The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
MR.. RAUPERT AND HIS BOOK.

A book that is sure to attract considerable at
tention has just been published by Peter Paul &
Son. Buffalo, n Y. The title is "The Supreme
Problem and the author is j. Godfrey Raupert,
well and favorably known to all students of spir-
itism and the mystery of satanic obsesson. Mr..
Raupert's book is a trilogy embracing the Fall of
Man, Demoniac Influence on human life, and the
Restoration or Rehabilitation of Man. Not long
ago Mr. Hereward Darlington gave us in his
physical Phenomena of Spiritualism,' an expose
of fraudulent mediumshp and made known the
trickery in alleged psychical phenomena, distin-
gushing also between the false and real spiritism
The new work of Camille Flammarion, Mysterious
Psychic Forces" is a most important contribution
to that class of physical phenomena known as
Teekinessis Chat is the movements of objects not
due to any known force), together with raps and
other visible and tangible acts. The late Prof.
Lombroso, DIR. Ernest Bozzano, and other writers
of equal standing other aspects of the i'm
portant subject of spiritism.
While not limited to the evidence offered by
psychical research, Mr. R. ]. Thompson's recently
issued "Proofs of Life After Death" falls naturally
into place among these publications. Now all
these writers. starting from false premises have
signally failed to add anything to our sum of
knowledge on spiritism. They have not followed
the cavern in the mountain, the poisoned strea
which is today, carrying misery and ruin to thou
sands. Nor have the recently published books,
"The Borderland of Psychical Research" Science
of the Future Life" and ''Enigmas of Psychical
Research by Mr.. James II. Hyslop, the leading
authority on the mental phenomena of spiritism,
handed us any information that was not already in
our possession.
Mr. Raupere following the trail blazed by the
late Chevalier Des Mousseaux, accepts in its en-
tirety the doctrine of the Catholic Church, which
is the faith of the Apostles, on demonism. The
author of this remarkable book exposes and strips
to the nude the alurements of satanism or spirit
ISM portrays the horrible effects on the emotions,
the feelings, on the minds and souls, and even on
the bodies of the victims of this diabolic cult We
recoil appalled, at the awful vision and thank God
we are Catholics.
In his introduction, the learned author says to
his readers: Il am convinced from the complex
experiences of my life, and from my study of man.
in many lands and under varying conditions, that
the subject of Religion the question as to our duty
here, and the destiny of our souls hereafter must
ever be- for all normally constituted minds, the
greatest and most engrossing of all problems
Further on he adds: 'What do want to know
IS how and where I originated, why 1 am here, and
what my future destiny is to be when my fragile
body is moreF
Mr.. Raupert and at once plunges into his
great subject; proves conclusively by argument,
and from acknowledged authorities, such as John
Henry Newman, Orestes Brownson, and other
great Names the actuaity of the temptation and
fall of ADAM the perpetuation of original sin with
our race the reality of satanic temptation the ap-
paing evils and disastrous effects of modern spir-
itism. The author completes his scholarly treatise
Oh spiritism and psychology by proclaiming, and
proving that the Restoration and Salvation of the
human race and the individual can only come from
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and His spouse
the unalterable Catholic Church. 1t is impossible
IN the space allotted to us, to adequately review
this mastery work. We cannot but applaud the
persistent courage and the memorable logic with
which Mr.. Raupert follows and attacks spiritism,
or satanism one of the most menacing and serious
evils of our age.
Before giving US his latest work, The Supreme
Problem" the learned author had already contrib
uted to our literature two very valuable books,
Modern Spiritism" and FThe Dangers of Spirit
ualism, in which he showed by innumerable exam
PIES and by the testimony of living witnesses, the
dangers and disastrous consequences of consult