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H o. 2 0 0 . V o l . 18. M A Y , 1930* P r i c e S i x p e n c e N e t

" It is not only Spiritualists who are seriously upset Our Outlook Tower. by the present methods of the S.P.R. It seemed to me months ago that the handing over to a Jesuit priest the decision as to the genuineness of the Scripts of THE CRISIS IN THE SOCIETY FOR Cleophas was an im pertinence, and I wrote to the Secretary about it, of course without avail. I have since left the PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. Society, after having belonged to it since its inception. H E A R T Y SUPPORT FOR SIR A . CONAN DOYLE. It seems to me that the S.I*.R. officials are running pretty close to the wind, for they are taking money in the form R. W . H. S a l t e r , the Honorary Secretary of subscriptions from m em bers for the purpose of Psychical M of the S.P.R., in a letter to ourselves Research, when by their actions they prevent it." published last month, said :— “ HORRID SCENES.” " I agree entirely with all you say regarding the " The Society has received several letters from discourtesy and tone of articles w ritten by Mr. Besterm an, prominent Spiritualists strongly disapproving of and the general state of the Society. In fact I sent in Sir Arthur’s action and expressing complete con­ fidence in the Society’s m ethods." m y resignation last autum n, following the special m eetings which were called. These were of such a nature as to We mentioned that Sir Arthur, on the other fill me with disgust. It is very sad to see a Society hand, had received many letters from members which has held the position of the S.P.R. in a condition of of the Society who sympathised with his action, inactivity and dry dullness, such as is its state to-day. The attem pt of a few members, including myself, to and we publish below short excerpts from these, introduce by open voting some new members on the which may be left to speak for themselves as Council was met by a storm of protest and accusations to the kind of “ complete confidence in the of desiring to harass the Council, and so on ! No doubt Society’s methods ” at present entertained. you heard of the horrid scenes which took place." A WAVE OF RESIGNATIONS. " I have received your letter, every word of which I agree with, and my resignation will follow. I have ** I have resigned membership of the S.P.R. I received been a member of the S.P.R. ever since it started, but no help from it." it almost seems condoning dishonesty to continue to subscribe." “ I became a member of the S.P.R. some years ago, but it seemed to me they were doing nothing constructive, I I have written to the Society to resign. I have paid so I dropped my membership.” my subscription for 1930, so suppose m y nam e will have to remain until the end of the year.” "A fter being a member since 1911, I resigned last year for practically the same reasons, after Mrs. Bulley I Unfortunately I paid up as a life member some 20 and several other members had tried to instil some life years ago, never thinking they would funk their own into the Society without success." cause as they have. However, I have written to the Secretary and asked him to remove my name from their " As far as I and m any others are concerned, I can only list of members, as I wish to resign.” say that the S.P.R. seems to go out of its way to deny comfort to the bereaved. . . . I have subscribed to “ THEY ONLY HINDER.*’ the S.P.R. for this year. . . . If there is no improve­ I The day on which I received your public protest m ent I shall cease to belong to it.” against the S.P.R.'s unscientific work was really a happj • • • • • day for me, because I had learned by my own sad " Your letter has been a real guide in the m atter, and experience how right you were in saying that they only I shall hope to take advantage of your advice.” hinder the real and serious workers. I will, of course, • • • • • • follow your example, and retire at the end of this year." " I am considering your suggestion that I should • ••••• join your campaign of resignation, but at present am I Oddly enough about three weeks ago, I came to inclined to w ait for Sir Oliver Lodge’s pronouncem ent." exactly similar conclusions, and sent in my own resig­ nation, after over tw enty years as an associate member, " I wish to sympathise with your action and to tell though not knowing that others had sensed and were ready you that I, too, resigned my membership some time to protest against the offensive character change which ago. .' •. .1 am very glad I have nothing more to has come over the honourable Society. . . . The do with them .” serpent has wormed its way into the nest, and those like Sir Oliver Lodge of the elder generation are not to be " That you can still wield efficient weapons is evident blamed for not seeking a brawl where only foul blows by your letter of resignation from the S.P.R. I thank are struck, and where muck only is to be gained in the you for it. I have many times resented the attitude of encounter.” that organisation, and shall not renew m y m em bership." “ DISGUSTED." " Thanks for your bill of indictm ent against the S.P.R I I have been so disgusted with the hostile attitude of It shows plainly that you are as alive and kicking as ever, the Society tow ards everything which could not be brought and still stand in the foremost rank to repulse every within the bounds of Telepathy that I have already attack. Of course, I read Besterman’s sayings in the resigned my membership, which discontinued last Journal for January and before. He seems to belong D e c e m b e r .” to that kind of people who see everywhere fraud, folly, and stupidity, who know much better what happens at 1 1 m ay say that I read Mr. Besterm an’s article in the a seance than the sitters, who use every opportunity to January number of the Journal just after I had finished arouse suspicion, and who never shrink from calling a reading Mrs. Hack's book, and I have immediately sent rogue or a blockhead any man who expresses his honest in m y resignation to the Society, feeling that it was of conviction of Spiritualism. I believe ecclesiastical no help to me in m y psychic studies." influences work nowadays in the Society, especially • ••••• Jesuitical. I think it better to resign my associateship " Only the hope that there was some chance of altering in the course of this year, mentioning the Society’s the methods of the Society has induced me to continue unscientific way of criticising m en of the stam p of Bozzano my membership, and I have this year come to the same and Bradley. Since the days of Myers, Hodgson and conclusion as yourself that this is hopeless. . . . It Hyslop the Society has sunk deeply. But verity will seems a pity that the oldest body of all should be left to gain the victory over lies, and yours will be a great part people who are ruining it, and with whom hardly any in the victory." m edium will ait." “ Many in Italy will join in thanking you f o r y o u r " I wrote them in the same indignant fashion some stand. Count Bon here among others. If you personally months ago in regard to some criticisms that appeared know Prof. Bozzano and his wonderful nature and indom ­ in t h e Journal, and the only reply I received was, the itable courage for the Cause, you will understand— as he is Society was not responsible for the opinions expressed a frail man now—how troubled his friends were at such by its contributors I T< abuse from such an unexpected direction as the S.P.R." Ul THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE m ay l m

PROTESTS AND CRITICISMS. A LIVELY MEETING. 1 nrtltnn to iho Prwrfdont of tho S.P.R. In reply " I attended the General Meeting rtf hi ■ d to his rfix'nlftt IH tor . . . 1 laid stress on the met Thursday evening. There were between ^ ♦hat the reviewing recently in the S.P.R. Journal h a s bers present, with Sir Lawrence Jones in the chair mmn’” boon had reviewing, quite apart from its animus and ” I put the question to Mr. Besterman that «* Ignorance." in an endeavour to explain the phenomena at the Millesimo sittings, he alleged that they were perpetrated " I thoroughly sympathise with your feelings about by fraud, would he please explain to the meeting what what would appear to be very serious misrepresentations. motive the Marquis Centurione could have had in per­ . I fear they have been unfair in the cases you petrating fraud ? The Chairman immediately got up mention, which is distinctly bad.” and said, ' I rule the question out of order.' This is the usual method of thwarting an awkward discussion. “ Mv wife and I are humble students of psychic m atters ” However, a little later on, I had the opportunity ot and must confess that during the last three or four years speaking again, and I then gave Besterman the most we have derived no real assistance at all from the S.P.R. terrible verbal thrashing he has ever received in his life. work. . . That the S.P.R. is at present not ‘ pulling ” I also severely criticised and reprimanded Mr. W. H. its weight ’ in any way except as a brake on real effort Salter, and told him that he was abusing his position as I fear nobody can deny.” Hon. Secretary of the S.P.R. by bis browbeating, domin­ eering, and prejudiced attitude. A Life Member wrote to the Society :— " How such a review could have been accepted by a Society noted the " At the end of my denouncement I said that whilst world over for absence of prejudice either way is difficult I had no race prejudices I considered that while any to understand. . . . I trust an explanation will number of graduates from the Engilsh Universities appear in an early issue of the Journal, with a full with­ possessed the necessary qualifications to occupy the drawal of the review. A loss of confidence in the Society position of Librarian and Editor of the ' Journal' of by its members would rapidly result in the closing of the S.P.R., it was most questionable policy on the part the Society.” of the Council that this position should have been given t o a P o le . “ DESTRUCTIVE IN A TRIUMPHANT WAY.” " You could have heard a pin drop, and several of them ** I feel I must reply to assure you how much I seemed to shrink in their chairs . . . Directly I had sympathise in your attem pt to bring the Society back finished the Chairman got up and said, * After this scene to its real objects. It was certainly not formed to negative I m ust close the meeting.' everything of a psychic nature. I have been an Associate of the S.P.R. for nearly 20 years, and do not want to “ As I drove away two or three members came up and leave it unless I am forced to by their policy. . shook hands with me, saying they agreed with everything Many prominent members of the Society, including Sir I had said.” Lawrence Jones, are, I understand, convinced Spiritualists, but lately all criticisms in the Journal of any psychic happenings or of books with specialist evidence have LORD DEWAR AS A SPIRITUALIST. been destructive, and destructive in a triumphant way. BE regret to record the sudden passing of For Mr. Besterman to go off on a tour of Continental Lord Dewar, the millionaire sportsman mediums for four m onths and to return reporting joyously W that all was negative, doubtful, or fraudulent, proclaims and famous wit, who died at his home, him unfitted for his work of research. Some people never The Homestall, East Grinstead, Sussex, on succeed in getting evidence, and he is obviously one such Friday, April 11, at the age of sixty-six. unfortunate.” His Lordship manifested a deep interest in Spiritualism ” Reading your circular I must inform you that you a n d t h i s Gazette, and many will recall his witty speech have indeed guessed the inmost thoughts, not only of at a Spiritualist conference in the Queen’s Hall, over myself, but also of most of the scientific explorers of which Mr. Dennis Bradley presided, on M arch 11, 1929. psychical research here in Munich, of whom many have Claiming that he had approached psychic science hitherto been members of the S.P.R. In autumn, 1928, with an open mind, he said, ” Men’s minds are like Mr. Besterman was here in Munich, and Baron Schrenck- parachutes ; they function only when they axe open ! ” Notzing and other renowned men agreed that the S.P.R. W hen he had told a friend he was going to that meeting, made a great mistake in sending such a young and inex­ his friend said, | Do you mean to tell me that you go to perienced gentleman abroad, who, instead of increasing such places ? Nothing would induce me to listen to the high repute of the Society, only injured it. I myself anything Spiritualistic.” He replied, “ There axe many was struck by the article in the Journal regarding the people who will not listen to an intelligent departure seances at MUlesimo Castle, by the insulting manner of from academic tradition ! ” its criticism. Certainly criticism must be allowed, but The friend said, “ W hat on earth do they talk about in my judgment it was an impudence to attack Prof. at such meetings ? ” Lord Dewax—| Oh, we shall Bozzano in such an offensive w ay.” probably get the winners of the Grand National and the Lincoln Handicap 1 ” " I join entirely with you in your indignation. I Speaking of a seance Mr. Bradley had held in his experienced the same sensation when I read Besterm an’s Lordship’s house, he said, " Several voices spoke in libellous article. It is impossible to excuse his offence, foreign languages, including Scotch ! The Scotch voice no matter how obliquitous his mentality. By that was very broad, and he was the only person present article he has disgraced the S.P.R.” who could understand it. He had to act as translator. Mr. Bradley told him he had heard a lot of languages, but I In my opinion the Society has not advanced a single he believed that that Scottish dialect would have beaten step since the publication of Myer's I Human Per­ even Dr. W hymant ! Valiantine (the medium) could sonality.’ " not possibly have imitated it. Had he attem pted to do so, he would have made as dismal a failure of it as any ” It is with great pleasure that I have learned of your Englishman or Irishman who ever attem pted to imitate action, and I trust it will be the means of enabling psychic the Scottish tongue 1 ” research, as such, to proceed untram m elled by the outworn fallacies of physicists.” At a most interesting seance he had attended in • ••••• London with Mrs. Pruden, a slate writing medium, he “ I have had myself such illum inating direct experiences wrote a few questions to departed friends on a piece of that the kind of discussions printed in the S.P.R.'s. paper. He put the paper with a piece of slate pencil Proceedings merely bores me. And it bores others, for between two slates. He held one end of the slates and I am certain th at it is rarely th at the best cases of psychical the medium held the other. It was about six o’clock experience are now subm itted to the censors in office.” on a June evening, and therefore broad daylight. They « • « * « *. heard a ticking noise going on between the closed slates 11 am glad you have taken this m atter up because for about two minutes, and then they opened them. many of the members are looking for a lead. We have One of the questions to a friend was, " W hen did you clung to the Society while your name and Sir Oliver pass over ? ” The answer written on the slate was, Lodge'8 were on the list, but w ith increasing im patience.” p I passed over in February.” His Lordship himself ****** thought it was in April, but next morning he discovered ** I have written to Mr. Besterman, with whom I am that his friend was right, he had died in February l on some slight terms of correspondence, to express my His Lordship concluded by saying that they lived in deep regret at the method and tone of some more recent times of free speech, and he believed in getting all the communications in the Journal. They do not conduce valuable information available on every kind of topic to friendly feeling, nor to the progress of the researches and verifying it. ” That is why I am here to-night with for which the S.P.R. was founded.” an open m ind in a spirit of inquiry.” \1*v. 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Progress from Positivist Materialism t o Spiritualistic Science. B y P r o f e s s o r ERNEST BOZZANO, S a v o n a , I t a l y . Specially Written for the “ International Psychic Gazette,” and Translated from the Italian by Gwendolyn Kelley Hack, Author o f “ Modern Psychic Mysteries : M illesim o Castle, Ita ly ” N the interests of the readers of the Inter­ Now it happened that in the year 1891 Professor Th. Ribot, the director of the Revue Philosophique, w r o t e national Psychic Gazette you ask me for a to tell me of the coming publication of a new magazine I sketch giving biographical details of myself bearing the title Annates des Sciences Psychiques, o f and, above all, data concerning the circumstances which Dr. Darieux, the forerunner of Professor Charles which led me to interest myself in Psychical Richet, was the editor. That was a magazine which proposed principally to gather and to investigate certain Research. I accede willingly to your request, curious cases of thought-transm ission at a distance, which well realising how the history of philosophical it had been decided to label " telepathic phenomena.” conversions always contains valuable teaching The mysterious psychology hidden in such phrases for those who read. I say “ philosophical con­ attracted my curiosity, while the nam e of Professor Richet sufficed to guarantee the versions ” advisedly, scientific seriousness because mine was of the enterprise. I such in the fullest replied to Professor measure of the term. Ribot, thanking him and sending m y A H E R M IT subscription. STUDENT. THEIR FIRST EFFECT I was born a t DISASTROUS. Genoa, Italy, in I m ust sincerely state 18 6 2, and my life is that my reading of the first numbers of the literally one void magazine referred to of biographical produced a disastrous episodes, in that it impression upon my has been the life of a irreconcilable Positivist criterion. It seemed hermit. I never to me scandalous that did anything else certain representatives than study. In my of official science youth, all branches should seriously discuss the Transmission of o f knowledge T h o u g h t f r o m o n e relating to the arts continent to another, of and sciences held apparitions of telepathic equally an irresist­ phantoms having real being, and cases of ible fascination for actual hauntings. The my mind, making it inhibitive power of difficult for me to preconceptions rendered select any one path my faculty of reasoning w h o l l y impervious in life. to such new ideas ; or Finally I decided rather to such new facts, upon Philosophy, for it was really a and Herbert Spencer matter of happenings scientifically demon­ was my idol. I strated and rigorously became a Positivist- documented, though I Materialist — con­ was not qualified to vinced to such a assimilate them . degree that i t WHAT CAUSED THE seemed to me FIRST FORWARD PROFESSOR ERNEST BOZZANO. STEP. incredible that there Reproduced from an oil-painting from life by his niece, Clotilde Bozzano. While I was con­ could exist persons tinuing in this state of of culture, endowed mind, there appeared with a normal measure of common sense, who i n t h e Revue Philosophique a long article by Professor Rosenbach, of St. Petersburg, in which he m ade a violent would believe in the existence or the survival attack against the sacrilegious intrusion of this ” New of the spirit. And not only did I think thus, Mysticism ” into the hallowed precincts of official but I wrote audacious articles in support of Psychology, and explained away the new happenings by my convictions. the hypotheses of " hallucination,” ” fortunate coin­ cidences,” and I know not what all else. Such The recollection of such acts of mine now confutations seemed to me so deficient and unsustainable renders me indulgent and tolerant toward a as to produce the opposite effect upon my mind from particular class of opponents who, in good faith, that which the author had intended, and it became hold the opinion of being able to confute the conceivable to me that the question was really one of facts. In consequence, I thought Professor Rosenbach rigorously experimental conclusions which Modern was wrong to fight them merely by preconceived views. Spiritualism reaches, opposing these by the And thus it came about that the awkward confutations inductions and deductions of Psycho-physiology, of one of my co-religionists— too ardent in his Positivist in which conjectures I too believed forty years ago ! belief—caused me to take the first step upon the new Science of the Spirit, to which I was to consecrate my SPIRITISTIC INVESTIGATIONS BEGIN. life . It must be understood that in those times to which In the following number of the Revue Philosophique there fortunately appeared am article by Professor Richet I refer I knew nothing either of mediumistic investigation in which the superficial statements of Professor or of ” Spiritism,” with the exception of brief articles Rosenbach were refuted point by point; an article which I had read carelessly in newspapers, in which which greatly strengthened my convictions as to the supposed tricks of mediums were exposed, and in which reality of the. facts, and as to the m ystery in which the t h e credulous Spiritists were spoken of pityingly. explanations of them were bound up. 116 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. May, 1930.

ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS. m ental results, through the help of whom there followed In this same year, through the work of MarilHer, a manifestations of every sort—powerful knocks at a French translation appeared of the famous book, distance, mediumistie lights, transports of very h eavy " Phantasms of the Living " (by Myers, Gurney and objects, apports, asporta, and spirit proofs of identity * Podmore), under the new title of “ Hallucinations Tele- Then occurred the experiments with Ensapia Paladino pathiques " ; a translation which I at once procured, in which Professor Enrico Morselli took part with us, and and it served to definitely convince me of the existence in which wonderful results were obtained, the medium of telepathic phenomena. never being able to liberate herself. We saw the entire But it must be understood that such a recognition materialisation of phantoms seen by the light of an Auer on my part had in no way altered my Positivist belief, gas-burner, whilst the medium was lying in the cabinet, because the scientific explanation then in vogue of tied by the arms, the legs, and the waist upon a camp-bed. telepathic phenomena, according to which they derived Of the foregoing experiments I gave an account in my their origin from Thought travelling toward the Infinite book, " Spirit Hypotheses and Scientific Theories ” in concentric waves, fully satisfied my scientific judgment. ( " Ipotesi Spiritica e Téorie Scientifiche "), and Professor Nevertheless, I had effectually and unwittingly taken Morselli did likewise in his book, ” Psicologia e Spiritismo ” a big step on the road to Damascus, because such a first (“ Psychology and Spiritism "). concession in regard to supernormal manifestations had MY CONSIDERED TESTIMONY. irrevocably started me upon a new line of research, which And here I will stop in calling up my recollections, was to lead me in the opposite direction from that of remembering that I was asked to outline the narrative Materialistic Positivism which I professed. And, in fact, of the first steps which I took upon the path which was I was not long in arriving at the period of crisis in my to lead me to the Spiritualist convictions nowadays scientific conscience. It was the volume of Alessander professed by m e; and for that purpose that which has Aksakoff, " Animisme et Spiritisme,” which was the been set forth suffices. cause of bringing this period about, profoundly shaking I close by observing that such convictions of mine the foundations of my Positivist belief. w e n t on m aturing most slowly in the not brief course of There followed a time, painful beyond words, of moral forty years of researches in which I persevered, undertaken perturbation for me, because although the new path without any preconceptions of any sort. Hence I feel established itself in the sense of a scientific faith by far I am in the right in openly expressing my belief in the more comforting yet, for all that, one does not witness significance and importance of such researches, to which without discomfort the demolition of one's whole system was devoted such a large part of my life, in these term s : of philosophical convictions, acquired at the price of Whoever, instead of losing himself In Idle dis­ lengthy meditations and of persevering intellectual efforts. cussions, undertakes systematic and deep researches THE STUDY OF EARLY SPIRITUALISTIC HISTORY. in metapsychical phenomena, and who perseveres in In these days I read manifold metapsychical works them for long years, accumulating Immense material by authors then in vogue— those of Kardec, Delanne, in happenings, and applying to these the methods of Denis, D'Assier, Nus, Crookes, Brofferio, Du Prel— but scientific inquiry, must without fall end b y convincing I was not long in realising that if one wished to do work himself that the metapsychical phenomena constitute scientifically proficient in the new field of research, it an admirable assemblage of proofs, all converging was necessary to go back to the origins of the Spiritualistic as to a centre toward the rigorously scientific demon­ movement. I therefore wrote to London and New York, stration of the existence and of the survival of the so as to obtain the principal publications from the Spirit. beginning of the movement up to 1870, and on the arrival This is my firm conviction, and I do not doubt of these books there began for me the really fruitful period that time will show that I am right. of systematic investigation in this vast new field of metapsychics. I catalogued oach work that I read, putting its contents in appropriate alphabetical order, with the intention of using these for comparative classification and analysis of the happenings and facts. The utility of such a method of investigation proved so priceless to its use that 1 havo continued it up to the present time. 1 retain an irmdicablo memory of this period of fervent and persevering researches, because through them 1 was m s K able to take stock of my new Spiritualistic convictions, upon a foundation which was scientifically unshakable. TOWARDS THE LIGHT 1 Among the works which cast their influence most on my point of view 1 may mention the following 0 I turn your faces ever towards the Light; Robert Dale Owen : " Footfalls on the Boundary of another World"; " The Debatable Land Leave darkness and the gloom of life behind ; between this World and the Neat.“ Smile, help to make the world more glad and bright; Epsa Sargen t: “ Planchette, the Despair of Science. ” Keep cheerfulness and courage in your mind I Mrs. Do Morgan : ” From Matter to Spirit.'4 Doctor N, B. Wolfe : “ Startling Facta in Modern The world has need of all best gifts just now, Spiritualism " Striving is she towards a higher goal. It is really deplorable that such works, long out of print, are not again reprinted in England and in America, And we must change to higher aims the low. unco they retain intact their freshness and their value And lift towards happiness each struggling soul 1 As to the history of the Spiritualist movement, Mrs. E. Harding© Britten’s book. f* Modern American Spirit* Turn to the Light I and leave the dark behind ; uabam," was a great aid to me; and for the hwtory Ask blessings, and bestow on others too ; of the forerunners in this same field, 1 turned with benefit So shall we please the dear God, who is land. to the work, in two volumes, of William Howitt, “ History of the Supernatural.** And make earth Paradise, as we pass through 1 From the point of view of mediumistie phenomenology and physical effects the accounts given by Mrs. Spew ELISE EMMONS. of the experimental sittings with William Stain ton Moses were those which produced the greatest pumsastve effect » !fi $ upon ray convictions; and this m the sense of Spirit- OUR READERS* TESTIMONIES. intervention, in the phenomenology under discussion in Light for 189^*893- An Advertiser : “ Owing to the wide circulation of Gazette, an order t o t VitaUn ban come from Nigeria to-day.“ LXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS. A South African Reader : “ I have been a regular I was abtf thus to form for myself a aohd scientific leader o f the Gazette fo r several yean, and have become knowledge from the arguments, but fudged that the one H ft* d e v o t e d admirer«.“ moment had arrived to confirm my theoretic learning by fxm iw m itl investigationa. A Sew Zealand SttOeenber ; “ Your paper continues In the meanwhile, by that mysterious taw which brags t o give tie t h e richest of fo o d from month to month, together one person and another having affinity of «0 much so that one would feel loet without it.“ aspirations and of tendencies, I had mst various pinions An tel* of Wight Subscriber : “ In renewing my sub* occupying themselves with mediumistie research with senpbon may 1. say how greatly I appreciate the Gazette, serickuameaa of p am m among whom I mention Dr. and ouy 1 afco tender to Monsieur Pascal Farthuny my Ven-Muo, Cav. Carlo P e m u . and Luigi AnrnJdo g s a t i d u l thank* for his in valuable and enhghteomg Yaasalkv editor of the Sscnfs XIX contributions, which afford yout readers such an We had the good hick to d h eo w ndthaa the hsu*_> crl interesting insight into the p r o g r e s s of Spiritualism owr own group tvs mediums powerful lor physical u d throughout the world.'* May, 1930. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 117

The Late Lord Balfour as Psychical Researcher. HE following letter, from Sir Arthur Conan " Her brother (Mr. Arthur Balfour) laughed at her and Doyle, referring to Lord Balfour’s interest took the ball into his study, when he returned, looking perplexed. He adm itted that he had seen (in it) a person T in Spiritualism and Psychical Research, whom he knew, under a lamp. appeared in The Times of March 29, 1930 :— ” This was about 5 p.m. on a Sunday at St. Andrew's. " In the various obituary notices of the late Lord He would find out on Tuesday, he said, whether he had Balfour I have not observed that any reference has been seen right or wrong. Miss Balfour told me this. m ade to his keen interest in the things of the spirit. " On Tuesday, Mr. Balfour met, at a dance in " As early as 1894 he was president of the Society for Edinburgh, a lady—Miss Grant. ' On Sunday, at five Psychical Research, and his presidential address of that o’clock,’ he said, ' you were seated under a standard year showed how keen was his understanding of the lamp, making tea. A man in blue serge was beside you ; problems at issue. He had already amassed considerable his back was towards me. I saw the tip of his moustache. practical experience of mediumship, for it is mentioned You wore a dress (described) that I have never seen you by Mr. Campbell Holmes in his * Facts of Psychic Science ' w e a rin g .' (page 388) that as early as 1875 he had investigated materialisations in a series of seances with Miss Wood ” ' W ere the blinds up ? ’ asked the lady; and Miss Fairlamb, some of which were held in his own “ I I don’t know; I was at St. Andrew’s!' said Mr. h o u s e . B a lfo u r. “ He was exceedingly cautious in expressing his con­ " The lady said the facts were correct, and she and victions, and, though on one occasion I interchanged Mr. Balfour wrote out and signed a report of the incident. letters with him upon the subject, I am unable to say that he fully accepted the theory of communication, "N ot long afterwards Mr. Balfour lunched with me. although I am quite certain that he did not absolutely We spoke of Miss X. (Miss Goodrich-Freer) and her reject it. As a proof of this I may mention that some experiments, on the links before luncheon. Afterwards, years ago he was asked to address the annual conference in my study, Mr. Balfour, who was smoking, gazed into of the Spiritualists’ National Union, and he accepted a glass bowl of water. the invitation. This, of course, would not imply full I He saw (in it) as much of a house as you see from acceptance of the Spiritualists' view, for Spiritualists are the hall. The arrangement, as to flooring, doors, windows always keen to get sane and intelligent outsiders' criticism. and staircase, was of a kind unknown to us. A white H e was,however, prevented from carrying out his intention Persian cat in the picture walked down the stairs. by an illness which entailed a visit to a Continental “ The picture lasted long, and I made several changes health resort. in the lighting of the room. When I drew down the ** I think that I am right in stating that he had even blind the picture remained, but the large window, opposite some undeveloped psychic gifts of his own and that he the front door, in the crystal picture of the house, obtained some results in an experiment in crystal-gazing. disappeared. Andrew Lang mentions the fact in one of his books.” “ I happened later to meet Miss Goodrich-Freer, whom A CRYSTAL GAZING EXPERIENCE. Mr. Balfour had never seen in his life, and told her what M r . A n d r e w L a n g , in his introduction to a he had beheld. book on " Crystal Gazing," by Northcote W. “ | My house ; my Persian cat I ’ said the lady. Thomas, wrote :— “ I had never been in this house, but visited it on my " I lent the (crystal) ball to Miss Balfour, who often return to town. Mr. Balfour’s description of what he then saw, I think, an old-fashioned piece of furniture saw in the picture was absolutely correct, but the Persian (in i t ) . cat was out. His existence, however, is simply attested.”

M r. H . Dennis Bradley on M illesim o and the S.P.R . THE LATE LORD DEWAR AND VALIANT 1NE. N an interview with Mr. H. Dennis Bradley, at That was on the night after their first seance here. Dorincourt, his beautiful home in Kingston Vale, They had got phenomena at once. At their second on Boat-race Day, the distinguished author of sitting with us, “ Christo d'Angelo,” Valiantine’s guide, " Towards the Stars ” was good enough to give us told them he had been present at their impromptu sitting, his views of the Millesimo Experiments, with which and referred to the incident of the paper knife. That he has been in close touch from the beginning, as was interesting confirmation at one circle of something follows :— that had happened at another. Their development was infinitely quicker than my own, for after my first OU will remember how the Millesimo drama table sitting it was nearly six weeks before any “ voice ” began. The Marquis Carlo Centurioni came through to me. Y Scotto, of Millesimo Castle, Savona, Italy, After their return to Italy they commenced sittings lost his son, and having read one of my books with a circle of five. Professor Bozzano came in a little later. And you know what amazing manifestations have had a great desire to get into communication occurred. They are fully recorded in Mrs. Hack’s book, with him. Professor Bozzano advised him to and Professor Bozzano, a very eminent witness, vouches get into touch with me, and when he wrote me fo r th e m . I invited him to come to Dorincourt. “ CONTROL” INHIBITS PHENOMENA, We had two or three sittings here with the medium The official Psychical Research Societies of Berlin Valiantine, in the course of which the Marquis had con­ and London have, however, discredited these phenomena versations with his own son. He had not the slightest because they hold very rigid views of “ control.” Now doubt of that, for both father and son spoke in Italian, I consider such an attitude often inhibits phenomena, and the medium knew no Italian. and I lay more stress on the evidential elements in the The Marquis was accompanied by two friends, Signor communications. The proof of survival and personal P. E. and Signora Rossi. At one sitting they received identity is, I think, the only thing that counts, and if messages from an Italian spirit whose name none of them that comes by the direct voice I do not think it matters knew. They telegraphed at once to Italy and got whether there is control or not. confirmation that the name was quite correct. That I have had sittings with Valiantine when he was fully test excluded all possibility of its being telepathy. controlled by luminous bands on hands and feet, and when A BROWN PAPER TRUMPET. he was bound with ropes having adhesive paper on every Now an interesting thing happened, which I don’t knot, but that made no difference to the phenomena think I have yet stated anywhere. After their first sitting, happening. Having taken these precautions two or which greatly amazed them, they thought they would three times I saw1 no use in continuing them. I never like to hold a sitting themselves in the flat they had put unnecessary difficulties in the way, for the m entality taken in London. There were only their three selves, of a medium may be seriously affected by the very fact without any medium, but you know how eager inex­ of tying him up. Also, the communicating spirits will perienced people sometimes are. They said, “ We may not give their proofs of survival to those who are not possibly get something.” So they improvised a trumpet ready for them. with brown paper and they had not sat very long before The attitude of the S.P.R., as shown by certain of its they saw the paper trumpet lifted up in the air, and prom inent officials, appears to me to disregard the valuable heard it giving forth a hissing sound. A paper knife points of evidence, while fastening upon trifles to suggest lying on a table near them was also lifted up in the air unlikely alternatives. It looks out for tiny flaws and and dropped into the circle. ignores all the fine points. 118 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. May, 1930

Mr. Hcstcrman went abroad last year for four months it has got into the control of a small clique of two or three ns the Society’s representative, and afterw ards described persons, who have little if a n y s y m p a t h y w ith the high his experiences w ith various mediums. The manner in aims for which it was founded. And the worst of it is which he wrote his report showed, in my opinion, that that they mistake their ignorance for true science I he was not only inexperienced but utterly incompetent. THE LATE LORD DEWAR. The report has excited tremendous indignation against In regard to Lord Dewar, who has just died, you may him in the Hungarian Society. be interested to know that a year or so ago we had a sitting There was a private meeting of a few of the members at his house at East Grinstead. It is an old twelfth century of the S.P.R. some months ago when protests were made building with thick walls, and has a wonderful atmosphere. against Besterman representing the Society abroad, It has associations with John of Gaunt. We sat in the but Mr. Salter, the secretary, defended him. As I said afternoon when the light was coming in through the then I say now, that though I have no racial antipathy windows. The voices went on for an hour and a half, I have the same objection to his appointment as the repre­ and were very powerful. When we came away His sentative of the English S.P.R. as I should have to the Lordship shook Valiantine by the hand and said, " You appointment of a Pole to be Prime Minister of England. have sanctified my house." He said he had never enjoyed In reading the reports of his trips abroad, one might anything so much, and he said it with that fine Scottish suppose he had only met manipulators of cards instead accent and beautiful sincerity for which he was so well of mediums. The real significance of the phenomena is known. constantly ruled out, and that is his attitude all the Lord Dewar was a close personal friend of mine and tim e. I sat with him many times. He had extraordinarily If the Society after its long existence has only arrived good evidence from many of his Scottish friends who had at doubting all the physical phenomena, it is about time passed over, and he regarded these experiences as the to consider closing it up. Like many other societies. greatest thing on earth. The Psychic Influence in Literature. B y R. H. SAUNDERS.

W |E know quite well that all through the with fright, and bowed to the officer." Then she melted ages writers have been influenced by away. " All the men swore to having seen the Empress, who had died years ago.” spirit agency, and our own glorious " Leipzig to Cabul " (by Stratit Sauer) relates that Shakespeare was the recipient in overflowing when travelling on a motor cycle in Persia he had a measure of the influx of controlling powers, vision of an old friend leaning over a piano, and the whether consciously or unconsciously received. scene was so vivid and life-like that he was astounded. He learnt months later that on that very day his friend In past days writers who were without doubt psychic had died. themselves have introduced into their works phenomena In " The Lighted Caravan " (Margaret Baillie-Saunders) of a genuine psychic character. Take the Brontg family, the horn lantern, which had functioned perfectly hitherto, George Borrow, George Macdonald, John Wesley, Lytton, one foggy night refused to light, despite all attempts, and others; all teem with occultism. The wonderful and this was the night the original owner of the lantern appeal of Rochester (in "Jane Eyre") to Jane, and her met with a serious accident, and the " light of a little reply, though several counties separated them, is an life went out." “ Are there spooks about ? " laughed excellent example of clairaudicnce. the itinerant clergyman who was temporarily in the But it is of present-day literature I would speak, and caravan to which the lantern was fixed. Some may not of that written by believers for believers, but by attribute this to coincidence, but in countless occasions those who make no special claim to Spiritualistic leanings we find untoward events thus synchronising in a wonderful or knowledge. manner. In the Daily Mirror of April 9, 1930, there In modem literature, whether it be in the daily or is a picture of an old lady who died at the moment when weekly press, in magazine or novel, the striking feature is a framed picture, with the glass broken, was delivered Pr osented of the introduction of psychic phenomena at her door. One of the commonest of superstitions (?) in one form or another. Like King Charles* head in is that of disaster associated with broken mirrors. David Copperfield,” it cannot be kept out, and reveals In “ The Coloured Countries," Alec Waugh says, the grip the subject has obtained over authors. " Omens and coincidences abound in plenty, to be Dean Inge at Birmingham recently said he was " almost accounted for by * credulity in unseen presences.* " ashamed to mention Spiritualistic superstitions now rife " Far Enough ” (Helen Ashton) is a delightful work amongst us, even if they masqueraded in scientific dress." dealing with life in ^ Jamaica subsequent to the Great No such hesitancy exists among modem writers and War. In an old house there, built by one of Henry novelists who are of equal culture and ability to the Dean. Morgan’s buccaneers, a murderous rascal turned pious, During the past two or three years I have perused where black magic was practised in the days of slavery, some hundred or more novels and other works, and I find when the brutal treatment meted out to the wretched eighty of them contained some reference to psychic slaves forced them to use this uncanny force against m atters. 1 cannot ask the Editor for space for extracts their masters, in this house, “ full of ghosts, the noise from so many, though 1 have taken notes of all. The of people walking up and down, talking, and the sound material is so great that 1 am embarrassed what to select, of pistol shots, were of frequent occurrence." but 1 venture to submit the following. In " On the Stream of Travel/* by J. Norman Hall, In Eleanor Eisner's " Far and Near " quite unusual and the author says that in the Island of Taneri many of the w onderful instances of psychic pow er are given. T h e author inhabitants are psychic, and relates the following story. g o e s w i t h several friends to an okl m onastery, and a m ove A woman and her daughter sat braiding the fronds of a is made to see the old altar, but t o t h e i r surprise no one plant. Suddenly the mother said, " Have you cut your coukl get up the few shallow steps. An influence “ as hand ? ** " No, said the daughter, "-why ? ” ** There’s G iwerful as am electric charged bar" stopped them. blood upon the braid ; look I ’’ And several drops of ore than one of the party said, " I m u s t see that altar," blood appeared on the braid, although neither mother and made attem pts uselessly. It seemed l i k e paralysis. nor daughter had cut themselves. " There’s something All felt a curious and unpleasant feeling, a n d some happened to father," said the mother; " come, let us trembled and could not a c c o u n t for the sensation of go down to the beach." On the way they met some d r e a d , A photographer with the party tried to take native fishermen bringing the dead body of the husband, views of the church and altar, b u t found it Impossible who had been mutilated by a shark. to do so. Even those of the p a r t y w ho were far beyond “ The Wishing Stone ** (T. E. Penny) is from cover the precincts of the monastery f e l t t h e barrier, a n d gave to cover nothing but occultism in its crudest form. India u p the i d e a of following the others. Afterwards, in is in the grip of grossest superstition; though founded delving into some old books and papers, it was f o u n d th at on genuine phenomena it has been degraded to sheer the monastery had been used by Roscracttiw. t h a t black animism Although the West can learn much from the magic had been practised there, and that dnadful punish­ East on this subject, there is little of value in this book m e n t s had been inflicted u p o n crusaders who had i n f r i n g e d to students of psychic matters. The natives bow to the the laws of their Order. forces of nature, and attribute them to malevolent demons. ■ From Double Eagle to Red Flag ■ (by Kraasnof) whom they seek to propitiate by sacrifices. gives a vivid picture of the m entality o f various classes War books often ran tain references to psychic of society of the period which led to the tell of one of the phenomena, and in “ The Case of Sergeant Gnscha " greatest empires in the world. The materialised f i g u r e (Arnold Zweig) is am instance, where the hero thinks the of the Em press Elizabeth appeared in the Winter F u a c e will of one dead takes charge of the living. We know of the Czars, and the officer of t h e guard actually f i n e d that “ possession by an entity is a very real thing, up his and presented anas. 1 The spent passed them and not uncommon. and Wiked attentively at the ■entriuiij, who were shivering {¡Continued on p a i l * H9>) M ay, 1930. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 119

The Survival of Mr. P. G o e d h a r t ! His H opes for A Real W orld Congress in 1931.

AST month we published an excellent letter from Mr. P. Goedhart, of The Hague, L on the Mantes Affair, and also an account of active preparations being made in Holland for the joyful celebration of his seventieth birthday. We mentioned in a footnote that La Revue Spirits of Paris contained an intimation of his death, which we said we sincerely hoped was not true. It happily turns Out that that report was baseless, La Revue Spirite’s translator having stupidly mistaken the Dutch report of his seventieth birthday for an intim ation of his passing h e n c e I The English Two Worlds, accepting this report without question, published an obituary notice, saying. *' The transition took place suddenly, and has caused a wave of sorrow not only throughout Holland but in inter* national Spiritualist circles generally ” ; and adding, " His transition has thrown a measure of gloom over the International Committee, but arrangements have been made for Herr J. F. van Ben them van den Bergh, Larixlaan 12, 's Gravenhage, to transact all business in connection with the forthcoming Congress.'’ This is not easy to understand for, of course, Mr. van den Bergh being on the spot, knew that Mr. Goedhart was alive a n d w e ll I These two journals, controlled by the President and Vice-President of the International Spiritualists* Federation, which should have known better, nuik a MR. P. GOEDHART. faux pat which might have caused greet pain to the collection of societies* representatives, but a great highly-esteemed President of the Committee preparing assembly of anient Spiritualists from all the nations for the International Spiritualists' Congrew« at The ((ague in th e two hemispheres, and everyone with equal r ig h ts next year, with whom they are neceaaarily in frequent to vote in the business and discussions of t h e Federation, touch. Fortunately Mr Goedhart has taken a hamorass t have written to Mr. Oaten, the President o f th e view of the blunder and had sent us the follow tag " cor­ Federation, in accordance w ith t h is idea, and he will pse Uoa "■ in which he follow« the famous example of probably discuss it wtth the head Committee. I am sorry Mark Twain In similar tinru instance* f this takes so much time, for t should tike to publish the MR. COEDHART’S OWN STORY, call for the Cottgre : 1 as soon a > possible to all the Spirifc- uaimti of the world. The project of the call is already in fO U have certainly raid that the Dutch the hands of Mr. Oaten. YVe wait for its approval, and Spiritualist* have suffered a severe loan will then print one thousand copies or more in E n g lis h by the transition of my dear tell I At a n d French, and »end them to all Spiritualist societies and journals throughout the world. Our only wish is least, I have read it in a French and in an fcngfeh t o bo quick I Spiritualist paper. I think it is a happy amen, Now a little joke from our friend, M. L*Homme, from for he whose death is announced falsely is said L ie g e He writes (I had sent him a card, saying I was to live long I And 1 sincerely wish to nave the •tUl in the land of the living)- —" Nous sommee h e u r e u x de vous «avoir encore a v e e n o u s et nous n# pouvona que opportunity to make the Congress of i ^ i one vows (Shelter d'une rSinearnation auaai rapid# I " (“ W e of the best ever held till now. are happy to know you are still with us, and we can only How the «ad news came to he t»w d to the work! in Congratulate you on so rapid a reincarnation I “) And unknown to me. Probably in Prance they did not he k n o w s t do not accept Reincarnation I I await more comprehend the moaning of an article in He* ToekotmHg proofs 1 Lmm. The heading was j—“ p. Goedhart. iMo— March ihch. and its mean tog was that 1 h a d THE PSYCHIC INFLUENCE IN LITERATURE. attained my seventieth year, bet not that 1 had ended {Concluded from fuite 118.) n r lik | “ G re y Dawn and Red Night “ (J. L. f(odson) th&marck once said, * Many eaeaum, mark honour " introduce» a character of Celtic blood who had a m o th e r That may h e ; indeed. 1 have mem we enough I But gifted with second sight, and who sensed " things are it is a more glorious truth. “ M a n y (needs, much going to happen." A " force" urges him to attend happineea.** I nave a lot of good friends, and they places he would never have thought of going to, and made March iO. f o r me a great a n d h a p p y day. something dway* " happened." As a reporter for a T h e r e was a committee for the cothratua, wtth du»tm~ newspaper th is was rather a valuable asset to have I gwuhod person* an i t , mcHiritng a Member of Parhament. And so ( could g o o n multiplying example#. W e the Shenfl tor 1 not ruction and Education of The Hague. have had psychic plays and novels, none of which have • Member of the T o w n Conned, a n d soon» Sptntuahsts. earned the public very far There is yet t o be w r itte n They ptsm tsd me with an etching of my p o r t r a it . a convincing p s y c h ic novel in a n understanding and X have given it to the High Middle Class School, of which sympathetic way by a writer experienced in th e X was the toot director, and one copy hangs now m our phenomena. The m a n marked out for such a w o rk is Spiritual!* building ** Know Thyself" There were S ir Arthur Conan Doyle, and when in harness a g a in lo w en in abundance, and some hnndfrede of people w e hope he w ill give it us. Father Benson in " T h e congratulated n a There were two dinner parties, on Nee romancers" attempted it, but the deeply rooted Saturday and Monday, at which X shown! adequately prejudices of h is Catholic training warped his views, that 1 was Sal an the land of the kvmg l There was a a n d the book gives a biaiWMsd v iew o f Spiritualism, bather goktosi Watsum«» foaatain pen presented to me by our Benson has on several o c c a s io n s since his passing told dear friend M m K ri, with the nope that it would hi me of his deep regret " m writing the book. The employed in the n n r i of ciisriteilism uni so it is p r o d u c ts of his brother, k. F, Benson, only tinker with ajbready f X am glad to learn that hitherto 1 have done the subject, and are much of the ’* shilling s h o c k e r way work toady mriL and X hope to proceed in the same type, it is to sdr A r t h u r we m u s t look. way, XHahape yen know that Mr Bcailey told m m m me in 19*6 m at X had m l some ten or twelve years to fwtoh my task, and an my father and my mother died "A presumptuous scepticism that rsjscts facts without at eighty, these is teeee hope that in t$jM 1 eeay shake examination of their truth to, in some respects, more hands wtth yen ail and do tome useful work hulrffdianil injurious than unqtiesfurinng credulity."— Humboldt. Xhrhape we can try to make tins fimgime of 1^31 a " O n e good experiment u o f more value t h a n the he». ^itsttmss of S p n k n h o i of the World, mutest«1 of ingenuity of a tmu8 like Newton's. Facta a r e b s m I M k ag ef a tow dntogaiee kun dtiltsinf eornkm useful when they contradict than when they support riu ck m a dritorent thing- W* name not be a small received thw wise * - t o Humphrey Davy 120 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. May, 1930.

THE PLATO’S IDEAS CRITICISED. Let us glance at some historic ideas of the soul conceived International Psychic Gazette by men, and see how loosely the supernatural notions of its origin were reached. Plato thought the soul had come The Independent Monthly Organ of down from heaven because it seemed to have " innate Spiritualism and Psychical Research. ideas." Even in an uneducated child, the soul seemed to All communications for the Publishing, Editorial, or Adver­ him to have knowledge of mathematical and logical tising Departments should be addressed to— axioms not learned on earth. It also appeared to have 69, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.l. glimpsed perfect " ideas ” in a pre-existing life which it endeavoured daring earth-life to recall and put into practice. Therefore, it had come from above 1 B y THE SOUL AS A PART OF NATURE. precisely the same reasoning he might have concluded that the souls of bees had pre-existed in heaven and PAST HABITS OF THOUGHT. been taught how to construct their marvellous mathe- N pleading for a view of the soul of man as matically-exact hives, for how otherwise con Id they being a part of Nature, we are opposed by perform so wonderful a task at once without any tuition on earth ? Such facts are now explained on more I the deadweight of habits of thought on the mundane principles. Men and bees alike necessarily subject that are age-long. Men have usually think and act in accordance with their organic structure, persisted, and do still persist, in thinking of the their inherited form, their nature. The logic of Aristotle soul as a supernatural Something, that " cometh and the mathematics of Euclid were embedded in the constitution of man ages before they were " discovered ” from afar ” (as Wordsworth said), as something and written down in books. apart that is temporarily incarnated in us, and WORDSWORTH’S POETIC FANCY. to ask them to believe that the soul is as truly an W ordsworth's well-known doctrine of " Reminiscence " ordinary natural part of man's constitution as a proof of the heavenly origin of the soul is based on as the physical body is so contrary to what they a person's beginning child-life " by feeling this material have hitherto thought that it is almost “ the world strange to him ; but . . . he discerns in it its kinship with the spiritual world which he dimly last thing they will give in to." remembers." He said :— A SUPERNATURAL PRODUCT. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The soul that rises with as, our life’s star. This inertia is not confined to the foolish and ignorant, H ath had elsewhere its setting, but is equally shared by the wise and learned. Poets, And cometh from afar. philosophers, and theologians in past and present have But this idea was a mere flight of poetic fancy. been addicted to the notion that the soul is something that Wordsworth, like Plato, dreamed backwards to an has come into man from without, by some supernatural imaginary celestial origin, from the pure wonder and unclouded vision of childhood and its sense of " kinship process, and that its real origin must ever remain a with the spiritual world," but the beautiful wonder and mystery. It is like demanding a sudden reversal in innocence of childhood need not surely be attributed to thought to ask them to picture the immortal soul as itself any former heavenly life. It suffices us to know that the an organised body, even though it be called a " spiritual child's soul is as yet innocent and unsullied. body," or to conceive it as having (arm, faeturee, and THE VIEW OF MYTHOLOCISTS. faculties, (or these are characteristics they have hitherto The same kind of backward inference is found in the attributed solely to the physical body ; or to behave that old a c c o u n ts of h o w great Roman emperors came down the soul has had precisely the earns history, inhen lance, from heaven. They were flatteringly pictured by the and parentage as the physical body. poets as being highly superior to the mass of mortals, “ WE ARK BY NATURK IMMORTAL SOULS." and what more natural to suppose than that one of th e gods had descended from Mount Olympus and over­ A n d yet that is the idea a! the human soul lor which we shadowed a virgin of human clay—-hence so godlike a riead. It has come to the surface as a resuU of psychical king 1 The explanation was more* fitted to please a Knowledge. Psychical Hawaat) and !it>utluaiu(a pagan-emperor than to state a truth, for according to IExperience have brought to light that m a n has a dual prose accounts these same emperors were excessively constitution, and that every ceu ol he organism consists mundane. of psychical as well as physical matter. W i are by nature immortal souls as wall as mortal bodfea " We are such THE VIEW OF RE 1NCARNAT 1 0N1STS. stuff as druams are made ol," said Shakespeare, but the And even now we have not grown out of such claims to “ s tu ff " o l which our souls are composed is becoming real a soul's transcendental origin. There are persons alive a n d Though it is in v is ib le and intangible to-day who claim to have received their souls otherwise to physical sense it is coming into view as an indestructible than by Nature’s plan, their physical bodies being stuff which, like ether itsalL (hies n o t g ro w old or die like inhabited by the souls of ancient kings, queens, heroes, the m atter ol the physical body; which during earth-life poets, and philosophers, who after a spell in devachan operates behind the screen ol the physical body, and attar nave come down again to earth for further experience d e a t h goes on living when the physical b o d y h a s bean in the physical bodies ol members of their particular laid same. Science knows ol the existence ol this e th e r e a l cult 1 How these foreign souls were able to oust their aoul-stutt, and Sir Oliver Lodge os someone she m a y b e own natural souls is, ol course, not explained I aide t o give us someday the formula, in terms ol ether a n d electricity, ol its composition, as t h e purely physical THE IDEA OF A FINITE “ SPIRIT." scientist can already tu l us in te r m s ol chemistry ol what The problem ol the soul has been made more perplexing our mortal bodies are composed. than need be by confounding the soul with a finite s p ir it s p ir it is a s THE SOUL A COMPLETE ORGANISM. " in man. Man's " " often spoken ol if it were something different from his " soul," something B ut science has not yet conceived the ides ol the myriad additional to h is body and soul. The soul is even spoken of psychical parts within us otherwise than as separate and a s " the casket ol th e spirit." T h is is a c la im for man as a I t y e t unrelated parts ol our physical caffs. has not triune being instead of a dual being. We stand for man's imagined a synthesis oI them ae fcwmmg an independent “ double constitution,“ but the view of man being “ body whole of their own nature. It has not yet visnahsed them and soul— plus Spirit “ is not unwarranted if we are as sp a complete organism, a g| counterpart, careful to note that the Spirit in man is not a sundered ceQ tor cell, of the vinbfte body. It has not yet « a g e d portion of the indivisible Spirit of God dwelling in a man, the iadtvidnal net as an epitome or rnlsdeetinii of the out is the Universal Life or Spirit itself operating con­ mental, moral and antntnal experience at aH the previous stantly through him as through every other living thing. scads in the line at its ancestry, just ae the pbyakal body “ I am sure,' s a y s th e author ol the M Religio Medici, * is an epitome or cuimtaatjoa of tike physical features, " there is a commua Spirit that plays within us, yot makes t r a i t s and habits el its ancestors. It has not yet got hold no part of us ; a n d t h a t is th e Spirit of God, the fire and of the notion that the m e t of germ plasm from which scintillation of that noble and mighty Fssenrt w h ich a man grows ie psychical, as stem as physical, and that ifi the fife and radical heat of spirits. the Mythical equally contain* the impress 1| its inheritance, ‘Vienro wifi, however, at no distant date A HELPFUL ANALOGY. present us srffh the view at the seel as i cou*i*trm, Th» p a r t of the subject is a little difficult to g ra sp , but conceivable natural product arriving by the established |I you take your w a tc h you will find m it a luminous process of Nature, and not as an mmscmvahle super­ a n a lo g y It may be roughly conceived m consisting of natural neodect. which has come sesnehear or other irvm tw o parts (i) a comphentfed — i » » » * ol ayul wheels, nobody snow* where, and been *rtW on to a physical and | É fiasnhh But there » a someth tag body e> one knows hear. {Continued an pegs IS],) May, 1930. 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O U R INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE: A MONTHLY RECORD OF SPIRITUALISTIC AND PSYCHIC HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WITH SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. B y MONSIEUR PASCAL FORTHUNY. {This Chronicle it Written in French, and i i Translated into English by the Editor.) said Madame Fontaine, " watch him, for he is a thief; ^¿raonal IRccallrctions. I am going to have him arrested by the police.” DEATH OF A FRENCH MINISTER. Two hours later Gamier was sent into the city with a N the month of September, 1929, M. Z. Wilman, parcel, but he did not return. His suspicions had been aroused. By some almost imperceptible indication he I a Polish engineer living in Paris, came to had understood that his new employer had been told see me. of his theft. The police were to arrest him next morning Having given me his name, and having asked me to on his way to work, but they watched in vain. He had advise him without my receiving any information on already hidden in some safe retreat. It was unfortunate I the object of his visit, I said :— Madame Fontaine telephoned to me again, and asked "You have invented a machine which can render me to continue my experiments, but I had succeeded great service to the carriage industry. You have a too well in my first attempt to succeed in another, so patron in the person of a French Minister. He can be I excused myself, saying that my mednnnsfhip did not very useful to you, but at present his opinions differ go so far as to find again a thief I had pointed out to her from yours about the best means to make your invention to be caught, after he had been so stupidly allowed to valuable. In three months this Minister will be dead. escape ! (At that moment he was in perfect health, but he actually THE VISIT OF M. JEAN FINOT. died three months later from a sudden illness.) Your discovery will then become very quickly known to the I will now give a recollection that dates back world, and your real prosperity will begin.” some years. My visitor departed, and I heard no more from him. It was at the time when I had the gift of automatic This week, however, I met him in Paris, and he said :— writing, before I became clairvoyant. One day I received " Three months after our conversation, to the very day, an unexpected message automatically by my hand M. André Lefébvre, the French Minister, who was interested saying, " To-morrow, at 3.30, you will see ML Jean Finot in my invention, died. This invention is a device which at the gate of your villa, ringing the bell. He will come silences the motors of automobiles and motor-cycles. on a bicycle, and will wear gloves of white skin.” M. Lefébvre wished me to launch my idea in connection M. Jean Finot has one of the finest intelligences I know. with airplanes, but I preferred to utilise it first of all on Manager of the important Revue des Revues, he possesses motor vehicles. After his death I devoted myself a very handsome house in the country, about a mile and exclusively to adapting it to such machines, and I was a half from my own. A year before I had met him in well inspired. To-day my invention has achieved a great Paris at a friend's house. He was very critical and success in France, Great Britain, Belgium, and other hesitated much about believing in mediumship. He did countries.” not ask me then to give him any demonstration. From I was pleased to leam that my prevision had been that moment we had not seen each other again. Why, so perfectly confirmed, and for purposes of " control " then, should he come to see me ? That seemed most may state that M. Z. Wilman lives at 6 Rue de Bizerte, unlikely. I had difficulty in supposing that his visit P a ris . was even possible. Nevertheless, as soon as I received the message, I made A FRIEND’S LITERARY SUCCESS. a fair copy and slipped it into my portfolio. I would M. H ubert-Fill a y , of Blois, historian and see to-morrow whether I had been deceived by something man of letters, is one of my dearest friends. quite fantastic ! We have known each other almost since the days of Next day at 3.25 I said to Madame Forthuny that we infancy, and in the spring of 1929 I said to him one should stand at the window and see whether M. Finot day :—" My dear friend, I have a splendid prophecy would arrive. Five minutes later we heard the sound to give you ! At the beginning of 1930, you will receive of a bicycle belL The bicyclist stopped at the gate. a grand prix from the French Society of Men of Letters. He wore white gloves. It was M. Finot. My message W hat is particularly interesting is that this award will had not lied. be disputed by no one, for there will be no other com­ Having been admitted he explained the object of his petitor, and the prize will be awarded by a u n a n i m i t y visit. He said he had heard some curious things about o f v o te s ." my mediumship, and had come to put me to the test ! Hubert-Fillay was not expecting any success of this Then I replied, " Monsieur, my proof will be immediate. kind, and was rather sceptical. However, on January 13, Will you please read this little note ? ” 1930, he wrote me that the Society of Men of Letters I handed him the copy of my automatic message, had just awarded him the grand prix for Regionalist received the day before, annnmwing that he would Literature, and that the jury had unanimously decided come to-day at 3.30 cm a bicycle and would wear white to give it him, there being no rival to contest the m atter gloves ! w ith h im ! Never have I seen a man so dumbfounded. When he had recovered from his surprise M. Finot confessed A WILY THIEF. that this experience left him stupefied. And I, too, was The other morning I received a telephone call greatly surprised ! from a lady who has a photographic business MY DOCTOR’S AILMENTS. at 33 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris. I like very much to exercise that form of Madame Fontaine said to me, over the phone, " Permit mediumship which enables me to localise the me, monsieur, to beg the aid of your gifts. Could you come and see me at once ? This is what has happened : seat of their troubles when sick persons give me I had an employee named Gamier, whom I believed to be their hand to feel their “ vibrations.” honest. He has left, having stolen more than a thousand My doctor, whom I had not seen for three month* francs. Will you help me to find him and to bring him called in one day for a little gossip. When I shook to justice.” his hand I immediately felt a violent pain at the back I replied, " Madame, I am overwhelmed with work of my head under the bulb behind my left mastoid and regTet I cannot come to discuss this affair with you. I mentioned this impression, to my visitor, adding that But here is a good counsel which comes at once to my I also felt a muscular contraction in my right arm. I said. mind : ' Buy the journal, 1‘Intransigeant, the day after " There is some connection between the pain in my arm to-morrow. Look at the advertisement page, near the and that in my head. Have you some trouble in your foot of a column, and see if someone in the suburb of head or arm ? " Saint Honoré is wanting a shop boy. It is for a business The doctor said my hypothesis interested him very of feminine industry. Perhaps you will find your thief much, for he had suffered cruelly for some months with t h e r e . '" neuralgia. He bad gone to a medica? confrere for Two days later Madame Fontaine consulted l‘Intran- attention, and his friend, by means of a probe, had sigeant, and found that a dressmaker in the suburb of introduced through the nose a caustic and an antiseptic Saint Honoré was advertising for a shop boy. Next day right into the nerve centres behind the brain, on the she rang up this dressmaker and said, " Have you left side, at the very point where I bad felt my pain. yesterday or to-day engaged a youth named Gamier in Sinré» that operation, which was very painful, the neuralgia your service ? ” Reply—“ Yes, our new shop boy is had stopped, but a troublesome refer had been produced. named Gam ier; he came this morning." “ Very well." He had beat troubled with sadden contractions a t the 122 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. May, 1930.

muscles in his right hand. His hand became twisted, one time, while camping at Gaza, he believed his army and he had to exert considerable pressure to bring it had been afllicted by some poisonous contamination, back to its normal position. and wanted to know where he should fix his winter On hearing these details I expressed this opinion :— quarters to purge the evil. He resorted to the " Virgilian " Very well, the muscular contractions in your right arm sorcery,” and opening one of the Gospels cast his eye arise from the fact that in the operation, in reaching on the top of a left hand page, where he read that he your delicate nerve centres, your friend must, by a ought to go to Albania 1 He set off there with his troops, regrettable accident, have touched and wounded some and after some strenuous and successful military motor centre in relation with the muscular system of operations found his troops in excellent health I He your right arm. He has cured your neuralgia but you had been mysteriously guided to just the right quarters 1 have gained another physiological distress.” Perhaps a case of post hoc sed non propter hoc ! This might seem an opinion very heretical, but my friend did not consider it ridiculous, and he confessed SAVANTS AND “ METAPSYCHICS.” he thought I might be right. Apart from everything The Czecho-Slovakian newspaper Pestreho else he said he was amazed that I was able in a single instant to diagnose the seat of the trouble as being at Ttydne has been asking for the opinions of several the left side of the lower part of his cranium, and also savants on the question of “ metapsychology " — the further trouble which had arisen only a few days a long word almost as mysterious as Mesopotamia. before in his right forearm. Certain replies received are amazing for their profound ®lje (Efrnnttcli. ignorance. Professor Oskar Fischer, for example, exhibits himself as afflicted by the most reactionary dogmatism. THE PARIS NEWSPAPERS AND SIR A. CONAN He repels the thesis of survival with energy, and declares DOYLE. that clairvoyance does not exist, for a tribunal at Prague It is painful for your Continental Editor to had lately decided it was only a joke I In that case a clairvoyant had been condemned by judges who said have to record that in the matter of supernormal in principle that clairvoyance and mediumship in general phenomenology the newspapers of the Continent were only tricks I rarely report the truth. On the other hand, Professor O. Krauss asserts that For example, the Paris Journal recently said that the Czecho-Slovakian scientists are obliged, like others, Sir A rthur Conan Doyle had himself organised the startling to consider with attention the reality of mediumistic seances at Millesimo Castle, and had resigned from the phenomena. He th in k s they would occupy themselves S.P.R. for two reasons— (i) because he feared he had with them much more if they did not fear to be thought been deceived by this Italian experience ; and (2) b e c a u s e ridiculous in these researches, which official science he no longer believed in experimental Spiritualism 1 A n d continues to laugh at. But Professor Krauss does not that is how our current history is written 1 go further, for he says he does not w ant to be a Spiritualist A g a in , l’Intransigeant of March 7 printed a telegram because he does not yet possess any proof of survival. from its London correspondent, saying :— " A British THE MAN-EATING TIGER. newspaper has just published a photograph of the Lady of Windsor, so-called by the celebrated novelist and The Sunday News, England, mentions Spiritualist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.” Concerning this (March 9) a remarkable case of death warning. lady the report said her apparition had been seen three Mr. T. was an important functionary in India. He times in the past few months. At her third appearance was of a strenuous character, and loved hunting above all. a young soldier on guard before the Castle was so startled His wife became very ill in a climate that did not suit that he fired two shots at her and the window-panes had her, and the doctors recommended she should go to been smashed to atoms. Then the phantom disappeared ! England for twelve months. She went. The time Since then thousands of people have been standing around approached for her to return to India and to her husband. the Castle awaiting the next appearance of the lady ! She made her preparations for the voyage, but had a sort I rather fear that this story is only as correct as the first I of presentim ent that some unfortunate event menaced her. VIRGIL’S MESSIANIC PROPHECY. A week before sailing Mrs. T. awoke sooner than usual. The light of dawn filtered through the window curtains, The 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the and suddenly she saw on the curtains the vision of a Roman poet Virgil is about to be celebrated leaping tiger. The animal looked like a strange design with great fêtes, especially in Italy. on the lace. She uttered a cry of fright, for then she A French author, M. J. Carcopino, has just published saw also the image of her husband shouldering his rifle a book on *' Virgil and the Mystery of the Fourth to kill the animal in the jungle. She heard the shouts of Eclogue,” in which he professes to dem onstrate the falsity the natives, and finally saw the tiger spring ! of the supposition that Virgil prophesied the birth of W hen Mrs. T. came down to breakfast her fellow-guests Christ in these famous lines :— remarked on her pallor and inquired the cause. To one Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur or do. or two ladies she narrated her extraordinary experience. . . ! Si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri An hour later came a cable confirming her early morning vision. Her husband had gone on a shooting expedition . . . Jam redit et Virgo. and been killed by a man-eating tiger, which he had been Dante Alighieri was convinced that Virgil h a d stalking for several days. thus announced the divine birth at Bethlehem. He wrote, addressing himself to the Latin poet, in his A STRANGE ANNAMITE MARRIAGE. ” Purgatorio ” xxii, 76, et seq. :— ” Already the world We discover in the newspaper Ngo-Bao, of was impregnated by the true faith, sown by the messages from the eternal kingdom, and thy word, pronounced in Hanoi, a curious story coloured by a strange advance, was in harmony with the new predictions.” Spiritualism, which may be quoted as giving Alas, we must now renounce this beautiful legend. an indication of the Asiatic mentality. Virgil was not a Messianic prophet at all. The child The episode took place at Nam-Dinh, Annam. in whose birth he announced, as beginning the age of peace December, 1929. A Chinese clock-maker, living in in the world, was simply the expected son or daughter Cua-Dong Street, with its gate towards the East, lost of his friend and patron, Asinio Pollionus, to whom the by death some years ago his unmarried son. About the Fourth Eclogue was dedicated. The author demonstrates same time a neighbouring Chinaman similarly lost his that Virgil was no clairvoyant. daughter. Some time later the first Chinaman called During the Middle Ages Virgil was believed to be a upon the second and asked for the hand of the deceased great magician, and his and used to be Georgies Bucolics daughter for the dead son, so that these dear children consulted about future destiny by people opening the might not be sad and solitary in the Other World. The pages by hazard and reading the passage on which they request was granted, and the marriage date was at once chanced to lay their finger. A curious example of book fixed. test I A thousand marvels were attributed to the success As for an ordinary marriage ritual presents were brought of this sorcery. But M. Carcopino ruthlessly destroys by relatives and friends to the bride's home— roast pigs, them all, so far as they were any result of the poet’s cakes, etc. Then some hours later push-carriages were occult lucidity. seen filing in procession along the streets. The first ANCIENT BOOK TESTS. was adorned with red silk, and brought the soul of the Since we are speaking of book tests let me bride to the house of her prospective father-in-law and recall that this method of interrogating fate was mother-in-law. The other vehicles were filled by relatives a n d friends of the family. The house was decorated as much more ancient than Virgil, and that after if for a real marriage between living persons, and there his tim e it was transmitted from age to age. w a s the same atmosphere of festivity. The guests ate, For example, the Emperor Heraclius (a .d . 575-642). drank, and let off fireworks. T h e newly-mamed cou p le while condemning the superstitious practices of lus were there too, at least they were represented by enemies, the Persians, believed in the book test. At mannequins in paper-mach6 1 May, 1930. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 123

AGNES PILCH, MEDIUM. with a telephone arrangement which promised well. Here then, devised by a youth of fifteen, lately deceased, was The Polish review Hejnal, of Wista, Silesia, a means of direct communication, operated by the spirit gives some particulars of Agnes Pilch, a medium h im se lf, independently of the presence of the medium. who inhabits that town. I do not think I ought at present to explain the details She claims to see pictures of the previous lives of her of the machine. The whole thing will be published consultants, and to have preserved the memory of her i n extenso in articles in our Bulletin.” own previous lives I If Madame Pilch had only this W ith what impatience will the Spiritualists and Meta- dubious sort of mediumship we should not refer to her, psychists of the world await these complementary for her alleged gift in this line is utterly beyond the power explanations 1 of “ control.” Even though she may speak in perfect MISCHIEVOUS SPIRITS INTERFERE. good faith, she can narrate to her gaping and credulous Meantime I have information from a trustworthy admirers all the fanciful fables that may pass through and friendly source that malignant entities have done her head f That is all the more to be feared since she their worst to spoil these experiments. has the romancing temperament, and has already written My friend says :— ” We have observed— and this makes stories an(l romances created in her imagination. us believe, all the more, that the invention is im portant— What is more important, however, is that Madame that since the apparatus was ready we have been attacked Pilch has cured some patients who were considered by a veritable syndicate of malignant entities who seem incurable by the medical faculty, and during the war to have only one aim, namely, to destroy the usefulness made use of her clairvoyance to give the families of of the invention I These beings make free use of it, and soldiers engaged in fighting news of their sons and would cause it to sound continuously if we had not found husbands when that had ceased to come through the a means of stopping their ringing. Two months ago ordinary channels. In this department her mediumship these hostile spirits prevented Mr. V. de M. from com­ was checked and certified by positive proofs, but as for municating with his son Henri by the telephone. We her visions of past reincarnations one is entitled to judge have no wish for telephonic communication with these that her " memories ” are mere ramblings ! undesirable interrupters. So we shall persevere until we A CASE OF OBSESSION. find some method of trium phing over them .” I trust these praiseworthy efforts may soon succeed The Portuguese review Luz e Caridade publishes and that I shall soon be able to announce— “ Victory I the following particulars of a curious obsession. We have been able to dominate these adverse powers, In the town of Figuera de Foz lives a man, M.H., who and the apparatus is now entirely at the disposition of became a widower ten years ago and re-married. From the good spirits only who m ay wish to use it I ” that time his health failed, and he became very ill with P . F . digestive troubles. The doctors tried all the usual remedies without success. N ote—Communications for our Continental Editor Finally a doctor, who was a Spiritualist, had an idea. s h o u ld be addressed to Monsieur P ascal F o rth uny, He persuaded M. H. to go to a Spiritualist seance. There 10 Avenue Frédéric Forthuny, Montmorency, Seine et his deceased wife gave him proofs of her presence, telling Oise, France. him correctly her name and several facts. At other seances she confessed that at first she had not thought herself dead, and had liked to live beside her husband. THE SOUL AS PART OF NATURE— Contd. from page 120. She recalled that she had died from alcoholism, and that more required before it can function as a timekeeper, it had given her satisfaction to oblige her husband to namely, a small modicum of human energy inserted when drink much wine so that she could share his alcoholic the watch is wound up. W ithout that invisible force the sensations. She had, in fact, obsessed him with so much watch would be useless ; given that force it will function insistence that he had become a physical wreck. according to its structure to measure it out in hours, She was induced to promise to stop this persecution, minutes, and seconds to the last degree. All parts are with the result that M. H. rapidly became quite well, essential—the rigid wheels to do the time measuring, the without any other help. It needed a Spiritualist doctor mainspring to receive and communicate the force, and to even dream of this occult root of the trouble I the force itself. But we must be careful to note that the force is not an integral part of the watch itself. It is APPARATUS FOR TALKING WITH THE something additional to itself, without which it would be BEYOND. motionless. Last month we mentioned that serious efforts BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. This we think is a pretty close analogy to the m atter in were being made at Brussels to invent an hand. The rigid wheels= the physical body ; the main­ apparatus better than a table or a ouija-board springs the soul or spiritual body; and the invisible for communicating between this world and the energy= the Universal Spirit or Life Force, operating other. through man as through every living thing in the Universe. Our soul or spiritual body, like the mainspring in the H e re is the precise information given in the Bulletin watch, responds to and is receptive of the Living Spirit, of the Belgian Council of Metapsychic Research, of which but the soul is not itself ” Spirit ” ; it is in its substance M. A . R u to t, a learned Spiritualist, is president :— essentially different from Spirit, otherwise Spirit could A workman of B r a b a n t (M. L. V. de M.) at the end of not manifest in and through it. J u ly , 1929, lost by death his son Henri, aged fifteen years. H e was heartbroken, a n d a s k e d M. Rutot in December, INCARNATION AND REINCARNATION FICTITIOUS? 1929, whether it would b e possible for him to find any We have but touched the fringe of a great subject, so la c e for his sorrow b y ta k in g up psychical research. and leave our readers to work out for themselves the M. Rutot advised him to try a ouija-board. He did logical consequences of thus identifying our immortal so, a lo n g with his wife, and the word " Henri ” was soul with our spiritual body, and of regarding it as an spelt out. Soon r e g u la r communication was established essential part of Nature. If this conception be true, b e tw e e n the parents a n d th e ir son. Grandparents and then all the old ideas of incarnating and reincarnating uncles came to join in the conversations with the deceased, souls from somewhere or other unknown into human and the talks were of great interest to the family. On bodies would at once be consigned to the dustheap of December 15, the father asked his son whether he could fictitious legend, and the superstition that a ” spark ” not suggest a more direct means of communication than of the Infinite Perfection resides within each of us in the ouija-board, and he re p lie d , " I will t r y . " order to gain experience and purification would be discarded as entirely contrary to reason. THE PRINCIPLE OF AN INVENTION. J L. Three days later Henri explained a method of call, s s s consisting of an ordinary electric bell, operated by a very simple but original mechanism, which could be THE MAY MEETINGS. put in action at will and directly by the spirit-entity T h e annual May Meetings of the London District himself. Father and son discussed this scheme, and by Council of the National Spiritualists' Union will be held December 22 the apparatus was made and installed for at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, E.C., on Thurs­ trial at the side of a ouija-board. The first attempts day, May 22. At the morning session a paper will be were unsuccessful, and some technical alterations read by Mr. E. W. Oaten, Editor of the Two Worlds, were made. Then the electrical call-bell functioned and President of the International Federation of irreproachably. Spiritualists, to be followed by questions and discussion. M. Rutot affirms that from that date communications At the afternoon meeting two clairvoyants, Mrs. F. from the spirit-world have been continuous. He s a y s :— Kingston« and Miss F . Campbell, will give dem onstrations. " The apparatus was brought several times to the offices In the evening a mass meeting, under the presidency of of the Belgian Council of Metapsychic Research, when it M r F. Whitmarsh, President of the L.D.C., will be operated before witnesses in a m anner entirely satisfactory. addressed by Mr. Shaw Desmond, the famous author, At that time the spirit-inventor combined his apparatus and by Mr. Oaten. 124 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. May, 1930.

Y oi ith D iscusses Survival After Death. THE SPEAKERS* PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF SPIRIT-COMMUNICATION. N important public meeting, organised by developed voice mediumship, and they had had very Mrs. Dawson Scott, the founder of the wonderful communications and extraordinary proofs of A personal survival and identity. On one occasion he Survival League, was held at the Caxton was sitting at home with his mother and one or two friends Hall, Westminster, on Friday evening, April n , when he heard a voice. On hearing it, he said, " Stop 1 to hear Youth discuss Survival after Death. You need not tell us who you are ; you are Colonel It was a special appeal to youth by youth. The Strutt.” The speaker admitted that was correct, and went on to send a trivial message to his wife. He said hall was crowded, and the speakers were all she was not to worry so much or sorrow for him because young men in their twenties. The speeches were that held him back, but otherwise he was perfectly happy. of excellent quality, not at all stagey but of a He had heard innumerable people speaking from the homely, fresh, and natural eloquence. The audience Other World and the messages were perfectly concrete. Mr. Dennis Bradley, in conjunction with Lord Charles was delighted, responsive, and at times enthusiastic. Hope, had successfully experimented in recording these Perhaps a League of Young Spiritualist Crusaders voices on the gramophone and dictophone, and these were m ay spring from this meeting. It would certainly be highly perfectly definite and tangible. There could be no hallu­ praiseworthy if these able young men, mostly University cination when mechanical instruments supported the trained, set themselves to organise a League to prepare evidence of their own senses. In dealing in this question young Spiritualists to champion the good cause in public. they must recognise that there were only two alternatives : Mr. D enis Conan Doyle (son of Sir A. Conan Doyle) people who died were either snuffed out, or proceeded made an excellent Chairman, and the speakers were Mr. onward, and if the latter were true the way in which they Dennis Anthony Bradley (son of Mr. H. Dennis Bradley), behaved in this life was a matter of considerable impor­ Mr. W alter Scott (son of Mrs. Dawson Scott), Mr. R. tance. He thought everyone would be well advised to Sanders-Clark, a young airman, Mr. Denis Grinling, and read the works of Sir William Crookes, Dr. Alfred Russel Mr. Maurice Barbanell. Miss Joyce Kennedy, a young Wallace, and Sir Oliver Lodge of this country, and those film actress, was expected to speak, but was detained of Professor Richet, Dr. Geley, and Baron Schrenck- by her work in a film at Twickenham. Notzing of France and Germany. Their experiments had varied, but they had all come to the same conclusion, “ GOING INTO THE BATTLE.” that Survival was a proven fact. This meeting had been T he Chairman said he wished first of all t o g iv e a a great venture. They did not know whether a great message from his father (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) :— interest would be aroused. They had, however, made " He sends you his affectionate greetings and regrets arrangements with the Marylebone Spiritualist Association exceedingly that he cannot be with you to-night. He to give facilities for direct research and direct approach says that ' the old order changeth, making place for to mediumship for a very small fee to anyone who became new.’ The old workers, one by one, are dropping out— interested. One thing they should always remember getting their promotion. Leslie Cumow has gone; was that mediumship was a purely human faculty, and Dr. Abraham Wallace has gone; Felicia Scatcherd has therefore liable to error. It was necessary, therefore, to gone; Ashton Jonson has gone. There are big gaps have a sense of humour and a sense of reverence in making in our ranks. We look to you, the younger generation, their investigations : humour when they had tedious to catch up the flag as it falls from our hands and to carry or frivolous communications, and reverence when they it onwards. Victory is certain. We are the champions received lofty teachings. It was no use taking negative of religious and scientific truth. It is merely a question results too much to heart, for sometimes they got poor of time. How long that time may be before the world results and very fine communications through the same receives and understands our message depends upon our medium. In the Metapsychical Institute of Paris there own enthusiasm. The last ten years has seen a great were effective means of controlling physical phenomena, change. The press begins at last to have some glimmer but personally he regarded mental mediumship proving of w hat it is we really stand for, but we have still a long survival and identity of personality as much more impor­ way to go. It is splendid for us older folk to see you tant. He had been going lately to Mrs. Garratt, a very going into the battle and carrying on our traditions. good trance medium, through whom his brother, who died Please accept my gratitude and thanks." (Applause.) as a child, managed to speak for a solid hour and a half Proceeding, he said they were present that n ig h t a s at a time, perfectly clearly and fluently, telling him the representatives of the Survival League, which attem pted names of his friends and delineating their characters to unite the various bodies who shared in the fundamental more correctly and justly than he could do himself. A belief of a provable survival after death. By uniting they week ago, when asked what he was doing in the next life, would show their strength and perhaps help the timorous he replied, ” Well, you know, I am always interested in to investigate this im portant subject. Mr. Denis Grinling, young people, and when they come over here I t a l k t o who had devoted several years to this study, would tell them and help them.” H e said many youths w h o them of the facilities for gaining knowledge. They were passed o v e r during the war a r r iv e d so unprepared indebted for that meeting to Mrs. Dawson Scott, the foun­ and confused that they had set up a sort o f barrier b e tw e e n der of the League. Although only in existence a few the Other W o rld and this. In conclusion, Mr. Grinling months, there were already about a quarter of a million said his personal conclusion was that they were all spirits people in this country and abroad who had subscribed to here and now. Meantime they had to manifest through its belief in Survival. Questions would be answered at the an earthly body, which appeared to be very substantial, close of the meeting, and any persons in the audience but which scientists now told them was so unsubstantial who wished to go into the subject further would be put that if it were magnified to the size of St. Paul’s Cathedral in touch with an admirable organisation which would it would appear like a whirling snowstorm. The value help them to gain experience if they would leave their of Spiritualism was that it made them realise the powers names and addresses with the stewards. (Applause.) of the spirit which, they could use to become masters of PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF SURVIVAL. themselves, and therefore masters of their environment. (Applause.) Mr. Denis Grinling said that about two years ago he had a discussion with their Chairman as to whether young SPIRIT VOICES RECOGNISED A T HOME. people took any interest at all in Survival, or whether Mr. A n t h o n y B r a d l e y said he confessed that for the they were wholly absorbed in amusements, recreations and time! being his interests were centred rather more on this the thousand and one details of daily life. Did they want world than the next, and such religious inclinations as to think of anything so drab as death a n d d y in g ? T h e y he had were turned at present towards the Roman Catholic both admitted they could not answer these questions, and Church. They were living in an age when religion was they thought they ought to put the m a t t e r to t h e t e s t conspicuous by its absence, and persons who showed any by calling a meeting and seeing what interest might be interest in the after-life asked for positive proof ol survival evinced. The result w a s t h a t by the assistance of Mrs. The churches did not supply positive proof, and therefore D a w s o n Scott this meeting had been called under the their necessity for faith. The majority of people had auspices of the Survival League, and he was happy to apparently no interest in the after-life, and particularly see it so well attended. He had begun his own study younger people. It was a fact that in the popular mind while at Cambridge in 1919. He then visited Mr. Crad­ the soul took a back seat in favour of the body; in fact, dock, a direct voice and materialising medium, at the word soul was hardly ever heard except on a Letch worth. Though his powers were rather waning, gramophone record. In spite of the general apathy he was able to give some very evidential results. Since towards future existence on the part of the general public, then he had had a series of about sixty sittings w ith M rs. there were a great many people to whom some knowledge Osborne Leonard, one of the finest trance mediums in of it would be a very great benefit, particularly those who this. country, Apart from sittings with professional had lost someone they loved dearly. The knowledge mediums in this country and on the Continent, he h a d that there was an after-life gave them an apprehensible met many private mediums. His own mother had belief and gratitude, and their grief was lightened by the May, 1930. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 125

hope that in a few years time they would rejoin those who saying he must not test that machine. He turned round. had left them. And of that they received proof positive There was no one there. About an hour later he heard in Spiritualism. His own experience had been fortunate. the same voice. He, however, took no notice, and m eant A few years ago the great American medium, Valiantine, to fly. He went to lunch with the other airmen, and was first came to England and stayed at his father’s house. taken very ill and not allowed to fly. The new machine He was home from school at the time and had an opportu­ went up and crashed, through no error of judgment of nity of participating in this original form of entertainm ent, the pilot, but through a technical defect in the plane. as he then thought. In consequence he took part in some About a year later he was investigating Spiritualism with very wonderful sittings. There were three voices he had a trance medium and got in touch with many relations recognised. The first was that of an uncle who had passed and friends on the Other Side. One day a spirit came over some months before. He had a characteristic through and said he was Chang Chinaman, and claimed to accent, and his voice came through in a tone that could have met him before. On this being disputed, he reminded not possibly be mistaken; also the way he had of him of the warning he had given, and said he was very expressing things was exactly the same as on earth. cross because he had been ready to disobey it. Each Later on his aunt, who died some years previously, came time he had heard that voice he was in the shade ; it through, and there again her distinct tone was recognisable. might have been direct voice or clairaudience, but he Now these two voices constituted proof to him of survival. thought the former as it sounded quite loud. He had In view of the fact that mediums were often supposed investigated many phenomena at the British College of to be some sort of conjurers or tricksters provided they Psychic Science, and was absolutely convinced of survival. received recompense, it gave him great pleasure when He thought this the most im portant subject in the world his mother and father started to develop mediumship on at the present moment. ” I do believe,” he concluded, their own, for his father might have his faults but no one “ that most of us in this hall will live to see the complete could possibly deny his honesty, and that quality was downfall of Materialism, and the final trium ph of Spirit­ also included in his mother’s virtues. (Applause.) ualism. (Applause.) Their development was slow, and at first the voices came through in whispers, but they gradually became stronger, NO PUBLIC APATHY ABOUT SURVIVAL. and in a few months he was able to recognise again the Mr. Maurice B a r b a n eix said when he was asked to voice of his uncle, and also that of his old grandfather, speak at that meeting the idea of youth discussing survival who had a very individual Irish accent. The fact that attracted him, for youth had not yet had time to get mediumship could be thus developed by ordinary people prejudiced and fixed ideas. The youth on this platform was, he thought, of great significance. They had kept was at one about the truth of survival, though it might m any records of these voices, including that of a Chinaman, not agree on any other subject. They were not there and that case proved, of course, that no thought to preach any dogma or creed. It had been suggested transference could explain it. That was the kind of that there was much apathy about survival, but that was hard scientific fact that scientists could not explain, not true. Since December he had addressed some 30,000 and which prejudice forbade them to accept, but before people throughout the country on this subject, and he had many years passed they would be accepted without ques­ found no apathy, but rather a common acceptance of tion, just as radio and wireless telegraphy had been the truth for which they stood. The reason one might accepted. W hether people would lead any better lives suppose there was apathy was due to the extraordinary if they were convinced of existence hereafter he did not conspiracy of silence that still existed among the news­ know, but the knowledge itself would be of very great papers. (Hear, hear.) Survival was a law of nature importance. He wished to add his testimony to that of which operated irrespective of whether people wished it their Chairman and Mr. Grinling that he was convinced or not. The fact had been proved by evidence collected beyond doubt of the truth of survival. (Applause.) during the past eighty years by honest men and women who had nothing to gain and often much to lose in stating WONDERFUL NATURAL CLAIRVOYANCE. their conclusions. Those who did not accept this evidence M r . W a l t e r S c o t t said he was not frightfully interested were blind simply because they did not want to see. He in investigation, but he had always believed in survival. was a convinced Spiritualist purely on account of the He could not remember what specific occurrence gave h im personal experiences he had had. He had tried to find that belief, but all sorts of strange things had happened alternative theories to explain the phenomena he had to him since a child. He used to talk to a spirit Iriend witnessed, but survival alone fitted the facts. Telepathy who used to tell him where to go and how to get there, could not explain direct voices or spirits’ thum bprints. but he ceased speaking to his mother about him for she The subconscious mind could noLexplain true prophetic was then a sceptic. One of the penalties imposed on statements. Many scientists had denounced Spiritualism him at school was to learn by heart five or six pages of without investigation, but every scientist who had poetry, and he discovered that by reading these pages thoroughly investigated the phenomena had been con­ over once before he went to bed, and slept over it, he vinced of their genuineness. He could not understand could say them perfectly when he woke in the morning. the antagonism of the Church, for if survival was not true That was due to his inend's help. He used also to be they did not require religion. By its opposition the given pictures and anecdotes about the past lives of some Church allied itself with materialism and denied the of his friends. He was once dining with a lady who writes fundamental principles on which it stood. Everyone plays in America, and he got this extraordinary picture : could test the veridity of the phenomena in their own a long lit-up room full of machines and fluff flying about homes, for they were merely the m anifestations of psychic in the air. I said I saw her there with other girls dressed faculties which were common to them all. If they in pinafores. She said that when she was a girl of fifteen approached the subject in an atmosphere of reverence she worked in a cotton-mill such as I had described, and and honest desire, free from prejudice and superstition, the lighting was accounted for by her having worked on and not merely hoping for some new form of entertain­ the night shift. W hen sitting in a room with other people ment, they would be abundantly rewarded. Critics he would sometimes see five or six instead of three. sometimes told them that the communications received (Laughter.) He was sorry, but it was true. Once or were trivial, but if they received anything at all that was twice he mentioned the fact, but his friends thought h im a fact of such importance as to revolutionise human m a d 1 His father had died ten years ago, and he had since thought. The first word transmitted on the Atlantic had many conversations with him. Sometimes he received cable was " onion ” ; one might have sneered at that, advice from him, which he did not take I W hen at dinner but it proved that communication between the two with his mother one day she remarked, “ How awfully hemispheres was accomplished. Similarly, when the fact like your father's hands yours are ! ’* I replied, “ His was generally realised that spirits in this world and in the hands are about the same size, but a little narrower.’’ world beyond could still communicate with each other She said, “ How do you remember," and I said he had the whole history of civilisation would be changed. He just placed them on the table beside mine so that I could urged all who had proved that Spiritualism was true to see. 1 Now, do you see the point ? '* concluded the have the manhood and womanhood to stand up and speaker, ” I don’t care whether people believe me or declare it, for Spiritualism had suffered far too long from not | it does not m atter to m e ; 1 have never been to a people in high placed positions who had been afraid of seance or met a medium, or seen a table turning ; 1 am the consequences of making such a declaration. When sure these a r e all very interesting, but as I am fully in young men and young women were unafraid to avow communication with my own father I don’t think it the truth, then the lies would perish automatically. necessary. I have nothing against mediumship. 1 think (Applause.) it a necessary institution. Perhaps I shall take up its A number of interesting questions from the audience investigation soon." (Applause.) were then answered by Mr. Grinling and Mr. B&rbanell, A CHINAMAN S WARNING. »nH the meeting was brought to a close by the Chairman Mr . R o bins Sax d er s-Clark , who was introduced as ♦hanking the speakers lor their admirable addresses and the youngest a i r pilot in the world, said that one day, by Mr. Barbanell railing for a vote of thanks to the about two years ago. he had b e e n doing a considerable Chairman, for the excellent manner in which he had a m o u n t of fly in g in the morning and was asked to test acquitted himself and “ to show that we feel h e is t h e a new plane a t two o’clock the s a m e afternoon. Sud­ worthy son of a worthy father.” This was duly accorded denly he heard the voice of a C h in a m a n behind him. by hearty applause. 126 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. May, 1930.

Researches by Telephone Pioneers in Canada. B y MARGARET E. HELSBY, Montreal. FTER reading " Imperator’s ” vivid article Harry spoke and said he was not hurt; that ” Red by the hand of Miss Marjorie I. Rowe, in Feather," one of the medium's powerful guides, had A stood between him and the light, and had saved him. the January Gazette, I thought my sister’s Both my sister and self were chief operators in the experiences here in Montreal would be of interest, Bell Telephone Co. of Canada for over thirty years, so particularly as " Imperator ” was her teacher, we are both telephone pioneers. I omitted to mention through “ Glory " her guide. my sister’s name, it is Florence Helsby, and we both live I will give you the story briefly. We were three in together. We greatly appreciate the Gazette, and look family—our dear relative Harry, my sister and self—and forward to its arrival. The January issue was better lived here in Montreal for thirty-nine years. There was than ever. a very strong bond of love between us. Harry was a s w s well-known Montreal musician, we were business women, THE EFFECT OF ONE ADVERTISEMENT. holding very responsible positions, and we were all well (Letter to the Editor.) known. In June, 1927, our loved one, Harry, passed over after 29 Queen’s Gate, S.W.7. being without his sight for about eighteen years. We D e a r S i r ,—I feel that I must write and tell you of were very lonely and unhappy, and could not find any the very wonderful result we had from an advertisement in the International Psychic Gazette some time ago. We comfort. We studied Spiritualism diligently, guided and advertised particulars of our Harmony Prayer Circles helped by a highly clever Montreal physician. in your issue of July, 1928, and ever since that date In 1929 my sister received a letter from a friend in the United States, telling her of messages she was getting from have been receiving requests for absent treatment, by her little daughter who had been killed accidentally. means of prayer, from practically every country in the These messages were sent her by her father-in-law, a world. The immediate response was so overwhelming prominent Montreal Church of England minister, a that we have since been afraid to repeat the advertise­ confirmed Spiritualist, who was attending direct-voice ment, and to substantiate this statement we are prepared or trumpet seances in Montreal. Finally my sister to show the letters to anyone who cares to call upon us.— obtained the address of the medium from this friend, Yours faithfully, F. W. POUPARD. and after waiting about a month we got a sitting on Hon. Secretary, Guild of Spiritual Healing. June 29 last (just the medium, my sister, and self), but without result. OF ESPECIAL INTEREST OUR MOTHER AND HARRY COMMUNICATE. The week after we heard, at another seance, from our “ NOT GONE, BUT WITH US STILL ” dear mother, who passed over forty-two years ago, and our brother. Our mother gave us some information of By E. W. OUGHTRED, and published at 2s. net which we were ignorant, and it was confirmed by our This volume contains evidence of survival, and gives con­ sister in England. The next seance was without results, versations between those living and friends who have ' passed but at the next one the first words were, " This is my over.’ Concise, convincing, and of interest to all Spiritualists. birthday,” repeated three times. We knew who that was, for it was our dear Harry’s birthday. He told us ARTHUR H. STOCKWELL LTD. he had been with us on his last birthday, but we did not 39, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON. T h e Publishers in v ite MSS. o f a ll descriptions, especially those of. a Psychic and know it. He said we had been his eyes when he lost his Occult nature- No reading fees. Established 1898. sight, but that he could now see. He could see us and the beautiful trees and flowers. He said love was eternal, and was all there is, as God is love. He said a bridge of love had been thrown across, making it possible for him to communicate with us, and also many personal and evidential items as we|I as giving his name. SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY During the time we attended these seances we got all o u r immediate family who had passed over. At one of the sittin g s Harry told my sister he wanted her to write at home, and h e would help her. She was to get a blank sheet of paper, a soft lead pencil, and to sit around a An table in a small room (his own room). This we did, and at first all my sister got was lines, we might say pot hooks and ladles, until at last to our joy he wrote his character­ EXHIBITION istic initials, then o u r names, and at last m essages. MY SISTER’S GUIDE “ GLORY.” Now my sister can write anywhere and a t any time, of 5 00 Psychic can ask questions, and get immediate answers. Her guide ” Glory ” also controls her for Harry, and can speak through her voice. She then goes into a semi-trance, Photogra phs but knows what is being said at the time, though she does not remember everything after the semi-trance is By over. She does everything in the light, and " Glory ” has promised that she will be a direct-voice or trumpet Messrs. Craig & George Falconer medium as soon as her training is further advanced, and E d in bu rgh that this also will be in the light. He can inspire her to sing music and words she has never heard, and she can hear him speak. He has given us some wonderful W ill be on view at addresses through her, and he assures us that her rapid »rogress has been on account of her being an abstainer 85, LANCASTER GATE, W.a rom flesh food. For Three Weeks, commencing {A t one of our sittings with a medium we had an accident. The sun shutter at the back of the curtain burst open, MONDAY, iath till 31st MAY and pushed the curtain out. A broad shaft of light shone right on the trumpet. Harry was speaking at the time. Open from ix a.m. till 9 p.m. After a few seconds the voice ceased and the trumpet, which was floating in the air. commenced to sink. The medium told us not to let it strike the floor, and she jumped on the window sill to close the shutter and push A D M I S S I O N 1 /- back the curtain. Till that was done the room was perfectly light, so that we saw the trumpet floating. It was between my sister and self, and the medium was on SITTINGS BY APPOINTMENT—APPLY TO the window-sill, proving beyond a doubt that everything was perfectly beyond suspicion. Then to make matters worse, the electric light was THE PSYCHIC BOOKSHOP switched on accidentally so that our dark seance again turned into a light one. After everything was in order May, 1930 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 127

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