XXVII. OF THE FIRST DAY IN HAIDAR PASHA HOSPITAL AND THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION BY THE SPECIALISTS
We learned that the night before there had been a séance in the Hospital House
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XXVII. OF THE FIRST DAY IN HAIDAR PASHA HOSPITAL AND THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION BY THE SPECIALISTS
Previous tests indicate it is not done by the mediums—”(I breathed more freely after that, old chap)—“but it may be caused by one of the spectators unconsciously exercising a sort of hypnotic influence over the mediums—in short by Telepathy
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In the first place, Alec Matthews had been guilty of a bad slip
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After the séance, Tony took me apart and declared he had never seen anything so wonderful in his life
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Spiritualists have divided the statements of spooks into “evidential” matter and “non-evidential” matter
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But we also took the gifts the gods sent
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The “non-evidential” matter also turned out a howling success
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In building up the reputation of our spooks there was one type of séance we did not encourage
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I know well that conversations with the dear dead are the every-day stock-in-trade of the average medium
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Rome was not built in a day, and I had my little sea of troubles to navigate before reaching the safe harbour of the Witch’s Den
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He had “done his bit” in the Boer War before he went killing Turks at Oghratina
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The man responsible for pushing the glass in the Hospital House séances was Nightingale
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For a couple of months past Hill and I had been secretly engaged on getting ready a leg-pull for the benefit of the camp wiseacres
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“As some of you know,” he said, “I once underwent a course of telepathy, or thought-reading, in Australia
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The Dispensary was a tiny room over the Majors’ wood-store
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All this was not merely gratuitous by-play
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The obvious course was, therefore, for the Commandant to set about obtaining this admission of belief, without the camp knowing beforehand the purpose for which he required it
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While Hill was busy with his document-making and his burying, it was my duty to inculcate a proper respect for telepathy in the chosen witnesses of the forthcoming trial
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We had cobblers of every grade, from an artist like Colonel Maule, who made himself a pair of rope-soled shoes, to “Tony,” whose only boots, owing to their patches, were of different size and vastly different design—indeed, it required a stretch of the imagina
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The Spook began at once to fan Kiazim’s waning courage
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The Commandant had not previously realized that Gilchrist had been acting under the Spook’s influence, nor had he known about the parole
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At the end of the second séance, which also was devoted to soothing the Commandant’s difficulties and fears, there was a scene
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en it becomes a question of reading human thoughts, I am as ignorant of what I read as the mediums are until it is read out, and all I do is to communicate certain movements to the mediums, who in turn communicate them to the glass
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Next day Moïse complained to us that the Commandant had cursed him for a fool (i) because he did not know Armenian, (ii) because his translation of the early part of the séance was not understandable in Turkish!!
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What really was wonderful was the fact that Gilchrist should have hit upon the idea of getting his speech written out in Turkish to be handed to Kiazim Bey at the dinner—and that the very same idea should have cropped up in our séance a few hours earlier
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Our next séance, held on the 24th March, purported to be an explanation of and an introduction to that special species of trance talk which appeals to all superstitious minds—the reading of the future
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The séance is no doubt poor stuff from a metaphysical point of view, but it was good enough for the Turks, and I quote it in full as an example of the way in which we entangled our victims in a labyrinth of confused reasoning
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The séance opened with a little speech by Moïse
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The mathematical sense can know the future
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We heard him call, and a lady came in—a lady with very beautiful hands
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Turning to Hill and myself, Moïse explained that in our trance-talk we had given a perfect description of the Commandant’s house
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on 29th March, Moïse came to us in some excitement
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At noon we met in the graveyard, outside the town
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Then I stretched my hands above my head and began the incantation, speaking loudly to drown the noise of the shutter
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As we walked through the town in our black cloaks, we passed Lieut
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The Spook first made an attempt to get into telepathic touch with AAA through the board
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In preparing us for the trance-talk the Spook had warned us: “It is like a battle
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s been thought it is always there,” or, in more technical language, the thought-wave once created becomes telechronistic and travels in an eternal spiral in the fourth dimension of space
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“You see,” the Pimple interrupted, “X is the medium of OOO
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I have reason to believe they are mentally affected, and that the English doctor is endeavouring to conceal the fact.[41] A certain number of the prisoners, amongst whom Jones and Hill were prominent, have been studying occultism ever since they arrived
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“For over a year two officer prisoners here have spent much time in study of spiritualism and telepathy, and have shown increasing signs of mental derangement which recently have become very noticeable
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“These two officers also appear to have studied what they call ‘telepathy,’ and about two or three months ago they gave an exhibition of thought-reading, part of which my Interpreter saw and which considerably surprised their fellow-officers
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Every evening, after the rest of the camp had been locked up, we held séances, and at every séance the poor Pimple was put through his lesson
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The camp was crowded, and would be still more crowded when the Changri men arrived
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This much is certain: on the morning of the 24th April he intended to keep the whole camp, and especially the Changri men, in very strict confinement
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The Pimple was overjoyed at this advance to more speedy means of communication; for the glass and board method had been painfully slow, a séance taking anything up to six hours
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Opposite the door of our room, on the other side of a small narrow passage, was the coffee-shop of the hotel
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So the sentries thought they could safely begin the porterage
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