To the Editor of the "Nonzit Guta Dany News"
Smy—Sunday at home, And now for a litle harmless relaxation, "So Tet me see If T might not oblige our young friend, "and my eplstorial 'Spponent, who, I" matico, has gone {through quite 'a spiritual metamorphosis since last he weate~gauntlet Throwal armed cap-d-po, rest, on @ sorting' charger, straight 'And now, the door tenderfoot complains that, 1 had, in the words ff the song. "done him wrong" And this simply' because T had said that T'was outskirting his not too certain comprehensibility—to which he now towns up by a cooming confession {hat he" practically registers 22ro on the subject he had tackled. Tu fact, may not even dare to open and read fis Bible, Test. it jump up and hit fhim_on his. understanding Y—What a Dibleal position for mani And "behold!—enother "Richmond onthe Meld ithe more the merrier! "Cris it Sancho, hot fon the heels. of his master? But Sestrew me if'it Is) not a. palmer! But parson, keep to your point Fraternal love no doubt isa Beautlful. Ideology—os was. the" Wilsonian "war to end war," til, well—t And tthe world Is {ull of churches, looking {or Christians to. put into them!
"The point on the tapis is, the tofty dream, and the means to dream them with. "Keep to it, friend!
And he, speaking of that body, of serious aiid honesteminded men, the Paychic Research Socletysparing nothing in painstaking. and unpaid research for the certainties, as apart from. illusions, from which "the mental world" now suffers, and is otherwise contributing to find a com. mon bosiswhercon to. Tear a Universal and. non-contradictory system of psychic thought and Understanding, which only can pos-Sibly make aright start in the fea fof 8 common "world to a common hought—remarks that he olds Driet for them." For this, perhaps, they shoutd be thankful!
"But to our friends, the ghosts, A being hood, 20 we are told, in which Wwe are to find ghostly existence and ontinully when' we have shuled" off four mortal coil, "But hero dear Bill himeett errs, and on this very. point "for the coil is. that which cannot wind itself? What did? "He does not {ell'us He did. not know. And Besides, the unwound coll registers time on the dial of life—from its sheer Inability. to do so, This in a bit or exact thinking But to the ghoste=(T was going to say "mock substantiation," but desist {rom 20. doing. for fear of hurting the susceptibilities tender on this oint)—which, whea they are sub-Slantial—the "so-called "materializaion"—are "composed of a purely Animal product, known a ectoplasm. from. its plasmic (not effuvial) nature, a5 Mas since been discovered by. chemical" analysis (This, a case of taking the ghost to pieces, Wwith "a vengeance!) Or" Biman oura ead Walls in fi, notin excerpts, in his' very. interesting Work on the subject, in which he Will find a mine of information—thot Is, in he has the courage to, and the dnfesslonal does not say him nay. And he might also read Stald in {Jottings on daylight ghosts, and their doings. Or, if he would tare to be humorous the subject, and. can alone to bed after a ghost story for two. 2 In Topper, 1 would recommend him the perusal of the SGhosts T have Met,"and Others." by Jerome T think it was—t haven't the book by me, But back to the ghost. Tt ts made of animal substance, manipulated by 2 very" live animal—to™ wit, a "medium," now. so-called, but for. merly a'witch when a female, and 2 sorcerer when a male." The Sorcerer who. "conjured" "up a goddess or a demon, much after the manner of his imitator on the stage their process only being different—the conjurer proper using the live tricks of nature, as against the mechanical devices and "sleight of Rand of the stage "mystific."
'And so" we. come again to the "no brains, no thinking." Or, as this case," no. witch, no witchery. Or, pointing at her vietims—no fools, fo' fooling, "no foolery! The live products, with live matter, of imitation dead! Not "called back," but Sselually manufactured te itt!
Or if spontaneous materialization fs an sexual "possibility, what a mine' of "nullity we are running to Waste! For if @ single. materialization, why not a multiple? Or If of Warrior in armour, why not of Soldier in uniform?' And. if of a forse, why "not of hi steel—made counterpart, "in modera military MUilty? OF imagine, Sir-—a platoon of mechanized Dragoons coming full unbombable Whippets—right straight [at Fritze and his fellows! "And this, the whole Fritsian battalion, for even army, turned and made. [aayence "tote "rear" in "panicky disorder, T would" hardly " blame
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