The Clairvoyant Clergyman
This clergyman during the war was employed in a defense plant. One day as he was entering the plant he suddenly found himself standing motionless in the doorway, while his double marched on ahead of him - lunch pail and all.
He also tells this one:
"Above the machines, near the roof, is a network of steel girders and across two horizontal girders a heavy plank was laid. Near this plank a man was crouched - I was aware that I was seeing him with clairvoyant vision only. This man was trying to move the plank. Directly beneath was a workman busy at his machine. I went to this Workman and told him what I had seen - told him to watch that plank, for someone who hated him was trying to do him an injury. Of course he took very little stock in what I said, but he did watch the plank. About 2:00 p.m. it suddenly fell, and certainly would have killed the worker if he had not been very alert. Did the vibration of the machinery shake it down? I don't think so, myself - and I want to add that my description of the man on the girder tallied pretty closely with that of a certain 'dead' man who had a long standing grudge against the man working below." (From letter by Ann Howard, to Editor of RR)
"2 plus 2" - or is it?
"F.G.H.", well-known to RR readers (whom everyone reads tho many disbelieve) has told us that the world has already suffered two "atomic wars", in which the existing civilization was almost wholly destroyed. Our science has been known, and lost and found again, tho not yet equal to that of ages past. And indeed occult lore speaks of these disasters, and certain old tales also echo them faintly. Perhaps, with the ato-bomb before us, such universal destruction may seem possible that this item too (if it is just possible that this item too (if it is a truthful one) may click into its place in the scheme of things:
Archaeologists at work now in Mesopotamia, the "cradle of civilization" have uncovered traces of an agrarian culture 8,000 years old, a herdsman culture still older, and a cave man civilization even older than that. They have just reached a layer of fused green glass. When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico last fall, the desert sand turned to fused green glass.
A Pennsylvania publication called Oranges and Montclair quotes this from the Pittsburgh Bulletin Index - it was a 'filler' which came 'tripping in over the trans-Atlantic wires'. But the Editor of Oranges prints it under the heading, Food for Thought... and as for FGH, he added quite casually (for what it may be worth to you), that 'the atomic war of 1960 (plus or minus a year) will be the third of these cataclysms.' Perhaps we ought not to say such things. Perhaps Dr. Nandor Fodor (RR friend) will have us up for mundicidal phantasies. Or, maybe it makes no difference at all, whether one cries Wolf! Wolf! or not. But in the story the world actually got there - after everyone had ceased to believe in him.
GOETHE'S HOUSE
( "Goethe's house was also leveled by the bombardment"
Press Dispatch)
Goethe's house in ruin lies -
Brick and stone in whirlwind tossed -
Who has won and who has lost?
Fames of Goethe, Shakespeare, Homer!
Through them, Gods spoke
Whose names are trumpets and the levin stroke!
Thunder in heaven!
Now their fane is a crumbled wall
Lost and tossed in a wicked brawl
Of Changeling races and unkempt breeds -
Whose is the hand or heart that heeds
That Goethe's house in ruin lies?
And where and where is the voice that cries
"The true immortal dwelling of this man
"Is shapen of that rock that never dies -
"The living rock from which all streams arise
"That quench the ageless thirsting of despair "?
It is not here, it is not any-where
For eye and finger-tip to seek and find,
But in the spacious firmament of mind
Stars shine enduringly, and Goethe's house
Is wrought of such bright stuff -
ML
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Notes - U S E D B O O K S - Comments
Man Visible and Invisible. G.W.Leadbeater. Frontispiece, 3 diagrams, 22 coloured illustrations (the bodies and the aura). 148 pp. 1903. Cover damaged, writing on flyleaf, otherwise good. $2.50
Magic, White and Black. Franz Hartmann. 4th Amer. revised ed. 1890. 281 pp. Cover worn, some pencil marks, otherwise good. $2.50
Mental Alchemy. O Hashnu Hara. Lon.1909. 121 pp. $1.50
Mediumship, Its Laws, Dangers and Advantages. W.J. Colville. 1918. Paper cover. Clean. $1.00
An Outline of Occultism. Cyril Scott. $1.50
Tertium Organum. Ouspensky (new). 1945. $5.00
Survival of Man, 2 copies, $2.00 & $1.50 (Sir Oliver Lodge).
Drama of Love and Death, Carpenter, $1.00.
Science of Peace. Bhagavan Das, 345 pp. (occultism) 1904. $2.00
Apparitions and Haunted Houses. Bennett. 1939. 396 pp. $3.00
Whence, Whither, Why. Augusta Gaskell. 1939. 312 pp. $2.50
Proofs of Life After Death. Thompson. 1908. 365 pp. $2.00
Vital Message, Doyle. $1.00
Scientific Astrology, Heindel, 9th ed. $1.50
Nostradamus Speaks, Boswell, 1942. $2.50
Geomancy, Art of Divination by the Element of Earth. Mimeo, 24pp. 8½ x 11". Compiled by Meade Layne. $2.00. Letters to a Soldier, mimeo., 35 pp, 5 x 8". Meade Layne. $1.00.
Assistance and instruction, gratis, in astrology and Rosicrucian studies, by correspondence. Ann B. Karmichiel. 400 So. Stiles St., Linden, N.J.
Walter Graham's new STAR, scientific quarterly, liberal viewpoint, may be ordered from Sta. G., Los Angeles 37. $1.00... The Delta issue of Flying Roll, edited by Meade Layne, may be had for inspection and return if not wanted. (Please state occult affiliations, if any.) .50
The address of Dorothea Frood (instruction in Pendology or radiaesthetics) is now Rt. 1, Box 126, Upper Ojai, Calif.
The Scientific Forum, Franklin Llewis, Ed., will appear as a quarterly in 1947. Psychology and the physical sciences, liberal viewpoint, probably best in its field, $5.00 for 3 yrs or 12 issues.
All possible information is wanted concerning Ignatius Donnelly, author of Atlantis, Ragnarok. Address RR, or Egerton Sykes, 9 Markham Square, Lon. S.W.3. For a new definitive edition of Atlantis, by Harper.
Romance of Metaphysics, a new book by Dr. F.I. Regardie, author of Golden Dawn (4 vols.), Garden of Pomegranates, The Tree of Life, The Middle Pillar, Philosopher's Stone, etc. will be on sale in a few days. (Aries Press). RR will review. Students of modern esoteric Qabalism cannot neglect any of the works of this author, who is now resident in Hollywood... There are rumours of a new book by Max Freedom Long, FHF, chief living authority on Polynesian folk-lore and magic (and author of the HUNA articles appearing regularly in Round Robin). Wing Anderson reports an excellent demand for his Prophetic Years, lately off the press.
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Well, and why knot?
Navy oiler U.S.S. Caliente, Terminal Island Navy shipyard, tries to heave anchor in order to go into dry dock, then finds "a perfect overhand or lovers knot tied in the chain about 20 ft. above the anchor". The knot would not pass thru the hawsepipe, had to be "untied" by acetylene torches - the ship had been anchored in 9 fathoms of water (54 ft.) At any rate that is the newclip sent us by D.D.D. Story is attributed to naval officers at Terminal Island. Why (k)not ask Science Illustrated about this - authority (!) on mysteries!