The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-02-06
CLAIMS A TALK
WITH MRS. EDDY
LoNCoN CORRESPONDENT TELL
EXPERIENCE WITH CLAIR
AUDiENT.
DON'T WATCH THE BODY
The Message to Followers Of tho
Christian Science is to Carry Out
the Founders Original
Teachings.
BY WIN. T. Stead.

ticle published in the New York
American, in which Mrs. Stetson stat
ell she believed Mrs. Eddy would
cone back frcm the tomb, 1t may In
terest Your readers to hear OF curl
ous experience Of mine that occurred
the day before M $. Stetsons letter
appeared. was not thinking OF Mis-
Eddy when TOOK my seat in q small
circle OF psychic students which
meets weelly to peer into the lin
mysteries OF the world beyond the
grave.
The head OF the class Is a trained
occulist, who is clairvoyant and clair.
|audient. III e does not go into a
trance. but listens for messages which
he appears to hear from the invisible.
Sometimes he sees form clairyoy-
antly, but more frequently he hears
voice that apparently reaches him
by some long distance telephone oper
ated by occult means. Sometimes
these messages purport to come from
friends who-are still on earth; at 9th
Ter times they claim to come from the
so.calied dead.
AS a rule the clairaudient hears a
| faraway voice speaking Just as If he
were listening to the utterances EN-.
anating from the mouthpiece OF a
/ telephone. He alone hears the spok-
en- words, but the invisible one who
speaks can hear and constantly re-
plies to observations made by mem
bers of the circle
Says Mrs. Eddy Speaks.
The name OF the Speaker IS n6t
given until the message is completed.
We had been sitting some half hour
Iwnen the clairvoyant began to re
peat a message, no word of which we
could hear any more than we could
have heard it with his ear to the re-
ceiver of telephone and he had been
repeating messages transmitted In
the ordinary way.
Il hear" he said, "a voice from
some great distance. The speaker
is not here, but the words cone to
me thus:
"'What a foolish error they are
making TO call attention to that shell
which ] so recently left. This will
Ido the movement much harm. All
|sensatonall&m with regard to death
tends to imprint false thoughts upon
the minds of men. There is no death !;
all is life; all is freedom. protest
against the action of my board"
Then the message that the clair
voyant was delivering in a vehement
ltone ceased momentarily, then 1t be-
Igan again.
Il know not who Is voicing my
but wish my people to
take not of what say. My body ilas
been carefully watched, but they are
drawing far too much attention to 1t.
| I'm still tied very closely to It, That
does not matter so much: what de-
plore is the effect that all this con-
centration Of attention on my body
wiz have in giving more power to
death, on idea that is false. Let
then turn their thoughts rather to my
doctrine tnat is taught in my book.
AS the message obviously purported
to come from Mrs. Eddy, one of the
sitters ventured to ask whether Mrs,
Eddy had changed her opinion on the
subject of spiritualism and informed
lher that her communication was be-
ing received at spltitualistic seance.
THE voice replied:
Asks for Proof.
IL am against ordinary spiritualism.
II speak as strongly as ever against
1.-THE thought forms that are to be
found at spiritualistic seances."
When asked to prove her identity
the voice replied:
IL AM myself. You can not prove
lthat to mortal mind The realm or
personally and mortal minds IS a
delusion' and snare. Farewell" I"
This, so far as know, Is the first
time anyone purporting to be Mrs.
Eddy has sent a message to any cir
Gle in this country, None OF the sit.
tiers was Christian Scientist. Ev-
eryone OF us would willingly have ex-
changed all alleged views of Mrs, Ed
| dy for one authentic proof of her iden-
tity. To my mind the message is
Therefore unauthenticated, and my
theory Is that Mrs. Eddy's thoughts
were overheard rather tnan deliber-
lately transmitted.