TELEPATHY ~ ASTROLOGY \V '- ^ u # f 'A r t r 1 1 f H I r f 1SYCHIC POWER

Vol, II THE PSYCHIC LEADER No. 1

CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1923

A Few Thoughts of Inspired Writings ...... *...... Lord Headley 4 How to Develop Spirit Photography With Illustrations...... fjr. w \ M. Keeler 13 Thought Transference Its Useful ness and IIow to Make Others Think of You ...... - ...... William Brock 17 Recorded Accounts of Psychic Manifestations As Published by the American P re s s ...... 19 Lessons in Applied Psychology Elementary. Part I ...... ,...... Clarence JT. Poster 22 The Chart of Mind Showing the Historical and Prophetic Cycles of Consciousness and the Correct Sequence of the Distinct Degree of Intelligence ...... - ...... - ...... John Bertram Clarke 25 The Textbook of Life Written Under Inspiration...... Effa E. Danelson 30 A Complete Course of Graded Lessons for Aspirants to Spirit Com munication. Jewish Spiritualism An Account of Psychic Manifestations—Spirit Communications and Healing Among the Jews in Bible Times and the Tahnudieal Era ...... William Brock 39 Short Articles Our Greatest Problem. Immortality. A Simple Fact in Nature Spirit Messages...... William J, Bryan-, M. D. Short Stories and Poems Answers to Personal Questions Regarding Psychic Unfoldment. Business. Love, Dream Interpre tations. etc.

Eminent Authorities in Science, Art and Literature Whose Names Are of Record as Spiritualists William T. Stead, editor Eng Prof. Cesare Lombroso, Pro C. F. Varley, Chief Engineer Prof. Wra. Crookes, F. R. S., lish Review of Reviews. fessor Psychiatry, Univer Electric & International editor London Jour. Science^ Professor Challis, Professor sity of Turin. Telegraph Co. Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S., Pro of Astronomy at Cam Gustav T. Fecbner, Professor Prof. Scheibner, Teacher of fessor of Physics, Univer bridge. of Physics, University of Mathematics, University of sity of Cambridge. Leipsic. Abraham Lincoln, martyred Leipsic. Professor De Morgan, at one President of the United Prof. Henry Kiddle, formerly W. F. Barrett, Professor of time London's greatest States. Superintendent New York Physics, Royal College of mathematician Alfred R. Wallace, P. G. S., City Schools, Science, Dublin. author, scientist, naturalist. Robert Bell, distinguished Dr. Lockhart Robertson, for Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, ex- Judge J. W. Edmonds, for dramatist and novelist, of merly editor Journal Men United States Senator, ex- merly of the New York England. tal Science. President of Senate. Bench. W. E. Webber, Professor of Herr Max Selling, Professor Dr. Migtiel Sans Benito, Pro Oliver Johnson, a former edi Physics, University of Got- of Polytechnics, University fessor of Metaphysics, Uni tor of the Christian Union. tenburg. of Helsingfors. versity of Barcelona. Prof. Alexander Wilder, M. Professor F. Zoellner, author Dr. Franz Hoffman, Profes Hon. John P. Browns former D„ writer, author, meta “Transcendental Physics," sor of Philosophy, Wurtz- attache of the Turkish Le- physician. Leipsic. burg Univereity. ' gation, Constantinople. *> PSYCHIC POWER

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\s a co-worker in the field of spiritualistic activities, Mono, Tekel, Upbarsin.” Thy days are numbered. am to duty bound to introduce to our readers Effa E. Ruhr is a German word which has a double meaning— Danelson, the well known a disease and a decoy to trap birds. In her blind hatred, unflinching and uncom France reached out her hands for the “ Ruhr.” The promising advocate of fatal result will be a demonstrative proof that the time, the cause she represents. when “ might is right” is disappearing under the rule Her accomplishments as of Aquarius. “The prince of Peace is coming.” Iiis psychic, author and lec Jaws are the laws of righteousness, which are the psychic turer have won her many laws; the laws of spirit. friends and admirers all One of these laws is the Law of Compensation. An over the world. other law is the law of reaction. Both work har As the publisher of this moniously together to create an equilibrium. Thai equi magazine Mrs. Danelson librium will surely come. The collector has collected on hopes to materialize her one side of the border; now he is on his way to collect ardent desire, to see on the other side of the German-French frontier. He Spiritualism grow, pros has no slacking debtors; they must pay when he calls. per and delivered from When Leaders in Politics will realize tbe infallibility Effa E. Danelson parasites. of Psychic Laws they will pilot the stateship with more care, with a broader mind, and above all with the su preme law which always works wonders—with LOVE. PoMics and Pwehic Laws It may seem rather strange that a magazine as this Our dear Brother Henry S. Wilcox, lawyer, author, would reserve for itself the right to discuss politics. lecturer and—“ a faithful servant of the cause”—the Upon closer examination of our claim you will find founder of the Mission of Love—is seriously ill We that we are fully justified in taking a stand. all pray that he may recover—we need him—and we love him. We all know only too well how politic, if misdirected, affects the welfare of a nation and its people. We still bend our heads in sorrow for the hundred thousand of In every human soul there is an invisible world of youthful lives America has sacrificed. We still suffer thoughts. One part of it is of a material nature and is from the dearth, created during the war for the benefit like the earth, and doomed to destruction, as David, the of many who justified war. We also deplore that the psalmist said: ‘’His thoughts perish and go down with pledge given the boys who came back alive is not re him into the grave.” deemed. The profiteers have won the war; the people The other part is the everlasting part; the firmament have lost it. which expands over the material thought world; it is It is at this psychological time that Psychic Power the heavenly realm of this miniature cosmos from which comes into play, to prove that the application of psychic all great prophets, seers and saviors received their law in the life of an individual is an important factor. divine inspiration. Once we can prove that psychic laws do govern our In their prophecies, these master psychics have only journey through life, we will automatically realize that revealed to us what they saw on their own firmament, they also govern the life of a nation. When the pro knowing that the thing they saw was a mere miniature phets of old made their predictions concerning nations, reflection of the real counterpart in the kingdom of they based their conclusions on psychic laws. They are heaven or spirit world. To tbe seer this heaven of bis the keys that unlock the door of prophecy. own world was as much as the frail telescope is to the The treaty of Versailles, founded on the lie, that scientist who observes the material firmament; the stars Oennany alone was responsible for the war is broken. and all the hosts of heaven. France has violated its only good point. Previous to that France has violated the moral laws of mankind by sending troops from Africa into German territory to With pride the East declares itself as the birth place defile womanhood. Prance upheld Poland in her un of civilization; of light. True—and a wonderful drama just demands and shut the eyes when thousands of inno is it where truth unfolds itself while on her march to cent Jewish people, infants and old women included, were western shores; where in the long struggle with dark butchered by Poland’s heroes. At last she stretched forces the power of light prevails. A great task indeed. forth her hand to rob her defenseless neighbor of the But how much more praise deserves the real ACTOR, only source she has to satisfy the bloody demands of a the great **performer in the Drama.” God bless victor by the grace of American aid. The robbing of America. the “Ruhr” is the handwriting on the wall. “ Mene, ______WILLIAM BROCK. H 4 PSYCHIC POWER A Few Thoughts on Inspired people who believe in God and do their of Rome, The Greek Church, The Pro* estants, Anglicans, and all other min* Writings duty to their neighbors. One can understand the outrageously sects are led by the same scripture? By Lord Headley excessive punishment once common in while oilier sacred writings are nr,, There are many Christians who be this country—on hanging a man for known quantities to them. lieve in the absolute truth of every stealing a sheep, because the theft was Strange though it may appear, in thi? word in the Old and New Testaments; against the laws of God and man: but age of supposed enlightenment, then- there are greater numbers who, whilst it is difficult to realize what must have are tens of thousands of avowed Chris, doubtful about much of the Old Testa been the frame of mind of those who tians who really believe and open];- ment, believe implicitly in the whole burnt and tortured their fellow-crea state that there is no salvation for thos* New Testament, from the first chapter tures for a mere difference of religious not following and accepting the dogmas of St. Matthew to the conclusion of the belief unaccompanied by any crime of modern Christianity. It is both as Book of Revelation; there are yet whatever. I ean almost hear the re tounding and revolting to the intelli others—and these are probably com mark: “ These tortures and burnings gence and to the heart alike. prised in the largest class of Religion belong to another age—we don't do These dogmas were never Christ's bin ists—who aecept only their.own read these things now.” Which is the least were merely certain rules laid down ings of both volumes or those portions or most charitable: to burn a fellow- and so formulated as to run the which agree with their own views. creature's body, as did the zealous “ Church” on sound business lines and Of the many excellent people who Christians of the Holy Inquisition, or to secure as much of the temporal power would be shocked at a suggestion that to consign his entire being, body, soul as possible. they doubted authenticity or truth of and spirit to everlasting damnation as The so-called Christianity started by the Bible some cannot bring themselves many of the Modern Christians? the cruel monks and prelates of the {‘ St. to believe in miracles sueli as “ Walking A man transgresses no law, human or on the W ater;” others cannot accept Gregory, St. Dunstan, St. Athanasius divine, when he confesses his inability 3*ears after Christ, was the Immaculate Conception or the type,” some 300 to believe in the Divinity of Christ, the probably very far from what the Master Atonement. Trinity, the Atonement or the efficacy taught, and it is likely, that he would of the sacraments as being necessary to It is not difficult therefore to under be utterably shocked if he could come stand1 that the dogmatic teachings Salvation, and yet good Christians still positively affirm that such a man cannot on earth again and see the shameful based on widely different readings or atrocities committed in his name.. interpretations of the same transla be saved: and this is equivalent to con tions of inspired writings have led to signing him to everlasting perdition. the establishment of religious sects One fails to see where the charity fundamentally at variance. comes in, it is not a bit like that charity What Is Spiritualism? All religions are based on traditions, which according to Paul, “ edifieth,” Spiritualism is the Science which af sacred writings, and human conscious “ suffereth long," “ thinketh no evil,” firms the existence of Spirit as the Ori ness of right and wrong. In every age “ rejoieeth in truth,” “ endureth all gin, Sustainer and Reality in all the so much depends upon the standpoint things,” “ never faileth” etc, ete., and forms of Nature and in all the expres from which we regard our authorities yet we find those people who would be sion of life. According to its teachings and the importance we attach to reve horrified at the idea of not accepting the Universe is spirit-built and consti lation and inspirations. Paul’s teachings, absolutely callous and tutes a Divine Revelation of Spirit It will not, I hope, be considered wanting in the first principles of Char (God). Spirit manifests in all life, in controversial or contentious if I say ity when it comes to dealing with the all intelligence, in all power, in all wis that a religion without charity is worth everlasting state of the Human Soul. dom and in all that is True, Beautiful less—whatever interpretations may be Possibly there may be different kinds and Good. Spiritualism is the Philos put on the scriptures. Then we have of Charity to suit different kinds of re ophy which explains the manifold op something to go on; an axiom. “ Re ligious opinions. For myself I only erations of the Spirit in nature, and in ligion without Charity is worthless.” know that I have been informed that I man. Charity and toleration are very nearly cannot he saved—not because of my It is the Religion which demonstrates akin to one another: indeed a charitable sins—for which I possibly deserve to through Mediumship life’s continuity person in the fullest sense must be be damned—but because of my inabil after death, affirms man’s divine origin able to tolerate those who hold different ity to blindly agree to certain dogmatic and relationship, furnishes man with the views, say, in the matter of Religion, statements and improbabilities handed true philosophy of prayer, gives the and should not condemn them, because down to the clergy by their predeces strongest possible motives to good con they see things from a different stand sors in the early days of Christianity. duct, inspires and aids man in self-de point. Surely there must be something out velopment, and offers him richest con I do not, of eourse, refer to the mis of joint in religions which seek to bind solation in life’s sorrows. named toleration whieh winks at the intelligence and do not appeal to —From The A. B. C, of Spiritualism. cruelty, deception or fraud, or the fool the heart? The learned Divines in dif ish clemency which indiscriminately ferent Christian sects are so much at pardons murderers or brutal miscre variance in their readings of the Scrip The Soul is myself. The body is only ants ; my allusion is to that very im tures that from their writings and my dwelling place. Death is not death; portant and real charity which allows preachings it is hard to realize that they the Soul merely departs and the body that salvation is possible for all good belong to the same Church. The Church falls.—Buddhist Scripture. “Scientific American” Psychic of a frivolous application would encroach mittee, ordinarily in New York, hut when more upon the time of the committee and of other convenient for all concerned, in Boston. Investigation mediums makes it proper to rale out trifling Against on unfavorable report by the sub entries. We therefore feel justified in requir committee there shall be no appeal; but such Its Scope, Conditions and Procedure, ing each entrant to show that he has held report will not be made without giving the as Far as They Can Be Laid Down seances at whieh, in the opinion of those medium a hearing in defence. In the event present, results were obtained. Thi3 will work that the sub-committee ?8 report is favorable or no hardship, since the contest will run long indeterminate, further sit tings will be ar By J. Malcolm Bird, for the Scientific American enough to enable a "new*’ medium to estab ranged before the full committee. This body and the Committee lish his reputation in time to enter. Feanees will under no circumstances assume the obli Oar December number carried the bald an* gation to meet elsewhere than in New York. Boancraent of our offer, repeated on this page, c-ited for qualification may be private or pub lic, but roust be well attested. No medium's Either award will be made on unanimous to pay $2o(K) to the first mediums producing vote of the judges, or on a four-lo-one division certain phenomena under our supervision. We record will lie questioned further than to establish that he has performed with success; in the mediom's favor. Neither award will be Bust note define the phenomena contemplated, made on a three-to-two division; we regard the conditions under which seances will be and the genuineness of a properly attested mediumship will not be attacked. the issue as too important and too contro held and the awards made, and other points, versial to be '*settled” by any such narrow it is not imagined that we shall have covered Procedure, apparatus and personnel vary so largely according to the phenomena to be in margin. Where we employ the expression every ambiguous point whieh may arise, how f;tbe opinion of the judges’1 or its equivalent, ever; so we must reserve the right to lay vestigated that each entrant in the general class will be required to state roughly the it is to be interpreted in this sense. down any further conditions that may be* The medium will not be held in sub-com ’ come necessary. Such conditions will ordi character of the manifestations whieh he de signs to produce. There is no intent of hold mittee indefinitely. If, after a reasonable narily supplement rather than supersede the number of sittings, the sub-committee has no preseni ones; but if the present statement ing him to the production of all these, or of barring phenomena which he has not forecast. definite conclusion, it will so report and fur turns out to be seriously deficient in any re- The statement i3 merely for the convenience ther procedure will be before the full com ' sped we mast be privileged to make it good. of the committee and of the medium as well, mittee. Here more latitude must be given the The spirit of the pronouncement here made, since it enables the preliminary work to be judges in the event that they are in doubt. however, will not be modified by future done beforehand, rather than in the initial The committee, no more than the medium, can f specific requirements. go on sitting indefinitely; but the committee The Formalities of Entry seances. There will be no prejudice against any medium for divergence between his fore will not report on evidence that seems to it Mediums may compete for either or both inconclusive. If the medium’s only protec of our awards; but no single phenomenon cast and his performance; it is not contem plated to produce psychic phenomena on fixed tion here lies in the personnel o f the com ; will receive both awards. Those desiring to mittee, he will be expected to recognize that compete must make formal application to the schedule. Entries will be listed in the order received. this guarantee is an effective one. Seances . writer, as secretary of the committee of judges with a given medium will ordinarily continue k and administrative officer in charge. Entrants will be given every opportunity to meet all conditions and to give all neeessary until the committee awards him the prize or oo \ In the Einstein contest, many inquiries seances, in the listed order; and they will not formal vote rejects his claims. ‘ which should have gone to the writer as It is not necessary that the medium satisfy Einstein Editor were addressed to one or be deprived of their precedence for minor fail the judges as to the cause of his phenomena, , other of the judges. Wc therefore state ex ures to meet engagements. Repeated procras tination by the medium in meeting the desires provided he satisfies them that this cause is plicit! that in the present case the secre and dates of the committee, however, will re not a normal one. Our main object in this tary’s functions will be discharged by the undertaking is, of course, the hope that, if I secretary. The judges will be urged to ignore sult in his losing his place on the list or, in f all letters or calls in connection with the com- extreme eases, in his disqualification. The genuine manifestations are obtained, we may committee must be the final judge of what con get some indication of their cause. In every mittee’s bus i ne s s . The writer should be addressed at the stitutes repeated procrastination, and of what ease we shall attack this aspect of the matter, as justification for the time and money spent.. ' Scientific American office in New York. provides a reasonable penalty. The demands upon his time are such that he The Seances and the Award But if phenomena are produced which the can see mediums or other interested in the The committee may have under way, simul judges find to be within the scope of the con psyehie investigation only by appointment. taneously, series of seances with several me test and of genuine objective character the f! Entries will remain open until December 31, diums. If one medium produces results which award will be made. This supplements the , 1924, unless one or both of the awards be won might entitle him to the award, those who assurance of the previous paragraph, that an : earlier. This date refers to receipt in this have a prior plaee will be given opportunity outrageous number of sittings will not be de ofSee. Seances will be continued as long as to complete their sittings and to win the manded. If. however, a medium has deariy ’ may be necessary to dispose of all entries award through priority; and the judges shall won the award after a small number of sit duly received. have discretion to deal with such a case on its tings, he may be required to give a reasonable All entries must state in whieh class the merits. number of additional sittings in the endeavor . medium proposes to compete. All mediums will be required to give a pre to secure more data regarding cause and The degree to which serious consideration liminary sitting or sittings before a sub-com modus operand!.

The Scientific American will pay $2500 to the first person who produces a psychic photograph under its test conditions herewith defined, and to the full satisfaction of its Committee of Judges named herewith. The Scientific American will pay $2500 to the first person who, under its test conditions herewith defined and to the i: satisfaction of its Judges herein named, produces an objective psychic manifestation of physical character as herewith de fined, and of such sort that permanent instrumental record may be made of its occurrence. The Committee of Judges shall consist of Dr. William McDougall, Dr. Daniel F. Comstock. Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, L; Dr. Hereward Carrington, and Mr. Harry Houdini. In the event of the death or disability of any Judge, a temporary or permanent substitute will be named. Entry must be made on or before December 31,1924, to J. M. Malcolm Bird, Secretary to the Committee* at the Scientific u American office, 233 Broadway, New York. Either award will be made on unanimous vote of the Judges, or on a four-to-one division. Seances with any medium | shall terminate and all his claims to the award shall be vacated upon rejection of his mediumship by formal vote of the C-om- v mittee. All the conditions governing entrance, the holding of seances, etc., which are laid down in the accompanying article are ; part of this offer. 6 PSYCHIC POWER

The Judges such gentlemen have with the* public, and the psychic phenomenon is not easy. After vt The eesunittee of judges has sot been pitied distances to which these take them, Houdini sultation with the individual judges, i* >. at random, by shaking distingaisbed names has felt it advisable to select, from among his seemed advisable ro fall back upon a rieg out of a hat or out of "Who’* VTho-57 Eaeb co-professional?, two alternates: Messrs. tive definition. The accumulated exper: member is selected because of the contribution Servian LeBoy and Eugene Powell. The of the race enables us to say, under gives i which he will make and which none of the names in question require no introduction to -litions and through the operation of kin-v other members duplicates. Drs. Prince and those acquainted with this profession. agencies, what may and what may not he < : Carrington are our experienced psychic re* Drs. Comstock, Prince and Carrington have peeied. A psychic phenomenon is then >0::;- rearchers; their respective experiences lie not specifically named alternates. They may thing which may not in this way be expect*.-; largely is different directions, so that they do so later, or may leave it to us to see that something which, if it occurs, forces u? : supplement one another admirably in tbe the committee does not suffer from their ab make new and special hypothesis; sonn-thi: special knowledge which they will bring. sences. This matter of providing alternates which can be accounted for on no basis of a< The presence of Houdini will serve as a loses some of its urgency in view of the fact eepted scientific theory. If we were invert; guarantee to the pubJie that none of tbe tricks that the committee will at all times invite gating specifically the existence of discs, of his trade have been practiced upon tbe com* tbe attendance in tbe seance room, or the aid bodied spirits, or of electrical fields pertninir.; mittee. At tbe same time, if his fame in an outside the seances, of any persons who may to the human personality, we eould with betuj other field were not greater, be too might be seem in a position to give assistance in the precision define the effects of such spirits a introduced as an experienced psychic re work. No extended notice of tbe presence or of such fields. But we are investigating searcher. He is keenly interested and has the identity of such persons can be given, but thing whose nature we do not know and mar ast with many mediums. Some of these, to be tbeir number and identity will be discussed not even learn. The definition by exclusion sure, he has exposed in fraud; but he is eager with the medium in advance of each seance. seems tbe only way to separate the phenomena to believe, and his long pursuit of tbe subject Extended notice will be given of any change which we seek from those which we do not. f lias always been in search of things worthy of in the voting membership of the committee. Psychic Photographs bis belief. Against him there cannot be urged The Committee and the Medium The procedure here varies widely as be the customary objections to the presence in Our committee is to investigate phenomena tween different mediums. The committee do« tbe seance room of persons whose admitted not wish to embarrass any medium and wil] business is to guard against fraud. primarily, and mediums only as this becomes necessary, secondarily. The committee is not lay down no rules covering the manner of A psychologist of repute must be on our going to be blind to fraud, should fraud be producing these photographs. Plates may be committee. The name that occurs before all attempted; but it is not going to regard its exposed or merely **controlled," and in any f others is that of Hr. McDougall; and in find way which does not prevent adequate obser mediums as potential cheats. So far as the ing him willing to overlook tbe distance be medium makes it possible to do this, wc shall vation by tbe committee. As a matter 0i tween Cambridge and New York we are more treat him as a co-operating agent in our in principle, the committee will be altogether fortunate than we had dared hope. There vestigation. His good faith is In all cases to averse to having plates taken out of its pos must be a physicist of the modern school, he assumed; wc consider that he may properly session for “ control” or other purposes. Wc skilled in tbe design and tbe use of special regard this as one of the conditions governing will not, however, state categorically that no apparatus; and here Dr. Comstock's name and his participation. conditions could be devised nnder which this willingness to serve stand on the same basis would be permitted. as Dr. MeDougalt's. Were a psychologist and At the same time, the medium must heed our Believers in psychic photography arc aware a physicist chosen at random, even though position. When wo investigate a wonderful that fraudulent operators have practiced sub from tbe front ranks of these professions, they new carburetor, our story would be of no stitution; unbelievers bold that all results arc would not necessarily he competent to investi value unless we were able to assure our readers obtained in this way. The committee and its . gate psych ie, phenomena. That Drs. Mc- that all tbe fuel used in the test came out mediums must be protected against any claim Dougall and Comstock are thoroughly experi of the one, measured, supply. We must there that results obtained may be thus explained. enced in this field and entirely open-minded fore conduct a search for hidden tanks and Accordingly' the committee will supply' all ap is sufficiently indicated by their prominence in hidden pipes, and we must search as thor paratus and materials used by the medium. the Bociety for Psychical Research. oughly as though we expected to find them. At any time or in any place where he is work In our psychic investigations we are in the ing with the committee's materials, the me Xu tbe event of the'death, the temporary or same position. Wc cannot report that the permanent disability or the withdrawal of any dium's possession of material or apparatus of the members of tbo committee, the Scien . seance seemed a success but tbe medium other than that so supplied will be prime r tific American will fill the vacancy, naming would not permit an examination of the pos facie evidence of fraud and will result in dis sibilities of fraud, any more than wc can say qualification. The committee will go to any some one calculated t© bring to the committee that the inventor of the carburetor would not what his predecessor brought, so far as this is length necessary to protect the medium against allow iis to examine the car for hidden gaso false disqualification, and will even permit the possible. Hueh emergency membership may line supplies. be temporary or permanent. premises to be searched in the medium's be We are purposely leaving the conditions sur half and all apparatus found thereon to be Tbe keen interest of the individual judges rounding the seances as open as we can. Wc inventoried; but the committee reserves the will bring them to the committee's sittings, at wish to impose only those restrictions which right to use secret identifying marks on plates ’ conniderahle inconvenience. At tbe same time, arc absolutely essential to gain serious atten or other apparatus, in addition to any marks a five-man body cannot go on indefinitely tion for our findings. The medium will be re known to the medium. without absences. We make no definite state quested to lay down whatever conditions he In the ordinary course of photography, nu ment regarding a quorum, giving merely the feels to be-necessary for his own protection merous streaks and blurs may appear, ac assurance that the committee will not sit and for the production of phenomena; and cidentally or otherwise, as a result of manipu without adequate personnel. whatever further conditions be regards as ad lation of lights, objects, chemicals, etc. There iJr. MV Doug.*, 11 has designated Dr, Gardner vantageous but not necessary. These condi must be border-line cases where it is not easy Murphy to bit in bin place when be is absent. tions will be met in,so far as they do not to say whether a mark is of this character or Dr. Murphy is a lecturer on psychology at interfere with proper observation and investi possesses pictorial form. That this problem Columbia and Harvard, going hack and forth gation. Where there is a difference between may' be a difficult one is indicated by the con each week between New York and Boston. the medium's desires and those of the judges, troversy into which Conan Doyle recently got ' He will thus be in admirable position to nerve every effort will be made to find middle ground himself over just this question-—whether cer an a sort of liaison officer between the Boston satisfactory to both. The committee, how tain marks were fog or faces. Our investiga and the New York members of tbe committee. ever, cannot in any case recede beyond the tion must lead to definite results or none at all. . At XXnrvard, and again in the Society for minimum conditions which in its opinion in Hence we specify that a psychic photograph, Psychical Research, he is not merely a col sure proper observations; the production of to qualify for our award, must in the opinion league but actually a close associate of Dr. results which we cannot guarantee is of no of the judges represent distinctly the human MeDougAfi. more interest or value than a total failuro, form or face—with permissible attachments *> Alternates to Houdini must necessarily be, through too severe restrictions, to produce any such sfe the wings of Doyle's fairies. The de like himself, professional magicians. On ac thing at all. / cision of the judges as to whether this require- count of the numerous engagements which Precise definition of what constitutes a m>*nt has been met must be final. •PSYCHIC POWER

Instrumental Control record them; if he fails, they will have to be down the conditions under which it fwib that - artjch for psychic photographs. ^ In tbc excluded from the phenomena for which the it can carry on adequate observations. These general award will be directly made. They «rf*l flss-7 we indicated , in our, t preliminary . conditions, as indicated above, will be modified of December that phenomena will, of course, be investigated as they occur to meet the medium’s desires so far as is com be visible, M shall go B alone or with other phenomena. If they and patible with the committee's ideas as to the ** ^ ^jj*n this in some directions, not so faT other manifestations which seem of physical necessities of the case. Xo test or procedure f ^thew- We have satisfied ourselves that nature have to be ruled oat, our mediums will will be applied that has not been outlined to •# practically aJI the psychic phenomena now understand that this is only because we do not the medium, though the committee will not i vogce there exist or may be devised insiru- find them susceptible of proof in the style and undertake to inform the medium in all cases * fatal tests. If the graph says that the table to the degree which we have set ourselves. whether certain tests are to be attempted at ® off the floor: if the microphone says that The physical phenomena do not exhaust, t he certain seances. In the event of any tests hav s^nads occurred, and tells ns where; if the subject of psychism. Indeed, certain mental ing been objected to by the medium on the rtlvanometer records the presence of sonic- phenomena seem to be of greater significance ground of possible injury to him, however, such jjjiag where the "spirit-*’ was seen—then we and. for the present, in a more satisfactory test will not be made without his consent; but inow that something has happened, and that state of proof, than any of the physical ones. the committee will not undertake in all cases the phenomena were not mere hallucinations. We do not know to what extent we shall carry to refrain from counting a refusal to the ]f at the same time the medium is shown in- our own psychic program beyond the minimnm medium's partial discredit, if there seems no jtromentally to have been where the phenom requirements of the present announcement. If other way of securing the information at which ena were not, the question of his active in large results are obtained, with larger ones in the test in question would be aimed. Other terference is largely settled. The psychic in prospect, we shall certainly not stop just be conventions will perhaps have to bo laid down vestigator should never rely upou the evidence cause we have given a hearing to every from time to time, or specific agreements en of eve and ear aud touch. Xt» matter how medium who has been attracted by our offer. tered into with given mediums, covering con keen an observer one may be, the conditions In the absence of large results, if the public flict between what the committee wants? to do of a seance are never those for ideal observa interest and the interest of the small minority and what the medium wants done. The gen tion; aud if they were, it is an uphill tight who possess the mediumistie ability to help us eral principle, already enunciated, will always making all the rest of the world believe that remains keen, we shall again be willing to go apply: That the committee will go just as far one really saw what one says one saw. “ Col- further than our immediate present program. to meet the medium as it can, save at the cost . ledivc hypnotism” may be, as Dr. Carrington We can even picture conditions under which of inadequate observation. It will always be eonfesses he more than half believes, a mere we should want to expand the program be willing to discuss with the medium the aim phrase; yet It affords a delightful mouthful fore the present offer has expired. In any of any particular test, and the possibility of for the lay critic who does not find it con such event, we shall look upon the psychic substituting a less obnoxious way of gaining venient to accept the results of psychic re phenomena of the mind as affording one of the the same end. search. more important of the avenues into which our A seeoud feature of instrumental control investigation might be extended. Among the The Key to Success impresses us is its adequacy to settle at one mental phenomena thus excluded for tho pres stroke all the problems of the seance room. ent wo class all communications by voice, We know that there are, among psychic phe writing, or other means which cannot be ob All that I craved belonged to me, nomena, numerous effects that are wholly jectively distinguished from the same means God held the gifts and I the key; mental and others (admitting for the moment as normally employed by the medium in his He held them waiting my command, their existence) that are physical. We know own conscious personality. And yet I would not understand. In pentulnnce and discontent that the dividing line is hard to draw. Why In the Seance Boom not let the instrument decide ? If an instru Pull many weary years were spent; ment exists or can be devised that will record As with the psychic photographers, we hold I cried: ‘ ‘ How cruel is the fate the occurrence of the thing that is alleged to the door open to the widest variation in pro That bids me weep, and watch and wait. occur, that thing is a physical phenomenon cedure on the part of our general-class medi For things that make life worth the living, —of psychic origin or not as subsequent in ums. A few general principles may be laid Nor robs the GiveT in the Giving.* * vestigation may determine. If the instru down, however. The committee will be very mental check has to go by default, the phe reluetant to sit in absolute darkness, and will A little joy—a little wealth— nomenon is not within the scope of an in not so sit unless assured of adequate observa Result from toil abundant health; vestigation of this character. tion by other means than the visual. It is A chance to do and a chance to be, And then I looked and saw tho key; Again, the question of objectivity. We within the possibilities that the. degree of lighting permitted by two successful mediums Right in my heart I carried it, know approximately what wc mean by this; Divinely fashioned, formed to fit yet a rock-ribbed definition is just about as might settle the issue between them. It seems probable that Fallndiuo possessed Tbc lock of God’s great reservoir, possible as a rock-ribbed definition of the Thnt held the things I hungered for. scientist’s simplest term, of which the pres powers of some sort, and descended to sub ent writer has already had something to say, terfuge only when these failed her. The Hyslop report on Ada Besinnet, again, brings The key was love—pure gold— both in these columns and in the book growing A glittering crest of faith, and love and trust; out of tho Einstein contest. But if we agree forward the strong probability that some that susceptibility to an instrumental test is mediums, if not this one, commit fraud in It fits nil doors, it turns ail locks, the criterion for objectivity—there you nre! secondary personality when they are not It leads tho way through walls and rooks, Accordingly the general-class award will be chargeable with the intent to deceive. We It lifts the latch, unbars the gate, made to the first medium who produces a shall accordingly divido fraud into two cate And shows ns where life 'a treasures wait; psychic phenomenon, as already defined, of gories. That carried out with arms, legs, etc., Oh, are there heights thy feet would press! such sort that a permanent instrumental record and without external aid of external appara Seek Love the key to all Success! can be made of its occurrence. This includes tus will carry no penalty savo a greater rigor —Selected. raps. Wo can prove that they occurred, we of observation in subsequent seances. That can prove where they occurred, we can prove, carried out with tho aid of uny object brought I shall go not only to meet great men, where the medium was when they occurred— into the seance room, however, is necessarily and that’s plenty. It includes practically premeditated and when detected will result in but also iny son. ITis Spirit, looking everything of a telekinetic nature—the exer disqualification. The medium will, of course, back upon me, departed to that place tion of physical force without contact. We bo subjected to a competent search, before or whither he knew that I should come, and will find a way to make it include the pro after tbc seances, at the pleasure of the com he has never deserted me.—Cato. duction of 1' ectoplasm. ” The only thing mittee. which wc should like to include and of which Is it not strange thnt after all I have At tho present moment no further specific said to convince yon that I am going to ivc are not sure is the **psychic lights.” Ap requirements occur to us that can bo laid down parently these are of insufficient candle-power for seances in general. It will be understood, the society of the happy you still think to be photographed during their brief period. however, that the committee will confer with this body to be Socrates. To die and ho Dr. Comstock has hopes of finding a way to every medium, canvass bis procedure, and lay released is better for me.—Socrates. 8 PSYCHIC POWER.

no experience of psychic mat ters, to a direct- the psychotherapeutic work underlay Psychic Power voice sitting with Mrs. Roberts Johnson, a at St. Mark’s Church in New York, ij,, ‘ An Educational -Monthly Magazine lor the famous medium. When the direct voice began psychical resea roll, lie is now Priii,"' ' Promotion of. he recognized iu it the tones of the medium’s pal Research Officer for the America 'SPIRITUAL SCIENCE AND PSYCHICAL voice, aud began to make a row which not only spoiled the seance, but got iuto the press and S. P. R., in charge of its pcrmaiW R esear ch was considered to be a setback to spiritualism. headquarters and its scientific and j,^ Publisher: *EFFA E. DANELSON This man was Mr. Tilson Young. Now the vestigational work. Editors: WILLIAM BROCK-EFFA E. DANELSON whole difficulty arose from his own ignorance, Houdini OQjcv: ISO! North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois. aud auy experienced spiritualist would have is so very well known in connection wi| Phone: Diversey 5135 told him that the diveet voice is often in its his escape specialties that some of 11s . Make all _ checks aud money orders payable to first stage very like that of the medium, but have overlooked his standing as a mast^ Effa E. Danelson that if you await developments yon will soon Single Copy, 30 Cents of the more conventional sides of fiud it change, and after a while you may get magicians profession. At the sa%; SUBSCRIPTION: Six Months, $1.50: one several simultaneously, and the subject will Year, $3.00. Advertising Rates Upon be beyond the medium’s knowledge. I cau time he is deeply interested in psychic. - . Application only suppose that the ectoplasm derived from phenomena. He has wide experience j|| the medium partakes of the medium’s charac seance work, as well as in the detection VoL U ' FEBRUARY.' 1923 No. 1 teristics until such time as the outside forces of fraudulent mediumship. get more complete control. Anyhow that is the Hereward Carrington, Ph. D., Conan Dovle Assists Scientific fact, and a hurtful seandal was caused by the is widely known for his psychic invest}. > American Competition ignorance of the sitter and his folly iii not gat ions, and for his many technical and! waiting and asking explanations. To the Editor of the Scientific American: semi-popular books in this field. He was 6. Which leads me to the next point, that I had no idea of issuing a challenge to you. the investigator should read a few sound books one of the committee that so exhaustively MY complaint was that so many- of our bitter investigated Palladino’s mediumship; critics hire quite ignorant of the subject which on the subject: Crookes’ researches, Crawford’s ‘ ‘ Psychic Structures, ’ ’ Selirenck - Notzing's and on more than one occasion he has they treat. ' T am, however, delighted that you gone to Europe as the more or less formal should take it up and would do my best to 1 ‘ Materializations,’ ’ and a general view of the subject such as Charles Tweedale’s “ Human representative of American psychic assist you. There are, however, some points to bear in Survival.” He should not be a professed con science. jurer or psychic observer, but rather a good imhd, and I hope that you will not think me J. Malcom Bird, level-headed man of affairs, with plenty of tact officio-us if I mention them. I speak from an who will act as Permanent Secretary to and patience. experience of 36 years and from a very wide the Committee, is known to our readers 7. If such a man came here I would do my reading and converse with experienced con best to show him what I could, but he would through numerous articles. Coming to freres. do best as a visitor introduced by me, rather our staff from the Department of Mathe 1. A large money reward will stir np every than as an accredited researcher, the very matics at Columbia, he is our versatile rascal in the country, while the best type of thought of which makes a medium nervous member, attending to the things that fall; medium is unworldly and would not be at and abnormal. in no other editor’s particular field. His tracted by such a consideration. Tor the sake I wish you well, but ha ve no delusions as to of the cause and their own repotations they most notable work has been in connection “ final” results. The London Dialetical So would help you if you got the personal support with the Einstein contest. ciety in 1869 was some 80 strong, all impartial and endorsement of leaders of the movement, men. Their committee’s report on physical rf not they would avoid yon, for “ tests’5 are phenomena was unanimously in favor—and Why Do My Spirit Friends Go often deliberate traps. that was 30 years ago. The same occurred with 2. If the money offered as a prize could be to a Medium and N ot the Paris Committee of Impartial in the 90’s, Come to M e? spent in sending yonr representative to the of which Bergson was a member. The mass of various towns of America and also to London, prejudice is less than it was, but it is still There are two false assumptions in Glasgow and Paris, it would be far more useful. great, and nothing will be final unless we get this question. ‘ Your spirit friends do 3. Everything depends upon your men. The presently, as I think we may, a new line of not as a rule go to the medium and your laws are still obseure. but roughly it is a ease evidence. of toning a receiving instrument to a transmit spirit friends do come to you. If your ter. Harmony of vibrations is essential for spirit friends go to a medium it is for good results—human sympathy, kindness, The Judges Who Will Conduct the purpose of bringing you and the courtesy, not necessarily mental agreement. I Investigations medium together that they may reach went to Eva with an open, expectant mind, but ‘William McDougall, D. Sc., you in communication. Ordinarily your with sympathy for her, aud I had ectoplasm in formerly of Oxford and the British So my hand before I left. Miss Seatcherd had a spirit friends, drawn by love and natu ciety for Psychical Research, now occu ral ties of relationship, come to you. similar experience. Four professors of the Sor- pies the chair of Psychology at Harvard, bonne sit round her like four terriers ’round a They speak and attempt to manifest ra t, and they get nothing. and the Presidency of the American So ciety for Psychical Research. He is the their presence in a variety of ways. They 4. Bat it is not merely sympathy; it is find you cannot see them, hear them or deeper in’some cases. I know at least one very author, among other works, of ‘ ‘ Social famous spiritualist whose presence stops ah Psychology/’ the leading American col sense them. And after repeated vain psychic phenomena. He is convinced, as one legiate test in this subject. attempts to manifest they seek some well may be, on other people's results. H13 Daniel Frost Comstock, Pb. D., one whose senses are open to perceive case is really not uncommon. It seems to be has recently retired from the Faculty of their presence. It is a mistake to speak the positive, aggressive type that has this the Massachusetts Institute of Technol of a medium as bringing your spirit inhibition, and this is just the type that so ogy, with which he had been, connected friends to you. When you get a mes 'often becomes the researcher. Therefore, if since 1904, to devote his whole time to sage from a medium your spirit friends, yon want truth, as I 3ffl sure yon do. von must his commercial practice and the devel have a gentle, quiet, courteous, sympathetic in all probability, went with you to the man for your representative. opment of his laboratory and his inven meeting—possibly impressed you to go __ 5. However honest and sympathetic, he is tions. He is a member of the Advisory Scientific Council of the Society for Psy —and often resort to various devices to liable to fall into errors if he has not some bring about an opportunity to communi honest spiritualist to whom he can refer bis chical Research. cate with friends on the earth plane. doubts and from whom he can receive explana Walter Franklin Prince, Ph. D.. tions. There are many such. To exemplify educated for the ministry and pastor of —A. B. C. of Spiritualism by B. F. what I mean: I took a clever journalist, with numerous churches, gravitated, through Austin. PSYCHIC POWlfiR 9

Physical Phenomena Traced to study of so-called spiritism and psychic Scientist Becomes Fortune Spirits phenomena, admitted it required much Teller! courage on his part as a recognized sci Berlin Professor Affirms Insanity; entist to devote himself to the study of Ghosts See, Speak, Breathe Acid and such questions and to present the result Length of Life, and Many Other Have Substance of his investigations to the world. But Events of the Future May Be “ the duty of science is to discover Foretold from Finger prof. Richet Tells French Academy truth.” Prints of Science He Isn’t Sure They Gan Prof. Richet declares that the reality Lift Tables, But Certainly They of the materializations produced by me By John Bertrum Clarke. Work at a Distance diums cannot be contested. These vis itors from the spirit world, he says, have Now comes Professor Heinrich Pohl, This is the deliberate statement made personality and intelligence and all the of Berlin, the habitat of scientists, and by the distinguished Prof. Charles attributes of life. Curiously enough, he proves the claim of the long “ despised Richet, member of the French Institute, is not convinced that levitation can actu and rejected” gypsy fortune teller—the before the Academy of Science recently ally be accomplished, although he con future can be told, from the lines of the when he presented his new book on siders that the possibility of exercising hand, or to be more exact, from Anger metapsychism to the Academy. Never a material influence from a distance is prints. before has this temple of science received proved. Richet’s book of 800 pages is After studying some six thousand officially a communication on occult sub packed with observations, analyses and finger prints, one-third of which were jects and the problems of the spirit phenomena, including those already cre taken from the so-called insane, Profes world. ated by Sir William Crookes and Sir sor Pohl declares that the finger tips of I Prof. Richet, who has made a life Oliver Lodge. the latter have distinctive characteristics, r and that there are marked differences in the characteristics of the lines on the fingers of normal children and those that are found on the fingers of imbeciles and “ morons.” Characteristics that indi cate the racial origin of the individual and also those that indicate length of life, and many other potential facts, the Professor affirms may be recognized by finger print experts using his classifica tions. Chiromancy, or by the name more often known, palmistry, has long been affirmed by its devotees to be an exact science, and now with this new scientific backing of the German professor its former sur normal, anatomical hand could not have been withdrawn from the mold reptitious patrons may voice their con victions without exciting the scorn of the Skeptics not explain away any spiritual phenom skeptic. By Dr. Wm. J. Bryan enon, when mediums stand ready to fur Professor Freud, of Austria, and later, ^ Physician, Artist and Author nish the proof that should convince any Professor Jung of Switzerland, in their • We have a sincere pity for all honest reasonable mind that spirit-life and learned works on the subconscious mind skeptics who are floundering around like spirit-return are both reasonable and and dream interpretation, known by the present popular term, Psycho-Analysis, driftwood on a tempestuous ocean; they true. give another instance of science stealing [ are mentally confused and burdened The laity are quick to respond to the the thunder of the prophet. demonstrations and the appeals to rea ! with uncertainties, not knowing what to It now remains for the astronomer to believe. son, and many are convinced of spirit- confirm the assertions of his lineal an So we say to skeptics, go where you return when they receive a message from cestor, the astrologer, that potential hu can gain experience from spirit demon- the spirit-world through a medium who man events are predicated by the position r Nations, and be convinced, by coming in is an absolute stranger. of the celestial bodies, and the poor for direct contact with spirit phenomena. So we urge all to consult a medium, tune teller, beaten from pillar to post The proof can be furnished by any pri- and learn from personal experience, that and forced into competition with the n vate medium in the home, or by a pub it is really possible to receive messages graphologists, faciologists, phenologists, lic medium in the medium’s home, or from relatives and friends considered numerologists, and other pseudo-scien public meeting pl a c e. dead perhaps, but who are living (as tists, will be frisked of his last remnant * Why delay, when the proof of spirit spirits) and who stand ready to respond of occult science and forced to enter pol communication can be so easily obtained to calls made upon them by all, whether itics for a living! ; by a l l ? skeptics or believers, providing you give All evil thoughts must perish when re Wc see no reason why skeptics should the spirits a welcome and some expres leased and no one is harmed. continually listen to objectors, who can- sion of friendliness. Affirmation by Effa E. Darteison 10 PSYCHIC POWER

A PSYCHIC DETECTIVE nt'wec Trust Building about 9 o ’clock Thursday “Hen* arc Home of Mr. Hunter’* pa|* night and from thousand* of other papers and but they are not the ones we want/' hi* kuJ. j One man who is devoting his life to documents, the accumulation of year*, be Mr. Boardm&n. The latter brushed away \ the psychic solution of crime, is Mr. grimed and covered with duM, he nulled out dust, unwrapped the bundle, and saw the < Gabriel Hansen, 2020 Chicago Avenue, the valuable documents. tective was correct. Board man was amazed. The other princi A moment later Hansen run his band to t Chicago, 111., and the best insight that pally in the i-a.v* could not believe it when he bottom ol* the lot and pulled out another p.y can be given into Mr. Hansen's methods telephoned them the papers had been found. age, so dirty that a towel was necessary to wji and their success, is to recite specific in* One of them who rushed to Bnardniau office off the dust. stances in which his psychic powers have in his automobile was so badly rattled that he “ Here is what we want," be said simplj solved mysteries, and have brought the attempted to read the deed upside down; it Boardman unwrapped it and the first pup was written in Spanish. that met bis eye was the deed. guilty to speedy justice. The men involved in the deal were all the He unfolded it and there was the seal of t) Mr. Hansen is an intensely sincere more astonished when they were told that the Republic of Mexico in one corner; in the otb man—and has undertaken the untying of documents had been found in the attic. Mr. was the signature of Diaz. Hunter had told them over and over again, that Hansen also found several months ago £140/, many hard knots of mystery without when be resigned from the vice.pre*jd<>ijcy of that was lost at the Arlington Hotel by th prospect of reward or praise. When the the Union and Planters Bank, more than two clerk. He claims to have made other sueh *11 knowledge of w*rongdoing comes to him, years ago, be deposited all of bis papers in its coveries at other places and times. he considers that it is his mission to act, Evidence of Hi* Power* and often he has acted without even the These sworn statements have appeared in th likelihood of being given honest credit. daily pres* of Memphis at different times, a.a He has done his work, has accomplished constitute but a small fraction of the evident his ends, and has been true to the forces of Gabriel Hansen 'e powers. We reprodue that have guided him. these without comment, precisely a* they wen published: Let us now peruse briefly the re<*ord of The following day after the killing of Wil Mr. Hansen’s unusual detective work. Brewer, the blacksmith at South Memphis, ] met Mr. Hansen and told him of the kiJlic; The following, under the caption, “ Lo and that 1 had been working on the case el cal Psychic Sleuth Finds Bank Papers,” morning and had not obtained any clue as V is from The Seics-Scimitar of Memphis, the murderer. He then at once described th Tenn., July 15, 1916: murdered man and th'*- place where the crux* was committed, also a perfect description of This is an uncanny tale. It deals with the murderer and the place where he lived the occult and psychic, invades the realm Mr. Hansen and myself then went out to th of Spiritualism and has a deep tincture place and found everything just like be said. of mysticism, unreality and improbabil (Signed) N. T. INGHAM, Coroner. ity about it. It reads like a chapter from This is to certify that several days ago J the Arabian Nights or some other highly lost a very valuable diamond brooch and after colored and imaginative romance in my sister and I made a very diligent and care which the hidden is mysteriously re ful search for it and not being able to find it vealed and genii rise out of nothing to we were directed to go and consult Mr. Hanses, the psychological detective. As »oon as we be do the bidding of their earthly master. gan talking to him he described the brooch and Yet this tale is vouched for by four told us all about where we had been and cer reliable business men. Henry Hurst, tain parties we had come in contact with and president, and W. W. Farris, secretary safety tault. He laughed at them when it was said the brooch would be found and returned and treasurer, of the Hurst Trust Co.; suggested that they might be eLvr where. to me. I am confident that if I had not con •James F. Hunter, vice-president of the Hansen say* the whereabouts of the paper* sulted Mr. Hansen 1 never would have found wa» revealed to him Wednesday night while my brooch. We highly recommend Mr. Han Mercantile National Bank, and F. E. he "ft* at his home, 1359 Poplar Avenue, study sen and his work. Boardman, manager of the Tennewee ing the ease. A clearly defined revelation a* (Signed) MRS. BBUNTON. Trust Building. They do not attempt distinct a* if he held the paper* in hi* hand, A few days ago 1 lost a diamond necklace and to explain it; they merely say it is so. came to him, he declared. He say* be saw after searching here, there and everywhere, and Briefly, the story is as follows: them bound up in a large wrapper, covered with without any result, 1 went to Memphis to see dost, and stuck away in a small pigeonhole. Several week* ago Hurst and Farris entered Mr. Hansen, the detective, and told him o f zny When he passed from hi* semi-comatose state loss. He at once described my place of busi xbW negotiation* with Hosier and other capi and the psychic influence left him, be called hi* talist* for t ie porrLane of 2OS/J0O acres of ness, surroundings, etc., and told me to look in employer* and told them what be had w»ew- the weeds by the walkway and there I would timber and graxing lands owxed or then: near Tbe discovery was made the following night, Durzngo, Mexico. Thousands of dollars were find it. I followed this advice, and sure enough just as he had said the paper* would be found. I did find the necklace just where he said. isT-oJ-rod. When the final papers came to be When Boardxnan went to the sixteenth floor signed, Mr. Hunter could sot find the original (Signed; MBS. W. B. MeDONAJLD. of the building Thursday night he was incred Hurl hurt, Ark, deed asd grant, signed is Spanish by PorSrio ulous. He had prepared to spend all night f>m, former prwd*-m and dictator of Mexico. coning out every paper in the thousand* in Memphis, Tenn., April 16, 1919. Negotiation* halted. Search «a* in vain, tie attic. He had employed three negroes to Some time ago I lost my horse and after lo deerpair and a* a last resort, Mr. H um ap- help him. He allowed Hanw-o, merely a« a mat searching everywhere and without any results, (eaied to Qthrxl Hansen, a Fwew Artist, who ter of accommodation, to accompany them. I went to tee Mr. G. Hacwa, the psychologies! c h tt * to bo a Psychic detective, for Ida aid As soon as the light* were turned on, the de detective. He at once described the horse and in finding the papers. tective walked along one able and took out a the place where I kept hiui, also the place and Han*» studied the case a few day*, talked package. A little farther on be took out the people there where he said my horse could with the principal* involved 5a order to get a another. In each of the several aisles he did be found. 1 followed Mr. Hansen’s advice and * * P n r k i t o o s s e e t i o a , * * a* he tailed it, estab* the same thing. He locked at none. When found everything to be just like he said, and liafeed, and thee told them be knew where the about eight or ten had beet removed aai I recovered my horse. I know of another »***n papers were. Aecesepaaied by Boardman aad their place* marked the lot was taken to Board- that he also found a horse for. threw negrons, he west Jo the attic of the Ten- z&sb’s office. (feigned) ANDRE W, WINSTON. P8YCHJC PH W K R U

u&yhh, Tenn., January 19, 1918. Mr, Wedn*;jyJay, Related the 1ri r c ’iw- «*rv to ^eoovtetteo, and partkokriy where ^ stances follows; crime hae W a committed #ooje these ago, • A named Howard had fx^rn wufip/'^tej *******, hf/nevert hus b**g ¥i o*fb/A ^ I «iwe, but the explored man v.-aa in hiding, ‘After ijwmi&rtf of t lx*e family*-j bad spent is urneh more likely to e&e&A thsn /iJl. ^effort# to locate him had lx?/*n futile, Lh-p- w«-eks in search of the miiring items, which in cluded a band-worked be'bprx-a/i vaJi "There in fxil vr*-. that *t> beyosvi human po f Bradshaw and Marshal lfiJJ, in compauy to prevent. There fe knvv»l»dge th** not t jftb Dcetwtive Hansen, left .MiiJin^on in riiy-fiv** dollars, ilansen Hansen was appealed to, ]>ur* ingig the spiritual interview which followed, Han- lej quest Weed, but which nlij *ot te w*}/*-*^ ^rth for the negro, and the ofli<**r« followed by a court. jj,g route described by Mr. Hanwn, who pic ;/] minutely deV'ribed a negro man and woman, bo lie said had pilfered tlx? articles at odd Many perv/ns whose lives are I te tured the biding place and the two negro women imes. He described them in detail and said criminology have been astounded a* et&ru*' ffo were shielding Howard. and jat the articles would lx; found in tiie boiton? ing the evidence of Mr. Han^-n's powerr, Arriving at the house which Mr. Hansen had f a trunk in possession of the pair." they admit, either ghdir or r*-l<*5tent.Jy, , ^eribedf the two negro woman ware found, has sooie gift that t* quite beyond their *w# From Hansen's description, Mr. Kennedy ; >gt they denied all knowledge of Howard. to understand. aid, Farter and his wife were recognized. gp*ever, Mr. Hansen insisted upon going into >»__ _ i______> v — j. i. attic, and there found Howard 'a shotgun, ffcich was identified by Howard's daugMcr. finite talking to the women, after leaving the Our Greatest Problem attic, Mr. Ilansen cautioned the o/lieers to be ff Tate. bs the lookout, but before they could "cover" by Wm J, B/yan, fit O* Th rough the co-operation of M ssippi r the bow, Howard had leaped out of the attic Author of two new books on Spiritual**® fiadow and again escaped. Howard later was authorities, the Carter woman was located at foend and shot by his pursuers. Charleston and brought 1/aek to Memphis. The At tbe b^gixifiijag of tis*1 of oivt1* missing articles were discovered in the trunk Following is a sworn statement, signed by as Hansen in Memphis had predicted. mortal earner, we coti^ tbaf ma^sy art ' Wiliam H. Wilfong before Notary A. D, Heine- urged by the promptings of z£z of Memphis, May 9, 1917, relative to another Secs Visions of Crimes j rise: to give eonfcideratioB to the thought of Gabriel>riel Hansen se**#se**s visions of crimes that Jife-l>eyond*tfce-grave: and it is thaa I f Tbit is to certify that G. Ha own, the psycho)- have bel>een /committed. This is not ysy.hom etrj, ; ogigt, came to me on Haturday morning, the that eooteiapiation of the future Ji^ alt hodigh at times the element of peyebomciry Romes an important matter for mortal*, I iftb d*y of May, 1917, with Mr. Jacobi, the con- entersi into tire work. It is a talent peculiar i liable, in search for the murderer of Antoinette to Detective Hansen. Some are eut off in the prime of mor • BappeL Mr. Hansen described the scene of the It makes no difference bow long since ^ the tal life, arid some have blighted earners, crime, also a little log cabin, where he said the crime lias been committed, the vision is clear. and some never reaeh the age of ma gsiltj one eould be found, and also gave $ Sometimes these visions eorne at once, but they . , thorough description of him, also his wife, be- turity. However, all, sooner or later, may not focus themselves for several days. It : fere be ever saw them, and insisted that we go must give the matter of transition, some depends on conditions beyond Mr. • D there, which we did. But at this time Mr. control. Where a crime is an old one, it * consideration, beeause it is really the j Jt/fjbi had returned to the city. But before possible that the guilty persons hare gone w most important problem that confronts kariflg us he gave Mr. Hansen authority to all of as; And yet, it is capable of an act. the realms «f spirit, and are t e * They are paving » ot

Astral and Ethereal Worlds have loft the criminal untouched. And I saw during the Great War many sol, yet immediately on release from the diers were worthy and ready to be car. \ By Mabel Collins physical body and the entraucc to the ried on angels’ wings to far place*: The astral life is so close to earth-life, astral world, not only at death but in where the spirit is at home and glory; so intimately associated with all the de deep sleep, the sinner and the criminal reigns. J sires and passions of the physical body, find themselves in the states and condi An animal is no more likely Uian j, ! that advanced beings, even disciples, tions created by tbeir passions and de- pass through it without attention, not human being to ignore the fact that it* sires. life, the most precious possession of any only at death but in sleep or trance. The desires and passions which cause Signs, warnings aud portents, which living thing, has been taken from it un- its existence have fallen from them so arc understood and accepted by those fairly and unjustly. All students of an that they have no concern with it. But who are called superstitious, are sent imals know that they are conscious of > it is there, a definite state, and when the to men by friends beyond, with the help invisible presences and of that which ! physical body is dead or unconscious, of the sidereal spirits. These can enter comes after death. Unbelief Is one of the astral form is at once aware of it within the outer edge of the physical the poor crimes monopolized by man. ‘and awake in it, the highly developed life, and manipulate forces which they From it our churches suffer greatly as disciple passes through it swiftly and understand aud can use. Those who many here are teachers and even priests leaves the astral form, as it has left the laugh at superstition are simply igno who are devoid of all real belief. Quite f physical form. In the case of sleep, or rant. A disembodied, purified and glo recently, since the war and those experi- j the rare state of trance, angels guard rified spirit may, through the inner re ences which have arisen out of the war I and tend both these forms so that the lationship born of love and incapable of which opened many eyes and destroyed spirit, returning, enters both easily, and destruction, see that one upon the earth much skepticism, a clergyman died ; gently, the absence is all forgotten and is taking a wrong turning, or losing whom I had known slightly. He died earth-life taken up naturally again. faith aud hope. He cannot return to quite suddenly, without a moment of i Only the very strong can dare to try earth till his allotted time comes for re preparation. His body was shrouded t and recall what has happened in the in incarnation, but if his astral form still and laid in its coffin. As soon as his terval, the burning and intense life in lives, he can obtain the aid of the si consciousness came to him he was an- ; the ethereal world. The spirit could dereal spirits, native to the astral plane, noyed to find himself seated on the • bear it, but the brain cannot. And yet and knowing how to use the various ground, leaning against a rock, in his i these experiences are all still within the forces in it. Thus come the signs, in the shroud. * * # This is one instance. r phenomenal world; well within it, even Heavens, the warnings which prevent The lower astral plane is thronged with j the glorious conditions of the ethereal one who has still to live from embarking newcomers who have as yet no strength ; state. The astral life is as objective, on a fated ship, and the thousand and to go further from lack of belief. It is j as external, as the physical life. The one small signs and tokens that prove to indeed worth a great struggle to make Christ is often there, and His followers us we are surrounded by the invisibles, the effort in this life to find the true remain to work with Him. During if we regard them reasonably. This path and look toward the Supreme in- t and since the Great War this has shows the interlinking of these two stead of on worldly and illusory objects. j been often necessary. Some soldiers planes as those above and beyond are —The Occult Review (London). who died on the battlefield were at linked. There is no hard line of de- once carried away by angels, to the markation. But the loss of your phys higher states which they had earned ical body leaves you in possession of the right to enter, as I saw Frances Wil your astral form in just the shape and Search for Truth r with just the powers you have devel lard 's spirit carried away when she When will this plodding world outgrow died. The physical and astral bodies oped. The dogmas of the past; alike surrender their claim on the ego, The shock of the sudden destruction which by purification and self-sacrifice Seek fearlessly the truth to know, of the physical body when it is in full And dauntless hold it fast ? is freed. Those that are not freed and health and strength is very great, and cannot obtain freedom, learn many the astral form, even with those who things while dwelling on that plane. know much and believe yet more, arises, When will they, too, discard the myths j But they are not the things to arrest the confused and bewildered, the ego being Of generations gone, freed spirit and the victorious ego, without the power to go on immediate Who, truth with sophistry did twist, which has entered upon the state of ly. If a death of this kind has been Till right was seeming wrong? glory. They must rather be regarded practically painless, the spirit does not as compensations or interests for the at once realize that it has lost its phys astral bound being, no criminal, yet in ical body, and turns to look for its old Tis when from myths, and legends ' capable of rising higher. friends. Feeling that they are in new free— Rubbish of long ago— Dante went forth in his astral form conditions these spirits gladly yield to and saw these mysteries and wonders, the guidance of the angels who sur They’ll cease to search on withered trees all the training and help given in .Para round them and who take them to one Where fruit has ceased to grow. dise, all the hardship and horrors ex of “ the many mansions” according to perienced in Hell. He told the world their need; either into a temple on the Or needless trace some foreign field what he bad seen. It has resulted in the astral plane to which teachers come In search of golden grain, production of marvellous pictures, of from above, or away from the astral When home unceasingly doth yield j superb works of art, but it seems to have plane altogether, according to their state The wealth they would obtain. been no warning to the sinner and to of development. And to judge by what —Huxley PSYCHIC POWER 13 HOW TO DEVELOP SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY Practical Advice by America’s Most Successful Psychic Photographer What to Do and What Not to Do in Trying for Spirit Pictures

By D r . W. M. K eeker

Often has the question been asked by own proper conclusions—as all should do As this power came to me as a part of nspirants to the power of getting spirit for themselves. my original makeup, the same as the photographs how they might acquire that Bora and raised in a little country power to think, to see, to hear, it would development. This question presupposes place about twenty miles from New York be useless for me to advise the seeker for that I know what the gift or power really City, on Long Island, and knowing noth this power, who does not know that he iSj and what another person should do to ing of Spiritualism, the family began to possesses strong natural mediumship, to get results without assistance, when they have manifestations in plenty. Why we be born all over again, in some line of think they have no such power, to start were visited with such happenings we descent in which strong powers are trans with. When, as now, the greatest scien did not know. Raps and knocks of all mitted. He would be very apt to quote tists of the world can not explain such descriptions happened about the house, Nicodemus and ask, “ Can a man be bora familiar forms of energy as light, gravi lights would appear, and objects would again?’’ Then, if this can not be done, tation or electricity, how can anyone rea apparently move of their own volition. is there no hope ? In the light of experi ence gained by other people, some of sonably expect me to give a lucid ex We could not stop it, and were harassed, them well known to me personally, 1 can planation of the forces and powers of but learned to endure what we could not say that there is hope. An average, well- nature which are at play, or are utilized, avoid. But it made trouble for us with constituted, healthy, vigorous, right- in any of the phenomena of mediumship, our friends. They would come down to minded person might hope to develop especially the very intricate manifesta see us in the country, stating that they this power by pursuing a regular course, tion of spirit photography ? The best came for a week’s visit—but they didn’t stay a week, you may be sure !—nor any in from two to fifteen years, according scientists are at a loss to account for it. to circumstances. The more one sees of this form of mani considerable part of it. One night was festation, the more wonderful it appears enough. Our friends blamed us for put However, there can be no guaranty to be, and the more baffling to one ’s un ting up tricks on them. In vain did we that any particular form of mediumship derstanding. In spirit photography it expostulate, and try to explain that we that one sets his heart upon can be de is not known, until the plate is developed, had to endure the same thing without liberately developed. No two mediums what will appear—whether a likeness of understanding why. They knew noth are alike. Individual ity st amps medium- one’s self, a friend or a stranger, or a ing of the conditions and facts of such ship as it stamps everything else in na whole crowd of people, nor what nation manifestations and refused to believe us. ture. Nature abhors absolute duplica ality they will be; or a flower, a conven There was one visitor, however, who tion. Of one thing I am convinced— tional design, a geometrical diagram or undertook to earry out his intention of that this phase of mediumship known as something else in mathematics; a picture staying a week with us as his vacation psychic photography is a form or degree of a house, outside or interior j a land in the country. He did endure three of the materializing power, for it hi® scape or marine view; a writing or seem nights of it, but at last declared he could been evident to me, in every way, that ing printed or typewritten communica not stand it any more, and that he had1 spirit photos are made, formed., mate tion; or altogether a freak photograph, never been treated so mean in all his life. rialized, with light or with something or a blank plate,, one showing a vacant He said that forms appeared to him and fraught with light, upon the surface of chair, in which the sitter is- invisible or talked to him, and would not stay away the plate; and not by light as vre mortals only partly so; it may fee in an oval or nor let him sleep; they were all sorts of use it, that is to say, by focused rays, with other form of margin,' it may contain people, including Indians, and be said camera and lens. the signatures of fifty friends and rela that one Indian was so big he couldn’t No apparatus is necessary, 1 have tives; and as though this is not enough, get through the door into his room ! It often gotten a likeness of the sitter with it may be either positive or negative, or was too much for him, and he left in out using the camera, and have more both combined. There come times when great indignation at what he considered often gotten everything but the siiter, • no spiritual results can be had for several our treatment of him. while using the camera. Our spirit co days, with no accounting for it. The best When I was quite a youngster, my workers can prevent a photo being taken we mortals can do, to understand such father gave me a camera, which was a effectively, an well as by producing them, things, is to observe the indicia and limi great thing hi those days; and I used it and in doing so seem able to imitate every tations of the workings of these natural with success. Spirit photos were not known human method of picturing, and forces. It is observable that certain per- dreamed of or known of by us, but they more besides. * sons have these powers in so large degree came to me, just the same. The appear One notable instance, in my experi . that the development comes to them ance of extra faces in my pictures, no ence, of the development of full power to whether they like it or not; sometimes matter what the subject of the photo get spirit-photos, without aid of others, s- the development can be thwarted, but in was, mystified us beyond measure, but was that of a learned Doctor of Medi other cases it seems to be forced upon the light of truth in this matter dawned cine, who died some years ago k this them1. It came to me in this latter way ; upon our minds when I obtained the por city at a very advanced ag& His power and some recital of the circumstances trait of my grandmother and of a negro of spirit continued to grow strong lofcg I will no doubt foe of interest, as well as of servant woman, and others whom we after age had weakened his body, life I value in helping others to form their know, who had gone to the great beyond. ease is similar to that of the Rev, Stain- PSYCHIC POWER 14 tablished with some strong nutguet ton-Moses, the well-knowu English overlooked, for it would be like the play clergyman. Both investigated spirit pho of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. If spirit, whose grip it is most difficult t . tography, as utter skeptics, expressly to there be uo spirit worker, there will be loosen, in older to bauislt him, for as, “ learn the trick" and thus be able to no spirit photo. I take this to be a rule they will make desperate resistant disabuse the minds of eertaiu friends atul truth, for of the many thousands against being overcome, for this breaf,: keep them from becoming subjects of photos that 1 have taken, counting nega their power to do mischief to anyone, hallucination, as they thought it to be. tives by the ton, atul other thousands that In the light of my experience I can. of spirit return and spirit-photos. Both l know of. no instance has occurred that nor hold any opinion to the contrary o| fotmd it a truth, after most thorough would give rise to a conjecture that such this, namely, that the best aud surest ws; investigation, and both beeame greatly pictures can be made by the human alone. to develop this particular phase is with interested, so much so as to have hun It is of the utmost importance that a the assistance of the methods aud powep. dreds of such pictures taken in their pres proper guide, or a spirit co-worker, be of one already highly advanced and de- ence; and, submitting thus to the draw attracted, and rapport established with veloped in the same phase. The use o! ing power (without which these “ magnetized" plateholders cas pictures can not be made), their not but be helpful, but helpful own personal “magnetic'' forces only—as success can not be guar became exercised and developed, anteed. There is so much iu these, until they got their own great re manifestations that can not be sults, with many unprecedented grasped by the mind’s under-1 examples. standing, that no one really knows! That is one way to develop, aud very much about it. A pretty’ it is the best and surest way; and good example of a “ nut to it has the advantage that the crack,’’ in this subject, is this ex novice inherits the protected con perience, which I have had, name- ditions, very largely, of the ex Blsi A certain student of spirit’ perienced medium. But are there photography, and ardent aspirant no other ways? The answer must for the power, for years has sat be. that any exercise of the power for results, alone, with plates,; of medinmship, any wholesome properly wrapped, and held; if; practice that will develop the the student develops the plates. ^ magnetic forces of spirit and rarely is anything obtained; but body, working together, under if he or anyone else comes to my proper surroundings and with house and develops them in my' sufficient perseverance, patience presence, even though I do not and health conditions of body and see nor touch them nor pay any mind, ought to bring about devel attention to the matter, the work; opment of the individual's partic is in some mysterious way ren- ular endowment of psyehie pow dered complete, and full results ers. if he has any. When such are obtained. Those who seek to student gets pretty strong mani develop this power, or any other festations of an independent high phase, should be of very: character, then let him try han good disposition, tolerant of oth- f dling a photographic plate, ers’ adverse criticism, and well wrapped well its blaek. non-aetime able to endure the abuse that will paper, to protect it from the light; be in store for them. All these" the same plate can be used for things will bring out the strong twenty sittings, then may he de points of one's higher character veloped ; if no results, do the same again him or her, in any form of mediumship. aud cause sympathetic remembrance of1 and again, until something appears; then As a general rule, the undeveloped but the reason Socrates gave for thinking try a single effort. Great joy comes with natural-bom medium is an open door, so that the gods had special regard for his a successful result. to speak, for the intrusion of undesirable best welfare, because they had given him Various experiments have shown that visitors from the other realm—those Xantippe for a wife, who made things such photos may be obtained on plates earth-bound spirits who seek to influence highly miserable for him. His ability to in a plateholder, or different pictures all they may—as well as for the coming rise above such trials is one of the fine may appear on the different plates in the of higher spirits whose affinity of pow things that history of the ancient past original package or- unopened box of ers and attributes enable them to sense has handed down to us. plates, or on the plate while in the camera, the occasion for their presence. If as without regard to whether the slide of sured of a proper guide, then all Is well Solicitor# in all large the holder is removed or not. nor whether to proceed with the development, with y cities to take subscrip the lens cap or shutter has been removed proper and harmonious surroundings. tions for Psychic Power. Live leads and co-operation to industrious workers. This or opened, and in the dark as well as in It Is very risky to introduce new per is a good proposition, worth while investi gating. Write or call at the office of the fight. sons into a small developing circle. All possible safeguards should be thrown PSYCHIC POWER The work of spirit helpers, or guides, 1904 North Clark Street Chicago, Illinois some of them great artists, must not be around this work. !«t a rapport be es Wesetwrei these original cuts through courtesy of the Began Publishing Corporation, 26 East Can Buren Street, Chicago, III.

Cora L. V. Richmond

The pioneer worker in the fold of be said she fought the fight and won and thought that it had been so. Had she Spiritualism gave up her earthly abode greater deed did no man than this brave not had the greater light and was it not Tuesday, Jan. 2nd, 1923, at sunset. She soul whose baud guided the ship of State right that she should be the last of that only anchored in the harbor of the New iu a Nation's distress of woe and war. motley throng? Year long enough to give a greeting And all through the days and nights, Let us pause. Picture a little girl of with her blessing for the year and jour ever ready to answer the summons to a eleven years sfandiug on a kitchen neyed on. benighted traveler who sought her table, expounding the laws of Life.— She held the torch in the early days. lighted window. Again let us see her grown to woman Prom then until now the light has All she had loved and all who loved hood, directing the heads of Govern burned steadily in the window of her her had passed from mortal view or ment; later, let us follow her on the house of clay, directing the traveler journeyed into distant lands leaving voyages across the water into other who passed her way. T ^ B are none her to wend her way from day to day lands, carrying the message of Life. to mourn her passing save the one brave as best she aoHd. At the Peace eonferenee at The Hague, soul who watched the flickering flame to The writer saw her very clearly, where she was a delegate, and let us sit standing beside the speaker, listening to the last. She outlived them all and the with her in her sorrow when her beloved the words of praise as they fell from his thought came to us while listening to husband bade farewell. Let us scan the the speaker, Dr. Geo. B. Warne, who lips. As she stood there she seemed to loose leaves, scattered in her silence gave a synopsis of her life, how blessed be in a reverie, including all that had chamber and bind all together that it it must be to have dried all the tears of gone before and we caught the glow of may be said of her in all time to come, ' loved ones and leave no one to mourn; her reverie, when the thought that she she was a Solomon in her wondrous glory and again, the anticipation of the great had said the last farewell to all she of wealth of knowledge—she was a reunion when the last arrival lias come. loved and all that loved her and now it David, and indeed a Samson whose far Active to the last in the Cause she was her turn to go and she closed the sight could write history thousands of served from 1851 until now, it can well book with no regrets but with loving years ahead. 16 PSH-ltM PQ W M

The Jewelry Peddler and His the two others march him, protesting- definite idea ojsdirection down the road loudly at every step to the banks of a toward the stream and had uncotj Prayer densely wooded stream some distance sciously increased their pace unffil tM As darkness E f loyer the great silent from the main road. yelping of the wolfhounds bacBrougiJ moors of the Ukraine, a Jewish jewelry them to a^H op. peddler reached a long straggling vil liberated upon how to dispose While playing cards at the lage on the main road and entered one prisoner. He -ifegeu them nofijjSVharm one of the policemen had experience! of the first houses he came to as if he him promising never to say a word an irresistible im pi^H togp^^H recol owned it. # anyone. Two of inclined noitering expedition, having the wood* He had hardly seated himself on a to let him go but the th ifl one de referred to Hateijl bench with the three hopefuls of the murred saying, he would not be that the time when the peddler was family climbing over him in search'ofj remain silent and they would have to makin^Bs appeal into s^^Hoinjcide] the sweets he had promised them, when suffer it. He added with th t^ ^ ^ ^ K m m ^ H th is ir resist™ the street door opened ag a in ^ ^ ^ H t that it was better to have ble impulse. the man of the house, a heavy thickset than three dead heroes. A lthis Hey ^H his is H tru e ^ ^ B vouched for by individual, followed by three others whcB all guffawed. having been Dertaken by the nighH The poor peddler, nearly beside ^ ^ H the re s u ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B ic h is m erciy the asked for lodging. self outwardthe efficacy of true Accepting from the housewife the pray at 'least, before yanking him into underlying ^ ^ B i t exchange when offer of some straw in a comer for bed the beyond. They jokingly consent and propelled by strong Had energy, even ding and a hot supper of meat stew and begin reckoning up the gain they w o i^ | among those enth^jH u raj^^H ) con black bread washed down with tea, tfce have from the jobbery. scious teSpathHaction and r&Bjpa ifl whole company spent a pleasant eve The peddler begins excitedly preHng the soul realm. » ning exchanging experiences. in a loud voice, in HOfrew, a language A lfred GouXiD. Learning that their new acquaintance his captors did not understand. He was a peddler, the three strangers asked begs God to savsHim and in hisjl^^H to see his wares, as they had some pres most heart calls vehemently on the po ents to make. lice of the next town to come quick On Death Their eyes glittered as he opened while he is stil^Hve. Received from a Lady Who Had Been Dead his pack and disclosed the stock of ex This lasted a full half houra f Three Days (Identified) pensive jewelry and gold watches he The bandits,, having finished th^H Those born of wisdom have u3 carried with him. After buying a few figuring, wiled' that his time was up. derstanding. trinkets, as bed time had come, they all “ Oh Mercy! mercy! just let me finish Those that are not have to grope their took leave of each other in the very best —iH be through in five minutes!’’ Yes, of humor. through with the sweets of life, re The outward garment is the house of The housewife, before going to sleefl marked one as they sat down and told her husband to see the strangers mimicked him with insulting inuendo The roof tumbles and the walls crumble; on their way as soon as possible in the as the minutes flew by. is up, Winter11 st&faHsjftfl.gB^ffifflis, the dead morning, because she did not like their again shouts the leader, yanking the leavesnpi^ffllus|H looks. ped^^^^^^^ftand leading him under The storm kings rage, the fire of life They left just after sunrise, inquiring an overhang®® willow limb on the goes a l w i l their way to the next town. They were bank gflthHtream. “ We will give him And oveafsk dying embers the zephyrs told to take to the left when the road five nHe miniites in w ^ ^ H pray for play. passed a low hQl as the short c u t ^ | our souls,’’ duced the remaining distance to less the pedmer amused i m mensely. The We speak foitflp new tongue, ours ears than half an hoar’s journey; only—a latter started in star are unstopped, river had to be forded as there was no ing at him to face. He a The b cales pBjjfrdta®r eyes IE bridge. prayer thH they could understand at The worifl knows us fto more among the The peddler had intended stopping the same time repcating^^^^^Hthe living, over another night to enjoy his friends’ concentrated cry for Helg^Mlice! And all that we are and, ever hope to be company, but decided to push along, He was standing, stiH praying, with la drawn tHtne zephyrs from the dying as the season was late and he had many his shoes off and a rope around his^cA embers, orders to fill. hung ^OMMifne convenient tree JSntjf dawn of a new day. He sat down on an old log when he his hands treinaHM behind his back. Even as the WatcBdrk watch over us, we came to the hill above described and At this j® jE re a pack of wolf hounds slip from their effibracey began to eat bis frugal lunch of cheese sweeps dfiwn liW’a ^iMWind scatter And men call it sleep; * and bread. ing the bandits righ^JHfcreft and foP But to tfle freed on&lfflj has just begun, Hearing footsteps, he looks up only lowed by a band of galloping horsemen And while the zephyrs play in the dying who quickly had them secmra^ bound embers, to find himself confronted with his Those WhA ever n&«! and by whatever friends and customers of the night be and pinioned. name were called fore. The rescuers were the very ro^&the Are bom again. One of them secures his pack which victim had called for; they had started he had dropped from his shoulders, and out in a leisurely manner withe® a —E F F A E. DANELSON. M, PSYCHIC POWER 17 THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE Its Usefulness and How to Make Offers Think of You

| By WkmBt Brock Has it ^ ^ ^ B u r r e d to yc^K o find yourself in a g o u r door. THE REALIZATION OF UNITY OF Bather serious or dangerous situation where you wished PU§P@SE THROUGHOUT THE COSMOS will be the Ain your inn.erm ^S ^^^^^B t some one might come to B extH K g When you have learned to realize that an B ^ veB U^^K H e Pan&s pain and fear? or from invisible something, that many call weth^Operm eates the power of a pitiless individual ? felt the universe and is the transmitter of all vibrations, be Mft.anxieB of a person who for the ^ flt time in his life theBSgoMeSii magnetitfor psycMed, you will endeavor was thrown into the holdover of the police for reasons to make use of this ever ready power of transmission, K frgly unknown to him and without the privilege ofl and this will automatically unlock the door to higher calling a good friend ^ B ^ ^ ^ ^ H y n yflo’ life’s career. | you ever prayed fl your lu^^B^^Hu^^^BBrioufl will give you the impetus to power might save loved orie^Epm imminent danger ^ ^ ^ ^ H c r ^ ^ ^ ^ y a k e S h d ^ r c e s within Mod The ^ b &F6 yourself entirely unah^Ho send the opening of the door is the signal for the dormant powers l|i of to awaken andiohiemand w ^ § Recognition is followed i In such unexpected, sudden fgm yriti^B momenta of B then comes a period when it will be ^E^^iiigte^^^^^^^^^B'ealizaihow^^K aM te and ^^^^^flfor you to MASTER the forces. By your M^vniMwrffonHrri^B-ia.l senses of perception are!_ Hob endeaBorw® e in harmony with the whole cosmos yon will f often have we wished to come into snc^^Bws^^Mm of theBlBlabI^Kffiiect>vour thoughts as safely as yon can f supernatural powers avoid impending danger, to dBeifovonr footsteps, if you keep your eyes open. B arent the execution of an unjust act or punishmBk But there arises another question: “How shall I learn on ourselves and others. The consftuences of m ^R I to be in harmony with the cosmos 1” Now you know that pared ness ^ B indeed agonizing 'terrors, when there haw* are^ess than a partWlb of a dust corn if compared seems to be no one to o^u^H e feared ( H ta ^ ^ B ^ f witBtfee; ALL': but know that no matter how f Dear Header, foHow me a little further and lend me insignin^^^^B think yonrseo^you are A PART OF ,to ^B eal to you a mystery H THE WHOiDE, that you are just as much needed to mysteiy within yourself; a mystery which, when solved, make the ALL whole as all the rest Et the Universe, i rill unfold itself into a mighty power; the power we all pE^U g^S^^^^^B pl^are also a partner in the stupen- a r^ iffip B ^ ^ E n e ^ ^ H p f those dark ^fe^ds^Shreateiis wfeslenterprise. As such you are entitled to receive all to pour re£ to •becnofe * Bspace. After you will have mastered the application susceptible to the impression from without you JfiB&t of these laws your enter SILENCE. The power of^R nce is unconquer- same swiftness and accuracy as the most perfect radio ahle. apparatus could do. In i(t^^H ggpj^^^K |de your thought much better . ( But in order to make your start, you need preparation. because it helps greatly in your-endeaBr to visualize wish to externalize into susceptible and sensitive to the impression of thoughts the presence of the intended recipient. Bw bBM W M ^rv^pfcS^j1 awakened powers are not The key to the main entrance into the mystery of these cB aj^^t^ break through with full f because you believe in a supreme ruler who prepared like a child and use any available means that will prevent everything M r M 'tbm von^rom stumbling or falling. how to use the infinite bounties Rif His sfcBjffibuseafyhe The fA BEng experiment 'will demonstrate to' you I great cosmos. goofl results Muring the first Once you KNGiWi^^mS^b are a spiritual being, you stages M your psySmfc unfoldment. have already k Bo A A ® des^SSfesy, wffiraT will unlock First visualize the place Tpftere intended recipient PSYCHIC yOWKB

Immortality Is a Simple Fact m Nature aught be -.« H *i»e H toal* *» attempt Rj *«»'"*? ?* JaivrtjuH message. Then add this» » « K Sr \VULIAM 1. tlKYAN, M. U. rirfjfcivisual; red imsreimage of shethe other part)party and with a loud » -, tmjHvss***** arrsf*T *t»J j*tk&r' speak words- of year message Don't - —1 Lmagme—-. sue. i Gwnt lUHiwtfSalioB of poAVt'i* wmo to the things in your mind. You mast fATEEXAli^k dren-of-aarth. and greater things shall be done to ju\%. mental picture. You mast see it in space, and m the the existence of spirit ones after death aud disintegjv place where it should a w into the presence ot l!>.e tkm of the enter or physical body. Aud t hese manifest person to wheat wa send the message. And yen mast liens of spirits, through capable mediums, are not do it when the person is ta a restful state of mm; whoa the purpose of entertainment, but to prove to mauki^ he fe susceptible to psychical impreBions. If a man be on earth, that spirit-life and spirit-return ife fuels; engaged in baying or selling, or in matters that need his the lesson they teach is that all grief should be laid asiife. entire attention you will not saaved. when a friend or relative p»es from eiulh-lifi^waa* In such eases the message might drop into the sab- it iHimply a passing, and not the Btin,mushing of a mot, oonsdoas mind and lay there dormant until in an. har- tai forever. i a ^ a s isoM.1 -As t&ou|dh$ will- W sp to t e We say, and we prove it by spiritual phenomena, that surface of the conscious mind. there is a future life, in heaven, for all, regardliB of ant Thought forms will appear before the mental eye of earthly conditions surrounding the person. The® is ® the receiver and will arrest his attention; or he1 will exception to the rule that there is tm death of personality imagine so hare heard a voice saying your message. We dwell on this theme. We reiterate. We cannot Sodt psychical impressions occur quite often, we pro allow our declaration of immortality to be brushed' duce than, in the minds of others without blowing, be aside; and. hIkB> all, we are willing to tea^Hlemon cause the thought travels whether we want I or not strate, and prove to all who evince mMuiUmpness, that Every thooght k a message for some one, yea for many, immortality is a simple fact in nature, and is neither *1 even for every ,human xbring that —>*--walks .*•this • —,v.earth, be . theological marvel nor a supernatural mystery. cause some one, perhaps more may be unconsciously 0, that I had the wisdom and the force to impress the attuned to the vibratory force of your thought and thas minds of all. that future life, as spirits, is « ikitind be inspired or depressed by it. phenfmenen. divested of all mystery, and to be looked The mere faith yon possess, the more important your upon as a birthright from Supreme Intelligence S message is; and above ail the more EMOTION you Let us not waste so much valuable time over material genome at the time you rend your thought into space ity. but rather let us be filled with the ardor of a strong rise greater will be the success: the stronger will be the mentality, and a strong persona! will, that shall cause psyebieai impression upon the sabamseious mind of the us to ponder over the realities of a spiritualised life, here other party; and the stronger the impression, the and now, thus preparing us for the life that is inline- ‘ stronger will be the driving power that will throw up iliately ahead of all of us-—a life that is real, earnest, the thought into the consciousness of the reeeiver. aud aetive! There should be a yearning, an outpouring of the Let us realize that our progression will be in accord heart, accompanied by the aid of all positive forces and ance with onr spiritual desires, and that a life of mate feeling?; above all LOVE, JUSTICE. CHARITY. It riality, is one that has no permanent valueSxcept as it must be a PRAYER. When you will get in touch with lies in the memory of a career of varied experiences. Let the invisible in sack a manner it will begin to dawn these experiences be good ones, and our reconV.will be, apes ywr soul, that ’the wonderful stories of the prophets one calling for approbation of our spirit friends; and, of old are no tales, bat truth and that they can be dupli for ourselves, there will be no remorse over the con cated by &1! of m, if we only fry as. much as they did, sciousness of misdeeds, or a wasted career. to fee at harmony with conscience, the voice of Supreme Loving service to others, will bring to us the peace Intelligence. Then you will know why Elijah knew wbaf and the realization of commendable past performances- was going on is the king’s chamber. Memory goes with us when we pass to the Great Be- > If you wish to impress some one to help yon, to render vend. service not detrimental to anyone; if you wish to be loved or to find furor; if ye® seek forgiveness this mighty power will help you to accomplish your task. Tolerance Frequent repetition will increase the forces within vou; If you, in your daily walks, display the beautiful the Secure results will spar jo b on to do greater things. spirit of Tolerance, yon are making real progress in You will not fee satisfied ; you will go on with your work the evolution of yourself. Intolerance is a heavy brake until you wiH discover probabilities, never dreamt of upon the Wheels of Progress in your Journey through and which eventually will tarn into realities, the field of Life. And strange as if may seem, it is the strict re which is beyond limit, educating, fascinating, even awe ligionist who is the most intolerant, as a rule. Noth inspiring. ing is right in his estimation if it differs from his ideals. In sack eases we use many different expressions for Under the banner of Intolerance march all the other the game occurrence. “ Ihave a hunch,” “An idea struck negative forces such as Selfishness, Distrust, Suspi me,” jR ave a thought,17 “ I am impressed to say,” cion, Hate, jealousy, etc., and the Gossip is supremely ‘'S o m e t h i n g tells me, etc." Other messages reach ns by happy in the use of it. Practice Tolerance, and yon the way of premonitions, apparitions, dreams, and ac will be surprised how it will lift yon out of yourself tions we perform without being able to account for them and shostoiif the beauties and sunshine of Life. S 1 1 U I C I K B 19 PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS

Published by the Aifirfkan Pres# Quid Wonder Reads Mind of U«s! jrrwii?. a stlideid from it. Well known Gets "Spirit Words" from Mrs. Auhjriaa family After a long walk the medium Governor Wilcox a pj part'd horrot stricken and cried, “ They’vn killed young Fri ary and thrown hi* body iota Hasten Seven-Ycar*Oi4 Coin mecs> Buy State Pittsburfcb Ltwytr Assert* Pout H u Scot Hta tfec mouut Ai n st r eam, ’ Executive of Her Powers Mwsafie front “Omod Sumncriftnd fiOre pointed ont the rapid* of a neighboring rivulet and half un hoar later the n>uliUto*i tmdy Thelma \Y oils so von years. old. cau read your Through Charles S. Robb. an attoree?. fcf nf tlw student wn# fwwnvri .from the water.— auud. If you don’t believe it, ask Governor Pittsburgh, Ells WWIer Witas. tfe* has Brooklyn Eagle. 00Sj ask any number who liavo scon atul hoard sent n hat purports to W n eaes&ftgw from tin- this a w child wonder perforin. spirit plane, Robb said that he received the White Fluttering Spirit Aids in She never berit&ios. With Hghtmug Hfeo sage recently when rilling at hit join Ward The join is an kapToveTOefiA on the ouija- The Finding Body ol Murdered Man rtpidUy, blindfolded. with her feet toward the Wilcox message said; ndl, she will read nuinbors of sus or eight tig “ What a beautiful evening you have on ywnt “A white, fiutterij g spirit ’' led to the di»* «ree which have Been written on a pad invisible earth. Many time* I have eujovod sitting In tzoMtay of HVscry Li|>c&SticJj ,> body to iu» did to her. the twilight with my husband. who ea»w? on be wtf»U on a farm ami FaUcsrilh*., Ohio, and w She paid a visit to (Governor Cox and told him fore me. Finally l was left aloae Alone, but vivshri. that a murder had been committed, is the correct time, his age, all about his wife and uot forgotten. I sat with a ouija U»rd tnauy. the WUcf of Carl Logies, owner of the farm. daughter. The profieiouey of this young uiiud funny timet* and finally I received 9 message Lipeastkk’•> body had toao suIme b ergot! is tW reader seems almost uncanny. She is* creating fruei my dear beloved buriuind. wcB fwr five years. The former owner uf the interest in psychic circles. * ‘ Then things changed for nw. I learned w> farm, located At F&i&c’s Hollow, six. mike She is the daughter of Charles Wells, pro many truths of the so-called spirit world. Fin southwest of FainesvUle, U held on a rhsrgs of pricier of a barber shop, at 328 Tremout St., ally. I cair.e over myself and toy to^ tii4 and murder. Boston. Except for her remarkable mind read myself bate been united in a grand spiritual Logies, the prevent owner, said be boHevod he ing ability, she seems to be a perfectly normal love, far surpassing any earthly k r t had leca influenced in making a dure very tv « and wholly charming child. “ I would love all humanity to know of this “ white shadow.5 J "Wells, when exhibiting the child *s work, covers grand and beautiful 8-ummerland, Tell it Id “ I saw U rpjHe»tod!r,,? said Logkm. “ JEwsy her eyes with a handkerchief and places her my friends, let the whole world know the glories tw-cosd or third night I SKOountersd t his shadow with her face toward the wall. He will than of the unseen world. I thank you. dear friends. or ririos it» the bam* pick up an object and say: T do not often find a battery through which T “ It invariably flew and Mattered in front of can work m readilv. my face and th«& damppearod. It dnio *% ai ‘4What color is this?5 * ‘ ‘ ELLA WHEELEB WILCOX. * * wsys take a siefitute form, bat cm w.-ver^ ocra Like a shot the little girl’s answer comes: Robb said that fee feels no doubt as to th* sions 1 aotitw-.l its rwsrmblasce to thr ^ndow of “Green,** genuineness of the message. He added; a man. “ What is this?’5 i4A ooafe.5* **X feiive sever read Mrs. Wilcox's auto Ml can’t doej*-riW fis- crocpy fooling I exps?- “ What are these figures (writing them on a biography, but when T told a friend of her wee riesiced. Several times 1 octioed ifee Window pad)?5-’ sage, he told me that her memoirs had told of >lMAiq>oaTed io the vicinity of the okl * d l “ Six. nine, tiree. one, eight, five. two. seven, attempts to reach her husband after his death * ‘ Then I noticed my Horses refus'd to drink four.’* and of the comfort she experienced after she ai the woiL X cleaned out the weil »».i diwov crod the body.*5-—The I’irisburgh Pros* Thinking that perhaps the answers had been established communication with him. ” prearranged and learned by the child a. reporter Shortly after Mrs. Wilcox death, a few requested the opportunity o f indicating to Wells years ago, a young girl asserted she had been SPIRIT MESSAGES the question which he would like to put to the the medium through whom Mrs. Wilcox had By Willijutt J. Brvaa. Nl. D child. Wells willingly consented, but the child’.* written a poero by automatic writing. Slow Tb*1 God-givea gifi pf ypiril-wt'iUuai' answers wore as quick and as unerringly ac then 10 messages from her haw been reported,— Ns*w Yor k American* ,hip «oom« to thosr wtaae alniity to r»- curate as before. o*ivr and iriusiaBit spirit mwn^* ’b ony Still another test was made when the re Shat shouW n rw by trs-aW with «w- porter jotted numbers on a piece of paper and Mediums Reveal Climber’s Fate conceal «si them from both the father and the tonipt, tior should any mental anguish hr child. This time her answers were delayed, Tourists and vacationist* in Sal^kammergur. fonsssl .! {'on » fey exwising perhaps thirty seconds. but die answered cor West Austria, have beeu greatly alarmed by tht m«iiusasliip. Ami we vyature to tleebw rectly. mysterious disappearance of a unmlw-r of pet sons waking tn^ntainelimljiag excursions that all te*a! wArictioM Bj the -fwe raw* “ I first noticed that Thelma was an unusual among the snow covered peaks. In the bust few rise «f TO«lutnuer hand? nn-SMi^vs isuae from their .iiseamate rri quested her to be more quiet. She was talking thought to be operating in the mmtntains, to herself, and I suddenly noticed that site was Hugo searching parties scoured the mountains at im and fiW h, fee they rewive spirit repeating aloud the substance of my letter. 1 and valleys in vain; in fact, three members of mexpires with a hearty weletiaM* ih»t in- ant sure that site had not seen the letter, and 1 one relief expedition were lost for eight dava, titrates their belief in the M lifishM of do not think that she could have read what w as which they spent in a barwu. gorge without food written in it had she scon it, tltitse spirit eoutmtmkations. before they finally were rescued. Police dog* And ri(jlu here let twe. say, that alt wlm “ From that time \te watched her, and she were sent front Yinna to Aim*?* the center of quite sustained our first, belief that she was a the district, to help in the search, but sovue of trwh to retteive a spirit u>«M(ie W*y «b> bind reader. Wo have espenmentod with her them also wore lost and the others failed to so by nonsuiting aowe medititn m r thmi. wily a Utile every day, for fear of tiring her find trace of the person* who hAd v&ni&Hed in This *j fully understootl by so aunty per. mind.1 * the mountains. taut, that it hw unneeesatry to Wtetafe Thelma will continue in school according to Finally a famous Viennese hyoerist was ells* who believea that Her peculiar power** ducod to omne with his favorite jwotjinm, vnlWd it here. rill increase as she grows older,-~*New York Megallih, and betwoos the two they Vgou an Why wait to reeeive thaw taesesagt-s of Srenlng Journal. investigation of the spirit world for one «.f the joy, ho|>e and eonsolat icm! 20 PSYCHIC POWER “ I simply ask a mental question"' Spirits Speak Through Tele power in heaven or iu hell to prevent his progressive unfoldment through the said Buddington in explanation of tL graph and Telephone eternal ages of being.’* phenomenon, “ and the spirit that “ I want a chance to correct the ideas Quiet rooms are not lonely rooms answers draws on the electric eunm that are wrong in that book. . . . We with Mr. and Mrs. Buddington, who that are everywhere and contacts th»f can come back, but do not have to, as live at 132 Chestnut street. Long Beach. Morse instrument through which babes, to be able to learn the conditions sends the message. We scientists km>* of evolutionary progress on the earth.’* With the light of fourscore years rest ing gently upon their shoulders, they that it is just as easy to get intelligent Thus former Judge David P. Hatch, communication from disearnate humajj live in the dimness of shaded rooms that attorney and jurist of Los Angeles, who are to them peopled with hosts of in spirits through the electrical powers ol died several years ago, is said to have nature as it is to telegraph by the wire • visible spirits. spoken to Thomas C. Buddington, of or wireless system on the mental plane.| Long Beach, scientific investigator of And not only do they talk of the spiritual beings that are ever around “ In this age the spirits speak to m things occult, while the latter was read through the radio, the telegraph and the, ing a book inspired by Judge Hatch. them, but they declare that on the telephone. Judge Hatch talks to me ‘'Letters of the Living Dead,” which electric currents of the air they catch was received through the hand of Elsa the news of the world, discoveries, in every day and many times a day by the Barker, well-known author, during her ventions, eatastrophies; in fact they say telegraph instrument. I will ask him' stay in London in 1913. they know of everything that takes now if it is all right to give out the in- j During Judge Hatch’s lifetime he place as quickly as it is flashed to the formation you ask.” believed in and taught “ reincarnation,” world by radio, whether it be the loca Here Buddington made the contact according to those who worked with tion of a great body of oil or the burn with the key and held it taut. A moment him in occult investigation. ing of a great ship at sea. later the little instrument was fairly This belief was strengthened after his These two elderly folk are living the whizzing away—dots and dashes punc death, as was shown in the book of let fleeting days of “ age” alone, yet not tuated the silence. I wondered what the ters to the author, in one of which he alone—the hours do not drag for them. answer would be. made the statement, “ I now see how Buddington, the author, scientist and “ It’s all right,” said Buddington reincarnation is passible.” lecturer, gray-bearded and keen, and with assurance. “ Judge Hatch says yon Today Judge Hatch renounces rein his slender little wife in her black silk can be trusted. carnation, according to Buddington. gown, with a snowy crown of hair “ The messages from Judge Hatch re who says he has received a manuscript framing her pale face, are together day* nouncing reincarnation were given to telepathically during the past year, sent after day as they call into their world me telei>athically,” says Buddington, in by Judge Hatch on his “Explorations in the beings that have gone before and explaining how he received the manu the Spiritual Realms,” in which he from whom they say they learn what is scripts of the book, “ Explorations in denies the possibility of reincarnation. taking place in the world of the living the Spiritual Realms.” The renunciation of reincarnation by as well as in the realm of the dead. “ The messages were not given to me the one-time enthusiastic advocate of A Morse telegraph instrument stands over the telegraph instrument,” said the belief is of intense interest to the on a table in a corner of their room. Buddington, “ for the reason that a students and friends of Judge Hatch Buddington sits near with his hand on spirit can get in closer touch with a who delved into much occult investiga the key. He makes the connection with person in a telepathic way, I do, how tion with the jurist during his lifetime. the electric batteries by holding the key ever, frequently talk with Judge Hatch Judge Hatch passed away on Feb taat, and he declares that the spirits by the Morse instrument. ruary 21,1912, at his home, 1829 South break the connection when they speak “ Telepathic communication with a Flower street, and his renunciation of through the instrument from the unseen spirit is very simple when understood reincarnation ten years later is due to world. Mortals of whatever race or clime an his study with the spirit scientists, ac When Buddington first made the dis only the instruments of spiritual forcei cording to his spirit message, says Had covery. he says, he did not understand of a mental order, that are able to mani dington. the Morse code and later had to learn to fest their own existence after death o: Buddington declares that he person read it when the messages shot over the the physical body through this balana ally has been interested in occult re machine faster than human hand could power of the mentality of the discarnab search all his life, and that he has been send them. spirit arid the mortal instrument. in communication with the invisible Buddington places his hand on the “ The direct agency through whic) world for more than forty years. key—and an instant later dots and it is applied is the electric energy ii In Judge Hatch’s message he is em dashes click themselves off with light the different conditions of the pri phatic in his denial of the soul V ability ning rapidity. mordial relations of existence itself to return to a physical body. He de Only a skilled operator can read them, Mentality in physical existence is in i clares the spirit of Judge Hatch says; one skilled in the speed of taking mes transient relation, while mentality ii “ A spirit cannot go backward into sages, and knowing that the busy little spirit is a permanent relation that cai prenatal conditions any more than a instrument is not connected with any never be annihilated. fowl can return to its primitive environ thing but the electric battery cells, you “ Vibratory equilibrium between tb ment after it has been hatched. catch yourself leaning forward to ex two conditions through the circuit o “ Once a spirit entity has become a amine the machine to see for yourself an electrical transmission of fore self-existent personality, there is no whence the message comes. enables the thought of the spirit to b PSYCHIC POWER 23 egistered in the brain of the medium in the mortal environment or in the Our Service to You 0 a conscious sensation, and when the astral realm, medium is passive enough to grasp it Readers who are interested in Psychic “ Once Launched on the ocean of life Phenomena or occult demonstrations, tcan be transferred to human language it must always live, and never can it Jat records the thought as being a and prefer to conduct investigations in become incapable of existence as far as their own homes, we extend the invite reality in spirit. In this way the manu it is known to the wisest minds existing script of Judge Hatch was written. tion to write this publication, and we in the spiritual world, it can go on will advise them regarding the conduct “I was reading the ‘Letters of a Liv ward and upward forever, but as to its ing of seances, or aid in any v/ay pos ing Dead Man/ when suddenly I heard ability to go backward into prenatal sible, to the end that you may gain ex a voice saying, ‘I want a chance to cor conditions, it is as much an impossibility perience and partake of the joy which rect the ideas that are wrong in this as for a fowl to return to its primitive comes with the knowledge that those book, for since its writing I have been environment after it is once hatched who have gone before are not dead. visiting the spheres of the spirit scien and launched upon form life. We realise that there are many of you tists and I find that they know more “ Nature is supreme in its jurisdic who have had the unfortunate experi than the theologians of any religion tion over all life, and save by its proc ence of getting acquainted with un that has been formulated on this earth. esses and laws no liff energy can express developed .Spiritual mediums, or per- We can learn more in the spheres than itself in power of form of any order.— haps outright frauds, and as a con the earth can ever give us, after we have Flavia Gaines Leitch, in the Los Angeles sequence have come to believe that psy once left to dwell in the spheres.’ Examiner. chic power holds no means of progress “In the weeks that followed I took for you. Ghost Saves 20 Those who live outside the city ef the messages as Judge Hatch gave them Buffalo, N. Y., June 22.—Just before Chicago will be advised by mail. No to me, and I am no more responsible for a building collapsed in Buffalo, H Y., charges will be made for this service. the truth or falsity of the ideas received Louise Miller, a tenant, warned the 20 We offer you the opportunity to gain than a telegraph operator is to be held occupants to get out, saying the ghost experience in your own home under responsible for the ideas he transmits of her soldier brother, Paul, had warned your own test conditions. from one station to another, either by her of the danger. The occupants left Address all communications regard the‘wire or the wireless system.’’ the building and none were injured. ing our offer to Service Department, 1 Judge Hatch’s message that Budding- The Astrological Bidletinaf a quarterly Psychic Power, 1904 N. Clark Street. ton declares come from the spirit world publication, an every day counselor is . follows i n p a r t : an eye opener. 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ELEMENTARY PSYCHOLOGY ; By Clarence H. Fost er

1. The purpose of Elementary Psychology is to fi. But, even that one w ho! readyBoiHurtheBunfoij awaken the student to an interest in the deeper phases of ment and d&pBuMe rstanding of self, must be life, and of Nature’s laws. the reading o B y or thou^Brhich is to bring nn^ 2. Since it is the opening appeal it mfflt arouse his standing. interest through an appeal to his as regards 7. For, as a rule, he has been in ortl^ material and objective life. 'B y I ' materialism. 3. It appeals to a desire for fame, honor, m;i but thtcmgh other means, and then he must have burned it but half ® truth. t out JSMffljjrn for himself, flmatfflrs not how far one Do youRr does any personality whom you know, * goes toward this end, nor where he stops. . have all truths, all secrets? d 11. seeks these ends, even unknowingly, Gaze long at the heavens on a clear night, and ask Show is it posfjfble to l A him on the way of unfoldment, of, and answer to, yourself these questions I ^HWfcby a JMding to the desires of his heart And, How far does it all extend? , yomJKlvhen he has mastered thAimple laws of self, can How long has it been there? .'he see that there is yet more to learn. When you have answered these questions you will 12. The purpose of Elementary Psychology, appeal- have found the open mind. 1 ing solely to selfishness, is to lead one past the outer POINT THH8K i portals, on the road to another and a higher gateway. 1. You are taught that to rightly reach a position j BARRIERS of eminence, either in wealth and possessions, or in fame, > There are two states of mind which will utterly and honor, and prominence, you must give to man something, absolutely bar one from futher unfoldment, or under- or some service. I standing of self, or of life, or of nature. 2. Psychological principles and knowledge muy be One is that attitude which is skeptical of all lines of employed to secure wealth and prominence for self, with thought, ideas or beliefs, which may belong to some other out giving anything in return, purely to elevate self ; “ school” or class, than that toward which one may lean. into a position of superiority. And the use of these f For it is true that one may learn from all things, even principles will actually bring the desired result. Yet, i if by analysis he arrives at the conclusion that another if nothing is given in return, only pain can ultimately h viewpoint is incorrect. come from it. "I The other bar, which is the same one expressed in il. You are reminded that since the basis of all must a different way, is that frame of mind wherein one feels be sound physical condition, you are to loam to make 9 24 PSYCHIC POWER

proper use of the vital factors in energizing, sustain-® THE TEACHER mg and rebuilding the body, namely, water, suitable No H msou need sgy£ a teacher qf any kind. Ty food, air and exercise. “ teacher’Es alwaygfpreseijH g 4. You are taught that before you can use anything The trne teacher is noBfound in external instrue. to aid you to rise, you must have selected the goal toward tions of any kin® either writ tenor verbal. vOqplhT which to travel, the position or end, which you wish to instructions do hut serve as the mediums to aic^Hty attain. crystallization of t f l advancing BalizatBns ^1 obs goes' along. 5. For it is obvious that unless you have a clearly formed picture of your ideal of attainment, a definite Every person is at all times u n d jrjh e direct an} , goal or objective toward which to direct all efforts, that immediate guidance of a “ teacher.” This true, even ( & you, yourself, do not know where yon wish to go, you though the person^^^B not understand the meaning, will make absolutely no progress toward your goal. of the word—“ teacher® does this mean ttiSJthfj For, you have no goal teacher must be som ij^H r personality irijjhe flesh ‘ Neither does it meat^QB it is ^ 9 p e r f l n or person 1 - 6. The average person is divided, as to “ ambition” ality in the ^B tual^B lm . n e ith e r does it imfp- thef' in countless directions. He would wish to reach high existence of an unseen “ master” E f lg u ^ B ” positions along many different lines. VSln rarely possi ble to be superior in more than one or two line® The The personality in the flesh can tfijjgr teach you, buti best method of making a choice is to secure a list of all can aid only towar«rystallizati|oiB The oi^B ho look® possible human activities and endeavors, and by a pro toward unseen teachers, masters or g u id e ^ ^ ^ fl be cess of elimination, arrive at that which seems the most receiving hilg t^H H ^^^H but ^^^H ply not' desirable. This list will be presented to you later. yet learned who oflvhere t f l teacher is. While oft^B lfijjm to see why an infallibly 7. The goal must be one which is to be attained at some rather distant time,- perhaps four to six years, or teacher could permit one to suffer pain, or build gross] more, intervening. For then you can cling to it unwaver imperfections, yet, one comes to know that every shade*' ingly through the ups and downs and apparent rever of darkness, throughcVhich he passes, leads him fiwtn^B sals along the way. And, before you have entirely and has its ultimate benefit and blessings. ^ ^ H .lb a fl reached your objective you will have fixed another, and though the tE ^ B leads through darkness, i t ^ n f l t k f more difficult one beyond. best in the end. : No one need be concerned lest he should 8. You are inspired and encouraged with the reali best instructit^H^^^By is e^fled, step by step. zation that, in truth, you can accomplish anything—t h a t The experiences of no goal of attainment is too high- You are brought to form of instruction^' realize that within you lies all strength, all knowledge, ail power. You come to know that the application of . Anything, whichj^Hr you, will 8 ! m |s way^jflyo^B simple laws and principles can aid you to the highest attention, RH. due time. This may be influence of a form of specialized achievement, or ean bring you the personality, a book, a picture—anything towvh^Hyourfe more diversified blessings of simple—“ Peace, Plenty attentfli is drawn, upon which you find your and Harmony.” focused, contains a lesson for you. ' The greater portion of daily l^ B v flts and interests,! 9. You are taught that to attain any end you must pass by unno^^H but occasionally there are s p m H truly and entirely desire to do so, with your whole being. things, whim?impress themselves And, that in accordance with your earnestness and faith yon find yon Attention intensely may will yon find results. be a few words spoken by another, 10. For, you realize that perfect mathematically cor or fable, a caption on a motion fl^ B e screen. They. rect law of Nature, that with faith all things are possi stand out prominenB, and yovBNuse. These are the ble, and that even according to your faith shall rabe done. mediums of instrl&fifBt* 11. You are introduced to the phases of your own Through them JTurBifallible teacher speaks Bggfig-1 being, your enemies within your own household. You heed these messages. l%ir teach |r speaks to ywflWBuM learn that your own fears, doubts, and lack of confidence —your teacher has but one pupB—your teacher is with are the greatest factors in holding you back. You are you alum}® And, duft the teacher is m E you always,; taught to overcome these negative elements by continu but one little point is given at a time. ously and endlessly building in positive confidence, All that must be done in the beginning to follow assurance and faith- guidance of the is to heed, reflect upon, and learn * 12. You are taught to visualize yourself, repeatedly the lesson in the outstanding incidents, words and continuously, in the place or with the ability you expressions, which are presented tq^ you externally jH your everyday jjj|® Observe but for. one day and yon r wish to have, without questioning or trying to see will learn to dtsBHni'sh between the passing and exactly how it is all going to come to pass. As you thus the outstanding ideas or expressions toward which your visualize, in time you eome to believe, and as the picture attention is magrfetieally drawn and held. becomes real to you within, it maifests by degrees with out. For, even "as you weave the pattern on the sub- These are the lessons, your teacher attracts you to# , jective side, so likewise does the reflection appear to them. your physical senses in the objective and external cir Your teacher turns but one 3mall page each day for i cumstances of your life. you to read. PSYCHIC POWER 25

The Chart of Mind These natural and distinctBiewpoints ionized upon the excess of its psychic or ffips in potential intelligence are monads over the physical atoms, permit-’ bowing t he Hi s t or i cal a nd Pr ophet i c on thewhart of mind presented ting ideal imagesB be formed. Cycles of Consciousness and the hftwith and are known as spheres or Here is forever dispelled the clouds, Correct Sequence of the Dis-I states of ^Hefousness. JSfffeting from the impenetrable and inscrutable mys tinct Degrees of In OfllnSnsciousne^^Rre appears con- tery which through countless ages ob telligence secutively, 1, Simple; 2, Animal ;fl Self; scured thBabode of the ideal. Down 4, Family E, National; 6, Race; 7, Dual; in the depths of the microcosmic mind By John Bertram Clarke 8, Spirit; 9, Occult; and 45, Absolute ion is found a center of absolute perfec 'Copyrighted 1922 by John Bertram ConscioHness; whereupon in a literal tion, the “ house not made with hands,” Jlarke Hr figurative re-birth the cyB is repro which shall be Iffted up eternally in the Psychology, verifying ^HHermHic duced witflcharacHristies and attri- heavens. iffirmation, “ There is but One^^Hand butes of intelligence and power greatly The consciousness of the visible uni tie that worketh is (He, ” took its place maimed. verse with the plan of a relative greater imong the inductive^^^Qsiti-^^^Kc- The na t ureandHiginR that mystery objective sphere surrounding it may be act sciences with the advent of the ab of mysterie^^^Hiousness itself—is a eonceived struggling through eons to solute monism resulting from the true problem whose s^H on S e v e r baffles reflepHthe laws and systems of the eoneeption of the oneness of existence ^^H lheA tfng the x^n^iaj fact of greater sphere^even so the mind ion is Shievechi^^^^wos^Haking union of mo^CT-the omnipresence of divinity ever endeavoring to discern the activity science and philosophy, -wherein the in ^flthe oneness Ef existence, affirming and order of the universal sphere sur separableness of spirit, mind, ^ ^ K y consciousness to be an essential attri- rounding it, that it may build up the and matter, was ^Hblished in the merg bulSof all substance and individuals of ideal within its subjectivity. ing of the chemical law of th ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H being, differing only in degree or ac Until the mighty laws were discerned ence,” or “indestructibility of matter,’’ cording to their sphere ;£the type or and reflected in the evolving elements discovered by Lavoisier in and the value of the individual synthetizing within the universal consciousness, im perfect groupings crashed into each Myajcal law of the “ persist consciousness depending on the stability other and dissolved, forms were built up force,” or ^^^Bvation of and adaptation of the organism through which it i^Hves its impressions and ex- again and again to be dashed down in demonstrated by Mayer ii^^^B in to confusion. And here is found a parallel the one great law of the ‘‘persistence ofl i presses its volitions. Subsidiary to the natural and distinct in the mind|fbn straggling to free itself matter and force,” or ‘‘the l$gBf sub from error. Upon the eoming of the stance.” sBeref^^^^^tialHonseionsness there fc.qreEpl^^K>f collective c^BHisness vision of the true aim of being the mind ^^^^^H rfogical triumph the resulting fiBn the grouping ofindivid ion is dazed and stirred unto its very despair o^^Hualists, wTho, clinging to uals into commercial, pnd^^Bnal, re depths; it knows thfleontents of its their superstitional dogma of actio in ligious, polical and organiza consciousness have neared absolute dis distans, the cleavage of cause ^^R fect, tions; also th e ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B we know solution, that unless every inner image, or the separation oHspirit and ma^H of as that a town, countH dis- abstract group, system and constellation had long halt^Bn the trietEtaE, part of a country, of the of subjectivity are reformed wen to the tial Intelligence with the vain hope that grand divisions

piousness in order to enter into Occult, that man may realize his divine nature sists in its affirmation of the non-exist }flr Absolute Consciousness, is, under and oneness with the Whole in the ence of an erratic or “ evil” element normal conditions, to invite mind dis recognition that in Absolute Conscious which disobeys or can disobey when aster, for the Lord gaining freedom for ness there is no true individual best Wisdom speaks, that some may fail to r a season to wander through space and which is not at the same time absolute hear or understand the Voice of Wis | time finds upon returning to the en best. The Law of Choice is absolutely dom indicates that Infinite Wisdom is tranced body a former subordinate perfect and infinitely wise and while its not speaking, or, as some say, because mind element advanced to ruler ship product varies with the degree or “ Truth can no more be perceived by the ' and somewhat unwilling to surrender sphere of consciousness of the indi mind unprepared than the sun can rise the new authority; and in the following vidual, its general operation in any in the midst of night.” From this ‘ struggle for supremacy is manifested to sphere of consciousness constitutes the hackneyed quotation the cynical and the exterior world the puzzling psychic Sanity and results in the ultimate wel hypocritical have concluded that Truth phenomena of the ages, and if the fare of the individuals existing in that is not Wisdom. The important fact that “temple” is not torn, shattered, or sphere of consciousness. an ever-increasing number of sane ; thrown down by the rebel within before Manhood is the first step toward God- minds are opposed to this conclusion ^ the Lord regains the throne, it is in hood—the attainment of God power and affirm that the time is come for • momentary danger of injury or eruci- over the physical body opening the way minds to be at least prepared to know I fixion through the reflex action of that to Lordship and the realization of di the Truth predicates the nearing of the same order, but perhaps a different char- vinity and the sense of immortality here new order and the return to first prin j, acter, of God Consciousness finding ex and now—to the entrance into the ciples. pression through fellow organisms. higher sphere of consciousness where Attaining to Absolute Consciousness j At times the incarnate man is fight- the product of the Law of Choice tran and surprising the secret of existence in • ing against the very God itself, and the scends the norm of human reason and the Eternal Urge of Practical Omnipo ! other individualizations of God are sanity to such a degree that it may im tence in the objectifying of Omniscience (sometimes “ too many for him” when pel the individual in a sublime moment throughout Omnipresence, a higher j it comes to physical w arfare; and un to lay down his life for his love, his sphere of consciousness is entered less he is verily the risen Christ and no country, his friend. where in ascending to the Infinite view | more subject to crucifixion, or unless And here is the sleeping intellect of point and expanding the former con j he fights and runs away, or per chance the dualist puzzled; not having awak sciousness the new sphere contains all is protected by the Invisible Presence, ened into the consciousness of his own objectivity from the insignificant planet j superior intelligence and absolute faith, divinity, fear bred of ignorance instills Earth to the most distant star, thence I he may no longer be King of Kings and an instinctive opposition for, and even in subjective Omniscience one may Lord of Lords over objectivity. condemnation of, that which he is not choose to wield practical Omnipotence capable of understanding. over the former objectivity now become > Victory comes to the faithful and true subjectivity. f and “fatality shrinks back abashed Awakening into Absolute Conscious ' horn the soul that has more than onee ness the mind is stunned by the mighty Concentrating a mighty inner invis i conquered her,” and the victorious potentialities of the exalted sphere and ible searchlight upon the former sphere ' Lord may now merge his Occult Con temporarily dismayed lest its aim may of Race or Cosmos Consciousness, there sciousness with the Absolute Conscious- not be in alignment with the Absolute is revealed a multitude of thought t ness of the Infinite and Eternal, and Aim; then comes the prescious reassur forms, whose purpose perhaps has been ' overcoming all sense of separateness re ance of Absolute Consciousness in the served, engaged in mortal combat. gain his former divine prerogative and conviction that the awakening into the From the lofty viewpoint and practical (authority to do that which the Law of absolute sphere is the inevitable divine unlimited power over subjectivity a Choice—Absolute Sanity—operating in event of that mind ion whose aim is strict neutrality may be maintained, or the Infinite Sphere indicates—that become one with Infinite Mind. the exalted one may warn through in . which is for the greater good or lesser In this divine moment the angels spired prophets of the Judgment coming ill. That is to say, Invisible Presence, beckon, for the soul, receiving recog and come, shake the world with tem Ether, or Spirit—the True God—emerg- nition from on high, reaches supreme blors and tempests, or strike terror in ; ing or reflecting from the Lord mind ion ecstasy, becoming for a time one with the hearts of the outlaw and degenerate i or differentiation of Itself in the or the Infinite, Omniscient, Omnipresent thought forms by causing the etheral ganized brain of the Master Man, ex- and practically Omnipotent. • elements of the slain bodies to appear , presses Itself in action whose nature In this divine moment man realizes and speak against the disobedience of varies with the character, intelligence, anew his forgotten divinity and the the command thundered from Mount experience, environment and viewpoint Eternal purpose of existence—the align Sinai, Thou shalt not kill! / of the Christed individual, and through ment of the individual aim with the Ab And should all this evidence of the increasing intelligence overcoming the solute Aim—-the restoring of his lost watchful eye of the Invisible Presence influence of environment, the product of .estate—his rightful heritage predicated fail to restore peace on earth without- , the Law of Choice in the Absolute by true monistic philosophy and reveal the perpetual resort to force, per Sphere and the consequent conduct or ing itself in that divine thrill surging chance a Messenger shall be sent to expression becomes more and more through every atom of his being and im reveal the True Purpose of existence, •7 ideal, the “evil” or slavery of ignorance pelling him, hoarse with emotion, to erv and should the world reject the final f disappearing. aloud, I AM GOD! revelation and crucify again the Christ, * Prom the Infinite viewpoint it is seen The optimistic power of monism con then by a supreme effort of the inner w

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volition the centrifugal and centripetal ueutrnl in combination with celery, the I Resolve forces shall be suspended and the offend resulting combined juices giving little ing gathering of star dust hurled into if any taint to the breath. With 15 X W I L L ! the sunt pounds' steam pressure an excellent 1 RESO LV E!! 'T hen that ‘bright shape' to all the bouillon may be prepared in thirty min I FIRMLY DECIDE!!! utes. world proclaimed I AM FULLY DETERMINED!!|| * That lest they listened to these * Words With this method of preparation the of light/ necessary amount of the very nourish To look iutrospectively. That two decades of time should earth ing cell salts may be obtained without To extol the virtues of all. not see introducing the injurious and iudigest- To be immune to flattery. Before it should be hurled into the able pulp into the digestive system, and To learn more of Destiny. ‘sun*n by varying the vegetables in combina To truly express my being. • * * tion very appetising flavors may be ' ‘ Dark shapes of earth.—thy God hath gained. To be unmoved by censure. spoke to thee. Suggestions for the Day To spiritually develop myself. Repent and hear this message which l To build an ennobled character. bring. Breakfast: Whole wheat, or corn- gems; To prepare, soak flour or meat To cease from speaking evil of others? Or God. before thou seest twenty years. overnight in water, in the morning add To myself, be true—not false to any Will then destroy this earth aud thee vegetable oil for shortening, syrup for with fire/’ one. From The Vision, Lost in the Bottom sweeteuing, a little salt and flue Hour To be tolerant with all good human * less Pit* with baking powder, mix by squeezing agencies. soft dough between fingers and drop To merit peace by the triumph d from wet tablespoon into warmed and principles. Suggestions for Winning Health oiled gem pans. Bake in medium oven. Eat with stewed, dried or fresh fruit, To be happy by sharing happiness With ft Temporary Return to Strict Vejettrun with others. ? Fowls baked apple, or fresh fruit with sliced tomatoes and heart of lettuce. If the To (1. The foundation) maintain bod To You:— appetite is large, steamed cereals—rice, ily health. To (2. advance mental' I am giving herewith suggestions for barley, steel-eut oats, corn meal, etc., The frame) winning health with conscious knowl may be added and eaten with fruit attainment. edge and a temporary return to strict syrups and prepared vegetable or olive To (3. The structure) expand mor vegetarian foods oil. ally. To (4. unfold The following list of vegetables con Lunch: Fruit, fruit juices, melon, to The superstructure) tain the necessary cell salts or chemical matoes, served without starch foods or spiritually, so as to build for eternity. \ elements in organic form to purify cooked foods of any kind. To praise Supreme Intelligence as the, blood and give health and tone to mind Dinner: Combination vegetable juices acme of perfection. and body. or boullion, served with bran, whole To seek spiritually FIRST, then find Asparagus, Beet Greens. String wheat, rye. or corn-bread, and for the all material needs supplied. Beans. Cabbage, White Carrots. Yellow hungry side dishes of lentils, new lima To acknowledge that endless progres Carrots, Cauliflower,. Celery, Lettuce, beans, new potatoes, sweet potatoes, sion is the purpose of Divinity. Onions, Parsnips, Parsley, Green Peas, green corn, stewed tomatoes, or cereal To rale others by spiritual love, and Chili Peppers. Mango Peppers. Rad or fresh vegetable preparations dissolv to be ruled by it—for harmony. ishes. Spinach, Turnips. ing without difficulty in the digestive To maintain peace by the consoling knowledge that there is no actual death.; Select from five to seven fresh vege tract To enter the silence, often, so as to tables and wash and prepare them as Yours for the winning of health and commune (and to communicate) with for ordinary stewing—a pinch of salt, Great Aims. good spirit relatives and friends. a slice of lemon and a spoonful of vege JOHN BERTRUM CLARKE. To prayerfully welcome the highest table oil may be added to suit taste; and best spirits, and to knowingly en chop fine or run through a vegetable If. as we know the planets have an in tertain advanced and righteous angels, t grinder and boil eovered with water for fluence upon the earth’s magnetic and To gain experience with spirit phe two hours. Drain the resulting juices physical currents, then the conclusion is nomena, and to daily put into practice, » or bouillon through a colander or irresistible that they must have an in wisdom, as it reaches me from the spir- 1 vegetable press, discard the pulp and fluence upon mankind, for man is but an its of righteous endeavor. serve several liberal portions of the atom or particle of a harmonious whole. —DR. WM. J. BRYAN. boullion with bran, whole wheat, rye. He partakes of every element of the uni or corn-bread verse. and is therefore, subject to the By wring- the sealed aluminum Steam The Man who constantly contended j grand laws of eternal and immutable against evil, morally and physically, l Pressure Cookers a more palatable boui harmony.—Ericsoa. outwardly and inwardly, may fearlessly llon may be obtained, the volatile es In our next issue we will publish a sences of the juices being preserved very instructive article on Astrology. face death, well assured that radiant intact, and the odor ©f some vegetables, written by an author who spent a life’s Spirits will lead him across the luminous ? like cabbage, onions and turnips, are- time in the service of astrological re bridge into a paradise of eternal happi- \ obviated during cooking and rendered search. ness.—Zend-Avesta. ID & e Chart oif* Jf td'

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THE TEXT BOOK OF LIFE A MANUAL FOR ASPIRANTS TO SPIRIT COMMUNICATION Written Under the Guidance of Spirit Teachers liv Em E. Danklbon PART I—INTRODUCTION receive tile blessings Uiut (lmsori do: colls. If you can keep yourselves in physical touch with in soiB w pot in realit y t h o 1. wo a reone. To study t the Master-mind, forces can then reach you through the all i m portarv*rjuestiorifSf I.il’e, the student must use atmospheric tunnels bolding the light and creating .word “ change,” for whether you call it birth or deal! ktkndsMMBniiX parallel to the centre of the TJni- nature’s law Ooinrniinieation is an »n», Through the compass y m wil JfoeSlBdirected to change of tliHght^H^Ben two or more; beings. Thom the place w h^y mme^Hy Hhr®ly waiting ta^Hjghvered is a prod not brought fnrlb by Life, which im pressesB to yon by your own great self or Life. Climb the ladder through the brain. The language in which to your own door »&p and yon will find many waiting for is expressed is for ttorjonveni.enee of man. The un< you, The food whill has fed all Life in and ffirough you. pressed though t needs no language. It is understood Life is only reconstructed through your creating other man and all er^ffires, Man has confined and giv forms. credit to himself only. Man can never hope to learn very much about the In our new and greater development mawtlas d life after the physical death until he frees his mind from covered many unknown tfelds, and in the future the eo fear. If the intellectual man, so tailed, would free him* munication witESH^iow called dead w ilH m ng m< self of previous touchings of fear and mystery, he would atwj more revelations concerning Life. ' I’H V C II 1 CJ’OWKR ,31

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what may retard or prevent your advancement, In. building homes, building schools, building hospitals, our relation with each other we find both constructive building large cities, for the purpose of the education and destructive elements. Love is constructive, Hate and the advancement of those who seek advancement. ja destructive; both are creative and reflect good and evil, God or Devil, according to the lirnoB. In very Individuality never dies. The physical body only per- ancient times God and Devil were conveyorB of light and ishes. It would he like taking a record and then destroy darkness and men worshipped both ab Gods. IJnder- ing the principal factors that made that record The gtanding in all things Hpoken cornea from the use of record is not despoiled. Every thought, every act of the words; therefore, we can never he too careful as the physical body is recorded. This record remains with word spoken is the revelation of the thought. life animating the spirit body after death. If man who is so confident in his many other questions would be will Watch your step, jb a slogan, hut to watch your speech ing the dead should live this question of life after death to watch your step, Form the habit of asking your- could he intelligently answered while yet we are in the nelf at least one question each (md every

or ray of Light, Dew-drop or flake of SnoAoall me by so dark that the sun of know le^gqjgp^^^^|^^R whatever name you choose '7 am all things to all things, faith with yourself is otp instruction tc^K n^Q B H waiting to be claimed, CALL and /pMansweBthe Way The impose of the silen^^^^B h^^A jk hu i cannot be missed, for 7 am the Way, 7 am LIFE. atmosphere araut you thus making it a re flc tB H Our lives are as the great ocean with its shorn and brain mirror is lj^e a great light a n d ^ H j& B s thougk rocks and treacherous places, strong wave^^Bng the are projected into the inn^^^^^H oflhc intellectJ frail barques or carrying the great ship. f& you^Bld mind; the mental mind is like a cylinder bringing fo^ sail the Ocean of Life in safety you must, as a great ship, expressions through the voiB, face and g est^ ^H jj challenge the waves that you may experience the divisions and^B-flivisions of the pkysiefl bg|H atf strength within you, and bring forth from the depth of like a great terminal in a large city with its many train your own Life the Pearls tha®e hidden there to b® c3^ unloading tr a ^ ^ B b a g g a g e and yourselves with mMoiBewels of thought that^H may Expansion to expand W bring forth itsl^^^H il Light. Be not swayed by every learning to express. The first step in expansion is i wind that ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ A e t vour own elimination of fear. T h e ^ ^ f l ^ B ^ B B law gives THE m f . yoipBl controBf] your life. W eBgy Bsireflo help There are different ideas of silence and how to enter you, not to do the things w kich^^^ffly be done by yowl it, therefore an explanation of what is meant by»it in self. Realize the law in the sm a ll^ ^ B re f life; anqjjjj our text book is necessary fflgive the student amRpiM hern to find g re a lr ones. ^ E h t f l ^ B s Bsingitjgf understanding of our interpretation. We have coined the only way ftp develop it. Sight and hearing is under, the expression “ listening silence.” The Billowing standing. example will convey to you the idea we want you to go into the Silence ^B not mean just l^ ^ B g still have concerning the silence and the lessons which follow It means to lfl silent in thought. B B j iBrcBjnjMniit in “ part two” will enlighten you on this important sub masters the Jl^^H vibi^B ps to A extent that the; ject. When yon wish to telephone you put yourself in become r in other words, reaching a state accord with the law governing that operation, first by of realizatioiflaat in full consciousness and in a natura sitting down before the phone, then taking down the re state of aejJjAfd^^^R dHermine all of even ceiver and placing it to your ear. By doing this you have question that may arise. To see the spirit of a thing ii signified /our willingness to listen; the moment you to realize well. A ^H Ej have put the instrument to your ear you haveHime into goat gives the promise; buBgrin; a listening silence; in other words, you havje^enmsat- which is only a A h e r^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H B io n , gives you ful tentive. You are never mistaken in hearing the voice; faiOT^BM of When yoi yon might hot always have a clear connection and possess ttrAight you have the with a clear connection you are not always sure^y^^H yourself. Tolcast off aB ougkt^^^A o longer R H listening to the right party or yon do no fe h ea^ ^ B B you, forJA that will not onlv^^fl you but preservi what is being said; foM one thing yon are sure cflyon you, is advancement^^^^^H your heard a*vofce. With ]®ience and persever^^Au will universe is a silence which n^|BKV^^^HA|jte^M develop your sight, hearing, or whatever power you No one can teachyou the silence without your co-opera may possess, just the same as d&jfalp study will perfect tion to follow th e ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H given. It is governed b; you in music, art or flofession, so this will make«yq£ that immutalBBw holding you apart ^ ^ H H b ^ o u i proficient in silence. Or again watching B some one self; once this^^^^Bon is yours ^ you place yourself in the position where youB^Bea begun. Knowledge is power; wisdom will come to thos the gate or path the person is most likely to come, and who have found S a wait; your presence there or your watching does not can not spend one momei^^BHlistenin^ffl^^Bith bring the person, the persotf-comes of their own vi^^H out being beneBd. This silence need not be interfere* Your beingTOeite, watching for them enables you to see with by any mental menta them when they come witBrathe range brain comes S o conscious expression and througl The greater the knowledge yon have recognizing this expression y o u ^ ^ H ^ f f l|^ n ^ tg A question of Life the better you are fitted to^^^^^H vision. When all conditions connected with Life. The ^ ^ ^ ^ A n t ing for something; a voice, a touch, a face, perhaps i of vonr!gMMiffiffi|werB will give you service ^BmA perfume, song Always bear in mind that t< that of a telescope placed before your eyes when look hear, to ing at the stars. We teach you is a development one degree must hold within your very life this silen^Hplways A child may see tha listening that no discordant nofflbe proclaimed. The which is in reach ^H s hands; when it grows older i morning and the evening Bthe best time to waifjppon sees tBjpngswnich it yourself; lay aside all thoughts that have ndftgiven yon the use oftfAsenses. Mind ijjilK-dftBP joy and comfort during the day when retiring afig enter sarily mental; mental development is not necessarily in into communion with yourself and ask the question, have telectual but intefflgraal dfvelopKfflWfcajror mdy no I made the best use, possible of my time todajfcseleet- be siguHThe masterinwffiUU sense^wM^ffli rhalm ing the best for future reference 1 Upon arising, bold are only variOT^^®e^sions_of one sense nMans rdaliza the thought that will serve your purpose best Mp|ng the tion owtme in' aa-hts even itefiH&dMfi&W day. If in silent thought yon voice the wish fse who can teach you PSYCHIC POWER 35

uot-gnly Kjttgming life after death, but life before for the voice; the glory of life will then fall over you as death, also giving^^flt^^ninRcRagc. Your life a ^H g. Your eyes are touBBed even now with the is U.$)f promise; no harvest can l»e greater than tli<‘ t ; y o 11r finger tips give lifg; seek then to per- one you gnther if you will be dflgcnt inR ijr search for fect your powith and the overflowing bowl will be your , ipdcSr^l-ways remember to listen when in doubt, and portion in life. Wearjwnora the mowiing hour is still reoorjPtho responsBdaily. yours; RlcHghtkt the shuttle and the thread will run the result will be the perfect life. A little No contest can^H greater than you if you free your weavinSaeh day in we tilings of life brings you to the minds from mystery, and ask for knowledge. Under cornyeteneds* of one garment, then of another until you standing mrnnS awa^Rng jxl the full life; be keen to realize the mission of your life is like the rose, to bloom possess all ^Hors that Life holds for you. Grasp the and leave your message as you glide. 1 thought, be self-reliant and use whatever gift is yours; The voRs that you h^Rtrc guiding you, the hand you K W i g ^ ^ ^ ^ g o i n i e pearl can you keep its luster. giving strength; the B p that has been dashed The plant life is nou^ ^^ R n^ ^R hout but the power a l e and broken bitter draught; the happiness from within; cultivate then the root of your R u craved for lies over new and broader pastbs. You Hoa|j|Lan^^Rt mom the expression o ^ m ic S are at the tim ii^^^^ ^^B g jw ay R t the curtain drop To cultivate it ^^Rtrivc^Rays^fl^^HBL't^^^B shutting out all oflRtercRf'fj I tree; it is not disRiraged when its len vcR ^ ^ ^ H ^ ^ fl Behold ^B>-d|w aflame with light; its day through the falling lflves^^^^^H^Hfalling Tlie passing cloud is made morRright. t of the lea®s ^Rieakaj lmv^Sowth. Grow th^^H it at each step a leaf majBloRmd at every Hride the loose Be rescp^^^Bclding, it is the way. The hand that but at the b l i t h e supply is w ait® to be guides you has prepared for you the golden goblet filled B E f^, Call to the minds of tmflmi verse and drink from to overflow with the nectar of life. the ffijntain o f^ R /i/R W heRml are in the silence re- Ytttoryjtn stifle brings Peace in its wake and the wail I lease the ^fflght desiring more knowlcfiHRtrongei" of woe grows fainter and fainter; dying, its flame lights I; growth, greater oRortunflea and unlimitfl power of the sky giving promise of the perfect day on the morrow. II expression. Ask for the things you need, then watch and Awa'lce then! look and behold the new dawn! We will B, make iffiR)f their fulfillment, ERh life is a world of help you R e will give you strength; we will guide you u opportunities; stx*engthen yourRf then—and hope. If over the hillttop and you will find your way into the fer- become perfect in your x^HHnake it your tile valley beyond. 1 taskj-repeajtrit until you become master ^ R . The i^flis thfcqueen of the garden because it has out- 'f You are asking questions about after Death. ‘grown.fthe thorn; sigh not, but rejoice; the sunshine in ^pen^Hration is the only method. We teach youjtjflfl Hour flfl is dulled only because of thflbnigMer light. 1 you must receive and be able to exps^H before kno^fl Raiftj; fret not, Joiiall things will' come to pass in your M fe R m y th iR can be established in you.BHiere-.o$ a day is done. Your hopes and your joys ! part of your brain which records thB H H ^^B B and are oneBPc as j^ ^ H ^ B hope is gBnewed. Be not idle; H R E w lyj^B ivc expression but it must be broiHtt&aro be daily at your task that at nightfall yon may be re- action by you. Intensified sight and^^^^^H s the re- uRded. jSDf&e holds the treasure you are waiting for. f sultR impovefcng this part of your now unused brain. ^ R is R faith alone ®is building power you need which vN o one can bring this into service for in i^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B y o u r success or destroyed by your failure; s'' terest you in the things we have learned but act with wisdom; do not classify success as failure; it e can grasp meaning our woz^^Bs lost. Those who may be a stepping stone. Hope should ever be stronger 1 are dead can attract your attention in the sanu^^Bler than faith. To unfold your power of discernment should '| and by the same 1 ^ 9 but ' you do not reRgnize their B®nfeigfdRrRforl|^^Rost. Bear in mind B B l times be your duty. ^BfljprcHacccR the help ^R reflas you are the jjejjiiv- Each one of you is as a reed in the wind, beaten this J mg station. Entry must be made in^BUfook of your way and that; grow dailjgfl strength by withstanding ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B h e record bears witness for you. the^RH jHgft gale. Your silent wish is as a mighty tor rent rushing,trough the land*washing away the treach- :V You are at the beginning of your neB lie; the day! eroB fcsS R j r hand shall he 8trong,«fti~ your faith that are gone are nB^^fttedn^^B|nlyB|stem , so ^fl^H g^^R ken. Your wish also is like the flower and 5 to speak, holding the flower of your life. (SlreS a new ^Rqparkling dew on the blade of grass. Awaken, for 'life now. Awaken to the call know that your wmh is greater than you knew, Have no fear; no "J it is ^ ^ B ^ ^ B of your ^ B ^ ^ ^ flB h ro fm h you. vain and as you wish, so are you inteflr heart; “ Rise again, make a new image and kindle anew the f a 1 in your soul for the day is yet in -[Mpfiiflmking. The and as vouPheart is, so will your life be. Therefore, 1 'dew of Rtmorflmg can only feed the floweH the to r- wish well that your footprints may be a guide to the , rents wash away the diuU'R>d. Adown the stream of weary tr^^^KnfiSpt^i lifd Hfere are manyiJiidd^^B>oks to feed you as you Wish for knowledge; for the fulfillment of that wish Gather then the strength for this hour of not only power 4»t jjfeace through triumph. I your lifl&Mon weaving the pattern. Thyfeasting hour is now. Behold the field’ tern ijlRthe power will come of ripened fin-flftS.TlBie fruits of your wishing hour! Let ' f to guffll you HSU song of Bfe be, I live, because I live, all men live Watch for the face of the loved one to appear; listen 1 B ^ PSYCHIC POWER life, that yon may hero and now reap the rewards PART II life's diligent sowing. int r o dc c t o x n The physical brain is at the head of tlH nervous a# Life after death is as natural to those who are horn muscular Bstem but does not control life. The h ^ into it as life after birth is to the healthy babe as it ma is at the head of the circulatory system but it does iw tures. One Laic, One Life, therefore, is the solution ot control Life. it all. Mystery is the f ruit of ignorance and ignorance is The physical body is controlled by a physical brah caused by fear, When yon think of death, call it birth, But you think with the nerves of the whole body throng for death and birth are one. We, who have mastered death know- this and have bunded together to briuging our reflectors of the light chambers, and when the light c% message to the sorrowing world; and turning the minds positors are inactive the nerves are in a state of 4 of all people to the gaining of knowledge through the nat composition. Kerves in turn are nourished by sou^ ural channels to the end that all will walk by sight and waves and these sound waves are produced by combo* uprightly before each other. IFe know, because we have tion both from without and from within the bodB Wb$ tasted death. To learn to live is the right principle. Ap from without, the person carries a carburetor in tb ply it by grasping the meaning of life today with what eye and ear for registration. When front within tbs ever understanding you have. registration is made through the spinal lord and its a? Go forth in joy that the light of knowledge may go be cessories from which we get all registrations of speech fore you revealing the rock or ereviee. The step is not sight and hearing, both eBernal and internal. hard. Learn to behold the perfect image in all and Every thought unexpressed makes one registration everything you would possess and the power in life will when expressed, it makes two. Nature is not only a Lai bring it forth in service to you. but a law maker and registrator at the same tims Send out the thought at sunrise for the dull eares in Therefore a perfect balance of your actions is at a) life that the dullness may wear away and bring forth times accessible, accurate and active, in as much as ever splendor as your sun shines forth. Glorify your own life ‘act is cumulative. because glory is the fragrant flower called Love even as Do not be discouraged; sometimes the spring lies dee] the son is Wisdom, bringing forth the perfect life by casting out of your thoughts die things you are holding but if yon are diligent it will burst forth in glad sonj in memory that hinder your progress. in your life. It is natural for every Life to seek know! edge but you must always be open for new Truths. Life journeying from one dimension to another throws off unused parts as it enters one center of action after Instructions for Lessons another until each life becomes a light traveling through Hold within youBohysical mind the thing you wan space as a planet. Language is not necessary for you to to accomplish; draw for the mental mind the piotur know and understand the Universe of Life. Language is necessary to impart in speech to others the things you of the accomplished thing, then from out of the Univers can comprehend. gather the. raw' material, weaving it into the require material for your garment. Enter the dimension of ligh Comprehension is what we should all strive for. To by closing Hthin your mental mind your finished prod comprehend means to give added ability to move about uct; the fight whieh you attract during this activity ! in the Universe; it is in fact the process of moving. thrown into your vibration and you will have withii Seek to understand within your own life the power your grasp the thing yon so desire. of speech and know that all speech is the manifestation ' Every part of the body must give service. Life i of the One Law for all Life. You cannot divide Life master over everything. Life must command the va any more than you can divide water; you can arrange rious partB f the body and, as yon are Life, it is tin water in different vessels, but yon cannot divide it. You : conscious part B you whieh sits in authority. cannot divide air or light; neither can yon divide Life. If itfl yBr hand that must labor yomagst direct th« Your will power has no authority over the trinity of forces to the hand. Consciously or uncohstaBs'fty, this earth; your will power has no authority over Life. There is being done all the time. TcBonseiously perform this are different vessels holding Life, but Life is the same act would intn'IaH its velocity, i|b powB fei>@ctiou whether in one vessel or many. Let us then^^flLife; pfterefore, when you would ] H n n a task command not the physical body, either the spirit body. Let us the different parts and prirSeles of your body that axe not call the soul body Life. Rather all of these are ves to perform the task, sels holding Life. Life, whether in one body or another, reigns supreme. Study life then, that^H may know f^ h itR yffl are in the silence command service to better how to clothe and feed these various vessels. Bourse!?* according to mis law. First, know the thing you woulHdb or be, JSumnaiid The stomach is master of the food supply but it does all parts and pamfSjes of the structure of your body not control Life. When any or dQ of these heads do not which yopfJPe depending fimi to dcBr be that partM function properly there is trouble and the lar thing. dull; but as soon as these masters cease to funcffoa|c life steps out of its vessel, for Life is masSfflt^Let all Command over youH^fe your greatSgffiet. members of your body be subject to Life, that Life may When we onoe know the law, we draw to us those who direct the brain which is master of the physical vessel, do right, and estamreSwithin ourselves harmonious and that there may be union and strength in purpose. Study effective results. PSYOllIO I’OWBS

In healing, hold in mind tlfiiiB ge of a poifict body, 1'his exercise may he taken after retiring if the pupil toons your thought on the stomach, as that is the engine so desires. of the body; thon tho heart, it is the pufi>; then the Morning Jf.reifi-e—Upon nwakcuing, stretch your lungs, they propel the other iuteifil organs; iflnB B limbs and iMtfs, then bretmBSyBply, exhaling quickly. the trunks; then the head, which is the light toB-r; eyes, Lie perfect! still, menlBly stretching'every part and k«ivs and other facial otptns are the senB eB thoBnm particle of yop* bo«w Roach out in vision into the great are the outpgsfl reaching in ifl directions. As you expanse of the limvorse, slowly coffltijg back to physical touch upon these different members id' this organi activities, Winging bofo® you tho needs you recorded sation called the physical bHiv, veHster in youBfivn (lie night before, K c slowly from your b,odf stand mind I body any blemish or h fll ranee to ^ ^ H t flalth, erect on mentally lift* ji-tw'self from the hold in your m ill, Bid foens Hie uBid's eve on tE BHr three times. Bring hands togofWr in front, raise ^unhealthy p u rified cotnvmunlBoiBh ffiyour Bdy. above hcB, stretch out at. sides, then back, Breathe Kach physical body lyis bcaling emanations. All docpl^^ttitile quioklvBjfy » » >#o' ready for any and people can heal; healing is nenlralih ; U m two people all eiBrgeniBs. lMns Bmuse^shouldptot take more eonje together a third lim it ion is set^H whiSh B ates than livcjjlin^^ken at longest Think of the mas new fabric; thimefo.ro to heal is to ro-eon^Het. One ter u fils in tlfl Universe whiB exeroising. person cam not heal all people for there Bust. bfiggrasjlf five action for cleanfig. The hufiiage of ^ ^ B it days LESSON 11. is very misleading. Understanding the lai^^H* tarns Evening Exerc.rse—Reserve ten minutes before retir awajr all mystery of the B-ealleH miracles of ancient ing vBen yon can be undisturbed. Take pencil and pa or modern times. per. lay pager before you, holding ponoil in position Ififi'se is inharmonyfimewhere in the for w it mg, keeping in mind the master minds of all the physical body. Disease soHetimes is a retle^Hi, I time, If you are desirous of becoming successful in any given tl^ fl keep in mind those men and women ometiines a suggestion. To heal is to restore IraSropy; o excelled along the lines you are interested in. In a highly polished surface reflects; tlnBlightest touch on this B y yon vagi pr«|eot yourself into their stratum of the keys of an iBtrument etfios a fespoBe. It may life. At the close of ten Binutss, stand erect, breathe be harmony or ififfarmoifl Tho law deeply' exhaling quickly thiBndition brain cells, thereby cleansing them entirely, and in this of those tryi^Bcmnake their presenoe known. For the way pBWt'ring during time being, so to speak, the pupil shqjjSn uot be con woiB gdn^^Rb' trolled but able to recognize another in himself. Do in the cBfi&for your needs. Reg®t this seven nigfisL' not encourage control hut ask for spoken word in vest oue night, taking up again, repeating four times. you, not th rough yfl^H 38 PSYCHIC POWER

Morning Exercise—Follow instructions of previous and the different members of the cabinet together in lessons if your time is limited, but if not, take fifteen oration, one serving the other. minutes of meditation, or listening, peering into the Visualize what these feet really do; where they si depth of the Universe. Put from your minds all thought carry Life; to health, or ill-health; demand to ki of loved ones, but desire the manifest presence of the which way your feet are leading you. great scholars who have preceded you. You know the feet must always be set just right leave the track in good condition. LESSON IV- Now take the internal organs one by one. (Always sit or stand erect while in the healing silence.) Take up the heart first. The heart might be cal SILENCE FOE HEALING. the windmill of the body. Choose what you want y Hold yonrself in mind in this silence in picturing the heart to be. Shall it be responsive, or shall it he m« perfect image of health. If there is something wrong lie? Shall it serve or not? with the physioal temple there is a cause. To determine Now the stomach. The stomach is the groat s j the cause is the first step to be taken in healing. If, arator where all the different chambers get their sup; within ourselves we can find the first cause and correct It might be called a terminal and yet it is a separal it, we can heal ourselves from any manner of disease Picture this station within you that gathers togetl that may attack us. all supplies of the body and distributes them to its < To Treat lour Own Body.—Begin with your eyes; ferent parts, that you may be nourished. place your mind entirely upon them; shut out every If you have trouble in this great separator settle thing else. Do not allow yourself to be concerned about right now. Go over your life and see what you thr anything but your eye6. Look at yourself, straight in into it that kept it from serving life as it should. | the eyes, as you would look at another. Become con scious of the condition of your eyes. Now reach into the head, the great tribunal, whi the judge is sitting and from which the record is ma By looking within your eyes you can trace all their See how well equipped you are, how wise you are nerves to where they are anchored in the brain. make decisions and to carry out orders. If you are wf The eye is a very peculiar organ and a very treacher ing for a day in the future to make good, you are fooli ous one. It is thru the eye that Life displays storm and yourself because that day in the future will never coi sunshine, and if the nerves are crossed great disaster is The day in the present for you to make good is wit! the result Now see if you can trace these nerves of the your grasp. Make good today, with the tools you ht eye to their anchorage. You will have to feel conscious to work with. Then each day in your Life brings within your own head of having traced these nerves in recompense. order to demonstrate this within yourself. Now bring to your vision the perfect form that 3 While you are holding the eyes in mind, send health have created during this silence and behold yourself f into them. from prejudices that hold you back. Watch yourself Now take up the organ of the ear, a very essential the future. organ. It is most necessary that you hear and see. If, at the expiration of the time set in this lesson; That we hear from a physical standpoint is necessary, have received no communication do not feel your ti but we must hear and see rightly, which brings it into a wasted, but know the constructive work has been go finer application and needs a very specific treatment. on, and continue your silence as directed in lesson f< As you take up this exercise, impress your ear on your Exercise in these simple rules will in time give mind, so that you may travel the different departments absolute control of your Universe. Always remera of your ear and realize what a wonderful organ it is. never to desire that which causes another’s loss. If You ean talk to it and it answers you back. It is a very do, it will bring loss to you of some precious possess necessary organ. Silence for the ear. The ear is covered very dexterously. If it were not so, there would be din and clatter. All sounds reach the outer ear. There are many chambers in the ear. The QUOTATIONS ear chambers open and close. That which we would see in another we must firsl Now, the hands. Know how necessary the hands are fleet from ourselves. to the brain, how they lift the loads, carry the burdens, If a wise man says something we do not like, ans express grief, joy, and sympathy. They caress, demand him back that he may speak again; but if a fool spe and chastise. See along what lines your hands exercise silence is your best answer. the greatest control, keeping always in mind it is your Give me knowledge and understanding that I 1 own body you are working on. seek association with the great minds of the Univ Now the feet. They are lithe, swift, lax and stum whom men call God. Teach me the POWER of forg bling. You know the feet are wonderful members of ness and the value of forgetfulness that I may 1 this great family called the physical body and each part within my vision only those things which can serve and particle as we have named them, are as individual inanity well. as one of you are individual from the other. Each is a If I pray, let me pray, thus! “ Give me strength master in its own department, yet Life is the engineer more tasks worthy to be called GOOD.” Effa E, Danelso of the whole station. It is a question of bringing Life IS Y C II J U I'OWK It J9 JEWISH SPIRITUALISM I ^ R O I T J M S AND FAMILIAR SPIRITS With a Record of Psy^^^^^Hfcstations, S p it Communications and Healing Among the Jews in Bible Times anflhe Tialmudical Era By Wil l ia m Bhock An attempt to write on jB ish Spiritualism might be kindred p i^ B e s wef|j pronounced sinful-sloes it also (jonflidered. a lather strange undertaking. Followers of include con^Hwlon witMoved ones in spirit, if the spir- |k e ^ |P ^ ^ ^ B r i ^ ^ ^ ^ H ) v e } l n t s as well an Bible its helji in creating the conditions necessary for such students of all. orthodox. rcB ions, the -Jewish faith in- intercourse! If no wlvafiiage is sought, except to save cludod, are all und ei^H impression that the Mosaic Law an innocent image of God from execution—is it sin to be emphatically opposed to llp iritu u l^ H in its inner l ^ ^ K H s B testify! Is it sin to demonstradjlthe K$e. continuity of life at a linn- when people have become Whenever a Christian minister or IiB bi wants to point victims of the B s se st materialism? From an educa- Bat,B|jg strongest religious proof tlB; oomirniriioation Hraal oiteBntific viewpoint JS s problem is solved. But with the dead be an ungoB act, or an )i solved from the religious point of view? B p p a tio n before! the Lord they refer to the mamjft The ( ^ C l ^ H X X l I of Exodus consists of 31 Mosaic prohibitions enacted 3,500 years ago against verses. I tH M ib r d ii^ B s regarding the punishments .necromancy, sorcery, dernonisrn and other Heathen prac- execute(fon those who transgress against a neighbor’s designed to in v o ^ ^ H aid of inunatBauHeings for prope^^^Hkindling of fires, injury of property, im ! i mmo r a l p u r p o s e s . moral relati|ship between males and females, man and Lev. XIX, 31. Regs^^Herri not that have familiar beast, the affliction of the widows and fatherless, etc. An rn iiy f^ ^ B ie r seek after wizards, to be defiled by them; exceptions made in verse 18 (apparently this verse does 1 am the Lord yo B God. notbelong in this ^Bification of ordinances?. "Thou Exodus XXII, Thou shall not suffer a witch to shalt not suffer a witch tH iv e.H lt meant that the peo Him ple B re forbidden to support her. Many of the misdeeds Deut. XVTIT, 10-14. There shall not be found among related in this chapter were attributed to the evil influ you any one that maketHhis son or his daughter to pass ence of witches. For this reason we wfflj readily see > through the fiajIBr that u s^ H v K fio | or an oB rflr th a B is w s e is not oat of place and rightfully belongs of times, or anohanter, or a witch, or or a where it is found. ; consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard or Moses, who was born in Egypt and lived, there for ; mancer. For all that | ^ H s e things are an ahomina- eighty years, was too well acquainted with the Heathen tion unto the Lord; and because of these abominations pfflaSaHB of sorcery and witchcraft. That the children the Lord thy God do^^^^H rem ^^^H re time. of Is® ^hgi2learnc(k^|the8e things from the Egyp- . .. These quotations and many Hollar ones Imye been jSf&s was an established fact which did not escape his ithoroughR ^ ^ ^ ^ B against the muck attention, and it is for this reason why he put a ban upon more $S Christian Churchmen than by RabiB, and it the exercise

iUKt because they Interest I the existence of such debasing practices can by no means With the Jewish, people ^ ^ ^ K t e r is to be N ]gH )|l disprove the existence of true mediumship, the purpose ; from an entirely different view-point. Millions still pre- of which is to render aid to those who seek comfort, to 3"Hgnd to live IKvo the Mosaic law. ThiBrthodox Jew assist those who need advi

jfesses tells fefe hs»wr *o test those who pre- to pieveaS fraud. He asked them 10 pour water oari tor- be- proceed At the- time he wsun&&& the burnt sacrifice. “l b It a second time—do it a third trJA prof&ftt Bee te say a^jtiiiitz" zk&i was nee put into Ms By jpvujg them the privilege to put so much water on zssmtiL the saenike, aad even on the wood that the water~r>! An*:-t&er reason why Mos<& esaotel drssiie taws about the altar and filled the trench that was made aW auxrtinst practices of a ss.pemj.rt:ral nature was the great the altar, the people were satjgiied, and when the dKSaewI&y of d^iaecaslEizsg: wfe^&feer it was of God or noi. came down and consumed the sacrifice, they believed. WhesevreiT 3k QC & WOCt a t l €St5Zil5h>^I «fc *00*$ i w r f Today test eoiKUtions are similar to those as in & rsot asoJestodL when they times of the oM Hebrews. Spiritualists, when consni rzLSki^ use- o f dkeSr sifts.. Eng mediums demand signs or demonstrations. Tee? Xtest- V vl l*T 1&. I will . u p a p r o p h e t f r o m ask for the names or descriptions of those which ©Deg. sob izo titee . an4i wiiii y*I m* from the spirit side of life; they ask them to tell & in M s m o sth t asssi he s£ ?pe'iA uut*> tnem a u thing in an unmistakable manner regarding their mfcQr I shan him tiom the past or other things which cannot be reveafej Ktszibers* XTTr & An-fi He said: '“Hear new my words: without psychic power. If materializations are su- If th^r-re- fee &. p rophet among yon. I the Lorn will make notmeed. those attending demand scienrific test cossE- ssyseif kaows. ssso Mm in a visio-m sad 1 wiE speak to tions. to prevent fraud. It was not different in the ease of Elijah. I^rr. XAEl L 30-22. Bps the prophet, which shall pre- There is no intention on my part to advocate the appli to speak & word in my name, which I have iv>t cation of psychic power as a religious necessity. I an de*d 50 speak. or shall speak la the name of far from the idea of urging the Jewish people to cqK- otner soos- e" vate psychic or spiritual powers for selfish motives 0? And r^r .L say m setstny Wart. How shaB we know the material gain. But I do believe that the Jewish peopk w*s^ri the Lord hath not spoken! who as a whole have become a materialistic people, bar? W!s® a prophet spea&ezh toe name of the Lord, if become doubters, just as their fathers were and that b * ’ ig follow a£t. nor eome to pass, that is the thing: an age where religion does not stand in high credit, they Mesh the Lc-nd hath not spoken, felt the prophet hath should have the same privilege as those who stood at ?T*>^ken it presaa^skswesly; xhaa sh all sot be afraid of the Mount Sinai and witnessed the greatest spiritual manifestation recorded in ancient times. Xtzmi^rs X L 25. And the Lord came down in a cloud, With the growing inroads which Christian Science spake nmo Mm. and took of the spirit that was span recently made among Jews, it was inevitable that “Jew fcMsL. gad gave it to the elders; and it came to pass. that. ish Science’* should soon follow. This is an attempt to the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and accept the larger part of the new cult without actually New York City alone. We doubt 2SI And Joshua, son of Nun, the servant of Moses, the figures, which we would cut in half. However, even ose of his yomsg men, answered and said, mv lord Moses. so, there is fine missionary work to be done among our forbid them. own and honest effort should be made to hold them to 29. And Moses said nnto him: Enviesi then for my Judaism. In this New York Jewish Science drift, the **k^£ W ocld God that all of the Lord s people were leader is Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein, while the leader in Ptiopfeets, and that the Lord would pat His spirit upon San Francisco is Rabbi William Rice. Both are foreign- them, born graduates of Cincinnati and hold college degrees. T k exercise of j^ydble or spiritual powers was never If they but hold some wavering souls who might other prohibited, when practiced by men o r women who led a wise fall to Christian Science, their labors will have its x&or&l life. AB Israel was always eager to witness dem reward. As a positive and constructive force in Juda onstrations of Spiritual power. Bat we mast not forget ism, their efforts will be but weak and short-lived. To £har psychic work is extremely fascinating. The old teach that “God Is Love" one need not leave Judaism. Kgyptlazis abused these powers very excessively and We also preach that “The Lord is nigh to all who call there was always temptation to use the gifts occasionally upon Him," a sentence written thirty centuries before for selfish purposes. Mary Baker Eddy, and found in Psalms (CXLV). Jews Besides this one most not forget that people who spend hold that many evils in the world are man-made instead too much time fo r things not material, gradually become of being “visitations of God." unfit for any other work. To permit the former slaves What we do envy the Christian and Jewish Science of Pharaoh to spend their time in sack a manner would Jew—and more so the Jewess—is the enthusiastic zeal bave been, very detrimental for the Jewish people, who with which they seek converts. Would that our syna bad to be well prepared fo r war and conquest. gogues possessed equally devoted followers that they In I King®, XH II, verse 30-39, we read that Elijah bring our indifferent Israelites to the bouse of God. a^ked the people to come nearer onto him. And after- We publish this extract from The Sentinel, a Jewish ward# it* permits the people to do all that was necessary weekly, to show that the house of Israel is longing for a

______P$ YC HIc POWER relation; lor spiritual food. Neither C for will raise their voices shoiitiasr: "Blessed be the God of Fish ohaorach, Meshach and Abed-neso. Science vviH save the situ not save an Jii house by putting on a 1 I bllow mg is a Rabbi’s views on Spiritualism as re >rhr 1. >£ paint to make* it ported by a Boston paper: [oek. Like* new. A nd and seek comfort •i^ong others* when everlasting sal”*’ “ 'The Spirit World* was the subject of the address vour own fountain o' ation lies within given by Kabbi Harry Levi at Temple Israel Rabbi ‘B r i n g buck into Levi said m p a rt: nr house the holy tabernacle of old/ °*> t h e m i ^ h t v pillars, that were removed from the temple: put them “M hat did Sir Oliver Lodge's address leave os? First back again where they stood before, protecting the grand a reassurance of our belief in immortality. And second stimeture from falling. They are not lost. Search, stud v a reverent wonder as to the possibility of communication and analyze the spiritual manifestations of the Old Tes with the dead. What right have we to deny the possi tament and von will find yourself again. bility * What save self-contradiction is impossible for God ? How much do we know, what infinite wisdom is Why should Jews hesitate to have the divine oracle ours that we dare argue that anything is impossible? esce more ? Why should we not have the Urim and Tum- Has not our ignorance shamed us again and again by 2iia again? Why should Jews think that God refuses bringing to pass what we insisted could not be! Have to speak to his people as in ancient times? not most of the impossibilities of yesterday become the The editor of the mentioned article is right. The realities of today l Why should the development cease efforts of the Jewish Scientists will be but weak and now ? short lived. This is true, because the Jew will not stand ~*If telepathy be a fact, why not eonununicaxion with is the middle of the road. He will march on until he will the dead, especially if the dead really live, as we believe? arrive at the other end o f the line and this is SPIRITU If there is life beyond the grave, why may we not come ALISM. somehow upon the means of comnuuneating with it ? When this will be accomplished Preacher and Rabbi “If the hodv be only a medium through which the soul will not only preach and teach the fatherhood of God expresses itself, why may not the soul find some other ml brotherhood of man—they will know it. medium ? Have not all religious people professed a be Rabbi Blau of Temple Peniel, New York, said in one lief in just such a possibility for ages ? of his sermons: “Tabnudical Judaism has broken down; “ ‘Keep the open mind/ said Sir Oliver. He is right. they seem beyond resurrection.” * * * The old cere Keep the open mind. Think. Read. Reason. And monial law is more honored in a breach than in the meanwhile live as well as we know how. One day the observance. The diatry laws linger apparently as an confusion will go and we shall know certainty where now occasion for periodical meat riots and excuse for profi we only infer and trust. teering. The Saturday Sabbath is all but gone; even “We may be sure that He who cares for us here will in the thickly populated Jewish sections there is an open care for us there. But we want to remember that it Is selling and buying on the seventh day. * * * The old how we live here that determines what we shall find and training based on rabbinics is gone; but no new culture know and have there.” has taken its place. What then is left ? A lifeless, for Lloyd Kenyon Jones, a noted author and spiritualist, malism that no one takes seriously. * * * The old wrote in one of his articles: words fail to move, the old ideals fail to thrill. And “For years, the Jewish people have been very psychic. there is no new Sinai from whose thundering top the They have great love for their dear ones—love that God of the F athers might speak to his blacksliding chil abides. Their natures make them believers in immortal dren. * * * He continues, saying: “Great as is the ity. The Christian nations have kicked and abused and tragedy of the Jew, greater still is the tragedy of Juda maltreated them at every turn. If Jewish people have ism. What greater tragedy than the life of a people become commercial it is because Christians have left that has lost its God? The greater tragedy is the fate them nothing else to depend upon. The early Christians of a religion that has been the suffering mother of relig were persecuted for a season. The Jews have been per ions, pierced by more than seven wounds, forsaken by secuted for ages. The Hebrews have had one loug, rot her own.” So spoke a distinguished rabbi in Israel. It ten deal, and some day Spiritualism will help bring them sounds like a funeral sermon. No ray of hope that back into their own. Mark this prophecy/' might penetrate the dark clouds hovering over a people This is a deliberate statement of Cesare Lombroso, who lost their spirituality. And why? Because cen Italy's greatest Jewish Scientist. A man whose great turies ago the rabbis themselves were doubtful and knowledge and service to mankind makes every Jewish rather hesitated to mention even the possibility of Spirit heart beat with pride. communication for fear it may lead them to serve other “If ever there was an individual in the world opposed gods. And what is the result of such an unwarranted to Spiritualism by virtue of scientific education and, I fear! may say, by instinct, I was that person. I had made it A psychic law teaches us that fear attracts the things the indefatigable pursuit of a lifetime to defend the we fear; and this law affected Israel, much to his mis theory that every force is a property of matter, that fortune. I should advise Rabbi Blau to be of good cheer. the soul is an emanation of the brain. For years and Israel is not dead yet. I t will rise again. New Prophets years I had laughed at the idea of center-tables and new miracles workers, new dreamers will be in its midst chairs having souls! I But if I have always had a again. Soon, even in our days, ALL TH E PEOPLE passionate devotion to my own special science^—the flag will look forward for Signs and TFowders. Israel will under which I serve—I have had a still more anient love enter the contest and once more the people of the Earth of the truth, the verification of the fact. 42 JL5X V 111(; POWER a Mug career, I began mvesti- make comparison and Inigo for yourself u.i„ v . . * 0 phenomena of spiritism, especially O’m i n i O l l O n ...... , . . . i , *. wRett 1 anno u mvd t-imf t ii «• l , ,. * great• seers i were not S l*V y il.-veloVl-Vi'ml'|'l',!!!"1'1ll|C< I.,,., subject, my nettr l t\ v l l 7 ° pubhs\ a book on thl‘ rcMdv-m .1 • • i* . .. side and cried,- V*1, ^ r0'se me on every received their divine inajiiration thnuiLrl, u v a career in which \ .i honorable reputation, beings, who noted ns men in white lin< n ,w a |,lri* AngelsAnaw(flnf of tin-fI,.. l.ord, I y,..,l Messengers k* ofa (i,Kl r. 7 A * ' **llgf«|j, l/'^' u r» ...... • ... . '<'1 *»* «M*f whuAifinally reached the ll7 “.MAnd all ^ tor a theory—one ?°U hav* we find the expressions spirit, ghost, angels 0f l absurd!' * w°Hd repudiates, but worse still,'thinks and other names for the spiritual beings wl.icl. >>r “V .,1 a t ': : : K the pnnfestinwl etnl'an ?“** m* hesitate. I considered it Lod that ruled the \ inverse in ancient time is \\ ’ passed in the s t £ ^ dfWay and ^y, dutPto crown a life that rules today.— ,r The - 'earth n i i »i on *which * 11 m . 11 \we > | # j live| y 11 JUis f I * lists in this, the nu^, f,,r ldtas by entering the as the one on which the prophets and (heir o ‘he individual beaxt than our fathers were who at times ble thev form so comt VndU^ x ' V- b‘s ,n tte crimes which would make us shudder if they ham!, even with the sh am ^ S a ^ t i t cannot be pierced today; and God had compassion and through J lis sr ! 1 ters we nrnv be ? (ioubt *. *n P«> ^ c mat- men gave the infidels signs, and t h ^ r f o m J J But the spiritistic w * to ^«*tUk certainty, lers. And why not today ? Why should we doubt tinent incompletelv 13ls to a con those sp ritual manifestations which occurred at distance are h? in thetune could not be repeated today? leveL Only in the J^ e r^ 1 . at?ove th* general • Ttie truth is that they do occur today. Spirit J| to coalesce in one °f the.scientlst are they seen utilizations, Spirit Photography, appnrilions of gh shallow mob c;>ml,aet The i?‘i , - : o’. 7,.....vwumihuxio, jiroTinecy are es esis of the ifeoCTarl ~ seemingly audacious hvpotfc. fhsl f ed i Z facts f!vTm8n^® of the present 0_nddions' day. However wicked V C~r. iS K , , D“^-«S F idolaters m Israel were, before Elijah succeeded 1 1 in an effort to prove £ J r 1 ^ investigate Spiritualism mg their hearts to Jehovah again, they were truth i uncertain terms. Ina^Jn‘ 9.a-vs 80 himself in no ers; they were wilting to he convinced. But today I that he has found %%%?l|7 strong language he declares does not seek the truth. They are unbelievers: they scientific fact and aJ* ^ founded on solid- become monotheists, atheists, socialists—even Ohril by ridicule or doubt ' & tbat ** can not ** ***!>* aside scientists—and not a few become Christians outws Lombroso Ives tnr]*~ • i_* , . , to gam prominence, financial advantage or intern! advancing years brW * P ^ 81caI form. And as with Non-Jews and thus forsake the faith for which he reiterates his y J ? * greater understanding to him, fathers have often and bravely sacrificed their po emphatic- in his deck? JS vP^tmdism and is even more siona, their happiness and their lives. And why! of the phenomena. 1n patriarch. ff tJironides XXI, 12. And there came a wri 9 ' is ions of all the other prophet*; him from Elijah, the prophet, saying: "Thus s I'H Y C II I C POW K It 43

b W (\ (}o#l of David, I iiy father, because thou iiant not verify the truth of this message given by Harnuel . Ja|k(*<| in the ways of Jehonhapbat, thy fnihor, nor in the through the mediuiusbip of the woman of Fn-dor. N ^ayg of the king of Judah. But has walked in (ho way Hamuel bad been Haul s advisor for many years, but >r of Israel, and hast made .Judah and the inhabitants of the King had repeatedly refused to listen to the * Jerusalem to ------, like to the ——- of the house of A hah, prophet's warning. Finally lie had to bear the cruise- 4 aixJ also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, qlienees of Jds mifedeeda and disobedience and thus made i which were better than thyself: Behold, with a great bis throne tumble. Jn bis despair Haul called Samuel, * fjague will the Lord. smite thy people, and thy children, who told him that the impending catastrophe could not * and thy wives and all thy goods, etc.” be averted. Samuel was very stern, but after all be This letter came 11 years after Elijah’s departure seemed to have forgiven Haul aJl his mischiefs, for be * ^ heaven. If one man can send a written message from saiij to him: “To morrow thou and thy soim shall be the beyond, why should wo doubt that others could do with me.” ’ t he s a m e ? The interview' was quite a long one. Samuel could Now Samuel was (lead, and all Israel has lamented have used it as a demonstrative declaration against the 1 him, and buried him in Hamah, even in bis own city. establishment of spirit communication, if it were such And Saul had put away those that divined by a ghost or an awful crime against Jehovah. The initiating ques a familiar spirit out of the land. And when Saul in tion, “ Why hast tbou disquieted me?” was a very natural quired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither and human one. If some of oar good friends would * by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. Then Saul come to us at midnight, we might ask in a very similar said to his servants: Seek me a woman that divineth bv manner. We most not forget that Samuel died only a a ghost, that I may go to her and inquire of her. And short time before the request of the interview and he his servants said to him : “Behold, there is a woman that was entitled to rest for awhile. divineth by a ghost at Eri-dor.” And Saul disguised him To believe that a spirit can be compelled to appear self, and put on other raiment, and wfent, he and the is ridiculous. A medium merely establishes condition two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, under which disembodied beings I even animal* j can and he said: “Divine unto me, I pray thee, by a ghost, manifest their presence, if they care to do so. and bring me up whomsoever I shall name thee." And The Jewish people are a very psychic people. From . the woman said unto him: “Behold tbou knowest what Father Abraham down to the most modest leaders of Saul hath done, how he cut off those that divine by a the talrrjudical era we find thousands of records which ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land; wbere/or then bear testimony of the eminent Psychic power they layesj thou a snare for my life, and cause me to die!” applied to produce spiritual phenomena and to commune And Saul swore to her by the Lord, saying: “As the Lord with the dead, and to heal without drugs. liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing. “Then:” said the woman, “Whom shall I bring The following quotations from the Talmud are very np unto thee I" And he said: “Bring me up Samuel.” interesting. They show that many of the great Jewish And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud teachers* were mediums. Clairvoyance, elairaudianee, voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying: “Why bast prophecy, healing and spirit materialization were a thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.” And the king frequent occurrence among them. said unto her: “Be not afraid; for what seest thou?" Jt happened once, that the son of Habban Gamaliel And the woman said unto Saul: “I see a godlike being took sick. The latter sent two learned men to Rabbi coming up out of the earth.” And he said unto her: Chanina Ben Doaa, asking him to beseech (the l^ord) ’‘What form is he of?" And she said: “An old man to have mercy upon him. As soon as Rabbi Chanina cometh up, and he is covered with a white robe.” And saw them coming he went up to the upper chamber and Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed vvith besought (the Lord) to have mercy on the sick- Coming his face to the ground, and prostrated himself. And flown he said to the two learned men, “You may go home, Samuel said to Saul: “Why hast thou disunited me, to for the fever has already left him.” “Art thou a bring me up?” And Saul answered: “I am sore dis prophet?" they asked him- “Neither a prophet., nor the tressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and son of a prophet,” be answered them, “but I have this God is departed from rne, and answereth me no more, tradition: If my prayer flow readily from my tongue, neither by prophets, nor by dreams; therefore I have I know that it has been accepted, h&i if not, f know that called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what it has been rejected.” I shall do. Wherefore does thou ask of me, seeing the So they wrote down the exact hour when he told them Lord is departed from thee, and is become thy adver that the sick man was delivered and when they came to sary? And the Lord hath wrought for Himself, as He Kabban Gamaliel, he said to them: “I swear it happened spoke by me; and the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of neither before nor after the hour, but exactly at the time thy band, and given it to thy neighbor, even to David. you were told that my son was relieve*]; at that moment Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord the sick asked for a drink of water,” and did not execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, there On another occasion it happened that when Rabbi fore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day. Chanina Ben Dosa went to Joclmnan Ben Zakai to study Moreover the Lord will deliver Israel also with thee the Thorn, the son of Rabbi Ben Zakoi took Rick. The into the hands of the Philistines; and to-morrow* shall latter then said: “Chanina* mv son, beseech (the Lord) thou and thy sons he with me; the Lord will deliver the to have mercy on my son that lie may live.” Rabbi bni of Israel into the hands of the Philistines. Chanina placed his head between bin knees and besought The following verses of the some chapter surely (God) to have mercy upon the tick, and he got well. PSYCHIC POWER

Such divine healings occurred quite often in tal- •‘He then said to m e: ‘What voice did you hoar' mudieal times, long after the death of Jesus, not only ruin?’ I replied, ‘a “Bath KoB (a heavenly voice) * among the Jewish people hut also among the so-called coos like a dove, saying: “Woe to Ihe chffiJren heathen nations, Here we see that Mary Baker Eddy did because of their sins I have destroyed my c4 not receive any new revelation and that Christian Sci burned my temple and exiled my children arnonJ ence is but a corrupted imitation of the old methods ot heathen.” ’ ” healing. The Jews, of course, did not believe in Christ s Rab. expressed a wish that if a furvpalBrationgh, mission on earth and their success as healers was by no be held for him when he died, therBsbould l,e no at* means dependent on Mary Baker Eddy's precepts. The on the part of the speaker, hut that the oration wast deplorable fact that so many young Jewish people, espe strong and emphatic, as the departed spirit is prfi cially women, have been intoxicated by Christian Science on such occasion. Sabbath, 153. is due to the Rabbis' neglect to inform their people in , The spirit of man never dies and is cognisant of v swell matters. is going on here below. Braehoth, 18; M egillahagh Kabbi C’hanina Ben Dosa was a spiritual Healer; this we read that the idea of Sheol (an underground s is evident from the preceding accounts of his healing of existence) is changed. According to tB BiblySar power. When asked whether he was a prophet, be denied came up. According to this talmudical expression it so emphatically that he added, nor the son of a spirit is cognizant of what is going on here BELO) prophet, There is, however, no contradiction in ^B tw o dil Rabban Gamaliel, although older and the teacher of ent statements as spirits can come from any directio; Rabbi Cbanina, as we learn from this story, could not they please just as we in the flesh can. heal his own son and for this reason enlisted the aid Rabbi Abba in the name of Samuel sa id : “ The sch of a healer. of Shammai and Hillel were at variance for three yci JCf God was to do the healing Himself, could he not the one party contending that the Halacha is in aco with the same divine mercy hear the fervent prayer of ance with our views, and the other party content a father for his sick child? likewise.” Then came a Bath kol (Bheavenly vo But Gamaliel was also a Medium. He was elairaudient and said “BothMhese and those are the words of as the following story of the Talmud proves. Jiving God hut the Halacha is according to the scl It once happened that while Rabban Gamaliel was of Hillel. B Rabbi Juda said: “ If a man dies and lei traveling between A elm and Cliczib, mounted on an ass, none to mourn his death, ten men shall go to his | and Rabbi Ilai was walking behind him, the former saw (where be died) and sit there seven days.B It < some loaves of bread lying on the road, and said, "Ilai,; happened that a man in the neighji&rbood at Rabbi J pick up those loaves from the road.” Afterwards meet died and left none to mourn his death; Rabbi Juda v ing a Gentile, Rabban Gamaliel said to him, “Magabai, there every day with ten men and sat in tlB place wl take these loaves away -from Ik i.” When Rabbi Ilai he died. After seven days the spirit of the dead pei became acquainted with the Gentile, he asked him: appeared to Rabbi Juda in a dream and said to 1) "W hence art thorn?” The Gentile answered: “I am from “ Mayst thou be comforted as thou didst comfort n the cities of Burganin.” “And what is thy name?” It was related of Rabbi Chanina 0. Dosa that he' “M agabaijs my name.” "Does Rabban Gamaliel know wont to pray for the sick and predict: v9?his one s thee? “N o/' said the Gentile. From this we learn that live and this one shall die.” Whereupon the Ral Rabban Gamaliel knew the name by divine vision. asked him: “ How do you knowBt?” “ I no tic®” Another clairvoyant medium was Rabbi Yocbanan, the answered, “ when I pray if the prayer flows easily fi High Priest. The Talmud says that be heard a voice my tongue I know it is accepted; but if not, I knoi (coming forth) from the Most High announcing: “The is torn. ” boys w'ho went to fight against the Greeks have won the II. Mace. 15:12-16. battle." The High Priest Onias and the prophet .Simon, the Just, was another Voice medium. He heard appears to Judas Maccabeus on the eve a voice saying; "The big army of the enemy that was with the Syrians. coming to besiege the palace was destroyed; that King The Jewish historian Josephus Plautus fgjfrrds Gaskalgus of Greece has been killed and all his decrees apparition of AlcxandB the ,%reat tbt his against Israel have become annulled.” The exact hour Glapbira. was marked off and it was found that all this happened All a p v is required to do for his l^eWfijies in sp at that moment. is to offer prayeB to (hBharity according tBhis fii Rabbi Jose said; “Once upon a time I was walking eial abilityXo vBt the graves here anflthere and on a road, and I entered one of the ruins of Jerusalem rememlB* the dead at jffiS Memorial Exercises ffi to pray. Elijah, blessed be his memory, came and ‘Maskir NesBmcmi'MS the close of all great .M i A watched me at the door until I finished my prayer. Aft which were compiled by the rabbis of later d a tfln lS er I had fin wheti| he mid to me: '8halom (peaee)Cny to sBifSUlBJpainful yearning after the jfar WM teacher/ And to which I answered, ‘.Shalom, my teacher spirit. Also a small flame, “the Yahrzfft Ligl® }s ] and my guide.B ‘My son/ he said, ‘why did you enter died every year on the anniversary of d i# lf del thin m int’ ‘To pray,’ I replied. ‘You could have prayed "Maskir NeshomotWMs edhsideted the moiH sd$ on the road,' he said. exercise during B e entire B g g frjcryiee. th " T was afraid lest I be disturbed by travelers.’ You who have broken away Smp- Ig H E h m g Jewish should have prayed ‘Tfnbimeini ’ ” (name of a prayer). drawn, as with magic power-to partfflpate iu this Me: ! 1*8 Y CHIC POWER 45 rial service. Indeed, very often the only tie that remains our body there are shapes artd forms, which are like to hind him to the syrmgog, And why! planets and stars to our own bodies. Deep in his own heart the Jew never ceases tBthirik All. these shapes have a hidden meaning and are ob of those \vho have gone before him. Indee the inner powers of man, which are the servants of God. And hold in Brtrnain still their old estates. But they are all the outer covering. For, inside, man, The spirit-world around this world of sense , there is the secret of the “heavenly man.” Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Everything below takes place in the same manner as Wafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense \ everything above. This is the meaning of the remark A vital breath of more ethereal air. I that God created man in His image. But just as in the heavens, which cover the whole And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud, ' universe, we behold different shapes, brought out by the Throws o’er the sea a floating bridge of mist, ; stars and the planets to teach us concerning hidden So from the world of spirits there descends | things and deep secrets, so upon the skin which covers A bridge of light, connecting it with this. r Dr. Still—Humanitarian In the old days when the helpfulness reached town, was informed that he of his ministrations began to he her owed two dollars for his treatment. He i When Dr. Still broke away from the alded, and the sick and afflicted was given three silver dollars with old traditions and practices he soon en crowded about him, some coming from which to pay the bill, and he stood on countered the sneers and ridicule of distances, they just gave what they the corner for half an hour looking at those about him. His form er profes- could, many having nothing whatever. the remaining dollar which he had in i sional brethren snubbed and ostracised He collected a dollar for setting a hip his palm, in a haze of bewilderment, try k him, and his erstwhile friends jeered that had made a cripple of one for years, ing to figure out just how he really and called him “ crazy.” and then turned around and gave that stood financially and “ Gawd blessing” t He never saw in one sick or crippled dollar to another little sufferer to get the “ Old Doctor.” A book conld be i, just a scientific problem presenting it a railroad ticket back home. filled with such little incident combin self for solution. He saw a human being An old colored washerwoman, who ing humor, pathos, and kindliness. j! s u f f e r i n g . hadn’t been able to work for some time “ If his heart o’erflowed his brain now t It was the “ Old Doctor” who got so because of a “ powerful misery in de and then, 1 interested in examining a little crippled head” and who owed for her grocery ’Twer better for that when the tide i charity patient that had come on her bill until credit had been withdrawn, ebbed again.” i. crutches to the rear of his home and ac- was treated, the “ misery in de head” ASAWILLABD, D. 0. I cidentally met him, that he forgot all miraculously sent away and the old lady f about the wife of the then most promi- sent shuffling up the street with a ten Outwitted t nent and influential U. S. Senator who dollar bill to pay her grocery account. k was waiting for him in the parlor, An old darkey, an ex-sjave with a He drew a circle that shut me out, j Mother Still had to call him back as he trouble he had accepted as the “ rhuma- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout; jt started to the infirmary across the street tiz,” was made whole, and having no But love and I had the wit to win |ji explaining to another how to care for money to pay his bill, and having eaten We drew a circle and took him in. y the little moneyless sufferer. nothing since the day before when he —Edwin Markham. V a" « js ^

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M«auow s\{ W \e No, $ k very w tu - Am Aiitm^y^' jeaw Ri'iKN olent C hurch y*** i'A having very in^raitaw d am - 3hdy V\. x*£t :, wiRI 1 yw m Awett* Sunken k 4 entt W*d My thear Air, Rwk •— e*jp* mns&emn amt siuger. Abe k a vo? v hard 1 am not c,\act -- have alwnya been imteieatvd- in $mfrw '^55# P WW bww ftvsh tlowera which are given siw^v manitVtatbnxs, ami a* 1 xh\^ps\i kx the AV: to nuendautfc m 5.W meetings who bring ^ber day to a?e what kind of a t^em So their >sk*h ivl»tfes and friends, would give me. To my - great amt t*kr ‘a v * y \ tV w are atoayw enough mediums*. agreeable snr^'W yon toM mo maay piTHMtf and U0 Olio leaves tbo meeting? thn^s wr-kh pefph^ins as’vuracy, thU^*. 5*Nktsoi» ll wuhont ^ messuage of cheer and comfort. td my k w amt which \ had 4 ^ Sob\v*\Pe*\ Olma g\Wten hmg ag\\ bm mm bmk. to Ahna n\Y mind again after yvwx spAe of them UtM ^ 1 I** ^ H ^tittday Evening: C%h 41 Capitol There was one- thing, however,, -a mmr Mr***^1 whwh Puddn\g k always crowded, Mvx luaa- ing aswl a prophecy which did -atom i!V gutorly organised,. Thl U$ckwB the untiring Mfe** k wwiu«4% -to have any mnw whatevm ,4 ?heir * ttd tn ^ she mre nnwfiyifeu&litv iltev Iho outks^ to saotixo ih^anI two weeks after .1 had scon yoi^ every I W ? tW j detmumtwo, tW tho k i m ^ w tst-W n^ M\l ovo^v wopl am' it venue literacy' trm, 1 wkh l*vr £*****> '**1 £***?' ** «*w. ®4tnwW^ lretii«t£ a? ^ tn mjpmsi m$ aptn^okthm fm ymt: \\> are infnrnwd that there is * strong femsk\ jino a s«^kiious wvt^ work amt mediunnhi|v ij^jv for the establishment of * Hnihh K't oi uo$&&£o l*?aws it w ^li If yon wkh Ex pubikh thk y^n ^ jr^ixts *?s aha is the ervet ion of a whilo to tho o\oi\ni^ ohe^is are at liberty to vlo aih knl« th\\ 4tw| atv al' Again as^rp^- $m of my- wm&* If jfce **%*$* trill not ov^M she oppo*^ \va> a ^ oksMtto. with yvxur 1 am mm%y of demonstrating* their fcgr*hl to Tnnim veasy trxrly, *» helping with words and SIP MTarren 4m» Afek S, E.napp to w&kti th k vision vsnue true. The Spiritual Temple of Truth will be re-ei>ent\i fur servlet with the eAuniu^ of . hl kahnv of imo Xm A wAm the Mksi*4t ^ Oovo Xtv 7 k Spring, Afss, England k a Traos- leaxlership of two hard workers. Pros. wkh to iuvmigaie the ecutdueinl by Pastin' %& Mar, who k an A-„ INfepamtkn o* XauwvAi. Fresh el&tftts of 8piriiualism. Tost vh>\ k]u k\us old Wxxrker itx the held. His k the glovv •Roots, Hwk and f\dvrrWd })jrevatl k all sauiwk Although Wtoft to have fought many battles with the C OMmXEP TO REWRVE m\ ordained- minkier Mrs, Rriott wasuUI xtsavwvssitss me^csiw'a authorities. Some of hk mnauHm mm cwNsviMxx»a \eintnalism taught along etlw* aw^Acwsj. mm$x front far distamva to enjoy his \wn\k of *xu iieava twxiven xaev*v« eatmtal lines. nmxfoHx A bad veputathnx gA>es far, siv a®aa caa^uw>a but a good obo* as in hk « m foea alill i m a n m t a en&a^ , H w y K, Parker. Pastor of Peoples farther, ooon juuEsrto^rtmB moon Spiritualist Clmwl, perfhn^ wwuvter- acwntx irw m m i M healiagSs People who have been given The open pwMkaikm d th» WtA&Q- 3ItU W mW lA WPOU ev^ry bm of up by doetors of metljeiuo come to our Chicago Heights, lib, k blessed wuth a F1AX0«'» won m ioriktom*. & tsftke and tell na of the wonderful- e u m Spiritualkt Svxdety, called "hirst Spir both whyskkos and the pahlk- he has amunplished, Mrs, Parker, itual is? Chtm^h" of Chicago Heights, Pks per Kwt, p>st-. pakl; sulftdeot for hlteen d w v treat- whose mediuntship is of the phy^aeal Rev, Alice Meyer k the Pastor and phase, holds very aueeessfn! mmm^ Medium, This prx^tysaive smnety has £p**«*J Prwe to* services ewry Sunday aftevnmm, Ktnwvn $*o4 fw fw ire by K^a K, Danelsot\, very successful healer, 48 PSYCHIC POWER SPIRITUALIST SOCIETIES SERVICES, MEETINGS AND MESSAGE CIRCLES

Leading Light Ingersoll Psychic Research Society First Spiritualist Church ^ Sgiritualisjt; C h u rch HOVE No. 3 of Chicago Heights, Illinois Garfieldian Hall, 4039 West Madison Street MASONIC TEMPLE Odd Fellow Hall, 2517-19 Fullerton Avenue ANNETTE R. SUNTKJKN, President Sunday Service at 2:30 p. m. Lee. Sunday Service at 8 p. m. THE SELF-HELP MISSION ture and Messages. Investigators and Strangers always Sendees Sunday Evening 8 p. m. sharp Message Circle every Sunday and welcome. Messages by Co-workers Music 7:45 p. m. Wednesday at 8 p. m. in E nglish, G erm an a n d Polish. Lec Private Consultation by appoint, tures by good speakers, SINGING LECTURE MESSAGES tnent, HEALING CIRCLES AT 7:15 P. M. Free will offering, all are welcome PHONE: CHICAGO 11 MIGHTS 2128 HERMAN WEY, President Phone Austin (MSS ALICE MEYER, Pastor and Medium

MISSION of LOVE No. 5 PEOPLES OSTEOPATHY SPIRITUALIST CHURCH First Spiritualist Church the original system of Drugless Healing, was given to the workl in 1874, at Eudora, Sunday Service at 8 p. m. Kan., through the medinmship of Dr. An* Circles Wednesday at 8 p. m. and Thurs Northeast Cor. Madison St. and California Ave. drew Taylor Still, a practicing physician. day at 2:50 p. m. Entrance on California SUNDAY SERVICE AT 7:45 P. M. 3346 WEST* LAKE STREET Healing Circle, Lecture, Messages Paul Hemp el. President All are welcome. Free will offering FREE Self-Healing Lesson Healer and Psychic Photographer Midweek Circle Every Friday at 8 p. m. ontlt-lod Geo. G. Price, Pastor and Medium AT 2118 WASHINGTON BLVD. “JU ST HOW TO H E A L YOURSELF CONSULTATIONS DAILY BY APPOINTMENT AND CURE OTHERS” PHONE KEDZIE 4429 which formerly sold for 50 rents. .T. Albin Julumon, Ksti- Scientific Massage Eloctrlo Treatments Violet Rays nnhu. Midi., says: " It Is woiih many dollars to anyone in TELEPHONE: HAYMARKET 2856 litul health. A postal um l brings it. Win. G. F. SeuSing, S. C. M. T. The GORE ROOK CO., Box 7411. Buskin, Fla. Mrs. Catherine McDonough Member of Leading Light Spiritualist Church MEDIUM Spiritual Healer 1904 N O RTH CLARK STREET 1S14 WEST ADAMS STREET CHICAGO BY APPOINTMENT PHONE: DIVERSITY 5133 Mrs. Emma M O N.. T U BS.. T H U m T,1' S A T . ? ? ? *8 and 7 to 9 P. M. 2012 N. OAKLEY AVENUB i ______O T H ER P A YS BY APPO IN T MEN T______Circle every Tuesday SPIRITUALIST at 8 p. m. SATURDAY EVENING CLUB SECOND CHURCH Readings by appointment. Phone Humboldt 8126. MISSION OF LOVE No. 10 OFf PlKl HEALING Every Saturday at 7.30 p. m. 2234 Warren Avenue Hall 613 MASONIC TEMPER. State & Randolph Lectures by Speakers of reputation Services every Sunday at 8 p. m. Lecture, It fcfra to Advertise in Psychic DeaiMistrstfiecs by spiritual Mediums of proven ability. Enuy Wednesday afternoon from 12 noon to 5 Messages and Healing Tests o'clock road In*—-social and coffee. TRUTH seek er s are cordially in v it e d Short and full readies* at Hall 811, Wed. Eve. at 8 p . at. CALL DIVERSEY 5135 J. M. LA MAR, Leader MISSION QF LOVE Nos 7 .ARYAN ORDER BLANK , 2901 MONROE STREET Psychic Research Society, Incorp. Rev. LILLIAN GILBERT, Pastor and Publishers Message Bearer CENTER 447 ROSLYN PL. Psychic Power, 1904 N. Clark Street,; Healers: Dr. Wm. Williams, Roy Smiths SERVICES, WED. 8 P. M. Chicago, HI. MEETINGS Classes, Readings and Divine Healing Please send me postpaid the complete EVERY THURSDAY AND SUNDAY AT 8 P. M. by Appointment Investigators and Strangers are always welcome REV. JANNETTE ERION set of THE PSYCHIC HEADER for UNEXCELLED messag es Telephone: Lincoln 7346 447 Roalyn Place which I enclose the sum of one dollar. Name Spiritualist Educational Society, Inc. Address The aim of this organization is City ... 1. To awaken an interest in the 3. To give instruction in the study of psychic laws. proper use of psychic power. Subscription Blank 2, To aid its members in the de- 4. To teacb communication with velopment of psychic power. the now called death. Date...... Publisher Psychic Power: Public Meetings are held every Sunday at 3 p. m. Lecture and Messages. Please enter my subscription for one yctfi MESSAGE CIRCLE EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 8 P. M. for which I enclose the sum of Three Dollar* Beginners’ class for those who wish to develop psychic power every Friday at 8 p. m. Name m ...___ Consultation by appointment, Phone Diverse? S13S Address EFFA E. DANELSON, President, 1904 H Clark St., l l City ..