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LIGHT FROM BEYOND

as taken over the Ouija Board



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New York
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Copyright, 1919, by
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TO

THOSE PEOPLE OF EARTH

WHO HAVE PERCEIVED THE NEW DAY

COMING IN ALL ITS GLORY

AND ARE READY TO ACCEPT

GOD'S NEW LIGHT



LIGHT FROM BEYOND



PUBLISHERS' PREFACE






F this story had come to us
through the usual chan-
nels, we doubt if it would
have had more than the attention we
give to things we don't want. An
Ouija board we always looked upon
as something for children to play with.
A story over an Ouija board — absurd !
In the latter part of February we
were spending the evening with some
friends. Somehow the talk got
around to a recent article by Ella
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Wheeler Wilcox in Cosmopolitan,
then to Spiritualism, and finally to
Ouija boards. We found that the
latter were common in the neighbor-
hood and we borrowed one.

The wife of the sculptor to whom
the board belonged could work it
with more or less success, but for no
one in our party would it work
until Mrs. X. (Katherine Davis)
placed her hands on it. Then it
did work and in a most alarming
way. It told some things that were
most embarrassing to us all, and did
not stop at profanity. But it did
work and it was not pushed.

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you?" asked Mrs. X. later on in the
evening.

Answer: "I will give it."

Question: "When?"

Answer: "Now."

And that is how The Light from
Beyond came to be written.

The title, the author's name under
which it was to be published, and
every word in it were taken over the
Ouija board, and no changes nor cor-
rections have been made for that rea-
son, other than such as the board
itself instructed. Understand, please,
this story was not written in one sit-
ing, but dm'ing the evenings covering
a period of about three weeks,
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A word about Mrs. X. She is

young, popular, an excellent wife
and a successful mother. In other
words, she is a normal, happy,
healthy, human being, and she could
not have conceived either consciously
or, to our belief, subconsciously, the
thoughts given to the world in this
book. Possibly Sir Oliver Lodge or
Conan Doyle, or someone specialized
in this sort of thing can explain it.
We cannot.



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The officials were greatly puzzled
by the mystery. Who could be re-
sponsible? For Wells' peculiar the-
ory seemed very illogical. He was
acknowledged to be the world's most
progressive scientist, but his explana-
tion of the lost code messages was
exceedingly startling to even the
highest officials. Drilled in mathe-
matics for several years, they refused
to believe such a miracle could have
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suddenly been Wells' good fortune
to discover.

You must remember scientists just
eulogize when the ordinary mortal
never seems to comprehend. Code
messages sent by the Allies to
Germany scarcely ever reached their
destination. The strange fact was
the Germans claimed they never re-
ceived the armistice orders the Allies
sent.

When men responsible for the
codes claimed they could not fathom
the problem, the Allies sent for
Wells. He seemed to be the only one
who could possibly know anything
about such a peculiar mystery. He
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had the reputation of fathoming
scientific problems other scientists
could not undertake. His theory
was that the mysterious lights seen
in the sky, when messages of impor-
tance were sent, held some signifi-
cance — partly because the only time
the lights were ever seen armistice
orders were sent to Germany.

Consequently, his theory was to
concentrate on this peculiar light.
The strangest part of this light
seemed to be its brilliancy. The
strangest colors fascinated Wells.
He could see beauty in colors other
people loathed. Men often said he
had the world within when he started
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out to find the secrets which the
elements do not care to disclose.
And they seldom do give any in-
formation scientists do not struggle
with for years. They guard their
secrets very zealously from the
world's prying eyes.

The light could be seen plainly
with a telescope. When particular
colored lens were used red rays
seemed to cause the white light to
become dim. Just then a pretty ra-
dium light, seen for the first time,
entered the very way the red ray did.
But the radium ray was not always
in evidence.

Next thing Wells knew the white
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light seemed a small point of light
which threatened to disappear alto-
gether.

"Light is life." Even the knowl-
edge science has of light counts for
little. Light is the Hfe of the
world. Without it nothing could live.
Just think how the light brings forth
the flowers. The little bud becomes
a full grown leaf under its bounty.
All nature holds its face toward the
light. Yet people who need it most
shut themselves away from its rays.
Light just generates electricity as
it travels. Men could use millions of
volts and never even scratch what
exists. The amount is unlimited.
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Light, however, is the power which
makes electricity. Without doubt
light wastes enough electricity to re-
volve another world. This may be
incomprehensible to people, but
strange as it seems it is a fact. The
rays are concentrated bits of
light.

Great lives have been sacrificed in
efforts to discover what knowledge
we have of the elements, but of the
power of light rays we know practi-
cally nothing. Light enters the small-
est astral crevice. Hope people will
understand when I tell them light
travels so fast men know positively
nothing of its speed. Lift your eyes
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to God and eulogize the light when-
ever you see the sunshine.

Light could be used for several
different things. Just, for example,
take people that have brain fever.
They see things which never existed
so far as we know. However, every
object they see actually does exist in
some one of the planets. Light rays
take them to these other worlds, but
you don't realize why you see such
things in delirium. Light can change
your whole personality — in fact, just
to show you why let me tell you the
people you consider dead are living
right around you in the light. They
live with you and can see you just
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as though they had bodies. They are
your influence in most things. The
Mght, because God wishes them to be
hidden from your eyes, protects them
from your vision, but they Hve just
as you do. Perhaps some day very
soon the veil may be lifted and people
will never fear death again.

This is another example of the
power hght has. Have you been
with anyone when they passed on?
You should never disturb them by
weeping. It makes the change very
difficult for them. I went in one
moment and it was almost impossible
for me to realize where I was for a
while. I was completely lost until a
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former friend helped me. Then I
knew, but I am right on earth except
out of my former body, hving with
people I care for and doing prac-
tically the same work I did before.
The saddest thing I have to contend
with is people don't see me, conse-
quently cannot beheve I am with
them. So you see what light can do.
The men in this war found it very
difficult when they were called into
the other life suddenly. There were
so many we could not help them as
soon as we should have. They were
so helpless when shot to pieces, that
it was necessary to have the older
spirits to help them. Light is prac-
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tically our food because we do not
eat in this world. It is not necessary
for the type of bodies we have. They
do not require the same form of
nourishment. I could never explain
so people could understand. They
will, however, when they get here, as
they all will some day. But if you
only understood the power of light
you would accomplish wonders.

How little we appreciate God's
wonderful hght. He has given us
our brains to use and if we develop
them sufficiently there are very few
of earth's mysterious secrets we could
not make ours.

Wells' knowledge of light was
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more than any of the scientists could
boast of, He, among other things,
had devoted a real sincere interest in
colored lights which helped him now.
He realized the code messages were
being taken by some unusual means.
It seemed to be the only way the
messages could have been lost. The
officials were extremely careful who
sent them. Only the most responsible
people had anything to do with them.
Could foreign science have found
something the others knew nothing
about?

Wells knew a Madame Unger who
lived in Hungary had discovered
many things regarding light rays.
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She used a queer method other scien-
tists knew little about. They spoke
of her as a genius light expeH. Wells
knew her reputation well, so knew she
was quite capable of any new dis-
covery, j

About this time papers in Ger-
many began to print thoughts of
prominent men when they had only
just decided to do the things them-
selves and had not expressed their
thoughts to anyone. They only
seemed to print the thoughts, how-
ever, which pertained to the armistice
plans.

This was alarming and it was de-
cidedly up to someone to find the rea-
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son. They seemed to know secrets the
officials themselves only just thought
of. Wells was a bit puzzled by this
new turn the affair had taken. High
officials assured him the dread of this
thing, understanding every thought
was placing the Allies in a very awk-
ward position. Surely Wells could
do something.

He assured them they probably
would not believe his theoiy even
though they would realize there was
no other solution to the mystery.
Sometimes Wells could imagine a
very proper man's thought greatly
surprising whoever invented the in-
strument or whatever it was which
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took the thought from his mind when
least expected.

Laughable, indeed, it would be to
know what the average person thinks
about.

Wells started work in earnest. He
knew something must be done. First
he tried several different kinds of
lights for his telescope. He used first
one color, then another, but he
could always see the white light — that
was the important factor. Just
imagine if you can, red rays hot
enough to burn a concrete building
in one second. Just think of the
power the red ray has.

The tiny light we see is but a f rac-
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tion of what really exists. You have
not the slightest conception of what
I am trying to explain.

When a person enters the astral
world he is dazed by its splendor.
Witness the earth from the astral
world and it appears the greatest ball
of darkness imaginable. Mysterious
as this may seem, I know the earth is
the darkest of all planets. Oh, the
splendor of the astral world you
will never understand until you
are here. Never dread passing
on. When you feel your time has
come, be the hajjpiest of mortals.
Can't tell you more because it is
forbidden.

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Mighty few will understand what
I have said. The sad part is they
cannot seem to appreciate it.

Well, to resume our story.

Wells tried to discover what bear-
ing the red ray could have on the
mystery. He studied the light for
weeks before the true meaning
seemed to dawn on him. Then all at
once he understood. But how to con-
vince anyone else seemed an utter
impossibility. What to do when the
officials demanded an explanation
was a problem. How could he tell
them someone had invented a light
powerful enough to take their very
thoughts from their minds. Also the
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code messages from the ether when
they left the wireless.

These were the facts, however, and
the knowledge really made him afraid
for the world. The question was how
was it done. Wells could not explain
that even though he knew it was some
kind of an instrument. He did not
know just what it was.

Just think every thought known.
Some people would certainly find it
necessary to change their manner of
living. Mighty few could stand so
severe a test. I should not care to
have even mine known at times.

Wells told how he had discovered
the mysterious light and people im-
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mediately pronounced him quite mad.
Just as people naturally would when
they could not understand. Every
time anyone dares to attempt giving
the world any idea which their small
minds have difficulty in grasping,
how they are forced to suffer. How
advanced thinkers always suffer, and
all because they do not belong to the
earth but are here to be of service to
stupid humanity, who never under-
stands.

Wells was no exception. The
Allies decided, however, to scare
Germany. They sent word every
code message they failed to receive
would make things that much worse
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for Germany. The German officials
decided to waste no time finding who
might secretly steal the codes. The
authorities would never have known
had Madame Unger not understood
her responsibility to the world.

Being a woman of principle, she
told the authorities she had invented
this light, which was the only one in
the world. She assured them slie
thought the Germans were not to be
trusted where Austria was concerned
and had worked for the past four
years on a light, which could take
their very thoughts from them. She
went so far as to say they were under
constant surveillance. She used this
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means to be positive Austria gave
only the portion allotted her by the
Allied countries. She was earnest in
the extreme.

Knowing her reputation, the au-
thorities believed her, but were curi-
ous to see for themselves. She kindly
offered to receive them and give a
demonstration of its power. The
authorities were a bit afraid of the
light. But curiosity was stronger
than fear, so the next day found his
former Majesty Hindenburg on his
way to see Madame linger, accom-
panied by minor celebrities.

The light was on top of a building
in Prague. The building was the
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largest in the city. So when I tell you
the light was as large as the whole
building you can imagine its size.
Just to see it was wonderfully im-
pressive. Little wonder I had de-
cided difficulty explaining God's
light. Even this requires the greatest
imagination to comprehend.

This world is just beginning to
read Heaven's secrets. Just when
people will understand is a problem;
so it will be difficult to describe this
light. However, the red light was
the main light which took the codes
from the ether. This was very much
larger than the white one. It was
made of separate lights put several
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layers over and over on a big piece
of red glass. When this was finished
it looked like a big red sun which
you have seen often on a perfect
Summer evening. I can't seem to
find words to describe how it was put
together. The first layer seemed to
be transparent. The others were
made to be magnetic. Consequently
the messages were recorded on the
transparent layer of glass by means
of light rays. The codes were easily
interpreted by knowledge of mathe-
matics.

Everything revolves around the
master numbers. The supreme num-
ber is nine. Everything revolves
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around it. Nine is the master num-
ber because it is always at the end
of every column.

The red light could bring by the
magnetic rays anything sent through
the ether. Just imagine the thought
required to invent such a light.

The magnetic ray worked only
when the sun ray was very brilliant.
Little was accomplished at other
times, so when this was a fact beyond
doubt Madame linger decided to
invent some method of reading the
thoughts of those who sent the codes.

The white light was just electrical
vibrations which reached out its arms
to every corner of the globe. The
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constant vibration took the very light
from the earth and people wondered
why the days seemed so cloudy.
Where had the sun gone? They
thought the war was responsible, but
little did they dream of the truth.
The white light was made of pure
crystal and registered thoughts by
means almost too peculiar to explain.

However, I will explain. Perhaps
you will be interested.

Madame linger held a piece of
crystal in her hand one day to admire
the perfect clearness of the stone. She
found she was able to read the
thoughts of those around her. When
people see crystal gazers bear in mind

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they can without doubt read your
mind. Madame Unger knew if she
could invent a crystal light she would
be able to take thoughts from any dis-
tance because they vibrate all through
the universe. Hot waves of elec-
tricity send them. So after much dif-
ficulty she found a piece of crystal
large enough to make a huge light.
This was the tiny white light Wells
always saw. The very air leaves you
with the knowledge there must be a
terrific amount of surplus electricity
in the ether. With that knowledge
they could use electricity. (Here
are the facts, for since I lived on
earth they have discovered very few
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new means for the use of electri-
city.)

You could go to Europe in one day
if someone could invent a propeller
made to run by electricity.

When electrical autos are used
(Katherine, you will always be in
court then) we can go five hundred
miles an hour if we are allowed.

In the future you will have aero-
planes which will go even faster than
this. They will probably be the
means by which you will go to
Europe in one day. This is a present
possibility, not away in the future.
Electricity will be taken directly
from the ether, not by means of power
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plants. Consequently, there will be
no limit to what we can do with it.
Also electricity when people have
reached a higher stage of knowledge
will cure all disease.

The thoughts have a great deal
to do with health. People little real-
ize how a wricked thought hurts not
only themselves but every single one
in the whole universe. So we know
thoughts are like the sun rays for
every soul is affected by them. If,
however, we live on a high plane of
thought low thoughts do not reach us
in the same way. When people put
httle value on thoughts it is decided
ignorance and a great pity.
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Thoughts come principally from
the other world. You think they are
yours, but you reach them only be-
cause you have the capacity for
receiving them. It depends entirely
how you develop yourself. If you
live only for the world and the things
pertaining to earth you only think
and receive material thoughts. When
you seek the higher knowledge you
begin to receive the thoughts of the
people on the higher planes, and un-
less you wish to develop you never
will. This is the difference between
your world and ours.

We are at God's mercy and
controlled by Him entirely. You
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can by using will-power reach for
higher things. Earth is the only-
stage in existence we have that
privilege.

Make use of every moment. We
do not suffer bodily pain, but the
remorse felt when we realize what an
opportunity we had to develop and
wasted is dreadful. I am speaking
from experience. Don't waste your
life. Get as far as possible before
you pass on. We, however, make you
see many things and you give your-
self credit for the ideas. Just aim
high in thought and we will do the
rest.

However, to get back to the crystal
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light : Madame Unger put the light in
the sun ray for she knew then it
would attract the thoughts. To tnow
whose thoughts they were was the
prohlem. Sometimes the crystal
light would show a perfect picture of
the people speaking, but other times
it was very cloudy and not possible to
see who was speaking. So she in-
vented another way to tell.

Tell the world this is positively a
fact. It can be done and the earth
is the only planet which does not
know how sun rays can manage
through electrical vibration to regis-
ter every thought.

But Madame Unger, knowing the
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value of vibration, held the secret.
The difficulty was to know how to
read it, and when she first began to
experiment it seemed utterly impos-
sible. Suddenly it became quite
clear. The thoughts could be trans-
ferred from the mind to her by sun
rays and vibrations and she could
even tell who was speaking. The way
she could tell was she had known
many of these people personally be-
fore the war. People will say this is
impossible and ridiculous, but it is an
absolute fact and the earth will know
too some day.

The authorities were amazed by the
facts they saw. As I read thoughts
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of people myself, I can understand
Madame Unger's surprise when Hin-
denburg decided he would offer her
any amount of money if she would
reveal her secret knowledge to him.
He suggested this to her and simply
could not grasp the fact it was im-
possible to teach a person who had
never even thought of such things
before. He went away feeling very
disappointed indeed.

When the news spread to England
the officials gave Wells every possible
credit. When people discovered he
found the light was the means by
which the code messages were taken
they show^ered every praise on him.
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He decided, however, to see this light
himself. The following month found
him in Prague, reluctant to ask per-
mission to see it. He disliked all
Austrians and knew they probably
had no particular love for any Eng-
lishman just at this particular time.
Even so wonderful a person as
Madame Unger must probably have
decided prejudice against an Eng-
lander.

The way was made clear, however,
by the lady herself, who read in his
thoughts the longing to see such won-
ders as she had discovered. He went
to call next day by special invita-
tion and was cordially received by
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Madame linger. Since they were
both scientists they had much in com-
mon and Wells found her a charming
hostess. Madame linger was first a
woman, then a scientist and also an
unusually pretty woman. Wells
thought it strange she had never
found anyone she cared to marry. In
fact, she never had married, but to
please her mother had taken the
privilege of calling herself Madame.
It saved explanations.

In some ways, even he found her
desirable. He ceased reflections and
asked if he might see the light.

"Just what made you know a per-
son might find a way to take the sun-
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rays and use them in this manner?"
asked Wells.

Madame linger looked at him a
few seconds and realized he really
was in earnest. Surely so progres-
sive a scientist would know, but he
did not seem to.

''Mr. Wells, don't you believe in
God?" she asked. "Surely, if you do,
you could never ask such a question.
When I wish to find the sun's secrets
I pray many hours every day.
Should I wish to discover any secrets
the earth holds, I would just eulo-
gize the light. God is Light. He
always answers my prayers. The
people who never pray very seldom
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rise to any heights. Therefore I
almost wonder at your question."

She looked at him in amazement.
How had he discovered anything?

When she worked she had God
with her. Therefore everything was
possible.

Wells was much impressed with
her. She certainly was remarkable
— ^just to have the friendship of a
woman like that was an incentive.
Most women bored him beyond
words. He had married a terribly
frivolous lady when quite young and
lived unhappy ever after. People
who knew them were sorry for him.
He seemed so utterly out of her
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small world. The fault was not en-
tirely hers for she belonged to a
different sphere, and was just as un-
happy as he was. They had a griev-
ance against each other most of the
time.

Madame Unger seemed very won-
derful in comparison. When he saw
her light, knowing the difficulties she
had surmounted to accomplish such