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22 PREFACE.
It is a phenomenon not unknown even in private houses, when, on the occasion of some ghostly apparition, the walls, furniture and decoration of the room mysteriously revert to the “as you were” of the period to which the ghostly visitant belongs, All that is familiar to every one who has paid even a cursory attention to psychic phenomena, But the new, weird, original, and most puzzling thing in ‘An Adventure,” is that the people of the twentieth century not merely saw, not merely heard the voices of the far-away people of the eighteenth century, but were able to ask them the way about the park, and to obtain from them information, which, although it did not exceed the content of the knowledge they pos- sessed in the time of Marie Antoinette, was supplied on demand to meet the needs of subjects of Edward VII.
The interest aroused by “ An Adventure” is much wider than that which is elicited by the ordinary reports of physical researchers. The very normal matter-of-factness of the adventure is challenging to the ordinary mind. It pro- vokes inquiry, and opens up vast new vistas. If it stood alone it might be dismissed; but it does not stand alone,
The Occult Review for April published a
It is a phenomenon not unknown even in private houses, when, on the occasion of some ghostly apparition, the walls, furniture and decoration of the room mysteriously revert to the “as you were” of the period to which the ghostly visitant belongs, All that is familiar to every one who has paid even a cursory attention to psychic phenomena, But the new, weird, original, and most puzzling thing in ‘An Adventure,” is that the people of the twentieth century not merely saw, not merely heard the voices of the far-away people of the eighteenth century, but were able to ask them the way about the park, and to obtain from them information, which, although it did not exceed the content of the knowledge they pos- sessed in the time of Marie Antoinette, was supplied on demand to meet the needs of subjects of Edward VII.
The interest aroused by “ An Adventure” is much wider than that which is elicited by the ordinary reports of physical researchers. The very normal matter-of-factness of the adventure is challenging to the ordinary mind. It pro- vokes inquiry, and opens up vast new vistas. If it stood alone it might be dismissed; but it does not stand alone,
The Occult Review for April published a
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