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CL C O N T E N T S for February 1926 FEATURES TRUTH Effa Danelson An Editorial EFFA DANELSON’S LIVING EDITORIALS The Editor Signs of the Everchanging Present ARE YOU THE SILICON TYPE? Emily H. Rocine Don Quixotes and Micazcbers of Humanity_ T HE HYPNOTIC POWER OF MOTION Dr. C. Wm. Chamberlain How Activity Lures and Fascinates Psychologically A SPIRIT WARNING OF THE EARTHQUAKE IN TOKIO Mora L. Ackerman A Psychic Experience THE CABINET OF CALIGARI Leynord R Gray An Occult View of the Movies HYPNOTISM AND THE LAW C. H McDermott A s Recoanized by the Courts PSYCHOANALYTIC CHILD TRAINING Daniel H Bonos The Power of Affection THE STARS OF JANUARY “ Libra” Astronomy Easy for Everybody MR BRADLEY TRAVELS TOWARDS THE STARS” K . M E. Some Holes on Psychic Phenomena GHOSTS WE HAVE SEEN A Symposium True Experiences of World-Famous People ARTICLES THE DEEPER ISSUES OF OCCULTISM D im F o r k SECRETS OF PALMISTRY THE EXPANSION OF ETERNITY THE ONE PATH ECTOPLASM DEMONSTRATED WHAT YOUR NAME REVEALS BALARISTA OR SHORT LIFE MY STARS AND WHAT THEY TELL ME DEPARTMENTS ASTROLOGICAL DAILY GUIDE BOOK REVIEWS LISTENING IN ON W-O-R-I^D NEWS OF PSYCHIC ACTIVITIES DREAMS CURRENT EVENTS YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS BORDERLANDS OF SCIENCE ASTROLOGY WHAT THE OCCULT DIGEST WANTS ASTROLOGY-CONTEST T O K N O W NUMEROLOGY REVELATIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY PALMISTRY

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RUTH— great are thy precepts; greater still, thy works— Thy hidden pearls are eagerly sought by all mankind. In by-ways and highways, T the traveler follows thy light. Thou dost lead him over desert sands, and into dark caverns, through mountain passes, over winding paths to its summit. The people of earth have ever sought thy hiding place. Today, as of old thou art reviled and revered; the wicked curse thee and the humble abide by thy precept. Nature portrays thy loveliness.

RUTH— scale of justice, river of absolution, the key to righteousness. Thy followers call out for guid an ce in their hour of greatest trial. It T hath been said thou art Love from which the well of kindness springs. Men have relied on thee in times of distress and despair. Mothers have de­ pended on thee and taught their children to honor and obey thee.

RUTH— thou wast once mighter than the sword. Cans't thou not bring back the confidence humanity once reposed in thee? Shall it seek in vain T that fountain from which all souls may be blessed? It is said Truth shall triumph over all wrongs; and that though crushed to earth, it shall rise again. It seemeth a mockery when in the eyes of old and young, Truth is a stranger. Yet, from the deep recesses of their being we hear their cry, what is Truth?

ILT thou answer them, “I am that principle in Life that maketh the human soul to know that there is Life beyond the physical death. That Wthou art the jewel of rarest beauty that beguiles life from its wayward­ ness, ever leading on to greater understanding, pointing the way to still greater achievements. W ill not the time come when the children of earth may see. once more that thou art indeed, the light of the world; Knowing thee, no soul may lose its way? EFFA D A N ELS ON ’S Jawing Editorials

QHas the Devil Been Loosed? QThe Martyr and the Mob E R EAD in the twentieth chapter of the book | HE martyr, listening to the cries of the angry of Revelations “an angel came down from Heaven with I mob stands unmoved— he is held by the power within a key to the bottomless pit, bringing with him a great him— the power that fired his brain, giving strength to chain; and he laid hold of the dragon, the old serpent muscle and endurance to his body. He is thinking ahead; he sees in every form— a life— trammeled with fear. (presumably the one that tempted Eve) alias the Devil He hears but heeds not the angry revelers he has called and Satan and bound him a thousand years and cast forth. He is living in the world of his creation and him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a nothing can move him— he is a monarch— he knows that seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no through his sacrifice man will be compelled to think and more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled, after reason concerning the law he taught. which he must be loosed a little season.” The martyr gives his all to incite riot— because he Is this the season when he is loosed? Is the “little knows that if he would leave his imprint on the pages season” a few years or centuries? We are left in the of history he must step aside from the beaten path— he must oppose the established creed of his sires—he dark as to when the term of one thousand years began, must be against the mob. but according to the prophecy he certainly has been freed, The mission of the martyr is to proclaim his truth-. paroled or broken jail for present conditions have all The mission of the mob is to burn his message into the the earmarks of what he was to do when he got his hearts of men. freedom. Some indeed see the "Old Serpent” in All progress from time immemorial has been made the League of Nations, as in the seventh verse it reads through a sacrifice of human lives. The attempted pro­ “And when the thousand years have expired,. Satan tection of traditions by the mob element of the human shall be loosed from his prison and shall go out to race has created the thinking mind of today. The deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of martyr and the mob cast the die for independent think­ the earth and gather them together to battle: The num­ ing, making progress certain. ber of whom is as the sands of the sea.” The hope given humanity is that at last, this Devil €^The Independent Thinker is to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone. The exact time when this revelation was given could prob­ H E independent thinker brings the long proph­ esied'message of progress. Notwithstanding the false ably be ascertained by some o f our explorers, or per­ interpretation of the message of the seer of Galilee, its haps, the astrologer can tell us! That the Devil is keynote was progress. The light of knowledge has loosed, we do not question. The point we are interested come to the people o f the earth through the independent in is, how long is his "probation” to last? thinker. Shall we destroy its brightness by destroying its messenger? Jesus came “not to destroy the law but to fulfill it.” Was he not the independent thinker of his d / i W ill Interest You day? His aggressive message to the world was no T WILL interest you to know that this is the age greater than the message of the independent thinker of today. Religious bondage was no greater then than that has been prophesied by prophet, seer and priest. today, as is shown in the 23rd chapter of St. Matthew, This is the age when men will turn their eyes heaven­ when Jesus delivered a most scathing lecture in the syn-' ward to view the wonders. agogue, against the representatives of the Scriptures. This is the age .when old laws shall pass away and In part he said: “Whatsoever they bid ye do, that do, new laws be established; the age when man shall but do not ye after their works for they say and do not. triumph over the seas, the land and the a ir; when man They bind heavy burdens on men’s shoulders that they shall see the greatness of his own being manifest in themselves will not move with one of their fingers. They love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats life. ■ f in the synagogue and devour widow’s houses and, for Through the result of scientific research into the se­ a pretense, make long prayers.” crets of nature, man shall triumph over ignorance and by It was the spirit of justice and of progress that in­ the power of thought shall control disease, the enemy spired Jesus to act in behalf of humanity. It is this of mankind. same spirit in the independent thinker today that makes W e are just entering into the cycle known as the him fearless in teaching the truth as he believes it. Emancipation Era, New and strange doctrines will be Jesus was against bondage in the religion of his day, preached. These teachers will announce themselves in and sought to change it. The independent thinker is the language of symbols. A great intellectual wave will against the bondage in religion today. The 20th century sweep the world; youth’s demand for its rights will is so resplendent with discoveries that prove the falsity cause consternation in conservative circles, but youth of so much “ religious truth” that the independent will be enthroned and in its greater vision will proclaim thinker frees himself from all such doctrines, choosing a law that will force justice to the children of men, thus to live in accordance with nature’s law, enabling him to bringing salvation to the world through the understand­ become master of the elements which were so greatly ing of nature’s law. feared in the early centuries. Sign s of the Ever- O a n g i n g ^P

C [The Searchlight and minerals will enable man to overcome the elements of the air which now shakle him to the earth and he N SEEKING for knowledge, man has ventured far will inhabit the air as easily as the fish inhabits the from the staid and fixed law of ancient philosophers. water. Once the human race is freed from false teach­ The ministers of today are tenaciously lamenting this ing concerning the creation, fall and future estate of fact. man, it will wipe out all boundary lines of racial hatred. The searchlight of the adventures of the mind will Racial and religious hatred has been the bar to pro­ restore the lost art and revive the lost word. Man is a gress. W ar has destroyed the thinking mind of all gen­ triune being; his powers are manifold. From the brute erations leaving the unfit to propagate the races. to the angel is a mighty step but man in his quest for understanding has dethroned the brute, unwinged the The close of the twentieth century will find the world angel and enthroned reason. The great searchlight with inhabited by man. The other forms of life that may its limitless power has replanted the Garden of Eden exist at that time will be only for the pleasure of man. and returned husbandry to the kingdom of Life. The changing times will turn man entirely from meat- The searchlight of reason floods the mind driving out eating ; he will exist on the products of the soil and the the skulking shadows that have kept men in mortal air. The discovery of the life-giving forces in the terror of some unknown -and undefinable ruler. air and light will bring about this change.

The searchlight of reason is opening the door for the triumphant entry of man into the secret chambers C .C m j Roads of the Great Beyond of his own being, enabling him to interpret the symbols of mythology and create new roads to Heaven. In its CIENCE has not, as yet, discovered where the path, true glory, is to be found. The coming heir to cross roads of the beyond lead. Just when the stage the kingdom will be the son of knowledge, in that great was set for the annihilation of all spirit manifestations, hereafter where all souls meet on common ground. The the great W ar broke out in Europe., Since that time the avenger of men’s souls will have been swallowed up by hope of a tangible, natural, living Life after death, has that great effulgent light. The knowledge that God is] been strengthened. Scientists are now willing to prove only a term for law directs the mind of the searcher for the possibility of such a state of being but it is too late truth, to analyze the law. for them to claim the reward of proving it. While they were busy tying mediums in sacks, investi­ The searchlight of knowledge has given to the child gating rappings and moving tables about, mothers of the future a passport that will carry him safely found the cross roads to the Great Beyond to be where through eternity. they met their loved ones on their return, to let them know of a country they had found. The cross roads of the Great Beyond are where the searcher for knowledge {[The Changing Times loses the veil of mystery; where the mourners’ tears are N EVERY age the development of man’s psychic dried. powers have been prevented by the terrors pictured The cross roads of the Great Beyond can not be de­ to him of the life after death. Today man no longer termined by compass and square, but often are dis­ fears to die—he has gained so much knowledge in the covered with pick and shovel—at the grave. When last fifty years that death has become an asset rather hands are tired and the brain can no longer reason, the than a liability. In exploring the skies he has created loved ones appear, pointing the way. The cross roads a new earth; in exploring the earth he has placed a are established when from the silence there comes the marker on the grave of mythology and opened the door voice of friend you have mourned as dead. of emancipation from slavery, to the human race. The cross roads, leading in every direction, are confus­ In raising the dead from the tomb of the past,'man ing to the traveler who does not understand psychic laws. has let loose an avalanche of creative thought that will The boundary line between the two worlds must be dis­ sweep the world, removing the decaying timbers that covered through the power of perception, not with field threaten it with annihilation. This raging torrent of glasses or measuring tapes. inquisitive thought will test the old philosophy to its These cross roads are to be 'found in the little per­ last dying member; not satisfied it will sweep the hearth plexities and annoyances, which bring us to moments from the burden of its ashes. of meditation. In these silent moments, realization re­ The discoveries of the twentieth century are in their moves the scales from our eyes and we find the con- ' infancy; the next quarter of this century will tear away fusing cross roads have become one great highway, the last thread of mystery 'concerning the survival of leading us into the country of the dead, revealing to us life beyond the tomb. The new discoveries of metals the one Law, one Life, one Humanity, one Goal! ¥ ¥ ♦ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ f ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ I ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ▼ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ < » ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ♦ ¥ ¥ f ¥ ¥

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The Don Quixotes and the Micawbers of the Human Family Th e Silicon Type

C , M irth M ack —Night Life B y E m i l y H . R o c i n e C. The Silicon Type, in the theatrical world, oretucceaiful in comedy, farce or dancing, hut never in tragic rolei.

I F you doubt there are any Micawbers now alive, or small face, smiling ayes and her eyes are very bright and that Cervantes, when he wrote his famous “Don glowing. He hair is luxuriant, glossy and wiry; it may Quixote” (said to be largely auto-biographical) was be a rich black or a reddish auburn or a golden, straw- picturing an impossible fellow, just wait until you meet colored blonde. In any case is usually curiy or wavy. the Silicon Type and you will be surprised at the living She may be tall and slender or short and slender, but likeness. never very short. She is well adapted by nature, dis­ Being of vivid imagination and natural optimism, he position and habits, to feel at home in stage life. She needs no Coue to tell him to repeat “Every day in every is free, graceful as a dancer and never timid or bashful. way I am growing better and better.” The man with the She is not afraid of work but is almost tireless. She can Micawber-like disposition does not need the practical outdo in work and activity a girl of any other type. psychologist to tell him to hope for the future for he is This type has been compared to the gazelle, light- already living in hope and never lives anywhere else. footed and innocent, "(Sweet and fleet and beautiful, in Silicon abundantly supplied and utilized in the body a coat of brown)." makes the blood alkaline and warmer, gives energy to She is likeable and makes many friends and very few, the muscular and motor system and cheerfulness to the if any, enemies. She . possesses a sunny disposition, a mind. These people actually "feel their oats." (Oats is smiling and friendly personality and a tendency to talk a Silicon food.) They are strong in muscle and opti­ incessantly. She makes a very sociable neighbor but is mistic of mind. The horse that is fed on oats has a never clannish. In fact, she has few ties and does not more active and vigorus set of muscles, a glossier coat, carry the old friends in mind when far away. "O ut of and is more willing to work. sight, out of mind” holds good with her. She is living Motor energy is increased by silicon food. Nervous in the future and in the present and forgets the past. exhaustion demands an almost exclusive silicon diet. New friends, new home, new interests—progress and Silicon helps the circulation by making the arterial walls change—this is the life for the Silicon Type. They are stronger and more elastic, muscles are more firm and the thoughtless and changeable, more or less reckless and hair more luxuriant and glossy. Silicon, in fact, acts happy-go-lucky, but very industrious and only at times like a tonic on mind and nerves. display a nomadic and tramp-like indifference to con­ The Silicon girl is lively, light hearted, loving, un­ ventional life and habits. They are able to work hard concerned and heedless. She loves to laugh, dance and and long without depleting their energy; work all day sing, but dancing is her favorite pastime. Her face is and dance till morning; no type is so able to do this flushed and fingers and feet are never still. It is as without injury to health and spirits as is the Silicon natural for her to be gay and happy as it is for the bird Type. They are always ready to help others, full of to sing. Whatever happens, she is never gloomy. If sympathy and accommodation. sick, unfortunate, neglected or poor, she does not com­ Silicon, in blood and tissues makes a man jubilant plain. It is,impossible for her to worry, for her very over his plans, enthusiastic and mutual minded. They blood dances and sings as it flows along like a brook want to share their good fortune with others. A man in the summer time. It is always summer time to the of highly alkaline tissue is speedy and accurate. He can Silicon Type. She is always slender but with good sized decide instantly and ready to act at once. bones, rather large feet and bony hands. She has a (Continued on page 34), 10 The Occult Digest February 1926 C How

S y B r . C la ud e JVm . Qhamberlain

H HE following press dispatch newly-weds, with no reason for I I appeared in yesterday’s news suicide. Their suggestibility robs I T from Niagara Falls: Will The World them .of conscious thinking or rea- I “A young woman, as yet uniden­ soning, as they become hypnotised I tified, early today walked out into Be lured to destruction by the by the law of motion. the Niagara River, apparently in­ hyp-no-tiz-ing, tan-tal-iz-ing, Those who have premeditated I tent on reaching the stronger cur­ mes-mer-iz-ing jazz methods suicide, go about their preparations I rent which would carry her over •of today. for death, deliberately, while the I the falls. On the edge of the roar­ suggestible somnambules make no I ing waterfall, she lay down. Reser­ How the “Law of Motion” preparations, do not anticipate I vation employees, who happened to hypnotizes the individual as death and, probably, in many cases, I pass, saw her and rushed out easily as the masses, and how are not, at all conscious of what I forming a chain in the water. They the suggestible somnambule is going on. Sometimes, the shock I succeeded in dragging her ashore o f the cold water overcomes their I just as she was beginning to drift is lured to his death by the somnambulism, after they have I toward the cataract.” majesty of Niagara, the thou­ waded out into the raging current. I The hypnotic lure of Niagara! sand and one forms of «speed Then, when it is too late, they I The hypnotic facination of count­ mania, the circus, the political scream for help from the onlookers. less other things in motion! and military parades, and how Civilized man was not the first Niagara is known as the national religious revivalists save souls to feel the hypnotic lure o f the mov­ suicide grounds, and yet many ing waters of Niagara. The In- I thousands of people die from the by understanding the psycho­ dians, long ago, felt the awesome I operation of the same natural law logy that makes them “hit the attraction o f this m ighty movement on city streets, at railroad cross- Sawdust Trail.” of forces. They believed that the ings, at race tracks, and in count­ falls were the abiding place of the less other places. God of Waters, whom they wor­ Yet because of the spectacular shipped devoutly. nature of the falls, and the instinctive horror of drown­ Every year, in a flower be-decked canoe, the fairest ing, Niagara is the symbol of suicide. Hundreds of maiden of the tribe was sent to her death over the falls people have met death by a plunge over the falls or by as a sacrifice to “ The Great Spirit” which was supposed a leap into the turbulent waters of the rapids. The to reside in the cataract. This was believed to appease mysterious call of the seething water is a siren song the wrath of the God, so that the Indian braves might to many highly suggestible people. Several suicides not be drawn down the current of the river, when they I have been known to occur in a single week at Niagara. paddled into the stream higher up. Tourists and police often find along the shores of Science, with its knowledge of suggestibility in rela­ the river personal belongings, with a hastily scrawled tion to the law of motion, can now explain, not only the note, containing the last thoughts of some suggestible superstition of the Indian, but also the cause of count- I somnambule, who could not withstand the attack on the less suicides. nerves, of-Nature’s greatest wonder. Often times, the This includes, not only those at Niagara, but those hypnotic thought of suicide is instilled on the spur of the which take place all over the country, and which usually moment by the mysterious witchery of this great spec­ are supposed to be accidents. tacle of Nature in Motion. A locomotive engineer driving his huge iron horse An observing student of psychology, standing at along the steel rails blows the whistle for a railroad Prospect Point, cannot help but notice the power which crossing. His keen eye tells him at just what moment the cataract exercises over the more suggestible individ­ his engine will reach that point. uals. It is as if a giant magnet is tugging at their At the same instant he perceives a high-powered imaginations, while a devilish voice whispers: “Come automobile approaching the crossing at top speed. The with me over the falls in the greatest of all adventures driver of the car sees the approaching train but, instead — Death" of slowing down, he opens the. gas and races the loco­ A frail, highly-sentient woman will approach the edge motive for the crossing. of the precipice and suddenly withdraw, terror-stricken, The engineer knows what is going to happen, and, with her hands over her eyes, to blot out the awe-in­ usually, is powerless to prevent the “accident.” But fip spiring scene. Even strong men, with less than ordinary knows what has happened. The hypnotic power of the suggestibility, often feel that compelling force that seems motion expressed in the plugging locomotive has gained to beckon them to death. Some people run away from control of the automobile driver and he is driving to his the falls in terror. death. The lure of speed and action has won out once Many people have been seen to wade out into the more. rushing waters with a smile on their lips, calling good­ The coroner will say that the automobilist “came to bye to the helpless on-lookers. They go like people his death by accidental means,” but it is no more an who walk in their sleep. Some of them are happy (Continued on page 22) The Occult Digest February 1926 1 1 C . Truth Stranger than Fiction

P r o p h e t i c W arning of the Earthquake in T o k i o

By M ora. L . A c k e r m a n

O R some few days prior to the disastrous earth­ though it returned hourly and even quarter hourly, peo­ quake of Japan last September, I, with two of my ple from all parts of the town ran from their homes F relations— husband and sister— had been located at and hotels to the open, for strangely enough, trees are the Imperial Hotel, Toldo. Having been there on three areas of safety and Nikko is so well wooded that the previous visits we were discussing the advisability of open means trees. going to the mountains of Wyanoshita or Nikko— our At that first shock I received automatically this state­ inclination being toward the former place. ment and for purposes of proof, I recorded it as soon Having decided to leave Tokio on Saturday, Sept. 1, as I returned from my first “running out.” "Now you in the afternoon, and having previously arranged to go know why I warned you to leave Tokio. I f I had said to Yokohama for mail in the morning, I was persistently ‘on account o f an earthquake’ you would have doubted told, both by thinking and automatic writing, that we it more or less and your husband decidedly more, and must upon no account be in Tokio later than Friday— the object was attained by your leaving Tokio.” preferably: Thursday. Even then we had no conception of what such a warn­ When I suggested to my husband that we go on ing had meant to us for we were yet unaware that the Thursday or Friday, he gave me as reason for remain­ shake was not a local one, and it was not until the day ing, that Friday being the Emperor’s birthday, the mail following that a message dropped for the Emperor, would not be delivered and in consequence, he must go whose summer home is at Nikko, from an airplane, gave to Yokohama the next morning to secure it. (The house us details of the frightful tragedy. the mail was to be gotten from was crushed instantly We, who for five weeks were prevented from leaving by the first shock, with no human being remaining to Japan first by an utter inability to get away by boat or. tell the tale!) Whereupon I agreed and was answered rail and later because we were waiting for the arrival instantly— automatically— It is not right at all, but very of our trunks from the Imperial Hotel, Tokio, knew well wrong— for you must not be here the last day of the the length and depth and breadth of that disaster. And week. had we not done so, a view of what had been beautiful I did not repeat this command, but as it was given to Yokohama when for thirty-six hours we were anchored me both by thinking and writing almost continuously at the remains of the pier there, waiting for the first during the day, in the evening, I remarked that both silk shipment to come by boat from the interior, would automatic writing and thinking said “We must leave for have convinced us beyond doubt. Nikko. Thursday or Friday at the latest.” Thereupon, The few remaining walls were being rapidly dyna­ to my amazement I was answered, “V ery well then, we mited and whether we would or not, we were forced to will go.” This answer from my husband was even more see it coming perilously near to our vessel in the shape of a surprise to me than the fact of the automatically of rocks, stones and brick, catapulated high into the air. given advice. In the hope of finding something to remind us of the Naturally I had every confidence in that, since it had city, we had gone ashore over a temporary bridge of served me well many times, but my husband had hitherto boats and had found nothing whatsoever except heaps not given many demonstrations of his belief in the power of dirt and stone and wood, most of it charred beyond I had less than a year before suddenly found myself recognition. possessed of. So this answer was proof, to my mind, at I had sailed from that lovely harbor three times, each leat, o f the mighty powers o f this unseen dictator. time with regret, and the hope of a return. But I had In accordance with this plan we found ourselves safe­ no such feeling that day. On the contrary I was thank­ ly esconced in Nikko at the appointed time, by Friday— ful to turn my back on the devastation of that beautiful the last day o f August. That day, a perfectly ideal one, country and set sail for our own home land. passed without any untoward incident. We, as did other In addition to the warning of the disaster, we were tourists, wandered through the aisles of Nikkos’ marvel­ enabled entirely by and through the same means— auto­ ous temples; walked under and around those magnificent matic direction, to so regulate our plans that in comfort pagodas, than which there is nothing more remarkable and safety we were able to go in a round about way to for beauty and symmetry in the w orld; listened to the Kobe Harbor, awaiting the arrival of our trunks, also tinkle of the far off silver bells and wandered through sent as directed, by automatic writing. the woods to that very beautiful red lacquer bridge— These are my reasons for m y‘confidence in the fact the Emperor’s own— and used only for royalty. In all of automatic writing, and there remains just this to add: ways, that day was no more eventful than any other that it was an impossibility that subconsciously (as and it gave no slightest indication of the disaster of the many people misinterpret the gift of the automatic) I morrow. could have received the warning, for to my knowledge At breakfast time on Saturday, the clouds were dark there was no other human being who knew in advance, and lowering; typhoon winds and rain had succeeded the advisability of leaving Tokio. Seismologists had sunshine to such an extent that upon seeing the lowness predicted disastrous earthquakes within the next six of the small barometer we always carried with us, my years-whereas to the day thereof, I was warned. And husband said anything could happen. Prophetic words furthermore the warning was confirmed just after the — though at the time we did not realize it, for at just cause of the warning had shown itself. So it does seem five minutes to the noon hour, the house began rocking as if truth were stranger than fiction and stronger by like a tossing boat and we realized with terror that an all odds, since all the fancy in the world or play of ones earthquake was upon us. imagination would not have kept us from the perils of Running out o f doors until the first shake subsided, that fateful first of September. 12 The Occult Digest February 1926 The CABINET

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many and much of lasting good has come o f it. Max Reinhardt and Gordon Craig have created a new art of the theatre with the ideals of the "modems,” and one has but to visit any exhibition of contemporary paintings to see the influence it has had upon many o f the most con­ M Í all modern stimulants to thought, to the emo- servative artists. I tions, and to general aesthetic appreciation, none Impressionism aims not at reality if, by reality, we OB constitute such a powerful conscious or uncon­ mean it in the photographic sense of the word. It, in its scious educational force as the motion picture. The essential nature, strikes at the heart of things; going be­ screen and its mechanics have a distinct psychological neath exterior appearances. It has often proven itself an advantage over the still picture, the spoken word, or the excellent medium for the expression o f an individual’s printed page, and while it would be folly to attempt to reaction toward what might be (to the average person) supplant one for the other— each having its own particu­ a most commonplace thing. There are emotions and lar indispensable place— yet the cinema is predestined to impressions, swift fleeting emotions and impressions that accomplish materially what the above three mediums elude any attempt to record them. It is here that the have attempted to. “isms” play an important role. (I am speaking now in It has demonstrated itself to be especially adaptable a somewhat limited psychological sense.) In this regard for the presentation of the. fanciful and the imaginative. they may be characterized as being as important to the Those who have witnessed pioneer efforts along these fullest expression as psycho-analysis is to the modem lines such as “ Peter Pan,” Nazim ova’s “ Salome” and psychological laboratory. “The Thief of Bagdad” will readily see that. There are Melancholia and hypochrondria are the progenitors of fields as yet untouched. The possibilities of the use of much that is profound and more that is strange. As the supernatural element are almost boundless— being nothing is either good or evil in itself, so the peculiar limited only by human ability and imagination. mental twists, even the mad obsessions and delusions of Though the ingenious methods of production have many unhappy mortals of the past have proven indirect­ increased and improved, the mechanical side has not ly to be a gift from the gods to the uninspired masses. made up for the lack of the one thing vital to true ex­ Strange as it may seem, biographical history will show pression. It is soulless. It lacks individuality and the greater portion of the most exalted creations of art, character. One mind, one personality, one influence literature, and music, and the deepest and most penetrat­ must dominate a work in order to have a harmoniously ing works of philosophy and science were by individuals creative whole. A special virtuosity and versatility is whose lives show a singular irregularity, both mentally required, perhaps. Difficult as it may seem— it has been and morally, and, shall we say— spiritually. done. One has but to recall Nazimova’s “ Salome,” “Der One thing impresses itself upon the mind of the per­ Golem,” and. of late, “The Last Laugh." and “The Sal­ son who has taken interest and patience to investigate vation Hunters,” to see the result of the application of the subject. It is this. The unseen conflicts, the “battles such an ideal. of the giants,” which are carried out in the labyrinthine The settings, lighting, pantomime, and general breath­ chambers of the aberrated mind, often have other than lessly bewildering tempo of “The Cabinet of Dr. Cali- a purely physical basis. They have causes other than gari,” are a result of an attempt— the first attempt— to those which any post mortem with scalpel and micro­ use the motion picture to show the workings of an insane scope will reveal; or than any other theories based upon mind. It, in its combination of impressionistic settings our present knowledge of the brain cell Structure will and acting, is the first psychological study ever offered explain. the public via the “movies.” “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” is, it must be said, post-impressionistic. It is not impressionistic in a par­ ticular sense. Its value lies in the fact that it is im­ pressionistic in the g eneral sense of the word. Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, and Van Gogh were the early exponents of the “isms.” Needless to say they were in their time the center of much bitter conflict. Some pro­ claimed them masters, others declined to have anything to do with the “new art.” But the “ isms.” the bane of the old school, at their raging height, were, for the most, confined to the Continent. They proved to be an after- math, a psychological degeneration and reversion as a result of the war. They were new, they were popular, they coincided with the post-war spirit. Bolshevism and expressionism, German marks and cubism doubtlessly had much in common. But it proved a stimulation to The Occult Digest February 1926 13 of D r . C a l i g a r i

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"Caligari” is ‘weirdly and almost unreasonably sub­ jective. Its leaning trapezoidal walls— triangular doors — crazy corridors— dizzy angles— erratic roofs— preci­ \ M pitous rhomboids, are comparable only to a frozen catastrophe or a chapter ripped from a nightmare. It has a tendency to make the spectator question for (The scene then opens with a characteristic view of the moment his own rationality. As a story told and the town of Holstenwal. Characteristic on account of seen by a disordered mind, normal comparisons are its general relation with the rest of the village scenery.). lacking until the climax. It is only at the culmination Preparation for the village fair has routed peace and that we learn that the hero is a psychopath— his nar­ quiet, and all are busy and bustling for this important ration a fabrication of his own delusions. annual event. Amidst the din, high above the streets “ The Cabinet o f Dr. Caligari” savors of the absinthine in his cloistered attic, sits Francis trying to concentrate tales of E. T. W. Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe. In his attention which had been distracted by the noises its motif there is much of the shadow world of Hades. on the street below. The fantastic plot opens with Francis, a melancholy Unnoticed in the throng, a strange old man enters young man, seated on a garden bench talking to Sir the office of the town clerk, and handing one of the Oliver, an aged traveler. Night comes on; the weather clerk’s assistants his card, announces himself as Dr. is damp and chilly, and, as his way is long, Sir Oliver Caligari. He inquires for the town clerk and is advised begs the hospitality of the young man until the morrow. to wait until the following day, as he is extremely ill .The scene is one of oppression and silent grief, of mad­ humored. Dr. Caligari, however will not wait and ap­ ness and impending evil. As they talk a young woman proaches the town clerk who angrily cries, “ Don’t in­ dressed in white slowly passes in front of them with a terrupt me when I ’m busy. Wait over there!” fixed dream-like stare. This synopsis is written almost entirely from memory Caligari goes to one side and sits down while the after viewing the picture several times. It is written excited clerk yells to his flustrated assistants. After literally— following the cinematographic action as close­ waiting for some time Caligari becomes impatient and ly as possible for the sake of continuity and coherence. again goes over to the clerk. The clerk roars: “ Sit It must be said that it represents a psychiatric problem down, fool!!” Caligari retreats at this while a look of m i and for a complete understanding, must be carefully intense anger overspreads his face— a look fortelling 4 m read. revenge for the insult. Francis appears strangely moved, and draws close to After a lapse of some time, the clerk comes over to Sir Oliver exclaiming: “My betrothed. We never men­ Caligari who now assumes a smiling face. He at once tion Caligari in her hearing.” explains his mission— a request for a permit to operate This statement puzzles Sir Oliver, and his facial ex­ his concession at the fair. pression plainly reveals it. But Francis does not notice “What land of a show have you got?” the town clerk it, and continues: snaps. “She has been as you see her since a dreadful day “ Caesare, the somnambulist!!” Caligari answered. last August. You will probably think my story the mut­ “ He foretells the future!!” tering of a madman, so incredible are its horrors, but The clerk sneeringly retorts “ Faker!” I assure you I am hopelessly sane...... ” Caligari becomes angry at this and turns to leave but “ I was spending the summer in the little town of Hol- is given the desired permit. stenwal somewhat north of here...... ” That night the first murder occurs. The town cleric is stabbed to death. The killer leaving no clew as to his identity. In the center of the general confusion typical of a fair stands the tent of the mysterious Dr. Caligari who is attracting the wandering crowds with a small bell and a lurid poster of the somnambulist he is displaying within. Allan,' a youthful friend and dreamer, living near by, finally prevails upon Francis to drop his studies and accompany him to the fair. Here they are attracted by the sinister figure of Caligari and his hypnotic patter. “ Ladies and gentlemen!! Don’t miss this great sen­ sation !! Caesare, the somnambulist, Caesare, who has been asleep for twenty-three years is about to be wa­ kened. Come in and watch me bring Caesare to life...... !!!” ( Continued o h page 36) -1 t.

|g The Occult Digest February 1926 ^ T h e Second of a Series of Startling Facts about the TF'or kings of Hypnotism in Everyday L ife— Never Before Published. H y p n o t i s m and The j^awi —AS RECOGNIZED BY THE COURTS By Charles H. Me Dermott

T i l HE courts' of the United States of America have Finally he happened at her home when she was alone been slow in recognizing the defense of Hypno- and flattering her had intercourse with her. She is unable ™tism in criminal cases, and the hypnotic state ex­ to say whether this was done with her consent, but isting in questionable transactions. knew what was done, and that it was wrong, and told The subject has been much discussed by different him it was not the proper thing to do. Jury found writers. With but a few instances the Supreme Courts defendant guilty of seduction. of five states of the Union have given the subject suffi­ Supreme Court held the evidence tended to show cient recognition to comment upon the hypnotic state. that he was pretending to exert an hypnotic influence on The leading cases in which the subject was discussed in her, and thereby having some effect on her mind. America have been the cases of People vs. Worthington, Held court has right to receive evidence of other acts 105 Cal. page 166, People vs. Ebanks, Vol. 117 Cal. page of defendant showing hypnotic influence. 652, and the State vs. Donovan, Vol. 125, Iowa page To establish their qualifications to testify as experts 44. Since these decisions the Supreme courts o f other on the use of hypnotism as an anesthetic stated—the one, states have merely mentioned the subject in their opinion, that, he was the superintendent of an insane hospital; had only to discard it as a defense. not made an extensive study of the subject, but knew, The situation is quite different in Europe where the to a certain extent, what modern authorities said on the highest tribunals have recognized the subject of hypno­ subject; had never practiced hypnotism, but had wit­ tism as a defense in criminal cases, and especially in nessed experiments by others; and the other that he France where the courts have considered the state as had made some study of the subject, had practiced it- a matter of obtaining evidence, and have given credit somewhat and knew a few of the works recognized as to the evidence produced by such method. Austria fol­ standard authorities but had never attended a school lows next in recognition of hypnosis. teaching hypnotism; there being but one in existence, located in France. A comment on the 'leading cases in America may not Held, expert should always possess such a degree of be amiss. knowledge or skill as to enable him to speak intelligently In Rogers vs. State, 33 I n i. 643, (year 1870): upon the subject, and beyond this in passing up on the “Where it appears that accused was addicted to the preliminary proof, much must of necessity be left to excessive use of opium, and at the time of the supposed the discretion of the trial judge. Held no error in per­ larceny he had been deprived of his accustomed supply mitting them to testify. of the drug, evidence as to what effect such deprivation The court in People vs. Joseph J. Ebank, 117 Cal. 652 would have on his mental condition was admissible as (A ugust 1897) took the arbitrary narrow view of the tending to show whether he was in such a condition subject and refused to recognize the hypnotic state. mentally as to be able to commit larceny.” Defendant called as a witness one 6. A. Stephans I In 105 Cal. 166,^ the Supreme Court in its opinion j and offered to prove by him that he was an expert hyp- declares: “Counsel offered testimony as to the effect notist, that he had hypnotized defendant, and that when of hypnotism upon those subject to such influence. 'Hie hypnotized defendant had made a statement to him in court ruled out the evidence, and, we think rightly. regard to his knowledge of the affair, from which state­ There was no evidence which tended to show that the ment witness is ready to testify that the defendant is defendant was subject to the disease, if it be such, not guilty, and that defendant denies his guilt while in merely showing that she was told to kill the deceased that condition. The court sustained an objection to the and that she did it does not prove hypnotism, or, at testimony. The court (below) said “The law of the least, does not tend to establish a defense to a charge of United States does not recognize hypnotism. It would murder.” be an illegal defense, and I cannot admit it.” The court In the case of the State vs. Donovan, March 10, 1905 then repeated, in substance what it had said to the jury, (125 Iowa 44). the prosecutrix was a school teacher, and told them to disregard the offer. We shall not stop age 22, a cousin of defendant’s wife. He pretended to be to argue the point, and only add the court was right. a hypnotist. In 1901 he had put her to sleep, at a (Opinion by Lear is, C. McFarland, J. said; I concur family entertainment at her home, and according to her in the judgment and in the opinion of Mr. Comdiissioner testimony she had been under his influence several times Leards; but what is in the opinion on the subject of since. Subsequently he told her he loved her and em­ hypnotism must be taken as applicable to the testimony braced her. She frequently called at his real estate offered on that subject in this case, which was clearly office when he would lass and caress her. He claimed inadmissable, and not as covering the whole subject. It he could “sit down aqd make a suggestion that she will not be necessary to determine whether or not tes­ come to his office at a certain time, and she would timony tending to show that a defendant committed the come.” She says she could not stay away. act charged while in a hypnotic condition is admissable From' the questions she stated she did not know until a case involving that precise question shall be pre­ whether it was flattery or the influence but “he had an sented. All other judges concurred in above. ^^nfluence over me in some way.” (.Continued on page 20) The Occult Digest Febru'ary 1926 IS P sychoanalysis and Training

AFFECTION QBeing the Fifth of a Series of Lessons for Parents, giving a Discussion of the Psychology of the Child, a Problem, illus­ trating an actual situation from Child Life, a Solution offering ways and means of correcting the difficulty with Questions suggested by the Problem.

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OW far should parents go in giving affection.to should they administer doses of excitement that intoxi­ a child ? Should affection be lavished on a child cate a child with like effect. H without restraint ? Is it better to withhold affec­ Affection is necessary to the proper development of a tion for fear of spoiling the child ? child. But it should be a sane, calm affection that gives These questions are vital for the future development the child a sense of pleasure without excitement. There of character! of happiness or misery. Further, the ignor­ is enough excitement in this busy world of ours without ant handling of the affection problem may bring about adding to the burden that the nervous system is required many forms of nervousness and, in extreme cases, in­ to bear ordinarily. sanity. A mother’s kisses may be given to a son without stir- The vacillating, weak and irritable character is often . ring in him those deeper feelings of passion reserved for brought about by excessive affection during the first two his future love life. The same may be said for a father or three years of a child’s life, followed by severe dis­ in loving his daughter. Even between parents and cipline, spanking or teasing later on. The child loses children of the same sex, excessive affection is often the confidence in the parent who was formerly so wonder­ direct cause of sex perversions. The child’s feelings ful and kind and now such a source of scolding and being aroused by one of his own sex, he forms this re­ nagging. Unconsciously he feels that he cannot trust lationship as a love model and finds himself giving his anyone, least of all himself, after losing confidence in affection only to those of his own sex. the parent. He no longer tries to please anyone and Love your child. Kiss your child. But do not love becomes the so-called “ difficult” child. Delinquency him as if he were a sweetheart. Save that for him so and crime follow in quick succession. that he can give this kind of love where it properly belongs. Never excite him with affection. Calm him Nervousness is brought about through a type of ab­ with affection and use it as a pleasant reward. The les­ normal affection, that type of affection that belongs son is simply that of avoiding extreme sensation. Then more properly to a lover than a child. This consists of the sweet little son or daughter is quite safe in the wild, passionate hugging and kissing, making the child breathless with excitement. The child’s sensations are future- Problem aroused long before the proper time, its sexual feelings A little girl, six years of age, was quite nervous, trou­ are precociously developed and it begins to feel demands bled by disturbing dreams approaching nightmare, com­ for sensual gratification that are almost impossible to plaining that something was crawling over her body at satisfy. Later in life this demand will grow to such an extent that it will be accompanied with shame and humil­ B Solution iation. There will be an effort to repress the demand Analysis of this little girl’s love situation disclosed and an inner conflict will rage to such an extent that a the fact that she craved the most intense sensations. She nervous break-down results. loved to be thrown high in the air, even while she was In extreme cases the nervous system becomes so sensi­ terrified at the prospect of falling. She insisted upon tive through excitement that perversions develop. The kissing full in the mouth with a zest that was unmistak­ secret knowledge of such demands causes a withdrawal able. Her movements were over-active and everything from the world of social contacts, brooding and peculiar­ she did was intense. The least little disagreement drove ities of many kinds that may develop into insanity. her into a tantrum. All this because parents are ignorant of child training The solution of this problem revolved around the principles and nature’s penalties for extreme stimulation principle of substituting calm, quiet surroundings and of the nervous system. Excessive affection is more pow­ behavior for excitement provoking actions. Her nerv­ erful in its effect than alcohol. No parent would think ous system was given a chance to recuperate. Affection of giving a child continued doses of alcohol. No more (Continued on page 28) 16 The Occult Digest February 1926 The S t a r s of F e b r u a r y % “J^ibra ”

"TYTTE S T IL L continue, in Feb- Castor is really two stars, revolving y y ruary, to notice overhead, about each other every 342 years some of the most brilliant The Understudy and 2 months. stars in the celestial galaxy, while About 20 degrees S. W. of that o f The Lynx, like that of THINK, as Luna moves her I \Castor and Pollux, and in a line Camelopardalus (the Giraffe) ex­ mimic way hibits no very interesting features Across the starlit stage in nearly parallel with them, is a row by which it can be distinguished, Heaven’s play of stars 3 or 4 degrees apart which nevertheless it is well to know, from That she must tire of her mas­ distinguish the feet of the twins. month to month, all of the pictures querade The brightest of these is Alhena which the ancients fancied they saw Of shadow-parts by other actors in Pollux" upper foot, and the next in the empyrean. The Lynx con­ played! small star S. of it is in his other tains only a moderate number of I think she longs for something foot. This row of feet is nearly of her own; inferior stars, scattered over a large two-thirds of the distance from space N. of Gemini, between Some talent shining forth as hers alone, Pollux to Betelgeuse in Orion Auriga and Ursa Major. The whole which we located last month, and Some art with which to prove number is 44, and only three are herself a star a line connecting them will pass as large as the 3rd Mag. We ought Compelling as her sistery planets through Alhena, which may help to to know The Lynx, however, as its are. find it. Wasat is in the ecliptic and center is on the meridian about Yet, of that galaxy who rule very near the center of the constel­ 7 p. m. on the 1st, or 9 p. m. on the with power lation. Tejat is a small star between 23rd of February. The glories of each swiftly fleet­ 4 and 5 Mag. and deserves to be More interesting to both astron­ ing hour noticed because it marks the spot omer and astrologer, is the large That sees their triumph ended of the summer solstice in the tropic constellation of the Gemini, or The and begun— of Cancer, just where the Sun is on Tains. The figures Castor, and Despite the brilliance of their the longest day of the year, and it Pollux, which it is supposed to passage there is also the dividing limit between represent, are to be seen in a sit­ Against the deep vault of the the torrid and N. temperate zones. sable air ting posture. Gemini is the third Propus, also in the ecliptic, 2x/2 de­ Who, after all, is mistress to The ♦ sign but the fourth constellation in grees W. of Tejat, is a star of only the order of the Zodiac, and is situ­ Sun? — L ib r a the 5th Mag., but is memorable as ated south of The Lynx between a star which served for many years Cancer on the east and Taurus on to determine the position of the the west. The orbit of the Earth planet Uranus after is discovery by passes directly through the constellation. As the Earth Herschel, for whom the planet is also sometimes moves round in her orbit from the first point of Aries called. to the same point again, the sun, in the meantime will Castor and Pollux were the twin sons of Jupiter by appear to move through the opposite signs, or those Leda, wife of Tyndarus, king of Sparta. The manner which are situated right over against the Earth, on the of their birth was very singular. They were educated other side of her- orbit. at Pallena, and afterwards embarked with Jason in the Accordingly, if we could see the stars as the sun celebrated contest for the Golden Fleece at Colchis; on appeared to move by them, we should see it passing which occasion they behaved with unparalleled courage over the constellation Gemini between the 21st of June and bravery. Pollux distinguished himself by his and the 23rd of July. achievements in arms and personal prowess, and Castor Gemini contains 85 stars, including one of the 1st, in equestrian exercises and the management of horses. one of the 2nd, four of the 3rd, and seven of the 4th From this they are represented in the temples of Greece Mag. It is readily recognized by means of two prin­ on white horses, armed with spears, side by side, their cipal stars, Castor and Pollux, 1st and 2nd Mag. stars, heads crowned with a petasus on whose top glitters a in the head of The Tains, about 4J4 degrees apart. star. Among the ancients and especially among the Romans there prevailed the idea that Castor and P o’lux fi i There being only 11 minutes difference in the transit of these two stars over the meridian, they may both often appeared at the head of their armies, and led on be considered culminating at a few moments after or their troops to battle and frequently to victory. The before 9 o’clock about the 24th of February. Castor brothers cleared the Hellespont and the neighboring is of the 1st Mag., Pollux of the 2nd. Pollux, in the seas from pirates after their return from Colchis; from head o f Pollux, is 4J4 degrees E, E . of Castor, and is which circumstance they have ever since been regarded one of the stars from which the moon’s distance is as the friends and protectors of navigation. In the computed in the nautical almanacs. The changing Argonautic expedition, during a violent storm, it is brightness of Pollux for years led astronomers to con­ said that two flames of fire were seen to play about K ir sider him varying from the 1st to the 3rd Mag., but their heads, and immediately the tempest ceased and the astronomer Herschel, after 25 years of observation, the sea was calm. From this circumstance, sailors in- discovered that the variation was due to the fact that (Continued on page 25) The Occult Digest February 1926 17 CMR. BRADLEY

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N law, in physics, in the sciences he offers new light, a new revela­ I and in religion, the stress has tion, a great truth, and that he I ever lain on “the evidences.” speaks to the new and virile gen­ Particularly in those fields which eration” can have little if any sig­ are at once religious and scientific. i N THIS article the au­ nificance. These hermaphrodite fields of Go to, Mr. Bradley. You do care thought are as deceitful as any two- thor takes the position a damn— several damns— whether faced Janus, luring one on along that “the evidences” or not we read and accept your the lines of pure faith, and suddenly book as one of the evidences! And leaving one in a position from which relating to psychic phe­ if I am having a little fun at the there is no graceful recession and expense of your technique, I never­ then demanding “ the evidence” upon nomena are of such vital theless recognize that your book is which one’s position rests. It is not importance that they must actually one of the most compre­ surprising, therefore^ to find, every hensive, carefully selected, pains­ now and then, an apologia born of rest either upon logically takingly arranged, popularly pre­ this intense desire to justify what sented, and well printed volumes may appear ridiculous to one’s proven scientific basis or ever issued upon the general sub­ friends. logically proven occult ject of the evidences of genuine Some of the Evangelists felt the spirit phenomena. need of such justification of their theorems. But all my enthusiasm for its ex­ faith in Jesus, hence certain portions cellences will not lead me to a sen­ of the gospel were written; Bona- timental praise. It needs criticism venture, feeling something of the — at its very roots it needs criti­ sting o f popular reproach for the cism. The magazine which has wearing of so disgraceful a garment as that adopted by honored me with a commission to discuss your book is as St. Francis of Assisi, “explained” the reasons for its determined as you say you are, to ascertain and spread use, accenting the paradox of the glory of the poverty the truth with reference to things occult and psychical. which it symbolized. Newman, aware of the undercur­ And it cannot afford to say dogmatically “Mr. Bradley rent of questioning when he left the Church of England proves the existence of spirit communication,” unless to become a princeling of the popes, wrote his famous Mr. Bradley actually does prove it. Which, despite the and excellent “Apologia pro Vita Sua.” Even politi­ fact that he comes a long way nearer to it than more cians, desiring to “square themselves” in advance of a widely known (in this country) contemporaries, he cer­ growing suspicion^ that their motives may sometimes tainly does not do. Proof, in a scientific sense, is that be without reason, are given to issuing that quaint col­ evidence which admits of no doubt whatever, and can­ lection of apologies.'- The Congressional Record than not be subjected to misinterpretation. Such proof Mr. which no publication in any language, including the Bradely’s experience does not offer. To the man in Scandinavian, contains more blah to the square inch or the street, for whose admiration I suspect Mr. Bradley per pound avoirdupois. of playing to some extent, it may be sufficient evidence It is not astounding then, that Mr. H. Dennis Bradley, — but even sufficient evidence is not proof. Forming who claims by inference,- a somewhat stellar position a conclusion upon given data, and demonstrating a in the world of English letters, should be intensely eager truth are entirely distinct. to justify his faith in the persistence of personality Mr. Bradley’s material, the experiences which he sets beyond that greatest adventure in life which we call forth as having occurred, and which I have not the death. slightest reason in the world to doubt did occur is more His book, “ Towards the Star,” is presented as one of entertaining than the average matter which comprises the "evidences” in this most vital matter; and it is not the records of a psychical research. At the same time my fault if, as such, it has to be subjected to the same it is more genuinely evidential than most. canons as any other “evidence.” That is Mr. Bradley’s fault. For the book is literally flung from the presses The ensuing discussion is not intended to reflect upon of T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., London, as a challenge re­ the book’s value. It is intended to provide Mr. Bradley quiring an answer. And, as if the further to incite an or anyone else who attempts a similar work in this field active and. thorough critical examination on this side with certain cautions against repeating grave errors of the duck pond, Mr. Bradley, with commendable frank­ judgment. ness but execrable taste, declares he ‘.‘does not give a One of the most frequent and startling “evidences” damn” whether we accept his book or not. Then what of spirit persistence offered by mediums of all classes, did he write it for? Either his disclaimer of our in­ in seances of all sorts, is the delivery of information terest, our attention, and our conversation is a shallow which could be known only to the sitter and the spirit. pose, (which, in my personal opinion it really is!) or For example, let us say that in the course of a seance. his statement on page 4 that to "unmanacled intelligences (Continued on page 33) The Occult Digest February 1926 GHOSTS WE S t a r tl ing Q lim pses

I N THE tumult of life True experiences of men forget they are brothers; forget they [R e p r in t e d owe their lives to the same creditor; forget the law has provided one entrance “THAT WAS MY FATHER” for all, and through one By Pola Negri (the Film Actress) exit each lifejmust pass EFO R E I left Paris for home, I was entertained at the house of some on the way—to pay that people who are much interested in spiritualism. During the evening debt. Ba discussion arose between a young woman who did not believe in mate­ rialization and one of our hosts, and a seance was suggested. “Whom would you like to see ?” was asked of the young woman, when Man does not remember conditions were right for the seance, and we were all sitting in a circle in when Life began—neither the dim room. does he know how long “Oh— anybody dead!” she laughed. will be its span. Man only Presently a liglit appeared in which a face was vaguely outlined. It meant nothing to me, but the young woman screamed and fainted. The knows that in some mys­ lights were snapped on at once. terious way he began a “That was my father,” she moaned; “and he isn’t dead 1” journey that led him into While her car was being called, the telephone-bell rang. The young woman was requested to come home at once— her father had died half an a port called “Birth;” hour before! wherein he found many travelers like himself. DAN LENO’S SHADE By Stanley Lupino (the Commedian) Strange sounds, some SAW Dan Leno’s ghost twice— in Drury Lane Theatre. Do not mis­ melodious, some terrify­ understand me. I do not believe that the minute human brain can ing, sounded in his ears. Idrag out of the hereafter any given spirit among the giillions of millions of spirits who have passed over in the centuries of universal existence. I His eyes beheld both have had experiences, however, that have convinced me that those in the beautiful and _ grewsome hereafter can, and do, visit us. The spirit of Dan Leno visited me first in 1917. I never met Leno sights. Life appeared as in the flesh. I was a child when he was alive, and, besides, I was too poor a struggle, in which each to go to the theatre; but when I became a comedian I conceived an intense battled for a place. admiration for him. I have the last letter he ever wrote. I have the jug with his portrait and signature. I have a rose bowl presented to him by the London Pavilion directors. Humanity surged forward In 1917 I was playing his part, the Widow Twankey, and using his dressing-room. One night the weather was so bad that I decided to sleep and back, until races ware in the theatre. I curled up on the couch, the one he had used, and then fell established and boundary asleep. I woke suddenly, and was conscious of a form flitting through the room. lines divided them into I went out and questioned the night watchman, but he had seen no nations. Dark and threat­ one and heard nothing. I went back to my couch, but shortly afterwards ening shadows shut out I saw clearly the face of Dan Leno. I fled from the theatre and spent the rest of the night in an hotel. the light. Man's day on I was much chaffed about the adventure, of course. When precisely earth was done. | He had the same thing happened again the next year I did not mention it to a soul. entered another harbour I never have done so until today. My explanation of the vision is that the spirit of Dan Leno, knowing —called Death, and found with the all-embracing knowledge of the hereafter that a young and strug­ that Life had followed him gling comedian was trying his utmost to bring laughter and light-hearted­ ness into the lives of thousands as he had done, came to give me some through the dark cavern, message, perhaps of encouragement. I was not then, unhappily, in a mood ready to succor and teach to receive it. 19 H AV E SE E N o f t h e Unknown

JVorld Famous Feople him the lessons he had missed on his journey to FROM TlD-BlTS] the Tomb.

Eagerly he sought to RIDING THROUGH A GHOST know the mystery of Death. He looked this By Cicely Hamilton (the Playwright) way and that. Life A CTING as secretary to a hospital in France, I slept in a room in which supernormal phenomena were of frequent occurrence. The door seemed the same. The knob had an uncanny knack of turning on its own account, the door rattled dark shadow had passed mysteriously, and even when I kept the door open the ghost was not to be and he was in the light thwarted. It then indulged in a persistent tapping on the walls. One afternoon I bicycled to die village about two miles away. Return­ again. ing home in the dusk, I saw a woman on the side of the road, walking along quickly. Hatless and dressed in something black, I took her for one of the village women. Was this Death? He She dashed across the road just as I passed, and I shouted, prepared gazed into the faces of for a collision and a tumble. But I ran right through that woman, as if those he loved. Sorrow she were made of air. A few yards on I dismounted and looked back. Nobody was there, and it dawned upon me that what I had seen was was written there. He nothing human. Whether there was any connection between the two I hastened to their side to know not, but after this uncanny experience the disturbance in my room comfort them—to tell ceased. them he lived. They could MY MOTHER’S AFTER-DEATH RETURN not hear his joyous cry. By Dame Nellie Melba He pressed his lips upon W HEN I was still young, my mother died. Although she had been ill their own. They sat un­ for years, death had hitherto been a mere name for me, and it seemed moved. He took them in to add a whole host of new problems, hitherto unguessed, to my existence. Just before she died she summoned the family into the room, and there his strong embrace. They was some message for each of us. For me it was, “Always be a mother sat beside the form that to little Vere.” Vere was my sister, four years old. once held h im , and I carried out my mother’s dying wish, and Vere’s cot was removed into my room. And then, three months afterwards, Vere was suddenly mourned. Was this Death? seized with an illness. The nurse and I put her to bed and did all we could for her. As it was too late to send for the doctor, I thought I would go to bed too, trusting that she would be better in the morning. He had been born again. I went to bed early, put fresh wood on the fire, and lay back in bed They knew it not. They dozing under the flickering shadows on the ceiling. Suddenly I saw that thought him dead. To there was a third person in the room, and peering into the half-light I saw that the third person was my mother, dressed in the simple black dress in make them hear his voice, which I had last seen her on earth. Speechless, I watched her walk very feel his caress, see him as slowly across the room to my sister’s bed, raise her hand, point to the figure in the bed, make a strange, sweeping motion with her arms, and disappear. he was in this new life With a quick-beating heart I ran to my sister's bed. She was sleeping he strove. That moment peacefully, and seemed better. the veil was rent in twain. In the morning I mentioned the incident to my father before he went out, wondering if it would make him feel that the illness was more serious Those he loved had heard than we thought, and if we ought to send for the doctor at once. his call and seen his face. “Tut, tut, g irl...” he said, in his broad Scottish burr. “Get those Hand touched hand and foolish notions out of your head.” As for sending for the doctor, he decided to wait till he returned in the evening. thus he made them under­ In the evening it was too late. My sister died at four o’clock. stand that Death was only These are the facts, bare and unadorned, as I give them in my book of reminiscences, “Melodies and Memories," published recently by Thorn­ Birth.— ton Butterworth, Ltd. (21s.). I do not seek to explain them. Effa Danelson S e t i 2 0 The Occult Digest February 1926

Hypnotism and The Law (Continued from page 14)

In this condition o f affairs therefore, it has been And in the case of Czynski, infra, Dr. Fuchs of Donn, decreed permissible to look to the expression of opinion called as an expert witness, totally denied the power of by jurists, physicians, and scientists who have spoken hypnotism, and said that he did not consider it an in­ on the subject to ascertain its legal effect, and, so far strument by which the human will could be controlled as may be, to supply the deficiency of judicial opinion in a permanent or irresistible way. thereon. And in 3 American Lawyers, 534 H. Gerald Chapin, Definitions \LLB., in an article on the “Forensic Aspect of Hyp­ Hypnotism is defined to be artificial catalepsy, in­ notism ” , arrived at the conclusion that hypnotism has duced somnambulism; a method of artificially inducing no place in civil or criminal law, and that it should not sleep; artificial somnambulism. Bonvier's Law Diction-i be made use of for the purpose o f eliciting testimony, ary. Rawle’s edition— title, Hypnotism. and that laws need not be passed to restrain its exercise. A & A Encyclopedia of Law, Vol. 15-905, says, Hyp­ And he expressed the further opinion in the same notism is commonly observed and defined as an abnor­ article, that in cases in which documents have been set mal mental condition characterized by insensibility to aside by the courts where hypnotism has been alleged most impressions of sense, with excessive sensibility toj to have been employed, it is that the (opinion) in each some impressions, and an appearance of total uncon­ instance was decided upon a theory o f a wholly different sciousness; especially, that variety which is artificially character; and said that the case brought before the induced, usually by concentrating the attention of the civil tribunal of Lyons, France, in June, 1893, in which subject upon some object of vision, as a bright bit of a widow died leaving a will in favor o f a professional glass, or upon the operator, who generally aids in pro­ magnetist, who together with his w ife had been harbored ducing the result by making a few slight passes with by her at her home for some time, in which it was his hands. When in this condition, the mental action claimed that they magnetized her, and in which it was and the volition of the subject are to a large extent reported that it was evident that the magnetist had com­ under the control of the operator. plete control over her mind, and that he was able to Hypnotism: Black’s Law Dictionary, states; In medi­ suggest to make a will in his favor there was nothing cal jurisprudence, a phsychic or mental state rendering which would not permit the decision setting aside the the patient susceptible to suggestion at the will of an­ instrument in question to be placed upon the theory of other. undue influence. The hypnotic state is an abnormal condition of the mind and senses, in the nature of a trance, artificial In Witthams & Becker Med. Jour. 452, however, it catalepsy, or somnambulism, induced in one person by is said that like other theories and investigations received another, by concentration of the attention, a strong ef­ at first with ridicule, hypnotism has been placed on a fort of volition, and perhaps the exercise of a telepathic sure scientific basis, thanks to the labor o f Charcot and power not as yet fully understood, or by mental sug­ his successors; and that the great French experts in gestion, in which condition the mental processes of the legal medicine, so far as known without an exception, subject and to a great extent his will are subjugated Tardien, Devergie, Bronardel, Vibert, Tourdes and Ton- and directed by those of the operator. retti recognize this possibility that the will may be en­ (In two notes) L. R. A . 40 p. 170; Hypnotism is tirely abolished under hypnotic influence; and that hyp­ defined by W. Xavier Ludduth, A. M. M. D. of Chicago notism had found a place in French, Austrian and Hun­ in an article on "Hypnotism and Crime", in 13 Medico­ garian law, and must sooner or later creep into the legal Journal, 239, to be in its simpler manifestations or Anglo-Saxon. modified form of natural sleep artificially induced, but So the committee o f the British Medical association in its more complex form it compares with the abnormal on hypnotism at the Birmingham meeting, 1890, re­ condition of natural sleep known as somnambulism. ported, in 11 Medical Legal Journal, 73, stated that And in the case of Czynski reported in 14 Medico- they had satisfied themselves of the genuineness of the Legal Journal, 150, Professor Dr. Graskey of Munich hypnotic state, but that no phenomena which had come called as an expert witness, said that a person can be under the observation gave support to the theory of suggested to go to sleep, and that such a sleep induced animal magnetism. by suggestion is called "hypnosis’' and the inducement And in 2 Hamilton, Legal Med. 212, the writer ex­ of hypnosis is called "hypnotism” and the person who presses the opinion that all impressional individuals can hypnotizes another is called a hypnotizer. be hypnotized, but says that hypnotism for the present In 51 Alt, L. J. 87, H. M. Barrister, M. D. of Chicago is of greater theoretical than practical importance both in an article on " Hypnotic Influence in Criminal cases," from a medical and a forensic point of view. said that "conditions distantly related to or approach­ And in the case of Czynski, reported in 14 Medico- ing it (hypnosis), but within physiological limits that Legal Journal, 150, Professor Greshey of Munich called may be manifested by anyone, ought not to be called as an expert witness, said that "hypnosis” has the pecu­ hypnotism, or at least for legal purposes should be liarity that it can be produced easier and easier as the clearly distinguished from it.” operation is repeated, and that the subject frequently In Bouvier's Law Diet., Rattle's Revision, title Hyp­ hypnotized remains more suggestible in the intervening notism, it was said that there is a very decided differ­ time, and it thus followed that thoughts may be sug­ ence of opinion among American scientific men who gested during his waked condition which he never have given special attention to the subject as to the would have accepted before the hypnotic operations had effect of hypnotism, and the same differences appear to begun, and the control of the subject's will may be un­ exist in a marked degree in European thought, and dertaken therefore in a waked condition and can be that it is imposible as yet to state any, satisfactory con­ heightened by suggestion during the period of wakeful­ clusion from this diversity of opinions; and that there ness, and thus the hypnotizer may attain finally such has as yet been no recognition of the subject of hyp­ power over his subject that a single word or a single notism by the courts notwithstanding the amount of look may put him to sleep.” discussion concerning it in the press. (Continued on page 36) The Occult Digest February 1926 21 THE DEEPER ISSUES of OCCULTISM ‘Dion Fortune (Reprinted From The 0:cult Review)

M H A T is occultism? This is a question we may Unless we approach the Sacred Science as did the I very well ask if we intend to devote time and initiates of old, we shall not find in it what they .found. W"trouble to its pursuit. Are we to content our­ It is not enough that we work for its secrets as men selves with tales of haunted houses, accounts of tele­ work for the prizes of their profession; we must live pathy among primitive peoples, and research into the for it as men live for a spiritual ideal. There is only esoteric literature of the past? These things certainly one motive that will take us safely through the labyrinth have .their value ; all available occult phenomena should of astral experience— the desire for light on the path be carefully investigated, not only for the sake of ob­ of spiritual development that ends in Divine union. taining knowledge, but also for the sake of unmasking This was the goal of the Mysteries in their noblest form, charlatans; and the results obtained by investigators and it is only by seeking the same goal that we shall be in the past are of the greatest value for counter-checking able to enter into them in their higher aspect. the results we are obtaining at the present day. Occult science is a very potent thing, and many But is this enough? Is our attitude towards occult people are protected in their researches thereiti by their science to be the same as our attitude towards the own ineptitude. Did they succeed in some of the opera­ classical languages, in which we admire the masterpieces tions they undertake, their natures, unpurified and un­ of antiquity but ourselves produce no living literature disciplined, would be shattered by the result. It is only in the present? We know that the Mysteries exercised because no power comes through that no disaster fol­ a profound influence on the ancient civilizations, and lows. If we desire safely to investigate the Mysteries, that some of the noblest men of all races were inspired we must first approach them under their nobler aspect, by them, and looked on them with reverence and awe. as part of a system of spiritual regeneration, and only Are the phenomena we call “occult” merely those of after we have submitted to their discipline and offered the séance room on a larger scale, or, in addition to the the dedication of the lower self to the purposes of the little-known laws of nature whose operations we seek to Higher, and had that dedication accepted, can we safely understand, is there an energizing spiritual influence study the magical aspects of occultism which usually such as raised the consciousness of the initiates of old, attract the unenlightened. and gave them a deeper understanding of their gods? Our intellectual questionings can only find their reso­ Let us consider the phenomena which may justly be lution in spiritual illumination. Occult science, rightly described as occult, or hidden in their working and understood, is the link between psychology and religion; nature: ectoplasm; psychometry; clairvoyance in all it gives the means of a spiritual approach to science, and its forms; telepathy; the various forms of divination, a scientific approach to the spiritual life. The experi­ which are far from being altogether delusive; mystic ences to which it admits us, rightly understood, form experiences ; conversion ; trance and rapture ; hypnotism, a stairway from rational brain-consciousness, dependent suggestion and auto-suggestion; the survival of bodily on the five physical senses, to the direct apprehensions of death ; and last, but not least, certain forms o f mental spiritual intuition. Occultism can never be an end in itself. disease. A ll these things are hidden in their nature, not It does but open up a wider horizon, but a horizon that amenable to ordinary scientific methods of investigation ever recedes as we approach it. We are still in the realm with instruments of precision, and legitimately form of appearance. It can, however, be an invaluable means the field o f investigation o f occult science. to many ends. A knowledge of its philosophy can give There is, however, another aspect to occult science a clue to the researches of the scientists, balance to as well as its scientific side, and that is the realm of ecstasies of the mystic, and it may very well be that in inner experience which experimentation opens up. The the possibilities of ritual magic we shall find an invalu­ gateway into the Unseen can be found by the practical able therapeutic agent for use in certain forms of mental application of its principles, and those who care to fulfil disease whicji Psycho-analysis has demonstrated have the conditions and take the risk may adventure therein. no physiological cause, but of which it can very seldom The powers that the ancient rituals invoked still remain, effect a cure; it is here that the occultist, with his and are not very far to seek for those who combine knowledge of the hidden side of things, can teach the knowledge, faith, and courage. psychologist a very great deal. If, however, we desire to assay this adventure, we Occultism is. a sacred science, and should be ap­ should remember that the ancient rituals were used as proached with reverence. “ Strait is the gate and narrow part of a religious system, and that no initiate of the the way" that leads to its holy places, and “ few there ancient Mystery schools would ever have dreamed of be that find it.” The Angel with the flaming sword still experimenting with them to satisfy his curiosity or love guards the gate of the Mysteries, and it is not wise to of the marvellous. He approached them with reverence, expose our souls to that force until we have purified after strict discipline of character and severe tests of them, and are sure that we can give the right password fitness. It was when the lofty ideals fell into abeyance whetf it is demanded of us. that phallicism and black magic began. There comes a time in the experience of every student If we want to penetrate into the deeper issues of of occult subjects, provided he is sufficiently interested occultism, it is not enough that we should approach it in them, when the ideas that occupy his mind begin to out of intellectual curiosity. This will reveal us no more affect him, and the unseen world of which he has read than its outer form. The Occult Path is not so much is slowly rising above the horizon of consciousness, and a subject o f study as a way o f life. Unless the element the subtle is becoming tangible. He will find himself o f devotion and sacrifice be present, the key will not in a veritable No Man’s Land of the mind, and he must turn in the lock that opens the door o f the Mysteries. (Continued on page 42) 2 2 The Occult Digest February 1926 C. THE ONE PATH The Hypnotic Power M otion H N E finds many members of our o f I Society who enter theosophy (Continued from page 10) with various limitations which O accident than that of the suggestible in­ the latter is in no danger as long as it prevent them from getting a true and proportionate view of our teaching and dividual who wades out into Niagara to does not move. With a few exceptions, purpose. These limitations arise from I .his doom. and outside of highly domesticated car- their immediate previous experience An automobilist drives down a paved niverous animals, most beasts will pay more than from their remote past. city street, with a slight incline. Prob­ -little attention to food which does not . Relics of Christian (or Buddhist or ably, he is well within the speed limit move. Hindu) bigotry, vestiges of impudent A small boy, on roller skates, is going The life of children offers an unlimited materialism, currents of self-satisfied I along ahead of him near the curb. number of examples of the law of mo­ conceit arising from shallow intellec­ Gradually the car creeps up on the tion in operation. tual education— such are some of the skating boy, the driver, cautious and fear­ The street parade o f the circus is the prejudicing causes, commonly seen, of ful of an accident Imperceptibly, the lure of motion commercialized. What failure to appreciate the essential na­ boy skates farther out into the street, small boy can resist following the parade ture of our work. although the autoist has blown his horn. to the circus grounds? And how few The lad apparently is taking no notice grownups ? Fantastic notions are current among of the coming car. Yet he must have A slightly less spectacular parade, us, the detritus of real occult principles heard its approach. The driver decides often, is used by political leaders to lure which have become useless driftwood to slow down, as the boy gradually gets the votes of the suggestibles, or to get and are tossed about among the un­ in front of the auto. But, too late! The them to attend a political meeting. thinking. boy is beneath the wheels, and another Certain large premiums are paid by It is true that there is much in oc­ “accident” has occurred. ticket sellers at carnivals and circuses cultism which is difficult of comprehen­ Perhaps the best place to see this law for. the privilege of selling the tickets to sion— hence the word occult. Yet we in action is at a street crossing^ in the the people who have followed the parade must somehow come to understand most congested streets of a big city. to the show grounds. When the band that it is not an active occultation by You see a man jump directly in front of starts to play in the. big tent, and the some guardians of truth, but the weak­ a moving street car or auto, barely barkers begin to lure the crowd from one ness and insufficiency of ourselves escaping death. Not only-once, but many place to another, the law of motion, again, which bar us. The way is open to all. times in an hour. begins to operate. People lay down their Thought alone will not take us far You may believe that the man had care­ money, grab a ticket and hurry away, along it Neither is feeling, however fully calculated his chance of getting leaving their change in the hands of the beautiful, enough. There must be ac­ across ahead of the car. No such thing ticket seller. You might be surprised at tion, strenuous, sustained, purposeful, has happened. The lure of motion was the large amounts of money these men too strong for his conscious reasoning, and godlike. There must be simplicity, receive in lieu of any salary. “ Walk away and, for an instant, he actually faced sincerity and endless loving charity. dough," they call it, and selling tickets death. The accident consisted in his not for the merry-go-round, with its luring These things must be accompanied by being struck down. Thousands of people motion, is the most prized job of all. • a definite plan of action in the Mas­ are not so fortunate. The same principal operates in certain ter’s service. It is no use exuding Watch the hands on the Chicago chain-stores under the pretense of busi­ vague feelings of kindness upon hu­ Tribune’s daily “death clock.” Nearly ness efficiency, while the cashier in many manity in the abstract—a process a thousand people killed by autos last cafeterias operates similarly. Your bill which is often accompanied by irrita­ year in Cook county, alone. Over is figured up with lightning speed on an tion with humanity in the concrete! a thousand such deaths in New York adding machine, and you are hustled Universal kindliness is the finest state City during 1925. j Other cities had great along, with whatever change you may of mind in all the world, we are as­ numbers of fatalities of a similar nature, be lucky enough to get, by_ the cashier’s sured by the Prince of the Wisdom, depending upon traffic laws, the nature busy attention to the next victim. the Lord Gautama Buddha. But feel­ of their streets, and upon the degree of The religious revivalist plants his ing kindliness in a void is like thinking suggestibility possessed by the people in lieutenants among the most suggestible in a vacuum; it never reaches any ob­ that city. members of his congregation. When the jective and is therefore analogous to Many times the driver of the car is the appeal is given to "hit the saw-dust trail,” the gentle feeling of satisfaction which one who was hypnotised by the law of these people start the parade of “saved- some people have who enjoy sitting motion. This lure stimulates racing and souls” up the aisles. The law of motion about seeing someone else do work. taking chances which no careful driver does the rest. They see the work getting done, and should take. Horse-racing, auto and speed-boat rac­ though they are doing nothing, they The influence of this seemingly mag- ing, and athletic contests, aside from the have a singularly fatuous feeling of j netic power is of primitive origin. It gambling element, hold a lure that draws well-being. When they are compelled goes back in the primitive life of man the thousands. And the larger the crowd, by circumstaoces to wrestle with mat­ t to when anything which had motion held with its movement, the greater the draw­ ter, the feeling of progress usually his attention. He had to watch all mov­ ing power. Until leaders in education vanishes, though it might very readily ing things to survive. Moving bushes make use of the law of motion, they can be superseded by a higher stage of may have meant a sabre tooth tiger, or, not hope to compete with these other satisfaction — not self-satisfaction but | a moving shadow may have been the things which draw the public in great work-satisfaction. ' Vague feelings of warning of a huge cave-bear. The mov­ numbers. kindliness and helpfulness toward men ing grass concealed his tribal enemies, The great mass o f people will always are of that useless nature. and for centuries this habit of observing be highly suggestible and subject to the We must face the facts: the path to all action made grooves in his brain. law of motion. Whether the motion be in the Masters is a path of true love, not He also learned that to eat meat from the form of war, religion, politics, holi­ tawdry personal affection, based on , a carcass which had not been recently day-festivities, athletics, touring, migrat­ personal likes and dislikes. “Love is moving, might mean poisoned flesh and ing to Florida, or what-not, set the law not love that alters when it alteration the death agonies. Motion meant life and in operation and you will get results until finds." Unalterable Love, fired by an health in many cases, while in others it the energy is spent or until some one else intense determination to serve mankind might mean danger. sets up some counter activity which lures in the name of God and the Elders, Movement and action were symbols to in another direction. such a motive takes us far. It wilt i which he must needs pay attention or Humanity cap be lured to destruction enable us to break up our prejudices suffer the consequences. by the jazz methods of today just as and nbtions and strike out boldly to­ You have watched a cat spring at a surely as Niagara lures to death. ward the further shore, alone and un­ mouse. But did you know that the cat But it wont be, because some one will daunted. If we hug to our bosom will not do tins unless the mouse moves? set up some motion in another manner those lifeless puppets of preconcep­ The feline will sit waiting long periods and style, which will have greater hyp­ tion* and antipathies and timid per­ of time for a move from the mouse, and notic power than jazz. sonalities we shall get nowhere, but after a long and aimless journey shall awake to find ourselves not far from the starting point. Dolls and tinsel are How does THE OCCULT DIGEST compare with other for children in evolution. Men must serve men in a world of realities. Magazines? The Editor would like to know. Write her — The Messenger. your Opinion. The Occult Digest February 1926 23 C. E C T O P L A SM N O W THE EXPANSION OF ETERNITY J DEMONSTRATED

By ILrnest Dodge Seances conducted under rigid test con­

[Reprinted From R a y s R o sy C ross] ditions in the presence of Mrs. Crandon, of Boston (wellknown as “Margery,” ), T IS immeasurably more difficult for was a yearning for purposes unfulfilled, furnishes remarkable manifestation of the human mind to conceive of some­ into a future where these purposes may this elusive, yet tangible, form of matter. thing without a beginning than of achieve fulfillment. In reading what follows it should be something without an end. Not to realize Assuming then that the axiom of gen­ borne in mind that Walter is “Margery’s” this is practically to admit that one has eral purpose is a reasonable one on which control, “Psyche” the name applied to never pondered the matter. W e see a to base our faith, let us state in syllogistic the medium, and that the term “tele­ monument in a cemetery, to take a tan­ form what may be called the Theorem plasm”. is used for ectoplasm: Walter said that he would demonstrate gible example. Whether or not the pres­ of the Two Eternities. ence there of this solid matter is a mira­ that which not more than ten people in cle, we at least have no difficulty in ac­ “W e know there is a vital difference the world had seen and arranged with (and since we’re dealing with infinities, cepting the evidence of the present fact. Dr. C. for the proper control of the red And since it is now a fact, nothing is this means a difference that is measure­ light in connection with the phenomena easier than to admit that it will stay there less) between the contents-in-events of which follow. forevermore provided no destructive force past eternity and the contents-in-events |_ Psyche was supplied with the luminous from within or without acts upon it to of eternity* yet to come, because of the wristlets in addition to the anklets al­ move, wear, shatter, disintegrate, or con­ dilemma of absurdities which confronts I ready in use, the circle completed and sume it. But once try to affirm that the us the moment we try to assume the con­ the adjacent controls reported the begin­ monument has been there from all eterni­ trary. ning of trance. There was but little ty, and our mind balks at the conception. “For, if the. two eternities were equal, movement of Psyche’s limbs and only the then we must reason either that eternity “H qw did it get there?” we instinctively J slightest vocalisation. After a few ask, which is equivalent to affirming our past has been sufficient in itself for the minutes Walter asked for red light and absolute disbelief in the story of its past accomplishment of the pan-infinite pur­ we saw the psychic entranced, the head poses, or that it has not been sufficient. eternity. turned somewhat to the left and a cord of But if it were already sufficient, then teleplasm issuing from the right ear and There is one thing and one thing only would future eternity be superfluous, a passing down to the shoulder upon which whose existence from all eternity our thing achieving no purpose; and past it lay as a thick wavy band about 154 mind is capable of accepting, and that is eternity, which we assumed to be its inches wide and, in its horizontal portion, the power or potentiality of growth. equal, would likewise be a thing achieving about six inches long. At the point where Even that, of course, we cannot explain no purpose. And this would be to con­ it left the ear, and almost down to the in the last analysis; but its affirmation tradict the hypothesis chosen, which was ribbon section, it seemed to be about doe? not stultify our reason. To ask the purposeful completeness of past eter­ one-half inch in diameter. In the red where this potentiality for change or nity. light, and against the background of the growth came from is equivalent to asking “Or, if we take the other horn of the black dressing gown, appeared white or, why there is any universe at alL And dilemma and suppose that past eternity perhaps, silvery grey with a certain lum­ this we can answer only in the rather has not been sufficient for accomplishing inosity which would not be normal to evasive way that “the universe exists be­ the pan-infinite purposes, then future fabrics or other inert matter. cause there is no power resident in non­ eternity— which we assumed merely its * * * existence to prevent existence from exist- equal— must likewise be insufficient. And mg.• _ tf After a few moments of darkness thus the purpose of the universe is im­ Walter again called for light and the But how does this eternally existent possible of accomplishment in any or mass had changed its position and had potentiality for growth function through all eternities, which is contrary to our enlarged so that it covered the a right the two eternities which our mind per­ fundamental axiom that events move to I cheek and, in fact, the larger portion of ceives as we look backward into the past the fulfillment of purpose. the right side of the head. There were or forward into futurity? I shall pres­ “In thus affirming the infinite inequality three or four pendant strips such as ently state a general theorem, showing a of the two eternities, we cannot assume might be formed by a viscous mass flow­ radical difference between eternity past that the future is infinitely less significant ing over the edge of a supporting sur­ and eternity yet to come, which is preg­ than the past, for our minds are still con­ face. These strips hung down about five nant with helpfulness to our minds in scious of purpose as we face the futtire. or six inches from the main mass and at many directions. The theorem itself is Hence there is no alternative but to be­ least four inches below the line of the just as logical as the propositions of lieve that the future is infinitely morel jaw. The teleplasm did not appear quite geometry. But, o f course, like the dem­ significant than the past. This means so white as in the previous view, except onstrations of geometry its validity is that the all o f future events forms an in­ in the case of the pendants. This may bound up with the validity o f its funda­ finity of a mathematically higher order be accounted for by the different angle mental axioms. So we must state from than the all of past events, or that the of light reflection, the effect of the back what axiom we intend to proceed. past stands to the future in as small a ground or the contrast with adjacent The prime axiom is that there is a ratio as the finite stands to the infinite.” surface. The head was turned more to purpose in the train o f events, taken as a Let it be observed that this theorem is the left than in the previous period of whole, which make up the history of the drawn up in due logical form. It is as illumination. universe. And to the simple minded, or valid as the assumptions on which it is After another brief intermission the what to us seem the healthy minded, this based; and the assumptions are as valid light was again called for and the tele­ certainly appears incontestable. “What as the fundamental instincts of humanity. plasm was seen to form an almost com­ use can there be,” we naturally inquire, But it is not enough to state the propo­ plete mask, the pendant portions were no “in having any world at all if it has no sition in naked terms. . It must be ana­ longer present, and the lower edge of the use, that is to say, no purpose?” The lyzed, illustrated, and applied. First, let mask, while irregular, conformed to the existence of purpose in universal history us explain how it is that things which are general line of the jaw. The mass ap­ may perhaps be disputed by a certain infinite may differ in magnitude no less peared to be about one-half inch thick extreme type o f pessimist, but to most pf than things which are measureable or and continuous over the features. In each us such pessimism seems a transient dis­ finite. For example, the series of even of the instances described, as well as in ease rather than a permanently possible numbers is infinite, yet it contains jugt those which follow, the entranced psychic form of thought. I f the pessimist really one-half as many terms as the series of showed no movement of head or should­ believed his pessimism to the center of all integers, both odd and even. Or the ers during the periods of illumination. his being, he would commit immediate series of decimal numbers, 10, 100, 1,000, * * * suicide. Or, again, a question mark may 10,000, and so on to infinity contains just After a somewhat longer period of be written after the idea of purpose by one tenth as many terms as the series 1, darkness and while Walter discussed with those for whom the new concept o f re­ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, continued to infinity. And Dr. C. the condition of the table top and lativity has unsettled for the time being if two infinites may differ twofold or the availability of a suitable cloth cover­ everything regarding time, space, and the tenfold, they may differ in any ratio up ing for the table, the fight was again laws of motion. But we prefer to follow to infinity itself. Thus we say the num­ turned on, and we saw Psyche leaning the mass mind o f the race, which feels ber o f cubic feet in all conceivable space forward with her head bent well to the that it “knows” —as children and birds is infinite; but the number of points pos­ left and the teleplasmic cord proceeding and animals everywhere know— that “life sible within a single cubic foot is also from the right ear across the cheek and is real, life is earnest,” and that the gen­ infinite. So the number of points pos­ down to the table, a distance of about eral scheme o f all things is moving sible in all space must be an infinite of a 18 inches between the point of contact. through time out of a past where there higher order. (Continued on page 24) (Continued on page 30) 24 T h e Occult Digest February 1926

The Expansion of Eternity

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The above is sufficient to show that W e are now living in that age when in there is no logical contradiction in assum­ j(os Colores one portion o f space, called the Galaxy, ing, as does our theorem, that although the process o f aggregation has proceeded the doings of the universe in the past far enough to have produced several bil­ have been infinite in number and variety, Faint and pale . . . evening's rainbow lions of stars. For aught that we know the doings of the universe yet to come Woven here . . . a thread of gold the whole remainder of space may be in win exceed those of the past in no smaller And there . . . tiny stripes of silver its primal state o f chaos, more primitive ratio than that in which the infinite ex­ A breath of cool refreshing life . . . and unformed than the nebula. But the ceeds the finite. Thoughts speak . . . Love . . . Mirth process o f growing into stars and worlds Or, to break the idea up into more . . . Strife! will gradually extend into these waiting comprehensible parts, let ns say that in A band-made shawl of lavender! spaces. the universe at present an infinite variety Pink shells . . . bathed clean In the third place, let ns see what oar of processes or events are going on. But general theorem of growth has to say if we divide k all by infinity, we get an By a mirrored crystal stream . . . about the Deity. It must banish the idea infinite number of subprocesses, or local A brink of shaded green moss . . . of God as a static and changeless being, streams of events, and each of these we Dusk . . . is threatening the land . . . as a being having no purposes yet unful­ will call unity. Now each local stream One corner of the sky . . . painted filled, no interests yet waiting for at­ of events, looked at backward from the crim son! tainment. It will bring us back rather present into the shadowy past, is like a The symbol . . . a crash . . . end­ to the idea expressed by.Jesus when he converging series, such for example as ing! said, "M y F ather worketh until now.” 1, Jfi, J i, }<, carried on ad infinitum—a It will keep us from losing the idea of Life is a study . . . in black and white series whose ultimate term is mathemat­ Deity as an individual and as having ical zero, and whose sum of terms is the Black . . . is the night . . . white is moral character, built as moral character simple integer Z (Notice carefully that th e day I must be upon effort and experience. It the “htg inning'* o f the universe is here Tinted with the gold of sunlight! will teach ns to think of God as the soul represented or symbolized by “zero,” Night . . . softened with bine . . . of the whole organized and growing uni­ not in the sense that it was “nothing” like fog . . . verse, even as I am the soul of my lim­ —far from it—but in the sense of being A mystic light from the moon and ited organized body. A nd as H is body smaller in function than anything which stars! grows in complexity, so God—always in­ in the light of our present consciousness Shadowed bars of blackest lace! finite—grows from one infinity to an­ is measurable.) —Vivienne. other. Bat the same local stream of events - - ¡03 It will teach that He not only grows above referred to, when looked at in the but He labors. He not only labors but opposite direction or that in winch his­ a "centilKon” years ago, we would find He suffers. But over and above His tory moves, from the present forward the current theories all silent labor and His suffering, He enjoys, and into boundless futurity, is like the same Now we have said that looking back­ His joy increases with the circle of the series reversed and made diverging, as ward in the past we behold events as a ages. The world is full of witnesses to 1, 2, 4, 8. 16, 32, and so on without converging series, and the starting point this. Go out and listen to a wood thrush Irarit. When viewed in this forward as a virtual zero of activity. Hence we and you will hear God telling how much direction we have a series whose ultimate must say that no degree of simplicity He enjoys the life He has won by ages of term is above any limit, and whose sum that we can conceive of is too simple to His labor. Listen even to the katydid, of terms is of course also infinite. have been at some time the prevailing and you will bear it again. Or listen to When once we have accepted as ra­ mode throughout infinite space. Let ns a blind grandmother repeating the tional this idea of the universe, we shall see to what that leads ns. psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd,” and find that it lends itself to startling and you will hear it in tones that come from We can conceive of a time when there deeper down in God’s patient heart fascinating applications. We can apply were not any stars to be found anywhere it to God, to man, to the evolution of in all space. Such a time there must In the fourth and final place, we shall Vie, and to stellar cosmology. We can have beat. We can conceive an earlier find comfort for our individual selves in by its aid even mitigate the mental pain time when there were nowhere any ag­ this conception of a growing universe. of trying to conceive of anything with­ gregations of matter even as bits of dost For of it we are a part, and what we are out a beginning or specks of gas. Such a tune there must now has never been before. T here need Let us make a few of the applications, have been. We can conceive of a time be no misgiving about this significance starting with the one last named. We earlier yet when nowhere had atoms come of our present selves as something new must believe that in some finite number together to form molecules, or when not and original on the face of history. Con­ of years after 1924 (which just for con­ even had electrons and protons come to­ cede, if you will, that we have lived be­ venience we shall call fifty billion) the gether to form atoms. That time also fore, as some are confidently teaching; f i verse at large will see as much vital most have been, and it was only a finite at least it is true that you are meeting action, as much purposeful history made, munber of years ago. We shall not pro­ problems in your daily life that have as ever there has been in all eternity up ceed to dissect and simplify any further, never before been encountered, much to the rear 1924. _ And by the tame token for at present we know of nothing less solved, by any being. Even God has one-half of all vital doings thus far ac­ simpler. Possibly when we come to know never met them until now He meets them complished have come within the past something about the ether, we may find through His indwelling in you. You are fifty bilfion years. That would be equiv­ it made up of something yet finer, an absolute pioneer on the pathway of alent to saying that the imi verse, al­ ("ethereons,” forsooth,) but let us now soul history. though already eternally old in the mere conveniently assume that the very ear­ And so without irreverence you can empty com t of empty years, is virtually liest condition of space was when nega­ put into the mouth of your Creator, or for all significant purposes now only tive electrons and positive protons were Heavenly Father, Co-laborer, and Friend a billion centuries old. If that does not everywhere spaced apart at exactly uni­ words like those of the poet: wholly remove the oppressive thought of form distances. Then their mutual at­ "And remember, when darkly a past that had ao beginning, it trans­ tractions and repulsions were equally despairing, forms it and robs it of its power to over­ balanced in all directions. All forces You are fighting My battles whelm our minds. were in equipoise and everything was at for Me. In the second place, let us step out of rest. You are wresting some inch mere metaphysics sad look at the past Finally, at a time only measurably from the darkness growth of the stellar unrverse. The long ago, some of these primordial units Beyond what the Highest ndbular hypothesis, or its modern sub­ found each other. Atoms and molecules can see.” stitutes, (meteoric or plauetesimal) seeks began to be formed. Later, small ponder­ We have covered much ground in this to trace the formation of the many stars able masses began to be; then masses brief discussion, and have had to pass and worlds through some billions or tril­ large enough to gather heat and to glow. from point to point rapidly. But it may lions of years from a primal nebula or And planets fit for life were built out of all be summed up in a few words: "The perhaps a meteoric swarm. But should fragments of stars which, passing each past is but a sketch, the future its ful­ we ask what the stuff of the present other too closely, had disrupted each fillment ; the past is but a seed, the fu­ Milky Way was doing a “vigintillion" or other under gravitational stress. ture its flower. Everything grows!” The Occult Digest February 1926 2 5

T h e S t a r s o f F e b r u a r y (Continued from page 16) f erred, that whenever both fires appeared properly represented as a watchful little of January) and about 26 degrees S. of in the sky it would be fair weather, but creature, giving notice of the other’s ap­ Betelguese in Orion, with which it forms when only one appeared there would be proach. a large equilateral triangle. It forms a storms. St. Paul, after being wrecked Ptolemy gives no information as to the similar triangle with Phaet in Columba, on the island of Melita, embarked from and Naos in Argo. These two triangles Rome on a ship whose sign was Castor influence of the constellation itself, but merely describes that of its chief star, being joined at their apex in Sirius, form and Pollux. These brothers were, it is Procyon. By other authors, however, it what is called by some the Egyptian X. said, initiated into the mysteries of is said to cause frivolity and either love Sirius comes to the meridian about 9 Cabin, and into those of Ceres and of dogs or danger of dog bites. It is o’clock on Feb. 11. Eleusis. They were invited to a feast noteworthy that the idea of water and at which Lynceus and Idas were going Sirius is a binary star, white and yel­ drowning seem to be universally associated low. Its name is either from Seiros, to celebrate their nuptials with Phoebe with this constellation, for in addition to (sparkling or scorching) or from Osiris. and Telaria, the daughters of Leucippus, the Greek ideas embodied in the legends, brother to lyndarus. They became en­ The Egyptians also called it Thoth and its Euphratean name was The Water Dog, Sothis and it was connected with the amored of the daughters and resolved to and its Chinese equivalent, Nan Ho, The Sothic Chronology. The Chinese call supplant their rivals; a battle ensued in Southern River, certain of the stars being it Tseen Lang, the Wolf of the Heavens, which Castor killed Lynceus and was called Shwuy Wei, a Place of Water. and attributed to it, when brilliant, at­ himself killed by Idas. Pollux revenged Together with Canis Major this constel­ tack from thieves. According to the death of his brother by killing Idas. lation is associated by the Kabalists with Ptolemy it is of the nature of Jupiter Being himself immortal he did not wish the Hebrew letter Tzaddi, and the 18th and Mars. Alvidas says it is of the to survive his brother, and entreated Jove Tarot Trump, “The Moon.” nature of The Moon, Jupiter and Mars. either to take from him his own im­ It gives honor, renown and wealth, ardor, mortality or restore Castor to life. Jove Monoceros, the unicorn, is a modem faithfulness, devotion, passion, and makes did the latter and Castor was made to constellation, made out of the unformed its native custodians, curators and share Pollux' immortality. But only par­ stars between the two Dogs. It extends a guardians. It gives danger of dog bites. tially, so that while one was on the earth considerable distance on each side of the If culminating it brings high office under the other was in the infernal regions and equinoctial, and its center is on the same governments with great profit and repu­ they alternated this life every day. So meridian with Procyon. It contains 31 tation. It is modified by its conjunction in the constellation the two stars are small stars, the largest of which are only with various planets for details of which never seen together, but, when one rises of the 4th mag. It was added by Bart- see Vivian Robson’s Fisted Stars and the other sets—or so the ancients be­ schius in 1624. Astrologically it is said Constellations in Astrology. lieved. In the Hebrew zodiac, the con­ to give a pioneering, persistent, enterpris­ stellation of the twins refers to the tribe ing, ambitious and pushing nature, with Mir cam, in the foot of The Dog is a of Benjamin. a love of travel and change. star of the 2nd Mag. 5 * / degrees west of Sirius. A little above and 4 degrees Ptolemy makes the following observa­ Canis Major, the Great Dog, is situ­ or 5 degrees to the left are three stars tions o f Gemini: “The stars in the feet ated southward and east of Orion, and is forming a triangular figure, which with of Gemini have an influence similar to universally known by the brilliance of its the exercise of a little imagination may that o f Mercury, and moderately to that principal star, Sirius, apparently the larg­ be conceived as a dog’s head. The of Venus. The bright stars in the thigh est and brightest in the heavens. In brightest of them, on the left is called are like Saturn.” It is said to cause winter it glows with a luster unrivalled Muliphen. and in 1670 it entirely disap­ trouble and disgrace, sickness, loss of by other star in the firmament Sirius peared and was not seen again for more fortune, affliction, and danger to the is supposed to be about 20,000,000 miles than 20 years. knees. By the Kabalists it is associated from the earth, less than that o f any of with the Hebrew letter Qoph and the the other stars. Sound would reach We sen is a star of the 2nd and 3rd 19th Tarot trump, the Sun. Sirius very quickly, in something less Mags, in the back, 11 degrees S. S. E. tjian 3,000,000 years, which renders con­ of Sirius. The two hind feet are marked Cants Minor, the Little Dog, is a small versation a little impracticable at present by Naos and Lambda 12 degrees directly constellation about^ 5 degrees N. o f the In the remote ages of the world, when * S. of the fore foot equinotial. and midway between Canis every man was his own astronomer, the According to some mythologists Canis Major (Big D og) and the Twins. It rising and setting of Sirius was watched contains 14 stars, of which two are very Major represents one of Orion’s hounds, with deep solicitude. The ancient The­ others say it received its name in brilliant The brightest is called Procyon. bans. who first cultivated astronomy in It is of the 1st Mag. The next honour of the dog given by Aurora to Egypt determined the length of the year Cephalus which surprised in speed all brightest is Gomelza. These two by the number of its risings. It foretold others of his species. To prove this stars resemble two in the head of to the Egyptians the rising of the Nile the Twins. Procyon. is 23 degrees which they called Siris. The Romans Cephalus had him run a race with a S. of Pollux, and Gomelza the were accustomed to sacrifie a dog to fox, and since neither could win the same distance S. o f Castor. Procyon is Sirius to render him propitious in his victory, Jupiter placed The Dog in the often taken for the name of the whole influence upon their herds and fields. heavens to reward him for his fleetness. constellation of the Little Dog as Sirius Accordingly to that season of the year But the name and form are really, no is for the larger dog. Procyon come to when Sirius rose with the sun and seemed doubt derived from the Egyptians who the meridian 53 minutes after Sirius, on to blend its own influence with that of considered it the “watch dog” of the latitude of New York it rises about half the luminary, the ancients gave the name Nile. an hour before it— hence its name pro- of dog days. A t that remote period dies Some antiquarians have said that Canis the 24th o f February, although in the caniculares commenced on the 4th of cyon "before the dog.” The Little Dog. August, four days after the Summer sols­ Major was the dog set by Jupiter to according to Greek fable is one of Orion's tice, and lasted forty days, or until the guard Curopj s^'er he. in the guise of hounds. Some suppose it refers to the 14th of September. Now they begin Taurus, had taken her to Crete. (See Egyptian god Anubis, which was repre­ early in July and continue until early in Stars of January). According to other sented with a dog’s head. Others attri­ August. It is clear that our modern “dog Greek accounts, however, it was either bute it to Diana the goddess of the hunt days” have lost any symbolism referring Laelaps, Actaeon’s hound, or that of Still others have classified it as the faith­ to the rising of Sirius. It may be a little Diana’s nymph, Procris. ful dog Maera which belonged to Icarus perplexing to understand how Sirius, and which discovered to Erigone. his which we seldom see until Winter, should Ptolemy states that the stars of this daughter, the place o f his burial. It is be associated with the most fervid heat constellation, with the exception of also said to represent one o f Acta eon’s of midsummer. It’s simple enough. The Sirius, are like Venus. It is said to give hounds that devoured their master after star is overhead in the daytime in summer • good qualities, charity and a faithful Diana had transformed him into a stag — at night, and therefore visible, in heart, but violent and dangerous passions. to prevent as she said, his betraying her. winter. There is some danger from or fear of It is most probable, however, that the darkness and night, and liability to dog Egyptians were the inventors of this con­ Sirius is S. of Athena in the feet of stellation; anj as it always rises a little The Twins, about as far S. of the equi­ bites. Canis Major is connected by the before the D o g S ta r, which at a particu­ noctial as Alhena is N. of it. It is about Kabalists with the Hebrew letter Tzaddi lar season they so much dreaded, it is 10 degrees East of The Hare (See Stars and the 18th Tarot Trump, “The Moon ”

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to find that the aggressors all belonged threatened him. He was also surprised closeted with strangers who already had intervene, although they knew he was of. England, but most of the diplomats are sincerely for peace, like the Cecils There are a few splendid diplomats who tween England and Italy, oldtime allies.

rope is going toward war preparation. of every four raised in taxation in Eu­

has announced that it is the first of a will be engaged in another World War. exorcised in accordance with medieval persons came to him to have evil spirits procedure.

a member of the seet and that many sick tour of this country

their masks.” are most of the time grinning behind

for a month. sacristy, stripped and gagged him and frustrate what is called “the Judas stroke” peasants are besieging the monastery to proceeded to scourge him. Doctors say

fellow monk. Miscio,*who is said to have have power as a healer and miracle

against a young monk, Pietralcina; known he will be unable to resume his ministry

of" themof" aged women, invaded the priest’s Noyers, parish priest at Bombon, who

Pietralcina is now in a state of nervous gifts, thereby arousing the envy of his

worker. He has attracted thousands of as the “saint.” Pietralcina is reputed to

spiracy was bared by a third party and country folk, who showered him with the order. was scourged with cords by members of gating a mysterious attack on Abbe des

fore the local authorities who are investi­ founded the fanatical “Order of Our

collapse.— tried to blaclcmail Pietralcina. The con­

Lady of Tears,” has been summoned be­ janitress of Bordeaux, who in 1904 The Occult^lillllllllllllllllillllllllllllHIIIIIIIIli Digest February 1926 26 The Occult Digest February 1926 ^IIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiihmil <[ Were You Born January 2l to February 1q ? = i M y DAILY GUIDE 'TARS— lAndfVhat They Tell 1 S fo r II under 1 February =E The Sign of Aquarius— The 'Symbol of Thought ^illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillilllllrT- C, Were You Born in the Sam e Sign as William McKinley, Charles Darwin, Days Geor&e Ade, A braham Lincoln, 1. Rather doubtful. Not good for T homas A. Edison, Charles Dickens. much activity. Venture nothing new. Q U A R IU S Children of 2iy Ha a san Osiris Aquarius are 2. Good for business in general. After­ A is a fixed. noon for observation rather than I a ir y , eloquent, somewhat stub­ action. j scientific, philo­ born and hard to 3. An excellent day for pleasure seek­ sophical, serving, progressive, san­ convince. No matter what channels ing. Transact important deals and guine, humane sign. It rules the their minds might run in, they are sign documents. I lower legs and ankles, and also* has most sure to be radical, fanatical, 4. Very favorable until late P. M. j power over happiness and pleasures. and opposite from the usual public Deal with business men and women in generaL Accomplish as much Persons born in this sign are opinions. They often think that the as possible. j prone to easily make, but more eas­ whole world is off its course and 5. Uncertain. Start nothing new. Do ily break their promises. They are they long for the power to bring not mix with the public any more than is necessary. Recreate. continually asking advice which they enlightenment upon a humanity seldom follow. They are fond of bound for the rocks o f destruction. 6. Mixed aspects prevail. Remain occult research and investigation. quiet. They possess many natural gifts, 7. Travel, visit, ask favors, write let­ One great fault of these natives talents and powers that should be ters, seek employment, make ap­ is their infallible aptitude to be pointments, push business. developed to a high degree before coaxed which leads them into many 8. Avoid accidents, misjudgments and disappointments. Their enemies re- they will ever attain satisfactory disputes. Not good for prolific business ventures. ! alize that they can not be forced to success. They are hard to convince I do a thing, and so always play upon 9. Keep business at stand-still. Good of their proficiency, in-as-much as only for pleasure or recreation. j this weakness thereby leading them they choose to be pastmasters in into harassing conditions. 10. An excellent day. Push all affairs whatever line of endeavor they un­ to limit. These people have a progressive dertake, and are not wholly satisfied 11. Favorable for general duties. Espe­ nature, and a quick, receptive mind. in doing a thing as well as the best cially good for artistic investiga­ They have many ambitions in life, tions. but not the pluck nor grit to stick talented can do it, but strive to 12. Unfavorable. Remain quiet. to any one endeavor until its ulti­ surpass even the best. They should 13. Attend domestic or minor affairs mate achievement is obtained. learn to believe in themselves, only. Avoid deceptions. rather than to constantly believe 14. Doubtful. Avoid accidents. Remain Acquarius natives seldom make indoors. leaders, they do best in subordinate they are as yet unproficient. 15. Generally unfavorable for all things positions where little responsibility Many of these people are severe except amusement. rests upon their shoulders so that critics concerning the achievements 16. Splendid aspects prevail through­ out the day. Ask favors, seek em­ they can give their whole attention of others, which gives others th<* ployment, visit, correspond, travel, to the affair at hand, but are in­ impression that they are envious of etc. clined to scatter their forces entire­ another person's success. This is in 17. Avoid risky ventures and quarrel­ ing. Rather doubtful. ly too much, thereby losing many reality not the case, for Aquarius 18. Attend usual duties only. opportunities which would other­ persons are always sure to see the 19. Somewhat unfavorable for general wise come to them. imperfections in a thing before they activity. They are peaceful and calm, and will admit the quality features. 20. Good for usual affairs. Adverse for arguments. fine examples of the highest in dig­ They therefore make many unin­ 21. Planets fairly well-aspected for nity. They love to wear nice clean tentional enemies. usual Sunday affairs. clothes at their work no matter Their most harmonious associates 22. Unfavorable for active business what it may be, and always need will be found in one of the Fiery duties. encouragement, which they will not Signs, Aries, Leo or Sagittarius, 23- Excellent aspects rule the day. Ac­ complish as much as possible. admit that they require. while those born in Gemini or Libra 24. Adverse. Attend only to necessary Persons of this sign suffer from will be found to be agreeable asso­ affairs. moods of gloom which at times ciates. 25. Good for usual business duties. seem to pull them down into the Uranus and Jupiter are the ruling 26. Same as yesterday. mire of permanent despondency, yet planets. The carbuncle and ame­ 27. Good only for moderate activity. the slightest flash of a new hope thyst are the fortunate gems, while 28. Do not travel, invest, nor conduct will entirely rescue them from their green, blue and pink are the astral any important business. Generally unfavorable. I extreme mental depression. colors. 2 8 The Occult Digest February 1926

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Not being Psychoanalysis and Child Training able to get a doctor, denotes the danger to be sickness and difficulties in over­ (.Continued from Page 15) coming it. Daughter coming and phon­ ing would mean, assistance and quick ac­ w as still given her bat of a different healthy appetite. After two weeks of tion to be depended on. Workmen is kind Her father held her on his lap this treatment the feeling of something significant o f repairing damages. Dead quietly, without demonstration of any horse means enemies overcome.' Black land. She slowly learned to abandon the crawling over her was removed and it never returned. No doubt this sensation horse, turning to white would signify craving for unrestrained sensation. that all is well. Your dream, on the A s her nervous system grew stronger was brought about through the stimula­ whole means a dangerous illness with (he little girl took an interest in quiet tion of sex feeling for we find the same many complications but in the end, resto­ pleasures that added to her strength in­ in adults under these circumstances, a ration to full health. It is a timely warn­ stead of depleting it. She gamed in sensual delight that affects the skin of ing for you to be watchful of health con­ weight, slept quietly and developed a the whole body. ditions. The Occult Digest February 1926 29 L o v e R o m a n c e B u s i n e s s M a r r ia g e Here’s The ¿Insnoer To Your Question Brain-Feastboivent irait, n rli m rrapo fnilt.tnin—.tow ifei Up DkE Mo charge Is made readers mail should enclose 12.00 t o r PROPER CONDITIONS'. this service. 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Smaatlon re­ A— The thing that you love to do, you A —You will not marry soon, stored in three days. Could walk two mi tea daily after six will be a success in and be happy, doing a a a weeks. ARTHRITIS. All joints swollen with Ifane deposits. Knee* it. Train your mind to obey your best and wrists locked Immovable for «right montos, lilir x l for L R P , P a— Is there any advancement two yea«*. Can now see. walk and do home work, impulses and you will become a success for me in my present work? CATARRH. HAY PEVBR. RESULTING Df*AFNE8B in life. decreased from the first meal. * * * A —Yes, greatly to your advantage. GALLSTONES. Age M. Bedridden, cholic every weak for years, bat not one attack since instruction over a year ago; now can do hopes work. E S , Ohio— What do you see for me? TUMORS, Age 40, Tumors weighing several pounds dis­ A —Your physical ailments are local CEG Ia — (1) For what am I best solved within a year, adapted? 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Change your mental attitude, abroad and you will be happy. have no fear. 0 0 0 a a a Complimentary I E P , C a lif—When will I marry and DMK, O hio—(1) What can I do best? will I be happy and successful? (2) Where can I learn about occultism? A — You will be successful but your A — (1) Continue the line of work you B l a n k marriage is indefinitely in the future, are now doing. (2) Instructions on oc­ a a a cult subjects can be found in all issues The Occult Digest, Circulation Dept., R E G , C a lif—Will I soon have an oc­ of “The Occult Digest.” 0 0 0 1904 N. Clark Street, cupation or a change ? Chicago, 111. A — You will be successful in securing R C , M as*—Will I marry the boy? both. A —No. The names appearing below repre­ sent persons interested in the Occult, who would welcome a complimen­ tary copy of The Occult Digest

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H fllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllH Ilim illim illlllllllllllllllllllllllllH IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlK rl C. ECTOPLASM DEMON­ been suddenly frozen into immobility, add STRATED the fact that in each case its source was so evidently the right ear. Waiter said (Continued from page 23) that he used this material to construct As it neared the table the cord expanded his speaking apparatus for the indepen­ into a ribbon or thick band which dent voice.— Harbinger of Light. branched out into four or five inches long and of irregular form. The cord was of C.‘WITCH DOCTOR’ HELD about the same dimensions as in the first W ithersfield, Conn.— Pending in* Throughout the Year instance and was quite uniform in color investigation of his alleged startling and thickness throughout its cylindrical crimes, Thomas Mandato, 53, East Long portion. It was noticeably light in color, Meadow, Mass., called a “witch doctor” A Charted Message and the writer was impressed with its by Italians of this vicinity, is held in appearance of luminosity under red light. $15,000 bail. After another brief period of darkness An investigation by the state police from the Stars will this same mass was again visible, but the showed that since 1923 Mandato has been branches on the table were longer and hired by Italians “to drive out evil help guide you in more widely separated. spirits." His usual “charm” was to ap­ The important points to be noted in ply some “magic” powder to the body of your daily affairs. connection with this remarkable exhibi­ a young daughter of the patient. It is tion of teleplasm are, the great change in said Mandato catered to both the well HOROSCOPES form and position of the mass between and the sick, asserting he could drive Interpretations according to the the ' various periods of illumination, its out devils which annoyed either the mind similarity to*a viscous mass which had or the body.— News Dispatch. standards of Ptolemaic Genethlical Astrology ^IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[||||||||||||||||||||I||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||P; Natal Chart $2.00 Natal Chart Aspected 5.00 [ CURRENT EVENTS | Natal Chart and Analysis 5.00 Natal Chart, aspected, and The Occult Digest Reveals All Things with analysis 10.00 Prenatal Chart 5.00 illlllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli For all the above, progressed to C. WORLD THEO SOPHISTS officers and men, together with civil em­ MEET ployes of these departments, who are 1927, to above quoted prices members of the Masonic and other secret add $2.00 « M adras—Delegates from thirty-seven countries assembled at Adyar, the Theo- orders after February 10, 1926, will be Write for Astrological Survey of sophical Society headquarters, for the dismissed. The law against secret socie­ jubilee convention. ties, the Premier says, was passed to in­ the Year 1926 sure loyalty to king and country, and will Write Libra Australia has sent seventy-five; Dutch be rigidly enforced.— Chicago Herald East Indies, seventy-five; England, fifty; and Examiner. , Box L, 1904 N. Clark Street Holland, twenty-five; Sweden, thirteen; Chicago, Illinois Scotland, thirteen; New Zealand, nine; C TENNESSEE ANTI-EVOLU­ France, Roumania and Austria, seven T IO N L A W each. India will send 1,500 delegates T he Supreme Court of Tennessee How To Make Others Love You daily.— News Dispatch. ruled on Oct. 25, 1925, the only issue that Charm and facbiate < whom you will—be would be considered in the appeal of ■ought after and admired. Secure clever John T. Scopes would be that of the con­ woman's secret methods Book explaining everything only 10c (stamps—not coin). C. RITUAL WAR ROCKS CHURCH stitutionality of the Anti-Evolution law Confident^]. (Plain wrapper) Cannot be O P E N G L A N D of the State. The effect of the ruling is to exclude the arguments of W. L secured elsewhere In the world. MMJS. London — England’s Archbishop of EVE), Dept. I860, 47 Delphtan, Botafoga, RIO Bryan and the testimony of the scientific De JANEIRO. Brasil, South America. Canterbury intervenes in extremely bitter religious controversy arising from the experts summoned by the defense. Bishop of Birmingham’s Rt. Rev. E. W . LITERARY ASSISTANCE Barnes public denunciation and order to C. "EVOLUTION” IN MISSISSIPPI Speeches, Orations, Addresses, Essays, etc., Jackson, Miss.— Representative Robin­ written to order en any subject, f 1 per Anglo-Catholic clergymen to cease prac­ thousand words; Stories, Poems, Artlolea, tice of "adoration of sacrament” Oppo­ son of Ittawamga has introduced a bill eta., criticised and corrected for literary nents refuse to accept, threaten heresy in the Mississippi legislature to prohibit guallty and accuracy, $1.60 per the teaching of the theory of evolution words; Manuscripts typewritten correctly against Bishop alleging he attacks doc­ in schools and colleges of Mississippi sup­ for publication. $1 per thousand words. trine of "real presence”, stigmatized their Markets for literary wares suggested. IS doctrines as ’magic’, their devotion as ported in whole or in part by state ap­ years' »vssrienss. propriation. The bill is almost a replica f. h. ciou nraio, ssiu ‘fetish worship’ their practices as ‘super­ of the Tennessee law and would provide I l l l In araie Avease, at. Lean, He. stitious lawlessness.’ Dr. R. L. Lang­ ford-James is quoted as saying “Bishop a fine of from $100 to $500 for viola­ has one religion, we another. He is tion.— News Dispatch. Protestant, we Catholic. I welcome the «. ANTI-EVOLUTION LAW IN conflict as helping toward disruption of VIRGINIA? Church of England.”— News Dispatch. R ichmond, Va.— Legislation will be introduced in the coming session of the assembly to prohibit teaching of evolu­ C. MUSSOLINI TO OUST MASONS tion in any Virginia school or college to Rome—P remier Mussolini, in_ a pro­ which state funds are appropriated. The clamation issued through the ministers of patriotic welfare committee is believed war, navy and aviation, warns that all to be sponsoring the bill. The Occult Digest February 1926 31 ÉLMlllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllliilillilllllliiiiimiiiiiiiiii: = BORDER LANDS = ü o f SCIENCE 1 as A Record of Scientists Approach = = Towards The Occult• = AUTO0 SCIENCE* Siiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiifi CHEAT FROM NORTH POLE H a k e s Y o u r Dreams ComeTrue Los A ngeles—A merica’s great cities will be heated by energy from the aurora borealis, and huge ships will ply to the north pole region carrying machinery to develop its vast resources within the next \ LL AMBITIOUS and worth-while men and women have fifty years, John G. Phillip, Philadelphia y \ “Dreams”—“Visions” of some particular accomplishment electrical engineer, predicts. that would fill their lives to overflowing. Life itself would “There is .every possibility that the aurora borealis will prove one of the scarcely be worth the effort if we did not have these “Dreams”— most titanic sources of energy in the these “H6pes”—to buoy us up when things seem darkest. reach of man.”— News Dispatch. Perhaps your “Dream” has been to be of great service to humanity? Your great “desire” may be to help your fellow-man? To cause C.WHY RADIO “FADES” him to be happier, more successful, or to bring him perfect health and ease from suffering? The Naval Research Laboratory an­ nounces the discovery with the Carnegie Or vour problem may be more “ personal” in character. Perhaps you lack many Institution that radio “fading” and “skip of the good things in life? It may be you want a home of your own? Perhaps a distances” are caused by deflection be­ bigger and better business is your “ ideal” ? Or a more successful and different tween the earth's surface and the atmos­ line of Endeavor? 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Hfiif Mentivm T u rn O c c u l t Diesar When Writing is Advertisers The Occult Digest February 1926 33 Mr. Bradley Travels Towards The Stars I¿iiinmiwinnnnnmiiiiiniuniHiiiiinniiiiiiuiiiiiiiHHiiuii (Continued fro\ x page 17) 1 ASTROLOGY 1 the spirit of my deceased Aunt appears Furthermore, this glimpsing of that 3 Your Questions Answered by the Stars I to converse with me. hidden matter might most easily be en- I Edited by Haasan Osiris This is a perfectly safe analogy, for I tirely misunderstood by the medium, by I 1 ~ have no Aunts living here or, to my the sitter, and by the bysitters. They knowledge, over there. Let us suppose might all be convinced of my Aunt’s pres­ ence and participation. The phenomenon, that once, in my childhood, some infantile EDITOR’S NOTE: ThU column It oonduoted for tho woe which greatly oppressed me ^ was in other words, could conceivably be pro­ benefit of our reedert as far at time and apace permit, duced without any understanding of the but neither publishers nor editors assume responsibility taken by me to that Aunt in the strictest for acouracy of answers. To receive definite answers of secrecy and privacy, and that from her principle. Once the method or technique to your problems you mutt send the minute (If pos­ sible), hour, date, city and state of your birth. In­ I got consolation, help, or perhaps a is hit upon, it could, conceivably, be re­ quiries without this Information, or of no material peated at will— and without any compre­ benefit shall be treated as anonymous. Address spanking. At any rate whatever I got it Astrolopist, The Oeoult Digest, 1904 N. Clark Street, was strictly between my Aunt and me, hension of the “how.” A vast number Chicago, U. 8. A. and no other human soul ever heard of of intelligent mediums declare They do o f it from either of us. She promptly not know “how” their phenomena occur L.S.D.,Calif.—What chances have I to dropped it into the apparent oubliette of — they are content that they really, genu­ accomplish the things I desire? Will I outcast memory, and I too, having been inely occur. have money enough to do as I please, aided, soothed or spanked, as the case On this hypothesis, it is also conceiv­ travel, or remain stationary? Will I may be, “ forgot” it. Years pass, and able that Mr. Bradley (to forsake ever be independent, or will I always the vicissitudes o f. life have separated poor imaginary Aunt) would be vastly have to humor other people? more apt to carry about with him an my tAunt and me, and the exigencies of A — You will have many obstacles to abiding impression of his deceased sister, her passing on have apparently sealed in overcome, but ultimate success, and con­ than that she would, in a state of para­ the depths of her tomb the secret of that siderable eminence, are shown in your disial development, be led to him at a youthful experience. And I come into birth-chart. You do not have to humor a spirit seance with the same cold cyni­ given latitude and longitude on earth “by the light emanating from a medium.’’ people. Be more self-willed and deter­ cism which Mr. Bradley fancies he sees mined. Step out and assert yourself And, instead of the »“medium’s” reach­ in himself, and there, either through a more bravely. You will have much more trumpet or out of the clear but darkened ing out into that vast area of akashic money than you expected later in life. memory, unguided, to select from all of air, my Aunt, in such ambiguous terms You are destined to a long, useful life. as will shield our secret from the intel­ the sum total of cosmic experience which ligence of other sitters refers to the oc­ is there etched, the particular experience which serves as the “identifying proof” T.A.M.,Mo.—What should be my voca­ currence which I thought locked in the tion? Is there any reason according to depth of her tomb. O r even let her come to Mr. Bradley that he has actually spoken with his sister’s spirit, it is en­ the stars why I am not popular with right out in the presence of those women of my own age? strangers and tell me in plain unvarnished tirely possible that the -medium’s sensi­ language what was what on that mo­ tiveness penetrated Mr. Bradley’s own A —You are indeed in the wrong em­ mentous but forgotten occasion. individual consciousness, in which, de­ ployment. Attend some night school, and take up bookkeeping, journalism, account­ W hat then? spite its complexity, there would be more ing, banking, or drafting. You should Isn’t such an experience proof positive hope of discovering the same “fact,” and follow mental pursuits. In regard to that my Aunt spoke to me from beyond produced the phenomena (without con­ your other inquiry, you are too change­ the door of Death? scious intent on the part of the medium able. One never knows what to expect Mr. Bradley appears to put this class of course) which resulted. of you, as you are liable to change your of experience in the category of positive Now I do not set this theory forth as mind in an instant You are also too w o o f. I have heard dozens of people an explanation of the production of spirit sensitive. Become more worldly and less say “if any medium will bring about a phenomena. I set it forth as a possible, idealistic. statement, from anyw here by any means logical, and to some extent (take the which will positively id en tify a single matter up with any qualified psychol­ ■ exoenence which could be known to no ogist) demonstrable explanation of how S.L.J.,N.Y.— Should I continue in the other human being but myself and the such phenomena as Mr, Bradley cites photograph business, in spite of present alleged communicant, I will accept spirit could be produced otherwise than by existing financial difficulties? continuity as a fact.” direct spirit communication; and how A — You are better adapted to other But these grounds are to slender for such production of such phenomena may professions. Send stamped envelope for such a conclusion. I do not deny the be mistaken for genuine spirit phenom­ list There are better conditions for you fact o f spirit persistence. I do not deny ena. in photography, however you are in life beyond the trivial hour or two of A s to the theory that the spirit is at­ wrong location for that business accord­ transition we call death. I do not deny tracted to the earthly # medium by “a ing to your ruling planetary influences. that we need all the evidence we can light”— either the spirits are keeping You should be on higher altitude away marshal of this fact. But I deny that something from us about their personal from large bodies of water. an experience like this is satisfying evi­ state and condition “over there,” or else dence to any one who has perceived the the visual feat cited could not within C.V.L.,Tenn.— When will be my most advance of physical science with a spark reason be achieved. If spirits are so fortunate year and what is my talent? of vision. Especially to one whose much like us, and so limited as purported A — The years 1932, 1933, and 1941 knowledge of the occult extends to an shades have declared, the light of a show up favorably in your life chart understanding of the existence of the single body could not be perceived by You will experience your first great Apashic records. them among the thousands of other such change for the better around 1932. Your Somewhere, upon some ray of physical lights. If they are not so much like us, best talents run into authorship, dramatic but are attracted by more subtle means, light, or upon some combination of rays abilities, and music. o f physical light, any physicist will tell then the “evidence” on this point is faulty you there is N O W being enacted in all and needs considerable clearing up. the solemnity o f its first unfoldment, the The “evidence” in this case is not V.F:,Calif.— Have I met the man I am crucifixion of Jesus; somewhere, upon "evidence.” It is a very strong, inter­ to marry, and is it the one I am engaged some ray of light, there is still being esting, and valuable indication that there to at the present time? enacted every gasp and groan of the may be something in this experience A — Astrology speaks in plain language gigantic struggles between nations who which will eventually lead to a deter­ and I am giving you what I find in your have fought— and somewhere, upon some mination as to whether there is spirit birth-chart in the hopes that it will help ray of light, there would be etched that communication or whether there is nob you. You are fickle in your love-affairs, secret # interview with my Aunt, had I Which, by the way, has nothing what­ and inclined to misjudge the object of had either the interview or the Aunt. ever to do with whether or not there is your affections. You have not yet met And somewhere in this world, it is such a thing as spirit continuity. the man whom you should marry. possible, there is a human being whose Again, Mr. Bradley puts a severe strain You will be at least 26 years old before structure is so sensitive as to permit, in upon our scientific credulity (and I would you meet your real mate. If you marry a manner N O T explainable as yet by the not for a moment be suspected of ques­ at this age you will rue the day you do physicist, but only by the occultist, the tioning his personal integrity) when he so. If you marry at this, your present glimpsing o f that interview, perhaps by cites the instance of a medium A V E tell­ age, more than one marriage is indicated some strange (to us) affinity between ing him his name. Mr. Bradley was sent for you, and much unhappiness in first myself, my presence, and the emanation to A V E by a Miss Phillimore, who did marriage. I am not trying to discourage of myself along that ray. (Continued on page 37) * you, merely trying to help you. 34 The Occult Digest February 1926

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Send one Dollar— The stock The story of his suspicion of the sleep­ is limited— can be secured only from James er to the authorities brings their fullest Health Beacham Starr, 1113 Remington St., Chester, Pennsylvania. cooperation. Francis, nightly watches the tent and caravan of Dr. Caligari that For Rupture. The system embodied la no harm may come to Lida. STUART'S P LAP AO-PADS has been suc­ cessfully used by thousands since 1906, in Spiritual Counsel Dr. Olfen, Lida's father, is detailed to the privacy of the homes, without hindrance examine the sleep-walker. Lida, in search from work, and at slight expense. Entirely The Mystic Circle of Higher Spiritualists of her father, goes to the tent of Caligari different from Truss. No Straps. Buckles will give short special readings to all inter­ or Springs attached. Write for Free Test ested. Write a short letter, enclose 61.00; and inquires if he is in. Caligari smil­ PLAPAO— No charge now or ever. Address seal, enclose in another envelope, address ingly says: “Oh yes, the Doctor. He will Plapao Laboratories, 3714 Stuart Bldg., St Mystic Circle, 4515 Rosewood Ave., St. be back presently. Come in and wait for L ou is, Mo. Louis County, Missouri. Longer readings him.” Lida follows Caligari hesitatingly and psychoroe try readings by special ar­ rangement. Send Postofflce or Express into the tent. Once inside he throws N um erology money orders. No checks or stamps. open the case containing Caesare and awakens him. He stares at Lida with a Analysis of blrthname and blrthdate 91, Do you want n spiritual reading! Send three fixed 'chilly gaze, and she, becoming Six months* forecast from blrthdate 61 questions,' lock of hair, and one dollar, or frightened, runs from the tent. Lida W. Amertge. 610 Geary St., San Fran­ phone Sunnyside 6184 for appointment. Mrs. cisco, Calif. Dept D. G. Bernham, 854 Wilson Ave., Chicago, III When the shadows lie deepest, the stalking, ghost-like figure of Caesare, knife in hand rounds the comer of the midnight street. The apartment of Lida Hypnotism and the Law (Continued from page 20) is but a story above, and it proves a simple matter for the lithe figure to So in 3 American Lawyer, 5, a case in was destroyed by placing a person be­ mount to the window and, shatter the the United States Court at Tacoma, tried tween the operator and the subject. sash. He then attempts to stab her but in July 1894, was reported in which the fails. Lida awakens the village by her plaintiff caused an important witness for And in 2 Hamilton, Legal Med. 35 it screams and is picked up struggling by the defendant to become composed in was said that a hypnotic condition or one Caesare. The flight leads over the roof manner and in testimony, hesitating and of exaggerated reciptivity,^ an individual tops—out of^ the town, where the sleeper uncertain in statement, by hypnotically is very apt to make illusional mistakes becoming frightened drops her and flees making passes with his hands in the di­ in identity, which would be out of the down a narrow path. rection of the witness, which influence question under other circumstances. (Continued on page 38)

PUose Mention T hb Occult Dtesar When Writing to Advertiser* The Occult Digest February 1926 37 BUST DEVELOPED /V Send ONE DIME toward expen- II A see and get by return mail. \ J r Bealed, a REAL big three part 14 DAY TREATMENT without further coat or obligation. The only ONB that REMOVES THE CAUSE, and YOU know develop­ ment is impossible until this is done. No exercises, hot or cold applications, pumps or other dangerous appliances. Dr. Ladd says “ Nothing can develop you until the cause is removed. As 10eU try to fill a sieve with water .’* 33) WHY PAY MORE SIGHT-UNSEEN? {Continued from page Would you knowingly pay $10. for a pump, or some worthless, greasy salve? Or even ONE dollar for a sheet of exercises because it is colled “ a treatment?** Mr. Bradley Travels Towards the Stars My advice — "Spend ten cents and save ten dollars'*. MY GUARANTEE “if this is not the best ten cents know his name. That is enough. For odd bits of theosophy by various other| worth you ever saw your dime back by FIRST MAIL.” although it is quite likely there was not names but having the same Madras in-- Don't waste time ~ such opportunities are rare. the slightest violation of confidence by cense smell, or else the writers of these M A D A M E W IL L IA M S , Dk’33, Buffalo, N.Y. Miss Phillimore, and is entirely within interesting tomes had access to the same the bounds of probability that there was sources as Johannes. no collusion, the fact is there was every Both are likely, of course, but when possibility of collusion. W hich does, de­ so graye a matter as spirit communica­ UNDERSTAND YOUR DREAMS spite the fact that it violates courtesy, tion is in the balance, and it is demon­ Here, at last, is a book which deals remove that instance from the field of strable that all of Johannes’ philosophy scientifically with the Psychological inter­ absolute proof. Though, possibly, to use and description of the “otherland” is to pretation of the dream life. And it is easy his own phrase, Mr. Bradley does not be found in preceding volumes varying to read, with few technicalities. It is care a damn about that. from Swedenborg to the Yogi Publica­ called Writers like Mr. Bradley (if his Eng­ tion Society, it can hardly be taken as “ YOUR DREAMS” lish status be as7 prominent as his book “evidence” of the first water except by by Dr. Claude Wm. Chamberlain, who writes leads us to believe), should avoid the those who do not think through. regularly for this magazine and many others. strain upon credulity which a too “posey” The prophetic material very closely co­ The book explains the meaning of many of the most common dreams, and telis you how ignorance imposes. I do not deny that incides with that set forth by Mr. Walter to understand the' unusual ones. How to Mr. Bradley may never have heard of Gorn Old, better known as SEPH- psycho analyze yourself and others. Not Quentin Roosevelt. But I confess I do A R IA L , in his Geodetic Equivalents, to be confused with ordinary dream books as it is based on the Freudian method and not believe that he never heard of him. which was off the press before Mr. Brad­ is replete with actual cases of people who, I do not believe an intelligent writer of ley’s book, and in the hands of practically suffering from disease, failure and unhappi­ so important a work as “Towards the all of the leading occultists and psychic ness, were helped by Dream Analysis. Send fifty five cents, coin or small stamps for your Stars,” would be so insultingly careless phenomena students in England before copy, ju st off the p re ss. O r send dollar bill of the name and memory of members of Mr. Bradley visited Arlena Towers there and receive the dream book and The Uncom­ a family as internationally conspicuous to start his journey “Towards the Stars.” mon Sense of Applied Psychology, another great Httle book by the same author. Money as the Roosevelts as to pretend he did not In fact, Mr. Bradley’s Journey To­ back if you are not more than pleased. A dollar know the correct name. W h y should a wards the Stars might be taken to be bill will bring both hooks by return mail man so indefatigable in his labors as Mr. more of a journey towards the stairs, if DR. CHAMBERLAIN BOOK SERVICE Bradley, be so lazy that he would not only he is manly enough to admit that 5337 Dorchester Ave., Chicago, Illinois. reach up to his own or a nearby book­ there is much more experiment, record, shelf, or a public library (I assume they and comparison necessary before he again have these institutions in England) and becomes so certain that his book will SPIRITUALISM look in “Who’s Who” for the correct sweep the world off its feet. The world Ten devices of “MEDIUMS" to produce apparently supernatural manifestations, easily spelling of Quentin Roosevelt’s name? is no Cinderella in the matter of feet, performed. Famous “spirit pendulums”, As I say, I do not believe Mr. Bradley and it takes considerable of a jolt to jar slate manipulations, phantom letters, blue did not know it at the time he wrote the it loose. flame oracle, etc. All completely and simply book, although he may not have known Now I am the first to admit two things described. Price complete $1.00. MAGOON STUDIO, 4553 Davison Ave., St. Louis, Mo. its spelling at the time of the seance at — first that it can be so jarred— and sec which the name purported to “come ond— that it needs the jarring. But ] through.” If he is honest in his state­ cannot admit that in “ Towards the Stars' ment he is too careless and slipshod a Mr. Bradley has achieved this feat The Brotherhood offLight person to be intrusted with vital research. I intend to show that the whole set of Moot complete etoek of books In [Americs Such a glaring insolence serves only to experiences set forth by Mr. Bradley are on raise doubt where doubt is already a pre­ really evidential. They are evidential of Occultism, Psychic Phenom­ disposition. a whole set of clearly defined suppressed ena, Spiritualism, Astrology. Of Mr. Bradley’s defense of VA- desires on his part, particularly of two New Thought, Theosophy LIANTINE, nothing need be said. We complexes both of which are highly com and Nature Study. all know that a medium once caught in mendable, and a third which is beyond fraud is always subject to suspicion, just classification as commendable or incom- ts Ostasse in all Branches ef Occult Science as we all know that it does not neces­ mendable, having relation to the poly­ Send for "Cloude Diepellsd.“ You sarily follow that because fraud is oc­ gamous instinct in the animal which will bs delighted. Absolutdy Free. casionally employed there can be no such roves and slays and yearns to reach the D ept. D., Box 1525, Los Angeles, Cal. thing as genuine phenomena. Certainly stars— and reaching only the stairs, calls Mr. Bradley’s experiences with VA­ itself Man— and spells it with a capital LIA NTIN E were sufficiently remarkable M. r L - C { j l p Coon hounds; Beaglehoundi; The first commendable complex with to warrant the book without any other * Fox and Bloodhounds; Set­ reason. which Mr. Bradley finds outlet through I believe I have sufficiently indicated his book is his hatred of war. I will not ters; and Boston Terriers; partly and wel the philosophic explanation of what may analyze the root sources of that hatred— broken dogs; puppies of all breeds. be mistaken for spirit phenomena, ad­ but only point to the fact that through mitting without qualification that the the book, like a silver thread in a pat­ d S U n - Land* Kennel« phenomena certainly are psychic. tern on brocade, there runs a strident There remains, however, a matter of clarion, high note of protest against war philosophy which Mr. Bradley has seen — against fighting, against any “barbar­ fit to include in his book in the trans­ ous expression of brute force.” I could cription of communications by means of cite page after page on which this com­ CATHERINE McDONOUGH' automatic writing from a disembodied en­ plex rears its noble head— but I am writ­ P sy ch ic tity styling himself JOHANNES. ing a criticism and not a catalog. Be­ Either Johannes had access to the sides, you will buy the book, unless my Readings by Appointments books issued and published by the Rosi- \ review fails, and you can find it for your­ Telephone Lincoln 8975 crucian Fellowship, the works of the 1908 NORTH CLARK STREET self. CHICAGO, ILL. Theosophica! Society and its writers, and (Continued on page 39) Please Mention Tax Occult Dickst When Writing te Advertisers 38 The Occult D igest February 1629 Cabinet o f Caligari The Occult Dgest (Continued from page 36) Lida is found and brought back dazed and hysterical. She declares Caesare was her abductor. Francis, who has spent £ the night watching Caligari and his M l sleeper does not see how that can be, so together with a number of officials they invade the tent of Caligari, where they find him watching beside the box con­ taining Caesare. They inquire for the sleeper and are told that he must not be disturbed. He is then impatiently pushed aside and they go in to examine him. AN ASTRAL GUIDE Caligari leaves hurriedly and in their •v x atquMnnwwa WRTOg k-n-ta*Mw > wowAVtyftw■■■< aw I j ii ii iji I h n. TmmMm y SOCIETY haste to open the box is forgotten. Upon WTW«V. ViM examination they find in place of Caesare, a wax dummy which is thrown down in disgust. JUST A FEW 1 9 2 5 VOLUMS LEFT! Francis, in pursuit of Caligari finds SINGLE COPIES EACH 50c himself at the door of a building. He VOL. I OF THE OCCULT DIGEST FOR 1925 CLOTH BOUND $5.00 notes with some surprise the sign '7JV- PARTIAL CONTENTS SANE ASYLUM” but goes in. JANUARY* A Prophecy for 1925-1989 —My Stars (For May)— The Carbon, one (already coming true)—Mystical Interpre* of 19 Chemical Types of People and Their Here to his amazement he finds the tatlon of “Evolution’*—Who Are The Fake Diet—Mysterious Manifestations* very characters of his strange adventure Mediums— The A ss e s s hi— The Wall o f The - moll - - . _ Unborn Soul— A Pnssle for Shakespearian» £h® Homan Body a as inmates of the institution. He steps to Unrayel— An Apostrophe to The Soldier I52#J2 up to an attendent saying: “I am looking and The Sibllmatlon of Sacrifice— Margaret F°«J25® iwn' H a 2 for a man who calls himself Caligari. Fuller— On The Principles of The Oecnlt— * 2 5 Is he a patient here?” IndlTlduallty and Personality— How To DIs- coyer the Involuntary Mind— Reaching Mam 15® t S S -n h t1* He is told that only Dr. Sonnow, the by Thought Waves— The Sunbeam and The £?!S!?,C£I SUE ! *?£* head of the institution could divulge the Soul— Some Stirring Thoughts and Needs— f®;1®*.]“ What Is Truth— Theosophy— Invisible Help- J“*®® PnbUc Be— Confessions of an Oc- identity of the patients. He is then lead ers of the Roslcruclan Order— The Appeal to the study of Dr. Sonnow. Upon their of the Divine Mysteries— You Are as Yon JULY. The Watcher— The Three Wise Men entrance the Doctor looks up and Francis Are, and Diet—Tuning In— A Wraith From — The Shortest Radio Waves Discovered— recognizes him— CA LIG AR I 11! U Babylon. The Unannounced Number — Sex, The He rushes out where he collapses upon FEB.-MARCH. Does Radio-Telepathy Re- cord Voices of The Living Dead— When Man *■ the floor. Attendants come to him and Dies at 99— The Professor’s Wives—Who, of «5? r p ^ 5 ° 5 f assist him into a chair. How and When To Love— Confessions of an “ Tb® F,n?r5 ’ °“® ®i ! 9 Occultist— Turn Me Over—How Can I Bo- F„uS® *5? r^®lF««]2,®t“ ^£® S ? “The man Sonnow, is Caligari, the come a Master Genius— Ancient and Modern SElti fiend himself!!! You are walking with Reformers— Spiritual Dynamite — Occultism ^ S L J S i S ^ t ! death I he hysterically Simplified— The Psychical Effects of Certain i l5™t^TZ?Le.ti®d8 of Ma*,c— DIagn08hl by Drugs— The Oxygen, One of 19 Chemical Color vibration. shouts. Types of People, and thetr Diet — The AUG.-SEPT. A Message To the Churches The attendants listen closely to his Golden Rule— Mayan Occultism— My Stars — Dead. .Dead. .Dead. .— Can A Woman Sin (Feb.-March)— Expression the Soul— — Your Life After Death— The Astral Lover story, and later, when the doctor has re­ Thought Force In Telepathy— Shall We Bur- — Are You A Suggestible Somnabule— The tired, search his study. Here among his bank The Human Race— The High and the Sulphur, one of 19 Chemical Types of People books is found a volume entitled “Som- Low* and Their Diet—The Scientific Principle of nambulis.” Upon reading it they find . . ______Psycho-Analysis—Occult Chromotherapy — « Are You Penny-Wise and Dollar The Alchemy of Color In Your Everyday that it contains an account of a mounte­ Poor— Who’s Yamping You Now— Messages Life— Mahatma Ghandl—The Evolution In- bank monk who visited the small towns £r®P 2® »tars (Can Cancer Be Cured by qolsltlon or Hell Bent for Heaven— Evolu- of northern Italy in 1093, carrying with Naves)— Confessions of an Occultist tlon—My Last Hour— Confessions of an Oc- n he S?tch XSSSK — J if Mystical Easter ealtlst— Your Stars (for Aug. and Sept*)— him a somnambulist in a coffin-like box. Occultism Simplified— Did Jesus Appear— How To Prove Your Psychic Experiences This Caligari had completely forced the JJ® Psychical Effects of Certain JDrugs— |n Astral Body Travel— Prophecy of W. J* somnambulist under his control and used Th® Nltnyeuu one of 19 Chemical Types of Bryan— A Retrospect, AJ>. 8079. People and Their Diet— My Stars (for April) him to carry out various crimes. He — W hy Prophecy Is Possible— Expression OCTOBER. The Thinker— W hich L aw — managed to keep off every suspicion by and the Soul— The Serpent as a Symbol of The Calcium, one of 19 Chemical Types of placing in the coffin an image of wonder­ Life— Common Sense and Psychic Sense— People and Their Diet— The Bunk About The Illegitimate Child. Hypnotism— The Astral Lover— The Phi­ ful likeness to Caesare. losophy and Occult Significance of Chlro< At this time another interesting dis­ MAY* When God Declared War— The DIs- practlc— The Origins of Astrology— A Ped- covery is made. The diary of Dr. Son­ coverr of 19 Vitamins of Light and Color— agoglc Thought from Darwin— Fear— What Why Capital and Labor are Penny Wise and Is It— The Greater Christianity— My Stars now is found; a record of the study Dollar Poor— Messages From the Stars or (for October)— Psycho Analysis and Child that absorbed him day and night; an Radio-Telepathy— Outside The Door— The Training— Things Kept Secret from the account of his experiments and study of Call of Life— Occultism Simplified— Play The World— The Alchemy of Color (Occult somnambulism. Under the last date, in Man— “Censored”— Some Rare and Curious Chromotherapy)— Astrology and Fatalism— (occult) books— Confessions of an Occultist Money. enthusiastic terms is written: “At last! A t last! The arrival of a FREE $5000.00 TRAVEL ACCIDENT INSURANCE POLICY somnambulist has been announced today. Given free with each Occult Digest subscription• The desire of my life is about to be ful­ filled. Now I shall hold the psychiatric secret of the man Caligari. Now I shall Tin O-w Ma ca zm THat Is D a m n q l y D i i t m k h t find out whether it is true that a somnam­ The Occult D i g e s t T h e O c c u l t D i g e s t Vf ¿UmMfJbrftonfbodt? { J bulist can be forced to actions against his w ill...;..” “I shall never learn the Caligari secret until I test his theory. Fool that I am why do I hesitate...... ” Here the scene “cuts back” showing the mental struggle which he undergoes and the confusing and blending of the per­ sonalities of Dr. Sonnow and the me­ dieval Dr. Caligari. His inner conflict is thus made plain. The desire that has made him waver between the wish to carry out the^ experiment that will mean Th* B U N K About HYPNOTISM so much to his knowledge. TKo O cctil SU * o f Chiropractie Iqr ML PAUW He becomes obsessed with the idea “Be Things KkptSrcrct from tiik Wouia» Caligari! I BE CALIGARI!!” (Continued on page 41)

PU oms M ention T he Occult Digest When Writing to Advertiser» The Occult Digest February 1926 39 Mr. Bradley Travels Towards the Stars i l llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!^ (Continued from page 3 7 ) | WHAT THE 1 The second commendable complex practice is stressed as a valuable healing | OCCULT DIGEST 1 which thus displays itself is his profound agent. admiration for his deceased sister, and in line with the latter two publications | WANTS TO KNOW— j his gratitude for the “guidance which he we have Florence Miriam Johnson's receives” at her hands. "Think It Over" from the Master Mind The third outstanding complex is that Publishing company; "The Easy Road of libertarianism. His spirit friends to Demonstration" by Evelyn F. Hamil­ — If the request of the President for fill to the brim his hunger after peace. ton, published by the author; "Bless and $50,000.00 to investigate the World Court His sister says just what he would have Vou Shall Be Blessed", by Walter DeVoe will not be a costly chair? her say, in just the manner he would of the Eloist Ministry; and "Can the — If the all seeing “I” has a deaf ear to have her say it— and through the phil­ Lost Art of Christum Healing Be Re­ the voice of the people? osophical JO H A N N E S he finds his stored t", by William Montrose Carr. — If the steal-trap snaps— whose fingers justification for those polygamous urges Putting greater emphasis upon the will be caught? which at times trouble, or at least con- economic aspect of things, but pointing — If the brains of this generations should ' cern so many other weary wanderers out spiritual methods qs the means of be sacrificed to save tne crowned heads through this mundane sphere. rectifying current difficulties, is Ludwig of the countries? is 11 possible- that 1 am suggesting that Gutmann's "The Trail Out of the W il­ — If the present trouble in Mexico will the phenomena recorded in Mr. Bradley’s derness", published by the author, and bring its double? book are the merely mental fulfilments from London comes an interesting and — If the walls could speak, what would of his unconscious wishes? No, it is not. decidedly occult pamphlet by J. H. M. we hear? They are all of them wish-fulfilment on “Our Many Lives" setting forth the — If the past centuries have anything to mechanisms 1 am prepared to say. Any author’s explanation of the theory of offer this one in the way of bouquets? psychandlyst will recognize the urges, the Reincarnation. — If we could look back, would wet suppressions, and the technique of their In the distinctly literary field we have — i f the “back to the soil” 'slogan will outlet in the pages of this remarkable a copy of “Sonnets” by M'. C. S. with make living cheaper? _ book, as clearly as they will recognize the a preface by Upton Sinclair, containing — I f more religion in the homes and satisfaction of a host of other personal much biographical material which helps schools will carry us back to the good old longings. to understand the real beauty of the days of the ark? But the point I would leave with the poems themslves. It is published by Mr. — If, in the new cycle, man wilt have reader, and with Mr. Bradley— for fur- Upton Sinclair. "Mojave Rhymes", a round the truth that maketh all men t ther research is this: collection of the desert verse of Walter free? Taken against the suggestion of how Wallace Robinson, published by the Aus­ —If we were ever so far away_ from otherwise than by spirit communication tin Publishing Company, is a delicate freedom as we are now, in this reign of the phenomena which he has recorded little collection of excellent descriptive “search and seizure” terrorism? _ could have been developed; is it not sig­ and philosophical verse. A narrative at­ — If the Goddess of Liberty will carry nificant that the spirits concerned them­ tractively bound in substantial paper the day in the prohibition battle? selves principally with what he wanted from the Master Press, carries the mes­ — If mental suicide is not more sinful them to concern themselves with? And sage of “ The Builder’s Crown of Jewels” than physical suicide? may there not be some connection be­ by Evelyn WhitelL It contains many — If mind is greater than matter, why tween the fact of his needs and his wants psychological problems interestingly do we have so many ungoverned people? which fits into the theory of his resultsT brought forward, and as interestingly — If the prophecy of Hababakuk is yet to Perhaps Mr. Bradley will write a book solved by the author’s occult philosophy. be fulfilled ? about this matter— for if he doesn’t— I From Upton Sinclair also comes his bio­ — If the Jesus controversy among the think I will. graphical drama “Bill Porter", based on Jewish Rabbi will cause another cruci­ incidents in the life of “0. Henry", the fixion? I DO not know why it is that we re­ beloved story teller of America. It is — If it isn’t a strange thing how the yarn viewers invariably seek to avoid the not in Sinclair’s best style (he is one of was spun around the child? pamphlet until our desks look something the greatest propagandists in the world 1) — If the Jews accept Jesus as their like a stock-roomi It is probably the and lacks convincing action or dialog. Savior, will the chriptv.ti overcome their very simple psychological fact that a But is is a valuable piece of— shall I hatred of the Jews?_ book “ looks” more important. This is say, Sinclairianat The Prospero Press — Where crime originated? so utterly false that it is hard to justify sends us a copy of the "Realisation Song — i f stealing was not established by the the habit even on those grounds— for the Book”, a collection of hymns recast for success of die first big steal? most valuable stimuli often come from the requirements of the “new thought” — If it paid Adam (the first man) to re­ thin, anemic-looking little pallied bro­ type of religious gathering. Their verse ceive stolen property ? chures, and a volume of ponderous pro­ is better far than that of the majority — If the great magician who was respon­ portions is often only fit for resale to of the old hymns— and the sentiments are sible for the human race knew what he the junkman. A t any rate, in self-defense, such that nearly any religious group tend­ was bringing into the world through that and to make room so that I can review ing toward the “realization” philosophy stolen rib? anything at all, I have to record the can make use of the book. — Who can interpret that dream? _ advent of several pamphlets— all enlight­ Now in its 9th printing (which is no — i f there is one department in life that ening, and most of them of real value wonder 1) Chas. F. Haanel's "The New does not embrace the occult? —many of which have lain on my desk Psychology" is a handbook which should — If birth and death are not occuh for several weeks. be in the hands of every occult student. phenonema ? For instance, there is Sidney H. It is not perfect. It is not always sound — If we are really entering into a new era Beard’s "The Testimony of Science in — but its imperfections are not such that or re-entering an old cycle ?_ Favor of Natural and Humane Diet". any serious and thorough student would — If Christianity will survive this cycle published by & Order of The Golden be harmed by them,'nor is its unsound­ of the sun of which we have seventy- Age (Oh memories of the Order of the ness (of course from the viewpoint of five years left ? Golden D oorl) It is a symposium of the reviewer!) such as would lead any­ — If all the phenonema occuring in any opinions from the world’s most eminent one to “the left.” It is an admirable ism is not all governed by psychic law? scientists to the great value of regulative compendium of practically all of the de­ — If all the phenomena occurring in any diet, and provides the propagandist in velopments of what, for lack of a better, were not what is known today as spirit this field with a wonderful little cartridge we must call by the hackneyed term, the manifestations? case of ammunition. Mrs. B. Stanford “new psychology.” It is published by — If the white cloud in the transfiguration Claunch sends us a booklet of " Natural the author. From overseas comes, from on the mount, was what is now known as Food Recipesr" the utility o f which is L. N. Fowler & Co., (phejv I let's stop ectoplasm ? self evident. No publishers name or ad­ for breath I) Ernest M. Atkinson’s — If there is any difference in reality, dress appears on the booklet, but it may "Everday Practical Psychology" which is among the various cults and isms? be obtained' through this magazine. Rich­ just what its title proclaims it. Tudor — If Theosophy, Spiritualism, and Cathol­ ard Lynch is present with two excellently Jones wrote the foreword, and you icism are not all endowed with the same printed brochures— one " Work and Sup­ should have the brochure. gift of tongues? ply", a treatise on the application of. Information of interest and value with — Do they not all see by the power of modern psychology to the Christian phil­ reference to "The Distribution o f Phy­ the same spirit? osophy, the other, "Health and Healing", sicians in the United States" is contained — Who has claim to the sun, amrmy ¡ts in which the affirmative side of religious ( Continued on page 42) many admirers? 40 The Occult Digest February 1926 aniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuii B y Constance y^llen NEWS - NOTES nlllllllllllltllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllllli^ c. AN ENCYCLICAL FROM S e c r e t s o f P a l m i s t r y ROME Pope Pius XI is “Vicar of Christ” 9 9 who, his Church claims, received from God the absolute right over all created “Let Us Meet Together things, civil affairs, Christians and even non-Christians. So the Vicar can say T M H ERE i s a newspaper ad- 1 with equanimity, with no doubt, in an a 1 w a y si vertisement for a I encyclical letter sent last week to all ^^™a longing piano player in i patriarchs, primates, archbishops and within the hearts an Arizona sa­ bishops for the instruction of their o f every one of loon, turned die I flocks: us for something scale of her en-l to fill the life tire life into a I “The heads of States should therefore more fully. happy romance. 1 1 not refuse to testify publicly their rever­ think I still have I ence for and obedience to the Kingdom Life itself con­ the sample of the I o f Christ if they wish their power to sists of demands. soft gray wed- 1 remain unimpaired, and their countries to The body wants ding dress she I prosper and progress. If princes and health, the ima­ sent me. legitimately elected magistrates, in fact, gination cries out Another in-1 were convinced that they command not for its dreams to stance was that in their own right but by the mandate come true; the of a young wo­ of the Divine King it is easy to under­ heart longs for man toiling under stand what sacred use they would make love, pride for ill-paid and labor- 1 of their authority. position, the soul ious conditions, I “Their subjects, on the other hand, will f o r peace, th e whose hand re­ not attempt to escape their commands higher self for vealed talent for when they recognize in them the image spirituality. Shall story writing. She and authority of Christ, God and man. we ever realize could hardly be­ Besides, with the growth of the King­ them? Yes, but lieve this, but as dom of Christ men become more aware we must learn she told me af­ of the brotherhood which unites them the m e a n s by terwards, s h e and this awareness decreases the danger which they may thought she of conflicts.” be attained. “would try it for The encyclical, the latest of a series Longing for a fun.” Her first sent out by the 259 popes, is unusually thing leads to the story was accep­ aggressive in the Church’s cause. It ex­ search for the object Under the influ­ ted, and at the present time she is under horts the faithful to “militate courage­ ence of the search, the activities become contract with one of our prominent ously under the banners of Christ the concentrated and this develops a ^ subtile magazines. King, to go back with apostolic fervor magnetism that registers certain tracings But there are some phases frequently to the rebels and misguided ones and in the palm; these- lines are carefully met with that are difficult to reconcile strive to maintain the rights of God him­ studied by the palmist, and from such with the gentler type. One little, thin, self intact,” for “when in international deductions, ways and means are calcu­ quiet appearing woman afforded a psy­ meetings and parliaments the sweet name lated to fortify, and control situations chological study of this. Her face ill- of our Redeemer is passed in shameful that will yield benefit and gain to the ways wore a placid smile, the attachable silence it is highly necessary to acclaim individual instead of useless struggles sort of an affected piety, or virtue that it publicly, announcing everywhere the against an uncertain fate. Like any other is put on like a garment when you want rights of His sovereign dignity and specialist he can advise methods that will to dress up. When she spoke of her hus­ power.” bring out the best results according to band her smile would have done credit the type of his inquirer, taking into con­ to a saint sideration the lines of his tendencies, and “Yes, my husband is a good man,” she aptitude, his capacity, and ability. would say, "but we are not congenial.” C. JESUS AND THE JEWS The palmist, who has the true humani­ It is not possible to describe the essence Throughout the land headlines blared tarian spirit, shares with his confidant all of martyrdom expressed with those RABBI WISE SAYS JEWS SHOULD the endless varieties of their emotional words. ACCEPT JESUS. experiences. These confidences assume She had “acquired the habit,1” of con­ As the implication of those words sank ■ the sacredness of a “confessional.” You sulting fortune tellers, to determine when in, Jews became excited and commenced have entered the sanctuary of the other’s her husband’s death would occur. One of to flay famed Manhattan Rabbi Stephen innermost life; seen the individual as he them predicted the desired event to have S. Wise right and left The Agudath really is; his hopes and temptations, the occurred three years before, “But he has Harabonim* issued an edict against him. problems that arise from the hidden just died,” she said to me. Her reproach­ Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, professor of the depths of his heart, and because of this ful smile caught me so completely under Talmud at the New York Jewish Theo­ inner contact, a soul to soul interest is its psychological effect, I actually found logical Seminary, declared: “Rabbi Wise developed; a sympathetic intimacy is es­ myself saying, “Too bad such a mistake does not represent the beliefs of a ma­ tablished that is so closely allied to the was made in the date.” jority of Jews.” material that sometimes it seems to me it However, I 'recovered myself in time to give her an idea of the power of A t length someone troubled to discover must be one of its phases, particularly, thought which .1 hope she has profited that Rabbi Wise had actually only said when solving the questioning problems b y . that modern Jewry must accept Jesus as a that are so vital, and vivid to you. The palmist has a wide, exhaustless great Jewish teacher and indorse His Pathos, tragedy, and comedy are each field in which to gain his understanding ethical code. Later the Rabbi explained, a part of life’s experiences and each of human experiences, which yields that he had used the words “accept Je­ one’s experience seems to furnish the ability to clear the way for others, and sus” in the sense- of “accept Jesus as a lesson the person is most in need of, and the hand is the guide by which he solves man and a Jew.” He said: “There is each individual destiny. no question _ of embracing Christianity some lives reveal histories that surpass any fiction ever written. So, readers, let us get together; confide save by Christians. your problems; let me share them with Further it' appeared that all Rabbi One delightful romance that came with­ you; they can be solved, for every cause Wise had been driving at was the ex­ in my experience culminated from a has its effect, and from these effects re­ pression of his enthusiasm for a book series of incidents so extraordinary as to sults are deducted, an d by this means the Jesus of Nasareth, written at Jerusalem be almost beyond belief, in which a laun­ obscurity of indecision is removed, and in' Hebrew by a Dr. Joseph Klauss- dry bag was the principal factor. Another, along with doubt, and even fear. ner, who set form the Nazarene simply was a girl driven to desperation by It is when we do not know the way as a great Jew and not as the Christ poverty, with a father dying from tuber­ that creates worry, uncertainty and doubt­ — Time. culous. in this case, a random glance at ful actions. The Occult Digest February 1926 41 aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiniim iiiiiiiiiiiiHim iim iim m iHiiik Have YOU the Ability? To make a success of yourself? One In every three can operate an automobile—yet only one In i lx hundred can use hla own powers. To those few, success of \ their every endeavor Is assured. riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH iiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim im m itiiiiiiiim iim itim iiiim ifi; YOU have the power If you but ASHTAROTH FIGURE learn how to direct it. Be well «.SEEK FIRST MAN C.FIND —be happy—be successful. Science still continues its quest of the C a ir o — The expedition sent by the bones. of the first tnan. Some weeks Philadelphia University Museum to Bei- Secret of Oriental Power ] ago Roy Chapman Andrews, of the san has found in the recently discovered Tbo secret of the Hindu Adepts] Canaanite temple there an Egyptian stele is revealed to you in our system! American Museum of Natural History, of instruction. To this is added* whose discovery of fossilized dinosaurs’ of the eighteenth dynasty, showing the th* foundation of Occidental Psychology. With both, eggs in the Gobi Desert electrified the figure of the Canaanite goddess “Ash- you know how to develop and use all your secret scientific world more than a year ago, taroth of the Two Horns,” in the form powers. sailed from this country to renew his of a woman wearing a long flowing dress Two1 WO ILessons Pthe skull of an ape-man added an im­ vanced-thought. portant item to the world’s store of

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