Spiritualistic Experience.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7898, 14 August 1905, Page 2

Spiritualistic Experience.

SOME MYSTERIOUS PICTURES, The Dunedin correspondent of the New Zealand Herald says that somo extraordinary spiritualistic experiences have been given to one of the local papers 'by Mr J. Watt, well known throughout the colony for his association with the prosaic business of manufacturing water gas,. Mq Watt, it seems, was induced to believe by some prominent spookist that he was a suHaOjc subject for spirit manifestations. He decided to place himself at the 'disposal of i the spirits. He used to sit at a table in the evening reading a book (any book), with a pencil in his hand and a pad of paper at his side. After a while his hand would move about irregularly, and the pencil would make unintelligible marks on the paper. He couM make nothing of it, and decided to send the scribbles up to the' lady in Wellington' who had suggestedl automatic writing to him, and to tell her that the tiring was a fratudj, He was told to hoM tha writing to a mirror, and look at the reflection. He did so, and found that) the pencil had really written words, but backwards. He persevered, an<i the writing ibccamc easier. Then his hand began to draw. He towght a box of crayons, and drew in'colours. To shorten a long story, Mr Watt, who says that he could not of his own volition draw, anything, has now. a .collection of from 3ft to 40 colour-t ed sketches, varying in size from 9m or loin to 2ft square. They are, for Hie most part, wierd, unfamilian things, said by Mr Watt to represent tiic temples of Palaeum, the sacred gardens of the worshippers of fire and serpent gods of the sun and sacred bull, chambers of pyramids, and tombs of the Pharaohs, royal arches of sacred a'nd secret orders, sacrificial temples, whose walls are adorned from floor to ceiling)) wi Hii hieroglyphics and symbols known and unknown (some familiar to those of Ihe Masonic order), and so on Among the writings, oi ■which there are hundreds of pages, is a descriplion of the method of building the pyramids, of Egypt, of the manner in which t'lie blocks of sMnc of which these structures arc composed were brought into place. Mr Watt keeps his crayons all gledy in a box, without any attempt) at assortment, and'says that.in tho process of drawing he never considers the laying down of one nor the picking up of another. He says his hand seems to do the work .of itself witlii -incredible swiftness, and he does not know what his picture is to be until it is finished. All are begun at the top, and worked down real artist 6 Sa ' d l ° b ® Sle ' lcd by ih «