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F e a t u r e s ETERNAL LIFE By Effa Danelson 5 An Editorial LIVING EDITORIALS OF THE DAY PLEASURE AND PROFIT IN THE SCIENCE OF THE STARS B y “ Libra” Astrology a Guide for Everybody THE HOUND OF HEAVEN By W. B. Ziff An Eerie Adventure in the Silent North ARE YOU THE PATHETIC TYPE? By Emily H. Rocine 10 The Most Feminine of the Types THE WOLF OF THE HIGH SIERRAS B y Samuel M. Sargent, Jr. i i A Thrillinq Story of Metempsychosis HYPNOTISM AND THE LAW By Chas. H. McDermott 13 A s Recognised by the Courts THE STARS OF MARCH B y Libra 17 Astronomy Made Easy for All DO YOUR WISHES COME TRUE IN DREAMS? What Dr. Freud Has To Say GHOSTS WE HAVE SEEN By World-Famous People Personal Glimpses of Spirit Friends MY STARS AND WHAT THEY TELL ME By Haasan Osiris 22 Which of the 12 Temperaments are You? THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA By Horace Leaf 29 IF. B. ZIFF Their Psychic Life and Spirit-Worship

C. WHOSE meteoric rise from D e p ia r t m e n t s a country newspaper editor to LISTENING-IN pN W-O-R-L-D 25 News-Notes for Occultists that of publisher of ‘‘American NEWS OF PSYCHIC ACTIVITIES 27 Humor,” the largest quarterly of Spirit Philosophy and Phonomena TELLING REMARKS its kind in the world, is not more BORDER LANDS OF SCIENCE unusual than his story in this Scientists Approach the Occult CURRENT EVENTS 34 month’s Digest, “The Hound of The Occult Digest Reveals A ll Things Heaven.” BOOK REVIEWS By K. M. E. 37 Tell Me the Latest Books Worth-While C. That “Dynamite Bill,” as he SMILING THROUGH REVELATIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY is known in the advertising world, The Reverent Spade Uncovers the Past should have a psychic experience THE THEATRE AND CINEMA 41 is not unusual. But that he is The Occult on Stage and Screen daring enough to honestly present Personal Service his beliefs IS unusual amongst YOUR QUESTION AND ANSWER EDITOR Your Personal Problems Solved B y Psyche those in the world of today who DREAMS (Interpreted by the Dream Editor) have attained recognized success. Send in Your Dreams! ASTROLOGY 36 The Stars Light Your Path P A L M IS T R Y By Constance Bennett NUMEROLOGY By Numerologist

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V olume II M A R C H , 1926 Number X

E t e r n a l L i f e An F.ditorial

E TER N AL LIFE! Can it be said of thee that thou recievest only those whose hearts bear love, whose deeds are those of sacrifice, whose honor is for father and mother and who, for thy favor will become poor in earthly goods?

E TERNAL LIFE! Hast thou room for only these in thine un­ limited time and space? Hast thou need for only these in thy great workshop ? Canst it be said of thee that thou dost succor only those who obey this mandate?

E TERN AL LIFE! Can it not be said of thee that thou art time .and space; that thou holdeth all life, and thy mercy is meas­ ureless? Before birth thou did’st hold us and in life thou keepeth us; thou art ever true to the children of earth and forsaketh them not when entering the valley of death? In thy great kingdom is there not room for all— and in thy law none can inherit greatness more than another?

E TERNAL LIFE! Why does the child of earth fear to trust thee beyond the grave ? Art thou not the same benefactor thou wast through birth? Can it be truly said that death divideth thy space or maketh thy time long or short, giving to some bless­ ings, and to others curses?

E TERN AL LIFE! We know thy voice is the voice of time. Thou art limitless and boundless. Thou art the past, present and all that is to be. That Heaven is made by the good that lives in every human heart, poured forth by «thought, in words and deeds. Hell is made by undeveloped good in every life— the yearning of a soul unsatisfied. Can it be said no place was made in the great plan of future life for tho§e whose feet were left unshod, and that Eternal Life was planned alone for those who understand the law ?

E TERN AL LIFE! We know that Birth, not Death, unlocks the door to thy vast storehouse; to every child of earth, a key is given though he be least or greatest among men. No gift is this bestowed by priest, prophet or seer, or earned by sacrifice great or small; endowed by master or slave, rich or poor. Time turns the key. Time bestows and endows Eternal Life. EFFA DANELSON’S Japing Editorials

{[The Magic Silence form. If your wish is carelessly wrought in a moment of excitement, anger or depression, it will prove to be B L E E P is the Magic Silence. While you sleep you a curse. “What have I done to bring such trouble to build your future, create brain cells, dispense with use­ myself” is heard on every side. It is not what you have less material. Learn to think of this magic silence as done; it is the result of a careless wish before it was a retreat. Forget that it is sleep; remember, when you properly prepared. lie down to sleep, it is for the purpose of resting the Before you wish, visualize the finished product. Nine physical body, releasing the mind and journeying into times out of ten, visualization will show you that you do other realms for the suppfy of daily needs. You are not not want it fulfilled. Idle wishing is the most dangerous body, or Life. The Magic Silence is Life’s storehouse, kind of thinking. Everything registers in the astral. it contains supply for every need. Sleep is not cessa­ Conquering the astral is a simple thing after you learn tion from work. Sleep has a two-fold mission; one is to guard your thinking. It is generally accepted that to renew the physical elements, the other the vital, in­ the astral is filled with disembodied spirits. This is tellectual energy. Those living in the intellectual vibra­ an erroneous idea. There are no disembodied spirits. tion require less sleep than those vibrating in the physi­ Each individual, when released from the physical body cal. Appreciate the magic silence and arrange your is cloaked with a spirit body; the astral world is peo­ sjjeep hours for rest of body and action of mind. Realize pled by thought emanations. Your astral world is peo­ that the mind is not a physical organ, and Life is not pled by your thoughts. Each thought is surrounded the physical body; therefore when you enter the Magic by a nebulae which attracts others to it and in this way Silence it is for the purpose of unburdening mind and your astral heaven becomes peopled with thought beings. Life that better service may be given to the body. If your thought is constructive and concrete it attracts Sleep must be indulged in intellectually if one is to constructive thought forces and you will become a receive full benefit from it. builder. Do not begrudge the time spent in sleep; make it prof­ By learning to control your thought you can change itable. Intelligent sleeping avoids mishaps while waking. any trend of your life. It is said in astrology, “the stars When you are sleeping, nature is rebuilding, and Life incline but do not compel,” but in the astral it must be is gathering a new supply. Three great facts to re­ said the thought does not guide; it controls. Therefore member are, to take care of the body while awake by if you would have your life filled with things worth not abusing it. Sleep, and awaken intelligently, by while, keep your thought constructive and you will be emptying the mind chambers of disturbing thoughts able to conquer the astral. It is not what is brought upon retiring and not allowing them to re-enter when back to you that makes your life worth while. It is awakening. what you send out that counts. Mind is the ruler, Life the servant. Body is the chan­ nel through which each expresses itself. Proper care HThe Astral Traveler of the body- is essential if it is to be served well. Enter the Magic Silence free from fear and worry and reap ONTACT with those who dwell in the spirit ether is one of the least understood problems. The scientific the bountiful harvest of health, happiness and success. psychic realizes this. Contact with the tangible part of lite known as the spirit is still very difficult, although ^Conquering the Astral new discoveries are being made daily. O ONE versed in astral law, conquering the The question of contact is one that puzzles all psychics astral is an easy task.’ The thoughts you release are who often ask themselves the question, do we really magnetic. Like attracts like. The first step is to or­ meet those we love in actual contact or do we project ganize your thinking. "Oh, but 1 always think good our mind into theirs; do they come to us or do we go thoughts,” every one may say. to them, is an unanswered question, upon which psychics Astrally speaking, we are not talking about good or disagree, and those who have made the change do not evil; but the thought itself. Remember, when you feel agree with each other. There are, however, rare con­ the urge within you to do a great thing, become a great tacts which reveal the law causing us to wonder at the person, to be a traveler, to possess wealth or friends, stupidity of those who can not understand, condemning all these things lie in the astral, in what can be called those who have acquired this knowledge. the raw material, and must so to speak be breathed One who travels in the astral world has many ad­ into existence. Many people make the mistake of con­ ventures. Some are pleasing. Others are most hazard­ stantly wishing for this or for that; such a habit keeps ous. Astral traveling is just beginning to attract the the registration mind crowded; as a result your mind attention of scientific minds. The truth about spirit becomes unsettled and nothing seems right. vibration must be determined by psychic law, and not This habit of wishing is destruction and should not by physical mandate. be indulged in. If you want something, do not wish Astral travel gives those who can enjoy it, dominion for it before you have analyzed its power over you. over two worlds. Conscious travel in the astral gives Once a wish (which is a concentrated thought) is re­ even greater pleasure than travel on the physical plane. leased it begins its travel toward fulfilment; given When this law is more fully understood people will be strength by successive wishing it will become an astral able to enjoy life on both planes. Signs of the Ever- Ch anging Present

^Automatic Writing T h is' causes greater havoc after death than physical suicide. JuTOM ATIC WRITING is produced by mind Mental suicide is becoming a menace. It is attrib­ Aprojection. The hand may be controlled by a person uted to many causes; but the real cause is carelessness still residing in the physical body, or by one living in in speech to children. A wrong impression given to a the spirit body. It may be a physical control of the child will cause a suppression of balancing brain cells hand or be produced through brain impressions. The resulting in timidity and fear causing the child to be­ manifesting mind may only control the muscles of the come either a weakling or a bully; the former, from lack hand or of the entire arm. Again, the control may give of stamina, the latter, from constantly defending him­ the words to the ear of the writer. self. The weaker one usually ends in an asylum for Investigation proves that automatic writing can be the feeble minded and the other in a prison cell. Proper produced by one still living in the physical body or by. care of the growing child will eliminate this menace; the mind o f the writer. No two writers have the same perfect mental development in this life would insure experience, and we might add, no writer has the same for the individual a perfect mental condition after experience twice. This writer received a message death. through automatic writing, during the World War from a person who was at the time, camped in Mesopotamia. ( ( A C .Where Crime Originated The message was clear, to the point, and signed with the l 1 ND the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall full name in his own hand writing and was identified by him after his return home. Relating the experience, heL upon Adam, and he slept: And he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh thereof.” Gen. 2-21. This was said he was waiting for orders and was making mental the first great steal. Adam was the first man to be notes, thinking of the many times we had discussed the robbed; he also was the first man to receive stolen question of life after death. goods, committing the offense the second time when he Experienced writers are unable to determine just how received the remainder of the apple which Eve had taken the act is accomplished. Sometimes there is a per­ from the tree of knowledge. History has proven that, ceptible force causing the hand to become rigid and which is bom in the spirit will develop in the flesh. cold. Again, the movement of the hand is normal and can only be distinguished by the phraseology of the message or the signature and penmanship. Where self {[W here A re These Bandits Now? leaves off and foreign controls begin is very difficult to OODS and Holmes, bandits, were sentenced to determine. A foreign individuality is very perceptible death— and hanged for murder for their part in Chi­ at times. cago’s spectacular Drake Hotel hold-up last July. The difference of opinion on this subject rises from Quoting the Chicago Herald-and-Examiner’s (Feb­ the varied phenomena itself. It is hardly to be ex­ ruary 13th) account of it we read that John Timothy pected that a scientific correlation of facts can be given Stone,-a Chicago divine, said: at this time when the psychic phenomena, occurring to “ I have talked and prayed with these men. I am almost every one is so little understood by them. convinced they are absolutely sane. . . . These men are Like all other problems it must be given order before brothers in trouble. They are prepared to die.” it can become an established factor in the data of science. “ Woods is convinced that he will meet his Maker Meantime, automatic writing is unquestionably becom­ in the morning. I am going to be here with him when ing a demonstrated fact, and is simply a system of the hour comes and shall try to guide his soul toward unconscious control from brain to hand by one of three salvation. Up there in the death cell, Woods gave his factors; the mind of the writer, of one in the physical heart to God.” body or in the spirit body. The determination of this Holmes, the other bandit had already received the rests entirely with the writer. We all write more or last rites of his church. less, automatically. The writer has been interested in watching these men, murdered in the name of the law, as they slowly re­ C.Mental Suicide gained consciousness and came into the full realization E N T A L S U IC ID E is one o f the most com­ that their murderer had only robbed them of their mon forms of self destruction with certain types. It physical body, leaving them free to roam of will. It is begins in youth, and is generally induced by a careless fitting to ask the honored clergy what they know about remark made by parents. life after death, for as long as men can murder— and The child is told he “can never be anything but a be forgiven at the hour of death— men will not fear to sloven”— or a brighter child is held up as an example kill. for him. H e is opposed in some vital thing he desires to These men did not fear death; they feared the terrors do. This suppression creates a down-and-out feeling of an unknown punishment after death that had been which colors every act of the growing child. By the time instilled into their minds as children. They were nof he reaches manhood his atmosphere is filled with thought sorry for their crime; they were looking for a way to forms of abnegation which deepens as he grows older. kill the fear in their hearts. Death, meant nothing to A fter battling for years with this secret foe the man these men after the Reverend gentlemen had prayed for develops a mania for suicide. Living in his brain cells them. Woods’ own words prove these facts, when he are little creatures who torment him day and night. said, "Do you know, after confessing to the preacher, They are kept alive by his depressing thoughts. Men­ I feel all right . . . for the first time in ten years?” tally, the man becomes less useful because of his in­ His fear of a punishment after death was gone— and ability to think quickly. He becomes careless in his when he awakens and finds the minister was wrong— habits, frequently developing a fear mania which causes what then ? him to avoid companionship. Brain energy is spent in Will he seek his pals in crime, urging them on to brooding. Such a person is committing mental suicide. more daring crimes? The Occult Digest March ■ T h e P l e a s u r e and Profit in the S c i e n c e of T h e S t a r s

QWhy A s tr o lo g y is a w m Valuable Guide for Everybody

By «T » L i b r a

HAT Astrology is interesting, whether one be­ The horoscope thus becomes a very practical guide to lieves in it or not, is apparent from the great those about to enter upon a given business, occupation, T interest which everyone displays in any divinatory change of residence, vital relationships to other people, science. That Astrology is practical is only open to friendships more or less intense, approximate time and question when it is hot put to the test of use. There are nature of death, and all of the vital events of life. those who maintain that the stars will indicate the The horoscope will indicate with diverting accuracy a correct answers to foolish, frivolous and impractical picture of the adult physical type of the person for questions. There are those who maintain that the mood whom it is cast. It will indicate the likelihood or un­ and mind of the querent must be sincere and serious, likelihood of acquiring property; o f holding or losing and that the question, if it is to be resolved by the property, and even thep nature o f such property. It stars, must be of a vital and practical nature. will indicate the nature of communications and travel; As a matter of fact, the chief value of Astrology in of the residence and of the relation which one’s parents a practical sense lies in its accurate fundamental an­ bear to that residence; it will indicate the nature of one’s alysis of character and physical corporature, for with pleasures, one’s love affairs, children and related subject these bases thoroughly, understood it is essentially matter. It will indicate the nature of one’s servants practical to trace the “natural” reaction to any vital or of one’s service; indicate the type of open and secret problem. rivals or enemies; explain the nature of death; provide I lately had an Astrological inquiry from a woman a key to one’s religious and philosophical strength; one’s well advanced in years. There is no question but that fitness for professions, trades and even be of service in the selection of a marriage partner. an analysis of her progressed chart will reveal the most practically beneficial course for her to pursue during All of these matters are those which are the constant the coming year. I frequently have astrological in­ concern of every man and every woman, and it must quiries from parents of extremely young children. be clear that if parents can be provided with a genuine Naturally, in the case of the children, the “ value" of picture of the personality of their children and of the the horoscope is greater than that of persons whose possible development of that personality, Astrology truly span of life has been largely completed. takes on a very practical aspect. Astrologically, the horoscope is a picture, not only There are several adequate systems or methods of of the stars in the heavens, but also of those causative reading the indications of the stars, notably the Helio­ circumstances out of which arise all human behavior. centric, Geocentric, and Kabalistic. The writer is a In the case of the elderly, these causative circumstances specialist in the Geocentric system as formulated by the have bloomed and borne fruit and. perhaps, have gone Chaldaeans. In each o f these three divisions there are to seed. In the case of the child, “ fore-warned is fore­ three main sub-divisions, notably: Genethliacal, that of armed.” (Continued on page 32) The Occult Digest March 1926 T h e HOUND HEAVEN

An E e r ie A d v en tu re

in T h e S i l e n t N l G H T

The Strange Experience of a Chicago Publisher While Hunting in The Northern Wilds

As Related by

“B i l l ” Z i f f

o o m — b o o — o o m ! those woods, and take ducks from that marsh, and didn’t Two o’clock! intend to have a few restless spirits, more or less, stand B in his way, so, with only a giant Great Dane for com­ That eerie hour when anything can— and most pany he had set out. things do happen. The Dane lay in front of the fire, his massive body Save for the stately ticking of a dusty old fashioned completely covering the hearth. clock on the mantel, and an occasional sputtering crackle from the charred, smouldering embers of a crumbling Cr-ee-eak! fireplace, nothing disturbed the heavy silence which The cabin door swung wide. An upright mass of seemed to envelope the sombre old cabin, the dark, for­ swamp vapor crept in. It seemed to hover omniously bidding forest outside, and even the very night itself over the sleeping figure. The man stirred— and turned. like a thick, choking blanket. Tick-tick. Tick-tick, tick . . . From a dark, treacherous marsh half mile away, The clock stopped! wavering spirals of clammy mist were rising. A wisp Spush-ssh! The fire died out! of cloud scudded nervously across the face of a pale, The Dane raised his ears, one eye opened suspici­ unnatural moon— and the shifting, uncertain light made ously, then quickly the other. Slowly the hair bristled weirdly grotesque shadows on the swaying columns of stiff all along his neck. With a deep throated growl of vapor. They seemed to take definite and dreadful half fear— half warning— he lunged at the swaying mist. form, and to dance crazily about. But always they The man snapped awake instantly— and crouched— crept nearer and nearer . . . listening. On a blanket in one corner of the gloomy cabin, “ Steady, boy!” he cautioned the rigid, trembling dog .near the fireplace, a man lay sleeping— peacefully. He — "What is it?” had been warned that the house was “haunted”— that Grasping his rifle— he lay, peering intently through the first owner had met a violent death and that his the open door into the night beyond. spirit was merciless with intruders. The second tenant Suddenly an uncanny Sc-ree-eech! Cr-ee-eekl had followed misty figures into the marsh— and had Gr-u-um! split the air. never returned. The bones o f the third had been found Silence! in a bear trap. A fourth intrepid adventurer narrowly Then again— Gr-u-unt-aa-ah ! escaped death, but sustained a broken back from a Gradually the crouching figure felt the blood drain falling tree. That had dampened the ardor o f other from his face. His neck muscles tightened until they aspiring tenants until— this one. nearly snapped. He felt his hair stiffening like the Dane’s. He scoffed at "ghosts”— pitied or held in contempt (Continued on page 31) the authors o f “ haunted” tales. He wanted to hunt in 10

I in the ^-Pathetic Type

Character ’Analysis

o f one of The Nineteen Chemical Types of People

E v e r y Month

Are You an Annabel Lee, a Lillian Gish, a Bebe Daniels?

T h e zJXCost Feminine

of all the Types.

By

P e n t a g o n B r id g e s E m i l y H . R o c i n e Famous Hypnotist •

HE sweet, appealing type of girl is somewhat out The Pathetic Type combines in body chemistry die of fashion now. She had her own “ When Knight­ three elements of phosphorus, carbon and hydrogen- T hood W as in Flower” and even in the mid-Vic­ softening, tender, mellowing elements. When they arc torian age when it was considered womanly to faint at combined, as in ' this type, we have a feminine and the sight of a mouse. Still, whether they are camouflaged dinging-vine type of woman. She is tender in tissue to fit the "flapper” style or not, Types are Types, and structure, unfitted for heavy work. She loves domestic this is the answer to the mooted question as to whether peace, and is won by the strong, positive, possessive all girls are natural flappers, losing their innate modesty, type of man. refinement and femininity in this cocktail-drinking, Carbon is .a negative, sleepy element and when it is cigarette-smoking style of the hour. The soft, sweet, predominant in the body it makes its possessor indolent, negative, clinging type of girl still lives; she is there yielding, soft, indulgent and passive, but the love fac­ among the others, trying her best to keep up her popu­ ulties are usually in the lead and the mind is highly larity or at least to hold her own in the mad swing until sympathetic, though it is often sluggish in function, she finds herself at last by her own fireside. She is in stupid, sleepy. Hydrogen is another element that makes hiding, out of style,— the old-fashioned girl,— choking a man feel anything but strong. It seems to affect and sputtering behind her handkerchief when swallow­ tissue, mind and disposition, making one soft, passive, ing her sip from the offered flask. Lillian Gish and placid and easy-going. Such a man is opposed to the Bebe Daniels types are an "open book” to the heavy work, therefore, he is dependent. Love is more character-analyst. romantic under the influence of the hydric clement The young man who wants to know where to find Nerves and movements are gentle and the mind has a or how to recognize behind her mask, his “ beautiful tendency to roam. Phosphorus is a waxy, peculiar Annabel Lee, type of maiden who lives with no other clement, an element of luminosity and wonders. It thought than to love and be loved by me" should study beautifies the complexion and a fascinating, wondering and select the Pathetic Type for a wife. The Pathetic pensiveness shines in the eyes of the girl who is influ­ Type (in the words of Irving Berlin’s song to his new enced by this element in her body tissues, thoughts and wife,) will love him, not for an hour, not for a year feelings. This element makes her more sentimental, but forever and ever. (Continued on page 36) The Occult Digest March 1926

A S I approached the place I had a feeling of dread So I knocked on the door. I waited a moment, and then f a * a" d as* daw. repeated the rap. Another second of silence was ended An aura of gloom seemed to emanate from the by the slow swinging inward of the door. cabin, a hint of danger, a suggestion of mysterious A face looked cautiously out, a broad, heavily bearded things. I was so deeply impressed by this vague, un- face, with strange, feverish eyes. The man stood a determining breath that I stopped, and stood warily re­ moment in the doorway, looking at me with what I garding the structure. took to be suspicion, and some fear. He was a huge It was not a’ time nor a place to inspire the feeling fellow, over six feet, but his extreme breadth of shoul­ that had been awakened in me. Out of an undem sky der and stockiness made him seem much shorter. He the bright sun baked the dust of the clearing into an was clad in blue overalls, and a ragged brown shirt open even dryer powder. There was no cloud in the sky to at the throat. Around his waist hung a cartridge belt, dampen the cheer and heat of a summer midafternoon. and holstered revolver. His head, hatless, boasted a The dwelling was an ordinary, a very ordinary mountain shock of unruly, matted hair, but little less black than cabin, small, weather-bruited, and staunch. From its his beard. He held a rifle in tense hands, though the tightly shut door, and closed window boards I decided muzzle was pointing toward the floor. He searched that it was unoccupied. Behind it rose the forests of my face closely in silence, and then his eyes seemed tall pines and dwarfed, twisted live oaks that cover the drawn involuntarily to the mountain side behind me. I reaches of the High Sierras. The clearing was small, was favorably impressed by his countenance, though it partly grass grown, and partly barren. There was noth­ held the mark of sleeplessness, and unmistakable fear, ing in the scene itself to cause that inexplicable gloom a fear not of myself I could tell, but of something be­ that had seized me. Yet it is as true of houses as of yond me, back of me, something that had not yet ap­ men that the secrets o f their pasts mingle and blend peared. with their personalities. “You want somethin'?” he asked at length, his eyes A fte r a wary inspection of the cabin, I decided that meeting mine for a moment, to return instantly to the it held no sinister sign, and that its deserted appearance wilderness behind me. had been solely responsible for my disquieting premoni­ I explained that I was living in the cabin a mile be­ tion. I again approached, still repugned, however, by low, and that since I had just arrived I was anxious that vague intuition. I noted that the powdery dust to see what neighbors I had nearby. held many footprints, partly effaced by one another. "I'm just up here for a few weeks/’ I told him. They seemed to run to one size, the print of a very large "A hunting trip. I happened to see your cabin, and man. stopped." Suddenly I stopped in astonishment. In an otherwise “Corfie in,” he returned, with some cordiality. "My untrampled spot was the track of an animal, either dog name is Hompson.” or wolf. What surprised me was its size, nearly as "Edwards," I returned, and we shook hands. huge as the print o f the human foot. To fit that mark He moved into the interior of the cabin, and I fol­ the dog must have been at least as large as a pony. I lowed. Hompson, with what seemed to me unnecessary glanced around somewhat uneasily. An animal of that haste, shut the door, and shoved the heavy wooden bar size would be an unpleasant foe, provided he resented across. I found myself in a fairly large room, sparsely my appearance at his master’s home. I heard a move­ furnished. There were four windows, all boarded, so ment, quick, wary inside the house. It was no more that the room was in a semi-darkness. The mountaineer than a rustle, but it caused me to step back for a second bent over a small, rickety table in the center, and in alarm. lighted a smoky, cracked chimneyed lamp. Its light I expected a growl or a yelp to follow, but none came, cast uncertain rhomboids and heterogeneous spangles 12 The Occult Digest March 1926 over the four log walls, the bunk, and the half dozen “ It’s gonna get me,” he muttered, “I kain’t keep this crude, home-made chairs. In one corner lay a pile of here up!” steel traps, with rusty, mud-encrusted chains. Near I made no comment, and he was silent, staring at them stood a cupboard that gave promise of the year’s the floor. I was convinced that the man was a little collection of pelts in a coyote tail that had been caught mad, slightly touched by long hours of loneliness. If in the closing doors. On the floor a roughly tanned before I had washed to leave, I was doubly anxious now. brown bear hide served as a rug. Across the room from Although he seemed harmless, there was no telling what the cupboard was a fireplace, and near it a stack of logs. turn his mood might take. So after a few minfltes, I In the middle of the back wall of the room a curtain rose, grasping my rifle, and moved toward the door. shut off what was evidently the rest o f the cabin. “I think I’ll be going back,” I said as casually as I "Set down, Mr. Edwards,” said my host. “ I got could. “I want to thank you for your hospitality. some coffee cookin’ an’ some grub.” I------1 He disappeared through the curtain, and I sat down in the nearest chair, leaning my gun against the table.! But he had leaped to his feet, and barred my way, I was still oppressed by that feeling of danger, its very standing with his back against the door. intangibility alarming me, the brooding quiet o f the old “No—no! Not now!” he whispered. “Set down shack, a ghoulish- quality entirely apart from the deep awhile! Not with him out there, waitin’ to pounce silence of mountains, the mystery o f the barred door in!" and boarded windows, and particularly that odd ele­ “Him?” I echoed. I felt that I was in a dangerous ment, disturbing, fearful, in the eyes of the mountaineer. predicament. I was convinced that Hompson was a I heard him shuffling around behind the curtain, and lunatic. Certainly the eyes looking into mine were mad. I caught the clatter of tinware.' Presently he returned, At my question the fear vanished for a moment, and bearing two cups, two plates, and a bowl o f smoking a look of surprise spread over his face. He seemed I meat stew. These he set on the table without a word. to ponder for a minute. He next brought in coffee, a plate of bread, and a dish “Oh, I recollect,” he said finally. “You’re new! o f beans. , You don’t know nothing about him. It’s the wolf, Still silent, he seated himself, and poured out the mister. God help me, it’s that damned wolf! But I coffee. I drew up my chair, and fell to, fo r I had gained don’t reckon you never heard o f him. You didn’t did a healthy appetite from the long hike I had taken. I you— the wolf of the High Sierras?” found the coffee excellent, strong enough to knock down a horse, which is as coffee should be. After a time I I shook my head. noted that Hompson was eating very sparingly for such “Set down!” he continued. “I reckon I’m a coward a robust man. I saw that his face was drawn and to be jumpin’ at every little noise. But the silence gets pallid, and deeply lined with care. His eyes stared out a man sometimes!” . blankly, full of the fear I had before noticed, an old He forced me into a chair. “You smoke?” he shoved and heavy fear of many months. Instinctively I fol­ a can of tobacco at me, and held out a new cob pipe. lowed ^is gaze, although he was evidently looking only “I always bring a lot of cobs up here, an’ the tobacco’s at space, abstracted. Presently he turned his eyes upon good. I’ll build a fire.” me. “You goin’ to be up here long?” I saw that he was controlling himself with an effort, and I noticed that little drops of perspiration stood The question, while abrupt, was not inimical in tone. on his forehead. H e knelt before the fireplace, and Indeed I had the feeling that he was anxious for an began puling up sticks of juniper from the stack by the affirmative reply. He was watching me closely, almost wall. Presently he had a good blaze going, and it eagerly. cheered up the room, dispelling a certain damp chill “ I expect so,” I replied uncertainly. “ If the hunting that the hot sun outside had been unable to banish, a is good.” chill that seemed peculiar to the cabin. Then he seated "It’s lonesome sometimes up here,” he said. “ Hard himself. to sleep at nights.” “I reckon I kinda upset you maybe, actin’ the fool I could not find words to reply. His tone was so like I did! But I been alone for a good many months, weary and hopeless, and held a suggestion of that and the loneliness tells on a man. An’ then he—the dread (hat gazed out of his eyes. So I continued to w olf!" eat, somewhat subdued and uneasy. He shuddered at the last, and the half apwlogetic I had the feeling that he was watching me surrep­ smile faded. titiously, and that there was disappointment in his eyes. "You ain’t never heard of it, I reckon. Bein’ new But he said nothing more. When we had finished, he up here. But every traprper in this section knows about rose, methodically stacked the dishes, and carried them it. They've all seen it one time or another. It ain’t out through the curtain. I leaned back in my chair, a mountain wolf. It's big as a horse. I’ve seen it! decidedly uncomfortable. There was something eery, It's been outside here a lot. I've heard it sniffin’ around uncannily gloomy about the cabin and its occupant. the cabin. An’ it howls sometimes.” He reappeared so suddenly in the doorway that I leaped up startled. His face was terrible to behold, He was jerking out the explanation in a dry, cracked his eyes wild with fear. Leaping to the door, he shoved voice that fascinated me. I had the feeling that he was the bar down harder, and leaned panting and trembling forcing the words, and holding back others— others against the jamb, his eye to the crack. that were clamoring for utterance. I felt that he had "Did— did you hear it?" he whispered in so terrible changed the “him” to "it” purposely. a voice that shivers chased up and down my spine. “It’s knowed as the wolf of the High Sierras,” he “Did you hear it at the door?” continued. “ It was first seen about a year ago— same He sank into a chair, then, dropping over, his head time as------” he had caught himself up. I felt that in his hands. ( Continued on page 28) The Occult Digest March 1926 13 ^ The Third of a Series of Startling Facts about the IVorkings of Hypnotism in Everyday Life— Never Before Published. H y p n o t i s m and The J^aw! — AS RECOGNIZED BY THE COURTS^ Bj/ Charles H. Me Dermott

T H E R E is the same conflict of opinion in the And in the case of Czynski reported in (supra), question whether hypnotism can be used as an Czynski was tried in the higher courts of Munich, agent in procuring the commission of crime, in Bavaria, on the charge of having had recourse to other words, whether one can be compelled to commit hypnotic suggestions in order to win the affections of a criminal act by' hypnotic influence without criminal a woman of high social position, and obtain her con­ responsibility on his part. sent to live with him in criminal intimacy, and subse­ Thus in 1 Kansas City Bar Monthly, 20, in a paper quently marry him, after he had subjected her to his read before the Kansas City Bar Association by J. C. will imposed upon her by his power of hypnotism, and Rossenberger, October 12, 1895, entitled “ Has Hypno­ was convicted upon the charge and sentenced to im­ tism a Place in the Law,” it was said that if a con­ prisonment after a protracted trial. dition in which one can be driven by irresistible sug­ And in the Bempard-Eyraud case, tried in France gestions of another to the commission of an act which and referred to in Occult Digest, January, 1926, Eyraud if he were in his normal condition he would not do can was murdered in apartments hired for the purpose by be produced by hypnotic suggestion, hypnotism is des­ one M. Gouffe, the woman, Gabrielle Bompard, acting tined to become a full defense for crime, otherwise it as the decoy. The woman alleged that she was hypno­ has no place at all in criminal jurisprudence except as a tized to do the act by M. Gouffe, but was convicted fact of extenuation, or a mere mitigating circumstance and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. according to the degree of dominion exercised over (Later, with Charcot’s assistance, she was tried and the subject; but that the medical profession is badly acquitted.) divided upon the question whether one can be driven But in Crim, L. Mag. 100, it was said editorially by the irresistible suggestion of another to the com­ that there are few cases in which the hypnotized subject mission o f acts which if he were in his normal state will not refuse to do a wrong act or to submit to a he would not do. wrong, no matter if it be suggested, and that scoundrel- In the case of Cznski reported in 14 Medico L Jour­ ism cannot flouish on hypnotism, and the case of the nal 150, Prof. Grashey o f Munich said, “ The poten­ murder of Miss Ging, and the confession of Hayward, tiality of putting a man so promptly and so rapidly to tend the statements of Blitz that he was hypnotized sleep is not reconcilable with the assumption of free by Hayward to kill Miss Ging has been investigated, will power, and rather pre-supposes a condition of and found to be mostly false, and that while it is npt unfreedom of will.” safe to assert that crime never was or can be com­ And in Albany Law Journal of October 6, 1894, it mitted with the aid of hypnotism, experience has was said editorially that “ from the legal standpoint it taught that such a case is highly improbable. is certain that in the minds of jurors, at least, a prac­ And in 13 Medico-Legal Journal, 54, it was said by tical demonstration o f the power of hypnotism will raise Clark Bell, Esq., of New York, in an article on “ Hypno­ a reasonable doubt such as would entitle the defendant tism and the Law,” with reference to the case of the to an acquittal at the hands of a jury.” murder of Miss Ging, that “it would be quite outside So in 51 Atlantic L. J. 87, H. M. Bannister, M. D. of any legal experience to accept, as entitled to any Chicago, said in an article upon Hypnotic Influence in credit, the waking story of murder committed by the Criminal cases, “ that it may perhaps be admitted as a accused while under hypnotic influence. Such state­ possibility that crimes may be provoked in the hypnotic ments should be entitled to no credit, and I know ot subject in the actual condition of trance, though in no authority which would justify the position that the many cases and probably in the vast majority this subject on awakening from a hypnotic trance, could would be impossible, and that immoral or improper remember all or relate anything done while under acts might also be done under suggestion by those who hypnotice influence, and it would be a very unsafe would refuse to commit actual crime and that any proposition of law in regard to testimony to place a strong natural propensity might be stimulated so that witness in a hypnotic trance, and to accept as truth improper acts growing out of such propensity would the statements of events that he in that state described be more likely to be committed or submitted to.” as having occurred at a previous time.” And in 2 Hamilton Legal Med. 212, it was said And the statement was made by the same person in that suggestions made with evil intent during the wak­ 18 Crim. L. Mag. 1. ing state are still o f far greater importance than those And in 13 Med. Legal Journal 241, it was said by issued to a hypnotized individual. W. X. Ludduth, M. D.. of Chicago, who attended the So, in Clevinger, Med. Juris. 107, it is said that Hayward-Blitz trial in order to make psychological in 1895 Hayward was hanged in St. Paul, Minn., ac­ study of the principal in the case, that Hayward un­ cused of having induced Blatz by hypnotic suggestion doubtedly possessed a strong influence over Blitz, but to murder Mrs. Ging. Blatz was sent to the peniten­ the latter never claimed it was hypnotic, and that plea tiary for life. never was made in defense. That Hayward hired Blitz 14 The Occult Digest March 1926 to do the deed for $2500; and when he found that his a legal defense on the ground: (a) Because in the courage was failing drugged him with whisky in order nature of things a hypnotized subject can have no to nerve him up to do the deed. standing in a court of justice as a witness; (b) the But in 18 Crim. L. Mag. 1, Clark Bell, Esq., in an cross examination of a subject as to the nature and article on hypnotism in the criminal courts, said with extent of the suggestions made to him by the hypnotizer reference to the Bompard case that the writer of the would be quite impossible and absurd.” opinion that the general impression of scientists agreed And in 3 American Lawyer, 635, it was said by that hypnotic suggestion entered largely into the crime H. G. Chapin in an article “The Forensic Aspect of itself. Hypnotism,” that as it is almost impossible that any­ So, in 1 Kansas City Bar Monthly, 20, in a paper thing said or done while in the hypnotic state should read by J. C. Rossenberger, October 12, 1895, it was be remembered in the post hypnotic state, the very said that the only kind of hypnotism which could at fact that the defense of hypnotism is interposed con­ all effect the question of criminal responsibility is that stitutes evidence of its falsity; and that subjects of by which the individual is deprived of intelligent con­ hypnotism usually try to find reasons for the most sciousness, and can be driven by the irresistible sug­ foolish suggested acts, and that hypnotism would be gestions of another to the commission of the act which the last reason which the subject would assign as the if he were in his normal state he would not do. defense therefor, because in case it had been suggested to him that the deceased had attempted to murder him And in 51 Alb. L. J. 87, H. M. Bannister, M. D., Chicago, said that hypnotism as a plea in criminal cases he would under all probability insist upon the existence of that fact and not that he had been hypnotized, and should be especially distrusted and the benefit of any reasonable doubt ought to be given to the party ac­ had he simply been ordered to do the act some reason other than that of hypnotism would have been given cused of instigating the crime, and that the greatest danger of the plea of hypnotism in criminal cases, if it by him, so that the very fact that he set up hypnotism is to become a frequent or popular one, is that of false as a defense shows that the crime was committed en­ accusation, and the escape of an occasional criminal tirely of his own volition. is an unimportant miscarriage of justice when com­ So in 15 Medico Legal Journal, 254, Car Sextus, in pared with that of the conviction of an innocent indi­ an article on “Different Forms of Hypnotism,” read vidual. before the Psychological Section of the Medico Legal And in 2 Hamilton, Legal Med. 212, it was said Society, November 12, 1897, said “that a hypnotized that no serious crime has ever been committed in obedi­ person cannot be made to do that which is against his ence to hypnotic suggestion, and efforts to prove hyp­ character or ethics, or anything that it was impossible notic influences in recent French trials have utterly to make him do under general daily conditions, without failed, and that there is every probability that the the aid of suggestion or magnetism. Because if that instigator to such a crime could be easily detected of which he is suggested to do should be something that the subject when re-hypnotized by a competent person, his whole nature and soul revolt against, the experiment as in the hypnotic state information or hints would be will fail and the influence of the experiment list will given which would lead to discovery, though in the be at an end.” interval between such states the subject would be In “ The Arena,” vol. 18, pp. 548, 549, Marian L. ignorant of everything that had occurred. Dawson, B. L., in an article on “Hypnotism in Its And in I, K . C. Bar Monthly 20, by J. C. Rosen- Scientific and Forensic Aspects,” expressed the opinion berger, it was said that when we consider the difficulty that hypnotism cannot be induced without the knowl­ of proving the defense of hypnotism by direct evidence edge and against the will of the individual, and asserts and the fact that no one can be hypnotized against his that the power of hypnotic suggestion for immoral or will, added to the natural prejudice against innovation, criminal purposes, broadly speaking, depends upon the it may safely be said that the time is far off when an moral tendency of the hypnotized subject. ordinary jury can be convinced that an accused male­ A hypnotized person will obey when acts commanded factor was the unwilling agent of the evil enterprise do not antagonize the moral stand that he has set up of another. for himself; but criminal or immoral suggestion meet So Clark Bell, in supra, says: “ Whatever may be the auto-suggestion arising from his conscience and the facts of the case it is beyond all doubt that the confusion results. W. X. Ludduth, A. M., M. D., phenomena of the hypnotic trance, and of so called Chicago, supra. hypnotic suggestions, are not recognized as an existing So in 3 Am. Lawyer, 535, supra, said that there is fact by the great majority of lawyers at all, and prob­ no doubt concerning the power of auto suggestion to ably not by the majority of judges. successfully resist the command of a stranger, and And Hon. C. D. O’Brien, of St. Paul, is quoted in that subjects with a strong obhorrence of the ridiculous “ Hypnotism and Crime,” 13 Medico-Legal Journal, will refuse to commit an undignified act, although it be 239, as saying that the law does not recognize the suggested in the most forcible manner, and that many existence of the hypnotic condition, and that he does attempts have been made to obtain from members of not think it ever will recognize it as a defense to a an order or society secrets relating thereto and in not criminal act. a single instance have they succeeded; and that it is a And Judge Seagrave Smith, of Minneapolis, who well known fact that persons opposed to the use of presided at the Hayward trial, is quoted in that article intoxicating liquors cannot be compelled to drink a glass as saying that he does not consider hypnotism as a of brandy while in a state of hypnosis. proper or fitting defense in a criminal action. And in the case of Czynski, supra, Dr. Fuchs of And Thomas J. Hudson, Esq., of the Washington Donn called as an expert therein, said that hypnotism Bar, author of the “ Physchic Phenomena,” is quoted could not succeed with any person who had a feeling therein as saying "that hypnotism has no legitimate of serious responsibility, and that no one would succeed place in criminal jurisprudence, and that while a crim­ in inducing one who simulated disease to relinquish such inal hypnotized in control of a criminal subject could simulation. > undoubtedly procure the commission of a crime under And in 51 Alb. L. J. 187, supra, it was said that in a exceptionally favorable circumstances, it would not be vast majority of cases, if not in all, the efficiency of The Occult Digest March 1926 15 post hypnotic suggestion depends entirely upon the belief sistance to sexual approach; but all cases in which ac­ in the subject exercised over him by the operator, and cusations are made upon this basis should be scrutinized that if moral impulses are strong there is very little with the greatest caution. In such a case it may not be probability of its being effective for evil. It is, at best, difficult to prove whether or not the female was amen­ not equal to the profounder sentiments of our nature. able to hypnosis or to detect malingering, but it may be And it was said by H. G. Chapin (supra) that in impossible to show that she was in an hypnotic state numberless cases the hypnotized subject who performs at the time of the alleged sexual assault; and testimony acts at the command of the hjpmotizer has admitted that given by the subject should be corroborated by more he knew at the time of performing them that the sug­ objective evidence than alleged perceptions of events gestion was false, but obeyed with the imagined object during such an abnormal state of consciousness. of pleasing the hypnotizer. So in Witthams & Becker, Med. Jur., page 435, a So in Chicago Legal News, 65, it was said editorially case is cited as given by Bellanger in which the sexual that the main test of moral responsibility in cases of relations of a doctor and his patient were kept up only hypnotism would be in the inquiry whether the person during the hypnotic state, and knowledge of the condi­ hypnotized realized, when himself, that in submitting to tions of affairs was finally revealed to the patient’s hypnotism he became the passive tool of another person, mother in a seance, and it was said that lethargy and and that if such knowledge existed, involuntarily sur­ catalepsy are for or able to criminal purposes since the rendering his own reason and will he should be held to girl is absolutely without power to resist, and attention the same accountability as if he had voluntarily abdi­ was called to the cases reported by Auban and Rowx cated his normal mentality and made himself a prey of in 1865, in which rape was repeated in succeeding states frenzied passion through intemperate indulgence in and to cases collected by Tourette in Le Vaildaus Hyp- drink; and that it would be legitimate to charge the notisine, ann. d’Hyg., 1886, in which several of the vic­ jury, where hypnotism was alleged as a defense that tims were virgins whose deploration was followed by although they found that the defendant was actually the usual pain and bleeding and in two cases pregnancy unconscious of his act at the time of its commission, resulted. yet if they found that he had actual knowledge or rea­ And in 2 Hamilton, Legal Med. 33, it was said that it sonable grounds to infer that a hypnotist contemplated is possible to induce various hallucinations by hypnotic the commission of a crime, and nevertheless submitted suggestion, and in women they not unrarely have a himself to his dominion, he would be legally responsible sexual relation. as an accomplice. So in 2 W. & B. Med. Jur. 454 a case is reported H. G. Chapin (supra) said that hypnotism is not in which a girl after visiting a therapeutic hypnotizer something that can be forced upon a person, and there­ daily for some time found herself pregnant, and on ex­ fore, one, who, knowing that while in a state of hyp­ amination her pregnancy dated from the time of her nosis he may be compelled to commit crime, voluntarily visits. But no mention was made of the fact that im­ suffers himself to be placed in that condition, may be pregnation might have been the result of intercourse supposed to have anticipated all consequences of his between the visits citing Devergie in Gaz, Med. de Paris act, and agreed to become responsible for them, and this and Edinburgh Monthly Journal 1860. vol. 2, p. 561. would apply to a case in which it was suggested by the And in the Castilian case reported by Prosper Despine hypnotist that a false state of facts existed which would, is referred to in which hypnotic influence was supposed if true, justify the commission of the offense. to have been exerted over a female subject for an im­ So in the “Arena,” vol. 18, p. 554 (supra), said that moral purpose, and in which the defendant was con­ if the subject voluntarily permits himself to be placed victed and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary. in a state of mental irresponsibility, the well settled And in the case of the dentist, Levy, in the Roven principle of law that a person cannot take advantage of Assizes, the dentist was convicted of rape on a young his own misconduct would govern in case of his viola­ woman in the dentist's chair upon her testimony as to tion of the law while in that condition. her subsequent condition, and that of the dentist that But in 27 Chic. Legal News, 65, it was said editorially the intercourse took place with her consent, and the that “evidence of any knowledge the patient may have report of the medical examiners that the state of nerv­ acquired, when in her normal condition of general or ous sleep really existed, and that the girl might be particular purposes, on the part of her hypnotizer would violated while her will is abolished by this means. 2 W. be material (in a prosecution in which hypnotism is & B. Med. Jur. 453. claimed in defense as), it might be too harsh to apply So in a case reported in 15 Medico Legal J. 266, a the analogy from drunkenness to the case of a person girl aged 20 years claimed to have been kidnapped, taken who was without any ground for suspicion of criminal to the woods, stripped of her clothing, and tied to a tree, motives— one, for instance, who submitted to a hyp­ where she was found the next morning, and four young notist in a jesting spirit, or out of curiosity, or for sup­ men were charged with the crime, and arrested and con­ posed medical treatment. victed of sending improper letters to her which deter­ So, merely showing that a woman who committed a mination was also set aside; subsequently she made a homicide was told to kill the deceased by her husband, sworn confession that her testimony was false, and that and that she subsequently did it, does not prove hypno­ the letters were written by her guardian and others for tism, or, at least, does not tend to establish a defense the purpose of convicting the young men, but when this to'the charge of murder. 105 Calif. 166. confession became known she was taken to a newspaper And testimony as to the effect of hypnotism upon office by her guardian and there denied ever having those subject to such influence is not admissible in a made it, and she denied the confession when brought criminal prosecution in which the crime was alleged to into court though it was witnessed by four prominent have been committed under the influence of hypnotic and trust-worthy citizens, the guardian being present suggestion, where there was no evidence tending to when the denials were made. Subsequently she escaped show that,the defendant was subject to the disease, if from the guardian's residence, and declared that the con­ it be such. 105 Calif. 166. fessions were absolutely true, and said he had such an In Hamilton Legal Med., vol. 2, p. 451, it was said influence over her that she was helpless, to do other­ that hypnosis might be used as a means to prevent re­ wise than as he told her to do. 16 The Occult Digest March 1926 In 13 Med. Legal J. 254 (supra) said however that without pain, but such possibilities are rare, or it would hypnotism would be no plea in defense of rape, because come into more general use. Clevengers p. 10/. a truly virtuous woman would resent the least approach And faith healers, Christian scientists, etc. Clevengers toward familiarity in the hypnotic state, even as she Insanity p. 107. would in the waking- condition and if the immoral sug­ And in the report of the committee of hypnotism of gestions were persisted in it would awaken her, but that the British Medical Assn. Birmingham meeting 1890, intercourse might be had with a courtesan in a hypnotic in 11 Med. Legal J. 7.3, said that the committee was state, and that she might be led to believe that the act o f the opinion that as a therapeutic agent hypnotism is was done by a perfectly innocent person, but that any­ frequently effective in relieving pain, procuring sleep, one who should allege seduction in a hypnotic condition and alleviating many functional ailments, as to its per­ would proclaim herself an immoral person. manent efficacy in the treatment of drunkenness the evi­ In le Med. Leg. Journal 241, Dr. H. A. Parkyn, dence before the committee is encouraging, but not Chicago, who was present when the Briggs Pickus case conclusive. occurred, is quoted (just preceding) as saying that this So in 15 Med. Legal J. 367, T. B. Keyes, M. D., case was one of hysteria, or o f original sin. That w henn Chicago, in an article (etc. supra) recommended hypno- I the Briggs girl and her girl companion first returned rism as a cure for dipsomania and sexual perversion, .1 after their two days’ absence nothing was said aboutj supporting his recommendation with the opinions of I hypnotism; but when people began to talk about and numerous medical men, and said that “by the use of I shun them they found it necessary to hunt up an excuse proper hypnotic suggestions we may train the mind on I for their absence and to account for their presence in a correct basis and lead the thoughts in a proper chan- I the place where they were found: That the Briggs girl nel, while unhealthy and criminal thoughts may be soft- I knew something of hypnotism, and was shrewd, senti­ ened, deadened, and obliterated, and thus by proper hyp- I mental and hysterical, and that she may have imagined node suggestions, fearful passions may be ameliorated. I the commission of crime during a hysterical moment, The weakness of character of the occasional criminal or she may have concocted the story to screen her part may be strengthened. The unresisting desire of the in the case, and that no one who knows anything about criminal insane or kleptomaniac may be reversed to re­ the case now believes that hypnotism had anything to pulsion. Under hypnotism we may teach and even do with it bring the criminal to religious views in truthfulness, In 2 Hamilton L. M. 542 it was said that the hypnotic honesty and uprightness.” state is one preeminently hallucinatory and therefore Hypnotic suggestions, however, accomplish nothing prone to originate fake ideas especially in the hypnotic with the insane. Clevinger Insanity p. 1092. subj'ect, and for this reason there can be no excuse for But there is a difference of opinion as to the hann- the induction of the hypnotic condition in a female by fulness of hypnotism; it is probable that it harms some a man without the presence of witnesses. and does not so affect others; at any rate there is enough In Bouvier’s Law Diet., Rawle’s Revision, it was said danger to make considerable caution necessary, particu­ that the use of hypnotism as an inquisitorial agent is larly as to repetitions. Clevinger’s Insan. p. 107. permitted by the law of Holland, citing 95 Law Tunes The fully hypnotic state implying a marked disturb­ 500 and in Witthams & B. supra it was said that in ance of consciousness and personality is abnormal, and hypnotism there is a complete loss of memory o f events inay have serious physical results on the subject, H. M. which take place during sleep on waking. The memory Bamister, M. D., Chicago, 51 Alt. L. G. 87. recurs in succeeding states, however, so that the crime And in Bouvier’s Law Diet, (supra) it was said that must be described while the subject is under hypnotic the consensus of medical opinion would seem to be in influence at some subsequent date. favor of regulation of hypnotism. And a case is reported in 15 Med. Legal J. 266, taken from the A. Journal of Insanity, 1848, in which a man So, in the report of the committee on hypnotism (supra) 11 Medico Legal J. 73, it was said that dam­ was accused by an hysteric lunatic of an attempt to murder her; she was hypnotized and her narration of ages in the use of hypnotism may arise from want of the story during the hypnotic state varied decidedly knowlege, carelessness or intentional abuse or from too from that given in the conscious state, and the mesmer­ continuous repetition of suggestions in unsuitable cases, ized was permitted to testify to such facts. and that in their opinions when used for therapeutic purposes its employment should be confined to qualified And in 3 Amer. Lawyer, 535 (supra-Chapin), said medical men; and they expressed their strong disap­ however, that the condition o f the subject during hyp­ probation of public exhibitions of hypnotic phenomena, nosis is almost identical with natural sleep, and that and the hope that some legal restriction will be placed therefore the general rule of law that statements during upon them. sleep are not receivable in evidence should apply, and And in the case of Spurgeon Young, reported in 14 that hypnotism should not be made use of for the par- Medico Legal Journal 529, the coroner of Chatauqua pose of eliciting testimony. County, who was also the health officer of Jamestown, This is the view adopted by the principal case. New York, held an inquest with a jury to inquire into And in 51 Alb. L. J. 87 (supra), said that where an the cause of Young’s death and how far it was due to individual is fully in the hypnotic condition he can be or traceable to his condition as affected by repeatedly made to say anything and even honest questioning may placing him in a hypnotic state by hypnotizers, who were act as false suggestions and that therefore any confes­ not skilled. The jury after hearing the answers ot sion or admission made by hypnotized persons ought to numerous medical experts to hypothetical questions in­ be legally excluded: that susceptibility to suggestion, volving the facts, returned a verdict of death from even to the extent of affecting bodily functions, does diebetes and nervous exhaustion caused by hypnotic not necessarily imply the hypnotic condition, though the practices upon him for several months prior to fab difference is to some extent one o f degree only; this death, his body having been suspended between two must be remembered in considering or estimating the chairs, while under hypnotic influence, the bpek of his value of testimony. head resting on one chair and his feet upon another Hypnotism may influence some patients to anaes- without any support, and that while so suspended a per- thaesia. so that surgical operations can be performed (Cmtinued on page 41) The Occult Digest March 1926 17 C. 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AnOutline Astronom ical and of the Astrological Heavens Data During for Students 1926 and Laymen

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W E do not have such a va­ NIGHT SKY 17 minutes after it, but, like riety of stars in the firma­ MARCH AND APRIL I Miaplacidus, a 1st mag. star in ment during March as we C.The stars on these maps are represented by the oars, cannot be seen in the had during the months of Jan­ white circles of different sizes; the larger United States as an observer in uary and February, but the stars the circle, die brighter the star. Sirius is the the northern hemisphere can at this season to be seen in the brightest star in the sky. Next to him, in the order named, come Vega, Arcturus, Ca­ only see stars as many degrees heavens are among the most in­ pe! la, Procyon, Ahair, Betelguese, Aldebaran, south o f the equinoctial in the teresting of the celestial galaxy. Rigel. Pollux, An tares, Spica, Regulus, De­ southern hemisphere as his own nch, Fomalfaaut and Castor. Five or six stars Argo, the Ship, is a constella­ as bright as these are omitted, because they latitude lacks o f 90 degrees, and tion which occupies a large space are never visible from north temperature no more. latitudes. Mira (Omicron Ceti) is shown by in the southern hemisphere, but a double circle because of its extreme vari­ Markeb, 3rd mag. is in the of which very little can be seen ability, being sometimes very bright and prow o f the ship and may be in the United States. It is situated sometimes invisible. seen from.this latitude 16* S. E. These Star maps, 6y courtesy of “Scientific S. E. of Canis Major (see The American," may be purchased in sets of of Sirius and about 10* east of Stars of Febuary) and may be six for the year, for 10 cents. Wesen in the back of the Dog. recognized by the stars which Argo contains 64 stars of form the prow and deck of the ship. If a straight line which 2 are o f the 1st mag., 4 o f die 2nd, and 9 o f the joining Betelguese and Sirius be produced 18* to the 3rd. Most o f them are too low to be seen from our S. W. it will point out Naos, a star of die 2nd Mag. in latitudes. the rowlock of the ship. This star is in the S. E. corner This constellation is intended to perpetuate die of the Egyptian X (see stars of February) and of the memory of the famous ship which carried Jason and his large equilateral triangle made by itself with Sirius and 54 companions to Colchis, when they resolved upon the the Dove. When on the meridian it is seen about 8* above perioious expedition of recovering the Golden Fleece the Southern horizon. It comes to the Meridian about The derivation of the word Argo has often been dis­ the 3rd of March about half an hour after Procyon, and puted. Some derive it from Argos, supposing that this is visible only a few hours. was the name o f the person who built the ship, and first The principal star in this constellation is called, after proposed the expedition. Others maintain that it was one of the pilots. Canopus; it is of the 1st Mag. 36* built at Argos, whence its name Cicero calls it Argo nearly south of Sirius, and comes to the meridian about because is carried Greeks, commonly called A »gives. 18 The Occult Digest March 1926 | Diodorus derives it from a word friends, trouble through enemies which means swift Ptolemy says, and opposite sex, domestic dishar­ but not truly, that Hercules built Mars mony, violent and possibly public death. With Neptune; aggressive, the ship and called it Argo after a ERE matter, broken on the son of Jason who bore that name. materialistic, strong mind and body, wheel of Time, loss through quarrels, speculations This ship had fifty oars, and being H’Glows with defiant bril­ thus propelled must have fallen far and friends, ideas or inventions of­ liance as it dies— ten stolen, peculiar events through­ short in bulk of the smallest ship An epic agon, suffering sublime craft used today and it is even said out life, unexpected losses and Writing its death throes in the gains, disharmony with father in that the crew carried it on their deathless skies. backs from the Danube to the earlier life, liable to accidents and Symbol of strife, but never of sudden death. Adriatic. According to many decay; authors it had a beam on its prow Foramen: of the nature of Of deep desire untutored and un­ Saturn and Jupiter, causes peril, cut in die forest of Dodona by Min­ chained, erva, which had the power of giv­ dignity, piety, usefulness and ac­ Of high ambition checked and quisitiveness, and gives danger to ing oracles to the Argonauts. It is held at bay; said to have been the first ship that the eyes. With the Sun, danger of A too sweet yearning all too shipwreck. ever ventured upon the sea. After grossly pained. the expedition was finished, Jason Markeb; a small star in the Yet only those who intimately buckler of the ship of the nature ordered it drawn ashore at the feel isthmus of Corinth, and conse­ of Saturn and Jupiter, rendering The hunger left of unattained the native pious, giving wide crated to Neptune, god of the sea. dreams, Sir Isaac Newton endeavors to knowledge, predisposing to educa­ The crush of Fate’s inexorable setde the period of this expedition tional work and voyages, and if hand— rising, profitable journeys in com­ at about 30 years before the destruc­ And, feeling these, with unabated tion of Troy; and 43 years after zeal pany with Jupiterian and Saturn­ ian people in which the native is the death of Solomon. Dr. Bryant, Push onward where a fairer however, rejects this theory, and planet gleams— grave and discreet, but suffers much injury which ultimately calls the whole experience unhis- None else but these your worth torical and the mere figment of the can understand. turns to good. Greek imagination. He supposes — Libra. Cancer, or The Crab, is now the the constellation to refer to Noah’s fifth constellation and the fourth ark and the deluge, and that the sign of the Zodiac. It is situated in fable of the Argonaudc adventures the Ecliptic between Deo on the E. is founded on certain Egyptian traditions that relate to and Gemini on the W . and contains 83 stars of which the preservation of Noah and his family. one is of the 3rd, and seven of the 4th M. Some place According to Ptolemy the bright stars are like Saturn all these stars in the 4th M. Acubens is in the south­ and Jupiter. Argo is said to give prosperity in trade eastern claw, and an imaginary line drawn from Capella and voyages, and strength of mind and spirit, but it has through Pollux (see stars of February) will point out been observed to accompany cases of drowning (notably Acubens about 24° from Pollux. It may be otherwise that of Shelley, the poet.) Drowning is, according to distinguished from the fact that it stands between two astrologers, greatly to be feared when Saturn afflicts very small stars close by it in the same claw. the moon in or from Argo. There is a nebulous cluster of very minute stars in the Of the individual stars in the constellation which crest of Cancer sufficiently luminous to be seen by the have a definite astrological influence, the following are naked eye. It is situated in a triangular position with the principal ones and their reputed effects. reference to the head of The Twins and the Little Dog. Canopus: According to Ptolemy it is of the nature It is about 20° W . of each. It may be otherwise dis­ of Saturn and Jupiter. Alvidas says it is like the Moon covered by means of two conspicuous stars of the 4th and Mars. It is said to give piety, conservatism, a wide M. lying one on either side of it, at a distance-of about and comprehensive knowledge, voyages, educational 2", called the Northern and the Southern Asseli. By work, and changes evil to good. If culminating great some Orientalists this cluster was called Praesepe, the glory, fame and wealth, dignity and authority by the help Manger, a contrivance which their fancy fitted up for of an old clergyman or influential person. With the Sun; the accommodation of the Aselli, or Asses. The southern domestic affliction, trouble with father or parents, Asellus is situated in the line of the ecliptic and marks financial loss, danger of accidents, burns and fevers, and the course of the earth’s orbit for a space of 36° from is unfavorable to the end of life. With the Moon; suc­ the solstitial colure. There are several other double and cess in martial matters as a soldier, surgeon, metal nebulous stars in the cluster most of which are too small worker, etc. With Mercury; rash, headstrong, stubborn, to be seen. Indeed, Cancer is less remarkable for the kindhearted, speaker or writer on unpopular subjects brilliance of its stars than any other constellation in the incurring criticism; trouble and loss through domestic Zodiac. The Sun arrives at Cancer about the 21st of matters, partners and law. With Venus; emotional, June, but does not reach the constellation until about the sensitive, stubborn, strong passions, scandal thru an 23rd of July. Cancer is on the meridian about the 3rd intrigue by which reputation will suffer, public disgrace, of March. and bad for gain. With Mars; Cruel, bad-tempered, en­ vious, jealous. With Jupiter; great pride, religion used The beginning of the sign Cancer (not the constella­ for business ends, voyages, honor and preferment but tion) is called the tropic of Cancer, and when the Sun reversal through public dissatisfaction. With Saturn; dis­ has reached this point it has arrived at its utmost limit contented, occult interests, unfavorable for reputation of North declination, where it seems to remain station­ and domestic matters, little prominence but may do good. ary for a few days and then begins to decline again to With Uranus; materialistic, dishonorable, many difficul­ the South. This stationary attitude of the Sun is ties, easily influenced, estranged from relatives and (Continued on page 26) The Occult Digest March 1926 19 D o Y ou r W ishes C ome T rue in D reams? C.Dr. Freud Argues That Desires, Deep in Soul, Are Fulfilled During The Hours of Sleep.

ms IT better to dream or not to Take the case of the unfortunate I dream? If you do not dream, Announcing for April 1 Major Andre, who was hanged as I your hours of sleep are abso­ a spy by the order of Washington. lute vacancies, or great empty jFrater A chad's Before Major Andre set sail for chasms, yawning, at regular inter­ Masterful Presentation of America, he went to visit a Miss vals, across the whole width of “THE CHALICE 1 Seward, in Derbyshire. She pre­ your life. sented him to two of her If you do dream, the river of OF ECSTASY” friends, a poet named New­ your life is divided between over­ ton and a clergyman named 41 Being a Magical and Cunningham. When Newton saw ground and under-ground pass­ Qabalistic Interpretation of ages, and some persons find those the stranger he started and turned hours that are passed in sunless THE DRAMA OF pale. The cause of his sudden caverns, “measureless to man,” far emotion came out after the Major more fascinating than the others. PARZIVAL had departed. Mr. Newton, the Ordinarily, however, people think By very night before, had had a dream, dreamless sleep is to be preferred, “ A Companion of the Holy Grail” which he had immediately related on the supposition that it is more who says, to the clergyman. restful and refreshing. But the “The Legend of Parzival is not sub­ He thought he was in a strange German neurologist, Dr. Freud, ject to Time nor Circumstance; it forest through which he saw a holds the opposite opinion. represents a glimpse of the Eternal horseman passing in haste. Sud­ If the dreams are pleasant, says Reality, ithe Everpresent Here and denly three men started out of a Now. The circumstances of its en­ Dr. Freud, they are an agreeable actment and the place wherein the thicket and arrested the horseman. stimulus to the brain cells and that festival is beheld, need not be sought Newton was so much interested by stimulus remains after the sleeper outside the human heart that has the prisoner’s face and felt so much awakes. The cells have the bene­ learned to beat in time and tune with sympathy for him that he awoke ficial effect of play, which recup­ the Soul of the World.” greatly disturbed. Presently he erates by the simple change of occu­ fell asleep again, and the same per­ pation. Deep, dreamless slumber, on son now appeared to him, sur­ the other hand, stupefies by its total relaxation, and the rounded by a crowd of people and was led to a gallows, awakening sleeper must collect his energies and set them where he was hanged. going again. When Major Andre was presented to Newton, he in­ No doubt much depends upon peculiarities of temper­ stantly recognized the man of his dream. Not long ament, and dreaming may be good for some persons and afterward occurred the historic arrest of Andre in the bad for others. Even Dr. Freud would admit that un­ woods at Tarrytown, followed by his execution at easy, disturbing or terrifying dreams have an ill effect, Tappan. but then he holds that, in general, dreams are of an Take the case of Dr. Harvey, the celebrated discoverer agreeable nature. of the circulation of the blood. When he was a young But fear-breeding dreams are inspiring, too, when man he set out from London to go to Padua, in Italy, you feel that you are passing through them without any the seat of the famous university where he wished to study. When he got to Dover, the Governor refused to undue or disgraceful exhibition of sheer fright. You let him enter his packet to cross the Channel, but de­ can train yourself to face even a nightmare with a cer­ clined to give any reason. The next day news arrived tain degree of moral courage which you will recall with satisfaction when the vision is gone. Thus terrifying at Dover that the packet had been lost with every soul dreams may be made to afford a certain degree of that on board. Then the Governor explained his strange conduct. He said he had had a dream of overwhelming moral education which in waking life is only obtained force, in which he was forbidden to allow a young man, by those who pass through scenes of real peril and whose face appeared to him, to enter the boat. When terror. Harvey presented himself the Governor recognized the Dreams, Dr. Freud observes, are normally the imagi­ face in his dream. nary fulfillment of desires and wishes that lurk deep in Mrs. Pierce Green, wife of a well-to-do retired farmer the soul. While the dream lasts, the control of the reason living near Aurora, 111., apparently perfectly well, had is released. In a dream, one is in chaos, and in chaos a premonition. She saw herself a corpse, lying on a nothing is chaotic, because chaos knows no law. But bier in the parlor of her home. Over the bier was a what are laws and chaos but opposed ID EAS, and how calendar turned to December 27. Above the calendar can we say that one is any more real than the other? she saw a clock showing the time to be 4:30. Some philosophies assert that the things which seem Mrs. Green interpreted the premonition to mean she to us the most real are in truth the most un-real 1 would be dead at 4:30 that afternoon. It was then Yet there is an intimate connection between dreams 10. She figured she had at least six hours more of life and waking life. Many dreams are distorted memories and started setting her worldly affairs in order. First of actual occurrences, and many are suggested by such she sat dbwn and wrote an obituary, which she marked: occurrences. There is a widespread belief that dreams “For publication in the newspapers December 28.” are often portents, or forewarnings. The books are Mr. Green, finding his wife thus occupied when he full of most interesting instances which seem to lend returned home from Aurora, scoffed at her prepara- support to this view. (Continued on page 39) 20 The Occult Digest March J92(j G H OSTS W E True experiences of

Personal “ S-A-T-A-N.” B y A. B . Cooper, the Journalist. M W Y nearest approach to a ghostly | experience was on a wintry night when four lonesome people were housebound in the country and someone A BIRTHDAY SPECTER suggested a table-rapping experiment By the Hon. Mrs. Claude Yorke It was my first effort, many years ago, and I have never "rapped” since. That table did amazing things for which I S OON after I retired to bed in a certain picturesque old house in a well- could not account then, and cannot now. known hunting centre I woke up with a start; My dog, who was We sat in the brightly lighted dining standing in the middle of the room, was rigid and bristling, his teeth bared. room. The table was an ordinary, three- legged affair, but the way it spelled out Slowly the handle of the bedroom door was turning. I called out “What remarkable sentences would have done do you want?" But the handle continued to turn. Ihen a form of white credit to an expert telegraphic operator. radiance came from outside. I ran to the door. There was nothing out­ When we had been sitting for some­ side. thing over an hour, and had had half a dozen “communications,” we got a "pres­ Our housekeeper, a prosaic old soul, retired early one night and locked ence” that would not reveal its identity. the door. At one o’clock she awoke, the room being full of a bright light Each of us attempted to elicit the name which “shone like a new florin,” as she told us. She saw a figure material­ of the invisible visitor. "Will you kindly tell me your name?” ize slowly—a shining figure m white, the face of which was seared with I asked. The reply was a very decided pain. After the housekeeper cried out three times the figure finally van­ “No,” indicated by a hard bump of the ished. table leg on the carpet. "Won’t yon please tell us your name?” Again, and Some months later, in a London library, I read that a strange spirit more decidedly, "N o !” “Are you a good was supposed to haunt an ancient monastery which used to stand near the spirit?" The table almost lifted itself house in question. Also, in an out-of-date guide book, I discovered that bodily, and gave a crashing “No!” “Will the "White Lady" appeared only to those bom in May or December. I you, as a special favor to me, reveal yonr name?" A pause, and then three slow wrote to the housekeeper out of curiosity, to find out her birthday. Sure and gentle taps— "Yes." "Will you spell enough, it was May 17th. it, please?” “Yes." Then, at tremendous speed, the table tapped nineteen times; that was S. One tap, and it stopped dead; that was A. Twenty times; that was T. Once, and A GHOST’S DEATH WARNING stopped dead; that was A again. Four­ teen times; that was N. The name the By Sir Alfred Robbins (Journalist) I table spelled was SATAN . A peculiar thrill ran through my body. I N MY native town of Launceston, in Cornwall, a n’er-do-well once lived I rose from the table and said, "I shall . who had many reckless adventures. One day he told his associates that never do this again," and I never have. I am absolutely certain that no conscious on the previous night he was crossing Yealm Bridge, which spans a stream human agency had anything to do with between Devon and Cornwall, and discovered himself between Satan and the table’s movements. It moved either his hounds, who were engaged hunting. The demon threatened him that, if by its own volition or by the will of ever he crossed the bridge again at night and interfered with the hunt, he some agency other than the four persons would be strode dead. sitting round it. The story was laughed at as a drunken phantasy, but the man himself LOVE’S WARNING. for yean made long detours to avoid crossing Yealm Bridge after dark. By Nellie Tom-Gallon, the Authoress. Seeing a carriage returning empty to Launceston one night, he asked I SAT in what is technically called a the driver to give him a lift on the step. Assent was given, but on arrival “direct voice seance," which means at the stable the driver found the man had gone. The daughter of a neigh­ that the voices of friends who have passed out of this life come direct, and boring farmer who crossed the bridge late that night stumbled over a body not through a trumpet. A dozen people lying across the road. It was the ne’er-do-well, dead. sat with me. Four or five of them were talking to unseen speakers. I had had a At the inquest no evidence of external violence was produced, and no long conversation with someone very natural cause assigned; and the foreman of the jury, who was my father, dear to me, and they had gone. My at­ pointed out that, if this were a case of visitation from beyond, that visita­ tention was free for a conversation be­ tion must have come not from the Almighty but from the devil; and they tween a young Canadian, who sat betide me, and his wife, who had been gone agreed on causes unknown. from this earth some six months. In my boyhood I was acquainted with the two principal witnesses— Her voice was the sweetest, most mov­ ing I have ever heard. I listened, rever­ the driver of the carriage and the girl who found the corpse; and of their ently interested in these young people, good faith none ever entertained doubt and gathered from their talk the story The Occult Digest March 1926 21 H AV E SEEN W orld Fam ous Feople

of the girl-mother dying and taking her o f Spirit Friends new-born baby with her to the next world. She knew how her, young hus­ band was going halting through life for want of her, knew that he had travelled to England in search of soti)e distraction from his sad thoughts.' She knew, too, that he had found no peace, that he had resolved to kill him­ THE HAUNTED TREE self in the hope of getting to her more By Winifred Graham (The Novelist) quickly. Never in my life have I heard anything more beautiful than the way she pleaded with him, urging him not to do I THINK the most striking psychic event in my family occurred many it, begging him to realize that she loved years ago to my father and mother. One moonlight night they were him as much as ever, and was busy, while she waited, in preparing a new home for seated in a punt against our river lawn. them both. Suddenly my father cried, “Do you see anything on the lawn?’’ She described the tittle home she was making and how she was furnishing it. My mother replied, "Yes, a man hanging from the magnolia tree.” She told him that nothing could spoil its They both sprang up and rushed to the spot, to find nothing, and attrib­ beauty unless he made her unhappy by uted the strange effect to moonlight. trying to break through the scheme of life that had parted them for a little About a week later they were at a ball, and my father danced with while. a lady who said, “I hear you haye bought Nell Gwynn’s old house on the I heard Love triumphant then. I heard river, where a man was found hanging from a magnolia tree.” it wrestle with this man whose mind was dark— cheer him and strengthen him to Very startled, he asked for particulars, and was told that a footman go on. I came away when I heard him who had got into trouble had committed suicide on that spot. promise never again to think of taking It may interest readers to know that I have received a daily message his own life, knowing that of all things in this world or the next Love is strong­ by automatic writing through my hand ever since my father died in 1922. est, the one perfect force that is creative and never fails.

THE GHOST IN GREY. By Mrs. Robert Noble, the Journalist. THE FACE AT THE WINDOW T HE old family home in Jersey is By Dr. Lindsay Johnson (The Scientist) said to be haunted. Long ago it was the scene of a murder, and after­ wards for many years there were ru­ ffyN 1882 I made a tour across Norway for the purpose of taking a mours of a ghost. 1 series of photographs. I journeyed from Christiania to the North This was actually seen in broad day­ light by one of my cousins in the hall, Cape, taking views en route of all places of interest or of beauty from an and another cousin told me that one night artist’s point of view. I was accompanied by Mr. Frith, of Reigate. she could not sleep, and had a curious feeling that she was not alone _ in the “We journeyed without any incident of note until June 14th, when we room. On peering round she noticed the arrived at a small posting station called Husum, situated about twelve figure of a little woman dressed in grey miles from the Sogne Fjord. On arriving at the station we secured rooms, silk, and sitting on a chair wringing her hands. My cousin always regretted that and, ordering dinner, I sat down in the dining-room close to a window she did not speak to her, for she felt that facing the river. I told my companion I had some letters to write. He she must be some restless and unhappy went out. It was then about a’quarter-past five; the rain had quite ceased, souL and the sun was shining brilliantly. Some months before my cousin had this experience I was sharing this room “I had been writing for about fifteen minutes when I suddenly heard with a sister, and, although she slept a loud tapping at the window. Looking up, 1 saw my friend, dripping soundly, I had a wretched six weeks of sleeplessness. I felt afraid to close my wet, an expression of agony on his face, and beckoning me to come to him. eyes, and had a distinct impression that I dropped my pen and hurried out of the room, along the passage, and out there was something evil and uncanny of the front door, which stood open. To my intense surprise, I saw in the room, although I saw nothing. At the time I knew nothing about the alleged nothing; there was absolutely no trace of anyone. I was dumbfounded. ghost, and only heard of it later when "Next morning, seeing his bed untouched, I became seriously alarmed, comparing notes with my cousin. We both felt great discomfort in that room. and summoned everyone connected with the place. A thorough search I was told afterwards by other rela­ was made, but no traces of my friend were to be found. Ten days after­ tions that they had heard the most ex­ wards, the river having subsided, the dead body of my companion was traordinary noises in the disused attics, found wedged between the rocks, nearly opposite the window of the room as of boxes and furniture being thrown about, though when investigation was in which I had been sitting when I heard the tapping and saw what I made nothing seemed to be disturbed. thought was my friend.” 22 The Occult Digest March 1926 M y S t a r s —A n d W h a t T h e y T e l l M e The Twelve Human Temperaments as Related to The Twelve Zodiacal Signs

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Aries and the motive Temperament Cancer and the Melancholic H IS temperament possesses great Temperament T imaginations They are inclined to Persons o f this temperament have bub lead in all phases of life, and often hopes and ambitions. They long for over-rule all objections and forge ahead riches and the best things to life, yet alone if no co-operation is at band. They hare not enough spirit to forge ahead possess B im m l executive abilities and bravely and acquire these things. They are bond to take the leadership in all are entirely too timid and fearful, sat they endertakr. Their ambitions are far­ nervous. T hey can become proficient it in g , and seldom do things by halves. many 'things, if they will build up enoefa They are destined to great faults and rigor to develop their talents. They fe great weaknesses. To overcome a bad their vitality run low and are thus eafa tendency or habit for them is a mcnm- fatigued. There is inclination to he over­ u m « task in their imagination They sensitive, and because of this wiU he would rather be nfKrtrA than endure the slaves to subordinate positions a gnat agonj or refoamatioa. They are in­ part of their lives tmless they leant Is clined to rush into affairs nad deliberate demand recognition and demand far afterwards. They are reckless in lodg­ rightful does. T heir best locations an ment and careless of opinions These in the country, o r small towns in quiet, people * 9 always be most surrrssfid in mental occu pations, near a babbling brodc *flal dull we read on oar a dry aaomfahaoas country. or a lazy river. travel* la Europe. Asia, Panama, Tamms and the B iitm t Temperament 5ootli America f* And alert This temperament is bound to make its Leo and the Sanguine Temperament ¿eaten answer: “Read Maestro catrre harsh to expression and of — isual This temperament causes its [»newn |a a t * For ibrir miiqnr plots activity. It is easy to get along with to be extremely lively, ftdl o f life, sat am fascinating; their panoramas these persons if allowed to plan all o a t - ouer-wuhdgmcr. They are iirieprufat taags or proeedues. They most be lead a n d to have to depend upon ode a af Syria, Cartapena, and Sooth to fahde they ate havmg their way for any of the necessities of life. Tier America are striking; and, beat whether they really ate or not. otherwise h a v e great self-control and genecafa of aOL the light they shed on the they e 3 be very disagreeable and com make a good mapressaon as winterer pfammg- They are impofarrr. sometimes c a d e o f society they choose to mingle problem* of fife, death, iaamor- n d b n . and hard to conrinoe against T hey are generous bat not ijm pilhfi tafity a> m the words of th e her own jrim ot W hen once they They usually none their own sorrovt r rtrtmfing mad start a thmg they me it thru regardless and thank that others sfaoedd be able tv a t any tbm des They have an over- do th e tam e. They are usually opponte imply a t wlf-confidence. and often tm- in opinion« to all others, and «emetines dnrobe dregs that is dB cd t far them cause a great deal of rnprnt'w m fa to fimdbb when fa y u 3 ca l ia the assist - p art o f th eir friends because of fag THE BUSINESS «-a aeoe of semeone who w l have to pre- They try to five down their fasoonrapt- irod to mlve f a prahlem thru fais tern- ments. bm always m to a n lz fa n MAN OF STRIA peranmd’s mBBunons. Their best places progress on acnomg o f (heir pronorntr I are m large d ies wear swiftly moving difference o f opinion from their are- CABMEN AREZA , ciafax. T hey reotdd always five on hhje. red Em J dry ground away from due water if pas- Cm red fa Pitof Trw/n meiaf sfale. TH O i ISMAEL fc jg Tim temperament is deal ie a a . aad is cototltd a great deal by f a f a THE DIARY OF < peine organs. A good fagegion wdl Virgo mod & e Lymphatic Tcmperaaed JEAN D A R T S rehe a caeeCrwctvve temperament, whle This is a negative temperamem sa t a peer fagestam v l profane the oppo- these people ate very pnrtiadar. Sw- abc. They ate changeable, t e n t h , and t m a f a g i candy eneomage or dnowap r n fa n . They constantly keep bmy to fa n They ate ptatlirjl. earvfal aid OCCULT PUBLISHING CO. wmh t f faeir e m u f a aocnmdtatmg enjoy a »ofay time. A good ttary is «ear M i H. C M Street. Cifaagnv BBoais energy People wifa fan temperament lo rp tk x by faeng, and faey ate timer ase canifa jwhera or choosers, faey are mnertainers on aoooref of mear •faro pm re erifa mmaawem- memory. They have hi^h a g e in g ______r fare creme hfaatmeay by aad nreafiy anna a U eA * higher fans fa n m u ( fare r ifa s Their afaechum ■ avk. Their fhdoaophy of file as nil - | to be «gacaed, and faey amntracted. hm are refined W 1 . 1 * 9 marry a h a faeir finances. They stake • m p r o l friends hm neMsm apenl nab money agna faeir t s u ijlr i The bm fa*® for farm are in huge dries m nr mar targe rive n

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QUESTIONS & ANSIVERS Here's the Answer to Your Question on The Love * Romance * Business * Marriage Greatest t V E C , O h io —Will Chi loot« Company J S 1 R , P a —What can I do to better be successful in 1926? conditions financially ? A —Not until 1927. yf—Become a taíetn•man; socially, take • » » up music. OCCULT LA SIC, Canada —What cause* head­ ache and other trouble? D D S , C a lif —Will 1 be a successful A — The cause of headache is a dis­ writer; who is holding me back? DIGEST located vertebrae. Employ Osteopathic A — S o t any one. In time, fairly so, or Chiropractic physician. For other Q —What are the vibrations over the trouble eat plant of greenvegetables, top and sides of my bead ? P u b lis h e d oranges and apples. Keep in the air; A —Psychic activities. The drawn feel­ take son baths. Refrain from thinking ing between the eyes is physical; look and talking about ailments. after your nerves. Continue literary THE * * * work ; many opportunities to do good. 0 0 0 JLC —Have I the right idea about psy­ APRIL chic power; would I be able to master it? S C , S ia t i —Will I be reunited with A —Your idea is good; you could ac­ W.? Will he come to the States or will complish much. I go to Europe? ISSUE Q—Will I ever be in a successful busi­ A —You will go to Europe early PaU. ness of my own? ★ A —You will be successful but not in your own business M E E , C a lif —Dreams revert»* to (he Q —What is holding me back from past, are significant of the future. Pre- G r e a te s t in size getting a better position? pariing a dtwner in the home of another, if—Your lack of poise. nonome in disorder, accompanied by astas- ★ Q —What can I do to make my wife hhmrnl. would mean diStashies in do­ happy and contented? mestic relations of those yon were sc- A —You should both take a course in ausinted with but not in your own home. G r e a te s t in ad- The untidy appearance of guests denote mental training of the nerves. that all parties are to Mame. Kot being able to be waited on tbotdd be a warning v e r t i s i n g ET, Sfa—Hate I any pmtydúc gift? to not interfere. Getting friendly with A —Not any special gin; yon conld a stranger shows that your attention will volume derdop autosoatíe writing. he averted In the nmio issues, ending in I Q —!s my níece fortúnate ¡n ber lens, as shown by fhe g»ssip in the drew. dxnce? The bugiWv. workmen, nice ifpetring ★ «f—Yes. s a t denote that your own tom m y affair» o o o will not be disturbed but sM be km G r e a te s t in c ir ­ JS, 70—What gnStíu haré I for de- proved. vdopíne psychíc powers? 0 0 0 culation A —Qaárroyaace. S tH . Omt—The greater part of year Q ,—What fbocld I do lo same mysdf dream has been fabled as your mate- mu oí my presera cxwdáion? meat in letter conveys. The whole thing ★ d—F9 your time and mínd wíds con- was a warning to you concerning the one Sistáie fhíMóng; sede (he aasocíatáau of who made von trouble. Had you heeded it G r e a te s t in e d i­ du f d pseple; resfise Hat

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N ew s N otes of Interest to O ccultists W I L L T E L L YOU More on Devil Worshipers Lapp Magicians Guard Secrets Curious spectators crowded into a Stockholm—Two of the most cher­ courtroom at Melun, last week, as two ished, jealously guarded magic instru­ The Indications of the men and ten women, all members of the ments of Lapp sorcerers, who still are Sadistic Bordeaux cult of N o tr e D a m e said to practice their magical arts in des P le u r s (Our Lady of Tears) were secrecy, have recently been discovered. Planets that may help arranged on a charge of having stripped The most unique of these finds is a and flogged the Abbé des Noyers at wooden image of the Lapp-god, “Seit.” Bombon (T im e , Jan. 18). A Swedish lecturer in the Sorsele dis­ G U I D E Y O U The Abbé appeared in court, although trict of Lappland found the “Seit”—a still suffering from the strokes which curious image carved . in birchwood had been administered to him with knot­ slightly over 36 inches in height—in a Throughout the Year %ted rope ends by his Bordeaux assailants. secluded mountain cavern which evidently One by one they were called to the stand served as a temple. and stoutly continued to maintain that they The method of using this instrument, had flogged the Abbé “because he has of which only a few are known to exist, Astrology is a study menaced the life of our Sainted Mother was to place a small object on the skin of the spectrum, re­ Marie,1” i. e., Marie Mesmin, a former and to beat the drum softly. The object Bordeaux co n cierg e, who has headed the would then hop about from one symbol cording the mathema­ cult of Notre Dame des Pleurs for 21 to another and thus convey information years, and presided at most of its Sadistic to the conjuror. The drum is also used tical calculations of rites. for conjuring, the curing of diseases and Pointing to the Abbé, defendant to exercise control over beings in the the heavenly bodies Maurice Lourdin cried: “There sits the spirit world. and their indicated Devil, Satan himself 1 . . . He is the Those few who have really come into greatest sorcerer of the age. He can intimate contact with the Lapps assert influence upon man make people die, with or without pain, that among these mysterious nomads of as he desires. . . . He sent upon us the North there still are conjurors who and his destiny. - awful maladies. I suffer from them. . . . aref able to perform amazing feats of Our Sainted Mother Suffers. . . .” magic power.— News Dispatch. The judge desired to know exactly how these diseases were sent, and what HOROSCOPES - Curses! they were like. Interpretations according to the Defendant Lourdin explained : “When “The curse of oriental deities is fatal, migrating birds passed oyer the Abbé, at and those who refuse to listen to the standards of Ptolemaic Genethlical Bombon, flying in the direction of Bor­ warnings of eastern natives almost in­ Astrology deaux, he filled them with diseases by variably pay the price,” says a returned sorcery. . . . When the birds passed Frenchman who has spent most of his Natal Chart $2.00 over our homes at Bordeaux (500 miles life in Indo-China. “Three years ago,” Natal Chart Aspected 5.00 away) they caused to grow poisonous he related, “Lord Northcliffe, accom­ mushrooms of lascivious shape and nox­ panied by Maurice Long, former gover­ Natal Chart and Analysis 5.00 ious odor, which gave us shameful dis­ nor of Indo-China, and Andre Tudesq, Natal Chart, aspected, and eases in various forms.” a French journalist, visited one of the with analysis 10.00 The Abbé des Noyers boomed : “That famous Angkor temples. The priests in is a frightful lie I” charge tried to dissuade them, warning Prenatal Chart 5.00 them not to enter the sacred precincts The other male defendant, one Henri For all the above, progressed to Froger, was called : “The Abbé afflicted because the ‘gods consider it a profana­ me likewise with shameful diseases. . ; . tion and punish with death, within three 1927, to above quoted prices We did not mean to kill him but only years, those who fail to obey their com­ add $2.00 to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, mands.’ Northcliffe, the French newspa­ whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now per man, and the governor of the colony weeps night and day. . . . We await ridiculed the priests and entered the tem­ such punishment as may be meted out ple. A year Lter, Northcliffe died. Two to us as martyrs. We have only done years later Gov. Long died, and now A Charted Message our duty.” Tudesq, the newspaper man, who recent­ Mme. Robert, who had declared earlier ly left Paris for the far east, died of a from the Stars will that she was the last to flog the Abbé mysterious disease at Saigon. The gods, des Noyers before he swooned, opened the priests say, have avenged them­ her testimony with a prayer. Said she : help guide you in “We were often bounced about in our selves.”— News Dispatch. beds by this wicked man working his your daily affairs. sorcery.” Brains “She lies 1” cried the Abbé des Noyers. London—Sir Arthur Keith, president Later, the 17-year-old daughter of of the Anthropological Institute, declares Write for Astrological Survey of Mme. Robert, described as “an extraordi­ narily pretty girl,” deposed that she had the human brain is growing smaller and the Year 1926 helped to chatise the Abbé “only because that he, for one, is glad of it because less my mother and the rest did. I did not intellect gives a man a better chance at hit him hard. . . . He has never made happiness. Besides, he says, we don’t me suffer. However, I know that he has need it. “The brain of primitive man,” Write “Libra” made my mother and our Sainted Mother Keith explains, “was bigger than that of Marie suffer.” man today. Man’s brain, through the Box L, 1904 N. Clark Street The hearing continued.— T im e. ages, has been gradually getting smaller.” Chicago, Illinois M e n tio n o f 1 Occult Digest is the best introduction to \r advertisers 26 The Occult Digest March 1926 The Stars of March (Continued from page 18) called the summer solstice. The distance from friends, favorable for gain, danger from the first point of Cancer to the of accidents to the head, fevers, inflam­ equinoctial is called the obliquity of the matory ailments and heart weakness. ecliptic. It is a remarkable fact that this With Mercury ; power and authority is steadily grow ing less. The tropics are after many.difficulties, little gain, numer­ steadily approaching the equinoctial at ous expenses, losses by writings, mort­ the rate of about half a second every gages and bonds. With Venus; proud, year. opinionated, help from influential friends, In the Zodiacs of Esne and Dendera, favorable for gain. With Mars ; cour­ and in most of the atrological remains ageous, generous, noble, just, power and of Egypt, a scarab, or sacred beetle, is authority. With Jupiter; great gain and used as the symbol of this sign. But in influential position, favors from church­ Sir William Jones’ Oriental Zodiac, and men and gain from legacy and ecclesiasti­ in some others found in India, we meet cal matter, benefit from foreign affairs. with the figure of a crab. As the Hindus With Saturn; somewhat self centered in all probability derived their knowledge and self seeking, loss through enemies, of the stars from the Chaldaeans it is high public office, but eventually retire­ supposed that the Crab is the more ment with public censure, favorable for ancient symbol. In some Eastern repre­ gain, unrelenting nature, domestic dis­ sentations of this sign two animals like harmony caused by antipathy between one asses are found in this division of the of the children and thè native or partner. Zodiac; and as the Chaldaean name for With Uranus : energetic, reformer, blunt Ass may be translated “muddiness,” it is in speech and often bitter, fixed ideas, supposed to allude to the discoloring of honest, careless or broad in religion, the Nile which river was rising when the many friends among the public, some of Sun entered Cancer. The Greeks, in whom abuse confidence, enemies among copying this sign, have placed two asses the higher classes, governmental position, as the symbol, and the figure by saying involved in disputes with corporatidns that these are the asses that aided Jupiter owing to social interests, favorable for in his victory over the Giants. gain and domestic matters. Likelihood of Mythologists give, of course, differ­ unexpected death abroad. With Neptune; ing accounts of the origin of this con­ proud, haughty, great self-esteem, occult stellation. The prevailing opinion is that interests, prominent and influential posi­ while Hercules was engaged in his fa­ tion in a company concerned with stocks mous contest with the dreadful Lemaean J ames S. H ast and shares or speculation, connected with monster, Juno, envious of his fame, sent schools or places of amusement, early a sea crab to bite and annoy the hero’s difficulty with parents, favorable for gain feet, but the crab being soon dispatched, T~\0 you know James S. Hart, Amer- but danger of loss by fire or theft, fa­ the goddess, to reward its services, placed / J tea's youngest Editor f Neither do vorable for marriage, but sometimes one it among the constellations. I—hut I see him every day. A of convenience. With Mars also, acci­ Ptolemy remarks, of the stars in this hermit f Indeed not. To know life is to dents and fatal injuries. constellation that “the two eyes of the live life, says Jimmy Hart, that's why South Assellus, with Sun; unfavorable crab are like Mercury and moderately he is always ready with some strange for dealing with public and influential like Mars. Those in the claws are like mystery of the unusual. His forceful people, trouble in business. With Moon; Saturn and Mercury.” By the Kabalists facts may anger you but he speaks out ill health, defective sight, hearing or Cancer is associated with the Hebrew as few men dare, letting the sunshine speech, bad for business affairs, loss of letter Tzaddi, and the 18th Tarot Trump, fall amongst the shadows where it will. "The Moon.” friends and trouble through enemies. — R ! N . With Mercury: mental afflictions, much Of individual stars, Ac^bens, of the nature of Saturn and Mercury is called worry and disappointment, loss by fire the “shelter” or hiding place, and gives of valuable papers, bad for success in activity, malevolence and poison, making NEMESIS spite of help from friends, difficulties brought about by children. With Venus; its natives liars and criminals. Both the Sleep little man child, eyes wide Aselli are of the nature of Mars and the in wonder, trouble through friends, unfavorable for Sun, according to Ptolemy, but Alvidas Close to my breast, warm a love and marriage, enmity of women, states that the North Asellus is like the heart that is lead; too fond of pleasure and society. With Sun and Mars in sextile and the South Sleep, baby, sleep, though the Mars; energy, courage, misapplied pow­ Asselus like the Sun and Mars in semi- sky fall asunder— ers, little success, public disfavor. With square. ' Together they give care and re­ Nothing can waken—save you Jupiter; léga! and ecclesiastical trouble, sponsibility, with a charitable and foster­ —all is dead. hypocrisy, dishonesty, false friends, ing nature, but danger of violent death, danger of imprisonment. With Saturn; serious accidents and burns. The joint untrustworthy, dishonorable, low moral­ influence of the two Asseli is as fol­ Sleep, little man child, stars have lows ; If rising, burning fevers, bad eyes, admired thee— ity, bad habits formed early in life. With blindness of left eye, injuries by beasts, Angels in Heaven know you’re Uranus ; seeks applause, suffers from quarrels, slander from low women or not to blame; own mistakes, seldom sees own faults, vulgar {lersons, martial preferment. If Sleep, baby, sleep, safe from him official position of short duration, down­ culminating disgrace and ruin, often vio­ who has sired thee, fall brought about by enemies, self seek­ lent death. With Sun; blows, stabs, seri­ Sleep, as I mutter a curse on ing, loss or ruin through speculation, bad ous accidents, shooting, shipwreck, be­ his name! fof gain and domestic matters, danger heading, hanging, murderer or murdered, Sleep, little man child, help me of accidents causing lingering death. violent fevers, danger of fire, disgrace betray him, With Neptune; ambitious but indolent, if and imprisonment. With Moon; inflam­ Drink, baby lips, of the life male, handsome, pleasant and affable and matory fever, pains in the head, blind­ from my breast, a lady’s man ; if female, rather masculine ness. The separate influences are as fol­ Sleep, baby, sleep, to grow in appearance and character, many love lows : North Assellus identified with the stronger, and slay him! affairs causing general suffering, losses various planets gives: with the Sun; This is my prayer as your eyes through speculation, unmerited favors favorable for dealing with the public and close in rest! from friends, advantageous marriages but influential people, business success. With domestic disharmony, fevers and violent Moon, favorable for material success, — James S. Hart. diseases, sometimes causing death in in­ honor through public positions, help fancy. The Occult Digest March 1926 27

NEIVS O F PSYCH IC ACTIVITIES Catarrh, Etc. "Your blood, containing fruit add, is tht^only rob* stance that can dissolve any mucus or pasts fag Psychical Research , Spirit Philosophy and Phenomena y o u r system. Mucus-Making Foods In its passage through the body mucus Is secreted to various organs, causing disease. The effects or symptoms are then named variously according to location, but the source of the trouble Is the same—fermentation, chiefly Ghost Hunting M ussolini from butter, cheese, cream, fat, oil, salt, etc., when used I cannot say I was worried or thrilled Margherita G. Sarfatti, in her book, beyond your capacity, or In wrong combinations. by Christmas ghosts, said Elliot O'Don­ “The Life of Benito Mussolini,” recently 100 Names for l Disease nell, the ghost hunter. He was sent to translated from the Italian and published Mucus causes catarrh of the eyes (conjunctivitis), of by Stokes, says, “a mysterious woman, the nose (rhinitis), of the ears (otitis, deafness), of the three different houses to investigate cases bronchial tubes (bronchitis, asthma), of the lungs (tuber­ la vecchia Giovanna . . . taught Mus­ culosis). of the stomach (gastritis), of the appendix of alleged ghosts. He was annoyingly (appendicitis), of the bowels (colitis), etc. secretive about them, however, as they solini some of her magic lore. . . . ‘My all needed further investigation. blood tells me! *I must listen to my Correct Eating Cures blood/ are phrases sometimes used by Pure Juice from grapefruits: “They are not always ghosts,” he said Mussolini, so rational normally in coping without sugar, and pure to­ mato juice,berries, etc., when dryly. with the urgent questions which confront used as freely ss water and combined with adequate quan­ One dark night he tackled a ghost at him. ‘It is no goodT he will add; ‘I am tities of the brain-and-nerva like the animals. I feel when things are nourishingDC foods1004 with stima Brighton. The house was supposed to be Ulivo!c andai loxatlvo vegetables, empty except for the ghost. There was going to happen—some incline! warns me can pn prepare your blood tor and I am obliged to follow it.99* dissolving mucus. an open window, and in he climbed. In­ Fresh trait acids clean a stomach that is suffering 1from__ mucus or acidity. Hyper- side it was pitch dark. He felt his way aridity, -acidosis, is produced by mucus from fermautng up the stairs. On the landing he stum­ foods. Justus vinegar Is made tnmfermentine sugar, syrups Spirit Wireless? and traits. But fresh fruit arid toften correctly combined bled over something, which clutched his “Many people (in England) have in­ is always beneficial. legs and uttered a screeching yell. Objectionable features of catarrh are expectoration; stalled wireless apparatus in the hope of ''hawking." "running nose.'* In a singer or speaker, a career, a life work. Is ruined by a little flocculent matter Striking a match, he saw a thin, obtaining messages from the dead.”— on the vocal cords producing hoarseness, forfeited en­ scraggy woman with a bloodless face and Daily Mirror. gagements, missed opportunities, etc. Deafness hinders advancement In business. Noises In the head make the round,, goggle eyes. Her hair was matted sufferer irritable, and irrational. like a- mop, her clothes like rags, tied Clairvoyance Tubercular Catarrh together by bits of string instead of There are three girls living in Nay, A deposit of mucus in the lungs Is often suppressed by buttons. medicine made from coal tar derivatives. The cough is Southern France, eleven, thirteen and sometimes quieted, but the mucus remains to form the “So you're not a ghost,” he said to the fourteen years of age, who read books, scat of tuberculosis. pitiable spectacle which lay at his feet. thread needles, detect colors, without Why Envy the Live-Wire? using ’their eyes. Mucus when present In large quantities prevents the “No, but I soon will be if I don’t get nerves from assimilating their due nutriment. It is a M. Jean Labadie, French scientist, cause of undue fatigue. something to eat soon,” she said. He Stop using mucus-making foods and learn to take gave her bread and cheese from his (says Popular Science) attests these braln-and-ncrve foods, etc. Build yourself Into a go- facts, precluding possibility of trickery, getter. a live-wire, an untiring person, internally clean, pocket. “This is my house,” she said. who turns work Into pleasure. giving his opinion that the girls see thru One pupil wrote: "No mucus, voice stronger, head “I sleep here every night.” the skin, especially the forehead by a clear as a Sell, gained 20 pounds, and now earn four times Another of his hunts took him to a as much." peculiar sensitiveness of skin-nerves Educational booklet 10 Cents. Sworn statements* house in Manchester, which was owned which receive light impressions, convey­ Over 6,000 pupils. by an eccentric old lady who would not ing them to the brain in form of definite BRINKLER SCHOOL OF EATING live there as she thought it was haunted. images • . . Dept. 60 131 West 72nd St., New York He wandered through all the rooms till he came to the top story. Suddenly Ghosts That Haunt Ghosts YOUR HOROSCOPE he felt his ankle grabbed and he saw a If you ha re a qucstlon atout Invcstraonla, occupation. The queer case of Thomas Carty, frienda. chlldren, personal dcrMopment or builnesa skinny hand protruding from under a farmer near Waterford in England, who Associates, I can fumisti you wlth rery raluable dressing-table. With horrible howlings strangled his wife, pretending she had Information. Prloss moderate tot accurate calcolatimi. there crawled out a lanky boy, an idiot hanged herself. Arrested and convicted Arie*, Box A, 1904 N. Clark St, Chicago, U.S. A. He turned out to be the son of one of lastly because of the son’s story of see the old lady’s servants. His mother kept ing shortly after the murder, a dark him there hidden. She used to visit him shadow on the wall which preceded from Complete Theraphy every evening with his food, and this the room occupied by the father, passed OUR VITAL ORE ATOMS along the wall going out through the are and have been used by thousands of evening he had hidden under the dress­ people for years for the treatment of dis­ ing-table to frighten her. Unfortunately door, slightly ajar. Jury and judge were eased conditions and the maintenance of impressed—the story believed . . . health. They are mineral salts such as for them both, he frightened O’Donnell. are required In the natural operations of —Daily Graphic (London). the body, and their Intelligent use secures Only the Physical Body Dies wonderful results. Send 10 cents for our 166 pages BOOK OF HEALTH contain­ For many years many people witnessed ing full Information of a valuable natura Episcopalian Recognizes Spirit- the mysterious phenomenon in an oldl BASIC REMEDIES COMPANY haunted hall in Cumberland of an aged 46^WM^66t?^PIarj^^^^Chlcngain. Return shadow woman, running up and down its “There is . . . truth in Spiritualism,” corridors and staircases, pursued by a the Rev. NR. Hart Davies, Vicar of fa­ still blacker shadow. mous Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Covent Then the unexpected startling revela­ BUST DEVELOPED tion of a clergyman sent for, one night 1 A Send ONE DIME towsrd expen- Garden, (London) told The Daily Mir­ III// *** set by return mail, ror (Dec. 23, 1925), “and people do get to hear a startling confession of a dying | i v r scaled, a REAL big three part in touch with spirits ...” woman who told how she had murdered 14 DAY TREATMENT the aged woman upon learning she had without further cost or obligation. W hile on the other hand, a Rev. D. T. been made beneficiary in her will. The The only ONE that REMOVES THE Young, says, “I, regard so-called spirit­ CAUSE, and YOU know develop­ secret told—the woman died. ment le impossible until this Is done. ualism an unmitigated evil. . . . Curios­ Next night, the clergyman with others No exercises, hot or cold applications, ity about the other world is fatal to accepted the invitation, visited the haunt­ pumps or other dangerous appliances. (our) well being and through the me­ ed hall, heard steps coming toward them, Dr. Ladd says uNothing can develop you until the cause is removed. Ac dium o f seances is positively forbidden saw the aged shadow woman but no well try to AH a sieve with water.” by the scriptures. It is contrary to Bible longer the black pursuing shadow but WHY PAY MORE SIGHT-UNSEEN? teaching and shows a Jack of faith in recognized immediately the spirit coun­ Would you knowingly pay $10. for a pump, or some religion/ 9—Daily Mirror. terpart of the woman who had confessed worthless, greasy salve? Or even ONE dollar for a to him. . . . sheet of exercises because It la called "a treatment?" All of which Is prima facie e v i d e n c e My advice — "Spend ten cents and save ten dollars". that the Rev. Young, misinformed or Both spirits have, it is said, gone on MY GUARANTEE “ I f this is not the beet ten cents uninformed, has never studied his haunting the place ever since.—Elliot worth you over saw your dime book by FIRST MAIL.” B ib le . O’Donnell in Tid-Bits. Don't waste time — ouch opportunities are rare. Mention o f The Occult Digest is the best introduction to our advertisers #' 28 The Occult Digest March 1926 The W olf of the High Sierras (Continued from Page 12) again he had been about to blurt out in’ what’s outside between here and your me at Hompson’s cabin settled down some of that he was holding back. His place.” again heavily. Under it, my imagina­ face was contorted piteously, as his mind “I’ll risk it,” I replied, and I was tion conjured up the wolf of the High battled with those hidden thoughts. startled at the solemnity of my voice. Sierras, and I fancied hearing the pad- “His eyes, mister!” he suddenly burst “I’ve got my gun.” pad of feet approaching. out “I seen 'em. They get a man, “There’s some things guns ain’t any I quickened my pace, casting many mister!" good against!” was the mountaineer’s glances of apprehension behind. Once I Again he was about to say more. But answer, but he made no effort to detain imagined hearing the sound of some body that fierce outbreak seemed to have re­ me beyond those words. I bade him in the underbrush and for a brief second lieved him, and he changed the subject good night, and set off, hearing his door. a pair of eyes seemed to gaze at me “Trappin’ ain't been so good lately. A ¿Jammed hurriedly behind me. It was a from the gloom. Then I came into a few lions, an' one or two fishers. You’ve * cool, pleasant night, with a brilliant clearing which the moon made as bright seen fishers, ain’t you? I remember one snow-white moon, and large clear stars, as day, and I breathed a sigh of relief. feller come up here hadn’t ever heard all looking very near in the thin air of But at a sound from the darkness be­ of ’em. They’re a kind of weasel, only the mountains. It was utterly silent, and hind, I looked back, and stood rooted in bigger. I git a few bob-cats, too, but I heard my own footsteps in the dust, terror. Out into the moonlight, loping the coyotes have been robbin’ the traps and the grass. The crisp air filled me deliberately along, came a lupine form, lately. I kain’t outsmart ’em.” with new life, and gradually the fears gray, gaunt and huge. I realized in-, and superstitions that had seized me stantly that I was looking upon the wolf There came an interruption that caused dropped off. In their place, however, of the High Sierras. I made no move, the mountaineer to jerk up in his chair, came thoughts as somber. A face, but stood holding my rifle limply, com­ his face ashen. I felt the hair begin bronzed, stern rose before me, the hair pletely shaken and unnerved. The beast to rise on my own head. It was barely a light blond, and the eyes frosty blue stopped like a flash when it saw me. It discernable to the ear. a faint, insistent and compelling. I had nearly forgotten shrank back on its haunches, cowering, pawing at the door, as of a dog seeking my mission, indeed thought of it had and then slunk away into the under­ entrance. I glanced at Hompson. He completely left under the spell of Homp­ growth it had just left. was sitting in a frozen trance, his eyes son’s strangeness. I stared at the spot where it had dis­ on the door. The sound ceased, there appeared. My mind was in a tumult came a faint rustle as of something mov­ But with my brother’s face before me, Surprise at the brute’s behavior, after ing away, then silence. and his electric eyes gazing into my own, Hompson’s dark hints concerning it It was a full five minutes before either I remembered that I had come to the whirled with other, more disturbing of us stirred. Then, shaking off the fear High Sierras for a very definite purpose. thoughts. There was the same uncanny that had been growing on me ever since It had been more than a year since he quality about the animal that had lain I had first come to the cabin, I rose. had left, to come to these mountains, and over Hompson’s cabin, and to a less de­ But Hompson leaped up and seized my no word had I ever received from him. gree oyer Hompson himself. But even arm. He did not speak, but he held on Had he not come on such a dangerous more disquieting to me than that eeriness, frantically, holding me from the door. mission, I would have thought little of was the dim memory that struggled in I made no effort to free myself. For I his prolonged absence, for we had often my mind. Something strangely familiar, pictured outside, hideous in the broad drifted apart for long periods. His and oddly human about the beast im­ glare of day, the monster that the trap­ vocation as a private ^ detective led him pressed me, but complete recollection per’s vague sketch and dark hints had on many extended trips, and a certain would not come. constructed in my mind. Hompson’s restlessness and love of travel on my I covered the rest of the way to my fear had fully communicated itself to part frequently separated us. But in this cabin in deep and solemn musing, my me, and in my thoughts the wolf of the instance he had set out to bring the mur­ mind seething with- Hompson, his cabin, High Sierras had taken o* a sinister derer and bandit,. Harms Johnstone to and the wolf. Through these enigmas, and frightful form. justice. An anonymous tip from under­ memory of my mission protruded, and “Set down, mister!” The trapper world sources had indicated Johnstone’s my brother’s magnetic, frosty blue eyes finally said. present refuge as somewhere in the High were omnipresent. “There was someone at the door.” Sierras. My brother with only a faulty “No! * No, there wasn’t! Just the and incomplete description of the crim­ The next morning I set out early to wind 1” inal had come here in an attempt to find revisit the trapper. I had decided to His eyes were terrible, the hand on and indentify the man. cultivate his friendship, nad learn what my arm palsied. I sank into a chair, “I haven’t much to go on,” he had I could from him, he was doubtless thor- and he released me. He stood a moment, told me. “He’s big and burly, and dark­ bughly acquainted with the surrounding tottering, his hand on his head. Then he eyed. He has a mild manner that is wilderness, and its residents. From my staggered to the cupboard in the comer, deceiving, and not a hint of his vicious­ descriptions of my brother and Harms and brought out a bottle of whisky. Un­ ness stands ou^ on him. That’s the whole Johnstone I felt that I could be set on corking it, he raised it to his lips, and of his description. But I’ll find him.” the right trail by the mountaineer. took a long drink. The color returned I had begun to fear that he had indeed As I approached the cabin, I saw that to his face, and he came over, and of­ found him. So, armed only with the the door was standing wide open. I fered me the bottle. meagre description that my brother had shouted a “Hallo” as I came near, but had, I had come up to the High Sierras. there was no answer. Evidently Homp­ “Take a drink,’* he said. “It’s good for I had determined to find Johnstone if son was on a round of his traps. I re­ the blues. That’s what the mountains he was still in the mountains, for where membered his fears of yesterday, and do, mister! They give you the blues. he was I felt sure I would find my wondered how he had summoned the Get you jumpy and scary, and imaginin’ brother, or at the worst some trace of courage to venture out. Then I was in things.” him. the doorway, and on the table I saw I was glad to get the warming effect I had been thinking in this vein as I the reason. The liquor bottle lay on its of the liquor, for there was a deepening strode along the narrow cowpath, be­ side, empty. chill at my heart. We sat for a long neath the almost too white moon. The I entered, and stood a moment, gazing time after that, with a minimum of mountain sides around me sloped to tree- around. I felt the same depression that conversation. Hompson seemed to be lined summits etched clear against a had filled me the day before, though it listening eternally, and I caught myself, gray-blue sky, except where higher dis­ was less pronounced. Suddenly an object also, waiting for a break in the silence tant peaks darkened them. Presently I on the table attracted my .attention. It outside. Presently I looked at my watch, entered a rather extensive and gloomy was a small book, bound in red leather. and was startled to find that the after­ thicket, and it was here that I first had There was something so familiar about noon had slipped away, and that night the feeling that I was being followed. it that I stepped over and picked it up. had well advanced. I was torn between The impression struck me like a mate­ As I did so I noticed another volume the desire to leave what seemed to me rial hand, bringing my^ thoughts to a lying on the floor, its cover open. I an accursed spot, a place plagued by the dubious present. The night shadows of caught the title “Metempsychosis,” and I powers of darkness, and the fear of the trees seemed suddenly endowed with felt myself going cold all over. The the night on that lonely half mile to my life, and menace. The echo of my foot­ book I held was entitled “Six Cycles in own cabin. But finally I announced my steps multiplied many echoes, under Hindu Religion,” but I scarcely noticed intention of leaving. suddenly awakened superstitions. The it. I reached down and brought up the “You’d better stay the night here, night became baleful and portentious. open book. I turned to the back cover, mister,” said Hompson. “There’s no tell- That cloud of fear that had enveloped (Continued on page 32) The Occult Digest March 1926 29

h e b o r i g i n e s u s t r a l i a WORLD’S GREATEST T A » / A THOUGHT DISCOVERY ALPHAMATHOLOGY divide's man’s psychol­ ogy or his energy of Identification with Creation Religious Beliefs and Psychic Practices into TEN DISTINCT UNITS, energy of each subdivision vibrating in cycle with Cosmlo energy by PERPETUAL SCALE— without beginning or B y H o r a c e L e a f end— THE KEY TO THE UNIVER8E1 Psychology — on — mathematical — basis (Reprinted from “Harbinger of Light' FORETELL BY SCALE The psychological color scheme, the styles, the advertising leads, the winning letters In names day after day and year after year. iWING to the widely-spread notion equal in ability with white children with Winning energy correct in Fifty-four consecutive I that primitive races are naturally whom they are educated, of unimpeach-1 games of World's Baseball Series since 1921 and Dixie Series sinee 1923—- Either the Psychology of ® low mentally, and consequently any able honesty, cheerful under difficulties, | Place, the Pitcher, or an individual Player in religious beliefs entertained by them of unruffled good temper, displaying re­ VIBRATION made an outstanding play, hit or catch that won the game. must be erroneous, it will be necessary markable shrewdness and a keen sense In business, or otherwise, tune-In your conscious for me to say something about the intel­ of the humorous and ridiculous. This Intellectual Energy with subconscious urge. Solar Energy and wlnl Be sure you are In ligence of the lowest existing ; race of high opinion is not invariably held, but Vibration and then go ahead. A "Good Name’ In vibration with the public’s subconscious mind mankind. I have met the Aborigines of when allowance is made for prejudice, IS worth S80.000.000. Australia in their native land under va­ the Australian black fellow compares in "Mass Intellectual-Pressure and the Alpba- lfathe Vibratory Beale’’— 4 i-page booklet con­ rious circumstances, and have had the many ways favorably with the white taining the greatest thought Discovery of this opportunity of forming a personal man. any other age, with Brain-Wave or Alpha-Maths opinion of their mental power, and of the Calendar—Prloe $1.00. The next time I came in close contact Twclth Edition: Sold Around the World value of some of their beliefs. with the Aborigines was in circumstances (The Yorkshire Institute of England placed My first view of them took place in more impressive if only for the romantic order for 500 copies and Books and Authors, New York. June Issue, ’’challenges the the pretty town of Albany, Western Aus­ setting. I had taken the wonderful Trans- scientists.” )_M tralia, in 1922, and a depressing lot they Australian express from Kalgoorlie to 918 West Tsrrsll Avsnus were, squatting listlessly on the kerb of Port Augusta on my. way to Adelaide. Mack Stauffer Fort W orth, Texas, U.S.A. CREDENTIALS: Author of the one of thev main thoroughfares of the As we crossed the granite plateau ex­ World's Greatest Prophetlo and town, dressed in the cast-off clothing of tending eastward to the Nullabor Plain, M o n e y b a c k Psychological novel ’’Humanity and the Mysterious Knight,' white people. They, however, seemed we stopped at several little wayside sta­ a n d which foretold the broadcasting tions consisting of a few wooden houses, J 10 p e r c e n t of "human voice.” Marconi’s | uite content with their condition, which new Invention, the “ reflector,* was certainly not hard in some respects. in which lived railway repairers and theid in hoe day », “ color musio,” “ World War,' the election of President *’H. They did not work ; no one would employ families. Far from the haunts of civilil i f d e sir e d and over one hundred ether them; and the Government made tardy • zation these little communities go onL world events. provision for them in return for the land their uneventful way, seldom numbering | of which they had been dispossessed. more than thirty all told. Here come | They lived a kind of nomadic life, wan­ parties of natives to meet the trains, to dering hbout the State from one reser­ beg from the passengers, and to sell vation to another, slowly dying out. boomerangs, and real meteoric stones PERSONAL MAGNETISM which they pick up on the plateau or on Personal magnetism, will power, nerve Origin Wrapped in Obscurity force, stamina—call It what you will—is Nobody knows where these remarkable the plain. They, too, were, on the whole, the intangible power that controls human as unprepossessing as their Albany destiny. It is the key to all business and people originated ; but there is ample brothers, clothed in odds and ends of gar­ social success. If you come in contact evidence to support the idea that their with‘people you cannot afford to be with­ first occupation of Australia must have ments and pieces of cloth which they out this knowledge. It gives you an in­ been at a time too remote to permit of discard when out of view of the white estimable advantage over others. By our man; for in their native condition they system you can develop your Personal traditions as no records and folk-tales live in a state of nudity. Magnetism at your own home. We guar­ of this important event have been pre­ antee it. Intelligent people the world I was particularly struck with the ap­ over are studying this wonderful forcer served by them. Various conflicting and those who m aster it achieve increased theories have been entertained regarding pearance of some of the young men, tall, success. FREE BOOK tells you how you their origin. The theory having greatest impressive, muscular looking fellows, can master it at home. Do not send any weight maintains that they are descen­ with heads and expression comparable money for it. The book is absolutely free dants of Dravidians driven from their with the antique busts of Greek philoso­ and Is sent to advertise our institution. homes in the Indian Deccan across the phers, but filthily dirty. I had a chat I The Flint College Con Dept. 587, Cleveland, 0 ocean by the way of Ceylon. with one who had remained some distance On arriving in Australia they appear from the party to which he belonged, to have found it already occupied by a minding two children. Among the party Melanesian race ; these they gradually was a hideously ugly young native girl car­ Astrological Blank Charts forced south into Tasmania, intermixing rying a pretty half-caste child on her back. their blood with them to some extent. I pointed to it, saying, “Fine pickaninny.” Save your time and please your clients Never shall I forget the look of contempt The last of this conquered race died out THE HOROSCOPE. a generation or so ago; a curious, low- that suffused his face as he said quietly. cultured, harmless, woolly-haired people, “That no pickaninny.” This show of as helpless before the white man as chaff spirit and love of race I found fairly pre­ before the wind- So tender-hearted and valent. These people may be without childlike were they that when the Gov­ much traditions, but their pride of race ernment moved them from the mainland is strong. of Tasmania to an adjacent island, they Their Powers of Mind simply sat on the slopes of its hills and The impression was soon made on me tearfully pined away as they gazed at that the mentality of the Aborigines is their beloved home darkening the hor­ generally underated. They have a good izon. deal of latent mental power which in Allied With the European Race their native state, uninfluenced by civil­ One reason for believing the Abori­ ization, enable them to adapt themselves gines are not so low as is generally sup­ intelligently to the prevailing circum­ posed is that they are^ a Caucasian type stances. This conclusion was later justi­ and not negroid. This relates them to fied in an a extrardinary a manner. But the European and not the African, whom before relating my interview with David at first sight they seem closely to re­ Unaipon, I will mention an experience semble. Their hair is wavy, not curly; which took place in Adelaide. A police- their skulls large and well-formed, their official was very kindly showing me over brains equal in size and weight to our the chief police station when we came own. Personal association with them to a detention cell, the door of which soon reveals a degree of intelligence cap­ was partly open so as to allow as much able of adapting itself to complex chang­ air as possible to enter, the weather being ing environments. They have been de­ very warm. The occupant was an elderly scribed by one of the greatest living au­ native who was marching up and down, Just pin a dollar bill to your address thorities as fond of children, kind to smoking a pipe. the aged and infirm, generous, grateful, The official had informed me that and receive 100 Blanks postpaid. apt to learn, good at mechanical work, every Saturday any natives found about Occult Publishing Co., 1900 N. Clark St., Chicago, 111. Mention o f The Occult Digest is the best introduction to our advertisers 30 The Occult Digest March 1926 the city without visible means of sub­ to be faced the possibility of his having halt Obeying the command, he care­ sistence are arrested and detained until lost the native point of view. On the fully examined his whereabouts, and the following Monday, when they are other hand, if he has kept in touch with found that had he moved a step further charged with having been intoxicated, his primitive countrymen and had access he would have fallen down a disused and forthwith the case is dismissed; the I to their religious practices, he may be mine shaft. law feels justified in this procedure by I better able to explain them than the wor­ “What was the voice like?” I en­ having kept the aboriginal out of mischief. shippers themselves could do. David quired. It was obvious that this “prisoner” tookl Unaipon, is in this happy position. “Exactly like my father’s.” his detention with philosophic calm. On I I David was one of the most remarkable “Was it clear and distinct?” seeing me he stopped pacing and suckedJ men I met in Australia. The Rev. T. W. “Perfectly. Just as when I had known pensively at his pipe. Leggett, Secretary of the Presbyterian him an earth.” “Good morning,” said I, cheerily. Mission to the Australian Aborigines, “Are you confident it was to warn “Good morning, sir,” returned he in had the highest opinion of his intellectual you?” excellent English. powers, and assured me that the Abori­ “Yes. Remember, another step and I gines, although generally inferior to the should have been a dead man. I had ab­ “Well, I see they've got you.” white people, are very much underrated. solutely no knowledge of the existence “Yes” said he, smiling humorously. One thing is clear, that David Unaipon of the pit holes, and could not possibly “What for?” possessed mental qualities superior to the have seen them without careful exami­ “They say I was drunk.” average white man. He is a fine nation.—" L i g h t " preacher, speaking splendid English, and * * * “Were you?” he is also a good Latin and Greek scholar. He smiled broadly; “If I was I didn’t According to Mr. Leggett, he read New­ Micheál SawtelVs Experiences Verify know it” ton’s famous “Principia” through and Psychism of Natives His ready answers, pleasant intelligent solved the mathematical problems at the Horace Leaf’s findings on the psychic manner, and attractive voice were so un­ first reading. Yet this man is a pure beliefs of the Australian Aborigines like what I had expected that I doubted blooded Murray River native, taken as verify my personal experiences, including that he was a pure aboriginal. a child and educated by the Presbyterian my knowledge of David Unaipon (a .“Are you a full-blooded native?” I Mission. personal friend) who, although a full- A Charming Character blooded native, has never lived under asked. bush native conditions. He was born I “Yes, sir, I am a true child of the soil,” I found David to be a charming per­ on Point MacQay Mission Station, when j said he proudly. “Australia is my sonality and a deep lover of his people, quite young, adopted by a wealthy I mother.” to whose upliftment he has devoted his Adelaide draper, reared and educated. I “What do you mean by that?” life. His conversational powers are ex­ cellent, and except for his colour he David represents a living link between “I mean that Australia gave me my would ¿ass for a cultured Englishman. western culture and probably the oldest body, and that I have no foreign blood He is convinced that he is a fair example race- in the world today, and knows all in my veins.” of his race, and believes that, properly his native folklore and tribal laws. The answer was subtle, philosophical, dealt with they could be educated in a I lived for two years alone, among the and scientifically correct, and I doubt generation. He complained thatthe pop­ wild bush natives on the shores of Cone whether the average white man would ular opinion about the Aborigines was Bay in Kimerly, W. A., engaged in have done' so well. There can be no based on the a comparatively few degen­ “rounding up” wild cattle, made friends doubt that the country in which we al­ erates met with around the borders of with the natives and was looked upon ways live gives us, to a very large, ex­ civilization, or in the towns. The com­ as an “Ora” (a tribal brother). tent, our body.* The food we eat, the air mon assertion that they are lazy is a libel It is difficult to obtain reliable infor­ we breathe contributing to its upbuilding against them when in the native state. mation on the psychic development of and maintenance. This old native seems The white man is responsible for this the natives. The white settlers, first to to have realized this, and carefully re­ obvious defect among those who come “civilize” the natives, were only inter­ frained from confusing his physical or­ under his influence. His desire to possess ested in a livelihood, while scientists ganism with his consciousness, which no­ the black man’s land has resulted in re­ studied the natives only from the materi­ body is justified in saying is built up in ducing the Aborigines to a condition of alist viewpoint. So-called knowledge the same way. indolence discreditable and harmful to gained from English-speaking natives is Their Religious Beliefs the race. invariably unreliable, for once they have Although a Christian, David is singu­ learned to speak English they become de­ In common with other primitive races larly broad-minded and sympathetic moralized enough to tell only what they the Aborigines have well-organized re­ towards other faiths, and has token a think promotes their personal interests. ligious practices, and a firm belief in the deep interest in the native beliefs. He I refuse to believe a fully-initiated “old reality of spirit and survival. Little is assured me that they believe in God, but man” native ever told an uninitiated white known about their religion. They, are never mention His name as it is too man anything—to do so, would break their particularly careful in keeping it from sacred. This he regarded as the cause most sacred tribal a law—-they would die white man, who has always been very of the popular notion that they have no sooner die first David Unaipon supports contemptous (of the natives, heartily conception of a Supreme Being. They this contention. despising their manners and customs. pray, but “they always pray for someone An Australian native’s life is a long I have met colonists who have lived else.a They ask that they may have good series of initiations—from circumcision, many years among them and yet were hunting, for instance, so as to supply at the age of puberty, up to mediumship almost completely ignorant of their re­ their children with food.” “The next at old age. The wonderfully complicated ligious beliefs. All agreed that they had world," said David, “is conceived as psychic life of the natives have been a a religion, but carefulfy practiced it in being like the earth, only better, and all closed book to most “whites,” who secret The condemnation of one re­ people go tOa the same place. They do thought the old men of the tribes lazy ligion by another nearly always arises not believe in two places, heaven and because they did not work or hunt for from bias. The following extract from hell.” food, but the Bushmens’ privilege in old a missionary book shows one of the His Psychic Experiences age is to meditate by day or develop sources from whence has sprung the idea “mediumship” at night by holding that the Aborigines are without a belief I asked David whether he knew of seances, or corroborres. in God:— any belief among the Aborigines of the possibility of communicating with the As an experienced bushman myself I Do the wild Blacks worship God? dead. The belief, he assured me, was know those who can track horses or No. They do not know of God Who common that the spirits of the dead often cattle as well as any native, but I never “so loved the world that He gave His returned to advise and guide the living. knew a white man who could follow hu­ only begotten Son, that whosoever be- A belief closely resembling the “calling” man foot-prints like a native. I believe' lieveth in Him should not perish but mentioned by Dr. Samuel Johnson pre­ in those fine and difficult feats of tracking have everlasting life.” vails among them. These spirits are not —such as tracking bare-foot prints over Obviously the author of these lines had seen, but can sometimes be heard speak­ rocks—that the natives do not rely upon a particular idea of what constitutes a ing, and on such occasions they often physical sight, but upon their sixth sense belief in God, and whoever failed to come to warn of impending danger. David — their psychic powers. How can you agree with him was an unbeliever. The has himself twice experienced this phe­ explain that the o ld men, whose physical best way to settle the question is to get nomenon, his deceased father’s voice sight is dimmed and psychic powers the native, if possible, to explain his be­ warning him and thus saving his life. On awakened, are the best trackers on human liefs. When he is living m his native both occasions he was walking on a very foot prints? I knew fully initiated na­ state, this is almost impossible, and when dark night in a district little known to tives who could tell the foot print of he has adopted western culture there has him, when the voice called on him to (Continued on page 32) The Occult Digest March 1926 31 The Hound of Heaven (Continued front page 9) ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL 15th Slowly the man’s eyes opened until they hurt. C. An Important Book on Mental Telepathy Still he continued to stare—not into the night now—but at the door l For it was slowly closing by itself 1 _ Getting ahold of himself—he cooly moistened a finger, and mechanically tried for the THE OUTLINE OF wind’s direction. Then he started violently. ' There was no wind at all/ The hideous screeching, and nerve PSYCHOMETRY wracking groans began again, and with a quavering wail, the huge Dane edged BY against the man—and trembled with fear —teeth bared—eyes wide in terror. * CHARLES HENRY McDERMOTT With a laugh half relief—half disgust, the man straightened back, cursing him­ self roundly in a quiet, but very sincere PSYCHIC LIFE AND PHANTASM OF THE IDYING manner. He called to the still shivering dog. “Back to bed. Big Boy, and be your­ A STU D Y O F self, can’t an old rotten cabin even settle TELEPATHY, TELESTHENIA, . down without you trying to raise the roof? Now beat it before—:—” HYPNOTISM, THOUGHT SUGGESTIONS, SPIRITISM, Slam! TRANSLIMINALITY, MENTAL THERAPEUTICS, With the fury of a thousand tormented souls, the shrieking renewed, and the THE SPIRITUAL ESSENCE whole building trembled. In a flash the man threw his weight This interesting work deals with the It explains the mystery of psychic against.the door. It was jammed! evidences of an hitherto unknown force phenomena, the gripping ignorance of “Trapped!” he gasped. expressed in telepathy and the trans­ the occult, the fear of phantasms after mission of thought messages. Its death and brings to light the cruel in­ With a cry of “Come on Boy!” he actions are carefully formulated and tolerance of religious fantasies from crashed furiously against the wedged summarized, and its effect appraised the beginning when man decided he must from a thoroughly sound scientific view­ believe in something apart from the door, and fell out with it as the walls point. I t is named Psychometry. material existence. gave way. There is a startling newness to Mr. Psychometry explains away the doubt ********* McDermott’s book, “The Outline of Psychometry," because it is the first and superstition in hypnotism, mesmer­ When the two fiery planets ceased book to even faintly touch on this highly ism, spiritualism and spiritistic seances, intricate and interesting power. by giving the truth in this and all throwing comets at the Aurora Borealis, psychic phenomenon. he was dimly conscious of some one bath­ It has been done with a clarity and precise trueness. It .presents the first As an outline to the introduction of ing his brow—which felt much larger illuminating truths and facts on the a new science, for everyone Interested, than the Union Station. A dull ringing mind, the brain and its functional re­ “The Outline of Psychometry" will in his ears sounded quite unlike Heaven­ lation to man’s operation in life, shown prove of salient character, in its clear- ly harps, so he at once discarded the in thought messages qnd telepathy. cut and well defined language. flighty thought that his ministering angel might be St Peter. 256 pages, designed, printed,1 “Some beautiful nurse no doubt,” he [ mused, too tired to move. art binding - postpaid $3.50J .Spots danced in front of his eyes. Funny too, he thought—for his eyes were Orders Accepted Now for Autographed Edition limited to 500 Copies closed! Slowly he reviewed the incidents leading up to his present position. He had been trapped in the crumbling cabin T he O ccult P ublishing C o., P ublishers, —he had—(Great Scott how his head 1900 N. 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C “GIVE US LIBERTY OR GIVE Please enter my subscription to the Occult Digest US— ?” In Milwaukee, a Lutheran divine, the HI One Year—$3.00 Name______Rev. Dr. Andreas Bard, rose to his feet before the Luther League of America, suggested that the statue of the goddess 0 S ix Months—$1.50 Address______of Liberty which stands at the gate of New York harbor should be replaced by Extra Postage: Canada 50c, Foreign $1. one of Jesus Christ— T im e. Mention o f The O ccult Digest is the best introduction to our advertisers 32 The Occult Digest March 1926 The W olf of the High Sierras TELLING {Continued from page 28) REMARKS and on the inside I saw that which con­ which way to search. But the one firmed my fears. The books belonged thought in my mind was that Hompson to my brother, and I remembered his must die. having taken them with him. He had As I stood in uncertainty, a sound rose We seem to be paying a terrible price long been a student of Hindu lore, and for our civilization.— Sir W. Arbuthnot abruptly from the left, melancholy and not long before he had left me, he had long-drawn out. It was the howl of a Lane. become peculiarly fascinated with the wolf. Eery, chilling, yit swept away my Doctrine^ of Metempsychosis. I stood a rage, and left in its place a hideous Money is the main prop in propaganda. long while, staring at his name on the realization. Involuntarily I strode into — Toledo Blade. | flyleaf, and below it a notation he had the thickets toward the sound. In a [ made. little clearing I found them. Hompson A pedestrian has rights—yes. But too _I "Soul transmigration. A man with lay quite dead,' his throat torn to shreds, often they are only the last sad rites.— sufficiently strong will might easily pre­ his face set with the horror that he had Tampa Tribune. determine the species of animal his soul died with. Over him crouched a gray, would enter for the new life.” . shaggy wolf. The good are the poor; the poor are Beneath this inscription was scrawled I had stepped into the clearing. The pedestrians; the good die young.—P u b ­ in a crude hand: wolf of the High Sierras raised his head, lishers Syndicate. "The wolf of thè High Sierras.” and looked at me. My face went even whiter, as I saw his eyes, filled with My mind reeled under the shock of recognition and shame. He gave a Some still lose their health getting my discovery. My fears were realized. whine, low, piteous, and slunk away into wealth and (hen lose their wealth regain­ My brother was dead. And Hompson— the Undergrowth. ing their health.—Savannah News. that explained his strange actions, his fear of the outside. The blood guilt I did not look at Hompson. I sank to Too many people think opportunity hung over him. And the mountaineer— the ground, utterly stunned, still seeing I suddenly saw how well that incom­ the magnetic eyes of my murdered means a chance to get money without brother. If there are those who doubt earning it.—Milwaukee Leader. plete description fitted him—was Harms Johnstone, the bandit. the Doctrine of Metempsychosis, who I caught up my rifle, and dashed blindly scoff at the theory of Transmigration of Word that the Einstein theory will be outside. I was half-crazed with rage, Souls, I would like to ask them if they changed comes as a welcome bit of news and the lust for revenge. I stood a have ever seen a wolf with blue eyes. to those who haven't learned it yet— moment, tottering drunkenly, unknowing T H E END. Indianapolis Star. It is inspiration that ultimately settles the course of the world's history.—D r . W. Foxley Norris The road to wisdom is paced along a The Science of the Stars path of sleep.—S ir G erald du* M au rier. {Continued from page 8) Truth crusht to earth will rise again, birth and personality; Horary, that of great risk in order that you may have a of course, because it will not lie.—F lo r ­ questions and answers, and Medical. The good laugh, the writer confesses'that like ence {Ala.) Herald. writer is a specialist in Genethliacal As­ every Astrologer, he reads with great trology. , . care and interest everybody else’s horo­ “Andrews to Demand Teeth for Dry scope and seldom glances at his own. Law."—H eadline. A few wisdom teeth With this picture of what Astrology is But always after a stroke of particularly might not be amiss.—Virginian-Pilot. and means it should be evident that it is good fortune, or after a succession of un­ of immense practical value in all of the fortunate occurrences he looks in his own It is reported that fewer widows are important affairs of life to those in every map and finds—like every other Astrol­ remarrying. Can it be that dead men do walk of life. And by way of taking* a oger—that it was there. tell tales ?—P u n ch . • If we must have a religion, let it be the religion of law-abiding citizenship, with its roots above, imbedded in the ideals of American patriotism and its branches The Aborigines of Australia and leaves below covering this great Republic, and all who abide within its {Continued from page 30) folds.—From an editorial in American Rights {New York.) every member of their tribe, up to the conditions they chant very softly in the number of three hundred. tropical moonlight, and if the medium Who said there wasn't anything new A belief and knowledge of the psychic convulses they raise their voices. The under the sun? Did you miss the London realm forms part of the everyday life of natives always refused to interpret their Daily Graphic's picture entitled “An our natives, although they never mention chants or rituals. Angel with a Cigarette"? the dead. When I asked them where a I lived quite close to a cave that con­ dead boy was, they hung their heads and tained sacred native paintings, but char­ Life started from a cell, and if justice refused to answer, but if I persisted acteristically the old men never told me is done a lot of it is going to end there.— would hold up their hands in horror and about it. One day while out mustering çry uPatcherloo, Patcherloo,” which the young boys said: "This way Yamba Arkansas Gasette. means "Hush 1 Hush I don't talk like (old* men), make'um young men" (cir­ that." cumcision) and they then led me into a Ma Ferguson won’t have school text­ cave, the walls of which were covered with books in Texas saying that men are ani­ Natives Under Control crude pictures of the sun, animals and sex mals, and yet she insists that her political In their native language, they never say organs, done in r e d o c h r e. I believe enemies are swine.—New York Evening any one died, but that he aw en t aw ay.” painting is now a lost art with the na­ W orld . I have been privileged, under most pecu­ tives, for this generation never paint liar circumstances, to view some sacred Perhaps, a previous race practiced this Sir Charles Higham, famous English native dances, or corroborées. Broadly art. However the only facts that I wish tea-advertiser, sheds light on our dark­ speaking, their dances are divided into to establish are that the native bushmen ness saying: "There is nothing a real two classes—those dealing with folklore of Australia have a well-defined psychic man docs that he likes to do that makes stories of hunting, etc., and the religious, life, a certain knowledge of the lesser him less of a man." Apparently he has dealing with initiation. Only the o ld forms of occultism. The language and never heard of our Christian Boards of men take part in the "sacred" rites. The many of the customs of the Australian Temperance, Prohibition and Public- leader of the circle, who is "a medium," natives change radically every hundred "Morals" Reformers.—New Yorker. goes under control. To attract the rig h t miles or so.— The Occult Digest March 1926 33

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It is six months American Legion this fall in OH sent persons interested in the Occult, since lavender-gallused Clarence Darrow It referred to Lawyer Bryan’s infl who would welcome a complimen­ hunched his shoulders, thrust his jaw and that the only real issue of the triH tary copy of The Occult Digest Itortured the late William Jennings Bryan a religious one, and his insistent I NAME ...... with satiric court-room questions about literal interpretation of the Bibll his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since the religion he and his colleagues ADDRESS ...... pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itiner­ championing. _ It reduced to absurdi! C 1T T ...... ant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and notion of setting up the Bible as anH cheap-johnny “scientists” jostled in the cational criterion, in this fashion: STATE ...... steaming streets of little Dayton, Term. “Is my geography correct? Lod 9 NAME ...... 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If perchance the m tion law stands in Tennessee, but, satis­ jority somewhere should not be a Chri BOOKS advertised and re­ fied with their momentarily magnificent tian majority, the Koran or the Book c viewed in The Occult Digest gesticulations, the evolutionist newspa­ Mormon or any other might equal! pers no longer keep bright the diadem of well be set up as a standard of truth may be purchased at the obloquy with which they crowned that knowledge and scientific learning.”- publication price by sending state. with remittance Last week Teacher Scopes’ lawyers us your order filed with the Supreme Court of Ten­ To Crush Evolutionists! and the books will come to you nessee a brief appealing his conviction. Two weeks ago, men filed into For­ promptly. It outlined the final argument in the case. syth Theatre in Atlanta. Ga^ pious men; It tried to contest the issue which th e they had been to church that morning. 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If the salts of iron, calcium, silicon, EDITOR’8 NOTE: This column Is conducted for the magnesium, chlorin, sodium and potas­ benefit of our renders ns far as time and space permit, sium are not taken up (and when the but neither publishers nor editors assume responsibility for accuracy of answers. To receive definite answers sentimental faculties are in the lead) it to your problems you must send the minute (if pos­ sible). hour, date, city and state of your birth. In­ is evident, to the most superficial thinker, quiries without this information, or of no material to perceive the final results and conse­ benefit shall be treated as anonymous. Address Astrolooist, The Oecult Digest, 1904 N. Clark Street. quences of such unbalance, mentally and Chicago, U. 8. A. physically. Lastly, chronic ailments arise with which medical science seems to be C .E .G .J a .—Am I adapted to literary unable to cope. The indicated cure of business and what year will I become such a patient would necessarily be in successful ? the direction of will-building, physical A —Your sign does not indicate strong exercises and scientific diet. Scientific literary possibilities, but the position of diet is not necessarily a calory or fadis- Jupiter, your ruling planet, promises you tic diet. success in this line, if you study and work The Pathetic woman is a soul com­ hard. Perseverance and practice depends panion for the one who appreciates her. greatly upon ultimate success for you, She possesses the qualities of fidelity, but the year 1929 appears to be a fortu­ mutuality, sympathy, grace and beauty, nate year for you in literary endeavors. but she lacks working ability, strength, Imogene Wilton courage and resolution. She is a peace L.B.C., Okla.—Should I continue in maker and a home decorator. She is business I am now in—if not, what? delicate, sensitive, impressive, .imagina­ naturally polite, cultured, refined, graci­ Will I ever have a successful domestic tive and susceptible to suggestions of all ous, even when poor and untrained. life? Will I ever live alone and realize kinds. Breeding is as natural to her as athletics When the three elements, carbon, hy- % is. to a monkey. She does not need to my ambitions? drogen» and phosphorus unite,-as predom-* A —You do not state your present oc­ attend a seminary in order to become a cupation. Become less visionary, less mating factors in the organism of man, lady of refinement and culture. Refine­ generous, think more constructively and it is difficult to assimilate the organo- ment is in the soul, in the disposition ; it you will become successfully placed in metallic salts, because will power and is inherent. Educational refinement is a domestic life. Many of your ambitions internal functional energy is lacking. The very thin veneer. The Pathetic lady is should be realized before latter part of mind of the Pathetic woman is so senti­ inherently refined because of her type, 1927. mental that her chemistry is one-sided. chemistry, faculties and soul. She could She lacks will power, power of concen­ not be coarse, crude, ugly and abusive, tration and power to metabolize the however much she tried. The faculties 1 J ., N e b .—What lines of work am I stronger or metallic chemical elements of refinement and culture are all strongly fitted for? Would a change of residence for body structure. Hence the tissues in the lead in her mentality, and chem­ to Oklahoma, Texas, or Missouri be are flabby. She has very little working ically speaking, she has those compounds beneficial? When will I marry? capacity except along the lines of very that result in fineness and softness of A —The Ascendant in your horoscope light physical or mental work. Yet she body structure and refinement of soul. chart indicates that you are best adapted appears so healthy that every physician Her very chemistry favors faith, hope for artistry, perspective drafting, archi­ will not hesitate to pronounce her a per­ and love. She is a vital temperament tecture, music in all its forms, and fect specimen of health. If the chemistry woman, but she does not appear heavy, business pursuits where writing and of her body is not balanced she will suf­ voluptuous nor disproportioned. Her in­ mental exertion is necessary. Most suc­ fer from nerve complaints and from fluence is in her tears and not in her will. cess for you in Central to Western chronic diseases later. In order that she This Type needs a light protein diet, Texas, and Western Missouri. So far as may take up the calcium and other bone and a sparing carbohydrate diet, with I have finished your chart I see no mar­ and muscle building elements, her tissues plenty of foods rich in lecithin or nerve riage for you this year. must be recharged with will power. She food, also in blood, tissue and secretion seems harmonious in body build and Salts. She needs plenty of sleep,' and beautiful in appearance. Her manners a system of light exercises in the open R.C., Mass.—Will I marry either of are pleasing, her disposition is sweet and air, regularly taken, to strengthen the the men whose birthdate I am enclosing? her mind loving, but she has no reserve heart and the entire involuntary muscu­ Will I be successful as an opera singer? motor energy, no matter how large she lar system, which are characteristically A —You will be happiest with the man born in June. Advise being careful even may be or how healthy she may appear. weak in the Pathetic Type. in this instance. You would be more successful in dramatics than opera. Who Knows? —If the God that Jesus called F a th e r —If the warring factors of today are was the same individual called G o d that, human beings, or if they are human W m .H .T ., Conn.—Shall I be successful directed all the killings by the children beings obsessed by evil spirits? in investment and speculation in 1926? of Israel recorded in the Old Testament? —If we should continue to carry the Shall I make any changes in present —If the earth was buried at sea when the cross of faith when we have knowledge position this year? Shall I leave my spirit of God moved upon the face of the at our command? present home-town in 1926 and shall I waters? . —Who is to blame for the “unrighteous­ return? Shall I make any particular —If, according to the 1st chapter of ness" abroad in the land today? new friends this year. Male? Female? Genesis—7th verse, heaven is not an —What would have been the answer to What is the trend for me this year in island? the young man who asked Jesus what business, health, and friends? Con­ —What holds the firmament called he should do to inherit eternal life, had structive and good or Neutral and bad? Heaven, in place? he been poor? A —I can not write a complete horo­ —What are they doing with so much fire —What made Abel's gift more acceptable scope here. Several changes and short in Heaven? to the Lord than that of Cain? trips are denoted for you this year. Many —At just what point will science and —If Cain was in his r ig h t mind when he new friends, mostly male. Health will theology agree? killed Abel? be good if you observe daily hygiene. —Will -harnessing the latent power in —Where the tragedy occurred? man (now called psychic power be —How did the people get into the land the next great achievement of science? of Nod? Mrs.WnuS., Ohio — Please tell me —If the phenomena of death and appa­ —If God ( destroyed the earth with a something of my son's future. Which rition of the spirit created fear? flood, where did Mt. Ararat come from? one will do the wonderful things I was —If fear is the Father of religion? —If the rest of the world was washed told about once? And what are they? —If the conflicting stories of the spirit down from Mt. Ararat by the reced­ A —Space is much too limited to reply apparitions created the idea of God and ing of the flood? L to your questions here. established heaven and hell? —If professional people should marry? T he Occult Digest March 1926 37 Have YOU the Ability? To make • success of yourself? One In every three can operate an automobile—yet only one In sis hundred can use hi* own powers. To those few, success of their every endeavor Is assured. YOU have the power If you hut leam how to direct it. Be well — be happy—be successful. Secret of Oriental Power Tbo secret of the Hindu Is revealed to you In our system of Instruction. To this Is sdde th“ foundation of Occidental Psychology. With both, you know how to develop and use all your secret powers. T w o I nctnnt F ro A Write today and we will W atson on “Behaviorism” 1WO L e s s o n s r r e e seiui you two lessons free to show you how you can loan this marvelous method of By K. M. E. being cuccessful. F THE expressed aim of Dr. John with instruments of research inaccessible PSYCHO-OCCULT SYSTEM Watson’s lectures on Behaviorism is (and quite naturally so) to Dr. Watson Suite 618, 100 W. Chicago Aye., Chicago, HI* I the shattering of the association of does know and has known “how the idea the ideas embodied in such words as of soul started,” and, moreover, he knows “soul” and “consciousness,” from the where it will lead to, and, in a measure How To Make Others Love Yon word “psychology” as he indicates at the (limited by his intellectual equipment) Charm and facinate whom you will—be sought after and admired. Secure clever outset of the brilliant series of papers, where it will have greatest and least ef­ woman’s secret methods Book explaining it is clear that Dr. Watson misses both fect upon the sum total of human prog­ everything only 10c (stamps—not coin). the meaning of psychology as a word ress. That, indeed, is the function of the Confidential. (Plain wrapper) Cannot be and as a science. Despite his unques­ occultist, despite the popular conception secured elsewhere in the world. 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| SMILING | “TELL ME A BOOK TO READ” j THRU’ These Are a Few of the Recent Ones Best Worth While Mary: “We’ve got a new baby at oar house.” term for the occultist) and the latter the of satisfying speculation, and excellently Elderly Neighbor: "How nice—and product o f a voluntary, ^trained image- presented. Move the others over to make did the stork bring it ?” ination. Dr. Kempf’s book is'a mine of room for this one. Professor: “Oh, no. The little lamb valuable information on the causes of in­ So ponderous are the two volumes developed from a unicellular amoeba.”— voluntary imagination as well as its re­ from ffie Mosby press discussed earlier New Sensations.------sults. in this review, that I had almost over­ “ As on Earth” Headlines: There is probably not a reader of The looked a small but important work from HOLY INNOCENTS LEAD SO­ Occult Digest who is not familiar with those publishers, titled "Old and New DALITY BY BEATING ANGELS.— the writings of James Morgan Pryse. Viewpoints in Psychology" by Knight In a Missouri paper. He stands preeminent as the greatest liv­ Dunlap. It is an admirable and clear ing authority on the occultism of the presentation of the development taking The “Colonel.” ancient Greeks, and in addition to this place in that science, a description of its A rich but very eccentric man died. particular specialization, is a scholar of changing character, and indicates that The clergyman, who was young and new before long the scientific psychologist to the parish, thought it a fitting oppor­ profound, and' clear vision. Mr._ Pryse not only knows the f a c t s regarding his will leave the field of pure psychology to tunity to call and comfort the widow. the occultist as has before happened in "You must not grieve,” he told her. “The subject, but he also knows what those facts m ean, a too rare combination in the the world’s history, and enrich by his body that lies here is not your husband. ■ field of the occult. He has just published own labors the “no man’s land” between It is merely a husk, an empty shell— at Los Angeles, an occult analysis of pure science and psychology. the nut has gone to heaven.”—P ic k u p . Aeschylus’ (I prefer this form to Mr. And last (this month) but not least, No Surrender) Pryse’s spelling “Aischylos”) Prometheus is Mr. H. Dennis Bradley, this time with A small urchin in a Belfast slum Sun­ Bound, a study of interest not only to the a widened stock of material, a higher, day School was asked to tell the story of occultist but to the Hellenist of whatever if possible, egotism, a narrower, if pos­ Daniel in the Lions’ Den. cast of thought. In the light of Pryse’s sible, temper, and a bigotry which would He began eagerly: “Danny was thrun erudition the old myth shines with fresh do credit to the most ardent medieval inta a den o’ lions. There was lions vigor, and one realizes that there is more zealot of the great perversion of the In­ ivery side av him and lions ahint him, to the old Greek writers than syntax! quisition. His opus hight "The Wisdom and a mortial big lion forninst him. He has done the same thing with Euri- of the Gods.” I think I shall have to And”—with immense gusto—“there was pedes’ “The Adorers of Dionysos,” and sharpen another lance for Mr. Bradley wee Danny in the middle, not carin’ a both books will make a profitable addi­ next month! I, too, thank God for a damn for anny o’ them.”—London Morn­ tion to any library from the standpoint little Irish blood! of literature, occultism, or Hellenic cul­ In the field of occult fiction there is at in g P o s t. ------tural material. Resurrection. hand Mr. J. H. Symons’ "A Splendid Former Pastors Preach Opening Ser­ We always knew that something would A n g e l." 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Also, in the line of occult fiction “Yassuh,” responded Brother Jones. whither none knoweth, least of all Mr. and written infinitely better than most "Ah’s a spen’thrif’, an' Ah throws mah Klyce. He has scuddled the ship and novels of its type is the "Goat Without money ’round reckless like.” drowned the crew—sunk them all beneath H o m s ,” by Beale Davis, from the press “Ve’y well. We will join in prayer fo’ a tidal wave of capital I’s. I do not of Brentannos. The author evidently re­ Brotheh Jones—jes’ afteh de collection think I ever saw an / so many times re­ presses a very considerable knowledge of plate have been passed.” — A m e r ic a n peated, and if I looked elsewhere I do the folk lore of "v o o d o o ” in Hayti. Long Legion Weekly. ------not think I could, at least I am not .go­ before the compelling love affair of Felix Subtraction. ing to try, so 7 must indicate that 7 am Blaine and Madame Simone leads him to Vicar—"What would happen if you aware of his style when 7 use a few I ’s penetrate the bush, there to discover the were to break one of the Ten Command­ in this sentence. Enough! He knows it natives in the midst of the ghastly cere­ ments?” all, says so, and if you choose to believe mony of "the goat without horns,” the Aaron—"Well, then there would be him, you may. "7” don’t! Even if his reader has been "voodooed” into a com­ nine.”—Christian Evangelist. publishers, The Marshall Jones Company, pelling interest. It’s a corking story both who have done a marvelously attractive as occult material and as literature. Skeptics’ Society Notes. piece of book work on his opus, never In the astrological field we have a One O'f the first things the Skeptics* send me another for review! But, if very interesting brochure from John M. Society intends to do when the mem­ they are so minded—no more of Mr. Watkins of London by S. Elizabeth Hall, bers get to Heaven is to find out if there Klyce. He is so hard on the I ’ s l The "Astrology: The Link Between Two really is more joy up there over the one name of his book is "The Sins of Sci­ W o r ld s .” These essays are a series of sinner who repents than over the ninety- e n c e ." suggestions concerning the origin, signifi­ and-nine just men who need no repent­ William C. Hartmann has just issued cance, and philosophy of stellar lore and ance. the most valuable book of its kind ever should be in the library of every‘student course, the test may prove incon­ published for occultists. It is a " W h o ’s of the subject. clusive. The Society is by no means con­ Who” in Occult. Psychic and Spiritual Not since Sepharial’s Manual of As­ vinced that the world, if called on now R ea lm s, and while it is not a guarantor tro lo g y was first published has there been for ninety-nine just men who need no of the pretensions of its listed names, it a general text book for the student as repentance, would be able to supply the is a directory worth many times its cost clear, concise, systematic in its arrange­ number needed to fill its quota. to every one who is working in the pres­ ment, and complete in data as Mr. Vivian Nor do all the members expect to go ent crisis. It is amazing how complete E. Robson’s "Students’ Text Book of to Heaven. Those who are Hell-bent the first issue of a book of this kind has A s t r o l o g y It contains a great mass of have set themselves an equally attractive been made. detail which is not contained in any other task. Upon their arrival they will un­ Here’s a book to delight the heart of text book, and renders itself, therefore, dertake an exhaustive survey of the the "literary” occultist! Flora Isabel doubly valuable. street-paving contracts to determine MacKinnon has just published through From the same author there also comes whether anything besides good intentions Oxford University Press, a dissertation "The Fixed Stars and Constellations is hay been surreptitiously used. The So­ and compilation of The Philosophical Astrology," a collection of material ciety promises that any fraud detected Writings of Henry Mobrel Plenty of which is of incalculable aid to the pro­ will be ruthlessly exposed.—L if e . argument, plenty of information, plenty fessional practitioner of Astrology. It The Occult Digest March 7 9 2 6 1 39 is a compendium of practically all of the vital information astronomical, myth­ ological and astrological relating to all J u st a fe w of the important fixed stars. Both these There Is Only One Occult volumes are published by Lippincott, Digest- - Authoritative, Scientific, Philadelphia. left / Pursuing the case method of presenting Fascinating--Covering the World’s material, which therefore combines diag­ nosis, prognosis, therapy and result, Ira Advanced Thought for You every month S. Wile publishes through Thomas Seltzer, New York, "The Challenge of Childhood ” a series of studies in per­ Your Life Time Opportunity sonality and behavior in adolescents. This is a valuable companion volume to the Watson and Hamilton books already The Complete “Occult Digest” of 1925 herein reviewed. In the religious field we are in receipt in One Volume $5.00 Postpaid of a very bold and valuable presentation for the popular mind of what has hith­ PARTIAL. CONTENTS erto hidden behind the mysterious and JANUARY. A Prophecy for 1925-1999 JULY. The Watcher—The Three Wise Men sinister sounding title of “Higher Criti­ (already coming true)—Mystical Interpre- —The Shortest Radio Waves Discovered— cism.” This volume by Dr. William G. tatlon of “Evolution”—Who Are The Fake The Unannounced Number — Bex, The Ballantine is titled “ Understanding they of ? hB MJwterj ot Mjit.rU>» B.T.alet—Contei- X "»at of an Oecultlit—Th. Snp.ntnetir. B ib le/* The author makes short shrift to unravel—An Apostrophe to The Soldier Tl#. w_ n-.-.-i.vij. of Apostle Paul in the exact spots in| and The Sublimation of Sacrifice—Margaret 0,rr? *5. 8 Fuller— On The Principles of The Occult— r*Th® Fluorto, one of 19 Chemlesl Types of which for the sake of Christian progress] Individuality and Personality—How To DIs- People and Their Diet—The Evolution In« it would appear to many Paul has needed cover the Involuntary Blind—Reaching Mara fidsltlon In Tennessee — Monkeys — Yosr this sort of cudgeling. 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Then the Spanish Crown Montezuma's treasures. stepped in, made a contract with another | In London recently, an auction was fortune-hunter, who spent his fortune, rheld of Incas relics, recovered by an recovered much treasure, handed it over English engineer, named Knowles, from to the Crown, but as his contract called a lake in the Columbian Andes, at an for the entire draining of the lake, the ly 4 inch altitude of 10,000 feet, being the most Crown refused to divide the spoils, re­ inch important of five sacred lakes used by. sulting in. the fortune hunter's complete Chiboha Indians in their worship. ruin. 4 Inch This lake of riches, according to tradi­ Many further attempts after Spain lost tion, still contains throughout unnum­ the country were made. The lake was bered centuries, the private wealth of the finally drained in 1904. Since then, sand ruler of the Chibehas, thrown there just and mud to a depth of 50 feet have grad­ IMPORTED CRYSTALS before his defeat by the Spaniards. 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THEATRE “Journeys Through Space” hy Astral-Body Travel The Dyhhuk Down in the East Side, at the Neigh­ borhood Theater, is one, if not the great­ Getting a Glimpse of What Is Ahead of Us est of New York’s plays of the season; After the Great Change Called Death. a deeply moving, Yiddish folk-legend from the Russian done into English. A magnificent but strange production, tra­ By Effa Danelson, The Editor of The Occult Digest dition to the many, but pregnant with truth to the occultist who understands as Ju st a few of the questions answered in a record of her personal experiences he witnesses with visualized realization printed in book form. as never before how the seen and the un­ seen worlds of reality merge into the DO YOU KNOW other. Briefly, a young man, a young girl, at —that after death the status of an some more advanced than others, birth are bethrothed to each other by individual is not governed by what that there are no tiers or planes, their parents. Years pass, the girl’s that person had done or left un­ one after another? father becomes wealthy, breaks the promise, bethrothes the girl to another. done, by race, relation, politics, —that “as below, so above,” and The young man enters a synagog, be­ nation, religion or cult, wealth or “as above, so below”? comes learned, meditates, fasts, and poverty? fathoms the veil of the known. He dies. —that the study of life after death The girl’s wedding day arrives, the spirit- —that the law of attraction gov­ must begin with the study of life lover "takes possession” of the body of erns, that all supply is free, that before death, and further, that the “his sweetheart” . . . then, through ex­ you profit only by that which you study of life before death is the orcism of a rabbi, the spirit-lover is study of life before birth? forced to relinguish his "control” of the can assimulate and use? girl’s body. She is alone. She hears the —that crime is a disease, explain-l —why man lingers in his man- call of her spirit-lover. She goes to him able by physical reaction to psy­ worship of the fear and supersti­ . . . through death. tions of the past? A myth to the many, but a scientific chical causes? truth to the student of psychic law. —that life in the flesh world is no —that die physical body and brain different than life in the spirit is animated by life but that LIFE The Ghost Train world, an individual^ condition in does not have full control? A by-play and incongruous attempt to either, depends upon how receptive hook-up the “psychic,” now performing —that life does not lay down the at the St. Martens in London. Belated he is to the influences around him? body or take it up, but while life travelers spend a night in a small-town —that the study of life in the serves in the body, it can lay it railway station. They listen to the ghost­ earth-phase is the first step, for down and take it up? ly tale of a ghastly wreck related by the station-master how on the anniversay comparative understandings in re­ —that this natural law enables us night of the catastrophe, at the witching lation to one-half of die world to to journey through space where hour, the ghastly ghost-train with its the other? the physical body cannot be taken? ghostly passengers and crew thunder by, with certain death to mere mortal who —that one world, cut in half by an —that sleep is a hypnotic condition, should as much as look thereupon. The imaginary veil, should be called a provided by life for the physical station-master tells this story, and falls veil of ignorance due to a lack of temple (the flesh body) while Life dead (who wouldn’t), and the suggestibles study of the laws of life? forages for its supply? develop a case of nerves, but a young Britisher merely saves the situation at the —that life is like a revolver, wc. —that the attachment of life to the psychological moment, by a pistol shot, as individuals, are like cartridges, body is similar to, but not like the which switches the ghastly train with its so to speak, held in the magazine, chord which connects the babe ghostly crew, and kills them all. but when forced by death into ac­ with its mother which is severed The Drtam Play tion, all pass through the one bore. at birth? Strindberg's picture of the futility of Some reach the marie, some go —that this chord of life is atmos­ life is being presented in U. S. for the wild, but all find a bed? pheric, affected by any activity first time at the Provincetown Playhouse —that the stronger ones are able which would- destroy the physical in New York. It is well-acted by Mary Fowler and to adjust themselves, the weaker body? Stanley Howlett. The action follows the ones who do not resist are carried —that trance conditions are dan­ dream life of one whose mind is unlocked along drifting through* space by gerous? because produced by an­ in sleep where wealth, pleasure and dis­ stronger influences? ease are surveyed in swift succession other, while life is either set aside ending in something like death. —that death does not carry life or imprisoned for the time being? but deposits it? —if the operator and life becomes —that the flesh decomposes, that entangled trouble to the physical the personality, individuality and body ensues? voice never dies, memory con­ —that you can destroy the fabric, tinues, and arising from the flesh- but you cannot destroy individual Sorrows of Satan body, life lifts itself, clothed in fife? another tangible body perfect and Marie Correli’s masterpiece, “The Sor­ Xote.— J u t pin a dollar MD to joar rows of Satan.” has just been scenario- wonderful, even though in life name and address < write plainly» ized by John Russell and turned over to I hopelessly crippled? and toe O m it Publishing Company, D. 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