THE SPIRIT WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20086, 25 October 1928, Page 17

THE SPIRIT WORLD.

GREETINGS FROM THE DEAD. EARL HAIG'S LONG MESSAGE. REQUEST BY JOSEPH CONRAD. [from our own correspondent.] LONDON, Sep), 13. A congress of the Internal ional Spiiituulists' Federation, will) 150 delegates from 42 countries, concluded its session in London to-day. The delegates carno to inform each other of the progress of the study of pshychical science in the different countries of the world, and papers on experiments and convoying newly-discovered knowledge, were read, covering every branch of supernatural phenomena. The addresses, hy well-known spiritualists, were translated, sentence by sentence, hy fluent interpreters, fciir Arthur Conan Doyle, president of the Spiritualist National Union, to which over 500 spiritualist churches .throughout the country belong, presided at the opening meeting. Much discussion took place on a paper by Monsieur A. Marcy, of Paris, dealing with the influence of sunlight and atmospherics on the intensity and frequency of rappings. The conclusion arrived at by the author was that the phenomena had a scientific foundation, lie suggested that the electron was the element used by the spirit folk. Science and spiritualism, ho continued, should carry on joint investigations. "Super-Normal Voices." Mr. J. P.. Mclndoe (Glasgow) read a paper on direct voice phenomena or "super-normal voices." lfc described in detail experiments with telephone transmitters in a cabinet, trumpets and deaf appliances, and the "unconscious whispers" that emanated from mediums with scarcely any movement of their lips. Ilis hypothesis was that telepathic impulses of some kind were received by the medium ami that the structure of their throats was ectoplasmic. Sir Richard Paget, he stated, had recently produced many varieties of human speech by artificial voice-boxes. Ho required, one box for each sound. "It is just a step," he added, "to visualise the possibility of combining these in ono instrument composed of living matter actuated and controlled by intelligence." Mr. E. W. Oaten, editor of Light, stated that a small private amateur circlo of eight persons in Lancashire had recently made astonishing developments with direct voices. Hitherto they had been getting only whispers, and generally in the dark, but an electrician suggested the use of a microphone and three-valve amplifier. The result was that they had to put cotton wool in their ears and close the doors to prevent the neighbours coming to see what was the matter. They could hear the voices all the way down the street. Messages from Spirit World. A startling declaration was made by Sir Arthur C'onan Doyle to the delegates at tiio Queen's Hall. Ho said:—"Within three days of his death Karl Haig sent me a very long message from the spirit world." While he was making his declaration he showed a photograph taken by a press photographer of Earl Ilaig's funeral, in which a human face closely resembling that of the late I'ield Marshal appears above the coffin. "I can reveal to you now," said Sir Arthur, "that Earl Haig was a spiritualist. 1 only knew two or three days after his death, when ho sent me a very long message, which had every sign of being evidential and truthful. I sent it to his nearest relatives, but I received no reply, and I cannot help feeling very much for him in the circumstances. I have also received a message from Joseph Conrad asking mc to do something for him. it seemed as if bis spirit was uneasy, and he wanted to link up with the world once more." Sir Arthur showed what ho claimed to be a unique collection of psychic pictures "1 am breaking new ground," he said, "and shall stray away a little from some of the ordinary psychical photography. Eight years have passed since the public were first shown fairy photographs, and nothing has occurred since to shake the evidence." "Fairy Having a, Bath." Proceedijng to show some delightful pictures of fairies and gnome's, sonic of them taken, Sir Arthur said, by girls in their 'teens, he explained tho method of investigating (ho authenticity of such photographs. .Both the positive and tho negative are carefully examined, and tho negative, if passed, is Hum submitted to recognised experts. The people taking tho photographs aro also examined, and tho circumstances in which they are taken are investigated. One picture showed elves dancing, while another was of a fairy having a bath in tho sunshine in a, sort of cocoon. "Tho children who seo t.heso fairies," Sir Arthur said, "talk of their colour, and say they have a lovely iridescence. The fairies aro separated only by a slight vibration from ourselves, and quito a number of people can seo them, although many are ashamed to say so bccauso of tho incredulity their remarks may excite. As for myself, I believo they aro objective, but, if anyone says they are thought-forms, I will not quarrel with them." During the winter Sir Arthur Conan Dovle will conduct a propaganda tour of South Africa.