TALK WITH A KING’S SPIRIT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1147, 18 September 1913, Page 4

TALK WITH A KING’S SPIRIT.

STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF A DIPLOMAT.

A remarkable story of a talk with a king’s spirit is told by Mr H. B, Marriott Watson in an article on “The Problem of Human Survival” in the current issue ot the National Review.

M. Chedo Mijatovitch, formerly Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ot Servia in London, was asked by compatriots it he could get into touch with the spirit of r. Servian king who died in the fourteenth century. “M, Mijatovitch was not a spiritualist,” says Mr Watson, “but be undertook the mission, and visited a well-known medium to see what could be obtained. He was informed that the medium could not promise success, but would do his best. Entranced, the medium said (I quote M. Mijatovitch): Yes, here is the spirit of a young man who is most anxious to tell you something, but he talks in a language of which I do not understand a word.

“The king on whom I concentrated my thoughts died in 1350 as a middle-aged man. I wondered who the young man could be whose spirit was anxious to talk with me, and asked Mr Virgo (pseudonym) to reproduce at least one single word pronounced by that young spirit. He said he would try to do so. “He bent towards tue wall, in front of which he sat in an armchair, and listened for some time intensely. Then he slowly repeated, to my utter astonishment, these words in the Servian langu* age : T request you write to my mother, Natalie, that I beg of her to forgive me.' Of course, I immediately recognised that it was the spirit of the murdered King Alexander. . . . CONFIDENTIAL ADVICE. “If I needed a further proof that it was the spirit ot King Alexander, I got it when Mr Virgo said : ‘The spirit wants me to tell you that he now very much regrets that he did not follow your advice concerning a certain monument and the policy connected with it.’ This related to some confidential advice I gave King Alexander two years before his assassination, and which he thought he could not entertain at that time, and perhaps would do in the beginning of the year 1904.” In a letter to Mr Watson, M. Mijatovitch states that he did not make an appointment with Mr Virgo, who was a perfect stranger to him. The medium was unaware of his name, nationality, and position.

Mr Watson makes a plea for the examination of authentic records in the “proceedings of the English and American Societies for Psychical Research,” and concludes his article with the following striking sentence: — “One man at least, who was austerely and resignedly agnostic for over five-and-twenty years, has on investigation been wholly convinced by the weight of the evidence, and herewith testifies to that fact.”