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Source: Birth through Death
Source type: book
Document type: book chapter
Document title: “Messages of Fifty-Five Minds through One Soul”
Author(s): Benjamin, Louis; Watson, Albert Durrant
Publisher: James A. McCann Company
Publisher location: New York, New York
Year of publication: 1920
Pagination: 244-56 (excerpt below includes only page 255)
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The following text comprises the opening two paragraphs (p. 1) of the
book’s introduction, titled “The Reporter’s Explanation of the Revelation”:
The matter contained in this book was
received psychically. It was spoken in trance by one whose own thought
did not direct his speech. No physical apparatus was used at any time
while receiving it, either by him or by us. It was all spoken in the
light. Some chapters were communicated in full daylight, as in the
case of the chapters by Savonarola, Emerson, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
all of which were spoken to about one hundred and fifty people in
a public hall on Sunday afternoons. Others were dictated in artificial
light subdued by exclusion of the yellow and blue rays. Always, the
light was clear and strong enough for the stenographers.
Much of the matter was dictated slowly
and written down by the reporter. The rest was taken stenographically
by two members of the Inner Circle (Edith Brock, the stenographer
of the Twentieth Plane, and Bertram Jackes), to both of whom, for
the faithful devotion of their time and skill, we are deeply indebted.
All the communicated matter was revised twice by the unseen authors.
The reporter read the chapters aloud, in the presence, usually, of
some members of the Inner Circle, and the entranced Instrument whose
voice was the medium of correction, as it had previously been the
medium of dictation.
The following text comprises the opening paragraph (p. 244) of the chapter’s
introductory remarks:
The chapter which follows was communicated
on February eighth, nineteen twenty, in the presence of several members
of the Inner Circle. As it was all reported in long-hand, it required
one hundred and thirty minutes to receive it. The first thirty-three
messages were received in sixty-six minutes, the remaining twenty-two,
after an intermission of ten minutes, in fifty-four minutes.
From title page: Birth through Death: The Ethics of The Twentieth
Plane.
From title page: A Revelation Received through the Psychic Consciousness
of Louis Benjamin; Reported by Albert Durrant Watson, M. D., F. R. A.
S. C.; Reported of “The Twentieth Plane”—A Psychic Revelation, etc., Ex-President
of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and of the Association of
Psychical Research for Canada, etc.
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