Evening star., 1927-05-22
Says Spirits Warn of World Disaster

tional," he replied. "Pheneas has given a fair
amount of reading between the lines in that
book. The general idea Is that in the events
that coming there is a certain selective
element. 1t is not wholesale judgment, but
a selective process by which large part of
the world that is not doing any good will be
eliminated
"Pheneas' idea is that certain number who
have worked in this cause and have attained a
certain spiritual level will be translated with
out death. Suppose there is such a crisis and
spirits appear among us. When these spirits
disappear back to their sphere, they may
say to some special ones Come with US IL
such thing occurred then the world would be
carried by the middle people Some of the
greater ones might have been taken All the
dregs would be gone, and the central part of
the would carry on. . These peo-
pie would have doubts. They would be
changed by all that they had SEEM"
Once again the question. What will be the
exact form of the catastrophe?" was tried.
I'VE hear of these tidal waves" Sir Arthur
said. There have been such things happen In
the past but they have gone from our memory.
There might, for example, be a change in the
axis of the earth. There is. of course, every
reason to believe there has been such change
before. Coal fields near the poles show that
they were at one time semi-tropical regions.
Supposing such process occurred again, you
cannot conceive what a wash of water would
result and how everything would be changed.
/ do not say it will be so; am only speculating.
America will be greatly affected by what
Pheneas says"
When asked what he thought might
out of the crisis in China, Sir Arthur answered:
Il do not see how any one can tell what is
going to arise out of that, but can quite see
how it could lead to Arma geddon-for instance,
with China and Russia. with boshevist aid in
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America. Or. supposng that Russia and Tur-
key invaded Syria and Palestine, you would
have all the conditions of Armageddon at once"
/ asked Sir Arthur il he had received any
direct communication from Houdini.
mo. There was no agreement between us,
it said in the papers," he replied. HE
was continually telling people he had agree
ments with this person and that and the other.
/ should like to test that. He was very wild
talker. He said at one time that he had been
present at 10,0 900 seances. l rather knocked the
bottom out of that when / showed that it
meant day for so years. On one side of
his nature he was charitable, kindly fellow:
on the other side he was monomaniac.
THE greatest brains in the world and the
clearest proofs had effect on him. But if
anything came his own way he would take it
very seriously. He got in California an alleged
spirit photograph and was quite excited about
it. which. to my mind, a rotten thing
which would not have passed for moment.
He a remarkable man. however and his
death was loss to the world
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When the common criticism was made that
spirit guides seem often TO speak Of appar-
emily inconsequential and trivial things, Sir
Arthur answered:
Those are not spirit guides. They are the
dead themselves. To an outsider it may seem
trivial but it may not seem trivial to the per-
son who receives the message. Suppose. for
instance, that my sister who had passed
said, DO you remember that magenta petit.
coat I had and how you used to laugh at it
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