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IN THIS ISSUE r Diversified Thoughts of the Editor...... Felicie O. Crossley The C ause of the R-101 D isaster...... Compiled by Glenn Palm er The Olympian Conference of Liberals in Religion...... Report The Magnificent Depression...... A nn ette W . Scarborough Reception to Mrs. Eileen G arrett...... Report W h at Is Liberalism in R eligio n ?...... Sheldon Shepard The Research of the Commonplace...... Lowell C. Frost What About Psychic Research...... Hal Rush The Universal Service Club...... Report Among My Souvenirs----P art IV ...... Mary Ridpath Mann M oham m edanism — W h at Is I t? ...... Felicie O. Crossley A New Case for Psychical Research...... Report Spiritualism and Islam ...... Horace Leaf, F.R.G.S. Your Birth Sign and Its Influence----Leo...... Zaral L Verne An Explorer of Spirit...... Swami Paramananda Billy Burke Discusses Psychic Things...... M ai B rentley Hal Rush, the Man and Medium ...... Special Interview A R em arkab le M edium ...... A rth u r Ford E astern News N otes...... Special Report Book Reviews...... Aedene MacGowen The Subconscious and Subliminal Minds------J.C.F. Grumbine, B.D. Report of the C .S.S.A . C onvention...... Reported by Hal Rush

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Felicie O. C rossley - - - - Editor-Publisher Bernice H. J acquelin - - - - - Secretary Beverly D. Hiner, A.B. - - Special Correspondent Contributing Staff SCIENCE PSYCHIC RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY Ransome Sutton Arthur Ford, A.M. Mary Ridpath Mann Dr. Lowell C. Frost Gwendolyn Kelley Hack Hal Rush Glenn Palmer Horace Leaf, F.R.G.S. Annette W. Scarborough James Telford Rev. George Francis J. C. F. Grumbine Vol. IV, No. 7 AUGUST, 1932 Published 15 th of Month 20 cents per copy; $2.00 one year—$2.50, one year foreign CROSSLEY PUBLISHING CO. T el. Exposition 8237. 2303 Miramar St., Los A ngeles, C alif. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1932, at the Post Office at Los Angeles, California, under Act of March 3, 1879. The Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research is what its name indicates, a meeting ground for diverse opinions about matters of so-called mystery. Therefore, the editorial staff cannot hold itself responsible for all opinions here presented. Nor can the magazine sponsor the material appearing in its advertising columns.

Diversified Thoughts of the Editor "Man is the merriest species of the creation-, all above or below him are serious”—Addison From Ants to Stars

NDEPENDENCE DAY dawned upon us in the Mo­ In the face of so formidable an enemy did they cry or jave Desert, surrounded by a :vast sea of sand and sage run away? They did not! Instantly those which had been I and greasewood, rock-crested mountains and a canopy caught in the throes of the broom hurried back and started of azure sky. An infinite stillness and peace pervaded our carrying sand away from the entrance to their tunnels. being which made us glad to be a part of this great scheme. A bugler could not have gathered them more quickly, nor Away from the hectic confusion of the city one’s soul a general organized them more rapidly. As one mighty at last is able to be heard. In the desert one has time to army they were laboring industriously scarcely more than think and find amazing interest in the mysteries of nature. a minute after what to them must have been a catastrophe. The species of insects become no less engaging than the Some of the grains of sand were much larger than the illimitable heavens which alway press close to us in the little bodies which carried them up the almost perpendic­ open spaces. The differentiae of life cease to be so apparent ular tunnel from their underground homes. Staggering and we find ourselves thinking more sincerely in terms of under the loads they placed their burdens far enough from universals. s the hole so that they could not possibly roll back in. "If,” as Emerson says, "we cannot make voluntary and Would this action not seem to indicate a reasoning faculty? conscious steps in the admirable science of universals, let Then they turned and rushed back for more. Only one us see the parts wisely, and infer the genius of nature from ant in that great host shirked its duty by running away— the best particulars with a becoming clarity.” perhaps to rest for its previous burden had been extra heavy. However, it was not long before another ant— But there are those who cannot apprehend the universal apparently a supervisor—searched it out and with a friend­ state, where the whole is greater than the parts. ly jab sent it scurrying back to work. How did it know One of the most impressive instances of the "genius of that the first ant had run away, for it was still in the hole nature” observed during our four-day sojourn in desert when the truant disappeared and wandered about four solitude was that of a colony of huge red ants. In tidying feet from the entrance? Coming out a second later it had up the endless yard we chanced to upset completely the dropped its grain of sand and gone in a straight line to entrance to an ant hill where hundreds of busy workers the missing member, and together they returned. With had been hastening to and fro. That they possess a sing­ system, so organized, so thorough that it puts man to ular intelligence we cannot doubt, for their complete or­ shame, they rebuilt laboriously what we had unwittingly ganization verifies it in every instance. From them we overturned with one sweeping gesture. learned a tremendous lesson. What catastrophies also sweep down upon man and in What must have been their reaction when we^several a few moments destroy the work and dreams of years! million times larger than the greatest of them—approached Not so wise as ants, or, perhaps not so fatalistic, man them and "swept” their colony into instant destruction! weeps and bemoans his fate, and not seldom does he give P age 4 F orum of P sychic and S cientific R esearch up the struggle completely and go adrift. For man is not the colony of desert ants. They were firm in tjheir de- so well organized individually or collectively. Unity is termination to overcome disaster. No time was lost be- but a thing we talk about. The course of evolution has moaning fate. If humanity could only learn a si:ijnilar r les- disrupted the colonies which prevailed in former ages where son and rise above circumstances! all worked for the common good. Today it is not the Did we appear monstrous beside the ants? so, in tribe or the clan or the mass that is considered—but the comparison to the endless universes the heave: reveal, individual. In our process of civilization we have devel­ we are but a puny atom. If, beside the little•f lings of oped a colossal egotism and self-centeredness which has life man’s egotism swells to outrageous proport; Lins, one destroyed completely the unity of the whole. Divided hour in meditation beneath the starry firman< tits w ill among ourselves, we know not to which authority to turn strip him of the illusion and reveal him for what he is— in times of distress, for we find few real leaders with in­ little more than a cosmic thought enslaved by rti;atter; a tegrity and wisdom on which we can safely depend. Those mere "vibration” in an endless scheme of things. whom politics destine to lead us are themselves in need of Night after night, year after year, cycle afte::r cycle leadership. They are not organized as individuals, conse­ the Milky Way appears; the stars glitter in the j leavenly quently how ill prepared are they to lead or organize others. tapestry; the moon sends trillions of beams over tjhie earth; The civilized world today betrays a lack of real leaders. the Constellations proceed in their orbits. Whint holds Money has superceded hum­ them there? What :eps the an obligations. Monetary gods jg...... (3 heavens and earth from have robbed the coffers of bursting forth in terrific conscience and left our souls UNCERTAINTY! conflict? What ke< p:>s man barren to spiritual realities— "V* ESTERDAY is gone— none can recall, and all earthly thing:;s from and unity goes begging for A Its joy or tears or hopes withal; being hurled as dust into the admission. When destiny records the fated writ "interstices of space? What When calamities destroy No lure can change—no flattery or wit keeps even the atoms of our our housing structures and Can call it back to live again, ’tis said bodies together so •¿hat our upset our equilibrium, or en­ Ghostlike ’twill rise to tantalize the dead. souls may have objet tiive ve­ emies besiege our ranks, man hides through which to man- Today we hold our own, are self-deceived vents his rage or cries a damn ifest? The answer is "the To hope that ought is ours as we believed; to fate. He stops to weep or unity of God”— the Supreme The fleeting minute to which we cling at last pray or swear, surrounded by Organizer! Is gone before the thought of it is past. the fragments of his dreams. In his lesser creatio ns unity Unborn tomorrow holds a pulsing lure Not so the ant! If it weeps is manifest, but in nj;an— the Of hopes more joyful, of a love more sure. its tears settle the dust on despair of angels— lthe very the highway of its labors. Its Today with its regrets, its passion spent, its fears, elements of confusip:n have prayers make sweet the task Will be as dead tomorrow as a thousand years; their birth in sorrow and suf- fate has meted out. The en- W ill yield its fruits of memory— the seeds fering and death As a re- ergy which swearing would Were sown in all our thoughts and deeds— suit of bodily inharm«iony, or expend is used to lift the load W ill rise tomorrow, with specters of the past, lack of unity, we become of destruction which man The things to which we vainly cling at last. diseased— and our ^dividual afflictions spread to nations, has laid upon it. From The Evolution of a Soul,” What creature, more than Today the whole body of By Felicie O. C rossley man, should possess a firm civilization is suffer;ing, dis- attitude of stoicism toward 0" » 0 eased and depressed. from the twists of fate, since he the lack of unity, is cor- himself is so ruthless in his blunderings? Man lays waste rupted by the plague of coveteousness and the agi;grandize- through sheer love of killing what animals destroy for ment of self. Today man weeps or prays or sw

set o u r; course and overhaul completely against this. periment— and would be unlikely to be known of outside Weather bad for long flight. Fabric all water-logged and official circles. ship’s nose is down. Impossible to rise. Cannot trim. You "Quotation: It had been known to me on many oc­ will understand that I had to tell you. There were five oc­ casions that the bore capacity was entirely inadequate to casions 11 have had distinct trouble— new type of feed ab­ the volume of the structure.” solutely and entirely wrong. Two hours tried to rise but "Official comment'. This language is technically cor­ elevator jammed. Almost scraped the roofs at Achy (?). rect, and might have been Irwin’s opinion. It i ; an opin­ Kept to railway. At inquiry to be held later it will be ion that could only be expressed by an expert in the sub­ found that the super-structure of the envelope contained ject, and not one that would be on the lips of the 'man in no resilience and had far too much weight in envelope. the street!’ This was not so until March of this year when no security "Quotation-. "Almost scraped the roofs at Achy.’ was made by adding of supersteel structure. I knew then "Official comment'. Achy is not shown on ordinary that this was not a dream but a nightmare. The added maps. But it is shown on special large scale ordinance middle section was entirely wrong—it made strong but flying maps such as Irwin was in possession of. Achy is took resilience away and entirely impossible; too heavy and a small village, 10 miles north of Beauvais, and would be too much over-weighted for the capacity of engines. From on the R -lO l’s route. It was stated in evidence by French beginning of trouble I knew we had not a chance, knew officials (though their evidence was discredited i that at it to be the feed, and we could never rise. I am anxious Poix (14 miles north of Achy) the airship was seen to be about the health of a lady and child— am very worried only 1300 feet from the ground. over everything private.” ‘ Hypotheses Presented "Medium’s voice changes, lJvani now speaks: 'He does not come to us.’ He says: 'Bore, capacity, feed and gas. "It is not the intention of the compilers of this report to discuss whether the medium was really controlled by We could never rise.’ (Medium relapses into silence and the discarnate entity, Irwin, or whether the utterance after a minute or ¡so’s pause, Uvani again speaks and emanated from her subconscious mind or those o: the sit­ 'Irwin’ entity appears to have gone.) ters. 'Spirit’ or 'trance personality’ would be equally The Official Attitude interesting explanations— and equally remarkable. There "Immediately after the experiment, the shorthand notes is no real evidence for either hypothesis. But it 1: not the were transcribed and copies of the protocol handed to var­ intention of the writers of this report to discuss hy­ ious persons, on request. The Air Ministry is in possession potheses, but rather to put on record the detailed account of a copy of the report; and its existence was made known of a remarkably interesting and thought-provoking ex­ to Sir John Simon who conducted the public inquiry into periment.” the disaster. "It was not surprising that when the existence of the 'Irwin’ protocol became known, it caused considerable The Olympian Liberal Conference interest at Bedford, where the R -101 was built. Mr. X, A NOTABLE event of the Olympic season in Los An- an officer, read of the existence of the 'Irwin’ protocol *** geles, California, U.S.A., will be the Olympim Con­ in Mr. Price’s article in 'Nash’s Magazine’ (January, ference of Liberal Religion to be held in the First Uni- 1931, published December 16th, 1930) and wrote to the versalist Church, corner of Hoover and Alvarado streets, Laboratory asking if he could peruse a copy of it. July 31 to August 14, with sessions every evening except "Mr. X. was invited to visit the Laboratory and give Saturdays. his impressions and comments of the experiment report, Cooperating agencies include the National Federation especially in regard to the technical details, terms and of Religious Liberals, the Laymen’s League of the Unita­ phraseology. rian Denomination, the Universalist General Cor.vention Officer “X’S” Comments and the Los Angeles Fellowship of Liberals in Religion. The British journal thereafter gives a sentence-by-sen­ The program will feature addresses on religion and human tence analysis of the protocol by Officer X. Three of these relations, a banquet and programs of music, drama and comments with the quotations analyzed follow: dancing of different nationalities. Dr. Sheldon Shepard, "Quotation: This exorbitant scheme of carbon and minister of the First Universalist Church, is chairman of hydrogen is entirely and absolutely wrong. arrangements. All meetings will be open to the public. "Official comment: A t the time of the R -101 flight, a series of experiments was contemplated with the idea of burning a mixture of hydrogen and oil fuel (i.e. of car­ Eastern Editor'* Demise bon and hydrogen; commonly known as hydrocarbon). T T is with deep regret that we have just learned of the This was to form the basis of proposed experiments. The passing May 24th, of Harry S. Kirkel, Associate Editor hydrogen would have been obtained from the gas bags, of "Psychic World.” His sincere endeavors in th; work and the carbon from the oil fuel of the ship. For the of Spiritualism will be missed, especially by his wife., Jen- purpose of this experiment at Cardington, a special gas nie M. Dawes Kirkel, editor of the same magazine, de was main had been installed from the gas plant to the engine her helper in the splendid work she is doing. The " 5sychic test house, to be utilized there in conjunction with oil World” has always been a fine, clean, constructive maga- fuel. No experiment had actually taken place at the time zine doing a genuine service for the Cause of Spiniivialism. of the flight, but preparations were in process. This would We extend our sincere sympathy to Mrs. Kirkei May have consisted in a highly technical and important ex­ she carry on! P age 7 A ugust, 1932 The Magnificent Depression

By A nnette W. Scarborough

"Verily, the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning to the funeral.”— The Prophet.

OR three years or so, the world has been experiencing that fatal disease, "Too-much-itis.” Pot-bellied, pasty- what it pleases to call a 'depression.’ There have been faced from excessive quantities of ill-chosen food; gouty, Fmany 'depressions’ throughout the history of every rheumatic, arthritic, short in wind and shorter in heart; nation, but the striking feature of this one is that every nerves a-jitter from drug-taking— what a spectacle! What part of the globe is involved. No single stratum of civi­ would a sane physician prescribe for such a patient? lized society but has experienced a startling, simultaneous ABSTINENCE. And what will the patient do? Lift up sinking of its basic levels. his voice in frantic protest and lament! W ith bleary eyes he will look upon the heaped-up plate and flowing cup. Another outstanding feature of this depression is that His spirit will totter and tremble before the onslaught of despite much private and public calculation and discussion, temptation. While devils of gluttony and self-indulgence with world-wide gathering of data and statistics, there prod and push and pull him toward surrender, the angels is no accepted theory as to just what brought about the of the Most High are tense with prayer for their poor condition. Every one seems to have an individual idea, brother still shackled by the flesh. Aware that indulgence but where that idea may fit conditions in one country, it has deprived him of resistive power, sometimes they take will not apply with equal force to the situation existing pity on him. They remove him, for a season, from temp­ in another country. Yet the financial ship in that other tation. By enforced abstinence they deprive him of all country is likewise in the stupefying embrace of the dol­ means of yielding. And Time and Abstinence are not drums. The rich, with a few exceptions, are no longer mocked. In due course, convalescence ensues, despite the rich. The well-to-do are no longer doing so well. And patient’s rebellion. One day he finds himself in a state of the poor are desperately, pathetically poor. new vigor and hardihood. Gone is the unsightly rotundity The mass-psychology of every nation is apathetic under and in its place is contour, lean and fine. Flabby muscles this burden. The world-mind, apparently, cannot free it­ have turned to steel withes. The faculties of brain and self from the 'depression’ thought any better than a sub­ spirit functioning normally. Life suddenly becomes a joy­ merged diver, entrapped by a giant octopus, can extricate ous, singing thing. The man, grown well, extols the wise himself. physician. He shouts magnificats to the rigors and chas­ tisement of abstinence. Despite frantic exertions of the best financial brains of all nations, acting together as they never acted before, Since enforced abstinence proves so salutary a thing for to bring about so-called normal times, the 'depression a sick man, may it not, likewise, be a good remedy for a persists. No group of international financiers has been sick world? Since the shrewdest minds of the world have able to break, or agree upon any method of breaking the failed to determine the cause of the depression, may it depression’s strangle hold on the treasuries of the world. not be that there is an Unseen Cause for it? May there To the student and detached observer, (if there be one!) not be an inscrutable, inexorable Force which has brought this makes it quite the most interesting economic phe­ the world to its knees, so to speak? A Force which will nomenon within recorded memory. A perspective of these maintain the present conditions, negating all puny mortal facts is bound to make the philosopher wonder; and may efforts at readjustment, until abstinence has had time to make the man of unstable mind think the world is surely work its cure? approaching some cosmic catastrophe. Oahspe says: "When man has searched in vain for a reason in material things, let him turn and search for an Probably there is no more destructive agency where man’s spiritual grade and stamina are involved, than un­ Unseen Cause.” interrupted affluence and comfort. More insidious than From the tiniest material structure to the largest, mat­ infection, stealthily as hidden virus, the lust for luxury ter is, in every instance, impotent, per se. It is merely the and ease develops. Like foul gangrene it lays waste the subject acted upon by something else. Whatever that vital fibres of character. It is so easy to relax and loll 'Something Else’ is, the corporeal senses of man do not when cushions of down are placed beneath us. And the encompass it. Man’s material activities, from the lifting longer we loll, the less inclined we are to get up. Our of his eyelid to the subjugation of earthly elements are larger impulses lose their potency to stir us into action. but the consequences of impelling Force, not within the V Our spiritual aspirations cease to strain after ultimate grasp of his bodily senses. Without variation, throughout reaches. Complete sensuous satisfaction envelopes us, to every department of existence, that which is seen is, of our inevitable degeneration. itself, impotent. That which is potent, is unseen. It is the Unseen Cause. Recalling the world-figure of the prosperous man in the years preceding the depression, one is forcibly reminded of Another statement from the same profound revelation, the general appearance of an individual suffering from Oahspe: "The Creator hath said, two precipices have I P age 8 F orum of P sychic and S cientific R esearch

left open for testing man’s strength, and they are great prosperity and great adversity.” Reception to Mrs. Garrett Man’s reactions to these two states of being— great pros­ pELICIE O. CROSSLEY, Editor of The Forum of perity and great adversity—are obviously acute. Wealth Psycbrc and Scientific Research, on the after loon of will show of what a man is made. Like the beggar on July ninth gave a tea honoring Mrs. Eileen Garmtt, Bri­ horseback, he becomes overbearing and arrogant; profli­ tain’s noted psychic, who is now in Los Angeles under gate, lazy and altogether worthless to himself and every­ the sponsorship of the Los Angeles Section of ths Amer­ one else, if, in his character, there are not well developed ican Society for Psychical Research. The affair was dis­ the saving sinews of temperance, decency, discretion. And tinguished by the rare hospitality which marks all occasions surely the testing crucible of honor, wisdom and courage whereon Mr. and Mrs. Crossley assume the roles of host is poverty. and hostess. Temperance, decency, discretion; honor, wisdom and A notably interesting company of thirty-nine g jests at­ courage— primal elements of man’s spiritual constitution! tended, representing many of the important branches of In case of one of them being absent, the final compound our social, artistic and literary life. Mrs. Garrett was ac­ will not measure up to requirements. Man will not attain companied by her lovely daughter, Miss Babette Garrett. to his utmost possibilities. What, the question arises, are Mr. Hamlin Garland and his daughter, Mrs. Johnson, were man’s utmost possibilities? What are his capacities? What, present, as were Mr. Glenn Palmer, Editor, and Lis wife, in short, is man’s ultimate? The highest state of which Ruth Kimball Palmer, the sculptress. Mr. Hal Rush and the most highly developed man can conceive, is a splendid his exotic wife, Judge Minor Moore and Mrs. Moore, approach. But finite mind faints before it begins to ap­ and Judge Lewis Howell Smith and Mrs. Smith, of the prehend the destinies the Infinite Mind plans for it. Superior Court were noticed, as were Ransome Sutton, Again in Oahspe, the Almighty, addressing one of His noted scientific writer, and Mrs. Sutton. Great pleasure exalted angels, says: "I say unto thee, the merchant shall was afforded by the psychic musical renditions given by be bankrupt. The king shall fail; the general be over­ Mrs. Treva LaMar. Owing to an unfortunate mistake as thrown; save they know My power, they cannot learn; to the address, Count Louis Hamon, known internationally save they feel affliction, they will not help one another.” as "Cheiro,” failed to attend, but his personal grating to The magnificent depression! Three years of enforced all was telephoned when, owing to the error, it ^rew too abstinence for a world grown flatulent with material pros­ late for him personally to reach the Crossley hojie. Dr, perity! What greater boon could have been granted us? Cecil Reynolds, noted brain specialist, also expressed re­ Would any of us have chosen such remedial measures? gret because of a prearranged vacation engagement at Assuredly not. To search then for an Unseen Cause may Lake Tahoe. not be so far amiss. And to strive to grasp the strong, Other guests included Dr. and Mrs. Lowell C. Frost, clean hand of the Good Physician! Mr. and Mrs. Sterling C. Lines, Mr. and Mrs. W. Arm­ Viewed from this angle, it would seem that His chosen stead Collier, Dr. and Mrs. A. T. Piercy, Mrs. Tho patients are those who, having great possessions, have lost Patton, Mrs. Ivy Crane Shellhamer, Dr. Henry J. Gordon, much. The man of wealth who has lost houses and lands; Fred H. Skinner, Mrs. Lela W. Sherman, Mrs. Lillian Char- the pampered idle woman who finds herself forced to learn teris, Mr. Mel Wharton, Mrs. Nan Maxwell Mill**, Mrs the ways of her own kitchen; the frolicking, completely Mary Shultz, Mrs. Marion S. Berry, Mr. and Mrs Verne irresponsible sons and daughters of the rich—for all of Hiner and the undersigned. these, when they rally from their dire bewilderment like — Annette W. Scarborough. patients struggling out from the fogs of anesthesia, there awaits a time of health and strength and gladness exceed­ day of wrath has yet to come. ing anything that they have ever known. Certainly upon When the bountiful season is upon the world agii , the these, major operations have been performed. To them, best of us will do well to watch our step! If w

happier and wiser than they were. Nor are they necessarily Q m iiiim iM iiim iim im iiim iiiiiiiiiim iii...... him u u iiim iiQ people who, in the beginning, did not complain as loudly as the rest. But they are more apt at learning! Others are Psychic World Monthly j ^ still so engrossed in the struggle to force adjustments that ''Nothing Higher Than Spirit9i they have not the time to take spiritual inventories. But Founded by Chas. H. Leitenberg, Now published by = r the struggle is the thing, and the day of recompense merely JENNIE M. DAWES KIRKEL, Editor \ 4 awaits their realization. 663 N. 12th Street Philadelphia, Pa. Subscription $1.00 a year, Foreign $1.25 It might be said that only two classes of individuals Single Copy— 10 Cents have not benefitted by these times of economic stress, Read this publication if you are interested in Spiritualism. Its truths told fearlessly and intelligently by a group of namely the rich, who, by some means or other, have grown honest truth seekers. richer; and the constitutional mendicants. For them the B... »B P age 9 A ugust, 1932 What Is Liberalism in Religion?

By Sheldon Shepard

Minister of the First Universalist Churchy Los Angeles

HAT slaves to words we are! The demagogue and less liberal than belief. One may even lose his belief by the jingoist have among their strongest weapons becoming less liberal. W the blindness' of persons who fall promptly into Thirdly, liberalism is not indifference. Many persons line at mention of the proper word. Political slogans, cam­ fancy they are liberal because they do not care. A true paign shibboleths, religious pet phrases, are all used to whip liberal cares deeply for the advance of truth. Of all men the masses into line. he should be the least indifferent to the turn of events It is the general custom to label our own theories with or the progress of thought. words which seem to us complimentary and stigmatize Fourthly, liberalism is not at all a matter of doctrine. views we oppose by attaching to them titles of opprobrium. We often speak of a "liberal theology.” In reality one There is no sound argument in shouting such words as theology is no more liberal than another. The word refers "Red,” "Dole,” "Cross,” "Veteran,” "Progress,” "Funda­ to the attitude of mind and heart with which one arrives mentalist,” "Liberal,” or any other of the signals set up to at and holds his doctrine. Rankest narrowness may be shoo us in the direction the agitator would have us go. manifested in the promulgation of a doctrine which seems But such methods do get results. One day a man came liberal. To be sure, the fundamental principles of liberal­ into our church, which displays the word "liberal” in large ism may be stated as one’s doctrine, in which case that letters, and stopped to say vigorously, "That word kills much of his doctrine is liberalism. But that will include this church for me. I don’t want to have anything to do only certain broad fundamentals which leave still un­ with that kind of religion.” formed his interpretation of the universe, his rules of con­ On the other hand, a visitor once exclaimed, "O I love duct and his religious practices. Their development may liberal religion, don’t you?” and then launched into a flood take any course, and going their divergent ways, the lib­ of dogma and invective that seemed to me to be as far erals are still liberal. from liberalism as the politicians are from attacking the Having thus cleared the ground of a few notions com­ cause of depression. monly held with reference to liberalism, let me state the Probably neither of these individuals had the slightest principles of liberalism as I understand them. I think I can concept of what I mean by liberalism in religion. By name four characteristics which constitute any one a lib­ virtue of their slavery to the word, of which they hold eral, regardless of his unbelief or doctrine. Without any erroneous ideas, their hearts were deterred from search and one of the four characteristics one is not truly liberal, no their minds closed to truth. Our question, "What is Lib­ matter how loudly he may so advertise himself. eralism?” is very properly raised. Indeed it would be well First, the liberal is one who loves truth rather than his if every time there is an attempt to influence us by the present understanding of the truth. He has a creed, but use of a word, we should first seek a definition. "What is it never stands in the way of truth. He is desirous of patriotism?” "What is Bolshevism?” "What is prosperity?” changing his mind, on the authority of evidence. Accept­ "What is a dole?” "What is religion?” IP we could secure ing no authority but the conviction of his own reason by a clear definition of the words with which we deal it evidence, he seeks to follow the truth as it is shown to would from many a trouble free us, and foolish notion. him. He is therefore a man of changing convictions and "Liberal” being, in the minds of some people, a good interpretations. He does not try to pour new wine into word, it has naturally been appropriated for use in places old bottles in order to hold the shell of former convictions, where it does not properly belong. It may be well for us but boldly throws away the old bottles when their purpose to look at some of these things which liberalism is not. in his life is served. A t one time I tried to express the at­ titude of the liberal toward his creed in the following First, liberalism does not consist in the willingness to verse: be called liberal. While there are those who refuse to be so labelled, many do adopt the term. That action does not Not the old because it’s old, make us liberal. It is possible for one to wear his label of Nor the new because it’s new, liberalism with the rankest sort of illiberalism. And one But at dawn of every day, who shies from definite association with the word may Choose the true because it’s true. manifest a great deal of the spirit. One’s liberalism is not to be judged by his description of himself. And at night, with truth outgrown, Purpose served, its duty done, Secondly, liberalism is not unbelief. Nothing can be Put it by, to choose again, more illiberal than some forms of determination not to Lighted by tomorrow’s sun. believe, or a disbelief which refuses to see the element of good in doctrines most of which are disapproved. A liberal Secondly, the liberal looks with sympathy and under­ will have many convictions, in the truth of which he standing upon the beliefs and practices of his fellows. He profoundly believes. Disbelief is of itself neither more nor understands there is some good in everything, and he seeks P age 10 F orum of Psychic and Scientific Research to find it. He will offer evidence which seems to him to of good will. He feels himself a part of life, a brolhi__ er of disprove another’s position, but he will never demand that the clod and the stars. He sees a part of himself ir every- the evidence be accepted. He will not think that all prog­ thing, and will never needlessly destroy. He will not ac- ress lies with him and his cohorts, for he is possessed of cept his own happiness at the expense of another’s joy.. He that tolerance which is an active appreciation of the minds will not accept good fortune except as it adds to t ... e good and hearts of others. For any opinion to be sincerely held fortune of all the world. He will not seek addition» to the by any human being is enough to give it sacredness in the values of his life except as they are genuine addiiiions to mind of the liberal. The sanctities of age and authority the values of the world. He will not profit at the expense have no weight with him, but he bows before the devotion of any other. His life is an expression of kinship a:ud good of a single heart. He has that kind of tolerance. will toward all creation. Thirdly, the liberal believes utterly in freedom. To the If anyone has thought that liberalism is a matter of very limit of possibility he would take for himself and lightly shifting the gears of mental machinery, let him dis­ guarantee for all others freedom of conscience, thought, abuse his mind of the error. Liberalism is a goal tc speech and conduct. He would never win his point by one may set himself. It is an achievement for wh coercion. He believes in life and truth enough to trust may strive. It links one with all his fellows in sympathy, them in open field. He believes in freedom to the utter­ understanding and cooperation. It lays upon his back the most for the man who disagrees with him. A so-called lash that falls upon every slave, and penetrates his heart liberal who would close the mouth of an opponent is the with every wail of woe the world around. It identifies worst of illiberals. The true liberal will not take his creed him with the whole process of creation and evolution, or his rule of conduct from any ecclesiastical authority. must dare to stand alone in the freedom he demands for Nor will he exercise such authority over another. He be­ every person. In the face of bitter antagonism, he must lieves in freedom. keep his tolerance and appreciation. Catching hi? stride Fourthly, the liberal is characterized by a universal good with the sweep of the mighty movement of the darrents will. He has conquered his prejudices of race, color, tongue, of life, feeling his oneness with it all, expressing goxi will class, party and belief. He has risen above his petty antip­ to the universe, he goes on manifesting that spirit by which athies. He is a master in the kingdom of his own soul, some day humanity will find its way to its kingi om of so that he can extend to every child of man his thoughts truth, freedom, peace and happiness. ’

The Research of the Commonplace

By Lowell C. Frost

"We of today are waiting for the man who will make tmd erst and able and usable that force— greater than electricity— the power of mankind’s soul.”

HIS is the day of the two-hundred-inch telescope, of our souls. Art, music, religion, and philosophy, i ll seek the million volt x-ray tube, the cosmic rays, and to evade the Here-and Now. Tthe weighing of the electron. We are not content This is not, however, one of the well-worn tirades which with the exploration of our own universe; we must catch sees in the present only its decadence, arid in the paii t only the light from the uttermost nebulae, and make it pay an its greatness. We know that much of the future’s civili­ import duty of knowledge as it enters our borders. We zation depends upon necessarily elaborate researches of to­ must minutely scan the signatures of the remoter suns in day. We dare not say of any single, sincere research of our spectroscopes, and from that writing deduce their science that it is too remote from life to contribute in characters, their ages, and their destinations. some vital way to our progress. But is there not an evi­ In such research we must supplement our short eyesight dent tendency for much of today’s research to b; cen­ with the ultra-telescope, the ultra-microscope, the ultra­ trifugal and away from that center which is mart's life? spectroscope. We must use the light rays that we can­ Are not many seekers really escapists who, consciously or not see, the infra-red and the ultra-violet, upon photo­ unconsciously, direct their search away from the reality graphic plates especially adapted for the recording of the and the commonplaces of today, and toward alm(j»t any messages that each set of waves brings to us. point beyond the horizon? I We are frantically striving in almost every field of Let us seek as a contrast another type of research. In science and in practical life to project our intelligence 1832 Michael Faraday took three common things: ja small away from where we are. We want to find out what is steel magnet (known since Elizabethan times), a piece of at the back of beyond. In our minds we must extrapolate copper wire (known since the early days of Egypt), and our direct observation and deduction with Einsteinian gen­ a corripass (known in Europe since 1300). By coiling the eralizations in the n-dimensions of ultra-mathematics. wire, and pushing the magnet in and out of the ( fil, he Even in our hearts we seek to discover the fulfillment of found, by means of the compass, that a current oi elec- desire beyond the conscious, in the unknown hinterland ('Continued on page 27) A ugust, 1932 P age 11 What About Psychic Research?

By H a l R u s h

"An aggressive curiosity is a poor tool for the psychic investigator ”

EVER before has the world been so absorbed as now atoms can be measured by .a telescope or stars by a micro­ N in those reputed uncanny occurances classified as scope. psychic phenomena. Every person has had hunches, Practically all of the physical phenomena is produced in premonitions or dreams, and scarcely one of us but has a dark room, either in total darkness or with a small hied, some time or other to a medium, psychic, numer- ruby light— the conditions required being much the same ologist, palmist, card reader, clairvoyant or astrologist to as those necessary to the development of photographic find out what fate had in store. plates. All of the mental phases of mediumship can be Because of the very great interest in psychic phenomena demonstrated in the light, although they can also exist in groups and bodies and organizations for the study of phe­ the dark. Because physical phenomena must nearly always nomena have been formed throughout the world. So be produced in the dark, it opens the way for the perpe­ widespread has the interest become that material-minded tration of chicanery, which, not infrequently, occurs if scientists reluctantly have turned a heretofore deaf ear in the genuine fails to manifest. an effort to explain, if possible, psychic things. Therefore, no psychic researcher can do justice to his There can be but one attitude held by the true investi­ work until he has some knowledge of the various phe­ gator. He must base his hypotheses upon what phenom­ nomena and their conditions which he is to investigate. ena he has actually seen or heard and the conditions govern­ A miner searching only for gold, and unfamiliar with ing them, and not attempt to interpret the phenomena by other ores, may overlook many other precious minerals. an explanation already formulated. Theories must follow Fifteen years of investigation and production of psychic facts! Never attempt to fit facts to theories. phenomena have taught the writer at least a few import­ Psychic phenomena— in its mental aspects at least^lies ant things relative to psychic research which we are try­ exclusively in the psychological field. Any attempt to ex­ ing to convey in this treatise. plain it on an absolute material basis is doomed to failure, In the production of all genuine phenomena the medium and progress in experimentation will be made only by men first must have psychologized himself into the belief that versed in the study of the mind. Psychiatrists, psycholo­ he can produce the phenomena. Andrew Jackson Davis, gists and analysts will go much further in the investigat­ the Poughkeeosie seer, who was experimenting with mes­ ing field than material scientists. merism and hypnotism in 1850 repeatedly had himself Students of the occult know that the world is governed hypnotized and through suggestion produced phenomena by immutable law. There are laws governing the produc­ startling in character and positively disconcerting in their tion of psychic phenomena, but only scant attention has accuracy—with all elements of fraud effectively barred. been paid them. Investigators apparently prefer to watch Evidently he was able to psychologize himself— self hyp­ sporadic cases of the phenomena instead of reproducing notism— and was able to produce identical phenomena. He conditions which in the past have been necessary to the chose to call this hypnotic condition the "subliminal production of the phenomena. state.” While in this condition he was able to predict the An antagonistic frame of mind is not conducive to future, scan the past, observe occurances at a distance, production of psychic phenomena— which is a subtle thing diagnose disease and prescribe cures—all without any train­ — nor is it a guarantee against charlantry. An aggressive ing and with the sole condition of being psychologized. He curiosity is a poor tool for the psychic investigator. A produced the most astounding phenomena and has de­ medium should receive the same consideration in psychic clared in his book "Nature’s Divine Revelations” and "The experimentations as the scientists give to the apparatus in Seer” that much of the phenomena can be produced with­ his laboratory. The medium, psychic or sensitive is as out contacting disembodied entities. Andrew Jackson necessary in investigating the realms psychic as a telescope Davis, incidentally, is the god-father of modern Spiritual­ is necessary in charting the heavens. A wise and experi­ ism. enced psychic researcher will first seek to win the respect This hypnosis, either induced by the sensitive himself and confidence of the medium, knowing it is the most im­ or another agent, has various degrees of intensity. In its portant step. deeper aspects it is called trance, and may even go so far Psychic phenomena lies in two great fields, the mental as the cataleptic state. Usually, however, the trance is and the physical. Mental phenomena falls under the some­ slight, the sensitive apparently in full possession of his what arbitrary headings of premonitions, hunches, trance, faculties, being merely the physical instrument for the clairvoyance, clairaudience and psychometry. Physical manifestation of the phenomena. Whether the phenomena phenomena comes under the headings of apports, levita­ is produced by the sensitive himself, consciously or un­ tion, trumpet, materialization and ectoplasmic. consciously, or by a disembodied entity using the body of To apply identical methods of investigation to these the sensitive, is the basis of difference between the Spirit­ various phases and expect results is as futile as to hope that ualists and others who hold dissimilar hypotheses. 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The investigator should be very cautious in making apported, although there are instances on record where snap judgment. The phenomena is so subtle that extreme growing plants, roots and all, have been brought into caution must be used in classifying it. closed rooms. Belief in this, of course, must be based on the Practically every one has seen demonstrations of phe­ reader’s opinion of the integrity and incredulity of those nomena, professionally and otherwise and has himself often relating the incidents. been able to share personally in psychic experiences. He Most investigators of psychic phenomena are familiar has had dreams, hunches, premonitions and many uncanny with the ouija board in which one or more sitters place things told him, by sensitives. What are these things? their fingers upon a little tri-legged stool whjich races Psychometry according to the best authorities is the around to the letters of the alphabet. Such a| thing is sensing of events and conditions past, present, and future, possible without conscious action upon the part of the sit­ using as a basis for the production of the phenomena some ters according to Pearl Curran of "Patience W o rti” fame. article— a ring, watch, jewelery, letter, etc.— which has The point under debate is whether there is a "force” gen­ been in intimate relation to the person giving it to the erated by the sitters which spells words and jentences psychometrist. The sensitive then tells the impressions he through action of the subconscious mind, or whether dis­ feels! Psychometry then is the super-development of the embodied entities use the sitters to perform the writing. sense of touch. The writer, personally, has been able to make a sentence Clairaudience is the sense of hearing developed to a high which later was written out on the ouija board by another degree. A clairaudient person can hear music assertedly individual— the writer’s hand not touching the board. In terms of mathematics this proves little other than that produced extra-mundanely, and it is the clairaudient per­ two and two make four— but three and one also make son who hears the so-called spirit voices. It is a faculty four. What makes an ouija board operate yet is tc be which is inherent in some individuals and developed in cessfully explained. others. In the investigation of psychic phenomena nothing must Clairvoyance is the development of seeing to its ’nth be taken for granted and the investigator should m chary degree. A clairvoyant person can see events which have of making hasty judgments. The sole hope of investi­ transpired in the past, at a distance, in the present, and gators lies in the mediums who must either be taken from in the future. It is the clairvoyant phase which raises the the ranks of Spiritualists or developed in psychical re­ great question of the relativity of time. Clairvoyance has search societies. With them the investigator Hay get many phases, and a clairvoyant also may be clairaudient somewhere— without them nowhere! and a good psychometrist. The clairvoyant reverie usually is induced by music, auto suggestion, hypnotism or by gazing in a crystal. All of these things are but aids to The Universal Service Club entry into the "subliminal state.” In materialization the medium must enter the deep A LTRUISM and humanitarianism are almost t (synony­ trance state and then the materialization or etherialization mous terms, and both are the ultimate aim snd goal of the asserted spirit takes place, ectoplasm or vital force of the Universal Service Club whose headquarters is at of the medium being released and shaped into form by 620 Hollingsworth Building, Los Angeles. the thought of the so-called disembodied entities. Of the This unique organization is capitalizing on the well- many phases of mediumship this perhaps is the most easily known truism that we can help others while helping duplicated by fraudulent methods. While more or less ourselves. Knowing that men are more selfish whe re their spectacular, the fact that the phenomena must be pro­ pocketbooks are concerned it appeals to its members by duced in the dark has made many investigators avoid it. saving dollars for them, incidentally making a small profit It is a phase that requires intensive cultivation, and much on all goods or service provided through its departments. "level headedness” upon the part of the investigator. This fund is used to help the unfortunates in sortie con­ In trumpet manifestations, in which the trumpet is structive way. In other ways employment is provided. levitated, the dark room also is required. A circle is The Club acts as a contact agent between the professional formed, the usual seance formula takes place and the as­ man, the wholesaler, the manufacturer and the consumer, serted trumpet manifestations begin on most occasions. who incidentally is the member. Thus the club srves the Several explanations of the genuine phenomena are offered: member the money that usually goes to the "middle-man,” The Spiritualistic one is that "conditions” make is possible and yet provides the highest type of service. It albws the to levitate the trumpet and to allow the "spirit” to talk members a liberal percentage of the saving effected as a through it. The other is that sufficient nervous energy discount on all purchases. The balance of the profit is or vital force is generated through the circle to levitate put into a fund to be used in altruistic work among the the trumpet. A third explanation is that the "trumpet needy. No profit is kept for the organization nor for any medium” seizes the trumpet under cover of darkness and individual concerned therewith. The small honorarium or ^ talks through it, imitating the voice of "spirit” departed membership fee paid quarterly by each member is used of those sitting in the circle. Voices, it is said, can be for the overhead office and store expense, any surplus over ; produced through the trumpet in the light, the medium which reverts into the general fund for the relief of un- * holding the trumpet in her hands. employment and hunger. All services are accompanied In apports, also a physical phenomena, the "medium” is by a guarantee for quality. The club can supply your used as a battery and physical substances are dematerialized need in any direction, whether it is a dentist, marc il, doc­ from a distance and brought to the presence of the me­ tor, groceries, clothing, et cetera. For further particulars dium and rematerialized. Flowers and letters usually are write the headquarters at the above address. A ugust, 1932 P age 13 Among My Souvenirs

By Mary R idpath Mann

A series of articles by this well-known Writer, Lecturer, World Traveler and Playwright, President of the Chicago Society for Psychical Research and former editor of ”The National Spiritualist.” IV

NE of the writer’s most delightful memories centers of his life. One had but to look at him to understand why about her first adventure in journalistic wayfaring they called him the "Grand Old Man.” This distinguished O in a foreign country. Seldom indeed does one’s statesman, four times Prime Minister of England, was the first shot land the Prime Minister, yet such was my ex­ embodiment, the quintessence, so to speak, of the Victo­ perience. rian Age. His terms of office had not been consecutive. "What’s in a name?” asks Shakespeare. "A rose by In between them after the manner of a sandwich, had been any other name smells as sweet.” written the political career of one of the most brilliant Maybe it would. Also—maybe it Jews in history—Benjamin Disraeli. Mr. Gladstone was wouldn’t! For instance I have a dis­ the typical, vigorous, hardy Englishman. There was not, tinct hunch that if I wished to es­ even at his advanced age, the slightest quaver in his voice. tablish a business which necessitated It still rang when he spoke. His tone was firm, steady, financial backing I should stand a and his manner of expressing himself definite, impressive much better chance of obtaining the and dignified. The familiar story of his cutting down a same if I could satisfy those whom tree at Hawarden when he was eighty-seven years of age I approached that I was the daughter is strictly true. I, myself, saw the stump from which it of Andrew Carnegie or J. Pierpont had been severed. Morgan than if I announced myself A quaint brass knocker which looked ancient enough as plain Jane Jones. I cherish no ar- to have been brought over by William the Conqueror re­ Mary Ridpath Mann rogance whatsoever because of a sounded through the halls when I made use of it and somewhat distinguished ancestry, but brought the old family butler to the door. In response to I should not be playing a square game were I to fail to my request to see Mr. Gladstone he informed me that the acknowledge the value and power of my good father’s latter was out in the grounds. He would try to find him. name. It has obtained for me entree to many distinguished I sat in the reception hall in a high-backed chair which people and enabled me to visit many unusual and inter­ fairly shrieked of early England and awaited his return. esting places which otherwise I should have had to forego. Presently he reappeared to tell me that Mr. Gladstone During the intervals between the writing and publica­ would see me in the garden. I followed him down the tion of his many volumed "History of the World” and the steps and along the path to the hedge beyond which I "History of the Great Races of Mankind,” etc., my father could see Mr. Gladstone. He had been reading a book delighted in writing monographs of great men—Ameri­ but had laid it aside and was holding in his hand the card cans such as Alexander Hamilton, Washington, Lincoln, which I had given the butler. Engraved upon it was Grant and Garfield, and Europeans such as Gladstone, Dis­ my name and below it the words "Representing the Asso­ raeli, Bismarck, Voltaire and Victor Hugo. Some of his ciated Press of the United States of America.” He rose finest writing is contained in these short, sketch biogra­ as I approached and before I had opportunity to utter a phies. Finding that my first stop would be London, and word he said: remembering that one of my father’s books had been "An American writer whose name is Ridpath has writ­ written about him, I promptly hitched my wagon to a ten a book about me. Are you, by any chance------? star and decided that I was going to see the "Grand Old "His daughter,” I replied and the gates swung wide Man”—William Ewart Gladstone. open. I found, however, that he was not, at the moment, oc­ The days when I set forth as a newspaper woman were cupying his town house in London and that in order to likewise the days when the superiority complex in man see him I should have to make a journey to his country had assumed its most colossal proportions. The idea that , estate, Hawarden Castle in Wales. Afterward I rejoiced a woman should presume to discuss political corruption or that this had been necessary for nowhere else on earth governmental mismanagement! Today, low are the mighty could I have seen him as he really was. Never shall I for- fallen! Now-adays the experienced editor of the great Aget my first glimpse of him. He was most imposing in syndicated press when he wants a big story backed up appearance. Six feet tall, with great breadth of shoulders, by real facts sends for his cleverest woman writer and bel­ a large head, prominent straight nose, deep set flashing lows at her, "Go and get it!” He knows that when she eyes, flowing gray hair which in his younger years had returns she will bring back the bacon,—not the rind! been jet black. When Mr. Gladstone rose to his feet he Once however, just the opposite was true. When I began seemed to over-tower the landscape. At the time I visited I was advised (and the advice was sincere) by those who him he was approaching his ninetieth year,—the last year had my best interests at heart to confine myself wholly P age 14 F orum of Psychic and Scientific R esearch to other subjects. This I did. When I returned to New when times were not so good. York after a journey all the way around the world and “Oh, a ragamuffin husband and a rantipoling wife, we’ll the manager of the editorial office congratulated me and fiddle it and scrape it to the very end of life.” This they even enthused over the numerous articles of interest I had surely did, for Mrs. Gladstone outlived the distinguished written I assured him emphatically that the Public Li­ husband two years. Both grew old beautifully. brary could not hold the more interesting and far more On the table in his study Mr. Gladstone had] at least important stories, historical, political and governmental ten books upon wholly different subjects. When I asked that I had not written. him what he considered the greatest element of | his suc­ While I sat visiting with this great Englishman I cessful career, he replied that it was his form of concen­ thought of the thing to which he had given so many of tration upon the thing of the moment. Pointing to the his years of effort, the absorbing interest of his political row of books on the table he said that they, aifi others life— Home Rule for Ireland. From 1869 until 1898 he like them, had been his salvation, that within five minutes fought to have the bill passed by Parliament. Neither he could become so absorbed in anyone of them that he Charles Stewart Parnell or Premier Asquith had any better could completely shut out the world of affairs End that success. In 1914, the year in which the Great war broke he kept such books always at hand for the purpose of re­ out, a Home Rule Bill was passed. In 1920 another bill lieving his mind from too great weight of public iff airs. fostered by David Lloyd George, became a law, but— it While I look back upon the afternoon I spent at Ha­ separated north from South Irelend. Today, the Catholic warden with great pleasure I can not help regarding it south (Irish Free state, under Eamon de Valera) and the now as a lost opportunity. I did not know then, however, Protestant Orangemen of North Ireland are fighting as as all the world knows now, of Mr. Gladstone’s ¡life long usual, not only England but interest in psychic phenomena each other. il tistanitii mil...... i...... i...... □ and the subject of survival. Yet When I look back now over I do recall distinctly that he the two hours I spent with Mr. APPRECIATION told me that the great j desire of Gladstone I can not help smil­ My Dear Mrs. Crossley: his life was to become a clergy­ ing, for I am persuaded that I man of the Church o f! England was quite as interesting to him May I voice through the columns of your and make for himself la career as he was to me. The young jj magazine my grateful appreciation of the jj through the medium of the American woman, self-confi­ \ many expressions of sympathy, interest and = Church. His father, however, dent, self-reliant, unafraid of : encouragement which came to me during | had set his heart upor his life, capable not only of making = my recent illness? One does not easily for- § tering politics and in leference her own living but of supplying S get those who stand by in one’s hours of jj to his wishes he had reluctantly a little family as well, was, I j stress. jj yielded. All his life, ns recre­ am convinced, a type wholly ! Sincerely yours, jj ational writing had beey articles new to him. This evidenced it­ : Mary Ridpath Mann § on religion. Perhaps from his self in questions he put to me* \ June 27, 1932. \ study of this subject fad been Did not my parents object to born his conviction that the Q iiiiinm iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiniiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii«i[«j my traveling alone? Was I not survival of the spirit of man nervous crossing the ocean? He after physical death is not only seemed very much interested in my father and his work. reasonable but logical as well. Most vivid of all my mem­ What was his custom? Did he do his own writing or ories of this visit concerns my leave-taking. Mr. Glad­ dictate to a secretary? How many books had he written? stone walked with me down the graveled path ,to the And how long each day did he work? Obviously the entrance. As I said goodbye to him I expressed a h^pe that small monograph had pleased him. Were we of English I might be as vigorous, physically and mentally, as he ancestry? He listened with much interest while I told when I should arrive at his years, to which he replied: him that the first member of my father’s family of whom “So long as the spirit in man which is man, remain)i young, we had any knowledge lived at Berwick-on-Tweed, on the body will take care of it! the borderland of Scotland, back in the Twelfth century The Spirit in man which is man! If Mr. Gladstone had and that within less than a hundred years after the art of never uttered another word upon the subject th s senti­ printing was developed by Gutenberg in 1453 one George ment would have sufficed. As I took my way pack to Ridpath wrote and had published a “History of the Bor­ London I could not help thinking of the lines of the poet der Wars of Scotland,” that every two or three generations especially applicable to the Grand Old Man. since had produced an historian of more or less repute and “Youth is not a thing of years, that a study of our lineage brought forth the fact that ’Tis a state of mind.” we had always been a family of idealists, soldiers and k sailors, teachers and preachers, writers, musicians, authors and artists, to which Mr. Gladstone replied with the well Minnie E. Crone Wanted Ì known quotation “What’s bred in the bone will come out fTViEr Prudential Insurance Company is very desiirous of in the flesh”— than which nothing was ever more true. obtaining information as to the past, present and; fu- The home life at Hawarden was ideal. Mr. Gladstone ture whereabouts of Minnie E. Crone, Charles C

By Felicie O. C rossley

A Sympathetic Statement of the Birth of Islam. The Third of an Unbiased Series of Twelve Articles on Comparative Religions and Philosophies

OHAMMED, the great Arabian prophet, was born tains that he is said to have received a visitation from as near as can be ascertained, about April 20, 571 the angel Gabriel who ordered him to read a scroll. Not MA.D., 541 years after the crucifixion of Jesus. being able to either read or write Mohammed trembled Orphaned at six years old and cared for by kind relatives, with fear. And then, from the lips of the angel he heard his early life was spent in total obscurity until he was the words which were later to be embodied in the 96 th twenty-four. As a man he was of commanding mien and chapter of the Koran, the book venerated by all Islam, as presence, of middle height, slender but with broad shoul­ Mohammed’s cult is called. ders and strong chest. He had a high, fine forehead; Telling of his experience to the people the young Arab shrewd, dark eyes, a fine complexion and a luxuriant black, was accused of being possessed by "evil spirits.” As these silken beard. Always from a small child he was of a dreams and hallucinations became more frequent some­ highly nervous disposition and extra sensitiveness— especi­ times whole weeks passed when he was in a semi-hysterical ally to pain, both in himself and others. He also had a condition accompanied by high fever. A t all times he particular aversion to many of the tastes and habits of his was aware of the presence of angels and held communion people. with them. In the Spiritualistic terminology he would be When he was 24 he won the admiration of a wealthy called a medium— and a very fine one at that. From the widow 40 years of age who hired him as a camel driver revelations obtained through these periods of illumination in one of her several caravans. After a year they became a new religion, which was later to embrace millions so attracted to each other that they married, and to the throughout the world for many centuries to come, was end of her life she was a devoted, faithful wife, being created. Even today Mohammedanism rivals Christianity chiefly influential in urging him to develop his inspira­ ir. numbers. tions. His faithful wife, who always remained at his side dur­ A t that time, and Drior to the birth of Mohammed, the ing the "fits,” was his first convert; next were his daugh­ Arabs were a wild, plundering race, little more than sav­ ters and other relatives. Then a few friends began to listen ages, yet they possessed a strange intermixture of chivalry to his preachments, and finally the populace began to in­ and courage, and th'fir lovalty to friends and family as­ vestigate the claims of the young prophet. sumed the oualitv of pobflity. It is strange that out of Later, after a series of dissensions and bloodshed because such a combination— where primitivism, gambling, plun­ the Meccans were furious at Mohammed’s sudden rise to dering, drunkenness and immoralitv ran riot— that they power and spiritual influence, in the city of Medinah should evolve some of the fine philosophic and scientific largely populated and controlled by Jewish influences, the minds which history records. These, however, were the teachings of Mohammed’s revelations weii^arefully gath­ exception rather than the rule. ered together under the title of the Koran. Because of the They literally Jiad a god for every day of the year in Hebrew influence many of the Jewish stories and traditions" d?ejr was extended to were compiled in what was to become the holy'Took of s° jinns and spirits. The a d v ^ of Mohammed all Islam. religious horizon of Arabia changeik»^ this for In its complete published form the Koran is composed ^gi^eadvocated one Suoreme Diety, Allah, in Whoffkj^j was of 114 chapters which in subject matter lacks even a sem­ unified. A t first this doctrine found great opposition f° r blance of continuity. The entire book contains approxi­ it conflicted with the existent religions which alloweautomatic writing. A t toward improving the conditions of his time, especially first the messages were of a personal nature purporting for the woman folk. The relations of men and women in to be from friends who had "passed over.” She claims Arabia were of the most primitive kind prior to the ad­ to have become aware of influences apparently outside her vent of Islam. Either by desire, or a lack of desire, a man own consciousness. Gradually there appeared evidences of could divorce one or more of his wives by the mere recita­ a supernormal force which quite upset her philosophy of tion of a formula and if he chose he could send her out life. Suddenly the personal messages ceased as quickly as into the world on a moment’s notice to starve and die— they had started and writings of a singularly r4 igious with no future responsibility on his part. It is needless to nature were received. Never ^ adj&lja^g^^^vowedly re- say that the women lived in constant fear and dread, though perhaps without fault of her own. Mohammed ligious nor partial « f ’^ ' o n T ^ í o n or cre ^ N H lumer' realized the terrible injustice of this system, and forthwith able religious af5hgr¡sms ab0ut Jesus and God w ereT ritten by some pp set about to change it. His rules for divorce are partic­ influencing her fingers, she claims. ularly interesting, but space does not permit us to touch ualtyj$K f messages developed into a scientific and phifi^ upon them in a short treatise of this kind. osopnic strain. She was told— through automatic writing The conditions required for one to enter Paradise' was* /‘==£~fo listen for a "voice” and also to watch for "lights.” the belief that there is but one God and Mohammed is His Then the most inexplicable incident of her life occared. ambassador. Hell was the punishment for those who dis­ For two weeks she was confined to her bed by a terrific believed. force. She could neither eat nor drink, nor could she True Moslems must repeat "The Prayer” five times daily bear seeing anyone but a very dear young friend. Alarm­ with their faces turned toward Mecca, their Holy City. ed, her friend watched over her night and day. Auy at­ They are called to worship by a Muezzin from the min­ tempt to sleep brought on the sensation of dying. Then arets of the mosques, after who, with head bowed to the things in the room began to move. Pendants on the chan­ earth, they repeat the famous Prayer of Islam. delier fanned as though blown by the wind though ill the In the month of Ramadan they are required to fast windows were closed. Then the whole chandelier swayed, every day from dawn to sunet. They must give one- moved by an invisible force. The phenomenon was witnes­ fortieth of all their possessions yearly to the poor, and sed by others. make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca. Subsequently a terrific sensation tore at her solar plexus, The kst'pilgrimage that Mohammed made to Mecca was impeding her breathing and causing such agony that death in March 6.32, A.D. There he preached to approximately (Continued on page 28) P age 17 A ugust, 1932 Spiritualism and Islam

By H orace Leaf, F.R.G.S.

"Muslims cradled science. Modern pharmacy digs its roots into the original discoveries of Arab therapeutics.”

HE more one meditates on the life of the Prophet munications should be sought, according to Islam, through Muhammed the more does the psychic element stand the Universal Mind.” T out. More perhaps than with any other religious There is a good deal of sound spiritual sense in this ad­ genius is spiritual inspiration to be observed with him; and, vice which no seriously minded Spiritualist will quarrel from the Spiritualists’ point of view, it is extremely in­ with. To seek spiritual communications through the Uni­ teresting that Moslems are prepared to admit the fact. versal Mind, would not mean that we should not receive There is no pretence that the founder of their religion communications from our departed friends, but would was an incarnation of God, nor even that he received his raise the standard of many students of psychic science to inspiration direct from God. They regard the Great First a higher plane. It is doubtful whether scientific investi­ Cause in a light too exalted to claim that He personally gators who dislike the introduction of religion into psy­ inspires anyone except in a purely mystical sense. chical research could complain of such an attitude, since They believe that revelations to prophets come through recently even eminent scientists, experimenting in purely spiritual intermediaries, as that is the only way in which secular branches of science, have been forced to admit the imperfect mind of man can be brought into touch that the orderliness of the known universe compels them with the perfect mind of God. The intermediary agent to conclude that there is something like a Universal Mind. they call "Malak,” which means "angel” and originally Students of comparative religion who adopt the popular meant "power.” In the case of Muhammed this agent was idea that Muhammed was far too truculent to have a called "Gabriel,” which literally means the "servant of really spiritual character, cannot deny that the result of his inspiration is almost without parallel in the extraordi­ Allah.” nary benefits it bestowed upon humanity. Not only did Furthermore, they attribute to all true prophets the it civilize and unite the Arabs as a race, but it raised same agent, so that, to Moslems, all prophets have received them in an incredibly short time to a foremost place their revelation through a "servant of God.” They also among the nations of the world. It virtually opened the believe that true prophets come in the spirit of some minds of people which until then had remained more or previous prophet, and hold that the previous prophet that less sealed, and enable them for a time to outstrip their came to Muhammed was Moses, the great Jewish patriarch Christian contemporaries. and leader. In the same way John the Baptist they believe Muslims cradled science. Modern pharmacy digs its roots came in the spirit of Elias, the Jewish prophet. I do not into the original discoveries of Arabian therapeutics. When pretend fully to understand the significance of this claim, the Muslims conquered Spain they civilized it and for hun­ as it does not mean reincarnation and yet it does not seem dreds of years made it the most advanced part of Europe. to mean the independent identity of the two personalities. That Muhammed’s message was needed, is shown by the Connected with the idea is something mystical which evi­ fact that six hundred years of Christianity failed to con­ dently raises the subject beyond ordinary logic. But one vince large sections of Asia and Africa that that religion thing is clear: for all practical purposes there is conceived was the true religion. The doctrine of the Holy Trinity in­ to be direct communication between the spirit of the de­ clined to turn them from rather than to religion. This parted and the living. cannot have been owing to the inability of these people to Perhaps we Spiritualists may find in this a great truth think as metaphysically or spiritually as Europeans, as which, at this early stage of our discovery, does not make history conclusively shows that the eastern mind is more it wise for us to be informed of this subtle metaphysical mystically inclined than that of the more logical West­ distinction. I think I can do no better than quote the erner. words of Aftabud Din Ahmad, Acting Iman of The If results justify claims then Muhammed needs no more Mosque, Woking, in a letter to me: to justify his. Nor must we forget that whilst Christian­ "Thus, John the Baptist appeared in the spirit of Elias. ity gradually fails to Convince even Christendom of the This appearance in Islamic phraseology is called *Zilli’ or justness of its claims, and certainly fails to convince the 'Boruji’ appearance or 'Mathil’-ship. It is a kind of rein- more advanced non-Christian races, Islam moves steadily \ carnation, but Islam is opposed to transmigration. Holy forward. Prophet Muhammed is regarded by Muslims as the (Mafhil- There are many reasons for this, but none more effect­ ( i-Musa, i.e., a similar spiritual reincarnation of Moses. Evi­ ive than the simplicity of the claim that there is only one dently this belief gives the Spiritualists a convenient ground God. All research into the ultimate nature of the Universe for building up a theory of their own to explain the po­ inclines to the belief that it is a unity, and that instinct­ sition of Muhammed. To me, who has for sometime been ively gives rise to the notion that if there is a Creator he thinking much on the creeds of Islam and Spiritualism, it must be One and not several. Whether this will ulti­ appears that, excepting in one point, each of them runs mately be justified none can at present be sure, but cen- into the other. This one exception is that all spiritual com­ (Continued on page 28) Page 18 F orum of Psychic and Scientific Rii search Your Birth Sign and Its Influence By Zaral L’V erne

A Sun Reading of Leo— (The Lion)— July 22nd to August 23rd

HE Sun is in Leo, the fifth sign of the zodiac, every come handicaps and obstacles. They are very fixed : n their year from July 22nd to August 23 rd. It is pic tonally opinions and if they espouse any cause usually they will T represented by the king of the beasts, the lion. It stay by it and work for it ardently. They never co any- is the second of the Fire triangle and the second of the thing half-heartedly, for Leo being a fiery sign endows Fixed square. them with power, vitality and enthusiasm. In personal appearance the typical Leo, like the lion, is The principal fault of the Leos is a quick, fiery temper. an embodiment of stateliness and pride. The expansive They tend to anger suddenly although often they i,re just chest, massive shoulders, strong arms and large head con­ as suddenly appeased. When shown they have been in trast noticeably with the more slender but muscular, the wrong they are usually ready to apologize and make wiry body. The complexion is florid; eyes large and clear amends. They also have an inclination to be bombastic, with a penetrating gaze; voice strong and deep. domineering and tyrannical. When undeveloped they are Leo, ruled by the life-giving Sun, confers upon its easily influenced and led into dissipation and extravagance natives a noble, ambitious and aspiring nature. To those through their feelings. They must learn to harmonise their familiar with astrology they are known as the "smiling great powers and be calm and serene. Leos.” They are genuinely kind, warm-hearted, generous People born in this sign succeed best where they have and sympathetic because their emotional nature is deep authority and responsibility. They dislike unclear! or la- and from the heart. borious employment. They should never be empljciyed in People with the Sun in Leo are staunch defenders of petty, detail positions. Because of their innate siionse of those they love, but equally strong in their aversions. showmanship and their organizing and managerial Abilities They are loyal and true friends, no inconvenience or sac­ they are well adapted for many branches of publicc life, rifice being too great to serve them. If one must have an Many actors and actresses come out of this sign, as well as enemy, a Leo will prove more honorable and magnanimous ministers, entertainers and lecturers. They make goirod doc- than any other. tors, dentists and nurses, giving up all comfort :o care These individuals are usually aggressive and masterful. for the sick. They often engage in pursuits of a specc ulative They make excellent leaders but poor followers. They are nature— buying and selling, gambling and stock ijnarket. fond of power and command but would scorn to take an Inventors and manufacturers are found in this sign; Many unfair advantage of anyone. They aspire to positions of kings and great executives were born in Leo. These people rulership, inspiring others by their earnest nature with a also make good salesmen, providing they have co»nlfidence respect for their abilities. In all their dealings they have in their goods. a keen sense of honor and a never failing integrity. Leo people should exercise the greatest care in sc;e lecting One of the most marked characteristics of Leo people is a marriage partner. Because they are natural leader;s they their generosity. Their impulses are more from the heart dislike being advised, commanded or forced to do; things, than from the head. When their sympathy or interest is They are especially dependent upon affection and; cannot aroused they give lavishly of their time, money, or knowl­ exist happily without it. They are great lovers 6: home edge without thought of self. Their wealth is more in and children. Often when they are not blessed wiith chil- what they give and share than in what they store up. Since dren of their own—Leo is a masculine, barren sign -they it is an occult law that you retain the etheric counter-part will adopt them. They will not tolerate any reflect:i< of all you give, so they share in the wealth of the universe. their relatives or children— right or wrong they figfy: Leo, being a fixed sign, gives its natives great will for them. The most harmonious friends and com]);anions power and determination so that they are able to over- will be found among those born in Sagittarius, Lib:;a, and m ....iim m ...... in in in i | la|aJ Aries. [ ycur licrcsccpe free I Leo rules the heart, the dorsal region of the spiipe, the = A True Horoscope Will Reveal Your [ spinal cord and the aorta. These people, therefor«e, are : Past and Future 5 susceptible to heart troubles, violent fevers and k and E Your individual horoscope accurately cast and com- § kidney troubles. They are also afflicted with an<;lurism, E pletely delineated. Send your name, date of birth, hour E = and place of birth. Only an introductory offer. E arterio-sclerosis, angina pectoris and anaemia. Tfi

By Sw am i Paramananda

In Commémoration of the Anniversary of Sri Ramakrishna

VEN through its traditions we gain real spiritual in­ with his face in the dust, "Another day has passed and I sight into the heart of a nation. So this morning, as have not attained God!” Passersby, business men, people E we observe the birthday of Sri Ramakrishna, I am who were hard and cold, even those men would say, He reminded of how it represents the heart of India. may be mad, he may be an insane person, but we cannot bear to see him suffer so. May he have his heart s prayers W hy is it that India honors spiritual men and women fulfilled!” You see it was his genuineness that they felt. rather than those we call "the great”— the conquerors, kings, and emperors? Because her heart beats in

art the Doer; I am only the instrument!” What a wonder­ ful artist a man could be, what infinite gifts he would Billie Burke D iscusses Psychic Things have if he could be free of all calculation: "I am Thy B y Mal Brentley instrument, O, Supreme Spirit! do Thou play on me, and there will be beautiful music, unmistakable melodies; in­ A Special Interview for the Forum of Psychic hnd spiration will come, because there will be nothing to bar Scientific Research thy pure music from flowing!” That was Sri Ramakrish- na’s perpetual song; that was his secret—his strength lay OU cannot interpret role after role in the acting there. profession— literally live for the time you a*e on His influence goes on spreading. It is like the perfume Y the stage the lives of the people you impersonate of a flower. It lingers, it is delicate, yet powerful and very without becoming aware that there is something to potent. It inspires and transforms our life because it was psychic influences, Billy Burke* wife of Florenz Zie^feld, genuine, and free of all dogma. There is nothing dead glorifier of the American Girl, declares. Her interest in about it. It is pure, shining, radiant. It flows in a mighty things psychic has been of many years duration. current of Light, and when our thoughts are unobstructed, While actors are not superstitious, she stated, and <3o not and we are not guided by preconceived ideas, that Light believe in signs, everyone knows that black cats around shines through us. He was a possessor of the Infinite, and the theater portend bad luck. Most theaters forbit cats men felt it when they came into his presence. We are all to be brought in, and woe betide the actor who whistles possessors of the Infinite, hut we do not know it. in his dressing room. And of course while most acir God is One. Men worshio Him differently according and actors do not believe in psychic phenomena invariably to their concept. Truth is One; we worship that Truth they cross their fingers when discussing it and are r ot at according to our understanding of It. It is infinite and all averse to consulting the stars, reading the cards or universal. This concept Sri Ramakrishna made living in visiting a medium when they believe that the answer to his thoughts, his actions, his daily habits. Whenever he saw their problem can be found thereby. any place of worship, any temple, svnagogue, or church, I talked to Billie Burke while at Green Fountain?, the he would salute it; for he said, "Wherever there are Pasadena estate of Miss Zoe Atkins, novelist and play­ thoughts of God, wherever men pray to Him, that place wright who was becoming the bride of Captain J Hugo is holy— there we should bow down!” Rumbolt, son of Lady Rumbolt and mother of Sir Hor­ One time, when Swami Vivekanda had just returned ace Rumboldt, English ambassador to Germany. We were from the Occident, someone attacked Sri Ramakrishna to admiring the beautiful gardens when suddenly the conver­ him, calling him nothing but a mad man, a superstitious sation turned to psychic subjects. worshipper who paid homage even to idols or symbols. "I believe in inspiration” she said earnestly. "I believe Swami Vivekananda, with his illumined intelligence, said: that we can so attune our minds to a higher rate of vibra­ "Let us have many more made men like him for India— tion that we are able to see and hear things beyond the more superstitious idolators who see God everywhere and ken of others. I believe that Mozart and Beethoven were worship Him in everything, and who forget their own capable of hearing lovely music and that an ordinary ear selfish interest in their love for Him and for humanity!” could not sense. Their genius lay in the fact that they This gives you Sri Ramakrishna’s stature. All else is sec­ could translate into physcal terms that inspiration for the ondary interest. He lives today in spirit, and inspires man­ delectation of lesser evolved humanity. I believe that Corot kind. Knowing Him, a Christian can become a better and Whistler saw with an inner eye more beautiful things Christian, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Mohammedan, a purer than they were able to transfer to canvas. I believe that follower of his own particular faith. He asks no man to Keats and Shelley and Tagore absorbed beauty out cf the renounce his religion. Each is free to follow his chosen infinite storehouse of Perfection and wrote it down as path. Renunciation is necessary, however, in order to poetry for our enjoyment. come to God. We need to renounce otir suspicion, our sel­ "I believe that all great men—even the great vilkins— fishness, our egotism, our greed, and our ignorance. For have had something of inspiration about them. W l tether as we renounce these, we find brotherhood on a construct­ that inspiration was used for good or bad purposes of ive basis. course determined whether or not we called them heroes or This is the message of Sri Ramakrishna. And it is not villains. a small message. It has indestructible value, because it is "Personally I would like to know more about these built upon life, upon purity, upon holiness, and not upon psychic things. I would like to be able to more fully un­ any self-chosen creed or dryness of philosophy. This is derstand just how these supposedly uncanny things occur. what Sri Ramakrishna preached, if one can say that he But you see, she paused and smiled, being a wife, an ac­ preached. For he himself was his own gospel; his teaching tress and a mother to an unusually active girl as Pa :ricia, was through his life. doesn’t give one much time to delve into mystic thir gs.” Since her American debute as leading lady to ths late (■Ji i m u 1111111111111111111111111111111111111 li i i l ,llllllllllllllllllll||mi||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||i|||| q John Drew, Miss Burke has appeared in Noel Co^card’s | .ARE YOU IN TROUBLE? \ jj If So, May I Help You Solve Your Problems? jj Marquise, Caesar’s Wife, Love Watches, Marriage of Con­ E Love Offering; $1.00 for one question answered E venience, Intimate Strangers by Booth Tarkingtor and jj (Send self-addressed, stamped envelope) E Mad Hopes, her latest triumoh which was brought to Cali­ f MARY M. SHULTZ \ fornia by Belasco. It was her delightful performance in 5 1100 East Windsor Road Glendale, Calif, jj this play that won for her a starring role in Radit Pic- Q :iiiiiiim iim iiiiiim ...... iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii[¡Q (Continued on page 2 7 ) A ugust, 1932 I’age 21 Hal Rush, the Man and Medium

A Special Interview

ANY of our subscribers have written us concern­ the great presses. Seeing humanity stripped of its tinsel, ing the personality of one who for the past year its soul laid bare in police station and court room, seeing Mhas been contributing regularly to this magazine. it on parade and in pompous pageantry gave him an in­ His "Song of the Medium” and "Meditation for the New sight into Life which is reflected in his inspirational Year” are among the outstanding spiritual gems of our articles. publishing career. And yet his versatile pen has contrib­ His studies in religion becoming deeper, he began to lec­ uted many helpful ture on Theosophy, Yogi, Spiritualism and New Thought. articles on medium- Thus far he accepts all religions, none exclusively. He ship and psychism, wonders if it really matters what religion one has—if for Mr. Rush’s fifteen any?” years experience in He is positively convinced of the phenomena of psy­ psychic research and chism and mediumship. Lie believes that true psychism personal mediumship holds the secret of Life and is the greatest undeveloped have broadened his field open to Science. Himself possessing psychic powers vision and knowledge and having practiced mediumship he is thoroughly con­ of these important vinced of the demonstrability of survival but believes em­ subjects. phatically that its proof lies in the domain of science Hardly more than rather than religion. He claims that rational research into a boy, though in his the higher dimensions of life must be made unhampered early thirties, life has by the emotions and excitation of the senses. showered upon him At the present time he is working on two books, "Mu­ much happiness and sic, Religion and Psychic Phenomena” and "Whisperings not a few tragedies— of the Infinite” a collection of articles which already have the tragedies especial­ been printed. ly have made for soul Formerly he was a licentiate medium and board mem­ growth. He possesses ber of the Texas Spiritualist association and at one time an understanding far prior he was secretary of a Theosophical lodge. Being beyond his years. His young, an industrious student of philosophy, literature and first serious concepts of life were formed when in 1919 he Life and married to a beautiful Southern girl whose loyalty was honorably discharged from overseas service. War is an inspiration, Hal Rush may yet record his signature weary and soul sick, adrift from all religious moorings, a on the "Sands of Time.” sensitive youngster launched into man’s estate by the "hellishness” of seeing murder committed under the cloak of patriotism, he vowed as he hung up his uniform that A MESSAGE VITAL TO YOU never again would he take up arms against his fellowman. : In the Craftsman Shops of the Brethern there has been § Haunted by the memories of his experiences on an am­ = prepared a hand made booklet designed to open the W ay z \ for the Sincere to a contact with the Lodge Invisible. | munition transport in submarine infested seas and unable •j Sent without cost or obligation, simply write for it, in- = to reconcile the orthodox conception of God with a deeper E close a stamp or two if you wish. = intuitive knowledge that the Creator was a more perfect z MYSTIC BROTHERHOOD Box 425, Tampa, Florida = and sublime something than Biblically pictured, he turned to numerous isms, cults, ologies and osophies in a desper­ ate attempt to learn the why, whence and wither of Life. It has been this persistent pursuit of spiriutal under­ The Andrew Jackson Davis standing that has broadened his horizon and increased the Books value of his message. Like many other seekers for Truth jj Containing the Foundation Principles of Nature, Life, = he has experienced the burning of incense, the worship of E the Philosophy of Death and Spiritual Life, and the New § E Religion of Today:— : strange Gods, the practice of vegetarianism and study of E 1. "Death and After Life" and "Views of Our Heavenly jj : Home" Two books, one vol. 500 pp. $3.00. = psychism in his travels through fifteen different countries. E 2. "Answers to Ever-recurring Questions" by Dr. Davis E However it was only when he found a copy of Walt E through his 65 years’ ministry. $3.00. E E 3. "The Seer" 27 Lectures. Every phase of the Mental E Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass” that his search ended. Mr. = States to Clairvoyance and Superior Condition. E = 446 pp. $3.00. E Rush declares that Walt Whitman to him symbolizes both E 4. "The Thinker." 419 pp. $3.00. Pantheon of Progress; jj Bible and Savior, the alpha and omega of spirituality. E The Origin of Life; Law of Immortality. E E 5. "The Stellar Key to the Summerland." Over 200 pages = By profession a newspaperman and writer he has served E and many diagrams and illustrations. $1.50. jj jj All five vols., costing $13.50, retail, for $10.00 in a set. E on the staffs of many important American dailies. How­ \ THE AUSTIN PUBLISHING COMPANY ! ever as his forte has been inspirational writing he always E 4522 St. Charles Place Los Angeles. California E experienced a dissatisfaction with the roar and grind of Page 22 Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research A Remarkable Medium

B y Arthur Ford

H[E world famous English Medium, Mrs. Eileen J. with her, or with any genuine medium. To the inte ligent Garrett, has just left New York for the Pacific Coast investigator an occasional 'blank* is apt to be morie con­ Twhere for the next four months she will work under vincing than uniformly, 'successful sittings’ in which a the auspices of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Sections mass of extraneous and non-evidential material ii pro­ of the American Society for Psychical Research. These two duced. societies are to be congratulated on having secured the While this is Mrs. Garrett’s first visit to America her services of such a highly developed psychic. Mrs. Garrett work has been known to students of the subject for many has won renown among serious students of psychic phe­ years. That remarkable book, "Health, Its Recovery and nomena because of her willingness to cooperate in every Maintanance,” dictated through her by the Persia^ Phy­ sort of scientific experiment to which mental mediumship sician, Abduhl Latif, is one of the classics of Psy chical lends itself, and because of the amazing accuracy of her Research. Probably the outstanding case of "bomb-proof work. Not only is her phenomena convincing, but her evidence” for survival of consciousness and intelligent in­ personality inspires confidence. A highly educated and terest on the part of those who have passed on in the cultured Englishwoman of high birth she possesses a poise affairs of this plane, is to be found in the R -101 massages. and modesty that are refreshing in this field. It is a matter of record that for several months before the For eight months Mrs. Garrett has been in New York giant dirigible R-101 crashed on her maiden voyage, car­ City under the auspices of the New York Section of the rying forty-three of England’s finest airmen to death, in­ American Society for Psychical Research. It is safe to cluding the Minister of Air for Great Britain, Mrs. Gar­ say that during that time she has done more to enlist the rett had been sitting with the widow of Captain ¡Hinch- active interest of a large number of critical and coldly cliffe, the aviator who was lost while attempting a trans­ scientific persons than any psychic who has ever visited atlantic flight. In these sittings repeated warnings t lat the the Metropolis. Her visit has been a decided success and R -101 was not airworthy came through. Not simply the leaves nothing for which her sponsors need to apologize. warning, but specific and highly technical details as to Her trance-control, Uvani, has brought overwhelming why this was so. These messages carried internal evidence proof of survival to many who had failed with other that they came from an aeronautical expert of die first psychics. A splendid thing about Mrs. Garrett’s medium- rank. After the disaster, when a Parliamentary Committee ship is that one may safely send the most difficult sitter to of Experts was appointed to inquire into the ca ises of her with the assurance that he will either get evidence of the crash, the finding of the committee were found to be survival, or he will get a blank. Her Control never forces in accord with the messages transmitted through Mrs. anything. When he cannot make a good contact he frankly Garrett before the event. Here was a case which effec­ admits it and suggests another sitting when conditions tually ruled out the theory of telepathy or any of the other may be more conducive to results. Blanks are not unusual usual explanations of such phenomena. This is only one of many notable experiments with this remarkable woman. It will serve to indicate something of the quality of her [ Assurance » a Song of Immortality j mediumship. It is a pleasure to know that my many friends on the § Poem by Arthur Ford. Music by Marian Gillespie = E “ There is a power that knows no separation, S Coast, as well as that large number of interested students : The law of love to which the spirit clings : who find it difficult to pursue their investigations = Love knows no end, Through Love we are united, E E With those dear ones whose voices now are stilled” = of the dearth of good psychics, are to have the rate privi­ E An excerpt from “ Assurance,” a song that will not soon = lege of working with Mrs. Garrett. 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By Our Special C orrespondent at Large

HE first annual convention of the General Assembly movement. Many of the best workers in the country have of Spiritualists of New York State, since it withdrew found it impossible to place the petty politics necessary T as a body from the National Spiritualist Association to have fellowship in such organizations. and became a national body in its own right, was held For the sake of Spiritualism as a whole it is to be hoped in Rochester June 16, 17, and 18th. Dr. John Heiss was that the GSA will live up to its platform. in the chair, while one hundred and thirty-four churches and societies were represented by delegates. The business 'T H E newest Spiritualist Summer Camp to open its doors sessions were concerned with amending the by-laws and to the public is the beautiful "Camp Silver Belle” at constitution, and consideration of the methods and pro­ Ephrata, Pennsylvania. This camp which was the gift of gram of the new National organization. Applications and John and Mary Stevan— two devoted and highly intelli­ enquiries from an astounding number of societies over the gent Spiritualists— comprises twenty-two acres of beauti­ country who were interested in becoming part of the new fully landscaped park. An auditorium seating two thou­ movement were referred to the board for reply. sand, many cottages, a new modern hotel of fifty rooms, A refreshing feature of the convention was the total all with running water or bathrooms, a $3 5,000 swimming pool, tennis courts, and a modern cafeteria make Silver lack of controversy. The delegates were united and har­ Belle a desirable spot. monious. A t no time was any reference made to the con­ The camp is under the management of Dr. Myron Post, ditions which had made it seem imperative to withdraw and Mrs. Ethel Post, one of the country’s best mediums. from the NSA. The evening sessions were well attended. A well chosen board hold the camp in trust for the Cause. Arthur Ford and Rev. M. S. McGuire, of Toronto, Can­ Arthur Ford of New York was selected as the opening ada were the mediums and their splendid work was well lecturer and medium. A large and representative crowd received. Rev. C. V. Morrow, President of the Pennsyl­ from all over the East was present for the opening. Many vania Spiritualist Association was the speaker for the first of the best known people in psychical research and Spirit­ ualism were on hand. The camp is located in a territory evening and made a fine impression. She is an eloquent not served by any of the older camps and should render speaker and has a charming personality. Other speakers splendid service. were Rev. Mathew Stephenson and Sarah Cushing. Notable among the declarations of the new National were: Absolute adherence to the principle of State’s Rights. A New Book The idea seemed to be that local churches and state as­ NEW book on Spiritualism which is destined to sociations were better able to deal with people and condi­ create a sensation is to be issued by Putnams this tions in their jurisdiction than a small group of officers month. It is entitled "STATION ASTRAL” and is the out of touch with the great current of the movement. work of Bessie Clarke Drouet, the famous sculptor. It No attempt at the imposition of creeds or interpretations is the record of a long series of sitting under exacting con­ upon qualified platform workers. A definite and compre­ ditions held over a period of three years. The value of the hensive educational program, under the guidance of men book consists not simply in the quality of the messages, who are themselves qualified by education and training but in the calibre of the sitters. Many of the best known to teach others. Recognition of capable lecturers and men and women in various walks of life were present at mediums regardless of political affiliations. The conven­ various sittings and all have allowed their names to be tion was emphatic in declaring against anything remotely used. The book will be a revelation to many who do not resembling a boycott of workers who might happen to know the type of people now interested in psychic re­ belong to another association. Recognition of the fact that search. a National Association is purely a cooperative fellowship

and that the various state associations are the working [ijiniiMiniiiiiiiiniiiininiiniiiiiniiiMMiiiiiiniiiiiiiniinninminniiiiniiiiunnmniituninij^ units. The convention went on record as opposed to any effort on the part of a small group to dominate the move­ I HORARY ASTROLOGY I ment, or to engage in "Star Chamber” methods. Recog­ § The New American Textbook by E nition of the fundamental fact that Spiritualism has no : Robert DeLuce j leaders except in spirit, and that elected officers are simply E Author of “Rectification of the Horoscope." E agents of the higher forces. S This new, up-to-date textbook of Horary Astrology E = will be welcomed with open arms by students who have = E been struggling.along with the antiquated texts on this = W ith such a program it seems inevitable that the new E highly important branch of modern astrology. Send for = National must grow soon into a powerful organization. E descriptive circular and table of contents. Strong paper E There is widespread restlessness and discontent in American S cover, pocket size, $1.00; bound $1.50 postpaid. E Spiritualism due largely to the fact that a small elected = Llewellyn Publishing Company group appear to have abrogated unto themselves authority = 8921 National Blvd., Palms, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A. \ and powers out of harmony with the principles of a free 0*« ...... P age 24 F orum of P sychic and S cientific R esearch

BOOK REVIEWS R eviewed by A edene MacG owen HE PHOENIX, by Manly Hall. 127 pages size 11 by 16 inches, with many rare illustrations and full- Tpage photographs. Bound in heavy, blue board, stamped in red. Price $5.00. Published by Hall Publishing Co., 944 West 20th St., Los Angeles, Calif. Without question Manly Hall is one of the outstanding philosophical minds in the world today. It has been said of him that he is not only a "human history” of the world, but he possesses an encyclopedic mind. Having studied in India and Egypt and being an indefatigable researcher into the religions and philosophies of antiquity he gives to the reading world in a concise, comprehensible form the results of his many years of study. Manly Hall’s books are invaluable to the student of occultism for they all contain rare information and re­ productions of pictures and symbols one seldom finds else­ where. The Phoenix gives one a resume of the spiritual thought and customs of the ages, and touches upon the personalities of the great world teachers. With a choice STEP OUT OF THE SHADOWS of language that holds one fascinated he illustrates how the teachings of the great Avatars have kept the flame Into Tlie Light of of spirituality burning, and how in certain cycles the urge for Light becomes universal. A few of the chapters are: HAPPINESS and SUCCESS Albert Pike, the Plato of Freemasonry; When the Dead In the shadows lurk disease, suffering, superstition, Come Back; The Sorcery of Asia; Concentration and Re- and the despondency that leads us on to the wrong tropsection; The Comte De St.-Germain; The Cycle of path to failure and misery. Nothing is real in the Transmigration; The Practice of Meditation; H.P.B., the shadows, and only in the Light will you find freedom Russian Sphinx; Apollonius, the Antichrist and The Great from the things that enslave you and hold you back Pyramid. Money cannot estimate the value of this re­ in your ambitions and desires. view of ocultism and philosophy. A FREE BOOK (CHILDREN OF THE SUMMERLAND—By V. May The first great Light of man’s mind-power pointed out Cottrell. 3 6 pages, bound in light blue card board, the path to personal victory. Through all the ages stamped in gold. Price 2s—7d. Published by "Pinecraft” this Great Light has enabled a few to attain the great­ P.O., box 72, Napier. New Zealand. est heights and to be MASTERS OF THEIR DES­ A very beautiful and comforting message to sorrowing TINY. The Rosicrucians, an ancient brotherhood de­ parents, given "clairaudiently” to the author. It claimed voted to helping others along the Path, have prepared to be the intelligence of a departed relative by marriage, a free book called the “Wisdom of the Sages,” and whose name is "Winnie.” When this message was received they will gladly mail you a copy without obligation if the author was not a believer in Spiritualism. So vital you want to step out of the shadows into the Light of were the messages given in this matter that later she was Life and Peace. The book will tell you how you may converted. easily change the unfavorable course of your life to This little book also has chapters on "Clothes in the one that brings you life, and it tells you how hundreds Spirit World” and "The Spiritual Faculties of Jesus.” of others are willing to help you along the way. Just These are from the "Zonia Scripts.” write a letter asking for the book, and address your A comforting book to give a bereft father or mother. letter to ^yOICES FROM BEYOND—By Henry Hardwicke, Scribe J A A M.D. 12 5 pages, bound in heavy yellow paper, stamp­ ed in black. Price $1.00. Published by Harkell Company, Niagra Falls, N.Y. ROS l( RUCIAN^ BROTHERHOOD A Spiritualist convinces his doubting friends as to the authenticity of spiritistic phenomena. He gives minute details of various phases of phenomena obtained through S A T J ^ j S s TT^CALIFORNIA the mediumship of tested mediums. To authenticate these The initials A.M.O.R.C. indicate the original there are chapters on scientific and philosophical subjects Rosicrucian teachings. written by men of unquestioned veracity. So convincing ('Continued on page 28) A ugust, 1932 P age 25 The Subconscious and Subliminal Minds

By J. C. F. Grumbine, B.D.

"One thing is clear, that from center to circumference, reality is one”

OST students of psychic science are bewildered by of phenomena or noumena which, in a scattered way, ar­ what may be called the psychic and psychological rested the attention of the investigator. From a theolog­ Mterminology. Even in metaphysics, the late Dr. ical standpoint, many of these noumena passed as ' super­ Rawson who wrote "Life Understood” remarked that a natural,” but by the late Dr. Frederick Meyer, who wrote uniform terminology of words used by metaphysicians of "The Human Personality and Its Survival of Death,” the new school of thought would go far toward establish­ these phenomena were stripped of their supernaturalism ing a unity of understanding the world over among all and were placed in the category of the supernormal. This students and practitioners of mental healing; this is, of brought them within the scope or pale of modern science, course, obvious. with which modern psychology could deal, under the special caption of "Psychic Science.” Religion and science The trouble seems to be that different teachers, as for thus became more closely and intimately related to each instance, Dr. Freud, have established schools and in their other, for all phenomena or noumena were brought under own books have given their own particular definitions of the reign of natural law, and it was found that the words and phrases, to which other teachers have given mind— the final culmination of life as we know it on this either narrow or broad interpretations. The uses of these planet— is governed by law; natural and spiritual law, be­ words or phrases by these distinguished authors have done much to clarify the hitherto occult phenomena and phases ing one and the same on all planes of life. of the human mind in its active and passive experiences, Spiritualism has developed a psychology which is neither but they have not offered the final word on the subject. new nor old, but one which explains and demonstrates its Despite their inferences and definitions, there still remains own phenomena or noumena. And it is and has been much confusion on the subject— especially on what is gen­ proven to be a psychology whose terminology admits of erally understood as the subconscious and subliminal mind. only one definition and interpretation, because that in­ As a matter of fact, certain psychologists have made terpretation deals with the facts of mind and not with the subconscious and subliminal mind one and the same; some extraneous theory, or human, dogmatic opinion. as did Thomas Jay Hudson some years ago in his book on Fortunately and naturally in the evolution of both mind "The Law of Psychical Phenomena” when he used the and its psychology, the facts have affirmed the only spirit­ phrase— subjective mind. Of course, we all understand ual hypothesis which now explains the origin and nature that whether we are dealing with the conscious or the un* of the mind itself and which illumines the whole field of conscious mind, it is one mind and not two, or whatever terminology which has been developed as the mind itself partitions may be made for the sake of analysis. There are and its noumena were investigated, compared, classified certain words which have been applied to mind which will and scientifically explained. be well to repeat for the sake of general understanding, The subconscious mind in the broadest sense has been and with a view of throwing some light on the early de­ made to include all supernormal phenomena and noumena velopments of the New Psychology, which covered the whence they are supposed to issue. How, is another story. same field as the general teachings of Applied Psychology Spiritualism differentiates the subconscious from the sub­ which are popular today on the platform and in books liminal and super conscious mind, making it clear, from a dealing with the subject. psychological viewpoint that the ego can automatically reproduce its instincts, impulses, tendencies, reactionary Sentient l MIND habits by external stimuli and that this behavior of the Supersentient f ego, strictly speaking, should be termed, subconscious. The Conscious reproductive faculty of memory has everything to do with MIND the subconscious. When, however, the ego functions in Unconscious f the subliminal and superconscious mind, supernormal phe­ Objective ) MIND nomena occur and these phenomena should not be classed Subjective S with the subconscious, as they are original, psychical and supersensuous, and although related to the conscious, ob­ Conscious ) jective mind, do not originate there. If for instance, it Unconscious or Subconscious y MIND Superconscious is said that the ego is thus dealing with natural, conscious j powers of the mind, as the senses of seeing, hearing and Supraliminal feeling, and these powers have been raised to a higher i MIND Subliminal f degree of perception which is supernormal, it shows the ego acting independently of these three physical senses. Normal i MIND This is not difficult to understand. The ego can make or Supernormal f unmake conditions of inhibition and exhibition, that is, This classification will comprehend nearly all the groups for the expression of its powers at will, on any plane it P age 26 F orum of P sychic and Scientific R esearch chose to function, provided it understands the law of There is a similarity between the mental phenomena of their operation. The active, natural mind adds to its field (mediumship) a medium, and the mental phenomena of a of consciousness the sphere of the subliminal and the psychic, for the one may be produced by an ex:arnate superconscious, without in anyway sacrificing or curtail­ spirit, or by a control, while the other is produced inde­ ing the functions of the conscious. It is the conscious pendently. plus the potential, which has now become active. Telep­ The mind of a medium and sitter, often color and inter athy, prophecy and intuition become operative in that fere with the perfect transmission of the resui:s; but phase of consciousness called the subliminal mind. The where there is perfect passivity this need not occur. And, prophet or seer, the clairvoyant and inspirational speaker, because a message may not come through in its integrity, the psychometrist and clairaudient, function on the super­ due to these complex and mixed conditions, neither med­ normal plane— that is, in the subliminal state of the mind. iumship should be regarded as wholly subconscious, or It is an extraordinary attainment, but anyone of ordi­ blamed for the discrepancies. nary intelligence can achieve these psychic results by put­ It is easy to dismiss both mediumship and Spiritualism ting into practice certain simple rules. These psychic re­ as subconscious and not trace their operation, source and sults are alleged to occur by an appeal to the subconscious use to discarnate spirits, but the growing convittion of mind. This claim is made by a certain school of psy­ most recent psychical investigation confirms the original chology that does not recognize the psychic, but that spiritual hypothesis, as the only one which explains the traces the origin of the psychic to the subconscious mind. facts, whether the facts be the "Rochester Kno:kings,” The phrase "subliminal mind” coined by the late Dr. "Eddy Brothers’ Phenomena,” "The Seances of the Daven­ Frederick Meyer is a more comprehensive term as it logic­ port Brothers,” or the more recent phenomena o f "Mar­ ally includes and explains these outstanding psychic phe­ jory” and others, which have been carefully considered nomena. The subconscious mind is rather the sounding by psychical researchers. Personally, I have yet to find any board of reaction of all habits, rather than the source of medium or student of mediumship, or any psychologist psychic phenomena. When Thomas Jay Hudson used the or psychical researcher, who was familiar with tie subtle phrase "subjective mind,” he included the subliminal workings of the mind who believed that Thomas J iy Hud­ mind, but he did not attempt to draw nice and fine dis­ son’s theory of the subjective mind was a sufficient ex­ criminations between mediumship, psychic powers and planation of the source and cause of psychic phenomena, operations of the subconscious mind. No doubt since his especially the results of mediumship. transition, the subconscious has come to mean what he And now as to the subliminal mind, often eilled the meant when he used the phrase subjective mind. It has "superconscious mind” by the Hindu teachers of :he Ven- been proven conclusively, however, that the phenomena of danta Philosophy. It is claimed by illumniated teachers mediumship are produced solely by the Spirit World and that what is termed "Atman” by Max Mueller and trans­ are not the by-product of the subjective or subconscious lated into "Divinity,” lies potentially within each one and mind of the human operator on the objective side of life. that it is our duty to express it. Through conscious ex­ Dr. Hudson taught that the phenomena that occur in the pression of our Divinity, all our supernormal p wers are presence of mediums are not produced by excarnate spirits, brought into action and it is through these powe: s we be­ but are the results of the medium’s subjective, mental come aware of our divine being. Spiritualism hafc this ob­ activity. ject in view, whether we are dealing with mediumship and In hypnotism, suggestion has worked wonders upon the its phenomena, or with adeptship, or self master r. If the subject and made him exercise and display powers of which phenomena of mediumship and the exercise of our super­ he was ignorant and which he could not, at least did not normal powers do not make us aware of our divinity, then know, how to use in his normal condition. And yet, sug­ there is no significance to be attached to our immortality. gestion, by means of the subconscious mind have not pro­ Merely to change our form of personality, like á worm to duced the psychic phenomena which are covered by what a butterfly is a metempsychosis, interesting to be sure, but is termed mediumship. of no value beyond that new form, unless it points to a progressive unfoldment of all that is potential and eternal,

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THE RESEARCH OF THE COMMONPLACE to the subliminal, and it is these subliminal phenomena which are not so difficult to tabulate when it is remem­ (Continued from page 10) tricity was produced. What of it? Just this: from this bered that they belong to what the Hindus call the super­ simple experiment with common things has arisen our conscious. electrical phase of present-day civilization. Hardly a The superconscious is not a state of trance, however wheel that turns, dr a light that shines, but is a direct inhibited as the powers and senses of the objective or supra­ descendant of that research. liminal mind may be; for as one enters the state of illum­ Almost a hundred years before Faraday’s experiment, Franklin had proved by another simple experiment with ination where one is God-conscious, one is more conscious common things— a kite, a key, and a metal-lined jar— of his highest self than ever. This is how one thus illum­ that lightning and electricity were one. inated may flash his consciousness on any or all planes at Today mankind stands in relation to the psychic possi­ will, without being obsessed or controlled by any one of bilities almost exactly where Faraday in 1831 stood in the lesser powers, or senses. Indeed, from this psychic ele­ relation to the possibilities of electricity. As he had seen vation, where the soul is independent and free because and heard the age-old "miracle” of the lightning ripping desire is mastered, who will attempt to describe the inef­ the heavens from end to end, so has man known for an fable experiences of the adept, as he stands as it were, on equal time the "miracles” of psychic phenomena. Farar the shining rim of Nirvana? On the way toward this day, with his everyday apparatus, brought down the power beatific state, each supernormal and supernal experience, of the heavens for the use of men. We of today are clarifies the mind and integrates the ego, so that the soul waiting for the man who will make understandable and becomes aware that the individual and the universal are usable that force— greater than electricity— the power of one. The drop of water enters the sea, not to become less mankind’s soul. itself, but to partake fully of all that makes it what it is. In searching the horizon have we not forgotten what The individual thus like a child returns, as it were, to its lies at our feet? We know more of the cosmology of the Mother-Father-Creator— the one eternal, universal, un­ island universes in the depth of space than we do of the changing, infinite spirit, or GOD. This is the ideal set very living substance in our own microcosm. We know before us by Buddha, Jesus, and Swedenborg. That few the origin and destiny of comets, but we do not know our attain it, is not due to the fact that it is unattainable, but own. to the fact that attractions hinder and unpreparedness Let the exploration of the nebulae go forward. Let us draws the soul in other directions. The superconsciousness question the photon on its long travel from universe to becomes the sphere of the soul’s apotheosis and no one has universe. Let us find the value of X in every cunning yet been able, in simple, understandable language to say equation the mind of man can conceive. But let us not just how the individual becomes universalized, or how the forget the research of the commonplace. universal becomes individualized, when the ego is thus per­ This is the work set for psychic research of today and fected. One thing is clear, that from center to circum­ tomorrow. It is centripetal and not centrifugal; it seeks ference, reality is one. And, as veil upon veil has lifted the center of man’s being. It seeks Life and the knowl­ to attain this superlative state, the ego endowed with and edge and control of Life’s still secret energy. Like the illumined by the beatific vision, becomes omniscient. These world-shaking simplicity of Faraday’s experiments, this mystical experiences which accompany the supernormal formula will be found expressible in everyday words. The expression of the soul’s powers, so exalt the individual’s secret will be an open secret— for him who has "the sim­ atmosphere that it knows and understands instantly the plicity to wonder, the ability to question, the power to difference between illusion and reality and anchors to re­ generalize, the capacity to apply.” ality forever and ever; for in this state it knows God. It BILLY BURKE DISCUSSES PSYCHIC THINGS is not dealing with differentiation or diversity, but with unity. As Tennyson wrote: (Continued from page 20) tures, in which she will make her initial performance under "One God, one law, one element the kleigs. She successfully competed with some of the And one far off divine event, greatest feminine luminaries in the profession. To which the whole creation moves.” But Miss Burke is not only a great actress, she is a phil­ osopher. She interprets psychism as a cosmic conception In this quest for perfection in psychic or supernormal and says that "we are like atoms in comparison with the unfoldment, there are blind alleys which lead to XYZ or completeness of life. In order to prepare ourselves for nothing, but if one keeps his vision clear by the inner our next embodiments or existence we must continually light of the spirit and follows implicitly the voice of con­ plod onward. We must challenge eternity. science, he will escape these pitfalls, and his initiation will "I believe,” she says, "the role created by Leslie Howard follow and bring illumination. in Berkeley Square, is significant of life— whence we came The subconscious is a pitfall to the uninitiated, but the and whither we go— where as Peter Standish he says: Tt supernormal, subliminal or superconscious state is a light would be great to get away, really away into the blue, revealing your higher self, that self which can commune wouldn’t it? There are still adventures inconceivable in consciously on all planes and yet never become attached, Time— real Time is nothing but an idea in the mind of hold companionship with the Spirit World and angels and God.’ ” so prove its Divinity as soverign master of all conditions Is that not what all of us are, an idea in the mind of of his being. God? Page 28 Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research

A NEW CASE FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH Due to an inherent modesty Mrs. LaMar has never pro­ (Continued from page 16) moted her gifts, but gradually her musical compositions seemed preferable, she says. Finally unable to stand the are winning for her recognition among musicians. Because agony further, she cried out to God to help her. Instantly, of the wide variety of themes and the intriguing tempos she declares, her suffering ceased. her selections are being used to make up entire programs. Then a voice from out the ethers spoke to her and What is the explanation? Is it a question for psychi- told her that she had been undergoing a severe test and atrists, psychologists or psychical researchers? that she now was to receive an unusual gift— the writing of inspirational music. Knowing little or nothing about SPIRITUALISM AND ISLAM musical composition, she was much surprised. Then an­ (Continued from page 17) other "voice” spoke, telling her that she had been a com­ turies of scientific research and philosophical reflection poser and musician in a former "incarnation.” tends to confirm the notion. Obeying the strange "voices” she promised to consecrate Perhaps the next great source of Islams appejd is its her life to the recording of the music "they” had prom­ insistence on the equality;of man. It may be truç that at ised her. Instantly she began to play as rapidly as her bottom all great religions have the same conception, but fingers could move. Her playing, beautiful in touch, ex­ Islam does nothing to obscure it. No intricate and obscure ecution and technique, she declared was automatic. Later doctrine is introduced for the purpose of maintaining re­ she got so she could write music away from the piano, re­ ligious authority, thus ! disfiguring teaching. It is a plain cording the notes as accurately as though the harmony claim maintained in every Mosque. had been tested previously. Her first music was received A third cause of its remarkable appeal is its assurance in 1922. Since that time she has written scores of instru­ that man may seek for knowledge anywhere. No check mental and vocal music, the beauty and variety of which on investigation is laid down. This accounts for die toier are amazing. Critics have acclaimed the compositions an ance which is so charming a characteristic of thé average unusual feat for one person. Several of them are almost Muslim, for Islam is no more responsible for its fanatics too difficult for her short fingers to play. than Christ is for Christian fanatics. Later she was inspired to paint with oils and water Here are three principals which every Spiritualist realizes colors though she had never had any interest in painting conforms with the teaching coming through nor did she know anything about it. Poems followed from the Spirit-World, and taking all things into until now her busy life is intermingled with composing ation, they must feel that the inspirers of the Holy Pro­ music, painting pictures and writing poems, all of which, phet Muhammed, were such as they themselves setk. she claims, come out of the ethers. BOOK REVIEWS Q iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiD iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiim iiiiiiiu.iiiiiiii (Continued from page 24) is their argument that one is impressed that is Wry im­ I L. S. A. Publication, Inc. j portant that science study the facts pertaining tc» psychic | Five Important New Booklets | phenomena, so that it may answer intelligently main’s most i 1. Human Survival and Its Implications. = persistent question: "After the Grave—What?” jj ByHelen A. Dallas. = \ 2. The Mental Phenomena of Spiritualism. E This book answers a great many questions for the skep­ E By Rev. C. Drayton Thomas E tic. 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By Hal Rush possibility of parole in cases where capital punishment was provided also was adopted. The launching of rebellious N one of its most successful conventions the California souls into the realm of spirit was condemned, the conven­ State Spiritualist Association— which ended its 37th an­ tion agreeing that the individual should have the right to I nual session at the Central Spiritualist church, 22nd and effect his reformation on the plane of existance in which Union streets, June 26— transacted business which, it is he perpetrated his misdeed in-so-far as possible. believed, will ultimately have a great effect on the future President H. Duncan McFarland was authorized to ap­ of organized Spiritualism in the United States. point a committee to study possibilities of a new home for With the reelection of Dr. H. Duncan McFarland of the State Association. Harold P. Courtney, national trus­ Whittier, president, the Association goes into a new year tee spoke earnestly on the subject, declaring that with real ready to renew its activities in spreading the philosophy of estate valuations at so low a figure, that now was the time the continuity of life. Clarence C. Acorn, who has served for the California Spiritualists to erect a home which as vice president also was reelected. Mrs. Florence Becker, would be a credit to Spiritualism everywhere. "A new national and state missionary and pastor of the Golden home can now be erected at the same cost in which our Gate Spiritualist church of San Francisco declined to again present headquarters are maintained, and with a building serve as second vice president for the northern part of especially constructed with a fine auditorium, healing and California and was succeeded by Mrs. Agnes Secord of seance chamber, would do much to enhance Spiritualism Alameda.. Mrs. Secord previously had served efficiently in the mind of the public,” he declared. Mr. Courtney as trustee. Christine Irving of Oakland was also relected has for years urged the erection of a State Headquarters on the northern commission. Miss Idella McFarlin, who which would be a credit to the movement. He was named for some 11 years has been secretary, was the unanimous chairman of the committee, the president to name other choice to succeed herself, and Harold P. Courtney like­ members. wise was reinstated as treasurer. Leslie Parks of San Diego President McFarland was named delegate of the State was elected as a trustee, the first to represent San Diego Association to the National Convention in Chicago in in more than three years. Other trustees named were J. October and Mrs. Felicie O. Crossley, editor and publisher B. Maicoux and George Ralph, who now enters his second of the Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research, was term. named alternate. The convention took a definite stand on prohibition, Although great steps forward were taken in Spiritual­ voting for outright repeal of the 18 th amendment of the ism on the convention floor, possibly the greatest work was constitution. The resolution was proposed by Clarence done in the public meetings at which time the philosophy C. Acorn and Hal Rush, former trustee of the Texas was expounded and the phenomena demonstrated. The Spiritualist association who was made a delegate by ac­ Central Church auditorium was packed at each public clamation. In introducing the resolution the position was session with crowds being turned away for lack of seating taken that, as Spiritualists and believing in the seventh space. Declaration of Principles, "We affirm the moral responsi­ The evening addresses were made by the Rev. John G. bility of the individual and that he makes his own hap­ Patis, Rev. E. Lee Howard, Rev. Marion Carpenter-Vail, piness or unhappiness as he obeys or disobeys nature’s Mrs. Felicie O. Crossley and Dr. H. Duncan McFarland. physical and spiritual laws,” the convention should do all A Sunday afternoon address was made by Mrs. Anna in its power to do away with a law which failed to ac­ Laura Cowburn. Message ministers besides Rev. John complish its purpose. The delegates were, however, in favor of temperance, but "temperance can only be brought 0 ...... about by education and moral suasion, not by statute, and | F irst C om munity S piritualist { any attempt to legislate the morals of a people inevitably | C hurch I is destined to failure,” Acorn declared. "The people of | _ HUNTINGTON PARK E = Jf?Su Clarendon and Malabar Streets. Ebell Club House = the United States should have the right to let their con­ = SUNDAY SERVICES— Healing 7:15 P.M. to 8 P.M. Lee- E s ture and Messages 8 P.M.—By co-workers. i science function legally, and that is impossible under the E THURSDAY SERVICES—Healing and messages from 2 : present conditions,” he continued. The resolution decried - to $ P-M. Also open forum for discussion of spiritual 5 = development. Message Circles 8 P.M. E the old time saloon, and contained a proviso that liquor E Public cordially invited to all services | should be under absolute government control. El ...... ¿j Dr. Lee Howard, Congregational minister, who has been 0"...... 0 lecturing on the Spiritualistic platforms for several years and who by virtue of also belonging to the Spiritualist I SPIRITUALISTIC TEMPLE OF I Church of Revelation, was a delegate to the convention, | IMMORTALITY | spoke against the resolution saying that if it were adopted l MARQUIS THEATRE HALL | he should be forced to turn in his delegate’s badge and [ Melrose at Doheny Drive | leave the Spiritualistic ranks. The resolution was adopted, E Services—Sunday, 7:30 P.M., Thursday at 2 P.M. j only six delegates voting against it. | KATHERINE VON DER LIN, Minister j r Residence, 8921 Dorrington Avenue, West Hollywood § A resolution condemming capital punishment and ask­ j Phone OXford 5326 \ ing the substitution of an absolute life sentence without 0"...... P age 30 F orum of Psychic and S cientific R esearch

Slater were the Reverends Minnie B. Sayers, Florence sisting our pastor in a most commendable way, all of Becker, Inez Wagner, Mary Miller, Lillie C. Senz, Eliza­ which is contributing to our present success. beth R. Courtney, and Hildred Hope and Vincent Wilson. Our study class has had an excellent attendance and The Lyceum program under the general supervision of each of the members are striving to gain a working knowl- Rev. Grace Nicholson, State Superintendent of Lyceums, edge of our science and philosophy. The greater portion was an outstanding feature of the convention— it was of our time is spent in an effort to progress the Sj:nterests certainly the most inspiring. Mrs. Nicholson was assisted of our Cause, yet we take time for recreation, by Lyceum leaders Amelia Ralph and Albert G. Loellke of The class held a party at Hadsell Beach, Lake Elsinore the Central Spiritualist Church and Mrs. Anne Fleming- given by Mr. and Mrs. Hadsell and daughter Mildred ton of the First Spiritualist Church of Belvedere Gardens. which was a huge success. The moonlight trt] was a The Symposiums on Healing, with Albert G. Loellke, delightful excursion. We have held several socials in the president of the Healers’ Association presiding, was one church which did a great deal toward creating a social in­ of the most intructive sessions of the convention. terest among our members. Mr. and Mrs. Carriger also Special music for the evening and Sunday afternoon entertained us with a Bunco Party and supper. programs was provided by S. Howard Brown, noted mus­ However, our chief interest is always for the romulga- ical director. The artists presenting the solo and trio num­ tion of our Cause. bers were: Betty LaFreniere, Helen Davis, Marguerite Gladys Martine Rostru Sec. Sinclair, Louise Shaffer, Helen Carder, Don Donaldson and John Lambert. The music was of a superior quality. APPRECIATION The business sessions of the convention were preceded f | HE editor wishes to express her gratitude for the m?ny by an annual banquet and dance given at the Elite, 2200 congratulatory responses received from friends and sub­ West Seventh street, at which State Senator Tallant Tubbs scribers relative to our new name. The Forum ¡of Psychic of San Francisco, Judge Minor Moore of the Los Angeles and Scientific Research has struck a similar chord in most Superior Court and Glenn Palmer, of the Los Angeles of our readers who seek Truth rather than names. The “Times” editorial staff were special guests. change has brought many new subscribers. We are certain A Spiritualist Wedding that the forthcoming issues will be of a more general and interesting nature than those of the past. Our list of cele­ A VERY pretty informal wedding took place June brated contributors attest the quality of the articles, and 17th, at the home of Rev. Marian Carpenter-Vail in assure a wide variety of scientific and philosophical opin­ Los Angeles, when Mrs. Mary Harris Formally of De­ ions on psychic matters. — Editor troit, Michigan and Charles Johnson of Los Angeles were ii.iii.iiiiiu.il iinitiiiii.iiiiiii.il. iiim ii.nii hi tin QJ united in marriage. ! SPIRITUALIST SUCCESS CHURCH \ The Spiritualist Service with the ring was performed by = Cor. Cota and Garden Streets, Santa Barbara,! California E Rev. Marian Carpenter-Vail. The ceremony taking place E SERVICES i E E Sunday, 7:30 P.M.—Lecture and Messages. j E in front of an improvised alter of flowers and ferns. E Thurs., 2:00 P.M.—Healing Service, Lesson and Messages. E A number of friends of the bride and groom were, in E Thursday, 7:30 P.M.—Healing and Messages. E § MRS. MARY E. ORR, Licentiate Minister E attendance, and light refreshments were served. z MRS. N E LLIE CHAPMAN, Associate Minister jj After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Johnson will a n m n run tm nun >ii mm n mi m in iimm.it nimiim.»....it.mim. nmi.it.m...... ».f»1 make their home in Los Angeles. Their many friends wish @ St. I mm (ccticiiiKiimiiiiitniiii i mm mm... mm...... miiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiG3 them years of happiness and prosperity. THE BUILDERS SPIRITUALIST CHURCH = 331 10th Street, San Bernardino, California S Mrs. C. Palmer, Correspendent. 1 Phone: 254-30 = jj Anna Laura Cowburn, Pastor— George Carr ger, Pres. E E Open and closed classes, Tuesday and Wednesday. E SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA E Pastor’s message night—Thursday. j E Sunday, 7:30 P.M. lecture, messages, solos. E The Builders’ Spiritualist Church E The Pastor, Board of Directors Healers, and pur talented = E workers bid you welcome. E nPHOUGH this little church is only a few months old |a]m...... i...... iii..i...... i...i...iiiii.iiiiii]..]i.].ii.....iuiiiiii..ii..i..iii.i|...... ii.).iiii.n Q we have had a steady increase in membership and formal 0...... i...... mi...... 0 interest. We have several talented workers who are as-

...m .i...... im m ...... m m ...... u jo] Spiritualist Science Church Spiritualist Church of of Hollywood E 6100 Hollywood Boulevard E ! Revelation REV. MAE M. TAYLOR, PASTOR \ Garfield Hall, Walker Auditorium, 730 South Grand Ave. E Sunday services— \ Elevator Service ■ 10:00 A.M.— Lyceum. 10:45 A.M.— Open Forum. | REV. MINNIE M. SAYERS, Pastor \ 7:45 P.M.— Lecture and Spirit Radio Messages by E DR. W. Q. SAYERS, D.C., Spiritualist Healer and Pres. E Rev. Mae Taylor. z Lectures by Prominent Speakers E Wednesday services— E SUNDAY SERVICES E 2:00 P.M.— Open class lesson and test questions E 1:40 P.M. Healing and Conference E answered by the Pastor. E 2:30 P.M., Lecture and Messages E 8:00 P.M.— Lesson and one hour pu blic Messages i 4:00 P.M., Message Circles E given by the Pastor. E 8:00 P.M.. Lecture and Messages E Friday services— E WEEK-DAY SERVICES E 7:30 P.M.— Open Class Lesson and Spirit Radio E Friday, 2:30 P.M., Flower Readings; 3:45 P.M., Message s Messages answered by th b Pastor. E Circles l = Study of Pastor and Spiritual Healer 5161/2 South Hill St. = PASTORS STUDY 5558 HOLLYWOOID BLVD. = Suite 221. Phone VA 7461 E : Strangers and Investigators Welcome to All Services Phones GR. 7578 & HO. 171 ...... 0 El Directory of Mediums, Healers and Speakers

SAYERS, REV. MINNIE M., 516 Ms S. Hill St. Pas­ tor Church of Revelation. Officiates at weddings and funerals. Consultation by appointment. Phone MEDIUMS EXAMINED AND GIVEN VAndike 7461.

SAYERS, Dr. W. Q., Chiropractor, Magnetic Spirit­ CREDENTIALS BY C.S.S.A. ual Healer, 20 years' practice in L. A. 516% South Hill Street. Phone VAndike 7461.

SEYBOLD, SABELLE, Minister of C. S. S. A. 3 01 We will publish your name, address y telephone S. Mariposa. By appointment. number and hours in this directory for only $2.00 SYKES, MRS. MARIA A., Licentiate Minister, Cen­ per line per year. tral Spiritualist Church. Consultation by Appoint­ ment. 133 W. 48th St. AXridge 0742. Services: Tuesday 7:45 P.M., Thursday 2 :00 P.M. ______WHITTEMORE, KATIE DE GROOT, Readings, Wed. 8 P.M., 227 S. Flower St. Ph. MU. 2697.

HOLLYWOOD SAN DIEGO TAYLOR, REV. MAE M., Pastor Spiritualist Science WHITE, ESTELLE M., Trumpet circles Monday and Church of Hollywood. 6100 Hollywood Blvd. Pas­ Friday, 8 p.m., and special circles, by appointment. tor's Study 5558 Hollywood Blvd. Phones GR. 7578 3730 Mississippi. Phone: 5606 J. or HO. 1711. SANTA MONICA WILSON, VINCEN't’ M., Pastor First Spiritualist NYSTROM, ELVIRA, Spiritual Healer. Treatments Temple of Psychic Science, 2025 Wilshired Blvd., by appointment. Ph. HEmpstead 4070. 7205 Santa Monica, Calif. Services Sun., Mon., Wed. and Franklin Ave. Friday at 8 p.m. Consultations by appointment only. Phone 26-334:—

LOS ANGELES WEST HOLLYWOOD VON DER LIN, KATHERINE, Minister Spiritualist ALLYN, MRS. C., 1726 W. Venice Blvd., Minister Temple of Immortality. . Res. 8921 Dorrington Merideth Spiritualist Center. Tel. Rochester 3690. Ave., West Hollywood. Readings by appointment. Phone OXford 5326. BALLANTINE, MRS. CATHERINE, Associate Min. ister. Consultation by appointement, 1613 W. Santa Barbara. Phone UN. 4295. INDEPENDENT WORKERS SPIRITUAL HEALING CENTER OF LIGHT LOVE COPPERSMITH, EDWARD J., Licentiate Minister; AND LABOR, 121 So. Concord St. Take P or F Spiritual Healer. Spiritual Consultations, 257 car going east. Rev. Emily H. Fallon, Pastor and Douglas Bldg., Cor. Third and Spring Streets. Room Healer. Consultation r by Appointment. Phone CHi- 331. Phone Mutual 7795. cago 3547. Los Angeles, : Calif. OCEAN PARK CRANDALL, MRS. ELLEN ALLEN, Lecturer and BENNETT, REV. JESSIE A., Ocean Park; 2704 Psychic. Consultation by appointment. Phone Third St. Ocean Parlk. Pastor Bay City Spiritual­ FEderal 2754. 1239 S. New Hampshire Street. ist Church. Phone 64225.

EDWARDS, REV. JOSEPHINE, pastor First Spirit­ EATON, WM. HENRY, Healer and Minister of Bay ualist Temple, Res. 1312 E. 75th Street. City Spiritualist Church. : Appointments only. Phone 64225. LANGELIER, FLORENCE, Associate Minister af­ filiated with People's Spiritualist Church. Consul­ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS tation by appointment. Phone JEfferson 9538. Res. THOMPSON, CHAS. A., 2330 North Clark St., 4114 Florence Ave. A t home Thursdays. Chicago, 111., will answer three questions for one dollar. McFARLIN, IDELLA, 1401 S. Berendo St., Secre­ tary C. S. S. A. Tel. EX-9130. ANNOUNCEMENTS SUBSCRIBERS AND SECRETARIES—Requests for MILLER, REV. MARY, Pastor Spiritualist Temple change of address must reach us-at least fifteen days of Light, 1512 Magnolia Avenue. Ph. FE. 0448. before date of issue with which it is to take effect. We are not responsible for copies lost through failure to pro­ vide us with change of address as per this request. The PIERCE, CARRIE M., Circles Tues., 2:30. Con­ Post Office does not forward magazines. THIS NOTICE IS IMPORTANT. All Checks. Drafts, Money Orders and sultation, 10 to 4 or by appointment. Res. 3448 Correspondence should be addressed to and made payable E. 3rd St. Phone CH. 1549. to the CROSSLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY. &>------— -----n---- <8 > C a lifo rn ia State Spiritualist Association Headquarters 1401 S. Berendo St., Los Angeles, California Exposition 9$j30 DR. H. DUNCAN McFARLAND, President CHRISTINA IRVING Route 2, Box 371, Whittier 2932 E. 16th St., Oakland CLARENCE ACORN, Vice-President L. E. PARKS 415 Osage, Inglewood 4076 Randolph Street, San Diego FAber 2641 J. B. MARCOUX 900 Harding Ave., Venice AGNES SECORD, 2nd Vice-President GEORGE RALPH 3254 Bayo Vista Ave., Alameda 2806 S. Mansfield, Los Angeles IDELLA McFARLIN, Secretary 1401 S. Berendo St., Los Angeles STATE MISSIONARIES REV. FLORENCE BECKER HAROLD P. COURTNEY, Treasurer 194 Brentwood Ave., San Francisco 217 S. Orange St., Glendale REV. MARIAN CARPENTER VAIL STATE LYCEUM SUPT. 1841 Wellington Road, Los Angeles REV. GRACE NICHOLSON REV. ETTA S. BLEDSOE 1659 W. 24th St.,Los Angeles,Phone Rochester 6367 1324% S. New Hampshire St., Los Angele CALIFORNIA STATE SPIRITUALIST ASSOCIATION AUXILIARIES ANAHEIM Unity Spiritualist Church, 3847 S. Broadway, j] Golden Circle Spiritualist Church, Anaheim. Corner Spiritualist Church of Spiritual Prosperity, 18$0 So. Chestnut and Lemon Streets.______Hobart. BAKERSFIELD OAKLAND First Christian Spiritualist Church. The Spiritualist Church, 743 Twenty-first St. j ; ESCONDIDO Spiritualist Science Church,Porter Hall, 191:8 lÿall St. First Spiritualist Society. OCEAN PARK FALLBROOK Bay City Spiritualist Church, 2621 Washington Blvd. Fallbrook Spiritualist Church, Odd Fellows Hall. SANTA BARBARA HOLLYWOOD Spiritualist Success Church, Garden and Cajta Sts. Spiritualist Science Church, 6100 Hollywood Blvd. SAN BERNARDINO HUNTINGTON PARK First Spiritualist Association, 599 Arrowhead Ave. First Community Spiritualist Church, corner of Clar­ SAN DIEGO endon and Malabar Streets, Ebell Club House. First Spiritualist Society, 1240 Seventh St. j INGLEWOOD McClure Spiritualist Temple, 3940 Fifth Avé First Spiritualist Church, 102% N. Commercial St. Unity Spiritualist Church, 120 Washington Street. LONG BEACH Trinity Spiritualist Church, 1671 5th Avenge. First Universal Spiritualist Church, 317 E. Broadway SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES First Spiritualist Temple, 3324 Seventeenth St. South Side Spiritualist Church, 5840 S. Broadway. Golden Gate Spiritualist Church, 240 Golden Gate Temple of Scientific Spiritualism, 906 East Twenty- Avenue. third St. SANTA MONICA People’s Spiritualist Church, 2537 West Twelfth St. First Spiritualist Temple of Psychic Scienjce, 2025 Soul Development, 918 So. Gage St. Wilshire Boulevard. Central Spiritualist Church, 2201 South Union Ave. SUMMERLAND Merideth Spiritualist Center, 1726 Venice Blvd. Summerland Association of Spiritualists, j) Spiritualist Church of Revelation, 730 Grand Ave. Omada Spiritualist Church, 4707 So. Vermont Aye. WEST HOLLYWOOD First Spiritualist Church, Belvedere. Arboretum, 936 Spiritualist Church of Immortality, Marquis Hall, McBride St. Melrose Ave. at Doheny Dr. DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES of continuous life, based upon the demonstrated fact of Adopted by the National Spiritualist Association communication, by means of mediumship, with! those who 1. We believe in Infinite Intelligence. live in the Spirit World. 1 2. We believe that the phenomena of Nature, both phy­ 2. A Spiritualist is one who believes, as a pajrt of his or sical and spiritual, are the expression of Infinite Intelli­ her religion, in the communication between this and the gence. Spirit World by means of mediumship, and wfio endeavors 3. We affirm that a correct understanding of such ex­ to mould his or her character and conduct inf accordance pression, and living in accordance therewith, constitute with the highest teachings derived from such communion. true religion. 3. A Medium is one whose organism is sensitive to vi­ 4. We affirm that the existence and personal identity brations from the Spirit World, and through whose intru- of the individual continue after the change called death. mentality, intelligences in that world are able to conrey 5. We affirm that communication with the so-called messages and produce the phenomena of Spiritualism. dead is a fact scientifically proven by the phenomena of “Spiritualism is a Science” because it investigates, ana­ Spiritualism. lyzes and classifies facts and manifestations, demonstrated 6. We affirm that the highest morality is contained in from the spirit side of life. if the Golden Rule: “Whatsoever ye would that others should “Spiritualism is a Philosophy” because it stüdies the laws do unto you, do ye also unto them." of nature both on the seen and unseen sidcfs of life and 7. We affirm the moral responsibility of the individual, bases its conclusions upon present observed facts. It ac­ and that he makes his own happiness or unhappiness as he cepts statements of observed facts of past ages and eon^ obeys or disobeys Nature’s physical and spiritual laws. elusions therefrom, when sustained by reasem and by re­ 8. We affirm that the doorway to reformation is never sults of observed facts of the present day. if closed against any human soul, here or hereafter. “Spiritualism is a Religion” because it strives to under­ DEFINITIONS stand and to comply with the physical, mental and spirit­ 1. Spiritualism is the Science, Philosophy and Religion ual laws of Nature, which are the laws of < “