The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-15

ten books on the subject and taught the
cult in rooms at Thirty ninth street and
Ellis avenue. Mr.. Hudson left for the
east a few years later and died recently
1t was under this man that the banker
took up the study.
In the opinion of Chicago students he
was born psychic He was In the
habit OF receiving flashes of some indis-
tinct thing that was going happen to
him. The BLACK art, or the study Of
astrology, was the next step, and, al
though he communicated indirectly with
leaders in this art. he also pursued this
study in quiet and was identified with
no organization.
Astrology goes beyond the mathemati-
cal calculation of the influence of the
heavenly bodies Upon individual and ma
tional life. 1t develops, through concen-
tration in the study of colors a great
brain power, according to those who pro-
best Interpreted by Zaidkel of London.
have lured many of the worlds greatest
business men, financers and thinkers.
Mr.. Gage began with the most humble
neophyte In the study of the identity of
blue and yellow stars. After this. 1t is
claimed, comes the power to conjure out
of the black unknown the sounds of men
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of Chicago authorities. Mr.. Gage never
reached the spiritual plane where higher
astrology holds sway.
HE touched it, said one man, and
saw the beauty and wonder of 1t. Now
he has answered the wrong call.
''That woman. Mime. Tingley, knows
few things. That is why she has
adopted the name of the Purple That
means the divine. But the kings OF old,
who adopted this as the color for kings
to wear knew as much. She Is another
Dowie, and has a low plane.
There are a few of us In this world
who know. There are a few in every
age. The flood was not a flood of water,
but a symbol meaning the flowing of the
gray matter of the brain into the body.
1t signified the first victory over the
animal, and Noah was the first man who
learned to breathe the true atmosphere.
That Is why he could not drown. The
ministers today know nothing of the deep
meaning of the Bible They are like the
seven virgins, with no oil In their
ladnps-meaning no wisdom in their
heads.
81 pity Mr.. Gage in some ways He Is
so near and yet going astray. 1 have
followed his mental career for years, as
1 have followed that of many of the
great men of this country whose names
never are mentioned In connection with
the arts that the world affects to despise
but knows nothing Of
One of Mr.. Cages first esoteric inter-
ests was Spiritualism. An intimate friend
OF the banker told last night OF the de-
light with which Mr.. Gage followed TINS
study before the more modern cult OF
thepsophy was known to the world az
large 1t was rurnored among his 1rlehus
ten years ago that Spiritualism was oc-
cupying q great deal of his Afternoon
and attempts were made to dissuade MN
from It. - a.
In this study the call to the unseen IS
answered by evil as well as good splr,ts'
1t is claimed by the astroiogers' anu a
,,,an &c IN danger of lowering his mental
r,isne when he lets his sotil roam the
traekless paths 1t is lower science
and a preearious stepping-stone to that
which Mr.. Gage sought. HIS invesuga-
lions into This were not extensive