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THE FAILURES OF SPIRITISM 205
F. W. H. Myers in 1907 as a test, and compared it
with what the medium had said was in it, and there
was no resemblance whatever.
Messages from Myths
"It is just as easy," says Thoman Jay Hudson,
"to obtain a communication from a living person
(supposed to be dead) as from one actually dead,
and just as easy from an imaginary as from an
actual person."
Mr. Hudson has had very affectionate messages
of a most touching nature from an imaginary sister,
and also from himself, he being supposed to be at the
time his own brother (while he was believed to have
died years before). All the time he never had a
brother or a sister! We make no comments on
these facts, so disastrous to Spiritism; but before
reaching our chapter on the relations of Spiritism
to Christianity, we may draw our own conclusion
on its relation to truth. That of others is well expressed
in Mr. Frank Podmore's (S.P.R.) book:
"No positive results have been obtained worthy of
My own opinion is as follows.
It is more than doubtful whether, in spite of its
record."
useless marvels and sustained efforts for half a
century, Spiritism has revealed any truth whatever
concerning another world or has had any actual
communication with any departed spirit. Some
things, as yet unaccounted for, are not sufficiently
established as facts to invalidate these statements.