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Issue No, S Editor: Ray Palmer

TRUE STORIES
VENUSIANS WALK OUR STREETS Paul M. Vest 8
THE GHOST OF GRANADA. ..Arthur Darrell Huckerby 58
A FUNERAL BEFORE IT HAPPENED Lillian M. Slayton 62
THE MAN AT MY BED Mrs. Pearl McKay 98

ARTICLES
STRANGE CHILDREN Millicent X. Horton 22
YOUR HANDWRITING Professor J. S. Maxwell 95

FICTION BASED ON FACT

IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. .Sanandana Kumara 28

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MYSTERY IN THE NEWS Ray'Palmer 83
YOUR FUTURE Dorothy Spence Lauer 86
THE MAN FROM TOMORROW William Broderick 90
THE SEANCE CIRCLE Letters From Readers 99
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VENUSIANS WALK OUR
This story is labeled on our contents page as true. The editors
believe what Mr. Vest tells in it. And we wish to point out
that Mr. Vest himself believes it. What we want to caution you,
however, is that sometimes everything is not exactly what it
seems to be. If Venusians actually are walking our city streets,
MYSTIC intends to do its level best to prove it. Thus we ask
that anyone who can add to Mr. Vest’s story come forward now
with any evidence they may possess. It may be extremely
important! The identity of the "flying saucer men" may be
absolutely vital to our national safety!

T HE experiences I am about
to relate may seem so in¬
something of a skeptic.
despite all evidence to the con¬
Hence,

credible—so bizarre—so ut¬ trary, it still is difficult for me to

terly fantastic that I have hesi¬ declare with absolute certainty
tated to verify them in print. that I have met and talked 'with
To testify to these facts is not a Venusian. Therefore, HI mere¬
only to admit that we have extra¬ ly present the facts of my experi¬
terrestrial visitors, but to assert ences and leave it up to the indi¬
that beings from another world vidual reader to decide for him¬
are walking on the streets of ou.r self whether or not space beings
cities! These extra-terrestrials are walk among us.
familiar with our manners and Eight months ago I had but
customs; they speak our languages slight interest in flying saucers. Of
without a noticeable accent. They course, like most other people, I
dress in our clothes and look was rather curious about the fly¬
enough like earthlings to pass for ing saucer phenomena. In fact I
one of us! believed I had seen one of the
Basically, I have always been saucers one late afternoon about
8
 STREETS!
Bf

Paul M. Vest

a year ago out over the Pacific

Ocean. I noticed it first as a tiny
silver disc high in the sky. I watch¬
ed it hanging apparently motionless
for almost five minutes. Then
suddenly it appeared to “flip” in
a peculiar manner and simply van¬
ished. But even having actually
seen one of the incredible things I
was still not greatly interested. My
personal opinion was that they
were secret technical developments
of our Government.
Then in June 1953 the first of
an amazing chain of events occur¬
red. A stranger phoned me from
Los Angeles. He identified himself
only as “Bill.” He stated that he
had come down here from.“a re¬
gion near Seattle” especially to
talk with me. He mentioned in
particular a recently published ar¬
ticle of mine (THE SECRET
WISDOM BEHIND THE
GREAT RELIGIONS — Fate,
May, 1953).
I endeavored to dissuade him
from making the trip out here to
Santa Monica, but failed. Finally,
io MYSTIC
I agreed to meet him at the bus ing down. A few seconds ago you
stop at 20th and Santa Monica were nowhere in sight. How in the
Boulevard at 6:oo P. M. the fol¬ name of Heaven did you get here?”
lowing day. “Oh, I came from up the street,”
At about 5:50 I parked my car he replied vaguely. I didn’t press
directly across the street from the him further, but his reply certainly
bus stop where I had a clear, un¬ didn’t satisfy me. For I knew he
obstructed view in all directions. couldn’t have come from “up the
The 6:00 o’clock red bus from street”, for I could see for blocks
Los Angeles zoomed past without in all directions while I was out
stopping. I watched it disappear of my car.
down Santa Monica Boulevard. We drove to my apartment a
Just to make certain “Bill” had¬ short distance away. I didn’t say
n’t arrived on an earlier bus, I got much, but he talked at random of
out of my car, walked to the inter¬ his impressions of Southern Cali¬
section and looked in every direc¬ fornia.
tion. But the streets were abso¬
When we were seated in lounge
lutely deserted.
chairs in the living room, I made a
I had just turned to get back
few mental notes. He was about
into my car when I heard someone
six feet tall or slightly over and
call my name. Startled, I looked
appeared to be about twenty-eight
back and saw a man standing at
years old. His eyes were dark—
the bus stop, waving his hand in
almost black, and his hair black
greeting.
and wavy. He was dressed in ill-
I was dumbfounded! An instant fitting sport clothes in which he
before the streets had been abso¬ didn’t seem to be very comfortable.
lutely deserted. Bewildered, I saw A casual observer would certainly
him approach the car, smiling. He not be startled by his appearance.
introduced himself saying, “I’m In a crowd he would pass as a
Bill—the fellow who phoned you rather unusual appearing person.
last night from Los Angeles.”
But as I studied him more close¬
We shook hands and I recall ly while he talked, I was aware of
being aware of the peculiar feel of certain strange characteristics in
his hand—as though it were with¬ his physical appearance. His skin
out any underlying bone structure. was exceptionally white—so white
“I can’t quite figure it out,” I in fact that it appeared to have
replied. “The Los Angeles bus an odd bluish tinge. His cheek
passed this stop without even slow¬ bones were unusually high and his
 VENUSIANS WALK OUR STREETS!

eyes and brows had a peculiar Or¬ false almost at a glance.

iental cast. Yet in no way did he But my strange visitor had me
resemble a true Oriental. And I deeply p\izzled from the moment I
noticed that his ears were oddly first met him. HE WAS LIKE NO
pointed and appeared to be more PERSON I HAD EVER EN¬
delicate and complex than any I COUNTERED BEFORE! Per¬
had ever seen. haps ESP entered into my aware¬
I recalled how odd his hand had ness of his strange psychic and
felt in my grasp. Looking at his spiritual qualities. In his presence
hands, I noticed that his fingers I was immediately acutely con¬
were long and tapering and so scious of a completely foreign and
smooth that they seemed to be heretofore unknown vibration. I
without joints or underlying bone didn’t know who he was, but I
structure. did know my visitor was no ordin¬
He spoke slowly and clearly with ary man!
no trace of an accent, but he seem¬ We had been rtiore or less mak¬
ed to be choosing his words with ing conversation on subjects of
great care. I noticed too that his general interest up to this point
voice had a peculiar resonant qual¬ when he turned and abruptly
ity. asked, “Did you ever hear of Or-
feo Angelucci?”
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve al¬
ways been something of a skeptic. After a moment’s reflection, I
replied, “No, I’m sure I haven’t,”
I have met swamis, yogis, mediums,
clairvoyants, mystics and self- “Angelucci is living in Los An¬
styled messiahs by the score, but geles,” he explained. “Recently
I have never been duped by any of he has had a most unusual experi¬
them, even those who were sincere ence—he is the first earthling ever
but self-deceived. Also, I have to make a trip into outer space
met several persons whom I know in what is popularly known as a
without any doubt to be true spir¬ flying saucer.”
itual adepts; even as I have known At first I wondered if he was
several sensitives, or mediums, joking, but it was obvious he was¬
who are honest, sincere and able n’t. “I don’t believe I under¬
to produce authentic para-normal stand,” I replied dubiously. “The
phenomena. From years of re¬ actual existence of flying saucers
search and experience in occult and certainly hasn’t been authenticated
psychic phenomena I now can us¬ —now you tell me a human being
ually discern the true from the has traveled in one.”
12 MYSTIC
He half smiled. “Oh, I’m not a now verbally reveal to you my
fugitive from a psycho ward,” he re¬ true identity, or the identity of
plied as though answering the sud¬ those who sent me—for you would
den doubt in my mind. “And neith¬ doubt me. But I promise that be¬
er is Angelucci, although some peo¬ fore I leave tonight you’ll know
ple consider him psychoneurotic who I am and also who THEY
since he has started telling of his are.”
experiences with the saucers.” As I listened to his portentous
“You mean you believe this words indicating that he had tel-
Angelucci actually has traveled in epathically read all that was in
a flying saucer?” my mind, I recalled previous meet¬
“Yes, I can affirm that he has,” ings with several of earth’s genuine
he continued. “But Orfeo needs adepts. I remember how they too
help now! That’s the primary had revealed their true identity to
reason THEY sent me. To request me in utter silence. Realization of
that you aid him in telling his their true spiritual status had to
experiences to more people. THEY be gained entirely through extra¬
are well aware of your deep in¬ sensory-perception, or not at all.
terest and unusal experiences in Words later served only to verify
the field of metaphysics, religions the para-normal communication.
and the supra-normal. Thus I knew that the man who
I made no reply. But I pon¬ openly proclaims himself an adept,
dered his strange words and stud¬ a master, or a guru, usually is not
ied his face intently. His absolute one, while the true spiritual adept
honesty and his sincerity were goes unknown, often in humble
apparent. Also, I was again acute¬ garb.
ly conscious of that unearthly
As these thoughts passed through
awareness about him. At last I
my mind, I saw a peculiar change
said slowly, “You speak of a mys¬ come over “Bill” His body ap¬
terious THEY—may I ask who
peared to grow rigid; his express¬
are THEY?”
ive eyes dulled, as though his
His eyes held a detached, far¬ body had suddenly become an
away look as he replied, “In the empty shell. It was at that mo¬
brief time we have known each ment the incredible knowledge
other you have realized many came to me in a flash of intuitive
things about me. Actually, none understanding — I knew with ab¬
of that information was gained solute certainty that my visitor
from our conversation. I shall not was not of this earth—BUT A BE-
 VENUS IANS WALK OUR STREETS! 13
ING FROM ANOTHER earth, tell me all your troubles—
WORLD! they are really not nearly so serious
An icy shiver ran down my spine. as they appeared to you today.”
I felt my muscles tense. My con¬ A feeling of awe passed over me
scious mind recoiled with a kind as I recognized again his supra-
of psychic shock! So bizarre—so normal abilities. And in the light of
fantastic—so wholly unanticipated his understanding the problems
was the revelation that I could not that had worried me for weeks
immediately adjust to it. seemed suddenly to be petty, triv¬
ial and a little absurd.
Silence, like a tangible thing,
hung in the room between us! As After a moment’s silence, he said,
in a daze, I saw the animation “Now you KNOW who I am with
coming back into his face. Then a deep inner conviction that no
he looked directly at me and smiled words on earth could ever give
warmly. As my eyes met his I you. Also, you realize too that
felt a deep bond of friendship and THEY who sent me are far wiser
understanding that seemed to than I who am but their INTER¬
reach out across millions of miles MEDIARY.”
and somehow touch an unknown “Yes,” I said slowly, “I believe
world. Intuitively the realization I comprehend.” But even as I
came to me that here indeed was spoke the words my conscious mind
a man from another world—but couldn’t quite grasp the tenuous,
certainly he was no stranger! Rath¬ new understanding that had come
er, a fellow being—the spark of to me. After a moment I added,
light that lighted my being burn¬ “I would never have dreamed a
ed more brightly within him. In meeting between planetary stran¬
the moment of revelation I knew gers could be like this. Actually,
he was a much wiser, gentler and the thing that surprises me most
more highly evolved being than I of all is a most simple thing—the
—and with infinitely greater per¬ strong feeling of kinship . of
ceptive ability—but basically I mutual and basic understanding
RECOGNIZED HIM AS A SPIR¬ between us.”
ITUAL BROTHER! And beyond “Yes,” he agreed in a low voice.
that nothing else was of much es¬ “It is the same throughout the cos¬
sential importance. mos—no matter what the mate¬
He closed his eyes and rested rial objectification or etheric indi¬
his head on the back of the chair vidualization, the spark of eternal
as he said quietly, “Brother of being is always identical. For all
14 MYSTIC
are essentially one and a part of also mentioned that our present
the infinite and everlasting spiritu¬ theories concerning the atmosphere
al fire which is the Father.” and surface conditions of the plan¬
As the psychic shock gradually et Venus were entirely erroneous.
diminished, thousands of questions He stressed the idea of reincar¬
teemed in my mind—questions nation and the inevitable law of
about his world, its civilization— compensation as regards the in¬
the flying saucers—their purpose habitants of earth. I recall in
here . . ? But I realized that he particular an illustration he used
would impart what information he that startled me. He said that to
wished me to have on those sub¬ the etheric beings who have evolved
jects. When I spoke again, I said, far beyond the infantile perceptive
“This man Orfeo Angelucci, you states of form, color, sex, conflict,
mentioned—does he know you?” time, space and material illusion,
“I’ve met him briefly only once. which is the present erroneous state
But if you’ll allow me to use your of earthlings, our planet is compar¬
telephone I’ll call him and arrange able to a huge vat of broth for
for you to meet him and hear his production of penicillin. To the
story.” senses of man such a vat is a rath¬
With that he phoned Angelucci er ill-smelling, offensive thing,
and set a time for me to visit him but nevertheless it produces the
at his home on Glendale Boulevard precious golden-colored penicillin.
later in the week. Following the He said the vat is comparable to
phone call “Bill” talked freely earth and its peoples while the
about many things that were puz¬ comparatively few spiritually
zling me. He stated that the extra¬ evolved souls of this Age repre¬
terrestrials who had contacted Or¬ sent the precious golden product
feo were extra-dimensional, etheric of the vat. Eventually, however,
beings of a high spiritual order. He every human being upon earth will
stated definitely that was not one evolve into the higher conscious¬
of THEM. ness.
He explained that the Venu- Later, he gave the names, ad¬
sians from our neighboring planet dresses and telephone numbers of
were of a more material evolu¬ over a dozen persons in the South¬
tion; that though they differed ern California area. Some of these
from us in certain basic physiolog¬ persons, he asserted, had been
ical principals, still many Venusi- contacted by space visitors in var¬
ans could pass for earthlings. He ious ways, while others would aid
 VENUSIANS WALK OUR STREETS! i5
in piecing together the confound¬ prised when I tell you that the be¬
ing puzzle of the saucers. He said ings of certain other worlds view
numerous Venusian contacts had earth as earthlings might look up¬
been made with earthlings by on a den of deadly serpents sting¬
means of “ham” radio sets and ing each other to death. Much of
tape recordings (he furnished that stinging is done with words,
names and addresses). Other con¬ attitudes, discriminations, intoler¬
tacts, he declared, had been estab¬ ances and a host of other lethal
lished through sensitives, or me¬ psychic weapons. Mankind’s great¬
diums, by means of clairvoyance est Teacher—the etheric Sun-Spir¬
and clairaudience. He also gave it, whom you know as Jesus Christ
me the names of persons who had —who took upon himself the error
met and talked with extra-terres¬ of humanity to teach men simply
trials. to LOVE ONE ANOTHER—was
When I asked him why the ne¬ crucified and tortured by those He
cessity for secrecy and mystery came to save. And yet to¬
surrounding contacts, he replied, day men self-righteously demand
“At this time it is the only possi¬ that Etherics land their craft open¬
ble way. Also, we are to a great ly at one of your airports. But like
extent under the direction of the children you are learning—slowly
Etherics—the Great Ones who con¬ and painfully. Eventually ALL
tacted Orfeo. Earth’s people are will attain their lost heritage. In
woefully emotionally immature the meantime we will help insofar
and their prison-like three-dimen¬ as we are permitted to do so.”'
sional world is preponderantly I sighed and bowed my head as
false, as compared to reality. I said slowly, “What you say is
Men’s minds are crystallized in er¬ probably only too true—but be¬
ror and filled with violent preju¬ lieve me, man’s lot is not easy.
dices. Upon your earth the mere Imprisoned in error as we are,
color of one’s skin—a slight dif¬ ruled by our animalistic emotions,
ference of religious belief—merely and living in uncertainty and in¬
belonging to a different race or security with death and decay as
country—in fact, the most trivial our final material conquerors, it is
deviations precipitate animalistic difficult indeed to rise above the
belligerancies, hideous brutalities animal-man and attain any true
and the bloody slaughter of millions realization of spiritual reality.”
of fellow creatures. He nodded his head as he replied
''"an you then truly be sur¬ in a deeply sympathetic voice,
i6 MYSTIC

“Yes, we understand, earth, the “Bill” smiled. “The reporter and

planet of sorrows, is one of the his associates still can’t quite con¬
hardest and most difficult paths vince themselves that the whole
of evolution in the entire cosmos. thing isn’t a big hoax of some sort.
And to make it even more severe They have factual proof of some¬
mankind must work out their own thing highly extraordinary in the
salvation—this is the Law.” metal plate, but they’re still dubi¬
There was a pause as I ponder¬ ous as the idea of space visitors
ed his words. Then he abruptly is a rather touchy subject now.”
changed the subject. “After I I promised to phone Max Mor¬
leave you, you may begin to doubt ton the following day.
much of what has passed between At about 10:30 that night I
us,” he continued. “Therefore I drove “Bill” to the bus stop and
want you to contact the persons watched him board a Los Angeles
whose names and addresses I have bound bus. He said he was leaving
given you. In particular I want the following day for the North,
you to get in touch with a news¬ but promised to see me again after
paper reporter on a large Los An¬ my story of Angelucci’s experi¬
geles daily (he gave me the name ences appeared in print.
of the newspaper reporter, the Later, I contacted Max Morton
name of his newspaper and two at the Los Angeles World as I was
telephone numbers where he might eager to hear what he had to say
be reached. But as the reporter about the two Venusians. In brief,
has since requested that I not use here is the fantastic, but true sto¬
his name or the name of his news¬ ry he gave me:
paper, I will refer to him as Max In February, 1953, a strange-
Morton and his newspaper as the appearing man, dressed in a tweed
Los Angeles World). “This report¬ suit, came into the newspaper of¬
er, Max Morton,” he went on, “has fice. He told the receptionist that
been contacted by two Venusians— he was from the planet Venus and
and from an earthly factual stand¬ stated that he wished to see the
point his contact is highly signifi¬ City Editor. She, of course, think¬
cant.” ing it was a gag, rang the City
“But, I don’t quite understand,” Editor and quipped, “A man just
I remonstrated. “Why didn’t the dropped in from the planet Venus
Los Angeles World print Morton’s to see you.”
story? I’d think it would rate “Oh yeah,” remarked the har¬
headlines around the world.” assed editor. “I’m busy. Let Max
 VENUS IANS WALK OUR STREETS! 17
Morton talk to him. He’s interest¬ a companion had arrived on this
ed in characters.” planet in a flying saucer. They
The receptionist, still certain it landed their craft in the desert
all was a huge joke, sent the near Barstow, California and con¬
“character” into the press room to cealed it there. In Barstow they
see Max Morton. were able to get some old clothes
I asked Max for a description of and hitch-hiked into Los Angeles.
the person, and the minute descrip¬ MaXj still sure it was all a hoax
tion he gave tallied in every detail being perpetrated on him, joking¬
with the mysterious “Bill” who ly asked them how they learned
had visited me. our language. The Venusian re¬
Max said the fellow had looked plied that the inhabitants of his
at him with a serious face and planet monitored our radio and
stated in a forthright and direct television broadcasts and thus had
manner that he was from the plan¬ easily learned our languages and
et Venus. But as a more or less customs. He said that he and
hard-boiled reporter, Max was fa¬ his companion had come here spe¬
miliar with screw-balls and was cifically to study earthlings at close
not too surprised—as he frequent¬ range and to gain a better under¬
ly met “Napoleons”, Peter the standing of our minds and thought
Greats, etc. In reply he made processes.
some wise-crack. The reporter was by no means,
With that the Venusian ran his convinced that the fellow was any¬
thumb nail lightly across Morton’s thing but a crackpot, but he was
desk. Genuinely startled, Max getting curious. When he had to
saw that the glazed, hard surface leave .for an appointment at the
of his desk was gashed to the depth Court House, he agreed to see the
of about half an inch. “Venusian” and his companion the
He began to wonder about the following day.
fellow and attempted to duplicate When the fellow arrived the fol¬
the feat. But, he declared, he lowing afternoon he had his com¬
couldn’t even make a slight dent in panion with him. Max said the
the desk top. He was puzzled, but second one appeared to be almost
still thought it was just some an identical twin of the first.
trick the odd-ball had learned. In the meantime, Max had pro¬
With slight urging the fellow cured a heavy plate of the hard¬
commenced talking about himself. est alloyed steel. He suggested
Briefly, his story was that he and that the Venusian attempt to mark
 MYSTIC

the metal as he had the desk sur¬ months.

face. With apparently no effort In fact Max was beginning ser¬
the fellow ran his thumb lightly iously to wonder if the Venusian
across the steel. Dumbfounded, might actually be telling the truth.
Max saw that the metal was For it was obvious to everyone
gouged across its entire surface that the fellow possessed incredi¬
in a streak over half an inch deep. ble extra-sensory perception. Max
Max was beginning to feel rath¬ talked with him and asked the
er uneasy, but was certainly not Venusian for permission to write
convinced the fellows actually were an article about him for publica¬
“Venusians”. tion in a magazine. But the Ven¬
Both of them stuck firmly to usian steadfastly refused; in fact
their story, however, and later re¬ he said he and his companion
quested Max to help them get jobs wanted no publicity whatsoever as
in Los Angeles. They said they it would negate the true purpose
were without funds and found they of their visit here.
couldn’t get around here without Nevertheless Max went to work
money. on an article about them. But be¬
Max skeptically agreed to see fore it was completed the Venusian
what he could do. and his companion suddenly dis¬
Through a friend in the news¬ appeared. Investigators have not
paper's Department of Investiga¬ been able to find any trace of them
tion he was able to get the first since.
one a job in that department. But Max said a full report was given
he made the fellow promise to keep to the F.B.I. along with an analy¬
his identity secret. Hence only sis report of the piece of gouged
three persons on the newspaper’s steel.
staff knew who the Venusian real¬ The report, by one of the fore¬
ly was—or claimed to be! most laboratories in Los Angeles,
The fellow worked for several states that the mark gouged in the
weeks in the Missing Persons of¬ steel plate would require pressure
fice and succeeded in astounding of over 1700 pounds to produce.
all of his co-workers with his baf¬ Further, that such pressure exert¬
fling and amazing abilities. Max ed by any known force would shat¬
declared the so-called Venusian ter that particular type of metal
could locate missing persons with¬ before marking it. Even more
in an hour in cases that had baf¬ startling, THE ANALYSIS OF
fled their best investigators for THE INDENTATION REVEAL-
 VENUSIANS WALK OUR STREETS I i9
ED THE PRESENCE OF OVER the physical appearance of “Bill”.
A DOZEN ELEMENTS NOT Several days later I met Orfeo
PRESENT IN THE REST OF Angelucci and made plans for writ¬
THE METAL. ing an account of his incredible ex¬
Max says he is now convinced periences with the space visitors.
the two strange fellows actually (This article appeared under the
were from the planet Venus. He title I TRAVELED IN A FLY¬
declared that neither of them ap¬ ING SAUCER, in the November
peared to have any earthly knowl¬ 1953 issue of MYSTIC maga¬
edge except what could be gleaned zine.)
from our television and radio I asked both Orfeo and Mrs.
broadcasts. Mabel Angelucci, his wife, about
He told me his article about the the mysterious stranger “Bill” who
two Venusians would appear in a had arranged our meeting.
foremost national magazine this Mrs. Angelucci spoke up quickly
year. In the meantime, he request¬ and said, “Oh, that man gave me
ed that I refrain from giving his the creeps. He rang the doorbell
name or the name of his newspa¬ one day and introduced himself
per; otherwise, he gave me full with an odd name I can’t remem¬
permission to write this account. ber. He seemed to know every¬
(The true identity of “Max Mor¬ thing about us. It frightened me—
ton” and his Los Angeles newspa¬ there was something, so strange and
per have been given by me to the downright weird about him.”'
editor of this magazine and have In the last several months I have
been verified by him.) met and talked with others whose
After my talk with Max there names and addresses “Bill” gave
was certainly no longer any doubt me. Several of these had met him
in my mind but that “Bill,” my only briefly. Others didn’t even
strange visitor, was also a Ven¬ know who he was and were startled
usian. He had indicated to me to learn of the data he had given
that he was from another planet, me about them in connection with
but he did not state which one; the saucers.
also he had stated that he was not True to his promise, “Bill” vis¬
of the high spiritual order of Eth- ited me following publication of the
erics who had contacted Orfeo. But Angelucci article in MYSTIC mag¬
the physical description of the two azine. Our visit was brief, but he
Venusians, as given to me by Max,, told me THEY were well pleased
was similar in every detail with with the general reaction to the
20 MYSTIC

piece. Also, that everything was with the harmony of divine law
developing as anticipated, but shall the lash be applied; words
that it would require consider¬ may not portray the scenes. This
able time and the efforts, under¬ is the message of the END OF
standings and experiences of many THE AGE.”
persons before earthlings would be Thus I have endeavored to give
able to attain even the haziest un¬ you details of my unearthly exper¬
derstanding of the true nature of iences with an individual I have
extra-terrestrials and the saucers. every reason to believe may be
In addition to Orfeo Angelucci, from another world. In pondering
he mentioned in particular the the matter over in my mind, I have
work of George Van Tassel, Meade come to the conclusion that he was
Lavne, Donald Keyhoe, William doubtless more or less “playing a
Pelley, Ray Palmer, E. L. Gardner role” here as I sincerely believe
(The Theosophical Approach), the two Venusians were who con¬
Max Miller, Desmond Leslie and tacted the Los Angeles newspaper
Criswell. A few others, he stated, reporter.
had been carried away by their In other words, they undoubted¬
own burning enthusiasm and had ly presented themselves to us in
literally “made mountains out of a a manner that we with our lower
mole hill” Nevertheless, in the perceptive abilities might under¬
overall picture their work too stand and interpret according to
would prove generally helpful. our limited three-dimensional stan¬
Before we parted he asked that dards. It is my understanding that
I re-read the book, A DWELLER as of this date twenty-four Venu¬
ON TWO PLANETS, by Phylos. sians are in our cities mingling with
I have the book open before me our people—in practically all cases
now and this is the prophetic pas¬ they are unknown and undetected.
sage that meets my eye: “But as Undoubtedly with time and the
the Poseid age was stricken, this testimony of more persons con¬
one must also be which has just cerning their experiences with ex¬
passed. Shall America, together tra-terrestrial, we will be able to
with the rest of the entire world, gain a clearer understanding of
meet similar woe? Alas, worse, these much more highly evolved
though not by water—but by fire! and intelligent beings—WHO ARE
Shall all be wiped out of existence, HERE ON A MISSION QF
leaving a planet in ruins? Unto the FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE!
end of coming into full obedience —e n d—
 EDITORIAL 21

EDITORIAL. . . of it. The “most interesting and

(Continued from Page 7) most pertinent” news is a very
cut-and-dried affair. It consists
ing down and rendering the brain,
of a “pattern” which you can note
the tool of thought, less able to
by listening to a few broadcasts.
perform its function. So, actually,
what we mean by our principle is There is the customary “human
“freedom of experience”. Free¬ interest” story; an “oddity in the
dom to learn how to think, how to news”; “the weather”; a “puff”
apply the laws of moral behavior for some important person (a ca¬
to our acts, freedom to experience tering to favor, usually); and a
the results of both thoughtful and number of other things which are
thoughtless action (and in this last fed to you every day in almost the
category we include the action of identical words. The political as¬
suggestion, the action engendered pect of the news is carefully screen¬
by propaganda, by hypnotism, by ed, and anything that gets by that
exposure to falsehood and trick¬ isn’t in “line” is promptly “cover¬
ed up” by counter-statements,
ery).
Back of all this freedom to ex¬ blind herrings and “diversions”
perience is the right to acquire the But mainly, the news is 100 per
experiences of others undefiled by cent propaganda (we say 100 per
“processing” When you read your cent because the items mentioned
newspaper, listen to your radio, before are “stock stuff” and actu¬
watch your television, you are re¬ ally a “bonus” on the news; you’d
ceiving “processed” news. Each of get it anyway, even if there was no
these sources obtains its material news). And today the propaganda
over three major news services, and is directed almost entirely one
each of these news services receives way: the titanic struggle between
an enormous mass of news each —not communism and democracy
day. This mass of news is impos¬ —but between power groups fight¬
ing for total power, for total dom¬
sible to transmit in toto, so it is
disseminated by “selection”. This inance. The question of whether
selection is by one or two key men or not either group will be a bene¬
whose job it is to put the “most ficial dominance or enslavement is
interesting and most pertinent” not a question that comes under
news on the wires. The rest of the the heading, one way or the other,
news then becomes a discarded of “freedom of experience”, be:
strip of yellow paper in a waste¬ cause no matter who wins, the re-
basket and the world never hears (Continued on Page 79)
STRANGE CHILDREN
By
Millicent X. Horton

Have you ever observed a child apparently

talking to someone you yourself can't see?

D URING the past decade

there has been a steady flow
leadership of what remains of the
present civilization after the final
of information received adjustments are made. Their ser¬
through supernormal sources, deal¬ vice to usher in that long period
ing with the part youth will play of peace is fore-told in the Bible
in the period of reconstruction and identified by students of Truth
which will eventually follow our as “The Aquarian Age ”
present tragic state of world unrest. Because of the repeated insist¬
The material received states that ence from many occult sources
many children being born at this that this is in accord with the Di¬
time and other young ones already vine Plan for mankind at this stage
in physical manifestation, are ad¬ in our evolution I have been im¬
vanced souls who have chosen in¬ pressed with unusual incidents con¬
carnation at this critical period to cerning children which have been
be ready to take over the spiritual brought to my attention. People

The editors of MYSTIC feel that this article will evoke a

storm of controversy between those who believe in rein¬
carnation, and those who do not; between those who be¬
lieve some of us have "missions" on earth, and those who
do not. But the fact remains that there are people who
have these strange "flashes" and that they are particularly
common among children. In this article Miss Horton gives
us her views, and we present them with no further comment.
But we suggest that interested readers respond to her
via the Seance Circle. Perhaps we can give some answers?

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 STRANGE CHILDREN 23

conversant with esoteric thinking they be true denizens of non-phys¬

are cognizant of the fact that many ical bodies—such as spirit^play-
children carry over into each life- mates—or the projections of be¬
experience certain memories of pre¬ ings still in physical manifesta¬
vious physical existences of which tion who, due to some special cause
they are more or less conscious, perhaps severe illness, demonstrate
until they reach the age of approxi¬ astral flight. Repeated rebuffs ad¬
mately seven years. This is espe¬ ministered by his elders eventually
cially true if the experiences have stifle a sensitive child’s ability to
been of a violent or soul-searing na¬ contact his higher self and robs
ture. One reason a child loses this him of his God-given right to ob¬
inherent ability to “tune-in” with tain help in a time of need.
the akashic record of the past is A particularly interesting in¬
because of the deplorable lack of cident was brought to my atten¬
understanding on the part of his tion. A young friend of mine,
elders to try to set the pattern of Mrs. Walter Konigin of New York
his thinking. Fortunate indeed, is City told me of the following expe¬
the child who dwells in an atmos¬ rience which occurred on Friday
phere of enlightenment among peo¬ afternoon June 22, 1945 in the
ple who appreciate this gift of me¬ Long Island home of her brother
mory and cultivate it without mak¬ Emil Komuves. At this time the
ing him feel that he is in any way Komuveses had two small girls,
unusual or “queer.” Such under¬ June age three and Carole age two.
standing helps him retain his spiri¬ Their mother’s mother, a seventy-
tual link with the Source of all wis¬ nine-year-old lady of whom both
dom. In the present day however, children were very fond, was seri¬
he is more apt to be met with the ously ill in a hospital in the Bronx.
attitude that the experiences he re¬ Ethel, another daughter of this lady
counts are either tales woven by a happened to be a nurse in this hos¬
too active imagination or, what is pital and on this Friday after¬
far more serious for his future de¬ noon after she came off duty she
velopment, actual falsehoods for paid her mother a visit.
which he is punished. He resents After straightening up the pil¬
this injustice for he does at times lows and asking if she wanted any¬
have “flashbacks” when he re-lives thing Ethel was surprised to be
incidents in the past while at oth¬ informed by the old lady that she
ers he sees the presence of mem¬ had just returned from a trip to
bers of the outer world, whether visit her grandchildren in their
24
MYSTIC

Long Island home. Naturally think¬ home from shopping June tore in¬
ing that the patient was “wan¬ to the living room as she usually
dering,” the nurse to humor her does then stopped short and cried
asked what she had done while ‘Oh, hello, Grandma! Why are
she was there and was further you working so hard? You should
amused by the response, “Oh I take it easy the doctor says. . . you
went round tidying up the place a know you’re sick!”
bit and little June told me not to “I ran in after her thinking for
work so hard . . that I was sick a second that by some miracle
and should take it easy. But you Mother had been brought back
know, Ethel, a funny thing hap¬ home, but of course the child was
pened, June led me into the kitch¬ just playing talking to amuse
en by the hand and wanted me herself. I was mad as could be for
to get her a glass of water. She her giving me such a shock. The
was right put out too because I next thing I knew she was walk¬
couldn’t seem to get it for her. ing into the kitchen as if someone
Then I went out on the sunporch had her by the hand. I could hear
to see baby Carole and she begged her talking away at a great rate
for me to pick her up. I tried to and when I went to ask her what
do that too, but I guess I was too she wanted she said, ‘I wasn’t talk¬
weak for I didn’t manage it.” ing to you. . . I was asking Grand¬
The nurse dismissed the incident ma for a drink but she won’t give
from her mind until the following it to me.’ By this time I was good
Sunday when she was present when and annoyed at her foolishness
the mother of the children came to and said, ‘Don’t be silly you know
visit the patient and during the your grandmother is sick in the
visit said, “Ethel, do you know I hospital in New York.’
think the kids have gone crazy.” “She just looked at me puzzled-
The nurse knowing that they were like and stamping her foot insist¬
active youngsters always up to ed defiantly, ‘Her is here! Her is
something, smiled tolerantly and here!’ and she only let up when I
waited for their mother to continue. told her if she didn’t stop her non¬
“Do you know that last Friday sense and telling those lies I’d
afternoon they said and did the spank her. If that wasn’t enough
strangest things that they kind of then I heard Carole out on the
scared me.” sunporch saying, ‘Up! Up!’ and
“What sort of things?” then real cross, ‘Grandma UP!’ I
“Well, when I brought them tiptoed out wondering who on earth
 STRANGE CHILDREN 25
the baby could be talking to and huge silver monster sailed lazily
there she was standing before the overhead, sending forth brilliant
daybed with her arms outstretched flashes as the sunlight caught its
and her face all puckered up ready burnished surface. The child was
to cry and nobody was there. I standing up in his mother’s lap
can’t for the life of me figure out and holding the back of the seat
what got into those kids that day!” for support as he gravely watched
At this point Ethel interrupted, the Zeppelin’s course. As it sailed
“That’s a strange coincidence. quite close to their location it dis¬
Friday afternoon when I went off appeared for a few seconds behind
duty I stopped in to see Ma and a heavy bank of clouds, then reap¬
she told me she had just paid you peared directly overhead.
a visit and that the kids acted just Simultaneously his parents were
like you just said.” Of one accord amazed to see his sturdy little body
both daughters turned to the old suddenly stiffen and as he turned
lady in her bed close by and were around to face them, his face dis¬
greeted with a most amused ex¬ torted, the words tumbling out of
pression in her eyes and around his lips with dramatic force. His,
her mouth, as if she could tell a voice was not the baby voice they
lot more if she chose to do so. were accustomed to hearing, but
Perhaps these young children a strange, strained voice of a man
are two of the advance guard of in the throes of agony. They-' lit¬
“old souls” who are with us having erally held their breaths actu¬
come into physical manifestation ally frozen by the terrific emotion
with the sixth sense—occult pow¬ conveyed by the tone.
er—well developed. “Daddy! Daddy! Promise me
This incident recalled to my you will never, never go up in a
mind a strange “flash-back” which ‘plane.’ I was shot down by a ‘Jer¬
the son of a veteran of World War ry’ in one of those. I was fly¬
I experienced. For a brief moment ing a ‘plane’ and he came out of
the boy “remembered back” to a the clouds unexpectedly over my
former life with tragic clearness. head just like that one and got
This boy was born in April 1927 my ‘boat’ I was hit in my
and on June 2, 1930 when the Graf throat here (and he indicated the
Zeppelin made the first tour over juglar vein) and it finished me!
New York City his parents took Daddy! Daddy! . promise me
him in an open roadster to a spot you will never, NEVER go up!”
on Riverside Drive to view it. The „ By this time the shining men-
26 MYSTIC

ace had passed over and as if this then a strange, puzzled expression
broke the mystic connection with would spread over his face and he
the past his tiny body relaxed in would say rather sheepishly, “Gee,
his mother’s arms and he was Dad, to tell you the truth I don’t
again the baby staring with child¬ really know how could I,
ish interest at the Zeppelin. As yet I certainly felt for a second
one could imagine this experience that I knew what I was' talking
left his parents shaken. Fortu¬ about. In fact I have always had
nately, however, they were stu¬ the feeling that I could take up a
dents of metaphysics and under¬ - (and he named a British
stood that the sight of the flash¬ make plane used in the first World
ing monster suddenly coming out War) and be able to handle it per¬
of the clouds overhead apparently fectly.”
just as it had swooped down upon The intense interest in flying
him when he was shot down, could continued and when he was grad¬
very well have formed some psy¬ uated from high school during
chic link which for that breath¬ World War II he immediately en¬
less moment opened the door of listed in the Air Force, It is in¬
the past to him. teresting to note that he showed
In the years that followed they such exceptional ability that much
made no mention of this incident to his dismay he was held in the
but as he grew up they were in¬ United States to train flyers in¬
terested in watching how anything stead of being sent overseas for
concerned with planes or flying active duty.
held a strong attraction for him. In closing I should like to re¬
On occasion he would make amaz¬ count an incident which demon¬
ing comments and keen observa¬ strates how wisely one mother
tions and at such times his voice guided her son in making a decision
would take on an authoritative for himself which I believe will
tone quite unlike his habitual man¬ influence his entire life.
ner of speech. A number of times, At the time in question this lady
to see what his reaction would be, was a librarian and her son was
his father challenged him with, attending junior high school. He
“What makes you make a state¬ was planning to enter a specialized
ment like that? How could you field and his program included
possibly know that such is the much science. One evening after
case?” completing his assignments for
The boy would start to reply the next day he quietly addressed
 STRANGE CHILDREN 27
his mother with these startling me to clear up my thinking that I
words, “Mother, I think it is only have never ceased to use it when
right that I should tell you that I the need arises. Will you try some¬
do not believe in God anymore. thing for me?”
There is no such thing as a ‘di¬ “Why of course Mother, if you
vine Being.’ All that stuff is just wish.”
superstition used to control the ig¬ “Then take my Bible and open
norant.” to any place you choose and put
His mother concealed her sense your finger on a verse and let us
of profound shock and asked un- see what it happens to be.”
e m o t i o nally, “What evidence The idea struck the boy’s fancy
caused you to come to this con¬ and he took the well-worn volume
clusion?” in his hands and held it for a few
“Oh, it is the result of a direct moments while his mother again
line of thought,” he said. “Our sent out her mental plea for help.
science teacher says that an edu¬ Finally he opened it and his finger
cated person does not accept any¬ came to rest on a verse. As he read
thing as true unless it has been in silence she saw his body become
proven scientifically. She says re¬ alert and a look of incredulous awe
ligion is not intellectual and is come into his face and he at last
therefore superstition for you cer¬ read these words aloud, “Psalms
tainly can’t prove scientifically that XIV Verse 1, THE FOOL HATH
God exists. That is why I don’t SAID IN HIS HEART
believe in Him anymore.” THERE IS NO GOD.”
With an effort the mother re¬ I am convinced that there are
tained her grip on herself and in¬ many who feel as I do that every ef¬
wardly sent out a call that the fort should be made to foster and
right words would flow from her gently fan into a steady flame
lips for she felt that her handling these small sparks of Divine Fire
of this situation could in a large discovered burning within the
measure determine the trend of hearts of children of today. This
her son’s life at this impressionable is our one hope of nurturing the
age. In a moment she heard her¬ inspired vision which must be de¬
self saying, “Well let’s see I veloped if the world is to be spared
was about your age when I was the ultimate fate of the ancient
very puzzled about something and civilizations of Lemuria and Atlan¬
I invented sort of a game and it tis.
worked so wonderfully in helping THE END
IN THE
TWINKLING
OF AN EYE
By

Sanandana Kumara

This story is one we want you to read very very carefully indeed!
Sanandana Kumara has written a story with reincarnation as its
main theme and karma as its secondary theme. However, buried
between the lines he has placed some very intriguing information.
As you read, you may find that it is difficult going, that it is some¬
times confusing. This is done deliberately! It is done because this
is a story you should read again and again! We know that you
are not the average reader, but one much more clever in grasping
the true meaning of what you read. Therefore, we did not try to
"write down" to you, but "played it straight," right from the
shoulder. Of course it is difficult to grasp so complex a theory as
is presented in this story, but that you will grasp it we are sure.
If, after several readings, you have not learned or even suspected
what Sanandana Kumara is trying to tell you, perhaps there is
nothing there for you. If there is, it may be the most important
single concept you have ever received concerning reincarnation.
Speaking of this story from a literary viewpoint, the editors feel
that here is one of the fine stories of the day. It has a subtle theme
which develops through a complex web toward one of the most
smashing conclusions we have ever read. It is the sort of conclusion
which leaves you with that sudden feeling that you have had a
"revelation," and gives you a touch of exalted awe. Perhaps,
when you have read this story, you will not agree that the message
Sanandana Kumara has to give you is entirely one of reincarnation
and karma. You will be right!

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 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 29

UTT was hot that day—over inable. I had been too full from the
a hundred. George Willet meal Beth Baker had served us. I
was going to make a speech had been bored by the cultivated
after—” quarrel she and John were engaged
“No, John, it was Fred Mallory. in over the accuracy of their re¬
George wasn’t even there.” spective memories. I had been
“I’m quite sure, Beth, that it slightly restless. Then, >in the
was George. Fred was in New twinkling of an eye—
York.” “—made that speech?” Beth
“No, John. It was the next finished her sentence.
year that Fred went to New York.” A part of my mind knew that
I lifted an eyebrow at Louise as she had not paused at all. Anoth¬
a signal for us to leave' pretty er part of my mind was as certain
soon. The Bakers were well into that days had passed while my
one of their tedious reminiscences. body, and Louise and Beth and
Louise smiled sympathetically at John, and time itself, in this room,
me. remained frozen!
“You’re confused, Beth,” John “Well, ah ” I stalled.
Baker said carefully. “Fred went to Three weeks! During the nat¬
New York two weeks before that. ural hesitation between two spoken
He and I had lunch together be¬ words I had lived three weeks—
fore he left, and we talked about strange, terrible weeks—two thou-
the meeting and were also discus¬ and miles from this room, and—
sing George Willet and the fact how many years in time? What
that he was going to speak.” year was this? I couldn’t recall,
Beth Baker turned to me. “You with Beth looking at me, waiting
were there, Paul,” she said. “Was¬ for me to back her up in her argu¬
n’t it Fred who—” ment with John.
How can I portray the abrupt But I knew the year, and the
Smoothness of the complete trans¬ day and almost the very second
ition? In a movie the scene at which I had plunged so com¬
changes abruptly, you look at the pletely into the future. May first.
new action, and after a moment May Day, nineteen sixty. A few
know what is going on. It was minutes after nine in the morning.
far more complete than that. An The terrible glare was still com¬
abrupt and complete change of ing through the window. At first
emotions as well as scene, of bod¬ I thought I was still back with
ily condition, of everything imag¬ George and Beth. Abruptly my
 MYSTIC

viewpoint switched and I was ground!” I shouted, pushing Louise

thinking, “Strange, that I should down and sprawling over her to
think of George and Beth and their protect her.
silly arguments at a time like this! ” The air remained still and mo¬
In the twinkling of an eye the tionless. The whistling sound of
transition was complete. I knew a great wind passed over us and
almost instinctively what the ter¬ died away in the east. The rum¬
rible light meant even as it shut bling in the ground stopped.
off, leaving the window seemingly Shakily Louise and I got to our
black with phantom squares of feet, and turned toward the north¬
light partly superimposed upon it. west, the direction of Seattle.
“Louise!” I shouted. I leaped Why should it seem so strange for
from my chair, overturning it, and Seattle to be there, just over the
ran toward the kitchen. As I mountains? It had been there
reached the doorway the earth¬ for five years, ever since Louise
quake came. and I moved out here from Chi¬
“Paul!” Louise screamed. She cago!
had a stack of plates in her hands, But Seattle wouldn’t be there
and was trying to hold onto them any more. Not now. The mush¬
and keep her balance. I leaped to¬ room cloud, higher than the Cas¬
ward her. The dishes crashed to cades, told what we already knew.
the floor. Then we were holding World War III had started—un¬
onto each other, heading toward declared.
the back door, our only thought Louise spoke through chattering
to get out into the open where we teeth. “That was an H bomb,
couldn’t be crushed if the house Paul,” she said.
collapsed.
“And you know what we’re to-
The earthquake lessened to a do,” I said. “They’ve drilled it
quiver. A rumble as of a thou¬ into us at Grange often enough.
sand subway trains became audi¬ All of us. Get out those boxes and
ble. We reached the door and start loading them with food while
stumbled down the back steps and I fill the gas tank from the emer¬
away from the house. The ground gency tanks—and the other things
underfoot was shaking in spasmodic I have to do.”
quivers like a dying animal. “Yes, darling,” Louise said, sud¬
A sound in the air approached denly ajl business. She went back
us from the northwest—the high toward the house while I turned
whistling of a wind. “Flat on the toward the garage.
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 3i
As I reached. the garage, its the mountain.
side became abruptly brighter. I It was only eighty miles, but it
jerked around toward the south took us until almost nightfall. A
and saw the flash ball. That was car would stop. Several more of
maybe, Portland, Oregon, a hun¬ us would stop and unload it, dis¬
dred and fifty miles to the south tributing its load and occupants
of us. Tacoma would be almost among us, not bothering to find
directly west, and Olympia would¬ the trouble. We had to reach our
n’t be worth a bomb except for destination. There we would be
the propaganda effect safe even from invading ground
Methodically I performed my forces, until the government res¬
emergency tasks, checking them off cued us. Or were even the details
from memory. Tank full of gas, of those plans known to the com-
sleeping bags, fire extinguisher, my traitors in our midst? No mat¬
ammo and gun flares, flashlights, ter. The. invaders wouldn’t want
v/ater. I backed the car out, then, to destroy the entire population—-
and parked it by the back porch. only the cities and the industrial
Louise was still inside. machine and the defense network.
May Day, i960. I smiled wry¬ A plane darted from somewhere.
ly. Any fool should have guessed, I could see the swath of fire from
and no one had even suspected! its machineguns come down the
Probably the radar defense screen line toward me. I didn’t slow
had been totally manned by infil¬ down. The next instant the plane
trated commies, too. was gone. A second after that I
I jumped up the porch and into heard the sound of an approach¬
the kitchen. Louise had three car¬ ing jetplane, and knew it was the
tons filled already. I carried one sound from the one that had al¬
of them out Twenty minutes ready passed. A car three cars
later we were edging out onto the ahead of me swerved into the ditch.
highway among the hundreds of Several of us stopped and got out
other cars. I recognized neighbors, to help. It was Bill Jenson and
friends. I didn’t wave, nor did his wife and three kids. Bill was
they. This business was too grim wounded in the thigh. His little
for formalities: girl was dead. Their car would
We all knew where we were go¬ still run. “I’ll drive it,” I said.
ing. A place already picked out I looked toward Louise. She was
where we could stand off an army. pale, but she smiled bravely and
Big atom proof caves back under nodded and got back into our car
32 MYSTIC

behind the wheel. now and then the ground had trem¬
There were sounds in the sky. bled gently as though at the pass¬
I looked up before I climbed into ing of land monsters. Once a sun
the Jenson car. Some of our planes rose briefly in the east, then cooled
were out now, fighting the commies to invisibility. Had it been Spo¬
up there. kane-—or Grand Coulee Dam?
May Day, i960. And our world Once someone turned on a port¬
able geiger counter near me, then
had ended. I thought of the wa¬
terfront place in Seattle where Lou¬ shut it off and said, “To hell with
ise and I had often gone for shrimp that. No place to go, now.” We
dinners. I thought of her aunt all knew what he meant.
Martha who lived—had lived in I had a couple of hours in my
West Seattle. sleeping bag. I didn’t sleep. I
Louise and our car was right lay there and looked up at the un¬
ahead of us. It was after six o’¬ blinking stars and the blinking
clock when we pulled into the lights of planes—only it was blink¬
parking area. It was almost like ing flashes from guns instead of
going to a fair or a circus. Men lights. I thought of how familiar
with armbands of the Grange Cap¬ all this seemed—like I had been
tains directed us to where we through it before.
should park. I leaned out the Tomorrow I would—I couldn’t
window and shouted about Bill remember what I would do, but
and his dead little girl. The Grange somewhere in my mind the knowl¬
captain blew his whistle. Six men edge lay dormant. Was I going to
with three stretchers came running die? It seemed like I was. I could
from a hospital tent. Mrs. Jenson see into the future only a little
and her other girl and the little ways. Up there was a blank wall
boy went with them. I parked the that I shied away from. Some kind
car. After that we all worked into of bottomless pit where there
the night, emptying the cars. I should be a valley.
didn’t see Louise until the next But I would see Louise in the
morning when I lined up with the morning. She would be filling
other men to get some breakfast. plastic cups with hot coffee. Her
Or was it just another meal? None soul would leap at me from her
of us had slept much. All during eyes.
the night planes had passed over¬ It did, too, in the cold gray light
head—terrifying winged monsters of dawn.
from some prehistoric age. And Then there was organization,
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 33
scouting patrols, rumors of rusky gone hunting down there two years
forces on the other side of the ago. Now the valley was gone. In
mountains coming this way. The its place was a gaping , nightmarish
children were kept in the caves hole, with no bottom.
with the supplies. The women In the crisp air I heard the stac¬
cared for them and the men out¬ cato chatter of a machinegun. Mark
side, but the three groups couldn’t Beamish, to the right of me, went
mix yet. Not until danger was down. I couldn’t believe it. I
over. I lost track of the days and lifted my submachinegun to my
nights. Some of the patrols didn’t shoulder and looked across the
come back. The ruskies were get¬ rise toward the direction of the
ting close to us. firing and saw a furtive uniformed
Sky battles were going on all figure dart from the concealment
the time. The radio remained of some brush. I aimed at the
dead. And one night I awakened man and perked the trigger down,
just before I hit the ground. I was and—
still in my sleeping bag. The “—made that speech?” Beth
ground shook so much I felt like a finished her sentence.
piece of popcorn in a skillet. The
peak of the mountain was outlined
\ PART of my 'mind knew that
in intense white. I knew suddenly
she had not paused at all. An¬
what had happened. An enemy
other part of my mind was as cer¬
atom bomber had been downed just
tain that hours must have passed
over the other side of the mountain
while my body, and Louise and
and its bomb had gone off.
Beth and John, and time itself, in
When the ground stopped mov¬
this room, remained frozen!
ing I felt seasick. Half the men
“Well, ah ” I stalled.
around me felt the same way. Some
of them vomited. We huddled I blinked, and the room blurred
around the rest of the night. In painfully.
the first light of dawn we started Beth Baker turned to me. “You
looking for our loved ones. I were there, Paul,” she said, her
found Louise every detail of expression horribly)
Fifty of us went up the moun¬ horribly familiar. I held my breath.
tain that morning to see what had I glared at her, hating her. Obliv¬
happened. We reached the crest ious of this she smiled her irritat¬
of a ridge and looked down into ingly intelligent smile. “Wasn’t it
what had been a valley. I had Fred who—”
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tt'pAUL Fairless!” I became handed it to me, folded. “Take

aware of my surroundings this to Miss Boyd,” she said grim¬
with a guilty start. It was Miss ly-
Flournoy, my teacher, who had I left the room with the note
barked at me. Out of the corners and went down the hall with its
of my eyes I saw that I was lined varnished, creaking floor. Miss
up with the other third grade stu¬ Boyd was the second grade teach¬
dents. In front of us was the black¬ er. I could guess what was in
board, with columns of words store for me.
written out. We had been taking Sure enough, when Miss Boyd
turns spelling each word and tell¬ read the note she assigned me a
ing what it meant. desk with the second graders. She
To my left was Edith Kellum, gave me small cardboard letter
and I was quite certain she hadn’t squares. I was plunged into the
spelled a word yet, so it wasn’t task of arranging them into words.
mv turn yet. Anyway, I didn’t
The second graders around me
know which word, and wouldn’t un¬
took delight in being more skill¬
til Edith did hers.
ful than I. Before the day was
“Edith Kellum hasn’t had her
over I began to envision my Fate.
turn yet,” I said desperately.
T would be shoved down to the
“She — just — spelled — her —
first grade. Maybe I would even
word,” Miss Flournoy said omin¬
be shoved down to not going to
ously.
school yet! Then next fall I would
“I didn’t hear her,” I said stub¬ have to start school all over again
bornly. as a beginner!
“Paul,” Miss Flournoy said, But why was I plunged back
“I’m getting sick and tired of you here to when 1 was nine years old?
always daydreaming, your mind a A few moments ago I had been lis¬
thousand miles away. The rest of tening to Beth Baker! I had been
you go on with the spelling. Paul, thirty seven years old! And be¬
you come with me.” fore that—I had been plunged into
But I hadn’t been daydreaming. I the future, to i960! Now I was
was sure of it. It wasn’t even in—I did some mental arithmetic
Edith’s turn. The turn was some-? —I was in the year 1923! And it
where down the line a long ways. wasn’t a dream, either. Nor mem¬
I was sure of it. I followed Miss ory. I looked around me at the
Flournoy to her desk. She wrote second grade students. This was
out a note with a flourish, then real, not a memory, though with it
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE

was memory of having lived it all couldn’t believe that. The proof
before years ago. But that mem¬ of it was the fact that I was sit¬
ory came from the future, and ting here on a chunk of wood, age
right here and now I was really nine, thinking calmly in terms of
worried about being demoted to 1951 and i960.
the first grade too.
I could remember this period of
“Paul!” my life from the vantage point of
I jumped—literally a foot. 1951. I had been very prone to
“If you don’t stop daydreaming daydreaming, as I remembered it.
you’ll never get back into the third
Miss Flournoy had shoved me back
grade!”
from the third grade to the second,
“Yes, Miss Boyd,” I said unhap¬
and I had remained there for three
pily.
days before being allowed to go
I managed to concentrate on back where I belonged. Daydream¬
being aware of my surroundings ing. My mind going blank and
for the remainder of the day. After oblivious of my surroundings. A
school I played with Ken and Mel¬ schizoid symptom, the psycholo¬
vin all the way home. Mom bawled gists of 1950 said it was. But as
me out for being half an hour late I remembered it, my mind just
from school. Babe wanted to play went blank. My thoughts didn’t
with me. I tripped her and she go anywhere, as I remembered
cried and ran to mom. Mom gave things. Now, however, I knew dif¬
me a spank for being so bad. She ferent. I was sitting here think¬
ordered me to bring in some wood. ing things out with my 1951 mind,
I went out to the woodshed and in my 1923 body! And my 1923
sat down. mind wouldn’t remember a thing
Why was I here in the past? about it. It would snap back and
It was so strange it made my have only a blank for these mo¬
head spin. I had jumped into the ments while I sat here - and
past from the same instant I had thought.
leaped into the future! It was What had happened to me that
impossible, unless caused this jumping around in
There in the far future, in i960, time? Had the H bomb that de¬
I had felt that in another moment stroyed Seattle in some way upset
I was going to die. Perhaps I did the normal progression of the
die. But this was no memory I psyche forward in time? Had it
was living—or else all reality is perhaps caused a backwave of
no stronger than memory. But I consciousness into the past, with
36 MYSTIC

a node point at that instant where self yanked from my chair. I was
Beth Baker turned to me to get turned over a lap and soundly
my support of her argument? Cer¬ spanked. My 1923 emotions took
tainly that particular instant could over, dominating me. I cried, more
have no actual bearing on the from hurt dignity than from actual
strange phenomenon! pain.
Had the H bomb in some strange Indignantly, I jumped to the
way set my psyche free to roam next day at school. In the twink¬
backwards and forwards in time? ling of an eye. Amusedly I dipped
If that were so, then my next move into consciousness of the past six¬
would be to try to consciously con¬ teen or so hours of my child life,
trol it—go where I wanted to in and with great sympathy for my¬
the past and future. Forward— self as I had been at the age of nine.
beyond death! Back—before birth! I knew that my child mind was
If I could do one or both— “daydreaming” now, but it would¬
“Paul! Bring that wood in here n’t come to real harm, and I had
this instant!” planning to do. This period of my
Jerked back to my surroundings. life was a calm reservoir in which
I shouted half rebelliously, “Okay I could think undisturbed. I need¬
mom,” just like I had been about ed it.
to do it. The fact that somewhere in the
We had hamburger patties with future a Beth Baker was pausing
potatoes and gravy for supper. My for hours compressed into an in¬
sisters and pop and mom ate in¬ stant, her mouth hanging open
dustriously. So did I, at times. perhaps, amused. I was safe from
But at other times I was excited her here in the past. I could think.
by the growing desire to consci¬ I toyed with the idea of sudden¬
ously choose the points along my ly raising my hand, and when Miss
time line where I would become Boyd asked me what I wanted,
conscious. I would take things calmly informing her that Spokane
slowly and build up to the point would be destroyed in i960 on
where I could burst through the May second by a Hydrogen bomb
barriers of this finite life span to dropped by the Russians. But in
pre-birth and post-death. the first place she wouldn’t believe
“Paul! I’ve spokefi to you me and it wouldn’t go farther, and
enough!” in the second place, I doubted that
I became conscious of my sur¬ my 1923 conscious mind would be
roundings just in time to feel my¬ able to permit me to utter such a
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 37

prophecy. Its consciousness was toward the direction of the firing

separated from mine by infinite
barriers. “—made that speech?” Beth fin¬
So'I stifled my sense of humor ished her sentence.
and concentrated on more vital “Paul Fairless!” It was Miss
things. Was I a complete victim of Flournoy.
this strange phenomenon that toss¬ I was turning the pages of a
ed me about in time? Or could I picture book. At the front of the
consciously control it? There was classroom was Miss Wooster. The
only one way to find out. Consci¬ first grade. Relief. It was a study
ously try to arrive at a predeter¬ period and I could daydream in
mined point in time. What should peace. Think.
it be?
It was utterly crazy. Considered
Was there some point between from the standpoint of straight
1923 and 1951 I wished to revisit? time, I had already been fully con¬
Not particularly. How could I scious on several different levels
change anything that had happen¬ up there .in 1951, simultaneously.
ed? Actually, there were very few Also I was not conscious there now.
things I would want to change. But my awareness of passage of
Sickness, perhaps; but now that it time seemed independent of physi¬
was past, why try? cal time. I was cast loose from it,
Beyond 19.51, then. Was I cur¬ but apparently confined to my own
ious about any of it? Why had I shull. The Hydrogen bomb, may¬
left Chicago and gone to the west be, or perhaps my death had caused
coast to live? The answer, and full a backlash of consciousness that
memory from 1951 to i960 leaped was surging backwards toward the
into consciousness. Of course I dead end of birth, and ahead again
knew all of it! Hadn’t I been my to the dead end of death. The
full i960 self for three weeks? temporal point in 1951 was a nat¬
I knew my entire life, from the ural node point.
first vague gray dawning of mem¬ One thing was sure, though. I
ory to— didn’t go on from 1951 with full
In the crisp air I heard the stac- memory of all this. I could recall
catto chatter of a machinegun. the future from that visit at the
Mark Beamish, to the right of me, Bakers. I had been bored. I had
went down. I couldn’t believe it. murmured pretended forgetfulness
I lifted my submachinegun to my so that I wouldn’t have to make a
shoulder and looked across the rise liar out of Beth. John had remem-
38 MYSTIC

bered who made the speech. And of my life span. 1 wanted to—
I had had no slightest memory of I tried too late to stop listening.
jumping back and forth in the fu¬ 1 wanted to penetrate beyond
ture and the past. Not conscious death, before birthl
memory, at least. Fear of death flooded over me
But why? My continuity of con¬ so strongly that it filtered into my
sciousness from birth went to that child-mind and I partly united with
node point and then jumped to the it, staring straight ahead with un¬
future, then back, then into the seeing eyes, trembling. With an ef¬
past, then back and forth. fort I pulled free to quietness again
Or did it go through my entire —and it was dark. I was still six
life, jump back to 1951, and—I years old, but I was in my room,
became unsure. And it didn’t mat¬ half asleep. There were fresh mem¬
ter anyway. Maybe all people had ories of snow outside. I had jump¬
a level of consciousness that was ed ahead — or back — several
free of time, roaming over the en¬ months. I didn’t know which, nor
tire span of life. Right now, here care.
in the first grade of school, with a The thought of penetrating be¬
picture book in front of me, I was yond death — dying — no longer
consciously seeing my entire life, flooded me with terror. I still felt
the events connected with it, world my stomach tie up at the thought,
events up to 1960. But on the but I could view the prospect with
lower level that was me at the more boldness. After all, what was
age of six had no awareness of this there to fear? Total oblivion? In
at all. Yet it was just as surely normal life I firmly believed in the
I as the I I knew myself to be! immortality of the soul—existence
It had a consciousness—suspend¬ after death. I had even more rea¬
ed right now—“daydreaming,” and son to believe in something more
it had subconscious thoughts, than physical being now!
vaguely prodding it to awaken to
What was that they said about
its surroundings. the moment before death? One’s
I had an awake consciousness— whole life passing in review? Was
and urges that were trying to burst that what I was going through?
into conscious thought. I listened No. It was too real for that.
for them, coaxed them into the But—
open. But what if, up there in i960
I didn’t want to remain roaming at the farthermost point of my
and lurking in the enclosed length memory of the future, I didn’t die?
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 39
And the next day, waking up in the the filtering through of my present
hospital, I remembered all this time-free consciousness to my low¬
travel over my past? I would prob¬ er time-bound awareness. Perhaps
ably chuckle about it and tell the there were some instances where
nurse my whole life had passed in future memory had actually influ¬
review fust before I blacked out enced actions or decisions. Closed
up there on the ridge! circles in time. The end determin¬
Maybe that was the explanation, ing the beginning.
or maybe I had really died up there Maybe I could burst the boun¬
in i960. The only way to find out dary of my birth and go back to
was to penetrate beyond that in¬ the beginning of time—and influ¬
stant that my emotions told me ence the very course of evolution.
was my point of death. Or maybe I could go forward to
I had to do that. And yet, the the end of time and get the entire
thought of it sent an emotion of picture, the meaning of All.
nostalgic regret through me. Would Suddenly death no longer held
I ever again be able to roam over any fears. My only fear was—if
my entire life an full consciousness, I didn’t die in i960 three weeks
independent of corporeal time? after May Day, and all this were
Why, I could live forever here, only a natural phenomenon that
within the confines of the years would become just a “review of my
1914 to i960! Forever? My mor¬ whole life passing before me,” this
tal life would become a cage from free ego I had become would die.
which I could not escape, every / would die. /. There would only
second of it re-lived so often it be Paul Fairless, perhaps chuckling
would be a hated experience. Even over my death and his survival.
now I had little desire to re-live I hated him suddenly. What a
any moment of it. Only if I could boor he was. I could see him,
forget, so that each re-living of each slouched and untidy, while Beth
moment would be new and sur¬ asked him a question and .he open¬
prising to me, could such an eter¬ ed his lips and uttered an asinine,
nity be worth having. But then it “Well, ah
would be meaningless. I had to escape him, and there
The nostalgic feeling remained. were only two avenues of escape.
I thought of my entire life up to Toward the future lay possible de¬
i960. There had been times when struction, all the more humilitating
I had premonitions of the future. since I would become only a
Some of those undoubtedly were laughable part of his memory. To-
40 MYSTIC

ward the past, before birth— their wagons,” he said. “They will
I consciously willed myself back¬ be here tomorrow about noon.” He
ward in time spoke the dialect of the tribe to the
* * * east. His pony was coated with
HE horse’s hide was wet with foam from long hours of hard rid¬
sweat under my legs, and mov¬ ing. I was surprised that he
ing with rhythmic swiftness. I could be here and live, since we
barely had time to sense this, to were at war with his tribe, more
become aware of the surrounding or less.
countryside, the bow in my hands I glanced about me. I was one
already loaded with an arrow, my of a large group of my tribesmen
trained muscles and eyes aiming it, apparently gathered to hear this
timing my movements with the mo¬ man speak his piece. My newly
tion of my horse. Then something acquired memories tried to fit what
hit my chest with a hammer blow, they saw. Every face was familiar
knocking me off the horse. I was —but not quite. Each face was
half dazed by my fall. I had roll¬ older!
ed onto my side and could see the From somewhere new memories
gaping hole in my chest. I was flooded in to join the previous
going to die! block of -memories. It had been
Almost without thinking, but many summers since—a moment
with a surge of terror that cut ago—I had lain half asleep under
off abruptly, I leaped. And I was the tree. Someone had been about
lying half asleep under a tree, a to come. My horse had looked to¬
horse standing quietly near me. ward the east. Had it been this
The memories of a lifetime joined warrior of the eastern tribe?
my mind. My name was Lazy My new memories were con¬
Hawk and I belonged to the Shaw¬ fused, and they churned with an
nee tribe. Millions of memories emotion of fear that was apart
flowed through my consciousness, from me. I let them churn and
too fast for concentration on any turned my attention to the speak¬
one item, but slow enough for er. From the expressions on the
grasping. My horse lifted its faces around me I knew my fellow
head, aware of the approach of tribesmen were working up to a
something or someone. I started war fever, excited at the prospect
to glance in that direction. The of getting that strange devil-water
horse started to whinny— of the white men that could make
“They have much firewater in everything seem so different and
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 4i
delightful. the forest. I heard animal calls
The chief of my tribe, Chief from the right and the left. I an¬
Crazy Horse, asked suspiciously, swered them with my own special
“Why didn’t your tribe kill them call. We were on our way!
and take the firewater?” My dominant emotion became
The man’s face turned black amazed and intense interest. This
with hate. “We tried,” he said. “We was / in what must be an incarna¬
killed many of them, but they kill¬ tion previous to the life I had
ed too many of us. We fled. Their known as Paul Fairless. It was
guns kill from a great distance. We like suddenly awakening after am¬
didn’t know that. We charged at nesia, with the past flooding in, en¬
them from across a great plain, tirely new for the moment, but un¬
hoping that the sight of us would questionably my past. It hadn’t
make them run and leave their merged as yet with my life as Paul
wagons and oxen and some of their Fairless. In some ways it never
horses. Chief Running Water sent would. They were two separate
me to tell you all this, and to warn lives in every respect. But they
you that you must not be seen un¬ were both mine.
til you are close enough to kill
I tore at the dried venison with
them with your arrows. I have my teeth and chewed the leathery
spoken.” stuff, one part of my mind relish¬
“And what do you hope to get ing its flavor while the more inti¬
if we kill them and take their fire¬ mate me savored it as something
water?” Crazy Horse asked. strange. I marvelled at the keen¬
The hate in the warrior’s face ness of my eyes, the interpretations
grew more intense if possible, the newfound part of my mind gave
“Vengeance,” he spat. to little things like bent grass,
Chief Crazy Horse issued com¬ broken twigs, fallen leaves.
mands. I heard my name spoken. And I was glad it was so inte¬
I was to be one of the scouts who grated and so automatic that it
would go toward the east and find didn’t need any conscious direction
the wagon train and keep it in from me to function. Or rather, I
sight until I could tell where it was consciously doing everything,
would pass. There were six of us. but without having to use any part
I ran to my wigwam and order¬ of my twentieth century skills and
ed Little Bird to cut me some knowledge. Or lack of skills and
chunks of dried venison. A mo¬ lack of knowledge.
ment later I was running through I was, I suddenly realized, think-
 MYSTIC

ing simultaneously in two differ¬ though all along I had been far
ent spheres of thought. Indepen¬ more cautious than a white man
dent trains of thought flowed of the twentieth century could pos¬
through my mind. Some of them sibly be.
seemed humorously independent. I saw a soft glow through the
The facet of me that had been half trees. I reached the edge of the
asleep under a tree was still at forest and saw the campfire half a
work on the problem of how it had mile distant in the center of a
gotten here into the future—only meadowland.
it didn’t think of it as the future. I chose a spot to sleep, and al¬
It’s patterns of thought were most immediately it was dawn.
crude and limited by vocabulary, Shortly after, the wagon train
riddled with superstition and a moved out. After an hour, from a
simple but in some ways beautiful tree, I gained a better view of the
philosophy, mixed up with a sense wagon train and the white men. A
of values and morals that raised thrill of dread coursed through me,
my hair, figuratively. I had killed raising'uneasy thoughts in the part
many men in my time. There were of me that was the Indian, Lazy
intensities of hatred and passion Hawk. This was the wagon train
latent within me that were defin¬ I had been charging toward when
itely psychopathic, but understand¬ I got knocked off my horse with
ably so in view of the fact that in a bullet!
this crude world were men who The memories that were Lazy
would kill me without compunction Hawk’s didn’t accept these
if they had the chance. Almost thoughts. It rationalized them in¬
every fight I had ever been in had to something that amazed me. A
been to the death, with fear of fatalistic acceptance of impending
death adding its psychopathic death! I studied this and could
needle. see the reasons. To try to escape
Night came. Hour after hour I it would brand me as a coward and
glided through the forests, over I would be killed anyway. It was
the meadowlands, often yipping my better to accept it and hope it
special cry and hearing answers would go away.
of friends. From the stars I knew A memory of the geography of
the' night was less than half over this area unfolded itself. I check¬
when I heard the signal that the ed this against the direction the
wagon train had been sighted. I wagon train was going, seeing
went forward more cautiously, which way it would have to go. I
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 43
thought of the ideal place to at¬ of me that was the mental com¬
tack. plex, Lazy Hawk, had any reason
A moment later, in answer to my to fear it.
signal, furtive shadows came to¬ Nevertheless my excitement rose
ward me through the trees. We as we approached the place. It was
compared notes. There were, we a narrow pass. We went to within
decided, two places where an at¬ two miles of it and waited until we
tack would work, depending on got word that the white scouts had
which way the wagon train went a looked over the possible places of
mile farther on. They would reach ambush and found nothing. Then
either place just before noon. we moved in.
Three of us started back toward Our plan was simple. Our first
the village by different routes in volley of arrows would catch them
case there were white scouts and completely unawares. Within five
one of us got killed. We all got seconds after the arrows left our
back to camp alive. We reported bows we would be charging over
what we had found to Chief Crazy the rise into view of the Wagon
Horse. train. The white men would be
Many of the warriors of the dumbfounded by the arrows killing
tribe were already well into the war so many of them. For precious sec¬
dancing. The part of me that was onds they would be paralyzed—
Lazy Hawk threw itself into the and we would be among them,
war fever with full intensity. My switching to our tomahawks in
wife, Little Bird, watched me close combat.
stoically as I daubed my face with It happened that way—except
war paint. I gave her an affec¬ that the white men ignored their
tionate, dry-humored grunt, then dead and had their guns ready for
ran out to join the dancers. us. We charged down the slope.
Soon the other scouts returned. My horse’s hide was wet with
We now knew where we would sweat under my legs, and moving
stage the attack. As a panorama with rhythmic swiftness. I steeled
of the area rose in my mind’s eye myself for the blow that I knew
I recognized it. This time, how¬ would strike me in another mo¬
ever, I kept my emotions down. ment, but the part of me that was
Why should I fear that impending Lazy Hawk was divorced from this
death? I had already been at that part of me. It had even forgotten
moment of time—and beyond it its premonition of death and knew
into my next life! Only the part only the fever of the fight, the bow
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and arrow an extension of its body Fairless part had, with the same re¬
as it drew back the string and aim¬ actions, the same mystification, the
ed, timing its motion with that of same wonder!
the horse under it. Awareness seemed to work only
The blow came, hot, unexpected one way. Lazy Hawk was not
even though I knew it was coming. aware of being anyone but Lazy
I felt the horse slide ahead under Hawk. I was aware of being Paul
me and to one side as I fell to the Fairless and Lazy Hawk, in two
ground, and my thoughts became succeeding lives.
dazed, confused, until abruptly the The voices of the approaching
gaping hole in my chest bored in¬ girls had vanished without my be¬
to my mind. I was going to die! ing aware of it. I was squatted
Blind terror surged through every inside a wigwam, and was vaguely
part of me. I leaped. aware of my mother sitting with
her back to me in the flap opening.
npHE uncompleted whinny of my I was a little boy, and in this the
horse continued in my ears. I parallel continued.
continued turning my head and It was I. And yet the thinking
saw what my horse had seen; sev¬ in the part of me that belonged to
eral girls of my tribe scampering my life as Lazy Hawk was behaving
toward me. exactly as though a separate I
Memory of this instant coor¬ were going through the experiences
dinated in me. The part of me I had already gone through in my
that was Lazy Hawk was realizing Paul Fairless existence. Was it a
that it had been many summers separate I-consciousness?
into the future for two days and Was there such an I-conscious¬
had come back, all within the space ness above me, that had come back
of a breath! in time from a life beyond i960,
Abruptly things clicked together. just as I had come back to this
The part of me' that was Lazy life from the twentieth century?
Hawk was not aware of the part I shied away from the thought as
of me that was Paul Fairless! That I would shy away from death it¬
had been there underneath all the self, because if it were true, then I
time, unnoticed. But now some¬ would be reduced to the role of a
thing else was added to it. The thought focus among thought foci.
part of me that was Lazy Hawk It isn’t so! I shouted in my
had been going through the same thoughts. And to prove it, I de¬
pattern of experience that the Paul termined to unite that thought
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE

focus so concerned with what was Lazy Hawks and its own, then it
happening, with myself, and make was under a higher ego that con¬
the consciousness that was aware tained' all three lives—plus one
of being Lazy Hawk conscious of more—ad infinitum. To the infin¬
being Paul Fairless in a future life. ite future. The human race would¬
I screamed at it, pleaded with it, n’t last that long. The progression
talked to it. And it seemed that stopped somewhere. Therefore
little fingers of thoughts were why think it went beyond me?
reaching down toward me from I remembered my earlier feeling,
somewhere above. I resisted them that the Hydrogen bomb had start¬
as strongly as I fought toward the ed it. I felt that that was the
Lazy Hawk center of thought. I truth.
refused to listen to anything above With a new confidence I looked
me, because to admit it existed boldly into the complex of thought
was to destroy my uniqueness as that was puzzling at things in my
an identity! Lazy Hawk memories. There was
And yet, here was the Lazy no separate ego there, but only my
Hawk part of me, unaccountably own thoughts, not coordinated
(to it) sent back in time from the with my whole mind.
point of its death to a moment it And then I thought of something
remembered from adulthood as be¬ else. I had arrived in Lazy Hawk
ing a period of “daydreaming,” re¬ just a few seconds before he was
membering its entire lifetime from to die, then leaped backward from
birth to a moment before death. his moment of death to a quiet and
It was unaware of me, and to me somewhat peaceful few moments
it was only a coordinating bundle of his early life. From there I had
of my memories, somehow func¬ gone forward to within two days
tioning without my willed direc¬ of his death and lived every mo¬
tion—even ignoring my willed at¬ ment right up to the end, reliving
tempts to control it. that end. But Lazy Hawk had no
The parallel with my own exper¬ memory of leaping back and then
ience was too great. forward. To him there had been
But wait! I was reasoning from only the unaccountable leaping for¬
a false analogy! I saw it, sudden¬ ward.
ly, and felt weak with relief. I studied him more closely, and
If what I had been thinking was became more and more aware that
correct, it followed that if a higher his viewpoint even now was that
ego contained my memories and of the man who had been drowsing
46 MYSTIC

under a tree and then had been tal being. I was a light spark of
plunged into the future, then the awareness and self awareness that
past. And to myself I \tfas even had originated in 1951 and was be¬
now still the man who was sprawl¬ ing maneuvered here and there in
ed in a chair listening to Beth ask a manner similar to that of a flash¬
me a question. I wasn’t Lazy light being used in the darkness.
Hawk. I wasn’t even the Paul Lazy Hawk was another beam of
Fairless of i960—and wouldn’t be light from a flashight. We could
until I had lived every moment be shut off. Perhaps.
from Beth’s question to that fatal My reaction to the prospect of
year. total annihilation wasn’t what I
I thought about that for a mo¬ expected. I was absorbing some
ment and saw the big hole in my of Lazy Hawk’s fatalism. But along
reasoning. If it were true, why with it was an underlying feeling
did I go from Beth’s question with that I had missed something in my
no faintest memory of all this reasoning that was in my favor.
jumping around? Did I forget it At any rate, I had gone as far
all? Or was it 1 who went on? If it as reason seemed able to carry me
wasn’t I— at present. What would I do now
My thoughts lost their direction —if I had any control over my fu¬
in a storm of confused emotions ture course of action? Return to
and vague gropings. In the mix¬ 1951 ? Could that carry me any
ture only one thing seemed clear. further in my search for answers
So far as my conscious awareness to my problem of survival? I knew
was concerned, my jumping about every moment of that life from
was without my own volition. A birth to death. Should I remain
couple of times I had seemed to will in this life of Lazy Hawk? I knew
myself to a different point in time. every moment of that life too-.
I bad seemed to will myself back¬ Should I go back still farther to ^
ward into this previous existence. a previous life, or—A sudden*
But through all the jumping thought occurred to me. To go
around, a behavior pattern was be¬ forward into my life as Paul Fair¬
coming evident, and it wasn’t my less, taking my memories as Lazy
behavior pattern. I was being Hawk with me, would be a step in
jumped around, not jumping. The the right direction. It would have
difference was terrifying to me. I overcome one death, and then
was not Paul Fairless. I was not might be able to penetrate beyond
Lazy Hawk. I was not some immor¬ my own into the future beyond
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 47
i960! I decided to do that. I Why not? The more the merrier.
willed to go forward, and nothing I wouldn’t be alone, afraid that
happened. But on the Lazy Hawk something would shut me off like a
level of thinking I was trying to en¬ flashlight beam.
vision going beyond' my point of Lazy Hawk was still consciously
death into the unknown, and shying willing himself backward. I did
away from it. Lazy Hawk was the same. A surge of confidence
picturing the prospect of total ob¬ flowed into me consciousness
livion. He thought of birth. That of floating lazily on the perimeter
direction, he decided, would be the of a slowly revolving vortex, ap¬
safe direction. If there were noth¬ proaching the center unhurriedly,
ing before this life, he would be then more quickly, then suddenly,
unable to penetrate to before birth, in the twinkling of an eye, I was
but he would still exist. He de¬ drawn into its center with a—
cided to will himself backward in SNAP!
time. I resisted that decision, see¬
The horrible sound rapped its
ing the trap it would be for both
way into my emotion-torn mind.
of us.' He was going through the
Strange images seared into my
same emotional line of thought I
brain; the coarse weave of a crude
had gone through before willing
basket rushing past my eyes, too
myself backward into this life. I
close, and suddenly jumping about
could see the result if I gave in.
and coming to rest at a grotesque
Lazy Hawk would be in the posi¬ angle simultaneous with the sounds
tion I was in now. I would be a of dry straw rattling together. I
step higher. And there would be could see the complete perimeter of
a third personality to consider. the top of the basket. It was a
Then suddenly I saw something circle, enclosing the sky and a
new. Already I strongly suspected thing that reached upward into the
that above me was the ego of a sky. The basket was much, much
future life, unable to make me too small for anything but— And
aware of its existence. Why not what was that thing being drawn
let Lazy Hawk get the same view¬ upward within the framework?
point? Right now he had no true With complete panic I leaped.
inkling that I existed. Once he
suspected, we might get together. I YAWNED elaborately at my
Two against one. If that didn’t host whom I held in contempt
work, then another step backward for no other reason than that I
would make it three against one. had often seduced his wife and he
48 MYSTIC

had never suspected. chains. He remounted. I was

“ so you see, my good Ar¬ forced along the street on foot, the
istide ” he was saying. Aristide part of me optimistic at
His ornate and richly furnished one moment, despairing at the
dining room vanished. In its place next.
was a narrow street. 7 viewed it I let my awareness course rap¬
with interest. That part of me that idly through his past to earliest
was Lazy Hawk was studying it memories, flinching at much of
with amazement and the beginnings what I “remembered.” But it was
of shrewd speculation. The part of my own memories, so I judged less
me that was Aristide Groh the harshly than I might have. My
younger was busy trying to extri¬ standards had certainly been crude,
cate himself from Aristide the old¬ closer to the animal, vicious and
er and figure out how he had been cynical. Even Lazy Hawk, know¬
suddenly plunged so many years ing they were his personal mem¬
into the future, for future he in¬ ories of a former life, felt a repug¬
stantly recognized it to be. nance. Or perhaps I should say
But there was no time to stand that Lazy Hawk felt more of a
idly and speculate. Already the repugnance, because his standards,
soldiers on their horses were turn¬ though barbaric, were closer to the
ing into the narrow street and ideals of fair play than those of
charging forward. I turned to run civilized man.
—and they had entered from the In five minutes I had had my
other direction too. I was trap¬ fill of being Aristide. He also was
ped. In seconds the mounted sol¬ remembering his past back to the
diers drew their horses up sharp, moment at which he had leaped in¬
lances within inches of me. to his future. He was recalling
Aristide surrendered meekly, al¬ with satisfaction that a few days
ready building plans for escape in after the moment he had left, he
case the judges condemned him to and his host had duelled, and he
the guillotine. / knew he would had won. He had then lost interest
not escape, Lazy Hawk knew it, in the wife and forgotten her.
for we had the common memory Only a few days ago he had
of that last moment when our seen her on the street, a repulsive
head—as well as Aristide’s—fell sight with her open sores. She had
into the basket. recognized him. He had tossed her
A soldier dismounted and bound a few coins contemptuously.
my hands behind my back with Sudden suspicion entered his
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 49
mind. Had she reported his being And, though I did not consciously
here to the soldiers? She must recognize the thought as yet, that
have! one would be—must be—me. There
“For that,” Aristide gritted in- was, really, only me. The focus
audibly through his teeth, “when that seemed to be a separate ego
I get free I will kill her—painfully. in the Lazy Hawk personality was
Or if by chance I return to the empty. It had to be. Anything
present from this cursed future I else meant—eventual oblivion. For
will at once kill her to prevent this me, for Lazy Hawk, for Aristide
treachery.” Groh.
I was repelled. How could I So I watched the unsuspecting
have been this way in any incar¬ Lazy Hawk from my vantage point,
nation? It seemed impossible! I ready (subconsciously) to pounce,
wanted to escape living with these to devour him into my being, driv¬
thoughts that disgusted me so. en by the instinct for survival.
And yet, if the pattern I had gone And above me? Perhaps it was¬
through twice were repeated here, n’t for nothing that my favorite
I was condemned to live through expression in my incarnation as
every moment of the trial and final Aristide was, “Flea of a flea!”
execution. Lazy Hawk was also But then, all my thinking was col¬
somewhat repelled, but he wasn’t ored by the personality of Aristide.
sure he would have to live through It was inevitable. Paul Fairless
the days up to the guillotine. He was a facet of me far in the fu¬
only suspected it. ture, remote
I forgot Aristide as much as pos¬ In prison, during the trial, during
sible and concentrated on Lazy the wait for the day of execution,
Hawk. I watched his thoughts, I returned more and more to the
seeing them duplicate every stage thought of how far away my life
of reasoning I had gone through. I as Paul Fairless had really become,
waited, hoping for the moment how remote. Murder, constant
when he would be receptive. danger of being killed, every vice
If I could get him just once to known to man, had become fresh¬
consciously accept the thought, “In er in my memory than Paul Fair¬
my next incarnation I am Paul Fair- less.
less,” I was sure that all the bar¬ I clung to him at times when the
riers would tumble. reality of the prison became too
We would then become one in repugnant. I yearned for his real¬
reality as we were in continuity. ity, the heavenly monotony of lis-
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tening to Beth Baker, the sterilized watches. It was much that way
threat of the Hydrogen bomb in with me. The Aristide part of me,
contrast to maggots and vermin of from a Hollywood standpoint, was
the kind that infested the mind, superb. I found myself forgetting
in addition to those that infested that it was grim reality—and then
the flesh. I would remember, and be sick to
Aristide, in his oblivion to any¬ the depths of my soul.
thing else, lived out his last days Each unfolding moment was
on two levels of thought. Lazy new, of course. As in the life of
Hawk, knowing more, yet accepted Lazy Hawk, I seemed to have en¬
it with stoic calm and growing an¬ tered at the moment preceding
ticipation of that remembered mo¬ death and almost instantly gone
ment when we could leap backward back to an earlier period without
in time to safety. actually absorbing any of the mem¬
Or was it I who accepted it all ories future to that period.
with stoic calm? I became con¬ There were many witnesses to
fused. my crimes. As I suspected, the
And once I awakened from a day¬ woman had indeed been the one
dream in which I was riding a who informed the police on me.
pony bareback across a prairie, Maria was her name. She had fol¬
feeling my body blend its move¬ lowed me to the room where I was
ments with those of the horse, feel¬ staying and I had not suspected.
ing the clean air rush past me, I had not suspected .a lot about
smelling the scents of the wild. her. She had watched my duel
Living with her husband from the con¬
There came the day of the trial. cealment of a thicket and I had
The French court seemed like not known it. She had seen the
something out of Hollywood. In trick I used to win the duel—a
many ways I seemed to myself trick I always used when forced
to be only an actor, knowing much into a duel. Fine sand thrown un¬
of the script, already having re¬ expectedly into my adversary’s
hearsed the final scene. Perhaps face, blinding him so that it was
good actors completely forget them¬ simple to leap in and drive straight
selves and really become, for the through his heart. I had not
moment, the character they are thought that anyone could detect
playing. Or perhaps a part of their my device. The seconds and the
mind splits off and becomes the physician had detected nothing—
character, while the central ego but then, I had been careful to
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE Si
flick the sand when their view of I had surprised her alone one
my hand was obscured. Unfortun¬ day. She had resisted with all
ately at that moment Maria in her her strength, but her very resistance
hiding place had been very close had been fuel added to the fire of
and at the ideal angle to see what my passion. I had slipped away
happened. quietly and waited for signs of
It was fascinating to watch the trouble. Three days later I had
processes of justice as interpreted “accidentally” encountered Jaques
by the court. To have killed on the street and he had been most
Jaques in a fair duel would have friendly; so I had known beyond
been legal. The trick of the sand doubt that Maria had kept it from
made it murder. him. After that she had given in
Maria—I felt three different to me through blackmail, to keep
ways about her on three levels. me from telling her husband of the
Aristide, of course, was consumed first time-.
with heat toward her, considering What sorry victims of society
her tragic life as something she well women were! I, Paul Fairless,
deserved—and more. Lazy Hawk wept in my thoughts as I looked at
pitied her, but considered both her her on the witness stand and lis¬
and himself-as-Aristide to be vic¬ tened to her story. Her open sores
tims of an unhealthy society. I guessed to be the last stages of
My own feelings toward her one of the venereal diseases. Per¬
were mixed with, the reality and haps penicillin could have saved
the unreality of my varying in¬ her, but miracle drugs, even the
jection into what I saw. When I knowledge that disease was caused
had first met Maria she had been by living organisms which could
a loving and devoted wife to be killed, was separated from this
Jaques, with never a thought of courtroom by the unbridgeable gulf
infidelity. That—and the realiza¬ of future years!
tion filled me with shame—was The trial lasted for days. There
what had attracted me to her. I were other witnesses. I had fought
was a shrewd student of human many duels and won them with my
nature. Jaques himself was the key sand tossing trick. I had robbed
to things. If his wife were discov¬ many people. The Aristide part of
ered to be impure, regardless of the me checked off each crime as it
circumstances he would throw her was brought before the court. In
out. It was in his nature. Maria the end Aristide felt happy because
knew this. of the crimes the court had missed
52 MYSTIC
—and highly indignant for two an awareness of the stoic waiting
murders they had lain at his door, of Lazy Hawk and the unrepent¬
of which he was innocent! But ant raging of Aristide. Aristide
dominating these lesser feelings sensed my remorse very dimly and
was his utter horror at the sen¬ hated himself for feeling it even a
tence. The prospect of being be¬ little. Lazy Hawk sensed both the
headed was terrible to him. remorse and the raging unrepent¬
How can I express my own re¬ ance, and repressed them, thinking
actions as the court closed the case them signs of weakness. But these
of Aristide Groh? I was etching were things I automatically be¬
the face of Maria, of each sorry came aware of without thinking of
victim of my-Aristide’s cruelty up-" them. My thoughts were dominated
on my soul. I could not condone by a resolve to find some way to
my actions. Lazy Hawk’s philoso¬ find these souls in a future life
phy was wrong. Aristide was not where I could atone for my wrongs.
a victim of a sick society. The For the first time I searched up¬
judge of the court, the lawyers, ward beyond myself, beyond any
and the vast bulk of this society future self that might endanger my
lived sane moral lives. existence by absorbing me. I
I prayed for a miracle that would thought of my former fears of de¬
enable me to right the wrongs I struction. How selfish they had
had done in this life. There must been!
be some mark, some means of iden¬ Yes, I was Aristide, and I was
tification, so that I could recog¬ Lazy Hawk. Even as Paul Fair¬
nize these souls I had wronged, in less I was them, basically. From
some future life. There had to be my higher position I had watched
some means of going forward and for a means of pouncing upon Lazy
seeking them out l Hawk and digesting him into my
I was led back to my cell and own ego, and I would have used
left alone. In the morning I would fair means or foul! And Lazy Hawk
be led out to the guillotine. I was —how many scalps had I won in
considered dead already, not worth that existence? How many could
wasting water on to quench my I have left on the heads of their
thirst, nor a last meal of even a owners and won as friends? Even
moldy crust. one was one too many, and there
I slumped to the floor against had been several.
the damp wall of my cell. Re¬ I looked upward and asked for an
morse was dominant in me, with opportunity to make amends. Ev-
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE S3
en as I prayed for that opportunity to hear the faintest of whispers
I was scheming how nice such a that might give me contact with my
chance would be. It would give next life beyond i960. I had felt
me a guarantee of surviving while that if Lazy Hawk could become
I made amends. It would carry even partially aware of my exis¬
me into the future beyond i960, tence the wall between us would
because nothing before that time vanish. I now felt that if I could
could be changed from what it was. know even my name in my next
It would give me dominance over life beyond i960 the barriers would
the Aristide and the Lazy Hawk fall away.
identities, because I was the one I needed guidance, companion¬
who first decided to right the ship, even if it were only guid¬
wrongs I had done. I tried to ance and companionship of anoth-
thrust these thoughts away from ther facet of myself. I was a
me. I tried to feel 100% honest prisoner surrounded by walls that
about it — and within my own were transparent only in the di¬
framework I was honest in my in¬ rection of-the past.
tentions.
Suddenly it was dawn. Aris¬
Aristide, though, felt nothing but tide stirred uneasily, blinking at
hatred, defiance. And I was Aris¬ the faint light entering the small
tide. Despair overwhelmed me. barred window opening. Heavy
How could I ever get Aristide to footfalls echoed down the stone
look up beyond himself? And how corridor. There was the clank¬
many other lives would I enter? ing of metal against metal. The
How many other personalities iron door opened. A hooded priest
would I have in my makeup to deal entered and began administering
with? I had taken two steps back¬ last rites. Aristide spat on him.
ward into my past and already I The priest continued his duties
was hopelessly pulled d6wn toward unperturbed, not bothering to wipe
the brute. off the spittle. I studied him, won¬
Why was this happening to me? dering how much or how little he
Was it a freakish chance byprod¬ knew of the continuity of exis¬
uct of the Hydrogen bomb as I had tence in life after life, how much
first surmised? Or was it design he knew of the purpose and mean¬
on the part of some unknown en¬ ing. There was no way I could
tity? For what purpose? tell. He was young, no more than
With bold impulse I searched up¬ thirty. Under his robe he seemed
ward toward the unknown, trying strong, well built.
54 MYSTIC

The priest finished his ritual I stared around me curiously. It

and rose, turning to the door. It would be in another moment now
opened and he went out, ducking that I would arrive here from the
his head so that his cowl would future. But it had been several
not touch the arch. Four men days ago that I had arrived! In this
came in. Aristide cursed them strange existence I had been
vilely in several different French plunged into, the ordinary passage
dialects. Or was it I who cursed of time was another dimension
them? along which I traveled, passing and
The four men held me helpless repassing the same spot. I existed
and forced me through the door in a time stream separate from it,
into the corridor. A moment later or it was separate from me, just
we entered a courtyard. In its cen¬ as an enduring structure in space
ter was the guillotine. Except for remains unchanged, day after day.
a narrow lane from where I stood I had gone up to my moment
to the guillotine the courtyard was of death ip my life as Paul Fair¬
crowded with people. The Aristide less once, twice to Lazy Hawk’s
part of me raging with hate and moment of death, once already to
fear, my eyes searched the sea of this present moment of death. This
faces—and found that of Maria. would be my fifth experience at
Her lips trembled as my eyes met meeting death. I no longer feared
hers. it.
For a brief moment I tried to get I didn’t know quite how I felt
past the mental block that walled about it now. Under me in my
me off from control of my physical layers of consciousness Lazy Hawk
senses, to give her my message of was preparing to try to leap for¬
encouragement. Did I succeed? ward, back into his own life. Be¬
Did I see a sudden light of under¬ low him Aristide was striving des¬
standing flash from her eyes? I perately to leap backward toward
couldn’t be sure, for the next mo¬ that peaceful moment when he had
ment I had been forced past her been inexplicably torn from his
through the crowd. surroundings to his future. And
Ahead now was the guillotine, its below him lay the basic conscious¬
heavy blade held so high that I ness that was unaware of even
knew I would hear it hurtle down, that, and was striving to annihi¬
rattling against the guide timbers, late this moment by refusing to ac¬
for several heartbeats before it sev¬ cept its reality. ,
ered my head from my body. Did I want to go forward into
 IN THE-TWINKLING OF AN EYE 55
death, up the ladder toward a life none. I would dedicate my future
where I could make up for the to righting those wrongs.
wrong I had done? It was possible With a new inner peace I look¬
that if I willed it I could tip the ed upward at the circle of sky
balance and succeed. framed by the lip of the basket,
But what of previous lives? How and at the guillotine—symbol of
far down into the depths of the justice—
past did they extend? Had I al¬
Wasn't it Fred who made that
ways existed, or was there, some¬
speech?
where in the past, a life below
which I could not go—my first life,
T BLINKED at her in amaze-
my origin?
ment. “Well, ah . . ” I said,
I felt myself roughly forced to
trying to orient myself. I looked
bend over. My chin was pressed
helplessly at Louise—and abrupt¬
against the side of the block of
ly recognition of her exploded in
wood. I had only seconds to de¬
my consciousness. Exploded with
cide.
a blinding flash. A terrible glare—
The sound of something sliding
A terrible glare coming through
rapidly hit my ears. A thin scream
the window. The Hydrogen bomb
of a woman came from the crowd.
destroying Seattle!
SNAP! But the recognition of Louise
I knew the sound now for what was still fresh. With desperate
it was—the blade cutting through gladness I called, “Louise!” and
the bone and flesh of my neck. ran toward the kitchen. As I
Now familiar images jumped across reached the doorway the earth¬
my vision. My head was in the quake came.
basket, the dry straw it lay in rat¬ “Paul!” Louise screamed. She
tling with loud crispness. I looked had a stack of plates in her hands
upwards and saw the knife al¬ and was trying to hold onto them
ready being drawn up toward the and keep her balance. I leaped to¬
sky. ward her. The dishes crashed to
I had reached my decision. I the floor. We were holding onto
would go backward to the begin¬ each other, heading toward the
ning. Not until then would I turn back door and the safety of the
the other way and climb upward. yard.
I would go back to the beginning, How precious was this moment!
I would remember everyone I had My very soul thrilled at the touch
wronged in every life. I would miss of her. I knew her now, and my-
56 MYSTIC

self. Through ten thousand times it before? It didn’t matter.

ten thousand lives on a hundred I was impatient now. This was
different planets I had known her. May Day, i960. In a few days I
I was still somewhat stunned by could go forward toward my next
the terrific implosion of conscious¬ life, and my next and my next,
ness that had come with my de¬ forever climbing upward, step up¬
cision to accept all my past from on step, toward my distant goal
the beginnings of time. It was still that I could even now see dimly
too new to fully realize, but it was with my limited ability to com¬
there. With that acceptance, in the prehend its vastness.
twinkling of an eye the barriers Impatiently I rushed toward the
vanished. garage to collect the things we must
I could understand it a little. I take as we joined the others in
could understand why I was aware our exodus to the mountains. I
of my Lazy Hawk life and it was¬ was impatient of the slowness of
n’t aware of me, aware of my Aris¬ the moments that lay between me
tide Groh existence while it re¬ and my future. There was so
mained oblivious of me. Since those much to do and so short an eter¬
lives were my lives, the barriers nity to do it in.
were my barriers, set up by fear. And then, abruptly, I paused let¬
I had been afraid of losing my ting my lower consciousness con¬
identify if they combined and I was tinue with its tasks unnoticed, as
left outside. I was afraid of los¬ a phonograph follows the grooves
ing my identity if one of them of the record and brings forth the
combined with me, or I combined same sound for the fifth or the
with one of them. hundredth time.
In a way, that I had been right A thought had occurred to me.
in its fear. It no longer existed. What was my rush? Was the goal
But it had been only a phase of the ultimate purpose of existence—
my development, a bundle of fears or was existence itself the ultimate
dominated by an almost pathologi¬ purpose of existence?
cal desire to survive at any cost. If I could, at this very moment,
It was dead, and yet it was not in one giant leap, reach the Ulti¬
dead. Even now, on a lower level, mate, would I do it?
it was puzzling at this inexplicable I could. Within me was the ab¬
jump forward in time. Or was that solute conviction that at this very
merely my memory of what I had instant I could rise to the Ulti¬
done at this moment when I lived mate, so that every future incarna-
 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE

tion to the end of this world, to of it. There were nine years with
other worlds, and others, would in Louise that I had leaped over.
the twinkling of an eye, be things How many times had I leaped over
of the past, my journey ended, my those nine years without touching
karma complete. It needed only them?
my decision to make it so. They were there. They were
The wrongs I had done would unalterable. On lower levels of
be righted. The imperfections in consciousness they were inalterably
my own being would be made per¬ grooved. Permanent. But / had not
fect. I was free of the bonds of listened to their music, nor lived
time, able to arrive instantly at their richness. And I must . . .
my journey’s end. Actually, in Beth Baker turned to me. “You
the infinite of all past and future, were there, Paul,” she said. “Was¬
I was already there and had always n’t it Fred who—”
been. But I was here and now, I studied every detail of her
in a more real sense. sharp features hungrily. This was
A Hydrogen bomb had just the music—the little trills, the
been dropped on Seattle. I was thunders, the sevenths and majors
about to flee with Louise to the and minors and the arpeggios and
mountain refuge, only to be killed the melody—of Life, and I wanted
by a bullet from an invading sol¬ it al]. Every moment!
dier. I knew my next incarnation. She was looking at me now. I
I would be born again in 1972. hadn’t heard her finish her ques¬
I knew every detail of that future tion, but I knew it by heart.
life, and the lives beyond it. “Well, ah ” I stalled.
Suddenly I knew I couldn’t leap I glanced over at Louise. A
over them. Reaching the goal was thrill of pleasure shot through me.
not the purpose of life. No. The She was there. How could I have
purpose of life is to live every mo¬ missed seeing her there, deep in
ment of it. Every moment and those twinkling eyes, when I had
every flavor of each moment. passed this way before?
And I had already missed a part THE END

Sanandana Kumara has written a explains what and who they may be.
tremendous new story entitled THE Here is another story in which a
HOLY MAN which dwells on the very important concept is explained
mysterious “Masters” of India, and and it appears in our next issue.
The GHOST of
GRANADA
By Arthur Darrell Huckerby

A promise made to a dying person should be

kept! One of the most interesting stories
of an earthbound spirit we have ever read*

I AM a Minister’s son in a large

family of 14 children. We
that he was led into one of the
most difficult problems of his ca¬
lived on a small island in reer.
in the British West Indies. My I Was a boy about twelve years
father moved from island to island of age, and well remember the de¬
in the group preaching the Gospel tails. One Sunday morning in 1915
to Native and sojourners alike. I do not remember the exact Sun¬
I will never forget our* two day morning, my father had a vi¬
years on the Island of Granada. sitor, a Dr. Watson. What drew
Father was stationed at St. Georg¬ the attention of us children was
es, the capital, as head Minister the excited voice and pleadings of
and Superintendent of the Wes¬ the doctor in the drawing-room.
leyan Methodist Church and was There were eleven rooms in the
also shore Chaplain for the Brit¬ Mission House, the walls of thick
ish Navy. He had a large flock or masonry. We were down below in
congregation and much responsi¬ the yard playing, but for all this
bility. In fact if any of the other the doctor’s voice was quite audi¬
denominations got into difficulties ble, the tones suggested panic, hys¬
that they could not handle, my teria. For an M.D. to be in this
father was always appealed to to state of mind definitely indicated
lend a hand. that the man was certainly excit¬
It was because of his very cou¬ ed about something unnatural. Of
rageous and dependable nature course our curiosity was excited
 THE GHOST OF GRANADA 59
considerably. We all felt that we he was an ordinary man, and
just had to be in on this. though a servant of God he could
We dashed up the stairs to the not destroy the power of this
second floor, through the break¬ Beast. Dr. Watson asked if my
fast room and into the hallway of father would pray for him, and
the second stairs. Here we could appealed to my mother to convince
hear very well what was going on my father that. he was sure he
in the drawing room. Father had could help him, that he knew in
called Mother down from the up¬ some form or manner my father
stairs bedrooms and was appealing would discover the seat of all the
to her for guidance. This was some¬ trouble, if only he would accom¬
thing new for Father, so the cu¬ pany him to the house where his
riosity grew in us to fever pitch. wife and himself were threatened
The goose pimples for some reason from another world. My mother
were crawling all over us. What we suggested that father should go.
had seen through the open draw¬ So- my father accompanied the
ing room door, led us to believe doctor to his house. It was an old
that Dr. Watson was mad. What Spanish type house, cement-wall
we heard from his lips made us enclosed yard, cemented floor, with
believe that he was madder still a few open places of earth for
and definitely should be in an plantings of roses, ferns etc. The
insane asylum. We felt from what entrance to the yard was a large
my father said during the time wooden door, arched at the top,
we were at the door, that his be¬ about eight feet high completely en¬
lief was parallel to ours. closing the opening in the old ma¬
Dr. Watson said a being or spir¬ sonry wall. In the large wooden
it existed in his house, and was door was a smaller door or wicket
not only threatening his wife, Mrs. gate. My father went through this
Watson, but was also threatening with Dr. Watson. The huge door
his life while driving his Model T immediately fell off its hinges,
Ford by preventing him from push¬ nearly collapsing on my father and
ing the brake pedal when going Dr. Watson. After evading the
down hill. fallen door they both entered the
My father suggested that he yard proper and here the dog was
could not help him, but that if his running around the yard. One could
story was true that there is One hear the ship lashes falling on his
who is greater than the Devil, that hide, could neither see whipper
he must pray to God for help for nor whip; only the sound of the
6o MYSTIC
lashes and the howling of the dog. that of a tolling bell. Mrs. Watson
My father called the dog over, and was lying on the bed, deathly still
though he did not know my and pale, Dr. Watson rushed to her
father, he immediately obeyed, side, ascertained that she was not
seeming to crave protection. He dead and immediately set to work
picked the dog up and commenced to revive her. This was not so
to examine him for whelps on the easy as the woman had not only
skin, but there were none visible, fainted, but was in terrible shock,
not a scratch. It spurred my fath¬ and it was sometime before my
er all the more to further inves¬ father or Dr. Watson could get any
tigation. There must be a reason intelligible statement from her.
for what he had seen. His belief This was her story: she was en¬
was that everything that happens tering the bedroom and was about
in this world or out of it is ordain¬ to lock the door because she had
ed by two forces, Evil and Good. become afraid. She heard the dog
He was sure that what he had seen howling in the yard downstairs
was Evil. This was right in his as if someone was whipping it. As
field as a minister of the Gospel, she let go of the doorknob she felt
a challenge to what he represented. the strong presence of someone
He placed the dog down, started standing behind her. She turned.
ascending the back stairs of the What she saw was unbelievable—
house, Dr. Watson following. As an Indian woman standing close
they reached the cupola of the behind her holding a dagger over
stairs of the second floor a sound her head as if ready to strike. She
like the tolling of a bell was coming rushed for the bed and fainted. She
from the second floor. My father did not remember any bell tolling
entered cautiously with Dr. Wat¬ for her.
son, who commenced calling his
Dr. Watson carried his wife in¬
wife. There was no answer.
to an adjoining sitting room, placed
They moved toward the sound of her on a rocking chair. The woman
the tolling bell. The sound seemed was still in an hysterical 'state
to come from an inner room which when through the door from an¬
Dr. Watson said was their bedroom. other room came a clay goblet full
They opened the door, the sound of water, smashing in front of her
continuing. The bed was a large rocking chair into hundreds of
brass antique. It seemed that some¬ small pieces, scattering the water
one was striking the bottom of the all over the place. A large trunk
bed-post, causing a sound similar to full of personal belongings in the
 THE GHOST OF GRANADA 61

same room seemed to lift of its of the morning with him. He said:
own accord, floating through the “Dr. Watson, I am going to ask
air like a particle of dust. The both Mrs. Watson and yourself to
heavy velvet curtains caught on relate to me the past events in
fire, only the velvet fuzz burning, your lives, separately. Leave noth¬
leaving the interior base untouch¬ ing out. Some little thing might
ed. My father saw and witnessed help me to discover where the
all these things. trouble is. This is undoubtedly the
He entered into the doctor’s working of the Devil.”
study. The furniture was in a sham¬ So Mrs. Watson first related the
bles, hooks thrown from their events of her life, being very care¬
shelves and torn in sections and ful not to omit anything she
pieces even though the doctor as¬ thought would be important. There
serted that he had locked every in¬ was nothing that could be pieced
side window and personally held together in her life to show any
the key to the study door. My fath¬ reason for this invasion of her pri¬
er went into the study the sec¬ vacy and property.
ond time and put everything that Dr. Watson’s' story, on the other
was saveable into its right place hand, began to make sense, espe¬
cleaning the balance of the rubbish cially when he alluded to the .part
out, locked the windows from in¬ of his life of his first marriage,
side, locked the only door and put and more especially when he re¬
the key into his own pocket, as¬ ferred to the death-bed request of
suring Dr. Watson that he would his first wife, who was an Indian,
return the next day. that he in this life must never re¬
My father returned to the house marry, a promise given sincerely
the next day and the doctor af¬ by him at the time. He gave a de¬
firmed that nothing had changed. scription of his Indian wife. It ex¬
The same evil persisted as of be¬ actly fitted the description given
fore and he seemed completely by Mrs. Watson of the Indian
helpless as to what to do. The study woman attempting to stab her.
was opened and what had been My father suggested to Dr. and
put to rights the day before was Mrs. Watson to separate, live in dif¬
again a mess. ferent houses and see what would
My father had a plan. He called happen. The experiment was tried
Dr. Watson from the living room and neither one was again moles¬
to the sitting room where Mrs. ted.
Watson was going over the events THE END
A FUNERAL
BEFORE IT HAPPENED
By Lillian M. Slayton

A true story of the ability to see the future*

G ROVE HALL and his two

young sons sat at the break¬
right in the room with them.”
Grove held her close and a wor¬
fast table waiting for his ried look came in his eyes.
wife, Mary, to return from thp “I don’t like these—these vis¬
pantry. He glanced impatiently at ions you have every once in a
his watch and noted that it was while. They upset you so much. I
almost time for him to get to the tell you what. I’ll take you over to
job and get his men to work. Just your mother’s house and let you
then Mary stepped into the room see for yourself that your sister
and Grove was surprised to see is all right. You get the boys dress¬
tears streaming down her face. ed and ready and just as soon as I
Jumping up and taking her in get the men started on the job for
his arms he asked. “What’s hap¬ today I’ll come home and take
pened? Did you hurt yourself?” you over to see her.”
“N-No. I’m not hurt.” Mary When Grove returned a half hour
sobbed. “It’s Nan. She’s ill—seri¬ later in a rented carriage and
ously ill. I saw it all just now. horse from the livery stable, Mary
Mother had the doctor in to see and the boys were all dressed and
her and he gave her some medicine waiting for him on the porch.
and told her to take it again in Upon entering her mother’s
two hours.” house they found that Nan really
“You mean you imagined all was ill. Grove took his mother-in-
that while you were in the pan¬ law to one side and asked her if
try just now?” she had had the doctor. She re¬
“I didn’t imagine it. I saw it plied that she had and that he had
all. It was just as real as if I were given Nan some medicine and had

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told her to repeat the dose in two they saw a body being carried
hours. Out of curiosity Grove ask¬ from the house to the undertaker’s
ed what time that had been and she wagon. Grove still wouldn’t be¬
told him. It was the exact time he lieve that it was his friend until
had consulted his watch when wait¬ he asked the undertaker, but the
ing for Mary to come out of the latter assured him that it was. The
pantry! man had had a heart attack just
Reassured that Nan would be a short time before.
all right, Mary consented to re¬ Still determined to at least prove
turn home. Suddenly as they were Mary mistaken in her prophecies
riding along she exclaimed, “Oh, and discourage her from taking
Grove. Mr. So-And-So is dead!” her visions so seriously he visited
“Oh, no! You’re not having one livery stable after another on
more visions!” groaned Grove. the day of the funeral, but all the
“It’s true!” she exclaimed. horses were rented out except one
“They’re planning his funeral now or two white ones. Finally, he was
and you’ll be attending it. You’ll forced to take one of these.
drive a white horse, and you’ll As they approached the church
hitch it to the third hitching post he saw that only two hitching
from the left in front of the church. posts were empty. One of them
And,” she continued, “you’ll try was the third post from the left.
to get in front of your brother in He headed for the other one, but
the funeral procession, but you just before he reached it another
won’t be allowed to.” carriage pulled up to it and he
“Now, I know that’s all non¬ was forced to take the one Mary
sense, because I just saw Mr. So- had told him he would use.
And-So yesterday and he was just After the funeral service Grove
as healthy and spry as I am right maneuvered his horse and car¬
this minute. riage into the line which was form¬
“Maybe he was, but he’s dead ing for the procession to the ceme¬
now.” tery. He pulled in ahead of his
“Well, just to get this nonsense brother’s carriage, but the under¬
out of your head once and for all taker, taking hold of his horse’s
we’ll drive around by his office and bridle exclaimed, “Sorry, Mr. Hall,
let you talk to him yourself.” but you must drive behind your
They stopped by the office but brother. The eldest goes first, you
it was closed. They proceeded to know.”
the home and as they approached THE END
The INNER CIRCLE
In our March issue, we presented an article by Roger
Graham about Mark Probert, the most amazing medium
in America today. Now, as the first of a series to be pre¬
sented each issue, the editors of Mystic have secured the
exclusive rights to present actual seances by Mark Pro¬
bert, in which his controls will answer questions put to
them by our readers! This is the first time in magazine
history that such a project has been made in any maga¬
zine of international coverage such as is MYSTIC.
These seances, recorded on tape while Mark Probert is
in trance, are transcribed just as spoken. Unfortunately the
printed word cannot carry the dramatic impact of the re¬
corded tape, which is awesome and thrilling. For this
first seance, the questions were asked by your editor. In
future seances, you, the readers, will ask the questions.
Send your questions in today, according to instructions
given at the end of this article. If your question quali¬
fies, it will be answered.

Meeting held Monday, 15 Prof. Luntz: Very well indeed,

March, 1954 at 8:00 PM. my dear, and how about you folks?
Purpose'. To answer questions RGM*: Oh, we’re fine Profes¬
sent in by Ray Palmer. sor.
MP: This is March 15, 1954. Prof. Luntz: Now my friends,
This is Mark Probert speaking. In I am quite aware of what is desired
a few moments I will go into of us this evening. The idea is I
trance, and questions asked by believe to answer some questions
Ray Palmer in his letter of March that were sent to you by your
2nd will be presented to my teach¬ friend, Ray Palmer.
ers of the Inner Circle. *Unfortunately, we neglected un¬
Prof. Luntz: How do you do, I til too late, to learn the identity of
am Professor Alfred Luntz. RGM. However, we will correct
Irene Probert: How are you this the oversight in the October is¬
evening, Professor? sue.—The editors.

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Conducted By MARK PRO'BERT
Famous San Diego Trance Medium

Featuring:

PROFESSOR ALFRED LUNTZ

In earth life. Professor Luntz was a clergyman for the High
Episcopal Church of England. He was born of German and
English parents, and attended Eton School for Boys, Heidel¬
berg University in Germany, and Theological Seminary at
Oxford.

RAMON NATALLI
Bom in Rome, Italy, and lived at the time of the great
astronomer, Galilleo, in whose footsteps he followed.

YADA Dl SHI ITE

Lived 500,000 years ago in the ancient civilization of Yu,
in the Himalaya mountains. He was a priest in the Temple
in the city of Eaoti.

IP: Yes, Professor, I believe I you give a specific introduction of

shall read the complete question yourself to our readers telling who
first and then break it down as you were, where you lived, what
RGM has typed it out here so you did, and where you are now
you can give more complete an¬ and what is your occupation at
swers, don’t you think so? present?
Prof. Luntz: I think that would Prof. Luntz: Well, I do not be¬
be quite well, yes. But before you lieve that it is very important to
start would like to answer my make any statement concerning my
questipn, the one concerning my¬ own life on earth. It would not
self. further the work one little bit. To
IP: That’s fine, whatever you say simply that I am Professor
wish to do. The question pertain¬ Alfred Luntz as I have been doing
ing to you, Ray Palmer says, these years and letting it go at that.
“Who are you, Dr. Luntz? Will I think it would be sufficient but

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66 MYSTIC

I do not think Ray Palmer will fields; philosophical, scientific, met¬

believe so. To say more about my aphysical, occult. There are many
life on earth I rather feel would schools over here providing a vast
incriminate me. That is a famous number of things to study. The life
statement today, is it not? is pretty much the same as on
RGM: Very true. earth. Coming into the astral
Prof. Luntz: Yes, and even the world you do find yourself float¬
spooks do not like to be incrimin¬ ing aimlessly through space with
ated. nothing to do. It is an active life
IP: Perhaps by telling where and can be a very happy one. But
you are and what your occupation by the same token, depending up¬
is at present might give those who on your desire to adjust yourself
read the answer in Mystic an idea to the new conditions one can find
of what does really take place when it beautiful or otherwise.
you’re on that side of the veil, so RGM: May I ask you a ques¬
to speak. tion, Professor?
Prof. Luntz: Please do.
Prof. Luntz: Well, I will say
this much that in my earth life I RGM: In reference to the
was a clergyman for the High studying that you said you were
Episcopal Church of England. I conducting on the other side, you
was born of German and English said it was somewhat similar to
parents. I had some of my earlier earth life. Do you have books as
schooling at the Eton School for such?
Boys, later going to Germany where Prof. Luntz: Yes sir, as such.
I attended Heidelberg and then RGM: Maybe I should have
later back to England going to the left the “as such” off.
theological seminary at Oxford. Prof. Luntz: Well no, I think
More than that I can’t say and I you are quite right in expressing
feel fairly certain this bit of infor¬ yourself in that way, quite right in¬
mation concerning my personal deed, because many individuals
life will be of little value to either would believe, had I simply said,
Ray Palmer or the readers, but “Yes we have books,” or had you
that is the best that I can do. Now simply stated “Do you have
concerning my life in the present books,” that would not have been
state, I certainly do not follow sufficient, because many would
the path of the clergyman or the have taken an imaginative turn
clergyman’s life. I pursue truth, believing that one simply imagined
truth to be found in many many they have books. Well it is not
 THE INNER CIRCLE 67

any more imaginative than are the have it after coming over here. It*
books in your world. There are certainly completely obliterated all
libraries, great vast libraries, great the feelings of guilt I acquired when
schools, great music halls with in¬ passing into the astral world, guilt
struments to play. This I know concerning the things I had taught
must be difficult to comprehend. about God and the heavenly state
I was going to say believe, but it and hell, only to find no such states
is not a matter of believing. One existed. Yes, I was fortunate to
must comprehend and understand get the education that I did. It
before one can believe or disbelieve brought me completely up and out
anything, eh what? of the terrible fears and feelings
RGM: That’s right. of guilt.
Prof. Luntz: Yes, it is a real, IP: This education that you’re
concrete world if one can speak speaking of that helped you so
about concreteness anywhere un¬ much was the education that you
der any circumstances. acquired after passing into the as¬
RGM: Do you find that the tral, is that not true?
process of learning is easier in your Prof. Luntz: That is what I
world than it was when you lived said, my dear, yes, yes.
in a physical body? RGM: Perhaps Mr. Palmer
Prof. Luntz: Yes, I do sir, be¬ would be interested in knowing a
cause my mind now is clear. I am little bit of your work with the
not caught up in the fears, so-call¬ Inner Circle.
ed unconscious or conscious, that Prof. Luntz: Well sir, after I
keep one from having freedom of had received my initiation which
mind. Here on the earth plane was my education or rather my re¬
where you are, you have those con¬ education into higher understand¬
ditions to deal with; the uncon¬ ing, I was taken into what is called
scious fear seeping into the so-call¬ the Inner Circle; the Inner Circle
ed conscious self where the indi¬ being a group of men and women,
vidual is not even aware of what sixteen in all, that come from all
is happening. Remembrances of walks of life, having vast experi¬
many lifetimes and the fears gath¬ ences in many fields. I do indeed
ered there besides those we develop feel greatly honored to liave been
right in this, your present lifetime. initiated into that group. Of course,
In my world, especially if one has all of the members like myself have
had the kind of training I was other and perhaps more mystical
given; fortunate indeed was I to reasons for forming this circle and
68 MYSTIC

some of those reasons do not con¬ Prof. Luntz: No, they are not
cern us alone but concern the boy making an effort to discredit them,
through whom we speak and have they are simply trying to shield
to do with certain experiences he the general public from knowing
had in past lives in which we play¬ the truth concerning them, for they
ed a part; sometimes a small part know what the people as masses are
and sometimes a large one. A hint like. They have no desire to panic
to it all may be found in my say¬ their people, which, to bring out
ing, “No one of us ever commit the complete and whole truth sud¬
an act of any kind that we do not denly, would surely do.
receive the reward for it or the IP: The next question. Do
penalty at sometime or another.” government or military officials
I can’t say more about that at the know more than they admit re¬
present time. garding flying saucers?
IP: Would you like to have me Prof. Luntz: Indeed they do.
present these questions now to you. IP: Are constructive efforts be¬
Professor? ing made either to resolve the puz¬
Prof. Luntz: Well, my dear, you zle or turn it to good effect?
may start wherever you see fit and Prof. Luntz: Of course they
J will do what I can about it and are endeavoring to find a way of
that which I can’t answer I will explaining these things in a man¬
simply depart and leave another ner that will come as a shock to the
to answer. people, and they certainly will in
IP: Well, the first question, I time use the knowledge they have
will read all of the first question gained concerning these discs or
and then break it up. Is our gov¬ saucers for new and highly ad¬
ernment or other governments en¬ vanced methods in aeronautics.
gaged in any definite effort to dis¬ And that is not the least of it.
credit or throw a smokescreen over They’ve learned considerable more
the flying saucers, or do they know concerning the atomic world, the
more than they admit and are they world ol matter, chemistry, biology,
making constructive efforts to eith¬ heat, and many other things that
er resolve the puzzle or turn it to are branches or may be considered
good effect? Now the first is, is branches of those that I have men¬
our government or other govern¬ tioned.
ments engaged in a definite effort IP: The second question is: Do
to discredit or throw a smokescreen you know anything about the most
over the flying saucers? recent discoveries of scientists re-
 THE INNER CIRCLE 69
garding the upper atmosphere and tion that has been acquired by sci¬
is anything being kept secret re¬ entists is classified and it perhaps
garding it outside of a military would be unwise to release infor¬
nature? Is it true that our atmos¬ mation of that nature.
phere, using the term loosely, ex¬ Prof. Luntz: Thank you sir,
tends at least 75,000 miles out¬ that is precisely the way I feel
ward and that it contains within about it. I want to say some¬
it hitherto unsuspected bodies, such thing concerning the atmosphere.
as orbital clusters or of meteor¬ I do not know, of course, where
ites, dust and so forth? Now the Ray Palmer may have gotten his
question is: What are the most re¬ facts concerning the atmosphere
cent discoveries of scientists re¬ extending outward some 75,000
garding the upper atmosphere? miles. In my observations of it
Prof. Luntz: I am pondering and in my studies of it I find it
over the wiseness of answering that does not go farther than 80 miles
question, because it does have some and then it is so rarified, one can
military nature to it and I do not hardly call it atmosphere.
know whether I had better an¬ IP: That answers the latter part
swer it. of the question. The last is: are
IP: He asks, is there anything hitherto unsuspected bodies rotat¬
of a non military nature being kept ing in orbits around our earth?
secret by scientists who have made Prof. Luntz: Yes, saucers. They
new discoveries about our upper have been very unexpected. They
atmosphere. are still there.
Prof. Luntz: Anything concern¬ IP: They always shall be, I sup¬
ing the upper atmosphere at this pose?
present time does in one way or Prof. Luntz: Well, for quite
another belong to the military. some time. They are there in what
Would you object to that, sir? may be called other frequencies
Would you have something to say than we here, your scientific men
regarding it, Mr. M.? have known about before. They
RGM: Well, I am quite sure have been but recently detected
that anything concerning the upper with certain instruments. The hon¬
atmosphere has a military signifi¬ orable Menzel, I believe that is his
cance at the present time. Perhaps name, eh?
you are quite right in withholding RGM: Yes, that is right.
comment on that question at the Prof. Luntz: He knows they are
present time because the informa¬ there.
70 MYSTIC

RGM: What was his purpose in to Ramon Natalli.

writing the book the way he did? IP: Fine, then you have answer¬
Prof. Luntz: To hide that fact, ed all the rest of the questions,
thinking the authorities believing Professor Luntz, and so perhaps we
that for a man of his position to will wait until the other members
make such statements, they would come on.
act as final thoughts concerning Natalli: How do you do, I am
the discs, and the people would Ramon Natalli.
forget about it, but people are hu¬ IP: Good evening, nice to have
man beings, not sheep; although you with us this evening, Ramon.
they act like it so often. Human Natalli: Thank you, it is very
beings are thinkers. nice to be again in your home.
RGM: Was it Menzel’s idea to IP: Yes, Ramon. Of course I
write this book himself or was he know you realize what we are do¬
put up to it by individuals in gov¬ ing here this evening, answering the
ernment or the military? questions that Ray Palmer has sent
Prof. Luntz: That is right, it in. Would you like to give a brief
was suggested that he do so. Carry biography of your life? Professor
on my dear. Luntz did and I think Ray Palmer
IF: Question number four. Do would appreciate it if you would
you know anything of a civiliza¬ like to do so. That’s just up to you
tion whose cities are now buried of course. Don’t hesitate to say
under the sands of the desert at no if you wish to say no.
the south of the Grand Canyon Natalli: I think all I shall say is
and can you describe it and tell that I was born in Rome, Italy and
how it came to be buried, even how I lived in the time of the great and
it may be found? most honorable Galilleo.
Prof. Luntz: I think that I IP: Did you know him person¬
would rather leave that to my col¬ ally?
league, Yada Di Shi’ite. Natalli: Yes, this man suffered
IP: I see. Question number five. greatly at the hands of the Inquisi¬
What will be the probable effect tion.
on our weather of the hydrogen IP: Yes, we’ve heard of that.
bomb tests now going on or soon Natalli: I, of course, had no in¬
to occur both in Russia and our terest in religion and he had but
own test areas? little.
Prof. Luntz: I think I shall IP: You were interested in as¬
leave that also either to Yada or tronomy at that time, were you
 THE INNER CIRCLE 7i
not? of science have made today-
Natalli: Yes, and of course he IP: You are speaking of Palo-
was far advanced from me in that mar observatory?
field, but greatly -persecuted, made Natalli: That is correct. It
to suffer terrible degradations. I would see only another fraction of
was agnostic. If there was a God, the vast number of bodies in space.
said I, there was a God and that’s You cannot now build a greater, a
all there was to it, there was no larger telescope. It would offer
need to argue, for whether He was you no better view. Man now must
or not there was nothing I could endeavor to move his mind beyond
do about it. If there was one then the realm of the power of the tel¬
I certainly could not know Him, escope that is there in Palomar.
therefore I would still have no ar¬ More than this, my ■most extensive
gument. I belonged to the Royal studies have conclusively shown to
house of Astronomy. It is still me that all of these island uni¬
to me the greatest field of science. verses, all of it is consciousness and
In studying the vastness of the no more than that. When, or if
outer regions of space and the un¬ consciousness ceases to exist, all
told billions and trillions of bodies therein called outer -bodies, all mo¬
therein, one need not think of a tion will cease with it. Some of
God. That in itself is inspiring your scientists have said in your
enough and it should have told me present day that the only thing
that if all of this can exist and that does exist is motion, but mo¬
continue to do so through endless tion is a thing of the senses in the
milleniums of time, then why not same manner as is all connected or
I. In the field of matter it is quite coming out of motion. So I say
clear, even more so today, that when consciousness ceases to be, all
matter cannot be destroyed, how is that consciousness brought forth
it possible for the very essence of will cease to be. The thought that
matter called life to be destroyed. I your present day scientists have
did not at that time expect to sur¬ taken matter and pulled it to pieces
vive the death of my physical body believing they have found a some¬
and therefore it was a pleasant sur¬ thing called the adhesive substance
prise to discover I did. In this dis¬ or glue of the atom. These they
covery I immedately set about with call mesons. Next they are going
the greatest of joy to continue my to have to find what the nature is
favorite work. As we said some of the matter that holds the matter
years ago, the great eye your men together. When there is cosmic ra-
72 MYSTIC

diation the particles that reach to moving in so many vibrations in

the earth and bury themselves deep, time. To name the time would be
deep within the earth, upwards of impossible, it would have to be
a thousand feet, these particles are worked out mathematically. Is that
mostly mesons. The greater part better?
of substance that these mesons RGM: Yes, I think that is a
come from are absorbed in the little more clear.
earth’s atmosphere. Most of them Natalli: To speak about the
at the high level of what is called atom is all right as lofig as you
the ionosphere. Yes, you want to do not believe you are saying any¬
say something? thing of lasting meaning, m-m-m-m.
IP: Yes I do, Ramon. What IP: My question, Ramon. I
would you have to say in regards wanted you to express yourself
to scientists explaining what an pertaining to the idea of 90 percent
atom is, that is io percent some¬ nothingness. Is there such a -pos¬
thing and 90 percent nothing? sibility of something working in
Nat alii: All I can say about the nothing?
atom is that it is—this is going to Natalli: This is something
sound strange perhaps—photons again, 90 percent nothing. One
moving in a continuous yet period¬ cannot speak of 90 percent nothing.
ical or quantum arc. In other One may speak of 90 percent
words, light waves moving in fre¬ something or 10 percent something
quencies of various durations. but not 90 percent nothing or 10
Does this make sense to you, sir? percent nothing.
RGM: When you say light waves IP: That is what I think too.
moving in frequencies of various Natalli: That is like trying to
duration, that’s not completely make something more out of one
clear to me. Maybe you could zero by putting three or four or a
phrase it a little differently. a thousand more zeros with it.
Nat alii: Frequencies is concern¬ IP: Yes.
ed with duration. Natalli: This is having nothing
RGM: We think of so many os¬ and adding nothing to it. But the
cillations per second as being fre¬ part that is supposedly 10 percent
quency. something, these are not solids as
Natalli: Yes. man has come to think of the word
RGM: And duration has the solid. Scientists speak of a sub¬
connotation of time. stance moving through space, vast
Natalli: That is what I mean, fields of it, of great density, yet
 THE INNER CIRCLE 73

they will say some of this sub¬ Therefore the universe shall never
stance is gaseous and others in be destroyed, or run down, or
more or less solid state. There is run out of energy, or run down to
no such state as a solid state. There what is called zero inertia.
are degrees of what may be called RGM: Is this a process of con¬
solidification but yet one cannot sciousness that causes this to take
say that. There is more vibrations place ?
moving or vibrating in a given Natalli: Yes it is, but when I
number of frequencies or oscilla¬ make this statement your men of
tions per second, or split second science will say that is purely a
that creates a measurable surface metaphysical statement and we
to man, to the senses, or to the in¬ cannot comment on it or pay any
struments man creates. What would attention to it. Your scientists to¬
you think of that, sir? day believe that somewhere in space
RGM: I think that is a very matter is breaking down into a
good explanation. practical state of nothing-ness, and
Natalli: Thank you. Now as for that in the course of time the uni¬
what the scientists have discover¬ verses will be loosely scattered, low
ed in the outer realms of space, grade energy. There shall be no
there is yet more than the saucers. such time for such a happening,
IP: Now you are referring to for this world of matter, and when
the question number two that Pro¬ I say this world I mean this state
fessor Luntz answered in part? of matter in vibration came out of
Natalli: Yes. deeper realms or dimensions of
IP: I guess you picked up my what may for convenience sake be
thought there. It was hoping you called calm. And so it cannot be
might elaborate upon it, destroyed, it cannot evaporate into
Natalli: Moving from outer nothingness, it cannot move back
space towards the earth is some of into the field it once existed in or
this substance that is of such great dimension of time, or field of mo¬
density. It is substance that may tion. It must stay in the position
be called the debris of bodies being it was projected in unless another
broken down in interstellar space. body is capable of stopping the
The island universes are constantly motion that set it into being, or
breaking down and building up. stopping the force that produced it
Matter, while it is dissipating vast out of these other time frames.
quantities of itself into space, is al¬ IP: That would mean to break
so automatically building up. up the vortex that it was formed
74 MYSTIC

in, wouldn’t it. Ramon, what would extends outward 75,000 miles?
you say about the sun ever burning Natalli: This question was suf¬
itself out? ficiently answered by my honor¬
Natalli: Of course not, .the sun able colleague, Professor Alfred
may at some time, which I may add Luntz.
it is working towards now and has IP: Out to 80 miles-?
been for quite a great period of Natalli: Yes.
time, towards .becoming a super IP: I will go into the next question
nova. The sun you have in your then. This is question number four.
present solar system is a very small Do you know anything of a civili¬
sun. It would be considered a dwarf zation whose cities are now buried
star among other suns in space. under the sands of the desert at
IP: Yes, I believe once you told the south of the Grand Canyon and
us that there are suns .that could can you describe it and tell how
hold millions of our suns and shake it came to be buried, even how it
them around like beans in a rattle may be found?
box. Natalli: I will leave that to
Natalli: Yes, that is the truth. my colleague, Yada Di Shi’ite.
RGM: When you speak about IP: All right. Would you like
our sun becoming a super nova to answer question five. What will
that will take place some great time be the probable effect on our
in the future, will it not? weather of the hydrogen bomb tests
Natalli: Oh, it is a vast time in now going on or soon to occur both
the future, but suns are very un¬ in Russia and in our own test
predictable. The vast time from areas?
now may be only the next moment. Natalli: Russia has already ex¬
The substances in the sun are of ploded the hydrogen bomb in the
a very unstable nature. wastes of Siberia, in fact she has
IP: The suns are not what we exploded more than the one. Eng¬
call solidified material, they’re gas¬ land exploded the hydrogen bomb
eous, is that not true? I think you in the wasteland of Australia. The
have told us about that. effects of this is going to be world
Natalli: They are gaseous, yes, wide causing great changes in
but gasses that are pressed into tre¬ weather of a violent nature, pro¬
mendous densities. ducing mostly very violent and
IP: Do you want to elaborate sudden wind storms of tremendous
upon this; is it true that our at¬ velocity. Besides .the wind storms
mosphere, ■using the term loosely, of a cyclonic nature, there will be
 THE INNER CIRCLE 75

'a great precipitation of rain, water, what would happen should all of it
meaning you will have many great be let loose.
rainstorms. RGM: It would be a thousand
IP: Are these to happen all over times as great,
the earth? Natalli: That is right. Then
Natalli: No, but will, especially you could say certain other bodies
at the places where they were let in space would be affected. It would
loose, exploded. It will cover a affect in this way. It would cause
great part of this side of the earth, the positive and negative poles,
meaning her,e in your country, in what you call the magnetic poles,
England, in Russia, some in India to be disrupted to such an extent
but not very much. Of course In- as to cause the earth to fall out
dia has many violent rainstorms in of balance, or what you call tip. Do
the monsoon season. you want to say something?
IP: Do you think that the ex- RGM: I was just wondering,
plosions that have taken place re- considering the increased energy
cently have had anything to do that can be released in the hydro-
with the tornadoes in the middle gen device compared to the heavy
west. matter type of device isn’t it pos-
Natalli: These are only the fore- sible that they might go too far
runner of what is to be if the con- in this direction and upset the bal-
tinuation of these hydrogen bombs ance of nature?
goes on. Natalli: It is always very likely
RGM: At one time in the writ- because your -men of science that
ings of another individual it was are experimenting in the field of
stated that some of the atomic ex- hydrogen explosions are not at all
plosions on the earth had affect- certain on the outcome. They were
ed other planets in the solar sys- not certain of the outcome of the
tern. Did that actually take place experimental explosion of the atom
and can it happen in the future? bomb.
Natalli: No, it is not affecting IP: What really happens to the
other planetary bodies in space. In- atom in an atomic explosion. Does
deed the atom bomb is only letting it really_explode or is that a sensible
loose one tenth of one percent of question?
the total energy in U235. That is Natalli: In a way it is, and in
a very small amount, huh? a way it is not. The atom acts
RGM: Yes, that is true. very much in its explosion like a
Natalli: Think, my friends, dwarf star becoming a super star.
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It is simply matter seeking to ex¬ take place in all kinds of plant

tend its field of operation thereby life and animal life and insect life,
needing a greater volume of space and cause other unpleasant condi¬
than it had before. tions.
IP: Does it expand and then Yada: Sina, sina-ha (ladies and
contract, or does it just keep on gentlemen) I am the Yada Di Shi-
expanding? ’ite.
Natalli: It dissipates itself and Group: Good evening, Yada.
is later absorbed by other particles Yada: (Speaks at first in his
in the atmosphere. Would you, own language of Yu, an ancient
sir, have anything to say about civilization which existed in the
that? Himalaya mountains 500,000 years
RGM: That seems to be the ago.) We could sit here all eve¬
logical way the energy would have ning and if I talk in my language
to be dissipated because explosions we get no place. I am most hon¬
so far have taken place in the at¬ ored to come into your home again
mosphere and that’s where the en¬ and to see that both of you are of
ergy would have to be dissipated. good health.
Natalli: Yes. RGM: Thank you, Yada, it is
RGM: I’ve been wondering a pleasure to have you here again.
whether or not officials of the mil¬ Yada: I would talk please on
itary and governments of various the question you were asking in
countries have been warned specif¬ this letter.
ically about the dangers of carry¬ IP: Ray Palmer asks, will you
ing on these hydrogen experiments? give something of your life? Will
Natalli: They know very well you give a specific introduction of
about it, but they feel they have yourself to our readers telling who
the situation in hand. If I were a you were, where you lived, what
religious man, I would add, “Let you did, and where you are now,
us pray.” Not that I am fearful and your occupation at present? Do
for I am in no dangerous position you wish to do that Yada?
myself, but I can see the possibili¬ Yada: I will do so to the best
ties of widespread destruction on of my ability. One of my physical
the earth and complete annihilation expressions, the one in which I ac¬
of your entire civilization followed quired the title, Yada Di Shi’ite
by 5,000 years of darkness, or sav¬ goes back into the remote period
agery and ignorance. Also great of what you would call today 500,-
and unexpected mutations could 000 years ago. I lived in a beau-
 THE INNER CIRCLE 77
tiful and vast civilization called Yu. accomplish complete freedom from
Yu means vast in my language. I the physical wheel and have eternal
was a Ka-Ta in the beginning of consciousness. This is what all
my training in the temples in the mankind is striving for. This is all
city of Kaoti. A Ka-Ta means a he is striving for, for once he at¬
God-man or priest. tains it he has attained his original
RGM: How do you spell Ka- estate; a Divine being. Not from
Ta, Yada? a religious sense, because in making
Yada: Ka-Ta, and it is a broken such attainment religion as man
word; separate words. Ka means understands it ceases entirely to
God and Ta, man. As I completed be, because it belongs to the physi¬
my 33 rd degree in the order called cal plane and the lower astral
Shi’ite, I was given the title of Ya¬ planes alone. Religion, like all else
da. Ya means spirit and da means that man does while he is suffering
life. Therefore I am the spirit of the illusion of the physical world,
life of the Shi’ite order. I have the world of matter, is just exactly
been back and forth on the earth that, illusionary. Non-existent, a
plane many, many, many times in dream out of which he must rise.
that period of 500,000 years. My And he rises, as I went through my
last incarnation on the earth plane experiences in the temples, by de¬
was 500 years ago in China. grees, and all of man’s experiences
My friends, I want to add some¬ are to be classified as initiations in¬
thing more please. I have had con¬ to higher and to more complete
tinued consciousness with no breaks, states of awareness. I cannot im¬
though I have come into a physical agine anything greater to strive for
body many times. As I said, I than the finding of yourself. Man
have had no breaks in conscious¬ has made many efforts to do this
ness from my first experience in and is still doing it but the greater
Yu. Before that time I suffered majority of ways and means and
like you do, many breaks, going in methods of so attaining are false
and out of the death state to the paths and lead him to nothing. He
so-called physical life state. I do must find himself through work.
not now have to return to the Work is experience. There is no
earth through the laws of birth, hurry to attain. The greater the
or biological laws. I am saying this hurry, the greater our chances to
for no other reason than to let you fall and to fail. All the various ex¬
know what you shall be doing in ercises, Yogi practices, secret man-
some period of time. You also shall trams, sittings in meditation, deep
7S MYSTIC

seated concentration, these are cities are now buried under the
parts of his efforts to attainment sands of the desert south of the
or the finding of Himself, but no one Grand Canyon?
of them leads one to the gate of Yada: I can tell you little about
freedom. We cannot barter with that one outside of the fact that it
the Light or with what man so un¬ was a nomadic race of people be¬
knowingly calls God. All is work longing to the Aztec race. They
with sincerity and love for what we left what you call Mexico today;
are doing and the experiences we this was back in the time of the
are going through. To be fearful of Inquisition against the great
our continued existence or the pos¬ Montezuma. These Indian people
sibilities of losing consciousness is fled from their original home in
to retard our efforts and our final South America and became nomads
freedom. Let us move quietly with until they finally settled and creat¬
love in our hearts for all things ed a kind of civilization in that re¬
and all efforts that we make, feel¬ gion mentioned.
ing that nothing is too hard or too IP: Can you describe the cities
difficult to go through. It is very as they used to be and how they
useful, this seeking in a scientific came to be buried?
way, to gain knowledge about man Yada: Great wind storms and
and earth, but it is merely wasted dust storms obliterated the civili¬
time apart from the greater issue zation. To describe these is of no
of the divine life. Therefore in value that I can see.
that respect we see all things that IP: Is their architecture similar
man does physically, he is playing to that found down in the regions
with toys. Marking time, not wast¬ of the Aztecs?
ing it; you cannot waste time. Let Yada: Yes.
me turn for a moment to the ques¬ IP: How may these cities be
tion you have to ask of me please. found? Excavation would be the
IP: This question is number answer to that, wouldn’t it?
four. Do you know anything about Yada: Yes it would. There are
a civilization whose cities are now many such cities scattered all over
buried under the sands of the des¬ the Americas, the North and South
ert at the south of the Grand Can¬ Americas, buried beneath great tons
yon and can you describe it and and tons of the earth and some of
how it came to be buried, even how these are obliterated by water.
it may be found? Can you tell us IP: Is there anything else you
anything of a civilization whose want to say about it, Yada? That
 THE INNER CIRCLE 79
is the extent of the questions that c. Life after death.
weren’t answered by the other mem¬ 2. Scientific subjects.
bers of the Inner Circle. 3. Origin of Matter.
Yada: No, I do not think I will 4. Ancient History.
go further on it this evening. 5. Current Events.
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EDITORIAL .. . experience quite “staged” by the

(Continued from Page 21) power groups who secretly domin¬
suit will be “experience” for man¬ ate the scene on both sides, whose
kind, and it cannot fail to teach identity we do not really know.
him something! The best names we can give to
Naturally we Americans would these power groups are the seven
like to see communism banished cardinal sins (primarily greed, self¬
forever from our daily fare, be¬ ishness and the desire for leader¬
cause in its present state, it is a ter¬ ship).
ror to us. It threatens us first with Actually all of this is for the
H-bomb devastation, and next with good of all of us. We will cer¬
enslavement. It threatens us. To tainly learn from our lives as we
the Russian people, the existence live them! We have no desire to
of democracy threatens them with change this principle. We have
H-bomb devastation and next with no desire to fight it. We are as
enslavement (to capitalism). How afraid of the H-bomb as anybody
much “propaganda” there is here else. We don’t want our physical
no one can say—because to some body destroyed; nor do we want
extent the feelings of both peoples our physical freedom interferred
are due to past experience, but an with. But we would like to counter
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it with as much light as possible. lieve that we are making available

Darkness rules the world today, some of these “facts” But here we
and light is denied the fuel to make will have to make it perfectly clear
it burn brighter and dispel some of that we don’t know what a “fact”
the darkness. Our principle then, is! Except that we believe the only
is to add fuel to the light to make “facts of life” are experiences. So,
its rays visible to more people and what we are beginning to present is
to greater distances. that portion of the “news” which
What is this light we want to never gets past the “key man” at
raise to a higher “voltage” so that the wire service, except as the “scoff
we can hold it aloft to peer into of the day” or as “humor” held
the darkness and penetrate the fog up in a ridiculous light. For in¬
of “propaganda”, “conditioning” stance, the “key man”, coming
and hypnotism that surrounds us? across a news item concerning
Is it any religious fervor, any be¬ “The Inner Circle” which is a
lief, any dogma, any great psychic group of discarnate entities (re¬
secret, any power over evil, any member we don’t know what a
holy revival? No, it is nothing fact is) who operate by control¬
more that we want than (to put it ling a San Diego medium named
crudely in the words of a very bad Mark Probert, cannot put it on
TV program) “the facts, mam; the wire with a “straight face” be¬
all we want are the facts.” cause i) he would be criticised by
Finding a name for these facts his superiors and might lose his
has been difficult. There is no job (for a bad choice of news
“common” word to describe them; which might be “objectionable” to
and the esoteric terminology is in¬ those who don’t “believe” in dis¬
comprehensible to the average man. carnate entities) or 2) he might
The only word we could find that be laughed at or embarrassed when
was on a common level was the somebody says to him: “Say, you
name we gave to this magazine: don’t really believe in that stuff,
MYSTIC. And that word falls do you? So if he uses it, it comes
far short of describing what this out as the “oddity of the day”
magazine intends to present, or of and we really mean odd. Only safe
the principle upon which it is way to present it! We intend to
based. Actually it is somewhat present it the unsafe way. And
of a handicap. But it will have to don’t ask us if we “really believe
do. that stuff” because we just don’t
Beginning with this issue we be¬ know! This sort of thing has
 EDITORIAL

been “conditioned” before we get to admit how closed their own

it for so long we just haven’t had minds are—due to our previous ed¬
enough experience to be able to ucation. Your editors have, since
say, one way or another, what we beginning the publication of such
believe about it. But one thing we things as MYSTIC stands for,
DO believe, and that is, it should had our minds opened to many
be given to you straight, for your things, and have learned the value
experience, and to supplement your of rejecting NOTHING. So many
other experiences, and in a meas¬ have laughed at us. LIFE Maga¬
ure (if that is what it dots),coun¬ zine laughed for eight pages. But
ter them. Not just one side of the they were careful not to slander
news, but BOTH, us, for fear of being sued. They
Perhaps some of you will frown need not have feared—we would
at some of the things we will pre¬ never sue to suppress freedom of
sent. You might scoff at Mrs. thought] Nor are we so egotistic
Lauer and her psychometric read¬ as to be unable to see that they
ings, begun in this issue. Or you might be right! But if we’re
might snort at the idea handwrit¬ wrong in accepting for examina¬
ing might show character. Or tion even in the face of prior prej¬
claim prejudicially that flying udice (which sometimes past ex¬
saucers are mental abberations. Or perience can become), we ought to
that precognition (The Man From learn it the “free” way!
Tomorrow) is silly. If you do, as Perhaps we’re way wrong in
bad as our sales figure is, we cor¬ the idea behind our magazine. Per¬
dially invite you to quit reading haps men cannot learn except by
MYSTIC, because if it causes you actual personal experience; per¬
to form an adverse opinion, and haps “proxy” experience isn’t good
causes you to reject the whole be¬ enough. When we look at the
cause the part does not agree with world about us we can select hun¬
your “conditioned thinking”, then dreds of instances to support the
you aren’t capable of learning ex¬ opposite viewpoint. Let’s take for
cept via the H-bomb. You are instance the laboring man. We
then one of the “fools” we speak aren’t going to cast slurs at the
of. And we want no subversives laboring man, we hasten to point
in our camp. You just go over to out, because that is a “classifica¬
the other side. tion”. Actually we should point
MYSTIC is aiming at the open directly at “Ned Nails” the car¬
mind. And its editors are the first penter who i) is inexperienced and
82 MYSTIC

doesn’t know how to drive a nail such. More, none could deny
properly, and 2) doesn’t care him his reward.
whether it’s driven properly or not! But let’s not preach. That is
Why should he learn his trade to not the searching for facts. Let’s
the best of his ability? The world rather try to find out with the
owes him a living; his government means at hand, whether or not this
is specifically for "the purpose of is true. Will we be held account¬
assuring his future, paying his bills, able for the faulty nailing? Is
nursing him to eternal glory after there a place and a time for an ac¬
a lifetime of slipshod nailing. Why counting? Maybe we can’t find
should he care if the nail comes out as simply as this, by simply
loose after the job is done—let the dredging up the news that goes
buyer beware! That’s the type of in the wastebasket; but certainly
person to whom our new magazine we can’t find out if we refuse to
will mean nothing. Actually, how¬ look; or never have the opportun¬
ever, he’s the person who ought to ity to look.
read it, and learn by proxy that The practical contractor will
his methods of nailing are bad for point out that if every nail is
him in the long run; rather than driven in the manner we suggest,
learning, someday, that the nail he the cost of the house will be pro¬
drove so carelessly has made him hibitive, because labor costs will
accessory to the fact of murder, if soar all out of proportion. Well,
its failure results in death! perhaps labor is mistaken. Per¬
Oh how he will scoff at that haps labor isn’t worth its pay. Per¬
concept! How could he conceiv¬ haps it isn’t worth anything. It is
ably be held to accounting for his the finished house which has value
responsibility? Well, maybe he —not in money, but as a place to
can’t. Certainly he can’t in what find shelter, to live and grow. The
we call our “span of existence”, labor that went into it cannot be
our “three-score and ten”. But the house. What if the laborer who
the proper viewpoint here should he set out to build a house failed ut¬
as obvious to him as it seems to us; terly, and it collapsed into its
that the nail should be driven as component parts when finished?
though he WOULD be held respon¬ Would the laborer be worth the
sible for the results of its failure pay he has coming? Would the
to hold secure! Then he would house be worth anything? Obvi¬
be a MAN. Then he would de¬ ously the house would be worthless.
serve his “eternal glory” if there is And just as obviously the effort
 EDITORIAL 83
expended, the labor, the time put and his cohorts can be paid in the
in was worthless. Time is not coin they deserve for their work,
money. That is the trouble with Or is there a place like hell,
Ned Nails: he believes his time and can MYSTIC find out any-
and his muscular expenditure is thing about it? No harm in try-
worth money. Actually it is how ing! The Mark Probert Controls
his nails hold that has value. And may not be able to answer our
even when they hold, Ned Nails is question satisfactorily, but the least
entitled only to his needs, none of we can do is listen. If we did
which can be supplied by money, anything else, we’d just be anoth-
Anything in excess is his own busi- er “key man” at the receiving end
ness, and he will receive as he of another “news service”, deciding
gives. We sometimes wonder if willy-nilly what shall go out'over
that wasn’t why hell was invented, the wires, and what shall go into
to provide a place where Ned Nails the wastebasket. —Rap.

MYSTERY IN THE NEWS....

L ATEST mystery is the “Wind-
shield Mystery” which began
some cars not exposed to meteoric
particles were damaged, that was
on April 15 in Seattle, Wash- ruled out. Next the police said it
ington. It seems that windshields was not little boys with slingshots
on cars were being mysteriously and pebbles, because all the little
pitted and starred by something boys in the neighborhood would
that makes a mark similar to that have to work day and night and
made when a pebble hits the wind- never come near approximating the
shield. More than 3000 cars in damage. The Mayor of Seattle ap-
King County were damaged, many pealed to President Eisenhower,
of them while under cover. Thus why nobody knows. Atom experts
pebbles were ruled out, except by knew instantly it wasn’t the H-
scientists, who, when asked, said bomb. Other experts went around
they were undoubtedly caused by with Geiger counters and found
pebbles. However, two more sci- no radioactivity. Doubtless this
entists, Drs. G. E. Goodspeed and was a newspaper typographical er-
Julian D. Barksdale found mete- ror, because there is always radio-
oric particles and said they caused activity everywhere (what is call-
the damage. Once more, since ed the “ normal level”). Perhaps
84 MYSTIC

the experts had their counters reported by many witnesses includ¬

“turned off”. Anyway, the rash ing Sgt. Harry Waller. Two other
of damaged windshields spread RAF flyers had one pass them at
west (with the wind) until they 20,000 feet at “tremendous speed”.
reached Wisconsin. By that time It was “far overhead”.
newspapers had dropped the sub¬ * * *

ject (as they always do on news Are you afraid of going blind?
we’d like to follow up). Don’t despair. George Lafleur’s
MYSTIC’s explanation (we Christmas present was a picture of
might as well put in our oar too!): himself sent over television. Strange
Lithium particles from the H-bomb, gift for a blind man? Not at all
whose radioactivity disappears in —because George can see televi¬
something under a month; at least sion! He wouldn’t have recognized
most of it. Something in these himself, but he knew in advance
particles likes to go “pop” when it the picture was going to be broad¬
hits, something in auto windshields. cast. He was surprised at the
* * * size of his ears. George lives in
Bladenboro, North Carolina, has a Ottawa, Canada, and he’s a print¬
mysterious wild animal that cries er. He’s thinking of buying a TV
like a baby and drinks blood. camera to take pictures of his
Wouldn’t you just know it! The proofs so he can read them him¬
self!
catlike beast, probably a panther
* * *
(with a mate) has killed at least
Here we go again! Marine pi¬
six dogs, drained their blood, and
lot Capt. Dan C. Holland, decor¬
mangled their heads. Sounds of
ated World War II and Korean
its “crying” are like a woman in
pilot, flying a Marine jet F9F
pain, barking like a coyote, cry¬
photography plane, saw a saucer
ing like a baby. What else but a
over the Atlantic, while flying with
panther in the state from which
four other planes. It was shaped
we get “panther sweat”?
like Saturn, “a circle-ball affair
* * *
with a ring around the lower por¬
British radar has tracked anoth¬ tion. The ball part was white in
er “object”. It was “huge and color and the ring seemed to be of
glowing” and probably metallic. shining gold. I haven’t the slight¬
It was estimated to be 60,000 feet est idea what it was. I always
up. It wasn’t a meteor because thought anyone who saw-a flying
it remained in sight from “2:30 to saucer ought to have his head ex¬
3:10 in the afternoon” and was amined.” Now Dan, how about
 MYSTERY IN THE NEWS 85
your head? Why didn’t you take Grass Field said, when asked, that
a picture of it? Or did you? no strange objects had been sight¬
* * * ed in the sky, but tower observers
Cleveland, Ohio. Benny Mason commented that the “things” sight¬
was in the numbers racket in ed by Proctor residents might have
Cleveland, but he got killed in an been cloud formations.
auto accident. Followers checked All were described as oblong in
their dream books for the number shape.
of death (it’s 769) and everybody The observers said they heard no
bet on that number. Number 769 sound and saw no lights.
hit, costing the numbers racket a They said the objects were tra¬
half-million dollars. It put some velling slowly and were in sight
of them out of business. The for several minutes. They disap¬
number comes from the clearing¬ peared along the Kentucky River
house numbers and from the Dow- valley in the direction of Lexington.
Jones ticker, picked from a verti¬ As the “things” neared the hori¬
cal combination of three averages. zon, the two smaller ones seemed
The same thing happened in Jan¬ to increase their speed.
uary 1953 when a quarter of a Mrs. Andy Combs, one of three
million was lost by the operators persons who reported the sighting
on the same number. Quite a co¬ said her young daughter first saw
incidence! Or is it? the objects as she played in the
* * * yard, and they “nearly scared her
to death.” Her husband, an Army
Several residents of Proctor, a
veteran, also saw the black shapes.
small community across the Ken¬
tucky River from Beattyville, re¬ Hamp Mainous reported that he
ported on March 27 they had sight¬ saw the objects as he drove his car
ed three strange, silent objects pass along a hillside above Proctor. He
over at a low altitude, silhouetted said he stopped the vehicle, got
against the sunset-reddened sky. out and watched a short time, then
continued into town before they
The unidentified '‘things in the
disappeared.
sky” were estimated to be only 150
feet overhead, and the observers Brack Little also reported seeing
said one appeared to be “as big as the missiles.
a house.” On each side of it, they All who saw the “things” agreed
reported, was a smaller one, “about on" the description and estimated
as big as a car.” altitude.
The CAA control tower at Blue * * *
YOUR FUTURE
By
Dorothy Spence Lauer

We'd all like to know what tomorrow

will bring. Is it possible to know?
Here is an experiment to prove it!

Editor’s Note: Dorothy Spence Lauer is a Psychometrist, spe¬

cializing in precognition. Ordinarily she needs but an object
belonging to, or handled by, the subject, or the presence of
the subject, to become aware of the psychic influences from
which she draws her information. However, for the sake of
expediency in providing her with a sufficiently strong per¬
sonal psychic impression, the editors of this magazine hit.
upon the playing card method. By laying out the cards, while
concentrating, as described in the instructions given at the
end of this article, and by writing them down on the chart,
we hope that a sufficiently powerful psychic impression will
be made to enable the medium to receive the information
she seeks. We have made this service available to our
readers purely in an experimentative atmosphere, in an at¬
tempt, first, to determine whether or not this ability is of a
nature both real and valuable; and second, to provide you
with an interesting bit of entertainment. Naturally we can¬
not publish all the requests for readings we receive, but we
will forward all charts to Mrs. Lauer, asking her to select, sev¬
eral which give her the strongest and most interesting impres¬
sion, for publication entirely free in this department of
MYSTIC Magazine. We assume no further responsibility for
the charts. If you wish to correspond personally with Mrs.
Lauer, we will be glad to forward your letters. If you wish to

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 YOUR FUTURE 87
take part in this bit of psychic research (or, if you prefer,
this interesting little game), you are entirely welcome. Mere¬
ly fill in the chart as directed, and if your reading is suffi¬
ciently interesting, we will publish it. We cannot enter into
any personal correspondence however, much as we regret
our inability to do so.

I S it possible to foretell the

future? Can we exercise the
* * *

Try to be calm; at times you

power Dr. Rhine, the famous worry yourself almost sick. Some¬
Duke University experimenter into one who has been a little harsh
the psychic, has discovered scien¬ with you, seems to be sorry. They
tifically to be an actuality? It is will tell you they just didn’t un¬
my opinion that we can, and it is derstand:, if you give them a chance
also my opinion that I possess, in to prove their regret. This will
some small measure, this power of make you happy. Someone opens
precognition and psychometry. I the door to their home to you,
have long been able tp see things much to your surprise.
without eyes, foretell coming There is a turmoil around your
events, sense the forces behind home. Another wishes to move in.
personal problems. This will be best for you, but right
This month, in order to begin now you do not feel too happy to
this new experiment in MYSTIC hear of it. When this does take
Magazine, I have selected a chart place, the open door mentioned
sent me by Mrs. Charles Neumann, previously will be satisfactory to
1822 S, 12th St. Sheboygan, Wis¬ you, being nearby.
consin. If the things I tell her A telephone call or telegram
actually come to pass, both the from a distance is very good. Do
editors oi MYSTIC and myself not destroy important papers while
would be happy to have Mrs. Neu¬ moving. They are old, but valuable.
mann confirm them at a later You will not move into a single
date, so that the results may be room, but much happier surround¬
reported to the readers of this mag¬ ings.
azine. You have a wish you may have
The following are the psychic to change a little, though you can¬
impressions I received from Mrs. not now see how changing the
Neumann’s chart: wish would make you happy; the
88 MYSTIC

change will be much to your bene¬ is there.

fit, but you will have to release Many changes in the future,
the wish as you now have it; don’t for your own benefit for a change!
insist it to be so exact. Would any Use caution in money matters.
one be disappointed because you Christmas was bleak for you, but
will not lend them money for a next Christmas finds a happier out¬
car? I can almost hear you say: look. A letter from an old friend.
“Where would I get money to lend Many alarming things about your
for a car?” However, it is there, country, but they will not material¬
but do not use it in this direction ize. You are emotional about them,
regardless of how important it may but avoid this, as it could cause an
sound. upset in your health. Don’t listen
An offer for a pleasant trip. to idle gossip about someone you
love dearly. It is told to turn you
An unexpected guest, someone you
from that person.
think a great deal of, but through
a misunderstanding, there has been Money comes unexpectedly, but
a parting of the ways. This is all belonging to you; something that
cleared up. You will recall the has been kept from you. You know
person, but feel I am wrong, but about this; past has been unhappy
you Will truly say: “I didn’t ex¬ over this condition. Much to your
pect that!” A professional person, surprise, it clears up in your favor.
doctor, lawyer, dentist or other Dorothy Spence Lauer
professional person, will offer you * * *
sound advice. You seem offended, On December 15, 1953, Mrs.
but the advice should be followed, Lauer, entirely unsolicited, made
even though you do not want to eight predictions concerning your
follow it. You may need the ser¬ editor. Six of these came true to
vices of a lawyer; don’t try to do the letter. Two others have not
it alone, as one wrong signature materialized due to the time ele¬
on a paper, and a loss will occur. ment. None of the things, all spe¬
You have a pessimistic outlook on cific, could have been known to
the future; this is not true, as Mrs. Lauer, and in fact, were un¬
many fine things will happen to known to your editor. We there¬
you. Is there a defective article fore request that readers keep us
in your home? Think hard! This posted of Mrs. Lauer’s accuracy,
could cause an accident, and could for the record. Meanwhile, we in¬
be painful. It is a defect you have vite you to send in your own
overlooked many times, but know chart.
 THIS IS YOUR PSYCHOMETRIC CARD LAYOUT
Instructions: Shuffle cards, meanwhile concentrating on your problems. Lay out
five cards in a row, face up, from top of deck, then discard five; lay out five
more cards in a second row, and discard five; and so on until you have five rows

□□ □ □ □
of five cards each, and 25 cards discarded. Lay out last two cards in sixth row.
Write denominations and suit of cards in corresponding squares below, using
pencil, as ink will blot.

TO YOURSELF

□□ □ □ □
TO YOUR HOME

□□ □ □ □
TO YOUR DESIRE

□□ □ □ □
WHAT YOU DON'T EXPECT

□□ □ □ □
SURE TO COME

□ □
SURPRISE

Tear out this entire sheet and mail to:

MYSTIC MAGAZINE. Psychometry Dept.. Amherst. Wisconsin

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 The Man from
C~ t-fr
TOMORROW
•y William Broderick

I HAD just finished reading

MYSTIC and was thinking
Today, man is becoming con¬
scious of great truths. Every¬
of some of the things I had where we see great changes being
been reading, particularly the “Man made in our mode of thinking. The
From Tomorrow” when ideas sud¬ modern views of both science and
denly began flowing into my mind religion are reflecting the truths
(which just goes to show how stim¬ which have been maintained by
ulating your new magazine is) the mystics through the ages. De¬
and a vision of the future came spite man’s apparent inhumanity
up before my eyes. I sat back in in this so called age of civiliza¬
my chair and gave up any attempt tion, man is learning to take a
to think in order to let any ideas more understanding viewpoint to¬
which might come up sink in. ward the mistakes of his fellow

This is MYSTIC Magazine's "department of prophecy." In the

past, some sensational prophecies have been made, which
have come to pass. Generally they consist merely of random
thoughts of your editor. But we also publish prophecies by any
of our readers who care to "get in on fhe act." The* purpose
of the department is to prove, by actual prophecies published,
and a record kept of those that come true, whether or not
we do have a stange sense of pecognition. You ae invited
to join the editor in his unusual experiment. Can you
foretell the future? Are you also a "man from tomorrow?"

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 THE MAN FROM TOMORROW

men. Psychology may account for one has certain extra-sensory fac¬
this but psychology was born in ulties which can be developed and
men and had its beginning in the in time the development of these
ideals of men. Science no longer faculties will be taught in our in¬
looks upon the universe as a mass stitutions of learning. It will be
of unrelated phenomena but in¬ as compulsory as learning to read
stead looks upon it as a vast sys¬ and write is today. With the devel¬
tem arising from common build¬ opment of extra-sensory percep¬
ing blocks of basic energy. Sci¬ tion, and later, Cosmic Conscious¬
ence has shown that the difference ness, man will begin to under¬
between wood and stone is the dif¬ stand things which were totally
ference in the arrangement of unknown to him before.
electrons in the atoms and not so Out of this understanding will
much a difference in the substance rise an entirely new civilization.
of which a thing is formed. The His sociology today will seem as
only difference in the electrons is primitive as that of the cave-man
that some vibrate with a positive is to us. Our scientific advances
polarity and others with a nega¬ will seem like those of the bronze
tive polarity. Religion no longer age in comparison. And I reiter¬
looks upon God as an old man sit¬ ate, this age which is coming is no
ting up in the sky but instead has •more than five hundred years ahead
broadened its viewpoint and con¬ of us.
ceives God as a universal being, There will be no more wars, for
existent everywhere, which is of the world will be under a world¬
course, in entire agreement with wide government. Instead of na¬
the mystical doctrine of a univer¬ tions there will be states, each with
sal diety. its own individual government to
In the relatively near future man look after the individual needs of
will undergo a radical change of each state. But all the governments
opinion regarding himself. As evo¬ of the world will be united in one
lution takes it course man- will government.
develop within himself many of The form of government will
the mystic powers. This is only be democratic in principle. All dis¬
natural because the intensive re¬ putes will be settled arbitrarily
search being carried on today in by the supreme government thus
the fields of psychic phenomena avoiding war or violence of any
and para-psychology will eventu¬ kind. The supreme government
ally lead to the fact that every¬ will have the power to back up
Q2 MYSTIC

its decisions, the power being of course, to do the work which he

granted to it by all the state gov¬ wants to do, but there will be cer¬
ernments. Therefore, no state will tain conditions not evident today.
dare to try to overrule the supreme More skilled workers will be
government. The organization of needed, for the work of tomorrow
governments however will not be will be largely the operation of
built on a fear basis but on a basis huge and complicated machines,
of co-operation. This is the objec¬ or else in the laboratories of great
tive of our United Nations today. research plants. There will be more
Crime will be regarded as the executive duties due to the greater
result of mental aberrations and political machine and due to the
anyone committing a crime will be greater production of food, cloth¬
placed in an institution and given ing, and other needs of society
psychiatric treatment as mental through mechanical processes. In
cases are today and not released fact, this stage of society will be
upon society until they are cured what some people call today, a
of any and all criminal tendencies. technocracy.
The objective will not be to punish Money as we use it today will
the criminal but to cure him. Such have little significance in the world
things as the strap, capital pun¬ of tomorrow. Instead, each person
ishment, and solitary confinement will receive from his place in the
will be done away with and in social scheme only that which he
their place will be understanding puts into it. If a man would enjoy
and help. Society will try its best the benefits of living in society he
to make its criminals useful men must work for them. Because of
and women rather than burdens. the ample abundance of the world’s
Our present methods of dealing needs, however, he will be amply
with criminals will be regarded rewarded for his labors. In fact,
in the same light as we regard the average family will live far
drawing and quartering, thumb more luxuriously than it could to¬
screws, and the burning stake. day and with far more leisure than
On the social level, we will find the working family can afford to¬
that riches of society will be more day. It will be possible for the av¬
evenly distributed. Such a thing erage family to take a two-month
as being in hunger and want will holiday each year, and the work¬
be a thing of the past. Each per¬ ing day will be about six hours,
son will be trained to fill some giving the working man much
position in society. He will be free, more time for relaxation than he
 THE MAN FROM TOMORROW 93
has today. On another plane, communica¬
Because knowledge will be con¬ tion will be as different from the
sidered worthwhile in a .manner means used today as the telephone
different from today people will be and radio are different from the
urged to study, and in fact, the antiquated method of carrier mes¬
average person of tomorrow will senger. Mental telepathy will be
be far more familiar with the arts the most usual means of commu¬
and sciences than we are today. nication except when people are
Religion and science will walk hand close enough to talk to each other.
in hand. Philosophy will have a Radio however will still be used
rebirth and the arts will flour¬ for mass communication as it is
ish. The marvels of ancient Greece today, minus the commercials.
and Rome will take second place Radio stations and other large
to the marvels of this future age. public service concerns will be op¬
Because of the great advances erated by the government, and not
in science and medicine, most of by individual owners.
the diseases which man suffers Space travel will be incidental.
from today will be non-existent. Man will have reached the moon
Old age will be pushed back many and many of the other worlds of
years and the average life span our solar system, and the natural
will be about one hundred twen¬ resources of these planets will have
ty years. been put to work for him.
Physically, man will be almost Man will find that he is not
perfect. All the vitamins which he alone in the universe, that there
so greatly needs will be a part of are others not unlike himself scat¬
his daily diet, and proper exer¬ tered throughout the universe.
cise will be almost compulsory. Some of these he will actually
The method of treating those meet. He will find that many of
illnesses which do crop up from these races are far more advanced
time to time will be little different than he and that there are others
from the methods which we use who have yet to rise to man’s
today except that there will be height.
the added method of magnetic Even now we are being watched
healing, accomplished by what is and surveyed by our cosmic broth¬
known as the laying on of the ers. but they will not contact us
hands. This is merely the utilizing until we have become a. great deal
of the vital life force, which is in more civilized than we are today.
the body, for healing purposes. At present time man could not
 MYSTIC

understand or deal properly with To these, your editor would like

such a situation and also, Cosmic to add a few more imminent pre¬
Law forbids the interference of dictions; those that will come true
one race with the evolution of an¬ during 1954.
other. Wilson’s disease, a degenerative
For about a thousand years man disorder of the brain and liver, will
will enjoy his new-found place in be partially overcome by means
the scheme of things, and then will of a treatment involving copper.
come Armageddon, the battle Our whole “history of the past”
which man has been dreading for will be upset by astounding rev¬
thousands of years. But it will not elations due to the carbon-14 dat¬
be the battle that man believes it ing method. It will be found that
will be. No, it will be far different events must be greatly telescoped,
than anything that man can con¬ especially in regard to geologic
ceive of today. And it will not be ages, and man’s tenure on this
the end of the world, but the be¬ earth will be shoved back as far
ginning of a new one. as 75,000 years.
I find it difficult to express in More than ten million dollars
words the battle which will take will be spent on cosmic ray re¬
place, for it will not be a battle search, and the upper atmosphere
as we understand battles, but will become the most important
rather, it will be a war of man frontier in history. Because of dis¬
against his own nature. coveries relating to the upper at¬
With his greater vision he will mosphere all .plans for space trav¬
perceive what must be but his phy¬ el or space stations will be set
sical nature will rebel against it, much further back into the future.
for Armageddon will be the com¬ Second largest field of research
ing of the God within man. It will will .be via radio-telescope. The dis¬
not .be a material kingdom but a covery, through radio-telescopy,
kingdom within the hearts and that we have dozens more planets
minds of all men everywhere. in our own solar system will begin
Man and God will be reconciled. a whole new approach to astrono¬
Paradise will be restored, and man my, and to physics, as a direct
will take his place in the univer¬ result. Einstein’s theories will be
sal brotherhood, and truly, as the partially discounted, and the ve¬
Bible says, the lion and the lamb locity of light will be found to be
shall walk together, and a little anything but the constant it has
child shall lead them. been supposed. In fact, it will be
 THE MAN FROM TOMORROW

found to be the most variable of number Canadian personnel on ac¬

all velocities! tual duty in the Arctic Circle.
Electronic eyes will take over There will be a series of H-bomb
astronomical observation, and re¬ tests in the Pacific and in Russia.
sults will be tabulated mathemati¬ The result will be a growing trend
cally on graphs and charts. This to “talk” on the part of the world’s
will be caused by the discovery that governments. An unforseen re¬
more worlds exist that are invisi¬ sult will be the most fantastic
ble to the range of wavelength of weather conditions ever recorded.
the human eye than come within There will be a new wave of
that narrow limitation. flying saucer sightings—but no
Color television will arrive in explanation from any source.
full force by the end of 1954, and Business depression will become
will bankrupt hundreds of pub¬ an overwhelming wave, but its ef¬
lishing, and other companies. fects will be violently haphazard,
A network of guided missile reflecting a paradoxical appear¬
defense stations will be set up ance of great prosperity in some
around the whole northern peri¬ quarters, and absolute ruin in oth¬
meter of the continent, and thous¬ ers.
ands of needle-sharp noses will Unemployment will be the most-
point into the air on guard. Radar talked-of “plank” for the next
warning of approaching planes or presidential election, replacing the
missiles will render any unwarned present emphasis on “communism
attack impossible. The United in government” and in your alpha¬
States airforce personnel will out¬ bet soup. (Written Nov. 12, 1953)

YOUR HANDWRITING
By Professor J. S. Maxwell
Handwriting Analysis isn’t just
a mystic hocus-pocus, but an ac¬
tual science based on mental and
physiological factors.

Y OUR handwriting is the mir-

ror of your mind. In it are
inhibitions, repressions, and frus-
trations of your inner life. All
reflected all of the impulses, nervous and muscular movements
96 MYSTIC

originate in the brain; your hand conscious and. unconscious motiva¬

merely holds the pen, but it is tions of the human personality.
your mind that directs the move¬ Oft times in handwriting the be¬
ment of your hand as you write. ginnings of a physical or mental
Just as the geologist studies rock, disorder can be detected long be¬
formations to get at the hidden fore any other clinical manifesta¬
record of the earth, likewise a tions are present.
graphologist studies letter forma¬ Your handwriting, when happy
tions in an attempt to discover the and contented, looks a great deal
hidden record and resources of the different than when you are sick
individual’s personality. and nervously over-wrought.
What are your weaknesses? Have you got any old school
What are the strong points of your books around the house in which
personality? What are your capa¬ you have written something—
bilities? All are revealed in your maybe you have an unfinished let¬
handwriting. ter to an aunt or an uncle—maybe
How much of your activity is you keep a diary? Take a look at
influenced and directed by your it, especially if it’s a few years old.
subconscious mind may be reveal¬ Now write something on a piece of
ed by the way you dot your “i’s” paper and compare it with some¬
or cross your “t’s.” To what ex¬ thing that is in your diary of a
tent your life is controlled by your few years back. A good look
conscious mind may be found in should convince you of the proof
the way you make your “a’s” and of how your handwriting has
“o’s.” The way you write an “e” changed through the years.
may be the clue to your ability. Some people are more aware of
A signature unintelligibly scrib¬ the changes that take place in their
bled at the end of a letter or on personality than others. However,
a check may be of no particular sig¬ changes do take place in our
nificance to the one who reads the psychic life*; what we think, how
letter or cashes the check, but to a we feel, what our attitude in gen¬
trained graphologist it tells the eral is, and thow these attitudes
complete story of the individual, change—in fact all of the changes
his anxieties, hopes and capabili¬ in our personality are irrevocably
ties. charted in our handwriting, just
Handwriting analysis, more rap¬ as the changes in our earth are
idly than any other known psycho¬ charted irrevocably in the rocks.
logical test, furnishes clues to the Beauty is not always compatible
 YOUR HANDWRITING 97
with sexual passion; sorrow with¬ In present day Europe graph¬
ers it; anger disfigures it. It is ology is accepted as an invaluable
tender passion alone that gives it aid to the physician, to the psy¬
its charm. chiatrist, and to the police. It
If a lover who writes to his mis¬ has aided the physician in diagnos¬
tress is agitated by a violent pas¬ ing physical ills, the phychiatrist in
sion to possess her sexually, he detecting psychological disorders,
will unwittingly reveal it in his and the police in apprehending
handwriting. criminals.
It is a well known medical fact The seers of ancient times real¬
that fear renders the movements ized that handwriting held secrets
of a person tremulous and uncer¬ of the human personality, which,
tain. Fear, melancholy, pride, greed¬ properly understood, could help
iness, deceit—all feelings, good and people understand themselves.
bad alike—show up in the way An English poet once wrote:
that words are written. When it
was first claimed that character “On earth there is nothing great
both mental and moral could be but man,
read in a person’s handwriting, In man there is nothing great
skeptics attempted to discredit the but mind ”
assertions as some new mesmeric
outrage on common sense. How¬ Some men have formulated ma;ny
ever, years of investigation have tests calculated to reveal the mys¬
vindicated these findings. Many teries of the mind. Others have
philosophers and monks of the probed into the obscure places
Middle Ages privately believed that of the human personality and left
handwriting was a key to a man’s us elaborote theories which can be
character. They did not say so used as guide -posts for further
openly for fear of being burned at investigation. However, you fur¬
the stake for advocating witchcraft nish a record of your most secret
and demonology. One of the great¬ self every time you write a letter
est minds that ever lived wrote in and the one who holds the key can
1826 that a man’s writing was unlock the secrets of your inner¬
verily his face. most being.
 THE MAN
AT MY BED
By Mrs. Pearl McKay

I N the summer of 1941 I was

staying at a rooming house in
dozed off and dreamed it.
Suddenly the foot of the mat¬
Coalgate, Oklahoma. The land¬ tress went down, as it does when
lady had given me the second room a person sits down. Again I looked,
from the head of the stairway on but still no one, and the neon lights
the right side. I slept daytimes as from the service station plainly
I could not sleep nights by myself. illuminated the whole room. The
One night I went to bed about end of the bed went up again and
11:00 o’clock, as I was going to footsteps sounded walking to the
help a cousin move some furniture head of the bed. I was so scared
in his home. He wanted me to be I couldn’t move. The footsteps
there at 6:00 o’clock in the morn¬ stopped at the head of the bed. I
ing. looked up at the figure of a man
I awoke and was sitting on the standing there, and his face looked
side of the bed smoking a ciga¬ like one dead a long time.
rette and watching a truck that I couldn’t say a word. Suddenly
had pulled into the service station it reached out its hand as if to
across the street. Finally I decided touch me. I found my voice and
to try to go back to sleep. I lay on screamed: “get out of here.” It
my stomach with my feet sticking disappeared.
out over the foot of the mattress I turned on the light and left
and the bed. I had lain there for it on.
a few minutes when it felt as if Later I learned from the land¬
someone had me by both ankles, lady that others had had the
pulling me off the bed. I kicked same experience in the room. As
and pulled back, turning on my for me, I never had it again, for
back. I looked around thinking I wouldn’t sleep in that room again
someone had entered my room, but for a thousand dollars.
.saw no one, so I thought I had * * *

98
The SEANCE CIRCLE... Letters from the Undeod

Dear Ray: this is the book Mr. Hackbarth

First off—I am enclosing my ivants.—Rap.
subscription to Mystic as substan¬
tial proof of my opinion of the Dear Mr. Palmer,
magazine. I think you have enter¬ Your two flying saucer articles
ed a much needed field in bringing leave me still in the position of a
this information to the public and doubting Thomas. It would be won¬
that you are presenting it in such derful to believe that there were
a way as to reach the greatest num¬ friendly, somewhat super human
ber of people. I myself have been beings keeping protective watch
simply fascinated with the material over our adolescent civilization. But
in it. somehow the idea seems to follow
Now will you do something for the old familiar plot that has been
me? In'the May issue of the maga¬ used often, how often, by fantasy
zine there is a letter from Gordon and science fiction writers. All the
W. Hackbarth of Seattle, Washing¬ way from “Maza to the Moon”. to
ton. He states that he formerly “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.
owned a copy of Manly Hall’s large However, I am waiting to be con¬
encyclopedia of Alchemical, Her¬ vinced, if some Mystic readers who
metic and Rosicrucian philosophies, believe sincerely in the saucers would
which was destroyed by fire, and like to write. My address is 2042
that he has never been able to get Darwin Avenue, SW, Grand Rapids
together the $175 or $200 necessary 7, Michigan. I’m putting my ad¬
to replace it. dress in the body of the letter be¬
Not two days ago (coincidence?) cause Ray Palmer has a habit of
I received a 1954 price list from putting the name and city only af¬
the Metaphysical Library and Book ter the letters in the Seance Circle.
Shop, 85 Post Street, San Fran¬ About the other stories in the
cisco 4, California. Among other March issue. “Assignment to
things they list over 40 books by Life” brings the thought — aren’t
Manly P. Hall, and included is an we all, in a way, born to a purpose?
Encyclopedia of Hermetic Quabbal- Maybe it’s to be a general or presi¬
istic and Rosicrucian Symbolic dent, maybe a garbage collector.
Philosophy at $12.50. If this is the But I believe God has a purpose
book he is after, they have prob¬ for every person on earth, if we
ably issued a new edition. would only try to find what that
Dorothy W. Dorn purpose is.
2491 Ellsworth Street On the “Kid with the Beautiful
Berkeley 4, California Hands”, I can only comment. If
There you are, Dorothy. I hope the kid was the personification of

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100 MYSTIC

Jesus as is hinted, would he have timately is connected with the Lat¬

healed his own hands? If Melva in angulus, (angellus) and Greek
Rogers will remember, Jesus never anXo, meaning a ‘corner’ among
healed himself, even on the cross— other things. The Germanic people
only others. “Winter Scene” pre¬ were called Angels because of the
sented a fascinating thought; hook-like nature of their home in
“Earthbound” a little variation on Denmark. In Old English there is
the haunted house theme; “Devil’s a noun, angel, meaning ‘fishhook’,
Dollhouse”, a much better than and we still speak of anglers today.
average mystery with a spine-chill¬ The word Angel (with soft g) can
ing ending. also be traced back to another Greek
Let me add that I would like to word, Angelos, meaning ‘messen¬
hear from other Mystic readers, es¬ ger’; and I don’t believe it can be
pecially in the Grand Rapids-Kent connected with ‘ankle’, ‘ancylos¬
County area. tomiasis’, or ‘anchor’, which can
Floyd Hilliker be connected with Angel (hard
2042 Darwin Ave. SW g). Considering the evidence that
Grand Rapids 7, Mich. the Indo-European languages were
First, Floyd you’ll notice we are in evidence before the “lost tribes”
now including the addresses of our were ordered sent to Media (some¬
readers, so that they may corre¬ where in the neighborhood of 700
spond if they wish. About the Kid B.C.), and English is made up
With The Beautiful Hands, we mostly of Indo-European stems, it
thought it was obvious the reason seems hardly likely that one or
for the healing of the hands was more of the “lost tribes” could have
to impress those who witnessed it, found their way to England—espe¬
and form a basis for their decision cially since they would have had to
to “go straight”.—Rap. go through the country of the rath¬
Dear Ray: er fierce Germanic and Celtic tribes
The title page (or page of con¬ and discarded their Semitic lan¬
tents) of the 3rd issue of MYSTIC guage in the meantime. All of which
is a great improvement. I’ve been proves nothing, but it seems that
part way into the first three issues it is only wishful thinking to be¬
and have the urge to make some lieve that the “lost tribes” escaped
assimilation by their conquerors.
comments on a couple of points
brought up in The Seance Circle. The main reason for this letter
Concerning the angle-angel busi¬ is to bring your attention to a
ness brought up by Evelyn M. Fisch¬ statement you made in the January
er: Your theory about the English issue in answer to a letter from
language is not under discussion Tillman L. Martin. You said: “So
here, but I fail to see any reason to far as I know there isn’t a word,
connect angle and angel liguistic- even in Latin, which is spelled that
ally (and I don’t think that is your way.”—referring to “stition”. Well,
intent at all). Angle is a simplifi¬ not exactly, but both you and Mr.
cation of the older Angel, which ul¬ Martin seemed to have overlooked
 THE SEANCE CIRCLE IOI

the Latin verb sisto, stiti, etc., Seance Circle.” “True Mystic Ad¬
which is a reduplication of Latin ventures,” like all other True Sto¬
sto-stare-status. It is from this ries, can’t be beat for sheer inter¬
stiti that we get ‘superstition’, and est. And the stories which make up
the Latin superstition (superstition- the bulk of the magazine have all
es) is a combination of super and been of sound calibre, several earn¬
sisto (not sto), and it meant the ing the “excellent” mark.
same as it does today plus other Now, what I am anxious* to see in
meanings of a religious nature. I Mystic is a fact-fiction story (true
won’t attempt to go into the se¬ article would be more to my liking)
mantic nature of the word any written by the one-and-only Rich¬
further. However, it might be sig¬ ard S. Shaver! How he could make
nificant that the old Latins attach¬ with the words! Boredom would
ed meanings to the word that we vanish in an instant when a con¬
don’t generally associate with it to¬ tribution of his was begun. Interest
day. I have noticed that a 1951 and excitement would hold me spell¬
edition of a dictionary I have lists bound until the reading of the final
the word as deriving from super and word.
stare, which I think is misleading This being the case, is it any
because sisto (though connected wonder that, I would be delighted to
with sto) has some difference of read “Richard S. Shaver” on the
meaning. contents page of Mystic? No won¬
James F. Cook der at all. And I can’t be alone.
226 E. Harper Ave. There must be many, many thous¬
Lenoir, N. C. ands of Shaver fans who read your
Thanks Jim.—Rap. magazine and share my hopes. So,
how about it, Mr. Palmer? What
Dear Mr. Palmer: are the possibilities?
Of the three magazines you Alex Saunders
publish—Science Stories, Universe 34 Hillsdale Ave. W.
and Mystic—the one I find the Toronto 12, Ontario
most interesting and await so im¬ About Shaver, we’ve asked him to
patiently, is the latter. Why Mystic tell us all about it, this time with the
has become my favorite is easy to fiction removed! Stay with us,
understand, for it contains much you’ll get everything you ask.—
material of a factual nature. Ones Rap.
that activate my mind under the
implications. Articles on flying Dear Ray:
saucers, spiritualism, etc. If you wonder about the famili¬
Covers of the three issues of arity of the salutation of this letter
Mystic so far printed have been it is because after reading some
good enough to warrant my saving. of your stories, editorials, Man
Editorials are fine, thought-provok¬ from Tomorrow, etc., you seem like
ing. Interesting too, is each feature an old acquaintance. I like what
—“The Man From Tomorrow,” you write and agree with most of
“Mystery In The News,” “The your philosophy.
102 MYSTIC
About Mystic. I like it, but if we of femininity. Now most people
must have true stories coudn’t we don’t know it, but that wild idea
cut them down to maybe just one or called Lilith, with whom Adam was
two, and use that extra space for said to have had affairs prior to
fiction? After all that’s why we Eve, was just Eve in her pre-natal
read Fate, for true stories. This state; an assembly of rapidly co¬
Angelucci thing, don’t you think hering feeling yearning, thirsts, de¬
the “Nationalism” written in it is sires, etc . and brother wot such
enough to discount it without look¬ an ethereal girl right inside a man
ing further? could do! So when she got born in¬
In my other letter I asked where to a body and personality of her
I could get the Shaver Mystery to own, she marked the end (or was it
read. I have seen so many refer¬ the beginning?) of Adam’s perfect
ences to it that it has me very cur¬ day. Now imagine Adam, with
ious. I also asked how the man Eve as a fellow human being, plus
from tomorrow could make such the memories of her uterine Lilith
positive statements regarding be¬ condition. Only of course Lilith
ings living above the earth. I am was an “essence” prevailing
still waiting for these answers. throughout old Adam’s structure,
Oh yes, the check is for extend¬ not just in his womb, if he had
ing my subscription to Mystic. one. If you do not believe all
Joseph B. Gunter this, consider the symbol of the
P. 0. Box 104 Technocrats the divided Monad.
Vero Beach, Fla. That shows Adam and Lilith having
We presented Angelucci’s story an affair, or about to. The plain
without a thought as to “national¬ circle would be old Adam minus
ism”. However, we don't agree that it thrill (from my new book).
is “nationalism”. Angelucci himself
Now you see wot I mean by un¬
would be bewildered at the charge
derstatement, and you know how
—if it can be called a charge. He
I felt the one time I met Bea and
is interested only in the religious
even danced with the radiant pres¬
—occult aspect of his experience,
ence whose nearness sweeps me into
whatever it eventually turns out to
close harmony with Kwan Yin,
be.—Rap.
Mulaprakriti, Saravasti, Narada
Dear Mr. Palmer: and other god-forms who maintain,
I like you now, in your new imbodi- the background for all that is beau¬
ment, MYSTIC MAGAZINE. As tiful beyond the power of human
a front-man for Richard S. Shaver, expression!
you caused me to seek my fantasy I believe manifestations from in¬
literature elsewhere. Then too, I visible planes are quite possible,
heard that you would not even con¬ having seen one Or two most ele¬
sider a story which used the word mentary things myself. But with¬
“reincarnation”. out some study of the hierarchical
You understate terribly when you structure of the universe and of
claim Bea is the most beautiful spot man himself ... of the “Universal
 THE SEANCE CIRCLE 103
Personnel”, as I like to call it, also moon has my everlasting sympa¬
of the technique of clothing an ac¬ thy. But let him not take cyanide
tivated energy-focus in a garment till he gets to read my new book,
perceptible to denizens of some other “The Silly, Simple, Sexy Sixties”.
plane, we must be cautious in our Anybody who will take the trouble
wild suppositions about these flying to consider human welfare, even
saucers and other strange phenom¬ from the superficial aspect of eco¬
ena. Was it Swedenborg who saw nomics and sociology and will put
the plane he christened “Summer- down in writing, has done well in¬
land” . . and swelp me, all the peo¬ deed. Thoughts are far more dense
ple in it were dressed in Swedish and more lasting than material ob¬
peasant costumes! The grand old jects, and the impressions this
seer dressed his people in the style writer has projected onto the uni¬
to which he was accustomed. versal recording-tape will benefit
It is more likely that any higher- mankind ultimately, without ques¬
ups who wish to help mankind will tion. I wonder if Mr. Stemons ever
do it psycho-mentally. Or if some¬ heard the doctrine that when a
one like your Mr. Angelucci has a spark from the divine starts on its
real basic love for mankind so that long evolutionary journey toward
an Adept would visit him in the self-consciousness, it gets its very
mayavi-rupa, there would be no need first imbodiment substance from a
for the story about the disc. Any¬ thought in some man’s mind?
way, the message in Mr. Angelucci’s Miles MacAlpin
story is genuine, and the idea of ^ Box 44
“hands off”, as the Being told Or- Maplewood, Oregon
feo, according to Hoyle, as I un¬
Let’s straighten out the matter of
derstand it.
“front man” for anybody. Do you
MYSTIC Magazine seems nice
find my “fronting” for mysticism,
and clean, impartial, and just what
the occult, search into the unknoym
a philosopher can enjoy. I like the
more palatable? Where is the dif¬
SEANCE CIRCLE. Seems to me
ference? To my personal way of
the letterwriters are persons of a
thinking. Shaver is a very strange
more thoughtful nature than in
phenomenon. What he says may not
many mags.
be literally true, but it HAPPEN¬
I think a true story has got to ED to him. What WE want to
be derned well written to be good. know is WHAT happened to him?
Now that Louis Sztrokay should be In Amazing Stories, I was working
a second Bram Stoker! His story for a salary, gained many promo¬
is good enough to be fiction yet tions until I got to the top of the
rings true. I would believe his heap editorially, because 1 was
story much sooner than any flying “front man” enough to rake in the
saucer tale I have yet seen. shekels for the company. What in¬
Have not yet read the fiction sto¬ terested me, personally, was the
ries. I mean in current issue. Mr. NATURE of the material that ac¬
Stemons with his double-barrelled complished this. I haven’t yet
104 MYSTIC
foiind the answer. Shaver says he ceived the public so.—Rap.
can answer. Am I -to refuse him
Dear Ray Palmer:
the chancel Am I to refuse our
I have just read your May issue
readers the chance to decide for
of Mystic—which is the first one
themselves? You say you've seen
I’ve seen.
manifestations from invisible
A few weeks ago I read Desmond
planes. Are you SURE? Shaver
Leslie’s and George Adamski’s “Fly¬
will tell you you are the victim of
ing Saucers Have Landed”. Appar¬
ray projections from the scientific
ently there are many many people
machines of the caves. WHICH is
who have contacted these Beings
it? Or is it neither? As for your
and just as Angelucci, are .thwart¬
reaction to Bea, you certainly went
ed in relating their experiences by
for her in a big way, didn’t you?
skeptics and “prove it ±0 me’s”.
Careful of your bloodpressure! __
Perhaps Mystic will really encour¬
About Lilith, that’s one thing we’d
age these people to advance. You
like to discover the facts. Sweden-
possibly realize, even the newsstand
borg’s people wore the clothing they
vendors themselves look at you side-
would be expected to wear, if
wise when you buy anything of
Swedenborg’s story is true. When
occult nature or “unusual” com¬
Swedes go to Heaven, would it be
pared to everyday convention—as
logical 'to have them switch to Span¬
they would doubtless call your mag.
ish clothes? And we must assume
Swedenborg went to a Swedish Compare the writings of Ange-
heaven, or does that offend you? lucci’s and Adamski’s as well as
Would an area directly above Swe¬ Robert Rowan’s “Are There Etheric
den be considered Swedish territory? Armies?”—it would seem feasible
And if heaven is up, don’t the na¬ that we are having visitations by
tional boundaries go up also? In¬ the supernatural and the natural.
teresting thought, isn’t it? Yes, Also, I mark the difference between
MYSTIC is impartial. And so the conversations of the Beings with
should you be. If Shaver’s caves don’t Angelucci and Adamski. The one
exist, or are something else, we’ll talking to Angelucci evidently
dig it out, if we can. Let’s try. “talked” his language as Adamski’s
—Rap. man spoke in a strange tongue—or
could it be Angelucci’s understand¬
Dear Ray Palmer: ing is on a much higher level? I
In your March magazine you say .this with no reflection on George
told of an airplane crash in Alaska Ad&mski as without a doubt he has
in which no bodies were found. They devoted most of his life to studying
were found and brought here for and philosophizing the universe.
burial. However, compare again. The
Virginia Hening Book of Daniel—Daniel’s visit by
1026 Marquette Ave., NW Gabriel, apparently the conversa¬
Albuquerque, N. Mex. tion was understandable to Daniel
Thanks, Virginia, for giving the lie . as was Angelucci’s experience
to the newspaper reporter who de¬ it seems. Also, note the apparent
 THE SEANCE CIRCLE I05

sameness and the obvious differences say so, printing the factual should
of observation between Angelucci “drive home the point” quicker than
and Adamski as to the Beings’ ten volumes of sensationalisms!
clothing or coverings. Angelucci’s Joan P. Grohl
was similar to Adamski’s — yet 1924-48th St. N. W.
vague in description. Perhaps Ad¬ Canton 9, Ohio
amski’s being in the daylight help¬ We believe Angelucci’s Being asked
ed in his more definite detail. Or, for a drink of water in order to
perhaps the difference was Etheric gain an opportunity to leave with¬
and Real? The one thing I cannot out letting Angelucci know how it
understand—is Angelucci’s state¬ was done. Why is it irrational that
ment where the Being asked for “authoritative” books on flying
a drink of water—or am I denser saucers can’t substantiate their
than usual? claims? Any book on flying
Robert Rowan’s statement that saucers is unable to substantiate its
“authoritative” books can’t substan¬ claims. I’ve written one, and I
tiate their claims of flying saucers can’t produce a flying saucer! Can
sounds a bit irrational. Being the anyone? Lastly, we repeat, we
low mentality that earthly man is, won’t present any mystic concept
how can we say this is etheric and in fiction (because that’s the only
not “real”? If you are to believe way available to present it) for
there’s life higher spiritually and mere sensationalism. Or do you
etheric, it must also be that there define fiction itself as “sensation¬
are other worlds with much higher alism”?—Rap.
evolved men, than us, yet striving
Dear Mr. Palmer:
to higher evolvement as we are
You have, I believe, embarked
learning.
upon what may well be a worth¬
One way or the other, as these vis¬
while undertaking. While I think
itations are, etheric or “other
I detect in your editorials at least
world” their promptings undoubt¬
a slight leaning toward the oriental
edly come from our Maker for our
concept of the evolution of the mon¬
benefit out of His great kindness.
ad or spirit of man thru many re¬
And, we should abide and lead each
incarnations unto the perfection of
other to that Life of Brotherhood.
the selflessness of Nirvana or unity
We have been trying to learn, and with The One Consciousness, and of
to an extent have—but—comes the Masters and adepts aiding and
fact we are worse dullards than guiding mankind individually and
we thought. Solomon was to have collectively along the forward path,
been" very very wise and he wrote yet you have allowed other ideas
“there is nothing new under the or theories to be expressed in MYS¬
sun”. What could anyone say to TIC. If you continue that policy,
that? that we may consider mysterious
... I might add here that I fall phenomena from various viewpoints,
right in line with the viewpoint of I, for one, shall be as they say
Virginia Fulton's letter. If I may “tickled pink.”
106 MYSTIC
Numerous works have been writ¬ actual proof there that it is the
ten upon the many mysteries ob¬ spirit of Houdini that says, “I am
served by man, but with only a few Houdini”, or for that matter, that
exceptions they have been regarded it is a spirit at all? Suppose ‘Hou-
as the “disclosures of the invisible aini’ actually tells of his life on
world,’’ as the “manifestation of earth, reveals secrets that no one
spirits.” Not as the phenomena of knew, states his present place of
nature, to be classified and ar¬ abode, and adds everything that the
ranged according to their relations, seeker after truth can desire, there
that their real agency might be is yet not one iota of actual proof
discovered. that it is the spirit of Houdini that
As an example of the thought is making the statement. No court
processes of even a great many who of law in the civilized world would
try to apply their reason in reach¬ accept for a moment the proposition
ing their conclusions, a man upon that the statements made by the
witnessing the phenomena of grav¬ supposed Houdini were themselves
ity, as where a table rises from the evidence of their truth.
floor, reasons that the table was Now either these phenomena, now
not lifted by human agency, there¬ and in all past ages, are the pro¬
fore it must be raised by spirits. duction of spirits of another world,
What' possible foundation is there or they are the production of causes
for such a conclusion? What pos¬ lying within the sphere of this
sible connection is there between world. In what way can we decide
spirits and the act itself? There this question fairly? Certainly by
are other explanations that may be the most candid and thorough in¬
suggested, entirely independent of vestigations, without leaning to
spirits. Is the raising of a table either side.
to be accepted as proof of a here¬ Sam Stone
after? 3237-5th Ave. So.
People go to great trouble to Minneapolis, Minn.
obtain proofs of facts and then leap
No sir, we don’t tend to the orien¬
to conclusions that are entirely dis¬
tal concept. Personally, we don’t
connected from their proofs and
go for the reincarnation theory at
facts.
all, hut maybe that’s just because
Societies for physical research we don’t remember a thing! And
are spending a great deal of time remember, we don’t just believe a
and money to ascertain if Houdini, thing—there ha# to be evidence. In
for example, is able to keep his MYSTIC we present all possible ev¬
promise to his wife to communicate idence. Your editor isn’t a Master,
after death. if such exists. He’s a student like
Now, suppose Houdini actually you and he learns as much from the
made the promise, as is likely, and magazine as his readers do. That’s
that after his death a person in a why he likes to do it so much! As
trance receives the message “I am for the rest of your letter, you’ve
Houdini”, what does it prove? What expressed our opinions so well they
 THE SEANCE CIRCLE 107
stand as written, no comment!— It is generally known that Ben¬
Rap. jamin Franklin himself, published
the first issue of the S.E.P.—and
Dear Mr. Palmer: that’s quite a ways back. This dur¬
I have just been reading The Se¬ able NcNaughton subscribes to Re¬
ance Circle in the March issue of incarnation and I find myself won¬
MYSTIC. Of course I know that dering
your readers can’t all be young. Helen Todd
But, this H. H. McNaughton of 1525 So. Gaylord St.
Knoxville, Tenn., is really old stuff. Denver 10, Colorado
He seems to have been around for We wouldn’t be surprised if Mr.
a long time, because on page 121, McNaughton meant exactly what he
I read: ‘In the dim past I bought said! We missed it, and you pointed
the first number of The Saturday it out to us. But even if he does
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sider it proves reincarnation. It in for some most amazing spiritual

could prove something else we’ll go manifestations, etc., from now on
into in a story one of these days. into the future. So, hold your olde
How about it, Mr. McNaughton? bonnet on, boy, if you are of the
Were you trying to intimate . . frighten type. What saddens me is
—Rap. the fact that all people cannot
KNOW; after all, we are an in¬
David Stensvad: fant world. So, keep reading FATE
After reading your letter in the and MYSTIC, and at least you will
MYSTIC Magazine, I just had to be in on the KNOW, which will be
write. I think MYSTIC is perfect GOOD.
as it is. It serves the purpose per¬ Dolores Murietta
fectly. There are so many people Box-511
with “closed minds” that would Garberville, California
pooppo at FATE, which is all-true
and'so MYSTIC gives these minds Dear Sir:
the chance to satisfy their curiosity For anyone who has so complete¬
a*d if their hand is called, POO- ly demonstrated his stupidity by
POO, too. I have had spiritual subscribing to your magazine, it is
communication since the age of perhaps an act of presumption to
“before twelve” and these things criticize anyone else, but when you
are no mystery to me. My guardi¬ crow and chuckle over the exposure
an angel and friends have guided of the Piltdown Man, fraud and
my good life for many years of hail it as a lethal blow to the doc¬
which I am humbly grateful. If trine (sic) of evolution, I am un¬
folks would allow them, each man’s able to contain myself.
angel would tell him his mission in The evidence of the Java Man,
this life and help guide him right the Pekin Man and countless other
all along the way, but, people WILL cases has not been weakened and I
NOT. suppose you attribute the remains
I have had saucer messages for a of early man occasionally found in.
long time, now, and I was told in the Africa to the work of some practi¬
winter of 1952 that a person in cal joker among the primitive sav¬
LOS ANGELES would be contact¬ ages of that continent. You may
ed during the—year of 52. My hat perhaps consider yourself on the
is off to Mr. Angelucci. I’d be glad same evolutionary scale as the Afri¬
if it could have been me. The can pigmies or the Australian bush-
saucers are FRIENDLY, and you men, but few civilized white men
need not worry at all about HOW would care to share that view.
we will communicate with them; we Eohippus is surely an ancestor of
will, for they will know how to the horse. Neanderthal man must
communicate to us, as they will be be a relative of modern man and
(ARE) able to “see” into our Cro-magnon man his ancestor. The
minds, and answering will be most physical resemblance of the higher
easy indeed. apes' to the human race is either
v David, I can assure you, you are evidence of a common ancestor or
 THE SEANCE CIRCLE
the elaborate jest of some celestial
practical joker. I believe an open
mind and an investigation of the
facts offered in support of what you
refer to as the “theory” of evolu¬
tion which are available in profu¬
sion in almost any library, should
convince you that it is much more
complete than that which supports
the whole structure of psychic rec¬
ords.
I glanced through a story in a
recent issue of your magazine of
an alleged ride in a flying saucer
and in the current issue of a per¬
sonal interview with an individual
from outer space. This is all about
as mysterious as the so called
“Shaver Mystery”, the only mystery
of which was why any person should
publish or read it.
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higher advance in “evolution” se¬
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because Fate magazine is the most
lected as his missionary upon earth
loved of all periodicals devoted to true
not a leader of the Kremlin, not stories of the strange, the unknown, the
Dwight Eisenhower, not Winston unusual. Fate is the world’s only au¬
thentic magazine devoted to mystic and
Churchill, all of whom might have occult FACT. Ishtar was a legend, but
been able to exert an appreciable Fate Is the truth! Highly recommended
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doing, and even speak the English
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other gasses it could not be human lutionary pattern also? And if you
so your readers are asked to be¬ do, at what stage in evolution do
lieve in the existance of a planet, you introduce the psychic? But let’s
within travelling distance of the get our own viewpoint straight. We
earth, whose atmosphere, tempera¬ don’t question the evolution of the
ture, etc., closely approximate ours. single primal cell to more complex
He omits to inform us whether his forms. How else would you con¬
friend drives a Cadillac or a Chev¬ struct the fauna of a world if you
rolet, prefers coffee or tea, smokes ivere doing the job—simply wave
a pipe or cigars is a Republican or your hand? I like to think it is a
a Democrat and how many United logical step-by-step process, and I
States dollars he had in his pocket. also like to think that I could do it
Nature is a spendthrift, wasting myself, given enough time, experi¬
millions of ova that one may sur¬ ence, etc. But to say that I am a
vive and uncounted individuals, es¬ horse, an Eohippus, or an ape, or
pecially among aquatic animals to a glorified cell doesn’t make sense.
develop a single adult specimen. If so, then I will become extinct like
Perhaps she is also prodigal with the Eohippus, who is every bit as
species creating a multitude on the good as me is just plain extinct? If
chance that one variety might I go to heaven, by all fairness, ac¬
evolve'into an intelligent, reasoning cording to evolution, I should find
tool-making animal. The myriads Eohippus there ahead of me by
of celestial bodies also indicate the many ages, happily strumming his
same extravagance as few, if any, harp. However, merely as a theory
could probably be the abode of our (1 have the right to call it a theory,
kind of life. as well as evolution has to call it¬
I believe firmly in psychic phen¬ self a theory—and it DOES NOT
omena when properly authenticated call itself anything else, in spite of
but I think that highly imaginative what you say you’ve seen in muse¬
stories of underground peoples, ums, and I’ve seen the same things)
probably spending most of their let’s assume that whatever it is
lives dodging the bits of oil well that has the psychic as its goal, or
drillers, of fantastic visitors from Man with ESP, if you prefer, has
outer space who look and act like attained it by means of props such
ham actors in costume and similar as physical bodies, and has used
tall tales should be relegated to the either an orderly and necessary pro¬
realm of unscientific fiction. gression of construction, according
William Wallace to blue print, or an experimental
3619 W. Jefferson Blvd. trial and error process, to develop
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man” he has in mind. I think the
How can you believe in evolution
with its purely physical aspect of great difference in opinion today
things and yet believe firmly in between the theory of evolution fol¬
psychic phenomena, unless you lowers, and the theory of immortal
place phychic phenomena in an evo¬ man followers is that the immortal
 THE SEANCE CIRCLE hi

man is and always has been an im¬

mortal man, and that necessarily,
by the very meaning of the word
immortal, man did not evolve be¬
cause he had no beginning, while
the physical form he inhabits did.
Perhaps both are true. It’s not a
question of at what point the ape
became a man, because he didn’t,
but at what point the man used
the ape for his body, and devel¬
oped it to the thing it is today. Of
course this is all pure supposition
and we haven’t any “psychic bones” BUDDHA INCENSE AND
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accept it as evidence. After all, it breath of the Mystic East. It comes
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which are not true at all. Why do
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primal life cell, or you have noth¬
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start from anything but the most
You’d pass it on to your friends, simple? And, if your start is the
wouldn't you? Well, that’s exactly
what Ray Palmer is doing in this ad, same, why the vast divergence?
which is a personal endorsement.
You knew how he grouses about the And if you have vast divergence,
way things fall apart ten minutes why not have untold numbers of dif¬
after you buy them, or they fall
entirely to perform their purpose? ferent kinds of “men”. Men looking
Shoddy products from shoddy work¬ like apes, men looking like snails,
men, he calls them, and he suspects
it’s a deliberate inferiority com¬ men looking like alligators, men
ponent to cheat you. So when he looking like trees, men looking like
finds something that’s really good
but hasn’t a chance because it’s birds, and men looking like your ed¬
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buck the big BUSINESS boys, he
baliyhoos it. You see, Ray’s had divides? It developes a “fracture
dandruff for years, and no product line” and finally fractures. But
he ever bought did a bit of good.
Then, through Ken Arnold, he met that first fracture line is the be¬
Guy L. Turner, of Boise, Idaho. ginning of geometry, the first
Well, Guy has a hair treatment that
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Although Guy doesn’t claim It, the of the human foetus, the cells don’t
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bigger horse. There is a very good sure” upon public opinion? No, Bill,
theory that horses developed be¬ he’d immediately have a “vote of
cause of environment, and that they confidence” thrust upon him in
are still the same old Eohippus. Parliament, and he’d be out so fast
Apes are still with us, even if his head would swim. Bill, if this
Eohippus isn’t. And when you say “psychic” stuff were as easy as
Cro-Magnon is the ancestor of Ne¬ that, we’d have no need for MYS¬
anderthal, you are setting evolution TIC. Our one mission right now is
back a long way in its progression! to dissuade you from your “firm
As for why Angelucci’s Being did¬ belief in psychic phenomena.” Af¬
n’t approach Churchill, I’d say that ter all. Bill it hasn’t been proved by
tvas your question, and we’ll let a long shot. Maybe it’s not psychic
you answer that one! However, at all, but just evolution in its
what if the Being did approach old normal gallop up the road to no¬
Winny? What would YOUR reac¬ where. One more point. Nature
tion be to a TV program in which isn’t a spendthrift. She makes so
the old statesman-warrior told many millions of sperm (not ova,
exactly what Angelucci did? You as any doctor can tell you) in or¬
will pardon us if we slip off into der to make it EASY to reproduce.
the attic and roar with laughter The ones that don’t reproduce are¬
for a moment? Honestly, Bill, do n’t wasted. They are of no account
you think Winny would have any at all. The sperm itself, and the
ability to exert “appreciable pres¬ ova, are of no account. Neither of

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them can be said to be the man. As for little people underground

At first they are only a collection dodging the bits of oil well drillers,
of identical cells. By no stretch .of wouldn’t you, if one of them came
imagination could those cells have boring down upon you? Really
written the letter you wrote. We Bill we mean no harm. We respect
know about the sperm and the ova, your letter and you, and we answer
but it’s the INTELLIGENCE and, in kind because it’s the only fair
its purpose that we don’t know thing to do. At least there’s some
about. We’re trying to find out. sort of Karmic law or something
And evolution, sadly, isn’t the an¬ which says “As ye sow, so shall ye
swer. An ape is intelligent enough reap.” Who are we to try to up¬
to peel a banana, but it is the in¬ set an old adage like that? But,
telligence of instinct, which is some¬ Bill, you’ll never convince us with
thing entirely different again. In¬ your evidence. Maybe you’ll come
stinct is just another physical at¬ up with something better? We’ll
tribute, like an arm or a leg. The try to reciprocate, every time.—Rap.
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is very unusual, and I feel, very that it was quite amazing. In the
true. past number of years I have had
The best tho is the article on a number of readings from so-call¬
page 71, ‘Mental Projection’ by ed, important readers, and I must
Walter G. Smith. I’ve been doing say that Dorothy Lauer tops them
that this winter, via another meth¬ all. Any one who doesn’t take ad¬
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For some time, I’ve been getting Kellogg, Idaho
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words. Altho the two tunes, no
After reading Mr. Angelucci’s ar¬
words came. I play the piano and
ticle in your November edition, I
know chord progression, so I know
was greatly perturbed to discover
the tunes are legit. But I can’t get
in your May edition a follow-up sto¬
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ry in which, this time—he meets
Mystic help me out?
and holds a conversation with an
I.-was privileged to receive a pre¬
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After being convinced of Frank
Dorothy Lauer, and wish to report
Scully’s seemingly non-fictional,
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Although, Mr. Angelucci has nar¬
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HYPNOTIZE tried to tie it to reality, and yot

Modern speed hypnotism taught. tripped up by a couple of jokesters.
True is to be praised for its un¬
cover article, but it is to be cen¬
sured for ignoring the same treat¬
ment for the items it did not touch
upon. Iconoclasts ought to explain
why they didn’t break all of the
idol, not only its clay feet. The
most you can say for Angelucci, if
you want to “expose” him, is that
old argument about “was it objec¬
tive or subjective”. Too many peo¬
ple, upon getting the answer,
assume that it explains the whole
thing away.—Rap.

MELVIN POWERS, Masfer Hypnotist

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But perhaps the biggest faux
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as the moon. The full moon sets
in the morning—not around mid¬
night. For a full moon to set at
midnight would be an even greater
phenomenon than the one Mr. Ste-
mons describes.
And Mr. Worth says in, “Mistress
of Kama-Loka” that he watched the
sun set and night grow strong and
then “ a thin crescent moon hung at
an unnatural angle high in the
eastern sky.” The thin crescent,
new moon is always, but aways,
low in the western sky. The thin,
crescent, old moon rises in the east
in the early morning.
My natural reaction to such writ¬
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these are found in a magazine, all
so-called “Fact Stories and Arti¬
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frozen solid, we can contradict you
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the errors you've found are an as¬
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This Is one of the pictures (32 pages of you wouldn't distrust the dictionary
them in all) contained in the amazing completely because of them, would
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TAIES OF TOMORROW’S SCIENCE TODAY! I am delighted with the master¬
You'll voyage to strange planets and distant ful way you handle the answers to
stars in the pages of America's most excit- the letters in The Seance Circle.
ing science fiction magazine. The thrill of I enjoyed Mr. Angelucci’s “I
new worlds await you! Ask for current issue
at your newsstand today—or take advan¬ Traveled in a Flying Saucer,” and
tage of special subscription offer below. more, Mr. Nash’s article, “Are Fly¬
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