"I never knew of any B. connected with Yale. When B. was first
mentioned at the sitting, I had a vague notion that some B. or
other had gone to England or France as United States consul. I
also knew the name of ---- ---- B. [a celebrated author. Ed.], and
met her after she became Mrs. C. two or three years ago.
"On questioning Mrs. Piper, which I did by referring to books
first, I found that she remembered the name of ---- ---- B. when I
mentioned it, and connected it in some way with [a certain book.
Ed.], which was widely circulated some years ago. This was the
only B. that she seemed to know anything about....
"Yours sincerely,
"R. HODGSON."
Now does not all this give a strong impression of an interflow among minds
all over--in New York (the place of the sitting), Granada (Mrs. A.'s place
of sojourn), Boston (A.'s home), New Haven (B.'s home), and the universe
in general (G.P.'s apparent home)--of an interflow free from the
limitations of time and space, and independent of all means of
communication known to us?
This impression tends to grow deeper with farther study. We have had a
cross-correspondence between two incarnate intelligences and one apparently
postcarnate. Mr. Piddington has unearthed a cross-correspondence between
one apparently postcarnate intelligence and seven "living" ones.
Perhaps the significance of cross-correspondences justifies a little more
specific treatment, and even the repetition of a paragraph from the first
number of this REVIEW. The topic has lately attracted more attention from
the S.P.R. than any other.
If Mrs. Verrall in London and Mrs. Holland in India both, at about the
same time, write heteromatically about a subject that they both
understand, that is probably coincidence; but if both write about it when
but one of them understands it, that is probably teloteropathy; and if
both write about it when neither understands it, and each of their
respective writings is apparently nonsense, but both make sense when put
together, the only obvious hypothesis is that both were inspired by a
third mind.
There are many instances of strict cross-correspondence of this type. The
one we have given was perhaps more impressive than a stricter one would be
apt to be.
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