Personally I have received and have been deceived by several such
messages. At the same time I can say that after an experience of
thirty years of such communications I have never known a
blasphemous, an obscene or an unkind sentence come through. I
admit, however, that I have heard of such cases. Like attracts
like, and one should know one's human company before one joins in
such intimate and reverent rites. In clairvoyance the same
sudden inexplicable deceptions appear. I have closely followed
the work of one female medium, a professional, whose results are
so extraordinarily good that in a favourable case she will give
the full names of the deceased as well as the most definite and
convincing test messages. Yet among this splendid series of
results I have notes of several in which she was a complete
failure and absolutely wrong upon essentials. How can this be
explained? We can only answer that conditions were obviously
not propitious, but why or how are among the many problems of the
future. It is a profound and most complicated subject, however
easily it may be settled by the "ridiculous nonsense" school of
critics. I look at the row of books upon the left of my desk as
I write--ninety-six solid volumes, many of them annotated and
well thumbed, and yet I know that I am like a child wading ankle
deep in the margin of an illimitable ocean. But this, at least,
I have very clearly realised, that the ocean is there and that
the margin is part of it, and that down that shelving shore the
human race is destined to move slowly to deeper waters.
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