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heard of any such elaborate trick being done at any seance, Our Outlook Tower. nor does he even allege that any medium was ever caught doing it, but that is presumably how he thinks it might be done by himself as a master magician ! WILL GOLDSTON’S DISSERTATION ON “ BOGUS MEDIUMS.” WILL MR. GOLDSTON DEMONSTRATE HIS |R. WILL GOLDSTON, Founder of the OWN SKILL? Magician’s Club, claims to be a partisan He omits one important point, however, namely, M that slate-writing is usually done by mediums within of and a believer in things slates locked and roped together and sealed, and he does occult. He was the “ impartial witness ” who not explain how his own clever middle finger, with a recently accompanied Mr. Hannen Swaffer to flesh-coloured thimble, and a piece of soft chalk, would the famous Donegall “ Test ” of Mr. John get within the locked slates and write a message, before the elastic would carry his thimble up his sleeve out of Myers, when he showed his ardour by lounging sight 1 This would be a fine point for a test trial of at his ease in the medium’s drawing room while Goldston’s magical abilities, pitted against the slate­ Lord Donegall substituted a slide and mani­ writing of say young Cyril Budge, whose wonderful pulated plates secretly smuggled into the dark phenomena occur when he is not near the slates at all, but sitting in trance, roped in a chair within the cabinet, room ! His assistance in ensuring “ fair play ” at a distance of two or three yards. We challenge Mr. for Myers on that historic occasion was therefore Goldston to make good his story by a demonstration negligible ; while his help in providing ideal of his own cleverness, and we await his acceptance. conditions for Donegall’s trickery was all that MATERIALISATIONS MADE OF A BALLOON ! could be desired ! Mr. Goldston describes several other tricks which he suggests are performed by unspecified bogus mediums, HIS WAY OF HELPING MEDIUMS ! and he certainly gives his imagination unlimited scope Mr. Goldston’s latest evidence of his “ partisanship ” of in producing suitable pabulum for the Empire News. Spiritualism takes the form of a sensational article in the The following dicta on materialisations are of special Empire News, of January 8, which is headed— “ Bogus interest because of their novelty. Nothing quite like Mediums ”— “ Heartless Charlatans who Gull the them has ever appeared even in the most mendacious of Credulous,” and “ The Floating | Ghost.’ ” anti-Spiritualist prints :— He says :— " In exposing some of the tricks practised by bogus mediums ”— .(he does not name any or say " A medium who professes to produce materialisations where they are to be found)— “ my object is to help those of spirits has a straightforward task, because a seance mediums who are what they profess to be ’’— (which is, of that kind is never conducted in full light. of course, very kind and altruistic). % Take the materialisation of a baby spirit— perhaps the foulest of all these wicked frauds. (Has it ever ALL MEDIUMS SUSPECT ! happened outside Mr. Goldston’s dreams ?) He waxes finely indignant at the wickedness of the “ The whole apparatus for the trick can be carried— in imaginary scoundrels he professes to expose j calls them fact, it usually is carried— in the medium’s watch case, “ charlatans,” “ despicable beings,” and I heartless from which, of course, the watch has been removed. rogues,” and he subtly suggests that these wretches are (The name and address of any such medium he knows of really mediums who are believed to be perfectly should be given.) genuine !— i The materialisation is produced in total darkness " I t is possible,” he says, “ that a reader who has or in a very poor light. A small balloon, which the been to the seance of a bogus medium may think, after medium can easily inflate, serves as the baby’s head ; reading my description of the trick of which he was a tiny clip on the balloon prevents the air from escaping a victim, ' Oh, that’s impossible ; it could not have until the materialisation is over. been done in that way when I was there. The medium I W ith a tiny telescopic rod the head can be made to must have been genuine.' But if no precautions against | float ’ at some distance from the medium. Draped trickery were taken it is improbable that the medium round the head, and falling from it, is some very fine was genuine.” white Chinese silk, painted usually with luminous paint, One of the “ precautions ” sitters must take is to although the paint is not always necessary. beware of hymns and prayers ! " The sitting begins, I Larger materialisations are managed in a similar perhaps,” he says, " with prayers and the singing of way, but the articles required cannot be put into hymns, for a bogus medium will stoop to any blasphemy a watch case.” (He does not say where, but perhaps to gain his ends.” down the medium’s throat !) HOW SPIRIT RAPS ARE MADE ! MORE LIGHT ON CHEESE-CLOTH ! Mr. Goldston proceeds to describe how his own Having got thus far in his exposition, Mr. Goldston particular hypothetical “ bogus medium ” operates. He next trespasses on Mr. ’s special preserves. works with a table, the top of which is " really a shallow He says :— box.” "In the foot of one of the legs of the table is a " The chief item in the stock-in-trade of a trickster rubber bulb painted to look exactly like the wood. of this sort is a supply of ordinary cheese-cloth. This Fitted to this bulb is a rubber tube ending in a material has a wide mesh, but the mesh is not visible in little metal rod.” total darkness, and the material appears to be as plain i The medium has merely to sit at the table and press as a sheet. with his foot on the rubber bulb, causing the metal rod " The cheese-cloth is soaked in water to take out the to hit the underneath part of the table top,” and hey, stiffening, and it is then so soft that it can be manipulated presto ! ” the mysterious taps which he attributes to easily.” (Mr. Goldston does not say “ swallowed and the presence of spirits 1 ” How delightfully easy it all regurgitated!” like the original author of the cheese-cloth seems when Mr. Goldston reveals how it is done ! theory !) “ As the material takes up little room in the pocket SLATE WRITING WITH A MIDDLE FINGER ! a medium usually has two or three pieces of the stuff The medium then proceeds to do a little slate-writing. secreted on him, so that he may produce ' spirits of He puts the slate under the table to get a written answer different heights.” (By blowing them up like balloons \\ to a sitter's question. He next " puts his left fingers Mr. Goldston concludes his hotch-potch oi wicked up his right sleeve and brings down a little flesh-coloured absurdities by saying :—*' Needless to sav, fraudulent thimble, fastened to a piece of elastic tied to his arm. mediums are well aware that if they are not very careful In one side of this thimble is fixed a small piece of soft their tricks may be discovered,'' but he inm avoids n saying chalk When the medium is going to hold the slate that ho himself has ever witnessed or discovered anv under the table he keeps his middle finger, on which he of the tricks he describes He is much tv» lias put the thimble, under the slate, and his little finger careful tor that, for he knows very well that they only u*i in the and thumb above it, To write a short message with his interior of his own hat ! It is1 * aorry sort gj work little finger is an easy matter This done, he turns his thisus thatmai Mr Willwin itoniston,Golds toil, whv uno preterivi* tn he a Stunt* middle finger inwards, slips oil the thimble, and the uaallst, is stooping te» It* only effect can ho to emesl * elastic carnee it up hi| sleeve and so out of sight Theu d«eluvio the umusUuctcd portion of the public, but for «K?. he produces the slate and shows the message/ >rt of stuff the aiiU-Spmtualist thuw * Mr, Goldston does not say that- he has ever seen or pay a very high pneu I 66 THE INTERNATIONAL GAZETTE. February, 1933. H i Apologies to Slandered Mediums That Are Overdue. AN APPEAL TO LORD DONEGALL, MR. DENNIS BRADLEY, AND OTHERS. URING last year three highly-gifted Surely Mr. Dennis Bradley, Miss Frances Spiritualistic mediums were " exposed Campbell, Mr. Maurice Barbanell, Lord Donegall, D as frauds and tricksters, and their alleged and the Sunday Dispatch will not for ever let t H A iniquities were published throughout the world the stain of alleged " fraud ” rest upon the names Mai by means of sensational newspaper stunts. of their innocent victims, and we trust they will w o i The International Psychic Gazette alone clearly without further delay publicly retract their S q u a re and triumphantly established their absolute wicked aspersions and offer suitable apologies; these i innocence, but no retractation of the slanders has and thus make an amende honorable in the interests 12.45 1 ever yet been published or any apology given of elementary truth and justice. alread) by the perpetrators of these fraudulent Otherwise they will not only deliberately leave in thei “ exposures.” Valiantine, Budge, and Myers under the stigma begin i Thus only the readers of The International of being fraudulent mediums in the eyes of the So 1 Psychic Gazette and their friends know world, but they will cause an undeserved slur psychic to remain on the whole Spiritualistic Cause, (1) That Mr. did not pretend to than th produce the thumb prints of Sir against which these pretended “ exposures " are has b and Lord Dewar with his big toe, as was proclaimed aimed, quite as much as against the individual througl by Mr. H. Dennis Bradley and his associates 1 men aspersed. an Eng (2) That Cyril Budge was a perfectly genuine and This matter must not rest until adequate honest young medium, and did not “ masquerade as goes in justice is done, and it is devoutly to be hoped a ghost,” or otherwise act as “ a bogus medium,” vacates that the “ exposers ” will themselves do what is as was falsely announced by Miss Frances Campbell while and Mr. Maurice Barbanell ; and right in the matter without any further reminder control (3) That Mr. did not produce spirit- of what duty clamantly demands. nose, photographs by cutting out pictures from old We need only add that should they fail in this, newspapers and magazines, hedge them round with make cotton-wool, and represent them as “ spirit faces,” no further reliance can ever again be placed on massag as was sensationally proclaimed by Lord Donegall whatever statements they may make or publish who c and the Sunday Dispatch. relative to Spiritualism and its honest mediums. for tre; To-d Should the Churches Absorb Spiritualism ? special demon: SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST. started N the recent debate at the Grotrian Hall, earnestness, I would implore Spiritualists and the Churches and un Mrs. St. Clair Stobart, the Leader of the to come together and work as a united whole for the withou I Spiritualist Community, suggested that it salvation of the world.” person was desirable that the Church should absorb THE NEGATIVE VIEW. filed Mrs. Champion de Crespigny said that if Mrs. Stobart receive Spiritualism, while Mrs. Champion de Crespigny, meant merely that the Churches should accept Spiritualism Principal of the British College of Psychic she went with her all the way, but when she spoke of the conside Science, argued that that project was not Churches absorbing it lock, stock and barrel, that was a treatm desirable. very different thing. The 1 No one had a greater admiration for the Churches than Jones, r< THE AFFIRMATIVE VIEW. herself, for they had kept religion and spirituality alive and at • Mrs. St. Clair Stobart said that religion was an through all the materialistic ages, and especially in the it feels £ essential factor in our social life, that Christianity was last century. But she did not regard the study of and asleep a the religion of the western world, that the Churches research into psychical phenomena as religious rites, rememb were the official exponents of that religion, and that and did not see why these pursuits should be handed all. It Spiritualism was the most reasonable interpretation of over to the Churches. see him Christian doctrine and practice. Therefore, if the The man in the street had the right to inquire what a s 1 i g Christian religion was to be saved as a world force, its happened to him when he left behind the body of this moveme: Churches must absorb Spiritualism, without controlling flesh and entered into another phase of existence, and that son or monopolising it. that inquiry had interests outside religion, and ought is taking There was little danger of the Churches attempting not to be handed over to the restrictions of the Church. under t any undue control, for, side by side with them, Societies Had Science been handed over to the guardianship of the “ Medicii for Psychical Research would be maintained by persons Church we should probably still be believing that the jumps uj to whom the more spiritual or religious aspects of the sun went round the earth, and that the earth was created and by h shows h subject might not appeal. in 4000 b .c . The Church had always fought against tackle a Thus the line of demarcation between the psychical the progress of Science of any kind. invocatic and spiritual would be more clearly defined ; the man Mrs. Stobart had referred to the Spiritualist movement sung and in the street would look to psychic researchers for a having second-rate speakers, but had the control of the N um b knowledge of the basic facts and to the Churches for the Church ever saved us from second-rate sermons or the ” Medicii spiritual corollary of these facts. nonsense talked in many pulpits ? Christ himself did tips of t If it be desirable that individual persons, with limited not hand his teaching over to the priests but he selected influence on the world at large, should absorb Spiritualism, his apostles from among the people. The early Christian and he s how much more desirable was it that the Churches, with Church had absorbed and practised Spiritualism, but round th their influence over many millions of people, should later on it neglected and lost it. the legs, absorb it and spread its truths, which Drought Light, Ever since the days of Samuel the Churches had had All the ti Comfort and Wisdom to all who believed them. control of Spiritualism, and what had they done with it ? to his si Spiritualism, as distinguished from Psychism, was There was one great Church to-day which said that saying sc based upon Revelation, but in order that it should be psychical phenomena meant one thing inside the Church, who are 1 of the greatest service to mankind, its revelations should and something very different outside it. The Church From not be obtained merely in seance rooms or scientific at the present moment was doing its best to keep its to take i laboratories but in holy places, in sanctuaries set apart people away from Spiritualism ; why was it desirable medicme) for Christian worship and spiritual communion, whose then that it should absorb it ? use this ‘ goal was spirituality. Let the Church accept Spiritualism and help to guide it, Should Spiritualists reject the co-operation of the by all means, but not control it, for that would lead to body Christian Churches, they would be rejecting not only the monopoly. When any body of humanity lived together teac hing of lesuB and St. Paul but of all the great religious and its organisation became strong, monopoly followed. *to W leaders of the world. They would cut themselves adrift Spiritualism belonged to the people who at long last had =S&, One* from the mam stream of religious thought and range been able to cast off the shackles of the Priesthood and jew themselves outside the field of religion. should think long before consenting to put them on again *

The Astounding Work of “ Medicine Man!’’ MANY CASES TREATED IN PRESENCE OF A LONDON DOCTOR. B y EL. L. MAAS. HAVE just returned from seeing “ Medicine fingers pointing straight at the spot requiring the inflow of power. Then at the word ” off,” rapped out by the 1Man ” (the “ control ” of Mr. F. J. Jones) healer, they relax and await the next move. work at Marylebone House, 42 Russell I was puzzled and wanted to know what they were Square, W.C.i, and all I can say is that doing, so asked his helper ” Sunshine ” exactly what these things must be seen to be believed. At the talking and gesticulating was about. ” Medicine Man ” (who must have heard my question) left his patient 12.45 p-ni. when I arrived twenty people were and came over to me to explain that when he was speaking already waiting, and by two o’clock fifty were in his own language he was asking for the " medicine in their seats, and the healing was timed to necessary for the patient before him, and that when begin at 3 p.m. ! he or his helpers put up their hands this particular So much is known nowadays about these " medicine ” was given by the invisible band of spirit associates. psychic healers that I need hardly say more This I understood to mean that various rays of healing than that for years this African “ Medicine Man ” | power are manipulated from the ” Other Side,” the has been working I ■ human helpers being merely the instruments through the body of through which they are an Englishman, who directed. goes into trance, i.e., Not a minute was vacates his body wasted, neither was there any undue haste, while the African but the necessary work controls it, to diag­ was done without hesi­ nose, give advice, tation, and patient after make passes, and patient was treated until nearly seventy people massage the patients had passed under his who come to him hands. for treatment. One of the most To-day being a interesting things to see was, when new patients special day for came before him, demonstration he “ Medicine Man,” with started at 2.10 p.m., unfailing correctness, and until 6.20 p.m., told them what was the matter with them. without a stop, one For diagnosis the person after another medium sits down and filed past him to puts his face close to the receive what he body of the patient, his eyes being shut tight considered necessary all the time. Then he treatment. slowly moves his head The m e d iu m , Mr. up and down, from the J ones, remains in trance, solar plexus for instance, and at the end he says and one feels there is a it feels as if he had been scrutinising etheric eye asleep all the time. He at work searching the remembers nothing at very marrow of their all. It is interesting to bones as it were, so see him go into trance, intent is he to get at the a slig h t convulsive root of the trouble. movement only showing Then he tells the that something unusual patients exactly where is taking place, and then they feel their pains and under the control of gives them the reason “ Medicine Man ” he for their ailments. For jumps up from his chair “ MEDICINE MAN.” instance, to a lady who and by his alert manner From an Oil Painting through the of Mrs. Ida M. Dixon. had not said a word, shows he is ready to he said, “ You have tackle all cases coming before him. He gives an had a fall.” At first she did not recall it, as it had invocation in a deep, powerful voice, a hymn is also happened a number of years ago. “ Medicine Man ” sung and then he begins his work. showed her how this was the direct cause of her illness. Number one patient comes up and is asked to sit down. Passing his hand over her head he told her that she “ Medicine Man,” taking his or her hand, examines the had dreadful headaches as well as pains in the eyes, tips of the fingers. This gives him certain indications which felt as if they were being pushed out, to which she and he sets to work with passes, either over the spine, said, “ It is quite true.” round the head and down the side of the neck, the body, Turning to a London Doctor present, *' Medicine Man ” the legs, the feet, etc,, each case being treated differently. called him over and pointing to a certain part of the Ail the time he is issuing commands in his native tongue patient's back said that owing to the fall a certain nerve to his spirit helpers, interspersed with English, when had been forced out of position and that with the passing saying something to the patient or the physical helpers of the years it had become permanently distorted. who are there to give additional power. Following with his fingers the course of the nerve up the From time to time he raises his hand and appears back, over the back of the head, and over the forehead, to take in some " force ” or " ray ” (which he calls his ending at the eyes, he explained how this had caused the medicine) invisible to us who watch, and we see him dreadful pains. He said that if a non-clairvoyant Doctor use this " force ” on the patient. He either pats it into treated this woman for headaches it would do no good the body at the requisite spot with tiny little taps of at all, because, unable to see it, he would not discover his finger-tips, or following a nerve or muscle puts it the cause. Then he gave the woman certain exercises where required with one finger— just that, no more, to do at home— bending in such a manner as would ns lass straighten out the nerve. How could he have known Once or twice, however, he threw this force with of that fall of a patient seen for the first time, and get tremendous power at the correct spot Meanwhile his at the cause of her trouble, if it was not for the move voluntary helpers m white overalls, of whom two were far-reaching vision of the Spirit ? in attendance, stood ready to direct this ray (which they One of the last cases dealt with was that ot a man w ho alae seemed to gather out of the air) with hands upraised, came all the way from Wales ’ Medicine Man and at " Medicine Mali's ” urder down came their hands, diagnosed the case as asthma, and ashed him how bug 68 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. Fe.hrtiara. 1933.

been suffering from this, to which the reply was, drained a glass of water to replenish his body which was 1 hree years. Then he said to Ihe man, ‘ If yon being used so strenuously. So natural were his move­ promise to do exactly ns 1 tell you you will be well in ments walking about and talking— that if one hadn’t six moons. He prescribed the simple right diet and seen his eyes closed all the time one would hardly believe added, " No pipe of peace for you.” lie gavo him a that another entity was using his body. treatment then and thero, administering to his lungs I think the most beautiful thing that afternoon was breath of life,” tho most important part of all when a young mother handed him her baby. He took the treatments, which is always uiven by ” Medicine it in his arms, and tho little one sat up quite happily. M*in Man ” only. To see " Medicine Man ” standing thus for a few minutes, medium At the same time he asked the Doctor present to come surrounded by various people, and with the child nestling and hear his explanation of tho case, and how ho was up to him, was such a lovely picture that it reminded In the going to deal with it to clear the bronchial tubes so that one of the Christ’s words : ” Suffer the little children he smasi normal breathing could take place. Ho insisted that to come unto Mo.” Miss Frc in no other way could such a case bo cured. When the Doctor was saying good-bye to him later, A lady who was saved from an operation by the inter­ l heard ” Medicine Man ” say, ” I am a servant of the had eve vention of " Medicine. Man ” told mo that when he Lord,” and the deep sincerity with which he uttered moment diagnosed her case she felt distinctly a luminous eye these words was very impressive. He also pleaded, for innocent searching the interior of her body, and stopping at the the untold number of sick people in the world, for a fuller exact spots where doctors had discovered ulcers. co-operation of medical men with psychic healers. Earlier who was Another lady who looked very weak and tired was in the afternoon 1 heard him say to this Doctor : ” What In his ” rontgen-rayed ” by this penetrating eye, and was told I want is that you doctor men come and see me, and not aid of a 1 she had undergone so many operations that there was say no. I want to help you people.” not much left inside her, but if she followed tho advice Is it too much to ask of medical men generally just but turn: and treatment she would soon feel a different woman. to go and see “ Medicine Man’s ” work and ply him denounci Several children were brought to him, and tho friendly with questions, since he says he only wants to help repute (] natural way in which he handled them at once put them humanity, and so fulfil a mission of love ? Far from as a “ i at their ease. He invariably dismissed them with a destroying any doctor’s practice, a co-operation of the kiss, as well as tucking a sweet or piece of chocolate two forces would increase it, and thousands of people relate, t into their hands, with a final, “ May the Grent: Spirit bless who might otherwise die a premature death or linger on faculties you always 1” for years in a helpless state could be saved. Co-operation, Mrs. B While this indefatigable healer was at work people working together in friendly team work, and doing that kept coming and going and talking, but nothing seemed which ought to have been done all along, would more gifts we to disturb him. Just about halfway through the medium amply fulfil the Christ’s command : *' Go, heal the sick.” in the lx not a “ asked by Spirit T cachings for the Present Times—VI. voice ” » and outi HOW THE NEW REVELATION WILL ALTER MAN’S CONCEPTIONS Nina Bra mediums] “ THE BEAMS OF THE KINGDOM ” races. For the King cometh as never before. of the me HE crudities of psychic life and phenomena His feet are shod with fire. His eyes are the should t are mists that have been stirred by the firelight lightning flashes of Truth, and His heart is Bradley, T of the New Dawn. centrally poised in infinite knowledge. but Mr. | They are the emanations from the valleys of the medium world’s superstitions, blood-sacrifices, and necro­ We want to tell you that the infinite creative Spirit mancies of an immemorial past. of Light and Truth, which men call the beneficent God, Barnett t The burning radiance of the New Kingdom is a did not create the world of mechanical force, withib Medium 1 firelight which has brought this forth as a film, corruption, evil, lust, and the blood of ages ; and that When it has neither been permitted nor desired by the One or as a mist. and told The Mist is not the Light, and that smoke cloud whom you call God, the lig h t of Life. which is in danger of standing between the New made, a Truth and the longing eyes of Humanity, must be But this world with its struggle, strife, warfare, satisfactii lifted and vaporised into a clarity so that it shall not crime, ugliness and selfishness shall be captured explained deflect the beams of the Kingdom, nor obstruct the from that power that brought it into being, vision of the soul. Spirituali* and shall be transformed into that which the mediums HE whole conception man has had best men in their hearts all through the great to injury, T concerning his origin, destiny, and the aching ages have dreamt of. The great poets, impudent] means whereby he can choose his path of singers and prophets, in their higher moments, In acce life, have all been wrong in the main. The truth have all dreamt of this harmony, life, beauty mediums must be spoken, and it shall be so strong in its and glorv that shall be. we invitee revelation that it will cause a revolution of For the King cometh to take possession, to trans­ call and g thought ; and thought which has been turning form. to transfigure, to transmute, to defeat, and to and we ai for ages from right to left shall begin to revolve subdue the power which brought into being and half here— from left to right. completed a creation which produced death. The mystery of life and death, and the way of The dream from the heart of purity has already IMF emancipation shall be placed in the hands commenced its pathway. The voice speaks Mrs. A p of men. What if it arrests, and recasts, all tender and true, and has sounded through the Spiritualisl conceptions in religion, philosophy and science ? discords of the great glamour. The pulsations in “ the do Fear not, for the Kingdom of Heaven taketh produced by that which is coming will re-dress give a sea possession of the kingdom of the earth and the the earth. at Trafalgs kingdom of darkuess. We cannot tell vou more. You have no d u rin g the Men can only climb to a false light through words adequate. We only* say that it is so specially \ the ladder of their speculative minds, or by You could not understand how and what, because Christmas traditions, or dark hidden problems. Tradition vou have no words to understand that which holds naught but obliquity, and leads not front is all new nor to the pathway of liberation. Disease, failure and death have hitherto held I he whole contemplative scheme of things is the result of wrung deduction, and it is all wrung. sway aU the way through. But disease shall with the coming of the Master, give pfcice to The fuvelatiftu shall be a UranstucaUag aaS txaat- fifurtag revelation, autf shall he the key to all toMMaSc ease and death* with its attendant tatoi ao4 industrial profileuu», IrrasfMCtlvc aI cult, o sti, sfiall ci^'e place to lite not v hema al m race. biok^bal W but hie without tenor. Mi every nation thuaa who are isslks shall Ftt ifc» Hi nltr

1 hp sitters wore mostly strangers, and they expressed through the seance, so that he would very soon have their pleasure. discovered if I was out of my chair manipulating the trumpet, as he suggests. As a matter of fact 1 was EVIDENTIAL MANIFESTATIONS. never out of my seat for a moment. Austen s remarkn Then a spirit called ” Popsy ” manifested to two of to me showed that he was very ignorant, and knew the sitters, a husband and wife, who said they had nothing whatever about psychic science. When I spoke previously made her acquaintance elsewhere. She spoke to •him about what was going on he merely t&ia, On, to them about a coming Christmas party and mentioned really,” " Oh, yes,” " How interesting,” " Yes, and a number of intimate little things they alone in the that was all. He made no complaints whatever during room knew about. the seance. M r s . A r c h i b a l d , the faithful friend of Dr. Lamond, These two people also recognised a spirit who called a said she was naturally very sceptical, but at the very himself “ Little Willie.” The husband did not recognise first seance she had had with Mrs. Barnett and Mrs. this spirit at first, and told him to go to his wife who was Bradley she was absolutely convinced that the mani­ sitting in another part of the room. “ Little Willie ” festations were fraud-proof. She added, " I liked the did so without guidance from anyone. The wife recog­ atmosphere and I liked the little medium. I should say nised him at once, and she reminded her husband that M she is quite incapable of fraud. She is not of that type their friend had while on earth been often called " Little at all. She is a little simple unaffected lady, somewhat cP i Willie,” even after he was grown up. They both thought after the same type as Mrs. Meurig Morris.” that manifestation very evidential, and said they X>1 recognised the voice quite well. A PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY SEANCE. CP. Another manifestation was given to a lady who, at a At the perfectly satisfactory seance which followed a circle on the previous day, had been promised that her number of spirits spoke in the " direct-voice ” to various guide would come through. This guide did come through. sitters who recognised them and conversed with them. He announced himself as “ Greatheart ” and said to her, Among these were ” Kathleen,” Dr. John Lamond's “ I promised you I would come, and I am here.” Neither daughter, who explained to Mrs. Archibald that she had the medium nor 1 had ever heard of this guide. come in place of her father, who was engaged at a seance Ever}- sitter in the circle received some personal mani­ elsewhere. The clairvoyance that followed seemed to festation, Dr. John Lamond coming to Mrs. Appleby, be thoroughly approved by the persons to whom it was who was a friend of his, and they conversed together addressed. t h for some time. THE VINDICATION OF HONEST MEDIUMS. Another husband and wife told me before they left that they were so pleased that they wished to come to Something must be done to put a stop to these uncalled- th< our next sitting, as they had received good evidence for calumniations of perfectly innocent mediums, and lei of survival. we suggest that the Fund collected about seventeen years ago for 1 the adequate defence of mediums ” should now cb A GENTLE FRANK LITTLE LADY. at last be utilised for the purpose of taking legal measures set Mrs. Barnett at this stage suggested we should come for their vindication and for the appropriate punishment of their persistent slanderers. g r to one of her circles at which the same medium and m a Mr. Barbanell is one of the two or three custodians some of the sitters at the criticised seance would be sta present. We went on Wednesday night, January n, of this grossly mal-administered Fund, which has never and met a company of about twenty intelligent refined been used for the purposes for which it was publicly m e people, none of whom seemed at all likely subjects for subscribed. No account has ever yet been given to the dr; being taken in by ” piffle ” or “ childish things.” subscribers of how their money has been spent, no one knows how much is left of it, and it is full time that an th- M r s . N i n a B r a d l e y , called by Austen “ the mysterious woman,” did not seem to us to be very mysterious ! authoritative public investigation should be made into th She is a gentle, frank little lady with a pleasant smile, this matter as it is well known that it has been squandered t i c and not the kind of person to be mixed up with anything on purposes never contemplated by the subscribers. j fraudulent. She told us that she had been clairvoyant *hai since a child and had always sat in friendly private m m m sue circles without fee or reward. Mrs. Barnett’s circles were full the first she had attended where money was taken, and ANOTHER SPIRIT CHILDREN’S there the only money given by the sitters was a small isal CHRISTMAS TREE. voluntary collection. Some sitters put sixpence in the phe plate, some more, and some nothing at all. This was B y A. E. PERRIMAN. only sufficient to pay for her travelling expenses and for the the refreshments Mrs. Barnett always provided for the SPIRIT Children's Christmas Tree “ direct- 0 f sitters after the seance. Never in her life till now had voice I sitting was held at 30, Holmdale Res there been any complaint about either herself or her Road, W est H am pstead, on Thursday, mediumship. The first evidence that she had any physical of mediumship was after her mother’s death, when her December 22, when fourteen friends were present, pre: mother and two other spirits had been fully materialised and my wife kindly gave her services as medium. our in her presence. Then five or six years ago her brother A t the outset I would like to say th a t th e idea originated refe passed on and he also materialised. It was really from from the Other Side of Life for the purpose of affording that time that her physical mediumship, including the children in the spirit world an o p p o rtu n ity of manifesting Lea direct voice,” had developed. She had never given and joining in our Xmas festivities, after which, the tree put herself out as a public medium and only gave her services and the toys were to be taken to a poor London Parish at private home circles. for distribution to children whose parents would not be able to provide any treat for them. SOME SITTERS’ STATEMENTS. W ith the co-operation of m any kind friends we collected v e Mr . G. A. N o b l e told us :— I recognised ” Popsy ” by 225 toys and sufficient money to provide tea for this r e } her voice and personal characteristics. After I read the number of children, and thus we were able to give joy b e i wretched parody of the seance I went to see Bedbrook to a large gathering of children at the Church Hall of St. and asked him why he said there had been fraud. Thom as's Church, W estm inster Bridge Road, on Xmas arti Bedbrook replied that everything had been unsatisfactory, Eve afternoon. a n d and in particular the luminous end of the trumpet had To describe this X m as Tree “ direct-voice ” sitting T disappeared and consequently someone must have been in full would, I'm afraid, be a long story, but suffice it between the trumpet and himself. I said that was to say, that some fifty children came and spoke to us and 'v a s contrary to my own observations, and on the other hand selected a toy from the tree. The little girls were delighted 0 1 had seen the trumpet describe a complete arc from one with their dolls, as were also the boys, who mostly selected b i s t end of the room to the other, when it landed on my mechanical toys or musical instruments. The mechanical a r m wife’s lap. That, I said, could not have been performed toys were wound up by the boys themselves and set e V ej by any person in the room. He began to speak about going, while the mouth organs, dulcimers and concertinas " rotten mediumship,” and I said, *' Come, come, Mr. were played upon with gusto. P ro c Many of the sitters in the circle had toys placed in then Bedbrook, we don’t want generalities ; all I have come hi^ d for is to get definitely from you what you say was fraud.” laps by the children, and quite a number of the children He continued to say that the whole thing was fraudulent, showed us their spirit lights. I wo of them were seen A i and 1 finished the discussion by saying, ” 1 came to you dancing to the gramophone music. 1 hey also joined m b r i V; with an open mind, and I have met a closed one. ’ It the singing of carols and nursery rhymes. seemed quite evident to me that he had already committed It was a memorable evening, and it only some of th* himself to Barbanell and Austen, and could not get parents of the children who manifested could have been Ili out of it. present and heard for themselves the happy laughter. I M ias B x n t l y said :— J sat next to Bedbrook’» friend, am sure they would not mourn the loss of then jdtyMeal presence with any remorse or anguish. T* Austen, and was speaking to him in an undertone all ‘V Pho s February, 1933. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE 71 Amazing Photograph of a Living Materialisation. THE MEDIUM IN TRANCE IN FULL VIEW. T a private sitting at the Psycho-Physical lit up the whole room, showing all the sitters as Studio, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, on clearly as in ordinary white light. A January 16, the astounding photograph The seance began as usual with a prayer and shown on this page was obtained. the singing of hymns, and in about ten to fifteen It shows the materialised form of “ Agar,” minutes, the full form of “ Agar ” stepped forth the Egyptian guide of the young medium, Mr. from the cabinet in which the medium was Cyril Budge, who is also included in the photo­ sitting. He first walked up and down the room graph. This is perhaps the most notable picture chatting with the sitters, then proceeded to the of a materialisation being seen along with the flood-light apparatus, which was enclosed in a medium that has ever been produced, and is light-proof bag, and uncovered it so that certainly of an even more absolutely convincing immediately a bright white light shone forth. character than the famous photograph obtained He next walked to the cabinet and, drawing by Sir with the medium Florrie the curtain open showed the medium sitting in Cook, who was deep trance. Then lying on the floor he walked to the only partially camera, inserted visible. a loaded slide, and What ought opened the lens particularly to be so that it would observed is that be ready for the through the flash. He there­ medium’s body upon loaded the the back rails and flash apparatus in left side of the full view and chair are clearly handed it to the seen, showing how Secretary, warning greatly the him not to fire it material sub­ before he gave the stance of the signal. medium had been All now being drawn upon for ready he posed the building up of himself near the the materialisa­ medium and gave tion. t h e signal, Perhaps never “ Now ! ” There has there been was a brilliant such a perfect flash as the full-form material­ magnesium pow- isation of a spirit d e r ignited. photographed in “ Agar” said, the whole history “Excellent! ” o f Psychical Then he walked Research as that to the camera, of “ Agar ” here closed the lens, presented. If and withdrew the our readers will slide. refer to Mr. Frank The seance was Leah’s sketch continued in dark­ published in our ness and Dame August number, Melba, with the they will see the aid of luminous very striking CYRIL BUDGE AND HIS GUIDE, “ AGAR.” slates, manifested resemblance A Flashlight Photograph taken during a Seance at the partially material­ be twee n the Psycho-Physical Studio. ised, and sang artist’s portrait A ll rights in this Photograph are strictly reserved “ Abide With and this flashlight photograph. Me ” and “ Loch Lomond in a beautiful clear The circumstances under which the photograph voice, the daughter of the house playing accom­ was taken are as follows :— paniments on the piano. After these, Melba On January xo, a member of the Studio received herself played the accompaniments on the piano instructions from her own to while singing several of her favourite arrange a private circle for the following Monday melodies. evening, at which an effort would be made to Shortly after the sitting was concluded, the produce a photograph of “ A gar" and his Secretary and the medium developed the film, medium seen together. which is here reproduced. Arrangements were made accordingly and a These wonderful sittings with Cyril Budge are private seance was held on January 16, when being organised on the “ Other Side ” by Cecil along with the medium there were present as Husk, who in an automatic message to us says : sitters, the Honorary Secretary of the Studio, “ You will observe the wonderfulness of with his wife and daughter. this photo, which shows the hollow blank The seance-room was at first illuminated only in the medium’s stomach, through which by a red lamp, but later a powerful non-actinic the chair on which he is sitting so clearly phosphorescent floodlight was utilised, which appears.” 72 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. February, 1933.

THE “ IGNORANT NONSENSE ABOUT FAKED PLATES.” International Psychic Gazette Mr. Tweedale finally disposes of the ” Special Com­ missioner,” and others like him, who, The Independent Monthly Organ of Dressed in a little brief authority Spiritualism and Psychical Research. Play such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep,” All communications for the Publishing, Editorial, or Adver­ in the following breezy and straightforward way tising Departments should be addressed to— “ All this ignorant nonsense about faked plates, 69, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.I. etc., is blown to smithereens by the fact that scores of recognised spirit photographs of the departed dead have been obtained by Mr. Hope in cases where there has never been a photograph, drawing,painting, or other The Conan Doyle Proofs. representation made during the deceased’s mortal life. " I have several such pictures and there are many PRESS ATTACK AND VALIANT DEFENCE. in existence. All theories of fraud are whistled down the wind by this fact, and no conjurer, professional HE article by the R e v . C h a r l e s T w e e d a l e , photographer, or any other person whatsoever can T Vicar of Weston, on pages 51 and 52 of obtain the results got by Mr. Hope by any non­ our January number, giving irrefragable spiritual means. Let your Commissioner face this proofs of the continued conscious existence of Sir fact if he can ! ” Arthur Conan Doyle, and his present ability to THE VICAR CARRIES THE WAR INTO THE impress an impromptu letter with an authentic ENEMY CAMP. portrait of himself on photographic plates Dealing with the wider aspects of the question raised exposed by Mr. William Hope, appeared also by lay and clerical correspondents of the Yorkshire Observer, Mr. Tweedale says :— in the Yorkshire Observer. “ Hitherto we have sat quiet under the silly and AN ANONYMOUS INVESTIGATOR. ignorant attacks of opponents, and for many years have heard a lot about the request for scientific That newspaper, however, does not appear to like evidence and tests from men like the Revs. Allen what it calls “ and Proof of Survival,” and it and Sowerby. appointed a “ Special Commissioner | to investigate the “ We will now carry the war into their own camp. matter. A “ Special Commissioner ! ” Fine name ! A They have made great demands for ‘ proof' and man of wisdom and discretion, no doubt, who will strive ‘ scientific evidence,' which proof and evidence we have given. to give his paper’s intelligent readers the truth with “ Do they realise that they, on their part, cannot perfect impartiality ! Vain hope, for alas, he turns out give one atom of 1 scientific p roo f' for the to be just one of those wretched stunt-mongers of the Resurrection of Jesus ? approved type, whose function is to falsify facts and to I Do they realise that they cannot give one particle throw sand into trustful people’s eyes. of scientific present-day proof for any of the apparitions, visions of angels, spirit voices, and HIS FAKED PHOTOGRAPH. •messages in the New Testament ? He could not, of course, refute the evidence printed, I Do they realise that they cannot give one particle for that was irrefutable, but he might cunningly discredit of scientific present-day proof for the existence of it by producing a faked ghostly photograph of Edgar the Spirit World, about which they talk so gliby Wallace, with the help of a confederate, and suggest that every Sabbath Day ? that was just the same thing, and that in consequence “ I challenge them, and all who think like them, all spirit photographs were merely mountebankish tricks ! to do it, and to give present-day evidence for what And all this, of course, as an example of respectable they stand for, and to produce the kind of evidence modern journalism ! they demand from us. But unhappily this “ Special Commissioner ” had I They cannot give to the humblest seeker one jot counted without his host, for he had pitted his amateurish or tittle of proof that his or her dear one has survived abilities and copied methods against one of the doughtiest death, or that there are angels or spirits, or that a warriors in the Spiritualist movement, who had no Spirit World exists. Men ask them for the bread difficulty in promptly chopping him up into very small of evidence and they can give them naught but the mincemeat ! stone of negation.” “ COLLAPSED LIKE A HOUSE OF CARDS.” THE AGNOSTICISM OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS. The Vicar of Weston, in dealing faithfully with this poor Mr. Tweedale concludes his trenchant reply to the “ Special Commissioner,” thus replied in the Yorkshire Yorkshire Observer’s i Special Commissioner ” and ill- Observer :— informed correspondents thus :— “ Any novice knows that ghost-like pictures can I How desperate is the need for this evidence be produced by the substitution of a previously to-day is emphasised b y the practical Agnosticism prepared plate, if precautions are not taken to shown by the m ajority of the religious teachers at prevent such substitution, but this is just what your the present time, when they turn their backs upon sapient Special Commissioner did not do. the present-day evidences of survival and communion ‘‘ He admits that he allowed his photographer to with the Spirit World. supply the plates, and he informs us that the said “ Recently, one of our Bishops said that ‘ Com­ photographer confessed to him that ' on the plates munication was wholly ignored by our Lord and the in the packet he had already photographed a photo­ writers of the New Testam ent,' thus deliberately graph of Edgar Wallace.' ignoring Jesus talking with Moses and Elias on the Your Commissioner tells us that he employed Mount, and the Apostles talking with Jesus after exactly similar conditions to those at Weston. He His death by crucifixion. did nothing of the kind.” “ I have a letter signed by an Archbishop, in which he writes, speaking of the Resurrection of Jesus, So, as Mr. Tweedale observes, “ his whole case collapsed ‘ If I did not independently believe in the reality like a house of cards | ” (Just as Lord Donegall’s sen­ of God, I should pay no attention to the alleged sational effort in the same line miserably collapsed the Resurrection appearances. I am quite convinced moment we threw the light of day upon it !) that direct evidence of survival is not either attainable or desirable.’ THE FACTS UNANSWERED. “ And this is Christianity in the Twentieth Mr. Tweedale ruthlessly exposes his assailant's use of Century ! ” exclaims Mr. Tweedale. “ It is high time the logical fallacy of ignoratio elenchi, which means the we made known the existence of present-day spirit cunning and deliberate ignoring of the exact points to phenomena and the glorious reality of the practical be answered or refuted. He writes :— Communion of Saints ! It is not too much to say that " J notice that he (the Special Commissioner) does modern psychic evidences and experiences have not touch on the photographic message in Sir Arthur's rehabilitated the Bible evidence.” identical handwriting, and signed by his identical We congratulate the vigorous Vicar of Weston on hi> signature, both recognised by Lady Doyle, the splendid defence, and his assault on the prevailing inesbage taking up the conversation of a few minutes Laodiceanisiu of our times, for us in the days ol tin previous. Nor does he touch the case of the recog­ Apostles, there are even in our own tanks too main nised picture obtained by Mr. H- - of a deceased people who “ blow neither hot nor cold about the most relative of whom Mr. Hope had never hcaid, and thrilling Truth us to Life and Inunortahty ever commuted who died more than sixty years ago. i hese are hot to inaukiud. T hat ought only to be evspoused ferventl\ cinders which lie makes no attempt to handle.” ami fought for mightily I J L lOll TOE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE 73 O U R INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE: A MONTHLY RECORD OF SPIRITUALISTIC AND PSYCHIC HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WITH SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. By MONSIEUR PASCAL FORTHUNY. (7 hit Chronicle 11 Written in French, and it Tramlated into Englith by the Editor.)

personal IRecoilcctions. put a small coin on it to indicate it exactly to the doctor Then 1 told him, " I fear that Mademoiselle will suffer PREDICTION FOR A NAVAL MAN. before long from a malady there, which I cannot at '■ 'H R hIi month«* ago, a young man came present more clearly define, but which will require medical attention for a lengthy period." to see me, and said he would be glad if I made this diagnosis on a Wednesday, and on the I would exercise my clairvoyance on his Sunday following the young lady complained of a severe behalf, fo r his hopes for a certain career seemed pain precisely on the spot where I had suffered myself to have been checked, at least for the present,, while holding her hand. After some weeks of suffering she was submitted to an examination by means of X-rays. I took his hand and said, " Monsieur, yon That revealed a dark grey spot on the bone which showed were bom to be a sailor and you will be one. the existence of a sort of progressive decay in the osseous I even assure you that you will not spend matter at a certain depth from the surface. Christmas on dry land, but that yon will then Since that time the young lady has been confined to her couch and has suffered cruelly. However, she is be a student-officer on a merchant vessel sailing beginning to get better, and when I saw her last week in the Mediterranean Sea,” »he again offered me her hand. I still felt the same My vixitor replied, " J hat is impossible, Eight days pain in myself but less violent, and in giving her my ago 1 tailed to pass in roy exaitiiwaijon a,n will count 111 tin cxiutiiess of this story, there were powerful materialising mediums, and people didn’t make a fuss about what science would say, and so A CASE OF DIAGNOSIS. line phenomena were got with Home, Klorrie Cook, I Jr Grand jean, of rue (¡»itlilcb, Euriu, will also Kate Fox, Kusapia Paladino, Linda Gaserra, Cecil Husk, Munsterman, Eglinton, etc. The experiences of tee f i t tily able to Hitt corroctiteM of u diagnosis Crookes, Ochorowicz, Lonibroso, Morselli, Richet, and I j/ifuin ui iiif houwt ol a lady whose illness had other renowned professors, who, urged by the persistent not yet dedalod itwJL tenacity ol the Spiritualists, were forced to experiment f had simply called on the Doctor in passing to shake with mediums, awakened at last the interest of the in* band and wish hue a happy < hiistmas lie ami his scientists. mtU wvre at home, and they had will» them a charming " l he second period was that of scientific occult young h*dy who did nut appeal to be at all unwell Yet physiology. Not all physiologists had toUowod the I felt impressed to touch Ini hand, which she freely example of Richet. lhe unbelief in the new tacts, the utimntt um slavish and servile constraint to what eailieu mastvis fcutjia Jy was it enclosed tn my own when I experienced hud taught, still reigned supreme in Holland Rut great £ fanfjy wisi|i jidiii fit my lull hip st the spot whete the expci linen ten» have commenced and others will have to kg jaififi if, 1 yuiiitsd out this spot to the d