Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-24
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The Bee: Under the caption OF Con
WINGED by Medium a writer in your
Letter Box column refers to his ex-
pcrience with medium and the mani
festations from shadow land. One OF the
shortest courses to insanity and sricide
is to take part in the inedlumlstie seances.
At first the person inculges n these
manifestations through a sense Of curl
osity and later from interest and finally
from a sense Of demand-for II grows on
them till they are unable to shake off
the practice.
To get right to the point in the matter.
excluding practices that are fake pre-
sentations these manifestations are the
operations of intelligences and not by
any means inteligences of good spirits.
for God does not use good spirits for a
hand end There is only one final result
from the continued practice Of spirit
uslistic seances and that is loss of all
true faith and obsession or possession
by the bad intelligences-in other words,
the evil spirits OF the damned. This IL
better demonstrated I'm pagan countries.
where this practice 10 more in vogue and
where the evil effects are more common.
II you will have a talk with old medical
practitioners and with Catholic priests
you will soon become assured Of the great
evils to body and soul by the continual
ton Of this practice. After a while these
spirits or intelligences begin to suggest
actions to their clients which In them
selves are harmless and the poor sub
ject finds himself or herself unable to
refuse performing the acts suggested.
Then further actions are suggested and
these likewise cannot he refused and
from that Il goes on from bad TO worse
and despite the cogniEance of the poor
mortal and the final attempt ct will
power to refuse these acduiescences, they
are unable to do so. Then some further
action IL susgested-perhaps the action
OF self destruction or the destruction of
another and-unless the grace of God
intervenes at this poiut-this likewise is
accomplished.
Not so long ago a woman in France
was given to this practice, and she called
for her youngest daughters spirit, who
had died some months before. The in
telligence appeared and. feigning the APP
pearance and voice Of her daughter. as
sured her that she was poorly off in the
other world and sad for the lack of her
sisters association ana begged the
mother to send them to her. The woman
brooded over the affair and suggestion
and finally going to the River Seine she
tied her two children together. hands
and feet, and threw them In, and both
were drowned. There are many in
stances on record of murder under diff
ferent forms. suicides, etc, that owe
their cause to the interest taken in the
spirftualistic seances. Many men who
have gone into this matter through
purely scientific motive learned they
were gradually losing their health. will
power. and that they were becoming a
prey to the suggestions OF these inteli-
gences. 1t is with good reason for their
present health. faith and future condi-
ton that the Catholic church forbids,
under pain Of sin, for any of its subjects
to enter into or take part in. these
seances
Some time ago a missionary from Eng
land who had spent years in Africa came
back to England to find the people in
dulsing I'm the use OF ''pIanchettes,"
crystal gazing" spirits seances, etc.
gave long lecture. in which he stated
he was dumfounded at this state of az
fairs in his own country. for that was
MS work. combating the evil effects of
this very practice in the locality he
spent his years as a missionary. I will
give this warning: A good way to lose
your health, peace and future betterment
is to take part in. any practice that has
FOR its pleasure or interest the invocation
OF these evil intelligences. That they an
pear-talk. walk and do many strange
thinss-no one we'll acquainted with the
subject will deny. but their only motive
In furnishing this amusement and inter
est TO mortals is to gradually trap them
into the loss OF their health. faith in GOO
ana IN the final loss OF their soul. II
they did not accomplish this successnllly
In many cases they would desist IN the
practice because they don't work, run
about act and trouble themselves about
otners without the hope of a reward any
more than you or would.
VINCENT