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THE HUMAN RADIO
by Joseph A. Sadony [1877-1960]
"A brief study of certain
possibilities of the human mind and the nature of modern prophecy in
the light of the opinion and experience of Joseph A. Sadony."
Valley of the Pines,
Montague, Michigan,
The Valley Press, 1924
God has given us the most
wonderful Human Radio, and sent us a living example in the sacrifice
of the Master, whose delicate, tender vital organs Mankind did
destroy upon a Cross where God did attach a golden antenna to span
the Universe, from whence messages of love and sacrifice were
broadcasted - and not alone the Past, but the entire future.
I believe that it is an honor to
live, and a greater honor to carry out inborn ideals, be they what
they may. Judas, in the act of betraying Christ, entered the hall of
Immortal names walking parallel with Jesus. He is the Night were all
evil is hidden. Christ is the Light of the World. Still, if there
were no night of evil, of what use would be the Master's blessing?
In this is the complete memory which tells us to pray - not for
prayer alone, but that we may tune in our spiritual radios to
receive the silent whispers of the Universe, which will inspire us
to edify ourselves that the Human Race may become one happy Family,
- living under the law of creation in our younger days, and the
spiritual life of a Philosopher in our declining years, after the
fire of Life has been rid of its smoke, the warm embers of love
remaining.
INTRODUCTION
Most of us think of a "Prophet"
and the "spirit of prophecy" as a thing of the past. If we should
ask a modern business man whether Prophets lived today, he might
smile. Yet he is himself a "Prophet" or he would not be a successful
business man.
The fault lies in association of
thought and emotion about a word, such as "Prophet", and an idea,
such as "Prophecy", which originally rotted themselves in the soil
of a religion fertilized by superstition and blind unreasoning
faith.
The man of today might prefer the
term "Seer", for his encyclopedia tells him that a "Seer, in the
sense in which all antiquity believed in them, is simply a man who
sees what others cannot see, whether of public or private interest"
- whereas the Prophet is "an organ of Jehovah's Kingship over His
people....."
The spirit of prophecy in the
light of today retains the idea of foreseeing, (prevision), of
foretelling, (prediction), but is stripped of Mystery and
fanaticism. It is as free as the air we breathe, and not the reward
exclusively of long struggling and ridiculous self-torture.
Call it a "Hunch", an
"Inspiration" - what you please. It is a "feeling in your bones",
whether based on experience amassed subconsciously through years of
effort, or utterly without foundation of reason and logic. It is the
"Intuition" which has evolved from animal Instinct, through
knowledge in man, to itself as the mark of the "superman" that we
may each become. It is to quote Mr. Sadony, "that law which governs
crystallization in minerals, a law of individuality which governs
instinct, the milestone of distinct species in animals: character
and personality in man...."
Each generation brings its greater
Prophets. We call them "men of foresight", and speak of their deep
insight into this and that - which is sufficient. They do not all
cry out to the multitude. They may prophesy by their endeavors. They
may materialize their own visions before others think to reap the
fruit of what is possible, therefore inevitable if human progress is
a fact.
We each tend to prophesy within
boundaries familiar to our ambition. Our scope measures our
prophecy. "I don't believe it will rain today," we state. "I wonder
if....." and then we forget the conclusion of our own thoughts.
A genius in any line confines his
thought and efforts to the field of his interest. He specializes. He
speaks with authority of past and present, which entitles him to
"expectations" that are no less than predictions.
A Prophet to all would need be
practiced in every trade, familiar with every tool, experienced in
each phase of life.
False prophets are many. Thirst
for gain or fame carries them out of bounds on wings of an
imagination nourished by vanity but not governed by reason.
The essential thread of mankind
has not changed. Intelligence of the past was transformed into
beauty and jewels, instead of mechanical achievements. The Egyptians
erected pyramids and preserved their dead instead of conquering the
air. The Chinese studied stars and made delicate instruments of
ivory, instead of harnessing steam in an engine. The age of
specialization had not yet come. A man was a man; if a "scientist"
he was likely also a "priest"; if he thought at all, he was a
"philosopher". Life as a whole was unified by that attitude which,
being the "cause" of religion, was essentially religious.
Born on the crest of each wave of
thought are its own prophets. Early interest was national,
religious, militant. The spokesmen prophesied wars, the fate of
nations, the wrath of a God. Later interest was individual,
industrial, scientific. There was reaction against war and a
revengeful God. Prophecy concerned itself with individual desire,
needs, ambitions, with political and business ventures, scientific
discoveries; it was in terms of love, happiness, peace, a state of
mind and manner of living symbolized in "paradise" rather than
"falling cities"........
The astronomy of early China gave
birth to astrologers that were punished with death for a mistaken
prophecy. Astronomy today reveals prophets of eclipses, of comets,
of all stellar movement according to known laws. And prophecy
implies rather than prohibits such a knowledge of determined laws,
be they of mathematics, Nature, or human nature.
A physician is consulted. By
application of knowledge to his observations he diagnoses the
present, deduces the past, and foresees likely developments which to
the extent of his ability he controls. Without this insight into
present and past, with its resultant foresight, he would fail in his
profession.
Success in any line of endeavor is
evidence of the conscious or unconscious use of this "power", be it
what it may. In fact, the test of the prophet is in achievement. A
false prophet will have "words" without works.
So it is not difficult to find the
true prophets. Edison made a business of organizing the fulfillment
of "prophecies" on a large scale. The Wright brothers, Bell, Marconi
- each a prophet in his own way. Then we find the "Business
Prophets", whose vision leads them to promote plans that determine
the future condition of thousands of employees. Carnegie,
Rockefeller, Ford, in fact every millionaire who did not inherit his
money, are all Prophets.
Artists and authors strive to
imprison their visions in pictures, symbols, words. Musicians and
dramatists anticipate the trend of human emotions and often think
themselves to be molding it, whereas they are merely the slaves.
An adequate study of living
prophets would necessitate a catalogue of human endeavors, which in
an age of specialization would be a tremendous task.
Our point is made. To those who
have not understood the nature of Mr. Sadony's work, we wish to say
that whereas another might choose electricity, one of the sciences
or arts, business or politics, Mr. Sadony has chosen as his field of
labor, the human being which includes them all. His studies have
been the human mind with all its attributes, human nature, human
emotions, strengths, failings, possibilities and limitations. He has
explored the human heart in all phases of life. He has equipped
himself by experience with a knowledge of every tool and endeavor.
He has undergone all sorrows, joys, as well as tortures to which the
flesh is heir, that he might see and feel the needs of others. And
he has investigated every line of thought and belief in the freedom
of being identified with none.
For thirty years, without exacting
compensation of any kind, Mr. Sadony has devoted his life to the
solving of human problems.
In this, his chosen field, have
this insight and foresight applied themselves. And that we, his
friends, might better understand a certain result that we have
questioned, he has permitted this booklet to be prepared, in which
we quote, from letters, observations and accounts, a brief glimpse
of the great amount of evidence on hand that the mind is indeed a
human radio, that thoughts are things, and that the "spirit of
prophecy", far from being a thing of the dead past, is a vital
activity of the human soul, expressing itself in all human endeavors
as orderly and unmistakably as instinct in the perpetuation and
preservation of animal species.
Mr. Sadony applied his theories
not alone to others but to himself. That they "worked" was a matter
of great moment to those who sought his advice.
He did find the sane solution of
life and happiness in the world. Twenty years ago he set out to
demonstrate that a man could build himself a "paradise on earth"
with nothing but the desire to do so. His own desire for seclusion
on a little eighty acre farm, near a large body of water, with a
hill and valley, a winding stream, a grove of virgin pine, was so
clearly formed as to convince him that it was the shadow of a
reality that existed.
He sent forth a description. The
place was found, but was not for sale. "It belongs to me!" he
declared. And circumstances of the owners soon resulted in a
reasonable sale. But it required all that he possessed. Then,
without money, and as a labor of love, he built his paradise, The
Valley of the Pines.
The world soon beat a path to his
door. He continued his work of advising, without charge, the many
thousands that wrote or came to him. His correspondence became so
heavy at last that he was forced to select a little "flock", over
which he watched more closely, keeping in touch with them through
correspondence. This "little flock" contained two thousand families
in five hundred towns, in forty-three states and twenty-six foreign
countries. Hundreds traveled long distances to talk with him. Still
he found time to labor, and at the end of seventeen years felt that
he had sufficiently demonstrated what a man could do with "nothing",
and that it was time to apply his theory to "business" for the
better support of his family, as well as those whom he desired to
help through charity.
His Valley was now a miniature
kingdom, equipped with every tool, convenience and need. He had made
a machine to form concrete blocks with which he built a laboratory
for experiment in many fields; a studio for his correspondence,
library and collection of curios; and a little home for his mother.
So at length he allowed himself to
become known in a business way: first as "Consulting Efficiency
Expert", and then as "Advising Promoter and Consulting Executive" -
not a sacrifice of his chosen work, but that he might better carry
out his purpose among those in need.
The field of interest in a work of
such scope, is unlimited. The subject in question, however, is
"prophecy." This includes with foresight, an insight into present
and past, as well as that sensitivity of the mind which might be
discussed in terms of "psychometry", or "telepathy", but finds more
perfect illustration in its own counterpart and creation, the Radio"
all thoughts that ever were or will be.
After thorough investigation
extending over a long period of years, the evidence at hand has been
found undeniable. The brief records to follow have been selected
from unpublished records containing hundreds of cases in all
details. But we agree with Mr. Sadony, that predictions, in
themselves, whatever the comfort to an individual, are after all of
less importance than that attitude or philosophy of life of which
his foresight, success and mode of living are but the fruits.
My philosophy is not new. It is
but the true inspiration of the prophets of old: for I do prophesy
things that are to come. And if I am able to do so, then I must live
in the future in order to bring it back today.
Our "knowledge" began in the past,
by the accumulation of timber as material to compare with these
things that happen each day. But that inspiration which every child
of God can acquire, has been, is, and will continue to be in the
very air we breathe. It is recorded as the rippling sands upon the
sea-shore, which give evidence that there have been waves as
sculptors; and when you see the waves, they tell you that they are
sculptors at work, doing what they have done centuries ago, and will
continue so to do.
THE HUMAN RADIO
EXTRACTS FROM AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
BY JOSEPH A. SADONY
(FOREWORD)
Many thousands of people have
asked about my work; have demanded an explanation of it, with
admission or refutation of the many things that they have heard;
have sought some intelligible "cause" or "means" to account for the
effects and results which they are forced to admit, with or without
hesitancy, that they have observed.
To these I am always glad to
reply, because of their friendship, because of their most evident
sincerity: in short, because they seek, ask, and knock at my door.
I have no desire to convince
anyone of anything, I have nothing to say from my front door-step.
But upon hearing a knock I hold open my door. To the voice of a
friend or stranger, I can do naught but reply, "Come in." Beyond
this each must judge for himself, as I have judged, as others have
judged.
That I have "found something" I do
not deny. That the majority of people in this world have "not as yet
found it", cannot be denied. But that "it" is the heritage and
flowering of mankind, the result of evolution; that each of you
"possess it", even "uses it", with our without being aware of the
fact; that it is yours for "possession" and "use" for the asking,
and a simple observance of nature's most evident laws - I do claim.
It is quite evident that I have a
"house" of some sort. You may examine it if you wish. I did build it
myself. So let us go back a step.....
I have lumber..... But let us go
back another step.
I have a tree...... Let us go back
still further.
I have a seed.
My house is proof of the seed. My
lumber is evidence that I did chop down a tree; the tree that I
found and planted a seed.
Would you enjoy such a house? If
so "go do ye likewise." Do you seek happiness, prosperity, security
- in fact, Success?
Come dine with me then. This is my
bread, my water. We are like children? We seem happy? We have all
that makes for pleasure and for comfort?
Then here is a seed. Have
patience.
Here is an axe.... Persevere.
Do you forget how to laugh? Is it
so hard to be a child? Is it so difficult to have faith?....
I.
We are electrical dynamos. The
nerves are the wires which carry the impulse. The blood in the
arteries is the iron core which induces the magnetism which we call
love, or attraction.
Our ambition is the voltage of
pressure; our endurance the amperes or volume; our circumstances the
rheostat, and the soul within us the engineer or master. Everything
depends upon the use that we make of this dynamo.
And surely one master engineer can
read the indicators, voltage and amperes of any other mechanism. It
is easy to understand, when one has mastered these little
"mysteries". But the uninitiated cannot understand the power of
electricity. The real source is still a mystery. Wireless telegraphy
proved still less comprehensible to the world at large; and even in
the face of its general usage, its evolution to the radio was
generally considered an impossible dream.
And yet, today we have the radio.
It is regarded with little more emotion than the telephone, still it
is a "miracle".
People marvel at the possibilities
of sensing thoughts in the air, but they will play with these
radios, hearing music a thousand miles away. Is not the mind which
created this radio which is able to receive vibrations from such a
distance, greater than the radio which is but a creation or one
possibly of its power?
We can conceive of nothing that
has not its seed, reflection or possibility within ourselves. Every
machine in existence is fundamentally a still and crude reproduction
of some part of the human make-up, some combination of muscles, some
faculty of body or mind.
The radio is but the outward echo
of one facet of the human mind. As the radio develops we will not
only hear but see, as can the sensitized mind.
We are Human Radios, the most
sensitive, delicate, and perfect Radios conceivable, the perfect
model from which all future improvements upon the electrical and
mechanical radio will be derived. If this were not so, the radio
would not be in existence. We can create or materialize nothing of
which we do not ourselves consist. An invention is the manifestation
and therefore absolute evidence of the existence of a thought - the
thought, or that which is the seed or cause of the thought, giving
it birth in accordance with definite laws.
Man, with all his ingenuity and
constructiveness can discover nothing new. He merely conforms with a
law already in existence for centuries. His sensibility of mind has
but absorbed the radiance of existing truth, and this seems to
astonish those less informed.........
V.
Let us suppose that you were to
ask me for a certain flower that you had seen in Europe. If I have
but three varieties, you will be unable to demonstrate the beauty of
the one you have in mind. But if I have many kinds of flowers, you
will likely be able to make a comparison that will convey your idea.
The process is similar to seeking
the wavelength of a wireless impulse with a tuning coil. It is this
same variation that gives us classical music, that gives us figures
in mathematics, with rules and short methods. The more figures,
experimental instruments, and acquired knowledge one possesses, the
broader the scope of possible comparison.
Another stranger comes to me. He
asks that I describe his father. The description is recorded in his
mind, and if I have registered one thousand faces, there will be one
among these that impresses me strangely. It is the addition of his
mental picture that gives me this description as nearly as possible
like the one in his mind, the registered picture that was his
father.
These things were all clear to me
very early in life, and I could demonstrate and prove them. But
there was one thing that long remained half a problem, and that was
how to predict. For in my own experience, the difference between
past and future was that I appeared to get the information of the
past through my mind, as in inductive thought, while in predicting
it seemed as if I were in the future coming back, (deductive
thought,) and with it a sort of reverential awe, a kind of ecstasy
as if just returning from a grand concert, or a beautiful garden
filled with music, color and perfume - a peculiar feeling akin to
that caused by opium or morphine, as nearly as I could understand
it. Once felt, it is always craved. But whereas drugs destroyed in
reaction, this seemed to strengthen, giving greater endurance,
greater power, greater precision and command.....
VII.
All religions embody good and have
bettered the world. There are two factors, faith and science; two
rules, and both are evidently right. Is it expecting too much that
religion and science together create a third principle, resulting in
the transformation of the world into one human family of many
children, each to his own? With science to preserve order by
eliminating fraud and trickery, there would be no fear of judging
the innocent as guilty.
As man in inclined toward
superstition, he naturally falls an easy prey to those clever enough
to deceive his eye. In fact some of the brightest minds of the 19th
and 20th centuries have been completely deceived in this way.
The possibility of our loved ones
returning after having passed away, or at least of sending us some
message, cannot be doubted. But it is the unreliability of the
method used to receive these messages, as well as the unreliability
of the person receiving them, which gives rise to a question. The
truth is often exaggerated, and the open-minded victim easily
duped.....
IX.
My faith in a supreme
fountain-head of truth not only makes me more susceptible to its
influence, and open to conviction of cause and effect, but cautions
me to incorporate reason and logic with the possibility that my
judgment may demand in the building of my mansions; it warns me to
endow the framework with strength, as well as to adorn it with
beauty; to preach and to practice; to love and help live; to acquire
knowledge and shape it, the better to understand: as an inspiration
toward that fountain-head of all wisdom whence we came, and toward
which we travel.
With my understanding, and
viewpoint, I could well afford to wait until my forty-seventh year
before allowing my work to be revealed, with its results - without
mercenary motive: simply regarding the milestones which have led me
thus far on my journey through life. If I have found it worthwhile
practically, the same principles may be applied to others traveling
my way. With this point in view, have these facts been recorded.
And if you travel my way, finding
my methods agreeable, you bathe in the same pool, and drink from the
same brook. If not, then one of us is out of step, and cannot dine
with the same appetite at the same table!....
"I realized when quite young that
the ready response in my make-up was due to having crated a harp of
experience, so I set myself about the perfecting of this. Each trade
acquired, each tool or instrument mastered, added so many more
strings to this harp, enabling me to give an opinion based upon
absolute knowledge. And as I continued to add to this supply of
"strings", I found a quicker responses when seeking knowledge by
intuition, and a correspondingly easier understanding of knowledge
acquired only thru transference of thought."......
"One cannot reach for an object to
which he is not entitled. Our imagination governed by reason, is the
forecast of future events, if we but understand, or make the
effort....."
"I have found that it is not
always my predictions that really count, through they may convince
one of the various methods by which nature unfolds her
secrets......"
"I hope all my friends understand
that it is impossible for me to have the radio-receiver of my brain
always open to every calamity that may happen. I am human and I may
be asleep and tired, just long enough to prevent warning my own son
against being killed. What right have I to demand a protection
exclusively for mine, when others have sacrificed in this world and
have not received it?...."
I see a beautiful woman
thoughtless of the morrow. That tomorrow tells me of her
disfigurement, while she unconsciously smiles away her
opportunities, and society bids me be silent.
"I see a sleek banker whose fate
tells me that it is waiting only for 'tomorrow' to wrest from his
hands his wealth, his wife, his friends.
"Today I see youth in full vigor
and hope. At his side disease casting dice with death.....
"A friend reaches out his hand to
me with a smile on his face. I long to love and to trust him. He
does not know that I see a dagger in his hand, and that I already
feel the spot that it will enter.
"This is the price of the human
radio. But, it is a bargain, for when all pay the price, at last,
brotherhood is thrown in as well as 'Peace on Earth,' - and paradise
found again, for Thought, which is the root and seed of all growth,
may not be hidden; and, thrown to the sun, night weeds will
die....."
"If I say to you, 'You will be
killed if you walk one block north,' and you should fail to walk one
block north, thus saving your life, has my prediction
failed?".......
"I know there are some things in
the future that we should not know just yet. Our minds cannot
comprehend them, so why use up mental vitality trying to analyze a
problem too complex for our present implements."........
"I have often been asked about the
market quotations. 'What am I going to do tomorrow?' etc, but these
things do not interest me. They are momentary. There is not profit
in that. It is the big thing. 'What MUST I do to succeed,' that
counts. It is not the raw, uncooked food, but a table spread with
which I am concerned: not the idle 'What time is it?' - but 'Is this
the hour of my death?' This puts me 'in bad' with some of my
business friends, until they know me and my subtle system of power,
that he who wills, shall, or he would not be able to will. For we
are lost by the words of fools, and find our way by the prattling of
babes......"
The mental and emotional
foundation of all humanity was shaken by the world war. And in
regaining its equilibrium, it most naturally groped for spiritual
truth. But in reaction it swung to the other extreme. In its
blindness it was too ready to throw down the truth as exemplified by
the past master-minds, rushing from place to place, seeking an easy
religion governed by selfishness, hypocrisy and superstition - the
curse of mankind. What the eye sees not, the ear must hear. Where
outward senses fail to recognize, reason must find a solution. All
faculties must work in unison, and science must corroborate the
truth of religion, and vice versa, if the mystic triangle, our only
rigid form, is to stand for truth.
I have found the power of prophesy
by hard labor, and shall use it to help those in need.
"...... If I give you to eat of
any bread, which will sustain you, then shall my predictions come to
pass in every detail. For it is expected that if I am your mental
physician, and predict certain events, that you have followed my
instructions. And if you do not, my clothes would not fit you.
"All the things that I have
predicted to you are as certain and possible as the embryo of an egg
if it is worth the while to keep it in warmth in order to give it
birth."
THE EVIDENCE
I.
Mr. Sadony's correspondence and
experience afford absolute evidence, with hundreds of affidavits and
witnesses of certain powers or possibilities of the human mind. An
exhaustive study of this evidence, or anything like a systematic
weaving of phenomena with theory, would fill several volumes. In a
booklet we can hardly more than touch upon a few typical cases that
show the nature of our omissions. These have been selected
promiscuously, just as they have been found, and as they have come,
to give a better understanding of "the timber to the building." They
are but a few out of thousands that have been verified. It will be
understood that the confidence of personal friends removes their
cases from consideration. Furthermore the identity has been
concealed in the majority of cases from which it has been considered
permissible to quote.
The material at hand arranges
itself in several main divisions which prove, respectively, the
possibility,
I: of correct character, delineation of those unseen and
previously unknown, as well as acquaintances.
II: correct sensing of thoughts or conditions "between the
lines", (psychometrically, intuitively, or clairvoyantly).
III: Correct reading of past.
IV: Correct sensing of names, facts and intelligible messages
from the deceased. "Air Messages", as Mr. Sadony has called them.
V: Fulfillment of prophecies. a. intuitive, b.
scientific, c. suggestive.
VI: Warnings (and results), both positive and negative, (with
ample evidence of the result of failure to follow advice.)
VII: Mechanical intuition (sensing of conditions of inanimate
objects such as machines, with diagnosis and repair of troubles.) In
this section also has been classed a sensing of the whereabouts of
inanimate objects. And
VIII:, clairvoyant or clairaudient knowledge of conditions
and events transpiring at the moment, but at great distances. With a
IXth section to include the more subtle manifestations such
as unconscious preparation with a purpose that revealed itself
afterwards, perhaps months or years later. And a
Xth to include all those special and more remarkable cases
not found in the preceding nine divisions.
No attempt has been made to adhere
strictly to this classification in selecting the following examples.
The average "case" in all its details contains evidence applying to
as many as six of these categories. The bulk of all cases applies to
section V, the "Fulfillment of Prophecies."
V.
As for section I, to quote from
one or two letters is to echo hundreds of the same kind that have
been received.
CASE 443 - Letter 7257 - "Your
deductions regarding my character, disposition, and business
activity are decidedly accurate, consequently your suggestions for
future possibilities have set me thinking very seriously..... Your
deductions from the handwriting I enclosed describe the character of
each individual exactly - you could hardly have been more correct
had you know each man personally..... You perhaps will remember
having told my wife at that time (a year ago) that she would gain 16
pounds in weight in August. Well, you surely told her correctly, for
she weights about 23 pounds more now. (September), she is expecting
an 'arrival' about four weeks from now.... I am still with the same
firm, with the exception that one of the partners left and went in
business for himself, just as you predicted to me some time ago...."
CASE 192 - Letter 1624 - "After
receiving your letters I took inventory of myself and found that
your deductions concerning my affairs and myself were far more
accurate than I could have given myself. This was somewhat
astonishing to me, you being a perfect stranger...."
III.
In section 3, likewise, the citing
of one or two letters gives the substance of hundreds.
CASE 180 - Letter 1440 - "What you
told us concerning the past is positively true. It is beyond our
comprehension to understand how you could bring forth the statements
made." (A.J.D., Supt. E. Public School and M.R.)
CASE 170 - Letter 1267 - "You will
remember that when I had the talk with you, you did not make any
predictions in regard to the future, but you told me matters that
had happened in the past." (NOTE: This man's life was due to end in
eight or nine years. There was nothing to prophesy of note, except
his death, of which Mr. S. did warn his daughter later. He did,
however, predict a preliminary illness from which he would fully
recover in spite of medical opinion. This came to pass. Then came
his death as foreseen.)
IV.
In reference to section IV, it
might be explained that while writing letters, Mr. Sadony often
senses names in connection with thoughts that "come to him." Our
manner of accounting for this does not alter the fact. Nor is the
fact of importance to Mr. Sadony except in identifying the thought
with the correspondent, or as a "milestone" which assures him that
he is on the right track.
CASE 127 - "Your letter of --- was
read with much interest, especially as I can verify the names you
mention, my father's name is Arthur, and I have a sister who is
named Charlotte. The other Dorothy probably refers to a cousin of
mine. We recall an incident of 18 or 20 years ago, to which I
believe you refer...."
CASE 128 - Mr. Sadony wrote, "On
picking up your letter I cannot help sensing or feeling that I am in
a store of some kind, where there are cookies, perhaps some
groceries, ham, or preserves, and that has all come through the hard
efforts of Edward, Andrew, or Ed....."
Reply: ".... In the first
paragraph you sensed in some way that we had a store, and certainly
nobody could ever be more surprised than I. Yes, we have had a store
for many years.... My father's name is Andrew...."
CASE 166 - Mr. S. wrote, "in
reading between the lines there appears much of which I would not
write at the present, because I wish to be certain that these
thoughts come from you. For in their trend appears the name of
'Roy', and at the same time 'Will'. What can they have to do from a
mechanical point of view?"
Reply: Yes, my son-in-law is an
inventor - has a grinder he is trying to put on the market.... My
sons are all mechanical too, - work for the American Railway Express
Co., and my husband works for the Cadillac Motor Co. Tell me what he
is going to do... and tell me about Roy, is he well?...."
CASE 215 - The verdict you render
on my question of the 'aircraft' patent was quite gratefully
received. You ask, 'By the way, what had John to do with this? Or
Agnes with you?' John is my father's name, and my sister's name is
Agnes. Both are interested in this stock."
CASE 248 - From Mr. Sadony's
letter, ".... But tell me, what is this light or flame he looks
into? For he seems to be a hard worker, which has made him nervous
and unstrung. It seems almost as if he walked a path similar to
Oscar, or was it David?... etc. .... he seems to take after his
mother as much as Ellen (I believe) when she was a little girl...."
Reply: ".... we are in doubt of
the names Oscar or David, unless it might be relatives in
Norway..... Ellen, as you mentioned is a sister to his mother. They
resembled one another very much. You ask what light or flame my
husband looks into. He is a watch-maker by trade....."
CASE 307 may bring a smile. "Now
as for Robert, I hardly know what to say as I have no relatives by
that name. My father's name was Robert when he was a little boy -
but he changed it to B--- later. Then, too, mother said she had an
uncle whose name was Robert. These two are the only two Roberts whom
I know of....."
CASE 311 - (Extract from letter
5107) "... That afternoon that we had the talk together, you said
that after I got home there would be letter for me from Chicago from
a heavy thick man by the name of J. John, you thought, and that at
first he wouldn't have any use for me, but afterwards would get to
like me, and through him I would get a good job in March. But before
that you said I would have two other offers which I would take but
wouldn't keep. Well, it all came to pass within a day or so from the
time you predicted, except that the man's name is Jeremiah instead
of John. You said I was to sail a big boat successfully, which I
did; and that I was to have a little girl born to me. I've got that
too...." (Capt. M.)
CASE 337 - "You have given a true
description of my character.... You ask me if I know a Jennie. They
used to call me Jennie until I reached the age of twelve...."
CASE 459 - (Typical of many.) "You
asked if there were not four in my family. If I am counted in, yes."
CASE 624 - A letter was received
on plain paper from a stranger. "What is the peculiar lotion and
perfumes that you so often handle, and peroxide of hydrogen and
muriatic acid," wrote Mr. Sadony. The reply was written on a
letter-head of the "Hair shop" owned by the writer.
CASE 662 - Mr. S. wrote, "... Then
comes the thought - (omitted) - and then your thought of an Arthur
L. But, realizing as you do what might be said, I would rather be
silent.... (Three paragraphs of details here omitted). And here
again the name of Arthur appears, and shuts off the thoughts, as it
were. Surely this party lives? If so what has he to do with you? And
why the secrecy of thought? At any rate I cannot quite grasp the
meaning of it...."
Reply: "... I found your letter
thoroughly interesting and in many ways clear and easy to
understand. The Arthur L. mentioned is my husband from whom I have
been entirely separated for more than --- years, and surely this
explains clearly your inability to see the picture distinctly
concerning him...."
CASE 752 - ".... By the way, have
you ever done any work for a hardware house, or something of that
sort? It appears rather vividly to me...."
"Yes, my work now is in the
hardware line."
CASE 275 - ".... I cannot help
sensing an elderly gentlemen, who, while at work, used a peculiar
hammer and chisel, whom you take after, as well as a younger man who
is named after him. The name appears to be George.... Then go back
twenty-seven years, and you can no doubt remember of the times that
Henry Walter passed through. Had they known what was to be, there
might be a different story to tell today because of property and
relation.... While of the handwriting you sent, Otto and John, I
have this much to say.... (omitted)... But again as with you, the
name John rings to my mind an elderly man by the same name who, like
George, has worked parallel. Then comes a little woman who must have
passed away somewhere near thirty years ago, but whose love and
blessing surely follows her children, for her burden was a very
heavy one.... Her mother used to call her Gustel, I think. At any
rate the vibration of her thoughts surely must be the influence of
this letter, because the same thoughts seem to be entwined in Emil
and William.... And by the way, there are certain problems that
might have been solved in reference to Otto and Paul. Perhaps George
can explain why the chime of bells, steam and rails...."
Reply: "In reference to Otto's
hand-writing, he wrote both names, Otto and John. John is his
brother. Your letter was very true, especially as far as my past is
concerned...."
Then later, ".... Regarding the
names would inform you that George is the name of father's oldest
brother. Gustel (who is dead) is the grandmother of Emil, William
and Paul. And Emil, William and Paul are the brothers of Otto and
John."
CASE 294 - Mr. Sadony wrote, "At
the close of your letter I heard these words, 'Tell Hage' (or some
peculiar name) to stick to it and not let go just at the most
important time, as I did. I'll strand by him.' The name given was
Howard. I could not get the first name because I was not on the
alert. I simply express the thought as it came to me, but in fear it
was a delusion I asked if your father's name was Howard." (Reference
to previous letter in which he spoke of the name without giving
reason.)
Reply: "Your letter of ---- is a
remarkably true statement of myself as I know myself honestly to
be.... in regard to the message, I wonder if this is not my father
speaking? For this name 'Hage' might be Hugh, my first name, and my
father was known by the name of F. Howard for forty years of his
life. And it is a fact that dad quite the show business at the
height of his career when he should have stayed with the only
business he knew. My brother and I have been thinking of getting out
of the show business.... I wonder if he (father) meant us to stick
to the show business by this message?"
CASE 412 - "While I was dictating
the first part of your letter, this sort of mental message seemed to
take effect in my mind, which is the case in four letters out of ten
of all I write...." (Long message followed.)
Reply: "The message enclosed must
belong to us by the names mentioned. My mother's name is Bessie, to
whom it was addressed, and my father's name was G--- (by whom it was
signed,) and the names E--- and G--- belong to my sister and myself.
It is all very strange."
CASE 471 - "I cannot help
receiving strange thoughts. Whether they come from your letter or
from thoughts in the air. I shall state them as they are." - Message
followed with reference to "Chris", "Emma", and "Elizabeth or
Lizzie, Lezzett, or Lisette - Stecha - hard to tell" as well as
reference to certain matters of the past, with mention of
twenty-five years before, and mention of "my good wife, ---." "I
have simply written," wrote Mr. Sadony, "what to me would sound
foolish, without knowing just all that is meant by it."
Reply: "The Herman you spoke of...
was my father who passed out twenty-five years ago. --- is my
mother, Lisette is my sister and Chris is my brother...."
CASE 104 - "When the first
impression came, I imagined I sensed your mother's father - an old
man - bent over, round-shouldered. He apparently assisted in giving
me the impression which I enclose. Now you understand that I am not
a spiritualist. Neither am I connected with any 'ism', I am alone in
this study... for the purpose of research, consequently with no
other motive than to know the truth...."
(The message made reference to
four names, and personal matters. It was signed by the mother and
addressed indirectly to the son.)
CASE 118 - "While speaking this
into my Dictaphone, a strange sentence comes to me. I am taking
chances that it belongs to some of you." (Message followed addressed
to "Dear Anna." At the end of the two hundred words there was a
break in the middle of a sentence. Mr. Sadony had been called to the
phone. "I have tried to get more," he wrote, "but could not. All I
could receive was 'Otto'".
The reply read: "I thank you for
the message for my Aunt Annie.... etc."
CASE 580 - "This is my first
letter to you. Miss --- gave me your address and told me of your
good work, and I gave your name and address to a Miss C., who is
living with me at present. She wrote you last week, and in your
letter to her you sent a message which I know was meant for me....
It was from an ex-husband, who seems to realize how he wronged me,
and the mistakes he made. But I do not think of the tears he caused
me. I only think of the nice things he did...."
CASE 652 - "Now you speak of
getting a mental message concerning an elderly lady named Anna. My
mother's name is Anna....."
"Enclosed you will find a copy of
the thoughts that came to me while dictating your letter. You are a
stranger to me, and I to you. In writing these letters I write just
what comes to my mind at the time, but I seldom send all I receive,
because I am but a student, who has found some strange life's
problems, and this is my mode of study....."
(This message began "Dearest Anna
or Nellie." The latter was the name of the daughter, the
correspondent in this case. There was reference to twenty-three and
thirty-two years before, as well as the name of another. It was
signed by name.)
CASE 390 - A letter was received
from Chicago. Mr. Sadony wrote, "To me it appears as if you did not
live in Chicago, as your surroundings do not indicate it.... Seems
to me more like a village...."
"You speak of my being a lawyer or
salesman, but what of the new project you speak of, what do you
see?.... How did you get that I was not in service?.... My wife and
I live in a small suburb of Chicago, a village of 5000 inhabitants.
I am serving this village as a village trustee. My business is
selling sugar on commission."
CASE 419 - "By the way, does your
tooth bother you? Left, lower second molar? If so, look after them
soon."
"My lower left molar bothered me a
little but not much. Thanks!" (Letter 6671.)
From case 764 - "Tell me, has
there been poison in his blood within the last seven years? Either
his kidneys or his bladder seem to have been affected...."
Reply stated that he had been a
printer all his life, and the poison in his body was printer's lead.
V.
The materials of prophecy are
limited, as with numbers from the nine digits of which infinite
combinations may be obtained. Hundreds of cases might contain
similar predictions without two being alike, for the combination,
circumstances and individuals differ. It is the spirit of prophecy
which is unlimited. Details are but the letters of the alphabet that
names the human family. The names are but words that group
themselves into paragraphs portraying a symbol. Paragraphs form
chapters of history. What matters is the book complete. Opposite to
each page of closely packed fine print, there is a large picture
that tells it all at a glance. Science, with bent head and strained
eyes, reads and analyzes each world of the print. The spirit of
prophecy turns the pages leisurely. It tells the story that is
already written, by describing pictures which children understand.
The elements applying to any
subject are few. Aside form special phases that we will not consider
here, the interests of an average human being may be found, for
instance, in Birth, Movement, Marriage, offspring, Condition,
Relation and Death. Birth and offspring might be combined. Of birth
might be told the time, sex and nature; of death, the nature and
time. In movement is included change (of environments, states of
being, thought, emotions, plans.....) Marriage includes divorce.
Condition, finance, health, etc. Relation includes meetings, as well
as implying proposals, offers, propositions, transactions. And
through all runs the matter of "date", which is the least certain of
all, being a matter of estimate. We see a house. We judge it to be
so far away. We may exaggerate according to our interest. But the
house exists. If we will continue to walk we will reach it. If we
run we find it the sooner. It has been said that there are some
things the human mind can never know. But, there are no "letters"
missing in the alphabet that Mr. Sadony has used to describe this
picture.
We quote briefly from a few. The
evidence is overwhelming that the human mind may determine these
things without the uncertainty of "guess-work", "coincidence",
"chance."
OF BIRTH
CASE 465 - Letter 7841 - "I
particularly wanted to tell you of the fulfillment of your prophecy
that the next addition to the W. family would be a boy. You may or
may not remember that you told me I need worry about this no
further, but that the boy was regularly scheduled, and would arrive
in due course...."
CASE 606 - "Will write and tell
you we have that new girl you told me of at Lone Lodge. Came
Saturday morning, weighs 7.5 lbs...." (J. H.)
CASE 231 - When quite young Mr.
Sadony made a prediction to a Mr. W. H..., that in one year and two
months he would be the father of a little boy. It came to pass on
the exact date. He also predicted that Mr. H. would be divorced
three years later, which came to pass. A letter from Mr. H. of years
later, reads, "Maybe you will also remember what you told us about a
commotion in our house between the tenth of January and the fourth
of February. Well, we had it. My wife was very sick and wasn't
expected to live from the first to the fourth of Feb. Those three
days she wasn't expected to live at all, but she was very sick for
over four weeks - part of the time unconscious. I myself was sick
from the 18th to 28th of January and my little boy was also just as
sick as his mother, they both having pneumonia...."
OF DEATH
CASE 350 - "We did have sad news
from home. My little brother's death we did receive." It had not
been stated that the sad news would be a death. Mr. Sadony wrote, "I
dread to tell things of unhappiness before they come, but always try
to impress the time, to prove that I felt the truth...."
CASE 563 - (From an editorial of
the Morning Sentinel.) "Sunday noon, August 16th, Mr. Sadony....
prophesied the death of Mr. D.M. Miller to W.A--- of this city. This
is only one of a great many prophecies which have come to pass since
his coming to this city...."
CASE 565 - "Mr. Sadony predicted
the death of Mr. C. Christians even to the detail of his dying with
a rose in his hand. The last persons to see him remarked that he
picked up a rose which he held as he passed away."
CASE 582 - (With regard to the
business affairs of a Mr. C., and a change and climax to come in
1921.) ".... You were very much correct, as a part of the firm did
pass away the 16th of March."
CASE 607 - "Yes, you were indeed
right about the three men drowning in White Lake. And also when you
said that Dr. H's friend would be dead when he reached Chicago. At
the time, we were staying at the Beach. Do you remember telling me
that we would lose two more distant relatives before the year
expired, which also came to pass....." (Mrs. H.)
CASE 648 - "You also told me that
someone was going to die, and I would hear about it. I did. That one
was his father, and they sent me a wire...."
CASE 540 - A clipping was found
which read: "Antiquarian dies reading an Ancient Tome." It was
remembered that Mr. Sadony had predicted the death of Julius Doerner,
who, as explained in the item, was "conspicuous for years as a
bibliophile and antiquarian." Mr. K.J. of Chicago was written for
details. He replied, "The prediction of Mr. Doerner's death was
about six weeks before his passing out. I visited the Valley and
spoke to Mr. Sadony about two oil paintings I had consigned to Mr.
Doerner to sell for me. In the course of the conversation about the
paintings, he advised me to take them out of his place before his
death, as he had only a short time to live."
CASE 473 - Letter 7914 - "Your
prediction concerning father's death was quite correct. As you said,
he had a cancer and would live about ten days longer. He died of
cancer of the stomach eleven days later, December 22nd." (C.
Weissmann.)
CASE 178 - "While visiting E.
Rogers at C., in the fall of 1913, Mr. Sadony met Dr. D. and told
him that his brother who had just left, would die in three weeks,
and that Dr. D., himself, would take charge of his brother's
sanitarium at Rochester. Three weeks later the brother died. Dr. D.
went there, and is now in charge of the sanitarium."
CASE 638 - (From a diary of a
friend.) Name: C.P. 1-10-18, Prediction: Daughter will be ill twice,
and die with her third sickness. Her baby will not live.
1-24-18, Baby is in Hospital.
1-27-18, Baby died.
"There are several ways of
discerning the approach of death," Mr. Sadony once explained,
"sometimes when death is to take place within a few months, I
unconsciously become passive for a second, then there appears to me
a mental vision. It is as if I saw an angel in black at the bedside,
and in my imagination all seems to be transparent. When I see this,
death is sure to come. I would forfeit my life if it failed when the
hand and wrist of this figure appears opaque as if ready to be led
out. Another sign of death comes to me when shaking hands with a
stranger. I sometimes feel a cold feeling, as if a cold draught were
passing through my hands and veins. By this I know that death is
near, but must use other methods to ascertain the time."
Mr. Sadony tells of an instance:
(Case 1064), "In 1914 Mrs. Daily of Montague, eighty years old, came
to visit me with her daughter, Mrs. J.A. I took her to my Study. She
did not wish to leave. She cried bitterly and said, "May I come here
when I am dead?" I comforted her and told her that she would be
welcome. Later on, one evening in September, I remained in my office
until late. At three-thirty. A.M., I went down for lunch, and then
returned. When about to enter, I felt a sort of fear or dread, and
waited at the door about five minutes. When I entered my thoughts
turned to Mrs. Daily, and immediately I felt that cold draught of
air through my body. This was about four o'clock. At nine Mrs. J.A.
telephoned to say that Mrs. Daily had died at four that morning. Was
this the influence of a disembodied mind, - or auto-suggestion?"
Of Troubles as well, are there
many instances, as In Case 162 - "The troubles you told me would
come are coming thick and fast.... The battle will be a hard one for
awhile, and only today a woman who you told me would come in to act
as a friend, called me and told me of ---. You seem to have the
situation so fully in mind...."
Of offers, case 285 is typical,
and it would be useless to quote from the hundreds of others. Letter
3290 - "You stated that some offers would be made by my firm. As yet
I've not heard from them with reference to it, though I did receive
one very soon, a few days afterward, from a firm that had made one
several times before, and which I threw into the wastebasket as you
said I would do...." Letter 3294 - ".... But let me tell you that
the two offers you spoke of came in a most pronounced and distinct
manner. It was a matter of choosing either, or, and set me to do
some serious thinking."
Of Change, Case 621, for example.
"..... You said that I would make a change. This change seems to
have taken place inasmuch as I am writing you from th. city of D.
instead of M....."
CASE 626 - "You told me that a
condition which existed at that time, and to which I very much
objected, would be changed for me, and I am happy to report that the
change came just as you said it would...."
CASE 627 - "In reference to
Columbia University, I fear you will change your mind before June,
even were I to tell you to take a course. You will take several
trips of interest that will change all your plans."
Reply: (Months later.) "The
suggestion you offered about Columbia University came out as you
foretold."
CASE 293 - Letter 3422 - "Sometime
ago I wrote you for information, and you told the conditions would
change for me before Oct. 12th.... This change occurred to me about
the 16th of October."
Of Dates to note, Mr. Sadony was
as a rule very accurate in his estimation. Case 203 is typical of
many. Letter 1751 - "Mr. X. is a very sick man.... He has been near
death's door three times, and this is one of them. Complications
have set in. His stomach and worry have caused much of the trouble.
You have not understood each other, consequently the circumstances
which have often caused you to build aircastles (which may all come
true within three years). Make a note of June 11th and the 23rd,
then later July 4th, 10th and 27th and note how strangely and
suddenly Fate seems to play with your destiny. You must take good
care of your health now, above all..... Next week you will have
company which you little expect, and later a trip alone, and you
will enter new fields...."
Letter 1752 - You may be aware by
this time that Mr. X. passed away on June 11th, the first date of
which you advised me to make a note and I am too stunned to know
what to do."
Letter 1753 - (Two months later.)
"I wonder if you have anything to tell me at this time. Your first
letter to me was prophetic. On the first date you mentioned, I lost
my husband, then on each succeeding date there was something to
remember.... I am going on the trip alone of which you wrote me, and
I hope it is in the right direction.
CASE 261 - Letter 2752 - ".... You
predicted that I would be working at a better position by January
15th of the next year, which would eventually lead to something
better still. I began work here on the 13th of January.... You told
me of a few things which would happen, and a few suggestions, which
have come to pass.... I know you told me accurately of many of my
characteristics, and showed me that mind-reading was a
possibility...."
From Case 311 - Letter 5106 -
".... If you remember you said that I was going to have three
offers, the first to come on the 28th of January. Well, it didn't
come the 28th, but it came during the week of the 28th, which I
think is near enough. It certainly is remarkable how you got
that.... etc."
Of Presidential or political
prophecies there have been few, except among Mr. Sadony's most
intimate friends, as he has consistently avoided prophecy of a
public nature. However, we quote the following!
CASE 234 - Letter 2241 - "If I
remember correctly the last time I called on you was in the Spring
of 1901. Many things have happened since then. One of your
prophecies was made when I was operating in stocks and bonds in the
year 1901, when the market depended largely on the presidential
election, at which time you predicted that McKinley would be elected
President of the United States. There are other things that have
come to pass, the dates of which I do not remember at present....."
(R.A.H., Vice Pres. & Mgr. of the Garment Co., Chicago, Ill.)
CASE 381 - Letter 6038 - "When
your letter came saying that the world of commerce would be
satisfied with the next administration, and that it would be
Republican, it looked like something in the dim distance, but
suddenly it is the 'next administration!' Did you sense something of
Harding's death?...."
Later, while talking with a group
of friends upon the subject of "Gaudiness" and its "hollowness," Mr.
Sadony used as one of his examples the Democratic party, which he
said was "gaudy" in its intentions, and would therefore lose in the
next election.
VI.
OF WARNINGS
We give only a few of the many
cases of this nature on record. (Aside from the following, typical
instances may be found in Cases 158 and 371 on page 75 as well as in
the records beginning at the bottom of page 76, and Case 1057 on
page 80.)
From Notebook number 33 of -----:
Mr. Sadony foresaw many accidents and did, in many instances, give
warning. Where the warning was heeded there was no accident, and
where it was not heeded his prophecy was fulfilled. There were also
many cases where the accident could not be avoided, so he gave no
warning, but told his friends and in every case they observed that
it came to pass.
CASE 1009 - Letter 2827a - "Do you
remember the day of my visit when you were all working on the Log
Cabin? You warned us all to be careful as you were afraid that
someone would be cut in the ankle. Some hours later I saw one of the
men's axe raised for a blow, and remembered your warning. I stepped
to one side as the blade descended. The head flew off and sank three
inches in the ground where my heel had been, passing directly over
my footprint, through the space in the air that had been occupied by
my ankle. I did not 'ask for a sign,' but it seems that this was not
sufficient. Twice since coming to C., have I so nearly failed to
heed your last words of warning that l have tasted of what you
feared, and it was bitter. Death is kinder by far than these
conditions to which you have opened my eyes. I walked among living
dead men and never knew, until a heartless smile on my own face hid
the hell that was their daily bread. From this you have saved me."
CASE 110 - "Mr. Sadony made a
special call at our house to warn Mr. A. to be very careful, for in
a short time he would be badly hurt. Three weeks later his hand was
crushed at the foundry....."
CASE 115 - In the year 1901, Mr.
Sadony warned Mr. John Ahlmendinger of Chicago, not to allow his
young son to go swimming at the time of the next thunderstorm. A few
days later It began to rain, and the son wanted to go with thirteen
other boys to swim at the pier of the water works, North Halsted and
Lake Michigan. The boy started and was called back. In the meantime
the other boys were getting drenched, so they went under the
tin-lined pier. There was a crash of lightning and all were killed.
Sometime later Mrs. A. called and
Mr. Sadony told her to tell her husband not to dance at the next
dance which was given in honor of Mr. C. Harrison, then Mayor of the
City. He danced one dance and dropped dead.
CASE 256 - Mr. Sadony told the
Mayor of K. to warn his daughter not to ride on a bicycle on a
certain date, so as to avoid a serious accident by the cars. The
warning was forgotten, and she was killed by the electric street car
at Racine.
Mr. S. had told Mr. I. that he was
to have the greatest surprise of his life - which came to pass when
he picked up his own daughter, right after she had been killed. He
did not know who it was until he saw her face.
CASE 289 - A certain leader of
ballet dances in a well known theatrical company came to Mr. Sadony
in Chicago. He warned her not to dance more than a year longer, and
to report to him once a month, which she did for ten months. Then
three months after that she wrote, saying that she could not keep
her promise to give up dancing. One month later she was dead from an
Injury to her spine.
Mr. C. A. tells the following:
In the summer of 1913 K.J., C.A.,
U.S., P.S., Mr. Sadony and myself went up the river on a fishing
trip. Mr. Sadony appeared to dread to go. He turned back three
times, and even went so far as to dispatch a carrier pigeon (one of
two which we carried), saying that we would leave for home in
fifteen minutes. This was before we had reached the camping place.
The boys all begged him to go on, so we finally reached camp. When
we arrived, Mr. Sadony told us all to be careful, as he was still
nervous. One of the boys had a bottle of whiskey which he asked him
to give him in case of accident. In landing I had dropped my gun in
the water. As I remember it, two of the other boys had dropped their
guns in the mud or on land. However Mr. Sadony told each of us to
look into the barrel of his gun. Fifteen minutes later I held my gun
at arms length in one hand and did not grasp the barrel with the
other, remembering the warning. But I did neglect to look into the
barrel, although I had drained it. I pulled the trigger. The barrel
burst, tearing off the thumb of my other hand which I held as far as
possible from the gun. A piece of steel, nearly a foot long, knocked
off the hat of Mr. U.S. Mr. Sadony immediately poured whiskey over
the wound, and sent the other carrier pigeon with a note to have a
doctor ready for an operation. The doctor was waiting, but I lost my
thumb above the first knuckle. I no longer doubted the advisability
of taking seriously any nervousness on the part of Mr. Sadony."
From Notebook number 33 of -----:
Mr. Sadony with his family and a
few friends drove around the lake past a point where he imagined
seeing the fence all turn down, and a car go down the steep
embankment. He spoke of this to his family and his friends. This was
Monday evening. Tuesday evening, they drove by the same point. The
fence was broken through. A Ford had gone down the embankment. From
among the pieces at the bottom, his son brought home the rim of one
of the lights, as a silent witness.
It happened many times, that
Joseph avoided accidents himself. He would refuse to travel on a
certain road on a certain day, saying that there was to be an
accident, and he did not wish it to be a car full of his loved ones,
and himself responsible at the wheel.
He would say, "We will watch now
as we pass tomorrow, and see evidence of the poor blind careless
mortal that does not use the power God has given us all. We may pity
him, but he is reaping as he sowed. God is wise and good and just.
The law of compensation does not err. We may say, 'It might have
been us.' It might have been anyone. But was it? Were we not
protected? All the world save that one could say, 'It might have
been us.' And if so, would God then have been wise and good and
just?"
"Masters rule their own destiny by
thought or understanding, while the masses are ruled by environments
or heredity," Mr. Sadony would explain.
If we wish to be masters we must
create a law unto ourselves, hew out a path of undeviating purpose.
At the first unconscious step from this path, there tolls the
death-knell of a lost soul. To waver at the influence of another, of
circumstances, of environments, is to step into the path of this
other, and be subject to its self-created laws for better or for
worse.
These things are so subtle and so
many sided that it is not only foolish and useless, but impossible
to analyze them with the human mind.
Enough that we did not go. Vastly
more than enough that we saw next day the wreckage of a horrible
triple accident on the road in question. We did not ask or need such
proof. And this happened not once, but countless times. Often Mr.
Sadony would ask friends to tell him what had occurred at certain
points, then pre-sensing of which made him apprehensive not for
himself, but for his loved ones and his friends, whom he endeavored
always to protect from taking that first unconscious step from their
own path into that of another, and thereby into danger not their
own....
And always they would find it as
he had said, and would tell of this accident or that narrow escape
which they themselves had experienced.
CASE 1056 - Mr. Sadony foresaw an
accident to himself on a winter day when the ruts of ice were deep
and it was necessary to drive to another town in his car. He spoke
of seeing himself in a ditch by the side of the road, with a
heavy-laden truck thundering by, two wheels of which had been in the
same rut as the left two wheels of his own car, neither of them able
to climb out of the icy rut.
It happened quickly and
surprisingly in this wise. A large many-seated bus filled with
people swerved around a bend, and toward us in one of the same ruts.
Mr. Sadony tried to turn out, but failed. Then he put on the brakes,
and swung the wheels violently so that he threw his car out of the
track and we slid easily, safely down an icy incline into the ditch
without tipping over, and the heavy bus, which had indeed been built
out of a "truck", and was "heavily laden", tore by above. The
prophecy was fulfilled. We were in the ditch. But an accident was
avoided by Mr. Sadony's quickness to fulfill his part of the
prophecy just enough in advance to avoid the "simultaneous"
fulfillment that would have been a "collision."
There are many cases that indicate
Man to be a "barometer", recording exterior conditions; even though
not aware of the fact. The following are three of the many instances
that Mr. Sadony, himself, has told.
CASE 554 - I received a letter
with request for advice. As I started to answer it I felt sort of
dizzy, so I laid it aside. Next day I tried again, with the same
result. A few days later I determined to finish, and did so, but it
seemed with a queer dread. Afterward I learned that it was written
by an insane woman. It seemed rather strange. Was I mentally in her
environments? Did my subconscious mind sense her condition,
interpreting it to my objective mind? Or was it a 'sixth sense'
interpreting by 'psychometry' the magnetism of the letter."
CASE 556 - "One summer, while
writing letters, I began to muse, 'Suppose my best horse should
break his leg. Would I have to shoot him? - or could I put him in
splints.' I became nervous and sent Miss S. and Mr. A. out to see if
everything was all right. They did not return, so in half an hour I
went after them, finding that Andy, my best horse, had his right
front leg over the manger with the tie-chain around it so that Mr.
A. could not get it loose without cutting the halter. The scars of
the links could be seen for a long while.
"Was this the vibration of the
horse's mind?"
CASE 1063 - Clippings were found
of twenty-two years ago, telling of how Mr. Sadony had been impelled
to a certain spot just in time to save a man from drowning. Upon
being asked about the occasion, Mr. S. replied, "I felt a strong
desire to go up the river three miles, with no other reason,
apparently, than to see how a certain bank looked and how much the
current had washed it away since the time when I used to swim there.
I was so anxious that I could hardly wait to get started. As I
approached I saw a man running along the bank. When I arrived and
looked over the water, I saw an arm disappearing. I threw off my
coat, took a dive, and reached him in time. When I had brought him
to shore I felt satisfied that this was the mission that had forced
me to go up the river at just that time." Can this be explained?
(The rescued man proved to be one of the staff of a local paper, a
Mr. Hall.)
Mr. Sadony permits truth to come
to him, crystalizing in its own shape. He then tries to figure out
what the shape is. Whereas most of us shape things to suit
ourselves, according to past acquirement.
Often he would advise a man in
terms of symbols which he, himself, did not understand, while the
man to whom he talked, recognized the meaning instantly.
On one occasion, while talking
with a certain man, he seemed to see the symbol of a silver frog in
connection with his name. It was indistinct and fragmentary. He
could not himself interpret or apply this. However, it was later
discovered that the middle two of his four names meant originally a
silver-smith and a tadpole.
Case 612, (page 76) is an example
of the application of this principle. Mr. Sadony has often
explained:
"I use symbols in prevision
because those things have not yet occurred, and are consequently not
in my memory for comparison. Symbols therefore, in such a case, may
be interpreted as 'Causes' rather than 'Effects' (or records)."
Of section VII, a study of
"Mechanical Intuition", with an account of experiences, would fill a
good sized volume, and will not be considered in this booklet. Of
"sensing the whereabouts of inanimate objects", Mr. Sadony has often
said:
"In reference to finding lost
articles, I am never interested in the subject. Enough that we find
and take care of what we possess. If harmony is lost, I am on the
job."
The subject of "Clairvoyance", and
"Unconscious Preparation", will also be dealt with in another
booklet, as they involve an account of cases that are too numerous
to mention here.
The following are quoted from a
selection of typical cases illustrating the general subject of
Prophecy:
CASE 317-19 - A friend writes,
"For three years Mr. Sadony predicted every working order that came
to the Iron works. He told the foreman of the company of these two
months in advance.... "He predicted Mrs. B's death, and the divorce
of V., as well as his remarriage.
"He warned Mr. C.S's father that
he had better examine the straps to his wooden leg. Mr. S. replied,
'Oh, that's all right. No danger.' But he went fishing. The strap
broke, and he used all his fish lines to fasten on his leg so that
he could walk home.
"And I remember of another case,
of some time ago. Perhaps you have forgotten. There was a man and
his wife and daughter, whom Mr. Sadony warned to exchange their
theater tickets. The father could not go to the performance the next
day, but the mother and daughter went, and were burned to death in
the Iroquois Fire...."
CASE 172 - "Last summer you
predicted my mother's illness, (she was operated on Oct. 26); my
present position, (I came on to N.Y., about Sept. 1st, and opened
the same day); someone making a proposition for extra work, (a
couple of weeks ago); and many minor details which I just can't
recall at the moment....."
CASE 325 - "Mr M., proprietor of
the K. House, and four friends were with Mr. Sadony when he heard a
step in the hall. Mr. Sadony stated that he suddenly felt a pain in
his right knee. He asked Mr. C. to see who had passed. It proved to
be Mrs. P., the proprietor's sister, (fifty years of age). While Mr.
C. was speaking to her, Mr. Sadony told the rest that the lady who
had passed, suffered with pain in her knee, but that it would not
bother her any more. Mrs. P. told Mr. C. that as she passed the door
she thought, 'I believe Mr. Sadony could cure me.' She had planned a
trip to Mount Clemens for treatment. From that moment, however, she
ceased feeling the pain. Mr. Sadony felt the pain for three days."
CASE 270 - And Mr. S. told a
certain young man and young woman that they would be married in one
year, but that they had better make sure that they were congenially
mated or they would disagree in three years. In two, they would have
a little boy. They married as prophesied.
The little boy came. At the end of
three years they were divorced.
CASE 146 - "Last Spring I received
a letter from you, which at the time seemed very confusing. Since
then it has all become quite clear.... Perhaps you don't remember.
It would be quite impossible, with all your correspondence. It was
just advice in reference to some people...."
Another letter: "Five years ago,
on my first visit to you, you spoke of a man who was going to be a
great help to me. You foretold my travels abroad. It was all very
true." (V.B.)
CASE 254 - "On the first of
February, 1906, Prof. Sadony told me that in a year and eleven
months I would have a baby girl with blue eyes and black hair.
Really, the baby was born exactly in a year and eleven months, on
January first, 1908.
"Then he told me that around June
20th, while going on a trip to Europe, my little girl would be sick,
but that I should not worry over it because she would be all right
again in a few days. I had forgotten this while away, until she was
taken suddenly ill one night, and then it all came back to me. The
date was June 21st." (Mrs. M.J.)
CASE 258 - Letter 2714 - "I have
been simply amazed at times when I found that events which you
prophesied concerning me came to pass, although I assure you I did
nothing purposely to help bring the fulfillment about."
CASE 152 - Letter 1089 - "Your
predictions to myself and family have come to pass. First for my
dear mother, you predicted that in the year 1914 she would suffer
the loss of three loved ones. Correct." (Remainder omitted.)
CASE 305 - Letter 4071 - To Miss
M. speaking of her mother not being well: "To me it appears as if
there were something in the way of the blood or nerve impulse either
at the base of the brain, the cerebellum, or in the convolutions
back of the ear..." A letter came later telling of an operation
which had proved necessary to relieve congestion in one of the
sinuses.
CASE 587 - "For some time previous
to the death of George M. Sr., the large iron safe in this office
had not been locked (that is, not thoroughly locked, with the
tumblers being thrown over.) It was customary just to close the safe
and give the combination a slight turn on the dial.
"One night, G.M. Jr. accidentally
closed and locked the safe. Mr. M. Sr. was the only one who knew the
combination and as his personal papers pertaining to the estate were
in the safe (He being dead), it was necessary that it be opened.
"Being office manager and acting
secretary, I made every effort to open the safe, but without
results. As a last resort before breaking the lock, I requested you
to try to open it. You agreed, and knowing that Mr. M. was the only
one who knew the combination, you took off your hat and coat, and
requested that you be blindfolded. You took your place at the desk
over the open ledger (as if you were Mr. M.) You previously had
requested me to ask you suddenly, at a certain time, to open the
safe. This I did. Whereupon you turned to the safe, and to my
astonishment opened it in about ten seconds."
CASE 109 - A Dr. A. came to Mr.
Sadony with a Mrs. R. (of Evanston). He advised Mrs. R. (who asked
about her husband), to take him out in the country for a rest,
saying that if she did not, he would become insane. A year
afterwards he became insane. She came again, and Mr. S. told her
that he could be cured in seven months, but to take him out at once,
or it would be too late. This was disregarded, and he became a
raving maniac.
CASE 204 - Letter 1764 - "My boy
is in F. He was married the 11th of Sept. in Canada. He is coming
home Sunday. I am getting my divorce the 16th of January....
Everything so far you have told me has come just as you said.... "
CASE 664 - One dark night, I drove
to town with Mr. Sadony, behind a very nervous horse. As we reached
the township line, Mr. S. became very nervous and asked me to get
out and examine all the wheels. I said that I had done so before
leaving, so we rode on for perhaps half a mile. At this point, Mr.
Sadony repeated the expression of his nervousness, made the remark
that he did not like to risk it any longer, and ended by making the
assertion that as soon as we reached Dowie's gate, he would get out
and see what could be the matter. At Dowie's gate he jumped out of
the buggy. As soon as he took hold of the thill, it fell out of his
hand. The bolt was on the ground a few feet away, in the rear.
CASE 686 - Mr. Ch--- of Shelby,
telephoned long distance, to ask if Mr. Sadony could give any
information as to the location of the drowned bodies of his son and
a companion. Mr. S. replied that it appeared to him as if only one
boy had drowned, and requested that Mr. C--- come to see him
personally, which he did. In the course of the interview, Mr. Sadony
drew a diagram of the point where the body would be cast up by the
first west winds. As he described his method of doing this, he
imagined himself a bird flying by, looking down from way up, at what
he imagined to be a body that he could discern at a certain point.
The place marked on the diagram was to be six miles north of the
place where the boy was drowned.
The body of the Ch--- boy's
companion was found, and examination proved that he had died of
heart disease, verifying Mr. Sadony's belief that only one boy had
drowned. The Ch--- boy was found about a week later a few hundred
feet from the spot that had been designated.
A letter dated June 23, 1916,
reads in part, "am surprised that the Boys had not called you on the
phone at the time of the finding. Yes the first west wind that came
did the work. Again yes, your diagram was a little further North
than the body was found, but such that the current could have moved
the body...."
CASE 687 - "Five or six years
ago," said one witness, "Geo. --- Sr. asked Mr. Sadony for advice.
He told him that if he did not take a rest within three weeks, he
would never get out of bed after that. Mr. --- remained at work, was
taken sick, and was then taken to the Muskegon Hospital. Mr. Sadony
was notified one morning that if he didn't come to see him before
noon, he would not be able to see him alive. It was impossible for
him to get there in the morning as it was past train time. He said,
'G. --- shall live till I see him. He can not die. He shall not
die.' There was great emphasis and determination in his words. In
the afternoon, Mr. C. and I accompanied Mr. Sadony to Muskegon,
arriving there about 3:45. He took Mr. Sadony's hand, who seemed to
look past us, and said, 'I can go now that you have come.'"
Previous to this, while Mr. ---
was still ill at the hospital, Mr. Christian was staying at his
home. Mr. C. became nervous one day and asked Mr. Sadony to stay
with him. Mr. Sadony accompanied him, and as they passed into the
parlor said, "Clarence, listen to this peculiar music that comes to
my mind", whereupon he sat at the piano and improvised what he
seemed to hear mentally. The music was very sad and affecting. So
much so, Mr. C. tells, that Mr. Sadony's eyes were filled with
tears. "So help me God, Clarence," he said, upon finishing. "I see a
coffin and the remains of G---, and the piece that I played was a
funeral march."
"A few days later," said Mr.
Sadony, upon being questioned with regard to the occasion, "I
attended the funeral and saw the coffin just as it had appeared to
me."
CASE 688 - One Spring Mr. Sadony
predicted to a party of fifteen or more, that there would be five
deaths from drowning in White Lake; first two and then three. Dr.
Montgomery and a lady were drowned as the summer was drawing to a
close. The Captain of the Life Saving Station, having faith in the
prediction, put on a double guard. Later Mr. Sadony attended a
birthday party at the home of A. Mr. H. had promised to cone there
to meet him for the first time, but that night he was called out on
duty as Deputy Sheriff. He had been nervous, however, and made the
statement that he would much rather have met Mr. Sadony. He was
accompanied upon his duties by two other men. About twelve-thirty
Mr. Sadony went to the graphaphone and played "Nearer My God to
Thee." For some unaccountable reason he appeared to feel very sad.
It was seldom that he revealed this. It was nearing two A.M., when
they left for home. As he passed along the shore of White Lake, he
noticed that the water was rough, and said to Mrs. Sadony, "Suppose
two or even three men should hang on a boat out there: God help
them."
The incident was forgotten, but
next morning the bodies of the three men were found, Mr. J.H. and
the two who had accompanied him on his duties.
A week later, while putting up a
stove pipe, a strong thought came to Mr. Sadony, so he wrote it down
on a slip of paper to study it afterward. The words that came to him
were, "Fanny, I was not murdered. It was an accident. Be happy.
Someone will take my place in four years" It was signed "Joe." At
the time Mr. Sadony did not recognize the meaning, so he placed it
on file. Two months later, Mrs. A. brought a visitor to his home,
and introduced her as Mrs. Nanny H. Instantly Mr. Sadony went to his
file, brought the slip of paper, and told her of the strange thought
that he had received. Mrs. H. cried, and swore that she would never
marry. However, Mr. Sadony repeated that she would, and that the man
would have the same name, "Joe." Four years later she met him on the
street in another city and told him that she had married a man named
"Joe", and was very happy.
Later still, (March 2, 1915) she
wrote, "in thinking over what you told me, I particularly remember
one statement. That was, that in about five years I would be happier
than I could think I would ever be again. And that I would be
comfortably situated and well taken care of. You described my
disposition very accurately and told me many instances relative to
my past life very correctly...."
CASE 351 - Letter 5450 - "Contrary
to your dope, I expect to move my offices tomorrow to 91 G.
street...." Later, Letter 5451 - "You were right. I did not move my
office junk on Monday..."
CASE 650 - "... It's just as L.
says, she is usually just on the point of writing you when she hears
before the letter is even posted.... By the way, I made a mistake,
in sending you the wrong handwriting to read last time, (saying it
was Mr. B's) but I thought it so wonderful because you described Mr.
O., the other man in our section, to a nicety, and hit upon facts
which I appreciate very much."
CASE 363 - Letter 5709 - "Prior to
about October, 1910, I had no acquaintance with you. In that month I
was at your place. At that time you assumed to see my past and
future. At that time you informed me that Mrs. R., my first wife,
had departed this life about Feb. 3rd of that year, which was true.
You also informed me that I would marry a young wife from
California; which I later did. You also informed me that you would
first meet Mrs. R. on a train, which was true...." - Judge R.
(NOTE: Mr. Sadony predicted Judge
R's death, which occurred in 1924.)
CASE 364 - Letter 5710 - "... You
told S. of his misfortune in the lumber business, that he would
realize his life's ambition, to receive the appointment of an U.S.
Judgeship - an office he had sought, and for which I had strained
every energy to bring him. He abandoned hope. Time revealed the fact
that the judgeship did come to him, and in the year you said it
would.... You told Mrs. S. that she had left her jewelry at home and
placed some in a certain drawer before her departure. You spoke of
five rings. She insisted that there were only four. On her return
she wrote to my wife, admitting her error, saying she had placed an
old ring in the box given her by her mother. She did not wear it,
but it made the five..."
CASE 145 - Letter 1003 - ".... As
far as I the long Journey, two large deals being offered me, and my
turning down one of them is concerned, that has all come true. The
accepting or turning down of the second one is undecided yet, but
will be decided very soon... I have thought of writing you a good
many times on the subject, but as you declined to accept
remuneration for your services, I have hesitated in doing so...."
Letter 1004 - (five years later) -
"About five years ago last summer you, in conversation with my
daughter, told her that within six weeks, a near relative on her
Mother's side would pass away, and described the condition of her
grandmother on her mother's side, giving exact description of her
sufferings, but at the time you made these statements, none of the
family had any idea that she would pass away for many months. Yet
just four weeks from the time you made the prediction, Mrs. W.
passed away. I am sure you had no knowledge that such a person
lived, at the time you foretold her death...." (James Bayne, Pres. &
Gen. Mgr., The James Bayne Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.)
(NOTE: Nine years later, in the
fall of 1924, Mr. Sadony wrote to Mr. B., stating to a friend, "It
is the last time I shall write him. It is his 'Death Letter' from
me." A few weeks later, in November, and upon the day that the above
portion of this manuscript was being prepared, Mr. Bayne passed
away.)
CASE 165 - Letter 1198 - "You
asked about my finger and stated that on July 3rd, 4th and 9th it
worried you, as if you had a pain of your own. You say it was funny
but simply could not account for it. Well, when I tell you that I
was stretched out on an operating table about four-thirty Saturday
afternoon, July 3rd, and my finger was laid wide open, you sure will
smile...." (Mr. L.R.C.)
CASE 176 - Letter 1416 - "You told
me about myself that it seemed to you that some time in the past
there had been a division of property in our family of which I had
not received all I was entitled to. That is right. The division took
place in Denmark, and I had never mentioned it to anybody where you
could have obtained any information about it.
"You told Mrs. B. at our house,
when she was worrying about her boy who had gone to parts unknown,
that she would get a letter from him a few days before Christmas, as
she did...."
Mr. Sadony explained about this
matter, "I imagined I was her son, and then told her that I saw my
sister in Chicago, and then left for the north. I then told her that
I would try an experiment to make him write her a letter for
Christmas. Before Christmas the letter arrived from Wisconsin. He
was compelled to write. Why? Those are things that axe hard to
explain...."
CASE 214 - Letter 1954 - "August 7
you predicted my husband would change his will before the end of
that year, and to my advantage. It came true on Dec. 19th. You also
said that he would meet with an accident about the same time, which
came true too. He almost lost his right foot. You advised me to drop
a certain friend, as she was a foe. It certainly was true. The death
of my husband's mother came true the very month that you said, and
sickness and disturbance at my home in Switzerland. Some of my
friends lost a dear one through death and circumstances changed
entirely...."
CASE 232 - Letter 2206 - "Sixteen
years ago you predicted three things to me that came true. One was
that I would meet a man and go to Kansas City with him. Second that
I was to go to Denver, Colorado. Third, you warned me that X was no
friend of mine. Right you were...." (H.W.K.)
CASE 264 - Letter 2810 - "A phone
call this morning gave me the news that the 'blow had fallen'. They
are going to break him if possible.... Prior to this it has been
very quiet, and he felt it might blow over. But .... yesterday ....
came in and served papers on him. They tied up his bank accounts,
put a lease on his home and automobiles.... Now it gees to court....
I wanted you to know, for I remember you predicted this."
CASE 320 - Latter 5137 - "About
four years ago, before I was married, you told me that I would be
married inside of two years. This was true. You also said I would
not marry the girl with whom I was keeping company. This was also
true. You said that I had met my future wife. This I did not know at
the time, but I had met her as you said. You also said that in the
near future I would be employed by a firm that had already worked
for. This was true. Also that I would buy some property, which I
did. Then you told my wife that upon a certain date, there would be
a business transaction that would bring money. This was true, to the
exact date given her about six months before this transaction....
etc."
CASE 327 - Letter 5171 - "You told
me if I didn't see my uncle I wouldn't get to see him. He died
within a month from that time...." Another letter. "He was sick only
five days. I am so glad I took your advice and came here, or I would
never have seen him."
CASE 335 - Letter 5260 - "I met
the little gray-haired man you told me I would come in contact with
unexpectedly. I met him on the boat coming home."
CASE 406 - One afternoon Mr.
Sadony was impressed to wire Mr. U.S. of the K. Hotel, to telephone
his wife not to take the medicine she was about to take. He did so,
and found that she had the bottle in her hand to take the medicine,
set it down to answer the phone, and upon examining it, found that
the bottle contained poison.
Upon another occasion Mr. Sadony
wrote, "Now tell me what is the matter at your home. Is your wife or
wife's niece sick?... It worries me, and I would advise you to be
careful." The reply stated, "My wife is sick and we are going to
have the doctor in a few days so they can operate on her." (Letter
6533)
CASE 420 - Letter 6704 - ".... One
thing which most emphatically came out as you said, was that I would
be backed in my new venture by two people, one who could talk, and
one with money. Sure enough, the one who could talk, after a
conversation with me, went to the one with the money, and I received
a certain amount of backing.... If your predictions did nothing
else, they put the right kind of punch in a pretty groggy
individual, and helped a whole lot...." (W.S.)
CASE 421 - Letter 6729 - "You
foretold the marriage of our daughter to B.A.D., who was at that
time calling upon her, but we had never thought she cared especially
for him, nor he for her. Both were so young. To our surprise they
skipped to the Church, only a stone's throw from our house, and were
married April 6th, 1913. This, I consider a most remarkable
prophecy, .... You told my wife that her father, (then in frail
health) would live longer than her mother. Her mother was buried
Christmas Eve of the following year, and her father will come to
visit us next week.
"You will remember a robust,
red-faced, philosophical sceptic, named ---. Well, he may be
sceptical yet, but within a month after you left, what you saw for
him materialized. You told him he had a man associated with him that
would stand watching, and that he stood a good chance of having
trouble and might lose something if not careful.... Now this Mr. ---
was a traveling salesman, and he had a sub-agent, but he thought him
straight. He was soon failing to get satisfactory reports, however,
and found that the fellow had pawned a valuable diamond ring, using
about $300.00 of the Company's money to redeem it...."
CASE 436 - Letter 7190 - "You will
remember telling me at H. that I would hear from my son in Feb.
(that he was still alive.) Well, I did...."
CASE 474 - Letter 7928 - "The most
important predictions in my case are two. In March, I traded my farm
for a house and lot. After signing the contract I found I was
getting the worst of the deal. In speaking of the matter to you, you
said there was a third party in the case who did not care to trade,
and advised me to see this party, and between us we could agree to
call the deal off. This matter turned out as you predicted. I
desired a political position in this town. I wrote you about it, and
you advised me not to run as my health would not permit it. A little
later I was taken down with congested lungs, and was sick at the
time of election...." (W.J.W.)
CASE 482 - Letter 9406 - "I have
had very great mental trouble since the commencement of this year.
One day, while looking into my papers, your letters came to hand,
and on perusing them over again, I was struck by your prophetic
insight into coming events in my life, which cast their shadows not
before me, but before your mind's eye." (Details of case omitted.) -
Banabihari Patit, Pleader, Cuttack, Orissa, India.
CASE 588 - "I was much worried
over my son, Clarence, who was then living in Pittsburgh, Pa. Not
having heard from him, I was advised to call upon you for advice....
You told me that I would see my son shortly, and that he would have
a lady with him. Of course I could not reconcile this statement with
my knowledge of how sick he had been. But the next morning who
should walk into my room but my son, with a lady who was a perfect
stranger to me."
The following cases have been
selected from among those reported by a witness other than the one
concerned:
CASE 107 - Mr. Sadony was
introduced to a Mr. A.A. at the Sylvan Beach Pier. In the course of
conversation he told Mr. A. that his head, for the moment, resembled
a long high bridge. Mr. A. replied, "That is strange, I am working
on the new specifications of the bridge crossing the Mississippi
River. I am an electrical Engineer." (Was this a form of visualizing
the thought?)
CASE 135 - Mr. Sadony warned
William McKie, druggist in Kalamazoo, to be careful. He predicted an
explosion. I received a letter from Mrs. B. enclosing a clipping,
and saying "The prophecy to Mr. McKie came, and he is now lying at
Borgess Hospital, severely burned as a result of the explosion. Mr.
Sadony predicted to Mrs. B. that she was to meet a light complected
man by name of Charles, a dentist. A month later she met a Dr.
Charles H---, dentist, and married him the 20th of May.
CASE 136 - One evening in 1902 a
Dr. Bell of Chicago, interviewed Mr. Sadony with regard to his
experiences in psychometrizing. He brought forth an odd pocket-book,
asking Mr. S. to tell him what thoughts it brought. "I imagine
myself riding along on horseback", was the reply, "I stopped at a
bridge, heard a peculiar noise, and jumped from the horse." Dr. Bell
then explained that the little pocket-book was made from the skin of
the snake which had the "peculiar noise", and which he had actually
killed at the brook.
Mr. Sadony then said, "Doctor, do
you fear the dog of one of your patients?" "No", answered the
Doctor. "There is one that is dangerous, but he is tied up." "Why
don't you carry a gun?" asked Mr. S., intimating that there was
danger. That was the last time Mr. Sadony ever saw Dr. Bell alive,
as the dog broke loose and bit him, thus causing him to die of
hydrophobia.
CASE 153 - Mr. Sadony told a Mr.
B. that he would change his vocation in two weeks and three days. He
replied that this was impossible as he had been in the same business
for nine years. Mr. B. returned later, however, to tell Mr. Sadony
that this had come to pass, although he could not understand how.
Mr. Sadony told Mrs. B. to insure
her husband, that she would thank him for it in two weeks. Ten days
from this time he was struck by an auto and his skull fractured.
Having five children, Mrs. B. was indeed thankful.
CASE 399 - C.S., night clerk of
the ---- Tavern, was threatened with death by a man whom he had
reproached for appearing vulgar to a lady. Shortly after, Mr. Sadony
advised him not to carry fire-arms. He did so, however, and one
night encountered the man who had threatened him, and who now sprang
at him. Mr. C.S. shot and killed him, after which he was arrested.
Mr. Sadony told him in a letter not to fear as he would be
acquitted, which came to pass.
(NOTE: Letter 9998, from Mr. C.S.
himself reads, "I take great pleasure in being able to say that I
was acquitted as you said I would be.")
CASE 549 - September 1, 1922, Mr.
Sadony predicted that before very long we would read in the papers
of two attempts at assassination, one in a little country near
Greece and Turkey, and one in France which would create quite a
stir, as it would concern some prominent figure, such as Marshal
Foche or the President. There were three witnesses to this
statement. Nine others were told of the prophecy within the next day
or two. Sept. 5th, clippings were found, "Arrests Bare Plot to Kill
Royal Family of Roumania," and two others: Paris, Sept. 9th,
"Student Fires on President's Home"; "Attempts to Shoot Millerand
Fails."
CASE 683 - Mr. W.R. of the Tannery
was told that four inspectors would be sent to the tannery, who
would find upon examination that the leather was far below average;
also that an offer would be made to him, and that within three weeks
there would be a man hurt badly on the second floor of the tannery.
He was warned to look after the machine so that he would not be
blamed. The four inspectors arrived. Four hides out of two hundred
were accepted. He received an offer, and in three weeks a man's
finger was torn off on the second floor at that particular machine.
CASE 671 - "In 1907 Mr. Sadony and
l were on a train coming from Belvidere, Ill. He made the remark,
"The Engineer of this train seems nervous. I feel nervous too, but I
think it will be over before we reach Elgin, which is the next
station." Ten minutes later the train gave a sudden jerk, followed
by spasmodic jerks. The connecting rod of the engine had broken,
nearly causing a serious wreck."
CASE 1031 - On the first of
January, 1923, Mr. Sadony told several friends that during the year
to come there would be three occasions when the papers would take
more than usual interest in a death in the moving picture world.
One, he said, seemed to be, more than a movie star. One was a
general favorite of many fans. The third case seemed different, not
exactly a star, yet with stars involved. It looked something like
murder, but he was not sure that it was actually a "death". The
friends who kept track of this matter each offered the same list at
the end of a year. The first was Wallace Reid, the "general
favorite", (Jan. 17, 1923). The second was Sarah Bernhardt, who had
been featured in pictures, but was "more than a movie star" being
first of all a Tragedienne. The third, at the close of the year,
being reported in the papers on the first day of the new year, was
not a movie star, nor was it a death, but it "looked something like
murder". The headlines read, "Two Movie Stars held after rich oil
man is shot in his apartment."
CASE 672 - "But by far the most
remarkable prediction to me occurred when I was with Mr. Sadony in
Los Angeles in 1906. At 3:00 A.M. on Feb. 1st, Mr. Sadony awoke
himself, and then woke me to tell me that someone was passing away
and calling for me. On Feb. 3rd, I received a telegram saying that
my father had passed away in New York at precisely that moment."
CASE 674 - In the year 1910 Mr.
Sadony predicted that the Cayuga (a steamer) would sink, or nearly
sink. A little later it struck a deadhead and had to land its
passengers at once.
Case 680 - One summer Mr. Sadony
remarked to Mrs. A., and M.L., as they sat on the shore of White
Lake, "I feel sorry for the man who is to drown in a few hours." A
few hours later a man was drowned near the Tannery.
CASE 666 - "One time white eating
at the table, Mr. Sadony made the assertion to the rest of us who
happened to be with him, 'In twenty minutes from now, I see one
hundred souls going down in a ship in the northeast.' He explained
that a direct line from where he sat, lying between the Atlantic
Ocean and Michigan, would locate the position. We found afterwards
that the name of the boat was 'The Empress of Ireland,' and that it
sank at the time mentioned."
CASE 667 - "Another time, when I
was having dinner with Mr. Sadony at the Saratoga Café in Chicago,
we ordered soup. When the waitress brought it in, he said, "You
certainly were speedy in removing the mouse that fell in this soup."
She blushed and quickly returned it, but would not wait upon us. We
made inquiry and found that this had actually occurred."
CASE 710 - Mr. A.T. Mills was told
that his son, Frank, then at London, would soon sign a big contract
as leading man for a large Theatrical Company. A clipping soon
stated "A cablegram to friends on this side of the water brings
information that Frank Mills, the well known actor, has signed a
contract as leading man with Olga Nethersole."
CASE 253 - The following incident
happened when Mr. Sadony was quite young. He visited the home of a
man in Belvidere who took three or four swallows from a bottle of
iron tonic at certain times of the day and before retiring.
One evening Mr. S. was in the
upper part of the house, when he called out suddenly, "What's that
you're drinking!" He heard a crash of glass below, and ran to find
his host in the pantry, pale as a ghost. "My God", he asked, "Why
did you say that." "I don't know, I just had to," replied Mr. S.,
who was just as startled as the other, and hardly realized what had
happened. They both looked at the bottle on the floor, which had
been to the man's lips. In reaching to his accustomed shelf of
medicines in the dark, confident with long habit, he had taken a
bottle of iodine which had been misplaced.
CASE 557 - ln 1911 Mr. Sadony sent
for three large fire extinguishers. There were those who thought
this foolish, with running water in the house, and no fire at the
time. He insisted, however, and filled them at once. Six hours
afterwards, at 2:00 A.M., he was working in his shop. He saw flames
in the window. With the chemical the house was saved. The lamp had
exploded and set fire to the bedding.
CASE 558 - On meeting for the
first time a Mrs. R.W., Mr. Sadony remarked that her face appeared
to him, for a moment like an old man with a violin. She was startled
and replied that this was strange because she had been thinking of
such a man whom she had met at a musical in Paris. She expected to
return to take lessons from him, if possible.
CASE 158 - On the morning of
September 2, 1917, while sitting at the breakfast table, Mr. Sadony
told his family and others, who were with him, that he saw C.C.
overlooking his aeroplane (Lafayette Escadrille at the front in
France). He was smoking a cigarette, and saying to a blond man with
a very short mustache, "Believe me, I'll get someone soon."
Mr. Sadony then spoke of seeing a
German repairing something on a broken wing. Later he saw C. go up,
and while about six hundred feet high he followed another machine,
trying to rise over it. Then this same German came into view far
above C., and, nearing him, shot twice. C. fell.
This so impressed Mr. Sadony that
he immediately wrote C. a letter, warning him, and stating "---if
you will think of me and my words when in real danger, I will be
able to take you by the hand and congratulate you.... But... be on
the job.... I know what I am talking about...."
This was the last. A cable from
Paris, dated October 4th, told of his having been seen falling down
out of control, back of the German lines, after an engagement with
three German planes.
CASE 371 - A. Mr. H.R. and his
brother came from the East and worked for a wholesale house on Water
Street, in Chicago, by the river. One day Mr. Sadony told them to
"lay off" and come up, as he had something very important to tell
them. They came, and that afternoon the building where they were
employed, caved in, killing a number of men.
CASE 547 - (August 31, 1922) Mr.
Sadony spoke in the morning to all present at his breakfast table,
(nine in number) of seeing mentally some miners caught in a pocket.
He said that there were 47 miners, three of whom were still alive as
he spoke, trying to dig out. The rescue party were trying to dig
down to them, he said, and in a day or two we would read about it in
the papers.
Monday, September 1st, Miss A.H.
found an article in the Chicago Tribune, dated Jackson, California,
August 31st, and giving the details of the disaster. Reference to 47
miners removes the case from likelihood of "coincidence".
CASE 612 - In their first
conversation Mr. Sadony asked Mr. H. about a business in which he
seemed to be interested, saying that he saw mentally a house in
construction, many houses in construction, but the whole matter
puzzled him because there did not seem to be any evidence of
occupation at any time, present or future, and their construction
seemed odd, as well as the size. Mr. H. and his friend (Mr. W.) were
very much amused, as one of the projects which Mr. H. was then
interested in launching and furthering, was a new kind of toy, a
peculiar kind of building blocks with which children could easily
construct substantial little houses of any miniature size, according
to the number of blocks at hand.
Mr. S. wrote afterward to Mr. H.,
"I could not estimate how a structure could be built without anyone
living in it! It confused me because it was so unique. But it is
through these experiments that I obtain further knowledge in my
researches. And as the language of symbolism was the first created,
it is the most permanent and least confusing, and I naturally accept
these impressions as truth. But it requires language to express,
which is confusing, as it was in your case."
The following has been selected
from records in the notebook of one of Mr. Sadony's friends.
"Mr. Sadony was on the production
staff of a certain play in which Miss F.D. spoke the lines,
'A-Chang, another star is falling from the sky....' (meaning a
death). Upon one occasion in calling this, her voice affected him so
strangely that he could hardly speak. He felt the shadow of the
death from which he had been doing his best to save her. Standing
back of the scenes together they had talked often, and he had warned
her repeatedly about certain things. The next day he wrote her a
long letter, advising in detail and asking that she listen to his
words before it was too late, so that in August of the following
year she might look back in realizing the truth of all that he had
said. But she did not heed his warnings. She did not write him at
the time he had suggested. He could do no more. Six months before
'August' she was found dead." (Circumstances are here omitted, but
it was by no means a natural or a necessary death.)
"Then there was Mr. M.C. whom Mr.
Sadony told in an interview to go slowly at Chicago Avenue and Wells
St. He was one of the oldest gripmen on the Lincoln Ave. carline.
The warning was not heeded. There were a number of men working at
the corner mentioned. A colored man raised his head and turned
around. He was struck and killed."
"Mr. M.C. later brought another
man to see Mr. Sadony. Mr. S. said that he could see nothing for him
after Thursday. He seemed to be there, but in a sort of haze through
which Mr. S. could barely see him. He could see a clock on Monroe
Street, as the car in which the man seemed to be sitting passed a
jewelry store. It was nine-thirty. The man made light of it. The
next Thursday at nine-thirty he dropped dead of heart failure at
Monroe Street."
The following cases are selected
from another notebook as recorded by one witness, and corroborated
in many of its details by ten to fifteen others:
CASE 1009 - One time, when eating
some blueberries that had been brought to him, he spoke of what he
saw "through the eyes of one of the berries." He described the
scene, which was in large proportions, a giant burned stump on one
side and nearby an enormous tree, also black and burned. We were
told by the friend who had brought the berries that in just such a
location the berries had been picked, but that the burned stump was
quite small, and the tree of average size.
CASE 1010 - And again, some honey
was sent to Joseph from another state. As he tasted it he closed his
eyes, and said that he was imagining that he was one of the bees,
and described the scene that he saw while in search of flowers for
the honey that he was tasting. He wrote this description in the
letter in which he thanked his unknown friends for the gift. They
replied that the scene he had described was their own home and farm,
where the bees had indeed obtained the very honey that they had sent
him.
CASE 1014 - At lunch one noon in
January of 1922, Joseph asked me to remind him to tell me of
something that he saw, but which he did not like to mention at the
table. Later I asked him, and he told me that he had seen a family
in Russia eating the limb of a little girl. The rest was cooked and
ready to eat. It was too horrible for him to look longer. The child
was not their own, but a neighbor's. He spoke also of an old woman
that had been consumed.... We found a clipping in the paper dated
February 1st, which spoke of "an old woman and a child of nine that
have followed the cats and dogs that already have been consumed."
CASE 1024 - When Mrs. Nitti's case
first came out in the papers, there appeared no other outcome than
that she would hang. In fact she was sentenced, yet Joseph said "Mrs
Nitti will never hang." He repeated this more than once, as time
passed. So I made a note. "Mrs. Nitti will not hang. Watch papers."
A clipping of April 14th read, "Supreme Court saves Mrs. Nitti from
Gallows." "New Trial granted Mrs. Nitti." Other clippings gave
further details. Joseph explained the form in which this prediction
came to him. He "imagined" seeing the mother's hand stretched toward
the Master praying, "Do not let her enter Eternity that way." The
look on the Master's face was as it had been when He said to the
woman, "---then neither do I condemn thee. Go -- and sin no more."
Addendum, December 1, 1924: Papers
reported "Mrs. Nitti Freed. Case is Dropped."
CASE 1025 - At breakfast on the
morning of Feb. 15th, 1924, Joseph told us of having awakened early
"seeing" a man striking his wife with an axe. Why he should have
"tuned in" with this at just that time, he did not know. A few days
later a clipping was found among some papers about to be thrown
away. What he had "seen" in his passing "glimpse" was happening at
the time. "Attacks his wife with axe," reads the caption. "Green
Valley, Ill., Feb. 15th, Ed. Ary, a farmer living seven miles
southeast of here, after attacking his wife and three daughters with
an axe early this morning, hanged himself in a grove near his home
in Malone Township".... etc.
CASE 1026 - As we were driving
downtown one day, we passed a Mr. M. and his family. As we
approached them Joseph said, "Just now he is saying, "Here comes
Sadony's car." One of the boys afterwards asked Mr. M's daughter
what her father had said as they approached. "He said, 'Here come's
Sadony's car'" she replied.
CASE 1027 - The son of the owner
of a gravel boat was drowned in White Lake. The coast guard were
unable to locate the body. That night, at midnight, Joseph went out
with a friend, equipped with an electric searchlight and a storage
battery. He tied three sinkers to three corks and told the friend to
row about in the dark, which he did, making circles with his eye on
a dock-light to keep his bearings. Suddenly Joseph felt that they
were above the body and dropped one of the corks. They repeated the
process until the third cork had been dropped, then they turned on
the light. At one side of the boat they beheld the three corks
floating within a short distance from each other. In the midst of
them Joseph put the light down into the water. He was himself quite
startled to see the beam of light shining directly upon a dead and
upturned face. The body was wedged between two logs so that the
drags of the coast-guard had passed over it without revealing its
presence.
CASE 1051 - We drove to Muskegon
one day in October of 1923. Joseph pointed to a particular telephone
post as we passed it - only one out of the thousands along the
Michigan State Highway - and he said, "That post will be smashed by
a car. We will watch and see." But November and December passed
without the sign of a scratch. On January 15th we drove along the
same road for the first time in a number of days. The post was
broken and splintered. Markings on the ground showed plainly where a
car had left the road at great speed....
"A new bridge was being built over
the river between Whitehall and Montague. Joseph pointed to a
particular section of railing in the temporary detour bridge. 'Next
time we pass, that will be broken,' he said. 'At that point a driver
will lose confidence in passing a Southbound car.' And the next day,
but one, we found the railing under repair at the point foreseen.''
CASE 1029 - One evening Joseph
parked his car in front of a small cigar and candy store. The little
Italian keeper came out and began to tell him of his troubles with
his wife, and of how terrible and cruel she was.
Joseph told him to be good to her,
"for just two weeks," he said, "And you will not regret it.
Everything will be for the best then. She will not be with you after
that. She will be happy. You will be happy, if you have been kind
and good."
"She will die," he told us after
we had left. "He will then know that I knew, if he does not now."
Three weeks later we drew up in
front of the same little store. The little man ran out and offered
Joseph a big fat cigar as a gift.
"By golly, you were right," he
beamed. "She died last week."
And from the same notebook we take
the following extracts: "He predicted the transparent gas that was
later developed and put to such deadly use.... He saw a fleet of
submarines before the submarine was invented.... He saw the secret
of blowing up submarines by foreseeing the side blown out of the
first one, and watching it sink.... And he told in details of
remarkable methods of the spies and spoke in particular of a string
of English towns on or near the coast where men kept carrier pigeons
that left for Germany daily with intimate reports of what was going
on....
He foretold a Catastrophy that
would occur within a month or two - seven to twelve hundred people
taken at once, - not shot as in war, but like a tidal wave of souls
going over. And not once but many times he foretold such
catastrophies as well as describing the scene at the moment that it
was happening so many hundred or thousands of miles away. Many times
it would be the sinking of a great ship. Other times an earthquake.
But always we would hear of it as prophesied, and with all details
as described.
"Then perhaps he would speak of
some smaller Catastrophe happening nearer home, as for instance was
recorded on January 6th, 1918. 'A house is burning so many miles
north of here', he said. And the next day this was proved to be
true.
"And again on the 10th of the same
month he was seized with the feeling of houses burning or burned,
and of persons lost in the snow and suffering with cold. It was
discovered that one house was at that time completely destroyed by
fire, and that the entire family, father, mother and four children
were forced into the snow in their night clothes. And at the same
time there were other fires less serious. And a man, the caretaker
of Alexander Dowie's home on White Lake was lost in a snowdrift and
died.....
"And then, at times, Joseph would
show us a small revolving model of the world, with a detailed map
upon its surface. He would imagine that it was the Earth itself, and
would describe the feelings and thoughts that came to him from
different parts at different times. Past, Present and Future. And he
would point to certain countries and certain cities, saying 'At this
moment this and this is happening such and such a man is planning
that; earthquakes here; a ship at the bottom of the sea there....'
"And Joseph prophesied the end of
the war in a remarkable manner. He said that the war would be soon
over. But there was an American flag hanging before his home. It
showed signs of the weather. He was about to replace it with a new
one, but he changed his mind one day when he was asked about the
war. 'When the last star falls from that flag,' he said, 'The World
War will be over.' And it is a remarkable fact that the last star
blew down on Nov. 11th of 1918, when the Armistice was signed.
"It is hard to explain these
things. Was this a wonderful 'sign' from some higher power, or did
Joseph in foreseeing the time of the War's end, see also other
details of the same day, thus making use of a strange 'coincidence',
just as he might have seen a certain branch of a tree to fall, which
would enable him to say, 'When that branch falls down the war will
be over?'"
CASE 568 - (A newspaper clipping)
"J.A. Sadony foretold a great disaster which would happen the first
week in May, and no one paid much attention to his prophecy. The
fact is being recalled in the light of the Lusitania disaster."
CASE 568a - (Another clipping)
"Jan. 30th Now that Italy is beginning to recover from effects of
the earthquakes which have brought ruin and desolation, country folk
here recall that Mr. J.A. Sadony prophesied three months ago the
approach of an unusual commotion of the earth in the southern part
of Europe shortly after New Year's...."
CASE 163 - Letter 1184 - "... You
then told me about papers my family had of which they were not
aware, that would show that we owned a mine in the southwest, away
from railroads. The mine had been abandoned, but was still in
operation at that time, although we did not know this then. We found
the papers, showing that the records, etc., had been burned in 1872,
and were never heard of since, as the original owners were dead. But
now we own the mine, after several lawsuits, etc. But had we not
found out about them that year, and paid the taxes, we would have
lost them, as jumpers had been paying the taxes and working them....
"Last summer I was present when
you warned a young man about going into the water because of heart
trouble. That next Sunday he was drowned. (Mr. McCabe, of Chicago)
"You have told many things that
were taking place at the time...."
CASE 484 - (Srikrishna Chatterjee,
B. L. Cuttack, India: youngest son of Prem Chandra Tarkavagisha,
distinguished Sanskrit Scholar of Bengal in the 19th Century.)
Mr. Chatterjee wrote to ask, "Do
you know of anybody who could give me a spirit photograph of my
departed father? He was the Professor of Rhetoric in the Sanskrit
College of Calcutta from the thirties to the middle sixties....
Mr. Sadony replied, "As I read
your card, a strange feeling came to me, as if your father brought
it; and with him a younger woman, with a most beautiful soul. He
spoke first in a strange language, then in five different tongues,
the last a universal language I understood. The names were all
foreign ones, but I will give them as closely as possible. "My son,
the only photograph of my features I shall imprint on your soul. My
deeds are photographed in the minds of my past friends. There is no
pen, color, or chemical on earth that can reproduce my present
features.... These words you are now reading are the only photograph
of myself I can give you...." Now then, dear brother, the voice of
the woman seemed to speak, and she called the name "Birwar", "Borwar",
or "Birtware", and continued as if speaking to him. It appears that
this boy, who must be her son, was at the brink of Eternity twice.
She further speaks of the joy of holding in her arms in the future
this boy's male child. But she warns him to he more careful of his
health. Then there were three more she spoke of - one older, the
name sounded something like "Ratuswar", and then she came to your
name, but it sounded so different than you have signed it that I
could hardly understand, till she pointed to your card. When I asked
mentally when she was blessed with a spiritual form, the answer as
near as I could understand was 1902. The relief from her suffering
was so great, as she said, that she has been in ecstasy since."
(Remainder of message omitted here.)
"I have no doubt whatsoever" wrote
M. Chatterjee, "that the 'younger woman' is my dear departed wife.
She went to the Higher Life on the 4th of January, 1903." (Note:
four days later than 1902.) "She died of tetanus after terrible
suffering of 16 or 17 days.... The name 'Birwar' is a contraction or
corruption of 'Bireswar,' the name of my third boy. Yes he was on
the brink of Eternity twice, his last illness being double
pneumonia. I fear my dear wife will not have the joy of holding in
her arms in the future this boy's male child, as he has set his face
against marriage....
"'Ratuswar' is a contraction of 'Ratueswar',
my second boy.... As to my name.... Do you know that Hindu ladies do
not pronounce their husband's names during their earth life?...."
Mr. Sadony wrote in a letter of
June, 1916, "This I know positively, that your wife will influence
your son to marry."
In a letter of 1916, Mr. Sadony
predicted the end of the war. Then in April, 1917, he wrote to the
son, ''.... You will make the change to another city, and before you
receive this letter you will have made two changes. At first things
may appear slow, but it is as a moth in a cocoon, waiting for this
cruel war to end, which will come to pass sooner than the world
realizes, as even now the central powers have formed a plan to
surrender with as good grace as possible under the circumstances.
England and the Allies will be the gainers. India will awaken - at
least her sons, who will make use of the opportunity to become
coworkers with all the world...." (Remainder of letter omitted.)
A postscript to another letter
read, "I see one body in your place being divested of its soul. Let
me know if this has occurred since my writing this, as I expect one
more to follow. And tell Abhaya that God has called her to His
home...."
In Jan. 1920, a letter from the
son stated, "I have passed through the changes you predicted."
In March, the father wrote, "'You
say, 'At one time since my last communication (1917) I seemed to see
you at the portals of death.' If it was in August or September,
1918, you would be right, for I was then in the death-door
condition. It was an attack of influenza.... You say 'You are now 68
years of age, are you not?' My answer is, I am now in the 67th year
of my age.
"In reference to your message of
death, my eldest brother died a year after your seeing the vision,
(March, 1918), and my second brother followed him in December. Your
prophecy about my sister Abhaya appears to be erroneous. She is
living still." (Note: She died one year and one month after the date
of this letter.)
"Your prophecy that my wife's
spirit will influence my boy to marry has come true. He married in
August last. He is now Professor at the Bhumikar Brahman
College...."
"Another prediction of yours has
also been verified. In your letter of Feb. 20th, 1916, you predicted
a 'Journey'. That journey was undertaken by me in October, 1919. In
September I was seized with a desire to see my second boy and his
two children and wife at Nasirabad, which must be about 1500 miles
from this place.... I went to Calcutta, and thence proceeded.... I
visited Arraha, Pushkar, Chitor, Udaipur, Ujjain, (and eight other
places) in the course of my 'Journey'. I showed your letter to
several friends, and told many more that you had predicted my
journey upwards of three years before.
Addendum Case 484 - In February of
1924, Mr. Sadony entered his Study, stating that he distinctly felt
the presence of Srikrishna Chatterjee, who at that time seemed to be
in a dying or unconscious condition.
Upon receipt of a booklet sent him
by Mr. Sadony in April, Mr. Chatterjee wrote, "There is much truth
in the dubiousness expressed by the words, 'if still with us', on
the title page.... I was confined to bed by a profound nervous
prostration for five months from Nov. 1923.... It seemed to me that
consciousness had left me. It has now come back...."
In August of 1924 Mr. Sadony
wrote, "With regard to my writing 'If still with us', in presenting
my booklet to you, my reason was a peculiar incident. About the
middle of February, while in my Study, I seemed to feel your
presence, just as if you were in that sphere which hovers between
death and life, a living dreamland, the sphere which brings me so
many messages - as if you were in the next world, but still anchored
by a silk thread to this one. I began to fear, for I felt that you
had something still to complete...."
Just as this booklet was going to
press, a letter was received from Mr. Chatterjee, in which he
stated, "You are quite right in saying that in February last I was
in that sphere which hovers between life and death - in the next
world. Dear brother, it seemed to me that I died, and have come back
to life again..."
With this letter came a copy of
the fifth edition of the life of Srikrishna Chatterjee's father,
(Life and Slokas of Prem Chandra Tarkavagisa, by Rai Ramakhoy
Chatterji Bahadur, printed by Norendra Nath Bose at the St. Andrew's
Steam Printing Works, 81 Radha Bazar Street, Calcutta). It is
written in Bengali, but at the close, in English, we find an account
of the attempt which had been made to secure a spirit photograph of
the Pandit Tarkavagisa. There is reference to communication with
"Julia's Bureau" in London, the medium photographer Edward Wyllie,
the Normans, etc. (From all of which excuse had been offered for
failure to produce the desired photograph).
Then the account concludes, "At
last in 1916, Mr. Joseph A. Sadony, the great American psychic, when
communicated with on the subject, wrote to say: - 'As I read your
card', etc. (quoting in detail the message given at the beginning of
this case, 484.)
"Thus", concludes the writer, "the
question whether a spirit photo of the Pandit could be had, has
received its quietus after a correspondence with different psychics
and mediums in almost all parts of the world extending over a period
of nearly twelve years."
"I leave it to others to explain
these things," Mr. Sadony has often said of his work and
experiences, "These are the results. I am willing to tell of the
steps that led up to them. The Scientist must explain, if he can."
If I have prophesied, even once,
correctly, this is absolute proof of more than the possibility. We
all possess the ability to "foresee", but our objective desires are
too strong to allow subjective thoughts to live. Meals and sleep
come too close together for most of us, and our desire for
excitement and companionship deafens our ears to the secrets of
seclusion. I am often sad for the want of someone to share with me
all that fills the entire atmosphere from time immemorial, using me
as a willing subject. Does this seem strange? The air today is
filled with music and laughter, even in the dead loneliness and
silence of the Wilderness. Tune in your radio and see!
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