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Title: War and the Weird

Author: Forbes Phillips
R. Thurston Hopkins

Release Date: April 10, 2008 [EBook #25037]

Language: English

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WAR AND THE WEIRD

BY
FORBES PHILLIPS
AND
R. THURSTON HOPKINS

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL,
HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD.

_Copyright
All rights reserved
1916_

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Punctuation has been normalised. Dialect spellings have been
retained. The oe ligature is shown as [oe].

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PAGE

I. THE UNCANNY UNDER FIRE 11

II. WAR THE REVEALER 17

III. THE SOUL'S BOUNDARY LINE 21

IV. THE SPIRITUAL ENTITY 27

V. ANGELS 31

VI. FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNSEEN 35

VII. THE WHITE COMRADE 39

FIVE SKETCHES

I. OMBOS 49

II. THE DE GAMELYN TRADITIONS 101

III. THE MILLS OF GOD 127

IV. THE STORY OF A SPY 137

V. THROUGH THE FURNACE 161

INTRODUCTION

BY FORBES PHILLIPS

I

THE UNCANNY UNDER FIRE

"Do you think there is anything in it?" He was a clean-set six-foot
specimen of English manhood, an officer of the R.F.A. wounded at Mons,
who spoke. "I mean I haven't studied these subjects much--in fact, I
haven't studied them at all. Sport is more in my line than spiritualism
and that kind of thing, but when you have experiences brought under your
very nose again and again, you cannot help thinking there must be
something in such things." He had just told me that in the last few
minutes' sleep he managed to get on the march to Mons he dreamt tha