirits who come to me; would we have simi­ help you are about as powerful lar views and what am I and high intellectually as you doing or thinking that have built the foundation to attracts him to me, and in attract them. In all things be what way can he be of reasonable, sensible and logi- service?”