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ESSAYS
IN
OCCULTISM,
SPIRITISM,
AND
DEMONOLOGY
TR^ISFERRE
BY
DEAN
W.
R.
HARRIS
Author
of
"Days
and
Nights
in
the
Tropics,
"By
Path
and
Trail,"
Pioneers
of
the
Cross
in
Canada,"
etc.
MCCLELLAND,
GOODCHILD
&
STEWART,
Limited
PUBLISHERS
TORONTO
1919
 
PKEFACE
As
far
back
as
history
goes,
at
all
times,
in
all
lands,
and
among
all
peoples
materializationsof
spirits
have
occurred.
The
spirit
manifesta
tions
to-day
are
but
a
repetition
of
those
which
took
place
in
pre-Christian
times.
Thewar
and
thepublications
of
Sir
Arthur
Conan
Doyle,Sir
Oliver
Lodge,
W.
J.
Craw
ford,
and
Emile
Boirac
have
given
to
Spiritism
a
popular
vogue
and
impetus.
By
a
singular
coincidence
books
on
Spiritism,
published
in
Germany,
France,
and
Italy
haveappeared
al
most
simultaneously
withEnglish
and
Ameri
can
publications
on
this
weird
subject.
Many
of
these
have
given
a
quasi-scientific
endorsa-
tion
to
Spiritism,
and
have
contributed
official
support
to
the
current
belief
in
the
reality
of
Spiritistic
phenomena.
Catholic
students
of
these
phenomena
have
never
doubted
their
reality.
While
admitting
l
 
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PREFACE
and
conceding
the
impositions,
frauds,
trickery
and
deceptions
of
many
professional
mediums.
Catholic
psychologists
and
theologians,
who
for
nearly
two
thousand
years
have
investigated
thesubject,
hold
that
materializations
have
al
ways
taken
place
and
are
occurring
to-day,
and
that
no
theory
of
fiaud
or
delusion
can
account
for
them.
Planchette
and
Ouija
board
answers
and
automatic
writing
are
facts
of
every-day
experi
ence,
but
that
these
responses,
materializations,
spirit
communications
and
the
like,
are
mes
sages
from
the
dead,
Catholic
psychology
de
nies.
Applying
the
methods
of
physics
to
psychic
phenomena,
Professor
Crawford,
inhis
latest
work,
"The
Reality
of
Psychic
Phenomena,"
believes
he
has
demonstrated
not
only
the
actuality
and
truth
of
these
phenomena,
but
also
the
existenceof
a
hitherto
unknown
manner
of
manifestation
of
psychic
or
spirit
energy.
Conan
Doyle,
in
his
book,
"The
New
Revela
tion,"
assertsthat
these
spirit
communications
establish
a
new
religion,
a
"New
Revelation,"
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