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lì ■Sft K vfri The Peaceful Passing of the Rev. G. Vale Owen. \ ' \ d k i i ^ 1 TRIBUTES OF AFFECTION AND ADMIRATION. H r , ' \ . hHE REV. G. VALE OWEN, one of the to whom reference was made in the former series saintliest figures ever in the Spiritualist of 1913-14. R Sy “ He acts as Leader to a Band of some six others— movement, passed from his terrestrial to his sometimes more, sometimes less. These he tells me celestial sphere of service, on Sunday, March 8, belong to a larger Band of workers, who number on an ^ N $ Q i at Lincoln Lea, Tubbenden Lane, Farnborough, average thirty-six, but which is continually being increased or diminished in numbers, as members are adm itted or Kent. He leaves behind a very fragrant memory, pass on to other work. It is the smaller Band who for he had a wonderful gift for friendship which transm it the messages to me. Operations were broken endeared him to all who knew him. He was off at the end of last winter, and I am given to understand it is the intention to resume at the end of the coming as modest as he was courageous, as ardent for a u t u m n . ” the truth as he was ready to make every sort After these scripts had been appearing in the Gazette of material sacrifice on its behalf. He resigned [for twelve months we invited him to tell our readers his living as Vicar of something about the development of his Orford, Lancashire, psychic gifts, and he when he was about kindly responded by a J *b m i | J »/«. bv J S due to retire from notable article which * ^ his many years of we reprint in this issue, and part of which he bRixton I incessant parochial textually repeated in labours to a well- his preface to the first for i earned period of of his four volumes on u td kit i “ The Life Beyond the ease and comfort, Veil,” when it was >oms wteai and went forth published about four bravely as a humble years later. L o r d N o r t h c l i f f e , Apostle of Spiritual­ who had just completed NG ANI ism wherever he the publication of was called, not only t h e s e v o l u m e s a s »MENI throughout the articles in the Weekly Dispatch — a daring 3 p a n . , British Isles, but Ì x pan . a d v e n t u r e w h ic h also in the United amazed less courageous I P * » J States of America. and enterprising news­ ^ Sutherland 1 paper proprietors, and ream MS?- In 1918 he sent us did much to bring a series of his early Spiritualism into its sc rip ts for publication present respected vogue in th is G a zette, a n d w e throughout the world— I'VE c o n tin u e d to print them wrote th e following appreciation :— m o n th by month. He jGTON. W- “ I have not had had received t h e m f r o m an opportunity of ; h o m e W a la d y in spirit-life in reading the whole th e s a m e unorthodox of ‘ The Life m a n n e r a s M r. W . T . Beyond the Veil,” a t ® P'*1 S te a d h a d received his b u t a m o n g t h e " Letters from Julia.” passages I have (Tf® d f We thought it well to perused are many t a sk h im if he were of great beauty. willing to have t h e m “ It seems to me printed under his o w n that the personal­ name and he replied :— ity' of the Rev. G. ** I don't mind at a l l Vale Owen is a 1 0 * my name and o ffic e matter of deep THE REV. G. VALE OWEN. b e in g u s e d , a s I importance .. & K strongly feel that w e and to be con­ c le r g y o u g h t t o c o m e out and face the music at the sidered in connection with these very remarkable p r e s e n t juncture.” S u c h courage was then a very rare d o c u m e n t s . thing in clerical c ir c le s . “ During the brief interview that I had with him H e th e n briefly told us the story of his scripts thus :— I felt that I was in the presence of a m an of sincerity and conviction. He laid no claims to any particular w In the winter 1913-14 I received a series of messages, psychic gift. He expressed a desire for as little half from my mother and friends, the second publicity as possible, • and declined any of the great half from o n e w h o g a v e h i s name as 1 Zabdiel.' I then emoluments that could easily have come to him as iM tifll feispilBSe to a request made to my wife by automatic the result of the enormous interest felt by the public msfeiag, and s e v e r a l times repeated, that I should sit all over the world in these scripts." with pencil a n d paper for messages. S i r A r t h u r C o n a n D o y l e in an introduction “ L e n t year (1917) this request was renewed, by s a i d :— same method, fr o m time to time until 1 felt I ” The long battle is nearly won. The future mav m i g h t n o lo n g e r t o refuse. This time it came from be chequered. It may hold many a setback and lutfhiaan/ w h o tells us she is a friend of my many a disappointm ent, but the end is sure mM(pM(g!|| w ho passed over as a very young child some “ It has always seemed certain t o t h o s e who y e a m ago. It seems that Kathleen has become were in touch with truth, that it any uispiied >0 the transmission of messages, and acts on d ocu m en t of the New Revelation could get realty u eh a i! o f h e r friends when any difficulty arises in getting into the hands of the mass of the public, it w o u l d b e l i a a t h r o u g h . sure by its innate beauty ami reasonableness 10 iatrr u® in the present series, the information •weep away every doubt and eveiy ineiudtc«h gradually that Kathleeu is performing the same Now world* wide publicity is being gi\on a m ca m behalf of uae whom she calls ' Leader,' eud to the very out of all others which would have ■ w ewwutuaiJy at my request, reveals himself as ‘ Aiuel,' boon selected, the puiest, the highest, the most 98 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. April, \%

complete, the most exalted in its source. Verily area, he remained to the end one of our best loved the hand of the Lord is here.” honoured Grotrian Hall speakers, and w« ^ ji The reverend author in presenting us with a copy of miss the presence of his tall, ascetic fig u re in tl,<- JZ /y this first volume was good enough to inscribe on the cassock, interpreting, in quiet unimpassioned iomsW flvleaf a note saying he was not unmindful of the great Christian message in terms of Spiritualism, AhtOfM t service rendered to the scripts by this Gazette b y i t s last public appearance was at an e v e n in g service, earlier publication of a num ber of them. he gave the address at the Grotrian Hall, on fknuU>, December 14. Many of Mr- VaU this “ Gazette r long & Mr. Vale Owen was at the last afflicted by a very painful And now, can we suppose that he a n d o u r la te Pres public. At oi*r sugg malady, but he smiled his way through it as he had Sir Arthur, will, all of a sudden, be indifferent to tL account of hit psychic smiled through his strenuous life and the bitter buffets of Cause which they had so much a t h e a rt ? And may * issue of August, 1 9 * 9 religious persecution. not surmise that they, with other fellow-ohamj/i^, His beloved son, the R e v . G . E ustace Ow e n , o f will work with enhanced vigour fo r t h a t great Caw»! IKE the avei Fam borough, writes us :— If this is so, let us not forget that they can only I a good hand " Father’s freedom from pain was remarkable. through us, who are the instruments whom they <4, you are kind His medical practitioner anticipated the usual agony impress, and if we would be loyal t o th e m , it is up to $ the readers of th e before his transition—and what dreadful agony to offer ourselves unreservedly a s workers in the Caov would be ínteres te< cancer gives before the sufferer is released ! But our to which they devoted, and to which indeed th e y sacrit<>r. invisible friends and their earthly sensitives succeeded their earthly lives. to develop wntinj in completely banishing pain, and Father passed in spúút-líf From The Rev. C. D R A Y T O N THOMAS. friends over the Line very peacefully. My Mother and come " the shynej Had George Vale Owen lived in Old Testament, Sister were the only people present at the time. The Less reluctantly incident of death has no sting for us, in the presence times he would have been a Prophet; had fe from numerous le of such a miracle. Our Faith is strengthened by lived in New Testament days he would hay* knowledge, thanks to God and His ministering many who are wis been an Apostle. He was a modern Saint. Mam- a n g e l s . ” in like manner, ai And Mr. Owen adds to this beautiful testimony the beautiful characteristics were united in him, serr- a few words on th< following touching tribute of a worthy son to a noble of them learned from earth, others taught direct THE CLERi f a t h e r :— from Heaven. There is an opin; “ Recollections of Father will always be precious When popularity came he remained humble aad to his three children. It is hard to believe that any unspoiled; when persecution followed it failed to a very credulous tí home could be happier than ours, or that our infancy em bitter him. He heard the Call and was not disobedient facts or fancies re could have had a more beneficent influence than his. to the heavenly vision, but gave himself wholeheartedly are concerned. N< Even as children we realised somewhat how just and and joyously to proclaim the things of the Spirit to all many things, altho wise he was in dealing with everyone, and also how who would hear. wonderfully sym pathetic he was with those in trouble H e w ill b e r e m e m b e r e d w i t h lo v e b y th o s e w h o knew I should have the s or difficulty. him personally, and later generations will know him by of human nature, “ One virtue of his was irresistible—humour ] so the writings which have already brought hope and Carlyle, if I were rt that he was deeply religious without being sancti­ realisation to thousands. monious. The spotlight of publicity followed him clergy have not a His chief interest was the application to daily life of herein suggested 1 perpetually of late years, m uch against his inclination. all th at Spiritualism implies. He had little care Jor those But that vein of hum our coupled with an instinctive parasitic theories which attach themselves to this subject But in regard to humility, saved him from vanity. He bore many as do barnacles to a ship. He realised that the value of the answer is dist inconveniences with a smile for the sake of the com m unication, after it has once brought consolation, tie* training in the ex< Cause, forgetful of his own feelings. in its relation to character and religion. accompanied by 1 ” I have never known a man more Christlike in He saw in Spiritualism the m is s in g factor in the life his simplicity, direct-thinking and courageous love. and teaching of the Churches, and he believed that theological demi-go< W herever he went friends sprang up in his path. Spiritualism had little future apart from Christianity ai of placing clergymc No better tribute can I pay than to say that he who understood by the spiritually enlightened. and hard to convin has entered the larger life is not only my Father but Vale Owen lived the truths he preached and wu question. also m y well-beloved Companion and Friend.” serenely happy, both when moving among the people, and when in solitary intercourse with Heaven. He I am cons trainee THREE BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTES. was conscious of co-operation w ith the M inistry of Angels. quarter of a centu From MRS. ST. CLAIR STOBART. To the end he was a student, ever seeking to know more version : ten years that he might serve better, both by voice and by pen. communication was O NE by one, the valiant veterans of our cause He was a stranger to self-seeking, being much too busy are assembling on the other side, whilst the in thinking of others to feel that tem ptation. to convince me that army on this side is being left to fight its In short, he united the knowledge which comes to those good. And it came battles impoverished of its noblest officers. who walk in the ways of Jesus Christ, w ith the illumination BIBLICAL PARAL a n d u p l i f t d e r iv e d f r o m p e r s o n a l in te rc o u rs e with And now “ G. V. O.” , as he was affectionately During these yea intelligences in the Beyond. called by his intimates, has joined Sir Arthur and And now he has joined those whose earthly agent tie of reading the daib the others, and we are indeed the poorer. And was. They will be introducing him to scenes and activities was usually nobody t especially so at this juncture, when the Churches even more spacious and enthralling than those he some­ in the early momin times glimpsed while here. The limitations of the Matins. That gave are at last beginning to show signs of awakening earthly body and the opposition of undisceming minds to the fact that a Religious Revolution is taking have been left behind. He is commencing life which 6 quiet thinking. As place, a revolution that is being initiated from life indeed and entering into his M aster’s joy. I began to notice th outside their ranks, a revolution with which From MR. R. H. SAUNDERS. the Bible there was they must either eventually coalesce, or be left On a beautiful sunny morning in March, in m union between tw o in a backwater. the Chapel of West Norwood Cemetery, the purporting to come It is always difficult to see the forest for the trees, service for our dear and valued friend, the Rev " the Lord,” or being but the removal of George Vale Owen from our midst G. Vale Owen, was conducted by the Rev. C of some angel, visible clears vision, and we can clearly see the valuable part higher realms, t in this religious revolution which was taken by an Drayton Thomas and the Vicar of Famborough those unknown minister of a small Lancashire village. He The body was coffined in plain wood (it was to be miracles wrought t l dared to abandon the Church to which he was bound by cremated), and those gathered listened with the deepest from the spirit world ties of tradition and sentiment, as well as by ties of sympathy to the Burial Service over one of the most worldly wisdom, in order that, freed from the shackles earnest Christians the Spiritualist Cause has possessed I began to see a lil of convention, he could go out into the open, and preach, The lighthouses dotting the shores of our Movemaut rnena and those cla not Theology, but the Truth as it came to him. He are, one by one, being extinguished, and though as did a fine thing, and when the history of the twentieth longer flooding the Cause on earth with bnlhancv. vet century Religious Reformation is written, the name of the we kuow well their light illumines the spheres, and ini Reverend George Vale Owen will occupy an honoured place. ultimately penetrate to earth, and influence the work H u scripts, to which Lord Northcliffe courageously fo r g o o d . ^ ^ < 1 , u n t i And so the noble soul that animated a gave publicity, made his name a household word, and somewhat d t o - in book form these scripts will perpetuate his memory feeble physical frame has passed to its reward, and Yak W h \ for all Lime Owen remains with us as a beautiful memory. W V v We of the ” Spiritualist Community ” owe to him a His automatic writings, inspired bv Groat Teacher* s p e c ia l d e b t of gratitude, for it was around himself as of the past, awoke the interest of m illions; his ksv tut*» j h e l p th e central figure, as the link between Spiritualism and will be remembered by thousands, and his mu. «rat v Religion, that the “ Spiritualist Community ” was single-mindedness, and humility leave the sweeter ai j . organised And though later, he felt th e n eed o f recollections behind. u t i n t o decent!ahstng his work, and spreading it over a wider May God's blessing rest ou Ins work here and fceuatn* * r e a d l T'X April, 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 99 How I Developed Inspirational Writing. By THE REV. G. VALE OWEN. Many of Mr. Vale Owen's earlier scripts appeared in in it I didn’t like. But I read the sequel, " The 1*s.. th is " Gazette ” long before they were heard of by the general Life Elysian.” There I found more things I public. At our suggestion he kindly wrote the following r O " » k l account of his psychic development, which appeared in our didn’t like. Some of them I don’t like to-day. Ä a ' issue of August, 1919 :— But in all fairness I had to confess that these » 2 * «► * d books were not evil, and were good. Some m. y IK E the average Briton, I fear I am not t h J T ® t w>¿1 | a good hand at talking about myself. As notes jarred; taken as a whole the narratives ■ »w 6**1» *t ii n l , tfc L you are kind enough, however, to say that were healthy in tone and uplifting. in th e S the readers of the International Psychic Gazette The claim made by the author was that he would be interested to know in what way I came had received these narratives from discamate to develop writing messages from my invisible human beings. That I was unable to accept. f . N T h o m a s I put it aside for future consideration. I believed Im Old t 2? friends in spirit-life. I will do my best to over­ come " the shyness which fetters utterance.” the author to be sincere in making that claim. ft#*; I f Less reluctantly do I essay this as I know, But I was inclined to believe him mistaken. But as the weeks went by I began to ask myself, in from numerous letters received, that there are those early hours of quietude and prayer, “ If these things f e * Saint. 2 many who are wishful to develop their faculties happened in Bible times, why not now ? " If they do ■•ted in h im ,^ in like manner, and who will perhaps welcome not happen now, I reasoned, either God has changed in a few words on the subject. the manner of His dealings with His children, or those lers taught direct j children have changed. I decided that there was n o THE CLERGY NOT CREDULOUS. evidence in support of either of these suppositions. I con­ ained humble and There is an opinion abroad that the clergy are cluded, therefore, that it might be possible after all H**®d it failed tc! a very credulous race of beings, especially where that R. J. Lees* claim was true, especially as I h a d b y that time found that others were putting forth similar w a s n o t disobedient facts or fancies relative to the spiritual world iself wholehearted» c la im s. are concerned. Now they may be foolish about °f the Spirit toaj [ “ IF R. J. L. WHY NOT G. V. O. ? ” many things, although in this connection I opine The next question which came to me, and insisted by those who knet | I should have the support of some keen observers on an answer was this, " And if R. J. L., then why not 5 w ill know him by I of human nature, and among these Thomas G. V. O. ? ” So I set myself to prayer that, if it were brought hope anc Carlyle, if I were rude enough to suggest that the possible and well that it should be so, the way for such clergy have not a monopoly of the commodity communion might be opened to me also. ion to daily life ® I From the moment I had taken this decision the answer little care Jor tho». | herein suggested ! began to appear. First my wife developed automatic e lv e s to this subject I But in regard to the impeachment of credulity writing. Then through her I received requests that *d t h a t t h e value « I the answer is distinctly in the negative. Our I would sit quietly, pencil in hand, and take down any g h t consolation, be thoughts which seemed to come into my mind, projected training in the exercise of the critical faculty, there by some external personality, and not consequent BL accompanied by continual reference to that % factor in the life I on the exercise o f my own mentality. H e r e e v i d e n t l y b e believed that theological demi-god “ Authority,” has the effect was the call to work which I had prayed for. And yet om Christianity a 1 of placing clergymen among the most reluctant when it came I shrank back and refused. This reluctance t e d . and hard to convince where any new truth is in lasted for some weeks, but at last I fe lt I wasn't quite playing the game. So very doubtfully, I confess, I began preached and was I question. am ong the people, I t o s it. with Heaven. He | I am constrained to confess that it took a THE FIRST RESULTS. M i n i s t r y of Angek I quarter of a century to bring about my con­ The first four or fiv e m e s s a g e s might have come from iking to know more I version : ten years to convince me that spirit some asylum for the insane. They meandered abont voice and by pet communication was a fact, and another fifteen from one subject to another in an aimless fashion, a n d ■mg m uch too bus? to convince me that the fact was legitimate and ended in the region of nowhere. But I was not to be r t a t k r a . put off like that. It had taken twenty-five years to c o m e s to thoK good. And it came about in this way. bring me up to that point, and I was going through .nth th e illurnmatrx BIBLICAL PARALLELS TO SPIRITUALISM. with it. So I continued to sit and gradually the sentences intercourse witt During these years I had been in the habit began to take a more consecutive form. At last I got some which were understandable. From th a t t im e of reading the daily lessons in church. There development has kept pace with practice. was usually nobody there except myself, especially ENCOURAGEMENT FOR OTHERS. in the early morning, that is at seven o’clock So, Mr. Editor, I have given you the account for w h ic h Matins. That gave me plenty of time for some you asked me. There is nothing very startling in it. quiet thinking. As this went on year by year But it may perhaps lead some to develop their faculties I began to notice that on nearly every page of when they see how simple is the process by which faculties usually dormant may bo brought into operation for the the Bible there was something about this com­ help, however small it may be, of others seeking guidance munion between two states. I read of messages from those brighter ones who have trodden the way we purporting to come more or less directly from are going now. ” the Lord,” or being sent from Him by the mouth If I were asked by anyone, “ Can I develop the faculty ? ** I would answer, “ I don’t know." W hat of some angel, visible appearances of beings from I myself asked for was that I might be brought into open ■hose higher realms, voices from the same sphere, communion with our brethren in the beyond. At the miracles wrought by powers transmitted also back of my mind was the idea of clairvoyance and clair- from the spirit world. audience. But these were not the ways chosen. And when the request came to sit for writing it created in I began to see a likeness between these pheno­ me a distinct sense of aversion and antagonism . mena and those claimed to happen by that Since then it has been explained to me that from strange people called “ Spiritualists.” But these the days of my boyhood, in other words for about thirty latter marvels I believed and taught were of years, our g o o d s p i r i t fr ie n d s h a v e h a d me in hand, gradually preparing mo for t h e e v e n t u a l e x e r c is e o i t h is evil origin. As I read on, however, the likeness same faculty of " dictated w r it in g " Evidently they saw persisted, until at last, very reluctantly, I was this was the method by which they could use me to best compelled to ask myself a straight question : advantage, when the proper time should arrive. W HY ? Why should those in the Bible be good in others, of course, other faculties ure the more easily developed. 1 think the attitude to cultivate is that oi and these modern counterparts be evil ? willingness for service, in whatever w a y it may be revealed HELP FROM R. J. LEES’ BOOKS, Our good friends yonder w ill not fail to respoud Whether in 1909 R. J. Lees’ book,” Through the Mists,” we follow their leading or not is ioi us to choose , there Pit'- put into my hands by a young brother is no compulsion in the matter Braver and a level head I are our safeguards ami, granted these, we shall not go cleric, I read it. There were many things wroug. 1 0 0 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 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CONAN DOYLE MEMORIAL FUND. A “ P O W E R ” GRAMOPHONE RECORD. Abduhl Latif HE Honorary Treasurer of this Fund grate­ I UNIQUE experiment was made at the T fully acknowledges receipt of the following A Studios of the Columbia Gramophone donations received from February 20 to Company, Petty France, Westminster, on a BDUHL LATIF'S March 17 inclusive, amounting to .£343 13s. 2 d ., Friday, March 20, in the presence of a distin. J\ spheres is to help which with the £712 ns. 9d. previously acknow­ guished company including Lady Conan Doyle work he dearly lov< Viscount and Viscountess Molesworth, Sir George ledged brings the total of donations to date the Persian of recent and Lady Henschel, the Rev. John Lamond, D.D, to £ 1,056 4s. l i d . concerned with this wc Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., Mr. F. Montague FIFTH LIST OF DONATIONS. sought his advice on be S. d. M.P., Under Secretary for Air, Mr. Shaw Deal £ written me from all p< Alan C. Harris, Esq. 300 O 0 mond and Mr. H. de Vere Stacpoole. Charminster Road, Bournemouth, A gramophone record was taken under test conditions whether these be in E t Spiritualist Mission 8 IO 0 of “ Power,” the spirit-control of Mrs. Meurig Morris Abduhl is there in a fla; London Spiritual Mission 5 IO 6 delivering a short sermon through her mediumship. elaborate diagnosis of t Miss M. W ylie 5 O 0 The test, proposed by Mr. Laurence Cowen of the For. as to treatment. Leonard Lilley, Esq. 2 6 3 tune Theatre, was that two gramophone discs, taking But there are times when, H. A. Evans, Esq. ... 2 2 0 each about three minutes to record, should be precisely I may put, or it m ay be in a S. Carlisle Howard, Esq. ... 2 2 O filled by “ Power,” who should time the start, finish of his ripe store of inforr M.E.C. and F.B.H. 2 O 0 and interval between the two records being made in occurred recently, and a ret Melvin Greer, Esq. (U.S.A.) 2 O 0 another room by means of a microphone communication, interesting account of the J. Forbes, Esq. (F.M.S.)... I I 0 without any signal or cue of any kind from the recording ancient and modem times, C. D. Brassey, Esq. O I I room. The interval between the two discs might be other channels, revealing hi! Spiritual Brotherhood Church, anything from half a minute to five or more minutes. | subjects and his richly store« Stockwell Road, Brixton I I 0 For this to be done by any person normally was declared “ I have just been to the . F. H. Clayton, Esq. I I O to be technically impossible. Have you seen it ? " I asked. Helen C. Lambert ... I O 1 Mr. Ernest Oaten presided and explained the significance “ I have,” replied Abduhl of the experiment from the Spiritualistic point of view, greatly to see the interest taki T o t a l ... £335 II 1 while Mr. C. W . Nixon, of the Columbia Company did I trust those who saw the « Amounts of ¿1.— Mrs. M. E. Robinson, " A Friend who the same from the technical. heights the civilisation of P ei has been helped,” S. Nixon, Esq., Mrs. Malcolm (per Miss Owing to nervousness Mrs. Morris had to repeat her of years before the tim e of yo E. W . Stead), Orlando Middleton, Esq.— Total ¿5. invocation in order to get a clear record of it, then after a mighty country ages ago, £ s. d. the singing of the hymn “ Abide with me,” "Power” lands. In carvings and intr: Dr. Berdj Kerestedjian ...... 18 3 controlling her commenced his address in a most forceful work we stood supreme. 1 M. Pascal Forthuny (100 francs) 16 4 manner, in direct contrast to Mrs. Morris’s own voice. to reach the European stand: I Power ” said that Spiritualism had given to religion “ But,” I exclaimed, “ Is Total ... ¿1 14 7 not m erely a blind faith but facts, proving that at so-called with most beautiful pictures. Am ounts o f Id s . o d. and under.— Mrs. C. W. Allen, death man merely discards his terrestrial garment and " Ah ! in the delicacy of m H. S. and Miss Fayle, Mr. McMurtrie (per Miss E. W. evolves into another world of existence. The key that " we excelled, and our Qura Stead), Mrs. Roberts, Selina C. Watson, Malcom Joy, opened out the wider beauty of that world was dependent even were beautifully ornam« Miss P. Lowe, " A Friend.”— Total £1 17s. 6d. upon man’s character. Communion would be the means pictures, or likenesses of coi whereby nation should eventually meet nation in the Europe was famed for in the Donations should be sent to the Honorary Treasurer, common bond of brotherhood, when enmity should centimes of your era. W e 1 Mr. A. C. Grigg, Lloyds Bank Ltd., 121-125 Oxford cease, war would be abolished, and in the knowledge of from nature, carvings of anim Street, London, W .l. this .Unity man would recognise himself as part of the in general. In my days (i.e. universal fam ily of God. we were engaged in warfare, POSTCARD SOUVENIRS OF SIR ARTHUR. Here | Power ” paused, and Mrs. Morris stood for a inclination to pursue peace M r. W . R . B r a d b r o o k , the Hon. Secretary of the while in " his ” characteristic attitude, waiting for the turned in a fury of zeal to Conan Doyle Memorial Fund, informs us that Messrs. second record through the wall to be set in motion. After in the Court of Saleh-ed-Dee Raphael Tuck & Sons, of which famous publishing house an appropriate interval he spoke of the wonderful invention at that time. Ah, what a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was formerly a Director, have which enabled etheric waves to record the human voice. kings, with more discemmen the True God than your Lioi very generously presented to the Memorial Committee Had those of old been told of this invention they would “ I have at this moment five thousand photographic post cards portraying Sir have believed it impossible. To-day men were in the continued, " a ring of onyx, Arthur in a particularly pleasing manner. Each bears same position regarding Spiritualism. He prophesied that in time to come death would lose its sting, by direct had a ring which once belon his facsimile autograph. Spiritualistic Churches and knowledge coming through the ether from those who had King Richard. It had the fig Societies, many of which have already appointed collectors cut in the onyx. Saladin ga- for the Memorial Fund, will find these photographs a passed on. the figure of Christ rem oved— very acceptable accompaniment to the receipts given for of Mahomet— and a rose engi donations. Readers who desire copies of these beautiful this day when, on the rare ex souvenirs should send six penny stamps per copy to the SURVIVAL MEETING AT THE ROYALTY writing, I sign with the Cross a Hon. Secretary, Conan Doyle Memorial, 16 Bank Buildings, THEATRE. “ During this disturbed | St. James’s Street, London, S.W .i., and thus help the . L A R G E L Y attended meeting of the held up. In addition t o f i g i F u n d . Survival League was held in the Royalty we had internecine sector wax Si SSi S ATheatre on Sunday evening, M arch 21 beautiful work was pillaged, MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MR. VALE OWEN. when Major C. C. Colley presided. in touch with the A rnglo 1 A n impressive Memorial Service for the Rev. G. Vale Christianity of the m edieval 1 The principal speaker was Mr. Hannen Swaffer, who Owen was held by the Spiritualist Community in the proud of, and when England first outlined the history of Emma Hardinge Brittea, Grotrian Hall on Friday, March 20. The speakers were I felt contemptuous to see s an English actress not of very great distinction, who Mrs. St. Clajr Stobart, the Rev. C. Drayton Thomas, little purpose, until y o u r ] became well known as a psychic medium, especialh and Mr. Hannen Swaffer. The addresses of the first concerned by the attacks u p o in the North of England, on account of her self-sacritickg tw o were an elaboration of the beautiful tributes specially returned. character, and who went right round the world on * written by them for this Gazette which appear on page 9 8 . “ In the tenth, eleventh anc missionary crusade. That of Mr. Swaffer laid stress on the self-sacrificing Art deteriorated, but the seve Mr. Swaffer then said that the Spiritualist movement courage of Mr. Vale Owen which had led him from a of your eras not Persian— brou to which he belonged would be the means of uniting position of comparative obscurity to become a mighty to our pre-eminence.” all the different creeds in the w orld such as were so largely force for good in the world. Mr. Swaffer recalled that “ I saw at the Exhibition,* represented at that meeting. History had shown that when Editor of the Weekly Dispatch early in the war which had been handled by Ha. as creeds have grown up they had more or less stopped he had himself printed the first articles on Spiritualism the growth of religion, by losing its inspiration. He sax) that ever appeared in any independent newspaper, from Mights. further that nearly all scientific enquirers who hav* the pens of Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Alfred Turner, Sir William “ Yes,” said Abduhl. “ S started out to smash the Spiritualist cause had becow* Barrett and other stalwarts in the faith, and had thus extraordinary stories, yet he convinced of the truth of survival. Speaking of tit* so changed the attitude of that paper that not long In disguise he drank in ta\ afterwards Lord Northcliffe printed the famous Vale Margery phenomena, he said that a Mr. Charlie S. Hill sort. He was anxious to kx Owen scripts which enormously increased its circulation. a Boston lawyer, who died on August 2 last year, left I and in nightly revels he sanl And now, said Mr. Swaffer, many other papers are coming behind his finger print so that he could return and mils' I human nature, undoubtedly, a to understand that articles concerning our faith are of a duplicate. On October 12, ten w eeks afterwards, It*I cubing Persian En returned in spirit and duplicated exactly the finger prut1 great interest to many readers. ^ t h e m b he had left before he died. N o w that was a final pro^ m £85 HR of survival. Silent thought is often better than argument; many A ddresses followed from distinguished represen taut'” ‘-u itu n t IW k M people are not in a condition to be conversed with.__ of the Anglican, Buddhist, Confucian, Hindoo, Moluif by your ** t . W J Colville. medan, and Theosophical faiths. Sad invents April 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 101 if*Sb HI w r Abduhl Latif Discourses on Persian Artand other Matters. I ^ *, r B y R. H. SAUNDERS. l a u S , K S i nB D U H L L A T IF ’S ceaseless work in the requirements. Medicine certainly has been revolutionised **“ C | Spheres is to help sufferers here, and it is from the medieval conception, yet we had herbs and ^ M r r s A simples and knew how to use them effectively. Your work he dearly loves. My intercourse with wireless instrum ents have been forestalled, and without M°£&Tthi the Persian of recent years has been mostly any apparatus, by even the natives of the African jungle, > h a \v h* concerned with this work. I have repeatedly low as the type is.” sought his advice on behalf of many who have “ Wireless anticipated I ” I exclaimed ; " you surprise m e .” U rjg written me from all parts of the world, and " When a native wished to know what was happening iiiisl; whether these be in Europe, Asia or America, at the camp, he placed his ear to the ground, and so sensitive was he to vibrations that he caught the sense i o f Abduhl is there in a flash, and returns with an elaborate diagnosis of the trouble, and advice of what was transpiring there. Have you not found it so iisca in your wars in India, and even with savage races ? b e 1 as to treatment. Has not the presence of your soldiers been detected by s ta r i But there are times when, arising out of some question the natives when hundreds of miles away ? n g i I may put, or it may be in a reminiscent mood, he gives " Take the Delphic oracles. The priestesses were all of his ripe store of information. Such an occasion what you call mediums to-day, and they were treated h e occurred recently, and a remark I made led to a most with the consideration to which their great gifts entitled is interesting account of the position of Persian Art in them. The greatest attention was given to their puri­ ancient and modem times, with a branching off into fication, ablutions, exercise and diet. They were kept other channels, revealing his wide knowledge of many w apart as sacred vessels, and their clairvoyant faculties subjects and his richly stored memory. were permitted full scope. The towers of the oracles " I have just been to the Persian Exhibition, Abduhl. were listening towers. |e significant Have you seen it ? ” 1 a s k e d . " Telepathy, which even to-day your quidnuncs dispute, ) in t of view " I have,” replied Abduhl Latif, " and it pleases me was infinitely more intense then than you get it now. ¡•onipany did, greatly to see the interest taken in the arts of my country. It was a common incident for telepathic thought to be I trust those who saw the display will realise to what sent from one in India to another in China. Your p repeat her heights the civilisation of Persia reached, even thousands telepathic tests to-day are abortive because the necessary t , th e n after I of years before the time of your Christ. Ah 1 Persia was passivity in the m inds of the operators does not exist.* I" "Power''I a mighty country ages ago, far excelling neighbouring " In the days of the Pharaohs wonderful machines lands. In carvings and intricate handwork and needle­ n o s t forceful I and engines were in use, and the brains of those architects work we stood supreme. In pictures only we failed m voice, and engineers who operated them were in no way inferior to reach the European standard.” n t o religion 1 to your experts of to-day. They had not only unlimited " But,” I exclaimed, " I saw many MSS. embellished slave labour, but obtained energy from the clouds and t a t so-called I with most beautiful pictures.” water and forces in the atmosphere equal to your most garment and! " Ah I in the delicacy of m iniature work,” said Abduhl, elaborate electrical appliances, and it was thus they were “he key that! " we excelled, and our Qurans of the eleventh century enabled to deal with massive blocks of stone that would as dependent i even were beautifully ornamented, but I referred to the test your m ost powerful cranes of to-day. >e t h e meant K pictures, or likenesses of contemporary people, such as " Our clairvoyants and mediums could leave their ttion in the! Europe was famed for in the sixteenth and seventeenth bodies and appear a hundred miles away, and reveal n i t y should ft centuries of your era. We were too busy with designs themselves just as your Christ did. The Swamis and knowledge oil from nature, carvings of animals and trees, and handcraft fakirs could be buried for many days, and yet arise in p a r t of the I in general. In my days (*.«., 1162 to 1231) unhappily, perfect health. Ah } you little know what is possible we were engaged in warfare, and had neither time nor with the human frame when directed by psychic stood for» inclination to pursue peaceful work. Your England intelligence. ting for the I turned in a fury of zeal to capture Jerusalem. I was ” As you are aware, all that takes place here is >tion. After! in the Court of Saleh-ed-Deen (whom you call Saladin) chronicled in the Spheres, and the changes I have seen fu l invention K at that time. Ah, what a man I most wonderful of in perusing these records all take us back to the same lU m an voice ! kings, with more discernment and strength to worship t h i n g . | they would! the True God than your Lion-hearts and Richards. “ The Son of God has been worshipped all through w e r e in tire I " 1 have at this moment upon my forefinger,” he the ages in one way or another, be it in Confucianism, >phesied that I continued, " a ring of onyx. When 1 visited Saladin he Buddhism or Christianity— Sim, the Life Giver. rg, by direct! had a ring which once belonged to the father of your ** Christ the Jew, the advocate of pure and holy rose who hat | King Richard. It had the figure of Christ on the Cross, thoughts, the humble worker—to find the place now cut in the onyx. Saladin gave me this ring and I had assigned Him has surprised Him. Christianity as He the figure of Christ removed— recollect I was a follower taught it has long been lost. The Old Fathers came to of Mahomet—and a rose engraved on the cross, and to England and got mixed up with the Druids. Christ the ro yaltvi this day when, on the rare occasions I communicate by great Rabbi and Teacher, divinely inspired, and a great writing, I sign with the Cross and Rose. medium, inspired by the Great Ones who had gone " During this disturbed period beauty in art was before—Confucius and Buddha amongst them— did He r of I held up. In addition to fighting with many countries not say, ‘ are we not all the children of the Divine we had internecine sector wars, and, again, much of our consciousness ? * l e R o y ^ f beautiful work was pillaged. It was at this tim e I came March 21 ” The very years you use are not Christian years, but 1 in touch with the Anglo mind. In the stages of Druidical years. Babylonians came to these islands, Christianity of the medieval times there was little to be which they called ‘ The Islands of the Blest,* came for proud of, and when England became Crusader-possessed :w a $ $ | i coal, iron, tin, copper and marble. The very marble 1 felt contemptuous to see so much bloodshed for so for Solomon’s Temple was obtained from quarries here. little purpose, until your priestly warriors became Greeks and Phoenicians carried on the trade, and the InK n c tl011' on .#i|v^ SB concerned by the attacks upon their own country, and Rom ans followed, and they w anted your w ealth in m etals. | L Libert r e t u r n e d . The Druidical worship in Britain was the worship of the MMMM t | In the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries Persian M M 00 Great Sun God, the Life Giver, just as in Egypt of long « ro ri° Art deteriorated, but the seventeenth century— I speak ago the Eternal was worshipped, as portrayed by Isis, o f your eras not Persian— brought us in a cycle a return and strength by Horns, the BulL t o our pre-eminence.” it ■ I “ The Druids did w hat Moses and Aaron did a thousand ■ ” 1 saw at the Exhibition, ” I observed, " a carving years before them , and their religion arose from pnnum e which had been handled by H arun al Raschid, a rom antic e m o t i o n , charged w i t h the savagery underlying human | | i figure to all who have read the stories in the * Arabian i nature and which developed into blood lust W e first ÜÜ destroy in order to create.' ” Vei,” said Abduhl, ” Scheherazade provided some The notice you desired m e to advertise has appeared, * Wj extraordinary stories, yet h e w a s a picturesque character. w m m 1 s a i d . m In disguise lie drank m taverns with the disreputable “ And very necessary, saw Abduhl 1 my m I sort, lie was anxious to know what men said of K|n>. B4me and wof t u«hY£ iMMfc revealed to the I and in nightly revels he sank all dignity. A student of world lOtC My ¡MYVfcOtVl have o m h 1im a many human nature, undoubtedly, and wise in certain direction*. 1 --- *------k §H11 JL | h| w VkhlMMJr that v*iitic< vis iMNMI Tor ages the Persian Empire was celebrated for its Wi •* & fA culture. W hat will there be to distinguish your age # nave pmwMittd daaemmm fia coma threngfi: wwer n y Mme which ware te t fitai 1 a No beauty, n o stone edifices to rank with those erected fim in India, America uf the Maya, and Persia Mo im l me- It m net am^ant* that ctawmd m i to cnetnect ywc v a t Utac UMMnt tO p T W e a t OOWIWMOOb * tit* culture. Thoughts as uki as the world have been *A*ip,Trj i I

THE or worse. W e cannot get rid of ourselves, whatever w e d o .” OUK l 1' International Psychic Gazette Then in suggesting that the ether of space is A MONTHLY RECOi The Independent M onthly Organ of the link between inanimate matter and life, Sir Spiritualism and Psychical R e s e a r c h . Oliver concluded :— t h e AU communications for the Publishing, Editorial, or Adver­ " T h e r e h a s r e c e n tly b e e n d isc o v e re d a physical tising Departments should be addressed to— agent, which exerts guidance without imparting I 69, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.1. energy that might serve as the instrument for fif* a n d m in d . (Thie Chronic1 “ It is more at home in space than in association w ith m a t e r ia l o b je c ts s u c h a s t h e b o d ies of animals a n d m e n . p e r s o n a l $ Life, Matter, and Ether. ” N o o n e n o w s u p p o s e s t h a t th e e th e r is a rarefied form of matter. It is evidently something more MY SEANCES A T T A V S |IR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S., the ^eat octogenarian scientist who still pursues fundamental than matter, something of whose M Y readers will rein properties we have very little knowledge. 1929, before m y | his quest of Truth with the zest of youth, " It was found that in electricity, in magnetism, delivered two important addresses last month and in light, the really effective medium, whatever members and g® which cut across not only some commonly held it was, existed in space-tim e and that the movements Psychical Research, 1 popular beliefs but also some accepted ideas of of the particles of m atter were only an index, a finding myself in the hon demonstration, a phenomenon which could be ob­ science. who had a marvellous ] served, and it was found that the perceptible motions long lyrical improvisâti On March io he spoke on “ The Reality of of m atter were consequent upon the real phenomenon, the Spiritual World ” to a National Free Church which was operative in that which appealed to our I That musical bath had Council Conference at Weston-super-Mare, and senses as em pty space. comforting that I felt *' The m oral of it all is that when we seek the real I said that “ science was beginning to recognise should satisfy the moi c a u s e s o f t h in gs we m ust concentrate on that which I R of my audience. I shal the existence, not perhaps of a spiritual world, cannot be directly observed, but which can only be I crucial test. but of a universe that made no appeal to the inferred by the action of the mind. senses and was not material.” ” The animated m atter, like all matter, is inert, I THE EVENING’S but is acted on by an unknown something called Life I My programme for ti If that be true then the Science of the last a n d M in d .” experiments (x) in clairvoyai half century has begun at last to lose confidence prophecies, and (3) in psy< in its bald Materialism, which recognised as The sharp distinction between matter and in my hands by persons prese knowledge only what could be ascertained by life made by Sir Oliver, though little recognised A SITTER’S EXPEF the five senses, aided by delicate and powerful in ordinary thought, is not unfamiliar to our At the outset I felt mys person, sitting silent and st instruments, and checked by experiment. readers, who will remember our analogy of the watch, which is dead and useless until it is made she had lived long in Egyp But there is one element Science has never yet up the Nile. In that countr accounted for—namely Life. All its efforts to animate by the insertion of a small modicum of by another person, who had invisible human energy, which is no integral had been feared. The coi explain how this planet, originating as a molten difficulties of a m aterial oi mass, where life was impossible, became animate, part of the watch itself. Similarly, all animate nature is alive owing to the operation through it a project, which finally succ with its vegetation and animal life, have failed. collaboration of personalitiei Nothing in Materialism could give any clue to of the Universal Life § in whom we live and C ourt. move and have our being.” Of the highest This revelation was ad the solution of this problem. All scientific manifestation of this universal life in man Sir L a d y ------, whose name I c efforts to create life, even one tiny spark of it, Thomas Browne, Author of the R eligio Medici, to give. have equally failed, for life is a thing apart says :— “ There is a common Spirit that plays A SAVANT WHO RE which operates throughout the Universe without I next spoke to an aged 1 within us, yet makes no part of us ; and that is human help or intervention. the figure of a venerable saj the Spirit of God, the fire and scintillation of said that he resembled i “ I hold,” said Sir Oliver, “ that life exists in space, that noble and mighty Essence which is the Bergson. This gentleman a 1 and utilises m atter for its own purposes, and operates a long series of printed wo matter . . . Matter does nothing, except to life and radical heat of Spirits.” And therein it appears to us is the whole essence of the which had the appearance go where you put it. It is quite enough—I go wanted was to be put in ord further— it has no energy.” matter. J. L. of revision was to be unde man, but unhappily he too Developing this thesis in his address at the s i m Imperial College of Science and Technology on w ork. MEURIG MORRIS SERVICES FOR THE These circumstances were ’* The Inter-Action of Life and Matter ” on PROVINCES. The old lady was a widow, March 16, Sir Oliver said :— tinguished biologists. H er MRS. MEURIG MORRIS and Mr. Lawrence Cowes Bergson was acknowledged, ” The chief characteristic of m atter is its inertia, have received many requests to visit the provinces so been printed owing to her so but then the physicist becomes confronted with that " Power’s ” remarkable sermons may be heard by I PROPHECY OF A BRI animal m atter. a wider constituency. They have decided to accede to I Turning next to prophe " All the separate particles of an animate body this desire, provided it should not put too great a strain I gentleman that within six m answer to the ordinary characteristics of inanimate on Mrs. Morris, or interfere with her great work at the I considerable capital in a bre matter, but they are acted upon by something in Fortune Theatre. They are ready to visit large provincial I that he had been eagerly ti space, just as iron is attracted by the m agnet.” tow ns m id-weekly a t their own costs if the local Spiritualist I enterprise of that nature, ai S o c ie tie s w ill o rg a n is e s u c h m e e tin g s in a p p ro v e d buildings- I What is this something in space which makes to realise his intention. all the difference between animate and inanimate The collections would be divided equally between the I local Spiritualist Societies organising the meetings and I A SUFFRAGE! matter ? It is something that neither chemistry the Meurig Morris Defence Fund. Communications should I I looked towards a lady an nor physics can explain. It is called life, but be addressed to Lawrence Cowen, Esq., Fortune Theatre. I mixed up in a Fem inist mo> what is life ? London, W.C.2. merely for charitable m oth “ I don’t know what life is,” said Sir Oliver, the claims of sex and class, ffi s s “ nobody knows. Life blossomed into mind at sort of leader of the B ritish si some stage, and we became conscious machines. You have a body which you use while you are here. HEARTSEASE. The brain is only an instrum ent—a piece of mechan­ ism. If you strike a man on the head with a hatchet There is within each soul exquisite song. you do not destroy hie. You merely destroy the Sacred as God is to the devout; mechanism which gives expression. Though oft life’s truant thought hath ’ticed it from “ Life and the mind do not stop when the machine Its psychic rhythm , and left it ’mid the rout. . —7 vjl uai has stopped. I do not suppose it began when the tearing at machine began. The individual has grown up here Yet like a friendly note from higher Spheres, in relation to his organism. I do not think the fames of M individual existed before, for nothing ever jumps Som e chord will often wake its sweet refrain ; S j m i call ,ts affairs. in or jumps out of existence. Every real thing is A nd deep w ithin the heart, oft’ through life’s tears. p e r p e tu a l. T he Soul will ring with that sweet song again. T h ™ E " We develop certain character here, and we take tw o our responsibility and our memory with us for better W. ROWE. ittPPeUns. April, 1931. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 105

PïlÇn . île * fib OUR INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE: A MONTHLY RECORD OF SPIRITUALISTIC AND PSYCHIC HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WITH SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. f S F fc B y MONSIEUR PASCAL FORTHUNY. f S I k ( This Chronicle i t Written in French, and is Translated into English by the Editor.)

personal IRecollectxons. had died in the crash of an enemy airship. The terrific lfe noise I heard was explained by the explosion. The 1 ' S MY SEANCES AT TAVISTOCK SQUARE—VII. name of Michael was intim ately connected with the person l Y readers will remember that on June 12, who had confided the two objects to the S.P.R. This Michael had drawn up an account of the destruction of M 1929, before my last public seance to the the Zeppelin, which 1 believe he had seen. Hardy was 0Vementj members and guests of the Society for another person closely associated with the catastrophe. index . Psychical Research, I was greatly cheered by MY NIGHT WITH THE GHOST CLUB. Ld be ob. finding myself in the home of ardent music lovers I should have liked to describe at length a later event B motions who had a marvellous piano, on which I made that evening, when on the invitation of my friend Mr. nomeaon long lyrical improvisations with extreme joy. R. H. Saunders, author of several splendid Spiritualistic ed to out works, I was a guest at a dinner of the famous Ghost That musical bath had been so agreeable and Club, of which the late Sir William Crookes was a dis­ k the real I comforting that I felt convinced my seance tinguished member. I was received with the most bat which I should satisfy the most hopeful expectations touching and unforgettable cordiality. The event was n only be 1 * of my audience. I shall now describe this last one of the most delightful experiences of my stay in L o n d o n . crucial test. , is inert, MY OFFICIAL VINDICATION BY THE S.P.R. called Lift THE EVENING’S PROGRAMME. My programme for that evening consisted in I must, however, proceed to speak of something quite experiments (1) in clairvoyance, properly so called, (2) in unexpected which happened only the day before yesterday. The postman brought me a pamphlet of twelve pages, ter and 1 prophecies, and (3) in psychometrising articles placed which is an extract from the " Proceedings of the Society in m y hands by persons present. cognised I for Psychical Research ” (part 1x7, vol. xxxix). This r to our I A SITTER’S EXPERIENCES IN EGYPT. publication is entitled, " The Visit of M. Pascal Forthuny At the outset I felt myself strongly attracted by a to the Society in 1929 ; by V. J. Woolley." y of the I person, sitting silent and still, to whom I recalled that is made I she had lived long in Egypt, both in Cairo and higher DR. WOOLLEY’S MISTAKEN LOYALTY. dicuni of I up the Nile. In that country she had been accompanied I do not conceal the fact that I was very agreeably surprised by this tardy missive. During my stay in integral I by another person, who had been so ill that a fatal issue had been feared. The couple had experienced great London I always considered Dr. Woolley a gallant animate I difficulties of a material order in bringing to fruition gentleman. I have never blamed him for the outrage trough it I a project, which finally succeeded owing to the powerful committed against my gifts and honour by the Journal’s Polish editor, but I have always regretted that the Doctor live and! collaboration of personalities belonging to the Khedival Court. seemed for so long to feel under obligation to show himself highest I This revelation was admitted to be correct by loyal to his unjust and censorious confrère, who has man Sir I L a d y ------, whose name I do not feel myself at liberty done such incalculable mischief to the Society. > Medici, to give. THE FRENCH STENOGRAPHER. tat plays A SAVANT WHO RESEMBLED BERGSON. I have no hesitation, therefore, in saying to Dr. V. J. I next spoke to an aged lady. I saw above her head Woolley :—" I thank you heartily for having written d that is the figure of a venerable savant, of whom someone had these twelve pages on my visit to Tavistock Square. llation of said that he resembled the celebrated philosopher, It is an act of justice, which does you honour.” I regret ;h is thf Bergson. This gentleman at his decease left behind him with him the inexperience of the stenographer, of whom a long series of printed works, and one in manuscript he says :—| All that was said was taken down by a d therein which had the appearance of being complete. All it note-taker engaged for the purpose, but we found an 1 of tl* wanted was to be put in order for the Press. This work unexpected difficulty in securing the services of a French of revision was to be undertaken by a learned young shorthand-writer, and the detail and accuracy of the i i | man, but unhappily he too died before completing the records suffered in consequence.” w o rk . MY DIRECT DIALOGUES. These circumstances were recognised in every detail. I regret also to notice that the Report of the S.P.R. >R * * The old lady was a widow, and the mother of two dis­ suggests that I spoke vaguely, without addressing myself tinguished biologists. Her husband's resemblance to directly to any person chosen out of many ! I think Bergson was acknowledged, and the book had not yet it right to say—and my audiences will, I feel sure, bear - Co*** been printed owing to her son’s premature death. me out—that in the great majority of cases I addressed ,r o v u ^ t, PROPHECY OF A BREWERY ENTERPRISE. myself, eye to eye, to the precise person to whom I had Turning next to prophetic phenomena, I told a something to reveal. Here is, according to Dr. Woolley gentleman that within six months he would be investing himself, an example of those direct dialogues :— considerable capital in a brewery concern. He told me RELATIONS WITH ASIA. «**.*„'*a t H that he had been eagerly trying to place money in an Forthuny : " Curiously, sir, I have the impression enterprise of that nature, and that he hoped very soon that not very long ago you have had business relations to realise his intention. with the Asiatic world.” r-gg A SUFFRAGETTE LEADER. Reply : ” Y e s .” Later comment : ” Correct psy­ I ¡ g i l l I looked towards a lady and said she had been ardently chically in general, the Far East in particular for three mfrgftrj up in a Feminist movement in Great Britain, not y e a r s .” merely for charitable motives but in order to assert F. : “ Someone you knew well in Asia died from a the claims of sex and class. This lady turned out to be a w o u n d h e r e * or from an organic m alady." | T sort of leader of the British suffragettes. Reply : ” My special friend on ‘ the other side ’ is a PSYCHOMETRY OF TWO OBJECTS. Chinaman, who was mortally wounded on the W estern Front in the W ar.. He was blown to pieces.” For my psychometrical experiment, two objects were handed to me, one enclosed in an envelope and the other <£12,000 SENT FROM ASIA. in 1 box. At my first contact with them 1 stated that F. : " I see written here ¿ 1 2 , 0 0 0 . That is a figure both objects came from a similar source. I saw myself that seems to me connected with your business relations surrounded by a great light. 1 heard a terrible crash— a with Asia.” noise o f battle. 1 saw a man fall, wounded and dying, Comment by V. J. W. : ” A gentleman sitting tearing at his belt with a last gesture. I heard the iiumediately behind the one addressed writes later that nam es o f Michael and Hardy. I had the impression of a he had spent many years in India, and that towards tragical calamity and said, ” 1 fly above the world and the end of this time, he had remitted home sums amounting its affairs. I dominate the earth from a certain height." t o about the ¿12,000 mentioned.” THE PSYCHOMETRY PROVED CORRECT. The tan objects were small pieces from German *{N

” She had several sharp attacks of gall-s*. AN ANARCHIST LADY. Reply : 1 a « » F " The name of Cecily, Cecilia, comes. She is a Strange to say, m y m other for the first time in jw**» » o rt. o f little anarchist of good quality. She is not had a very bad attack of this same trouble. a wflgi '"/¿lion* «>** naturally domesticated or obedient. She declares that was so ill that a serious operation was threatene&k? friendly h

h im s e lf . I am grateful for them. And these amiable CONCERNING THE DEVIL. expressions make me keenly regret once more that my friendly relations with the S.P.R. and its members—who The Italian review Mondo Occulto addresses all gave me their respect and surrounded me with testi­ itself to those people who believe in the devil monies of their kindness during my visit—should have and say, “ W e must believe in him for Christ been so deplorably interrupted by the caprice of a young believed in him 1 ” reprobate, who tried to hide the truth about my successes The review says, ” He believed in him with his con­ at the headquarters of the S.P.R. by repeating a falsehood temporaries but he did not believe in him in the same emanating from a person with a similar disposition to fashion as they, though in speaking of him he adapted his own. During the past few months I have in my his words to the popular beliefs. He always taught the Recollections fully exposed the wickedness of a t t a c k his seeker for truth to look for the spirit beneath the letter, on my honour and probity, and now that these have at and just as one may understand by the term Holy Spirit last been vindicated by his superior officer, Dr. V. J. the collectivity of pure and lofty spirits—those whom W o o lle y , I am quite content to leave matters as they the love of goodness unites in one moral personality—so now are. P. F. the nam e of Satan m ay signify the collectivity of im pure ftbc dHjronicU. and imperfect spirits bound together by hatred of the g o o d .” SPIRITUALISTIC ACTIVITY IN ITALY. Mondo Occulto adds :— ” It is our duty to convert evil We congratulate Luce e Ombra, our Italian spirits to goodness when they present themselves, and Spiritualist contemporary, on its most recent we should have the courage not to let them persevere in evil; in fine we must conduct ourselves towards enterprise. them as towards 'ordinary men. There are some Under the direction of Messrs. Achille Brioschi charitable persons who go into prisons to reclaim male­ and Angelo Marzorati it is undertaking this year the factors without fear of catching their moral contagion. publication in Italian of the most typical works in which Do you blame them or condemn their good deeds ? On Psychical Research and the Spiritualist Philosophy may the other hand we seek for the society of good spirits be studied—those of the assiduous workers who penetrated in order to receive from them instruction and encourage­ to the secret regions of life and threw a clear light on ment. W hy should these good spirits not be able to the shadows of our destiny. come to us. If God were to prevent them and sent us These will include the books of Crookes and Bozzano, instead evil spirits, He would be the accomplice of these Aksakof and Schrenck-Notzing, Lombroso and Morselli, inferior spirits, and that would be a contradiction of all Lodge and Richet in a vast spirit of eclecticism. The first that Christ said. work to be translated will be Frederic Myers' ” Human ” Sometimes it is true we call for good spirits and it is Personality and Survival,” which will appear along with the evil who come. Their visit gives us salutary proofs Sir William Crookes’ " Researches into Spiritualism.” of the infallible sanction even in the after-life of the The other works will be issued without reference to moral law. We see that punishment follows the sin chronological order. We wish great success to this to the point of reparation and necessary expiation. enterprise, which will bring our best literature within These wretched spirits receive our encouragem ent tow ards the reach of all countries speaking the Italian language. repentance and the regeneration of their conscience. By the charity of God we collaborate in securing their THE CINEMA AND OCCULT PHENOMENA. spiritual salvation. The Revue Internationale du Cinema Educateur, " Let us talk no more of devils. There are only errant published in Rome, has a long article on this spirits, whom we can save." interesting subject. It claims that the cinema may be of the greatest use NIETZCHE’S POSTHUMOUS WORK. in the analytical examination of occult phenomena. The German journal Deutsche La Plata Beitura, It recalls that the phenomena of clairvoyance, prophecy, published in Buenos Aires, reports the following apparitions of phantoms, and materialisations of spirits circumstances from a Berlin source :— date from all times. They cannot honestly be denied. But if some scientists believe in them many others laugh In the town of Turin, Italy, Messrs. Bocca & Sons at them and speak of tricks. The cinema would convince have published a series of books under the titles " Con­ the incredulous. Already photography has rendered a temporary Italy,” “ Hum anity,” and ” The W orld and great service of this kind. It has put before the eyes of Life,” attributing the authorship to ” Dr. Homere Petri scoffers concrete documents, difficult to contest, for and Frederic Nietzche.” many of these photographs have been obtained under The explanation given is that on April 30, 1926, Dr. conditions when trickery was impossible. Photographs Petri and his wife attended a Spiritualist seance, s o m e t h i n g can sometimes be taken in a red light or by magnesium quite new to them. The table rocked and spelt o u t w i t h flash without injuring the phenomena. Mediums as a its foot the name “ Frederic Nietzche,” and then c o n t i n u e d rule do not like these experiments, but they can be with a succession of lofty thoughts. convinced that they are of essential value to the truth Next day there was another seance with friends of they espouse. Dr. Petri, in whom he had complete confidence. Thereat The advantage of the cinema would be that it would the table spelt out entire pages from the philosopher, not only capture some instantaneous phenomenon, but although none of the persons present had read any of also record its duration and its evolution in detail. How his works. instructive that would be ! The late Baron Schrenck- Intrigued by these novel experiences Dr. Petri continued Notzing, along with other researchers, made experiments the seances and thus received the substance of a first by this process with the medium Eva Carrière, but the posthumous work, very manifestly Neitschean. The results were poor owing to defective installations. house of Bocca sent a representative to the seances, and Such phenomena as the displacement of objects without he reported that there was no question of any deceit, contact would be perfectly reproduced by the film of and the book was published. Learned Italians who are any well-organised cinema. The slow formation of familiar with Nietzsche’s thought are agreed in saying :— apparitions would also be shown in all its stages. Besides “ This work is from beginning to end Nietzche pure.” there is a wide range of phenomena whose mechanism The philosopher continues to transmit other works could well be registered by the cinema. to Dr. Petri, and a Commission of German Nietzcheans We associate ourselves with the hope expressed by will, it is said, go to Turin to study the phenomena. Dr. Albert Hellwig in the Revue Cinématographique that some great film publishing house should soon undertake A NOCTURNAL VISION. this work along with qualified mediums. The Bordeaux newspaper La V o ix du C o m - THE JEWS AND SPIRITUALISM. battant prints the following story of an apparition The Jewish Chronicle publishes some interesting in the night:— “ I was in a profound sleep when I was awakened details about the great progress of the Jewish by a bright light filling my room. I sat up in bed and Spiritualist Society at Brooklyn, U . S . A . :— to my stupefaction saw a woman richly clothed walking " The organisation has now several hundred followers in front of my bed, without appearing to take any notice and holds monthly meetings with discussions, and demon­ of my presence. Suddenly I heard hurried footsteps, strations by prominent mediums. A t the last meeting angry shouts, a violent blow, a cry, the noise of a body of the Society over 500 people were present. It is falling, and then there was the silence of the night t obtaining many members who hitherto held aloof because “ I was greatly frightened. I wanted to flee from the heretofore Spiritualism in America was almost entirely cursed room, but terror paralysed me, Next day, my on a religious plane, and moreover part of the Christian host, Count B., told me that long ago a Lady Diana of G,, religion. Mrs. Matilda L. Levy, of Brooklyn, organised who married the Duke of L., had been murdered by her the Society for the express purpose of research without husband in that room for having accorded her favours the religious alignment.4' to King Louis X V ." 1 0 8 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. A p r il. 1931.

CAODAÎSM. THE PASSING OF MR. RONALD BRAILEy CAO-DAI (“ the Supreme Being ”) is the title T H E Old G uard of Spiritualism is having jn of Annamite organised Spiritualism. ranks speedily depleted. ** Friend after It claims to have 500,000 disciples to-day. It was friend departs ” from this earthly seen. ! started in 1923, and has had to suffer much persecution to join the hosts on the Other Side. from the colonial administration and the Jesuits. In 1925, numerous circles were organised at Saigon, when Mr. Ronald Brailey passed to the Beyond from hk autom atic writing was received and Spiritualist orators residence at 90 Sunny Gardens, Hendon, on February 21 developed. In 1926, Caodaism continued to prosper and leaving Mrs. Brailey, his sympathetic companion ajJ spread, and on October 7 275 adepts made an official co-worker, to continue for a little the terrestrial journey declaration concerning it to the Governor of Cochin For nearly forty years Mr. Brailey lectured at Spirit China. Missions throughout the country converted ualistic Societies all over the country and demonstrated 20,000 persons. The principal headquarters were estab­ his psychic gifts both in public and private. He was an lished in March, 1927, at the village of Long-Thanh in excellent clairvoyant and was particularly successful ^ the province of Tay-ninh, and since then Spiritualist psychometry. We recall that on one occasion he was belief has spread more and more. It is of a religious handed a morsel of stone that to the ordinary observer character, and bases itself on Confucius, Lao-Tsu, the seemed no different from any other piece of stone. But worship of good " genies,” Jesus Christ, Buddha, Allan on handling it he described an Egyptian tomb and gave Kardec, and Leon Denis. The doctrine aims at con­ its royal occupant’s history and personal characteristics. ciliating all creeds and at adapting men to all degrees of The stone it was admitted had come from this particular spiritual evolution. A Caodaist rçview is now being tomb in Egypt. p u b l i s h e d . Mr. and Mrs. Brailey were the founders of the East London Spiritualist Association at Stratford in 1894. THE DANGER OF LIGHT. His public work continued until January 9 last, when On August 10, 1930, a seance was held at he conducted the services at Wembley Spiritualist Church. Chesterfield, Indiana, U.S.A., by a group of two He had for some time felt that his health w as failing mediums and seven sitters. and many times last summer he told Mrs. Brailey it was One medium, Mrs. Larson (says Psychic Research f o r useless to book further engagements far ahead as there J anuary) was seated before a door opening on to a vestibule was another programme marked out for him. where the electric light had been extinguished. Unfor­ The records of Mr. Brailey’s early work were all des­ tunately someone passing through turned on the light, troyed when his bungalow at Shoreham was burnt down whose brightness penetrated under the door and shone some years ago. over the floor of the room. Mrs. Larson collapsed, and One of the saddest moments of his life was when his a Mrs. Nelson felt a painful scorching on her finger. All promising young son went down in the Titanic with Mr. W . T. Stead. Young W illiam Theodore Brailey was the sitters felt blows on their chest, back, and face. The poor medium remained unconscious for a long tim e the pianist of the ship’s band, which played “ Nearer as if she were dead. The other medium was much less m y God to Thee ” as the vessel plunged to its doom. affected, for she was not w ithin the rays of the light.” PETITES NOUVELLES. & s m Some months ago a haunted house near the town of Aosta, in Italy, caused a great stir, and m any journalists BRIEF NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. established the reality of the startling phenomena. This Messrs. L. N. Fowler & Co. have published at 1/6 a house has just been destroyed by fire. rem arkable little book called ” T h e M a g i c S t o r y ,” w hich W e have received the first num ber of a review named we strongly recommend to the notice of our readers. Proteus, published by Mr. W. B. Crow, London, which It was w ritten by Frederic van Rensselaer Dey in 1900 devotes its pages to the science, philosophy, and therapy of nature. This first num ber is very good. and published in America, and it is believed that its The Astrological Institute of Carthage has founded various editions have amounted to at least a million an International Association of Astrological Archives, copies. It gives a fine kick to people who have got into which aims at collecting 100,000 controlled horoscopes a mental and spiritual rut and wish to get out of the for comparison and detailed study. These will be doldrums into the path of success and happiness. A available'for astrologers everywhere. Cape Breton clergyman wrote to the author saying Luce e Ombra announces the republication of the book " La Mediaru ta,” by Puolo Visa ni Scozzi, who was bora " To be able to help m ankind as this story helps is to be at Rom agna Toscana in 1858 and died on July 28, 1918, blest indeed.” Any bookseller can supply the book if at San Piero a Sieve, Italy. It is an adm irable work. the nam e of the publisher is m entioned. The municipal adm inistration at Biella, Italy, sent “ S h i n i n g W i n g s ” is the title of an interesting tak carabineers to quell the ghostly disturbances in a haunted of love and life in the Highlands by Mr. D. M. Macintyre, house at 124 Via U m berto, but they arrived too late ! M.B.E., F.R.I.S., the Chief of the Clan Macintyre A ssocia­ El Siglo Espirita, Mexico, has translated and published tion in Glasgow, and a good Spiritualist. The author in full m y critical article on the m edium Carlos M irabelli, takes his readers through orthodoxy and heterodoxy to which was printed in the Revue Metapsychique o f P a n s . Spiritualism, and makes the path pleasant by his poetical of February 15 published from Dr. Lys ver Landet love of nature and about half a dozen love stories of the O sty’s book, “ Pascal Forthuny : Une Faculté de Con­ dear old-fashioned sort, in which a l l t h e ” p a r t i e s ” had naissance Supernormale,” the analysis of my public true visions of their future partners i n life! T h e r m , seance given at the Paris M etapsychic Institute, when of course, he stretches the long bow as all good Highlanders psychom etrising an em pty chair chosen from among 200 used to do, but he has the root of the m atter in his book others in an em pty hall, I dictated an account of the life which is published by Cecil Palmer at 7 ,6 n e t . and destiny of the woman who would occupy it two hours later, when the doors of the hall were opened and the ” O u r G l o r i o u s F u t u r e ” is another Spiritualist audience would seat itself entirely at hazard. My novel. Its author has the curious name of ” Johnhett” description was found to be in great part correct. and his book is published by the C. W . Daniel Company We have received an intimation from Mr. Wm. C. at 7/6. It starts off w ith the story of ** a miracle child " Hartm ann, P.O. Box, Jamaica, N.Y., U.S.A., that he who, as soon as he was introduced into the world, said has founded a branch of the Survival League in America, ” Thank you, all ” to the doctor and nurse, and looking in affiliation with the English Survival League, founded at his father and mother said ** G r e a t I ” He was not by Mrs. C. Dawson Scott. a cry-baby, but was good as gold and was hailed as some In anticipation of the Congress of the International sort of a New M essiah. Of course no one has ever heard Spiritualists’ Federation to be held at The Hague in o f s u c h a child, but all this is supposed to happen a hundred Septem ber, the review Spiritische Bladen has reproduced years hence. So that explains it. The boy becomes a the em blem adopted for the Congress. wonderful medium. Notwithstanding the improbabilities " The Spiritualistic Society ” and " Stockholm Spirit­ of the plot, the story is well w ritten aud w ith good intent ualistic Society " have decided to amalgamate and to continue the work under the name first mentioned. “ L e s s o n s f r o m B e y o n d , ” published by R id e r s a t ¡e> These societies are the tw o leading associations in Sweden. professes to consist of further messages f r o m ” Juba,’ Mr. Carl A. Carle son, 9 Biblioteksgatan, Stockholm, who used to write through the hand of Mr. W. T Stead. has been elected as president. The automatist for this series is Mrs Corelli Green, who* ______P. F. deceased daughter May is said t o a c t a s ” J u l i a 's ’ amanuensis 011 the Other Side. Miss E. \V Stead was N o t e .—-C ommunications for our Continental Editor present when these messages were received and says it should be addressed to Monsieur P a s c a l F o r t h u n y , the preface to the book, ” Wo feel that those who read tb* 10 Avenue Frédéric Forthuny, M ontmorency, Seine et letters given b y Julia through my father’s hand *v| Dise, France. recoguise the sam e personality b e h i n d these.** April, 1931. v THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 109 I Robert James Lees Tracked “ Jack the Ripper.” SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS IN A SECRET DOCUMENT. hfc^l 1 AST month we recorded the passing hence The vehicle stopped at the top of Notting Hill, and a % \ _L*r of Robert James Lees, the famous Spirit­ man entered. Mr. Lees perceived that he was of medium I size, wore a suit of dark Scotch tweed, a light overcoat, ISJ ualist author and clairvoyant, at Leicester and a soft felt hat. Leaning over to his wife he remarked n S s on January io, and printed loving tributes to earnestly, " That is Jack the Ripper.” 3 5 s his memory from his daughter, Miss Eva Lees, Mrs. Lees laughed and told him not to be foolish, but and a close friend, Mr. Dan Black. he replied, " I am not m istaken.” S i The omnibus traversed Edgwaxe Road and turned On March 8 and q t h e Daily Express printed for the o L \ first time the thrilling story of how " Jack the Ripper ” into Oxford Street at the Marble Arch. The man got M was finally tracked and confined, drawn up from a secret out, and Mr. Lees followed him down Park Lane. W hen halfway down Mr. Lees met a constable, and pointing N l 5 document Mr, Lees confided to a friend with instructions that it should not be revealed until after his death. to the man in the light overcoat told him he was ” Jack % T h e Express, in introducing the story, mentions the the Ripper,” and asked that he should be arrested. The WH fact that Queen Victoria was interested in Mr. Lees's constable laughed at him and threatened to run him in. psychic powers, and received him more than once at " The Ripper,” as if scenting danger, jumped into a Buckingham Palace. Also that he had been in receipt cab and was rapidly driven dowm Piccadilly. of a pension from the Privy Purse for m any years. A m inute later Mr. Lees m et a police sergeant to whom ;S he confided his suspicions. " Show me the constable who % HIS FIRST VISION OF “ THE RIPPER.” refused to arrest him ! ” exclaimed the sergeant. “ W hy, At the time of the first three murders by " the Ripper,” it was only this morning we received news at Bow Street s a y s t h e Express, Mr. Lees was at the height of his clair­ that * the Ripper ’ was coming in this direction.” a s voyant powers. One day, while writing in his study, ANOTHER VISION AND A POSTCARD. % he became convinced that "the Ripper ” was about to That same night Mr. Lees had a premonition of another commit another murder. murder. His vision of the tragedy was not so distinct, I*»**. *• He seemed to see two persons, a man and a but the face of the victim was clearly defined. He noted » < < woman, walking down the length of a mean street. that one ear was completely severed from the face, and He followed them in his mind’s eye, and saw them the other was hanging by a mere shred of flesh. '’•»«a hit enter a narrow court. He looked and read the name As soon as he recovered from his trance he hastened «« \ntji of the court. There was a gin palace near this court to Scotland Yard, where he was listened to w ith incredulity Uey ablaze with light. Looking through the windows m until he spoke of the victim’s ears being severed from " K he saw that the hands of the clock in the bar pointed e ti* the head. Then the head inspector drew a postcard from >om to is.40, the hour at which the public houses closed his desk and laid it before his visitor. It read as for the night, fo llo w s :— ” As he looked (clairvoyantlyl he saw the man and ” To-morrow night I shall again take my revenge, the woman enter a dark comer of the court. The woman claiming, from a class of women who have made was half drunk; the man was perfectly sober. He was themselves most obnoxious to me, my ninth victim. k dressed in a dark suit of Scotch tweed, carried a light JACK THE RIPPER. overcoat on his arm, and his light blue eyes glittered in U 1 0 « I ” P.S.—To prove that I am really Jack the Ripper the rays of the lamplight, which dimly illuminated the I will cut off the ears of this ninth victim .” '* vhick I dingy retreat.” The inspector, who was a religious man. regarded readers. I The man put one hand over the woman’s mouth, the coincidence of the postcard and Mr. Lees’s vision obviously to prevent her screaming, drew a knife from i n 19m I as a warning from heaven. He concentrated his energies his inside vest pocket, and cut her throat. The blood t h a t i t on measures to avert the threatened outrage. By dusk streamed over his shirt front. He then inflicted sundry next day he had sent 3,000 constables in plain clothes m ilk s gashes on her body in a scientific manner, deliberately and 1,500 detectives disguised as mechanics and dock- gOt U tl wiped his knife on the woman's clothes, sheathed it, and labourers into the W hitechapel area to keep watch, but putting on his light overcoat, buttoned it up, as if to hide t OI t k ” the Ripper ” penetrated the cordon, slew his victim, his shirt front, and walked calmly away from the scene and escaped. His victim had one ear completely severed MSS A of the murder. yin g .w and the other was hanging by a mere shred ! HIS VISION VERIFIED. Mr. Lees was so unnerved by this new tragedy that he i s to k Mr. Lees was so impressed by this prophetic vision again went to the Continent to recover his poise. W hile b o o k * of a coming murder that he went at once to Scotland he was away " the Ripper ” accomplished his sixteenth Yard and narrated the whole m atter to the detectives. murder and coolly informed Scotland Yard that he They regarded him as nothing short of a lunatic, but to would “ kill tw enty and then cease.” humour him the sergeant on duty took down the name And now comes the most dram atic part of the story. of the place where Mr. Lees said the crime would be committed also the time 12.40 a.m. at which " the THE SEVENTEENTH MURDER. Mr. Lees shortly afterwards returned to England, and Ripper ” and his victim would enter the court. was dining one evening with two American friends at “ At es .3 0 on the following night a woman entered the Criterion when suddenly he turned to them and the puhlic-house near the court in question. She exclaimed : Great God ! * Jack the Ripper ’ has was quite under the influence of drink, and the “ committed another murder ! ” bar-keeper refused to serve her. She left the place One of them, Mr. Roland B. Shaw, a mining stock­ swearing and using vile language. She was seen by broker, of New York, looked at his watch and found another witness to enter the court again at 12.40 in the tim e was eleven m inutes to eight. company with a man dressed in a dark suit and At ten minutes past eight a policeman discovered carrying a light overcoat on his arm. The witness the body of a woman in Crown Court, Whitechapel, thought the man was an American because he wore with her throat cut from ear to ear, and her body bearing a soft felt hat, and added that * he looked like a gentleman.' ** all the marks of “ the Ripper’s ” handiwork. Mr. Lees and his companions went at once to Scotland That was the evidence given at the Coroner’s Court next day. The woman's body had been found in the Yard, and while Mr. Lees was relating his story a telegram w r y place described by Mr. Lees *' with her throat cut arrived giving the first news of the outrage. from ear to ear, and otherwise indecently and horribly The inspector, two plain clothes officers, Mr. Lees mutilated ”—to quote the Coroner's record. and the two Americans, drove speedily to Crown Court, I f r . Lees himself was indescribably shocked when and on arrival Mr. Lees exclaimed, ” Look in the angle he learned of the murder. Taking with him a trusted of the w all; there is something written there.” The maamrvant he visited the scene of the outrage. inspector struck a match, and as the flame flared up T o use his o w n language : ” I felt almost as if I was they read, “ Seventeen, Jack the Ripper ’.’ written in aa accessory before the fact. It made such an chalk on the wall ! And the fiend had disappeared tmpreeston upon me that my whole nervous system leaving no trace. w a s seriously shaken. I could not sleep at night, The greatest police force in the world had been baffled and under the advice of a physician I removed writh for years, the most experienced detectives in France, my family to the Continent.'' Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain and America had been summoned to its aid, a reward of ¿30,000 and a pension “ THE RIPPER ” IN AN OMNIBUS. of ¿1,500 a year was being offered to anyone who would bring ” the Ripper ” to justice. But all of no avail. During tut absence abroad four .new ” Ripper ” m urders had been added to the list. ON THE CLAIRVOYANT TRAIL. After hu return, he was riding one day in company The inspector seemed to recognise in Mr Lees an with his wife, in aa omnibus from Shepherd's Bush. instrument of Providence, and appealed to him to try 1 1 0 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. April

to track the fiend to his lair by his marvellous powers. murders in these intervals, he expressed the pw. Mr. Lees consented, and subm itting him self to m edium istic repugnance and horror. influence quickly traversed the streets of London, with He told the physicians he had on one or two m w the inspector and his helpers following a few feet behind. found himself sitting in his room as if suddenly At last, at four o’clock in the morning, with a pale from a long stupor, and on one occasion he found hkS R. face and bloodshot eyes, the human bloodhound on his shirt front, which he had attributed to w® a * halted at the gates of a W est End mansion, gasping, bleeding. On another occasion his face had W o r with cracked and swollen lips, as he pointed to an s c r a t c h e d . A thorough search was made of the house, and a®nL f o t ® I upper chamber where a faint light yet gleamed. w proofs were found of the doctor’s guilt. The ScoH r a t t i ** There is the m urderer— the man you are looking tweed suit, soft felt hat, and light overcoat describe for.** ,t I WOl by the clairvoyant were brought to light. " It is impossible,” returned the inspector. W hen he was convinced of his guilt the doctor begM m M " That is the residence of one of the m ost celebrated to be killed at once, as he ” could not live under the san* XI w ^ o ettge n d e r physicians in the W est End.” I roof as a m onster.” However, he added, *' If you will describe to me the interior of the doctor’s hall I will arrest him, but I shall “ THE MOST INTRACTABLE MADMAN.” do so at the risk of losing my position, which I have He was at once removed to a private asylum ^ n t h e u * won by tw enty years of faithful service.” Islington, where he becam e the m ost intractable madman ■he m y s t t 114 T h e Mr. Lees said, ” The hall has a porter’s high chair of confined in that establishm ent. h y p o t black oak on the right hand as you enter, a stained glass A Commission in Lunacy made an exhaustive inquiry window at the extrem e end, and a large mastiff is at this into his case and decided that while in one mood the s e rie * moment asleep at the foot of the stairs.” doctor was a most worthy man, in another he was an t o a d I a m They waited until seven o’clock then entered the inhuman monster. d o u b t house. The servant who adm itted them said the doctor In order to account for his disappearance a sham was still in bed. They asked to see his wife, and while death and burial were enacted, and an em pty coffin now I the servant went to call her, they remarked that the reposes in a fam ily vault in a London cemetery, which is I r e n t hall was precisely as Mr. Lees had described it, excepting supposed to contain the m ortal remains of a great West B u t 1 that there was no dog. On the servant’s return she End physician whose untim ely death was widely mourned. r e s e a t told them that the dog generally slept at the foot of the None of his keepers knew that the desperate maniac I stairs, but that she let it out every morning into the who flung himself from side to side in his padded cell, a n y t back garden. and m ade the long night w atches hideous with his piercing n o t c cries, was the famous ” Jack the Ripper.” He was simply m a n . THE FINAL REVELATIONS. known to them and the visiting inspectors as ” No. 124." I t c a r The doctor’s wife, a beautiful woman, during half T h u s t h e Daily Express has exclusively revealed for " B u t t] an hour's searching examination, confessed that she the first tim e that “ Jack the Ripper ” was a ” Dr. Tekyll of science did not believe her husband was always of sound mind. and Mr. Hyde ” in real life, a respected physician in the o u r o w n ] He had threatened herself and her children at times, day, a fiend in human form in the night. He might t h e s o u l. and they had had to lock themselves up. She had noted never have been discovered—so diabolically crafty was W e c a n h with dread that whenever a W hitechapel murder had he—had not Mr. Robert Jam es Lees come to the aid of a b u n d a n t] occurred her husband was absent from home I the baffled police with his extraordinary clairvoyant and as a 1 W ithin an hour the inspector had summoned to his powers. For Spiritualists that is a very important part M r. D o t aid two of the greatest experts on insanity in the of the dark secret, which till now has remained one of o f t h e m e metropolis. W hen accused the doctor adm itted that his the unsolved m ysteries of crime. No longer can scoffers firmly an< mind had been unhinged for some years, and that there say th at psychic gifts are of no utility, for on this occasion led him t( had been intervals of which he had no recollection. W hen they and they alone stopped the incessant menace of w a s a f r a i told that they believed he had com m itted the W hitechapel m urder after m urder in the W hitechapel area. insoluble c The Vision on the Cliff’s Edge.

A n INTERPRETATION b y DAVID O. SMITH, P o n t y p r i d d .

The following is the best interpretation sent us oj M r. W ill spirit world. The stranger addresses the crowd. A few Carlos' thought-provoking article in our March number. are much impressed. He continues to speak with greater fervour. This occurs wherever truth is presented at fT , H E scene covers the past, and the future. present. The solid ground is the world. The cliff We come now to the crucial test. The believers are T h e B is the end of this life. The foot or more asked to step off into space I All who die step off into C o u of land between the fence and cliff is the Border­ space, hand in hand with some dear one. Space refers to the next life, and all eventually reach their goal. as a systei land between the two planes of life. The fence This fails to fit entirely the vision, however. We are Gifts. Stud is that wall of crystallised thought which unbelief, indeed about to “ behold a wondrous thing.” It is a ignorance and doubt are said to have created future event. The spirit world will lead men on and on, EVERY« between the two worlds. The central figure until one here and there will be taken directly into spirit and all de life, as an apport, less the dross. There will be a change clad in a grey garment, silent, with his hands P H Y S I C A L but no funeral; nothing to bury. Those who pass by The six te: hanging down loosely clasped in front, represents this process do not go over the cliff. T h e y t e a t the spirit world, or the inhabitants thereof. As Jan Steen says in “ Hafed, Prince of Persia,” in C L A I R A U D The heavy jowled, snub-nosed fellow who attem pts answering a question about the inhabitants of a certain etc., and gi> these gifts, to remove the cloak of the central figure by stealth, planet, ” they do not die, but change, leaving nothing control all | refers to all and sundry who have attem pted to apply to bury.” The Rev. G. Vale Owen's Guide refers also to this mode of transition, and says, ” more have passed a n d h o w a materialistic solutions to spiritual phenomena. Or, that way than ye wot of,” but that the Christ did not particularly, to those who have tried vainly to strip or shun or avoid death— (“ Highlands of Heaven ”). I would Extracts f expose Spiritualism. The number of men that slowly hesitate to place such a construction on this final scene “ W h a t 1 gathered as onlookers, refers to all those who take any if I did not know positively from many sources that the expressed in interest in things spiritual. And they do seem slow. spirit world intends eventually that we shall say with “ T h i s c o i We come now to the actions of the characters. all truth, “ Oh, death, where is thy sting; oh, grave, force one car M aterialism began to boast, laugh at, and even threaten where is thy victory ? ” great benefit to completely overthrow everything spiritual. This ” Y o u r c o occurred more successfully in the past, during Ingersoll’s am developii day, and during the great wave of Materialism of the S 1 I than thank 1 last century. Their insult or challenge receives an “ M a y I Q unexpected shock. The silent ones turn this way ; they When I consider the nature of the soul, there is far ^ngratulatir lean over the wall. They seize many by the arm and more difficulty and obscurity in forming a conception of what the soul is while in the body—in a dwelling where hand, and look intently into many faces. The “ snub- k n s * ^ | nose ” refers to dull sensing or perception ; the ” heavy it seems so little at home—than 01 what it will b e when jowl ” to animal-like propensities. * Eye to eye they it has escaped into the free atmosphere of heaven, which stood for a moment *'—this implies final agreement. seems its natural abode.—-Cicero. They see eye to eye, *' looking intently into the face ” The realm of the occult and the supernormal is immense, jJH w - refers to teaching and spirit leading, and precedes the beginning. When and its exploration is even now only Uto ; r a l a g r e e m e n t . that investigation has been pushed further, I have every ” The effrontery vanishes.” This is just beginning in confidence that the reality of the spirit-world will be some of the daily and weekly newspapers. " Still holding established beyond cavil, and the case for hum an survival his hand ”— contact is maintained constantly with the correspondingly strengthened.— Arthur Mee.

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i S * Hr Spiritualism as Viewed by James Douglas. «ifk Mi t " I W AS AFRAID. AND I AM AFRAID.” *4 V S i |R. JAMES DOUGLAS, in the course of an Had he but pursued his quest until the light, truth, | article in the Sunday Express of March 8 and comfort of Spiritualism had dawned upon his intelli­ M gence, as it has on so many thousands of investigators, on “ Science cannot make perfect men,” learned and unlearned, in all parts of the world during wrote a noteworthy confession in regard to his the past eighty years, he would have found that there own attitude to Spiritualism, as follows :— was nothing to dread : no insoluble doubt to perplex and haunt him. * h “ I wonder why science refuses to explore the life of tfc He wonders “ why science refuses to explore the life Q t kV the spirit. I wonder why it is afraid to take up the of the spirit," and asserts that " it flies in terror from the challenge of Spiritualism and all its experiments. mysteries of telepathy, clairvoyance and clairaudience." I wonder why it frowns on the researches of savants like But many scientists have explored and do explore the UK* Crookes and Lodge. It pursues the phantom electrons life of the spirit. They have discovered that telepathy, •y iu ju j and the phantom protons, and the phantom photons clairvoyance and clairaudience are natural gifts of the in the universe of the atom. But it flies in terror from " I spirit—as the Apostle Paul taught—and that these are the m ysteries of telepathy, clairvoyance and clairaudience. not mysteries from which anyone need fly in terror. n totafol “ The Spiritualists say that Conan Doyle proved his They are just as natural functions of the soul’s manifold « n o o tfu i hypothesis to me when he conducted m e through a mechanisms as seeing, hearing, and communicating one’s *® *»« ajl series of seances, and they rebuke m e for being afraid thoughts by tongue and pen are to the physical body. to admit it. Yes, I was afraid, and I am afraid. There is nothing to unhinge any sane person’s reason c a shan t I am a Hamlet, perplexed and haunted by insoluble in the recognition of this well-established natural fact. doubt and dread. coffin not I And we may tell Mr. Douglas that the science of the f t which* | “ I saw too much to face the agony of seeing more. spirit is much safer in the hands of ordinary common- [mt Wat I I renounced my quest rather than unhinge my reason. sense people who love truth for truth’s sake than it is But I tell science that it ought to take psychical in the hands of the pretentious professional psychical r mourned. I research out of the hands of amateurs and charlatans. ite inasut researchers, who instead of advancing from the palmy added cell,B “ I am afraid of Spiritualism because I see hardly days of Crookes, Russel W allace, Lodge and Myers, have retrograded and become defunct—obsessed by what lis piercuif I any spiritual life in it. It is a branch of biology, not of religion. It does not change the heart of Professor Bozzano aptly calls '* the theory of universal w a s simply I man. But science should do what no layman can do. fraud." They have not yet even " decided the m aterialist I N o- nC I It can decide the materialistic issue. issue.” They are afraid of it. tvealed in I *' B ut the life of the spirit is beyond the m easurem ents D r. Jekyf I Mr. Douglas says, " I am afraid of Spiritualism because of science. It is our private territory. W e can conduct dan in the I I see hardly any spiritual life in it. He suffers here our own experiments in the laboratory of the mind and from a serious misconception. There is truly no spiritual H e might I the soul. And I say that the secret of life is within us. life apparent in the mere quest of phenomena, which craft)' was 1 W e can have life, eternal life, and we can have it more is often called ** spiritism ,” but there is no true “ Spirit­ the aid d I abundantly every day we live, as individuals, as a nation, ualism ” without its essential component of spirituality. :lairvoyant I and as a race." There are m any spiritists who know nothing of spirituality, >rtant part | Mr. Douglas does not appear to have learnt the wisdom and there are many deeply spiritual Souls who know oed one oi of the mother’s advice to her child, ** Grasp the nettle nothing of spiritism, but Spiritualism is a blend or com­ a n scoffers firmly and it will not sting." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle bination of spiritism and spirituality, and without either is occasion led him towards the light, but he stopped half-way. He of these component parts it is not Spiritualism. m e n a c e « w a s a f r a i d — 1 a Harriet, perplexed and haunted by Spiritualists are after all the only real experts in " the insoluble doubt and dread." It is a miserable confession. laboratory of the mind and the soul."

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