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VOLUM E V A P R IL , 1929
The ¿MysticalTaster
By EFFA DANELSON
R e p rin te d by R equest
HE celebration of Easter is not a modern in­
T stitution. In the earliest historical times it
was observed as the “Day of Fulfillment.'’
Nature celebrates the day by giving to all her crea­
tures new life. The Heralds of Spring peal forth
the anthem, “All Life is Bom Again!” Whether
there be Understanding of the Law, Christian faith,
paganism, agnosticism, or atheism, Easter throws its
mystical spell over the earth and all Nature rejoices
in new and abundant life.
Easter brings with it the memories of other days,
when, in a bleak and barren country, a group of
travelers sat watching and waiting for a sign of re­
newed life. These stern but hopeful people had
wandered far from home. Their lives had been
spent in a land where Nature did .not strip the
branches of the trees and leave them bare, but where
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bright, and the balmy air kissed their cheeks through­
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bondage of their tombs.
They traveled far into a strange country. When
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they looked into each other’s faces and were sad, but
they did not despair. Hope was ever springing up
within their hearts. Long and dreary days followed,
until one morn a faint light crept slowly across the
sky and wakened them. The sun, that great
messenger of glad tidings, arose in all the glory of
a King distributing gifts. He poured forth his
treasures. The darkness sped away. The cold, damp
earth responded to his touch. The barren fields
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people was kindled a love more glorious than the
splendor of the sun. New hope arose within them.
In their thankfulness they cried with one voice,
“This is the resurrection morn! Behold all life this
day is born again!” Once more the power that freed
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them from the earth coursed through their beings.
Bending low, they kissed the soil, then lifting their
faces to the sun, they raised their voice in thankful­
ness for the bountiful gifts which the Great King of
Light had brought them. Since that day, Easter, or
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brated as the day of salvation in the Land of the
Midnight Sun.
Again, Easter, with its mystical symbols, portrays
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more modern day, we find ourselves in the Garden of
Gethsemane, where a Master Teacher went to pray—
alone. He prayed for release from the bitter cup of
death. Behold him again on that resurrection morn,
his prayer answered, talking to his beloved friends,
fulfilling his own prophecy, “I will not leave you
comfortless ; I will come to you. Yet a little while
the world seeth me no more ; but ye shall see me :
because I live, ye shall live also.”
And in our present day, one speaks from the dead,
proving the truth of the words of this Master Mind
in the following lines :
Those that are born of wisdom have understand­
ing,
Those that are not have to grope their way.
The outward garment is the house of clay,
The roof tumbles and the walls crumble;
Winter storms sweep over us, the dead leaves fall
about us;
The storm kings rage, the fire of life goes all but
out,
And over the dying embers the zephyrs play.
We speak with a new tongue, our ears are un­
stopped ;
The veil falls from our eyes;
The world knows us no more among the living,
And all that we are and ever hope to be
Is drawn by the zephyrs from the dying embers
Into the dawn of a new day.
Even as the watchers watch over us, we slip from
their embrace,
And men call it sleep ;
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And while the zephyrs play on the dying embers,
Those who ever lived, and by whatever name were
called,
Are born again.
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there are undreamed-of bonds between
the quick and the dead, and it might have
been that Bat Morganston felt a blind
consciousness of the future, when he
turned suddenly to Frona and asked
“Even unto death?”
Frona Payne was startled for the mo­
ment. H er shallow nature would not
permit her to understand the strength of
a strong man’s love; such things had no
place in her fickle standard. Yet she
knew men well enough to repress her in­
clination to smile; so she looked up to
him with her serious child’s eyes, placing
a hand on each brawny shoulder, and an­
swered : “Even unto death, Bat, dear.”
And as he crushed her to him, half
doubting, he passionately cried: “If it
should happen so, even in death I shall
claim you, and no mortal man shall come
between.”
“How absurd,” she thought, as she
freed herself and watched him untan­
gling his dogs. And a handsome fellow
he was as he waded among the fierce
brutes, pulling here and shoving there,
cuffing right and left, and dragging them
over and under the frozen traces till the
team stood clear. Nipped by the intense
cold to a tender pink, his smooth-shaven
face told a plain tale of strength and
indomitability. His hair, falling about
his shoulders in thick masses of silky
brown, was probably more responsible
for winning the woman’s affections than
all the rest of him put together. Yet
when men ran their eyes up and down
his six-foot two of brawn, they declared
him a man, from his beaded moccasins
to the crown of his wolf-skin cap. But
then, they were men. » Payne committed was a sin o.f deed, not
She kissed him once, twice, and yet a
third time, in her shy, trusting way; then
he broke out the sled with the gee-pole,
“mushed-up" the dogs as only a dog-
driver can, and swung down the hill to
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E ven U
the main river trail. The meridian sun,
shouldering over the snowy summits to
the south, turned the tiny frost-particles
to scintillating gems, and through this
dazzling gossamer Bat Morganston dis­
appeared on his journey down the Yukon
to Forty Mile. Down there he was ac­
counted a king, in virtue of the rich dirt
which was his after the dreary years he
had spent in the darkness of the Arctic
circle. Dawson had no claims upon him.
He did not own a foot of gravel in the
district, nor was he smitten with its in­
habitants—the Che-cha-quas that had
rushed in like jackals and spoiled the
good old times when men were men and
every man a brother. In fact, the only
reason for his presence, and a most un­
stable one at that, was Frona. H e had
harnessed his dogs and run up on the
ice to renew the pledges of the previous
summer, and to plead for an early date.
Well, they were to be married in June,
and he was returning to the management
of his mines with a light heart. June!—
the clean-up promised to be rich; he
would sell out; and then, the States,
Paris, the w o rld ! Of course, he doubted
—most men do when they leave a pretty
woman behind; but ’ere he had. reached
Forty Mile he no longer mistrusted, and
by the time he froze his lungs on a
moose-hunt and died a month later, he
had attained a state of blissful optimism.
Frona waved him good-bye, and also
with a light heart, turned back to her
father’s cabin; but then, she had no
doubts at all. They were to be married
in June. That was all settled. And it
was no unpleasant prospect. To tell the
truth, she thought she would rather like
it. Men thought a great deal of him, and
it was a match not to be ashamed of.
Besides, he was rich. People who should
know said he could at any time clean up
half a million, and if his American Creek
interests turned out anywhere near as
reported, he would be a second Mac­
Donald. Now this meant a great deal,
for MacDonald was the richest miner in
the North, and the most conservative
guessers varied by several millions in the
appraisement of his wealth.
Now be it known that the sin Frona
fact. There were no mail teams between
Forty Mile and Dawson, and as Bat
M organston’s mines were still a hundred
miles into the frozen wilderness from
Forty Mile, no news of his death came
up the river. And since he had agreed
Reaping The Whirl
By
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JACK
(Copyrighted
to write only on the highly improbable
contingency of a stray traveler passing
his diggings, she thought nothing of his
silence. To all intents, so far as she was
concerned, he was alive. So the sin she
committed was of a verity a sin of deed.
By no method may a woman’s soul be
analyzed, by no scales may a woman’s
motive be weighed; so no reason can be
given fo r Frona Payne’s giving her heart
and hand to Jack Crellin within three
months of her farewell to Bat Morgan­
ston. True, Jack Crellin was a Circle
City king, possessed of some of the
choicest Birch Creek claims; but the men
who had made the country did not rate
him highly, and his only admirers were
to be found among the sycophantic ten-
derfeet who generously helped him scat­
ter his yellow dust. Perhaps it was the
way he had about him, and perhaps it
was the impulsive affinity of two shallow
souls; but be it what it may, they agreed
to marry each other in June, and to
journey on down to Circle City and set
up housekeeping after the primitive man­
ner of the Northland.
The Yukon broke early, and soon after
The Planet
By RACHEL
'“T H R O U G H any window at almost
any tim e of the day, in any p art or
the w orld m ay be seen the same blue
sky th a t A ndrea D el S arto saw through
the windows of th e cathedral in F lo r­
ence. T he same quality of air may
still be b reathed as that which was so
rhythm ically inhaled by the Buddha, as
he sat under the legendary banyan tree
in m editation. Some species of lotus,
th a t flower of the im m ortal soul, may
be found grow ing in alm ost every
country in the world. And a contem ­
plation of these im perishable truths in­
spires in us a sense of unity w ith all of
creation. But, when looking into the
vast interstices of space w here Orion,
V enus and M ars beckon w ith their cer­
tain magic, how m any tim es have we
felt a m ystic, inexplicable, subtle fas­
cination—a force such as philosophers
have not yet named.
T o occultists this force is known as
a vibration from the “M ystery P lanet.”
 The Occult Digest April, 1929 5

Winds of Destiny

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that important event, the river steamer,
Cassiar, captained by her brother, was
scheduled to sail. The Cassiar had the
mingled honor and misfortune to be both
the treasure ship and the hospital ship
of the year. In her strong boxes she
carried five millions of gold, in her state­
rooms ten score of crippled and diseased.
And there were also Lower Country trad­
ers and kings, returning from their
winter labors or pleasures at Dawson.
Among these—a little anticipation of the
event—were listed Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Crellin. But when the sick and heart-
weary lifted their voices to heaven at the
cruel delay, and the gold shippers waxed
clamorous, the Cassiar was forced to
sail before her time, and Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Crellin were yet man and maid.
“Never mind, Frona,” her brother said,
“come aboard and I’ll take charge of you.
Father Mahan takes passage at Forty
Mile, and you’ll be snugly one before we
say good-bye at Circle City.”
Plimsol marks, boiler inspectors and
protesting boards of underwriters, not
yet having penetrated the dismal do­
minions of the North, the Cassiar cast
off her lines, with passengers, freight and
chattels packed like badly assorted sar­
dines. Wolf-dogs, whose work began
and ceased with the snow, and'w ho grew
high-stomached with summer idleness,
rioted over the steamer from stem to
stern or killed each other on the slight­
est provocation. Stalwart Stick Indians
of the Upper River regions, lightened
their heavy money pouches in brave en­
deavors to best the white man at his
service. From aft came the sound of
games of chance, or outraged their vitals
shuffling among half a dozen gamblers;
with the whiskey he sold at thirty dollars
but in the main the human cargo had
the bottle. There were squat Mongolian-
crowded about the center of interest.
featured Malemute and Innuit wanderers
And also the dogs.
from the Great Delta two thousand miles
Still, all would have been well had not
away; not among the whites was the
a Labrador dog sought a coign of van­
jangle of nationalities less pronounced.
tage among the freight. H e had traveled
The nations of the world had sent their
countless journeys, was a veteran of a
sons to the North, and the tongues they
dozen famines and a thousand fights, and
spoke were many. In short, the brother
knew not fear. The truculent front of
of Frona Payne commanded a floating
the dog which guarded the pine box in­
Babel, commanded and guided it unerr­
terested him. H e drew in, his naked
ingly through an uncharted wilderness
fangs shining like jeweled ivory. They
upon the breast of a howling flood—for
closed with snap and snarl, the carelessly
the mighty Yukon had raised its sullen
piled freight tottering beneath them.
voice and roared its anger from moun­
tain rim to mountain rim. Nine months At this moment Father Mahan re­
of snow were passing between its banks peated, and her mind leaped back to the
in as many days, and the journey to the other man who had spoken those words.
sea was long. For the instant she felt genuine sorrow
At Forty Mile more passengers and and remorse for what she had done.

of Mystery freight were crowded aboard. Among

MACK WILSON
I t is invisible, of course, to the physi­
cal eye, and doubted by scientists, but
keenly felt and clairvoyantly seen by a
few who have the courage of their own
discernment.
A lthough the color which we know
as violet and the ultra-violet rays in
m oonlight are said to em anate from the
old m oon—for the moon visible to the
present race is said by some to be a
ghostly shadow of th e real m oon—this
is only partly true. T he true violet
color is n o t frequently seen on the
physical plane. It is a color apart from
all o th ers in the spectrum. It is a color
belonging to the M ystery Planet, and
the much m isunderstood, misconceived
astral plane.
T rue violet is a vibration sent
through the cosmic ethers to earth
from th e M ystery Planet, and this
color and vibration is responsible for
the proper grow th of astral bodies, in
( Continued on page 35)
the pilgrims was Father Mahan, and in
the baggage was an unpainted pine box,
corresponding in size to the conventional
last tenement of man. The rush of life
has little heed for death, so this box was
piled precariously upon a pyramid of
freight on the Cassiar’s deck. But Bat
Morganston, having lain till the moment
of shipment in a comfortable ice cave,
did not care. Nobody cared. There were
no mourners, save a huge wolf-dog, to
whom the taste of his master’s lash was
still sweet. He crept aboard unnoticed,
and ’ere the lines were cast off had taken
up his accustomed vigil on the heap of
freight by his master’s side. H e was such
a vicious brute, and had such a fearful
way of baring his fangs that the other
canine passengers gave him a wide berth,
choosing to leave him alone with his
dead.
The cabins were crowded with the sick,
so the marriage began on the stifling
deck. It was near midnight, but the sun,
red-disked and somber, slanted its oblique
rays from juts above the northern sky­
line. Frona Payne and Jack Crellin stood
side by side. Father Mahan began the
And at that instant, the two dogs shut
their jaws in the death grip, and the long
pine box poised on the edge of its pyra­
mid. H er husband jerked her from be­
neath it as it fell, end on. There was
a crash and splintering; the cover fell
away; and Bat Morganston, on his feet,
erect, just as in life, with the sun glinting
on his silky brown locks, swept forward.
It happened very quickly. Some say
that his lips parted in a fearful smile,
that he flung his arms about Frona Payne
and held her till they fell to the deck.
This would seem impossible, seeing that
the man was dead; but there are those
who swear that these things were done.
However, Frona Payne shrieked terribly
as they drew her from beneath the body
of her jilted lover, nor did her shrieking
cease till land was made at Circle City.
And Bat M organston’s words were true,
for today, if one should care to journey
over the hills which lie beyond Circle
City, he will see, side by side, a cabin and
a grave. In the one dwells Frona Payne,
in the other Bat Morganston. They are
waiting for each other till their fetters
fall away and the Trump of Doom breaks
the silence of the North.
6 The Occult Digest April, 1929
3 E R E is no stretch of coast in
T the w orld so dangerous to men
that go down to sea in ships as
th a t lying between V ancouver Island,
British Columbia, and the Gulf of Cal­
ifornia.
H undreds of ships lie buried in its
grey sands, and year by year their
hulks and m asts slow ly disappear,
sucked from sight forever. A long the
W ashington coast the shore is precipi­
tous and the beach so narrow th a t at
high tide the ocean waves beat against
the cliffs, w hich alone m akes it a very
dangerous place to be wrecked. From
Cape F lattery south for about th irty
miles, rocks of peculiar shapes project
from the dull w aters of the Pacific to
a distance of at least ten miles out to
sea. Some of them are several hun­
dred feet high, w ith trees and shrub­
bery grow ing on their tops, and often
they are so narrow at the surface of
th e ocean th a t one know s it is only
a m atter of a few years before the
ocean will claim them for its founda­
tion. These rocks are so num erous
that at first glance one receives the im­
pression of a great city w ith w aterw ays
for streets. Many a gallant ship w ith
its intrepid crew has met its fate on
these desolate sands.
Then, from the W ashington line south
to the G ulf of California the coast,
though not so bold, is noted for its
love of lost ships. Is there a “som e­
th in g” below the m ountains of this
w onderful coast th a t allures unsuspect­
ing m ariners to th e ir doom? Is there
a siren dwelling deep in the cavernous
depths of the m ountains of the coast,
th at m ust continually have the bodies
of fresh human beings and ships to
appease her appetite, or is it th a t she
allures them to an underw orld, to an
ocean of gold, w here the lost ships and
m ariners eternally sail over the burn­
The S i r e n of the
ished tides? F o r when a m ariner goes
down with his ship to th ese golden
sands, he never retu rn s to his loved
ones. H e is lost forever and aye.
Many believe th at the “L ost A tlan­
tis” lies under th e vast system of
m ountain ranges of the Pacific Coast,
that it form erly was w here we now
find the g reatest depth of the Pacific
Ocean between the coast and the H a­
waiian Islands, and th a t g reat shiftings
of the earth ’s crust th ru st this conti­
nent under the w est coast of America.
If these things are not true, w hat did
fill the spaces of th is vast system of
m ountains when they were lifted from
the depths?
It is believed th a t A tlantis w as a
land of gold, and w hen one realizes
that the enorm ous am ount of gold th at
has been mined from the “M other
L ode,” and th a t has been squeezed up
through crevices, had to come from a
rich source, one is able to im agine a
sea of fluid gold underlying this beau­
tiful country, a sea presided over by
the queen of L ost A tlantis, the siren of
the Pacific Coast.
W hen love is the cause, the force of
the hum an m ind is pow erful beyond
By D, W.
one’s w ildest dream s. H um an beings
have been lured around the earth by
love’s silken ties, draw n tautly by lit­
tle m aidens from afar. W hy should
one scoff at the th ought of the last of
the m aidens of A tlantis, perhaps in
her pagoda, on an island in a sea of
gold deep beneath the shores of sunny
California, lonely, alluring ships and
men to their doom, be it joy or sorrow .
Science proves th at pow er cannot be
lost. T hen why should one n ot believe
th a t love, a tremendous power, can never
be annihilated, and th a t the last of the
A tlantean m aidens pines for human
love, and lures forever, on the Pacific
Coast, men th at go down to sea in
ships.
On th a t sea no sorrow shadows,
In H er h eart no care n o r pain;
All will be forever joyous,
All shall be forever gain.
Be that as it may, another terrible
disaster has overtaken these shores.
Seven of U ncle Sam ’s ships, valued at
probably a billion dollars, have been
lured to the w hite sands of the coast
of Southern California, w ith a loss of
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G o l d e n S ea
STARRETT
life of at least th irty brave men. But
as if this were not enough, the Siren,
shortly before this feast of love, drew
for a relish, the U nited States Ship-
ing B oard’s tanker, Hoven, to the shore
of lower California. And a few days
later, w ith her wiles, coaxed the Pacific
Mail’s SS. Hover on the rocks of San
Miguel Island, off th at same coast.
T o say the least, is it not strange
that those gallent and efficient seamen
should have been so m any miles off
their charted course? T he dear public
has been feasted w ith the m ossgrow n
yarn of a m ysterious current th a t con­
stantly sets in to the shore. But is
it not time th at if this be true, that the
current be charted?
Y ears ago the SS. Santa Rosa, steam ­
ing south with the southern moon
flooding the ocean, and only a dim haze
dead ahead, piled upon the rocks of
this southern coast, and there she lies
to this day if she has not been drawn
by the Siren to the Golden Sea.
A sh o rt distance up the California
coast above the Golden Gate, if the Siren
has not yet called them , lie in plain
sight a beautiful U nited States cruiser
and a torpedo-boat chaser. At the en­
d A BILLIO N D O LLARS in ships and
Countless Lives the Toll within recent years.
trance of the Golden Gate, one may
view an oil tan k er w ith her nose al­
m ost entering the cavern th a t pierces
the rocks, ju st n o rth of Sutro Baths.
W hy, in the dead of night one may see
the beautiful w hite arm of the Siren
reaching alluringly from the cave to ­
wards the lonesom e steel hulk.
Many years ago a great four-m asted
steel ship from E ngland, loaded with
railroad iron, was sailing serenely up
the coast, as . the captain thought, ten
miles off shore, outside of the city of
rocks m entioned, w hen w ithout w arning
the Siren had her nose dug deeply into
the sand whence it never em erged. T o ­
day this ship m ay not be viewed, for
she has been draw n forever from sight,
and her crew of m any men no doubt
are m anning golden barges for the
queen of the A tlanteans, far beneath
the deeps of the m ountains.
T here are hundreds of ships gone
forever to th a t briny golden sea, but
none th a t will be m ourned like the
Bx-itish SS. Beaver, th at first rounded
Cape H orn in 1836, to ply up and down
this treacherous but sm iling coast. She
also has sunk below the sands of Bur-
ra rd ’s Inlet, B ritish Columbia, never
7
again to bring th e cheer of safety with
her stiff oaken ribs, to the h earts of
the old settlers along th e coast.
W hy should this terrible disaster
have overtaken all these ships just after
the earthquake in Japan, and shortly
before the total eclipse of the sun in
the region of their loss?
I t is n ot h ard to answ er the ques­
tion, if one will reason a little, and for­
get th at he is from “M issouri.”
The m oon w ith seven million cubic
miles of m a tte r lifts th e ocean several
feet twice in tw enty-fiour hours all
along the coast. It certainly m ust fol­
low th a t it would lift a ship if of equal
w eight and as free to m ove as the
water. N ot only does she perform this
trem endous feat, but at the same time
she pulls a hole in the surface of the
A tlantic Ocean, directly opposite a high
tide on the Pacific Coast.
W hen one realizes th a t the m oon
contains m aterial ju st like our earth, one
should conclude th at any congregation
of m atter will have a sim ilar am ount
of force per cubic mile.
T he coast of the U nited S tates on
the west, above the average surface of
the earth, has a trem endous am ount of
m atter, equal to about one-sixth of that
of the moon. I t extends inland about
one thousand miles, and reaches from
the 49th° parallel to the Mexican
border, and probably about one mile
high.
One may easily realize the pull of
this “extra earth ,” upon any m aterial
that is free to swing, such as ships
upon the surface of the ocean. The
present w riter has m easured this pull,
( Continued on page 42)
8 The Occult Digest April, 1929
RUDOLPH VALENTINO’S
£ , ast Message
Recorded Through
A utom atic W riting
A
S far back as I rem em ber I have
been gifted with the faculty of
Lautom atic w riting, the human ac­
com plishm ent which enables the spirits
beyond the veil to tran sm it their m es­
sages to the world of men and women.
W hy I have been chosen as an instru­
m ent for the voices of the spirits I do
not know, nor do I claim any credit
for the fact th a t I have been thus
marked. I m erely accept the gift and
the responsibility w ith a grave resolu­
tion to use it for the highest purposes
and the g reatest good of the human
race.
The discovery that I possessed this
faculty was made by m yself at an early
age, as soon as I had learned to w rite
simple w ords, and I w ondered in my
childish m ind w hat it m eant to be thus
singled out and set apart, as it were,
by such a m ysterious capacity. As the
years rolled on I was able to be of
g reat assistance to the unhappy people
who had lost their loved ones in the
flesh and in m any instances I brought
back the smile of happiness and the
glow of health to the faces of those
who believed they would never smile
again. All I did was to ask their loved
ones on the o th e r side to use me as an
instrum ent for sending m essages to
their unhappy relatives in the flesh, but
the result in jo y and faith was truly
rem arkable. W ords cannot describe
the change in the lives of those who
suddenly find that th ey are not really
separated from those who have cast
off the body of flesh. T hey are as
near to them as they ever w ere in this
life, only a m eans of com m unication is
generally lacking.
I first saw Rudolph V alentino on the
screen during the year of 1922. It
escapes m y m em ory ju st w hat picture
he was playing in, but I do rem em ber
very clearly the strange trem or that'
ran through me, and the trem bling of
my right hand, which usually occurs
ju st before I have a m essage to tra n s­
m it from the spirit world. I did not
know at the tim e w hat this disturbance
m eant, having only recently learned by
the event I am about to set forth th at
there is a spiritual bond betw een Ru­
dolph V alentino and myself. I was
aware of a trem endous attraction in
the handsome young actor, a purely
From The Land of Spirit
Rudolph Valentino
non-m aterial and spiritual attractio n so
far as I was concerned, and I felt that
there w as som ething prophetic in my
trem or and the trem b lin g ’of my right
hand, but w hat it foretold I could not
at the tim e discover.
In the n arratio n that follows I claim
no credit for th e com m unication from
beyond the grave. I sim ply serve in
the capacity of a “hum an broadcasting
station” and convey w hat the spirit in­
telligences choose to tran sm it by auto­
m atic w riting.
I deem it my duty as a psychic to
place before th e w orld this message
from R udolph V alentino, because he
feels and u nderstands th a t this claim
upon m ortal life has n ot been cancelled
by the dissolution of his earthly body.
Rudolph V alentino’s spirit has re­
turned because hum anity calls him back
by m agnetic vibrations due to th e ir es­
teem and yearning for a beloved p er­
sonality.
I shall now give th e exact tex t of
the m essage from R udolph Valentino
to the w orld, but first it may be of in­
terest to describe the circum stances
that led up to the actual w riting. I
had ju st returned from a m otion pic­
ture theater, w here I had seen a play and
was thinking o v e r th e various charac­
ters in th e story as presented on the
screen. T h ey passed in review before
me and I saw them m entally alm ost as
clearly as w ith m y physical eye. T here
was one scene which stayed w ith me
for a considerable tim e and I was
aw are of a keen and unusual in terest in
it, which I did n o t try to analyze. As
I sat in a reclining attitude, really en­
joying the serene m ood of retro sp ec­
tion, it suddenly flashed across my
mind th a t I had seen som ething that
resem bled it years before. T hen I sat
upright and expectant and the same
T,o The World
By The Noted Psychic
Mrs. B elle Skaggs
feeling came over me as had been pres­
ent on the occasion of my first re ­
m em bered notice of Rudolph V alen­
tino. T he same trem or shook me and
m y hand began to trem ble violently.
I lifted my pencil w ith difficulty on
account of this trem bling and sat ready
to w rite. All a t once the trem bling
and the disturbance ceased and I be­
gan to write. I give th e m essage just
as it. came through.
“I, Rudolph V alentino, im plore the
world not to look upon m y m essage as
a th in g of w eird origin and unsolvable
m ystery, for death is sim ply a neces­
sary journey of the soul to an unex­
plored realm of w onderful reality.
“H um anity m ust not shrink from the
th ought of m y spirit^ retu rn in g to
continue life’s sw eet friendship.
“F ear stands betw een reason and '
the tru th , sh u ttin g out the m o rtal’s vi­
sion of spirit land, but death should be
greeted w ith friendly in terest and plans
form ulated by m ortals to simplify the
laws of soul evolution, and hope should
be centered upon follow ing a career of
usefulness in the land of spirit.
“D eath only brings paupers and kings
to the same level and grinds social dis­
tinction into dust.
“C ontrary to m ortal belief, death ab­
solutely does n ot extinguish the ‘glow­
ing flame of existence.’ If it did, then
love would end and sin be w iped from
the reg ister of life. B ut these things
are still here w ith us. Love, in greater
strength, and sin, with a deadlier grip,
holds a m ortgage on the soul for its
erro rs of the past.
“Life vibrates w ith energy beyond
the grave and, for those w ho deserve it,
hope’s light is never dim.
“W e have am bitions to satisfy and
goals ahead to reach, even here. I have
already started ‘on the w ay’ to reach
mine, but it now seems ju st an embryo
germ of hope in the womb of life, a far
distant thing th a t will be m ine to grasp
only after my soul has w on in a m ighty
struggle against opposing forces of the
future years.
“Y our curiosity is now aroused, I
know, so I shall come at once to the
point.
“T h ere is a lock on th e door of life
and disbelief is the custodian of its
queer key, so I am here, ‘on location’,
to strive against determ ined opposition
and solve the problem of th at lock’s
undoing.
“T h at lock, of curious mechanism, is
called by us here, skepticism , and it
has fallen to m y spirit to portray the
character of locksm ith, to study its be­
w ildering com binations and help solve
the riddle of th a t lock’s release, so
tim e m ay finally sw ing back life’s door
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 SHADOW-MEN
E N T E R E D my office one m orning
I very late.
“laten ess”
Somehow the habit of
seemed grow ing upon
me- E ith er I was getting tired of the
m onotonous, uninteresting cases, or I
was sim ply overw orked and needed a
change.
F o r years I had been a surgeon, but
tiring of the eternal knife and ligature,
I had laid them down and had special­
ized in m ental and nervous diseases,
and was now th a t much overestim ated
“som ething” a “P sychiatrist,” but in
reality only an ordinary individual who
made his living through extraordinary
people.
T his m orning seemed dull and the
prospect of the ordinary run of neuras­
thenics not very inspiring.
H alf indolently I donned my office
coat, then touched the bell. T he at­
tendant answ ered at once: “Send in
the first patient, Odile,” I ordered.
Odile looked puzzled and said: “No,
doctor, the first patient says she will
wait, also the next one and the next
one. A -lady who feels very ill insists
th at she will see you first. I will bring
her now .” “All right, Odile,” I laughed.
"F irst or last, it’s all the same to m e.”
Odile w ent out and returned at once
ushering som eone into the office, I
turned as she closed the office door and
found standing before me a w om an
with a m ost extraordinary personality.
I saw at once th a t my run of m onot­
onous patients was to be interrupted.
Facing me rath e r impatiently, she said:
“D octor, there are disesases which
won’t w ait, so I insisted that those out
there who have little the m atter with
them should give me the first appoint­
m ent.” I smiled at her imperiousness.
“Perhaps they will not appreciate your
diagnosis of their troubles in that way,”
I answered. “But never mind, sit here
and tell me w hat I can do for you.”
Q uietly I took her history. It did
By JULIA SETON, M. D.
not am ount to much. H er father had
been an Arm enian, her m other an I ta ­
lian. She had been born in America.
N othing of special in terest in the
family history.
I w atched her as I w rote. She cer­
tainly was a strange m ixture of blood;
tall, fair-skinned, w ith black, curling
hair, eyes big and round and as black
as night, fringed around w ith long,
curly lashes. H er pupils w ere widely
dilated, the eyes alto g eth er too full of
light. H er hands w ere white, aristo ­
cratic, with long, slender fingers that
twitched nervously as she talked. She
was perhaps thirty-five years of age;
she m ight have been tw enty, and yet
som ething about her seem ed at times
to be old, w ith an oldness not of years.
As I looked at her I becam e con­
vinced th a t here was no common
w om an; no common neurasthenic.
T here was som ething hidden behind
the dazzling brightness of those eyes.
No common em otion was behind the
full, red lips th at covered the rows of
broad w hite teeth. T here were no
signs of decay in this body. W hatever
m alady had driven her to seek m e was
hidden deeply in some invisible plane
of consciousness.
We finished the family history and
came to the present history. “W hy
did you come to m e?” I asked, looking
straight into h er eyes. She returned
my gaze fully, never wavering, hesi­
tated a m om ent in words, and then said:
“Because, doctor, I have a devil, and
I w ant to either conquer him or have
him conquer me. I am w orn out and
L L mental diseases are caused by
obsession o f the human mind either
by an idea— a psychic current or a dis­
embodied entity operating from the other
side o f life in astral hypnosis.
tired of the struggle th at forever goes
on betw een us.” “W hat nonsense,” I
answered. “You are foolish; there are
no devils, save your own distorted
thoughts.” “Oh, yes there are,” she
answered. “I see mine, hear him and
he could touch me if I did not fight
him oil. H e w ants to kill me. I killed
him, you know, when ne was on earth
as a man. T hen over there, he turned
into a devil and pursues me.” I looked
deeply into her eyes and I saw that
here was a fixed obsession, and argu­
ment was useless.
Suddenly she leaned forw ard and
grasped m y hands. “L isten to me, doc­
to r,” she pleaded. “No one will listen
to me, only those w ho can never u nder­
stand me. I came to you because the
w orld says you know, and I trusted
th at you would help me through an
experim ent which I m ust make, and
one th a t I dare not attem pt alone.
W on’t you listen, and w on’t you help
m e?” She grew wildly . excited. I
hushed her and then said quietly: “Go
on, tell me your story.”
Then there followed the strangest
story of human consciousness ever re ­
lated. T oo strange to be interpreted,
it can only be repeated. T he story of
a life unknow n in this day and age,
yet, seemingly related with an alm ost
wicked reality to the now. W hile m em ­
ory lasts I shall hear her strangely
m odulated voice talking on and on, and
shall see forever the unfathom able
m ystery of her eyes and face as she
w ent fearlessly into the fatal occult
experiment.
“From chilhood I was queer,” she
said, beginning her story. “I had clair­
voyant vision and hearing. I dream ed
dream s which w ere as real to me as
an actual existence. I saw and con­
versed w ith angels. No m atter how
often my practical parents scolded or
laughed at me about my visions and
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dream s, it never changed them. At
night my room was always filled with
people, and in my sleep I lived in
stran g e countries, and was a different
being. I spoke different languages and
had different names. Before I was eight
years old I knew that I had lived be­
fore, although I had never heard the
w ord reirtcamation. My parents were
deeply' religious—Catholics—and often
threatened to send me to a convent
for training.”
“Strange and incom prehensible all
these dream s and visions seemed to
me then, but the later years revealed
my memory pictures m ore plainly, but
through it all I seemed to be always
w andering in a w orld of shadows.
“But it was not my extended vision,
nor my hearing, nor even my inco­
h eren t habit of recollecting the past
th at made all my trouble. It was one
constant ever-recurring dream —some­
thing more than a dream—a living real­
ity through which I passed night after
night, and from which I awoke in wild
screams of terror. My father and
m other would never listen. ‘N ight te r­
ro rs’ they called them, ‘all due to in­
digestion.’ O ften when the spell had
been very severe they sent for the doc­
to r and treated me with medicine.
“As I grew to girlhood these dreams
grew farther apart, but became m ore
and m ore distinct until this dream of
the night became the whole subject of
m y daily thinking.” H ere she paused.
R aising her eyes she looked at me.
“U pon this dream hangs all my ex­
perience in life.” She paused again.
“Go on,” I said, eager now to hear
the end of. her strange story. She
began again. “In this dream I was
always in Italy in some w onderful in­
side court of a m ighty mansion. In
this court a great fountain played, and
m arvelous flowers were everywhere,
and I was not alone; a m an whom I
loved was w ith me—loved I say—loved
w ith a wild devotion not known in this
w orld, and he loved me. W e w ere
one—body, soul and mind. W e knew
all heights and depths of mad ad o ra­
tion.
“W e w ere both musicians. I sang:
he played on some instrum ent which
had a tone like the m odern ’cello.
T here w as a child, our child, a girl
perhaps seven years old, yellow-haired,
also a musician. Often she sang with
us, but even in my dreams I knew that
only love held us together. Some way,
I belonged to another by law; some
one whom I hated, and from whom I
escaped to live now and then with this
lover in a w orld of our own making.
T his flower-crowned villa was his
home, not mine. O ften I awoke in the
pain of parting from him. T he child al­
w ays rem ained w ith him. At other
times—” and here her voice grew low
and trem bled; “I lived through another
scene; lived it over and over again in
agony. In this scene we were alone
in the garden, my lover and I. We
loved, we sang, the child played in the
fountain. W e were happy—happy—
madly happy. T hen came thundering
blows upon the gate of the garden. It
was b attered down; the servants were
pow erless and the man to whom I be­
longed, with his body guard entered
the court. W e sprang to our feet. H e
m arched brutally upon us. ‘So here
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you are,’ he hissed to me. ‘And this is
your fine lover!’ D raw ing his sword
before the man of the garden could
move, he plunged it through him. He
fell at my feet, the sw ord in his body.
T hen the hated man strove to catch
me by the arm, but some demon of
hatred surged up in me; I drew the
sw ord from the body, and wild with
grief and pain, I struck him—I struck
to kill—w ith all my stren g th I flung
m yself in to the blow. H e w ent down,
falling prostrate across the dead body
of my h ea rt’s devotion. T hen the
guards swarm ed around me. T he child
clung wildly to my knees. W e were
dragged apart. Scream ing wildly, the
child was carried aw ay and w ith the
te rro r of the brutal guards; the screams
of the child in my ears; the m em ory
of my m urdered lover, and my own
blood-stained hands, I awoke w ith
shieks of grief and terror, and th is was
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the ‘night te rro rs’ for which they tre a t­
ed me.”
She paused a m om ent and sat look­
ing at me w ith eyes that saw nothing,
then continued: “This dream was a
reality to me. Sleeping or w aking, it
held my mind, until as I grew older
it became an obsession. I m ust find
those men and the child again. My re­
collecting mind told me th at they were
on earth again in hum an form. I must
find them! I dreaded, yet longed for
that hour to come.
“At last I was tw enty years old and
my life had come to be nothing but an
unspoken search for the shadow people
of the past. I looked into every m an’s
face w ith the inner question—‘Is it
you?’ and at every woman with the
same question. T he shadow men and
child were m ore real to me than the
actual folks whom I met.
“Then one day in a crowded hall,
where a big reception was in progress,
a friend touched my arm and said:
‘Some one is deeply interested in you
and begging for an introduction. May
I bring him ?’ H e w ent away, and
presently I saw him returning with a
stranger. I took one long look at him
as he was approaching; then the room
reeled around me; my h eart beat like
a drum ; I w ent blind, dizzy—, then I
heard a voice in answ er to my friend’s
presentation speak my name. I tried to
answer, and stam m ered some so rt of
a reply. But in th a t m om ent I knew
that the book of the past was open
and I had begun the reading of its
pages.
“From the first I hated him. W hy?
I could not answer. H e was madly
attracted to me. H e never left me..
From that hour he seemed bound to
possess me. Struggle as I would, some­
thing inw ardly gave consent. I knew
that I would m arry him. And I knew
th at he did not love me. H e only
hated me a little m ore than I hated
h im .
“W e were m arried six m onths later.
No one can ever tell how I struggled
not to ma.rry him. Some hidden un­
known force seemed to hold us to­
gether. H e fascinated me; hypnotized
m e .. H e was a charm ing princely man;
beautiful to look at, but a whited sepul-
cliure, full of dead men’s bones. H e
m arried me to to rtu re me. Ide loved
power. My proud spirit attracted him
while it baffled him. H e longed to
conquer me.
“Six years passed. T here w ere many
days w hen I w anted to kill him. His
subtle cruelty, his baseness, all hidden
under a polite sneering smile. H is pre­
tention, his subjection of m y very soul,
Oh, I alm ost scream ed for vengeance
and freedom .” H ere she paused, as in
deep reflection. H er eyes grew b rig h t­
er, her hands tw iched m ore nervously,
but there was no use trying to stop her.
T h e O c c u lt D ig e s t A p r il, 1 9 2 9
F o r just this once I told myself she
would find one soul to listen to her,
who would a t least try to understand.
“Go on,” I said quietly. She clasped
her hands a little more tightly and
continued.” T he rest of the story is
shorter. I knew th at as I had met the
hated man of the garden, I m ust soon
m eet my lover man, and I did. The
hated man brought him to me. Of
course, it could be no other way. The
law had to be fulfilled. Love is always
a short story. Always much shorter
than hate—for love only loves, while
hate destroys.
“One night he came home bringing
a guest to dinner. ‘A m usician,’ he
said, as he introduced him. ‘K now ­
ing your mad love for music, I thought
you would be interested in m eeting
each other.’ O ur eyes m et in the usual
greeting. W hat happened can never
be told, but the past flamed out with
a w hite flash and we both knew- He
turned w hite as death and m uttered
some w ords of introduction. I grew
suddenly faint w ith a heavy sickening
feeling. My husband rang for w ater
and in the confusion we both regained
our com posure. But w hat is w ritten
is w ritten, and I knew that I was
begining the second chapter of my
own records.
“Before a m onth had passed we were
com pletely revealed to each other. The
same mad devotion; the same insepar­
able constantcy colored only by the
opportunities of the situation.
“I tried to stem the destructive tide
of the centuries, but every effort
seemed futile. A fter a while, the hated
man grew suspicious, and then he asked
me about it. I told him the truth,
frankly without deceit or supplication.
It w as night, and in his furious rage
he sent for the musician. W e w ere
alone in the draw ing room ; I knew
that he m eant to kill him. T he m em ory
of the past reeled before me. I knew
why he had sent for him, but I was
pow erless to w arn him. Oh God, the
agony I suffered.
' ‘The musician came, and standing
before him, the enraged one accused
him of loving me. ‘You dog,’ he said,
‘if I killed you in th e past, I will do it
again, and forever as long as you get
in my w ay.’ Quickly he drew a pistol
from his pocket but he never fired it.
The musician w atching his m ovem ent
knocked it from his hands. I screamed
in wild terror. T hey clutched in a
deadly struggle. T he pistol lay in reach
of the m usician’s hand as they clinched
on the floor. H e grasped it, and in a
m om ent of quick advantage, fired.
A gain the balance had been struck. A
life for a life is the eternal equation,
and the hated man lay dead before us.
“T hen I w ent wild, and my mind lost
itself in unconsciousness, at last b lo t­
ting out the vision.
“T here was a trial. The testim ony
of the servants saved the lover-man,
They had seen th e final struggle. My
screams had brought them. T he jury
said: ..............‘In self defense.’
“A fter th at,” here she paused and
looked at me. “Well, w hat could there
be for us after that? C ertainly not
happiness. T he lover-m an w ent away.
Love is not always possession. In some
lives it is only realization. T here was
nothing to do but wait. So we are
waiting. W e have much to do, and the
child is still unrevealed. W e m ust wait
for her. And now this brings me to
my final question, and the reason for
my com ing to you, to tell you about
my devil, and this is w hat no one will
believe, but it is as true as life is true,
and you m ust help me! In the very
m om ent th at my lover and I stood over
the dead body of my husband, he arose
from that body and faced me- H e was
not dead. H e was alive on another
plane of consciousness with the same
hate that had consumed him here. He
spoke to me and made a m ad rush at
me to kill me. T h at was when I w ent
wild and lost consciousness. And for
two years he has followed me night
and day w aiting to spring upon me in
some unguarded m om ent. I m ust keep
an eternal vigilance. T h e m om ent I
am off my guard, he says he will ‘get
me.’
“I see him, hear him in my waking
hours and I battle with him on some
unseen plane at night. I cannot go on
with this battle, D octor, it m ust cease.
One of us m ust win. W hen I speak
to any one about it they say ‘only
halucinations’ and the simple people
call me mad. But doctor I am as sane
as you are. I am only tired of all this
subjective strain; I w ant to end it. I
w ant to try this experim ent with you.
Do you really believe th a t he exists on
that plane? T h a t he can kill or ‘get
me,’ as he calls it, or is it only a mental
thought, and I am obsessed by an idea?
Anyhow, I w ant to give him the
chance; I w ant to find out the truth.
I can battle w ith a certainty, but I am
worn out with this conflict of uncer-
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tainty. If he cannot ‘get me,’ then I
will know that the laws of this world
are proof against the o th er side of the
veil. And if he can, well, then it doesn’t
m atter. I shall be free either living or
dead. W ill you help m e?”
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I looked at her. She had risen from
her chair, her figure draw n up to its
fullest height. She w ent on talking. “I
w ant to summ on him now in your
presence. I w ant to challenge him to
do his w orst, and w ith you beside me,
I will not fear or hesitate. Ah, there
he is! Look, D octor, ju st beside you.”
I sprang to my feet, nothing but em pty
space appeared to me. She was stru g ­
gling with some wild emotion. “This is
m adness,” I said. “W ill you sit down?
I t is time—” She turned fiercely upon
me. “D on’t fail me, D octor, d o n ’t!
D on’t spoil my last chance! I trusted
you to know and help m e.” She sprang
backw ards—“See, there he is, he is
com ing nearer.” She lifted her face.
It grew w hite as death. She to re the
flimsy lace w aist from her breast.
“There, you cow ard,” she said, “come
on, I am ready. Do all th a t you have
power to do. In heaven or hell, I defy
you.” She stood as if turned to stone,
and then— A hissing sound like the
buzz of an electric b attery ran through
the room. An icy chill that seemed
to freeze the blood in my own veins
surged through me. I t struck like ice
against my face. I started tow ard her.
A flash like lightning swung around
her head and pointed to a bluish w hite
flame upon her breast. H er eyes grew
w ider in some unspeakable horror. H er
face set in stony w hiteness, she
staggered forw ard and with a low
moan she sank insensible at my
feet. I rang for the atten d an t and we
lifted her quickly to a couch in the
room. “F ain ted ”, I said. “L et her alone.
O nly w atch her—she will come to.”
T hen I w ent onto the veranda—my
thoughts ran wildly. W ould she come
to? In my heart I doubted it—what
if she w ere really dead—dead and still
in the shadows. W hat was the answ er
to her strange delusion?
My m ind ran alm ost as madly over
her story as had her own. O ne can
get som ew here in speculation about
men and things, but not about prin­
cipalities, personalities and pow ers of
the real unseen; are the veils so thin
after all? Can pow er pass and repass?
Did he get her?
T he medical world would laugh at
such a cause for death. T hey would
say she died of heart failure due to the
exhaustion of prolonged mania—but as
I thought of her w hite set face and
limp form the question repeated itself,
"D id he get h er” ? And by the hissing
electric current thro the room —by the
wave of cold air w hich half froze the
blood in my veins; by the flash of light
around her head and the look of un­
utterable te rro r which froze even into
her insensible face—I could believe
that he did. My mind staggered on—
consciousness is a stran g e thing—it
flashed out after another possibility,
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Man—Archaic and Ultimate
By G. H. POHLAND
H E N not much m ore than a little
W to t myself, I rem em ber a very
stern schoolm istress of German
descent th a t boarded w ith us in the
country home, told us how “Little
Jim m y”—a neighborhood child scarcely
old enough to be in school—laughed
heartily when som eone jokingly told
him th a t he was just as much of an
animal as the pigs and chickens and
horses of the countryside. “L ittle
Jim m y an anim al”-M:he thought con­
vulsed the little boy w ith laughter.
It is true enough indeed that from
the purely biological standpoint man
is an anim al ju st as m uch as any other,
notw ithstanding the fact that Jie is the
m ost highly developed. H ow ever, it
is custom ary in both scientific and
popular circles to regard him as form ­
ing a Kingdom of N ature by himself.
H idebound m aterialists are altogether
w rong in th e ir insistence that he is
nothing more than an organism of
higher developm ent than the other
m em bers of the animal tribe. As O c­
cultism has already taught, and as
science will be forced yet to admit,
there is som ething th at distinguishes
him essentially from his younger
b ro th ers in the plan of organic evolu­
tion. T he ordinary reader may think
th a t this distinction lies in the exclu­
sive possession of a soul. But this is
not the case, fo r anim als possess this
ju st as much as man, to say nothing
of Anim istic and Pantheistic teachings
which attribute some degree of sen-
tiency and vitality to all that exists,
regardless of its form of expression.
I t will give an inkling of w hat we have
in mind if we allude to K orzybski’s
characterization of m an as a “time-
binder.” M athem atical relativity will
aid us not a little here. Man is the
builder of cultures and of civilizations,
aind, according to the teachings of
Occultism, will yet arrive at a com ­
m anding position in the control of his
own spiritual evolution.
As to the date of m an’s origin, there
are still am ong us not a few of the
old-tim e F undam entalists who argue
against science in general and particu­
larly against the doctrine of organic
evolution because, as they say, God
created the w orld exactly 4004 B. C.,
since this is found printed in the m ar­
gin of the Bible. W ith many, the
doctrine of literal inspiration appears
to include not only- the text but the
m arginal chronology and annotations,
besides the dedicatory preface ap­
pended by the tran slato rs of the Au­
thorized Version.
A cursory glance at the supposed
m ythologies of the Chinese will sur­
prise one at the prodigious periods of
tim e som e of th eir histories purport
to embrace. Hundreds of thousands—
yes, m illions—of years are as nothing
to their ancient chroniclers. F or long
the savants of the W est have been
accustomed to regard these as b ut fan­
ciful, albeit interesting legends, with­
out th e slightest foundation in fact and
utterly incapable of verification. In
India, as well, the vast native litera­
tures n arrate events supposed to have
occurred to the children of men during
epochs that cover incalculable millions
of years, and w hat is m ore rem arkable
yet, is that the g reat mass of these
legends have not a little of an internal
general consistency about them which
would im press profoundly any h isto ri­
cal student w ere he dealing, n ot w ith
m yths or legends trea tin g of an in­
conceivable ancient historical epoch,
but w ith some com paratively recent
but hitherto uninvestigated historical
field. I t is only needful to advise a
prolonged and unprejudiced exam ina­
tion of the Secret Doctrine by H. P.
B lavatsky to convince th e student th a t
such is actually the case. But it is
necessary to w arn the reader th a t this
is an encyclopaedic com pilation of an
enorm ous fund of authentic m aterial as
yet com paratively unstudied by W e st­
ern researchers and th a t a cursory in­
spection alone will accom plish nothing
w orth while.
It has been stressed incessantly by
the attackers of religious systems that
religionists are prone, at least in the
occidental world, to needlessly restrict
the period of tim e actually covered by
the existence of the hum an race. Ac­
cording to the scientific antagonists of
religion, a few hundred thousand years
m ust be required for the evolution of
the entire animal creation, including
man. N ow scientists are som ew hat
hesitatingly suggesting that perhaps
m illions of years w ere required. T he
real figures, when m ore is known about
the m atter, will probably reach a s tro ­
nom ical proportions.
In a supposedly superstitious book
replete with profound scholarship,
which I have in my possession, it is
stated that 18,000,000 years span the
period covered by man as we know
him now.
W e have n ot the space here to give
detailed argum ents in favor of the ex­
trem ely archaic period covered by
human development. L et the reader
who wishes to pursue this further
look up the nam e W . S co tt-E llio tt in
the card files of the great libraries.
All we can say now is th a t the theory
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A
Today
The Sage and
T H E youth came to the church door
^ and looked in. H e heard the p ar­
son’s high-pitched voice declare,
“T here is no o th er way—but to be
born again.”
“T h a t’s Greek to me,” said the youth,
as he turned away. “I guess I will go
to h ear w hat Ram Das has to say for
him self—he has a good line of talk to
hand out—it’s new. T his old stuff sort
of gets m e tired, or leaves me cold
or som ething.”
Ram Das sat in the shade, leaning
against an adobe wall. T he youth
knew w here to find Ram Das because
th a t w as his accustom ed place when­
ever he was n ot toiling in Ah Sing’s
vegetable garden, coaxing from the rich
soil delectable delicacies fo r the prosper­
ous residents of Santa Barbara. The
youth squatted against the wall—and
waited. H e w atched a colony of ground
squirrels tantalizing a lively terrier up­
on the hillside opposite. T he ground
squirrels would sit in the entrances of
th eir dw ellings and squeak at him. T he
frantic dog would te ar from one to the
o th e r of his torm entors, m issing each
by an ace, yet like a jum ping-jack al­
ways ju st m issing as the ground
squirrel disappeared into his burrow.
T he day was hot, the youth dozed as
he w atched the endless comedy repeat
itself ad infinitum.
“W e are tied to the wheel by our
five senses,” crooned Ram Das. “T he
senses love the w heel—nothing could
m ake them forget the w heel—-except
. . . T o know w hat the wheel teaches
is, indeed, a v ery strange thing. I t
would seem th at we m ust, know w hat
it teaches—to prepare for the light
when it comes to the darkness. But
we m ust always rem em ber th a t th ere is
no real darkness.”
T he youth yawned, “I ’ve seen it
p retty dark—I think th at there is d ark­
ness, all rig h t.”
“T here is no place w here some light
is not,” stated Ram Das, positively. “It
could not be expected in the nature of
A llness.”
“T he grave m ust be p retty dark,” the
youth persisted. “I can think of things
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Jw*
The Youth
quicker than you. I guess that the
bottom of the sea is dark enough to
suit anyone.”
“W e are tied to the wheel by our
five senses,” asserted Ram Das, com ­
m encing again: “B ut if all the five
senses w ere taken away one by one,
that w hich was left, and had never been
touched by the false m essages of the
senses—th a t som ething which is left
would be th a t which is lighted, when
the tim e arrives for it to be lighted.
As a ray of sunlight glinting on a fire
opal, th at som ething is aw akened from
a sensuous dream ing and as the con­
ception progresses, the false sense of
m atter falls from the soul as it rises to
quaff th e full brightness of being, w ith
lips ever thirsty for more of the
M other p art of the F ather, and unfolds
to the stature of manhood. In con­
tem plation I view such a process of
unfolding, and marvel th a t out of n o th ­
ing has sprung that which m ay so re-
splendently praise the cause of its be­
ing. . . . Ah, your pardon, young sahib,
I have gone, perhaps, beyond you in­
to realm s of thought w here you are
unable to follow?”
“Aw, gee whiz, no,” said the youth
as he rose to his feet. “I get you all
right. You just m ean ‘being bom
again,’ I reckon. T h a t’s all you’re driv­
ing at, ain’t it?” H e dusted the seat of
his -pants w ith a flip of his hand. “I ’ve
got to be off now, Ram Das, or th at
dog will get into a fit chasing
squirrels, in this heat. You see, he
don’t learn things, so quick as I do.
So long—w atch your step, Ram Das—
adios.”
Feebly, as the youth departed, Ram
Das waved a limp hand in farewell.
“W onders of glory untold!” he ejacu­
lated, w eak w ith astonishm ent. “W hat
a stran g e land to be in—-where the lads
know m ore than the sages—I m ust beg
of the young sahib m ore m orsels of
wisdom—I shall learn of him much to
take back to the hom eland w ith me
when I go—yes, I shall learn much,
much indeed, if I can only keep the
young sahib from hopping about like
a cricket.”
WILL YOU BE BURIED ALIVE?
By DR. ADOLPH F. LONK
H E phenom ena connected with
T trance and other form s of ap ­
parent death cannot fail to
appeal to w onder loving minds. Now
and then, a case of prem ature burial
sends a thrill of h o rro r through the
com m unity, but the lesson that it
teaches, th a t less haste should be m ani­
fested in com m itting deceased persons
to their silent homes, does not seem
to be heeded, and at present the body
is hardly cold before the undertaker
is called on to perform his task.
An em inent professor m ost earnestly
and solemnly enjoined his medical
students, never presum e to decide posi­
tively th a t any person is dead, until
that infallible evidence mortification
appears, for there have been a vast
num ber of cases w here all ordinary
tokens of death failed to tell the real­
ity, and vitality was developed into
restorative action, with life continuing
for years after.
In ancient tim es, the Greeks and Ro­
m ans took w arning from sim ilar occur­
rences, and prohibited the early burial
of their dead- T he first recorded in­
stance of recovery to life of an indiv­
idual about to be buried, was th at of
a w oman in A grigentum , in ancient
Greece, w hose funeral was arrested by
Em pedocles, a man of g reat medical
skill. H e resto red her to life, and she
lived for m any years after. L ater a
law was passed forbidding interm ent
of deceased persons until the elapse of
three days, then custom extended this
period to six or seven days, during
which time, if anim ation w ere simply
suspended, precautions were taken to
restore it, often w ith satisfactory re­
sults.
In Rome, at the tim e of Pompeii, a
physician detected signs of life in a
person on a funeral pyre w hich had
already been lighted and was burning
furiously. H ow ever, the flames were
extinguished, and the individual re­
suscitated.
A nother R om an by the name of
Aviola was less fortunate. H aving
fallen into a lethargic fit, he w as taken
for dead and placed upon the lighted
pyre. H e was revived by the heat and
attem pted to arise, but was killed by
the flames before the spectators could
rem ove him.
Lam ia, the praetor, met a sim ilar
fate, while Tubero, who had form erly
been praetor, was saved by signs of
life which were accidently discovered
as he was being laid upon the pyre.
T here are many cases recorded by
physicians, of the apparently dead
having been resto red to life.
Some tw enty or m ore years ago, my
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sister was dying. O ur family doctor,
who was also som ew hat of a psychol­
ogist, was called a t once, but failing
to locate him im m ediately, my father
called in an o th er doctor. A fter a few
m inutes this doctor pronounced my
sister dead. T he und ertak er was n o ti­
fied and oth er plans for her burial were
made. O ur family doctor, who had
not learned of my sister’s death, not
having received my fath e r’s second
message, called late th a t evening. H e
insisted on making several tests upon
my dead sister. H e bathed her in hot
water, whispered som ething into her
ear at intervals (no doubt suggestions,
as the subconscious mind can pick
them up and act upon them even
though the conscious m ind is blank),
and finally restored her to life. She
recovered rapidly, and today is a high
school teacher in Chicago and the
m other of tw o healthy children. H ad
the u n d ertak er arrived th at evening
before our family doctor, I feel certain
the story would have ended differently.
Bruhier, a medical w riter, has col­
lected one hundred and eighty cases in
which persons still living were treated
as dead. Fifty-tw o of these were ac­
tually buried alive, four w ere opened
before death, fifty-three revived spon­
taneously after being placed in their
coffins, and seventy-tw o others were
supposed to have died when they did
not.
In Greece, at the present time, the
last jo u rn ey follows quickly upon
death. T he day after the person is sup­
posed to have died, the w hite-robed
priests and choristers may be seen
w inding along the road tow ard the
church w here the corpse, dressed as
in life, and with face uncovered, lies
before the altar, until the moment a r­
rives when it m ust be com m itted to
the earth. T he last farew ell is given
here in the church.
W hat of th at terrible last journey in
the cold earth, w here the dying E s­
quimau is closed up in his snow house
and left to die alone, or of the African
tribe, who bury their hopelessly sick
before death, hurrying them out of the
w orld altogether. This is called an
affectionate leave of their relatives, and
the perform ance of this burying is
carried out w ith the consent of the
person m ost concerned.
Mr. V ett Case, of Sandy Creek, in
w estern New York, was attacked by
scarlet fever. U pon the fourth of
January, the physician pronounced him
dead. Tw o days later he was buried
in Sandy Creek Cemetery. A few
weeks later his father was taken ill
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§ A Wondrous Story of Creation
SOUL MATES
By
( Continued from March)
LAY upon a sort of surgical operat­
ing table.
My completely nude body was
securely strapped, so that I could move
only my h ea d ; I was gagged, and from
a large silvered reflector directly above
me, a cluster of high-powered electric
globes hurled down a flood of intense
white light upon me, creating about the
operating table an illuminated circle a
dozen or more feet in diameter.
And beyond this circle of light I saw,
rising upward and outward, lost in the
impenetrable gloom of the upper regions,
a vast amphitheatre, whence row upon
row of gleaming and glittering eyes
stared down upon me from under black
hoods.
A sudden dreadful sensation of utter
helplessness in the presence of great
danger rushed over me, and I made a
desperate effort to rise. But the broad
heavy leather straps held me like bands
of steel, and the gag in my mouth nearly
choked me because of my violent exer­
tion.
At this moment a voice—deep, solemn
and authoritative—rolled through the vast
cavern-like place like the basso of a great
pipe organ.
The voice seemed to come from direct­
ly above me. And, by straining my eyes
to their extreme upper limit, I could just
see the speaker.
It was my mysterious, terrible, ascetic
host.
His strange words, like a judicial sen­
tence to a doomed prisoner, came to me
with awful distinctness.
“Brothers of Trism egistus!” he ad­
dressed the ghostly assembly. “You see
here before you the subject I promised
to you. I have read his worthless mind.
He is a wanderer upon earth, an adven­
turer, a creature of whims and impulses,
useless to himself and to the world,
therefore quite adequate for our pur­
poses.”
“Therefore I have selected him. F ur­
thermore, in the case of his possible
death, he will not be m issed!”
The utter cold-bloodedness and merci­
lessness of the words sent a cold shiver
of dread through me. It was as if a vivi-
sectionist were discussing the dissection
of a worm.
A murmur of satisfaction ran through
the amphitheatre; but was immediately
silenced by an imperious gesture from the
chief, who continued:
“Since some of the members here to­
night were not present during the last
GEORGE PAUL BAUER
meeting, I shall give a short outline of
our business at this time, for their benefit!
“As we all know, the greatest force,
and the swiftest, is the power of thought.
Thought force can be sent to the utter­
most ends of the universe in an instant.
Controlled and directed by the power of
will, its uses are practically unlimited.
“Therefore, as I have previously ex­
plained, I have conceived the idea that it
is possible, by means of the concentrated
and combined thought force of the as­
sembled brotherhood, to release the soul
of a subject from its physical body, and
send it, clothed only in its astral cover­
ing, to any place of the universe desired,
where it is then able to gather knowledge
self-consciously.
“Then, after a predetermined time, the
disembodied soul can in like manner be
recalled, by means of conveying the unit­
ed thought command of the brotherhood
here assembled, over the subject’s mag­
netic cord, which, as we also know, ever
serves as a connecting link between the
soul and its physical body, until death of
the latter has actually occurred.
“In this manner, I conceived, it will be
possible for the brotherhood to obtain
knowledge of the most vital importance,
which would otherwise be absolutely im­
possible to obtain. O f course it is clear
that, if for any reason the subject should
refuse voluntarily to divulge the inform a­
tion it has gathered, it will be quite easy
to obtain this hypnotically.”'
He stopped, and allowed his glance to
travel over his audience.
“Have I made myself clear?”
A swelling murmur of assent came
from the hooded brotherhood.
The chief nodded, satisfied, and raised
his right hand for attention.
“The present problem to be solved is
to discover the exact conditions prevail­
ing upon the su n !”
His voice rose in command.
“We will begin! Remember! Each
one of you must will strongly that the
subject’s soul pass from his physical
body, and travel to the sun. Hold the
thought intensely, and picture the process
clearly!”
“R eady! All together now, O n e! T w o !
T h re e!—N ow !”
For the space of about a minute or so
nothing happened.
But I was sickeningly conscious of the
hundreds of glittering eyes concentrated
upon me, their merciless stare seeming to
penetrate my unprotected body like a
myriad of sharp tiny arrows.
And then—
Suddenly a tremendous tidal wave of
impelling force rushed over me—over­
whelmed me—against which my weak­
ened will power battled in vain.
I sensed an intense vibration of my en­
tire organism—a terrific tension as if my
body would burst asunder. And then the
utterly amazing thing— !
For suddenly I seemed to float above
the operating table, and gazed down upon
my physical counterpart—the shell out of
which I, the soul, had just slipped.
It was a sensation so weird, so utterly
strange, that mere words are inadequate
to describe it.
I was conscious that the chief of the
mysterious brotherhood was still standing
at the head of the operating table, with
his concentrated gaze fixed upon the face
of my physical body.
Yet, somehow, as I gazed at him, and
glanced at the other members, I knew
that I was not seeing their physical
bodies, but some finer kind of covering
beneath. For the bodies I saw were lumi­
nous, with centers of bright vibrating
light, where I knew their brains and
other nerve centers were located.
All these things I realized much later.
For at the time I was too utterly bewild­
ered by my unheard-of condition, and it
all happened in the space of a moment.
The next instant, as if hurled by a
cyclopean hand, I shot upward and away
from the Earth.
I was dimly conscious of unthinkable
speed, and for a fraction of time sensed
utter darkness and silence.
Then, with the velocity of thought it­
self, I was hurtling straight downward
into a vast disc of dazzling white brilli­
ance—T H E S U N !
It was an indescribable condition!
But—strange to say—I sensed not the
slightest fear. Instead a vast feeling of
ecstatic exhilaration possessed me.
I was free!
A freedom such as never was. Free
from the body of physical m atter that
had hitherto chained me to earth and its
narrowness, and back into the state of
original bliss; whence temporarily I had
been called to be incarnated into an en­
velope of flesh, to work out a certain
phase in my existence.
These were the thoughts that flashed
into my consciousness.
I knew now, with the absolute knowl­
edge of personal experience, that I was
truly a soul, clothed temporarily in some
sort of covering of intensely high vibra­
tion, and that I was—deathless!
And then, with the joyous abandon of
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an enthusiastic swimmer taking to water,
I shot into the intense white chromo­
sphere of the sun.
For the fraction of a moment all was
whiteness and light—
Then I was through, and emerged—
into H E A V E N !
For there below me, seemingly rushing
up towards me to embrace me, was—
S O L A R IS !
Solaris, the transcendently glorious
land of Ala-aa-e-e, the demi-god; and
Dee-a-a—
But I anticipate.
All this I saw in perhaps a millionth
part of a second. Then suddenly I lost
i consciousness.
c h a pter III.
A GES, eons, eternities had passed per­
haps—it would have been all the
same to me. Then I opened my eyes upon
a strange wondrous condition.
I seemed to form the center of a cloud
of nacreous iridescence, which whirled,
eddied and swirled about me, in a thou­
sand bewildering colors, shades, and
nuances—a luminous, glittering scintillat­
ing substance which was yet clear, with
the purity of a finely-cut diamond.
I was in a vertical position, suspended
in the atmosphere by some invisible
force. And now the multicolored, opal­
escent substance enveloping me became
rapidly denser, drew closer to me, melted
into me.
And suddenly, with the inherent eternal
wisdom of the soul, I knew that I had in­
carnated upon the Sun—into a world of
unthinkable wonders, as I was soon to
learn.
And with my incarnation came vision.
Immediately I saw myself surrounded
by a number of beings of such beauty,
marvellous symmetry of body, and
radiant splendor that words fail me to
describe them.
Those who received me and welcomed
me were masculine—men.
Perhaps, if one were to take the most
( Continued on page 30)
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Were You Born
In The Sign
N MARCH 21, the Sun, having
O passed the Vernal Equinox, enters
Aries. Children born in Aries (March
21 to April 19) this year will require the
watchful care of their parents. These
little ones will be exceptionally bright,
tending to a touch of genius, but they will
also be very impulsive and independent,
likely to resent any interference with their
desires.
The Aries born have the true pioneer
spirit, and those whose horoscopes are
unafflicted are very courageous and
dauntless. They greatly desire leadership
and do not fear or recognize opposition,
but press forw ard in the face of the most
trying obstacles. It has been said of them
that “they will enter where Angels fear
to tread.”
Aries people are adapted to the more
aggressive positions in life. Many of
them are surgeons, soldiers, surveyors,
and insurance, book, real estate, and other
high pressure types of salesmen. As
merchants, they do best with stocks which
may be rapidly turned over. “Quick sales
and small profits” is a good slogan for
them. The better educated and trained
Aries people have excellent executive
ability—a fact of which they are generally
well aware, since they have abundant
confidence in themselves. Because of this
over-confidence, they may become reck­
less, with disastrous results. Aries
people may be successful architects, or­
ganizers, leaders, designers, promoters,
detectives, surveyors, inspectors, fore­
men, managers, lecturers, novelists, short
story writers, reform ers or elocutionists.
The men and women of the sign make
excellent scholars and are charming con­
versationalists and good entertainers.
They adore beauty, order and harmony.
The women especially are- fond of ele­
gance and beautiful, luxurious surround­
ings, and when they are of the more ad­
vanced type, they create such surround­
ings for themselves through their own
ambition and aggressiveness,
One of the faults of the Aries born is
a tendency to over-estimate their ability.
They are apt to become very enthusiastic
about whatever work they have in hand,
but they tire of any long drawn out work.
They should learn to finish what they
start and not be turned away from their
original intent. Since they prefer con­
tinual change, they should never, when
choosing their life work, waste time
studying for professions requiring close,
monotonous application.
Aries people are self-willed, opinion-
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^ A r e You a Pioneer?
1 ) T 1 M arch 21st
JL to APril l9th
By J. EDMOND RYAN
plaints, fevers and diseases arising from
ated, and inclined to act upon impulse.
Their anger is easily aroused and violent
while it lasts. W orry works havoc with
excesses, also headache, nervous prostra­
tion, disease of the eyes, earache and,
their nervous systems. In fact, they should with an afflicted Saturn in their chart,
be careful not to overwork the brain in bad teeth.
Aries people should set aside some time
WHY WAS IT YOU? each day during which they may com­
B y P a u l R o b so n pletely relax and rest. They ought to
W e d rifte d a p a r t. avoid all stimulants and be very careful
T h e re w a s n o th in g
To hold us to g e th e r of their diet. Meat should be eaten as
B u t L ove— sparingly as possible, and foods that do
And t h a t h a d fled.
T he flam e o f passion not heat the blood are best for them.
G ro w in g h o tte r
W ith th e w a n in g In affairs of the heart, Aries people
Of th e L ig h t o f L ove, are not always constant, but if they find
U n til, a s d a rk n e s s closed a b o u t us.
R ed s tr e a m e r s sh o t th e gloom — their true mates, they make very loving
L u rid s tr e a k s
Of r u d d y lig h t companions. They find suitable mates in
T h a t m a d e a ll n a tu r e g h a s tly — rep u lsiv e. Sagittarius (November 22 to December
T he fe rv e n t h e a t of H ell
S corched m e u n til I fled. 20), but profit most from uniting with
Once I tu rn e d
To look f o r you those born between July 22 and August
A s a m e m o ry — 21. (This is given as a general tendency;
A sh a d o w of th e love t h a t w as,
T ouched m y sh o u ld e r. a careful survey of the two birth charts
I looked in v ain .
You w ere gone. should be made' by couples contemplating
O nly th e d a rk n e ss marriage.)
And re d glow of p a ssio n w a s th e re .
So up I stu m b le d — alone. Those with Aries rising at the ascend­
T he p ain of o u r p a r tin g ,
A h a u n tin g m em ory. ant at birth will be more impulsive than
H ow I w ish e d their Sun sign indicates and will have
T h e re m ig h t h a v e been
Som e o th e r bond, many of the tendencies given above,
B u t th e re w a s none— though in a somewhat modified form.
O nly L ove— an d t h a t w a s gone.
M elted by P a s s io n ’s fe rv e n t h e a t. They will be ardent in religious or poli­
Up to h ig h H e a v e n tical affairs. Their financial condition
I. ascen d ed — alone.
Tn th e G re a t F o re v e r, will tend to be variable; they may have
T 'ie G re a t S ilence strife or legal troubles in connection with
E n c o m p assed m e a b o u t—
A d eep a n d a b id in g P e a c e — money. The finances of the women may
J o y ineffable.
Y et th e re w e re none be much involved. There will be fre­
To s h a r e it. quent changes of residence and in the
T w a s a lo n e —
W ith m e m o ry of you. family affairs. The end of most of the
And t h a t g r e a t P a s s io n
W h ich h a d m ad e L i f e - H e l l enterprises will be rather unsettled.
F o r b o th of us. Persons with Aries rising are also
D elicious p ain
H eld u s e n t h r a l l e d ! liable to have few children. They like
C h a rm ed by th e S e rp en t
Of D esire, the theatre and amusements, and many
W e d id n o t w a n t to leave, of them do well as actors. They en­
W h ile th e v e ry so u ls of us
C ried o u t in agony, counter troubles in their travels, espe­
T h ere cam e a voice fro m H eav en . cially in foreign countries. Usually they
M ine w a s th e soul to h e a r :
"T h is is n o t L ove y o u c h e rish — attain high positions and they favor big
I t is H a te .
L ook— ’T is a M o n ster y o u e m b r a c e !” businesses, corporations, or government
N ow I ask . affairs. Persons with Aries rising should
W h y w a s it you
And n o t a n o th e r exercise great care in selecting their life
T h a t k e p t m e in H ell?
partners.
S ta n d in g th u s
In th e g r e a t h e ig h ts The planets most likely to influence the
Of e te r n a l bliss— life during the three decanates of Aries
I w a s alone.
T h e re w a s none rising are: 1st decanate, M ars; 2nd
To s h a re m y joy.
W ith you, m y h a p p in e ss decanate, Mars and the S u n ; 3rd deca­
W o u ld b e com plete. nate, Mars and Jupiter.
B u t w h e re are y o u ? —
In H ell. Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac.
O ut o f th e P a s t It is a cardinal, fiery, and positive sign,
T h e re com es a Voice.
I tu r n to see w ho speaks— ruled by Mars.
And th e r e y o u s ta n d Chief characteristic............... Dauntlessness
In sh in in g robes,
And m y h e a r t sin g s w ith joy, Virtues. .Courage, Self-sacrifice, Intuition
F o r I h a v e fo u n d —
M Y BELF! Vices ......................................... Rashness,
Restlessness, Blind Passion, Indiscretion
any way, since their sign rules the head. Ruling Planet........................................Mars
They arc liable to inflammatory com­ (Continued on page 40)
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dA p p lie d Psychology
By
H E World W ar marked two events
T of epochal importance which passed
almost unnoticed by the frenzied
populace, but which will receive the ut­
most attention in due time.
One of these events was the martyrdom
and passing of Professor Hugo Munster-
berg of H arvard University, who was a
student of the philosopher W undt, and a
close associate of Professor William
James.
Professor Munsterberg helped to found
the science of psychotechnics with the
m otto: “The right man in the right place.”
He belonged to the school of experi­
mental psychology, as opposed to the
philosophical school, which regarded
psychology merely as a part of philosophy.
Disregarding the bitter opposition of
the impractical theorists, Munsterberg
sought ways and means of applying the
known facts about the mind to everyday
life and particularly to the fields of busi­
ness and industry.
The tests he worked out were useful
in discovering certain special faculties in
In Big Business
DR. C. W. CHAMBERLAIN
the human subject in his relation to cer­
tain trades, such as in the telephone in­
dustry. While limited, for the most part,
to the senses—to muscular reaction, visi­
bility, audibility and the like, M unster­
berg clearly demonstrated the value of
his experimental work.
Despite his death, his methods have
been amplified and carried on by a small
group of technicians, and the utmost ad­
vantages have resulted to those farsighted
business men who have ma^e use of them.
W here the psycho-technicians have had
a background of practical business or in­
dustrial training, the work has met with
instant approval by the hard-headed
business man despite his deep-set preju­
dice against anything which seems to
come from a university laboratory.
The second event of epochal import­
ance, a consequence of the W orld W ar,
was the realization in the minds of the
public, that the psychological functions
had a striking relationship to the body
and all physical functioning.
The two events were related, one fol­
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lowing the other, and the most brilliant
minds of Europe and America turned to
the study of such psychic mechanics as it
seemed might help to solve the perplex­
ing problems of a world at war.
That these problems increased in com­
plexity when the period of reconstruction
arrived was apparent. Business men,
statesmen, and industrial leaders turned
to the new technicians for aid in facing
the new problems.
Few in number, the psychologists gave
willingly of their meager knowledge. The
new scinece was in its infancy, much of
the material was empirical, but it worked,
and the world awakened to the fact that
psychology and the study of man’s mental
functions could be discussed and under­
stood by the layman, and applied to
everyday life as practically as could the
sciences of electricity, mathematics and
physics.
In America were born such -organiza­
tions as the Psychology Corporation and
similar groups, made up of practical-
( Continued on page 34)
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p iS C E S , or the Piscean Age is fin­
ished. Pisces m eans fishes; feet
means fish; Jesus means fish. You will
rem em ber that Jesus talked much of
fishes and th a t he selected his disciples
from am ong the fishermen; he also bap­
tized w ith water, the natural element
of fish.
Jesus foretold the tim e when the Son
of Man—A quarius—should come, for
astrology, as well as kindred sciences,
is alluded to in the Bible. So now
com es the A quarian Age and a new
w orld teacher. W hen and how will this
teacher come? “W hen no man know-
eth.” Aquarius is an air sign and the
mind of Man in the Aquarian Age will
be concerned w ith overcom ing air lim­
itations, ju st as in the Piscean Age we
were concerned with overcom ing w ater
lim itations.
T he new age will be W om an’s Age,
w ith the m aternal spirit ruling hum an­
ity. It will bring the millenium in
which the F atherhood of God and the
B rotherhood of Man will be more than
m ere sm oke-screens of words. It will
be an age c?f modified socialisms when
the artificial burdens of those who la­
bor will be lessened. And all this will
be brought about by em ancipated W o ­
man, the “Goddess of the Gateway of
Life.” M otherhood will be enlightened.
W om en are now in revolt against the
old customs—the enslaving dogmas of
the Piscean Age. America, the Land of
Prom ise, has given them the vote; they
already hold high and influential posi­
tions throughout the country, but they
still have much to accom plish in an
educational w ay before they can really
rule the nation with w isdom and with
love. T he m other ideal of the V irgo
was brought out during the Piscean
Age. Now com es the tim e of immacu­
late conception. “A nd H e was con­
ceived by the H oly G host” which means
breath. M ary m eans w ater; it is de­
rived from the ancient H ebrew word
men. There is an inner meaning here
th at is interesting in the extrem e which
will be revealed through symbology.
T he curves in our alphabet are the
rem nants of pictures form erly made to
depict the em otional or feminine side
of life. V ery well, if this new age be
Woman’s Age, may we not expect the
aw akening of emotion, wedded to rea­
son, or the immaculate conception?
W hat will this mean? It will mean uni-
<!Numerology and
The Aquarian Age
By FLORENCE M. ESTES
versal brotherhood and sane govern­
ment w ith sane legislation to effect the
common good.
T he w riter recently heard a very
good simile: “U ncle Sam, or the U nited
States, is a com posite man whose brain
to backbone ratio is the same as in the
average man, or A m erican.” In the in­
dividual, the percentage of brain is two
per cent. Intelligence tests show th at
this same ratio obtains nationally and
only two per cent of the people in the
U nited States can think, th at is, d ra w '
a correct conclusion from a given set of
circumstances. Is it wise then, to give
the pow er of the vote to people who
cannot think? A re we satisfied with
many of our judicial decrees or do we
think they m ight be bettered? T h ere is
only one opinion am ong thinking peo­
ple on this score. W hy do our w om en’s
organizations try to instruct in the right
use of the vote? Do you not see th at
we are com ing into the Age of W om an,
that W om an will become the saviour of
the world by adding heart to intellect?
The tim e will come when the voting
HUMAN DEFECTS
W
E O FTEN notice little peculiarities in
the lives of our friends; little de­
fects which sometimes mar an otherwise
beautiful and exemplary life. We usually
class these defects as human nature and
pass them by. We do not let our friends
know that we observe them, for perhaps
we have learned that even a mere men­
tion of these defects, or peculiarities, will
often wound or else insult these people.
But these traits of character are not hu­
man n atu re; they are not inherited from
our progenitors, but had their origin in
some untimely contact with the world
during the life of the particular indi­
vidual. For, as one slight peck by a bird
will often produce upon a choice tree an
unsightly defect which even the most
skilled orchardist is unable to efface, so
one untimely—although trivial—word or
look may produce in the mind of a child,
and even in the mind of a full-grown per­
son, a wound that will mar the character
throughout the remainder of life. Occa­
sionally the individual is unconscious of
his defects. But more often he is con­
scious of them, and they become a thorn
in his flesh and keep him continually
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privilege will be settled by question­
naires. If a person has an intelligent
view of the issue upon w hich he is to
vote, let him vote; if he has not, of w hat
use is the vote to him? T h e trouble is
th at it is th e unintelligent p ortion of
our population th a t somehow gets to
the polls; those w hose vote should
weigh m ost usually stay away, neglect­
ing th eir greatest duty. W e. should re ­
m em ber th at we are verily our b ro th ­
er’s keepers, and the two per cent who
think should do so for all the | rest who
never think, although they should not
do so for selfish reasons, as they do
now, or there will be reactions which
will ultim ately destroy them.
T he Bible speaks of the “w isdom of
the serpent.” T he serpent referred to
is the spinal cord. And when th e life-
force is drawn, according to th e law of
regeneration which Jesus taught, up the
spinal cord to the brain, the pituitary
body and the pineal gland (or h eart of
the brain) are made to vibrate, thus
connecting the ego with the invisible
( Continued on page 42)
irritated.
When conscious of a defect the a f­
flicted person will often endeavor to
conceal it. He will battle hard to hold
it in check, but as a rule he will be unable
to cope with it. For, although it may
have been produced by some incident that
was so trivial that no one else would have
noticed it, it sank so deep into his mind
that psychologists and scientists have
been unable to find a remedy to remove
it.
As an illustration of the theory I am
advancing, I will mention an incident that
occurred in the life of my mother. When
mother was about sixteen years of age
an old gentleman named Vincie W (—)
came into the neighborhood in which she
lived. He was a highly respectable old
fellow—a widower, and upon meeting
mother endeavored to pay her court. His
advances were promptly repulsed, but he
would not admit defeat. In fact he was
s j persistent in his suit that at last he
made himself obnoxious in the sight of
the young girl. Of course her sisters, as
-asters will, joked about her “beau.” This
made matters worse. It tended to make
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§ Are Dreams Connected With The Spirit World?
CONTACT
A Story by
FTER dinner the guests were sitting
A over their coffee and cigars in the
draw ing room discussing psychical ex­
periences and spiritualistic experim ents,
along w ith the legerdem ain of the late
Houdini. One sceptical gentlem an, who
w orried about nothing save his bridge
and golf game, insisted th at the in­
credible tales his friends were recount­
ing w ere m ere pranks of over-vivid
imaginations.
“But who really know s anything of
the supernatural—to say nothing of the
n atu ral?” asked one gentlem an. “Surely
you are broadm inded enough to adm it
the possibility of souls com m unicating
with each other across space?”
“R o t,” denied the other, “why do
these choice occurrences only happen
to the few—and never to anyone one
know s?”
“T hat is w here you are w rong,” ex­
claimed one of the ladies. “I can tell
you som ething that happened to a
friend of m ine:
“Some years ago, in a small town
in Connecticut, lived a Mrs. K.---------
with her husband and family of three
By R. E. CEMANS
the old fellow even more obnoxious in
the girl’s sight. Then one day mother
and one of her sisters were gathering
some apples from the orchard. An un­
usually beautiful apple upon one of the
trees resisted all efforts to bring it down,
until at last mother decided to climb the
tree. She had almost reached her goal
when her foot slipped and she fell to the
ground. The hurt that was produced by
the fall was not serious, but when
coupled with the disappointment at her
failure to get the apple it annoyed her
until she hid h e r . face in her hands and
commenced to cry. Upon discovering
that she was not badly hurt, her sister
commenced to. tease her about the fall.
This added to the intensity of the feeling
that caused her to cry, but doubtless she
would have recovered soon had another
trivial incident not happened. Presently
a redbird in the top of a nearby tree com­
menced to sing. Teasingly, her sister
turned,.to mother and said: “Jane, listen
to that redbird. H e is saying ‘Vincie
W (—), Jane’s hurt; Vincie W (—),
Jane's hurt.’ ” Mother listened, and sure
enough it seemed to her that the bird was
JAN JOEL
children. She had been a beauty in
her day and even now is a very fine
appearing woman, with a jolly dis­
position. A lthough of Catholic faith,
she told me the follow ing story—a
personal experience she had while re­
siding in that city, her girlhood home.
As a girl she had had m any adm irers,
am ong whom was a young man suf­
fering with tuberculosis. A fter her
m arriage, she continued her friendship
with him, pitying his poor state of
health. But as his affection for her did
not wane, she felt it best to avoid see­
ing him.
“O ne day she received a letter from
his sister asking her to call, as Tom
was in a very feeble condition and
w anted to see her. She w ent to the
house and found him so critically ill
that she determ ined to resum e her
visits and give, him w hat happiness she
could in the sh o rt tim e th a t rem ained
for him. H ow ever her small son fell
ill and she was obliged to devote her­
self entirely to him.
“Several weeks passed. One night
she had a weird dream in which she
actually warbling those very words.
This caused an intense hatred of that
bird to enter her heart. Of course it was
a trivial incident, but before she realized
it the hatred had become so firmly em­
bedded in her heart that she was never
quite able to dislodge it. From that day
on throughout the remainder of her life,
she could never bear to listen to the
warbling of a redbird. She was con­
scious of her defect and often tried to
overcome it. But to the day of her death
the warbling of a redbird would annoy
and unnerve her.
I could cite many more instances illus­
trative of this theory but do not deem it
necessary. The correctness of the theory
may be established by anyone who will
endeavor to discover the origin of a de­
fect in the life of any of his friends, and
there are few of us who do not present
some such defect. Therefore we should
be very careful at all times of our every
word or action, knowing that some un­
wonted word or action of ours may fo r­
ever mar the life of our nearest and dear­
est friend.
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was seated at the beside of the sick
m an; he was telling her of his love for
her and begging her to kiss him good­
bye. She awoke som ew hat indignant
and as she lay in bed, she heard the
clock strike three quite distinctly. The
next day she decided to call upon Tom
and inquire about his health. As she
approached the house she noticed a
crepe upon the door. H er heart stopped
for a moment. She rang the bell and
T o m ’s sister opened the door. Before
Mrs. K---------could speak, the sister
told her that Tom had died at three
o’clock in the m orning, the exact time
that Mrs. K-------- - had awakened. Mrs.
Iv-------- felt that it was m ore than a
mere coincidence since the death of
her friend and her dream occurred on
the same night, at the same tim e.”
T he lady finished her sto ry sud­
denly. “There is a mystery here, is
there not?”
A gentlem an at her right, who had
followed the narrative w ith interest,
asked if he m ight contribute a per­
sonal experience. And forthw ith began
his story:
“T he follow ing took place at the
deathbed of my m aternal grandm other
as she lay barely conscious. She m ur­
m ured the nam es of the dear ones who
had passed on before her, especially
calling upon an elder xsister who had
died m any years previously. She took
no notice of those of us who were
gathered about her. I realized the
hopelessness of her condition but the
only thing I could think of was L ong­
fellow ’s Psalm o f Life “D ust thou art
to dust returneth, W as not spoken of
the soul.” Ju st before my grandm other
died she called upon her deceased sister
em phatically—as if she saw her, and
with the w ords “I m ust go home,” she
passed away. A year elapsed before I
discovered that my m o th er’s thoughts
as she sat at the bedside were iden­
tical with my own. She had tried to
give herself stren g th by repeating
silently the Psalm o f Life.
“W hat can th a t be but m ental tele­
pathy?” asked one of the listeners.
T he story teller hestitated, “I don’t
know — perhaps it was m ere coincid­
ence, but w hat always im pressed me
more than the possibility of m ental
telepathy was the fact that my grand­
m other saw only the deceased m em bers
of our family.
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§ The American Indian’s Occult and Hypnotic
Magic Ceremonies
( Continued from March)
The W est Coast Indians have three
kinds of doctors, the principal one being
the witch-hypnotic type, commonly known
as tomanawis doctor or tomanawis medi­
cine man; the powers he exhibits are
usually termed tomanawis or tomanazvis
powers. This type of medicine doctors
consists of men and women who are
usually the leading persons in the secret
societies. As with the other Indian
tribes, the simple W est Coast aborigines
believe that these shamans can cure or
kill people with their witch power, as they
wish. Hence their good will is sought
lest they should do them injury with their
tomanawis.
As among many Indians, the West
Coast tribes believe that most sickness is
caused by one’s spirit temporarily leaving
the. body. They believe too that sickness
might also be caused by a magic spell or
by the bad witch power of some medicine
man. Sickness is also faked by certain
persons for the purpose of being publicly
doctored. All these cases are known as
“spirit sick,” and these are the cases that
they call the tomanawis-shamanic doctor
to treat. They believe that the shaman
can restore the departing soul, provided
he can overtake it in spirit before it
crosses a certain river in the land of the
dead. Should he not be able to overtake
it the person will surely die, they assert.
In doctoring the sick, the W est Coast
medicine man sits down opposite the pa­
tient and recites charms and incantations
over him, as the musicians chant and beat
crude drums. To aid in the curing proc­
ess, he also manufactures little images to
represent the “sick” and then destroys
them. In addition, he dips his hands into
cold water and pats the afflicted parts
with his moistened hands. Occasionally
he also blows his breath on the afflicted
parts, rubs them, sucks on them, and then
generally shows some hard substance
which he claims to have extracted from
the diseased area, and which he says was
the cause of the sickness. This hard sub­
stance he then burns or takes some dis­
tance and throws away, with the ex­
clamation : “Go aw ay! Go aw ay! Go
away, evil spirit!”
Should he fail to draw out the “sick,”
it is evident that evil spirits are at work
and that the soul of the patient has start­
ed on its journey to the shades, they
assert. His only resort then left is to go
to the spirit land and bring it back. To
effect this, he goes apart by himself,
crouches down, covers his head and
By ALBERT B. REAGAN
A Masked Ghost-Dancer o f the Pueblos
shoulders with a mat, and permits him­
self to go into the trance-state, when his
soul leaves his body and goes in search
of that of his patient. Should he over­
take it before it crosses that river in the
land of the dead, he may be able to bring
it back.
At one of the medicine ceremonies
which the writer attended, the old medi­
cine man, on coming out of the trance,
gave an account of his journey after the
fleeing soul to his credulous listeners, as
follow s:
“I followed the soul on its journey to
the land after-breath-has-left-the-body;
the spirit of a person looks just like a
person, only very small. The spirit of
our loved one was in the possession of a
bad spirit of a very bad medicine witch.
The road we were on was crooked and.
stony. As we ran I noticed that the trees
along the wayside were mere bushes.
The raspberry bushes were only about six
inches high and the berries were so small
I could hardly see them. The blackber­
ries, thimble berries and crow berries
were also very small, as were the straw­
berries along the way; and the ferns of
the prairie were only two fingers high.
“I saw many people gathering berries,
and fern roots, the latter to be made into
bread. These people were not a finger-
length high; and their talking was like
the noise of a grasshopper or cricket.
“As I was following the fleeing soul, I
came to a little stream, where some
people were fishing. They had a stockade
fish trap in operation and were catching
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it full of what they called fish; but I ex­
amined the so-called fish and found them
to be hard wood knots. I also passed by
the ocean beach in that land of the dead;
and as I came to it I heard the people
shouting: ‘A w hale! A w hale! A whale
has been killed and is being towed
ash o re!’ I paused a moment to see their
whale. And, lo ! It was a large fir lo g ;
but the people were cutting i.t up and
carrying off the pieces!
“I ran on. I came to the fatal river
before me. I tried to seize the soul of
my patient; but the evil tomanawis witch
leaped across the turbulent waters with
it, and a piteous groan told me I was too
late. You see our beloved one is dead.”
At another time, another medicine man,
who was doctoring a patient that re­
covered, gave an account of his journey
to those present, on coming out of the
trance, as follows:
“I passed over the river of the dead
to its other side. The people I saw there
were all large, strong and happy, and the
trees were all large. The berries were
larger than I ever saw here, and all the
bushes were heavily loaded with fruit.
There were also plenty of game, and fern
root bread; and there were feasts and
dances every day in that happy land.
“I had outrun the fleeing soul and as
the tomanawis witch which had it made
the jump to cross the river there I seized
it from him in mid-air. I then put it
back in its body-form again by a pouring,
stroking process, as you all have seen.
Consequently our friend is still living.”
While among these Indians tricks of
various sorts are used, the hypnotic plays
a more or less important role. Hypnotic
contests between medicine men were
formerly ordinary scenes at the secret
lodge dances and probably are occasion­
ally seen yet. One medicine man would
challenge another to exhibit his “medi­
cine” powers, generally called tomanawis
on the coast, and the one who could out­
do, that is, hypnotize the other, would re­
ceive the applause of the spectators and
henceforth the medicinal practice of that
community would be his.
It would make this article too long to
give all the hypnotic scenes the writer
has witnessed. So he will confine him­
self to one such series of performances.
On this occasion Medicine men Walko-
wash and Wakobe met at the community
dance (“potlatch”) hall during a feast,
for the purpose of contesting their “medi­
cine” powers; and, as soon as both ap-
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§ New Truths From Old Theology
m Spiritualism o f the Bible
By GEORGE BROWN
( Continued from March')
V. 17, 18 and 19. Samuel rebuked Saul for his dis­
obedience to instructions.
V. 20, 21. Saul answered, asserting that he had
obeyed his instructions in regard to the destruction of
the Amalekites. He stated that he had obeyed the voice
of Jehovah, but that the children saved the best of the
sheep and oxen to sacrifice to Jehovah.
V. 29. Jehovah “is not a man that he should repent.”
V. 31. “So Samuel turned again after Saul; and
.Saul worshiped the Lord.”
V. 33. Samuel killed Agag, so the last of the unfor­
tunate Amalekites was put to death.
V. 35. Samuel mourned for Saul and Jehovah again
repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
Ch. xvi, v. 2, 3. Jehovah told Samuel how to outwit
Saul in order that Samuel might seek the son of Jesse.
V. 13. Samuel aided David in the development of
the faculty of clairvoyance. The horn of oil was used
as the symbol of this.
V. 14. “The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul.”
This is a direct and positive statement that Jehovah
withdrew the power of clairvoyance from Saul. “An
evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.” This, as well
as a number of similar assertions, cannot be taken lit­
erally, as God is GOOD. No evil spirits can come from
him. The expression, “An evil spirit came from God”
is merely figurative.
V. 15 and 16. The previous assertion is repeated.
V. 23. David played the harp with such skill that
Saul was soothed and recovered from his melancholy
state of mind.
Ch. xix, v. 24. Samuel, Saul and David prophesy
together.
Ch. xxii, v. 10. Ahimelech inquired of Jehovah for
David.
V. 17. Saul ordered Ahimelech and eighty-four
other priests to be killed, because Ahimelech inquired
of the Lord for David. He also destroyed the city of
Nob—the home of the priests.
Ch. xxiii, v. 2. David inquired of Jehovah about
fighting the Philistines.
V. 4. David became frightened and inquired of Je­
hovah again.
V. 6. When he fled from Saul, Abiathur, son of
Ahimelech, saved the ephod in which the Urim or
magic crystal was placed.
V. 9. David said to the priest, “Bring hither the
ephod.”
V. 11. David asked a question of the Urim, or magic
crystal, which gave him his answer.
V. 12. David asked another question of the Urim,
and again obtained his answer from the magic crystal.
Ch. xxiii, v. 3. Samuel was dead, and Saul had
banished all clairvoyants, seers or prophets.
V. 6. “And when Saul enquired of the Lord, the
Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by
Urim, nor by prophets.” Because of the unpleasant
truths they told him, Saul had either killed or banished
all of the seers or prophets who could be found. Now
in his extremity, Said was unable to foretell his fate
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in the coming battle with the Philistines, and there was
no one to read the future in the magic crystal, the Urim.
V. 7. Saul requested his servants to find a seerc-s
with whom he could consult regarding the result of the
coming conflict, and they informed him that there was
a prophetess at Endor.
V. 8. Saul disguised himself, then, with the other
men, went to consult the seeress. He requested her to
speak to someone whom he would “name” to her.
V. 11. “Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring
up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.” Saul
knew that Samuel had always loved him and had always
had his welfare at heart, and that if there was anyone
to whom he' could turn in his hour of woe for infor­
mation which he had so vainly sought from the magic-
crystal, Urim, and from Jehovah by means of visions,
it was Samuel.
Ch. xxviii, v. 15. Through the medium, Samuel
asked what it was that Saul desired to know. “Saul
answered . . . God is departed from me, and answereth
me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams; there­
fore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known
unto me what I shall do.” Naturally, in his great
trouble, Saul turned to Samuel, the soul who had been
his friend and teacher in his happier days.
V. 16. Samuel asked Saul why he came to the me­
dium to seek information from him, when he, Saul,
knew that Jehovah had long since ceased to be his
friend, and had become his enemy.
V. 17. As he had so often threatened to do, Jehovah
had torn the kingdom from the hands of Saul.
V. 18. “Nor executedst his fierce wrath upon
Amalek.” Samuel once more reiterates that Jehovah
had determined to destroy Saul, because he had spared
the king of the Amalekites, when, according to the
command of Jehovah, given through Samuel, he had
slaughtered the entire nation of Amalekites—men,
women and children.
Ch. xxviii, v. 12. When the woman recognized the
spirit of Samuel, and he told her who was her mid­
night visitor, the seeress, knowing how ruthlessly Saul
had murdered her friends and compatriots—-the seers
and prophets—demanded that he make known to her
the full purpose of his visit.
V. 13. Saul reassured the medium, saying, “Be not
afraid.” He then asked what she had seen. As Je­
hovah had destroyed his clairvoyant faculty, Saul could
no longer see the astral form of Samuel, nor any other
superphysical being; consequently he was compelled, in
this interview with Samuel, to depend entirely upon the
medium, who said she saw a Godlike form. Being very
highly evolved, the soul of Samuel would certainly pre­
sent a very striking appearance to the medium when
this son of God manifested to her.
V. 14. Saul asked the medium, “What form is he
of?” This question is the most convincing proof that
the astral form of Samuel was not visible to the physical
eye. It adds to the already incontrovertible fact that
prophets, seers and men of God, were purely and simply
clairvoyants or mediums. The woman described her
( Continued on page 46)
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E f f a D A N E L S O N ’S
^ L ife A f t e r D ea th
I I J V F R Y recognized church of every kind or be­
lief, and every lodge and society having religion for
their basic foundation and “Life after Death” as their
principle teaching, portrays Life after Death in a mys­
tical setting, conveying to the average mind a somewhat
vague idea of a Life filled with vapory nothingness.
The old standard religion that the present generation
is discarding filled the world with gloom by its portrayal
of Heaven and Hell, a God who punished, and a Saviour
in whose hands our fate rested.
Today the old time religious teachings are somewhat
modified and the newer religious teachings hold that
Heaven and Hell are states of mind, that God is in­
dwelling in the individual, and that Jesus—the Chris­
tians’ Saviour, is an elder brother. But the question of
Life after Death is left up in the air.
The idea of reincarnation brought out by various
cults leaves the more staid mind that cannot accept any
mystical idea or let any ghoulish religion, take the place
of cold reasoning—still inquiring about Life after
Death, where the individual is, what his state of mind
is, what kind of body he is clothed in, on what he sub­
sists, and what kind of dwelling place he has.
The book stores are flooded with literature dealing
with Life Here and Hereafter. All religions from time
immemorial have butchered, flogged, imprisoned, burned
at the stake, and exiled humanity to force it to accept
an unreasonable conception of Life after Death. Each
cult has settled the question for all time, to its own way
of thinking.
The Hindu and the Theosophist each tell us of mas­
ters who create and rule the world of man. The
Spiritualists also tell us of masters, plus the communi­
cation with the individual’s loved ones and friends who
come to help him. We are also warned to beware of
those who come to harm us. All religions have sounded
this note of warning, calling these beings devils. They
tell us, too, of angels who minister to us.
If these things be true, there must be some tangible
place of abode and some tangible substance on which
they feed.
The_ cold reasoning mind (not the skeptical or the
know-it-all Mind) cannot accept the mystical idea of
Life after Death. Neither can it accept the God and
Saviour ideas of the old time religions—Christian, Mo­
hammedan, Confucian or any other. It must continu­
ally seek a comprehensive answer to the age-old ques­
tion concerning Life after Death.
As long as the mind of the child is corrupted with
false ideas of the conception of Life, the truth about
Life after Death can be conceived by only the few who
are bold, fearless and determined to know the truth,
no matter what the cost.
Throughout the ages of the past, men and women
have died for the faith that sustained them. Today we
live to learn about life, yet we are hindered in our
progress because humanity is bound by chains forged in
the past and we are unable to analyze this question and
make deductions in a matter-of-fact way and by the
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The Truth About Thing y
same logical process by which we analyze other ques­
tions concerning Life.
To wrap this question in the cloak of religion and
class it with the sanctified questions of ancient mytho­
logy kills the power of the mind to think. To present
it in any form other than one of vital interest to all
humanity and all created Life is to rob the world of its
birthright—the right to know all things concerning Life
in all its dimensions, a Life in which the individual is
endowed with the power to act, substance by which to
exist, environment in which to dwell, faculties of per­
ception and a degree of comprehension in keeping with
the rate of vibration in which he finds himself after
having passed through Death.
Each individual desiring knowledge of Life- after
Death must gain it by the power of his own mind and
his ability to comprehend the visitations of those who
have entered that Life. Nothing but cold reasoning
will ever enable one to eliminate the illusions that have
been broadcasted over the earth concerning the great
and wonderful country where the dead live, their states
of intellect, their natural activities, and their associa­
tions one with the other and those left behind.
f W h a t H a v e You
A ccom plished?
HAT have you accomplished at 50 years
of age? Are you discouraged? Do you think you are
too old to begin a career?
Listen, now. If you are 50 or even 60 years old and
have never done the thing that the very fibre of your
nature tells you you can do, forget your age, and begin
today—start the wheels moving. Determine that you
have one more chance, and you are going to play it on
the thing you love to do—the thing that has gripped you
all your life.
You feel you have been cheated. So you have. You
have cheated yourself by floating with the stream. You
have allowed yourself to become driftwood, and have
depended on some good, kind-hearted fellow-being,—
woh worked for Success—to pull you ashore. You have
depended on a bookkeeper to keep your records. You
have believed there was a paymaster somewhere who
was just and because you trusted and had faith, would
balance your account -and give you a paycheck.
You have never done the thing you loved to do be­
cause you never took stock of yourself. You have never
checked your assets. You mourn because of what you
considered your liabilities. You never realized that the
stone you stumbled over should have caused you to
pick up your feet. The crowding of your creditors
should have made you think deeper and work harder.
Instead, you viewed the stone as an affront to your
regulated life, and your creditors’ insistence as an insult
to your comfort. You shambled on, creating more
creditors, until at 50 you find yourself in the slough of
despondency, still blaming others for your lack of sight
as you journey over the highway of Life.
I ’ll tell you something—facts, not theories; realities,
not dreams. Any man or woman who pulls him or her­
self off the job at 50 or 60 never was worth a job. Be­
ing 50 or 60 doesn’t mean you are hopeless. In fact,
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— by th e E d i t o r
EDITORIALS of the DAY
it should rather give impetus to greater activity, for
your body brain muscles have not been overworked, and
ought to be of invaluable service to you at this age.
Brain cells are filled by thinking. We are not born
with filled brain cells, any more than the honeycomb is
filled with honey at the outset—it is done by unflagging
effort and selection of the proper material.
Decide what you want to do, then go after the mate­
rial to work with. Accept no excuse, and make none.
Choose your goal, and turn everything to account that
you meet on the road—there can be no halfway mea­
sures.
Ninety-five per cent of the people fail because they
ask too much advice. Be your own counsellor. Change
your mind as often as you find you can improve your
system, regardless of friends’ or relatives’ comments or
criticisms.
Be determined to win the goal you choose. Your
route may be circuitous, but it leads to the goal you
have chosen.
Calendar years mean nothing to the person who
knows through experience that the smallest thing
must be taken account of and placed as building mate­
rial in the structure each day if we would win a goal
worth winning.
c CJ W h y H a v e Y ou F ailed?
IAN it be said of one that he has failed? Can
we tell ourselves that we have failed? At what period
of our lives were we ever sufficiently successful to be
authorities on failure?
Yet everywhere we hear the complaining voices of
men and women telling themselves and their neighbors
what failures they were, never questioning why they
were failures. Without making comparison, they ram­
ble on, destroying the flow of Hope, dimming the light
of Life within.
Why have you failed, and by what method do you
determine your failure ? Have you analyzed that point ?
Have you reached your conclusions from looking at
what others have accomplished? If you have, you are
giving an unsound judgment of yourself.
You must be a success before you can fail. In what
way were you successful? Why be discouraged about
a thing that never could and does not now exist?
Once you have been truly successful, you cannot fail.
Success is the result of mastership. A master always
succeeds.
Be a success through the mastery of Self. Guard
your words. The word “failure” in itself is destructive
and cannot even be in our thoughts without creating
havoc in our lives.
If repeating the word “success” with a light heart will
bring success into your life, just as certainly failure can
be brought into your life by speaking the word “failure”
with a heavy heart.
Don’t fail. Succeed. You cannot fail, because fail­
ure can only come after you have succeeded, and suc­
cess, being mastership, cannot fail.
That ryhich the discouraged call failure is only experi­
23
ence. If taken in the right spirit it will prove to be
just a step in the direction of success.
Get into the right spirit of co-operation and become
the master.
^ S m a sh in g Y o u r Idols
H .AVE you an ideal—an idol of your soul—
that you have watched day by day, but to see it slowly,
slowly change into a monster? Reason as you might,
console yourself as best you could, it seemingly would
not react to the best that was in you, and in an espe­
cially burdened hour, with one piercing look or word,
you shattered it beyond recall?
The friend whom you trusted and who trusted you,
the embodiment of that ideal-idol, entrusted with the
gift most precious, could neither recall nor reconstruct
that masterpiece which was the soul of both. Time,
that mighty warrior, cannot restore a shattered ideal
whose soul is the idol of your heart.
Sincere, ambitious, and courageous though you may
be, your ideal-idol does not belong to you alone. It is
a priceless jewel only lent to you the little while you
sojourn here. Watch over it with clear-seeing eyes.
Protect it with strong will and courage undaunted.
Serve it with unflagging spirit, honor it all the day long.
Once unveiled, it must stand forever, pointing the
traveler on.
Smashing one’s ideal-idol loosens the grip on Life,
takes the wind out of one’s sails, and carries his boat far
adrift. Hold to your ideal-idols, worship them in
spirit and in song, that each lap of the journey may find
you comrades, locked together by the force that impels
you onward, though sight grow dim and hearing dull.
Be faithful to your ideal-idol and when you feel like
smashing it, just don’t.
§ I A m R eso lved
JI AM resolved—that from day to day I shall ask
only for knowledge, that I may learn the immutable
Laws of Life; for Wisdom, that I may recognize
Truth in all its luminous rays of light, diffused as they
are throughout the world of time and space.
I am resolved—to let no day pass by without some
mysterv solved that darkens the life, obscures the light,
and binds the soul in slavery.
I am resolved—to let neither criticism nor praise
deter my onward steps or turn me from my chosen path
of Duty, and to sift and sift the chaff until the choicest
of the wheat is found, that through the years the golden
grain may thrive.
I am resolved—to let no prejudice or fear curtail my
efforts to unmask ignorance, no spirit of greed or power
of influence swerve me from my purpose to war upon
the powers that threaten the annihilation of the religious
freedom of the individual to think for himself concern­
ing the one great question that he alone must solve,
that he, the victor over death must answer to himself
alone.
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§ Human A nalysis on

jSHOJZT-BODIED LON.
LO N G -LEG G ED jSHOL
Figure 1

S E X - T
By HENRY Bn AUER
Now look at B. Notice the marked contrast in limb and body
formation! Also compare the features, head and face. The
body is long—the legs short. The head and shoulders extend
above A’s. You will readily see that while the length of the
body may not greatly exceed A’s in an absolute sense, it is
Figure 2 relatively long with respect to the lower limbs when compared
Masculine Sex-Type, Long-Legged and Short-Bodied

H E R E V ER you go you see people. Even a superficial

W knowledge of the general principles of Human Analysis

will enable you to acquire considerable skill in classify­
ing people according to several striking significant types.
We have already discussed the importance of contrasting
inherent Tissue Qualities, and the various phases of Color and
Complexion. But men and women may also be broadly classified
according to their Form or Sex-Type.
Nature’s treatment of Form is variable—she does not always
adhere to ideal proportions and perfect harmony. Some persons
are a little heavier—some a little taller or shorter. Some are
short-bodied and long-legged—others relatively long-bodied
and short-legged. Some figures are composed of graceful
curves, while others are constructed on the principle of long
straight lines and angularity.
In A and B (see Figure 1), we have two strongly contrasting
types. A is short-bodied and long-legged. When sitting, he
seems much shorter than he really is. His feet more than reach
to the floor—notice how he bends his knees to make room for
his limbs. Also note the size of hands and feet, the shape of
head, face and features. Observe the absence of curves, the
lack of symmetry. Everything tends more or less toward the
long straight line, simplicity, plainness, loose-jointedness and
angularity. Figure A is of distinctly masculine build—a mascu­
line Sex-Type.
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Masculine
Or
Feminine
~)DIED
1GGED

^H, B. S c,
to the whole height. In extreme cases,
of this kind the feet barely reach the
floor. The back of the thighs press firmly
against the seat of the chair, and the
knees and feet do not appear cramped
for room. B illustrates the feminine Figure 3
Feminine Sex-Type, Short-Legged and Long-Bodied

form of build—the Feminine Sex-Type.

It is no discredit for a man to possess a Feminine Sex-Type
Body, nor for a woman to be masculine in Form of Build,
although external build has an important bearing upon the
internal nature of mankind.
Form or Sex-Type modifies the general cast of talent.
A rtists have various scales for the ideal proportions of the
human body. Some teach that the perfect human figure should
be seven heads long. Some advocate a fractional head-length
less, and still others adopt eight head-lengths as the ideal.
William Page is said to have been the modern rediscoverer of
the close relation which the figure twelve seems to bear to the
proportions of the human anatomy. The height of a person
and his span-width (from tip to tip of fingers of extended
arms) should be equal. The height and breadth of span may
both be measured by twelve equal subdivisions of length. For
our purpose we will consider an over all height of twelve
squares.
Now look at Figure 2. The legs measure about six and one-
half squares. The head and body contain the remaining five
and one-half of the entire twelve squares. Professor George
Dreyer, pathologist (University of O xford), in taking measure­
ments of the body in a long series of tests to determine “vital
capacity,” makes use of the term “stem length.” He refers to
he measurement from the “sitting point to the top of the head.”
( Continued on page 43)
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RIGHT FOOD COMBINATIONS
The foods in each cross section o f the center column combine well with the foods in the
same section in the left column, but not so well zvith those in the same section o f the rinht
column.
Combine W ith
Root vegetables, green leafy vegetables.
Tubers, seed vegetables except legumes,
tomatoes and rhubarb. (Tomatoes and
rhubarb arc acid vegetables and do not
combine well with the starches.)
Sweet fruits, as figs, dates and raisins,
usually combine well with starches, but
not always with those having digestive
troubles.
Never use vinegar or lemon juice on
salads when eaten with starches.
Acid fruits, tomato and rhubarb.
Vegetables of all kinds, except possibly
potato.
Raw protein is most easily digested.
Boiled or broiled is next best.
Roasted is much more difficult.
Fried is almost indigestible.
Vegetables of all kinds.
Starches of all kinds.
Sugar, honey, maple sugar.
Fruits of all kinds except melon.
Combine well with everything and any­
thing.
All vegetables except potato.
All proteins.
All vegetables and proteins.
Starches if digestion good.
Other ripe fruits if digestion good.
Best eaten alone.
Bañanas should only be eaten:, after
they become brown and soft, when they
are ripe. Yellow bananas are more
digestible if baked.
Honey, pure maple sugar and raw
sugar may often be' used when refined
sugar causes fermentation.
Balanced Diets
Balance your diet during the day
rath er than at each meal.
T he m ore varied the food in com bi­
nation at each meal the longer it takes
to digest the meal. Delayed digestion
means ferm entation and putrefaction.
T hree to five articles of food at a
meal is variety enough. T he few er the
m ore easily digested.
T he B E ST regim e for adults for the
day is as follow s:
Breakfast
Make this a fru it meal, eating plenty
of ripe fruits, w ith a glass of. milk or
butterm ilk or cottage cheese o r an egg.
§ How to Be Healthy and Wise
E dgar S. Comstock, D.O.
Foods
Starches: Wheat, oats, corn, rye, bar­
ley, rice, potato, squash, or any foods
made from them, as bread, rolls, pastry,
macaroni, etc.
(Fruit pies are combinations of acid
fruits and starches and so should be
avoided.)
Use only whole grain cereals, flour
and meal.
It is best to eat only one kind of starch
at a meal. Don’t combine bread and
potato or bread and rice, etc.
P roteins: Meats, fish, fowl, eggs,
cheese, sea food, milk and nuts.
Never fry proteins, as frying makes
them very indigestible.
Most of us overeat proteins. The body
cannot, use more than, j^-pound of meat,
2 eggs or 9i-pound of cheese in a day.
F a ts : Cream, butter, olive oil, vege­
table oils, lard, crisco, etc.
Fats when cooked to a temperature
that makes them smoke are then decom­
posed and indigestible.
Vegetables of all kinds, except potato,
which is a starch.
Always eat bountifully of salad vege­
tables twice a day.
Fruits Acid: (See list above, in third
column.)
Best eaten raw.
Fruits Sweet: Figs, raisins and dates.
Melons.
Bananas when yellow are unripe and
are then starch. W hen brown and soft
they are ripe and are then sugar. When
yellow must be considered as a starchv
food.
Sugar: Cane sugar, beet sugar, honey,
maple sugar, corn syrups.
Luncheon
Make this the starch meal, eating
plenty of one kind of starch with
plenty of vegetables, both raw and
cooked. Do N O T eat an acid fruit,
tom ato, rhubarb or an acid-containing
dressing on salad at this meal. (Vine­
gar is an acid.) Best to omit proteins
at this meal.
Dinner
Make this the protein meal, eating
one kind of protein only, w ith a large
serving of salad vegetables, and one or
two cooked vegetables and a fruit des­
sert. Use a lemon juice containing
salad dressing at this meal.
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Do N ot Combine W ith
Acid _Fruits—Orange, lemon, lime,
grapefruit, apple, apricot, pear, peach,
plum, pineapple, berries, melons.
Proteins—Meat, fish, fowl, eggs, cheese
and nuts. (This should be observed par­
ticularly by those who have any diges­
tive disorder.)
Tomatoes and rhubarb, as these are
acid vegetables and do not combine well
with starches.
Starches, combined with milk and other
liquids, must be well chewed.
Many should not use sugar on starches.
Starches—Bread, potato, rice and
cereals. A normal digestive tract may
take care of this combination in good
shape, but one with poor digestion should
not combine protein and starch.
Best to use only one kind of protein at
a meal.
Never fry proteins.
Fats and proteins when eaten together
take much longer for digestion than
either alone. This combination must be
avoided by those with poor digestion.
It is best not to use the same vegetable
cooked and raw at the same meal.
Starches of any kind.
Best not to mix acid and sweet fruits.
Sugars often promote fermentation.
Acid fruits, particularly if digestion is
poor.
Do not combine well with any other
foods except sometimes with other ripe
fruits.
When yellow do not combine with acid
fruits.
Acid fruits, tomato, rhubarb and
starches, as they often promote fermenta­
tion.
For Children
F o r breakfast give a whole grain
cereal, or whole w heat bread or m uf­
fins, w ith cream or butter. V ery little
sugar and th a t should be the RA W
sugar, not granulated. H oney is the
best sugar. Give them the fruits be­
tween meals.
C O F F E E and T E A .. These should
be used w ithout -cream or sugar, as
these alter the chem istry and make
both much m ore toxic or harmful.
Acid and Aklalin Forming Foods
Some foods produce acids in the
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LISTEN IN G IN ON W-O-R-L-D
News Notes of Interest to Occultists
Maya Bible in N ew Translation
Mexico City.—A new translation has
appeared of the “Maya Bible,” the “Popol
Vuh,” as it was called by the Indian con­
vert to Christianity who recorded it a
few years after the Spanish conquest of
his country in 1524.
The “Popol Vuh,” which means collec­
tion of written pages, contains eleven
“traditions.” The first of these depicts
the creation of the world and of living
creatures and their final destruction in
great cataclysms. The second and third
tell of the first arrival of the “Toltecs”
in the tropical lands of what is now
Guatemala and their battles for the right
to stay, while the fourth embodies a
legend symbolizing the union between the
races that fought here for supremacy.
Other traditions relate strange and
stirring adventures of two supernatural
heroes, the wanderings of Maya chiefs
and their struggles with the people al­
ready occupying the region of the Old
Maya Empire. It is interesting to note
that up to this date the only complete
English translation of this Tale of
Human Existence in the Land of
Shadows, is that by Dr. Kenneth Sylvan
Guthrie.
“No other sacred book,” writes Manly
P. Hall, in his newly-issued Encyclopedia,
“sets forth so completely as the Popol
Vuh, the initiatory rituals of a great
school of mystical philosophy. These
ceremonials,” continues Mr. Hall, “are of
first importance to students of Masonic
symbolism and mystical philosophy, since
they establish beyond doubt the existence
of ancient and divinely instituted Mystery
Schools on the American continent.”
—Centre Bulletin.
Look to Astrology, Advises Kipling
London.—Rudyard Kipling told the
Royal Society of Medicine (November,
1928) that it should not be too scornful
of those scientists who consulted the
stars for guidance. He resurrected from
obscurity one Nicholas Culpepper, an
astrologer and physician who practiced
in London 300 years ago.
Culpepper justified his practice by the
theory that “this creation, though com­
posed of contraries, is one united body of
which man is the epitome, and that he,
therefore, who would understand the
mystery of healing must look as high as
the stars.”
May we still mistake secondary causes
for primary ones and attribute to instant,
visible agents of disease, unconditioned
activities which, in truth, depend on some
breath drawn from the motion of the
universe—of the entire universe revolving
as one body (or dynamo if you choose)
thru infinite but occupied space?
The idea is wildly absurd? Quite true.
But what does that m atter if any fraction
of any idea helps toward mastering even
one combination in the great time-locks
of life and death?—N ew York Times.
Our Inferiority Complex
Our Master or Our Slave!
Have you an inferiority complex?
Take courage! Every one else owns one,
too. I t is no sin to boast of in confiden­
tial moments. It isn’t even an excuse.
We are all born with a sense of inferior­
ity, according to no less an authority than
Dr. Alfred Adler, the famous discoverer
of the dread complex.
“An inferiority complex can be a very
good thing if it inspires and stimulates
the individual to even great superiority,”
said Dr. Adler today.
H e calls his individual psychology a
“gay science,” and preaches a gospel of
courage, optimism and power. Mistakes
don’t matter, according to his philosophy.
“The gangster who holds you up with
a gun is a coward.
“The lazy man is lazy because lie is
afraid he might not succeed.
“The drunkard drinks to escape and
give himself an excuse for welshing in
life’s fight.
“It is better to drop in an elevator once
than to expect it to drop every time.”
“Most people expect to succeed right
away, at the beginning, instead of at the
end,” he explained. “If they only be­
lieved they could do things, it would in­
crease their power.
“The criminal, the neurotic, the insane,
the drunkard are all victims of fear.”
Dr. Adler at one time studied under
Freud, but his theories are quite the op­
posite.
“Freud preaches that if the sex side
of life is satisfied, everything is well,”
explained Dr. Adler, “but I believe that
if people satisfy their desire for superior­
ity on the useful side of life, it gives
them strength and happiness and power.”
Psychic-Editor Locates
Body of Missing Man
“In February, 1927,” writes subscriber
G. Klausmeyer of St. Louis, Mo., “I
asked the Psychic E d ito r of T he Occult
D igest to discover a m issing person
named Joseph Steinbach.”
" Your answer was correct. This per­
son was later found in the Mississippi
River-—whereas other psychics all claimed
he was amongst the ‘living.’ ”
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W ill Y ou Be Buried Alive?
and died also. T he ground was broken
for a new grave beside the grave of
the son, when it was found necessary
to remove the coffin already there, for
some reason or other. A terrible sight
greeted the eyes of the spectators. T he
glass fro n t of the coffin was shattered
to pieces, the bottom knocked out, and
the sides sprung. U pon rem oving the
lid, the body of V ett Case was found
resting on its face, the arm s bent at
the sides and the fingers tightly
clenched, holding bunches of hair that
he had torn out in his agony.
Mrs. Lida M. Childs gives an in­
stance of an aged friend of h er’s, whose
sto ry she had from her own lips. To
all appearances she was lifeless, no
im pression could be made on her rigid
form , sight, hearing, touch, taste or
smell—all seemed dead, yet she revived-
A fterw ards she told all her thoughts
and feelings while she was in that
strange state, told all that had been
done in th a t room, all that had been
said. She said th a t she seemed to be
standing by her own body, out of it,
w itnessing as a spectator all that the
friends and psysicians w ere doing to
resuscitate her.
A m ost rem arkable case on record of
trance which is perfectly authentic,
was that of W illiam T ennent, pastor
of the P resbyterian Church at F ree­
hold, New Jersey, w here he died a
hundred years ago. W e learn from the
memoirs of his life that, after a reg­
ular course of study in theology, Mr.
T ennent was preparing for his exam i­
nation by the P resbytery, as a candi­
date for the m inistry of the Gospel.
H is intense application affected his
health and brought on a pain in his
breast and a slight hectic fever. He
soon becam e em aciated, and at length
was like a living skeleton. Life was
threatened. H e was attended by a phy­
sician, a young man attached to him
by the strictest and w arm est friend­
ship, but he grew w orse and w orse
until little hope of life was left. In
this situation, his spirits failed him,
and he began to entertain doubts of
his final happiness.
One m orning he was conversing w ith
his brother, in Latin, on the state of
his soul, when he fainted away and
died. A fter the usual tim e he was laid
out on a board, according to the com ­
m on practice of the country, and the
neighborhood was invited to attend
his funeral. T he next evening, his phy­
sician and friend returned from a ride
in the country, and was affected beyond
measure at the news of his death. H e
could not be persuaded that it w as cer­
tain, and on being told that one of the
persons who had assisted in laying out
the body thought he had observed a
little trem or of the flesh under the
( Continued
arm, although the body was cold and
stiff, he endeavored to ascertain the
facts. H e at first put his own hand
into w arm w ater to m ake it as sensi­
tive as possible, and then felt under the
arm, then the heart, and affirmed th at
he felt an unusual w arm th, though no
one else could discover it. H e had the
body placed in a w arm bed, and in-
SER A PIS
B y R a c h e l M a c k W il s o n
I see y o u k n eelin g , P rie s te s s !
To p r e p a r e y o u r body
F o r a n o fferin g to R a ;
Y ou s c e n t y o u r h a w k -lik e h a ir
W ith c o rn -flo w er essence,
A nd y o u dip y o u r h e n n a e d fin g e rtip s
I n o in tm e n t j a r s o f a la b a s te r, p a le —
A n d b lu e f a i e n c e ;
Y ou oil y o u r la s h e s
L e s t th e a r d o r of t h e r i tu a l
E voke a la te n t t e a r :
A nd now — I se e yo u p la c e a s e rp e n t c h a in
A ro u n d y o u r v e lv e t th r o a t.
L ik e n eb u la e , y o u a d d
A c lu s te re d n e c k la c e o f c a rn e lia n
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To l o v e ;
Y ou to u c h th e s e o c c u lt sy m bols, a n d yo u
k n eel
W h ile P rie s te s s e s less h ig h
B rin g f ro m h id d en , s e c re t ch e sts
A s c a r a b f o r y o u r h e a r t,
A nd th is no h u m a n h a n d m a y to u en ,
'T is c o -e te rn a l w ith th e S u n God, R a
A nd you.
Go fo rth , now , P r i e s t e s s !
P e n e tr a te th e lo tu s h e a r t.
D e p a r t in m e a s u re to th e m y stic rh y th m
And v ib r a to ry c h a n tin g s of th e P rie s ts .
Go f o r th in to th e s h r in ’ed P y ra m id
L ik e a n a e r ia l s p ir it
To .the S k y !
* A n a n c ie n t I n itia te o rd e r.
sisted th a t the people who had been
invited to the funeral be requested not
to attend. T he b ro th er objected to
this as absurd, the eyes being sunken,
the lips discolored, and the whole body
stiff and cold. H ow ever, the doctor
finally prevailed, and all possible m eans
were used to discover sym ptom s of re­
turning life, but the th ird day arrived
and no hopes w ere entertained of suc­
cess, except by the doctor, w ho never
left the body night or day. T he people
w ere again invited, and assem bled to
attend the funeral. T he doctor still ob­
jected, but at last confirmed his re­
quest for one h o u r’s delay- H e had dis­
covered that the tongue was much
swollen, threatening to crack, and he
was endeavoring to soften it by oint­
m ent put on w ith a feather, when the
b ro th er came in about the expiration
of the last period of delay. M istaking
w hat the doctor was doing for an
attem p t to feed him, he m anifsted some
resentm ent, and said in a spirited tone
th a t it w as shameful to be feeding a
lifeless corpse, and insisted that the
funeral im m ediately proceed. A t this
critical m om ent, the body, to the great
alarm and astonishm ent of all present,
opened its eyes, gave a dreadful groan,
and sank again into apparent death.
T his put an end to all th ought of
burying him, and every effort was again
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from page 13)
made in hopes of bringing about a
speedy recovery. In about an hour the
eyes reopened, a heavy groan p ro ­
ceeded from the body, and again all
appearances of anim ation vanished. In
an o th er hour, life seemed to retu rn
w ith m ore power, and a com plete re ­
vival took place, to the g reat jo y of
the fam ily and friends and the no small
astonishm ent and conviction of the
very m any who had been ridiculing the
idea of restoring a dead body to life.
Mr. T ennent continued in so w eak and
low a state for six weeks th a t grave
doubts w ere entertained of his final
recovery. H ow ever, after th a t period,
he recovered much faster, but it was
about tw elve m onths before he was
com pletely restored. One Sunday after­
noon he was able to w alk about the
room and take notice of w hat passed
around him. H is sister, who had stayed
home from church to attend him, was
reading the Bible, when he noticed it,
and asked her w hat she had in her
hand. She answ ered th a t she was read­
ing the Bible. H e replied, “W hat is
the Bible? I know n ot w hat you m ean.”
This affected the sister so much that
she b u rst into tears, and inform ed
him that he was once well acquainted
w ith it. R eporting this to her brother
w hen he returned, Mr. T en n en t was
found on exam ination to be totally
ig n o ran t of his life previous to his
sickness. H e could not read a single
word, neither did he seem to have any
idea of w hat it meant. As soon as he
becam e capable of giving attention, he
was taught to read and w rite, as chil­
dren are usually taught, and afterw ards
he began to learn the L atin language
under the tu to rsh ip of his brother. One
day as he was reciting a lesson in Cor­
nelius Nepos, he suddenly started and
clasped his hands to his head as if
som ething had h u rt him, and made a
pause. H is b ro th er asked him w hat
the m atter w as; Mr. T ennent said he
felt a sudden shock on his head, and it
now seems to him as if he read th a t
book before. By degrees his recollec­
tion was restored, and he could speak
L atin as fluently as before his sickness.
H is m em ory revived so com pletely that
he gained perfect know ledge of the
past transactions of his life, ju st as if
no difficulty had occurred. T his case
excited much in terest and com m ent at
the time, and afforded not only serious
m atter for contem plation by the devout
Christian, but furnished a subject for
deep investigation, and learned inquiry
to the philosopher and anatom ist.
I t is astonishing to find how many
authenticated instances there are of
persons erroneously reported dead. A
man is alive in Boston today who was
supposed to be dead, when on board a
ship returning home and preparations
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Hypnotic Crimes
Nice, France.—A hypnotist, who pre­
vails on his victims to go to their banks,
draw out their savings and turn them
over to him is being sought by Riviera
police. A man, as yet unidentified, has
obtained in this way thousands of francs.
An Italian named Poladari tells his
sto ry :
“I was walking along the street when
a stranger asked me a direction and then
suggested coffee at a nearby café. We
chatted for five minutes when I suddenly
felt queer, though I had not touched my
coffee. I remember answering his ques­
tions regarding my money and was
powerless to remain silent. We then
went to my employer’s office, where I
drew a month’s salary and handed it to
him. H e then told me to take him to my
home and get my checkbook. A t the
bank I withdrew $300 and handed it to
him. Then I sat on a sidewalk bench
where he left me. It was two o’clock
before I regained my will power although
all the time I realized what I had done.”
Bank tellers verified the story and said
Poladari seemed to be asleep walking, but
they could not refuse him his own money
when he insisted on having it.
Baseball Superstition
Because he has too much height for
the weight he carries, Bryan (Slim)
Harriss, baseball’s tallest twirler, has
passed from the major league picture.
But it wasn’t Slim’s lack of poundage
that had the most to do with his passing
from the big time baseball. It is said
that it was superstition, so common
among ball players, that spelled H arriss’
doom as a “big time” moundsman.
The killing of a black cat was the apex
of bad luck in the opinion of the lanky
twirler. At least other big league ball
players who know him declare this to lie
true. And then Slim knocked off a cat—
and a black one at that—while practising
with a youngster’s slingshot down in
Texas.
Psychology o f Laughter
Polyxenie Kambouropoulos, well-liked,
dusky instructor of psychology at Vassar,
showed her pupils, daisy chainers includ­
ed, under 4,000 jokes and learned girls
laugh most at humorous situations based
on personal superiority, next at inferior­
ity or predicament situations, next at in­
congruous situations. Those who laughed
at fewest jokes were Vassar’s brightest
minds.
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During the next year the Lord will
send a flood which will cover the entire
Pacific Coast, according to William
Greenwood, of Olympia, Wash. He has
prepared for the inundation by building
an ark with which he expects to ride out
the storm. The ark is 80 feet long and
20 feet wide.
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handsome, intelligent, and refined of the
men on ea rth ; and if it were possible to
multiply their most exalted properties
and powers a thousandfold—perhaps then
one could gain an approximate idea of
those supermen, and superwomen, who
inhabit that unspeakably marvellous
world at the center of our planetary sys­
tem—a world which earth men, with
their limited means of knowledge, deem
a mass of burning gases.
They spoke to me softly in a language
of delightful, harmonious, musical quality
—wondrously soothing and quieting.
And they clothed me gently and deftly
in a shining white robe, of such fineness,
smoothness, and flexibility, and of such
lightness, that the finest silk of our earth
would have appeared like coarse cloth of
camel’s hair in comparison.
The garment resembled an ancient
tunic, coming to the knees, and its lower
hem, the short wide sleeves, and the open
neck were all richly embroidered with
geometrical designs and strange flowery
forms. But its lightness was such, that
for quite a time I had the embarrassing
feeling of being completely nude. Shoes
there were none, nor head cover.
All these matters occupied but a very
short time, far less than it takes to tell
about them.
Then, with the exception of two, the
group of birth helpers parted from me,
and passed on to aid another incarnating
soul.
My two remaining attendants each took
one of my hands, and they proceeded to
lead me towards the entrance of the
“Garden of Incarnation.”
And now, as we walked slowly along, I
had an opportunity to observe that won­
derful place and its activities.
It was a vast semisphere, built of some
iridescent, crystalline substance, that ap­
peared to be formed from a section of
the most perfect and beautiful rainbow
imaginable.
The walls, and the immensely lofty
cupola-like top radiated a thousand colors
and shades, which seemed eternally in
motion ever changing — scintillating —
alive!
The soft, white, glittering sand over
which we walked- reflected this kaleido­
scopic changing of colors in a way that
was indescribably beautiful.
But, after walking only a few paces, I
stopped in utter fascination. For there,
at every hand about me, appeared great
iridescent ovals, the vibrating, scintillating
cloud-like body substance of incarnating
souls, which latter I could perceive as a
faint luminous core in the center of each.
The incoming souls appeared first as
indistinct shadows, within their envelop­
ing elemental fluidum, gradually becoming
more distinct and substantial as the solar
material formed about them, until at last
their feet touched the ground of Solaris,
Soul Mates (Continued from page 15)
and they were cared for, even as I had
been cared for.
It was a most beautiful, wonderful
process.
But one circumstance struck me as very
peculiar: Each one of the incarnated
souls was clothed in a garment of purest
white, as I had been. Yet, within a very
few moments, in almost every case, the
white of the garment changed to some
one color of the rainbow. And these
colors again were of a different shade in
each case.
H ave you ever
dream ed a dream
that you could not
fo r g e t — a dream
that m a d c you
w onder . . . ? O f
course you have;
ha ven t w e all?
Som e years ago,
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about dreams, and
to stu d y them .
R ead her fa scinat­
ing article “ Con­
tact” in this issue.
But even as I wondered about these
matters, one of my guides answered my
unspoken questions.
Of course, it must be understood that
one of the wonderful things on Solaris
is, that each soul, as soon as it is incar­
nated, automatically becomes endowed
with the complete knowledge and under­
standing of the language of that world.
Solaris being under one government, and
having one language only.
Therefore I had no difficulty at all to
understand Nal-a-m, the elder of my
guides, who now explained:
“My Brother, the souls whom you see
incarnating, have, most of them, come
from the nearest planet of the eight,
which you Earth people call Mercury.
“But the Mercurians, like the people of
all the other seven planets, each have a
different soul development. The higher
the development of a soul, the higher its
vibration, which is expressed visibly in
the form of color, as you see.”
I nodded, dimly comprehending. “Then
the color of the garments is not in the
fabric, but is caused by the vibrations of
the bodies which they clothe?”
Nal-a-m smiled radiantly. “E xactly!
And as the soul refines itself, its color
vibrations change, until it reaches the
highest possible on Solaris—a radiant
white.
I glanced at the clothes of my two
guides. They were of a spotless shining
white.
Impulsively I examined my own. When
the birth helpers had placed it onto my
body, it had been a pure white. But now,
to my astonishment and grief it had
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changed to the fiery red. No doubt 1 was
of a low development. For red is the
lowest color in the scale.
It was an amazing condition, this
carrying one’s badge of refinement in
plain sight at all times. Hypocrisy in this
wonderful world was out of the question
then. One could certainly not pretend to
be a saint on the outside, and be a scarlet
sinner underneath, as on our earth, I
reasoned.
Right there was a wonderful incentive
for self-development and soul refinement.
That was quite plain.
But suddenly another thought obtruded
itself, and I turned to Nal-a-m.
“A while ago you told me that most of
these incarnating souls come from Mer­
cury, and that, besides our Earth, the
other six remaining planets are also in­
habited. Surely you do not mean that?”
His gentle eyes were twinkling. “Why
doubt these things, my brother?”
Suddenly, under the scrutiny of those
gentle, understanding eyes, I felt like an
ignorant infant.
“Because—because,” I stammered, “our
scientists on Earth claim that life on any
of the other planets, with the possible
exception of Mars and Venus, is impos­
sible on account of the conditions on
them.”
H e smiled tolerantly.
“Your scientists are yet but as children
in the school of wisdom. They have very
much to learn about the mysteries of N a­
ture.
“But come! We are about to take you
before our beloved lord, who would see
the messenger from Earth.”
We continued on our way toward the
entrance. Yet so fascinated was I with
(he marvels about me, the magical
spectacle of incarnation that was going on
continually, that my two tolerant guides
had to literally drag me away, as one
would a curious wondering child.
The vast edifice I now noted was di­
vided exactly in two parts, by a high
partition of golden color. I wondered
what might be beyond.
Lama-a-n, the younger of my guides
answered my unspoken question.
“That, my brother, is where the souls
of w’omen incarnate.”
At this moment we passed out through
the great semicircular portal. And. in­
voluntarily I quickly covered my eyes
with my hands, against the flood of in­
tense white light that streamed down
from above.
It was as if I had stepped into a con­
flagration.
But immediately each of my com­
panions placed a hand over one of my
eyes; so that in a few moments my eyes
were strong enough to enable me to
gaze upward, and observe the source of
intense light that had at first almost
(Continued on page 34)
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THE WAY OF THE WORLD

Continued PERSO N A L RESTFU L P L E A S IN G

Physiology of Hunger
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^ W ith ju s t a little p e p a n d a m b itio n y o u c a n e a rn a g o o d living. ^
minster. Owing to the difference be­
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to strike 22 times when the 11 o’clock
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At one mile, the first two strokes by lo ts o f fu n . . . e a s y w o rk —
radio would be heard before the first by
y o u n e e d n o e x p e rie n c e to sta rt.
sound waves, and after the last by radio
two would arrive through the air. At J u s t in tr o d u c e th e O c c u lt D ig est
four miles, five would be heard by radio
to frie n d s. W e w ill te a c h y o u
before the first by sound waves, and the
last by radio would be followed by five how !
carried by air waves.
“London Bridge Is
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London.—W hat has happened to the
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A Record of Scientists’ Approach Towards the Occult
G L E A N IN G S S ex Predetermined
OF A M Y ST IC hy Mathematics?
By Max Heindel New York.'—T hat sex is a biochemical
result, and that it can be predetermined,
The goal of the Mystic is con­ and even precontrolled, was the amazing
scious union with God. statement made today before the recent
convention of the American Society for
Steps on th e mystic path the Advancement of Science by Dr. V. Y.
Kalcik, physicist and mathematician.
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The Mysterium Magnum of in more than 100 cases.
T H E RO SE CROSS The application of the mathematical
formulae is highly complex but the prin­
INITIATION ciple involved is comparatively simple.
Dr. Kalcik holds that the parents repre­
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the M ount.” E ig h t answ ers to th e U niversal sexual cells.
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INTERPRETED now agreed that light has corpuscular
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M orse A ve., C hicago, 111. the elements of both sexes in the con­
stitution, Dr. Kalcik carries this to a
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mathematical point, declaring:
“The inherent health of a prospective
child is proportional to the sum of the
health of both parents, each parent con­
tributing his share. W here the mother’s
share is greater the result will be a male
child. Where the father’s share is great­
er the child will be a female child.
“If we call the ratio of these two par­
ental shares the sexual ratio of the pros­
pective child we have the sex, health,
relative resemblance, mental and other
tendencies as the result of this ratio.”
Did World Ever Begin?
A sks S ir Oliver Lodge
London.—»Sir Oliver Lodge, in an ad­
dress to the Faraday Society at the Royal
Institution on “Problems in Physics,”
suggested that the world had no begin­
ning, and will have no end.
Sir Oliver sa id : “W e know more about
the constitution of the atom than we did
even a short time ago, and we find that
m atter is going out into radiation.
“If all matter were run out in radia­
tion into the ether the effect would be
to raise the temperature of the ether a
few degrees above zero, because the
amount of matter is so small when com­
pared with the amount of space—but is
the process not a reversible one? Can
radiation turn back into matter? A very
high temperature would be needed, but
I consider that a reversion of radiation
into matter is quite possible.
“One has to speak vaguely, but it is a
thing to look out for. The universe may
have a cyclical process, that constant
change—from m atter to radiation and
back—without beginning and without
end.
“The present state of physics leads one
to change one’s views very often. I may
be wrong, but that is my view.”
Find N ew Way
to Produce Sound
Sounds produced in a wholly new way
were listened to by the American Phy­
sical Society section today.
First, in a perfectly normal way, a
magnetic tuning fork was caused to
sound a note of high clear pitch.
But some distance away, in the same
room, stood two other sound modulators,
unattached to the tuning fork. Yet, when
an amplifier was attached to them, two
notes rose clear and distinct, almost mu­
sical, to fill the room. They had been
caused by the tuning fork sound. The
amazing fact was that these two notes
were not the same as the tone from the
tuning fork.
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Soul Mates
blinded me—the eternal daylight of So­
laris from the intensely luminous chromo­
sphere, hundreds of miles overhead.
Then, when I lowered my gaze, I
found that we were at the edge of an im­
mense circle, a vast park, adorned with a
myriad of flowers and plants, of a size,
shape, and gorgeous coloring which the
wildest artistic imagination could not con­
jure before the eyes of an Earth man.
The great circular space was sur­
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drical form, and constructed of a glitter­
ing semitransparent mass. Some of these
structures were topped by great semi-
spherical domes, others by low cones, and
each was of a different color.
Beautiful and very intricate geometrical
designs covered the walls, whose delicate
colors seemed continually to change in
tint and tone as one gazed at them. High
above the ground were large circular
openings, perhaps windows.
But I had not time to observe more.
F or now my two guides each grasped one
of my arms, and they spoke soothingly to
me, as one speaks to a very? young child,
advising me to be calm and unafraid be­
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Following -this work, more than 200
men, eminent in German science, medi­
cine, pedagogics and philosophy, as well
as in the Government, assembled in Stutt­
gart and founded the Society fo r Re­
search in Personality.
Because this work has been done not
only in the theoretical, abstract side, but
also the practical, the new society was
given liberal financial support by such
captains of industry as Di\ Robert Bosch,
the president of the Bosch Works, and
Dr. Theurer, the chairman of many lead­
ing industrial organizations, who prom­
ised the enterprise the support of eight
chambers of commerce.
(Continued from page 30)
I he next moment, to my utter amaze­
ment, the three of us rose high into the
air, and floated above a seemingly bound­
less city, of which the eye sought the
horizon in vain.
And now again, like once before as an
ex-carnate soul, I sensed the unspeakably
delightful sensation of absolute, fearless
freedom and joy.
“But how is it possible to travel in this
manner, Nal-a-m?” I questioned the
elder guide respectfully. “How is it
done?”
He smiled approvingly, because of my
evident desire for knowledge.
“That, my brother,” he explained
gently, “is one of the things among
many which each newly incarnated soul
must learn. It is simply a matter of over­
coming, or neutralizing temporarily, the
forces of gravitation.”
And with that I had to be content for
the time being. For now, after my gentle
guides had given me ample opportunity to
view the immense capital city of Solaris,
we passed laterally through the atmos­
phere with prodigious speed.
I caught fleeting glimpses of vast
( Continued from page 17)
These men, upon investigation, had
found that the work already accomplished
had proved of vast benefit to schools, the
home and to public life.
The method adopted at Stuttgart aims
at unearthing human capacities not made
manifest in the schools but which would
be of eminent use both in respect to life
and the carrying out of a trade or profes­
sion.
The next step was to discover whether
these were the result of natural gifts or
of sheer industry. The secrets governing
the relationship between the physical and
the intellectual life were revealed to a
great extent by the examination of the
student’s bodily condition.
F re e P u b lic Lectures
BY
JULIA SETON, M. D.
M arch 3rd to M arch 25 th
Daily 3 P. M. and 8 P. M.
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palaces in the midst of gorgeous garden -,
of great parks, and of countless multi­
tudes of Solarians on the ground and in
the air—then we floated aboye a palace sc.
colossal that all the others seemed in­
finitely dwarfed in comparison.
Nal-a-m pointed clown to it.
“That is the abode of Ala-aa-e-e, our
Lord,” he announced reverently.
A moment later we had descended into
the vast courtyard of the palace. And now
I noted that the immense edifice was
really composed of four great palaces,
joined by curved colonnades of the most
exquisite architecture, so that the whole
formed a perfect circle.
Twelve wide steps, each a terrace it­
self, ran the entire length of the four
colonnades, and led from these down to
the wonderfully tesselated floor, of the
open court itself.
We had landed at the bottom of one of
these stairs, and now, surrounded by a
crowd of gorgeous, extremely ¡handsome
men, and marvellously beautiful women,
we passed upward to the wide Corridor
between the double row of triple columns.
(To be continued) ■
It is not only the doctors and scientists
of the Institute for Research in Person­
ality who co-operate in this delving after
character. Their work is supplemented by
the observations of parents and teachers,
and this often brings results of the ut­
most value from the point of view of
characterology.
Psycho-analysis plays an important
part, as does the influence of . the glands
and the chemistry of the body. Inherent
characteristics, the development of the
more enter into the calculations and
observations. The result is a sane and
balanced method of intelligently applying
the yardstick to personality.
Similar practices are in vogue with a
number of scientists and small groups in
the United States. Handicapped by a
lack of intelligent publicity and over­
shadowed by the vast throng of charla­
tans and the lunatic fringe common to all
great movements, the psycho-technicians
go about their work quietly.
The business man uses them, but gen­
erally he hesitates to herald the fact as he
prefers to get the credit himself for his
greater success over business rivals. A
short-sighted sense of inferiority and
self-centeredness prevents his admission
that brains and methods brought in from
outside have aided him in doing what he
could not have done by the ancient sys­
tem of trial and error and his own
knowledge and intelligence unaided.
An illustration of how psychic me-
( Continued on page 35)
7 he Occult Digest April, 1929
chanics has found practical application is
shown in the work conducted by various
institutions in America where psycho­
technicians arrange each course to sup­
plement all the others, adapting the
methods to the individual rather than the
group. Like the methods used in the
schools of Vienna, no examinations are
given at the end of a term to determine
the individual’s rating in a given subject.
Recognizing that the student seeks cer­
tain personal values, and that he will
select for permanent assimilation only
those principles which are applicable to
his particular needs and capacities, the
courses are arranged accordingly.
Instead of demanding a given amount
of study and application of the student,
his personality is studied and the course
is fitted to the individual, not the indi-
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peared, the contest was at once begun,
with Wakobe leading:
He had a group of men grip medicine
sticks whiie he performed before them.
He also dipped his hands into a tray of
water and did various other things to
draw their attention until he had them
hypnotized and had them climbing walls,
riding whales and trying to fly. Walko-
wash then followed with a similar per­
formance, except that he merely looked at
the group of men till they were solely
under his power and were even willing
to pose, one on the shoulder of another,
as one giant totem pole.
Again Waklobe led out. He placed a
feather under a mat and pow-wowed
over it for several minutes. H e then lift­
ed the mat and there were feathers
enough under it to fill a hair-seal-skin
buoy; but,Walkowash, in turn, was equal
to the occasion. He danced about the
fire for a considerable time, after which
he took a feather from his waist-belt and
danced about with it in his hand, as he
waved it back and forth and up and
down, then threw it into the fire. In­
stantly, opposite him, at a little distance
from the fire, there was heard a
“th’-shink-plike” sound; and quickly the
feather came up through a hole in the
floor and danced and waved itself back­
ward and forw ard as if shaken by a stiff
breeze. Then after it had been in view
for several minutes, he picked it up and
stuck it into a small boulder that chanced
to be lying on the floor near the fire; and
at once the stone began to roll and dance
about, as the feather remained in it in
upright position. Everyone, indeed, be­
came intensely interested, when the
feather suddenly, mj^steriously and in­
stantly disappeared from the rock and a
moment later was seen to be waving to
and fro from the crown of Wakobe’s
head. And a moment later it wafted it­
self into the fire and was consumed.
Wakobe then took a five-gallon seal
bladder of whale oil and drank the entire
contents of same before everyone, then
threw the emptied skin bag to the floor
and tramped on it to show that it was
empty. Walkowash then placed one end
of a stick on the central fire, as he held
the other end in his hand; and water ran
down the outside of the stick in such
quantities as to put the fire out. He then
withdrew the stick and the water disap­
peared, after which the fire was seen to
burn again. H e next set out a tray of
water, around which he danced in the
presence of all for about ten minutes,
while he shifted his extended hands, palm
up, first to the right and then to the left,
as he shrugged the upper part of his
body in the opposite direction. He then
suddenly stopped his dancing; and a
blackberry bush, covered with fruit, was
seen to be growing out of the tray, up
through the water, though it was not
{Continued from page 20)
then the fruiting time for this shrub.
Following this water performance,
Wakobe pulled a snake out of his neck;
and immediately Walkowash pulled a
squirming reptile out of his mouth.
Wakobe then picked up live coals of fire
and heated rocks and carried them about
in his hands at will. To match this,
Walkowash walked right into the fire and
danced in it, without its burning him or
apparently giving him any pain. Wakobe
then followed by presenting a stuffed
pine squirrel which he threw in the fire
in the presence of all; and—a moment
later a live pine squirrel was seen to be
running up the wall of the hall. -From
his waist-belt Walkowash then drew two
stuffed yellowhammers, which he tram ­
pled on and also pounded with a rude
club, after which he had Wakobe ex­
amine them to see that they were actually
dead, stuffed specimens. H e then picked
them up in the presence of everyone;
and, tossing them into the air, they flew
off, actually living birds. H e then waited
for Wakobe to come forward with an­
other tric k ; but either he knew no more
or through his hypnotic powers, Walko­
wash had been able to get him under his
control—as he evidently was trying to
do when he got him to examine the birds
in the last act.
Walkowash waited quite a little while
for Wakobe to come forward with an­
other act, then stepped forw ard to the
place of exhibition, as he exclaimed:
“See this rock ! See its peculiar shape!”
All looked at it and handed it back. He
then danced with it, in full view, in his
extended hand, until he had made a com­
plete circle around the central fire. He
then threw it into the fire, and a moment
later it was heard to strike against the
outside, on the opposite side of the build­
ing. Then after he had again danced
about for several minutes, he tossed some
bone awls, such as are used in the torture
dances, into the fire. Again he danced
and crow-hopped, when suddenly the hot
awls flew from the fire and thrust them­
selves through the fleshy parts of the
arms and legs and lips and mouths of
the by-standers who were compelled to
dance the torture dance till he himself
removed the awls. This finished the act,
after which he waited for Wakobe to
come forw ard with another; but the lat­
ter stood there, white and shivering, and
made not a stir.
At this juncture, while all were wait­
ing another move by the actors, a sick
woman was carried into the central part
of the hall and placed on a mat on the
floor, while two women held her to keep
her from hurting herself and to keep her
quiet so the doctors could perform over
her.
Wakobe then, at once, began to doctor
and perform over her, using the water
process. He dipped his hands into a tray
The Occult Digest April, 1929
of water, then rubbed the apparently af­
flicted parts as he sang and called upon
his gods to help h im ; but the sick woman
got gradually worse. Moreover, in her
delirium she even accused him of being
an evil spirit that was dragging her down
to death. She further begged that he be
not allowed to doctor her longer; but he
was allowed to continue his conjuring
process.
H e crudely massaged her by contorting
and rubbing and twisting her body, after
which he sucked long and hard, through
his hands, on the afflicted parts. He then
quickly sprang to his feet, with hands
tightly gripped, and showed a small, black
thing between his thumbs, as he ex­
claimed: “T hat’s it! That the ‘sick!’ I
knew I’d get it. She’ll get well now.’’ He
then quickly buried the “sick” under the
ashes of the central fire; but before he
could rise from burying it, triumphant,
the woman’s moaning cries racked his
brain; for over and over she was ex­
claiming : “T hat evil-spirited one, that
doctor, is taking my soul aw ay! I see
him going with it. He is carrying my
spirit out to the graveyard! I see his
spirit taking it. H e will kill m e! He will
kill m e ! Will not some one save m e!”
Again he tried to cure her. H e covered
himself with a mat and, through prayer
and the mortifying of his body, he caused
himself to go into a trance-state. He
then sent his tomanawis soul after the
fleeing spirit of his patient, reasoning in
the Indian way that it had already left
the body when he began his performing
and if he could overtake it before it
reached that river in the land of the
dead, he could recapture it and bring it
back.
Down, down into the heart of the
earth, 'into the regions of the dead, he
traveled in spirit. He passed over a very
barren waste, then came to where the
spirits of the dead—beings not more than
four or five fingers in height—were pick­
ing berries from blackberry bushes which
were less than six inches high. On he
journeyed. He got in sight of the fleeing
soul. He seized it between his palms and
set out on his return trip.
Quickly his trance was broken. He
sprang to his feet with clasped hands and
by an imitation pouring process he placed
the spirit on his patient, inverting the
clasped palms, in cup-shape, over her
head and then finishing the act by a
down-stroking process—an hand passing
downward over each side of the head
and on downward over the shoulder, arm,
and rest of the body on that respective
side. But the sick woman returned not
to the normal condition. She groaned,
shivered, shrieked and begged those pres­
ent to take him away, exclaiming again
and again: “That doctor has brought a
witch spirit here to consume m ine! He
{Continued on page 38)
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CJR e a d Y o u r L ife in Y o u r H a n d
Scientific Palmistry
THE FATE LINE
By R. S. JENNINGS
Illustrations by Rose Cohen
T WOULD be impossible to ar­
I rive at any satisfactory conclu­
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knowledge of what the hand itself
stands for.
One of the highest authorities we
have on the hand is Sir Charles
Bell. Sir Charles says “We ought to
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sensibility and motion to the endow­
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The author’s system of analyzing
the message written in every human
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not one, but hundreds of instances.
Palmistry is a science which in its
highest and truest conception, has
for its aim the motto of the ancient
“Know thyself,” the simplest but
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or diabolical about the science of the
hand. It has no mysteries. Every­
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and once understood, it is possible
to read and translate the message of
the hand, just as one may translate
a page of Arabic or Chinese, once the
key to the language is understood.
As in the study of mankind, there
came to be recognized a natural posi­
tion on the face for the nose, for
the eyes or for the ears, so in this
study of the hand, there came to be
recognized a natural position for the
Line of Head (meaning mentality),
the Line of Heart (affection), the
Line of Life (longevity), and so on
with every line or mount.
The first line to be considered is
the Line of Fate or destiny, some­
times known as the Saturnian Line.
This is the central upright line on
the palm of the hand (see plate).
This Line of Fate (or Saturnian
Line) reads from the bottom up­
ward, and is closely allied to the Line
of Sun, sometimes called the Line of
Brilliancy, or Line of Apollo (sqe
Figure 1). A Fate Line unaccom­
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( Continued cn page 40)
KEY TO LINES
IN THE HAND
1. F a te rising from Life-
Line
2. F a te rising from w rist
3. F a te rising from Moon
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S atu rn
5. E nding on M ount of
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M ercury
7. E n d in g on M o u n t of
Ju p ite r
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is killing me! Take him away! H e is
killing me! Take him away!”
• Notwithstanding the woman’s implor­
ing, not a person made a move. Instead,
they waited the climax, which soon came.
For suddenly, as if repelled by some hide­
ous force, Wakobe stepped back from the
sick one, as his face became an ashen
hue. He then stared about wildly a mo­
ment, then went down in a heap, after
which there was a breathless silence,
broken only by the moans of the sufferer.
Walkowash then walked straight to
where Wakobe was sitting, all doubled
up, as he said, interrogatingly: “Brother,
do you give up your patient?” in answer
to which he merely grunted “A a” (yes),
without even raising his head.
“Very good,” rejoined Walkowash as
he faced the assembled crowd, which he
addressed, saying: “My opponent cap­
tured the wrong spirit, a real demon, and
it is now in the very act of carrying off
our sister’s spirit. I can see the spirit in
an airship, a double-headed, tomanawis
canoe, in charge of three actors of the
evil world. I can even see the sneer on
their faces as they realize that they are
taking the life of a child of earth. Yon­
der, in mid-air, it is sailing. Luckily,
however, an anchor rope is swinging
from it. I can see the rope now. If I
can seize it and bring the boat down to
earth, I will do my best to restore our
sister’s spirit to her. It may be too late,
but I will try.”
Soon-he was seen to be grabbing out
into the air for an imaginary rope, which
he finally seized. Then laboriously he
M an— Archaic and Ultimate
of the evolution of com plicated animal
bodies from sim pler form s by infini­
tesimal modifications alone, is scarcely
consistent with the com paratively short
periods of tim e offered in m ost of the
current scientific hypotheses.
Some of the published inner teach­
ings of Occultism —which purports to
be a study of the underlying principles
of life abound with such statem ents
as these: “All spiritual beings not now
man either have been man or will be­
come m an.” "T here never was a time
w hen man was not and never will be.”
“E lsew here physical man may have
other physical vestures that the man
we know .” “Man is the turning point
w here thé forces of m ateriality and
spirituality balance before the vast up­
w ard advance begins.” And so on
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pulled on this imaginary rope, trying to
pull the canoe back to earth, as if he were
pulling an immense something from the
regions of the wind. The sweat poured
off of him. His muscles swelled into
great knots as he pulled and labored. He
pulled and pulled on nothing but his
JUST KEEP ON
KEEPIN’ ON
I f th e d a y looks k in d of gloom y
A n’ y o u r ch a n c e s k in d e r slim ;
I f th e s itu a tio n ’s p u z z lin ’
A n’ th e p ro sp e c ts a w fu l g rim ,
A n p e rp le x itie s k eep p re ss in ’
T ill a ll hope is n e a r ly done,
J u s t b r is tle up a n d g r i t y o u r te e th
A n k eep on k e e p in ’ on.
T h e re a in ’t no u se in g ro w lin ’
A n’ g ru m b lin ’ a ll th e tim e
W h e n m u sic ’s rin g in ’ e v e ry w h e re
A n ’ e v e ry th in g ’s in r h y m e ;
J u s t k eep on sm ilin ’ ch e e rfu lly
I f hope is n e a r ly gone—
J u s t b ris tle up a n d g r i t y o u r te e th
A n’ k eep on k e e p in ’ on.
imagination. He was now and then ap-
parently lifted off the floor by some
imaginary pulling thing. He tugged and
pulled and went through the motions of
drawing in an invisible anchor rope, after
which he apparently brought the boat
back to earth and moored it. He then
went through the motions of a hand to
hand battle with the owner of the unseen,
“bad,” tomanawis craft.
• Winning, he seized the captive spirit
and quickly placed it upon the sick
woman, in the inverted, cup-shaped,
hand-pouring process, after which she
was immediately better. Then after some
indefinitely. T hese are not exact quo­
tations—rath er paraphrases. Y et ex­
pressions such as these abound.
R eferring again to the ever-recurrent
topic of scientific relativity, we m ust
stress the fact th a t the ultim ate im pli­
cations of this theory involve the p o s­
sibility, and indeed the extrem e prop-
ability, of other physical universes not
within the dim ensional system of our
own, and of planes or spheres or re ­
gions of existence for the operation of
supernorm al human evolution, ju st as
the O ccultists have tau g h t for as long
as man has existed as man.
Occultism teaches that man is yet
to evolve into a state com bining p e r ­
fect m aterial com fort w ith ideal ethical
developm ent and com plete spiritual un-
foldment. Before this is to take place,
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rubbing and word saying, she picked up
her mat and walked out of the hall. He
danced around the room for a few min­
utes, then seated himself near the central
fire.
Walkowash was undoubtedly winning
and everyone applauded him, but the two
had yet to test their personal tomanawis
powers; or, to use English terms, they
had yet to see which could overcome the
other with his hypnotic strength.
Wakobe was ready for the fray. He
sprang to the center of the hall and im­
mediately began to toss his tomanawis
(witch-hypnotic) power to Walkowash—
a performance which looks much like two
persons tossing a ball to each other, ex­
cept that no visible thing is tossed, one
tossing and the other catching and vice
versa. He tossed and Walkowash caught
his tomanawis. Then Walkowash tossed
it back to him and he missed it, it strik­
ing the opposite side of the building, with
a thud, though no visible thing was seen
to. leave Walkowash’s hand. However,
Wakobe caught it as it bounced back and
then tossed it to Walkowash, who re­
tossed it to him and he again missed it.
This time it lodged high up on the wall
on the opposite side of the room and
Wakobe clambered up after it, back­
wards. He then tossed it to Walkowash
and he tossed it back. However, it
missed Wakobe’s extended hands; and
his mouth being open, it passed through
it and lodged in his throat, whereupon he
fell to the floor choking and frothing at
the mouth, wholly hypnotized.
( Continued next m onth)
(Continued from page 12)
th ere m ust be a heightening of m an’s
way of thinking about the w orld and
about his fellow creatures—w hether
human or anim al—and a thoroughgoing
spiritualization of his outlook and of
his m otivations. Occultism also teaches
that we are now at a unique point of
evolution—we are now actually at the
middle of an enorm ous evolutionary
plan—and th a t the upw ard ascent is
com m encing rig h t now. T his is evi­
denced by the intellectual stir that is
now about us.
Do n o t ridicule the visionary for
being im practical. H e is about to have
his day. And it will be found th a t his
visionariness is about the m ost prac­
tical thing th at can engage m en’s
Ï
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Scientific Palmistry (Continued from page 37)

Astrological
D A I L Y G U ID E
fo r A p r il
1. Avoid associating w ith strangers.
2. Mixed influences prevail.
3. Good for trip s or em ployment.
4. Postpone business; uncertain.
5. Avoid strangers, quarrels and law. T Y PE S O F HANDS
6. Good for m aking purchases. Elementary Square
7. A good day. Spatulate Philosophie
8. N ot fortunate, uncertain.
ply mean a fatalistic life full of sor­ quently its development to any un­
9. Avoid argum ent; look for sur­ row and darkness.
prises. usual extent would show an unusual
The Fate Line indicates the sub­ fate for the subject, -according to
10. V isit the sick; attend to church
ject’s course through life from the where it starts and where it ends.
business; deal in property.
standpoint of material success. It (See Figure 2.)
11. U nfavorable; follow routine.
12. Avoid losses.
shows whether he must make his The square hand means the palm
own way, whether he will have a square at the wrist, square at the
13. Push sales and speculation.
hard time, or whether things will base of the fingers, and the fingers
14. Remain quietly at hom e; u nfortu­
nate.
apparently come easy to him. It will themselves square. On this type of
15. Do not gamble.
also locate his most productive pe­ hand the Fate Line should be clear,
riods. sharp and well defined.
16. U nfavorable for advancing in po­
sition.
In the consideration of the Line The spatulate hand is so called be­
of Fate, in addition to the part played cause the tips of each finger resemble
17. Good for publication, books, and
by the Line of Sun, which has sym­ the spatula of the chemist, and also
editorial m atters.
bolically almost the same significance because the palm, instead of having
18. F avors private business, plans, etc.
as the Sun itself in its relation to the squareness of the square type, is
19. Favors m ost affairs.
Earth, the type of hand plays an either usually broad at the wrist or
20. F o rtu n ate for love affairs or m ar­
riage.
important part. For instance, the at the base of the fingers. The Fate
Line of Fate, in even the most suc­ Line should be sharp and clear.
21. Rem ain quiet, unfavorable.
cessful hand is less marked on the The philosophic hand is easily
22. Bad for business and financial af­
fairs.
elementary, the square and the spat­ recognized. It is generally long and
ulate, than on the philosophic, the angular, with angular fingers and de­
23. Good for m ystical m atters and se­
crets.
conic or the psychic hands. The veloped joints. The Fate Line
24. Deceptive.
Fate Line is more in keeping with should be long, clear, and sharply
the latter types, for the very pe­ defined.
25. Remain quiet.
culiar reason that their possessors The conic hand, ordinarily, is
26. N ot a good day.
27. Unfavorable.
are more or less believers in fate, medium sized, the palm slightly tap­
whereas the possessors of the square ering, the fingers full at the base,
28. Rest at hom e; avoid depression.
29. Avoid changes.
and spatulate hands rarely believe and slightly pointed at the tips. The
in fate at all. Consequently, if one Fate Line should show a deep, nar­
30. Good for business; unfortunate for
sees, as one often wall, an apparently row furrow, well defined and easily
speculation.
very strong Line of Fate on a conic recognized.
hand, one must remember that it has The psychic hand is long, narrow,
FORECAST FOR A PRIL not half the importance of a similar
B y G r a c e E l l e r y W il l ia m s
and fragile looking, with slender,
I n “A strological Stud en t-A d ep t”
line on a square type, so far as tapering fingers having long narrow
T h e d e a th o f a n a v a l officer is indicate!
worldly success is concerned. This nails. As with the conic type, the
a s w ell a s e m b ro ilm e n ts in th e A rm y, Nav- point is one of the most significant Fate Line here should show a deep,
S S iL i,a b 0 A ln g ®n ?r a l - 1 S trik e s am oni
m in e rs a n d a ro u n d th e d o ck s w ill ca u se de in the study of palmistry. well defined furrow through the
la y s in shipping-. H C oal a n d ru b b e r w il
be sc a rc e , m aking- p rices high, i T h is w il
The elementary hand belongs to center of the palm.
a tT iId A c t u a t i o n in th e m a r k e t ii the lowest type of mentality, and is There is one other type of hand
oil.
J S F P F I 1” ' co p p er, t e a a n d crud.
H S trid e s in econom ics, sh ip p in g am not often found in this country. The known as the mixed hand, since it is
m ilita ry m a tte r s w ill c a u s e w id e s p re a d in palm is thick and coarse, the fingers a mixture of the square, spatulate,
l • SeveI e d iscip lin e to som e judge!
. »S candals
^ “ S1 , a m . t a sso
e cclial
e f f llife
l n S winith thif
short and clumsy. On such a hand conic, philosophic types. The fin­
c o u rts. IT the natural Fate Line would be
s e n s a tio n a l e x p o su re is sh o w n f o r th e l l t l gers, as a rule, all belong to different
a s w ell a s a b a n on som e sex p la y s HI short, straight and heavy, conse­ ( Continued on page 48)
d isa g re e m e n t b etw een th e P re s id e n t a n d i
C a b in e t m em b er is in d ic a te d on th e 15th
r>a-V,^'p,0 u?e Wl1,1 £ e a c tiv e in N ew Y ork
P h ila d e lp h ia a n d B oston. U S erio u s d isa s
te r s on sh ip s a n d in schools a n d th e a tre ;
T r o u n d ^ 2U0thnt SUlcides come to the for<

W ere Y o u Born In Aries?

( Continued on page 16)
Day of W eek.................................Tuesday
Musical Tone ......................................... D0
Color ................. Red
Stone .............................................. Amethyst T Y PE S OF H ANDS
Flow ers...................Amaryllis, Butter Cup
Psychic (Idealistic) M ixcd
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T H E W H Y OF T H E W O R L D
“W ithout or with offense to friend or foe, I sketch your world exactly as it goes’’
I f You’ve Given Up
the Fight—Read This!
A young man ran for the legislature of
Illinois, and was badly swamped.
H e next entered business, failed and
spent seventeen years of his life paying
up the debts of a worthless partner.
H e was in love with a beautiful
woman to whom he became engaged—
then she died.
Entering politics again, he ran for
Congress, and was badly defeated. He
then tried to get an appointment to the
United States land office, but failed.
He became a candidate for the United
States Senate and was badly defeated.
H e became a candidate for the Vice
Presidency, and was once more defeated.
One failure after another—bad failures
—great setbacks. Then he became one
of the greatest men of America—
Abraham Lincoln.
Who says, “Oh, what’s the use?”
C h i n e s e Object to
Christian Propaganda
C a n t o n . — A f t e r a showing in
crowded theaters further performances
of the American motion-picture, “Ben-
Hur,” were forbidden by the Chinese
government. The production was stopped
on the ground that it was “Christian
propaganda decoying the people to super­
stition, which must not be tolerated in the
present age of revolutionary enlighten­
ment. The picture is a travesty on truth
and reason, constituting a most undesir­
able obstacle to education.”
Kiss—and Be Saved!
T hat kissing is one of the essentials of
salvation is the doctrine preached by a
cult in Gallipolis, O., as revealed in a
court appeal filed with Probate Judge
John G. Evans by an excommunicated
member of the church.
The pastor of the flock, who is blind, is
charged with teaching his flock that pro­
miscuous kissing is highly desirable and
necessary to escape damnation.
M arried men kiss other men’s wives
and married women do not hesitate to
kiss other men, it is charged.
Census o f Religious Bodies
The Department of Commerce has re­
cently announced that in 1926 there were
in the United States 213 religious bodies,
with 231,983 organizations and 54,624,976
members. For the same year the total
expenditures were $814,371,529. The value
of church property was $3,842,577,133.
"B lack.Sun” to Strike
Earth, Mexicans Hear
Saltillo, Mexico. •— Publication in
local newspapers of a story, purported to
have been written by a noted Mexican
astronomer, that a “black sun,” of a
size many times that of the earth is
hurtling through space and is scheduled
to strike this planet this year, has pro­
duced frenzied excitement among thou­
sands of ignorant natives of this city and
rural communities for miles around.
Home Life Dying Out
According to figures given to the
American Sociological Society by Prof.
W. F. Ogburn of the University of Chi­
cago, “family life” is dying out. Out of
each eleven married women one is work­
ing for pay outside the home. From
1900-1920 restaurants have increased four
times as fast as the number of families.
In city life the number of single women,
based on percentage of population, is
two-thirds greater than in country dis­
tricts.
Astronom y Says Death
Does N ot End L ife
In a recent address before the Ameri-.
can Institute at New York, Dr. Heber
Curtis, noted astronomer, sa id : “W ith
space, energy, matter, and, doubtless,
time apparently continual, with no atom
lost, are we ourselves the only manifesta­
tion that comes to an end or is annihilat­
ed at three score years and ten? No, a
thousand times n o !”
Mirrors as Mars Signal
Proposed by Paris Savant
Paris. — M irrors are suggested by
Pierre Blois for communicating with
Mars. They would have to be as large
around as Paris, he says, in order to de­
velop sufficient intensity. H e thinks they
are more likely to succeed than is radio,
provided M artians exist.
Zionism Dead!
Stephen S. Wise, rabbi, snubbed by
European Zionists, said, “I come back a
disillusioned and disspirited man after I
looked upon the darkest hour of the
Jewish nation in many generations.
There is no Zionism. It is dead. I
thought I was leaving the land in which
Zionism was misunderstood and that I
would find kindred spirits in Europe, but
it is not so. . . —Time.
Letters to a Dead W ife
Mathias Brown, 79, died in Sioux City,
Iowa, and among his papers were found
3,285 letters which he had w ritten daily
for nine years to his dead wife.
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Num erology and T h e Aquarian A g e
w orlds which em brace all knowledge.
T his is wisdom that makes us “as wise
as the serpent” for it connects us w ith
the greatest creative force possible.
W hen the life-force is draw n only to
the solar (soul) plexus we have w hat
is termed mediumship, and as this is
n ot the highest expression of which
we are capable, being the ground floor
of the body, it is not the expression of
tru e know ledge and is often very m is­
leading.
In every m an’s body is enacted the
sto ry of Jesus, the M an of Galilee.
Jesus is symbolical of the life-force
which appeared at the age of twelve
arguing w ith the doctors in the temple.
By lifting the life-force, through living
the life of regeneration, we become
Christ-ed and place ourselves in readi­
ness to give to the w orld the m arvel­
ous inventions which m ust necessarily
be given out in the A quarian Age. I
say necessarily, for with the disruption
T h e Siren of T h e Golden Sea
as to its presence, with an instrum ent,
therefore, there is nothing chimerical
about the hypothesis. Ships innocently
enough sail their courses perfectly,
but n ot realizing this pull, do not allow
Ùrswn by Edgar Spencety
( Continued, from page 18)
which will come m ust also come the
remedy, and you m ay be sure the Cre­
a to r w ho sends the one will not w ith­
hold the other.
At the age of 30, Jesus came to be
baptized and to keep the passover.
N ote th a t 30 is 3 tim es 10, the trinity
of m an—physical, psychic and spirit­
ual. T he num ber 10 w as used by the
ancients to express spiritual perfection
Now, his 3 years of public m inistry plus
the 30 years make 33 and you then have
the 33 degrees of M asonry, or the A rt of
Building. Y ou have also noted th a t
Jesus w as said to be w orking at the
carp en ter’s trade betw een the ages of
12 and 30. O ne w onders w hat he was
doing all this time. H e was building
a tem ple—the tem p le th a t w ent up
w ithout a ham m er; in o th er w ords, he
was perfecting his body tem ple and
dedicating it to his g reat m ission, a
mission in which we all share—build­
ing tem ples for the L iving God. And
( Continued from page 7)
for it, hence are draw n to th eir de­
struction.
T here have been trem endous currents
of electrom agnetic force sw eeping to
land, before and since the Japanese
The Occult Digest April, 1929
we ought to in stru ct our children first
and forem ost about this tem ple-build­
ing th a t they may be tru e Aquarians,
able to m eet the dem ands of this tr e ­
m endous age, th a t is, teach them to
m ake of their lives a true religion in
every respect, founded upon N ature
and governed by her laws.
A nd w hat has num erology to do with
the A quarian Age? Simply this: Nu­
m erology is the art of doing the right
thing at the rig h t tim e; it teaches us
to m ake tim e serve us. W e hear much
about the new race of supermen. How
is such a race to begin? By allow ing
children to be born into the world at
a good and proper tim e—a tim e which
shall, serve them as we would, but can­
n o t; by selecting the best planetary
conditions and also nam es containing
the p ro p er tools w ith which to work.
I believe we shall actually do this in
the A quarian Age.
earthquake, and they still continue, as
my instrum ent shows.
T he U nited States governm ent
should investigate and prove or dis­
prove these facts.
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W h ich Sex-Type A re Y ou ? ( Continued from page 25) IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIII

This is about equivalent to saying “from nearly seven squares for the head and
the crotch to the top of the head.” Ac­ trunk. In Figure 2 the “stem length” was
cording to the standards of William Page, only five and one-half squares, or one-
the legs in a perfect figure should be ex­ half of a square shorter than that of the M R . A D V E R T IS E R —
actly one-half of the entire height, or six ideal figure. But in Figure 3 the “stem
squares long. But in Figure 2 the “stem length” is over six and three-quarters, or
length” is only five and one-half against three-quarters of a square longer than the
If you are
six and one-half for the “leg length.” The ideal. This is a condition technically
lack of perfect proportions in this par­ known as “brachyscelia,” or a case of interested in
ticular direction is peculiarly a masculine “having short limbs in relation to the
predisposition. Stated scientifically, this is trunk.” reaching a
an example of “macroscelia,” or a case of The head and face is oval in form. The
“having long limbs in relation to the central portion of the face, from eyes to very select
trunk.” The head and face is oblong. mouth inclusive, is relatively short. The
neck is full and truncated. Arms and legs
M ARKET
The face is long from mouth to eyes. The
neck is long and wiry, generally display­ are full, rounded and tapering, terminat­ you should,
ing a prominent adam’s apple. The cir­ ing in relatively small, plump and har­
cumference of the neck is usually less moniously proportioned hands and feet. by all means
than normal. The shoulders are relatively The body is long-waisted and is generally
broad but shallow from front to back. larger and longer than the normal for the include an
The body is short-waisted and not only same weight and height. The shoulders
relatively shorter but generally smaller slope gracefully. Owing to the short leg appropriation
than normal for the given height and length, the height is about equal to the
stretch of the arms, though sometimes
for space in
weight. The abdomen is lean and flat.
The legs are not only long but also even less. Constitutionally, the general
slender, with a stretch appreciably less tendency is toward a relatively heavy
than the height. This is so because the
increment of height above that of normal
physique. The general form of organiza­
tion is Brevilinear and Curvilinear, that
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build is due almost entirely to the exces­ is, patterned upon the idea of short and
sive leg length. The lower part of the curved lines. Relatively great “stem
length” and big body, combined with Because it is
arm and leg is longer than the upper part.
The hands and feet also are noticeably short legs produce a morphological type
the O NLY
long. with proportions similar to those of an
To sum it all up—the constitution of infant. publication
Figure 2 has a general tendency to Everywhere, Figure 3 shows a total
slenderness in proportion to the height. absence of harsh straight lines and designed
The Build or Form of Organization is angles. Curve sweeps into curve. The
Longilinear, that is—based upon the prin­ typically feminine physique is character­ expressly
ciple of “long lines.” As an additional ized by soft flexible lines, smoothly
molded surfaces, elasticity and gracefully for our many
feature, this Morphological Type (i.e., a
type based upon external form ), is also curved limbs and body. Such is the de­ thousands
Rectilinear, or fashioned in accordance scription of the Gynemorphic (woman-
with straight lines. In other words, the form) or Feminine Sex-Type. of readers
general lines of the limbs, body, head and The seated figure in the Inset o f Figure
face are both “long and straight.” Curves, 3 shows a woman of the Masculine Sex- and subscribers
particularly short ones, are usually con­ Type. Note the long and slender limbs,
the long straight arms, the short-waisted through-out
spicuous by their absence.
However, another classification very body and short “stem length.” Compare the world—
natural to this type is based upon, broad her general proportions with those of
deductions of form peculiar to sex. A Figure 1 (A ) and with Figure 2. Also
hasty examination enables us to dis­ compare Figure 3 proper with Figure 9 8 % NEWSSTAND
tinguish two well defined, generally ac­ 1(B). You will find them Isomorphic
(similar in form ) in a broad general way, CIRCULATION
cepted, and distinctly contrasted char­
acteristics of the masculine and feminine aside from actual sex differences and
sex-forms. In the masculine the long modifications. W r ite
straight line prevails as a monotone. In W ith respect to the differences in head
the feminine the graceful curve predomi­ and face formation which distinguish fo r in fo r m a tio n
nates. Hence we may also call the these two general types, Figure 4 shows a
general style of build or form illustrated typical feminine head in profile. A full- 1900 N. Clark St.
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dominant morphometrical characteristics, tuality. The extreme upper forehead is
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Chart
of Food Combinations
( Continued from page 26)
body as a result of digestion, while
others produce alkalins.
As all body w aste is acid forming,
we should eat plentifully of the alkalin
form ing foods. T he best ratio is three-
fourths of the alkalin form ing to one-
fourth of the acid forming.

Acid Forming
. 54
Alkalin Forming W H A T IS B U D D H IS M ? (C om piled a n d
M eat, fish, fowl, p u b lish ed b y T he B u d d h is t L odge, L o n ­
F ru its of all kinds don.)
liver and other except p r u n e s , T he title of th is book echoes a q u e stio n
t h a t a r is e s in th e m in d of e v e ry s tu d e n t
animal organs. plum s and cran­ o f o ccu ltism so o n e r o r la te r, sin c e h e c a n n o t
E gg whites. escap e n u m e ro u s re fe re n c e s to B u d d h ism
berries. in o c c u lt lite ra tu r e .
Egg, entire egg. V egetables, except T he m a in p a r t o f th e te x t is a r r a n g e d in
th e fo rm of Q u estio n s a n d A n sw ers, th e
Legum es, b e a n s , legum es and rhu­ Q u e s tio n e r b e in g p re s u m a b ly a W e s te rn e r.
peas, lentils. T h e A n s w e rs h a v e b een p re p a re d b y a sc o re
barb. o f d ev o ted B u d d h is ts o f d iffe re n t n a tio n a l­
Cereals of all kinds E gg yolks. ities. M a n y q u o ta tio n s h a v e been included,
b o th fro m W e s te rn w r ite r s a n d th e B u d ­
a n d everything Milk in all forms. d h is t S c rip tu re s , a n d a b ib lio g ra p h y a n d in ­
m ade from them. d ex h a v e also b een provided.
Cheese. I t w ould seem t h a t e v e ry se e k e r a f te r
(Refined cereals O ranges, lemons, T ru th w ould w ish to k n o w s o m e th in g a t
le a s t of B u d d h ism if f o r no o th e r re a s o n
and foods made limes, grapefruit, th a n t h a t i t h a s su rv iv e d f o r p e rh a p s
from them are th irty -fiv e c e n tu rie s a n d is to d a y in flu en c­
and tom atoes are in g th e lives of m illio n s o f h u m a n b e in g s in
much m ore acid especially good. m a n y c o u n trie s.
than the whole M A S T E R S A N D D IS C IP L E S . B y C la r a M.
G reen leafy vege­ Codd. (T h e o so p h ic a l P u b . H o u se, L o n ­
grains.) d o n .)
tables are excel­ T h e P a t h lies b e fo re u s all. Som e d a y
Anim al fats, except lent in alkalin each of u s m u st co n scio u sly reso lv e to fo l­
low it— t h a t d a y o u r M a ste rsh ip begins.
cream and butter. form ing quali­ T hose w ho in clin e to th e T h eo so p h ical p r e s ­
Sugars of all kinds. ties. e n ta tio n of th e P a t h w ill u n d o u b te d ly find
‘M a ste rs a n d D isc ip le s” in s p irin g a n d h e lp ­
N uts. Cream and butter. fu l to th e m in t h e i r s tu d y o f A deptship.
Prunes, plums, R e a d in g lis ts on th e v a r io u s p h a s e s o f th is
s tu d y fo rm a n im p o rta n t p a r t of th e book.
cranberries and T H E MAY Q U E E N . B y C a th e rin e E . N o r-
rhubarb. f o r ; (S to c k w ell, L o n d o n .) A p r e t t y sy m ­
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s ty le o f th e fa m o u s poem b y L o rd T e n ­
N orm al, healthy blood is slightly al­ n y so n .
kalin. W hen it becomes acid we are A E IR S T V E N T U R E IN T O S P IR IT U A L ­
ISM . B y C has. M a tth e w s. (S to c k w ell.
much m ore susceptible to diseases and L o n d o n .)
infections. A high acid condition means •’S 1€i ,a u th o r d isc la im s a n y a tte m p t to d e a l
w ith th e q u e stio n of th e T ru th of S p iritu a l­
death to the individual. ism b u t sim p ly offers th is a s “a n a b s o ­
lu te ly tr u e a n d r e lia b le a c c o u n t o f a r e ­
W e m ust furnish the body w ith an lig io u s se rv ic e h eld b y S p iritu a lis ts , w h ich
th e w r i t e r a tte n d e d , a n d a t w h ich he w a s
adequate supply of the alkalin forming- convinced b ey o n d a ll q u e stio n th a t, on t h a t
foods to neutralize the acids of waste occasion a t a n y r a te , c o n ta c t w a s e s ta b ­
lis h e d b y m e a n s of g e n u in e a n d re lia b le
and the acid form ing foods. M edium , b etw een th e s p ir its o f people w ho
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a d m it t h a t th e y a r e liab le to e r ro r .” A nd
th e a u th o r ’s e x p re sse d o b je c t in w ritin g
“ P ro g re s s iv e S tu d ie s in S p iritu a l S cience,”
w a s to so p r e s e n t th e v a rio u s a s p e c ts of
o c c u lt te a c h in g t h a t h is r e a d e r s m ig h t be
in sp ire d to e x a m in e th e so u rc e b o oks fo r
th e m se lv e s. A w o r th y aim , n obly ach iev ed .
M Y M IS T A K E I N T H E C H U R C H . By
L ucy H ayes. (S to c k w ell, L o n d o n .) •
S p irit m e s sa g e s fro m one w ho h a d been
a p r ie s t in e a r th life, in w h ich h e re v e a ls
h o w h e h a d b een gu id ed in e a r th life b y
h is T e a c h e r, a n d e x p re ss e s h is su p re m e d e ­
lig h t w ith th e s u p e rio r c o n d itio n s o b ta in in g
in th e h e a v e n w o rld .
G L E A M S O F W IS D O M . B y I s a b e l A m b ler
G ilm an . (A u th o r.)
V e ry r e a d a b le p h ilo so p h y on th e su b je c t
of C o n scio u sn ess, L ife a n d W isd o m , e x ­
p re ss e d f o r th e m o st p a r t in b la n k v erse,
a lth o u g h th e fo llo w in g s ig n ific a n t eig h t
lin e s in rh y m e a r e to be fo u n d b etw een
c h a p te r s :
T ra n s itio n
E a r th s tr e a s u r e s w e c ra v e a n d w e h o a rd .
T h ey fa d e o r decay.
E a r t h ’s h o n o rs w e s tr iv e f o r a n d w in.
T h ey l a s t f o r a day.
W h e n th e g e rm of om n iscien ce w a k e s
In th e so u l of one,
E a r t h fa d e s a s th e s ta r s o f n ig h t w hen
E clip sed by th e sun.
T H E H E A L E R S . B y B. L ib e r. ( R a tio n a l
L iv in g .)
H is m o th e r h a v in g e a rly m a d e u p h e r
m in d t h a t h e w a s to be a d o cto r, W illiam
S tr a ig h t g re w up w ith th e co n v ictio n th a t
th e r e w a s n o th in g f o r i t b u t to s tu d y m e d i­
cine, re g a rd le s s o f h is n a t u r a l in c lin a tio n s,
a n d in sp ite o f th e f a c t t h a t i t m e a n t no
en d o f h a rd s h ip s , sin c e he h a d no one to
help h im p a y b o a rd b ills a n d tu itio n fees.
H is e x p erien ces a n d re a c tio n s up to th e
a g e o f th irty -fiv e , c o v erin g a ll th e tim e he
w a s a t m e d ic a l college, a n d h is y e a r s of
p ra c tic e , a r e v e r y r e a lis tic a lly se t fo rth .
W h y lie e v e n tu a lly g a v e ' u p h is p ra c tic e ,
le f t h is old frie n d s , a n d w e n t a w a y to b e ­
g in life an ew , is a s to r y in itself.
U N S E E N F O R C E S . W r itte n a n d com piled
b y M an ley P . H a ll. (H a ll.)
T h in k rig h t, s a y s th e te a c h e r. V ery w ell,
reflec ts th e disciple, b u t w h a t is a th o u g h t?
W h a t do w e do w h e n w e t h i n k ” M r. H all
a s s e r ts , “ T h o u g h ts a r e g e o m e tric o u tp o u r­
in g s of th e m e n ta l b o d y .” T h is is b u t one
of m a n y in te r e s tin g id eas w h ic h M r. H a ll
offers f o r c o n s id e ra tio n . T h e in h a b ita n ts
of th e e th e ric e le m e n ts— th e gnom es, sy lp h s,
s a la m a n d e rs , a n d u n d in e s— he v e r y g ra p h ic ­
a lly d escribes.
T H E O C C U LT A N A TO M Y O F M AN. B y
M a n ly P. H a ll. ( H a ll.)
A s tu d y o f th e h u m a n body, a ll its o r ­
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“Contact” (A Dream Story)
“I don’t believe in ghosts or spir­
itual com m unication,” said one gentle­
man. “T he only experience I ever had
suggestive of anything m ysterious hap­
pened to me in a dream, but I never
laid much stress on it. I was about
eighteen years old when one night I
dream ed th a t a burglar was breaking
into our house. I distinctly saw him
sneak about the grounds and then ad­
vance tow ard the house. I saw him
lift his hand as if to hurl som ething.
I awoke and lay in bed listening. No
noise could be heard. I arose and
prow led carefully through the entire
house but all was peaceful. T he next
m orning m y m other told me that an
attem p t had been made to burglarize
our home, and the basem ent window
had been sm ashed w ith a stone.”
“You w ere lucky,” said the lady who
had told the first story. “A nd still
you refuse tq believe in w arnings? I
have ju st one m ore incident to tell—
a personal one,” she continued, “if you
care to hear it.”
All agreed eagerly and she began
to speak:
“I used to have vague dreams, some
of which w ere repeated from time to
time. O ne was particularly unusual. I
dreamed th a t I was walking along the
boulevard of a strange city w here the
streets were lined w ith spacious trees
and beautiful estates. I do not know
the district today. I was searching for
my sister who is dead. I entered the
driveway of one of the estates and
suddenly found myself in a little room
T h e Spiritualism of the Bible
visitor to Saul, who was then
assured that it was Samuel, his
friend and teacher. Saul in his
humility, bowed himself before the
unseen presence of the man whose
pupil he had been in the bygone days,
eye pride and passion had caused the
clouding of his own power of clair­
voyance.
V. 19. “And tomorrow shalt thou
( Continued from page 19)
with one small window. In the middle
of the room sat my sister on a low
chair, weeping. I w ent up to her and
placed my hand upon her shoulder.
“ ‘Stop,’ she whispered. ‘Do not torture
me—you will know in tim e.’ She con­
tinued weeping. I stood beside her
greatly terrified. T h en she spoke: ‘A
letter for you—I hid it in grandfather’s
desk, the secret draw er.’
“She rose from the chair and walked
lightly aw ay—continuously weeping.
The room seemed to grow larger and
larger and the window sw ung wide
open. I hurried after her calling her
by name, Doris, D oris, but she kept
on w alking until she disappeared and
I found m yself alone on the strange
street. I awoke g reatly perturbed and
feeling faint. My m o th er was ill a t the
time, so I dared not excite her with
the incident nor arouse h er grief over
my departed sister.
“T he next m orning I w ent to the
desk and in the draw er was a letter
from the m an my sister had loved, he,
who is now my husband. It was a
plea to her asking her to be generous
and declaring his love for me. She had
never told m e in life that, before my
m arriage, she had cared deeply for him
but afterw ards, she bore a dislike for
my husband which was clearly m ani­
fested by her actions tow ard him.
Since finding th at letter, I have never
had th a t dream again.”
The lady paused. T he sceptical gen­
tlem an stirred in his chair. “You be­
lieve it was the supernatural?” he
( Continued from page 21)
and thy sons be with me.” Samuel
herein stated that -which every seer,
or clairvoyant knows to be literal
truth; which is that when Saul and
his sons passed from the physical
body, they would be in the spirit
world, companions of Samuel, and
others who have passed from the
earthly tenement, and are function­
ing in the astral body in the spirit
The Occult Digest April, 1929
asked. “Is it not possible th a t your
dream can be analyzed by F reud’s
theory—th a t dream s are but wish g ra­
tifications? Som etim es a sensory stim ­
ulus breaks in upon a dream th a t is in
progress. You may recall th at Maury,
student of this ever puzzling subject,
was aw akened from a dream of the
F rench Revolution, by som ething fall­
ing on his neck. H e took it to mean
the guillotine.”
“P erhaps,” the lady answ ered, “but
I feel it to be otherwise. H ave you
never been lo st in tho u g h t of an ab ­
sent person until, forgetting your own
locality, you have actually seen him
walk into the room ?”
“Yes, but th a t can be explained too.
You are half asleep, daydream ing
about someone, or you are fully asleep,
then the images th at come are dreams
th at seem entirely real since they do
not have any contract with the objective
stimulus. H ave you ever heard of a
person dream ing of an im m ediate
m em ber of his family, a living being?”
“No, but then one does n ot need
com m unication from a person resid­
ing in the same house,” answ ered the
lady. “I feel th a t my sister had a
definite m essage to convey to me. I
am certain th a t she was ill at ease and
w anted to set her conscience at peace.”
“You do n o t class it as a coincid­
ence?” asked the sceptic.
“N ot a t all,” was th e reply.
And who am ong the living can
fathom the m ystery of life and death?
world.
V. 20. Saul fell to earth from
weakness, caused by lack of food,
and the crushing realization that the
hand of fate was already reaching
out for him and his sons. Samuel
had spoken thrugh the medium, and
Saul was without hope of success in
the coming conflict.
(The End)
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Valentino’s Last M essage (Continued, from page 8)

sage that I still follow the dictates of
Extraordinary
and perm it spiritual understanding to
w alk through, into the darkened cham ­ a director, bu t one w hose dictations insight into just how
bers of m ortal’s unconcern and scoffing are exacting beyond my description
incredulity. and whose vision of life’s needs and its th e d ead liv e and
“T his m essage m eans more to me, R u­ future possibilities is indeed far reach­
dolph Valentino, than your doubting ing. what happens when
w orld can yet discern. I t is not a com m on­ “I have no choice here but to fulfill
place thing, but instead it is a com­ the laws of destiny and continue to we are d y in g — is
m unication of unusual nature and vital hold th e w orld’s in terest in my prog­
im portance to hum anity and its real ress as a spirit. revealed in the big­
m eaning will yet awaken the sleeping “So I, the screen idol, m ust pit my
conscience of your m ortal world. Then courage and spirit w isdom against an gest little book ever
the land of spirit will sense w ith joy eternal triangle of opposing forces to
the distinct vibrations of a cog’s tu rn ­ reach my goal, which is m o rtals’ spir­ w ritte n u p o n the
ing in the lock of skepticism. itual enlightenm ent.
“I am only one of many in spirit life “ In conclusion my yearning spirit s u b je c t of ‘L ife
concerned in this undertaking, b ut even m ust say: F o r all th a t is m ine of hu­
here some one individual spirit m ust m anity’s splendid appreciation I have A fter D eath ’. It’s
be cast as a leading personality, to di­ returned in spirit to bless you for it.
rect the attention of m ortal m inds up­ “Oh, M ortal W orld! th a t holds me ca lled, “ J o u r n e y s
on the plot involved while the sequel in such tender esteem , 1 beseech you
unfolds w ith heart-gripping interest. to cherish my m essage and live w ith Through Space” and
“Even as a spirit I m ust be placed my spirit in thought.”
as a leading attraction to draw the
Y ours in sincerest devotion,
is w r i t t e n b y
m ortal w orld’s attention.
“H um anity will learn from my m es­ R udolph V alentino. y o u r ed it o r, E f f a
Danelson.
W ill Y o u Be Buried Alive? (Continued from page 28)
were being made for his burial in the w hen the m ind seems locked up and This little book has
deep. H e knew everything th a t was n o t a single sense rep o rts the news of
going on around him, but could make the outw ard world. w o n m o r e praise
no sign of life. T he preparation w ent T hese cases happen far oftener than
from rational
on. H e w as actually low ered over the is imagined. W hen any apprehension
side of the ship, w hen he felt th at he arises, medical men and others are on th in k e rs, raised
m ust make the last desparate effort to the alert to assure the public th a t it is
make the mind act in the body. And all exaggerated and th a t in the present m o r e hell, m ade
he succeeded in lifting his hands. The advanced sta te of science such things m ore enemies, and
m otion arrested attention. H e was can hardly occur.
taken in the ship and restored to D oes each physician make all tests s tim u la te d more
health, again. M arvelous is th e fact of for signs of death? H e does not, but research for the real
this know ledge of outw ard things, should.
truth about life after
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Scientific Palmistry ( Continued from page 40)

L E T T E R S types—often one is pointed, one
From Friends and Foes ject will overcome such difficulties,
square, one spatulate, and so forth. and win success by his personal merit
The mixed hand should show a clear, and effort and not depend on what
The Digest Is Best
well defined Fate Line. is termed luck at any period of his
Says N ewspaper Woman At this point it is well to explain career. Rising from the wrist, and
S irs :
I en jo y y o u r m a g a z in e v e ry m uch. I
that all lines, to be good, should be going straight up the hand to the
th in k it is th e b e s t of its kind. H a v in g clear and decided. They should be little pad of flesh under the second
b een a stu d e n t in th e o ccu lt f o r m a n y y e a rs,
a n d in - th e n e w s p a p e r w orld, I feel I a m in well colored (not pale), and free finger (known as the Mount of Sa­
a p o sitio n to ju d g e a n d co m m e n t on th is
q u estio n .
from breaks and irregularities. turn), providing at the same time
M r s . C a m il l e A. W is b a a r . Lines that are pale and broad sig­ that the Line of Sun is well marked,
Symphony nify defects and obstacles. Pale luck, brilliance and success will at­
S irs : lines denote a phlegmatic and easy­ tend the destiny and extreme good
D a m m it a l l ! I pick ed up y o u r m a g a z in e
by c h a n c e a n d w a s A M A ZED a n d s u rp rise d going nature, red lines a sanguine fortune may be anticipated. Rising
to find a n a r tic le by E f£a D a n e lso n w r it­ temperament, and yellow lines a
te n lik e a r e a l sy m p h o n y , a s m y frie n d from the Mount of the Moon, the
T. J. S h elto n w o u ld sa y . P u t m e on y o u r bilious temperament. fate will be more eventful, change­
li s t r ig h t a w a y !
L o u is ia n a N. B. P r ic e . The Line of Fate may rise from able and largely dependent on the
the following distinct positions. fancy or caprice of other people.
The Occult Digest Be Praised
S irs : From and out of the Life Line. When the Line of Fate only makes
Y o u r J a n u a r y n u m b e r w a s c o m p re h e n ­ Straight up from the wrist. From
s iv e a n d to th e p oint. P la in ly i t sa id its appearance far up the center of
S O M E T H IN G , a n d t h a t so m e th in g m u s t the Mount of the Moon. From the the palm, it indicates a hard early
h a v e b een in te re s tin g to e v e ry p ra c titio n e r
o f S u g g estiv e T h e ra p e u tic s , a s it w a s to middle of the palm. life, and the subject must always
m e, a n d c e r ta in ly it m u s t h a v e b een a p ­ Now for the meaning of these
p re c ia te d b y th e “la y r e a d e r s .” fight hard to gain his ends.
F lo r id a . W . J . Sa n b o r n . principal positions. Rising from the The termination of the Line of
From Page to Pulpit Line of Life, success will be made Fate shows the outcome of the
S irs : by personal effort and merit. The career. In a large number of cases
A llo w m e to ex p re ss m y a p p re c ia tio n of
th e s p ir it o f y o u r m ag azin e. I a m su re early years will be cramped and dif­
su ch a p u b lic a tio n a s th is w ill acco m p lish ficult. Circumstances and the early the line may run only a short dis­
a g r e a t d e a l of good in e d u c a tin g people
in th e ir r ig h t to th in k f o r them selves. surroundings will not be favorable, tance up the hand. In other cases it
Y o u m a y be in te re s te d to k n o w >hat la s t may pursue its course in a straight
S u n d a y m o rn in g I ta lk e d on th e su b je c t of and one will be greatly hampered or narrow groove to its own mount,
th e r ig h t to th in k fo r o n eself, a n d re a d a s sacrificed to the wishes and plans of
a b a s is fo r m y le c tu re a n a r tic le “ A M es­
s a g e to th e C h u rc h e s” b y y o u r ed ito r. I parents or guardians. If the Line branch off to other mounts, or divide,
And a ll th e a r tic le s v e ry in sp irin g .
M is s o u ri. D r . W il l ia m H . W o o d f in . of Fate, however, should run on with the one branch following one
clear and strong from where it direction, another branch going in an
Coue and The Occult Digest
S irs : leaves the Line of Life, then the sub- entirely opposite direction.
I r e a d T H E O C C U LT D IG E S T fro m cov­
e r to co v er, a n d I c a n t r u th f u lly sa y you
g ro w b e tte r a n d b e tte r. M u s t be you p r a c ­
tic e Coue. W hich Sex-Type A re Y ou ? ( Continued from page 43)
C a lifo rn ia . E d it h E l d e n R o b in s o n .
is a great length from forehead to back- prominent, massive and angular features,
The Precious Jewel
S irs : head. Large open eyes, soft luxuriant the bony ridges over the brows—how
T H E O C C U LT D IG E S T is a je w e l a n d hair, delicate skin, finely chiseled features
a godsend. compact, solid and strongly marked! Con­
N ew Jersey . M r s . F r e d a M cL a r e n . and a fine organic texture all characterize trast the long central face of Figure 5
Spreading the Good Word the typical feminine physiognomy. But with the short central face of Figure 4.
S irs : the point upon which I would lay special The one is about fifty per cent greater
I g e t a g r e a t p le a s u re a n d ben efit fro m
th e O ccu lt D ig e s t a n d p a s s it to o th e rs a f t e r stress is the short central face. This is than the other.
I h a v e re a d it. always a feminine outcropping whether
M a rt M agee. It is one thing to pick out types, but
Io w a in man or woman. Of course the relative quite another to know what each type
length of the central portion of the face stands for. Our next step is to take ac­
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S irs : count of the leading mental, physical and
A fte r I re a d T h e O ccult D ig e s t I give it single leading feature distinguishing sex- vocational qualities of each type, enabling
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Figure 5 shows a decidedly masculine forget to apply and combine your pre­
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