GRAVEYARD PROPHECY
After the last war we had a remarkable boom in Spiritualism in this country and elsewhere (writes our Loudon correspondent!. All the “psychic” journals to-day are full of prophecies about the present conflict, most of them, of course, reputed to have been “ received ” through •“ mediums ” from “ the other side.” But a fact none of these journals mentions is. that up to September last every one of them emphatically predicted that there would be no war. If wo want impressive prevision we need go no farther than a 500-year-old tombstone in an Essex graveyard. It reads: —
When pictures look alive with movements free, When ships like fishes swim below the sea, When men, outstripping birds, can scan the sky, Then half the world deep «dreuched in blood shall be.
It will be observed that here was a dear anticipation of twentieth-century films, submarines, planes, and our double dose of Armageddon.
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Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)
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151GRAVEYARD PROPHECY Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)
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