The evening world., 1922-04-10
BAD PEOPLE HAVE
Low SPIRIT PLANE,
SAYS CONAN DOYLE
Respectable Go to. Paradise
but Unclean Have to Purge
Themselves, He Adds.
LIKE MATERIAL WORLD.
Spirits Marry, but Have No
y Children, Declares Novelist
in Interview.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, novelist
and student of spiritaiisin, gave a
general interview to the newspa pers
to-day at his rooms in the Hotel Am
bassador. At the outset he COM
mented feelingly on the fact that II
was now unlawful for him to offer
hospitality which he was able TO show.
when he was interviewed on his last
visit thirty years ago.
In explaining the spiritualistic be-
liefs on which he is to lecture during
his present tour of the United States,
he said:
'The spirit world is not altogether
unlike our world" he said. There
are marriages there; though there
are no babies; the marriages are mat
ings of spiritual affinities which al
ways continue happy. Nothing is
more certain than that spirits know
the people of this world and take the
keenest interest in everything the
persons they know are DOING
When asked what evidence he had
as to this, Sir Arthur said that part
of 1t had been disclosed to him by
people in the spirit world and he had
obtained the rest by reading. He said
IA person at death goes into n plane
which might be called paradise,
which is only a little removed from
this world, except tha there is no
materialsm there and all are happy.
Sir Arthur was asked If bad people
went to this same plane. mo" he
said, "they find their level on a plane
lower than that occupied by the good
people and continue to go down even
lower unless they repent of the
wrongs they have done, when they
can begin to climb up again"
He said normal, respectable persons
remained on the Paradise" plane for
an average of forty years and then
ascended to higher plane and could
continue to rise from plane to plane.
He said that all sought TO rise to
higher planes, because of the greater
usefulness they afforded, and added
that spirits on a higher plane could
come down to a lower one, but those
on the lower plane could not go up
until they had won the right to do so.
He said the spirit world is very much
like this, where everybody is busy and
where there is a very complex society.
''Spiritualsts, he said, 'are not in
opposition to religion; they are only
trying to re-establish religion-to re-
vitalize It, What did religion do to
avert the World War? Religion has
largely become lip service which
intl do
Sir Arthur said that a medium is
under outside control and may uncon-
sciousy get up mad walk about the
room; that there is a great borderland
between the material world and the
spirit world; that the medium is open
To suggestion not only of words but
of thoughts and may do things which
seem suspicious which are not fraud.
He said most mediums have q
u guardian angel" or special spirit,
: ITO which they are particularly sub
iect. but said many mediums can com
municate with other spirits. In that
case the guardian angel acts as
master of ceremonies and brings the
other spirits to the medium. He said
he has communicated with twenty
five or more spirits himself, always
through a medium
He mentioned two mediums in this
country, Mrs. Wreidt of Detroit, an,
Miss Bessinet Of Toledo, who. he said
had been very successful in communi
eating with spirits in England. not
wthStandnG the difference in eli
matte conditions. Asked if climatic
conditions affected the operation o
mediums, he replied that they un
questionabIy do.
"Thc spirit has to obey materia
law" said Sir Arthur, "when
comes within their sphere. thinl
we are all mcdiumistc,. but we hav,
not developed our powers, 1t is ;
born gift, but VIC all possess it il
some degree. II might be likened Il
Ihan ear for music and, like that, il
capable Of development"