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174(49) Message carried by Hudson; Mrs. Georgia’s script. Is it reasonable to doubt thatthis was no mere act of telepathy? What about the description of the floor and room of the hotel?Even the chair is accurately described.(50) Is a better proof than (49) that Hudson was a messenger, and that so-called telepathywas not at work in either case. Remark the following: “He must speak of Hudson, that’s me, inyour address; many people have accepted my hypothesis of the sub-conscious. I want him to saythat he has heard from me My girl will sit for him here (Rochester) and in N.Y. for James andHyslop in concert. I shall bring F. W. H. Myers and Dr. Hodgson if I canA few days later I was at Rochester, and Dr. Austin, the pastor of the Plymouth SpiritualistChurch, kindly organised a little assembly at the Seneca Hotel to meet me. I addressed the party onseveral matters, principally the return of the spirit of Thomson Jay Hudson, showing the ladies andgentlemen present in the ballroom of the hotel the original automatic mirror-script. This littlemeeting was quite impromptu, though the date of my address in the church (February 26) had beenfixed some time. Hudson was mentioned in both addresses.The meeting at New York here predicted came off in a totally unexpected fashion; it was notProfessor James but Dr. I. K. Funk who made the third of my visitors.Observe that two hours after Mrs. Georgia wrote this script, Dr. Jenkins (Kaiser’s control)at Detroit tells me that Hudson is away trying to impress “a light” in another city to whom “I hadsent a message”; and the next morning (5th) Hudson comes to me himself in Detroit and reportsthat “he had carried the message, but did not think ‘the light’ had taken it all in. He knew that hehad impressed her, but thought she only got part of it.”(54) The items given in the script to establish the identity of Mr. Myers could not haveoriginated in the mind of either the psychic or myself, for we did not know them. Whence did theycome?(55) “He has the offshoot of the oak in his pocket, a gold acorn.” I had not noticed the shapeof the pendant on the chain, nor thought of it at any time, so this cannot be attributed to my upperconsciousness being read by the psychic. The latter was totally ignorant what I carried about withme in my pockets. Can there be a doubt that this statement originated with an invisibleintelligence?(58) “ Grayfeather “ apparently sees me at another seance, and in the public library atToledo. Whatever may be the true explanation of this remarkable incident, it must be due in someway to invisible intelligence. The most reasonable explanation is that my guide told Grayfeather. IfGrayfeather, while using the organism of Jonson, could read my sub-conscious mind, the incident isof a spiritistic character; certainly the events of the previous day were not occupying my upperconsciousness. Why was Grayfeather inaccurate when giving the name of one of my companions,who, by the way, was five feet off, listening?(93) If mind-reading has anything to do with these manifestations, why could not Mrs.Rossegue divine, whose picture was inside the locket? The name and relationship were in my full,upper consciousness, and I was expecting to have them given me any second; yet, instead, thepsychic hears a voice: “It was mine [the locket], but it [the picture] is not I.” The identity of the facein the locket was not revealed at all.ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA.Incident (2) must be examined with (15). In the latter Iola admits that she materialised inNew York, and gives a story about a cane, damaged a little in passing through the mind of themedium, but sufficiently correct to prove that she was with me on the night I landed, when (2) tookplace. The height and figure which I saw at the materialisation seance were correct; it would befoolish to suppose that the graceful form and movements could be simulated by any man; theintense vibration of a form is always good evidence of its reality as a materialisation. It is verycommon where the whole body is made up and not only a part, and frequently occurred inCraddock’s manifestations. The confidence with which the spirit placed herself in my power many