THE STRAITS TIMES

Singapore

20 January 1952

(page 2)

BY PROF. J.B.S. HALDANE.

Spiritualists make many different claims. All believe that we can communicate with the dead. Some believe that the same mediums who help in this communication can also produce abnormal physical phenomena, such as lifting tables into the air, and even creating material objects.

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A magician

There are things we don’t understand

I have had at least one communication in home experiments from what purported to be a damned soul. A pupil of mine, who was something of a medium, was occasionally possessed by a devil which wrote blasphemies in a curious, crabbed hand-writing.

When asked where it came from, it replied “From Aleister Crowley’s, this is our evening out.”