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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS Miracles and Spiritualism. By H. F. Prevost John Myers Undergoes Rigid Photographic Test Battersby. 729-81 (with illustration) 737-8 Further Evidence of Survival. By J. Arthur Hill. 732 Albert Hall Photographic Experiment. By Mrs. Brett Durrant 738 Some of a Communicator's Difficulties. By "The Great Days of Ephesus'', Miss Geraldine W. S. Montgomery Smith 788 Cummins' new book 789 Royal Albert Hall Armistice Service 734 Scots Armistice Services 742 MIRACLES AND SPIRITUALISM NEW TESTAMENT INCIDENTS MADE CREDIBLE BY PSYCHIC KNOWLEDGE " There has been much talk lately of the relationship of Spiritualism to Christianity, and of the damage being done to it by our views of the Hereafter. "We have been accused of trying to upset people's faith. I think we may retort that, in the matter of miracles, we are doing our best to re-establish it. "We are anxious to persuade Christians, despite the scepticism of their own clerics, that it is possible to believe the Bible." THIS striking declaration was made by Mr. H. F. has lately pointed out, onl.y ceased to be effective when the Prevost Battersby at the close of a lecture on " The Church had banned all Communion with Spirits. Bishops, the Spiritualist and the Bible " delivered by "Even Christ's miracles are emasculated, and explained him at the L.S.A., South Kensington. He explained that his as the inevitable decoration accorded to a great man after remarks were provoked by the discovery that in a certain his death ; but I am sure that a simple person reading the Commentary on the Scriptures-which included a Bishop Gospels would come to an opposite conclusion. and twenty-two Doctors of Divinity among its contri " Listen to this ! Christ has just emerged, unknown, butors, and was the text book in an important Theological unheralded, from his carpentering : llege-11: determined effort was being-matte· to-tliscredtt the miracles in the Bible. ' And Jesus went about all Galilee . healing all manner Renan once surmised that " if ever the worship of of sickness, and all manner of disease among the people. Jesus loses its hold upon mankind, it will be precisely on 'And his fame went throughout all Syria ; and they account of those acts which originally inspired belief in brought unto him all sick people that were taken with him," and these leaders of Church thought, in apparent divers diseases and torments, and those which were agreement with him, and worried by the cold discourage possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, ment of Science, seemed determined to pull down that and those that had the palsy, and he healed them. part of the structure on which Ecclesiastical Christianity 'And there followed him great multitudes of people.' has been built before it toppled down on their heads. After giving various instances from the Old Testament " Of course they followed him I Do you think that of this reduction of marvel to myth, the lecturer turned great multitudes of Jews would have gone out into the to the area more seriously affected by Renan's pronounce desert country to listen to the Sermon on the Mount, ment. or even-though being abused does appeal to some people "The Commentators," he said," are obviously miracle -to be told they were a generation of vipers? No! shy, and that is really rather amusing ; because, stimulated it's quite true that wonders are added to the great man either by Spiritualism or Christian Science, they are after his death, but it is the wonders which have made beginning after some fifteen hundred years to revive the his reputation for greatness. miracles they used to work in the shape of Spiritual " It was miracle that won Christ a hearing ; it was
· !foaling ; miracles wbicb1 as the Master of th(,! Tempi~ mii:~de that btw1ght him to the Cross beca~se it wa$ 730 LIGHT .NOVEMBER 17, 1933 "Really there is no excuse for this ignorance about SPIRITUALISM AND MIRACLES· levitation. Its methods are acquired in Tibet to-day (Continued from previous paae> by a course of ordinary psychic training, and initiates in miracle that stamped him as a possible Messiah. The the end ' are able to sit on an ear of barley without Chief Priests and Elders would never have worried about bending its stalk, or to stand on the top of a heap of grain a man who had only congratulations to offer to the without displacing any of it.' reviled and persecuted. "On :Mount Hermon Christ proved how egregiously the "And what were these miracles? Mostly of healing. Mosaic prohibition of black magic had been misunderstood And what do we know of healing? Precious little. by producing a materialisation of two great Jewish Christ knew a lot. He knew what enables an old lady characters, Moses and Elias. The obvious intent of the to jump a six foot hedge when she is chased by a bull. Transfiguration was to knock into the disciples' rather Do we ? You say-fear. Yes, but what does the fear dense heads that there was a spirit world, and that while get hold of in her ? Christ could lay hold of the dynamic some of them were still alive, they would see 'the Kingdom spiritual quality that lies dormant in us all, and make it of God come with power,' out of this very spirit world, turn out tht' disease or the devil from its fleshly tenement. as it did at Pentecost. " There was nothing supernat1Jral about it : there is PENTECOST nothing supernatural ; our very use of the word is a "It is in dealing with Pentecost," said Mr. Battersby, sheer conceit. We talk glibly of the Book of Nature, "that the Commentators reach an almost incredible but we have not yet cut half the leaves. He had 1 He fatuity. That was, after the Resurrection morning, the :::ouid read them all. most significant date in the Christian year, because on it " Then this question of devils. The Jews of the Old the promise on Hermon was fulfilled, the gap between Testament did not believe in the great big Devil which heaven and earth was bridged, and the kingdom of God has so dominated Christianity; b'?t they did believe in a_ came with power. lot of little ones; and in Christ's time there was a big "Power in very sooth it was, turning that little group business done by the Exorcists in getting rid of them. of frightened artisans into the fiery denouncers of the "To-day, of course, it is so unfashionable to be possessed authorities from whom they had been hiding ; and who, by a devil, that the Church, which has no idea how to despite scourgings, torture, imprisonment and dea~h, get rid of them, explains that Christ only had to deal with were to be described, after only a few years, as having epileptics and so forth, and that his acceptance of them ' turned the world upside down.' as devils, was .. .. 'a gracious accommodation to the views "Well, what did it? This is the account:- of the age' which seems to me only a polite way of ' They were all with one accord in one place. And calling him a humbug, and neither explains the psychic suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a development of the devils ... nor their obvious terror of rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where being turned out into the cold. ' This kind,' said Christ, they were sitting. And there appeared unto them explaining the failure of his disciples to expel a foul cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of spirit, ' can come forth by nothing but by prayer and them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost fasting.' and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit "Well, we have a prayer book, and an abundance of gave them utterance.' prayers ; but we do not expect from them the spiritual ' And there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, mastery which would cast out devils ; and what fasting devout men, out of every nation under heaven. And we do is directed rather to improve our figures than our they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to faith. another : Behold are not all these which speak Galileans? " Then to take some other miracles-the feeding of How hear we them speak in our own tongues the the five thousand. • The nature of the miracle altogether wonderful works of God ? ' baffles the imagination,' says the Commentator. ' In no " Now this is the Commentator's explanation. other miracle of the Lord is it so impossible to picture ' ' It has been suggested,' he says; ' that the wind what took place.' Among other conjectures the miracle was the wind which always rises with the dawn, and the has been explained as mass hypnotism. Well, I have seen fire was the rays of the rising sun penetrating through the a hypnotised person mistake castor oil for a vintage port, narrow windows of the room, and that these formed the but that does not persuade me that five thousand hungry material out of which the mystic experience was con men, besides; mark you, women and children, could mistake structed.' their empty bellies for full ones, or that twelve baskets " Well, if that reverend gentleman is right,'' said could be filled with hypnotised fragments. Mr. Battersby, "I take off my hat to the men who re- " No one whose psychic experience includes an ac- formed humanity, inspired by a few streaks of sunlight quaintance with apports could find :any obstacle -to belief and. the dawn wind. in C::hrist's achievement; and since apports; as· we'fr.now; - ' "I have never seen sunlight that could look like cloven· are never seen arriving, Christ alone would be aware tongues of fire upon people's heads, and reducing your whence the supply came. windows to narrow slats, would be likely to prevent a "There was another miracle by the Galilean shore," rushing mighty wind from filling, not the room only, the lecturer continued, "that disturbs the Commentators, mark you I but the whole house. Christ's walking on the sea. One critic, concerned for "And the spoken tongues ? Of course they go too I our credulity, suggests that the Greek permits of the In the face of St. Paul's repeated reference to the translation 'walking beside the ~ea,' instead of'on the sea.'" gift of tongues, his own special accomplishment, and But, if Christ had been walking beside the sea, could the records without number from the early church, this disciples have seen him at night from the midst of it, Doctor of Divinity tells us that though ' it is plain and why, if they had seen a figure so naturally occupied, that Luke, or his source, believed that fo reign languages should they have supposed it to be a ghost ? were actually spoken ... a better explanation is to suppose
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For " Well, as the men of all these fifteen nationalities, these visions to fit each other as they did, they must have made the same ludicrous mistake, they must all have been spiritually conceived; and surely, since this t'.1r11in~ been in sympathy with the Apostles, which they most to the Gentiles was to be the charter of our salvation, it certainly were not. is not too much to suppose they were. " Once more, is it not pathetic ? When one remembers "And a great deal was to follow. Peter went with how often the strangest tongues are spoken in Spiritualist Cornelius to his house in Cxsarea, heard about his vision, circles is it not absurd that these holy men who were and after a brief address, the Spirit fell on the Centurion's to heai the sick raise the dead, and walk through prison household and their friends, and they all began to speak walls, are only 'reckoned capable on the greatest day in with tongues, and magnify God. their history of making meaningle~s . noises ? " . . " Of course this was most unorthodox ; they were "And that is what young men tralnlng for the Ministry Gentiles, they were unbaptised. It got Peter into a lot . are to be taught I" of trouble, and, though he baptised them all at. once, the mischief was done, the Holy Spirit had shown a CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL "After Pentecost " continued the lecturer, "the most complete indifference to baptism or circumcision. momentous happenlng to the Church was the_ conversion "Peter went back to Jerusalem to face the trouble, and, of St. Paul. It is a scene depicted scores of times by the finding King Herod in a killing mood, was promptly greatest painters-the flaming light from heaven, the fierce clapped into prison, to be brought forth-rather like a persecutor fallen on his face, his companions, rooted fattening fowl-to be killed after Ea ~ ter. The night before he was due to die, he was sleeplng between two speechless, terrified by that amazing mess~ge . ' "But if the Commentator had had his way, none of soldiers, chained to each of them, and there were keepers those pictures would have been painted. Accordin~ to before the door of the prison. His story was that in a him the whole thing was an illusion. There was no light, dream an angel stood by him, freed him of his chains, told him to arise and follow. So they went through the no voice, nothing. . . . first and second wards, and the iron gate opened into the "Paul, he says, was tired; he had been thinking ~bout city of its own accord, and Peter suddenly found himself Christianity and 'the unconscious complex was proiec~ed by him on to the external world, and appeared as the _voice in the street, alone, and knew he had not dreamt it. "Well, to a Spiritualist," said the lecturer, "there is. of Christ speaking from outside.' . How th~ proiected complex of a voice was heard by his comparuons is not nothing miraculous about that. \l(le _do_n't know _how it is done, but we have records of many similar happemngs; explained. The blindness, which prevented. Paul fro 1? seeing any one, even with open eyes, and which necessi and the description of Peter's dazed condition, ' when he came to himself,' tallies with that of those who have tated his beino- led by the hand to Damascus, and re had a like experience. maining there t>sightless for three days, is as explaine~ "But the Commentator would have none of it. 'The a mere mental dislike to seeing himself as a Ch nstian : story of Peter's release, as it stands,' he says, 'is frankly which seems curious after the attack being attributed to miraculous. It is just one of those that many modern a ' repressed Christian complex.' commentators mark with a query.' _ " Well, I think it is just as well the Com ment~tor was " You are probably tired by this of their quer_ies, yet not there to explain the process to St. Paul, slnce the I do think this disrust shown by the Church for its own great Apostle may not have learnt at that time to ' suffer text-book may serve a useful purpose. fools gladly.' " . . "There has been much talk lately of the relationship "Paul having disappeared to work off his complex 1n of Spiritualism to Christianity, and of the damage being the wilderness we come to St. Peter. done to it by our views of the hereafter. We "Peter went' to Joppa where he raised a pious lady from have been accused of trying to upset people's faith. the dead. I think we may retort that, in the matter of miracle, we "While there he had a vision, a vision in its way almost are doina out best to re-establish it. as momentous Paul's. Paul was converted to Christi ~s " We t>are anxious to persuade Christians, despite the anity and Peter to the Gentiles. scepticism of their own clerics, that it is possible to believe "There have been a lot of pictures painted about that the Bible." too. Italy is full of them. "The sleeping Apostle on the housetop, and a great sheet let down above him from heaven, full of four-foqted The Int.er-religious crusade ~eeti~gs _are _a_:gain, b~i~g creatifres, wild Eeasts, creeping· things and fowls of the air. held at Whitefleld's Tahernade~ London, and the hour has "You all remember his reply when told to eat them. been changed to 6.30 p.m. ' Not so Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common ~r unclean.' and the scathing rejoinder : ' What God hath cleansed that call not thou common.' THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY "Well, the Commentator explains that, just as St. Pa~ IN ENGLAND was longing to be a Christian- being_ on his way ~o kill 45, LANCASTER GATE, LONDON, W.2. them-St. Peter, without knowing it, was longln~. to preach to the Gentiles ; and, as ~e was hun$ry waiting for his dinner, and had been looking from his housetop PUBLIC LECTURES by MISS C. E. WOODS at the ships' sails in the harbour, he na~urally dreamt of SUNDAYS, at 7 p.m. at 94, Lancaster Gate, W.2 food let down in a sail ; though why his hunger should have made him dream of food he couldn't eat is not told Theosophy, The _Science of Life us ; nor why he should have imagined a message so utterly at variance with his religious scruples. "The whole point of this v!sion is its. correla~on Nov. 19th, The Perfecting of Life with another which came to Cornelius, a Gentile Centunon November 26th, Are We Alive ? for which th~ Commentator, perhaps because it was an answer to prayer, does not provide a digestive complex ; All particulars, from 45, Lancaster Gate, London, W.2. a vision which brought him to Peter's door, at the very 732 L I G H T NOVEMBER 17, 1933 FURTHER EVIDENCE OF SURVIVAL By J. ARTHUR HILL correctly to my mother. We had left that house about (Author of " Psychical Science and Religio us Belief," eleven years before. He also got other details concerning "Letters from Sir Oliver Lodge," etc.) my mother and another relative. I was surprised and impressed, but not convinced. He might have made V. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTERLUDE enquiries about me. JT always interests me to learn how another investigator And indeed this first sitting did suggest a reading of began to find -his attention drawn to psychical things. tombstones ; for most of the facts could have been thus I suppose most of us feel the same ; so in this article, as gleaned-my mother's name, her age at death, and the a change from details of evidence which are apt to get a date. It is a curious fact that many instances of clair little tedious, I venture to be autobiographical in a more voyance or communications are of this kind. Whatever general way. . the explanation, it does seem probable that it is easier I knew nothing of Spiritualism until about 1905 when for the Medium to get things which have appeared in I was told of a medical Medium, a Mrs. Whiteoak of Brad print. The sceptic's comment is, of course, the obvious ford, who was said to have extraordinary powers of one-that the Medium has read the information which diagnosis from a snipping of hair or an articfo: that had he palms off as from the other side. But this is not the been worn by the patient-that is, if the ailing person true explanation. could not go himself, which was the best way. At first In my case, further sittings soon satisfied me that some I took these accounts with many grains of salt, supposing thing more than tombstone-reading or indeed inquiry that the sitter gave away the information, and that, in of any kind was required to explain the facts. Wilkinson cases of indigestion and the like, a prescription of a gave us all sorts of things which required some super decoction of gentian or quassia was likely to do good ; normal hypothesis. Sometimes he would sense the and it needs no spirits from the vasty deep or elsewhere character of someone who had just been in the room. to tell us that. But eventually I was told of cases, by "I get a feeling of a man, talking rather loudly or bois careful and sceptical people, which were not indigestion terously, but very friendly; someone in the body, who has or anything like it ; and these were diagnosed correctly been here recently " with other details ; the fact being without any help from the sitter, while the herbs pre that a near relative to whom everything applied, had been scribed effected remarkable cures. in that room a quarter of an hour before, but could not So I tried the Medium, by proxy, and was convinced have been seen going out, for the Medium's train had not of something supernormal. The diagnosis in my case come in, and our relative (who was unknown to Wilkinson) was correct as to the symptoms, and it would not have had gone in a direction opposite to that in which the applied to one in a hundred thousand patients, so I could railway station lay. hardly assume chance coincidence. But it did not give Or he would say : " You have been somewhere this a true diagnosis as to the cause of the symptoms. It morning where a man who is here in spirit used to go correctly described the cardiac trouble, which at that time while in the body. The man's name is James Clough. the doctors did not understand, but it did not locate the It is something political," etc. I had been to my club, root of the trouble in some abscessed teeth, as the doctors which is a political one, and James Clough went there discovered later on. frequently in life. I knew him very well. I do not know whether the Medium's " control " got Or the J\fedium would receive what purported to be the information from the mind of the sitter, or from some communications from long-deceased ancestors or colla other mind-my own perhaps-which knew the symptoms terals, which were correct but which could not have but did not yet know the cause; or _whether a real spirit been obtained by inquiry. doctor could look me over with the help of the rapport object but happened to miss the cause of the trouble. In short, it was clear that fraud was out of the question. Nor do I know whether the" control" was a real doctor, Fraud having been eliminated, I fell back on telepathy a doctor on the other side, or not. There seemed to be from the sitters. But this also was soon disproved, a band of them, some of them Italians. I did not try to partly by such evidence as I have given in the preceding get evidence of identity, so I merely do not know. I articles. Then I asked myself whether telepathy from took the prescribed herbs for some years, with no per distant minds could reasonably be invoked. Perhaps .it ceptible effect, good or bad. But I am bound to say that may, but here we are reaching the verge of superstition. I heard of cases in which telepathy from any living mind Is it really scientific to assume anything that goes so seemed scarcely adequate as explanation. fa~ beyond what has been proved ? . It seems a rash All this was very interesting. Obviously there was thing to suppose that a Medium can read the mind of a something here that was not to be accounted for by distant person whom he has never met and of whose very ordinary suppositions. I joined the London Spiritualist existence he is not aware. Moreover, the facts given Alliance, and got books out of its excellent library. I were characteristic of the supposed communicator. Who joined the Society for Psychical Research, and read all selected them from the minds of distant living people, the back numbers of its publications, also that great work combining them in such a way as to suggest the alleged Human Personality and its Survival of Bodify Death, by F. communicator ? It seems simpler to suppose that the W. H. Myers. Most important of all, I made the acquaint person who is the ostensible communicator is really there ance of Aaron Wilkinson of Halifax. I had heard of his and is sending the characteristic messages. wonderful clairvoyance, from friends, and I did not On the whole, therefore, the spiritistic interpretation believe them-such is the strength of prejudice. But began to seem the most reasonable. I found nothing I wrote and asked him if he would come over for a social in Wilkinson's sittings that was inconsistent with this call and chat ; he lived only a few miles away, though in interpretation, whereas any sort of complicated telepathy a rather remote and inaccessible part of Halifax, while hypothesis seemed artificial and improbable. Accordingly, my own home is in Bradford. However, he was kind I was driven by sheer weight of facts to accept the messages enough to come over, knowing that I was an invalid and as truly coming from the other side, and indeed from those could not go over to see him. personalities who claimed to be communicating. On that first occasion Wilkinson chatted for the most I have spoken here of Aaron Wilkinson only, and I part, telling of his recent jourpeys to fulfil engagements shall have more to say about him presently. But I have, on Spiritualist platforms, and the like. But he did get of course, sat with other Mediums, in London and else ( little cl:J,irvoyance. He saw with me a woman whom where, and in my next article I will describe some inter he described and named, and he got the name of the house esting results qbtained through the mediumship of Mrs. we livc;d 4i ii,t the tjme of her deatp. The facts !tpplied Leoruµc:l. ' NOVEMBER 17, 1933 LI G H T 733 SOME OF A COMMUNICATOR'S. D·IFFICULTIES By W. S. MONTGOMERY SMITH the most expensive or important garment one ever had. The name of a place is often forgotten, unless that place JN the course of a series of sittings with Mrs. Osborne is connected with one's development and mental or ···r.;Leonard, extending over seven years, my wife, who is spiritual progress. Even the name of atry place may be my habitual Communicator there, has often spoken of the forgotten, but yet the general outlook or appearance of difficulties experienced by those on the other side in that place will be stamped on one's memory as the back communicating through a Medium, and especially has ground or setting to an important experience. dwelt at some length upon the subject of Memory in the " One of the first things we are taught when we arrive after-life. As she is wont to urge me to share with on this side, is to remember essentials and forget the rest. others any information of general interest that she is able On earth we waste our time and energy on viewing, to impart, I hope it may be useful to quote a few extracts thinking about and remembering so many incidents and from the messages which I have received. details, that we neglect and ignore the experience. Details r.:· While discussing certain partly successful book-tests imply usually the trimmings and trappings of real sub which had recently been given by automatic writing stance, which is experience." through another Medium, she said :- After illustrating the manner in which" some persons " Seeing on the earth is a bit difficult. There is a are apt to dwell on the accessory details and to neglect the labyrinth of mental currents to be reckoned with. . . true significance of an important happening, she continued : There are so many processes, the getting them and the " The lesson they should have learned is buried under remembering them and giving them back on the earth, this mass of rubbish which their memory has insisted on getting from earth into her condition and back to earth accumulating. On our side we at once discourage them again. When they are trying to speak of things upon from remembering anything that has no significance, your plane, there are difficulties to do with the memory. that has no part in our soul-development. When people My etheric brain functions perfectly on my own plane, ask, why don't we remember such and such a thing, tell but when it comes to the physical plane it doesn't always them we only remember that which has affected our soul function perfectly. In using my senses, touch and so life, our character." on, I am trying to use something not belonging to me. I It seems, however, that what may appear a surprising lower my vibrations to yours. I register impressions lapse of memory is not always to be attributed to failure on my earth brain, take it back to my own plane and may on the Communicator's part, for she went on to say :- remember it perfectly. It's safe for the time being. But " There is another aspect of this. It has been said that, when I seek you out and tell you what I've got, that's say, a genius is passing over. He comes back and appar a different thing. I have to reconstruct it all again in ently forgets all the wonderful things he knew here, and your conditions. Some of it is lost in the transmitting. which certainly were most important to his soul-develop If I can get it on the spur of the moment and deliver it, ment. That case would not mean the inability of the all is well." Communicator to remember it, it would simply mean bad A further difficulty in getting correct messages through mediumship, the inability of the Medium to take and is mentioned in the following extract, referring to some transmit the right communication. I have been able to ouija board sittings which I had been lately attending :- remember and transmit to Feda [Mrs. Leonard's well " You know she has to be very careful sending messages, kno1vn Control] my character, my tastes, my interests, in dodging subconscious mind. It is very, very difficult. other words the products of my personality. I have given Not your mind, but thoughts of other people playing them to Feda. I have not changed. I have learned a round you. You yourself might pick them up, anyone great deal, I have grown, have improved, deepened, but might, and mistake them for hers. But there is a strong at least not altered in any way that matters." vein of myself running through them. She is pleased. One may easily suppose that, on first passing over, It is like opening a door and being able to get through, there remain in the mind a number of trivial incidents but there is a wind blowing and the possibility of its which are destined afterwards to be forgotten, and it is blowing other things through. She trusts to your com of course true that in one's earlier sittings the recalling mon sense and power of discrimination." of such incidents is often of value for establishing a At another sitting, where there was again a reference to Communicator's identity. Nevertheless, as time goes on, messages received through the ouija board, she gave this it would be most disappointing if these were to continue advice :-" Don't worry about statements connected to form any considerable portion of the matter that comes with facts of earth life. It's adjusting a knowledge of through. When identity has once been established, it is material things with which we no longer have direct natural that a seriously-minded Communicator should ··connection, and ·so trouble comes. . . . Communicators desire tb have-done with tri-vialities,-a-nd s-heuld eneleavour get muddled in giving information." to raise the interview on to a higher and more spiritual At this point I reminded her that, through the ouija level, until, as the present writer has found it in his visits board, she had once spoken of a memorable visit to Italy to Mrs. Leonard, a sitting finally comes to resemble the paid during her last year on earth, and that she had been kind of heart-to-heart talk which might be enjoyed by two able to recall such names as Rome and Capri. Her reply friends in intimate converse at their fireside. was as follows-" Sometimes it is like a shaft of light. Memories which were part of our real lives come like SOMETHING TO "STARTLE THE WORLD" shafts of light. We don't always know when we are Mr. Shaw Desmond, lecturing at Leicester recently on going to have them in the limitation of earth conditions. " You Can Speak with the Dead," is reported to have said ; We can't depend on memory." " You will hear something in the next few months in On a subsequent occasion, she went further into the connection with my name which will startle the world." question of Memory, as follows :- At the close of the meeting a representative of the " I want to talk about memory. I should briefly like Leicester Dai!J Mercury asked Mr. Desmond what was the to say this. We remember everything that matters. nature of the "something" of which he referred. To The things that only belong to earth and have no bearing this Mr. Desmond replied : upon or direct link with the after-life, they are usually " My lips are sealed, but I can tell you this : In about forgotten. A particular garment that I wore would be two months a body of scientists may announce that they forgotten, unless)t had some association with an experience, have proved scientifically the truth of survival after death, something that affected one's character or soul-develop or they may say that they are well on the high road toward ment. But unless that was so, one would not remember such an announcement." 734 LIGHT NOVEMBER 17, 1933 ROYAL ALBERT HALL ARMISTICE SERVICE MANY great meetings . were held last week-end in Square during the great Silence on Saturday, she had connection with the fifteenth anniversary of the felt a sense of the love and affection-the kindliness Armistice by which the great war was ended, but few, ifany, which was in the minds of the multitudes about her. can have exceeded in size and significance the Service of It seemed to her that the dead were not being thought Re-union and Remembrance held in the Royal Albert of as having passed from the earth, but as being still Hall, London, on Sunday evening, under the auspices alive-as being alive in the same sense that we considered of the Marylebone Spiritualist Association. The great ourselves to be living. Referring to the dislike which hall was filled from the floor to the topmost gallery by was shewn· in some quarters to the word Spiritualism, an audience of over six thousand, representative of every she asked, " What is the matter with the word ?" Surely class and section, not only of the Metropolis, but of the it stood, in its highest sense, as the very antithesis of all nation ; and that the majority of those present were in that was meant by Materialism. There was no religion sympathy with Spiritualism was shown when, on the which did not teach the existence of the human spirit call of the Chairman, at least two-thirds rose to indicate the survival of man. There was a secret which many that they had had personal proofs of the reality of Survival. could not reach and that secret was that the very highest Mr. George Craze presided, supported by Mrs. P. spirituality must also mean the very highest intellectuality. Ch. de Crespigny, the vice-president, Mrs. Treloar, the The spiritual part of man was not separate from the ex-president, and Mrs. Estelle Roberts who, later on, intellectual principle. ..., -~- ,._'".... --~. gave a wonderful demonstration of clairvoyance. The The teachings of Spiritualism, she said, were the speakers, in the order of their appearance on the dais, especial need of humanity to-day. There was a feeling were Mr. H. Ernest Hunt, Miss Lind-af-Hageby, Mr. in some quarters that each nation should settle its own Hannen Swaffei: and-Mr. Shaw Desmond. An installation - affairs wirhout-reference to the others. But this was an of loud speakers helped to carry the sound of their voices impossible doctrine in a world where nations were inter all over the hall. dependent and their interests identical. To-day we had A large band of stewards were on duty ; and not strife and jealousy because of the rule of the materialistic withstanding the greatness of the audience, the pro idea. Spiritualism taught the higher values of love and ceedings were not marred by a single untoward incident. service and sacrifice. She looked forward to the evolution It was, indeed, a triumph of organisation, on which of a higher humanity in which there should be no longer Mr. Frank Hawken (Secretary of the Marylebone struggle and destruction. Spiritualist Association) and his fellow-workers are to be Mr. Hannen Swaffer gave several instances of con congratulated. solation brought to bereaved people-including the wife The meeting opened with the singing of the grand old of a clergyman-by proofs of Survival obtained through hymn, " 0 God our help in Ages past," and the other Spiritualism. Home circles, he said, were the real hymns included " Come, sing a glad hosanna," "There strength of the movement and through them wonderful is no death," and " The world hath felt a quickening evidence was to be obtained. breath," which has been well described as the Spiritualists' Mr. Shaw Desmond said Spiritualism stood for con Jubilate. structive efforts for peace. Prevention of war did not Following a brief invocation by the Chairman, the lie in the hands of politicians nor even with the Church audience stood reverently for two minutes in a silence but with those who, all over the world, knew that life which was only broken by one or two stifled coughs. after death was a fact. Europe had known the Red In his opening remarks Mr. Craze suggested that an International (Socialist) and the Black International appeal should be made to the B.B.C. to broadcast (League of Nations). Let Spiritualists now aim at having Spiritualist services so that listeners might have an oppor a White International-the International of Religion, by tunity of hearing and understanding what Spiritualism which war would be abolished. stood for. They had a right to make such a request in the name of religious liberty. A DRAMATIC MESSAGE That the audience agreed with Mr. Craze was shown Mrs. Estelle Roberts gave a number of wonderfully by hearty applause. convincing clairvoyant descriptions with many names, SPIRITUALISM EPITOMISED most of which were readily recognised by people in Mr. H. Ernest Hunt said it was right that they should various parts of the hall, including the topmost gallery. remember the sacrifices made by the men who fell in the The second description of the series was dramatic Great War; but there was joy and not sorrow in their in its completeness. Mrs. Roberts said there was a gathering, for as .Spiritualists they kne.w,. .and bore witness - spirit-lady beside her who had a message for her husband to the fact, that although the· bodies of their loved oneo; (full name given) who was in the hall. At first there was were left behind, these souls lived and were going forward no response ; but, when the wife's full name was an on the road which led to perfection. There was, he said, nounced, a man in the arena held up his hand and said, a verse in the Bible-Job xxxii, 8-which epitomised the " That's right. It is for me." teaching of Spiritualism in regard to life and death: " Y o.u are anticipating a happy experience in the near " There is a spirit in man : and the inspiration of the future, are you not ? " Mrs. Roberts asked, and the man Almighty giveth them understanding." said he was. " Well, your wife knows all about it and, " We are not physical bodies," said Mr. Hunt, "we understanding all the circumstances, she wants you to are spirits who inhabit bodies ; and although science has know that she thinks you are acting wisely and she wishes not yet recognised the soul, that is the loss of science, you every happiness. I could tell you much more," for the soul is a definite entity." So long as men deemed Mrs. Roberts added, " but not here." themselves to be physical bodies and nothing more, they The audience were quick to grasp the idea that the were not likely to seek the inspiration of the Almighty and coming " happy experience " was a second marriage, it was that inspiration which was needed in all the activities and this added interest to the closing words of the of life to find a way out of the chaos in which the world message. was sunk When men v,rere wise enough to acknowledge " The lady says this is the first time she has tried to God in all their ways, then there would be given to them get through to you," said Mrs. Roberts, "and, as she the inspiration of the Almighty which would bring has succeeded, she thinks that, in view of what is to harmony, peace and prosperity. happen, there will be no need for her to try again." Miss Lind-af-Hageby said that when in Trafalgar [Other Memorial Services are dealt with on page 742.] NOVEMBER 17, 1933 LIGHT 735 I was also reminded of a trance utterance taken down LETTERS TO THE EDITOR in writing on March 17th, 1930, which was as follows : (The views and sta'.ements of correspondents are not necessarily "E:ach js known in the Spirit World by his own aura and endorsed .l!J th~ Ed1tor, who occasionally prints, in the interests ;ad1ance, and has his own musical vibration also. That of free d1scuss1on, letters with which he does not agree). 1s why one soul is sometitnes so harmonious to another. It is not only the aura, but this musical sound of the ALL SAINTS DAY AND ALL SOULS DAY soul, which speaks to others." (MRs.) E. M. TAYLOR. Sir,-It _is with regret and some surprise that I see no reference 1n LIGHT to the anniversaries either of All * * * Saints Day or All Souls Day. INTRODUCTIONS FROM THE "OTHER SIDE" Spiritu~ li st_s, of . what.eve; complexion they may be, Sir,-I a~ very grateful for the space you have given to the question put to me concerning introductions from su~ely urute 1n their behef in the Communion of Saints. · the other side of life. Is 1t not then fi tting that these two days of Remembrance should be recognised and not left to lapse into the limbo Last week's correspondent does not quite touch the thing of neglect ? SIDNEY LEANING. that was asked. The man who questioned wanted to kn0w 102, Bishopsgate, London, E.C.2. whether two human beings, functioning on this earth, had ever been brought together by an introduction from • • • someone on the other side. SPIRITUALIST SUNDAY SERVICES Mrs. Champion de Crespigny has had such an experi _Sir,-The subject of Spiritualist Sunday services e~ce, but I t~nk they are rare. I was brought into contact with a firm friend of to-day by a spirit on the other side · raised by your correspondent in the issue of LIGHT dated but indirect!J. There are plenty of such cases-but th~ N~ V:· 3r~ must have caused deep concern to many sincere · Spmtualtsrs long ago. phenom~non asked for was whether two people had be~n ·At the· Spiritualist churches that I have attended the actually Introduced to each other by a spirit who knew them both when on this earth, and if the three had been procedure is . in general viz.-(i) divine wdrship ~imilar, grouped when the introducer was physically alive. (hymns, reading of the Bible or other inspired book, and Your ~wn editorial answer was veiy interesting but ad~ress . and prayers), followed by (2) clairvoyance and the . enquirer probably had in his mind two perfectly cl ~ t ~audience ( descripti~ns of spirits and the delivery of ordinary, commonplace people, not known to the public spmt messag~s to a h_n:ited number of the congregation). who were made friends by a third person whom they could I am not m a position to say whether the former or not see. All my thanks for the trouble you have taken. ·the latter _part of the servic~ attracts the majority of the Good wishes. NELLIB ToM GALLON. ~ong ~ e ga t10n. I have . noticed that divine worship is 1i:ivan ~b l y conducted 1n an atmosphere of simplicity, • • • Slncenty, reverence and brotherly love towards one's PROBLEM OF SUFFERING fellow men and women. These desirable attributes Sir,-Replying to Mr. A. Hollingsworth, the innocent however, are to be found in the churches of other de~ undoubtedly suffer for the guilty in this world; and it is nominations, so cannot be the cause of the existence of by the realisation and personal experience of the awful separate spiritualist churches. suffering so needlessly caused by selfishness, callousness, I ari; led to conclude that clairvoyance is the principle cruelty and pride that we understand to the uttermost attraction and I venture to assert that this clairvoyance is the awfulness of sin and its terrible consequences. neither divine worship nor Christianity. I would suggest As we endeavour to become good, so do we become part of the Infinite Good-God, and must become furth~ r that a large proportion of the clairvoyance is unreliable, emanating from imaginations specially devel redeemers and saviours of the race, suffering willinrrly and oped. My reasons for this suggestion are :-first, that patiently_ if n~ed be for Love's sa~e, till the great :ork of I have so often heard messages and descriptions known redemption 1s completed. God 1s the One Life beneath or declared to be wrong ; and, second, that after many all forms, and when man suffers, He suffers with him years' s.tudy of spiritualist literature and experience in for man is not apart from God. Christ is Immanuel home circles, I am convinced that it is not possible for God with us. • all these travelling Mediums to deliver mass messaaes to This is the meaning of the Cross. Love suffering for the beloved, and redeeming from sin and self. God stra~ge ~onwegat ions . in unfamiliar surroundings." Me?iumship is a rare gift : our best-known highly-ex is Love. Love is the great Teacher, Master and Re perienced Mediums would find the task a difficult one. deemer in Whom we dwell and Who dwelleth in us. I would greatly appreciate, Mr. Editor, the considered 52 Queen's Road, Watford. E. KIRBY. opinion of some Spiritualist of repute on this point. I
,, ,{~fU,lJ .ar,jf tl)y k;td ~;:.s 9f the . ~pi .ritu~list mov.erqe_i:it qq n_ot .o,,, v .., • .. r t:1.R. J ._ ARTHUR-.EINDLAY , _, approve of the clairvoyance part of the services, they By invitation of Mrs. St. Clair Stobart who has on two should say so, and that every endeavour should then be occasions publicly_ criticised his book, The Rock of Truth, made to put a stop to it and so prevent the delusion of Mr. J. Arthur Fmdlay is to speak at the Spiritualist many over-credulous people. W. SINCLAIR. Community Service at Grotrian Hall, London, on Sunday, Walmer. November 26th at 11 a.m. He informs us that he will • • • take as his subject, " Why Spiritualism must become the HEALING BY MUSIC only world religion." Sir,-Many readers of LIGHT will be much interested in Miss Adair Roberts' letter headed "A Musical Dispen s~tion." It seems that already such knowledge is being L.S.A. Free Public Lecture given to psychics and musicians, for two-Miss Maud · MacCarthy and Mrs. Corelli Green-are healing through TUESDAYS AT 7.30 P.M. the method of finding the note which is the key to their When near to South Kensington attend these patients' characters and natures, producing through its meetings. sustained repetition harmony in the minds and bodies MR. W. H. EVANS which had become i"analed0 and out of tune. author of "Philosophy of Spiritualism" "Mu s1c. h ath charms to soothe " undoubtedly ; but gives A SHORT ADDRESS. that each person has a special note or rhythm which, if Clairvoyance to follow: Nov. 21st-Mrs. Livingstone reiterated, produces not only harmony but health, is new Coffee and 11enernl discussion. to many of us. 736 LIGHT NOVEMBER 17' 1933 a " great cloud of witnesses," including those ](igbt who are being specially held in remembrance. All fommunicationJ for the EoITOA should be addresJed Even at the British Legion Festival of Re ''The Editor of Light, 16, QutenJberry Plau, South Ken1ing~ Ion, London, S. W.1." 'Phone: Kensington 3758. membrance held at the Royal Albert Hall on . . ' Saturday evening-and broadcast to the Empire New Sub1criptiotz Rates (including postage)-12 moflfhs, 101. 6d.; 6 monthJ, 51. 6d., or from NewsagentJ, 2d. week!J. - Survival was the keynote. Lawrence Binyon's famous lines '' To the Fallen," recited with S11bHriptio11J Jhould NOT be sent to the Editor, but .rho11ld dramatic effect by the Prince of \Vales, not only in all 'afes be addressed to th1 M
REPORT OF THE EXPERIMENTERS Thefu/I text of the report drawn up and signed ry the four took one slide from his pocket and handed it to Mr. experimenters is as folloivs :- Myers, who placed it in the camera and made the exposure, A RISING from a conversation with Mr. M'Indoe, Mr. Major Mowbray being the sitter. Mr. Myers removed John Myers agreed to the slide and handed it to give him a sitting under con Mr. Moffat.. ditions intended to rule out The same procedure was any suggestion that the re followed with the second sult's obtained could be plate. Mr. Moffat, Mrs. attributed to trickery of a·ny Head and Mr. Myers went se>rt. Mr. Grah'
LECTURES A HELPFUL FIRST SITTING THURSDAYS at 8.16 p.m. Members free, non- The following extract from a letter to the Secretary members 2/-. and the accompanying report of a really excellent sitting is November 30th-A Study of Clairvoyance. MRs. EILEEN an example typical of many. Much of the best work GARRETT, MR. G. H . LETHEM and DR. NANDOR FODOR. of our Mediums is limited to the sitter and a few sympath etic confidants. This instance will serve to indicate the December 14th - Discussion on "Reincarnation," by MISS GERALDINE CUMMINS, MISS OLIVE PIXLEY, MR. H. F. PREVOST nature of the useful work done by Ruth Vaughan. The BATTERSBY, and DR. FIELDING-0ULD. sitter is known to the Secretary as a reliable witness. "The sitting which I had with Mrs. Vaughan," says BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT the sitter, " was really of too private a nature to give very CONTINUING his addresses at the LS.A. Free Public many details. I had not been in the room more than a Meetings, Mr. W. H. Evans dealt on Tuesday evening few moments when Mrs. Vaughan started telling me of last with the subject of " Body, Soul and Spirit." some of my difficulties and problems. She told me about " This," he said, " is the nomenclature accepted by my daughter ; then when I said that what I wanted was religious people as a definition of man. The threefold help and advice about my mother she asked her control aspect of Being is expressed in all religions and, for ordinary to come through which he did. He described my purposes, is quite satisfactory. The speculations on mother's character and outlook on life in every detail, man's bodies which is carried to such lengths by some indicating how I might help her and advising some schools of thought may be very well for the philosopher, possible treatment. He satisfactorily explained some but the busy man has little time and perhaps less inclination problems which I had not been able to understand. We to probe very deeply into what he will call the mysteries had an animated talk for over an hour. of existence. Of course, to most of us the body is of " This was my first experience of this kind and it all greatest importance : we are all conscious of it, we feel seemed so natural. It was a real joy to be able to talk pain or pleasure, and even the finer sentiments of the with someone who understood." mind have their reactions upon our bodies, so it i.:; r,tatural for people to think of it as synonymous with themselves. Some few people have a perception of the finer part of 'DISTANT HILLS ARE ALWAYS GREEN' their being, and some are so constituted that they need no Mrs. Fred Maturin (Mrs. Porch) was some years ago proof of a future state-they are sure of it, knowing it a frequent visitor to the L.S.A., of which she was a through their intuitions. member. She is the author of several amusing books " The fact of our being here in a body indicates that and one of a more serious kind, Rachel Comforted, relating there is a purpose to be fulfilled. Although there is the to communications of a most evidential nature from background of pre-existent life, few people have any "Sonny" her youngest child who passed away in early memory of a prior existence. For all ordinary purposes boyhood. In her latest novel, Distant Hills are AlWtfYS we look upon our present life as the time when we began Green, (Hutchinson, 7 /6), she tells of travels and adventures to be. In fact, it may be said we know more of what is in South Africa (where she now resides). Although it is beyond the gates of death than what is beyond the gates a novel, some of the episodes are probably transcripts of birth. Speculation is, however, rife about it and the from her own experiences as described in earlier books, suggestion of man as a threefold being demands a theory e.g., Petticoat Pilgrims on Trek and Adventures on the Zam of incarnation. But let us consider what is the purpose besi. Her style is often vivid and racy, showing a keen of the body? sense of the comic side of life, but the central theme " While there are so many divergences of opinion the tale of a girl and a priest who meet, fall in love, but about our pre-existent life, it is difficult to know which is are separated by the priest's vows, is in the appropriate the right one. Broadly speaking there seems a consensus key. Mrs. Maturin's experiences in spirit communication of opinion in favour of regarding earthly existence as the enable her in the book to emphasise tlae fact of survival means whereby our spirit attains a consciousness of and the e01'lsoiation it brings. NOVEMBER 17, 1933 SOCIETY ARRANGEMENTS 741 SPIRITUALIST COMMUNITY rhlritisb
THE PSYCHIC TALKING CARD AND PENDULUM "RESPONDA" FOR MESSAGES, AND TELEPATHIC DEVELOPMENT This lettered Card, used with a Pendulum, forms an easy means of investigation into the psychic. Many who earnestly desire communication are making no progress for want of an instrument that can give the necessary help. " Responda " is simple and sensitive enough to yield results even to those endowed with but little mediumship. Can be operated by one person, sitting alone at home. Miss J. U. Bexhill writes: "I am led to write and thank you for the' Responda.' Words cannot express what it has already done for me ... I am in constant touch with my dear father • . • Now I know.'' Post paid, Home, 3/8; Abroad, 4/3 Also " RESPONDA LUMINOUS." The same in prim;:iple as the ordinary" Responda," but set in case, self-luminous, and usable in light, dimness, or complete darkness. · . Mrs. N. de H. writes:-" I want to thank you for your wonderful" Responda," which enables me to communicate with my beloved husband. Life is quite changed for me since I have it, and I am deeply thankful for it . . . Please send a " Responda Luminous " to ••••" Post paid, Home £1 1 0 ; Abroad £1 3 0. (Price altered py increased cost of manufacture.) Both obtainable from R. A. ROBSON, 21 FAIRFAX ROAD, CHISWICK, LONDON, W.4., ENGLAND NOVEMBER 17, 1933 LIGHT 743 SOCIETY ARRANGEMENTS (Contd.) Cla!isi fieb ~bberti~ement!i Classified Ad".ertisements, which must be prepaid, 1/- per line (Average 9. words perhne). Minimum 2/-. Send with remittanc.o to: ADVERTISEMENT M ANAGER, ... LIGHT," 16, Queeasberry Place. S.W.7 •. Phone: Kensington Wimblebon ~pirituali5t Cburcb 3 75.8. ' . . . .(Accepting the Leadership of Jesus Christ) Advertisements given over the 'phone cannot be auaranteed unless 136, HARTFIELD RD., WIMBLEDON, S.W.19. confirmed In wrltina. • ·
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