SATAN AT THE SEANCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9292, 29 April 1920, Page 2

SATAN AT THE SEANCE.

Speaking on the evils of spiritualism at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, the liev Father Bernard Vaughan made an earnest appeal to all present to avoid seances, spiritualistic mediums, and all so-called communications with these said to "have passed over," attributing such things partly to conjuring, to sleight of hand, telepathy, and psychic gifts.

"1 as a Catholic," said the rev. father, "am satisfied that the spirits who at times really do seem to manifest themselves and make disclosures at seances are not discarnate spirits at all but are satanic spirits. In other words, one-sixth of the phenomena is devilish.

"If," lie continued, "the music-hall artist can mimic the living so as to deceive you the evil one can imitate the dead so as to bamboozle you." Speaking briefly of intelligent people who believed that the evil which parted the dead from the living was very thin, .Father Vaughan said his opinion was that Satanic spirits had agencies compared with which the most intelligent man on earth was but as an infant crying in the night.