THE SPIRIT WORLD

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4482, 24 July 1930, Page 1

THE SPIRIT WORLD

AGED WOMAN’S STORY. AWAKENED EVERY MORNING. It is a strange story that comes from Annecy, in France, telling of .in 85-year-old woman who has written from dictation by a "spirit” every morning since 1927. It seems that the dictation is done so quickly that the old woman experiences diflicnlty in keeping pace with the. dictator. According to the octogenarian, the spirit is that of a doctor whose acquaintance she made in France <i() years ago. One day the doctor appeared-to her in the street and vanished and since then he has awakened her ev.ery morning to dictate to her. He ibegins his work very early—five o’clock —and dictates for an hour. The matter dictated has a literary flavour, There are jpoetieal descriptions of the summer breeze, birds, (flowers, and butterflies. A glowing passage smaciks of Rochefoucauld. It deals with the relationship of man and woman. Woman is likened to a rose and man to a rose tree. “The rose lives by the tree. The tree envelops the rose with its love ml constant protection, and gives it life. In return the rose gives to the tree its ibeauty, perfume, and transmits life to the fruit that it produces. It is the same with man a nit woman.” Occasionally spiritualism is the (heme. “One must have lived in the spiritual atmosphere of the disinoarnated in order to be certain of the survival of souls and of their power of manifestation.” ’