WEIRD DREAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1026, 2 April 1912, Page 4

WEIRD DREAMS.

Many weird and wonderful meetings are held in London in the course of the year for the furtherance of the most extravagant objects. Yet none has been more extraordinary than that which took place in the Whitehall rooms of the Hotel Metropole recently. An invitation has been issued to hear narrated a full account of the most astounding sacred discoveries the world has ever known, and in response to it some 40 people assembled, many of them Spiritualists. The lecturer was Mr Alfred Grover, a City financier. When he came to London, he said, he discovered that he had what he called “microscopic mind,” which enabled him to analyse the most complicated figures without effort. Apparently he did not find sufficient occupation for his microscopic mind in figures, so he took to the study of spiritualism and psychic force. He bad pursued his experiments to such purpose that he had come face to face with an extraordinary Being, as to whose identity he had at first great doubts. The approach of the phenomena he thus described : “I was told to go back to bed and obeyed, and seemed to go into a kind of trance. As I moved about I found my feet were not touching the floor, although they seemed to be fearfully heavy. I forced my way along until I seemed to overcome the attraction or the gravity of the earth. I was moving at railway speed when I saw before me a big bank of cloud. As it is written, ‘Clouds and darkness are round about Him,’ I dashed into it with all my might. There appeared before me a pink cloud perfectly luminous, and there floated across the cloud an exact reproduction of the figureswe see on the old cameos. I looked at It and It looked at me and smiled, I came back to the side of the bed, and I realised that I had seen what the old Egyptians called ‘The Mystery of the Double.' It is exact presence that made Confucius teach his disciples to put food upon the bodies of the dead.”

Mr Grover added that be bad no possible doubt that the great Creator, the Master of Life, passed over London every night. He was the Great Inspector of all His works.

Later, said Mr Grover, be had a dream in which the devil appeared. He got into a terrible fright. A second night the dream was repeated, and again on the third night, when the devil came close to him. “His fearful lace came and glared right into my own,” said Mr Grover. “My head was wet with the sweat of fear.”