The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-04
AUTOMATIC WRITING"
Mr. stead Tells About His Spiritual Men,
tor Julia"

nearance and will command the deep in
tarast Of those who love to speculate upon
nrss-vyncbical phenomena or upon apparently
| srnernatrral physical phenomena Au-
tomato writing, auto-telepathic writing,
the phenomena of spiritualism, thought
healing. theosophy, celestial science and
palmistry are all dealt with. Mr.. Stead
himself contributes an article on his
experiences with departed lady named
Julia. The following is his explanation
of how ne began to write automatically
Tn nublishings the following record of
| how began to write automatically
with illustrations OF the nature of the
| communications tnus written, do not
| venture to dogmatize as to the cause of
| this strange phenomenon. The reader
| can form his own opinion as to how the
| messages were produced. He may decide
| that they were the product of my sub
| conscious self. He will not, I am sure,
accuse me of writing them consciously
| when state, as do, that all these com
munications were written by my pen,
| held in the ordinary way by my RICH
hand, without any conscious direction
by NV mind, or without any knowledge
| on NV mart of the nature of the message
which was written down. Whether my
hand was directed by the intelligence of
one deceased, or by living person, or
| by my subjective self, | did not control
lit; rested the point OF the pen on the
paper, and the mysterious force did all
| the rest
| These communications come to me a.
| all times and places, but their arrival de
ponds almost altogether upon my own
volition. That is to say, unless take
pen or pencil, make my mind passive,
and wait for the message, | do not re-
Ishould receive telephone message if /
never went to the telephone. The anal
ogy between the method of communica-
ton and the telephone is very close, but
with this difference-in this system it is
always the recipient who rings up, so to
speak, the transmitter at the other end of
the line. Possibly Others may have a
rung up by the Invisibles. They do not
| seem to have any means of coDlmunicat-
inc with me when am alone unless /
first place my hand at their disposal
They often complain, when | have been
too busy to let them write for some time,
| that / have never given them an oppor-
tunity of addressing me.
The modus operandi is of the simplest.
As a rule, / write best automatically
when am alone, but | have had many
messages when friend has been with
me. NV hand writes almost invariably
when it is disconnected, SO to speak, from
my conscious brain. Not that it will al
ways write what is sought. Often 1T
will merely communicate a few words,
with an intimation that no more writing
will come just then. On one occasion,
when / met a small circle in the West
End, my hand refused to write anything
the first two attempts, and when q third
and final attempt was made later, it only
wrote: 1T is time that this .seance should
cease" the alleged reason given by the
Invisible being that it did not like the
influence of another Invisible controlling
an automatic writer who was present.
hold my pen in the ordinary way, but
when the writing is beginning | do not
rest my wrist or arm upon the paper, so
as to avoid the friction and to give the
influence, whatever it may be, more COM
plete control of the pen At first the pen
is apt to wander into mere scrawling,
but after a time it writes legibly. Unlike
many automatic writer's who write as
well blindfolded as when they read what
they write as they are writing it, can
never write so well as when L see the
| words as they Gomez
After describing his first communica-
| tion with Julia, the nature of the COM
munications and the various tests made
| to verify the statements made by the de-
| parted spirit, Mr.. Stead details CONVEX
| sation, If it may be so termed, he had
with her on her state She says that after
| quitting her early body she came into a
great expanse of landscape and heard a
voice call her. She asked, Who is it
that speaks?n
| Then the flame bright one said to me,
Julia behold your Saviour!" and when
I looked / saw Him. He was sitting on
| a seat close to me, and He said, BE
loved, in my Fathers house are many
| mansions; here am / whom you have
loved so long. / have prepared a place
! for you,n And / said, Where, oh, my
| Lord?" He smiled, and in the brightness
| of that smile / saw the whole landscape
change as the Alps change IN the sunset,
| which l saw so often from the windows
| of my hotel at Lucerne. Then | saw that
| | was not alone, but all around and
| above were fair and loving forms, some
of those whom / had known, others of
| whom / had heard, while some were
| strange But all were friends, and the
air was full of love. And in the midst
| of all was He, my Lord and Saviour.
| He was as a Man among men. He was
| full of the wonderful sweet mildness
which you are acquainted with in some
| of the pictures that have been painted
| by the italian Fra Angelica He had an
admirable look of warm affection, which
was as the very breath of life to my
soul. He is with us always This is
| HodV6n-UO NC tWlbu IIlIl. 1Ou CtHuOl
| understand how the consciousness of
His presence makes the atmosphere of
| this world so different from that with
you. There are many things wish
could write to you, but / cannot, nor
could you understand them. | can only
| tell you that He is more than we ever
have imagined He is the Source and
Giver of all good gifts. All that we
know of what is good, and sweet, and
pure, and noble, and lovable are but
| faint reflections of the University of
| the glory that is His. And He loves us
with such tender love! Oh, E., E.,
| YOU and 1 used to love each other with
what seemed to us sometimes too deep
| and intense a love, but that at it's very
best was but the pale reflection of the
| love with which He loves us, which is
marvellously and wonderfully great be-
yond all power of mind to describe.
His name is Love; it is what He is
F.! Love, Love, Love!
| l cannot tell you everything; you could
not understand it, But | am in state of
| bliss such as we never imagined when
on earth I am with my friends who
went before.
| Julia advises that Mrs. Stead should
establish a bureau of communication be-
| tween this world and the spirit world,
| but on the feasibility of this no opinion
ic rsiua,