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April 1961. : oC ete 40c P TRUE STORIES OF | THE STRANGE AND! THE UNKMOWN | Boric! Scientists oe Is This Houdini’ Hobo ee 74 Haunted House In South Carolina Tee R. Gandee io 32. The Vision That Stopped An Indian Rebellion : Francis Dickie 0 58 Warnings Come In Floating Coffins Margaret C2 Pee: 71 That Great Medium— Madde Lord Drake. _ Dr. W. D. Chesney .. Pe Oe Did | Speak With ee ae Gustay Gumpert sat cpcnssenaerveneetnneente 91 The Tree Died, Too... My Proof Of Survival... Report From The Readers... . New Books.... The Ghost In The Church ... Latest News... /
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j $ APRIL & ; Vol. 14—No. 4 1961 ontents Issue No. 133 Publisher: CURTIS FULLER l Assistant Publisher: PAUL FOGHT Editor: MARY FULLER CO Managing Editor: CHESTER S. GEIER Foreign Editor: MIR BASHIR Art Director: SYDNEY BARKER ARTICLES... TRUE REPORTS ON THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN New Light From An Old Tomb ............-- Rev. Stephan A. Hoeller 25 Soviet Scientists Claim Life On Mars 000022222... Frank Edwards. 48 Is This Houdini’s Telepathic Code? 0... Edmond P. Gibson 53 _ That Weird Feeling—“I’ve Been Here Before!”............ Nathan Rapport 65 A History Of Rosicruciamism .........-0ccce--cceeeceseeeeeceeeeeeeeeen Reyes de Leon 74 | STORIES... | DRAMATIC ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES Haunted House In South Carolina -....-...-ceccceeceessseceeseeeee Lee R. Gandee 32 The Vision That Stopped An Indian Rebellion ................ Francis Dickie 58 | Warnings Come In Floating Coffins... eeececeeeceeeees* Margaret €. 71 That Great Medium—Maude Lord Drake Dr. W.D. Chesney 82 Did I Speak With Angels? Gustav Gumpert 91 | FEATURES .. NEWS AND NOTES ON UNUSUAL TOPICS I See By The Papers Curtis Fuller — 6 The Tree Died, Too .. 39 True Mystic Experiences 47 The -Ghost- In) The Church. .2..--_.2 eS re Ne ret 90 The Readers 97 Ce a PS SPE ES tp ea a pa be 101 The Readers 109 Published every month by CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illi- nois. Second class postage paid at Evanston, Illinois, and. at additional mailing offices. We do not accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or artwork. Subscribers should notify us of address changes 30 days in advance, giving both old and new address. Copyright @ 1961, CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY 4
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JY See by the Papers... QUOTE OF THE MONTH I wish I were a ghost with long silver hair. I wish I could make myself invisible whenever I want to, The reason I want to be this is be- cause I’d like to scare people. I could also tickle people, and move furniture around and break orna- “ments to make them go crazy. I think this is a wonderful thing to be, but I don’t know about you. — Reply from Third-Grader asked what she would like to be. GO POLTERGEIST EXPLANATION? + Be ABOVE quotation was one of a group compiled by Constance Russo-Alesi and published recently in the New York Times Magazine. The reader who sent it to us suggested that it may~express “the poltergeist wish.” We agree. “Poltergeists,” as FATE readers know, are those racketing spirits or noisy ghosts that do all manner of childish things and seem almost al- ways to be associated with adoles- cent personalities. Responsible modern authorities, such as Dr. Nandor Fodor, suggest that poltergeist activity may some- how be produced by split-off por- tions of disturbed personalities through means we don’t understand. 6 If this explanation is valid, then the above quotation expresses wish- ful ideas common to many children. Here then is one motivation for poltergeist activities. Wouldn’t you, too, like to be invisible sometimes? oa) THE GIRL WITH THE SPOOK LEASE understand that polter- geists are conjectural phenom- ena. Sort of like the structure of an electron —likely, but still conjec- tural. Scottish residents of the village of Sauchie, in the Robert Burns country of Central Scotland, may have fewer doubts about this be- cause of recent occurrences center- ing around 11-year-old Virginia Campbell, —
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Para-Psychology _ by Rene Sudre’, world-famous French authority WW 7h IIS x A SEARCHING, SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION INTO THE HOST OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA KNOWN AS THE “SUPERNATURAL” — Over 400 fact-loaded pages reveal the amazing super-normal happen- ings that have astonished, awed and mystified people from primi- tive times to our own day. Hand in hand with the author you explore all facets of the strangely fascinating world known as PARA- PSYCHOLOGY. You judge the eye-witness evidence that transformed skeptical scien- tists into firm believers in psychic phenomena—evidence of vital im- portance to you. IN PLAIN LANGUAGE THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS AND STRIPS THE MYSTERY FROM SCORES OF BAFFLING TOPICS, INCLUDING: Mental telepathy _Extra-sensory perception (E.S.P.) Clairvoyance: sight at a distance Premonitions Life after death Can the dead speak to us? Hypnosis and trance states Dr. Rhine’s Duke University, experiments Is there a ‘‘sixth sense” Predicting future Haas Ectoplasm and materialization Mysteriously disappearing objects Suspension of natural laws Reading another person’s mind Psychoanalysis and the subconscious Para-psychology as a natural science Haunted houses Reincarnation Telekinesis (levitation) Famous mediums and seances Scientific psychic experiments Crystal gazing and card reading The supernatural in ancient times and among primitive people. Persons ‘‘Possessed’’ Split personalities Hallucinations Automatic writing Phantoms, ghosts and apparitions Spirit guides Birth marks and stigmata Being in two places at once Persons gifted with special sensitivity Impersonations of living and fictitious persons Group telepathy Is immortality an illusion? Telepathy, clairvoyance and GH gi finding in animals, birds and insects Survival and para-psychology .——EXAMINE FREE FOR 10 DAYS,.__.__._____ THE CITADEL PRESS, Dept. 47 222 Park Ave. South, New York 3, N. Y. Please send Rene Sudre’s PARA-PSYCHOLOGY on 10-day money back guarantee. 4 I ! OJ Enclosed is remittance, $6.00 (Book sent). | OG Send. C.O.D. I will pay postman $6.00, plus postal charges. I I I I ae ae ee Addresses 2 Ss S252 ae eee
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Miss Margaret Stewart, who teaches Virginia in the Sauchie vil- lage school, asserts that as Virginia passed by a desk in the school it bounced up and down three times. “J don’t believe in the super- natural,” says Miss Stewart, “but I was mesmerized by what I saw. “Tt looked like an elaborate prac- tical joke but there was no string and no one touched the desk when it moved.” Miss Stewart also saw a table rise from the floor and shift side- ways. ' _ A door opened as Virginia walked through and then could not be shut. Things like this-went on to the point where one villager composed the following bit of doggerel: Virginia had a little ghost; Its sheet was white as snow. And everywhere Virginia went The ghost was sure to go. Still such tricks would be fun, wouldn’t they? Once in a while? oo) A SKUNK IN THE ATTIC NIMALS are common trappings of poltergeist cases. Like the Talking Mongoose for instance, which we explored thoroughly. in the June 1952 issue of Fate. We may be mistaken, but a re- cent case in Syracuse, N.Y., re- minds us of the talking mongoose. In this instance it is a “noisy skunk.” FATE The skunk took up lodging in the home of Warren Bottrill, Syra- cuse, N.Y., on November 27, 1960, after it entered (theoretically) an inside wall. Mr. Bottrill is an ex- ecutive of a floor company and the father of four children. He has tried traps, tranquilizers, moth balls and even the advice of - friends to get rid of the creature. But at last report it was still with him. This skunk has a number of pe- culiar characteristics. For one thing, it seems to sleep during the day or at least to make its way out of the house during daylight hours. But it is always there after dark, racketing about. .“At night,” complains Mr. Bottrill, “it’s worse than having an elephant upstairs.” Another strange thing about this skunk is that it doesn’t do what skunks are most notorious for doing —in fact it seems to be a rather sweet-smelling animal. We don’t think it’s a skunk. ioe) THAT COLD FEELING COUPLE oF months ago Charles Turner, 54, a taxi driver of Alma Road, Fort William, Scotland, was passing the bridge at Kings- house about 3:00 A.M. “T suddenly felt the car grow cold, although my heater was on,” Mr. Turner later reported. “With
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CAGLIOSTRO... THE MARTYRED PIONEER OF PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA The first true history of this man of mystery and magic is CAGLIOSTRO written by the prominent professional historian W. R. H. Trowbridge. We are now stocking a brand new edi- tion of this important book. Price only $6.50. IMPORTANT TO YOU It is important that you read CAG- LIOSTRO because the mystery that surrounds this historical personality is a matchless example of the long- lived confusion deliberately created by ‘“‘authorities’’ to discredit their opponents. In other fields—in other places—this official befogging of the truth goes on today. When you have read CAGLIOSTRO you will know how it is done! A STATEMENT BY THE AUTHOR “The object of this book is not sO much an attempt to vindicate Cagliostro as to correct and revise, if pos-= sible, what I believe to be a false judgment of history.’* —W. R. H. Trowbridge DON’T DELAY — ORDER TODAY! him. Now Read the True History CAGLIOSTRO W. R. H. Trowbridge YOU SHOULD CARE about the his- tory of Count Cagliostro because he is the man who re-discovered for our era the psychic properties latent in every human being. Modern psychic research developed directly from Cagliostro’s feats and disclosures. Cagliostro devoted his life to the sect of Egyptian Masonry and found- ed Masonic lodges throughout France. This activity ultimately claimed his life because it was considered re- volutionary by both the French mon- arch and the established church. In 1791 Cagliostro faced the Aposto- lic Court of the Inquisition charged with being a leader of Freemasonry. He became one of the court’s very last victims when he died in prison in 1795 while serving out a life sentence. HIS LIFE A MYSTERY In his own time Cagliostro had to operate under a cover of mystery because he was a secret revolution- ary. When the Apostolic Court sen- tenced him, it also remanded his papers and books to the executioner for burning. As a result, Cagliostro’s own story has never been presented, although histories approved by offi- cial sources feel free to call him a charlatan and an impostor. Carlyle called him “Prince of Quacks” The Holy Roman Inquisition destroyed UNIVERSITY BOOKS j 845 Chicago Ave. ] Evanston, Hl. I] Please send me a copy of CAGLIOSTRO by J ] W. RB. H. Trowbridge at only $6.50 postpaid. § ] I enclose [] check [j cash [] money order. |
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS ‘search projects conducted in the Arctic and elsewhere. He says that average global temperatures now are only eight degrees warmer than those believed to have brought on the four great Ice Ages of the past million years. Another kind of prediction — and one that most of us will find easier to check than Dr. Miller’s warning, has been made by the court astrologers of Nepal, the small mountain kingdom between India and Tibet. They forecast a colossal earthquake for this year. The Nepalese royal family post- poned a state visit to the United States last fall because court astro- logers said the time was inauspici- ous. They decided that April 27, 1961, would be a much better time, and the Royal Family will visit us then. Presumably we will be safe from the earthquake, at least dur- ing their stay here, GO WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRIDEY MURPHY? Roo Robert L. Moore, staff writer of the Associated Press, interviewed Ruth Mills Simmons, the Pueblo, Colo., housewife who was regressed under hypnosis by Morey Bernstein and seemed to re- call a life in Ireland more than a century ago as Bridey Murphy MacCarthy. Mrs. Tighe is now 38, a house- Il STUDY OCCULT SCIENCES AT HOME! @ READ HOROSCOPES . The most complete course ever written. Many test horoscopes wit h instructions showing how you can use astrology . . . $6.50 @ ANALYZE HAND- WRITING—step - by - step, simple method, based on latest scien- tific research into man’s most expressive gesture. Learn to read between the lines, ; : $5.00 @ READ THE TAROT —Fullest, most prac- tical exposition ever made of the uncanny Tarot and how to use it to foresee events in everyday life. Includes 78 authentic Tarot Cards....$7.50 @ READ HANDS—Ancient science of palmistry brought up to date and presented in a sensible, verifiable way that anyone can master . . . $5.00 @ DEVELOP PSYCHIG POWERS—How lair- voyance, psychometry, telepathy, etc., can be developed under your complete control. Most comprehensive training ever perfected. Along safe, positive lines—student can switch ‘‘on” and “off’’ the psychic plane when he chooses. $5.00 @ EACH COURSE SENT TO YOU COMPLETE including full set of lessons, charts, examples, numerous self-tests and full model answers. You need no special advance training. Every course supplies everything required. ORDER TODAY! ee ee ae ee es ee SS ene me me, | INSIGHT INSTITUTE I 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Ill. paucnse send me the courses checked | below. I enclose $_---~-__--_--. Check, | cash, or money order for | | ( ) CAST HOROSCOPES ! j( ) THE TAROT I ( ) ANALYZE HANDWRITING 1( ) READ HANDS I 1¢ ) DEVELOP PSYCHIC POWERS | IN I
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r2 wife with a husband and _ three daughters. “I’m doing exactly what T was doing eight years ago — dust- ing, mopping, going to the grocery store,” Mrs. Tighe told Moore. She says she has never read the Bridey Murphy book which is based en her statements under hypnosis. “T don’t want to read it. I remem- ber nothing of what I said under hypnosis and only heard: scattered parts of the tapes.” Mrs. Tighe most regrets that many people think Bridey was a fraud or a hoax. She estimates she has turned down over a quarter of a million dollars in offers to make public appearances. “Tf I’d accepted any of these of- fers I’d never have been able to live with myself. I have no talent to give for such money.” io 2) WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MOREY BERNSTEIN? H* BOOK about Mrs. Tighe (or Bridey Murphy) became a best seller. He was a well-to-do man when he wrote about Bridey Murphy and says that he made far less out of the royalties from the book than most people imagine. He too has rejected all offers to give lectures and make public appear- ances: But he has gained much else. Bernstein told Moore: “Let’s be honest. I was an atheist. I was fully convinced that a dead man FATE was fully dead. There was no meaning to life. I did not believe in hypnosis, reincarnation and mys- teries of the mind. “Today it is different. My ex- perience has changed my life.” Bernstein says about his book, “T don’t merely believe in reincar- nation. I know that it is a fact.” He has not used hypnosis since the Bridey experiments. That type of thing should be and is being carried on by psychiatrists, he says. io 2) POSTSCRIPTS OF THE SEA Fw YEARS ago Capt. Thomas Miller, an adventure-loving Britisher sailed his 70-ton motor vessel Joyita from Samoa to Toke- lau Island with 24 men, women and children aboard. He never made it. A month later the Joyita was found drifting 80 miles away near the Fijis — deserted, waterlogged and silent. No bad weather had been reported, no calls for help had been heard. No bodies or further record of crew, passengers or Captain Mil- ler ever were found. Recently Miller was declared of- ficially dead by Judge Temple Morris in a court in Cardiff, Wales, when the Captain’s wife, Mrs. Ma- tilda Miller, asked for a divorce on. two grounds—presumption of death and desertion, Judge Morris, ruled that Captaim Miller had got hold of an unsea-
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS worthy boat and deceived people to get it to sea... “Had he reached his destination he might eventually have become a millionaire. He never got there. Instead he became a corpse.” A rather arbitrary decision for a judge sitting in Cardiff, Wales, to make about a sea disaster 10,000 miles away. eee The barnacle-covered timbers of a keel-less ship, handbuilt in Viking style, were washed ashore at Man- asquan, N.J., during last fall’s hur- ricane Donna. Naval experts who 13 examined it declared that it may have been a Viking ship —or per- haps even a barque of long-dead Phoenicia. Now Fate is pleased to present an exclusive report on this discovery received from Howard I. Chapelle, curator of the Division of Trans- portation of the Smithsonian Insti- tution. Mr. Chapelle makes the fol- lowing points: 1. The hull was caravel-planked, not lap-strake as in Viking ships. The framing is very heavy double futtock and not light, single-fut- tock as in a Viking ship. PROPHETIC VERSES OF ANCIENT SEER OPEN THE DOOR OF THE FUTURE! Now, In one volume... THE COMPLETE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS + + . contains every word of the more than 1,000 prophecies dating to the year 3797 A.D. translated, edited, and interpreted by Henry C,. Roberts foremost authority on Nostradamus. The secret of Nostradamus’ power to foresee the future has never been fully explained. With this book you can see for yourself the scope of the Power and relate his mystic visions to actual events, past and future. Nostradamus’ forecasts of past events haye eome true with uncanny accuracy. NOW SEE WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS! End of the world — date and circumstances — Atomic warfare —date of the next world war Return of Hitler — actual time when he re- turns alive. Fate of the Jews, capitalism, trade Blue buckram binding, gold lettering, unionism, 350 pages. ORDER TODAY! ONLY $5.00 Dae a a ea ge al f VENTURE BOOKSHOP 1 = P.O. Box 671 i © Evanston, Mlinois J i i] H Please send me my copy of THE COMPLETE I E PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS at once. I Ht enctose [] cash, [] check, [} money order § H for $5.00. 1 - a Shots ser J 1 NAME 2. cence ccvcccrcsivccneeceerce 1 MR eshte «than osminatancmetemenseonaeene tas : BiG liv =, are pss siges ko tants Bthtesis cco seesore | | Bc es oY
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14 2. The hull was copper-sheathed, tack fastened, over old copper sheathing. Copper sheathing was introduced after 1764. 3. A bronze spike from the hull was machine made, not hand wrought. Viking ships were iron- fastened. Treenail in hull shows ‘tool marks. 4, The hull had heavy keelson. These were not used in Viking ships. ~ 5. The lack of a keel was due to two. possibilities —the keel had been knocked off or “the hull por- tion is of one bilge and what we think might be keelsons could as -well be bilge clamps. Viking ships had keels and no keelson or bilge “clamps. 6. Conclusion is, the wreckage is of a West Indian trader, prob- ably a large schooner, brigantine or a small bark, of between 1850 and 1890. a CO CAUSE AND EFFECT O= pAY last Spring, Mr. and _ Mrs. Brian Eppley of Gaffney, S.C., were sitting in front of their TV set. They heard a sharp report. An ash tray had split. Next day they were watching TV. Mrs. Eppley was holding a glass of milk in her hand. The glass cracked. The following day a sea shell, sitting on a living room end table cracked. Then a vase exploded. FATE Spooks? Poltergeists? Not so, say the Eppleys. They believe the articles burst because of high fre- quency waves coming from their TV set. Now they have moved all their glassware out of the TV room. But they keep on watching. * kK On another day late last winter, Harold Van Cantfort of Kagel Canyon, Calif., brewed himself a cup of coffee, turned on his TV set and settled down to watch Amos and Andy. He began to hear a high scream- ing noise in a corner of the room. “Tt wasn’t very loud at first,” he says, “but it got louder and then started whirling around the room about a foot from the ceiling. “TI don’t know how to describe ‘it’ except to say it sounded like a scream. Whatever ‘it’ was, it wa invisible.” ‘It’? whirled about the room for 20 seconds. .Van Cantfort started to rise to his feet, then thought better of it and sat down. The noise came down close to his head. He thought his eardrums would break. “Then the thing “ made a beeline for my TV set and hit it, BANG, like a gun shot.” It punched a small hole in the front glass panel of the TV set. Radiating out from the hole are hundreds of cracks — a lacework of glass. No piece is larger than an eighth of a inch square. (We have
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS 17 U. P. 1. Photo Back from the Himalayas, Sir Edmund Hillary watches as his Nepalese guide, Khumfo Chumbi, displays what Tibetan monks believe is the scalp of an Abominable Snowman. cember, Manuela Baca, a house- wife of San Pablo, sought a divorce charging her husband George with an interest in witchcraft to the point of extreme cruelty to her. Her husband never slept at night but walked about the house mum- bling things, Mrs. Baca said. He would sit on the edge of the bed for hours. “He always told about people who were made sick by witchcraft. He said it killed his mother.” Mrs. Baca explained that she was willing to put up with all this, “But he told me last Friday he was going to turn me into a snake and watch me crawling down the street.” That was the end. Among the evidence her attorney presented was a photograph of Mrs. Baca with her heart pierced by a nail to which a religious medal was at- tached. George Baca scoffed at these charges. “She’s the witch,” he said. “Me, I don’t believe in nothing but God.” Whatever one may believe about these charges and counter-charges, who can deny that magical spells — of a kind — actually exist? That they may exist only in the mind is
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS This diagnosis was ridiculous. Obviously Wilson died of witch- craft. oe) SECRET OF FATIMA W: WRITE this as 1960 -has ended without revealing “the secret of Fatima.” Sister Maria Dolores is the only survivor of the three peasant chil- dren who believed they saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Por- tugal, which has now become one of the most famous of Roman Catholic shrines. Sister Maria Dolores, 55, is now a cloistered nun at the Carmelite. convent at Coimbra, Portugal. She gave to the Bishop of Leiria a sealed envelope with the instructions that it should be opened on her death or in 1960 if she were still living. The previous prophecies, made to Sister Maria Dolores and her two child companions by a “beauti- ful lady in white,” have been made public. They forecast World War II and predicted the possible con- version of Russia to the Catholic faith. The final secret was expected to be made public last May at the an- mual celebration at Fatima and thousands went away disappointed that it was not. Bishop Venancio of Leiria ex- pressed concern at the various spec- ulations being made about the LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT! H. G. Carruthers, Founder There is a Secret of Success! “You can have what you want; you can be what you want to be; and you can do what you want to do if you learn to use the power that lies within you.” WRITE NOW FOR FREE BOOK- LET containing information about this remarkable course of training for personal development and self- improvement. ACT NOW! This may very well be the stepping-stone to the achievement of your desires. FREE BOOKLET—WRITE TO: H. G. CARRUTHERS FDN. P.O. BOX 2907, DEPT. L ORLANDO, FLORIDA
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20 NUMEROLOGY is an exact science. Let one of its greatest exponents show you how you can eliminate the element of chance and find winners of racing events with outstanding accuracy. Isidore Kozminsky, D.Se., F.R.A.S., F.F.B.A., is the author of this as- tounding work “Racing and Win- ning,’’ based on 40 years’ experience of forecasting by Numerology. Packed with helpful examples. Write for your special edition to-day, price $2.00, post free, to the publishers:— PHIPPS-COTON LTD.. (Dept. F9) 51, Bowyer Road, Abingdon, Berkshire, England MASONIC HERMETIC QABBALISTIC AND. ROSICRUCIAN SYMBOLIC PHILOSOPHY ‘ By Manly P. Hall “THR SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL ‘ AGES, carefully indexed to aid your ex- ploration of your particular interest in the lore and mysteries of the ancients. -Measuring 9%x13 inches, this volume ‘contains 48 full-page black-and-white il- . lustrations plus almost 200 other pictures ‘within the massive text of 45 chapters. Original yolume, with colored illustra- ‘ tions, cost $100. YOUR COST ONLY $15. VENTURE Soe a P.O. BOX 671 t EVANSTON, ELLINOIS | Please send my copy of Manly P._ Hall’s great book immediately, I 4% enclose a 7] cheek (] money order [) cash for $15 - ‘] Please send C.O.D FATE “secret” and said that the most important part of the prophecies have long been known. The message is now believed to be in the archives of the Vatican and responsible authorities think it will stay there without being made public. CO HO HUM ys Meprna is a 61-year- old Spanish farm laborer who claims he has never slept a wink in his life. Recently Medina became so worried about his inability to sleep that he walked 140 miles to Madrid from Southern Castile and asked for help. Naturally he cover- ed the distance without sleep — it took him four days and four nights with just a little rest now and then. He finds his life easy but some- times boring. “I work like a beast,” he explained. “I never get tired of working. But nights would be shorter if I knew how to read books. Now I have to sit before the kitchen fireplace and do nothing until the cock crows.” io 2) DREAMING TRUE RS. STANTON Pritchard of Hol- lywood, Calif., was seven months pregnant when she had a recurrent dream of a plane crash- ing. She even remembered the plane’s registration number. She was so upset that her husband, to
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS humor her, took her to a motel to spend the night. The plane with the dream number, crashed 20 feet from their house... Since that incident in 1957, Mr. Pritchard began paying attention to his wife’s dreams. She had a dream in which a photographer asked her sister to model for him. Mrs. Pritchard en- visioned her sister dead on the desert. As a result, the sister re- fused to take the modelling job and som’ time later the photographer was found to have killed three Hol- lywood models, leaving them trussed up and dead in the desert. Mrs. Pritchard had one wrong dream a few months ago. She dreamed Nixon had been elected. oO CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT? Mc: PERSONS dismiss premoni- tory dreams and waking pre- monitions as coincidences. Those who experience them disagree. Con- sider some of these recent occur- rences .. . © In Milwaukee, Karl Ratzsch, Sr., proprietor of a famous restau- rant, took a short nap one after- noon and returned to his place of business about 4:00 P.M. “Add Bill Pohl to the reservations book,” he said. “I had a dream this after- noon that Bill is in town and will come in at 8:30.” Pohl is an international traveler, YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR Eighteenth Convention | To be held at the McAllister Hotel, Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Florida, March 21-22-23, 1961. Advanced thinkers and psychics bring their knowledge and gifts to these unique conyen- tions. Subjects range from Space Craft to Psychic Phenomena, Cosmic Consciousness, Pro-" phecy and ESP. Many attending our meetings) claim to receive remarkable psychic gifts as well’ as healings of body and soul. Please notify us of your intention to attend. Free information, Read our amazing publications; First Convention Summary, $1.00; Second Convention Summary, $2.00; Third Convention Summary, $1:00; 1958 Convention Summary, $1.00; Canadian Flying Saucers, $1.00; First Translation of American Petroglyphs, $1.003— Psychic Reports of the Brotherhood, $1.00; The Living Oracle, $2.00; Oahspe, American edi- tion, $10.00, English edition, $4.00. Regular Tuesday 8 p.m. meetings at Casa Loma, Toronto A The Brotherhood of Faithists i Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace, Toronto 4, Ontario, Canada THE COMPLEAT GUIDE To The Spirit World — Buried with every ancient Egyptian was a‘ copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. On rolls of papyrus the late official, priest or priestess j, was given a complete explanation of the spells, magical formulae and words of power useful in meeting problems of the spirit world. : Now you can read and see this same mystic information—the basis of a doctrine of resur-) rection developed 5000 years before Christ—in your own copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: The late Sir E. A. W. Budge of the British Museum translated the finest specimen of a) BOOK OF THE DEAD ever found, and in Iate® 1960 it was published in the U.S. as a mag-» nificent 736-page yolume complete with 15 plates and 420 vignettes. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD which was thus translated and pub- | lished is the book foumd in the tomb of Ani, , royal scribe and overseer, buried at Thebes dur- | ing the XVIII dynasty. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD is the summary of the religiows philosophy developed by the. first civilized society. It is now basic material | for students of the occult and psychic sciences, history, and religion, Our yolume purchasing makes it possible to offer THE BOOK OF THE DEAD at $9.95—far below publisher’s list price of $12.50. ‘ UNIVERSITY BOOKS 845 Chicago Ave. Evanston, III.
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The horizons of Christianity being broadened by Gnostic te discovered in Egypt. Are rad Sea text ices changes in theology on the way WAV Get RS SS new light By DN ee: Stephan ff Hocker SDSSD: [ A HUNDRED, or even 50 years ago someone had dared to sug- ABOUT THE AUTHOR _ gest to the learned theologians. of The Rev. Stephan A. Hoeller, D.D., Western Christendom that, buried D. Chr., ee ted is oe ent a priest of The American Catho- = |, under the sand of Upper Egypt or lic (Apostolic Episcopal) Church at- H hidden in the mountain caves along tached to the Clergy of the Cathe- | the shores of the Dead Sea, there dral Church of St. Francis, Laguna : were vast libraries of ancient. texts, Regehisal ties ssc) iste aa the discovery of which one day ae ages ers would change Christian Theology and throw an entirely new light on the biblical texts—such a person would have been ridiculed by those radical change of attitude. who thought they knew all there This changed attitude is most was to know about Bible interpre- clearly evidenced by the enthusiastie tation. But times change, and the- reception accorded to the various ology, while pretending to deal with ancient scrolls of Essene and Gnost- “eternal verities,” has undergone a_ ic origin which, in a steadily in= 25 | = 4 4 pare
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26 creasing volume, are reaching the desks and classrooms of teachers and students in both America and Europe. The informed public is by now well aware of the great interest aroused by the Dead Sea Scrolls, which have challenged the funda- mental assumptions and pet dogmas of Christian theology in an unprece- dented fashion. But what is one to think when one of the most prominent the- ologians of the day announces the discovery of material which equals Or supercedes in importance the famed Dead Sea Scrolls? This is what occurred at Man- hattan’s Union Theological Sem- inary in March, 1959, when the great Swiss theologian, Oscar Cull- mann, quoted numerous excerpts from a_collection of newly-found sayings of Jesus, known and pub- lished today as The Gospel Accord- ing to Thomas. (Harper & Bros., New York, 1959.) -Less widely known and publi- cized, but of equal importance, was another work known as the Gospel of Truth (Evangelium _ Veritatis; Rascher: Verl, Zurich, 1956) pub- lished under the sponsorship of the famous. psychologist, Dr. C. G. Jung, and hailed by psychologists, as well. as theologians, as one of the most significant discoveries of the century. These two codices constitute a small part of the veritable treasure- FATE house of ancient religious truths — a Fourth Century Gnostic library — which was discovered in a ruined tomb near Nag Hamadi in Upper Egypt in 1946. This collection of scriptures contained 13 leather- bound papyrus volumes, encompass- ing 49 separate works, all originat- ing with the Valentinian Gnostic school, some (notably The Gospel Of Truth) probably from the pen of the most illustrious of all Gnost- ic teachers, the great Valentinus himself. The comments of academic scholars upon these discoveries are highly complimentary and _ indica- tive of the interest. both on the academic and the popular level, in the teachings of the most profusely vilified and yet the most noble and inspired of: all early Christian schools of thought: the Gnostics. Who were the Gnostics, and how can their newly discovered message influence and change the orienta- tion. of present-day Christianity? The authorities feel that by and through the recent discoveries re- garding the Essene and Gnostic background of early Christianity and the interest of prominent schol- ars which has focussed upon them, the western religious world has ar- rived at the threshold of a Gnostic Renaissance. It is of great import- ance, therefore, that all persons who wish to be and remain informed become acquainted with the basic elements of the history and the
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NEW LIGHT FROM AN OLD TOMB 27 teachings of Gnosticism. In a sense it-can be said that Gnosticism as religious endeavor and philosophical thought is as old as humanity itself. Gnosis means knowledge, as distinguished from mere belief, or blind faith based on hearsay. The Gnostics of all ages and faiths have asserted that man is capable of first-hand knowledge regarding the essential nature of things; human and divine, and that the attainment of such direct, im- _mediate and absolute knowledge is the greatest hope and promise of our earthly existence. Statements advancing this proposition can be. found in the Indian Upanishads, in the works of Lao-Tse and Confu- cius, as’ well as in the Gathas of Zarathustra, the famed Emerald Tablets of Hermes and the works of the great “lovers of wisdom” of ancient Greece, especially. of the Hellenic divine, Plato. In a more restricted sense the Gnostic move- ment of the first Christian centuries appears to have originated among the Jews, who having acquired an affinity for the philosophy of Plato strove to combine the doctrines of the Old Testament with the tenets of Platonism. The leading representative of the Judaic Gnosis was Philo of Alex- andria (25 B.C.—50 A.D.) who adopted many views which were later recognized as parts of the dis- tinctly Christian schools of Gnosti- cism. Philo was the first exponent of the Gnostic Logos doctrine which in a corrupted and mutilated form is still present in Catholic and Pro-- testant theology and is chiefly em- bodied in the canonical Gospel of St. John. Another important fea- ture of his teachings is the allegor- ical method of interpreting the Old Testament, a method which became common to all Gnostic schools and was applied to the New Testament as well. Parallel with these developments among the urbane Hellenistic circles of Judaism there developed the schools of Christian Gnostics. They scattered over a wide area, encom- passing all of the middle East and Egypt, and flourished up to the time when, following the edicts of the Council of Nicea (325 A.D.), a great wave of intolerance and big- otry swept through Christendom and terminated the splendid work of the Gnostic schools, systematical- ly destroying their writings, assas- sinating their teachers and_ intro- ducing a series of dark centuries continuing in effect up to the pres- ent day. Among the Christian Gnostics, Basilides (c. 130 A.D.), Valentinus (c. 150 A.D.), Marcion, Ptolemaus, -Cerinthus, Menander, and Saturninus stand out as the greatest teachers, but there is justi- fication for including Apollonius of Tyana, the mythical Simon Magus, Saint Clement of Alexandria, and
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28 the great church father, Origen, in the illustrious company of Gnostics. Actually, there is no earthly reason why St. Paul the Apostle himself could not be justly called a Gnostic, for his Gnostic orientation is evi- dent in many of his Mpistles, per- haps most clearly in Ist Corin- thians, II-7, where he says: “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom (gnosis) which none of the rulers of this aion knew” (as translated from the Greek). If we contemplate the historical scene of about 2000 years ago we see that many religious and philoso- phical communities were found in the eastern parts of the Roman Em- pire and surrounding areas and, al- though they originated from. differ- ent sources, they were in many re- spects similar. The unorthodox Es- sene, Therapeutic and Zadokite communities — among whom the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls origi- nated— became gradually — trans- formed into the great mystery- academies of the Gnostics. Accord- ing to Prof. G. Quispel of the Uni- versity of Utrecht, co-translator of both The Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Truth, the last: century notion that Gnosticism was a Chris- tian heresy, a product of the com- mingling of Persian, Greek and Christian religious elements on mid- dle Eastern soil, is now proven to be a gross falsehood fostered by the FATE enemies of the Gnostics, the Nicene fathers and their followers. Gnosticism, says Professor Quis- pel, is a religion in its own right and it should be regarded as a world-religion. Furthermore, ac- cording to the repeated pronounce- ments of Dr. C. G. Jung, it is a world religion which possesses a vital message for our bewildered humanity which, in its great psy- chological crisis, is at best imper- fectly ministered to by the churches, which base their teachings upon the crude, unenlightened theology of the Council of Nicea, disregarding the message of the Gnostics. Dr. Carl Gustav Jung’s interest in Gnosticism is not of recent origin. In his famous work Psychology and Alchemy (Engl. transl. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953) he made fre- quent references to the myths of the Gnostics and recognized the similarity which exists between them and oriental philosophy and yoga. One of the greatest discover- ies of Jung’s system of Analytical Psychology is the existence in the depth of the collective unconscious of a central force of ‘“unfathom- able” psychic energy which re- sponds chiefly to certain images called archetypes. It is relative to these archetypes, which are the re- leasing agents of the inner soul- power, that Jung values the Gnost- ic religion. For it is evident to the informed student that the teachings
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NEW LIGHT FROM AN OLD TOMB : 29 —— Some quotations from Gnostic texts “At the end, he whom they call the Saviour, who is immanent in the thought and mind of the Father, came to the world. Because no one knew God, this produced terror and anguish, and anguish produced mist, so that no one could see. This life is a kind of dream and in this dream man suffers terrors as if someone were trying to kill him, or as if he were trying to kill someone else. He is haunted by many illusions. When man realizes the shadows and phantoms of the night, he will understand that the terror which seized him is nothing. Jesus the Christ enlightened those who were in darkness, and because of this, they became angry and persecuted him, nailing him to wood.” (From The Gospel Of Truth, Codex Jung) ©9 “Jesus said, ‘Whoever knows the all but fails to know himself lacks everything. If you will know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the sons of the Living Fa- ther. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty.’ ” (From The Gospel According To Thomas) ©9 “! am a lamp to thee who seest me. Amen! lam a mirror to thee who understandest me. Amen! | am a door to thee who knockest at me. Amen! I am a way to thee a wayfarer. Amen!” (From The Hymn of Jesus) C9
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30 ‘and methods of realization of the *Gnosti¢és were based on the recog- ‘nition of these psychological prin- ciples. We shall briefly enumerate the “most important points of these teachings: : At the root-base of all conscious- ness there was said to be a tran- scendental field, named Pleroma, or “fullness, from which emerge more limited fields of consciousness in series, each with properties reveal- ing the original Principle. This full- ness is identical with the energy- basis of the Collective Unconscious rediscovered by Jung, and the ob- jective and purpose of the efforts of the Gnostic is to establish an ef- fective, conscious contact with this ultimate Source of all Power and Life, which resides constantly at the very back of our Consciousness and is, therefore, always available. This unobstructed contact can be estab- lished only when the dominion of the rulers (demiurgoi, archons) is broken, that is, when man is no longer subject to the attachments and fascinations of the lower worlds ’ of sense perceptions, emotions and analytical reason but, having tran- scended the latter, has put on the “vesture of light” and thus has ac- complished what modern psycho- logy calls total integration and what the mystics of the first Christian centuries called “the divine Gnosis.” This process of integration, or FATE growth, in the Gnosis is attained by the double method of: 1) Esoteric Sacramental ritualism, and 2) the allegorical interpretation of the Biblical Scriptures through the proper recognition of their spiritual and psychological symbolisms. It is interesting to note that the two main branches of Christendom, Catholicism and Protestantism, have become specialists in emphasizing their respective methods of worship in these two aspects of the ancient Gnostic method. The Catholic Church (or rather churches) has concentrated her attention on the ritual, within which the psycholog- ical archetypes are vitalized and en- abled to communicate with the ordinary waking consciousness of the personality. The Protestant Churches have given all their at- tention to the Bible and, having subjected it to much critical analy- sis, are gradually arriving at the significant conclusion that if the Biblical narratives are of any value at all their value is more likely to be in the nature of psychological archetypal symbolism rather than in terms of sacred but, nevertheless, past history. Gnosticism supplies the missing link between Catholicism and Pro- testantism by explaining the sacra- mental rituals not as magic per- formed in memory of historical events but as the externalization of internal psychic alchemy, and, on™
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NEW LIGHT FROM AN OLD TOMB 31 the other hand, regarding the Bible not as history but as mythology of the most sublime and valuable kind. Both sacramental and Bible-Christ- ianity receive a new sanction and justification in the Gnostic inter- pretation inasmuch as they appear as two aspects of the symbolic psy- chological integration of man via the medium of the archetypes operative within the collective un- conscious, Time-and-space-bound Christian- ity which, following the Nicene edicts, lost the teachings of the Gnostics has now a truly magni- ficent chance to redeem and reju- venate itself by drinking of the Waters of Life at the well of the ancient wisdom of the Gnostics. Theimplications of a Gnostic Ren- aissance as the result of the recent archaeological discoveries are tre- mendous and inspiring. Once more Christianity could be experienced by the faithful sub specie aeterni- tatis, under the shape of eternity rather than under the shape of long past historical figures and rituals grown meaningless with the passage of the centuries. Once more the long despised and forgotten “Inner Knowledge” may be restored to its rightful position by the discoveries of psychology and an enlightened theology. The great student of Gnosticism, G. R. S. Mead wrote some 65 years ago: “The Gnostic strives for the knowledge of God, the science of realities, the Gnosis of the things that are; wisdom is his goal, the holy things of life his study.” Can anyone possibly envision a nobler goal for Christendom as a whole than to conform to this ideal? Could not this be the answer to the spiritual crisis of Western man? At the end of the newly discover- ed Gospel Of Truth appear the fol- lowing lines of rare beauty: “The day from on high has no night . Say then in sik heart that it is you who are this per- fectidayen sn: That it is in you that this light, which does not fail dwells ... Speak of the truth with those who seek it, And of the gnosis with those who in their error have committed sins ... You who are the children of the understanding heart... Joy to the man who has dis- covered himself, and a- wakened and blessed is he who openeth the minds of ‘the blind.” So the mind of a largely blinded humanity is now being opened by a Light radiating from an ancient tomb, buried for 16 centuries under the sands of Upper Egypt.
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OME OLD HOUSES seem benevo- lent, so that one senses. an un- spoken welcome on entering. Some old houses seem secretive and sly. An occasional old house seems per- meated with unspeakable memories. There is a house such as the lat- ter in Camden, S.C., at 116 Mill Street. It has been considered haunted for well over a century. Consequently during much of this time it has stood vacant, with owls and bats in its gloomy attic and only shadows in its rooms. It is a mysterious place; no one knows when or by whom it was built, what happened in it, when or why it became haunted. The oldest plats of Camden Town show it as 5 HAUNTED HOUSE in South Carolina ——————— 32 standing and tradition says that in 1820-25, when a primary school was held in it by day, it was already an old house. The late Miss Kennedy, a very aged woman, whose grand- mother attended this little school, remarked that children were afraid to remain late there, so apparently it had an evil reputation even then. And persons then alive may have known its tragedy. At that time, a forest stood between it and the vil- lage, and children sometimes saw deer and fawns on the path leading to the isolated house. Usually one can determine the approximate age of an old house by its architecture. In Camden it is fairly safe to date a house as 10
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years to a generation later than similar examples of known age on the coast, in Charleston or George- town. By this rule, the building should date within 10 years of 1780, for its great room is pure Georgian, typical of the middle half of the 18th Century. Its craftsmanship suggests that slave-artisans trained in Charleston built it. Its quality is underwritten by the fact that one of the Du Pont family tried to buy the woodwork to decorate her own mansion. The style of the house is part of its mystery. Everything indicates that the house was part of a larger plan that never was carried out. One can visualize the great room joined by a hall to a matching room and provided with a second story. The great, squat, massive chimney seems built to support a second flue, and the large room — 20 feet long and almost as wide —is out of all proportion to the rest of the house, Had the seemingly intended plan been completed, the finished struc- ture would have been a balanced, Georgian mansion of some import- ance. It was fairly common for young couples to begin a house in this manner, adding space as grow- ing families and increased means made it desirable. This house was begun by a man of means and re- fined taste; that he did not com- plete it suggests that his life in Camden— and perhaps on earth 33 — ended prematurely and tragi- cally. The contrast between the fine big room, rich with dentilwork and cornice moldings, dado and wains- cotted end wall, and the ramshackle, nondescript little rooms that were added later suggests that the house passed into the hands of someone of a lower class who had neither means nor taste. Before the Civil War the forest was cleared away and fields were plowed where the trees had~ been. At that time, crops were planted up to the walls of the old house and it was used to store grain and cotton. The Kennedy family farmed the land during that period. Subse- quently the house was owned for a long time by the Zorn family, and later by a Mr. Guy. After standing vacant for 20 years or more it was bought by a Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson owned the property when I lived in Camden and be- came familiar with it in 1956. When he bought the house the glass was out of the windows the weather- boarding was decayed, but the frame was sound. At the time when Mr. Wilson bought it houses of any description were not plentiful in Camden. It was a fine lot and the price was ridiculously low — $1,500! He began an ambitious renovation. He put on a good roof, covered the rotting weatherboards with imita- tion brick siding, shored up the sag-
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34 ging porches, painted the interior, installed electric wiring and run- ning water. Perhaps he even felt pleased with his bargain—for a little while. When it became known that he had bought the old house Wilson began to receive visits from in- terested people. Antiquarians came to dicker for the old trammels from the kitchen fireplace, the fine hinges, and other ironwork, and when he discovered an antique broad axe sealed in the kitchen wall, its an- cient appearance caused a stir. A collapsed barn, supposedly as old as the house, lay at the back of the lot. In clearing away this debris, Mr. Wilson found a rusted flint- lock rifle concealed beneath what had been the barn floor. This also caused speculation and curiosity. Finally the venerable Miss Kennedy came and showed him where her grandfather had lost a fine horse. It had plunged 40 feet through rot- ten logs into a concealed well and broke its neck and almost dragged a valuable slave into the well with it. Miss Kennedy said her grand- father had inquired and found out that, long before, the well had be- come foul, had been covered over and forgotten. In telling me of the broad axe, Mr. Wilson said: “You know, it was one of them old kind with a wide, flat blade that they used to hew out timbers. It was as keen as FATE a razor, and bright except where there was a rust stain on it. Funny thing, that stain! It had eat into the steel, and you could trace splat- ters on it, and where something had run on the blade, like where you kill chickens with an axe and don’t wipe it off — that’s how it appeared to me; and they left it like that and nailed it up behind the boards in the kitchen wall.” However, he did not give the axe, the rifle, and the old well much thought until after he had lived in the house for some time. He built a shack in the back yard and plant- ed a garden in the rich ground where the barn had been. He rented the little house to an elderly wo- man, who also planted part of the garden. For months everything was tranquil. Then one day as he was hoeing his cabbages Wilson noticed dust spurt up at his feet. He paused and looked, thinking that someone had thrown a rock, but there was no one in sight. Nevertheless, dust was puffing up as if a shower of stones or brickbats was striking the ground all about the garden. He was deeply puzzled by this, but said nothing for fear of alarming his 80-year old tenant, whose $10.00 a month was very welcome. For a time the puffs of dust flew up al- most every time he worked in the garden. He mentioned it to his mother, who was the only other
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HAUNTED HOUSE IN SOUTH CAROLINA 35 member of his household, but she could not explain it any better than he. Then one day they heard the old woman cry out and hurried to see what was the matter. They found her trying desperately to open the garden gate, which was secured by a stiff wire hooked over a nail. She could not undo it and as they watched, “she flopped down and wriggled under the wire fence like a sow,” Mr. Wilson said. She was compietely beside herself, babbling about brickbats flying through the air all around her, and asking what a poor helpless old woman was to do when things struck her that she could not see! She called her children forthwith, and the little house was cleared of her belongings before sundown. Soon after this, as Wilson was working in the garden trying to ignore the puffs of dust rising around him, he and his mother heard what they thought was a shot. Each ran to see about the other. Mrs. Wilson rounded the corner of the house as her son came from the garden into the yard. They asked each other what the noise was and, as they stood talk- ing, something passed by them. What passed was invisible to them. Mr. Wilson said, “That thing — God knows what it could have been — you could feel it was there, and it made a noise like wasps when you get them mad and they start buzzing on the nest. It went right past our faces. It scared us, for it was blazing hot. It felt like somebody had passed a smoothing- iron right in front of your face, slow like.” “Did you see anything?” I asked him. “No, not then,” he considered. “No; that hot thing can’t be seen. It just buzzes, and we found out that you only hear and feel it when you hear the noise like a rifle shot. I recollect one time Mother and me was in the big room and heard the shot noise outside, and I stepped to the door to look out. It passed through the room then, and out through the door right past me, hot enough to singe you!” I asked what other noises they had heard and what other phenom- ena the Wilsons had observed. The three of us were sitting in the large room. This room also contained the Wilson’s beds. “You hear footsteps,” Wilson said tensely, “and sometimes you hear like two men arguing. That gets pretty loud, but you can’t make out what they say. Then once we heard walking in the back bedroom, and the noise of some- body throwing down an armload of firewood. You could hear the sticks strike and roll on the floor, then the men yelled out at one another for a minute; then it got dead still.
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Sometimes you hear like a man walking, and sometimes it sounds like something else. One night it sounded like a goat or a cow brute had got in the kitchen. You could hear like hoofs on the linoleum — not a human sound, you could tell.” “We had the door shut into the kitchen,” Wilson’s mother comment- ed. “Mostly we kept it shut, and hoped it would stay; but it didn’t.” “Tt just opened,” Mr. Wilson nodded. “There wasn’t a thing in there, that you could see. The door just unlatched itself and opened on us.” “Tt ain’t an easy thing to live with,” his mother sighed. “But not as bad as some of the rest,” he pondered. “I don’t reckon any of that could hurt you. Now there is a noise like somebody drop- ping an anvil or something heavy made of iron. It shakes the house when that falls.” “Tt fell on the bed one day,” the mother breathed. “Ves,” he agreed. “That is what finished me with the house. I was bone tired and laid down in my clothes to rest a little. Mother was setting there looking at a magazine, when all of a sudden, whump! Down comes that thing on the bed right beside me! You couldn’t see noth- ing on the bed — just the deep dent in the matress where it was laying. I got up out of there!” “Tt made a deep hole,” his mother - mother shuddered. FATE confirmed. “That thing must have weighed more than a person, for it dented the bed down deep and sagged the springs. I figure it was what sounds like an anvil, and I’d hate to think what it would do to a body if it was to fall on him.” The sun was shining brightly as we sat in the fine old room, but both occupants seemed tense. Their eyes showed plainly that they were terribly afraid. “Did you ever see anything at all?” I insisted. “Ves,” the man breathed. “That was the worst of all. Thank God, it was only once. It came from in there, in the kitchen.” “We heard that awful, slow, thumping walk that ain’t human. We had the door bolted that night. The sound came up on the step and stopped. We set dead still and prayed that the bolt would hold. The light was on and we saw the door crack open slow when the latch went back. It opened slow. We looked for something tall to be in the doorway, but it stepped up into the room not much taller than your knee, and stood there feeling around with its snout, smelling ...” “Snout” I gasped. “Or trunk, or what you might call it!. It made us think of an ele- phant, you know, a long, naked, snakey trunk that writhes around.” “It was like a rat, too,” the “But it wasn’t
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HAUNTED HOUSE IN SOUTH like any right animal in God’s Cre- ation! It kept feeling around with its snout, smelling us out. It had eyes but it didn’t act like it could see. And it stepped up into the room. I recollect I thought if it touched me my heart would stop beating. It didn’t make any move toward us, but just stumped across the floor, slow and awful, till it got to the hearth. Then it just sunk down into the floor. It was gone — never a sound except its feet on the hard floor.” I tried to secure a more complete description of the apparition, and drew sketches. What emerged as the acceptable drawing was that of a grotesque grey thing with a swol- len body and heavy legs, the front pair longer than the back ones, a ratlike head and short hairless tail. They agreed that it had had a wrinkled, scabrous hide, studded with bristly stiff hair—like no right animal in Ged’s Creation as Mrs. Wilson said of it. Apparently it stood about three feet tall, and was about as long. Hearing it de- scribed, it was easy to believe that the devils and demons of medieval art were not entirely fanciful. It gives the unknown realm of such nightmares a particular horror. IT am convinced that a man was murdered with the broad axe in this house, that his rifle was hidden under the barn and his body thrown into the old well. However, ee EE = CAROLINA I can not account for the persist- ence of any form as hideous as the thing that burst in upon the Wilsons that fearful night. The heat and fearful sound of hooves conjure up the thought of hell and its denizens, but no rational person can believe that demons haunt the habitations of men. [If it is a human soul in this hideous embodiment, then the hell of theology can actually exist. Mr. Wilson understandably did not wish this story made public at the time he told it to me, for he hoped to sell the house although he said he could not sell it without warning the prospective buyer. When Fate magazine asked me to investigate the possibility of publishing the story, I hardly ex- pected to find the Wilsons living in the old house. I was _half-afraid that they might not be living at all. Therefore, when I drove up and found the house vacant, I was not surprised. The house seemed much older, far gone in dilapidation. The siding was half off leaving the grey ribs of the house exposed. How- ever, the grounds were neat, and I found a tenant living in the little house at the rear. He had not heard nor seen anything amiss, and informed me that a Mr. Graham who operates the welding shop two doors up the street, had bought the property. The Wilsons lived in a new house on the far side of town. I then visited Mr. Graham, a
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a8 cheerful, friendly man, who laughed when asked if the story might be printed. He said that he had bought the place for $1,800.00, and would sell it for $2,000.00, which allows very little for the worth of the old house. He said he wished that he could do something to preserve it, but doubted that he could, and that it was not worth while to repair it enough to attract renters. He seem- ed the last man alive to be con- cerned with ghosts or supernatural phenomena. “Tt doesn’t matter to me if your story makes the place appear to be the most-haunted house in South Carolina,’ he smiled. “Spooks are about the last thing that I would let worry me any. I remember that Wilson said he saw things there but I didn’t pay much attention and don’t remember what he told me. The ground and the little house are worth what I ask, and the moldings and woodwork in the big room are worth quite a bit. You know, some rich woman tried to buy them to put in her own house, and another person offered once to fix up the old place fit to live in if he could take the woodwork.” I asked to see the great room once more and Mr. Graham loaned me the key to the house. Two young men were sitting in a car outside the shop, and he stepped to the door with me and spoke with them. FATE “Tid you ever hear that the old house there was haunted?” he asked. “Wilson always claimed it was,” one replied. “Everybody I ever heard say anything says it is, and always was,” the other nodded. The tenant of the little house ac- companied me inside, as Mr. Gra- ham was too busy. As I told him some of the details the Wilsons had told to me, he smiled incredulously. “All that may be so—I wouldn’t deny it—but I never did take much stock in such stuff. I never saw anything myself, here or any other place. Some folks say they do and them that can’t, can’t say what the others can see, what they only think they see or say they see. It’s a funny thing that only a few people have the power. The rest can’t see anything.” I was standing in a spot that had grown deathly cold. I motioned to him. “Come over here where I am and hold out your arm,” I breathed. He did so, puzzled. Then he stared hard at me. “You mean... the cold?” I nodded. We both looked un- happy and ill at ease. “YT was thinking it was a draft coming up through the kitchen door from outside— but it couldn’t be that. It’s hot outside!” It was mid-July and very hot.
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HAUNTED HOUSE IN SOUTH CAROLINA Nevertheless, the great room had a moving spot of chill that no at- mospheric conditions could explain. It seemed to follow me as I moved about in the gloom. It stopped be- side me when I stood still. I went under the house to look at a peculiar stone, like a tomb- stone, at the foot of the chimney, thinking that money might be hid- den there. I found only a horrid sensation of something invisible, THE TREE OR MANY years, W. B. Lockert, Sr., of Ashland, Tenn. was closely identified with the stately old oak tree in front of his home. He won nine consecutive terms to the Tennessee General Assembly, mostly as a result of sitting un- der the tree and talking poli- tics with everyone who came along. The oak, estimated to be at least 150 years old, came to be known as Lockert’s “pol- iticking” tree. After he retired from busi- ness in 1957, Lockert, 72, spent most of his time under the oak. He took a chair out to the tree almost every morning and 39 repellent, and hostile, which drove me out in short order and left me shaking, but I saw nothing and heard nothing. Mr. Wilson reported that he had such sensations often as he worked to renovate the house, particularly in the kitchen which seems to be the room in which the worst phenomena originate. I wonder if some day we will know why some houses hold re- membered evil within their walls. DIED, TOO sat there until dark, talking and keeping children out of the street. On the evening of July 13, 1960, Lockert went into the house to have dinner, taking the chair with him. It proved to be for the last time. After he ate he died very suddenly of a heart attack. During Lockert’s funeral and burial the old tree stood full and green. And then—almost at once, according to widowed Mrs. Lockert—the tree turned brown. It died within a week of the man who for so many years had enjoyed talking politics in its shade.
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Scientists in the U.S.A. generally endorse the long-held view that Mars is a lifeless planet. Their Soviet counterparts, however, are doing some original thinking — and here are the startling reasons why .. . Soviet Scientists Claim Life on Mars D” Martians send expeditions . to earth ages ago? Are they still standing by on their chilly red planet, waiting for us to return the visit? Is there, or was there, life on Mars? Some of Soviet Russia’s top space scientists say the answer to some of these questions is an unequivocal “ves,” A popular soviet magazine, Tek- nika Molodezhi (Engineering For Youth), published a letter from a college student who was interested in the habitability of the universe. The publication was the subsequent recipient of numerous additional 40 queries and in search of clarifica- tion it turned to some of the key space authorities in Russia. V. Komarov, lecturer at the Mos- cow Planetarium stated flatly that in his opinion the planet Mars is inhabited by intelligent human beings. He added that he fully en- dorsed the hypothesis of I. S. Sch- lovsky who believes that the two “moons” of Mars, Phobos and Dei- mos, are in reality gigantic space stations put into orbit eons ago by Martians to facilitate their ven- tures into space. Komaroy, Sch- lovsky and Dr. V. N. Krasovsky all are on record in support of the theory that eruptions of supernova
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(exploding stars) play an important part in the evolution of life where no life existed before. First, let us examine their as- sertions in full. Later we will ex- plore some of the details they have incorporated. If our present knowledge of sur- ‘face conditions on Mars is reason- ably close to the truth, any kind of life on that planet would be sub- jected to great extremes of temp- erature. The Director of the Shternberg Astronomical Institute, Dr. Martynoyv, stressed that the adaptability of living organisms to their environments has virtually no limitations. Consequently, even in- telligent living organisms on Mars —if there are such—could have adapted themselves to the strenu- ous conditions of life there. But, says Dr. Martynov, because the conditions necessary to survival on Mars are so different from those on earth, the intelligent Martians (if any) would not resemble the people of Earth. The distinguished Russian as- tronomer at Pulkovo, N. Kozyrey, who startled the world by announc- ing the volcanic action in the lunar crater Alphonse a few years ago, says he repeatedly has conducted spectroscopic measurements on both Mars and Venus and has observed absorption peculiarities which can have only one explanation: the presence of tremendous masses of 4I living organisms, either plant or an- imal. Dr. Kozyrev, however, does not endorse the theory of those who contend that the “moons” of Mars are artificial. One eminent Russian scholar who takes a somewhat more cautious ap- proach to the hypothesis of life on Mars is Professor A. Alpatov, bio- logical scientist. He is on record recently in Technika as saying that other galaxies with planets similar to those in our solar system un- doubtedly exist and some of them surely have life resembling, in many respects, that on earth. But life on Mars and Venus? Professor Alpatov is skeptical. He says, “Mars and Venus are the planets most nearly like Earth in age and physical properties but I doubt that there is intelligent life on either of them. Venus is a rela- tively young planet and life, if it exists there, is probably only be- ginning. Mars, millions of years older than the Earth, is a planet in the sunset of its existence and life there would either be extinct or would have retrogressed to the point of existing only in the form of lower organisms struggling under . progressively unfavorable condi- tions.” Dr. Gregor Tikov, a correspond- ing member of the Academy of Sciences, USSR, asserts that other worlds can possess both lower and higher forms of life — especially
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FATE Aerial photo shows huge, complex markings discovered on the desert near Nasca, Peru, by airliners passing over the area. V. Komarov of the Moscow Planetarium believes such markings were used by beings on earth to communicate with visitors from space. intelligent life—as compared to those on Earth. He contends that life here has by no means reached its stage of highest development and predicts that it will take sev- eral billion years for men to be re- placed by intelligent beings more nearly perfect both mentally and physically. Until we know more about the physical limits which life is capable of attaining, says Tikov, we dare not rule out the possibility of it already existing elsewhere in _ unfamiliar forms, indigenous to its
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SOVIET SCIENTISTS CLAIM LIFE ON MARS 43 varied and strange origins. Measuring the density of atmos- phere millions of miles away is ad- mittedly a herculean task, but we think we have done it. The findings were nearly uniform; a compara- tively thin layer of gases in which oxygen is indicated in small por- tion. By our standards oxygen is the most vital component of air. ‘How could life exist, as the Rus- sian scientists are claiming it does exist, in the rarefied atmosphere of Mars? It is, by no means, impossible, Professor N. Zhirov, Doctor of Chemical Sciences tells us. He con- tends that intelligent Martians must have originated in the warmer southern hemisphere of that rugged globe, in a region where tempera- ture ranges between 50-60 degrees F. In that case, he continues, their body temperatures could be ex- pected to average about 77 degrees F. This is well below the average human temperature here but quite in keeping with the fact that man’s temperature is appreciably higher than the mean for the temperate regions in which he probably origi- uated. It is conceivable that the Mar- tian life-organism would have adapted itself to such low tempera- ture existence and in that case we would expect its vital processes to be different from those on Earth, and perhaps lower. With less drive, presumably, the low gravitational pull of Mars may serve as a com- pensatory factor. In any event, it is probable that the evolution of life on Mars, including the hypo- thetical intelligent beings, would have taken a slower course than on Earth. By Zhirov’s calculations, the low oxygen level in the Martian atmos- phere would be sufficient for beings whose vital processes operated at a lower level than ours. The eminent Soviet scientist does not agree with those who assert that the Martian atmosphere is about 2% argon and 98% nitrogen. Instead, he points out that the pre- valence of dust storms there indi- cates that the atmosphere is much heavier than the *nitrogen-argon mixture would constitute. In the lighter atmosphere the dust would settle much more rapidly than it does, says Zhirov. But instead of the storm dust settling out quickly there is scientific agreement that it sometimes hovers for weeks in the same general area, proof says Zhi- rov, that the Martian atmosphere is substantial. He speculates that it is principally krypton and xenon, with a small percentage of argon and other light gases, plus oxygen to at least the eight percent which he estimates would support intelli- gent beings adapted to its use. If the Martian atmosphere con- sists of the mixture he suspects, it
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‘would be considerably more dense than air on Earth. But the reduced pull of gravity there would produce about the same sea level density as we have. In other words, Martians would be breathing just about as we do, but they would be using a somewhat different mixture. In sup- port of his contention, Zhiroy calls attention to the altitude of the homogeneous atmosphere on Mars, almost the same as that of Earth, and the white clouds on Mars at the height of 20 kilometers corres- pond to cirrus clouds on Earth. But what about the 8% oxygen content — where would that origin- ate? The Soviet scientists say they have an answer to that, also. Exhaustive telescopic and spec- troscopic study of Mars generally is interpreted as indicating the sea- sonal growth of some sort of vege- tation. The dark seas change color as the polar caps melt and release their moisture, meager though it may be. And those seas could be, and probably are, the producers of enough oxygen to sustain life at the levels and of the form postulated -by these scientists in the Soviet Academy. Says Zhirov: “Martian seas may be the producers (of the estimated 8% oxygen). They replenish through photosynthesis the natural oxygen loss. Hence, Martian vegetation may be of the one-day variety, for FATE only such plants can best adapt to the differences of 60 to 70 degrees centigrade between day and night temperature. However, one-day plants could generate oxygen dur- ing the day but they would use none at night. This leads us to an- other conclusion: oxygen content in the Martian atmosphere ought to be variable, increasing toward the end of the day and diminishing toward the end of the night.” The difference in age between Mars and Earth fits neatly into Zhirov’s hypothesis. If Mars is much older than Earth, as is gen- erally conceded, the krypton-xenon atmosphere there would be the natural result of the aging process: first, from its primary cosmic origin, and second, from radioactive decay of unstable isotopes of heavy alka- line metals, principally rubidium and cesium. If life exists in any form on Mars, how could we determine it’s pres- ence and its nature with safety to ourselves? For an answer to that knotty question we have this reply from Dr. Alexander Imshenetsky, Mem- ber of the Soviet Academy of Sci- ences and Director of the Micro- biological Institute. “To ascertain the existence of primitive life on other planets novel instruments are needed. We must first look carefully for detection of lower organisms; sampling and
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SOVIET SCIENTISTS CLAIM LIFE ON MARS 45 studying cosmic dust gathered from great altitudes and subjected to prolonged and intensive scrutiny by microbiologists. We must also look for the effect of temperature and radiation changes on the exist- ence of micro-organisms. Already science has found micro-organisms 11 kilometers deep in the ocean, 2 kilometers underground, and 22 kilometers above the earth; some of them thrive on carbon dioxide and need no oxygen for any purpose at any time.” “These questions remain open to us: Is there an upper limit —a ‘life ceiling’ to the terrestrial atmos- phere? Are micro-organisms to be found above 22 kilometers? Do they move under the effects of solar pressure? What is the top dosage of cosmic radiation that they can tolerate? Can they penetrate the depths of space and exist there? Are micro-organisms to be found on other celestial bodies, primarily on the Moon? Dr. Imshenetsky firmly believes that precise data on the existence of life on other plants soon will be obtained, along with lunar samples. The Soviet publication Technika, which made public these interest- ing views, also said that Dr. Hu- bertus Strughold, noted U.S. Air Force space medicine expert, con- curred in Imshenetsky’s opinions. Many eminent scientists will dis- agree with the views these Soviet scholars have expressed. For one thing, the Soviets have taken’ a position that conflicts with tradi- tional viewpoints on these issues. For another, some of the Soviet conclusions, such as the nature of the Martian atmosphere and its “seas” are predicated on highly de- batable suppositions. Yet, in fair- ness to all concerned, the Soviet scientists are fully justified in de- fending their deductions and, for all anyone really knows, they may have the correct answers. At least they are attempting to do some original thinking, not just accepting some predecessor’s opin- ions as unalterable fact. V. Komarov of the Moscow Plane- tarium is one of those who feels that Martians not only exist but that they long ago solved the prob- lem of crossing space. He mentions the gigantic stone symbols of South America as indications that creat- ures from space visited this Earth ages ago. These megaglyphs, Kom- arov reasons, were the work of beings on Earth who used them for communication with other creatures overhead. Indeed, the markings themselves lend weight to such a hypothesis. The prehistoric symbols consist of stones laid by hand in colors to contrast with the surrounding soil. There is a gigantic arrow symbol over a mile in length. From the ground level it looks like some sort
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46 of roadway, going nowhere. From the air its real appearance is un- mistakable. Nearby, often mingling with each other, are mile-long geometrical de- signs of unknown origin and un- known purpose. Again, they re- semble nothing in particular from the ground but to an observer fly- ing overhead their patterns stand out clearly. Komaroy is not the only venturesome soul to speculate that these signals may have played a part in space travel; he is merely the most recent and one of the most eminent. The current world-wide interest in space affairs is a modern mani- festation of man’s overwhelming curiosity. Scientists may disagree on what we will find on the moon; they may disagree about the nature and significance of the lights that have been seen on Mars and about its alleged “canals.” But scientists are in almost unanimous agreement that Man will go to those places, FATE for better or for worse and regard- less of the cost, at the earliest pos- sible moment. The Russians already have stated officially that their first man-carry- ing craft to approach Mars will first inspect the planet by telescope “from a safe distance.” You will also note the extremely cautious procedure the Russians followed with their first closeup photographs ‘of the moon; they did not film the side that faces us, on which astro- nauts will land — instead they made pictures only of the hidden side of the moon. The reason was a very good one. Neither the Russians nor ourselves will land men on the moon until we have first scrutinized it carefully to determine that no other living beings are already established on any part of it. That examination began with the pictures from Sput- nik 3. Neighbors on Mars could easily mean neighbors much closer than Mars. C9 DEATH AT THE CORNER HILE answering an alarm on August 30, 1960, Captain John Wilde, 87, and Fireman Joseph Kennedy, 25, were killed when the fire engine they were riding crashed into a gravel truck at an intersection in Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto, Canada. Left a widow for the second time was Mrs. Alice Wilde whose first husband, Alexander Budd, also a fireman, was killed three years before when the fire truck he was driving crashed at the C9 same intersection.
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MYSTIC EXPERIENCES f ATE will pay $5 for each True Experience published. Stories: should be less than 300 words and typed (double-spaced) on one side of the paper. They should be sent to the TME Editor, FATE Magazine, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Ill. They must be signed by author and the author's address must be given. Manuscripts will not be re- turned unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. WHO WAS OUR STRANGE GUEST? By Janice Hayes Sz PEOPLE might say we imag- ined the whole episode. But surely a whole family cannot imag- ine warm pools of fresh blood in a room! Or broken window glass on the floor! Frances Gary just had been dis- charged from a local hospital to complete her convalescence at home with her family. Her husband, Arnold, was an oil worker and this type of employment required their moving from one location to an- other frequently.. Almost the same day, in Novem- ber, 1959, that Frances arrived home from Mercy Hospital, she was faced with the necessity of mov- ing to Craig, Colo. As her friend I offered to stay with her two daugh- ters, Sherry and Tandy, and assist in every possible way. The following day, a Tuesday, Frances and I, with Sherry and Tandy, went apartment hunting in Craig where Arnold was now work- ing. We searched without success 47 and were ready to give up when we met an acquaintance, Mrs. Larsen, who told us of a vacant apartment which seemed to be just what Frances and Arnold wanted. It turned out to be satisfactory and they moved in immediately. I went with them and eventually stayed almost a month, putting the apartment in order and helping until Frances felt stronger. The second day there I was making up the studio couch, where I slept, when Frances called to me in great alarm. She had been dust mopping under her bed and she held the mop up for me to see—it was dripping blood! Blood that was still warm to the touch! We looked under the bed and saw three rather large pools of blood, well in the center under the bed. We thought it might have dripped from the mattress. Thor- ough investigation of the mattress, however, proved this was not the case. We were both frightened and bewildered. We looked Sherry and Tandy over very carefully, but
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48 ‘there was not a scratch on either of them. Frances and I both felt a little foolish about pools of blood which we could not explain so re- mained silent about the incident for several days. The next week was uneventful. The weather became warmer after that and we decided to open some of the windows. Not one of the many windows in that apartment would open, no matter how we tug- ged and pried them. When Arnold came home he teased Frances and me about not being able to open. at least one window. Then he tried and not one could be budged. Arnold inspected them carefully and seemed puzzled as he left the doors open for venti- lation. That same evening I was iron- ing and Frances sat nearby, sipping a Coke. Sherry and Tandy were sleeping and so was Arnold. The evenings are cool in Craig so we were comfortable with the doors and windows closed. Quite sudden- ly the window near Frances began banging up and down as though in a fury. We were dumbfounded; Frances and I stared at each other in silence. The sudden noise brought Arnold out of his bed in a single leap and he, too, watched the win- dow go up and down three or four times before it came to a shattering halt with the glass scattered on the floor. Frances, Arnold, and I began to feel very edgy about the apartment, although we tried to conceal this from Sherry and Tandy. We didn’t have the courage to mention the strange happenings to anyone else. Arnold thought it best just to find another place to live as quickly as possible. Frances and I began looking for another apartment the following day. We came back tired and un- successful and put Sherry and Tandy down for their naps. Fran- ces and I relaxed with a Coke. Suddenly we heard a loud bang- ing which seemed to come from the clothes closet across the room. We both rushed to open the closet door. We found all the clothes on the floor and the hangers still swinging and banging on the pole. Through necessity we stayed on in the apartment approximately a month, then Frances and Arnold found another place and I returned home. My friends visited me a couple of weeks ago and we spoke of our upsetting experiences. But the intervening year has not made us any wiser and we still wonder what happened and why.— Hay- den, Colo. ANGELS KEEP WATCH By Nellie M’Guire ALL THE FOLLOWING what you like, but/I have thought, ever since that night long ago, that there
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES really are angels who guard over us. Back in 1916 when I was a school child I contracted something in my right leg. It grew worse and * worse until all power was gone from that leg. In fact, the leg had con- tracted so much that the foot was underneath my hip. My father had to carry me about and up and down . to bed, I was in such a helpless state. My mother slept with me, she was so worried. _ It was Easter Eve and I dreamed that the doors of the clock on the mantleshelf opened and two col- umns of angels emerged singing the _ sweetest music I’ve ever heard. One * column of angels came up round the left side of my bed; the other col- umn came up the right side. As _ they grew larger and reached the head of my bed, singing louder and _ louder, I awoke with a start of awe, - which turned to horror. For my mother and I were enveloped in - flames. Remember I was helpless. But I jumped out of the flaming mass and dragged my mother with me. I beat down the flames as best I could with my bare hands first, then I used a cushion. The bedside chair and all on it was a charred mass. The bed- clothes were burned in half, as was the mattress bolster and the pil- lows. My mother’s day clothes were ashes. Her nightdress and jacket had burned off her body on AD : the right side. But neither she nor I had a scorch mark on us. After this incident I was able to walk again without aid. Soon, I was running and skipping about and back once again at school. _ How I, a weak child, helpless as I was, had been able to jump and drag my mother with me from the enveloping flames will always re- main a mystery. However, there is no mystery as to how the fire started. My mother was a great reader and would use no other light but a tall candle, although she had been warned of the danger. This night her paper had fallen onto the candles’ flame when she fell asleep. You will agree, ’m sure, that angels do watch over us while we sleep and surely they were warning me. Otherwise Mother and I would have perished on that Easter Morn in 1916. — Londonderry City, Northern Ireland. BEGINNER’S LUCK OR ESP? By Wandi Lozier HAVE RELATED my luck at the roulette table in Las Vegas, Nev., in May, 1960, to several per- sons. Everyone has remarked, “Be- ginner’s luck!” But I know it was not “beginner’s luck.” Recently when a group of my friends planned to go to Las Vegas to try their luck at the gambling tables I decided to go along for the
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50 ride. We had gotten together to make final plans when I suddenly had the strong feeling that our car would become stuck in a sandstorm, I told my friends this and they laughed. “You can’t predict either the weather or luck,” said the young man who would be driving. We left Los Angeles about mid- night the following Friday and had gone approximately 200 miles when the car suddenly began to sway back and forth across the smooth desert highway. To escape being blown off the road the driver pulled to the side of the highway onto the hard sand which stretched for miles around us. “Tt looks like a series of dust devils,” someone remarked. Immediately thereafter a _ tre- mendous sand storm hit us, al- though the weather prediction had been for clear weather. When the sun finally rose on Saturday morning we were half buried in soft, powdery sand. There seemed only one thing to do — dig our way out. Again, I had a strong premonition of what would happen. _ “A truck will come along pretty soon and pull us out,” I said. Nobody believed me. The fel- lows set to work digging with their hands. Four hours later when a Jeep came along we were still stuck in the sand. Because of its four wheel drive it was able to ride right FATE across the soft sand and pull us to safety. We arrived in Las Vegas at about 9:00 A.M. One of the men went to sleep in the car but the rest of us went to breakfast in one of the casinos. We were all tired and dirty but those who had come to gamble were determined to get started. Even as we sat over our steaming cups of black coffee, one of the girls excused herself and hurried to the blackjack table. I was not really thinking about her gambling, but suddenly my mind seemed to jerk awake. “Take it easy,” I called after her, “because you'll come back a loser.” Again everyone thought I was‘ joking but when the girl- returned in a short time she had lost $70 — one week’s paycheck. While everyone else was gam- bling I went sightseeing, shopping and even dropped a few nickels into the slot machines. I lost but I had expected to. Later that night after a dinner show and a couple of drinks we were about ready to return to our hotel when I felt the urge to go to the roulette wheel. I stood up quietly, taking only one silver dol- lar with me. I never had played roulette be- fore and I knew nothing about its rules. But I followed the sense of direction which prompted me to drop the money on red — then
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES black — then a number — then red again. Quickly my stack of dollars doubled, then tripled, as my friends watched. I felt keyed up, wide awake, de- spite the fact that I had been with- out sleep since Thursday night and it was now Saturday night. I don’t even know exactly how much money I won. I was not trying to win, nor was I trying not to win. I was merely following this strange sense of being directed. Then, suddenly, the spell, or whatever it had’ been, was broken. I felt tired and also amazed. A pile of silver stood in front of me. I took one dollar and dropped it onto a color to prove to myself that it had not been I who had di- rected the gambling. I lost! I picked up my winnings and re- turned to my table. I fell asleep on the way back to the hotel. Yet as long as I speak of my win- ning streak, people will call it “be- ginner’s luck.” If the moment ever comes when I think of it that same way I have only to remember that I also predicted that our car would become stuck in the sand, many hours before and over 200 miles from where our car was buried in sand. — Monrovia, Calif. LIFE-SAVING VOICE By Lillian Dawson Y HUSBAND, Tom, and three of his friends flew north to 51 the Parry Sound district on a hunt- ing trip in October, 1942. I stayed home during the long weekend with our four-year-old son, Tommy, and our 14-month-old daughter, Vivian. — We lived in a seven room house in a suburb of Toronto at that time. With its big lawn and shade trees it was an ideal place for children and the first day of Tom’s absence passed serenely. I always fed the children at 5:00 P.M. and then let them play until 7:00, when they were bathed and put to bed. The autumn darkness fell early and the children played inside after their supper, running in and out of the rooms, while I did the dishes and tidied the kitchen. As I turned away from the sink the baby staggered into the kitchen with her arms outstretched toward me. “Mummy,” she cried. I rushed over to her and caught her up in my arms. As I lifted her she went limp. I thought perhaps she had struck her head as she ran about the rooms. I loosened her clothes and examined her head for bumps. Finding no marks of any kind I became really frightened. I carried her to the sink to bathe her face and head. If that didn’t ~ bring her around I intended to tele- phone the doctor. I was half way to the sink when I felt a smart slap on my back. Then a masculine voice urgently ordered, “Turn her
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upside down and put your finger — down her throat! Quickly!” Startled, I stood still for a mo- ment. Two more slaps descended on my shoulders in quick succession and the voice repeated, “Hold her head down. Put your finger down her throat. Hurry! To save her life you must act quickly!” These last words were emphasized by an- other slap. Without further delay I turned the baby over my knee with her head down and stuck my finger down her throat. I dislodged a large piece of apple. She gave a long-drawn gasp and began to perspire. I sobbed with re- lief when my baby began to cry. Still holding the baby in my arms I looked around the kitchen. Every- thing was as usual. . I asked Tommy if he had heard the voice talking to me. It had been so loud, so clear, I was sure he must have heard it.. But he shook his head and said, “There is no FATE one to talk to you, only me, and I didn’t say anything.” Later as I prepared for bed, still baffled by the mysterious voice and still feeling the impact of the slaps, I examined by back in the mirror. I was surprised to see red marks across my shoulders. How could the marks of invisible fingers still be visible on my back, hours later? I fell asleep with a deeply thank- ful heart. Whatever the voice was, wherever it came from, it had saved Vivian’s life. I was truly grateful. : Late Monday afternoon my hus- band came home with a large buck he had shot. But I was more in- terested in telling him my experi- ence of the previous Saturday. I was anxious to hear his opinion of it. After I had related all the ter- rifying details Tom finally said, musingly, “I believe it was the voice of our baby’s. guardian angel.” — Dundalk, Ont., Canada. x FOR THE LAST TIME N JULY 2, 1960, members of the British Columbia Skydiving Club gave an exhibition at a show at Lumby, B.C., in celebra- tion of Dominion Day. Among them was Herb Kerr, 36, who said he was giving up parachuting for sport and was making one last jump. As a crowd of 3,000 persons watched, Kerr dropped from a plane on his 26th jump. His parachute and reserve chute both failed to open and he fell to his death. >
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telepathic code? The famed magician’s baffling mind reading act may at last be explained by a 100-year-old number code. by Cina P Gibson {OME YEARS AGO when Harry Weiss, more commonly known as Harry Houdini, was America’s foremost magician and escape artist, he often was seen to do the impossible. His mind-reading act ~ baffled many experts. It was apparent Houdini was using a verbal cipher by which he spelled out words. His code appeared to be a rather simple one, yet no one cracked it until after Houdini’s death. Although some of his results were certainly obtained by the use of this cipher, still an alphabetical cipher with the laborious spelling of words by the means of ejaculations could not ex- plain some of Houdini’s rapid re- sults. Some other means appeared to convey words between Harry Houdini and his “telepathic sub- ject.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle watched 53 Houdini work and believed that some of his results could be as- cribed to extra-sensory or super- normal means. This Houdini al- ways denied. Other magicians felt that Hou- dini might be signalling with a hand-position code but on watching his act could find no evidence to support their theories. After Hou- dini’s death Harold Kellock pub- lished 10 words of the code in the book Houdini: His Life Story. The code was similarly employed in a message given by the famous me- dium Arthur Ford to Houdini’s widow. I only saw Houdini do his mind- reading act once. The “mind-reader” or “mentalist” (could it have been Mrs. Beatrice Houdini?) was seated at center front of the stage, blind-folded, facing the audience. Houdini left the stage after
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54° briefly introducing the experiment and passed through the orchestra seats near the front, asking for ob- jects from the audience. On re- ceiving an object he apparently de- voted himself to concentrating his thoughts so that they would carry ‘to the “mentalist.” His patter was incessant! It cer- tainly contained many of the inter- jections, exclamations, half-ques- tions, words of demand and ex- pressions of encouragement of which the alphabetical or object codes consisted. If he used his code aS known from the Arthur Ford message he could convey a large number of names by such a word combination as: “Pray answer. Say now, speak quickly.” The number conveyed might be that of a watch, in this case 123478. He would not have been adverse to saying that he was trying to have her get a number. Or by using the same letter combinations, he could trans- mit the word knife by saying: “Pray, pray, pray now, look please, tell.” An examination of the code shows that this meaningless group of words has spelled knife. Using a second method of transmission, he would give the prefix for the first group of names from his memorized list, “What is this?” He would then transmit the number 53 which coded the object which would be, “Tell, say.” Again we have knife. After Houdini had run through FATE various objects presented by a dozen or more members of the audi- ence, the mind-reading portion of his performance was over. The act was done rapidly and was very ef- fective. Recently in an old scrap book prepared in the 1870s or 1880s I came across a series of clippings taken from what appears to have been an article in Scribner’s Monthly Illustrated Magazine en- titled “The Secret of Second-Sight by an Ex-Conjuror.” In this article the author describes an alphabetical cipher and a long number code used by the magician Robert Heller when he demonstrated “second- sight” and “mind-reading” before an audience in New York City in 1852. The author of the article ex- plains that he learned Heller’s complex number code from a Polish magician who taught it to Robert Heller and to him. The cipher consisted of an alphabetical arrangement accompanied by num- erals. Through the use of common ejaculations, words or numbers could be spelled out. However, the code itself used the cipher with certain additions to form coded words which were part of a word list. The code arranged short-cuts to arrive at the names of 351 common objects which might be produced by persons in a theatre audience. With this code, memor- ized by the magician and_ his
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IS THIS HOUDINI’S TELEPATHIC CODE? 55 “mentalist” very quick results were possible to Heller. His audiences were astounded. If his code failed him, he could always cut back to the easier cipher and spell out the required word. Mrs. Beatrice Houdini published part of the Houdini cipher in 1929 when she assented that the cipher message received through Arthur Ford’s trance control, Fletcher, was in Houdini’s cipher and was the pre-arranged message which he had agreed to send Mrs. Houdini in case he died before she did. In ad- dition to the message thus en- ciphered he also used a pet name for Mrs. Houdini, Rosabelle. In the little booklet The Houdini Messages — The Facts Concerning the Messages Received through the Mediumship of Arthur Ford, by Francis R. Fast, 10 alphabetical letters and their numbers are given. The 1ith letter, “K” was formed by using “Pray, pray” as 11, “Pray, answer” was “L” or 12, “Pray, say” was “M” or 13, and so forth. Robert Heller’s alphabetical and . numerical cipher follows: Gomebesers tte se fortontvenh of represents A and 1 Looks wiascvscrssortciethaeaers ee EZ Be 22 Hurry up or Tell Me ..... cS Coes Make Haste or Tell Us .. “ Dees. Wielligceresiatt coil toreetepcciers Me fae eho} Bleciser cov sayaiaiard ois 80,5 jo xis WY FSS G6 Shi ame Re Oren cor barons yu Cee sey: Answer, Call or Called .... ” Hey 8) Nowe ti ives eS eere ae [ee all Let Me Know ......2.025 @™ J. 10 Cans YousSetesi.:ci.11<teieereresn K “11 Ub seopSosageolnse condo Eeat2 Right Away ............ i M “ 13 Do You Know ........ ae Nest GosOnm pects wanes “ On 15 Let! Us Hear -sicecivin sve v4 PG AtOnce ys; ccsestworterscers fe Q "17 SCCM assis) sie sare SarCOr i ieteas es RS 231s Pook Shar pirsrectsesieeiereiare eed Smee) Let. Us Know) .sie.csees Bae fa SEL) QO Ck At F sverctecteyssccenetererere if Us e221 Wille You Lookwectrs:erscte semen V5 522 Doe Your Seem arsnuscteresls be We 2223 Be = Smorie sate race a ent X ”“ 24 I'd Like To Know ...... aie gee Y= 4225 Whatels al fisecrtewek Bébo st Le t26 Where® Passa semaise cere. Ke 0 I Want To Know 100 This has obvious similarities to the published Houdini code which ac- cording to Mrs. Beatrice Houdini was as follows: laisiombacosonuan0 represents A and 1 AnisWen: a <jare1ois cre seewiates i Be?) SO VaNerons wietetsesteys eiefeiohekenevalebeeare Ceess NoWat ore orssanicreysomierets = # D”“” 4 Tell =. ate dacccnetvare tere. a ee fas Please’ a sc-7-r9stacscvrroreisreen ge Fé) Spectl Ss uesndo coun cued cd Gn eh (Olt Geto seucuRbuoRS a H ”“ 8 Look’. veraieeiare oiaterctetcteroure a Bis etieret Be (Quicker ees re a Rae Mi PYGYse Pray... ace ceuereenrsincareseste 4g Ken Pray, Answer .........05 He Pe 7 The Houdini code has the same arrangement for F or 6 as the code used 100 years before. In other respects the simplified Houdini code seems to have come from the earlier code. ;
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coe 56 The system of coded words used in the 100-year-old arrangement re- quires a greater feat of memory than the alphabetical or number code but also produced astonishing results with great facility. 1. represents Accordion, Album, Almanac, 2. 3. 4. 5. 31. “ Anchor, Apple, Apron. Awl, ‘Badge, Bag. Ball, Banana, Beads. Bean, Beil, Belt. Bill of Exchange, Bodkin, Bonnet. Book, Memorandum-book, Boot. Bouquet, Bouquet-holder, Bottle. Smelling-bottle, Bob, Cap-box. Dredging-box, Match-box, Music- box. Snuff-box, Tobacco box, Bracelet. Bread, Brooch, Brush. Nail-brush, Footh-brush, Buckle. Bullet, Bullet-mold, Button, Button-hook, Sleeve-button. Cable-charm, Cake, Calipers. Candle, Candy, Cane. Cap, card, Card-case. Carpet (Piece), Cartridge, Caustic. Certificate, Chain, Chalk. Charm, Check, Baggage-check. Saloon-check, Checker, Chess-man. Chisel, Chocolate, Cigarette. Burner. Cigarette-holder, Circular, Clam. Clarionette, Cloth, Coal. Colander, Collar, Comb. Compass, Contract, Cork. Corkscrew, Counter, Coupon. Cracker, Crayon, Crayon-Drawing. Cross, Cuff, Dagger. Diary, Die, Domino. Draft, Ear-pick, Ear-ring. Emblem, Envelope, Epaulet. Fan, Feather, File. Fish-hook, Flag, Flint. Flower, Flute, Fork. Tuning-fork, Fruit, Gauge. 38. - FATE Gimlet, Eye-glass, Looking-glass. Magnifying-glass, Opera-glass, — Opera-glass case. Glove, Gauge, Grain. Grapes, Graver or Scriber, Guide. Railway Guide, Steamship Guide, Gum. Gum-drop, Gun, Gunpowder. Hair, Hair-dye, Hair-net. Hammer, Handbill, Handkerchief. Hat, Head, Animal’s Head. -Dog’s Head, Human Head, Heart. Hinge, Hook, Ice. ice-cream, India-Ink, India-rubber. Ink-bottle, Jelly, Key, Bunch of keys, Door-key. Night-key, Safe-key, Watch-key. Knife, Knife (1 Blade), Knife (2 Blades). Knife with 3 Blades, Knife with 4 Blades, Knob, Lace, Lease, Legal Document, Lemon. Letter, Likeness, Licorice. Locket, Lozenge, Magnet. Mallet, Map, Marble. Match, Medal, Meerschaum (Pipe). Piece of Metal, Microscope, Mineral Mitten, Mouth-organ, Muff. Sheet Music, Monogram, Nut-pick. Nail, Nail Trimmer, Necklace. Necktie, Needle, Needle-case. Knitting-needle, Note, Nut. Nut-cracker, Oil-silk, Ointment. Orange, Oyster, Ornament. Paint, Paper, Newspaper, Sandpaper, Passport, Parasol, Peach, Pear. Pen, Pen-holder, Pencil. Pencil-case, Jew’s-harp. Bowie-knife. Lancet. Blotting-paper. Pencil-cover, Pencil- sharpener. : Slate-pencil, Perfume, Photograph. Pickle, Pill, Pin. : Pin-cushion, Hair-pin, Safety-pin. Scarf-pin, Shawl-pin, Pipe. Pistol, Plaster, Pliers.
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IS THIS HOUDINI’S TELEPATHIC CODE? 57 Tih 80. “ 81.” SZ 83.” 84. 85. GOs GA, tt (hips al Ch eee Ores DH igieetld ‘Pocket-book, Pop-corn, Portfolio. Postal-card, Powder, Powder-horn. Prescription, Programme, Punch. Purse, Picture, Quill. Rattan, Receipt, Reticule. Reward of Merit, Ribbon, Ring. Snake-ring, Seal-ring, Rivet. Rubber Band, Rule, Printer’s Rule, Sand, Sash, Sausage. Saw-set, Scarf, Scissors. Screw-driver, Seal. Sealing-wax, Cigar, Cigar-case. Cigar-holder, Cigar-lighter, Sew- ing-silk. Shawl, Shell, Shoe, Screw, ee 93. “ Shoe-peg, Shoe-string, Shot. 94. “ Slate, Sling-shot, Snuff. 95. “ Soap, Spectacles, Spectacle-case. 96. “ Sponge, Spool of Cotton, Spoon. 97. “ Spring, Stamp, Postage-stamp. 98. “ Revenue-stamp, Stick, Stone. 99. “ Strap, String, Stud. 100. “ Sugar, Surgical Instrument, Swivel. 401. “ Sword, Syringe, Tablet. 102. “ Tack, Tag, Tape. 103. “ Tape-measure, Tassel, Thermometer. 104. “ Thimble, Thread, Ticket. 105. “ Ball-ticket, Bath-ticket, Excursion- ticket. 106. “ Ferry-ticket, Lottery-ticket, Pawn- ticket. 107. “ Pool-ticket, Railway-ticket, Tinder. 108. ” Tin-foil, Tobacco, Tobacco-pouch. 109. “” Tippet, Tool, Toothpick. 170. “” Toy, Trimming, Trousers. 11.“ Tumbler, Tweezers, Type. 112, “ Umbrella, Umbrella-cover, Veil. 113. “ Vest, Violin, Violin-bow. 114. “ Violin-string, Vegetable, Wafer. 115. “ Watch-guard, Water-color Sketch, Wax. Whalebone, Whip, Whistle. Window-caich, Wire, Wrench. 116. - ” Wy. Please note that these numbered items are offered in triplets. The cue for item one in any triplet is What is this? The cue for item two is What is this here? The cue for item three is What is that? For the first article of the 40th triplet the cue would be Tell us (4) what is this, there (0). This cue leads to Glove. Should the second article in the 15th triplet be offered the ques- tion could be “Here, what’s this? Go on. (15) or “Come (1), what’s this here? Well (5)?” The answer in both cases is ‘A Button-hook.” It will be noted that the word list is rather archaic but common modern items can easily be sub- stituted for old-fashioned items. It has been argued that a list such as this is too long to mem- orize but actually it is not much of a feat for a person who is interested and who has memorized material of similar discontinuity previously. Furthermore, there are various mnemonic methods that could be used to facilitate this learning. Whether Houdini’s vaudeville tele- pathy act was this complex is not known but certainly he was using a number-letter code of the sort which precedes the word list. Perhaps the publication of this list will produce someone who can tell us whether Houdini did use an object code similar to Heller’s. At the same time it shows what complexity can be brought into a “mind-reading” act by means of memorized ciphers and codes.
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Tt seemed nothing on earth could halt the bloody violence of the warring Indians—and what did was literally out of this world. N THE CAMP was a very old squaw. Her predictions that ter- rible things would overtake the band for their share in the killing of the priests unnerved the Indians. Then one morning a young brave, with an axe in his hand, led the old woman away. He returned alone.” The murder of the two priests, Father Marchand and Father Fa- fard, was done by a band of 70 Cree Indians who were fleeing across the wilderness of the Cana- dian North West Territories in the cold spring of 1885. With the band were four white captives, including a 19-year-old woman, widowed by 58 the band, who was soon to write an eyewitness account of all their crimes. The young braves of the band were violent men who would stop at nothing — the murder of the old squaw was the 12th on their bloody record. It appeared that nothing on earth could stop them — already they had held the 90th Canadian Rifles at bay for more than two months. -Nothing on earth ever did stop them! But something not of this earth froze them in their tracks for 48 hours while troops moved up to encircle their camp and demand their surrender. a Fs
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Drawing by Theresa Gowanlock shows Indians shooting Fathers Fafard and Marchand during Frog Lake Massacre. Theresa, 19, was captive of Indians for two months. Part of this story is reported in the history books as the Frog Lake Massacre in the Saskatchewan Re- bellion. But the story that the histories do not tell is the per- sonal adventure of Theresa Gowan- lock, the 19-year-old bride who be- came, in two short months, a widow, a witness to mass murder, an Indian captive, and an eyewitness to the vision in the sky that finally stayed the murdering hands of her captors. Theresa’s story, told here, is taken directly from a copy of her original manuscript— written in 1885, the same year as the massa- 59 cre — now owned by her nephew, Arthur Johnson. Her drawings, which illustrate this article, are re- produced here for the first time anywhere through the courtesy of the Public Archives of Canada. Theresa Gowanlock had come to North West Territories in the late fall of 1884. Her husband, John Gowanlock, had formed a partner- ship with Dick Laurie to start a mill at Frog Lake, a settlement on the North Saskatchewan River near what is now the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. With a bright future apparently assured,
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John had gone back east to Ottawa during the summer to marry his childhood companion, Theresa John- son. On his return trip west, Gowan- lock left his bride at Battleford, 140 miles from Frog Lake, while he readied a house for her. Winter had set in when he came to take Theresa to her new home. peasekeesk ERE IS HER story: “When Johnny returned for me it was with the Indian pony and a home-made sleigh. To me the - long trip across a white silent world might have been through fairyland. I lived as in a dream. It would not have surprised me to have awaken- ed and found myself in the gable- room back home, the western trip a slumber-land adventure. The log shanty could have had no greater allure had it been a palace. I never wearied the winter through of the scene of lake and wood on one hand, the swell and fall of the prairie horizon on the other. There were incredibly flaming sunsets and northern lights of heavenly color, form and movement. “Johnny and Laurie spent busy
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days that winter building the saw and grist mill which was to be our fortune. Two miles from the sight of the mill on Onion Lake Indian Reserve lived the Indian Agent, Tom Quinn, the Farm Instructor, John Delaney, with his wife and little daughter Nora; Charlie Gouin, George Dill and J. Williscroft, car- penters who were working on our mill; there was also the half-breed interpreter, John Pritchard and his wife and family. I formed a warm friendship with Mrs. Delaney, the only white woman. We sometimes spent a day at each other’s house. Early in March little Nora sickened and died. My heart ached because of the emptiness left in my friend’s life. THE VISION THAT STOPPED AN INDIAN REBELLION 61 “Mutterings of an outbreak by the Indians had been rumored at times during the winter. The fears of the few white people in the set- tlement subsided when the natives appeared to settle down toward spring. Then suddenly the disturb- ances became more frequent; every whisper between two of the Indians working building our mill appeared ominous. “Tt was on March 13th that John- ny’s partner, Dick Laurie, left for Toronto to get machinery for the mill, going by Battleford and Swift Current.” History was now about to engulf the Gowanlocks and their friends. On March 18 the great leader of half-breed settlers in western Can- ada declared a rebellion against the government. This brief and tragic revolt was the second uprising of French and English half-breeds. The rights of the half-breeds, or
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62 Metis, were not highly regarded by interests in eastern Canada, and this was the cause of the revolts. The first rebellion, in Manitoba, had brought the Metis representa- tion in Ottawa. But the Saskatche- wan Rebellion brought only trag- edy. The great misfortune of the second rebellion is that Riel sent couriers to the various Indian tribes to incite them to rise and join him. That was the reason that the In- dians working at Gowanlock’s mill were restless. “Theresa noted that, on the first day of April (1885) the signs were so alarming that I persuaded my husband to go with me to the De- laney home and stay until the danger blew over. “The mill men parleyed with the interpreter and the Indians. As- surance was given the Indians would brew no trouble, though they might ask for a few provisions from Tom Quinn, the Agent. “The evening of April 1st the Indians held a pow-wow. Follow- ing this the interpreter, Pritchard, told Tom Quinn there would be no rising. He said the young braves had been plotting but the chief ad- vised them to stay quiet, that no good could come from a quarrel with the Great White Mother (Queen Victoria.) Our fears were allayed. “Into the morning of April 2nd the household slept soundly. At FATE sunrise we were awakened by Pritchard’s arrival crying: ‘Get up. The Indians are on the warpath!’ “Quickly following his warning whoopings near confirmed his words. We dressed hastily. Pritchard re- turned in a few minutes announc- ing we must all go to the little church where Father Fafard would say mass. We had breakfast, but I could not eat. After breakfast some Indians came in and escorted us down the hillside to the Church. Mr. and Mrs. Delaney walked be- side us. When we entered the priests were holding mass. “Tt was Holy Thursday. Just in- side the door the Indian, Wander- ing Spirit, was sitting with a gun across his knees. He was painted and had such a wicked look. Other Indians were inside making a noise. Father Fafard took off his vest- ments and cut short the mass. The Indians told us we must all go back to the Delaney’s house. We conse- quently started with them. After about an hour there, the Indians told us we must come to their camp. “The Delaney’s walked ahead. Then the priests, my husband and TI, Mr. Gilchrist, Mr. Dill, Mr. Gouin, Mr. Quinn. We had walked a short distance from the Delaney house when we heard report of guns. Quinn, Dill and Gilchrist were shot. Mr. Williscroft, a man of 75, came running past us. An Indian shot and knocked off his hat. The
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THE VISION THAT STOPPED AN INDIAN REBELLION 63 old man turned and cried. ‘Don’t shoot, don’t shoot.’ But they fired again and he ran screaming and fell in some bushes. Then behind us an Indian fired, and my husband fell. I dropped down beside him. I saw Mr. Delaney and Father Fa- fard fall. I think over 40 shots were fired. Mrs. Delaney was dragged away by two Indians. Then an In- dian came and pulled me along to his teepee. A friendly squaw put down a rabbit robe for me to sit on. “A little later some of Big Bear’s braves, about 30 of them, crowded into the teepee where I was. Some were covered with war paint. One of them already had on some of my dead husband’s clothes! They emitted terrible yells. Some carried long wooden clubs with three knife blades set in the end. They passed a bottle from hand to hand. Pres- ently they went out. In a little while I was taken to the tent of Pritchard, the interpreter, and was overjoyed to find Mrs. . Delaney there. “Under the command of Wander- ing Spirit the Indians, crazed with fire-water, put the bodies of the 11 white men into the church and set it afire. “Thus began my two months’ captivity in Big Bear’s Band. The day after the massacre, Chief Fac- tor McLean and his wife and fam- ily, from the captured Hudson’s Bay Port Pitt, were added prison- ers. Mrs. Delaney and I took over much of the work in the prisoner’s camp. At night, haunted by dread of what might happen to us, we never both slept at once. One sat and pillowed the head of the other, while she slept. “Twice a young brave entered and ordered us to leave the tent with him. But we sat motionless. The second night he caught my shawl. Then suddenly a change of expression came over his. face and he stalked out of the teepee. After that we were never molested. “Ever since the second day fol- lowing the massacre Big Bear’s en- campment had been on the move, going farther into untrayelled wild- erness as they knew the soldiers would be after them, and they must go far to escape them.” The old squaw, whose murder Theresa described, now began to say that the band could not move fast enough to escape the soldiers. Her own death was the only im- mediate result of this prophecy. But then, “Late in the afternoon some days later, toward the end of May when we had been captive eight weeks, as Mrs. Delaney and I were inside the lodge, we heard cries of consternation outside. We ran out to see all the band staring in fright at the sky. There in a break among the clouds was a rep- resentation of a church resembling that at Frog Lake burned down
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nearly two months ago with the bodies of the priests and other white men. As we gazed a rider on a white horse appeared approaching the church. Reaching it he dis- mounted, stretched out his hand as if in blessing. The summer clouds ‘closed in and the vision faded away. “Fear possessed all in the camp. The warning of the murdered old woman was recalled. The squaws, wearied by two months of extra labor of continually moving camp, set up a wailing. The warriors had lost the last of their courage. Even the evening meal was untouched, And now the headman began ac- cusing the young braves of having caused the trouble. The camp did not move again.” What caused this vision that in- stantly ended the uprising, the kill- ings, the running, and that resulted in freedom for the McLeans and two women captives, the only sur- viving witnesses to the Frog Lake Massacre? What the band of In- dians and the white prisoners wit- “nessed had never been explained. FATE Persons of devout mind called it a miracle. It is difficult to doubt that what was seen resembled or was a replica of the fearful happening which had taken place eight weeks before. Surely this vision, seen by so many persons, could not have been a mirage since a mirage is the reflection of something existing or occurring at the moment. This re- proachful vision, appearing briefly in a break in the low hanging clouds, remains a mystery. But its effects were immediate. “The end had come,” Theresa’s story continues. “A troop of sol- diers travelling fast surrounded the camp two days later. Under a flag of truce the officers and the Chief met, and the Indians surrendered. Big Bear was made prisoner.” Sak ek HE EFFECT of Theresa Gowan- lock’s experience laid a pro- found melancholy upon her; she lived only 13 years more, dying in 1898 at the age of 32. She is buried: at St. Ann’s, Ontario, where a monu- ment stands to her memory. ~<— HEARD IN HEAVEN N THE Church of St. James the Greater, in Leicester, Eng- land, recently, the congregation of over 300 sang, “Inflame, we pray, our inmost hearts, with fire from heaven above.” In the midst of the hymn lightning struck the church, causing some dust to fall on the singers. Nobody was hurt, however, the damage was found to be slight, and the service continued. — See
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You've had it; nearly everyone has. Psychologists have even given it a name — but that doesn’t explain it. It’s that weird feeling — by Nathan Rapport Pee Is a pause in the merri- ment as your friends gaze at you, wondering why you are star- ing, open-mouthed in amazement. You explain, “I have the strang- est feeling of having lived through this very same event before. I can’t tell when, but I’m positive I witnessed this same scene of this particular gathering at some time in the past!” This experience will have happen- ed to many of you. Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the “. . . startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have oc- curred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or wak- ing, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in pre- cisely this room, and heard precise- 65 ly this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when.” Most psychiatrists dismiss these instances of that weird feeling as the deja vue (already seen) illusion, just as they dismiss dream previ- sions as coincidences. In this man- ner they side-step the seemingly hopeless investigation of the greater depths of mystery in which all of us grope continually. When a man recognizes a certain experience as the exact pattern of a previous dream, we have an in- stance of deja vue, except for the fact that he knows just why the experience seems familiar. Occa- sionally there are examples of pre- vision which cannot be pushed aside without confessing an unscientific attitude. One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which Raelbe dy Salar tks aN hk
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he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified. | Rudyard Kipling’s scorn for the “Sargon” of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wonder- ed “. . . how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film?” The famous author tells us of the strange incident in Something About Myself. One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his atten- tion turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and some- one, clasping him by the arm, whispered, “I want a word with you, please.” At that moment Kip- ling was overwhelmed with awed amazement, suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene, action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier. Freud probably contributed more than anyone else to the under- standing of dreams, enabling us to recognize their equivalents in our wakeful thoughts. However, read- ers who accept Freud’s findings and believe that he has solved complete- ly the mystery of dreams, should ponder over the following words in his Interpretation Of Dreams, Chapter I: “. . aS a matter of fact no 66 such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have re- mained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain... nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams.” Dreams present many mysteries of telepathy, clairvoyance, prevision and retrovision. The basic mystery of dreams, which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream, is in the fact that they are original, visual continuities. I recall the startling, vivid real- ism of a dream in which I lived through the horror of the bombing of a little Korean town. I am sure that nothing within me is capable of composing that life-like sequence, so complete in detail, from the hodge-podge of news pictures I have seen. And when psychology explains glibly, “but the subconscious mind is able to produce it” it refers to a mental region so vaguely identified that it may embrace the entire uni- versal mind as conceivably as part of the individual mind. Skeptics may deny the more startling phenomena of dreams as things they have. never personally observed, but failure to wonder at their basic mystery is outright
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THAT WEIRD FEELING—“T?’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE!” 67 avoidance of routine evidence. The question becomes, “What is a dream?” Is a dream simply a mental or cerebral movie? Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is avail- able. In most cases we recognize certain words, persons, animals or objects. But these are dreamed in original action, in some particular continuity which we don’t remem- ber having seen in real life. For instance, the dreamer sees himself seated behind neighbor Smith and, with photographic realism, sees Smith driving the car; whereas, it is a matter of fact that Smith can- not drive a car. There is nothing to suggest that the brain can alter past impressions to fit into an orig- inal, realistic and unbroken contin- uity like we experience in dreams. The entire concept of cerebral imagery as the physical basis of a mental image can find no logical support. A “mental image” subcon- sciously impressing us from beneath its language symbols in wakeful thought, or consciously in light sleep, is actually not an image at all but is comprised of realities, viewed not in the concurrent sen- sory stream, but within the depths of the fourth dimension. Dreams that display events of the future with photographic detail call for a theory explaining their basic mystery and all its compon- ents, including that weird feeling of deja vue, inevitably fantastic though that theory must seem. As in the theory of perception, es- tablished in psycho-physiology, the eye is recognized as an integral part of the brain. But then this theory confesses that it is completely at a loss as to how the image can pos- sibly be received by the brain. The opening paragraph of the chapter titled The Theory Of Representa- tive Perception, in the book Phil- osophies Of Science by Albert G. Ramsperger says, “. . . passed on to the brain, and there, by some un- explained process, it causes the mind to have a perception.” But why is it necessary to re- produce the retinal image within the brain? As retinal images are conceded to be an integral function of the brain it seems logical to sup- pose that the nerves, between the inner brain and the eyes, carry the direct drive for cooperation from the various brain centers — rather than to theorize on the transmission of an image which is already in re- quired location. Hereby, the ex- ternal object viewed by the eyes remains the thing that is seen, not the retinal image, the purpose of which would be to achieve percep- tive cooperation by stirring sym-
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68 pathetic impulses in the other sen- sory centers, motor tensions, associ- ated word symbols, and conscious- ness. Modern physics has developed the theory that all matter consists of minute waves of energy. We know that the number of radio and television impulses, sound waves, ultra-violet rays, etc., that may oc- cupy the very same space, each solitary upon its own frequency, is infinite. So we may conceive the coexistence of the infinite number ef universal, apparently momentary states of matter, successive one after another in consciousness, but permanent each on its own basic phase of the progressive frequencies. This theory makes it possible for any event throughout eternity to be continuously available at any moment to consciousness. Space in any form is completely measured by the three dimensions. Hf the fourth dimension is a physical concept and not purely metaphysi- cal, through what medium does it extend? It is not through space nor time that the time machine most approved by science fiction must travel for a visit to the permanent prehistoric past, or the ever-existent past-fantasy future. Three seconds flat is the usual time, and the space is crossed by moderate mileage, while the overwhelming immensity of such journeys must be conceived as a static pulsation through an FATE enormous number of coexistent fre- quencies which perpetuate all events. The body, senses and brain, in common with all matter, have their counterpart on each of a countless number of frequencies. The senses in each counterpart bear the im- pression only of phenomena that share its own frequency, whereas those upon all other frequencies are invisible, inaudible and intactible to them. Consciousness is the fac- tor that provides the progressive continuity to sensory impressions. When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world, it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future, in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep. If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however biz- arre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be en- countered in what we are pleased to call the real life. Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Penn- sylvania, dreamed that a Babylon- ian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, (1300 B.C.) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a cer- tain broken relic, and corrected an
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THAT WEIRD FEELING—“?VE BEEN HERE BEFORE!” — 69 error in its identification. As a mat- ter of fact, the incorrect classifica- tion, the result of many weeks of labor by Dr. Hilprecht, was about to be published by him the follow- ing day. Some time later the miss- ing part-of the relic was found and the complete inscription, together with other new evidence, fully cor- roborated the ancient priest’s infor- mation. Dr. Hilprecht was uncer- tain as to the language used by the ancient priest in his dream. He was almost positive it was not As- syrian nor Cassite, and imagined it must have been German or English. We may conclude that all six points of information, ostensibly given by the dream priest, could have been furnished by Dr. Hil- precht’s subconscious reasoning. But, in denying any physical reali- ty for this dream, how could the brain possibly compose that realis- tic, vividly visual continuity unin- terrupted by misty fadeout, violent break or sudden substitution? Which theory is more fantastic: 1. that the perfect continuity was composed from the joblot of memory impres- sions in the professor’s brain, or 2. that the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met? The degree of circumstance, the ratio of memory to forgetfulness, determines whether a dream will be a recognized, fulfilled prevision, or the vaguely, effective source of the weird deja vue feeling. No - doubt some experiences vanish so completely as to leave no trace on the sleeper’s mind. Probably less than one percent of our previsions escape final cbliteration before we wake. When we atrive at the events concerned in the vanished majority, they, of course, cannot impress us as anything familiar. Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recogni- tion of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal bar- rage from the most impressive corps of psychologists. If deja vue is an illusion, then peculiarly, it is a most prevalent mental disturbance af- fecting even the most level-headed people. Chauncey Depew, one-time run- ner-up for the Republican Presi- dential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met. After the pre- liminary business affair was finished Depew arose and delivered the con- vincing speech that clinched the. nomination for Roosevelt. If De- pew had told any academic psycholo- gist that he had a weird feeling
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70 of having lived through that identi- cal convention session at some time in the past, he would have been in- formed that he was a victim of deja vue. But the famous orator felt more than vague recognition for the scene. He remembered exactly when he had lived through it before, and he had something to prove he had. One week before the convention, Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson, gazing at the opposite shore. Sud- denly the scenic grandeur was weirdly dispelled and the orator found him- self in Convention Hall, watching the delegates take their seats. He noticed the facial features of the temporary chairman. In this pre- vision Depew heard the man make the motion to proceed with the nominations, and then heard him- self deliver the rousing speech for his famous candidate. The en- tranced orator then resumed his seat, gratified by the applause as the joyous triumphal march around the hall was begun. At that point the riotous political scene had faded out and been re- placed by the quiet Palisades across the Hudson. Depew hurriedly jotted down the speech as he had heard himself ex- temporaneously deliver it, and it was this speech which he repeated so successfully a week later. Many great scientists and _ phi- losophers have been intrigued by FATE the reach of the dreaming mind. Some have experimented with an- aesthetics and drugs to facilitate its exploration. Conrad Aiken, in one gigantic dream, saw era upon era, including comprehensive visual de- tails of the “. . . development of the world from chaos, the evolution of life, of men and consciousness — and finally myself.” This eminent poet, upon awaking, probably had a brief retrospective glimpse of moments of pulsating consciousness through the univer- sal frequencies which perpetuate, as ever-present, the events that are long past by our calendar. The prime requisites for probing the basic mysteries of life are not increasingly powerful microscopes, telescopes and atom-smashers. We need greater study and awareness of dream introspection. Readers who believe it is preposterous to offer this suggestion to a realistic, busy world, should consider this: nothing other than dreams, in the form of subconscious but continuously ef- fective imagery (reality within the fourth dimension), can furnish the substance basic to wakeful thought. The theory briefly outlined here suggests that the rejection, by ab- normal psychology, of universal testimony regarding that weird feel- ing, deja vue, is delusive avoidance of reality, symptomatic of an incipi- ent psycho-something or other, af- flicting that young science.
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raat et eit WARNINGS come in FLOATING COFFINS I saw the tiny coffin floating in the air — and within it was the body of my sick baby daughier, By Margaret C I AWOKE TO see a white surgical sciousness to feel a gentle hand re- cap and mask thrust near my _ straining my left arm. A voice said, face and, above the mask, Sister “Lie still, Margaret! You are get- Angela’s beautiful brown eyes stared ting better now!” into mine. : My vision was blurry but I could I finally understood that she was see a nurse by the bed so I relaxed. saying, “You will live.” Then black- ee ate ness returned. |B es Wortp War II when my Sometime later I regained con- husband, Harry, had shipped 71
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out for the East I had gone back to Illinois to stay with my parents. Our son was born there in April, 1944. With four adults working and my youngest sister attending school I was given charge of the housekeeping which delighted me. With that and the care of my baby I was busy enough not to worry about the future. One day at a time was all I asked God for. - When Leon was six months old I began feeling tired, very nervous and prone to cry for no apparent reason. Dr. L. gave me a thorough exam- ination and some vitamin capsules. I was breast feeding my baby at the time so that was the reason for my mild case of anemia we thought. My helping to redecorate our home that spring had worn me out also, we thought. Three months later, early in Janu- ary, 1945, I started hemorrhaging. I went to the doctor’s office im- mediately. He gave me a shot of medicine and explained that Nature was balancing my body and for me not to worry. I had a second shot on the eighth of the month but the next day I was too weak to get out of bed. The morning of the 12th I heard the doctor tell Mother as she let him out downstairs that if I was no better by morning he wanted to take me to the hospital. I lay listening to Mother as she fed Leon. I glanced at the clock. FATE It was 11:05, almost time for the morning mail. Maybe a letter to- day! I was so tired. I closed my eyes and then heard a voice say, “Look!” ‘I opened my eyes to see an open coffin float out of the southeast corner of the room. In it was my body! Again the voice now!” I thought to myself, but I’m not that sick. The command came again, “Go, now!” Somehow I knew this meant for me to go to the hospital. I scared my poor mother trying to explain what I had seen. She was against my wishes that she call an ambulance. However, by 1:15, Janu- ary 12, 1945, they were wheeling me into surgery at St. Joseph’s hospital in Bloomington, Il. At the suggestion of the anaes- thetist I started to count my heart beats. Seconds later I saw a gate. I could see over it into a beautiful garden beyond. But I did not want to go through it. Somehow I real- ized I must stay on this side of the gate. Then I knew nothing more. I was fully conscious again at 3:00 A.M. January 14 when the nurse held my arm down and the bottle of fluid hung by the bed with a tube leading into a vein in my left arm. Many questions tumbled out of my mouth but I was told spoke, “Go, a ee
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WARNINGS COME IN FLOATING COFFINS ‘politely that Dr. W. would answer most of them. He did at 10:00 o’clock that morning. He told me that when my son was born a small piece of placenta had remained in the womb. Nature or God had taken care of me for nine months but mistakes have to be corrected. Thus the flow of blood was meant to clean the womb. But if I had waited as the others had wanted me to do, until the next day, I would not have lived. I had lost too much blood. I spoke no more about the float- ing open coffin but offered a prayer of thanksgiving for the scare that had saved my life. However, I hadn’t seen the last of the floating coffins. eee M* HUSBAND returned safely to us and although we wanted more children we weren’t so blessed until February 14, 1951, when our blue-eyed. daughter was born. When Janet was 11 months old she became ill one day with a high fever and vomiting. I took her to Dr. L. and he gave her a shot of penicillin but by night she was worse. Friday he called twice again but my baby was cry- ing constantly from hunger and weakness. Not even a spoonful of water could she keep down. As I sat rocking her Saturday morning waiting for the doctor I saw a mini- ature floating coffin. Janet’s tiny body was in it. Again I heard the words, “Go, now!” This time JI didn’t hesitate one second. I phoned the doctor and - told him not to call. Thirty min- utes and two telephone calls later we were on our way to Blooming- ton. Doctor N. examined Janet and told us that she had a virus in- fection of the stomach. He said that if we had waited one more day our baby would have died. I know not where these warnings in the shape of floating coffins come from. I only know that I have seen them and I am sincerely grateful for the warnings that God has given me. TIMELY SUBJECT HIEVES using an axe broke open the safe in the Methodist par- sonage in Balmoral Crescent, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The safe contained only notes Rev. Alfred Bligh had made for a sermon entitled “Will A Man Rob God?” _
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IX A HISTORY OF ee ae Although important and world-wide, this movement is veiled in mystery and legend. What are the facts? Albert G. Mackey, 33°, Gases a; WEL rachan, 33°, cud! Reyes de Leon fe APPEARED, at Cassel, Ger- many, in the year 1614, awork . bearing the title of Allgemeine und General-Reformation der ganzen weiten Welt. Beneben der Fama Fraternitatis des Loblichen Ordens des Rosencreuzes an alle Gelehrte und Haupter Europa geschrieben. A second edition appeared in 1615, and there were several subsequent editions. Then in 1652 it was in- troduced to the English public in a translation by the celebrated adept, Thomas Vaughan, under the title of Fame and Confession of Rosie- Cross. This work has been attributed, although not without question, to the philosopher and _ theologian, Ben Franklin was an interested member 2 A of Rosicrucians active in early America. John Valentine Andrea, who is re- 74
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ported, on the authority of the preacher, M. C. Hirschen, to have confessed that he, with 30 others in Wurtemberg, had sent forth the Fama Fraternitatis; that under this veil they might discover who were the true lovers of wisdom, and in- duce them to come forward. In this work Andrea gives an ac- count of the life and adventures of Christian Rosenkreuz, a fictitious personage, who many believe was the founder of the Rosicrucian So- ciety. According to Andrea’s tale Rosen- kreuz was of good birth but, being poor, was compelled to enter a monastery very early in his life. At the age of 100 years, he started with one of the monks on a pil- grimage to the Holy Sepulcher. On their arrival at the island of Cy- prus the monk was taken sick and died, but Rosenkreuz proceeded on his journey. He remained at Da- mascus for three years, devoting himself to the study of the occult sciences, taught by the sages of that city. Then he sailed for Egypt, where he continued his studies and, having traversed the Mediterranean, he at length arrived at Fez, in Morocco, as he had been directed by his masters at Damascus. He passed two years in acquiring fur- ther information from the philoso- phers of Africa and then crossed over into Spain. There, however, he met with an unfavorable recep- tion and determined to return to Germany to give his countrymen the benefit of his studies and re- searches, and to establish a society for the cultivation of the sciences which he had acquired during his travels. Accordingly, he selected three of the monks of the old monastery in which he was educated. To them he imparted his knowledge, under a solemn vow of secrecy. He im- posed on them the duty of commit- ting his instructions to writing and of forming a symbolic vocabulary for the benefit of future students. 75
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76 They were also taught the science of medicine, and prescribed gratui- tously for all the sick who applied to them. However, the number of their patients soon materially in- terfered with their other labors and since the new House of the Holy Spirit was now finished, Father Christian, as he was called, resolved to enlarge his society by the initi- ation of four new members. The eight brethren, when they were thoroughly instructed in the mysteries, agreed to separate. Two remained with Father Christian, and the others travelled, returning at the end of each year, to relate their ex- periences. The two who remained at home were alternated year by year. The society was governed by a strict code of laws. They agreed to devote themselves to physics, which they were to practice without pe- cuniary reward, not to distinguish ~ themselves from the rest of the world by any peculiar costume; to visit the House of the Holy Spirit annually, or send an excuse for ab- sence. Each one, during his life, was to appoint somebody to suc- ceed him at his death; the letters R.C. were to be their title and watchword; and the brotherhood was to be kept a secret for 100 years. ees At the age of 106 years Father Christian Rosenkreuz died, and was buried by the two brethren who had FATE remained with him. The place of his burial remained a secret to all of the rest and the two carried the mystery with them to their graves. | Notwithstanding the death of the founder, the society continued ta: exist — unknown to the world and’ always consisting of eight members. A tradition among them was that at the end of 120 years the grave of Father Rosenkreuz was to be dis- | covered, and the brotherhood would no longer remain a secret. About that time the brethren be- gan to make some alterations in their building and attempted to re- move to a more fitting situation the memorial table on which the names of the members of the fraternity had’ been inscribed. The plate was brass and affixed to the wall by a nail driven through its center. It was attached so firmly that in prying it loose the workmen tore off a por- tion of plaster and exposed a secret door. On the door there appeared, written in large letters, Post CXX Annos Patebo — After 120 Years I Will Open. They opened the door and dis- covered a heptagonal vault. Each of its seven sides was five feet wide, and eight feet high. The light shone down from an artificial sun in the roof and in the middle of the floor, instead of a tomb, was a circular altar, on which was another in- scription. This writing stated that the apartment, as a compendium of
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_ A HISTORY OF ROSICRUCIANISM oa the universe, had been erected by Christian Rosenkreuz. Each side had a door opening in- to a closet. In these closets were many rare and valuable articles, such as the life of the founder, the vocabulary of Paracelsus, and the secrets of the Order, together with bells, mirrors, burning lamps, and other curious articles. On removing the altar and a brass plate beneath it, they found the body of Rosen- kreuz in a perfect state of preser- vation. Such is the sketch of the history of the Rosicrucians given by Andrea in his Fama Fraternitatis. Tt is evidently a romance; schol- ars now generally assent to the theory advanced by Nicolai, that Andrea was a young man full of excitement and seeing the defects of the sciences, the theology, and the manners of his time, sought to purify them. To accomplish this he imagined a union of all those who, like himself, were the admirers of true virtue. In other words, that he wrote this account of the rise and progress of Rosicrucianism* for the purpose of advancing, by a poetical fiction, his own views of morals and religion. However, this fiction was readily accepted as truth by most people and the invisible society of Rosen- kreuz was sought for with avidity by many who wished to join it. The sensation produced in Germany by Andrea’s book was great; letters poured in from those who desired to become members of the Order and who, as proof of their qualifica- tions, presented their claims to skill in Alchemy and Kabbalism. No answers, of course, were received to these petitions. Descartes, in- deed, says that he sought in vain for a Rosicrucian Lodge in Ger- many. fens as = OPINIONS advanced by An- drea in the Fama Fraiernitatis, his Chemical Nuptuals, and other works eventually gave rise to the philosophic Order of the Rosicru- cians, many of whom were to be found, during the 17th Century, in Germany, France and England. Among them were such men as Michael Maier, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Jacob Boehme, John Heydon, Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Fludd, and Elias Ashmole. Nicolai even suggests that he has found some evidence that the Fama Fraternitatis suggested to Sir Fran- cis Bacon the notion of his Jnstau- ratio Magna. Although ‘several writers have asserted that Freemasonry sprang out of Rosicrucianism, this is an error. There is little similarity of origin, design, or organization be- tween the two Orders. The original symbol of the Rosi- crucians was a single red rose upon a passion cross.
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78 It is true, about the middle of the 18th Century, a Masonic Rite was established which assumed the name of Rose Croix* Masonry, and adopted the symbol of the Rose and Cross. The Christian symbol of the rose and cross is the inter- pretation assumed by the Rose Croix Order of the Masonic system; doubtless the symbol was suggested to the Masonic Order by its usé by the Rosicrucian philosophers. How- ever, a Rosicrucian and a Rose Croix Mason are entirely different in organization. The Rosicrucians have a large number of symbols, some in com- mon with the Freemasons, some not. The principal ones are the globe, the circle, the compasses, the square (both the working-tool and the geometrical figure), the tri- angle, the level, and the plummet. The Rosicrucian Society, insti- tuted in the 14th Century, was an extraordinary Brotherhood. Its mem- bers delved in abstruse studies; many became Anchorites and were engrossed in mystic philosophy and theosophy; some became Free- masons, while others remained *The single red rose upon a passion * cross is the official patent of the Rosi- crucian Order, AMORC, the only move- ment using it. Other Rosicrucians have modified it variously, either because of their inability to use it, or to distinguish themselves from other Rosicrucian or- ganizations. Rose Croix is the French equivalent for the term Rosicrucian. FATE faithful to the Church of Rome. This strange fraternity, claimed by some authorities to have been in- stituted by the Franciscan monk Roger Bacon near the close of the 13th Century, claimed to be the exponent of the true Kabbala, as embracing theosophy as well as the science of numbers. They were said to delve in strange, deep mysteries; in occult sciences, sometimes vul- garly termed Black Arts. These mystics, who apparently were also great philanthropists, are heard of as early as 1115 A.D., in the person of Brother Omnis Mariar in Germany, although some scholars insist that Rosicrucianism did not exist as an organization prior to the turn of the 14th Century. The Brotherhood claimed a kinship to the ancient philosophies of Egypt, the Chaldeans, the Magi of Persia, and even the Gymnosophists of India. They were unobtrusive and -retiring, learned in the principles and sciences of chemistry, hermeti- cism, magnetism, astrology, astron- omy, and theosophy. Be HE PRESENT-DAY organizations, operating independently of each other under the same name, all claim continuity with Andrea’s fraternity —and, in the case of the AMORC, which is the largest Rosicrucian group, even beyond Andrea to the private schools of an- cient Egypt where the religion had,
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_ A HISTORY OF ROSICRUCIANISM 19 besides the public and the open, a secret pursuit to which were admit- ted only those who had been select- ed by preparatory ceremonies called Initiation. These mysteries would seem to be merely the studies of philosophy and the supernatural and the natural phenomena of time, space and mind. The Rosicrucians, in aggregate, teach an advanced form of astro- logy and alchemy, a form of Theo- sophy, the allegories behind the great operas, pristine Christianity, spiritualism, necromancy, numer- ology, Islamic theurgy, biology, - physics, psychology, physiology, the phenomena of intuition, the effect which color, light and sound have upon the body and mind, the re- lation between the personality and the instincts and human emotions, important discoveries made by Rosicrucian scientists in the fields of physics and chemistry, the great philosophers, comparative religion, the perfection of the physical body, the composition of matter, and many other related subjects. Per- haps it should be stated that the AMORC does not teach astrology, Spiritualism or religion. The Order of the Rosy Cross claims to possess the key that will ultimately open the door to the practicing member’s mystical trans- formation, to the development of his inner consciousness. These teachings of the Rosicrucians, some ‘of which are not divulged under penalty of expulsion from the Order, are offered by mail in pri- vate printed form: in monographs, discourses, pronuziamentos, lectures, and books. The symbolism of the Rosicru- cians is derived from a Hermetic philosophy; that of Freemasonry comes from the operative art of the stone masons who were re- sponsible for the cathedral-build- ing guilds of Medieval Europe. Freemasonry’s Declaration of Principles states the following: Freemasonry is a charitable, benev- olent, educational, and religious so- ciety. Its principles are widely pro- claimed and its only secrets are in its methods of recognition and sym- bolic instruction. It is religious in that it teaches monotheism, the Holy Bible is open upon its altars whenever a Lodge is in session, rev- erence for God is ever present in its ceremonial, and to its brethren are constantly addressed lessons of morality; yet it is not sectarian nor theological. Although it, too, is a secret or- ganization, the Masonic Order is primarily founded on principles of “charity, brotherly love, and mu- tual assistance.” The Rosicrucian organizations, on the other hand, go through a process of mental, spiritual, and physical development, invoking the occult powers of their members’ selves, and awakening all
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the inherent latent talents within them, thus making for fuller, hap- pier and richer lives. Indeed, the historical descent of the Rosicrucian society is hopeless- ly obscure. Since this mysterious Order of Hermetic philosophers failed to commit their origin to writing from the very beginning, the scholarly researcher, at best, can only conclude that these mys- tics loved to hint, in cryptic ways, that their fraternity was very old, and, prior to the invention of the printing press, was known by word of mouth and only to a select few. Equally obscure is the historical background of Rosicrucianism in the United States. The earliest form of Rosicrucian- ism was introduced into the early Colonial states in the year 1694 at Philadelphia, Pa. It had its center at Ephrata where the members lived in sequestered cloisters. Although very little is said of them in his- tory texts, they did much to ad- vance the patriot cause of liberty and freedom during the shooting war between the English and the Americans. They were highly re- garded by General George Washing- ton who entrusted them with the care of the wounded and the dying. Throughout the war-torn years of the American Revolution, starting in 1776, the Rosicrucian cloisters at Ephrata acted as a hospital for the American army. This selfless FATE service to early America rendered by the brothers and sisters of the Rosy Cross was, in scope and op- eration, comparable to our present- day Red Cross which did not exist at that time. Their noble deeds went almost without notice, and certainly without reward or remun- eration. Among famous Americans of that epoch who took an active interest as members were Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin. In keeping with the tradition ad- vanced in the Fama Fraternitatis, the Order became dormant and in- active for 108 years. This was be- tween 1801 and 1909. Nothing was heard of them again until the Re- vival of 1909. There was a great Rosicrucian controversy in the United States during the next seven years. It was a period of growing public interest in occultism and Rosicrucian al- ready had become a name with in- fluence. By 1915 there were several rival groups. Each one claimed to be the original, ancient fraternity. The historic descent from Ephrata Rosi- crucianism has become almost im- possible to trace. Only a smatter- ing of apocryphal records exist, and necessary documentation to justify any claims of descent, except nom- inally, are woefully lacking. The Rosicrucian Fraternity, Bev- erly Hall, Quakertown, Pa. was in-
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troduced into the United States in 1859 by the distinguished Dr. R. S. Clymer. The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, Calif., began its activities in 1909 under the late mystic-philosopher, Dr. H. Spencer Lewis. The Rosicrucian Fellowship, Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, Calif., came into being in 1909 under the leadership of the late noble German mystic, Max Heindel. The Society of Rosicrucians, 321 West 101st St., New York 25, N.Y., also organized in 1909. These four movements all claim to have expounded the real teach- ings of the Rosicrucians publicly for the first time in America. Each Order’s claim to an authentic Rosi- crucian initiation has been refuted as without foundation by the others. At one time the Rosicrucian Order of AMORC challenged the others to a public debate, but they refused. The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia was given its present definite A HISTORY OF ROSICRUCIANISM form by Robert Wentworth Little, of England, in 1866. It is founded upon the ruins of an old German association which came to his at- tention during some of his research- es. This society is only a research society devoted to obtaining his- torical truth and displacing error. Its objectives are literary and it is connected with the Order of the Rosicrucians of the Middle Ages. It is secret, but not Masonic, in its organization; although many dis- tincuished Masons in England are interested, active members of the Society. The Rosicrucian groups attract their members from all walks of life and all levels of education. In essence, Rosicrucianism seeks to lift civilization to the highest estate of human and social achievement through the improvement of indi- vidual members. Collectively, over one-half a million members reside in the United States, with many hundreds of thousands enrolled in foreign countries. C5 WATER AT THE WRONG END HE MAYOR of Cotter, Ark., recently phoned a pump supply company in Stuttgart, Ark., that the city wished to replace an old water pump. He added that the new pump was needed at once ag the city was out of water. At that moment the floor of the Stuttgart pump company was nine inches deep in water from a C9 flash flood. 8r ss
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Counselor to presidents, — authors, industrialists — and the great figures of © the tum of the century, ~ this was the role of .«« THAT GREAT MEDIUM _MAUDE LORD DRAKE B,D. WD. Cheinay J SEE A LONG dark tunnel through However, within the month which the General must pass... ~ Grant’s Wall Street firm, Grant and this portends trouble and the end!” Ward, was thrown into bankruptcy General U. S. Grant and his wife and on July 23, 1885, the General were astounded by this statement was dead. made to them in the parlors of the All of this was forseen by the former President’s New York City great true medium Mrs. Maude residence in May, 1884. Mrs. Grant Eugenia Lord-Drake, clairvoyant, replied to the dark prophecy by ex- healer, and counsel to the great and claiming, “That cannot be, for we near-great of her time. Her enthu- were never more prosperous than we siastic supporters included such are today!” notables as George Pullman, Leland 82
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Stanford and President Chester A, Arthur. As a medical doctor I have taken great interest in the feats of heal- ing and spirit surgery which have been attributed to this medium. I have studied a number of instances of her healing and surgery, sup- ported by sufficient evidence to con- vince me that they were genuine cures. Many of the facts relating to Mrs. Lord-Drake’s career were pre- sented in her autobiography, Psy- chic Light, The Continuity of Law and Life, published in 1904. Many other facts were related to me by my father and by other members of my immediate family who wit- nessed events at Warsaw and Mon- © mouth, Ill., in the 1860’s and at Kansas City, Mo., in 1894. Maude was born March 15, 1852, in Marion County, Va. She was the fourth child born to Sarah and Philip Barrock, a well-educated couple. Each of the Barrocks. was an ardent member of a different re- ligious creed. Philip Barrock, a deacon of his church, was regarded as intensely prejudiced toward any thought and any body that ques- tioned or interfered with his re- ligion. It is the tradition of the ages that great mediums are born with a veil over the face. Maude’s face had a double veil. On beholding the veils covering the face of the new-born 83 Testimonial written on her own photo by Mme. Blavatsky reads: “Mrs. Maude E. Lord. To one of the few honest me- diums from a friend who respects her.” child, the father declared that the Devil had caused this condition. Henceforth, he rejected the child as an unwanted child of darkness. . Strange lights were said to float around the infant’s cradle and electric sparks would fly from her hair. Her eyes were luminous in the dark. Before Maude was six years old she was badly scalded with hot lye. Second and third-degree burns covered most of her body. The
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84 family physician, Dr. Edson Wood- ruff, made several calls and de- clared the child’s case to be hope- less. Then, as he leaned over. the doomed girl, her bandaged hands grasped his pencil and prescription blanks an wrote the following. “Get pine needles, crush, mix with lin- seed. oil, put between beet leaves and apply immediately.” Dr. Woodruff was shocked: into fast action as he recognized the handwriting as that of a doctor with whom he had once worked — prior to that man’s death. The prescription was tried and in a short time the child recovered, although she was troubled for years by the effects of the terrible burns. After this near-fatal accident, Maude began to have wonderful visions. She would speak in various languages, and would describe forms and give names. In 1860 Maude was eight years old, but she had never been to school. Her parents maintained that to educate this strange girl would be the same as educating the Devil. They also feared disgrace and scandal if Maude’s manifesta- tions took place in a public loca- tion such as a schoolroom. Maude could not understand why she should be denied an education an she longed for the key that would unlock the mysteries of the books in her father’s library. One day in her eighth year she FATE took one of her father’s books, and putting on her mother’s best bonnet and shawl, she appeared at the local school. The teacher placed Maude on a bench in the front row of the class. A rapping noise from beneath the bench annoyed the teacher who warned Maude to keep her feet still. Then, when the teacher turned to return to her desk, Maude’s bench lifted and be- gan to follow the teacher. When the teacher asked Maude what all this meant, the child could only repeat what others had said: “My pa says it is the Devil.” The other children laughed, but the teacher evidently thought the answer correct, for she immediately dismissed the school. Taking the child home, she told Mr. Barrock of the incident and Maude was pun- ished. Maude was awakened the next morning by her older sister, Cor- delia, calling and asking her why she was not up. “Tt is not morning,” was her re- ply, “it is so dark.” She was. blind. Soon after Maude was stricken blind, she went into trance for the first time and was controlled. The trance came on during the visit of a neighbor woman, a recent immi- grant from France. Suddenly the child began to shake and quiver and became very pale. Then the trembling ceased
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THAT GREAT MEDIUM — MAUDE LORD DRAKE > and a man’s voice, in excellent French addressed the neighbor by a name none had ever called her but her father who yet remained in France. Maude spoke, in fluent French, the words which told the woman that her father had died and that she soon would receive the notice of his death through the mail. Maude recovered her sight in time to help her family flee their home in late 1860 or early 1861. Mr. Barrock was a Southern sym- pathizer in an area that was soon to split away from Virginia and to remain in the Union as the state of West Virginia. The family moved west, settling near Mitchellville, Iowa. Here, Maude discovered an ability to locate coal deposits and her father turned this ability to commercial use. Placing her hand upon the earth, Maude could tell her father just how deep and how large the deposits were. Her autobiography states that she also was able to divine water and other minerals. I can personally vouch her ability to locate coal, because she located coal on land in Illinois owned by my own father. The Barrock family stayed only a short time in Iowa before relo- cating near Warsaw, Ill. After moving to this town, it is recorded that Maude used her coal-seeking powers to locate deposits for a 85 Professor Worthen, the Illinois State Geologist. The first efforts to expose Maude as a fraud were made at Warsaw. A Dr. Phelps, a Dr. William Park- hurst, and a Mr. Matt Phelps visited the Barrock household for the avowed purpose of disclosing the trickery. The particular “trick” which interested them was a table from which strange rapping sounds _ would be manifest when Maude would sit or stand nearby. The investigators examined the table, placed its legs in bottles, and covered the entire table with a spread. When Maude returned to the scene of the test, raps were produced on the table, on the chairs, and on the wall. For good measure, hands materialized from the table and shook the investigators. This was not the last investiga- tion which failed to disprove Maude’s mediumship. The move from Virginia to the middle-west did not bring pros- perity to Maude’s family. .The fam- ily was not only poverty-stricken but also was unpopular because of Mr. Barrock’s views on the Civil War. Bad times for the family ~ meant far worse times for Maude who was virtually an outcast from the family circle. As a consequence, Maude left the family to take work as a domestic servant with a neighbor when she
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86 was barely 10 years old. For the next three years she worked as a domestic for several families and in two Warsaw, Ill., hotels. She was never allowed to stay long in any of her positions because her path was always marked ‘by disturbing demonstrations of her unusual pow- ers. Maude began her public life as a medium in 1865 at the age of 13. Several leading citizens in Warsaw took a great interest in her and in her ability. She began to hold seances at the homes of these prom- inent citizens, but a wider field soon opened for her. Professor Worthen, the state geologist for whom she had located several coal deposits, took her to the state capital at Springfield where she began a series of seances at his home. From this time until her marriage in 1868, at the age of 16, to Albert A. Lord of Fondulac, Wis., Maude’s life was that of a traveling evan- gelist moving among spiritualist groups in the middle-west. During this period she estab- lished three of her most famous spirit guides: Clarence Wilbourn, Dr. Peter DeHaven and Valleur Dupree. Clarence had been a handsome young man who had met Maude ‘when she was traveling from Spring- field to Warsaw. They became fast friends for just one month. Then his spirit materialized and stated FATE that he had just been murdered. - Dr. DeHaven had been a success- ful New York physician, and Val- leur Dupre had been a St. Louis, ” Mo., attorney who was murdered by the losing attorney after a law suit. A successful healing conducted at Quincy, Ill., attracted wide atten- tion to Maude’s powers. Here she was called to attend the wife of a Dr. Burgess. The woman was dy- ing and two attendant physicians said she could live only a few hours. I heard eyewitness reports of this case in my youth and, basing a diagnosis on those memories, it ap- pears that Mrs. Burgess had a pel- — vic condition and the syndrome of initial cancer, prolapsus and cer- vicitis. On arriving at the home of the desperately ill woman, Maude ban- ished the two physicians and sent every bottle of medicine out of the sick room, Her spirit guide, Dr. DeHaven, controlled the medium, treated the patient, prescribed for her and told the sad-hearted hus- band that his wife would survive. Very soon after the treatment the sick woman came out of the death-like coma from which the two physicians had said she would never awaken. This event was a marvel to the public, and to the two M.D.’s. A short time later, A. H. Wil- liams of Chicago, came to Quincy
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THAT GREAT MEDIUM— MAUDE LORD DRAKE 87 to organize and conduct the first Spiritual society in the southern part of Illinois. Maude, a mere child, took charge, spoke under con- trol, gave tests and held public seances, Williams and his family of girls were all musicians and singers. He arranged to travel with them and give a program which would include a musical entertainment by his daughters and a mystical demon- stration by Maude. He contracted with Maude’s father for her serv- ices and set out with his unusual road show. He advertised “Miss Jennie Barrock” to give cabinet seances for spiritual manifestations, materializations, clairvoyance and clairaudience. Since the Williams troupe head- quartered in Chicago, Maude’s abili- ties inevitably came to the atten- tion of leading Chicagoans inter- ested in spiritualism. Another feat of spirit surgery was the event that brought Maude to general notice in Chicago. This event is recorded in Maude’s auto- biography in a first-person state- ment by the physician whose pa- tient was the subject of the spirit surgery. The physician has includ- ed all the details of the operation but did not allow the publication of his name. His statement recounts the opera- tion as follows: “I had a patient with a vicious carbuncle. The spirit, Dr. DeHaven, offered to operate and I agreed. The patient was seated in a dark room. I placed my surgical instruments on a stand. We formed a complete circle around patient and stand. We heard the instruments being used. Less than three feet lay between our circle and the patient. In less than five min- utes Dr. DeHaven said, ‘I am through. You may examine.’ We lighted a lamp and found the still bloody instruments, and the core of the carbuncle.” The patient still sat calmly within the circle. Although Maude successfully at- tracted the attention of well-known personalities to her work, her per- sonal life was less successful. She traveled in company with her hus- band and infant daughter, but Mr. Lord apparently lost sympathy for Maude’s causes. When the baby was a year-and-a-half old, Maude and the baby left Lord and moved to New York. George M. Pullman, an ardent spiritualist who often sat in her seances furnished her transporta- tion. After Maude arrived in the east, Francis Burnett, author of child- ren’s stories, came to her. Mrs. Bur- nett was discouraged and thought of bringing an end to her writing career. Maude encouraged her and said, “I see you writing a very poig- nant book. It will sweep the world, will be dramatized.”
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Mrs. Burnett thereafter wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy one of the most successful stories ever pub- lished, Senator Leland Stanford was a frequent sitter in Maude’s seances. He found the great California Uni- versity which bears his name. Pri- vate seances were held for Mrs. Stanford and her friend Mrs. New- man, wife of Bishop John P. New- man, Methodist Bishop of New York. William Lloyd Garrison was an- other frequent guest at Maude’s home and became greatly interested in her personal work. Wendel Phil- lips and many noted celebrities and prominent clergymen, including Dr. Henry Gardner, attended her se- ances, Sir Charles J. Eldredge, a vet- eran China hand, attended a seance at the Philadelphia home of Col. S. P. Kase. Maude was put under control and a Chinese spirit held a long conversation with Sir Charles in a little-known Chinese dialect. Sir Charles later wrote, “I have witnessed what was called spiritual manifestations in China, Paris, Lon- don and New York, and have never heard or seen anything so positively convincing as this Chinese identi- fying himself to me by this lan- guage in his own peculiar dialect, and by his instant and correct re- plies to my questions.” Many foreign notables attended FATE Maude’s seances while visiting Phil- adelphia for the Centennial Exposi- tion. Among these was Dom Pedro, then Emperor of Brazil. Among Maude’s followers were many leading politicians of the day. The presence of these political fig- ures encouraged Maude to make a number of astonishing political pre- dictions, and also got her into trouble created by other politicians who were unfriendly toward her fol- lowers. At Leadville, Colo., in 1881 Maude predicted that President James A. Garfield would be assas- sinated. On July 2, 1881 he was shot. Garfield lingered for some time and his attending physicians finally announced that he had a good chance of recovery. Vice-President Chester A. Ar- thur’s sister, Mrs. McElroy, attend- ed a seance held by Maude and asked if the President would re- cover. Maude’s spirit guide, Dr. DeHaven, replied that there was no chance for recovery and that, “The President will come over to our side on September 19.” Garfield died on that day. On September 20 Chester A. Ar- thur took the cath of office as presi- dent of the U. S. Arthur had been introduced to Maude by Gen. U. S. Grant and at- tended many of her seances both before and after he became presi- dent. It was reported that he broke”
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fe THAT GREAT MEDIUM— MAUDE LORD DRAKE with the political boss Roscoe Conk- ling because of advice he received when he, his wife and sister had a private seance with Maude. Maude’s close association with people in the highest places set the stage for a major attempt to dis- credit her. Fortunately for her car- eer, she had remarried in 1887 and had a husband who was well able to defend her against any attack. Her husband, J. S. Drake, was a former Illinois newspaper publisher who had become a hydraulic engi- neer and contractor with headquar- ters in California and with connec- tions throughout the nation. Maude’s difficulties were par- tially the result of a quarrel between Kansas City newspapers. She had appeared in Kansas City in 1886 and the Kansas City Times had run a lead article affirming the credi- bility of her seance. Maude re- turned to the city in 1892 and the rival Kansas City Star took this op- portunity to run a humorous article deriding Maude and spiritualism. The day after the article appeared in the Star, the reporter who au- thored the piece appeared at the private home where Maude was holding a seance. He was escorted to the door. The reporter then swore out a warrant charging simple assault and Maude, her host T. A. Kimball, M.D., and Mrs. Kimball were ar- rested. The prisoners were held without bail contrary to the Miss- ouri laws bearing on such charges. The result of these arrests was a suit for false imprisonment and a criminal charge of conspiracy. The conspiracy charge was based on the fact that the arresting officers, one . of whom was a Star reporter claim- ing to be a sworn deputy, refused to allow their prisoners to make bail. Maude collected $1250 damages and the conspiracy charge went against the Star reporters although it was battled through the U. S. District Court of Appeals. Maude continued active following these numerous legal battles, but spent the greater part of her time with her husband in Los Angeles, Calif. She eventually retired from public life in the early 1900’s. Maude Lord-Drake’s death seems to be surrounded with mystery. However, this mystery is probably only seeming and the true facts simply have been lost. It has been stated that her ca- reer as a medium extended over 69 years; beginning with prophesies she uttered at three years of age and ending with the message she gave to the nurses attending her a few days before she departed this life. It has been stated that she was 72 years old at the time of her death. Other inquiries have elicited the information that she passed on in
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go her sleep in a Kansas City hotel; that her body was cremated and the ashes variously buried beside those of her husband or strewn in the At- Jantic Ocean off Boston. The date of Maude Lord-Drake’s death would seem to be somewhere FATE around the year 1924. Despite the varying information regarding her death there has been no disagreement of the record in regard to her mediumship —all agree she was a wonderful psychic medium. ee ——_____ THE GHOST IN THE CHURCH AXO VANKA, noted as a : painter of what gener- ally are termed “the best church murals in America,’ was re- ported in the November 20, 1960, issue of the newspaper Grit to have done some of his work in the company of a ghost. Vanka was engaged for some two months in painting murals in the Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale, Pa. He was asked to complete the extensive murals in time for a church celebra- tion and, in order to finish on schedule, he painted each day from early morning until af- ter midnight. While at work on his third night in the church, according to Grit, Vanka was startled and puzzled by a long, power- ful note which came from the electrically operated organ. The following night as he was painting from a scaffolding he saw a dark-robed figure in front of the altar.. The fig- ure was said to be clear- ly visible because of the flood- lights Vanka was using to il- luminate his work. The next time he glanced in that direc- tion the figure had vanished. Vanka assumed he had seen the pastor of the church, Rev. Albert Zagar, but when he saw the figure again the following night he realized he had been mistaken. The church was lock- ed and only he and Father Za- gar had keys. Investigating, he found the pastor asleep in a chair in the rectory. Father Zagar said he had not been in the church and that what Van- ka had seen apparently was a ghost of which he had heard reports. Subsequent appearances of the ghost were witnessed not only by Vanka but also by Fa- ther Zagar and other persons. One night they saw the dark- robed figure light candles which continued to burn after it disappeared. They also saw it blow out the flames of the altar lamp, which was designed so that it could not be extin- guished by air currents. Shortly after this the appari- tion was seen no more. Al- though investigators such as Louis Adamic, the novelist, studied the strange events, nothing to identify the mys- terious robed figure came to light.
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DID | SPEAK WITH ANGELS? The Ouija board messages gave angelic knowledge—and in an “angelic” language. By Gustav Gumpert Va po Ouija board mes- sages come from? From the unconscious minds of the operators? From beings dwelling in a world beyond? Or are they telepathic communications? These were the questions that filled our minds as a friend and I hunched over the Ouija board one snowy night last winter. We were determined to make a calm and objective experiment. Actually, we were about to get the shock of our lives; for we received a series of messages that reversed our opinion on the chances of com- municating with a world beyond the senses. As the pointer slid evenly, de- liberately across the board, we saw spelled out before our astonished eyes a message that never could have come from either of our minds. It was in a language neither of us knew, one no man has ever spoken. gr But let’s begin at the beginning. The first part of the message was in English: “This is Raphael.” Then we received a brilliant lecture on occult philosophy that, when written down, filled one notebook page. This much, we decided, could have bubbled up from our uncon- scious minds. We both had read a little in the literature of occultism. We knew that Raphael, along with Gabriel, Michael and Uriel, were the four archangels of the ancient Hebrew’s angelic hierarchy. So we were dissatisfied: what we wanted was a test that would definitely rule out the chances of our unconscious- ly collaborating with the board. We challenged the Ouija —or whatever was operating it — to give us proof beyond any question. The next message seemed at first glance like a string of nonsense syl- lables: ECA RAFAEL OD VAOAN
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eee Pee ag SS = Q2 I OD IAODPIL T AT. We first thought, quite naturally, that this was pure gibberish. But a certain precision about the move- ments of the pointer aroused our suspicion. Instead of moving wild- ly, as one might expect, it moved with a decisiveness that suggested intelligent and conscious direction. “Let’s go on with it,” I said. “We may be getting something after all.” The rest of the message came through slowly: MICALZO I IADON OD MICALZO T CHIS QAATAD, IADON EL IL OD CAOSGI NOQS IA. . It is only fair to say that be- tween the two of us we read or speak eight languages — German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Latin and Greek. We also have a smattering of some of the Slavic tongues; and I had once taken a brief and not very useful course in Hindustani. Moreover, I always have been keenly interested in linguistics and cryptograms. Both of us are rather widely read in the history of art and arche- ology. We had probably seen — and stored in the unconscious— frag- ments of the ancient languages that appear on archeological remains. It seemed to us probable, then, that we were receiving a scrambled version from our unconscious minds of all these languages and recollec- tions. We certainly didn’t expect the language to mean anything — FATE and we never dreamed that anyone else might have heard of it. We were wrong on both counts. There was one clue to the mys- tery. Flickering in the recesses of my memory was a recollection that somewhere I had read about a strange language that had been dis- covered in England centuries ago by two mystics. It stuck in my mind that this language was sup- posed to have been spoken by an angel. For those who may feel skeptical at this point, let me say that I never had seen any samples of this hidden language. Somewhere in my reading I had seen a reference made to Dr. John Dee, court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth. The article said that Dee, in collaboration with a man named Edward Kelley, had received and recorded messages in a language he learned from an angel. : On the basis of pure hunch, then, we decided to look up the original writings received in this peculiar language. We found that we were looking for a book by Meric Casaubon entitled A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for many years Between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and Some Spirits. The volume was published in 1659. These strange communications from beyond also may be found in Sloane
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DID I SPEAK WITH ANGELS? Manuscripts 3189-3191 in the Brit- ish Museum. Quickly scanning the 13 pages of recorded messages, my eye fell on the first word we had received through the Ouija board: ECA. It meant “therefore.” But before giving you the trans- lation of our messages, let me say a word about Dee and Kelley. John Dee was born in London, of wealthy parents, in 1527. He first studied at Cambridge Univer- sity and later at universities in France, Germany and Holland. After the death of Queen (Bloody) Mary, he became’ court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1608. Edward Kelley was a medium, who was well known in London during the same period. He fore- told, four years in advance, the exe- cution of Queen Mary and the com- ing of the Spanish Armada, and he claimed to get his information from spirits. Dee decided to hire Kelley as a “scryer,” or crystal gazer, at a salary of 50 pounds a year. After gazing in his crystal for a while, Kelley was told to construct four large charts (49 inches square) and to fill the columns with certain letters. The two men did this. Then the angel, who said he was Gabriel, would point to a letter in similar charts which Kelley saw in the crystal. Kelley would call out the information, Dee wrote it down. 93 By this laborious method, the two men were given 19 “Angelic Calls,” which were supposed to be powerful evocations for calling up spirits. So far as anyone knows the messages never were used for that purpose until the 1880’s, when they were adopted by the Order of the Golden Dawn, a group of English mystics which for a time included the poet W. B. Yeats among its members. The rituals of this group, published in America in 1940 by a member of the Order, Israel Regardie, show that the Angelic Calls were used for magical purposes. But to return to our story. At this point we had 13 pages of “An- gelic,” with its translation — but no dictionary of the language. How were we to find out what the words in our message meant? We decided to prepare a diction- ary, rather than look through the whole 13 pages for each word. It took three days to compile the dic- tionary. When completed, it con- sisted of 800 entries. In the course of the work we discovered that the language had genuine syntax and logical structure. The verbs were conjugated and the nouns declined. Take for example the word “say.” “T say” is GOHUS; “he says” is GOHO; “we say” is GOHIA; “say- ing” is GOHOL; “said” is GOHON; and “it is said” is GOHULIM. We also found that some of the words went back to the most-an-
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REFOTSES 94 cient recorded speech. To give just one example: Latin scholars long have puzzled about the words Fla- men Dialis, used to describe the Roman high priest of Jupiter. Fla- men means “priest,” but Dial is not a true Latin word. Strangely enough, though, Dial is a word in Angelic. It is one of the names of God. So that Flamen Dialis means “Priest of God.” Here is the translation of the first message we received: “Therefore Raphael exists, and Truth exists, and the Everlasting God dwells amongst you. Mighty is the Lord in His creations. He is the world, in which He operates, and it is His servant.” From that day on the messages continued, mostly in English but with occasional phrases in Angelic. To date, we have received enough material to fill 40 pages of type- script, outlining an amazing system of occult philosophy. Here are some of the questions we asked and the answers we re- ceived. Remember that these were spelled out, a letter at a time, on the Ouija board: March 5, 1960: Q: Is there any point in study- ing the Angelic language? A: Yes. The sounds have great power, like music, and stir the un- conscious into motion. This was a great revelation, and can profit you much. FATE April 18, 1960: Q: What is reality? A: The world as you see and know it is not the true world. The world of your senses is one of many possible worlds. You will never understand this until you have ex-: perienced the greater view of the universe, which is what men mean when they speak of enlightenment. This is the meaning of the Japan- ese Zen Satori, the meaning of the Buddha when he spoke of Nirvana, and of Jesus when he spoke of Heaven. April 19, 1960: Q: What is Heaven? A: A state of mind, open to all men, which comes through careful: following of the path. It is a new experience of the universe, which shows the many worlds within the one world and the one world with- in the many. Q: What is required for faith healing? A: To be a healer, one must first learn to release the unconscious, as all power of the earthly type flows from this source. Secondly, you must learn to focus this unconscious power on one problem at a time. The unconscious operates when you are asleep. Therefore, before going to sleep, concentrate on one sub- ject. Limit your concentration to one phrase or sentence of not more than 10 words. Repeat this over and over. Your unconscious will do
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DID I SPEAK WITH ANGELS? the rest; you will achieve the ob- jective. April 25, 1960: Q: Does sex stand in the way of enlightenment? A: The physical and spiritual are of one substance. By making a dis- tinction, you create a problem where none exists. Salvation is not against life. It is life, and life is physical as well as spiritual: each has its own place in the unity of the whole. May 2, 1960: Q: What is time? A: There is no time as you know it. Everything in the universe is an experience occurring simultaneous- ly. You perceive this in parts. That is what you mean by time. May 7, 1960: Q: Is there life after death? A: Time has no beginning or end- ing, nor do you. It is as though you walked through a series of rooms. Each room is there and continues to exist after you depart from it. Before you enter, it is the future; and after you leave, it is the past. But the room is always there — it is you who change. You will always continue, for you are a great circle that begins nowhere and ends no- where. May 9, 1960: Q: What is mind? A: The function of the mind is not clearly understood by science. The mind is not the brain. On the contrary, the brain is an instrument HYYPNOTISM can re- move the blindfold from your mind and awaken your inner powers. Improve memory, develop confidence, master habits, hypnotize others, AT LAST, PRO-*a FESSIONAL TRAINING IN HYPNOTISM AND SELF-HYPNOSIS CAN BE YOURS. Guaranteed Correspondence Course by State Chartered Organ- ization instructs you at home in personalized lessons. Write today for FREH brochure and full details. INSTITUTE OF MENTAL SCIENCE, INC., Dept. F 5880 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Callf. SUBCONSCIOUS MIND OR SPIRIT VOICE? WHICH SPEAKS THROUGH THE MYSTIC OUIJA BOARD? Whatever it is, the answers are out of this world. Serious psychic investi-+ gators long ago recognized thai the Ouija Board provides amazing — al- most unbelievable—true answers. Give a Ouija Board fo a friend. Only $5.25, plus 25c for each order to in- clude cost of mailing. Order two. 480e for handling and mailing on Canadian and Foreign purchases.) | craRK PUBLISHING 60. . 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Mlinois eee send me Ouija Boards at only $5.25 each plus 25c¢ for handling andi I mailing. I. seeee-- enclosed. {[_] Send C. O. | [Name ..--... ese eeecsceenecseevsesegeecesess I adaross seceee City & State ........ SEE OSOEEO DCE IITOCSED |] (a: eS OD AS eS Ae OD NO ES OS eS ce ce mae AY
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96 that is used by the mind to achieve its purpose. The mind in turn is part of a total system, and this system cannot be fully compre- hended unless it is experienced. The brain is an electronic system; the mind is a multi-dimensional system, greater than the brain in more than size. It is like putting the ocean in a bottle to try to understand the mind with the brain. Therefore, re- sign yourself to the fact that you will never understand the mind: you can only experience it. For if you try to understand the greater with the lesser, what can you learn? In addition to these messages, Raphael has given many examples FATE of independent knowledge of facts, events and situations we could not have known. Most of these are per- sonal, however, and cannot be re- ported here. This remarkable experience raises a number of questions. How can we explain, by any rational method, the message in Angelic — before either of us, the operators, had seen the language? Most remarkable of all, I think, this experience has caused two hard-headed sceptics to question their own explanations of the universe. For, if we can talk with angels, what kind of world do we really live in? Linkletter, an admitted sceptic, astrology, numerology and Jungian depth psychology. THOUGHT DIAL helps you tap the subcon- scious, answer direct questions; it is of aid in locating fost articles . . . and contains a section on “picking winners!” Col. A. E. Powell, FATE Magazine book reviewer, terms THOUGHT DIAL, “a landmark in psychic research.” YOU WILL WANT TO BEGIN YOUR EXPERIMENTS IMMEDIATELY! EE LITE SEE EE RTI / Tiffany Thayer of the Fortean Society said: The Book That Stopped THOUGHT DIAL: The Art Linkletter Show! li happened January 20, 1960. And it was Sydney Omarr’s sensational THOUGHT DIAL that did it-stopped the famed Art Linkletter House Party show! challenged Omarr THOUGHT DIAL. Omarr did, whereupon an amazed Linkletter muttered before a TV-Radio audience of millions, In THOUGHT DIAL, which includes an actual “Thought Dial,” Omarr has combined “Twice As Good As Ouija!” to demonstrate “Fantastic, simply fantastic!”4 Ye a ee Se Se NS SE A NN GRY NE ea | ORDER TODAY FROM: 9th House Publishing Co. Box 1092 | Hollywood 28, Calif. Please send immediately Sydney Omarr’s | ria da DIAL, for which enclosed find $8-005) | Namez CIty I : | tS SS TS YS EN,
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JOHN WESLEY, SPIRITUAL WITNESS, by Paul Lambourne Higgins. T. S. Denison & Co. Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. 134 pages. $3.00. Here at last is a short well-docu- mented biography of the founder of Methodism which focuses attention upon John Wesley’s interest in the paranormal, long before that field had been mapped out by other schol- ars. Wesley’s interest in ghosts and ghostly happenings no doubt stem- med from reports that Epworth Rec- tory, where his father Samuel Wes- ley and his family lived for many years, was haunted by poltergeist phenomena during the years 1716 and 1717. During the occurrence of most of these phenomena John Wes- ley was at school in London, but he received vivid and regular accounts of the haunting from different members of the family. He realized that psychical occurrences gave the lie to the’ materialism that was growing up around him and he di- rected his attention to paranormal events that occurred in his neigh- borhood, investigating them care- fully. Later on in life, John Wesley came across other aspects of psy- chical phenomena. Reverend Hig= gins gives us considerable detail on psychical occurrences which were witnessed by Wesley and reported in his Journal. About 1740 Wesley developed a healing phase in his ministry which was certainly of a psychic nature. He found that he could heal serious illnesses by the laying on of hands and through prayer. As a psychical investigator Wes- ley was particularly interested in dreams which foretold the future and in dreams which outlined the future in symbolism. He claimed to be aware of spiritual presences on occasion. Wesley became interested in Emanuel Swedenborg but before he made his interest known to any- one he received a letter from Swe- denborg in February, 1772, stating he had been told by spirits that Wesley wanted to see him. Wesley replied and set a date for a meet- ing several months in advance. Swe- denborg wrote that he would be un- able to meet Wesley at the time suggested because he was depart- ing this life for the spirit world on the 29th of the ensuing month. Swe- Ior
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NEW BOOKS pothesis, Tacker then reproduces 20 \pages of crank letters which crack- pots have bestowed upon the Air Force. “The senseless and vicious: attack against the Air Force charging its organization with withholding vital information from the general public is a baseless charge, is absolutely untrue and is generally used to excite interest in a sensational news article, magazine article or book,” charges Lt. Col. Tacker. Yet state- ments from many former USAF personnel closely associated with Project Blue Book—including Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, Major Dewey J. Fournet, Jr. and Albert M. Chop —celearly refute this allegation, as do statements from several con- gressmen, including Senator Barry Goldwater (an Air Force reservist). 105 The numerous typographical er- rors and factual imaccuracies in this book tend to support the con-. tention that Flying Saucers and the U. S. Air Force is a hastily con- cocted attempt to rebut Donald Keyhoe’s recent work, Flying Sau- cers: Top Secret (FATE, September, 1960), and to destroy the effective- ness of the National Investigations Committee an Aerial Phenomena (NICAP: 1536 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington 6, D. C.) The vehemence with which Tack- er attempts to prevent a congres- sional probe of the Air Force’s UFO investigation can only make many wonder just what the USAF has to hide. If UFO’s do not exist, and the only people concerned with the problem are religious cranks (as Author Tacker alleges), then why The only book about those who live in death THE VAMPIRE by Montague Summers “The vampire has a body and it is his own body. He ig neither dead nor alive; but living in death. He is an abnormality; the androgyne in the phantom world; a pariah among friends.’” Montague Summers is the only author who could make that Statement and then write 340 chilling pages proving it true. rts cenaeiaiee Summers lays down a foundation for a terrific case to prove the existence of vampires .. .”” WATE, February, 1961 To establish his case, Montague Summers, author of such other great books as ‘‘The History of Witchcraft,’ presents a vast wealth of historical data. Many of these fascinating and docu- mented’ studies have never been published before. NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO READ: + .. + A complete description of a vampire. - . . - The stake-through-the-heart method of destroying yampires . .. . The psychic causes of vampirism, YES, THH TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN DRACULA. Bram Stoker’s novel about Count Dracula is one of the most popular books ever written. But it is fiction. THE TRUTH, found in Montague Summers’ book ‘‘The Vam- Dire’ is a thousand times stranger. THE VAMPIRE $6.00. eee ee ee ae ee ee i ' a UNIVERSITY BOOKS, ' ; 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Il. 1 i 1 Please send me a copy of Montague Summers’ g | THE VAMPIRE at only $6.00 postpaid, 1 1 : 1 enciose (] check [] cash [] money order. i re i 1 NAMES. os ene reed eee i BPADDRESS ooo... eee ceeeec eee <r ae eee | 1 BGGELY. . €5 STATES ccencunpuc oie actrees : ' 1
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ja Beary | REPORT FROM THE » READERS AMBER-COLORED UFO’S The article by Frank Edwards about flying saucers in the Janu- ary issue was most interesting. Of particular interest to me was the fact that many astronomers have observed these mystery objects, and that they feel certain there really is something extraordinary about their origin. Until November 7 of this year I never had seen any of these ob- jects, and although I was not an unbeliever, I had assumed that un- less I ever did see one I would be skeptical. Then, within the space of an hour on that night, I observed four strange flying objects; so to- day I am convinced beyond doubt that there is something. At 6:45 that night I saw two am- ber-colored lights moving slowly from northwest to southwest. They were separated by about 10 or 15 degrees and were soundless. Their brightness was approximately equal to that of Arcturus. At seven o’clock I was outside, and low in the south I saw a very brilliant white light. At first I thought it was Venus, but then I realized that Venus already had disappeared below the horizon. I called my wife and we both watched it for five minutes. During this time it was stationary. Then suddenly the brightness began to fade, and at the same time it became amber in color. When it had diminished to about the | SEE the HUMAN AURA! — | @ vital step toward ' PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT Aura researchers have now developed a mechanical means of learning to see the human aura — permanent optically per- fect filters mounted in a pair of gog- gles adjustable to your head-size. They leave your nands free! Up to now the most highly developed psychics have had to learn to see the human. aura with the aid of awkward physical means—ex- Pensive fragile screens and hand-held films, treated with obscure dyes of short-lived power. NOW — YOU CAN BE AMONG THE FIRST . «=. to own aura goggles in this coun- try. To detect aura radiation from the human body, animals or inanimate things you need only a few minutes practice with AURA GOGGLES The leather frames fit close to your head co shut out all unwanted light rays. The filters are pinacyanole bromide, a coal tar de- Tivative that is not expensive and will not deteriorate with age or use. Of the few researchers who have had the pri- vilege of testing the goggles, more than 90% have seen the aura on their first try! AURA GOGGLES » . . are a scientifically manufactured psychic appliance, with pinacyanole bromide filters, boxed with complete instructions \=>= === $9.95 ORDER IMMEDIATELY AND GET ABSOLUTELY FREE a copy of specially-prepared pamphlet, “Seeing the Aura,” a book about what aura vision means to YOU! ecm ee ee ce ce eee comes Se ee te SE Oe Oe ey | CLARK PUBLISHING CO. I | 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Ill. I Please sent me AT ONCE .......-.+.+ Dair of | AURA GOGGLES, and include booklet “‘Seeing the Aura’’ at no additional cost. ! OJ cash =[] check [J money | I enclose Order LOL” P.isive sc ovacicicn wencivie's
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' REPORT FROM THE READERS I was permitted to use a divan which folded out to make a bed. Around 2:30 A.M. I became uneasy and awoke. Glancing through the door into the kitchen, I saw a small bluish-white light at the win- dow. I thought someone outside was using a flashlight, but I wondered why anyone would be outside at 2:30 A. M. and looked again. The light was now the size of a grapefruit—and inside the house. There were no rays going to or from it. The light became the size of an inflated balloon and seemed no more than three inches from my face. Startled, I leaped out of bed and turned on the lights. As they went on, the bluish-white object van- ished into the air. I glanced at my watch; it was 2:35 A.M. 113 I looked into the kitchen, open- ed the door and looked outside. I even looked into the other two bed- rooms, but I saw nothing except my sleeping friends. I shook one of them awake and told him what had happened. He was too sleepy to care, and I slept no more that night. When the sun came up, I check- ed again, but the bluish-white light I had seen. remained a mystery. There were no footprints outside and no indication that anyone had entered the cabin. I have returned there several times since and have stayed awake. most of the night, but I have not seen that bluish-white object again. The two occupants of the house have never seen what.I saw and are a bit skeptical about it—DLeon Thompson, Seattle, Wash. EDGAR CAYCE’S EVIDENCE FOR REINCARNATION : z told by a trained psychologist in MANY MANSIONS Shortly after receiving her Ph.D. degree in psycho- logy, Gina Cerminara decided to study the files of the late Edgar Cayce, probably America’s greatest Rey cule. As her study progressed, Miss Cerminara iscovered that Cayce’s work formed the basis for a new approach to the ancient philosophy of re- incarnation. This approach is the structural basis of her book. In Cayce’s files is probably the most remarkably documented body of psychic phenomena in the world. Here is an exciting and beautiful book, free from cant and self-delusion. For the first time, the profoundly moving facts and statements of Edgar Cayce’s readings have been assembled into a philo- sophical order. In addition, it opens up ‘‘the magnificent possibility’’ that re- eee tion is truth. Offers a new horizon to anyone interested in the meaning 0: (7 MANY MANSIONS — ONLY $4.00 THE VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. BOX 671, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
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