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SV THE INTERNATIONAL WS. GAZETTE Nm 2111 Vili UO HKBRUARV, 1032. Price Sixpence Net » 1 \ Mkvrouw de W ed A. E. Noe, Holland, k ( >ur C hit look T(>wcr. writes :—> 1 1 cannot malorstand a mentality like Bradley's ; a ft or taking Valiantino’s part, veering round and pulling HMAHUCVS ATTACK ON VA 1.1 AN TINIC. him down for his own dark plans ! Is he mad ? I only hope Valiantine will bo plucky enough not to let his IMI WlhlsriM Ah IN'II'.MI*SI IN OUR do reticle vs fight alono. When such a sum was given to " li \rosniM ;.M dolentl the halconer Brothers, there should be means to onahlo Valiantine to come to Europe, to vindicate his ì\ |¡h vii Ih'oii gìmttly Puoourflgfld during character before the world.” r III). | tri h I 11H >111 11 |iy ilio Illlni'Nl hi i own )>V Mr. R. H. Saunders, Author of " Healing ! i|in it iiiiliMh I In ohoimni i ho country IS our * Il through Spirit Agency," etc., writes :— * i il li loin oí I li lililí Mi m liny 'm ultortu to cilscrodlt " I consider the pamphlet is a sledge-hammer and rapier Viiliiiiil iim< iiml " hi i oí hi i Spii il iiiillhin“ combined, for not only does it smash Bradley’s whole At ilo i < 11111 h i ni ii ii'iulin^ SplritimlUt. wo ciino with deadly logic but the delicate irony and ridicule IojHIII!oil ilio i itili hill In |iiiiiiii|iIoI Ioidi tinder with which it envelops his most important points shows (lo lille ol I ut juntura oj I)oimih Bradley.” him up as a tactician of an unscrupulous kind. ' Abduhl lit loin Hie monili With hull1 wily til rough tlm I .atif 1 is aware of the pamphlet and thinks highly of it ! ” 111 h t edil Ion ol o 111 > i ii. 111 « I loploh will Mold out, A n Ii din burgh L a d y Spiritualist writes :— *1 i*d M mol million o| Hilothei 111 o 11 sí 111 d COJlJoR ” I uin glad Dennis Bradley has had a good ' set down,' lot ho has behaved disgracefully.” Wiih iitihimlintely juiutnd I IiÌm in tnin In nearly i h ha Uhl nd A Scottish S piritualist A uthor writes :— Vlil, ” Your pamphlet on H. Dennis Bradley’s attack on I hih tut i ih, whit h Im nearly twenty yoan Valiantine is an able and exhaustive refutation of the loth i 11 n 111111 >> 111 d | III tillin' ol mediums when charges made so recklessly against the honour of this uiijilklly liewllml, loth iilone itoinled mil in dotflil famous medium. ih•1 iieliy iiiti'i- and IMoí'li'hh imnutatlon» by ” l hope the pamphlet may have a wide circulation Í¡V» and he instrumental in deterring imitators of such unjust wllirh Mteiiliy Ut lei ii lilt'd Iti deMtroy VnlianlineM N l attacks. | L . i**| »III# I ton Im limo 'ly H ie|iiiliilion lit* him st*l I " You must have gone to a great deal of trouble in had vipmoiihly defended linluii' ||iw own intentai the compilation of this review, and you deserve the •Old no a id iillllmli mo MUiiiU'Illy and /untiringly thanks or all who have the best interests of (hanged and its good name at heart.” A P ractical Supporter of Spiritualism in L*'"1 » I lio i ol i Oh|toiole||rn we have imeived on the htihiei I jj im ilo ) pioni n| Hie wideNoread Interest Devonshire writes :— A '[ ” 1 admire your outspoken way of dealing with persons l ha I loot hooii awakened. I ho following are who ill-treat honest mediums.” eh 1i noth limn home ol Hie lattari» atldressed to A W igan Spiritualist writes :— « I | | « ! ” 1 think all readers of the Gazette must again thank you Mi I tu nis Iowan I Invi a wi ites ; for the manner in which you carry on your noble work, and I think ymi hft.yi put fat aieil a indilli. duty. tor wliloli light the battle of our honest workers and mediums when «il lull inlinh-d opinili • >Ioinl*»», un M| NBMWÍM Monlloy Up I Vh liirml« nay you iin> malting A Spiritualist Society Secretary writes :— ii/i)i ' Ilo- hmyhhtg fftm It ni Ilio wmld ' I 11 " I received the pamphlets replying to H. Dennis ) i m f'/-ni i :Mn< i /nn nt lin/^ANn, President of I Iradley’s so-called ” Exposure ” of , and sold them all before our Sunday meeting started. M $ t U t A fé t H/* Italian dnjfMualtst Ammoi lalion, wiilt'si— I did not have enough to go round to those who wanted » Metili ilamio- Ini yum lumi i • >mir*oVolo 11«mw toni good them, so please send us more.” yOb/iM mi my 9ulh hi 11 luluy AInh entity thanks Ini llu* ¡Ucj jtfej jjjcj lan nfihhl mi ilo " 0 n|nmnn ni II MhiiiiIn Bradley,” •W MH Wb>«é* 1 nnhiil I Inni uln mly 1 mal with glori) lnloiohl LADY CONAN DOYLE’S CORRECTION. tM WS 1 0 0 I'kl'llth (hl^fiffPi Wltlt It I twelve {Letter to the Editor.) Ofi/tally ii>* lug Ik 111 r1 I» lini tu «« ni Mini' I' Mittalo Mutili Windlesham, Crowborough. I uhi Ifh tmlly *tiitN|ed III 11 iillalUg I hill Mi Moolloy January 26, 1932. Il0h inmU III* Halli I High I Mgiilant Vii 1 lit 111 ilio ani ill Ilio Drah Star Will you kindly allow me space to correct ì *•11 ii ut ni i t a) li Im < la - a il 1 1 fu Mirti f(y Mo l< hi 11 jail ( loin li I an nionemis impression which has been made in regard Am? / iilihyiyk Ilio Imi Mail Mi Monili v raiiiii Ins ailnnl <0 an interview with me bv the Daily Mail. |PfÌJf {¡j)0 juillkimiil iluiilnln IiiiMmI nl him by Vallnntiiie. They tang me up on January 14 and asked whether That It 1 /nil limi liniiti ’liliali nini ih 1 ply with I ho I mill" Iho decline in interest in Spiritualism, and the falling fnfa#M /if VH!lttaUaa,|i •«11011« ni 11 mm• 10 «no nil o| a demand tor literature on the subject, was due P P f I Im vi» */IMmi m Iniiy o < a ry ni Ila (iitnli, ' Alai lo my husband’s passing over, and to the fact that there Ahw fijif Miti )laliali /avh'ty / tin1 11 ihuhtii, loti now I was no leader to take his place. hid IJml I fiijj I t i 'Inly limimi In ílihl H Nolo ni Mio I assured the Doily Mail representative that, so far tii4 tèi luf BtÜhln " from the interest in Spiritualism declining, it was enor­ mously on the increase, largely due to my husband’s 0 *» ItlUHii I UHh'h, I Ià III i Nmway, Aollmi ot Untiring etiovts in talking face to face with the people of " v/t Am linf e/' wHtui i SO many count ties, and his continuous fighting in the W 111 hiMltly MiipiaiMii ynai • 11111 o I amtlynlM ni Mt I*tohm, ole , lor the Cause. ItlMihh1 Mi imÙw'ii imi ni tinnii I «hniihl 11 He Now, the Daily Mail did not report these remarks of jp ff,i. i'jffyi/ti ¡i a a 1ni niiiiiiiu salmi Mlior, mot Olii luso mine in that interview in their issue of the 15th. I pnaial fill II a y«*< 'UPi WÍI II IDV haul I hen tote wrote to the Editor, remonstrating that the pJ||[JI fati filili ia/hj^ tyfll’h Intel view had been very incorrectly reported I received an apology from them and they rang me up later in the Mi i aim f Ah/ h hi i p, I dii'»/ ni A/va/cm in day asking for a second interview, m which 1 reiterated ^Hl khlffllh WtliW lm (lie tart that public interest in Spiritualism is greater 1 rtì&tflfi lm Ilo i nt/i 11Hv Ih Hoiahes ,,lt' Ha pdiaplilsl tIran even I im i WMm afvan Mi HlMÌklV a seven» «•»MIM I« Hits interview was subsequently published in the me papi-/ Wmffik } Slip)fona la- i* lhma|jh with die Daily Mail u! J a n u a i v ¿0. - Yours faithfutlv. AfN /i-nKa/ Ini bvHi uii'l gioii' Ini 1 h l,n |ha hiM JKAN CO-N AN DOYLE 66 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. F e b r u a r y , 1932. Gets “ The Voices.’* SIR AND FAMOUS MUSICIANS MANIFEST. J HEN Florizel von Reuter, the distinguished encourage other family circles to make similar experiment«. musician, was in London a year or two We fancy there are many cultured persons with good guides who would find they possess latent psychic gift« of ago, giving his violin recitals and lectures as remarkable a character if they were to sit regularly on his psychic experiences at the Grotrian and for their development. Let them make good condition« Queen's Halls, he met Mr. Glover Botham, the and try ; and in six months’ time we should like them to clairvoyant, who told him that if he would sit report progress to The International Psychic Gazette «0 that further encouragement may be offered to hom* regularly he would get the direct voice. circles. . In Psychic Science, the very interesting quarterly HOW THE VON REUTERS EXPERIMENTED. journal of the British College of Psychic Science The von Reuters sat around a medium sized table, (published at 15, Queen’s Gate, S.W., price 2/6) upon which they placed the trumpet, both ends of which he tells us how he obtained the Voices in his own were illuminated. The four sitters placed their hands circle. He sat regularly with his mother and so that they were always in contact with the little finger their Hungarian chauffeur and a friend. After of the next neighbour, and this control precaution they have continued to enforce up to the present day. It six or seven months his , Nicolo is never omitted. Paganini, the famous violinist, spoke a few words, At a little distance from the table they placed on the and the circles began to receive apports. floor a shaded red light, with a view to experimenting At later seances other famous musicians of the past from time to time with light. Whilst, however, they manifested— first Sarasate, then Joachim and Tchaikov­ repeatedly had table levitation and telekinetic phenomena sky. Seven languages were spoken, including two which in red light they never had the patience to try to develop no member of the circles had ever studied. And here the Voices in light. Such attempts, Mr. von Reuter is Mr. von Reuter’s description of " something remarks, only retard development, and as they were only phenomenal ” which happened at a sitting after a Voice experimenting for their own pleasure there was no reason had spoken in Italian :— to make conditions unusually difficult. At the first sittings they had nothing except the usual “ I heard through the trumpet the word ‘ Fuzzy.’ table movements and raps. After about eight weeks This was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s nickname for they began to get touches on knees, hands and shoulders, me. The Voice continued in the well-known unmis­ and the trumpet began to move around on the table, takable accent and tone of Sir Arthur, saying, ‘ This being occasionally lifted slightly. is nice;’ then, ‘ Tell Dennis he’s doing a great work.’ Sometimes M r. von Reuter would play the violin for “ Between the sentences Mrs. Bertrán (one of short periods “ to enliven the vibrations.” The violin the sitters) and I both heard distinctly a heavy and his hand were repeatedly moved while he was playing breathing through the trumpet, which in life was as though someone wished to guide his hand. All this very characteristic of Sir Arthur. Afterwards the went on for more than six months, and then, as we have trumpet mouthpiece was found to be perfectly dry.” seen, definite success was obtained— a success which, On this occasion they obtained direct spirit writing. as we have suggested, should encourage others who have Sarasate, too, spoke again, saying I I’m still young and trustworthy guides to see if they, too, have not a similar jolly,” and “ I am only forty years old,” a very charac­ gift for the Voices. teristic remark when we remember that in life he always refused to grow old. CYPRESS BRANCH AND TALISMAN. DEATH OF PROF. HAROLD M. VANGO, M.D. What was perhaps the most remarkable of the sittings H E sincere sym pathy of all old time began with the phenomenon of a hand, which made the Spiritualists will go out to the well-known, round of the table and touched all the hands in order. T The trumpet was then lifted and the rhythm of “ The eminent, and highly-respected medium, Carnival of Venice ” (Paganini’s way of making his Mr. J. J. Vango, on the occasion of the untimely presence known) was tapped loudly with it upon the death of his distinguished son, Harold. table. Harold was bora in London 36 years ago, in the same Paulita, the spirit sister of a professional opera singer, year as we first had dramatic and convincing proof said she, too, had learned to sing. “ But where and how ? ” through his father of the survival of Sir Walter Scott, she was asked. “ Why, child,” was her reply, “ there and his continued interest in Abbotsford and his occult are so many wonderful teachers with us.” studies there. Harold became the popular young A lady asked why the Catholic church forbids Spiritua­ “ nipper ” of the family on account of his never-failing lism. A Voice answered in German, “ There is much fund of humour. ignorance everywhere, but at heart the Church admits He was an ambitious boy and as he grew up he made the truth of Spiritualism.” rapid strides in his career, appearing to fall on his feet Then Paulita, speaking again, said " I'm bringing you with every new move, until at the time of his early death something from the forest.” It subsequently proved to he was Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, and Assistant be a magnificent cypress branch, nearly two feet in length, Pathologist, in the University of Alberta, Canada, with with all the aromatic fruit quite intact. The sitting had several important public appointments. lasted almost two hours before this appeared, and When only fifteen he was working in the pathological the branch had such a penetrating odour that it could department of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London. At not have been in the room earlier without being detected. eighteen he emigrated to Canada and for a year worked There was afterwards a rain of berries upon the table, on farms in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Then he and then Paulita said, “ I’m bringing you a talisman.” began his medical studies at Alberta, which were inter­ “ An object fell upon the table, which proved to rupted by the Great War. He joined up with the be a charming little Virgin Mary amulet, with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and became a Captain Virgin engraved on one side, and upon the other side in the 33rd Field Ambulance Corps. After the war a cross and the letter M. Paganini then said ' We he completed his medical studies and graduated at the must stop, there is no more force,’ and the trumpet McGill University, whence he returned to Alberta was placed upright.” University as Assistant Pathologist. Count Zichyhad a sitting with Mr. von Reuter and Specialising in Medical Jurisprudence and Criminology, his mother in August and heard a whispering voice he studied these subjects in London, Vienna and Edin­ pronounce through the trumpet his pet name " Pondrey,” burgh, and became an outstanding authority on wounds and a still fainter voice said in Hungarian “ Uncle Geza.” from fire-arms at all angles, giving great help to the Miss Elinor Janson, of Dresden, also had a sitting with police in the scientific detection of crime. It was while the von Reuters and had a ten minutes' conversation with making a post-mortem examination of a man who had her grandfather, who was a Norwegian. “ The con­ been murdered, that the Doctor fatally contracted blood' versation,” she says, “ was carried on in Norwegian. The poisoning, and though he was rushed to Edmonton accent was excellent, and I recognised distinctly my University Hospital two days later, medical science was grandfather's way of speaking.” unable to save him. At the same sitting Miss janson’s mother spoke with The Professor, some years ago, married Vliss Ethalwva her mother (who was American) in English, and asked Little, Chief of the operating-room start of Albai|a her il Aunl Anna was also present. Shu answered, University, and leaves a family of two daughters one three Yen, sh< lias already written her name on the paper.” years old and the other one Deep sympathy with tfc* n«sy had previously placed a paper and pencil on the bereaved family is felt in the whole neighbourhood table and afterwards they found the name Anna written Mr. J. I, Vango, the Doctor's father, has receuth quite legibly in her aunt'i writing removed from Nottingham to St Leonard s l ,st|r? Mr von iteuter’f •necees in getting the Voices should ( lewei (been. Windsor F eb ru a ry , 1932. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 67 Professor Ernesto Bozzano’s Seventieth Birthday. B y E. MAUDE BUBB. N January 9, 1932, Professor Ernesto inexhaustible well, from which he could draw Bozzano, of Savona, Italy, the great almost unlimited examples to illustrate his many OContinental Spiritualist, celebrated his published works. These have also proved to seventieth birthday. He had not mentioned be excellent ammunition which he has used with the date to anyone and was amazed as well as great effect when assailants have tried to refute touched to be greeted by an avalanche of almost his published statements. six score letters of congratulation and good Needless to say, these forty years of patient wishes, sent by his friends and admirers in every research and classification of verified facts have quarter of the globe. not proved a thornless path, for Professor Many came from Great Britain, , the Bozzano is a born fighter and loves to break a of North America, and even from ance in the service of truth. He has ever the tiny Republics in the centre of South America. been ready to uphold the reality of psychic All brought friendly greetings and words of phenomena with voice and pen in face of the cheer to the great ■ most strenuous Champion of Sur­ opposition. vival and Spirit On the Continent, Return. where scientists hold Forty years ago, the Materialistic as a cultured young creed far more dog­ Genoese, who, from matically than they earliest youth had do even with us, and devoted himself to living in a Catholic the study of science country where the and literature—even dominance of the to studying Shake­ Priesthood is so speare in the archaic strong, he has been language of the 16th attacked and Century — Ernesto ostracised many, Bozzano became many times. interested in the One of Professor psychical researches Bozzano’s recent of his friend, Luigi battles was with Amaldo Vassallo, Professor Lambert, the great Italian of Germany, and journalist. Together, another with M. with like minded René Sudre, of Paris. friends, they “ and founded the “ Circolo ,” trans­ Minerva ” in Genoa, lated into English a society for the by Mr. de Brath, study of psychical an d published phenomena, which recently was a reply accomplished won­ to M. Sudre’s derful work. There attack, and is a mass they had the oppor­ of logic based tunity of studying entirely on observed that excellent phenomena. physical medium, The Professor has . written some twenty PROFESSOR ERNESTO BOZZANO. other volumes on Through these Reproduced from an oil-painting from life by his niece, Clotilde Bozzano. studies and also almost every phase through the extra­ of , and ordinary happenings in a haunted house in which is now affectionately recognised as the Grand Exponent of Spiritualism in Italy. Long may he be permitted to Professor Bozzano happened to reside about continue his Championship of the Cause 1 that time, he, who had commenced his inves­ Of modest and retiring disposition, beloved by those tigations as a complete sceptic and agnostic, who know him, he lives almost the life of a hermit at was gradually convinced of the objective truth Villa Rosa, on the shores of the Mediterranean at Savona. Ten hours a day he works at his beloved science, of the phenomena. taking a little recreation among his roses and other Once he had been convinced of the reality of flowers. the facts of mediumship, he carried the The Founder and President, by the expressed wish of implications of the new knowledge to their the Angel World, of the only Spiritualist Society in Italy, lie founded its headquarters in Genoa, where it logical conclusion, and agnosticism became for forms a successor to the “ Circolo Minerva," which him an error of the past, from which facts, and languished after the death of Vassallo, Italy's greatest •facts alone, had emancipated his mind. newspaper editor. He commenced to catalogue, index, and classify And so we salute Ernesto Bozzano, a truly great man, wishing him health, strength, happiness, and content­ the facts recorded in every book and periodical ment in the knowledge of a lifetime well spent in the he read bearing upon the subject of Spiritualism service of Humanity, courageously upholding the banner and psychical research. He must have read of Truth and Progress, in the great quest of the Ideal thousands of books, for he possesses an enormous both in this world and in that larger Life which he h a s done so much to prove 1 library, including works in many languages, for We, his English friends and co workers, *«mJ tutu the Professor is an expert linguist. affectionate, fraternal greetings of congratulation ami These tabulated facts have proved an good cheer 68 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. J a n u a r y , 1932. Prayers for the Dead. SCOTTISH DIVINE’S SPIRITUALISTIC SERMON. | F they prayed for somebody far away, across Dr. M a c l e a n in his second sermon on January ja the ocean, separated from them, why should said that multitudes of the keenest minds on earth had I been convinced that there was a fellowship between the they cease to pray for someone separated dead and the living. The Church must find out what from them by the narrow stream of death ? the Spirit of Revelation said to-day 1 This was one of the points of a striking sermon Dr. M a u d e R o y d e n , in an address in Edinburgh qj, January 23, said :— " I do not pray for the dead. There delivered by the Very Rev. Dr. Norman Maclean are no dead ! I pray for the living, whom we still love, in St. Cuthbert’s Parish Church, last month, and who still may be reached by our love, since love is on the question of whether the dead are beyond the only thing that is eternal.” the reach of human prayer. ¡Ufa HEi ^ It was the first of a series of sermons by Dr. Maclean, under the title of “ The Blessed Dead,” and may be IS IT WRONG TO SPEAK WITH THE DEAD ? regarded (says the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, from THE REV. DRAYTON THOMAS SAYS NO. whose excellent report we quote), as a contribution to the controversy which arose from the prayers offered by “ T S it wrong to speak with the dead? ” This the Very Rev. Dr. Charles L. Warr, at the Stone of X is the question which the Rev. C. Drayton Remembrance last Armistice Day. Thomas, speaking at the Grotrian Hall, on KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE DEAD. Sunday, January 24, said people so often asked, Dr. Maclean said that they must keep in touch with the invisible world if they were to live lives worthy of the for they believed it was forbidden in the Bible. Sons of God. The simplest way to keep in touch with When, however, they were asked where it was it was to keep in touch with the dead, if that were possible. forbidden, they usually said they did not know, They could form no conception of what God was like, but felt sure it was forbidden somewhere. but imagination was not strained when they strove to If they turned to two or three passages in the Old keep in contact with the dead. Testament they would certainly find some little local The question of whether the dead were beyond the reach laws to this effect, given to the Israelites in their primitive of their prayers altogether depended upon the state in history. But why should Christians be asked to bind which the dead now were. If the way back to God themselves to Israelitish regulations thousands of years were closed for multitudes for ever, then it was futile old. If these laws were examined in their context it to exercise the ministry of intercession in their behalf. would be found that there were other regulations that The conditions in which the dead now were was not no one to-day ever thought of obeying. For example, in any respect analagous to sleep. Because they used they gave power to persons to brand their slaves with the phrase, the “ sleep of death,” a great many people red hot irons, and to stone other persons to death. No were under the impression that the dead were asleep until one would ever dream of doing that now. the Day of Judgment. The Bible was quite clear about that. Christians believed it was always well to follow a So far from entering into a state of coma at death, they good example, and Mr. Thomas recalled that St. Paul and entered into a life of greater intensity than ever before. our Lord Himself had spoken with the dead, even, in STAGE OF PARADISE. the latter case, w ith Moses himself, who was responsible The second thing they said was that the dead had for the old law. passed into a condition— the next stage of evolution— which the Bible called Paradise. But the Paradise CONVERSATIONS WITH RELATIVES IN SPIRIT. into which they had entered was not itself Heaven. The “ It has been,” he went on to say, “ my privilege for full vision of the Divine Love and Glory was reserved many years to enjoy conversations through psychic for the final stage in Heaven. The life upon which they channels of communication with my father, who was a had entered was the intermediate life. minister, and with my sister, who had studied this subject He remembered, in the days of the Great War, how with me.” . Bottomley announced that soldiers who died in battle Amongst their activities there was, they told him, went straight into Heaven ; that they had no need of one special work in which experienced spirits engaged, repentance whatever. But Studdart Kennedy answered namely, to visit the lower spheres where they tried to him, and addressing the soldiers, he said :— “ When make selfish and wicked souls realise that there are Bottomley says you are splendid fellows I am with him spheres above the one in which they dwelt. They found all the time, but when he says you are all saints, well, that some did not credit the existence of anything higher ha’e a look at one anither.” than their present surroundings. “ Often they do not Another thing to remember was that, in the state into even see us when we visit them,” his sister told him, which the souls were entered, the soul was still free. explaining that “ my body is so etherealised that it is Supposing, in the transition of death, the soul were almost invisible to them as it is to you.” deprived of its freedom, if it became an automaton, I We point out to them,” she added, “ that there are something infinitely lower than it was on earth— that higher and happier spheres to which they can go when would be a desecration of the soul. Therefore, in that they have risen above their lower selves. We may visit intermediate state, the soul had still the precious gift of them many times before making any impression, but choice. They must not think that all difficulty and danger eventually the sense of contrast begins to act, and into ended when the soul passed into the beyond. their minds comes the question * Why is it that this “ CLEAR THE LINE OF CANT.” man and woman are different from us ? they are able The next thing they had to remember was that the to come and go from this place when they choose, and living and dead were joined together by God in one they speak to us of love and sympathy, while all we think family. If the living and dead were so united, then of is only ourselves.’ This brings the realisation that they could not pray for a small section of the family of they are there, among miserable people, because they are God and leave out the great section. They could not like them, and then comes that bitterness and remorse cut out those who were fighting the battles of the Lord which is the greatest punishment man can have. When in the Unseen. one's best self awakes enlightenment comes.” It was objected that there was no injunction in the Bible regarding prayers for those who had passed beyond MRS. ’ CLAIRVOYANCE. the veil. He was not so sure, but, supposing there were Mrs. Estelle Roberts was the clairvoyante on this not, Christ did not lay down rules for the Church. occasion. She first described a spirit standing directly He laid down great principles and said to His followers :— behind a lady on the balcony, with one arm over her You are to work out those principles in action.” shoulder and one hand caressing the lady’s hand. She The second objection to prayers for the dead was that spoke of her former life of great suffering aud wished her they had been misused and that they had been the cause husband to know that she was ever close to him. She of many evils in the Church, and therefore they ought to told the lady that she was wearing on her little finger have nothing to do with them. It was quite true that a ring that had belonged to her. ” That is correct.1' they had, but could they tell him of anything in this the lady said. Then Mrs. Roberts described a gentleman world which had not been misused ? who had passed over in the latter part of List year with Why could they not " clear the line of cant ” regarding whom the lady had talked about spiritual matters and tl*e dead as they did regarding other things ? They whom she had greatly helped by her visits. This gentle- could uot justify thcuiselva* for doing violeuce to one man wanted to thank her for all she had done before he ol the noblest instruments of the heart because centuries left his earthly body. Mrs. Roberts then mentioned ago men abused it Did they imagine that shutting the several family names, which were all ivcvigmsed, and gave dour on the dead and slammiug the door on them was some other equally convincing test messages to meniWrs according to tire mind of Christ ? of the congregation February, 1932. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC CAZETTE. 69 Spiritualism at the Fortune Theatre. FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE MEURIG MORRIS SERVICES. B y R . H . SAUNDERS. N a cold, wet and windy January night, A prediction was given by " Power" of a when a seat at the fireside seemed the most great outpouring of spiritual force during the O appropriate place, the Fortune Theatre present year, when momentous changes, of was packed from pit to gallery with a deeply» great importance to the Cause, will occur, attentive audience, to listen to an address by a productive of enlightenment and encouragement. Spirit of High Degree in the Spheres—whom we A broad and tolerant view was taken by know as “ Power ”—through the mediumship “ Power ” of all those seeking to reach the of Mrs. Meurig Morris. Heights, whether they be Buddhist, Christians, This lady, of frail physique, whose voice Mohammedans, or what not. To the Divine normally only carries beyond the footlights, all are of equal value when sincerity illuminates when entranced becomes the instrument of this the reaching upward, as a speaker observed, great Spirit, who intensifies her vocal organs to “ like beads on a thread.” such an extent that her.voice becomes a powerful It is a great mistake, I think, to belittle the masculine one audible with perfect clarity in importance of the wonders of psychic phenomena, all parts of the theatre. as one speaker did, for these attract enquirers I have witnessed the entrancing of many to the subject, and provide the ladder by which mediums, some in the process appearing to be sincere investigators reach the exalted region of in great distress, but Mrs. Morris enters the philosophy, and the higher aspects of Spiritualism. trance state without the slightest disturbance. Mrs. Meurig Morris maintains her tranquil demeanour, although to some there would be the risk of r swelled head ” from the laudation her special form of mediumship has evoked. On this Sunday evening, January io, 1932, the year’s work was crowned by a special anniversary service, at which those who had by their presence supported Mr. Laurence Cowen during 1931 formed a crescent group on the stage, and some of these paid a tribute of praise and thankfulness for these fine addresses. It is to Mr. Laurence Cowen, who presided at this service, we are beholden for the great publicity “ Power’s ” addresses have attained. He threw open a fine theatre, undertaking the heavy overhead* charges at his own expense, and the great success of the enterprise is largely due to his generosity and enthusiastic energy. SUMMARY OF THE ADDRESSES. Mr. L a u r e n c e C o w e n , the Chairman, said this was the fifty-third consecutive Sunday evening he had addressed an audience in the Fortune Theatre in support of Mrs. Meurig Morris. These services began on January 11, 1931, and he mentioned then that all his life had been devoted to strenuous striving after material benefits, from which all spiritual considerations had been excluded. MRS. MEURIG MORRIS. Then he met Mrs. Morris and when he heard “ Power’s ” wonderful discourses delivered through her mediumship, he passed from spiritual darkness into light, and during The special characteristics are that her features all these past months they had worked together to spread the truth. Their efforts had been crowned with success, assume a more masculine appearance, the voice for, whenever he might have fallen by the way, he had deepens, and the poise and bearing of the medium been upheld by that perfect faith, that complete is quite different from her natural mien. Her confidence in the divine will, that devoted sacrifice of attitude and gestures are those of an orator self for duty, ever presented to him by their well-beloved little Lady of the Lamp. In profound humbleness and accustomed to address large audiences, there boundless gratitude he regarded the present assemblage, is never any hesitation in selecting the appropriate representing so many schools of thought, different religions, word, and for an hour the address flowed forth nations, and colours, as sufficient evidence that they had with an eloquence and fluency delighting all not been fighting this good fight in vain. who heard it. “ POWER.” delivering an anniversary discourse, said he and those co-operating with him had for twelve nwnth« In its high morality, the purity of its ideals, been trying to convey truths higher th an those taught in its spirituality and the beauty of its language, colleges oi learning, with a sincere desire to do what was the address far transcended the ordinary, indeed, right and useful for mankind Through a hnmhb* instru­ any extraordinary pulpit sermon, and indicated ment the voice of Truth had been heard and it had already in some small measure contributed to the letobtiaiuaug profound earnestness and undoubted culture of the thought of the people. and ability. Truth had many aspects, many pathways. The aspect Critics, who in their crass ignorance repeat they had presented was ptniwyhirai religions, *»*d the parrot cry that only banalities come from scientific, salted to tinwas when the hbecnne educated and when a large proportion of thn people the Spheres— a falsehood exposed on countless had fallen by the wayside of the orthodox lehgwaa. occasions— should have been present to hear This truth had come from many sources to th m who this address, which was one of a hundred similar were staving to hold o m m u q i with th§ mintaal impressive ones delivered by “ Power " through­ world. It had Brought to light, what had Im c beoo tuddea by the orthodox id g n a , t io d y the taal p*waeat-dty out the country during the past year. But do 00-opera now of the two r n d lt ooaphad with the a h l h t tiie#e sceptical folk, badly as they need it, really QOmrn wmmkr'H* ul OxvuMB gm fc»K l 1 m wNffifr 01 iMHkMfc desire illumination ? 70 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. F e b r u a r y , 1932.

bring about the co-operation of the doubting Thomases that would lilt that theatre Sunday after Sunday 0f th and the beloved Johns in the work of regenerating the vast crowds that had flocked to hoar ” Bower '* kii 0„ world. the country, lie had observed a great change in tbn One of their great tasks was to bring together the world’s attitude to Spiritualism in the past three or four various religions of the world under the great banners of years, Before that time if one had even mentioned the spiritual unity and human brotherhood, until Buddhists, word at his club he would have been looked on as a fool Mohammedans and Christians would recognise that they Nowadays everybody everywhere discussed the subject were all worshippers of the same Eternal and Universal freely. As individuals thoy might ask how in their own Father. They wished to bring harmony into all religions feeble way they could spread the light, but thoy could and among all peoples. all do so by the power of their thought. People did not People in all the corners of the earth were already Jully realise the influence of their thoughts on other people beginning to recognise the influence of the unseen spiritual and if they opened their minds to those high spiritual workers. It was already freeing them from the crippling thoughts ever coming to them from the Other Side, and power of Materialism, and even during the year now threw out these thoughts in their everyday life-—thoughts begun the man in the street would no longer refuse to of peace and thoughts of love— they would have a tremen­ believe in the inter-communion of the two worlds. dous influence on the minds of their fellows. He had This movement was an expression of the great Christ- seen this power of thought operate on many occasions, spirit in the world, showing that the sons of men were and if they purposely exercised it for the good of the the sons of God, because God could not be separated from world they might rely on God doing the rest. His own creation. Under its influence East and West Professor Shastri, D.Litt., said he was convinced that would move towards a great and common goal, where he was a Spiritualist and that in this respect the differences at some time all must meet. Hearken unto my words I in colour of different races were of no importance whatever. Out of darkness shall come light, out of persecution shall They had each and all of them to exhibit that man was come freedom, out of weakness shall come strength, and not merely a body but an immortal spirit, manifesting from all these things the power of Almighty God shall the one great Universal Spirit. If they believed in God be clearly manifested among the nations. they must know that by devotion and wisdom they could After a hymn and the collection, birthday greetings manifest His divine power in the world. were expressed by several notabilities on the platform. Mr. G r a h a m M o f f a t t , the noted playwright, said he Mr. D en is Conan D o y l e , on behalf of his mother, was a Spiritualist and a Scotsman. While he listened to the Lady Conan Doyle, and himself, said one single authentic wonderful message delivered by Mrs. Meurig Morris he felt example of spirit-return, such as they had just witnessed, that what Spiritualism needed to-day was a hundred proved the whole case of Spiritualism, and that fact " Powers ” and a hundred Meurig Morrises. Such teaching their detractors often found it convenient to forget. was needed, because attention had been too much con­ But hundreds of thousands of true and real messages centrated on the phenomenal side. Power’s teaching was were constantly coming through from the other world as Jesus preached it in His Sermon on the from those who had passed through the vale of death. Mount. It was not only Christian but it was the basic sub­ If persons who had had no previous experience of this stance from which every religion in the world had sprung. fact would now open their minds to its reality they would They could learn something from all religions. He had look back on this occasion as one of the most fortunate been all over the world and he thought they might take in their existence. a lesson from the Japanese in regard to their treatment The Rev. Dr. J ohn L am ond, a former Presbyterian of animals. Power’s religion was free from all the divine, said it had been his privilege to listen to some theological theses and man-made creeds which had of the greatest religious orators of his time, including choked Christianity. He congratulated Mrs. Morris, and Father Ignatius, but he had been more impressed by he congratulated Mr. Cowen as a fellow-playwright. He “ Power’s ” remarkable addresses than by any of them. was proud that a member of his profession had done so He was now an old man and he thanked God that he much for Spiritualism. He believed that ** Power" had been permitted to be a witness of the wonderful was going to lead a great movement that would sweep work of this Spiritualist Joan of Arc.. Through the lips over the world. Long might their two friends carry on of Mrs. Morris came a message of universal significance, this work, for it was God’s work ! The harvest was truly acceptable to every class of mind, whether religious or plentiful but the labourers were few. scientific. Mr. F r a n k W h i t m a r s h , representing the Spiritualists’ Mrs. Champion d e Cr e sp ig n y, the famous novelist, National Union, said they appreciated the work of said she had felt it a great privilege to have heard that " Power ” and the self-sacrifice of Mrs. Meurig Morris. wonderful address of “ Power,” and thought if anyone They also recognised the unselfish devotion of Mr. Laurence present had believed no communications of real value Cowen, who had borne every penny of.expense for all ever came from the other world he could not say so now. these Sunday services. The collections had at first been ” Power ” had stressed that before there could be any devoted to charities but recently they had been set aside real peace and world-betterment there must be a change for the expenses of the lawsuit in which Mrs. Meurig of heart so that every one would live to help his neighbour, Morris was defending her honesty as a medium. There not because he ought or must, but because the love in his was, however, a wider issue. The Spiritualism, as taught heart went out to his neighbours. Without that change by ” Power,” as practised by Mrs. Morris and Mr. Cowen, of heart the world would go on much as at present. No as expressed by their coloured friend on the platform, creeds or standards, Acts of Parliament or Leagues of showed that they were all essentially divine beings, and Nations, could accomplish what such a change in the hearts it was up to them all to show that divinity in their lives of men would bring about. She always found herself by thinking kindly and acting justly, realising that the listening to every word " Power ” said because of its higher they reached out towards the Divine the more intrinsic interest, forgetting entirely for the moment unselfish would they become, for God himself was the that his was a voice from beyond the vale. They were essence of unselfishness. grateful to Mrs. Morris for allowing herself to be used as a channel and an instrument for so great a spiritual Among the distinguished company present and influence, which she could not be unless she herself lived attending the subsequent reception on the stage were:— the life. They were also grateful to Mr. Cowen for his Lady Carmichael, Lady Honor Bridgeman, Lady Culme energy and courage in presenting this great fact to the Seymour, Lady Gait, Lady Conan Doyle, Admiral Arm­ world. strong, Rev. John Lamond, D.D., Mr. Graham Moffatt, Professor W. St e d e , Ph.D., said " Power's ” addresses Madame Clara Novello Davies, Mrs. Champion de were not only wonderful for their enlightenment but Crespigny, Mrs. St. Clair Stobart, Miss Mary Conan Doyle, for their encouragement. People got too much enlighten­ Mr. Denis Conan Doyle, Mr. David Gow, Mr. Geo. Lethem, ment but too little encouragement from each other. Mr. John Lewis, Mr. W. H. Evans, Dr. Nador Fodor, They lived in an atmosphere of fear, fear of everything, Mrs. Cadwaladr, Mrs. Caledfryn, Mrs. Dawson Scott, but most of all fear of their fellow-men. That was a Miss Louise Owen, Miss Mercy Phillimore, Mr. and Mrs. great psychological puzzle, but it was a fact. Fear Vivian Deacon, Mrs. E. Hinchliffe, Professor W. Stede, took pride in covering itself up. Unless they could humble Ph.D., Professor Shastri, D .Litt., Mr. R. H. Saunders, themselves they could not advance. Unless they put Mr. Garland Anderson, Mr. H. S. L. Polak, Mr. Frauk their ideal thoughts into practice they could do nothing Whitmarsh, and Mr. J. M. Stewart. of real value or go forward. The only thing that could s s a save them was to put away fear, to trust in their own capacities, and in the capacities given to them by their Miss B eatrice G aulton was early in January elected spiritual guides. For spiritual guidance was a fact, the new President of Margate , b* and without it they would not know whither to go. He a vote of 41 to 1, We congratulate the Church on it s expressed iiis deepest gratitude for all he had heard from election, for Miss Gaulton has long been kuowu tor her that stage. highly-developed psychic gifts, her ardour for the Cause, Admiral A em steono said that when he had presided and her radiant sincerity and uucoiuproiuistng honesty at the first of the Men rig Morris services he had little \\ itli so capable a leader this Church should now begin a dreamt of their outcome -of the wonderful audiences happy and prosperous epoch in its history. F e b r u a r y , 1932 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 71 Interview with Mr. Laurence Cowen. AN EVENTFUL YEAR PASSED IN REVIEW. | N his comfortable bureau at the Fortune Torquay Times and devoted many columns to describing Theatre we invited Mr. Laurence Cowen to the meeting and reporting ' Power’s ' address. He also I expressed freely his own change of outlook, and that give us his considered view as to the work raised such a storm in the district that he was constrained accomplished by himself and Mrs. Meurig Morris to ask us to organise another meeting in the Town Hall, during the historic services held in 1931. He where ‘ Power ' might answer the questions of his critics. We agreed and a most lively and successful meeting was said :— the result. The questions and answers occupied a whole “ It is two and a halt years since I first ' happened ’ on page of his paper. Mrs. Meurig Morris at Kenton Spiritualist Church, and Then we had an epoch-making meeting with Sir Oliver I was so impressed by ’ Power ’ and herself that I wished Lodge, who came and had an hour’s personal interview with to learn more about the subject. * Power.’ “ I therefore sought Mrs. Morris's acquaintance, and A remarkable thing about these services is the great from that has sprung all the Spiritualistic operations proportion of men who attend. In ordinary religious in which we have since been jointly engaged. services there are usually five women to one man, but “ For the first year or so we were occupied in literary with us it is the other way about. And they are mostly work, carried on through her mediumship. This took men of an intellectual type, who appreciate ' Power’s ’ the form of a play, in which spirit helpers collaborated, spiritual philosophy. They include professors of all which was intended by them as propaganda for Spiritua­ schools of thought and ranks of learning. lism. We planned to take this play to America, but “ This movement is lifting Spiritualism out of the rut the Guides said they had other work for us to accomplish of phenomena seeking as evidence of survival. Survival first of all in England. is now taken for granted by all those people of different “ They indicated ‘ the platform,’ and to my surprise points of view who come to hear ‘ Power's ’ religious the way was opened by orations through the the unexpected drop­ lips of Mrs. Meurig ping of the Fortune Morris. Theatre from the clouds “ And that brings me into my unresponsive to a remarkable point. lap, seeing I had sold it When we started these three years previously. services we were told “ That gave us the that they could not last opportunity at once of for more than six weeks doing the work they at the most, if no desired, namely to clairvoyance was given present 'Power’s' after the addresses. addresses, given through ' Pow er,’ however, Mrs. Morris, to London assured us they would audiences. I was myself continue and grow in at first much against importance without appearing on the that, and said his voice Spiritualist platform in would be heard through­ the theatre I had built out the world. in 1924, because my past “ This has already associations with the been accomplished commercial, literary, through the Movietone and political worlds did and Columbia Gramo­ not seem to furnish the phone Companies. The right sort of traditions, M ovietone picture but there was no help showing Mrs. Morris for it. It was for the under control and re­ Guides to lead and for producing ‘ Power's ’ us to obey; and so wonderful Voice is now we started the Fortune being shown all over Theatre services on the world. Something January 11, 1931. extraordinary happened “ The scenes at the when this record was beginning were amazing. made, for the ropes Enormous crowds holding up the micro­ gathered from early in phone snapped and the the morning to secure LAURENCE COWEN. instrument crashed on seats at the evening to the stage, swinging meetings. As many as within an inch of Mrs. i o .o o o people gathered in queues, five and six deep, Morris’s face. But she went on delivering * Power’s ' stretching right round the adjoining streets. Squads of address as if nothing had happened, while everyone else police tried to keep order, but we had trouble for several was startled and alarmed. The guides said this had Sundays, when the crowds rushed the doors and broke been done to prove that the medium was really in trance-, the windows. That was cured by instituting a system as some critics had been claiming that she was only in of membership at a nominal fee, so that people could her normal state. reserve seats and avoid standing in queues. “ When the gramophone record was taken there were " Owing to a great demand to hear Mrs. Morris, coming other inexplicable events, as the signalling given to from all parts of the country, we started mid-week visits artistes as to when they should start and stop their to the great provincial centres. We have visited the most singing or speaking was omitted, and * Power' fitted important cities in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. his address into the record exact to the fraction of an “ In every city the largest hall was taken, and the inch. There had been a certainty of failure as the Chair­ meetings were all equally enthusiastic. For the first man had unwittingly spoken to the medium, and his time in the history of Spiritualism as much public notice words were heard and recorded in the operating room, was given to ’ Power ' as if he had been Charlie Chaplin ! but we were again told by the guides that these words " We had some extraordinary cases of conversion to a would not be found on the completed product, and several belief in Spiritualism. For example, one of the leading days later the prophecy was found to be fulfilled to the Vicars of Bristol attended our meeting of 4,000 people. letter.” He came to us next morning and said he was perfectly Mr. Cowen concluded by saying :— “ I think it very satisfied he was doing nothing contrary to his principles wonderful that Mrs. Morris has been able to do all this as a clergyman of the Established Church in supporting giant work with her little frail delicate body, and that Power ’ by word and deed, and he actually took the she should have been upheld in such a way that at the chair for us that same evening at Exeter. He also came end of these trying twelve months, when she must have up to Loudon and took the chair at the Fortune Theatre addressed about a quarter of a million of people, her on a subsequent Sunday. health is very much better than at the beginning and her Another instance was when Mr. A. K. Chesterton, spirits are at the highest pinnacle of confidence, both cousin of Mr G. K Chesterton, the novelist, came to as to what is past and as to what is to happen in the cnttcise and remained to bless He is editor of the future.” 72 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE •_____ F e b r u a r y , 1932.

THE Society in Brixham, and organised three public meetings, which were addressed by Spiritualist International Psychic Gazette friends from Torquay. As a result a room wag The Independent Monthly Organ of taken for Sunday meetings, but the public Spiritualism and Psychical Research. interest was so great that the Scala Cinema Theatre had to be hired. A U communications for the Publishing, Editorial, or Adver­ tising Departments should be addressed to— W hat a wonderful work one whole-hearted fervent Spiritualist can achieve when she goes all 69, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.1. out to do it ! Mrs. Aplin is, so far as the organisa­ tion is concerned, the whole show— President Secretary, Treasurer, organiser of meetings—and Spiritualism in Devonshire. she welcomes at the door all newcomers and E had a very happy opportunity of viewing habitual attenders with her bright and breezy WSpiritualism in operation at Brixham, personality. Devonshire, during the week from Boxing On the night of our visit Captain Durham, Day to January 2, while we sought repose and Manager of the important coaling industry in the sea air after a rather strenuous time. port, presided, and read the Scripture lessons just Brixham is a quiet fishing town, with its as well as any trained ecclesiastic, and Mr. James fleet of trawlers, situated on the south side of Sandford, an accomplished organist, accompanied Torbay, and looks across to the miles of gleaming the hymns on the rather rickety piano on the lights of Torquay and Paignton, the well-known cinema stage. The congregation sang most pleasure resorts. It is famous principally for heartily, and one young budding fisherman, ten being the landing place of William of Orange in years old, who was our neighbour, sang with as 1688, when he came across from Holland to sweet and powerful a voice as that of any chorister proclaim political and religious liberty to all in St. Paul’s Cathedral. We advised Mrs. Aplin Britons, before he became William III of England. to keep her eye on that boy. He had come to A handsome monument stands on the quay, the meeting on his own account, with a younger near his landing place. brother, without any adult supervision. One day, while sheltering from a sudden, And now came a delightful surprise. The hailstorm in a garage near by, the owner entered invocation— a sweet and tender prayer to the with his car. He informed us it was an ancestor Father of Spirits— was pronounced by a gentle of his own who had carried the Prince on his and unassuming young lady from Newton shoulders from his ship to the beach. Thus Abbot— Miss L. M. Putt. And when later on events 250 years apart were curiously linked ! she relapsed into trance she preached a beautiful The next afternoon, while writing at a window sermon full of earnest persuasion, under the con­ overlooking the bay, we saw the vessel | Vigilant | trol of her spirit guide, the Reverend G. Harris, set out gaily on the first part of its voyage to a former clergyman of the Church of England. the Spanish main to bring back a ship load' of Her voice, like that of Mrs. Meurig Morris, became Spanish doublons ! We wished it good luck, masculine and resonant, and held her audience for at present England and its people are rather spellbound. in need of heaps of gold, and the prosperity they Later, we learned a little about Miss Putt’s history. can help to bring. She was brought up in the Catholic faith, and before But we were not so much concerned with leaving school, had eagerly desired to enter a convent, historical events, however pregnant with vital but her parents did not consent. After leaving school her spiritual gifts became awakened, although she knew importance to the liberation of our country from nothing about Spiritualism. Like Joan of Arc, she heard Catholic domination, or interesting from the the Voices of spiritual beings calling upon her from the point of view of modern adventure and enterprise. other world to work for them, and soon she met a friend We were anxious to see how Spiritualism fared who took her to a Spiritualist meeting. She recognised at once the truth of spirit return from her own experiences, in this quiet harbour town away from crowds and very soon developed her gift of trance-mediumship and the glamour of limelight. Could there be at a Spiritualist church at Kingskerwell. She told us :— any Spiritualists here to hold up the flag of the I I am trying in my small way to give Light and Truth New Revelation of Spiritual Truth which links to others. I say ‘ God bless the Voices ! ’ that called me out of darkness into light, and made me pause before this world and the next, with so much comfort going into the convent.” and assurance to all who experience it during After her trance address, Miss Putt gave evidential their " weary pilgrimage ” through earthly life ? proofs of spirit-return to various members of the audience, We learnt there was a Spiritualist meeting which were all recognised. Another interesting phase of Spiritualist activity in on the Sunday night, near a certain cross-roads this small town is the wonderful motherly work of two at the head of the town. We arrived in good maiden ladies, Nurse Rimbron Jones and Miss Frisby, time and found gathering quite a large company who are devoting their lives to the care of unwanted of hearty believers and inquirers in the Scala children. Their little family of motherless and fatherless youngsters— Joyce, Daphne, and Rob— had just been Cinema Theatre. We received a cordial welcome added to by a girl of about their own age and an infant from Mrs. A. Aplin, its organiser, and learned less than a month old. These receive such care day and briefly then and more fully later how the Society night as children do not get in public institutions and few, had been started. perhaps, get better in the best regulated homes. The ladies devote part of their energies to receiving Mrs. Aplin, her father, and mother, had been paying guests, and if these are Spiritualists all the happier good Spiritualists for thirty years. The father will they be. One evening Nurse Jones gave us excellent is a very youthful and vigorous octogenarian, clairvoyance, and on another evening Miss Frisby gave whose society we greatly enjoyed. At the death us a trance address, and both gave us messages, with names, from spirits long in the other world who either of her mother, some years ago, Mrs. Aplin returned desired our kind thoughts or gave us love and counsel. to Brixham to take care of her father, and having The two ladies conducted the meeting in the Cinema been a member of a Spiritualist Society and a on Sunday, January 17, Miss Frisby giving the tvance Developing Class while away, she naturally address and Nurse Rimbron Jones the clairvoyance. If this be the kind of work all inspired by love and missed these greatly on returning to the coastal done without fee or reward going ou in other towns a tut town where there was nothing of the kind. villages throughout the country it is little wonder that Last June she had “ a brain wave ” — operated Spiritualism is now advancing b\ leaps and bounds I doubtless from across the vale— to start a J v L February, 1932 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 73 OUR INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE: A MONTHLY RECORD OF SPIRITUALISTIC AND PSYCHIC HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WITH SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. B y MONSIEUR . ( This Chronicle is Written in French, and is Translated into English by the Editor.) personal IRecollections. necessary that you should go there now ; you will find I am right.” THE INFLUENCE OF NUMBERS. Helene thereupon went swiftly to the kitchen. As BECOME more and more certain that each she approached the cooking stove, the wire holding up | one of us is under the influence of some par­ the electric lighting apparatus snapped, and the porcelaine I shade and other fittings fell into her arms in most miracu­ ticular number, which affects the life happily lous fashion ! Had she not been there at that instant or otherwise. everything would have been smashed to atoms on the In my own case I have found the number n extremely floor. unfortunate. I have known many occasions during my On hearing her cry I went to the kitchen. Helene life when this number n has been injurious, and the was standing aghast at what had happened, and I said, greatest sufferings I have undergone have been associated “ Now you see I was right in telling you to run at once with the fatal 11, or a series of other numbers whose total to the kitchen. Had you not done so you would not was lit, or a multiple of i i . have been able to save all this precious apparatus from I have just experienced one of those occasions. On destruction.” December 22 (11x2) there died at Paris the best friend Helene was perfectly meek now, but she replied, 1 have had on earth, Senator Emile Humblot, whom I “ Monsieur is a sorcerer ! ” loved as a brother. His remains were not interred at Paris but at Joinville, ANGELO MARZORATI. in the Department of the Haute-Mame. On the eve of The December number of Luce e Ombra is the ceremony I boarded a night train at the Gare du almost entirely consecrated, and rightly so, Nord, and seated myself in the first unoccupied place to the memory of Angelo Marzorati (1862-1931), I found. I turned round to see its number. It was 38, 3 + 8 = 11 ! recently deceased. As I was composing myself for the journey I caught The review announces its change of title to La Ricerca sight on the platform of a gentleman of my acquaintance Psichica (Psychical Research), and says :— “ The scientific who was also going to the funeral. I descended from emphasis-given to our journal will not diminish our duty the carriage and together we sought a compartment in to maintain and defend the spiritual values of life.” which we might travel in each other’s company. We For many long years Marzorati had understood the found one with two vacant seats. My companion capital importance of these “ spiritual values,” the jumped in first and took one of these places. The other necessity of fighting against materialism, and also the was for me. It was No. 56, 5 + 6 = 11 1 desirability of reconciling faith and experimental science Next day, after the funeral, the family invited me to in the Spiritualistic domain. As a worker with mediums lunch, and eleven sat down to the table. And to cap all he protected them with tenacity and courage against the train taking me back to Paris started at 11 p.m. ! calumniators, who even in the presence of the most honest “ subjects ” attributed all phenomena to fraud PRESENTIMENTS. and trickery. He also defended them against that It seems quite natural, when we have had a class of thinker who declares a priori that “ Supernormal long and sincere attachment to any person, that phenomena don’t exist.” It is, therefore, due largely to Marzorati that we should be predisposed to feel in advance and Italy possesses a greatly increased number of personages at a distance the ills that are about to afflict him. for whom mediumship and its phenomena have become That happened to myself four days before the end of certitudes. His beneficent influence in this respect was Emile Humblot’s life on earth. From the evening of considerable. It was he who first led Cesare Lombroso December 17, I felt my whole being invaded by an from his negative attitude to a study of these questions. unwonted depression, and, in spite of my strength of Luce e Ombra assures us also that Marzorati contributed character and my will-power to overcome it, I wept ! largely in orienting the sympathies of Dr. Geley, I could not and did not even want to work. I could ex-Director of the Metapsychic Institute of Paris, towards neither eat nor sleep. My dear wife was distressed and the Spiritualistic interpretation of mediumistic asked what was the matter, and I could only reply, “ I phenomena. don't know ! ” Among the numerous mediums studied by Marzorati When I received the sad news by telephone on the 22nd figured Eusapia Palladino, (the Australian), I understood at once whence had come this insurmountable Politi, Madame Sordi, etc. Long ago he described the sadness. I had been experiencing a powerful presenti­ nature of his own Spiritualism thus :— ment of the blow about to strike me. Now, my friend “ Let us say at once that we are not Spiritualists in died in a moment. One minute before he expired he was the orthodox philosophic sense of the word, for that apparently in perfect health. It was normally impossible considers Spiritualism as a doctrine codified according for anyone to foresee his sudden passing. And yet day by to pedagogic rules which we are unable to follow. Our day I had been feeling that death was overshadowing me. Spiritualism is attached rather to the Anglo-Saxon Such warnings are frequent, and I am not unaware tendencies personified by Frederic Myers. Spirits who of them, but the peculiarity about this case was that I return to us in trousers and slippers to exhibit themselves was so continuously oppressed when I had not the slightest in their terrestrial habits do not interest us much, and reason for thinking that my friend was about to pass neither do those to whom death has revealed nothing. into the Beyond. Similarly we are not greatly impressed by the rhetoric of certain sentimental " communications,” which make “ GO TO THE KITCHEN ! ” a too immediate echo in our old hearts. . . . One Household domestics in France are treated cannot always affirm that such manifestations have been more or less as members of the family, and on necessarily originated by beings in the other world, who that account they behave with a familiarity are now living in the light of a new cosmic conscious­ ness. . . . We know, of course, that even such a which would not be tolerated or appreciated in Spiritualism may be a comfort to many good souls.” well-regulated English homes. The author concludes by defining hxs incontestable Madame Forthunv and I were seated at our simple Spiritualism as that which is careful not to be deceived lunch one day lately when our maidservant came into by mere appearance. Nothing could be more respectable. the dining-room and began to tell us a long story with It was in this rigid way that Marzorati carried out his many details about a stupid quarrel she had had that philosophic work, and his loyalty is admired by all serious morning with a woman in the neighbourhood. Her Spiritualists. excited chatter bored me, and I said to her, “ Helene, Marzorati’s Spiritualistic programme may thus be you are annoying us. Go to the kitchen and calm your­ summarised : “ To investigate the origins oi Spiritualism, self | | But she continued her tale until I became to study its new facts, to determine the psychic and exasperated. Then I interrupted her, saying, “ Now physical conditions governing the manifestation of spirit, luftaft to ma well, Helene. It is high time you returned to provoke the enlightenment of every individual whose U» tiie kitchen feu there is something very important contact with the spirit is direct and pure. It is to find fur you to do there, and at once I M ‘r Me,'* she replied, in the reason of life itself the means of reacting against atitonibhed, 1 1 have nothing whatever to do there at any degradation of the soul and against the ferutetorvee this moment.** I assured her, " Helene, it is absolutely of matter which tend to dimmish the spiritual sovereignty 74 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. F e b r u a r y , 1932.

n\an. A consciousness which is so far forgetful of truth. She would look at one patient and say, “ n itself as to be able to deny its own immortality is in a sad and see the priest ” (that meant death) ami to another* and sickly condition which cannot persist without ” Go hom e; you are cured ” (and the patient to«« imperilling the sources of life itself.” cured). It was in order to propagate such teaching, so character­ Now when King Alphonso was about two years ok) he istically Spiritualist, that Angelo Marzorati founded fell ill of a mysterious malady which the official doctor* Luce e Otnbra, that valiant organ which from its earliest could not understand. One of them therefore advised ; days had the honour of being condemned by the Romish “ Consult Donna Theodora, of whom people give such » Church. It is almost comical to recall the ridiculous good account.” Theodora was sent for. When she *aw " Letter to the Faithful ” in which Cardinal Carlo Andrea the little prince she was filled with a great hesitation i0r forbade them to road that journal because it was heretical! the first time in her life. “ I do not take to grand people " To that act of folly Marzorati serenely replied that he she said, “ for they have hearts that I cannot reach.” for one was unable “ to subordinate the glory of God to She remained fifteen days at the Royal Palace before she the glorification of men ! ” That is twenty years ago. felt her power come to her to cure the prince: Then Luce e Ombra has ever since continued brilliantly its suddenly she said, “ I have nothing more to do; the publication, without bothering itself to know whether King is cured.” And soon little Alphonso was running it were ** heretical ” or n o t! gaily about in his nursery. Ube Chronicle. LOSS OF MEMORY AND A GIFT OF TONGUES. A CLAIRVOYANT PRISONER. The French Academy of Medicine has been HANCE has put into my hands a very old studying a case of loss of memory and multiplica­ book by the Countess of Bohm, entitled tion of personality, whose perplexity it cannot C “ Prisons in 1793.” explain. The Countess was herself an “ Aristocrat ” arrested A young woman, ill with pleurisy, suddenly lost her by the Revolutionaries and cast into prison at Paris, memory at the crisis of her malady. She is a clever fi'om which, after much suffering, she was released at the educated person, but she was no longer able to express fall of Robespierre. herself in her native French language. Neither could During her imprisonment she met an old woman she understand the use of the most ordinary useful objects named Catherine Theot, a religious visionary, who had placed in her hands. On the other hand she began to claimed the title “ Mother of God,” and had established speak fluently in foreign languages she had never learned. in her house a cult of the Supreme Being. Long ago, That was something to astonish the people who have Robespierre himself had gone to see her. Nevertheless, believed in the phenomena of the day of Pentecost but she was arrested and lodged in a cold dank prison cell thought they no longer happened. The French press close to that of the Countess. has recorded the facts without hiding its amazement. One day Catherine said to the Countess, “ In two months Journalists should be compelled to take a course of we shall be no longer here ! ” “ Yes,” replied the metapsychism ! Countess, “ the guillotine will have ended our captivity.” WAR ON CLAIRVOYANTS. ** Not so,” said Catherine, “ Robespierre, with his courts and judges, will exist no more.” “ The throne is about We have already referred to the fact that to be restored ? ” “ No.” ** Foreigners are going to clairvoyants in Italy are having their lives made capture France ? ” ” No.” ” I am going out of prison ? ” painful by the rigorous edicts of the police, “ Yes.” “ And you also, Mother Theot?” “ Myself, prohibiting the exercise of mediumistic gifts. I shall die very soon of old age, and at the moment of my death, a terrible event will happen in Paris, which It seems that a similar persecution has been started will spread terror everywhere.” in the United States. In that country, the newspapers Two months later Robespierre was guillotined, the say, there are 125,000 mediums, and this number has Countess of Bohm was set at liberty, and soon thereafter at last frightened the public authorities ! Their earnings Catherine Theot died at the very minute of the great are stated to amount to about thirty million francs per gunpowder explosion of Grenelle at Paris, a catastrophe year. The U.S. Government are proposing to take which terrified the city, caused many deaths, and wrecked severe measures but fortunately Spiritualism is better many buildings. organised there than in most other countries for the defence of honest persons exercising their mediumship PROPHECIES FULFILLED. as a means of livelihood. I trust the Americans’ love Mr. Edward M. Powers had a recent article of freedom for individual citizens will not be outraged on an American “ Nostrodamus,” in the course by any uncalled-for police interference with persons of which he referred to certain prophesies fulfilled naturally endowed with precious spiritual gifts. during this century. THE MAN WHO BECAME AN ANGEL. He based his article on authentic documents deposited A curious new religious sect sprang up in in the archives of the American Society for Psychical Poland in 1928. Research in 1900 by the late Dr. Hyslop, who had received Its founder was a deacon, who claimed to be an angel. them as letters. They concerned not only future events He built a church and called it the Temple of Solomon. to persons but also in the life of nations. Here are a He said he felt the beating of his own invisible wings few examples :— around his shoulders. Many people believed in him 1910. “ On October 2, there will be a Revolution in until others said to him, “ You claim to be an angel, Portugal, with the fall of the monarchy.” (These events with wings. Very well, you should be able to fly in the happened on October 5.) air.” Prophecy made on February 12, 1911.— “ I see France The deacon, struck by the reasonableness of this and Belgium dressed as two mourning mothers, embracing suggestion, decided to make an experiment. He mar­ each other ; a town hall is on fire and coal mines are being shalled a long procession to a neighbouring forest, mounted destroyed.” (A prevision of the war of 1914-18.) the highest tree, preached a sermon to the crowd, and Prophecy made on August 14, 1911 :— “ I see the then with outstretched arms he launched himself into Russian navy hoisting the red flag.” (Prediction of the open space ! Needless to say, his experiment was a Bolshevism.) fatal one, his skull and his limbs being smashed. August 18, 1911 :— “ I see Russia as a naked woman His disciples consoled themselves by saying that his in circumstances too frightful to describe.” (Bolshevism.) soul at least had flown straight to heaven. The sect July 18 :— “ I see the American flag floating over continues, but it is not expected that the deacon's successor German territory.” (The intervention of the United will climb any tree and try to imitate the birds of the States in the Great War.) air ! Vision of same month : “ I see Germany reduced to the condition of a skeleton.” (The famished condition MARIA SILBERT’S MEDIUMSHIP. of its people at the end of the war.) This medium, it will be remembered, was one A SPANISH HEALER. of the European wickedly disparaged Donna Theodora, a natural healer, died the by the notorious Theodore Besterman, of the other day, and when the ex-king Alphonso heard English Society for Psychical Research. that she had passed from this world tears came Mevrouw Noe of Holland has recently testified to her genuine gifts, and now Dr. Ingruber, a judge in the Courts to his eyes and he ordered that masses should of Graz, narrates his experiences with her in seances be said for this woman of the people, for once from 1925 to 1929, in Zeitschrift fur Parapsy%holog%$, she caved his life. He calls her “ The Austrian Eusapia ” and testifies to Theodora had been performing cures from the time she manifestations by the guide " Nell,” including displace­ was four years old People used to come from great ment of objects without contact, and the inscribing of distances to commit her She never wrapped up the letters and designs on objects, ami even inside them. February. 1932. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE 75

The Doctor concludes his article by protesting against for from the very beginning of his illness ho had been the attitude of the English S.P.R., whose reputation for daily projecting his thoughts into the laboratory. impartiality or expert knowledge of psychical phenomena is now quite negligible. A MESSAGE FROM EDISON. In my Chronicle for December (page 42) I A REINCARNATION CLAIM. made some remarks on Edison’s efforts to invent It is a curious fancy of some people to believe an ultra-sensitive detector for spirit-messages that they are not really themselves but a second, without the aid of a medium, and referred to third, or even hundredth edition of other persons the Kirkby " Reflectograph ” invented by Mr. who lived long long ago ! The notion adds a Jobson from the Beyond :— romantic halo to their common everyday lives ! I have an interesting letter from Mr. A. G. Aslidown, The newspaper Der Vorkaempfer publishes the following the technical advisor of the Jobson " Reflectograph " story :— A certain Mrs. Field, of Chicago, had never and " Communigraph ” in which he says :— learnt to draw. She thought one day she would try " I was during the war a leading telegraphist in the her hand at that art and lo ! to her great surprise, British Navy, and it was, some time ago, my whim to her pencil at once drew figures of an Egyptian type. teach ‘ Ethel,' the little spirit operator of the Reflecto­ A doctor who saw these works of art took Mrs. Field to graph the Morse telegraphic code, at which she is now the house of two or three Egyptians, and they declared expert, being able to transmit messages at 12 words that the sketches reproduced portraits and scenes con­ per minute. temporary with Rameses II. ‘‘ Ten days ago we tested a new device called the For a very long time the lady had taken a very keen Ashkir-Jobson printer for recording these messages on interest in everything that concerned ancient Egypt. a tape. When she was told that her pictures belonged to the “ Ethel had promised that when this device was ready period of Rameses II she immediately remembered that she had a message from a very special communicator. she had lived on the banks of the Nile at that very ancient “ This first message was tapped out, but as it was not period, and she told the Egyptians certain facts in the faultless, I asked her to repeat it, so that it might be history of that old king with an astonishing exactitude, exhibited with the printer at the British College of Psychic which was only discovered after long searches in the Science. You will see that this message bears very library. Therefore— and this is the logical process of strangely on your paragraph in the International Psychic Reincamationism— she must be a reincarnation of an Gazette, though I did not see that till some days afterwards. Egyptian contemporary with thie 19th dynasty. So The printed message read :— commonplace a notion as that she was a | drawing medium,” of whom there are hundreds in every Country, . “ T h r o u g h t h e M i s t . T h o m a s A l v a E d i s o n .” and that her pencil was 1 controlled ” to sketch things “ NEGRO SORCERERS.” altogether beyond her capacity, was out of the question. Under this title, Dr. Eugene Osty declares in Mrs. Field was quite sure she lived long long ago in the the Revue Metapsychique that civilised people land of the Pharaohs 1 And as there was no one in this world who could contradict her it must be true ! Of are mistaken when they consider the negro course 1 sorcerers of Africa as mere imposters or madmen. He cites interesting examples of their ability from the AN INDISCREET MEDIUM ! testimony of a young scientist, Dr. L. Cipriani, of the Here is a story from the Gazette de Hongrie Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography at Florence, which has been reproduced in many Hungarian who some time ago visited Central and South Africa. and Roumanian journals :— In September, 1930, he was in the Belgian Congo and narrates the following occurrence :— Recently there was carried to the hospital of Cerrautsi He (Cipriani) took part in a buffalo hunt with three (Czemowitz) a sick schoolmaster, named Joseph Schmidt, negro guides and a certain M. Fontaine. He saw the aged forty-three, who was confided to the care of Dr. latter kill four buffaloes with six shots from his rifle. Piticariu. It was soon discovered that this patient was He fired three other shots but killed no more. The endowed with an extraordinary faculty. He fell into animals fell in the midst of high reeds and the question trances, and during his sleep nothing was more simple arose how they were to be transported to the village, to him than telling the names of the people who approached which was a distance away. him. He even told them the dates of their birth. At Other negroes were to be sent for to help, when from other times he described with perfect exactitude what quite another direction four blacks arrived unexpectedly. was going on in neighbouring wards, and even in those They were led by the sorcerer of their tribe. When at a good distance. they had heard the shots the sorcerer had told them at When this marvel was noised abroad many people once, “ The white men have killed four buffaloes. The in the town came to see Joseph Schmidt and he called spirits have told me. Two of them are males and two them all by their names and told them many details females. In the latter are two unborn buffaloes, one relative to their most private life. Secrets were blurted quite small and the other much larger.” forth from his lips in the most disconcerting fashion. On hearing this statement, Messrs. Cipriani and Fon­ These indiscretions became rather terrifying, and the taine examined the animals and found that the sorcerer’s “ Association of Dames of Cernautsi,” fearing that this clairvoyance was correct in every detail. They asked man's revelations might create great havoc in their the sorcerer to explain how he knew these facts so exactly, families, implored the municipal authorities to have and he replied that the spirits had told him and he showed Schmidt removed to another hospital far from the town ! them an apparatus by means of which they had conveyed That was done and their minds are more at ease ! the information. It was a piece of wood, in conic form, hollow in the centre, and set in another wooden frame, ANOTHER EDISON STORY. the whole being enveloped in a wreath of foliage. The following new story of an event that This instrument aided his auditory mediumship, just happened just before Edison passed from this as clairvoyance is helped by the crystal, the candle, earth has been published :— or the dregs of tea and coffee among the psychics of more It has been announced that the researches made by intellectual races. Thomas Edison for eighteen years to extract synthetic AND POLTERGEISTS. india-rubber from the Golden Rod plant succeeded at the Profound astonishment is expressed by very moment that he passed into his last coma. Two of his collaborators, Fred Olt and Charles Dally, Zeitschrift f u r Parapsychologie at the following were working night and day at this problem during the extraordinary case of haunting which it records. illness of the great inventor in order to achieve this In the neighbourhood of Prague, in Czecho-Slovakia, discovery before he breathed his last. They succeeded lies the borough of Branik, and in its district called and as Edison was incapable of hearing Mrs. Edison's Jirasek, is a house, isolated on all sides, occupied by a voice she tapped the great news to him on his arm by Mr. Wolff, a young man twenty-five years of age. and means of the Morse code :— “ Fred Olt and Charles Dally his family. have succeeded in the experiments with the Golden Rod.’* Supernormal phenomena began to manifest there on Perhaps Edison had still sufficient consciousness to rejoice August 15, 1930, by the launching of stones by invisible in this scientific achievement as he passed from here to hands. Next day the stones were thrown in great number, the hereafter I and thereafter they showered on the house day by day. Quentioned about the manner in which the final Malevolent persons were at first suspected but none could discovery had been made the two men said that they were be discovered. One night a shadowy grey form was seen despairing about ever succeeding when suddenly an in the court but it at once disappeared. The police intuition came to them which made everything clear, saw this phantom, and sometimes two phantoms but and they were convinced that this intuition came to they could not seise them, and meanwhile stone* rained them from Edison himself by a transmission of thought, upon them. 76 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE F e b r u a r y , 1932.

Then were heard violent blows on the doors, explosions THE CONAN DOYLE MEMORIAL FUND. as from fire-arms, and aerial rumblings like thunder. HP HE Hon. Treasurer of this Fund received On October 15, the thunder was accompanied by lightning, which lit up the staircase with yellow flashes. A the following donations from December 10 Journalists flocked to the scene and threw ridicule 1931, to January 20, 1932, inclusive on what they called the fantastic phenomena, but a amounting to £2 8s. 8d., which, with certain Dr. Simsa set himself to study the problem £2,130 3s. 6d. previously acknowledged, brings seriously. He discovered that the medium responsible for the psychic manifestations was Mr. Wolff himself. the total donations to date to <£2,132 12s. 2d. One night there was a terrific storm, with showers of FIFTEENTH LIST OF DONATIONS. stones, explosions, furious cries, and batterings on the L 8. d. walls. The door of a cellar was found lying on the first Spiritualists National Church, Daulby floor and the electric lights were all illuminated though Street, Liverpool (collecting box) 10 0 the current had been cut off. Broadgate Lyceum, Coventry (sale On November 9, Dr. Simsa called all the members of of photo-stamps) ...... 50 the Wolff family together and in their presence addressed Jarrow No. 1 Lyceum (sale of photo­ the disturbing spirit. He asked it to rap on the table stamps) ...... 11 0 and the spirit obeyed. He asked it to move the table Mr. L. Evans, Chester (sale of photo­ and it did so. He then addressed persuasive arguments stamps) ...... 8 0 to the mischievous entity and succeeded in making it ” Auntie Matt ” ...... 4 o amenable to reason. Welwyn Garden City Christian Then the phenomena ceased completely. Dr. Simsa Spiritualist Church (collecting box) 5 0 had conquered. The press stopped laughing also. It Anonymous ...... ¿.. ... 6 understood at last that their had been " something ” Shipley Spiritualist Church ...... 5 2 which it could not account for in its limited philosophy. Why is it that reporters are, with all their cleverness Total ... £2 8 8 and love of sensation, so slow to understand that extraordinary phenomena do not happen without an Donations should be sent to the Honorary Treasurer, ascertainable cause ? Mr. A. C. Grigg, Lloyds Bank, Ltd., 121-125 Oxford ANOTHER LAWSUIT AGAINST THE MAISON Street, London, W .i. DES SPIRITES. S ffi s S o m e t im e ago we reported that Madame Meyer had instituted proceedings against a certain THE INDIAN SPIRITUALIST SOCIETY. person at the Maison des Spirites, Paris, the SPECIAL meeting of this Society was held headquarters of the International Spiritualists’ A in December, when Sheth Tulsidas G. Federation, to recover fifteen million francs, Khattau, the Patron, was dully elected allocated to it by her husband, the late M. Jean President. An address of welcome, printed on blue silk, was Meyer, as a result, it was alleged, of undue presented to Mr. and Mrs. Rishi, on their return from influence. The Hague Congress as the representatives of Indian It now appears that Monsieur Meyer left in his will Spiritualism. The gramophone record of the trance instructions to M. Forestier, of the Maison des Spirites, address by " Power,” the spirit-control of Mrs. Meurig to hand over 12,500 francs monthly to the Metapsychic Morris, was recited by the aid of a phonograph. Mr. Institute. Recently M. Forestier (who is Vice-President Rishi heartily thanked the Society for its welcome and of the International Spiritualists Federation), objected appreciation of their services. In particular he referred to carry out this instruction on the pretext that the to the munificent help of their President, whose assistance present cost of living in France made it impossible. Dr. had made the mission to Europe possible. He narrated Osty, the Director of the Institute, thereupon had M. their experiences at The Hague and in London, and Forestier summoned before the Courts in Paris, and they magic lantern slides were exhibited. Mrs. Rishi said the have ordered him to pay. ladies in Europe were taking keen interest in Spiritualism and hoped that their example might be followed by those PETITES NOUVELLES. in India. According to the Harbinger of Light a half-educated simple native “ boy ” in Southern Nigeria has been effecting wonderful cures. The natives call him “ Aladura,” the praying man, and people come to him THE LONG VIEW. to be healed from as far as four hundred miles. He takes Two of our oldest readers have sent us this homely no payment for his services, he does not work under any poem, and requested a comer for it in Gazette. of the missions, he simply teaches straightforward Christianity. Some day of days, some dawning yet to be, The same journal records that a photograph was I shall be clothed with immortality ; recently taken in a cemetery at Victoria, British Columbia, And in that day I shall not greatly care in order to get a picture of the pile of wreaths placed on That Jane spilt candle grease upon the stair. a grave at the funeral. On this photograph appeared a face which was described as " a fair likeness ” of the It will not grieve me then, as once it did, woman whose body had been buried. No member of the That careless hands had chipped my teapot lid ; family had any knowledge of Spiritualism. I groan, being burdened, but in that glad day A writer in Spiritual Truth suggests that opportunities to consult mediums should not be too freely given. I shall forget vexations of the way. Mediums should not feel called upon to use their gifts That needs were often great, when means were small, for all and sundry, but only for those who can esteem their value. The writer says that if mediums were Will not perplex me any more at all ; less easy of access there would be a check on frivolous A few short years at most (it may be less), communications, and the way would be opened for I shall have done with earthly storm and stress. messages from higher spiritual guides. Mondo Occulto has just published the wholly So, for the day, I lay me at Thy feet, Spiritualistic discourse Victor Hugo pronounced over 0 ! keep me sweet, my Master, keep me sweet! the tomb of Miss Emily Putron, to whom his son Francis — Author unknown. was engaged. In this address occurred the famous phrase, " The dead are invisible but they are not absent.” ^ S I i t According to the Nürnberger Zeitung, a great number READERS’ TESTIMONIES. of Czecho-Slovakian Spiritualists are vegetarians, and abstain from alcohol and tobacco. They claim that From Major-General Enesy, Budapest : ” Being pretty this habit helps them to communicate with the world well acquainted with Spiritualistic journals in the English not of this earth. language, I have already known your fine Gazette, but, A Hungarian Spiritualist review, Egi Vilagossag, has alas I desultorily. I shall now read it regularly, fo r published two excellent articles on Sir I gladly see it ranks foremost.” and Maria Silbert. p. F. A New Zealand Subscriber : ” Another year cotues round and I enclose 10/- for my annual subscription. N o t e .— Communications for our Continental Editor It is clearly evident we are winning all aloug the hue, should b e addressed to Monsieur P a s c a l F o r t h u n y , and your Gazette has done its full share oi the fighting it*, Avenue br6cl6ric borthuny, Soisy-sous-Montmorency, Let the whole line advance and thus achieve our h ranee. Waterloo 1 ” F e b r u a r y , 1932. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 77 Professor William James’ Spirit Message. B y JAMES ABBOTT, C h i c a g o . HAVE lately been reading a message coming do manipulate men and wealth on earth. They I from William James through the mediumship stand behind all the evils which so much beset of Jane Revere Burke. It is an entrancing us. A few law-breakers can disrupt a peaceful appeal printed in a volume entitled “ Let Us community on earth, and they do it also in the In.” (E. P. Dutton & Co., New York.) realm of spirit. Mrs. Burke is a descendant of Paul Revere, That is our menace, these vast forces gathered and a member of an orthodox church, which latter and driven by leaders who are able to attract fact we do not lay up against her. The churches others to themselves. However, darkness is are beginning to see the light. They will have always overcome by light. The more they are to, or get out of the business. with us the more we are with them. The ignorant Had I the space I should like to quote whole need enlightenment, and the backward need paragraphs from Professor James’ message. I development. Our part is to help them as we excerpt just one :— can. " A man may know his native village very well, In days of old exorcists commanded the evil almost every foot of it being familiar to him; but when he climbs a high mountain and looks down on spirits to depart, but that was not carrying out it, he gets a new valuation. That is just what the full measure of responsibility. The errant happens to us in coming here (the other world). children were all sons and daughters of God, Some things that seemed very important to us on though enveloped in their own darkness. Ours earth shrank into insignificance from the higher point of view. I would like to take you up into the moun­ is the task, not alone to forbid them taking tain and show you roughly the picture as I see it. possession of our earthly tabernacles but to win | From time to time there have been great crises. them to our side. “ Get thee behind me, Satan,” Heretofore they have concerned but a part of the is a succinct statement of the case when they will nations on earth; yet, when you see the history of man from here, you perceive that the race as a whole not mend their ways. The legions of darkness has been progressing together. There might be a cannot intrude themselves upon us unless we century or two between the times that various let them. Each of us is the captain of his soul. nations arrived at a given point of evolution; but, seen in the large, a century or two is nothing. Therefore, the cry goes forth from the illumin­ The new internationalism is a necessary step in the ated spirits of the higher realm to ” Let Us In.” onward march.” They wish to enter our thoughts and lives, The central thought of this book is that the working for the salvation of them who are lost, other world is closely linked to this in its influence as well as for our own protection. on human destiny; and, on the other hand, Some there be who will not incline their hearts this world is closely linked to it, and influences unto wisdom, but keep on in their evil course. it in larger measure than we may know. From Here comes to my mind a beautiful thought which my own experience I can say that is true. I heard expressed by Louis Benjamin at Lily In one specific case an undeveloped spirit, Dale a few years ago. He said that a spirit associated with a band of undesirables, was cannot remain stationary; it must either rescued from bad environment through influence advance or recede, and instanced the fate of one exerted largely from this side. I hope I shall who persisted in the wrong course. He sinks not be accused of being vainglorious when I say lower and lower in the scale until the nadir is that my friends on the other side assure me that reached. A last effort is made to reclaim him. I had some part in the salvaging. If that fails, Nature says to him ; as you cannot The message from our much-esteemed Professor fall any further and will not rise, you shall is couched in no misty, metaphysical phraseology. cease to exist as a personal identity. We will The diction is simple and right to the point. take away your individuality and you shall It all turns on the pivot that the human race, cease to continue as such. But as nothing is past, present and future, is one single entity. ever destroyed, Nature takes the vital energy As you cannot injure any part of the human body left in that lost soul and uses it elsewhere. The without affecting the whole, so you cannot injure argument seems plausible. one member of society, here or hereafter, without We shall have peace on earth as soon as discord its effect being felt by every other member. ceases in heaven. The means we are to use in The world is ready for the message. See the hastening that end are nor force but love. Love financial depression, unemployment, unrest, is the essence of Deity, and is the weapon with jealousy, hatred, with war-clouds darkening the which we can reclaim a world in travail. sky in the offing. The condition is made worse The practical working of it is well illustrated because evil (ignorant) spirits continue along by . He gives an account the same line of endeavour that they followed of his house having been broken into one night on earth. They are untruthful, dishonest, lustful, by a burglar. Davis confronted him with no grasping still for power, no matter how much word of reproach, but told him that if he was in others may be crushed under foot. need he would be glad to help him as a brother. We know that when we pass over we are just The burglar, who was a coloured man, rushed as good or just as bad as we were before. That past Davis, and out of the door ! being true, there are plenty of ignorant or Shortly after, Davis gave a lecture where the undeveloped spirits there—poltergeists bent on audience was bitterly hostile, and at the end mischief, as well as those who do not know any there was danger that Davis would meet with better. These occupy the lower stratum of the personal violence. A burly fellow in the audience Suminerland, and their name is legion. They got in front of Davis, and by his muscular hunt in packs, increasing as the phase goes on. strength cleared a passage for him to retire They are like an army under the command of from the hall. As they emerged he took a look sujjenor malevolent#, master minds who contiol at the man who had safely piloted him out great baud# of marauding spirits and exercise And who should he bo but the burglar who had an enoimou# mental and spiritual power. They entered his house to rob him A splendid cannot gat nor ouuUul gold, but they can and illustration o f overcoming #vil with g o o d . 78 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. February, 1932.

President; Chairnua i NR. HANNEN SWAPPER Spiritualist Community MRS. IT. CLAIR STOBART

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