The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-24
communication with souls Of the dead
could be accomplished.

communication with souls of the dead
could be accomplished.
- moment s l remarked rather
ir-%e!evantly that Flammaricn IS not q
wealthy man. intinating that he has
tastes altogether over-measurinS his
pocket book. Coming back TO that. if
his telerathy has any practical
groundwork he could enrich himself
in g year. All he would need To do
would he 20 place himself within easy
t~"!epatllic distance Of some of our
great ~finaDciers, spectators in the
bourses of the world. manipulators Of
horse races about which all France
and England goes mad, Il bully
American poker players. and use with
discretion the knowledge thus gained.
We are all mind readers TO a limited
extent, but We read the mind by
means OF the expression Of the face
n nor by thought transference.
Completeness which are often exceed
insly curious are attributed by the
ignorant to te!epathy. Mark Twain
gave an illustration of this in his story
of the writing of a letter TO an OLD ac-
quaintance. Of whom he nae hardly
thought of for years and OF receiving a
letter from that acquaintance which
must have left Europe at abou, the
same time his OWN letter went out
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passed in midocean. VI vas a pretty
coincidence that the TWO old friends
thought to write to each other at the
same moment. allowing for the differ
enre in time. the one being in Europe
and the other in America, but ii
would not only be unscientiflc, but lit
ter folly 20 give credit TO the farrago
Of telepatilists as an explanation.
Now as 10 electricity, wire and
pirn1aoc M ,1c ~, -1nr ~rr. ar .,
long stride toward grasp of the in
finite principle TO which all things thai
we crUdcly call creation is due.
While we nave results and wizard ma
chinery for producing them. we know
practically nothing more Of the nature
Of the thing than did Benjamin
Franklin when he brought sparks
vented the lightning rod. We know
there is such a substance as radiunl.
but whether the discovery of il has
brought it nearer IL the basic princi-
pie OF creative and ~recrcative force We
do not know.
Mystery of Magnetism.
"Monsieur F~lammarion seems to
have forgotten the most wonderful
and mysterious of all the mysteries, if
II mystery can he more mysterious
than another. and that is magnetism.
The earth. and doubtless all the other
spheres, large n small, Of the incon-
ceivable and illimitable universe. is
deluged hy magnetic currents that
flow toward the magnetic poles. This
form of matter ~perVadeS all things
and penctrates all things. What shall
we say of it when we know that the
influence OF a magnetic storm in the
sun is at once manifest on the earth
and logically on all Of the bodies in
r31r cotor cS-cyo,,-o The, &c 81 ,,.e,ar,
of mysteries which seems to over
wllelm all the other mysteries.
las to spirit!sm revealing anything
in the way of explanation of analysis
of of the mysteries. or even pro-
ducing anything that has been of use,
] freely confess tina | have Yet TO be
shown. All m" life l have been an in
vestigator of the claims of this cult.
l have found many most BILE
men and charming women VINO were
devotees. | have met some Of the few
notable scientists who have accepted
the declarations and manifestations of
the medium as being true as gospel:
but for myself I have never been
present at a sitting where there was
not opportunity for fraud or where
there was opportunity afforded for
aught that could be termed a scientific !
test of the integrity # medium or
AA ~ VIC i nave dSfeO
communications from some of the
dead great ones Of the world, and got
them. they were never one whit be-
yond the mental caliber of the mcdi-
UNI.
Il have the deepest respect for
churches and religion. Nobody more
deeply than l reveres the life and
character Of Jesus Christ: but not one
of the orthodox churches recognizes
the church Of the S%piritualists as being
orthodox, though all believe in the
entity of the sou after the death of
the body. The orthodox churches
leave that to the experience of the soul
after death and do not accept the
theory Of any that the soul. or spirit.
can be communicated with by those
who are still in the body. ] am ortho-
dox in this. and believe that Flam-
marion has been fooled by clever
fakirs and by his own intense desire
to be convinced.