![]() Yeats was heavily influenced by her "automatic script." Arthur Conan Doyle, in his book The New Revelation (1918), wrote that automatic writing occurs either by the writer's subconscious or by external spirits operating through the writer. And shortly after his marriage in 1917 to Georgie Hyde-Lees, W. When Dickens died in 1870 leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished, his spirit supposedly was so enraged that it channeled the novel's conclusion to the itinerant printer T. Late Victorian and Edwardian literati seemed especially prone to belief in the phenomenon of Automatic Writing, the supposed psychic ability that allows a person to produce written words that flow from a subconscious, spiritual, or supernatural source. ![]() He joined the Freemasons in 1889, the Theosophical Society in 1895, the Society for Psychical Research in 1902, the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia in 1909, and the Ghost Club in 1925, and from 1921 to 1926 he was editor of Psychic Science (then named Quarterly transactions of the British College of Psychic Science). Item #BB2538 In addition to his practice as an architect and archaeologist, Bligh Bond was a psychical researcher. Somewhat scarce, with Library Hub Discover listing only nine holdings and few copies in commerce. ![]() Tightly bound and virtually pristine (likely unread). Publisher's grey speckled paper-covered boards elaborately paneled, decorated, and lettered in green repeating design of dust jacket (which is unpriced, with flap corners clipped, as issued). A superb First Printing of Bligh Bond's prophesies of the Great War, "gathered from automatic writings obtained between 19, and also in 1918, through the hand of John Alleyne." Crown 8vo (195 x 130mm): 134pp. BOND, Frederick Bligh (1864-1945) The hill of vision : a forecast of the great war and of social revolution with the coming of the new race / gathered from automatic writings obtained between 19, and also in 1918, through the hand of John Alleyne, under the supervision of the authorīoston: Marshall Jones Company, M D CCC XIX.
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