Spiritualism and Mars

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 2, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 22.

Spiritualism and Mars.

There seems to be a great desire on the part of some people to communicate with Mars. Different methods of doing this have been proposed from time to time. Professor Pickering thinks that $2,000,000 will be sufficient to build a heliograph capable of flashing signals to the planet. Many other propositions are being made, and all of them, we think, seem rather visionary, and some of them, quite ridiculous. The last proposition, and the wildest one of all, is that of communication by thought waves, whatever that may mean. We are told what it means by the information that spiritualistic mediums should be used for this purpose, since they are cheaper than mirrors. The fact that already we have reports from different mediums, and that none of these agree with one another in the slightest, does not at all seem to dampen the ardor of those making the proposition. Lying spirits are not very apt to agree among themselves, and if an appeal is made to mediums for information regarding Mars, the probability is that we shall have a mass of Martian stories, so called, that will be as varied and contradictory as the lying spirits that dictate them can produce.