SPEAKING WITH THE DEAD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 25 October 1907, Page 4

SPEAKING WITH THE DEAD.

THE REMARKABLE BELIEF OF AN EMINENT ASTRONOMER. It is absolutely certain, says Camilla Flammarion, the eminent French astrono mer, that one soul can influence another soul at a distance and without the aid of the senses. Many dead people, I know, hare been told by telephathic communications, by apparitions, subjective or objective, called by voices they distinctly heard, by aoogs, noises and movements and impressions of different kinds. We Can have no doubt on this point—the soul can act at u distance. Mental suggestion eeema equally certain. Psychic communication between persons who ere living is also proved by a large number of cases that have been observed

and reported. There arc psychic currents o« well as aerial currents and electric current*.

Telepathy is nothing new; it held a foremost place in ancient literature. The works of Homer, Euripides, Ovid, Virgil, and Cicero often bring forward cases of manifestations from tbe dying and the dead.

We may see without eyes and hear without ears, not by unnatural excitement of our sense of vision or of hearing, but by some interior sense, psychic and mental.

. Tk* soul. By its interior vision, may jN not only what, is pawing at a great distance, but it may also know in advance what is to happen in the future. The future exists potentially, determined by causes which bring to pass successive event*.

Poative observation proves the existence of a psychic world, as real as the world known to our physical senses, a.nd I shall never give up the exploration of this world, which I hope to carry to an eo4 if tho time indispensible to the work ■hall be allowed me. But, on one hand, it is proper and prudent not to give one's self tip exclusively to occult subject*, for one migh: soon lose tho independence of mind necessary to form an impartial judgment.

It is better to look upon such studies as not one's main object in liie ; but as recreation of-a superior order, most curious and interesting. These are food/5 and drinks which it is most wholesome to take only in small quantities. On the other hand, our earth turns very quickly, and days pass away like dreams. I hope, nevertheless, to give myself the scientific pleasure of studying what one man cannot do may be done by others. Every one may bring his little stone to assist in tbe construction of a future pyramid. I ask my readers and friends to lay up knowledge, to work and hope. We live in the midst of an invisible world, in which forces aro at work of which we know very little, and this agrees with what we know about the limitation of our physical senses and the phenomena of nature.