[114] Perhaps so, but would not be accepted as evidence before any court of equity.
[115] He has personally repeated the same thing to me.
[116] Drink is no excuse for crime.
[117] The great majority of Continental safes are opened by keys and not by combination locks as in America.
[118] I firmly believe in the workings of the subconscious mind.
[119] The Spirit Messenger and the Star of Truth were published in 1852 by R. P. Ambler of Springfield, Mass. They were “edited and composed by spirits.” The Spirit of the Sixth Circle took entire charge of the Spirit Messenger, and not even the publisher was permitted to dictate in the least. There were elucidations by the Spirits on “Hope, Life, Truth, Initiation, Marriage Relations, Evils of Society, and Destiny of the Race.” The Northwestern Orient, published in 1852 by C. H. White, contained communications from John Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, John Wesley, John Whitefield, Thomas Paine, et al. It also contained several poems by the Spirits. Copies are on file in my library.
[120] “When William was in a trance his father tried to bring him out by slapping, pinching and other cruelty, and finally tried to pour boiling water down his back. This failing, he took a blazing ember from the hearth and placed it on the young man’s head, but William slept on, with only the scars as reminders of his parent’s deep concern for his well being and safety.”—“Eddy Brothers,” by Henry S. Olcott.
[121] I gave a pseudo seance for Sophie Irene Loeb and had two slates which were examined by the Circle and marked. I asked if the Spirits would manifest and when the slates were opened there was a message containing a code word. Miss Loeb was astounded, for the message signed by Jack London contained a word which she claimed no one in the whole world knew about. I did it by trickery but she declared that if she had not known I was a magician she would have believed readily that I had psychic powers.
[122] A man by the name of Rider, professionally known as “Kodarz,” exposed Bailey in New Zealand in 1916.
[123] Without any reservation she says she has investigated the majority of mediums and given them a hundred per cent clean bill. She writes that Eglinton actually materialized the spirit of Grimwaldi, the great clown. Eglinton was detected on four different occasions and so far as I have been able to learn, almost every medium she mentions in her books has, at some time or other, been detected and exposed.