The herald., 1897-02-07
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY ?. 1907.
PERIODICITY OF CRIME

A subscriber asks "if there is any
foundation for the theory of the period
icity Of crime"
No, there is no such thing as the re-
currence of crime at regular intervals.
There are, however what might very
properly be called epidemics of crime,
which sometimes take a wide range
and include the whole category of wrong
doing before they run their course, But
crime sweeping down upon community
at stated periods would mean that it
came in obedience to natural law. like
the four seasons or the rising and set
ting of the sum- and, OF course, that
could not be. Criminal acts are the
products of inharmonious relations
which individuals create between them
selves and between themselves and nat
ural law, but natural law is never re-
sponsible for crime. On the contrary, it
repudiates the criminal and his acts,
and, Furthermore natural law becomes
a detective, judge and jury-and hang
man, too when a criminal act has been
committed The criminal may escape
punishment by the law of the land, but
no one can place himself outside of the
field of the operation of the law of COM
pensaton. What ye SOW ye reap.
The student of psychic force knows
that crime, what is called atrocious
crime more particularly, is not entirely
the product of one mind; nevertheless.
the mind of the one committing the
crime must have first been willing and,
of it's own volition, receptive to mental
influences which were altogether in
sympathy with the purpose to commit
the contemplated or a corresponding
criminal act. In this connection it may
be observed that the same psychological
principle obtains generally in the con-
duct of life of human beings, which gives
emphasis to the doctrine that every
human being is in a greater or less de-
gree responsible for the acts of all 9TH
er human beings-that is to say, no man
stands alone and independent of his fell
lows. In sense, you are your brothers
keeper 1t is we'll established fact that
thoughts are things; that they influence
where they find lodgment in minds, and
that the protector of them is in some de-
gree responsible for the influence they
exert in others
When a foul murder is committed the
whole community is aroused to anger,
and it often finds vent in more murder,
under the cover of lynch law, which
in turn forces a division of public SEN
timent and revives old feuds, when An
epidemic of crime is likely to follow
An inflated state of the public mind"
is but another name for the work Of
hurting thoughts of hatred and revenge
through space to intensity and further
strengthen minds already bent upon
committing crime. Every observer, es-
pecially the student of occult science.
has noted many times the power Of
thought to move assemblages of people
Most of us have seen how a gathering Of
merry makers could be transformed in
a twinkling into a wild and reckless
mob; and we have seen, too, how one
individual could mount a chair and by
the power of his own will force, make his
words become as oil upon raging waters
and cause the assemblage to resume its
merry making. During a labor strike
in an eastern city some years ago the
Situation was so alarming that bloody
riot eemed almost inevitable. One
could almost feel thoughts of hatred
and revenge flying through the air but
At the critical moment a score of street