SCHOOL FOR SPIRITS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 14071, 28 May 1906, Page 6

SCHOOL FOR SPIRITS.

It Was John Oliver Hobbes who created the school for saints, but it

remains for Mrs Endicott, the well-known English dairvoyante, to institute a school for spirits. It may come to that, because Mis Endioott is sure that ghosts can be taught. “ Their memory and intellect are fresh,” she told a “ Daily Chronicle ” interviewer, “ and they come back to - earth to try and deliver some message. They don’t want to frighten you. On the contrary, it is they, who are frightened if you scream. I am for the higher development of spirits. W© can teach them more than they can teach us, and we must be kind to them, for most of them are very unhappy. The spirits materialise from the feet to the head, and ghosts nearest the earth have the most material force. They are made out of condensed matter, and they get their material force from living people.” Mrs Endioott is fifty years old, and she has been seeing spirits since she was five years old. Her mother and her grandmother both saw ghosts. She has four guiding spirits, who have attached themselves to her. She has seen hundreds of angels, and they have no wings! She seems to have met most of the ghosts worth knowing, and has “shaken hands with scores of them.” Ghosts are perfectly colourless and transparent, hut if, the mind’s eye is trained it can see the form and outline of both spirit and spirit clothing. The clothing seems to be chiefly light drapery. The spirits have told Mrs Endioott a groat deal about the “life beyond.” There is no Heaven or hell in the ordinary sense, they say, but suicides have a kind of hell, because, ending their own lives, they die before the- due time and before places in the spirit world are ready for them. They are forced, therefore, to wander about in’ darkness, and many a suicide ghost, says Mrs Endioott, has told her of the sorrow and- remorse they experience, which are “ worse than a brimstone hell.” Mrs Endicot-t is* a Devonshire lady, very earnest, very simple, and “ very wishful to be believed. - ’ The spirits come to her, she says, because . she is sympathetic. She helps them, and she has “ practically a school of ghosts” to whom eh© teaches earthly things.