FOOTNOTES:
[3] “On the Threshold of the Unseen,” p. 124 (1918).
[4] ibid.
[5] “On the Threshold of the Unseen,” p. 257 (1918).
[6] May 10th, 1919.
[7] In the Introduction to Mr. Hill’s book entitled “Spiritualism, its History, Phenomena, and Doctrine” (Cassell).
[8] “Spiritualism,” pp. 127, 128.
Chapter IV
THE MEDIUM’S “CONTROL”
Professor Jacks remarked in a recent address[9] that the whole problem of Spiritualism is largely centred in the “controls.” The “control” professes to be the spirit of some departed person, which has taken possession of the entranced medium, and which causes the medium to speak or write in an abnormal manner. Sir Oliver Lodge writes of “a separate intelligence … which some think must be a secondary personality—which indeed certainly is a secondary personality of the medium.”[10] Elsewhere he states very clearly the divergence of view among psychical students with regard to this mysterious entity. “This personality,” he says, “is believed by some to be merely the subliminal self of the entranced person, brought to the surface, or liberated and dramatised into a sort of dream existence, for the time.” Others think we have here a case of dual or multiple personality, while a third section believe it to be in reality the separate intelligence it claims to be.[11]