- Monthly What-Not -
With reference to the VAU Communicators. A number of inquiries have come in, as to why our reports on these phenomena have ceased. The group of people concerned in this matter were all connected with the national services; they are now scattered from the Atlantic coast to China. Dissension developed in the family of the principal "sensitive", so that conditions were fast becoming impossible. This is an old familiar story to investigators. The more promising a given set of circumstances seems, the more likely it is that trouble is on the way.
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Oddities from the "other side." The Guide of a visiting medium, with whom the Editor recently held long converse, assures us that the moon is shaped like a bottle-neck squash, with the small end toward us. The earth, he added, was not only flattened at the poles, but has a protuberance, in a kind of belt parallel to the equator but mainly in the northern hemisphere... Mr. Roger Graham informs us that the figures given for the speed of light, by the VAU Communicators, are likely to prove correct for the interstellar spaces, but that the commonly accepted figures are correct for our solar system. However, the VAU voices also asserted that the speed was a constant - so there is something wrong somewhere... Can we be positive that there is no hidden error in the M.-M. experiments? The story of the Lorentz contraction shows what unexpected things may crop up.
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Something rattled dishes, shook houses at 3:00 a.m. July 23, in San Diego - but whatever it was singularly failed to affect the Point Loma seismograph, tho it was described as being apparently an earth tremor, not atmospheric concussion... but 3:00 a.m. is a poorish time for critical observations ...
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RR friend Mrs H.L. (Northampton, Mass.) sends us a clip, re the ghost light of Maco. This light first appeared 79 years ago on the Atlantic Coast Line tracks 14 miles west of Wilmington, N.C. It's strong, lasts as much as five minutes at a time, weaves back and forth about 5 ft. from the ground, is said to be reflected by the rails, has been frequently "investigated" but with no result. It is associated by some with the death by accident of a conductor, Joe Baldwin, near that point in 1867. A very similar but more pronounced phenomenon appeared for years near Malakia, about 70 miles from San Diego; RR Editor wrote it up for the ASPR Journal 8-10 years ago. We yearn for knowledge, but we do not want to hear about will-o-wisps and men carrying lanterns, having actually been able to think of things like that for ourselves.
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Bailey Apports: There is actually a separate room in the Brisbane museum devoted to these objects! Who says folk down under are not enlightened? Some of these apports are also (or were) in possession of Stanford University. Large objects have included the full regalia of an African Chief, a curtain about 15 ft. long, a fish net about the same size. Live birds and bird nests, scores of shoes of all kinds, endless coins and artifacts for variety - along with hundreds of other articles. Inscrutable mystery - yet faint gleams of light are appearing, or hints and hopes of them, anyhow, in the abysmal darkness of your 20th century culture.
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BIKINI FOLLY
B.F. (or D.F.) Day has come and gone in the south Pacific, but we do not say that its aftermath has yet been reaped. There are signs of it in plenty, tho connections are hard to prove. We quoted in RR the words of a correspondent, who declared that the first effects might be felt at an opposite point on the globe - viz., the south Atlantic (where earthquake and tidal wave have now ravaged). Enormous seismic disturbances may follow, in many parts of the world. The tremendous downward thrust of the explosion may produce an unique type of earth-wave, with delayed effects - and of this, as Mr. Walter Graham points out, there are already various signs.
As to physicist Graham's own predictions, we remind our readers that other physicists concurred in them, in varying degrees - but only Graham, apparently, had the courage to give repeated and public warnings. And tho we were spared immediate disaster, the essential correctness of his point of view, and of his and our prolonged protests, may yet have unhappy proof... There are many phenomena occurring may well be connected with the B.F., of which almost no mention is made in the public prints, but which many scientists are watching carefully. RR proposes to report on these so far as may be possible.
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WANTED.
2 copies, No. 2 Vol.II of Round Robin (Feb. 1946); will pay .50 for each copy... Wanted: the book called Mystery of the Human Double, or name and address of the publisher... Wanted: book entitled The Adventure Beautiful, by Lillian Whiting; and The Spiritual Significance of Death, same author.
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PSYCHIC REVIEW
We are in receipt of the June issue of this magazine, printed by World Service, 13 Chesam Place, London, S.W.1. It carries as lead article an exposure of John Myers, a "psychic photographer", greatly touted by Psychic News, Maurice Barbanell, editor. It is depressing to note the angry reactions of supposedly intelligent English spiritualists to the uncovering of fraud, or even to criticism of other spiritualists. In our opinion, such people are a liability to any cause which they whole-heartedly support. "No test conditions, no confidence" (Spiritualist Leader motto) has RR support, under reasonable interpretation of "test"... About this Psychic Review, it's a 21 page monthly, and the copy we have seems distinctly worth while... Also, we note that its second article is a quote from Round Robin, that is, the article by Hereward Carrington, called "What Constitutes a Psychical Researcher", written for RR and published by us... Easiest way to order this and other foreign publications is thru Bobbitt Agency (Nashville).
SAMPLE COPIES:
We have a few of these each month - if you have friends who may like RR and you wish to be helpful to them and us, send us names and addresses... A few copies of Flying Roll are sent out for inspection and return if not wanted. Price .50 if kept. Everyone interested in HUNA should have Max Freedom Long's pamphlet, at .25, from him at 702 No. Cherokee Ave., Los Angeles, or from RR (Note: nobody is making money out of these, or from Huna in any way)... If you want a birthday card, self or friend, in Mrs Plemon's curious automatic drawing, send RR a card, give month and day... To all our neglected correspondents - you are not really neglected, but all letters are appreciated and will be answered, D.V.
Of a Chance-Seen Picture -
Here is a straight and smoothly flowing stream,
Slow on its path it goes, unpurposely
As any Power that moves within a dream.Here there be trees, both small and tall, and green
With sap ascending, and smooth grassed. earth
That to a meadow widens, and the mirth
Of birds is guessed at, and one sees also
How boughs and skies are mirrored in the flow.And all these things if numbered one by one
Are common as the summer-time and sim,
Yet all somehow are drawn from faery-book.
That red-gold light has not earth's signature,
Nor those small clouds bedizened, with the look
Of lambs, that one, two, three go sure
On a wind pathway, straight and straight somewhere.
Why, how can anyone in wits declare
That they are truly lambs, or clouds, or dreams,
Or truly anything except what seems
Whimsy and witch-work - The Genius of this place
Is a strange spirit, so I shall believe.
He cares not to show truth nor to deceive.And I guess well who cast this spell - 'twas one
Who in the net of leaf-shade and of sun
Was caught up into Faery, and thereafter
Could win no praise forever, for men's laughter
Ran at his heels; between two worlds he spun -
And bobbled topwise, glamoured and outcast.
Wine of too rich partaking! at the last
It mazed him wholly; brightness glimmering through
Made strange all ways familiar, old things new.M.L.
(A Rhyme for Margaret
her Birthday)
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Lodge, Sir Oliver. Survival of Man. Shelf-worn but many pages still uncut. 380 pp. $2.00
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The Esoteric. A Magazine of Advanced and Practical Esoteric Thought. Vol.3. July 1899 to June 1890. 523 pp. Esoteric Pub. Co. Boston.
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CONCERNING FLYING ROLL - - -
A Suggestion to Occult Students, by Harry G. Yetter.
(The Editor of Flying Roll and Round Robin is in receipt of the following letter from Mr Yetter, which he has decided to submit to you in its entirety. Several paragraphs of explanation and comment follow. If you are interested, please communicate either with H.G. Yetter at 1242 Park St., ALAMEDA, Calif., or with the FR Editor.)
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To the Editor of Flying Roll:
Dear Sir:
I have just received the Beta copy of Flying Roll, and want to say that it is the one thing occult students have needed for years. It is a wonderful contact medium, and I am going to make an unusual request. I would like to have you publish this that follows in the Round Robin, as I feel that most of the readers of Flying Roll subscribe to the RR also, and can be reached in this way.
Students and Adepts: For the first time in many years we who are students of occult matters have at our disposal a medium of contact and publication of high order, through which we can exchange our knowledge and most sacred experiences with one another; also we have a man of high intelligence who devotes his time, knowledge and labor to providing this medium.
But as we know, or at least should know, to publish this takes Caesar's coin - and plenty of it. Now it is my proposal to insure this contact medium from perishing before it gets out of swaddling clothes, that we as a body guarantee its publication by a fixed contribution, pledged by those who are genuinely interested.
If I were making this proposal to a juvenile group, it would, of course, be a simple matter to form an exclusive 'club'. But I am speaking to to people of intelligence who should be able to cooperate on a somewhat higher level. So I suggest a Flying Roll Society with a pledge of $1.00 per month (if this is too much, I can be talked down) from those who receive FR and feel that they can afford to help support it financially. By this I mean to exclude no one. Those who wish to subscribe to the FR at an established rate will continue to do so. My sole aim is to insure the continuance of this magazine.
If a surplus of cash occurs under this plan, it opens up wonderful possibilities for us, of obtaining reprints of out of print articles, data from foreign publications, and other hard-to-find material that we have long wanted and cannot obtain.
I would propose, too, that some one like Mr Vincent Gaddis, or Mr Max Freedom Long be made an Honorary Head of this group. No doubt Mr Layne as Editor and Publisher would have to act as Secretary and Treasurer.
Friends, think this over - give it a good deal of thought, and let me have your comments and suggestions. I can be reached at 1242 Park St., ALAMEDA, Calif. If you forget this address, the Round Robin would forward any letters sent in its care.
Harry G. Yetter.
Alameda, California.
July 16, 1946
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COMMENT:
This FR (for the information of those who have not received it) is a non-profit quarterly publication, about 32 pages, designed for persons having considerable background in occult studies. No effort is made to popularize it. It is semi-confidential in character and often contains material which should not (in our opinion) be offered to the general public - and which, in any case probably no other publication would present.
FR has received encouragement, material, and financial help from a few, but it probably cannot be kept up without more financial support. Since it carries no advertising, has the support of no organization, and deliberately restricts its circulation, it cannot possibly be a money-making proposition. But we believe it fills an actual need and performs a genuine service - which can be made to do so in an increasing degree, if it has a little leeway and some measure of security.
If this foundation is established, it would probably be advisable to increase the cost of single copies of FR, to non-members to $1.00 each. The "members" would have to reckon that part of their annual contribution was a donation, to keep the FR going. However, they would receive from time to time, special data, bulletins, charts or glyphs, as these became available - and which would not be distributed elsewhere.
The ASPR Journal, and the Journal of Parapsychology are quarterly, and cost $5.00 a year, or $1.50 for single copies. Medical Journals and other professional publications cost from $5.00 to $20.00 a year, and many of them are quarterly. FR, of course, is not in the class of these publications; nevertheless its material is specialized, and of a sort not to be found in any other periodical in this country. If among the hundreds of thousands of occult students, there are 50 who will contribute $10.00 a year - or 100 at $5.00 per year, we can carry on with FR, increase its size, and secure; reports and other material not now practicable for us. Also, the Editor is confident of securing the help of several very competent writers and esoteric students, to act as contributing editors (in addition to articles contributed by readers), so that FR will not be wholly the work of any one person.
If the free-thinking occultists of this country (not subservient to Orders) want a publication of the FR type (which can be strengthened and improved), they can secure it thru their own cooperation.
Incidentally, FR proposes to largely discard the terms occultism and occultist in favor of Illuminism and Illuminist. Dion Fortune proposed these latter expressions, as inclusive and generic words covering both mysticism and occultism (including, of course, spiritism). We would add to this, various studies in "borderland" science, Fortean data, psychic research and parapsychology. The synthesis of these is the key-note of future thinking, and a single term is badly needed. Also, occult, mystic, and spiritistic have unfavorable connotations for many people: they seem as if faintly tainted with quackery and delusion. We propose Illuminism as an admirable substitute and an inclusive expression.
To serious students of Occultism (Illuminism) who have not yet seen the FR. We will send you a copy for your inspection and return if not wanted. If you wish to subscribe (the present price is .50¢!), please state your present or past occult affiliations. You are asked not to circulate your copies indiscriminately, and to introduce as new subscribers only persons whom you personally recommend (thereby assuming a measure of responsibility) . . . If you prefer, the Editor will send you, for postage, an analytical table of contents of the Alpha and Beta issues of the Roll.
It is a perennial gibe at occult orders, that they can keep the peace neither [25] between themselves nor within their own separate ranks. But authoritarianism has broken down in Occult studies, nearly as much as in orthodox religion. There are now a great number of free-lance students who own no allegiance whatever. It is to these students, as many as tread the right-hand Path, that we would offer the FR, as a means of expression and unity and progress in knowledge.
But they - you - will have to "move, speak, and show yourselves," give us of your wisdom, and of your material help also - if you wish this small project to prosper.
SAN DIEGO 4, Calif.
Editor.
FLYING ROLL
Analytical Table of Contents, Alpha I and Beta I, for March and June, 1946.
ALPHA
Outrider: The purposes, ideals and objective of Flying Roll. The kind of material which FR desires to publish. The need for education in psychic and occult facts. The attitude of FR toward spiritism.
Drugs and Supernormal States: Article by Vincent Gaddis. The effect of various drugs upon clairvoyant and telepathic faculties; a collection of little-known data.
The Deros and the VAU Communications: The six alleged sources of dangers to human life on the earth. The Shaver-Dero problem and the lore of the underground peoples. The specific statements of the Communicators as to localities and the nature of the Deros. The status of the problem.
Concerning Enochian: Our present knowledge of Enochian. Regardie and the Golden Dawn system. The VAU Communicators on Enochian. The Hellenic language. The Enochian alphabet.
Vitic Experiments: Physicist Hayes and his negative results. Suggestions for experimental work.
Text and Pretext: Summary of state of contemporary knowledge of supernormal psychology. The problem of apparitions. The psychological impasse and the importance of clearing it.
Fudosi: Universal Federation of Esoteric Orders. Its present status.
Variorum: Huna - Thunderclap - Instrumental communication with the dead - Ritualistic murders - Further notes from the VAU - Retro Me, Sathanas (attempt at obsession)
Congressus Subtilis (Sex relations in dream or in astral and etheric bodies - Other items)
BETA
Cover Design - The Winged Caduceus . . . Concerning the Flying Roll.
The Thrice-Coiled Serpent (Shall we pool our sex knowledge in relation to occultism?) By Max Freedom Long, F.H.F. The unique personal account of the effects of sex abstinence in occult disciplines.
The Diagnosis of Pathological Psychism: The uses of psychometry in dealing with cases of psychic attack.
Variorum: Bush Magic - photographic phenomena - Etidorhpa experiment - the Meru Case (artificial Elemental) - Stim machines (artificial prolongation of the sex orgasm) - Doreal Booklets - other items.
Magic of the Grass Huts (Basic Concepts of Huna Magic).
Of the Res Clandestinaea (Incubi, larvae, actus amoris fictus).
Eve and the Serpent (from Compte de Gabalis).
In Terms of the Chakras -- Fire Immunity -- Mirror Visions.
Request to Subscribers. Announcement of a work on Geomancy. Other items.
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