The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-15
SP|R|TUAL|SN IS
RELIGIOUS AID,
SAYS DOYLE
Creed Will Be End of Dark
Ages in Which We Now
Live, He Declares.
By LUTHER A. HUSTON,
international News Service.

LONDON, Oct. 15.-Modern spir-
itualism is not a substitute for re-
ligion but an application of it
that will save it from the ex-
tinction with which 1t Is obviously
threatened" according to Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, spiritualism's
most earnest defender in England.
Returning from his recent lecture
tour of Canada and the United
States, Sir Arthur outlined his
views on the future of spiritualism.
He boldly characterized spiritual
ism as the creed that will be the
end of the dark ages in which we
now live"
Sir Arthur prefaced his views on
the future Of spiritualism by de.
tailed recital of evidence which he
asserted proved conclusively the
existence of an intelligence back of
the various spiritualistic phenom-
ena. He asserted that tests per-
formed for the benefit of skepticaI
scientists had proved to the salts
faction of the skeptics that psychic
manifestations are controlled by
definite intelligence.
Intelligence Source.
THE enormously important point
at issue then" said Sir Arthur, lis
whose intelligence is it? Is it the
intelligence of the entranced me-
dunn? Is it the subconscious in
telligence of the combined COM
pany? Is it an independent intelli-
gence?
Surely, when it takes the ex-
treme form Of naturalization and
Lit nh AA
Gently did in experiments conduct
ed before q French committee OF
scientists, one cannot hesitate to
say that the intelligence is an indie
pendent one. If that be granted
our whole case is won, for we can.
not conceive any discarnate intelli
gences save those which nave lived
| upon earth. Every line of evidence,
physical phenomena, mental phe
| nomena, photography, materializa-
| tions, all converge upon the one
| conclusion; but from my point Of
view it is only here that the real
Importance of the matter begins.
IF our reasoning is sound and
we are indeed in contact with dis
carnate intelligences, then clearly
| they can tell us where they are,
how they live, what the world is
| lLhO HI WIlICL LIlSy lIIlO ItlSIIlS0INeSS
and how far their religious teach
| ing in this world corresponds with
their actual experience in the next.
Sees Revelation.
This volume of evidence I have
called the New Revela alton. be.
lieVe that 1t is a revelation of truth
sent straight from God to give a
| stricken and doubling world clear
view of it's own destiny. In my
opinion 1t is not less important thar
the Christian revelation of 1000
years ago. 1t is presumably a con-
| tinuation of it, since Christ said
that He had yet other things to say
| but the time was not yet
That first revelation is the last
word in ethics. Nothing can super
sede it in that direction, but the
second revelation brings knowledge
which man needs and has right
to have.
''The two revelations put together
Will make the religion of the fu-
! ture, which will expand Christianity
and remove from it those blemishes
which have shocked our reason Re.
| ligton is the basis Of all things md
until we get that right neither
politics, economics nor anything
| else can be built upon a rock.
But when we do get a clear per
ception of what we are and whv
we are here these difficulties will
vanish and human life will be in
1lnltely simpler and happier"