The Mystic World: A Literal Narrative of Strange Mystical Occurrences, Rare Materializations, Voice Seances, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Trance, Etc. The Locket Prophecy

The Mystic World: A Literal Narrative of Strange Mystical Occurrences, Rare Materializations, Voice Séances, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Trance And Mental Phenomena, Singular Psychical Manifestations, Thought Transference, Etc. The Locket Prophecy by Oscar W. Humphrey, a Founder of the National Spiritualist Association, was published in Washington, D. C. in 1897. (92 pages)

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Dedication:

Sincerely Dedicated To All Who Love and Diligently Seek For Truth — In Whatever Form It May Exist — Fearless of Consequences

Contents:

Chapter I. Initiatory Experiences
Chapter II. A Vivid Impression
Chapter III. The Locket "Test"
Chapter IV. The N. S. A.
Chapter V. The Emner Materializations
Chapter VI. The Colored Medium
Chapter VII. Miscellany —
.....An Odd Experience
.....Mental Phenomena
.....Was It Thought Transference?
.....He Was Conscious
.....A Business Man's Tale
.....Father W — , A Catholic Priest
Chapter VIII. A Trumpet or Voice Séance
Chapter IX. My Father's Death
Chapter X. His Second Manifestation
Chapter XI. My Father's Voice
Chapter XII. The Mysterious Paper
Chapter XIII. "Tim"
Chapter XIV. The Search
Chapter XV. A Further "Test"
Chapter XVI. My Brother's Statement
Chapter XVII. The Mystery of Life

Excerpts:

.......In 1888 I made a visit to Washington. This was the beginning of my initiation into Spiritualism. In the old Grand Army Hall,, corner Seventh and L streets northwest, Mr. Pierre Keeler invited a committee of skeptics upon the platform to examine slates on which writing would appear independently—that is, without other power than magnetism; the claim being that spirits would use the magnetic power of the medium to produce this writing. Three gentlemen stepped forward. Keeler sat at one end of the platform; the skeptics stood in the center. Presently a scratching sound was heard, and a peculiar shaking of the slates was observed. The three men had hold of the slates on which this took place. Keeler had merely touched them previously in plain sight to "magnetize" them, as he said. Two slates were held at a time, tied with a handkerchief. Several messages appeared on one slate in German and English, signed by different names. One of these gentlemen became a Spiritualist after this performance. Of the other two, one, I believe, expressed doubt; the other was bewildered.

.......Poe's yearning to know the secret of immortality is the craving of all mankind. Men search for earthly treasures and are foiled by a missing thread, a trifle, after years of patient effort. But the value of earthly possessions is mere dross compared with the intrinsic merit of a message conveyed as evidence of immortality. Of far more value, then, is the proof than the actual thing possessed. In the common affairs of life we give ear to practical things. If the ghostly dead visit our mortal abodes, do they not preserve the practical attributes of their once earthly presences? Aside from supramundane phenomena, mortal senses cannot know that the flame of life passes on to another state of nature. The mystery of the marvels of psychism is but enhanced if practical proof be lacking. Apparently the vanished hand which Tennyson craved to touch has become a verity; the sound of a voice that is still has lent its music to the listening ear, it may be. The old query of Biblical origin—if a man die, shall he live again?—has been answered, it would seem. Nevertheless, as laws of practicality govern in the material world, so the mind cannot be satisfied without consistent practical evidence as regards the immaterial world.