HERMIONE ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
SPIRITUALISM is becoming quite the thing, isn't it?
Dear Sir Oliver Lodge has been proving some more things quite recently, you know. How anyone could doubt a man with such a lovely head and face I can't imagine.
Spiritualism and Spiritism are quite different, you know. It has been a long time, really, since Spiritualism was taken seriously.
Except by superstitious people, of course.
But Spiritism has come to stay. It has nothing
to do with superstition at all. It's part of Advanced
Thought — quite scientific, you know, while
Spiritualism was just a fad.
And Spiritualism is somehow more — well, er — VULGAR if you get what I mean. The sort of people one cares to know well have dropped Spiritualism for Spiritism.
Though, of course, a ghost is a ghost, whether it is materialized by spiritualism or Spiritism.
I have been often told that I am naturally very clairvoyant — if I were developed I would make a splendid medium. Mediums have seen shapes hovering around my head, and once when I was at school I did some automatic writing.
It was the strangest, easiest thing! I had a pencil in my hand and without thinking of anything in particular at all I just scribbled away, and what I wrote was, "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary; When in the course of human events it becomes necessary," over and over again.