Geoffrey Hodson was a Spiritualist and a Theosophist. I read somewhere
that he was a Catholic scholar, as well, and highly thought of. But
there was a slightly peculiar side to ol' Geoffrey! Through what must
have been extremely well-developed clairvoyant vision, or else, some
kind of self-delusions or perhaps mischievous intentions, he "saw" the
oddest creatures as he roamed about England from 1921 to 1923, which
were published in his first book: "FAIRIES AT WORK AND AT PLAY",
originally published by the Theosophical Publi****ng House in London in
1925. This book came out about the same time there was a hue and cry
about the two little English girls whom Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was
intrigued with and vouched for the authenticity of their "fairy
photos".
You've probably seen them: Dancing, floating, winged little
fairies...Both their visions, and a recent "dead fairy" I saw on the
Internet -- a very believable-looking 'dead' little fairy -- were
denounced as frauds and fakes. But one always wonders. If fairies
never did exist, could something ELSE have come to light in our
distant European past? Such as fairy-like or gnome-like extra-
terrestrials? The idea of 'LITTLE PEOPLE LIVING UNDER THE MOUNTAIN'
has always evoked shudders from me... ugh! horrible thought! If
gnomes or leprechauns were really, say, E.T.'s, and really DID live,
or at one time HAD lived, in remote Irish haunts... Zug! It's a short
step-and-a-jump to that hideous cackling through space ---- Yog
Sothoth!! Selah.
All that aside, I found Hodson's visions of creatures he claims to
have encountered to be terrific fun to read and also imagine along
with him as he sees and describes: Brownies, Elves, Grass Creatures,
Tree Gnomes, Tree Mannikins, Red Mannikins, Household Brownies,
Seaside Elves, Wood Elves, Dancing Gnomes, Moorland Gnomes, Spirits of
the Falls, Green Mannikins, Undines, Lake and Sea Spirits, Nature
Devas. Sylphs, Storm Spirits, and many more. Each creature gets its
own little chapter in which its appearance, manner, habits, etc., is
described.
I re-typed and re-set the book in its entirety, and just published it
in paperback, in softcover wraps, it comes to 159 pages, and the cover
is two shades of green, as befits these nature-sprites... The pretty
little thing is on slick paper and the pages smell really good, it was
published in North Carolina where there's lots & lots of trees which
already know, deep in their roots, that they're destined to become
paper. But sometimes it's for a good cause. Like this "FAIRIES"
book: $14.25. Here's the link, please have a look. it might be the
perfect thing for a clever child or a mystic-minded adult:
http://www.lulu.com/content/2414624
I also discovered a real GEM, maybe not a diamond, but surely one of
the world's biggest opals or moonstones: "THE SPIRIT WORLD", a "one
of a kind" spiritualist "manual" from the 1930's, from a
spiritualist whose name I cannot trace or find out very much about,
the voice of a spiritualist church in San Francisco, a church which
fell off the face of the earth, as well. Not because of an earthquake
or fire, but some unknown disaster. To make the story even MORE
intriguing, credits at the start of her book include the Rev. James J.
Dickson, "instrumental materializing psychic". I am just as
fascinated by the Rev. Dickson as I am by the author, Daisy Gibson
Buettner, because surely that must have been a strange and significant
relation****p they shared: Daisy, seeing visions of the Spirit World,
and the good Rev. Dickson, "instrumental" in making the invisible
world 'materialize' , ...whatever that means! I attended a
spiritualist church in California in the late 1960's, but it never
dealt with materializations, and the like, so I find this "take" on
the matter quite unusual and revealing.
In this strange volume, Daisy Gibson Buettner , with the possible
sinister and silent Rev. Dickson standing right behind her, talks
about the world "where the spirits live" and where she believes humans
are bound to go in their "afterlife". So, if you want to find out
about: Spirit Possessions, Spirit Reparations, Natural Laws in the
Spirit World, Spirit Eating, Spirit Travel, Choice of Spirit Homes,
Spirit Museums, Cultural Planets of Art and Music, Spirit Libraries,
Homes in the Spirit World, No Segregation, Water, Climate, Flowers,
Trees, etc., in the Spirit World... Jeepers, you couldn't want more
information about the Spirit World! (Except maybe, "How do I get
there? I can't wait!")
This book fascinated me with its self-confident simplicity, this woman
REALLY wanted to BELIEVE in this. She even gives little TESTS along
the way, to make sure the reader progresses in their knowledge of the
afterlife... So, I re-typed the "Spirit World" ****tion of Buettner's
lengthy spiritualist manifesto, and re-set it in its entirety and
have now published it in softcover wraps, in saddle-stitch binding on
high-quality paper and a good binding. The glossy cover stock is
sleek, slick, and smooth. This is the First Edition of "THE SPIRIT
WORLD", and marks the first time this obscure and long-out-of-print
text has come to light in 70+ years, As I said, I was searching the
Interet recently and could not find out a thing about this author, the
other Rev., or their spiritualist church, which makes this existing
book all the more intriguing. Maybe they all went to the Spirit
World! But honestly, spiritualists would just DIE for this book, since
there are no other real, extended descriptions of the spirit world in
any book I've ever seen--not even the Bible! This book's $12.50.
Please have a look at it, at:
http://www.lulu.com/content/2414783
Best, ----Ed Augusts
http://www.edaugusts.com
http://groups.google.com/group/BOOK-ADVENTURES-with-Ed-Augusts
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