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amid so many marvels, that the secret of
materialisation
may yet be fully revealed, without our having
hasty recourse to "spirit" theories. Once more,
then, let me emphasise the fact that no theories of
another world can be based on physical phenomena,
and that the doctrines of Spiritism, such as they
are, rest on the supposed objective communications
received through mediums and otherwise.
"Julia"
Reflects Stead's Mind
But to return, and continue our epitome of the
Spiritist presentment of the other world. Mr. Stead,
in speaking further of the departed, is equally devout,
though hardly so orthodox. He says (or, rather, the
spirit speaking through him): "All the saved and
lost meet a message of love and mercy when they
die; but some know Christ not, and the lost see Him
not." "There are three essentials to see the eternal
realities: the heart of a child, keen common-sense,
and patience." How intensely "W. T. Steadish"
all these communications are, and what a gulf between
them and others we shall quote from the same
Spiritist faith! Truly, in this case," from the same
fountain come sweet waters and bitter!
As to locale, we are told by one spirit the other
world is on the earth just where we are; by another
that it is beyond the Milky Way a distance so
remote that, travelling at twelve million miles a
minute, it would take some 15,000 years to reach!
Assured Conviction of
Spiritism
Sir Oliver Lodge seems to know more than most
about this mysterious region, and, in "Christopher,"