Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-06-12

throbbng of a motor-car. II seemed to give of
a low humming note. Then quite suddenly the
table seemed to slip from under my fingers and
began very slowly to revolve.
Keep your hands on it, and move with It,
said Louis and he spoke his silhouette
pass away from in front of the fire. moving as the
table moved.
Are you there? he said.
There was no reply, of course and he asked Il
again. This time there came a rap like that
which had thought during dinner to be the post
man But whether 1t that the room was dark,
that despite myself felt rather excited too, it
seemed to to be far louder than before.
Then the curious revolving of the table ceased,
but the intense violent throbbing continued My
eyes were fixed on 1t, though owing to the darkness
could nothing, when quite suddenly a little
speck OF light moved across 1t, that for in
slant l saw my own hands. Then came another
and another, like the spark of matches struck in
the dark. like frefies crossing the dusk in
southern gardens.
Such were the phenomena at the first seance
at which was present, but Fielder it must be
membered, had been studying expecting, he called
1t, for some years. The knockings would come
when his mind far as he knew, was occupied
in other matters, and sometimes he had
been awakened from sleep by them. The lights
were also independent of his volition.
Now my theory ct the time that all these
things purely subjective in him, and that
what he expressed by saying that they were out
of his control, meant just that they had become
fixed and rooted in the subconscious self, of which
We know so little but which more and more,
to play so enormous part in the life of a
In fact 1t is too much say that the vast ma
jority of our deeds spring. apparently without
lition, from this sub-conscious self. All hearing
is the unconscious exercise of the aural nerve. all
seeing of the optic, all walking all ordinary move
ment seem to be done without the exercise OF will
on our part. Nay, more, should take to
new form of progression. skating for instance the
beginner will learn with falls and difficulty the
outside edge, but within a few hours OF his hav-
ing learned his balance it. he will give no
thought to what he learned SO short time ago
an acrobatic feat than he gives to the placing of
one foot before the other.
Il knew that l myself extremely sensitive
TO suggestion, and my part in 1t this evening l be-
lieved to be purely that of the receiver of sugges
tons vivid that visualized and heard these
phenomena which existed only in the brain of my
friend.
I'VE talked over what had occurred upstairs
His view that the Thing trying to COM
muncate with According to him 1t was the
Thing that moved the table and tapped, and made
US streaks of light.
Yes. but the Thing 1 interrupted. what do
you mean? Is 1t a great-uncle-oh 1 have
many relatives appear at seances, and heard
many of their dreadful platitudes-or what Is it?
A spirit? Whose spirit?'
Louis was sitting opposite and the little
table before US there electric light Look
ing at him saw the pupil Of his eye suddenly d.
late To the medical that meant only
thing, terror. But it quickly resumed its normal
proportion again.
Then he got up and stood in front of the
fire.
No. don't think it is great-uncle anybody
he said. I don't know as 1 told you what the
Thing is But If you ask what my conjecture
IS, it is that the Thing is Elemental
And pray explain further. What is an Ele-
mental?'
once again his eye dilated.
1t will take two minutes he said But listen.
There good things in this world, are there not,
and bad things. Cancer take it, is bad and
and dahodils good; honesty is good; lying is
bad. Impulses of some sort direct both Sides AMI
power suggests the impulses. Well, 1
went into this spirtualistic business impartially.
learned to expect to throw open the door into
the soul, and l said Anyone may come in And
think Something has applied for admission, the
Thing that tapped and turned the table and struck
matches you said, across it. Now the direction
of evil is In the hands of power which entrusts
they have been seen; doubt not that they will
be again. 1 did not and do not ask good
spirits to in. 1 don't want The Church's
foundation played on musical box. Nor do
want Elemental. 1 only throw open the door.
believe the Thing has into my house. and
is establishing communication with me. oh, 1
want to go the whole hog. What is 1t? In the
name of Satan, If necessary, what is it? 1 Just
want to know
What followed thought then might easily be
invention of the imagination, but what l be-
lieve to have happened was this. A piano with
music 1t standing at the far end of the
room by the door, and a sudden draught entered
the room strong that the leaves turned. Next
the draught troubled a of daffodils and the
yellow heads nodded. Then it reached the
dies that stood close to ug and they huttered
burning blue and low. Then 1t reached me. and
the draught wac hot and stirred rly hair. Then
IL ediiei. to upeak and went rcrCss Louis