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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—I am much obliged to your two correspondents who have shewn some knowledge of “Mary Jane.” I scarcely know whether they mean to defend the theory there advanced, or not—they both seem half inclined to do so. I do not wonder at their shrinking from a rather arduous task. The author asserts that the mingling of emanations or vapours or magnetic efflux from a circle of persons in séance actually creates a personal Spirit—an Ego, having intelligence, moral sense—all, in short, that constitutes a human Spirit. It is created in a moment by vapours that possess thought and intelligence. And such a new created being is the reflex of the minds and moral natures of the members of the circle—the average net result. The new Spirit arises as at the stroke of the enchanter’s wand! | |||
We must then suppose that the Spirit so suddenly raised into life, when the circle breaks up and the emanations separate and their cohesion is lost, returns again to nothingness, and ceases to exist as suddenly as it arose. Any number then of ordinary persons can create life, albeit only momentary life. | |||
This appears to me a theory only fit for Bedlam. “C.C.M.” assures us that it has some respectable sponsors. It may be so, but I believe it will be among the believers of Occultism or Oriental Theosophy. I have no doubt that the disciples of that school can produce long mares of sickly and incoherent dreams, having no foundation in nature or reality, which may tend to the defence of such a theory. But I would ask “C. C. M.,” leaving aside altogether the argument from Oriental authority, to produce a chain of reasoning which can recommend itself to the highest intelligence of European or Western science and philosophy in defence of the portentous theory of the author of “Mary Jane.” Extremes meet; long vigils, severe fastings, absention from all mundane affairs and a monotonous concentration of the powers of thought on the mysteries of spirit, generate in the Oriental mystic a state of mind hardly differing from lunacy. | |||
The unhappy devotee mistakes phrases for facts, grotesque delusions for realities, so that the outcome of all is a Spiritualism hardly to be distinguished from the lowest Materialism or the rankest Atheism.—Yours truly, | |||
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Our London readers will be gratified to learn that we are about to have a visit from Mrs. Hardinge Britten, and we cannot doubt that they will give her a very cordial welcome. Mrs. Britten’s brilliant talents, and her long and distinguished services to the cause of Spiritualism, justify this confident anticipation—to say nothing of the fact that she has in London many personal friends who will be delighted to see her amongst them once again. | |||
Mrs. Britten has cheerfully consented to attend the rooms of the Central Association of Spiritualists, 38, Great Russell-street, at seven o’clock, on the evening of Monday week, January 8th. The first part of the evening will be devoted to social intercourse, and an exchange of friendly greetings, after which Mrs. Britten will kindly reply, under Spirit influence, to any questions which may be put to her, in relation to topics in which the company may be generally interested—the questions having reference of course to Spiritual subjects. For the sake of order it would be well if friends having questions to put would hand them ''in written form'' to the chairman. It need hardly be added that admission will be perfectly free to all members and friends. | |||
On Sunday, January 7th, Friday, January 12th, and Sunday, January 14th, Mrs. Britten will lecture in St. Andrew’s Hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street, under the auspices of the Metropolitan Spiritual Lyceum, and on Wednesday evening, January 10th, a public reception will be given her at the same place. Further particulars regarding the Sunday services will be found in our advertising columns. | |||
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| title = Clairvoyance—A Refutation of Materialism. | | title = Clairvoyance—A Refutation of Materialism. | ||
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... | {{Style P-Title|CLAIRVOYANCE—A REFUTATION OF MATERIALISM.}} | ||
{{Style P-Align center|'''By George Wyld, M.D.'''}} | |||
On Friday evening, the 22nd inst., Dr. George Wyld read a paper on this subject before the members of the Central Association of Spiritualists, 38, Great Russell-street, Mr. E. Dawson Rogers in the chair. The paper was a very valuable one, but much too long for our pages. We have pleasure, however, in presenting the following extracts to our readers:— | |||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-141}} | The term clairvoyance is French, and means clear-seeing, but it appears to me to be an inadequate term, because it might signify clear optical vision or clear mental vision, whereas what is signified by the term is the power which certain individuals possess of seeing external objects under circumstances which render the sight of these objects impossible to physical optics. In short, by clairvoyance we mean the power which the ''mind'' has of seeing or knowing thoughts and physical conditions, and objects hidden from or beyond the reach of the physical senses; and if the existence of this faculty can be established, we arrive at a demonstration that man has a power within his body as yet unrecognised by physical science. I regard mind-reading as the most common form of clairvoyance, and the capability of seeing the contents of closed boxes or envelopes as the most rare form, because, as I believe, the faculty is generally connected more or less with the known, or it may be, the unknown sympathy of human beings; and hence the clairvoyant diagnosis of hidden disease is much more common than the seeing of inanimate objects inside inanimate envelopes or boxes. | ||
The instances of clairvoyance which I shall present for consideration have been gathered either from my own experience or from the records of my personal friends. I have selected these in preference to cases from books, partly because those which are published are already open for inspection, but chiefly because instances occurring within one’s own experience, or that of personal friends, are brought before the mind with more detail and intensity, and are capable of more thorough investigation; and in order to increase confidence I have, where no objections were made, given names and addresses. | |||
In attempting to analyse and classify cases of clairvoyance, they appear to me to arrange themselves in the following order:— | |||
Thought-reading. | |||
Brain-reading of forgotten or absent thoughts. | |||
Seeing bodily diseases, as if the body were transparent. | |||
Psychometry as described by Professor Denton, namely, the knowledge the psychic obtains by a ''clue'', such as a lock of the hair of some absent person, or some portion of a distant object. | |||
Travelling clairvoyance, or seeing things at a distance beyond physical vision. | |||
Seeing objects secreted in boxes or envelopes, or otherwise hidden or unknown to any one present. | |||
Seeing future events. | |||
Entrancement and clairvoyance, as produced by the use of anæsthetics. | |||
{{Style P-Align center|'''Thought-Reading.'''}} | |||
A young lady, who has suffered much inconvenience as a thought-reader from her childhood, having been lately called upon at a public institution to pass an examination in harmony, had a lesson set her on the black board, her own teacher being present. The solution of the problem was much beyond her ability, but her teacher, anxiously desiring that his pupil should succeed, but having no knowledge of her thought-reading powers, harmonised the passage in a complicated form in his own mind, when, much to his surprise, immediately the young lady took up the chalk and ''note for note'' wrote down on the black board the harmony as it existed in his own mind. This, I think it will be admitted, is not only a striking, but a very interesting illustration of the faculty of thought-reading; and, in estimating the force of this instance, it must be remembered that the mother, the teacher, and the pupil all assert that the exercise accomplished was much beyond the normal capabilities of the young lady. Does this case not suggest that successful pass examinations may sometimes in part be the result of brain-picking? | |||
{{Style P-Align center|'''Brain-Reading.'''}} | |||
This differs from thought-reading in this, that the thought-reader desires you to think strongly of the subject to be read, but the brain-reader often not only reads the thoughts which are at the time absent from your mind but he often reads thoughts{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-141}} | |||
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