PSYCHO-PHONE
MESSAGES
RECORDED BY
FRANCIS GRIERSON
Spiritual Messages from the late General U. S. Grant, on Adequate Preparation in America; Thomas Jefferson,on the Future of American Democracy; Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs; Prince Bismarck, on the Indemnities;John Marshall, on the Psychology of the Supreme Court of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that PrecedeRevolution; Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico; Robert Ingersoll, on Our Great Women; Henry Ward Beecher, on the NewPuritanism; Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, on President Harding; General B. H. Grierson, on Japan, Mexico and California, etc.
PSYCHO-PHONE
MESSAGES
RECORDED BY
FRANCIS GRIERSON
Published by
AUSTIN PUBLISHING COMPANY
Los Angeles, California
Copyright, June 1921
By B. F. Austin
The word “psycho-phone” was first suggested and used by Mr. FrancisGrierson in a lecture I heard him deliver before the Toronto TheosophicalSociety, August 31st, 1919, a year before Thomas Edison announced hisintention of devising an instrument which he hopes will serve to establishintercourse between our world and the world of spirit.
My own experiences as a student in this sphere of psychic research inEurope and America, covering a period of thirty years, convince me that wehave here a revelation of a new mode of spiritual communication unlikeanything heretofore given to the world, not only different in quality butdifferent in purpose.
From personal knowledge I can state that the recorder of these messageshas not acted on ideas advanced by anyone living on our plane.
[Pg 6]Looking back over the past two decades, I am led to believe that Mr.Grierson’s predictions in “The Invincible Alliance,” and in that startlingpoem, “The Awakening in Westminster Abbey,” forecasting the war and thetragic events in Ireland, were spiritual and psycho-phonic in character.
From 1909 to 1911 Francis Grierson was the acknowledged leading writer on“The New Age,” of London, which at that time had as contributors, H. G.Wells, Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, the two Chestertons, HillaireBelloc—in one word, all the most prominent writers and advanced thinkersin Britain, yet not one of them except Mr. Grierson could see theapproaching world upheaval.
Early in 1909 he published a series of articles in that weekly depictingthe coming war, and nothing of so drastic a nature had ever appeared in anEnglish publication. In the spring of 1913 these articles were publishedin book form in London and New York under the title of “The InvincibleAlliance.”
In the Westminster Abbey composition, published in “The New Age” in 1910,the[Pg 7] characteristics of four personalities are plainly manifest—Coleridge,Milton, Shelley and Shakespeare—and I have not forgotten the sensationcaused by this great work in London at the time of its appearance.
Having had occasion to study the social and psychic conditions in France,Germany, Italy, Austria and England before the great war, and after havingbeen an eye witness of scenes unique in the annals of musical inspirationin the artistic and literary circles of Europe as well as the mostintellectual of the royal courts, in which Mr. Grierson was the centralfigure, I n