The morning call., 1894-10-15
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PSYCHIC LAWS AND FORCES IN NATURE.
Inns is reprint of a series of articles IN
the Arena Magazine, and in book form is
dedicated to ELLEN Terry, who has uncon-
sciously taught the beauty of her own ma
ture while making a world rich with lovely
ideals.''
The evolution of man must needs be
continued 10 a higher plane of life. For
this soul culture is necessary. Expert
ments in hypnotism or meSmerism prove
the eXistence Of the faculties OF the soul
and the soul itself The clairvoyant fac
ulty is q resident one. and shows that IN
man there is a faculty for acquiring from
without knowledge that Is independent
of words and sound. This faculty or IN
tellloenre explains facts like the "homlng
instinct" inasmuch as under the pressure
of necessity all creatures can make
draughts upon the all-knoWiedge that as
sists evolution" a similar action taxes
nlace in clairyOYance and mesmeric pre-
cesseS.
Science denies the existence of the soul,
OF at any rate denies that it has been
proved scientifically; religion so far has
been unable 10 prove 1t. The human soul
has cOrrespOndenceS with some outsfde all
knowledge continually present, and this is
nature God or law. Spirit powers, pre-
natal images aud ideals. etc. affect
forms, and this is the real reason why life
aSeends One OF the most prominent and
noticeable characteristics of life is capac-
iy for vibration. Mesmerism produces
unity of vibration, friendship and pleas
ant social intercourse are approaches to
ii. while love is unity of vibration on the
spiritual plane. Music is the language of
tue world of vibration, unhapDlness is the
lack of unity of vibration and sympathy
is the attempt to create 1t. Advance of
happiness and refinement means increased
capacity for vibration. The vibratory
laws control life in various ways, one OF
the chief being marriage. The under
standing of the guiding powers OF nature
can be only cOmpreheDded through the
appreciation of the passive coercion OF the
ylbratory law
The foregoing is a very brief synopsis of
the "Ascent of Life" by Stins0n Jarvis.
In the book there is much that sets an ac-
tive mind thinking, the experiments made
are very extraordinary and seem to bear on
them the impress of truth. 1t is a book
which tries to explain what Christians call
the supernatural by recourse to natural
powers hitherto little known. 1t seems to
be an honest attemp 10 reach truth and is
- free from vituperative attacks on religion.
There Is, however, all through the work
lack OF seQuent reasoning and anything
but clear apprehension of terms. In the
first chapter there is no definition of soul,
and it is impossible to tell whether the au-
thor means by the word faculty or an en-
tlty. His experiments in hypnotlsm do not
prove the existence of the soul either TO
Christian, philosopher or logician. Indeed
II fully accepted as narrated they only
prove the presence Of faculty that can
gather knowledge from a distance and
which seems TO be under the guidance OF
no known physical laws.
The assertion that the existence OF the
soul has never been proved scientifically
means little. If by scientific proof the author
means proof by experiment. lie is probably
right, for that is not the sphere of the
proof Of the soul. II by scientific proof
he means reasoning that cOnvi0ces one be-
y0Dd doubt aud to which an unbiased
aud strong intellect must yield, the writer's
assertion is wrong. The souPs existence
has been proved far more concluSively
than many scientific theory. Again, the
writer takes scientific hypothesis, as, for
example, the working of electricity. as facts
on when arguments can be based. They
are at best only working theories adapted
to the present stage OF knowledge and liza
bic to change. 1t would be impossible to
deal with The Ascent of Life" fully in a
brief notice. Suffice il to say that il is
well worth reading. as it presents the IN
biased attempS Of an honest man TO reach
solution of our greatest problem, life.
tB0stun: The Arena Publishing Company
OLD EUROPEAN JEWRIEs. = In this
volume DR.. Phillipson has gathered deal
the Jews in the countries OF Europe during
the Middle Ages and since, that will be
found to be of interest 10 the general
reader. Up to the time of the cru
sades the condition of the Jews in
Europe appeared 10 have been bearable;
there were occasional outbursts of the per-
scouting spirit, TO be sure. but in compar-
son with what they were compelled 10
suffer later on, their existence may be
said TO have been almost blissful. II
was, however, after the cry which
resounded throughout Europe: "Ex-
termin the enemies of Christ at
home before fighting against them in the
far East" that the terrible woes of the
Jews began. They were plundered of
their property, many OF them murdered,
and it seemed for a time tnat the race
would be utterly extermiDated. Finally
they were taken under the protecting wing
of the soVeTeigns, but this was for reve-
nue. only. La 1907 Emperor Rupert COM
nanded that the Jews be not too heavily
burdened, lest they be forced to emigrate,
and the cities so suffer diminutiOn of in
come. They were so great source of in
come that the Emperor. when pushed for
ready money, often sold the Jews of city
20 neighboring Prince for stipulated
sum, with the understanding that there |
after the purchaser was to enjoy the in
come derived from taxing them. Often, If |
the Emperor owed money. he gave the |
Jews over TO his creditor for a number of |
years. until taxes equal to the debt were |
collected. The right of residence in places |
in which they had not dwelt was also |
privilege sold by the sovereign Every |
possible method to degrade and harass |
the Jews was invented and put In opera
ton. Along in the thirteenth century the |
Jew was compelled to wear on his clothes |
certain mark, generally piece of yellow |
cloth, that he might be distin- |
guished from the rest of his fell |
lows. With the beginning of the |
fourteenth century they were shut up in |
separate quarters of the great cities. |
These ghettos were situated in the worst
section of the city. and shut off by gates |
barred and bolted every night and none
were permitted to enter or depart from
shutdown to sunrise. For four centuries
this isolation lasted. 1t was not uu-
til the French Revolution that the
persecution of the Jews came TO an end
The avenues which had been closed to
them were gradually re0pened, and IN
sixty wears after the beginning OF the
nineteenth century the jew was a free
man in Western Europe. The walls of the
Ghetto had fallen; the world was open to
the Jew. There was but single excep-
tion 10 this emancipation. Wi the sew
ering of the bonds which had bound the
Jew through so many ages there was one
Government in Europe which sought TO
bind him tighter, one land where he was
still perseeutad--it was the country OF the
II Ilt idau fao n han