The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-23
FULFlLLMENT OF DREAMS
The Suggestion of an Existence Prior
to the Present Life.
EVIDENCE or TELtpArHlc MESSAGES
All Of These Stories Are vouchtd For as to
Their Truth by the Naraiors, Who Are
We'll Known to Nearly All
Residents If Civ.

1t may not be going too far to say thai
the majority of people have had in their
lives experiences that seem to take then
into another world, as It We're or what
Is called for want of a better term. the
realm of the supernatural These ex.
perienees may be communications with
they. may be dreams fulfilled; they may
be telepathic messages received from
friends at a great distance; warnings
presentiments; whatever they may be
most people have had them Some are
unwilling to credit them to any but most
commonplace condolences, explaining
circumstances that would be stranger
than the supernatural, it would seem.
Others unhesitatingly accept these facts
as indicating that there is world, or
may be another sense simply, to which
some of us are sometimes granted access.
or with which we are at times gifted.
| have talked over this very absorbing
topic of late with quite number of Raj
eigh people, with the result to be expect
ed. that / have heard many experiences,
few of which are printed below.
DIR. a. A. MARSHALL'S STORY.
One of the first persons / called on was
DR. A. A. Marshall, pastor of the First
Baptist Church
Have | ever had any strange expert
ences or dreams bordering on the occult
fo.s
peating the question / had put to him.
We'll, yes, in small way as most men
have had But If you are after the SUI
peTnatural and the occult let me
suggest that you read the arti-
cles that appeared in the Arena some
years ago from the pen of DR. Hensolft
On the subject, Among the Adepts at
Serinague," in which is given an account
OF the wierd and strange things tran
spring among the Esoteric initiates hid
away III the valleys of the Hinalaya
rountains. In these articles you will
find an account of such wonderful things
and the Arena says they are true, thr {
will even put to shame the claims OF the
Rosicrucians OF the seventeenth century.
But you say it is my story you are after
now? Well, you shall have it, But LET
me say that the story is not so much in
Itself as in the suggestions that grew
out OF 1t.
Some years ago. date is OF no import
ance, while travelling In Europe, my
friend and ] reached the town of Pisa.
In italy, on belated train just about
break of day 1t was past the season for
touring Italy, so that my friend and ]
were the only passengers getting off at
the station. The train being late and
arriving at that hour when the great
cities are most soundly wrapped in slum-
Der, not a cabman or guide was to be
seen. Passing from the exit Of the sta
tion there was a strange and unnatural
familiarity about everything in sight. |
felt as though was entirely familiar
with the city, and said to my friend, If
you will follow me | can carry YOU di-
rectly to the Leaning Tower and other
points of interest felt as though I was
positively certain both as to the direction
and probable distance of that group of
buildings unsurpassed in the world
which we had stopped to see Starting
IN the direction in which I felt sure these
buildings lay ! went directly to them.
am sure not going single step out of
my most direct course. On reaching the
the Campo Santo and the Cathedral their
relative position and general aspect were
such Us I had expected them to be- One
thing was manifest, the utter absence of
the feeling of surprise. that SO often
characteristics our first .beholding an OBJ
Sect. even though we may have read OF
1t often.
Some months after returning home I
fOl1 t1o tr1af 70,
one of the company at once suggested
that in the incident was the suggestion
OF an existence prior to the present life
and that my seeming familiarity with
Pisa might be the retention OF expert
enees Of p pre-existent life.
"A few days after / saw an advertise
ment in Chicago paper asking that
anyone having or seeming to have any
impression or recollection OF previous
existence. write to certain party giving
street and number in Chicago. | briefly
wrote the incident without even the sug-
gestion of an explanation and received
in answer a formal invitation TO join a
society for the propagation of the doc
trine Of the transmigration OF souls and
assuring me that my contribution would
prove valuable help in maintaining the
doctrine of a life previous to this life.
and the possible retention of experiences
OF that former life. did not so think
and yet II has seemed strange that Pisa
should have seemed that early morning
SO familiar. and that | should have had
such accurate notion both as to distance
and direction. ! Go not recall ever hav-
Ing had similar feeling in visiting any
other city for the first time. One or two
possible explanations occur TO my own
nind-and yet not one of them perfectly
satisfactory
MRS. HARRY LOEB.
Mrs. Harry Loeb. of 2i3 W. Martin
street, told me several interesting stories
OF dreams, all OF which she can vouch
for, as follows:
Il was told in person by Mrs. Norman
Jones, who. it will be remembered, lived