The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-24
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Soul Development Effected by
the -Four Hundred.
BY NIECE OF GLADSTONE

TAUGHT BY NIECE OF GLADSTONE
She Says. "The Radiationz OF the
smart Set Are vivid Red"-spir-
ituaI Teaching For Divorces and
other nigh society DANES and
Damsels.
Soul development is Newport's latest
fad, says the New York Herald. To
the unregenerate city by the sea that
called forth Colonel watterson's fa-
nous anathema has come a disun-
guished Scotch woman Margaret Glad
stone Stuart. with the altruistic pur.
pose, frankly proclaimed, Of teaching
the smart set not only how TO ind It's
soul. but when once found how to de-
termine its color and general material
characteristics
| Color Of the soulg Matefial charac
Iteristics7
| Yes, 1t does sound paradoxicnl but
according tc the propaganda Of this
new high pr'estess it is literally true
that ones soul does have color and
form ais well as numerous other PEE
culiarities undreamed of In the theolo
gy of that sturdy old New Englander
Jonathan Edwards Ones soul may be
green, gold. gray, brown yellow, violet.
blue or red, declares Airs Stuart, and
lin d series OF lectures and drawing
room talks she has been conducting in
Newport the fashionable summer colo
| ny have learned the discouraging and
lawful fact that their souls are for the
most part a yermilion red.
The promulgator Of this startling
cult, it is interesting TO know. Is no
| less parsonage than fhe grandniece
of the great Gladstone. She is also a
granddaughter Of the Countess Of Gal
Iloway and was born in the famous
castle Of Galloway, one OF the show
places Of the Scottish highlands, and
last, but not least, to approach her
more immediate ancestry, she Is a
daughter of the late Balfour Alexander
Stuart, prominent member Of the
British Society For Psychical Research
and author Of score of well known
works on metaphysical subjects.
aMy religion Is based on theories as
old as civilization itself, said Mrs
Stuart in answer to a question regard
ing the chief features Of her theolog
ical system. The system Of auras IS
originally an oriental one and had its
manifestation IN later ages in the aure
oles or halos about tile heads Of the
Christian saints Every soul radiates Y
certain material substance You may
define this substance as electricity,
light. aura or whatever you will, but
the fact remains that whatever term
Won use the substance is the same
"a few choice spirits III all ages Of
the world have always been able t.
see this aura or reflection Of soul with
the visual eye, though 1t has remained
obscure to the grosser aud more ordi
nary vision The literature Of all ages
both sacred and profane attests thu
fact tint this halo or illumination has
been seen by men about the heads Of
other men.
paul saw it, and st. John saw it
and M0hammed saw ii. and SO has al
most every other highly spirItualizct
man seen it. But they OF tile oIdel
time were content to see the nhenome
non, while we of the curious presenl
want to know something more def
mite about it. Ii Is to this end that
have come to Newport to form classes
for the study OF the aura
Everybody radiates an aura, ant
were we highly enough developed spir
itually and physically we should eacl
OF us be able to see our neighbours aprS
and tell what color It Is, just az W,
can see his hair and tell what colol
! it Ii.
Tile soul radiates as many colors al
does the rainbow When see a pre-
ponderance Of blue light radiatinl
from person I know instantly thai
that person is large In spirituality. fol
blue is the color Of highly spiritualizec
souls 4 preponderance Of golden IA
liation betokens high mindedness ans
ambition for instance. man like Ma
. poleon would radiate no other color
. Lavender Is the emanation of those II
. whom the maternal Instinct IL abnor
maly developed, just as green is th'
radiation of those who are intensel,
sympathetic. Around people who arr
about to die one yersed in the study o
!. auras may easily see black, murk,
!, substance lowering like a cloud, ant
about those who are addicted only {,
J the world and the pleasures Of tn
flesh there Is TO De seen nimbus D
glowing red.
Here IN Newport find that abon
G nine people out Of ten radiate rex
/ auras.
! San ability to see and understan,
1 the meaning Of each others auri
would be the greatest incentive i
: right living and right thinking TIM
the mind Of man can conceive Of.
would do away with ali excuse for lie
y and deception, for what is the use Of
lie when all the world can read th
! truth Of our hearts by a glance ut OH
n aura?
d 10 be sure, not all my pupils ar
+ studying the subject for the highes