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{{Style P-Title|VISION OF A PAST TRAGEDY.}} | {{Style P-Title|VISION OF A PAST TRAGEDY.}} | ||
{{Style P-Quote|[The following is a translation of a narrative copied into ''Licht mehr Licht'' of 1st October, from a German paper—''Die Tafelrunde''—published at Washington. It bears some marks of a genuine record, and is at least, from the peculiarity of the fact alleged, not likely to be a mere invention, though it may be difficult to verify, even with the not very obscure indication of personalities, &c., given in it. I have thought it worth transcribing chiefly for this reason, that it belongs to a class of similar phenomena in which there is an automatic representation of past events, as if they were being acted over again in the memory or imagination of Nature (or the world-consciousness) in the places of their occurrence, and at the times agreeing. The explanation which Spiritualists may be disposed hastily to adopt, that the Spirit of the suicide himself purposely re-enacted the horrid drama for the information of the visitor to his room, will hardly bear examination, notwithstanding the whispered words which followed. These, indeed, may well have been impressed upon her by the unhappy earth-bound wretch, rooted to the scene of his catastrophe. But the whole probably exact representation, with its—for the supposed purpose—unnecessary preliminaries and details; the very fact that, as he could communicate by words, the story might have been thus told; but, above all, the circumstance that the phenomenon belongs to a class of cases in many of which such explanation is quite inadmissible, must direct us to another law of their recurrence. The work of indexing their records, now being carried on by the Literary Committee of the Society for Psychical Research (to be followed by a proper classification of phenomena, in which their several peculiarities will for the first time appear in orderly arrangement), will, it may be expected, lead to a more scientific appreciation of facts not as yet sufficiently discriminated.—C.C.M.]}} | {{Style P-Quote|[The following is a translation of a narrative copied into ''Licht mehr Licht'' of 1st October, from a German paper—''Die Tafelrunde''—published at Washington. It bears some marks of a genuine record, and is at least, from the peculiarity of the fact alleged, not likely to be a mere invention, though it may be difficult to verify, even with the not very obscure indication of personalities, &c., given in it. I have thought it worth transcribing chiefly for this reason, that it belongs to a class of similar phenomena in which there is an automatic representation of past events, as if they were being acted over again in the memory or imagination of Nature (or the world-consciousness) in the places of their occurrence, and at the times agreeing. The explanation which Spiritualists may be disposed hastily to adopt, that the Spirit of the suicide himself purposely re-enacted the horrid drama for the information of the visitor to his room, will hardly bear examination, notwithstanding the whispered words which followed. These, indeed, may well have been impressed upon her by the unhappy earth-bound wretch, rooted to the scene of his catastrophe. But the whole probably exact representation, with its—for the supposed purpose—unnecessary preliminaries and details; the very fact that, as he could communicate by words, the story might have been thus told; but, above all, the circumstance that the phenomenon belongs to a class of cases in many of which such explanation is quite inadmissible, must direct us to another law of their recurrence. The work of indexing their records, now being carried on by the Literary Committee of the Society for Psychical Research (to be followed by a proper classification of phenomena, in which their several peculiarities will for the first time appear in orderly arrangement), will, it may be expected, lead to a more scientific appreciation of facts not as yet sufficiently discriminated.—C.C.M.]}} | ||
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{{Style P-Quote|“I have given the above word for word from notes I took at the time of hearing it. I may add that the heroine of the narrative is descended on the mother’s side from the Mystic Michael Hahn, that she had received a good education at Kornthal, and is now again living in her Wurtemberg home.”}} | {{Style P-Quote|“I have given the above word for word from notes I took at the time of hearing it. I may add that the heroine of the narrative is descended on the mother’s side from the Mystic Michael Hahn, that she had received a good education at Kornthal, and is now again living in her Wurtemberg home.”}} | ||
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