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who have attained the assurance of life after death
by means of Spiritism not to pursue the matter
further; but rather to learn more of the spiritual
world and spiritual communion from the Christian
mystics.
Professor Richet, a Spiritist leader, referring to
this question says: "I am not yet convinced."
"Stainton Moses himself," says Myers, "believed
the messages came from departed spirits, but there
is great doubt whether they did."
J. G. Raupert, in "The Supreme Problem," p. 117,
says: "No advance has been made in establishing
spirit identity in twenty-five years of study."
Light, a Spiritist magazine, said (March i3th,
1909): "The hardest thing to prove from the other
side is identity; and we know of no test that can
determine it."
Professor Newbolt considers that, on account of
inaccuracies and ignorance, it is doubtful that the
communications are from the spirits of the dead.
D. D. Home, in 1855, at Keighley, in Yorkshire,
said (speaking of mediums): "The subconscious
mentality accounts for much." Coming from the
leading medium of his time this is
Maeterlinck and Hodgson
significant.
The "Ear of Dionysius," a most complicated
classical inferential message, deciphered by the Right
Hon. Gerald Balfour, is not very satisfactory
evidence of the work of a discarnate spirit, and was
not accepted in Spiritist circles without great
opposition.
Maeterlinck observes on the subject :" Hodgson