Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13

Clr ArIHur OOudu bOyle Will nOL De
satisfied until the orthodox conceptions
of Christianity are remodeled in ac-
cordance with the revelations" Of spir-
! itualism. He wrote o few months ago
book called "Thc New Reyelat tion,
in which he confessed his conversion to
the belief in communication with the
dead through spiritualistic mediums and
| his conviction that until it was ad-
mitted that Jesus was what is known
as psychic and that His resurrection
was spiritualistic manifestation of
Himself to witnesses could there be any
proper conception of what Christian
ity is.
He has followed this by THE Vital
Message" in which he traverses some
of the ground covered in the first book
and sets forth still further the grounds
for the belief that is in him. He in
sists the great experience forced upon
the world through the war is not po-
litical but religious, and that in thou
sand years the political result may mat =
ter little, but that the religious result
will rule the world. This, we suppose,
is because, in his opinion, it will bring
about a realization that death does not
end all, through the demonstration that
man lives after death and continues his
development in another sphere. He in =
sists that the world has outgrown the
Old Testament because that part of the
Bible has no connection with modern
conceptions of religion and is ''in the
main actually antagonistic to them. -
AS to the naturalization of spirits and
communication with them, Sir Arthur
says that he has never known one single
scientific man who went thoroughly into
the matter who did not end by accept :
ing the spiritual solution. He accepts
as veritable communications from the
dead messages which more skeptical
persons than he have explained in an
other way. But with the zeal of con
: vert he is little more credulous than
some of the men who were making in :
, vcstigations into psychic phenomenoa
long before he became interested in the
, subject.
In an appendix Sir Arthur gives O
brief account of some of the expert
ments of Professor Geley, of France
which seem to show that from certain
psychics when in trance a peculiar
> whitish matter exudes partly through
the skin and partly from the mouth
This whitish matter. which is called &c
beings, sometimes Stimulating the whole
-. figure and sometimes only the head. i
separates itself from the body of tn,
medium and moves about the room
The experiments of Professor Crawford
of Belfast. have resulted in similar
y manifestation, when levers Of the ecto
: plaSm extend themselves from the bod,
Of the medium and lift table or raj
on the floor, answering questions in {
code based on a fixed number of rap
. for an affirmative or negative reply.
y y "The Vital Message" will confirm il
' their opinions all who believed in spir
n itualistic manifestations before the.
9 read it. Those who do not believe will
: find it most interesting revelation o
' the mind of a man who has been con
" verted from religious skepticism to
belief in the future life.
Life and Death" by Professor Leol
Denis, of Tours, translated by Ell,
Wheeler Wilcox, presents the spiritual
istic argument in a different manner
The book is resume of the teachings o
/ the spirits on the problems of life ant
destiny received by Professor Deni
during a period of intimate communion
with them. He says that every birth i
a new incarnation and that rebirth ex
plains Immortality and that the spiri
chooses where it will be reborn, as ais
whether it will reappear with the sam
sex it had before or with a differen
sex. When a soul born first as a MAJ
chooses to be reborn as a woman tina
woman has many masculine character
istics and vice versa. Some souls ar
not reborn for hundreds of years an,
others may come back to earth in ten o
twenty years. Professor Denis's spiri
guide told him that Christ was the re
incarnation of Krishna, and Napoleon
II. s,fk nf tt,a
| was Vergil living again in this world
| He ignores the question that will pre-
| sent itself to the mind of every perso
| who remembers that the population o
| the world today is many times create
| than it was 1000 years ago and ask
| where, il every birth is reincarnation
| all the souls came from that inhabi
the bodies of the more than l, 900 900,
600 people who inhabit the world to
day. The believers in spiritualsm
however, will find the book most alb
about what other people believe will fin
it instructive.
| Basil King, author of "The lime
| Shrine" and several other well know
novels, is the latest notable investigate
into this alluring subject. In 9Th
| Abolishing of Death" he tells of hi
experiences with an automatic write
| of what purports to be messages frol
the dead. Some curious information
obtained, none more surprising tina
that trees as well as human beings liy
again. A man who lost an arm or
leg in life grows a new limb in the spir
world. and tree chopped down an
burned in the fireplace comes into Il
fullness in the spirit world and return
to its most beautiful shape. This an
much more information is communi
| Gated to Mr.. King by Henry Talbot.
name used to conceal the identity of
famous French chemist with a worlc
wide reputation before he died. Wheth,
this chemist is really communicable
with him or not, Mr.. King does n,
lin but he is confident that throup
l tf. iatomatic writer he has bee
/ brought into contact with a person
1 ality of remarkable charm and gre,
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