TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAOB PAOB Frontispiece: The Magic Crystal. X I.—Astrology of the Quarter: By E. Dicksee, R.A... ,. .. 398 ■ Horoscopes of (1) the Royal Baby; Astro logy and 'Area s'nat'.on—(2) President I —Chronigue of the Quarter .. .. 399 Carnot; (3) the Raiser of Germany. The Stars of Eminent Divines and Critics ., 455 II —The OH. World from the New World: Why we Love and Why we Hate ,. .. 469 Or Some Experiences with American Me* diums, with facsimiles of Slate-Writing XII.—The Science of Palmistry* ' and Porcelain Painting. (1) Mrs. Warne, Healer and Clair Extraordinary Double Test. With Illus voyant ; (2) Mr. Campbell, Psyoho- tration ,, ,. .... .. 460 graphist ; (3) Dr. Rogers, Slate W riter; (4) Materialization Mediums 402 X IH .—The Mechanism of Mind: .How we think and how wb forget. How IH —Our Gallery of Borderlanders: the mind heals the body ., .. ,, 464 St. Teresa de Jesus de Avila ............. 411 IF.—The Mystic Musician = Mr- Jesse Shepard 422 X IV . —Theosophy and Occultism j. • W hyt^Tfttefcfhistearetroubfed : .. 467 V.—It Came into my Head . How and Why t Mys. Besant and Hinduism .. .. .. 467 Or the Sources of Messages. By Miss X. 423 ; What a Mahatma is ,, 467 A Chapter of Borderland Occultism ... 427 The Sixth Sense and How to Develop it ,. 468 The-Vsfee «f M essages...................................428 XV. —Miscellaneous: VT—Some Experiments in Clairvoyance .. 429 Notes of a Sermon on the Borderland .. 469 More about the Poets and Inspiration 470 VII.—Can Matter Pass through Matter T Spiritualism in the Bible , , .. .. 471 Last Words Of the Professors .. .. 440 The American Psychical Sooiety .. ,i 471 WheJre to Lay the Head , . ..• .. 471 v m —Spi|if Photography: Progress in Photo-' graphing Invisibles. With two iiiustra- - turns „ .. ,, . *» .» .* 443 XVT.—The Spectre Dog of Peel Castle.. .. 472 IX.—Haunted Houses of To-Day: XVII.—The Sorcerers of the Nilgiris ... .. 477 (1) Old Fadanny in Norfolk Farm House; (With Illustration) ' (2) Royal Ghosts at Hampton Court Palace; and others .. ., . 447 XVHL—Books about Borderland .. ' .. .. 480 X.—Premonitions of Death and Disaster: J(l) Death foretold by Automatic W riting; xix.—Borderland library .. .. .. .. 489 (2) Railway Accident averted by Signal man’. Dream; (3) Death by Rail pre xx. —Index of Articles of the Quarter • 490 dicted; (4) a Dying Man announces his Death; (a) a Minister’s Dream;; (6) Birth predicted by an Almanaci.. ., . .. 451 xxi, -Our Chides - and Members ... ..492 - - - - -• e e THE MAGIC CRYSTAL. F rom a P ainting by M r. F rank D icksee, R.A., in the Royal Academy. BORDERLAND: A QUARTERLY REVIEW AND INDEX. Vox. I. JULY, 1894. No; V. I-T H E CHRONIQUE OF THE QUARTER. London, July 10th, 1894. materialism. can be. seen in the region of the Borderland.. To make the mystery of life less horribly perplexing, to- AFTER TWELVE MONTHS. supply a psychical key to the religions of the world, and T is now Just a year since the first number of B o rd erlan d to give men once more a sense of the immanence of the - S__ saw .l^ ^ l lf c ; S ow far have we succeeded in achiev- Divine, and the constant presence of invisible, spiritual ing the object we' had in view 1 To this question we can forces,, these at? among the greatest ifhiJ*^ towsfds ’which* : honestly answer^ that we have made . to be attained,.. we ventured to hope;for.-'' To begin; ‘ wS. Me saore' thanever convinced it will be by th.e pious- itself has been a remarkable’success. It is, I believe, and intelligent study of psychic phenomena. almost the first magazine of the kind which has paid its way from the first. This we did not anticipate, and it is ’ PATIENCE. • an unexpected encouragement to persevere in the attempt Rome was not built in a day, and Borderland is not to- to familiarize' Jibe reading public with the latest results of be surveyed and- mapped out in a year. The experiences the application of the scientific method to the study a n d ’ of the year teach, ug patience. There is a great deal of' observation ofthe so-called supernatural. ' : edneational work to he done before it would be either safe ■ ' ■ , PROGRESS. ' or desirable to demand more' rapid progress towards new truth. But no ohe can read'even the present-number of We think it will not. be denied that in the last twelve this Review, without bring compelled to admit that there months something has been done to’ compel even the most' • is at least a promise of a scientific demonstration of the stoutly sceptical, amongst us that, after all, therem ay be • utter inadequacy of the sceepted.-materialistic theories of the “ something in .it" .which it isriot a waste of time to!in- ’ world and the; things that are. therein. On half a dozen vestigate. .ThesupercUiousness of total ignorance remains, converging lines patient observation and unwearied experi no doubt, but every month, increases the number of those ment are demonstrating that even the superstitions of our who have been compelled to'admit that a breach has been ancestors contain in them germs of truths unknown to the made in the rampart of their unbelief. The occult wave, pseudo-scientists .of the nineteenth century, and are supply as it is called, is making itself universally felt. It is in ing aratapnal foundation for the. reconstructed temple of a. evidence in books and magazines,' in newspapers and rational spiritual faith, Whatever rise may be dubious it . picture galleries. It is even influencing the pulpit, amj is becoming tolerably clear that the new frith will have making its way into the most unexpected quarters. • It the persistence of the indivi4ual: after'Jdeath as its chief brings with it a new hope—born of the rationalizing, of corner-stone, mid a demonstratwsynf Jfce almost undreamed ■ religion, and;an immediate widening'of the horizon;of of potentiality of the eo|^|fi$^Mpg$ri08 of personalities human destiny. Already, it promises to be one of the that make up our Ego ..q$ Atif’rifef. contribution to human great solvents of sectarian prejudices, and is making men of - thought. all churches, and of none, realise with a new charity and a fresh and vivid consciousness that all creeds in all time TWELVE MONTHS’ LOSS AND GAIN. have been reared upon the one indestructible spiritual The experiments in automatic handwriting, especially in foundation, of which some fragments unearthed from the auto-telepathic branch, seem to me the most hopeful. 400 b o r d e r l a n d . and those which, promise far the richest field of research. THE ANGLO-FRENCH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. - Hypnotism is another department in which much promising The new psychological society, of which the Duchesse de ^progress has been made. Spirit photography has also Pomaris patroness, andM. Charles Richet, president, sriems, made some advance and will make more. The camera as the Americans would say, to be “ lying low.” :<Fhe promises to be to the psychical world what the telescope adherence of the public, the English public that is, if as was to the starry firmament on high. invited about four months ago, and those of us who applied Trance mediumship has not advanced much in the twelve for membership were told we should hear more by-and-by. months, if indeed it has not gone back. The number of Lately has come the announcement that the subscription tnutWtothy trance-mediums is by no means so great as has is to be double that originally announced, namely I8s. been sometimes imagined. The older ones are either laid instead of 8s., but still nothing happens, and we await infor- up, or indisposed to place their services at the disposal of ination. the public. Materializations are still at a discount, owing A NEW “ OCCULT ” PERIODICAL. to the number of frauds that have been detected arid exposed. Psychometry is a wide field as yet almost On the same day as our present [issue a new venture in unexplored, but the few investigations which have taken the “ occult” is to be made by Mr. A. Waite in the shape place reveal immense possibilities when it is properly of a monthly magazine devoted to the occult—mystic, and ’ worked. Palmistry, I think, may be said to have advanced. theosophic for the moat part—another boat put off to explore . Astrology is in statu qua. Crystal gazing depends at the shores of the Borderland. We heartily wish orw aew present too exclusively upon the experiments of Miss X., coadjutor all success. which, however, are excellent. THEOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY. Professor Max Muller’s Gifford Lectures are now pub BORDERLAND IN ART. lished under the title of “ Theosophy or_ Psychological Considering the assistance which a crystal often gives Religion,” with the following suggestive explanation to the eye in visualizing ,a picture, it is somewhat sur I ought, perhaps, to explain why, to the title of “ Psycho prising that artists pay so little attention to crystal-gazing. logical Religion,” originally chosen for this my final course of Mr. Dicksee exhibits this year a picture that is supposed to Gifford Lectures, I have added that of “ Theosophy.” It seemed to me that this venerable name, so well knowa among -represent a crystal-gazing scene. It is a pretty picture early Christian thinkers, as expressing the highest knowledge enough, and I ’reproduce it as a frontispiece. But it proves of God within the'reaeh of the human mind, has of late been -that neither Mr. Dicksee nor his models ever saw a picture so greatly misappropriated that it was high time to restore it in a-crystal.

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