The Seven Purposes; An Experience in Psychic Phenomena (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... The experience at L, while stimulating, was also fatiguing, and for several days thereafter I was tired and dull, receiving with difficulty the few communications that were attempted. Tuesday evening, April 23d, two of Anne Lowe's friends wished to talk to her, but were told that she was busy and could not come. Mary K. answered some of their questions, concluding: "Anne sends love to you both, and says please come again soon. She is sorry she can't come now." After giving me the twelfth Lesson, Mary K. had said: "That is the last formal lesson. The rest will be given in other ways." "You mean through interviews and personal messages?" "Not entirely. You will be given signed letters, by great forces." Afterward, she mentioned these prospective communications sometimes as "letters," sometimes as "talks," but Mary Kendal told us, May 13th, that this intention had been temporarily abandoned, as sufficient material for the book had already been given. Evidently this decision had been reached only recently, however, for an attempt to give me the first letter was frustrated on the 25th of April, and a second period of confusion and partial control by invading forces ensued. During the morning, Mary K. prepared me for this letter, in a communication written quickly and easily, as follows: "Men will ask the theory of the letters that are coming to them through you. This must be explained. "As the Lessons nave been given to me to aeliver to the world through you, so the letters that are to come will be given to me by the forces from whom they come. The reason that they come through me is that I reach you more freely, when you are alone, than any other force known to you and therefore commanding your confidence. . . . "The Lessons came from great...