Spirit Voices H Montague Crane -Mediumship of Lancelet Brice

Truth stranger than fiction. This is a book of truth. The power of thought lies in its invisibility. Mind is spirit. Heaven and hell are mental conditions.
Spiritualism a rational religion—a religion of demonstrative fact. Survival proved by scientists, doctors, authors. Death a great adventure. We invite you to read—then reason.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Strange indeed is the truth contained within these pages; so strange that many who read will scoff and say "Surely this is fiction! "

This is a book of truth.

Much of intrinsic value and beauty will be revealed to those who diligently seek. Let your judgment be fair. Let your criticism be tinged with tolerance; for in this age of science the so-called fools of today are the wise of tomorrow.

The greatest powers known to man are invisible: He cannot see electricity, but he can harness the giant and make it work for him; he cannot see wind, but he can use it to sail his ships and turn his wheels; he cannot see steam, but it drives his machines of industry; he cannot see sound waves, but he catches them
from the ether and makes commercial use of them.

The power of mind lies in its invisibility.

And mind is spirit.
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Recently a great physician bombastically gave out to the world: "Death ends all. When the brain ceases to function death takes place."

Death does not end all!

The brain is but the physical organ through which mind functions.

How do we know? Because over a period of years we have spoken to, and heard speak, thousands of persons whom the world has thought dead!
And they have spoken, not through the lips of mediums, but in independent voices, giving mental proof of their survival.

Mind is creative and governs matter.

All things are created by the Great Creator, and being a part of that Great Creative Force, the mind, or spirit of man, must also create.
A masterpiece cannot be painted until created by the mind of the artist. The composer must first be inspired before he produces a grand symphony.
Mind is spiritual; brain physical. During earth life the two are united until separated by the death of the physical body.

The same mind that creates material things through the brain while on earth, can also create seemingly concrete things when it leaves its earthly habitation—hence the "mansions not made by hands."

As a man thinks so is he.

He can create his own heaven or his own hell.

Neither a physical hell, nor Satan, nor demons exist; they are but the product of ignorant minds or undeveloped spirits.
Think of love and you create heaven, for God is Love, and love is heaven—love for all humanity, no matter
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what race, colour or creed, both on earth and in the encircling spheres.

Spiritualism offers a rational religion: Not a religion of blind faith, but a religion of demonstrative fact.

The fact of the survival of the mind, or spirit, has been proved and acknowledged by hard-headed scientists, doctors, authors, and millions of other people.

This book is not printed for the express purpose of convincing the sceptic and the bigot, although much of an evidential nature will be found within its covers.

It is not a book with missionary intent. We do not wish to thrust our facts and teachings upon an already over-burdened public, with its many "isms." God forbid!

It is a drama of death—and of life.

It is a romance where those who have loved, love again in love made perfect.

It is the Great Adventure.

It is a surveyed and charted record of the beyond from which it has been erroneously said that no traveler returns.

They do come back across the bridge of thought built up by harmonious and sympathetic vibrations.

Come! Sail the mystic seas with us, and we will take you where again you will hear the joy and laughter of voices you may perchance have thought silenced for evermore.

Love is at the helm to guide our craft, through seas of doubts and dangers, to the calm waters of deep understanding.

Come! Learn something of the higher life to which you are destined.

Take a peep behind the veil, which wears thinner, thinner, thinner, as the years roll on.
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Linger over these pages, and the devils Doubt and Despair, will metamorphose into shining angels of Truth and Light.
We invite you to read—then reason.

CHAPTER TWO

Invisible hosts are spreading light and truth into a darkened world. Orthodoxy, fear, superstition are slavish tyrants, doomed to die by the shining darts of reason. A more wholesome religion demanded. "And the trumpet shall sound"—now sounding as prophesied. The fact of individual survival after physical death testified by thousands.

The invisible host is sweeping across the uttermost parts of the earth to spread the light into the darkened minds of men.

Orthodoxy, fear, superstition are the tyrants that have robbed man of his birthright for so many centuries.

Already do they cringe before the shining darts of reason.

The pioneer stage has been left behind. The dark cloak of superstition and orthodoxy is falling from man, revealing the brighter vesture of knowledge beneath.

It is all a matter of evolution.

Ever since man in his primitive state first trod the earth, and from his narrow cranium evolved brain cells whereby the undeveloped soul could think and expand, waves of spirituality have ebbed and flowed, ebbed and
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flowed, throughout the ages—God perfecting His masterpiece—until today finds us atop the crest of the biggest wave of all, which will sweep away the last remaining husks of doubt and bring to pass the millenium of which the Master Medium spoke.

There was a time when ministers of the Gospel (spare the word) used to preach to a quaking congregation about the goadings of a physical devil; everlasting fires and the torments of the damned. There was a time when the stench of the burning flesh of heretics and "witches" used to satiate the nostrils of gross holidaymakers.

Gone, gone, is all this heritage from the dark ages. No longer will reasoning beings swallow literal " truths" from a badly translated Bible—translated ad lib to suit the needs of the early clergy. today is demanded a more wholesome diet.

Many well-meaning friends tell us that "Spiritualism is of the devil—have nought to do with it." If it is of the devil then take off your hats to his Satanic Majesty as being the finest and most Christ-like spirit one could ever meet, whose second name is Love.

The voices we hear; the forms that appear; the inspirations given—be they from devils or angels, certainly prove survival !

This is the age of reason—a reason that is flooding the whole human race, be it black, yellow, or white—in a sea of scientific and psychic facts.

We are soaring to greater heights of knowledge.

Forty years ago a poor electrician discovered wireless—the world laughed at him. The great Marconi improved on this discovery and gave us radio.
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Pictures can now be telegraphed across the world.

The cinematograph is now synchronised with sound, and the voices of performers can be clearly heard.

Our own New Zealander, Sir Ernest Rutherford, proved the atom theory—which theory has been known to psychics for many years, demonstrated in materialisations and de-materialisations.

The spirits of our "dead" friends are able to make themselves known to us by using sound vibrations and can make themselves visible to us by using physical atoms, or ectoplasm.

Earth friends can now sit in a circle, or individually, and hold sustained conversation with spirit friends for hours on end, mostly in the dark.

Everyone with a knowledge of radio knows that sound waves function clearer when free from light waves, certain vibrations functioning better by the absence of light.

We have gone one better than this, for spirit friends can now speak to us in full light of day, or in artificial light.

This is the miracle of the direct voice.

A new discovery as old as the hills.

"And the trumpet shall sound."

In our midst the trumpets are sounding as prophesied.

The "dead" are speaking through them to friends left behind on earth.

The "dead" are not dead but found living in the presence of His Love.

The mystery of life has been the problem of all ages. The libraries of the world testify to the unceasing search for an answer that will not only satisfy the urge within man, but will give him still further enlightenment; will enable him to achieve fresh conquests; and will add to his power.
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Perhaps because of its arresting character—its seeming intrusion into a world which pulsates with visible expression of life—the nature, meaning and apparent fact of death has of necessity come under the scientific, the philosophic, and religious minds of both great and small, and is included in the problem of life itself.
The fact that all have go through the experience called "death," makes the question a vital and an urgent one to every individual, and he is a benefactor to the race who can give to this experience a brighter significance; can exchange its sombre hues for the radiant colours of the dawn; can extract the sting from its fangs and the victory from its doleful obsequies. Materialism with all its boastful triumphs leads but to the grave of hope and of effort.

The purpose of the Spiritualist is not to preach any new revelation, but to draw attention to certain experiences which provide the foundation for two ascertained facts. Briefly stated they are as follows:

1. The fact of individual survival after so-called death.

2. The possibility of communication with the so-called dead.

In the confirmation of these claims great issues are involved. The belief in individual survival is exchanged for the certainty of knowledge, the "mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won" becomes a beautiful and continuous experience, and not only satisfies the heart's inmost longings, but wipes the tears from the eyes of all who have entered this joyful and sacred fellowship.
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"This, then, is my story and this is my song," that our departed ones survive; that they are near us and long to tell of their love and presence. How natural it all is. If any one of us went on a journey to another town or country, what would be our first concern? To let those whom we have left behind know of our welfare and safety, while we eagerly look forward to news from "oor ain folk."

So it is with those who have passed over. They long to send word back that all is well, and to still further strengthen the bond of love with personal communion with those they have left on earth.

The testimony of thousands to this happy experience is available to all who read even a portion of the voluminous literature on the subject. Every addition to this testimony gives still further power to the influence and convincing nature of cumulative evidence.

Such is the purpose of this book.
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