Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-13

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is similar. They will initiate men here and
there-beginning with men of science who
have had the moral courage to be Sc. kers
in the occult. ering loss of worldly rep
utation, like Col. de Rochas. who actually
lost his place as administrator of the Poly
technique; DIR. Charles Richet who has
been abominably siandered: Prof. Grasset
of Montpelier. and Sir William Crooks and
Sir Oliver Lodge in England. Their reward
is near.
| recalled to him the studies OF Crooks
and Lodge with Grasset and Richet in the
case of Eusepia Palladino, the strange Ital-
ian med ium-but it seems that Marcella has
carried them away beyond those GARTH
bound realms.
THE mighty thing" said the disciple. lis
that Claude. Georges and Fabcrt know:
they are not fumbling over battling. half
satisfactory experiments.
Can they read your own thoughts"
asked.
absolutely" he assured me. And far
more Here is what l saw They set up
their psychic circuit with five persons and
Marcels-all In what L have called tho
hypnotic sleep. Fabert. who, remained
awake, called to Marcelia that he had
thought of person.
He is a man OF sixty, with a square gray
beard blue eyes. rudy complexion. heavy
build. In a blue serge business suit. He
Is seated at a great desk in a darkish room
whose walls are lined with books. 1t Is
far from here.
Go outside and look describe the town.
There are high mountains round quite
close. Farther away they make sharp and
fantastic peaks Very close beside the city
is massive range. third way up see
an old-fashioned fort. High. very high up.
is a modern fort.
THE description could apply only to
Grenoble where Claude's father practices
as Il lawyer
Go back to the man What is he doingZ'
asked Fabert. They felt a rarcona curl
osity about Claudes cutoff remittances
:" He is writing letter. 1t begins: My
misguided SON."
Then the girl continued-no one would
have dreamed of asking it Of her:
He has stopped writing He thinks how
his son would have been called to the bar:
he sees the triumphal dinner celebrating
the event. his sons first morning at the
office They talk over cases; he tells the
character OF clients: he gives him cause
to plead. He sees his son addressing the
judges
"Fabert was white and trembling AS for
me- the thought flashed instantly that these
things would make us masters of the
world.
Masters of the World.
81 say masters of the world!' the disciple
whispered to me with intensity. IF Mar
celia can be helped to read the thoughts
of n Cirenobie lawyer, why should she not
READ tlOEG OF the ItTiiidu tUlbtioE VI Aiio
pope?
I'VE were SO troubled he continued.
THAT We had stopped listening. Marcella .
was still murmuring mechanically. L
glanced from her to the five meen lolltns
in a row on the armchairs, all dead asleep.
Then Fabert motioned to me to listen to
Marcella again.
''She continued reading the distan. law
yer'S thoughts:
HE will come to Paris and plead with
Claude to drop the charlatans who have
him in their clutch. He will even buy them
off Claude must go on with his studies.
He will write him new letter. Yes. Diff
ferent letter. Now he writes. He Is max
ing out check. He destroys the first LETT
ter
obviously the disciple believed all these
things absolutely. 1 asked him:: did the
letter arrive?'
certainly 1t came-with the check. And
three days later came Claude's father
came to scott and remained fervent con-
vert When they told him of the first let
ter. when they told him his whole reyerle'
of his writing the new letter and the check.
he was dumfounded. Instead of reprac.l-
ing Claude for not working at his law, he
has himself quit work to follow these eX-
traordinary doings. They were bound to
let him in-he is Claude's father. For the
rest, he seems to make their most en-
thusiastic disciple, as he has put practically
his whole fortune at their disposal
''If we can annihilate time and space at
present and II my soul is 10 enter a new
body in a few years, what Is the use In
worrying about such a thing as money! he
laughs, delighted at the certitude that lie
like all the rest of us-are not to be
snuffed out like candies
Past Existences
Here we approach one of the most sensa-
tional OF Marcella's discoveries. One day
they had set up the psychic circuit with
three men and Marcella. They had been
trying to make her look into the future
Instead, she began going into the past.
Without giving any clue to her identity
or wonderful powers, DR.. Charles R!chet
has already published this Case of Pre-
Natal Memory
81 am a little child" began Marcella. Il
play main chaud with the children under
the chestnut trees. l am an infant, / am
very i'll, my mother weeps. a strange man
pushes a spoon into my mouth. All is now
dark. IT is strange. / see and think like
grown person. l sit in great armchair
beside the fire. This is my kitchen. L
know 1t we'll Ny father comes in and asks
me if am WELL My father never looked
at me like that before! / demand a mirror.
Oh! oh! 1t is my mothers face. not mine,
l see in it,
The significance of the thing was obvious.
These We're subconscious memories of the
time when Marcella and her mother were
one.
II am an extremely old man." went on
Marcella. / take my cane, hat and snuff
box to walk miserably to the tavern for
my afternoon game of tric-trac. / am
man Of middle age. l tread the deck OF a
great ship
And so on Assisted by the psychic cir
cult these subconscious memories went
back through five successive existences. In
three of which Marcella was a woman, and
in two of which she was a man.
1T is pity you cannot make her look
into the future" said to the disciple
How do you know We cannot?' he re-