Evening star., 1922-10-21

dium Mrs. Soule, who. under
her former name Of Cheno.
weth gave some very good results to
the American Psyohical Society. 1t
was 10 in the morning. and my advent
perhaps a'little disturbing. SO that the
conditions were not very good and the
results Indifferent, but there were
flashes which showed the real power.
For example, the announcement that
my son was present moved me not At
all. but when she said that he wrote
down the word Fioreat, I had to
take 1t seriously. since he was an
Eaton boy. and Floreat Etona is the
motto Of the college. 1t seemed fine
test and beyond all chance. and yet
do what we would-and we tried
hard--we could not get the Etona. /
think the less you try the better you
do. and We spoiled our own results
There lies one Of the dangers Of test
seances where every one is on edge.
In several cases the messages ap.
piled more closely to others than to
those who were supposed to send
them. There was a considerable mix.
~, and yet several very vivid pic
j
had long message purporting t.
come from Mr.. F.. w. II. Myers, which
copied word by word, as the me.
dium slowly read 1t of. 1t must b..
admitted that 1t has weight and dig
nifty.
AtleEed Myers Message.
"You have gone a step further than
B but we are working on the same
problem. which Is now one Of para
n rhDfrN nd
followers, even though they strive tt
elude the issue. and there is no more
necessary work than to get these peo-
pie to see that you are making pos
sible for them a larger field of useful
hess. You may knock down ,hei,
steeples. bu, you put Foundation
under their places of worship. an6
only the blind fail TO see the digni'
of the message you are delivering
Do not think that we are far behinr
you in this effort to make real thu
contacts between the living and the
dead. ] believe that the attitude you
have assumed is the only true and
helpful one for the advance Of the
kingdom of God. l wish l could stand
by your side in the body just to give
from feeling that the old workers do
not desert the new ones"
Does that diction suggest Myers
the scholar or Mrs. Soule. the simple
average New England woman? I say
Myers. I then asked il he came in
and has been seen standing by you
by some friends who were present"
Now Mr. Slater afterward said at
Philadelphia that he saw Myers be-
side me. This was not finally eviden-
tial. but at the least It was very sug-
eestive> / had much comfor: from the
whole interview. the messages coming
in high falsetto voice and purport-
ing to be from Sunbeam. the little
control. while Mrs. Soule lay back In
her chair with closed eyes.
Visit to Cemetery.
On my second morning at Boston
had a quiet hour in the Mount Au-
burn cemetery. where the old clothes
of many great ones are stored. Espe-
cially I wished to leave some flowers
upon my favorite essayist. one Of my
spiritual and literary fathers. Oliver
Wendell Holmes. The gentle, laugh
ing philosopher. whether as autocrat.
mark upon my young mind. Glorious
fellow: so tolerant. SO witty. so world.
ly wise and yet SO simply fresh!
laid my flowers and was happy to
know that he probably was aware of
what / had done. for the little wire
sure. Coming back saw the Lowell
house. the Longfellow house. the
Dana house What colony!
On my way back from Mount Au-
burn l spent some time in the Harvard
library, consulting some old alchem-
icaI books which seem to allude d.
rectly to ectoplasm. showing that
these medieval philosophers were
really a good deal ahead of US in
some phases of psychic knowledge.
This interesting line of thought was
first developed by Mr.. Damon. young
assistant professor at Harvard. He
shows that the alchemists wrapped up
their knowledge in symbols, for fear
Of the church, but that when the
symbols are learned it all corresponds
with our knowledge. For example.
the sun means the magnetic operator
and the moon the mesmerized subject.
The fire is the magnetic force. The
mercury is the ectoplasm. They de-
scribe 1t, viscious, half animal. half
spiritual. everywhere and yet. unseen.
chang4able, and SO on. There cannot
be the least doubt that they all allude
to estoplasm.
been attended by danger and eH-
pect that We shall hit few unex-
Thomas Vaughan. an alchemist who
lived as lately as 1850. records In his
diary that he Obtained what seems
to have been estoplasm from his wife.
but adds that his wife died the same
night. His own death is recorded as
having been from IAN explosion OF
mercury" which sounds suspicious. !
have no doubt that perils Will be en-
countered on this line of study, out II
will no more deter the students than