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"First, he believes in the devil in quite an extraordinary way Oh! yes, I knoe do too; but it's so very real indeed with him He believes that the air is siet hold of hus Yes, I suppose we do believe that too; but I expect that since there are such a quantity of things--like bad dreams--that we used to think were the devil, and now only turn out to be indigestion, that we're rather too skeptical Well, Mr Cathcart believes both in indigestion, so to speak, and the devil He believes that those evil spirits are at us all the tiet in at any crack they can find--that in one person they produce lunacy--I must say it seems to me rather odd the way in which lunatics so very often becos like that--and in another just shattered nerves, and so on They take advantage, he says, of any weak spot anywhere

"Now one of the easiest ways of all is through spiritualish; it is wrong because it's trying to live a life and find out things that are beyond us at present It's 'wrong' on the very lowest esti our human nature Yes, Mabel, that's his phrase Good intentions, therefore, don't protect us in the least To go to séances with good intentions is likelikeholding a sazine on behalf of an orphan asylu profane, my dear--it's not the least protection to open the concert with prayer We've got no business there at all So we're blown up just the saer's this, Mr Cathcart says At séances, if they're genuine, and with auto and all the rest, you deliberately approach those powers in a friendly way, and by the sort of passivity which you've got to get yourself into, you open yourself as widely as possible to their entrance Very often they can't get in; and then you're only bothered But sometimes they can, and then you're done It's particularly hard to get theain

"Now, of course, no one in his senses--especially decent people--would drea all this if he knehat it all meant So these creatures, whatever they may be, always pretend to be somebody else They're very sharp: they can pick up all kinds of odds and ends, little tricks, and little facts; and so, with these, they impersonate someone whom the inquirer's very fond of; and they say all sorts of pious, happy little things at first in order to lead theion's quite true (By the way, it's rather too odd the way in which the Catholic Church see else, if you're a spiritualist; but you can't be a Catholic) Generally, though, they tell you to say your prayers and sing hy with hi some hymns in church, said that heretics alent in for hyion's not worth much; and then they attack morals Mr Cathcart wouldn't tell ot just as bad as it could be, if you didn't take care"