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... such men have put succinctly their arguments for and against the truth of spiritualism, Mr. W. T. Stead and the famous conjurer, Mr. Maskelyne. We will deal with Mr. Maskelyne first, who totally denies the value of the facts on which spiritualism is based. Mr. Maskelyne puts forward two absolutely inconsistent theories, first, that spiritualism is all fraud and humbug, the second, that it is all subconscious... Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Stead and Maskelyne 01-January-1910 The vexed question of spirit communication has become a subject of permanent public controversy in England. So much that is of the utmost importance to our views of the world, religion, science, life, philosophy, is crucially interested in the decision of this question, that no... theory which has hitherto been held by the opponents of the new phenomena, the second the Page 43 theory to which they are being driven by an accumulation of indisputable evidence. Mr. Maskelyne, himself a professed master of jugglery and illusion, is naturally disposed to put down all mediums as irregular competitors in his own art; but the fact that a conjuror can produce an illusory phenomenon ...

... Evolution . Published in the Karmayogin , 18 September 1909, and later in The Ideal of the Karmayogin. Stead and the Spirits . Published in the Karmayogin , 27 November 1909. Stead and Maskelyne . Published in the Karmayogin , 1 January 1910. Fate and Free-Will . Published in the Karmayogin , 29 January 1910, and later in Man — Slave or Free? and The Need in Nationalism. The ...