"LIFTING THE VEIL."

Evening Star, Issue 15477, 27 April 1914, Page 7

"LIFTING THE VEIL."

10 THE EDITOE. Sir, —In your issue of Saturday " Charon," under the above heading, deals with occult matters generally. Every question has two sides, and I ask in reply that your readers be given the opportunity of perusing one or two other opinion* on the- subject. 1 begin with the sentiment expressed by-Dr Joseph Parker (for over 30 years minister of the City Temple, London), » who, shortly after the transitiox of his beloved wife, said publicly that he ca/ed far mere to know that he could communicate with Emma Parker than with a whole host of unknown angels. Rev. John Wesley: "With my* last breath will I bear testimony against giving up to infidels one of the greatest proofs of the invisible world-r-I 'mean that of apparitions confirmed by the testimony of all ages.'' I quote the following, having reference to a book recently issued by nc less a person than Vice-Admiral Wellsborne Moore (who,_ by the way, has openly attested having seen Mr Stead materialised on different occasions), 'Glimpses of the Next State':—"Of the author, Colonel Peter remarks: ' Admiral Moore is not a blind, fanatical spiritualist, bat an investigator whose only aim is to discover tho truth. He is well aware that deception lurks everywhere in these mysterious pathways, hut when once ho has established the genuineness of any particular cast he has the manly courage to testify publicly to his experiences, regardless of any consequences or adverse criti- * eisHu" Gerald Massey well says: "The religion of the future has got to inclutie spiritualism. It has to be a sincerity of life, is place of pretended belief; a religion of science, instead of superstition; a rslianoß in which the temple reared to Goof will he in human form, instead of being bui.e of brick or stone; a religion ef work rather than worship : and in place of the deathly creeds, a religion of life —life*actual, life hero, life now, aa well as the promise of life !• Examining the article referred to I. carefully, it is no* out of place to fodnde the following quotation:—" The real salvation the individual needs is to save himself from his own ignorance ■■■ and become wise. In this particular "d «•<& one must be his own saviour." Pi-''

Anei further. referrina; to Matthew xiih, 13, I call '" Charon's" attention to what the Master said, referring toIsaiah's prophecy that "by seeing ye shall see ana shall in nowise perceive." How terribly true this is of the everyday man of the present hour also!—I ani, etc., Simeon. April 27.