New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
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In London Euen the King Is Interested

on spiritualism are outbiddiny w,,
books in popularity.
Five Of the most popular ser;o,s
volumes on spiritualism are Pm
fessor Sir Oliver Lodges "Ra,
mond," Arthur Hills "Psvcb;
cal Investigations" Professor Cra.
ford's ''The Reality Of Psycbj,.,
Phenomena" Professor Sir WjlHan,
Barrett's The Threshold of tbs
Unseen and Gerald Balfout,
ear of Dionysius.' Sir Arthu,
Conan Doyle says in regard +,
these volumes; ''If no other shirt
ual books were in existence. thoss
five alone would, in my opinion, b.
sufficient to establish the facts fo,
any reasonable inquirer"
automatic Writing
One of the above authors, Arthn,
Hill, in new book, Man Is
Spirit" describes the first exp.
rience of automatic writing by a,
amateur medium through who's,
communications the position of the
buried ruins of Glastonbury were
recently located. The medium saws.
"A week after my fathers funeral
was writing business letter when
something seemed to intervene between
my hand and the motor centres of nv
brain, and the hand wrote at an amaz.
ing rate letter, signed by my fathers
signature and purporting TO come from
him. / was upset, and my right sid,
and arm became cold and numb For
a year afterward these letters came
frequently, and always at unexpected
times. l never knew what they con-
tanned until I examined them with
magnifying glass; they were micro.
scopic. And they contained vast
amount of matter with which it was
impossible for me to be acquainted.
"Unknown to me my mother, who
was staying some sixty miles away.
lost her pet dog, winch my father had
given her. The same night I had
letter from him condoling with her,
and stating that the dog was with him.
All things which love US and arc nee
essary to our happiness in the world
are with us here A most sacred Sc
cret, known to no one but my father
and mother, concerning a matter which
occurred years before l was born, was
afterward told me in the script, with
the comment: Tell your mother this.
and she viii know that Il is l, your
father, who am writing Ny mother
had been unable to accept the posi-
bllity up to now, but when I told her
this she collapsed and tainted From
that moment the letters became her
greatest comfort, for they were lovers
during the forty years of their married
life and his death almost broke her
heart.
CAS- for myself, I am as convinced
that my father, in his original person
ality, still exists, as if he were still
in his study with the door shut He
is no more dead than he would be were
he living in America.
81 have compared the diction and
vocabulary Of these letters with those
employed in my own writing g-I am not
unknown as a. magazine contributor
and I find no points of similarity be-
tween the two.'
GPIR1T UALISTIC accounts of the
~ next world from many and
widely different sources appear gen.
orally to agree on a number Of
points.
First, they tell us that dying is
not painful process; second, that
Immediately after dying the dead
are conscious Of being in spiritual
body, standing by or floating beside
the old body, in the presence Of
friends or some radiant" beng
who IS there to help them; third,
that the dead do not always at first
realize that they are dead, and that
1t IS a considerable surprise to them
when first they drift through solid
objects into a new life. Finally.
they all say that in no circumstances