1954-03-20 — Page 7

Have You Lived Before?

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH `20, 1954,

'I Saw Queen Of Scots Executed'

NTEREST in the en-

tire subject of rein- earnation is far more widespread than is generaí- ly realised,

furnishes My postbag the evidence for that asser- tion.

of Most

these letiers have been genuine efforts by serious-minded, intelli

correspondents grent place before me their experiences

{ons.

and

to

DWO

convic

It would be ille to deny that the subject does not altract is Thus i hove retinue of croaks, received a quota of letters of that nature

1 expected p What did not expect was that the pervent- age of such letters would be so Amali.

There was, too, a small pro- portion of writers who thought they might try to pull off a hoax or two.

Like the two young men who sent me three separate letters

ver Getitious nutnes

from three sepatule addresses.

In one of these letters t writer told how he had bjerens taken prisoner at Agincourt and belended

writer

By

"And In that moment I be- cause in a dash aware of a past I had met existence and knew

PARRY MILLER this tall, dark-skinned woman in

arms with lowered heads. tund were more monks,

Be-

"The procession moved slow- ly, and straight towards ሮ. And with each yard of its pro-

becunie more terrified. res

"Then as the crude heurse drew level and passed me, there was another vision or mind ple- ture

it can or whatevET

be entled.

"This was the actual execu- tein of the queen. It was very I saw the proud clear and real figure of the queen, saw the axe

and fall. rise

"luse by the block stood a group of women weeping bitter. ly. Somehow I knew I was une of them, though I did not actual- ly recognise my features. Knew that I was there us either A lady-in-waiting.

51 personal muld of that tragic queez).

*Tha vision faded, and found myself staring once more ut held of mounds and shak- img with cold fear.

** turned un my heels and fled back to where my son was waiting in The car I was. be told me afterwards ashen white ana Trembling.”

In a second letter from the always felt that in leg-pulling sourer the ¢Ir*j«u¢x¥ 1 returning dream

where 1 સ્મશ

seemed to be a large vegetable on the banks of some tropical river

In the third effort the writer claimed to have been a Hom who provided the accompani- ment to Nero's crazy music while Rome burned.

Well, those attempts to bring

off a hoax were, of course, seotched, the pecesary investi- sation soon establishing them

for what they

were.

'Air Ice-Cold'

ONE hot

in

June

complexioned

Sunday

1037

woman

Д

In

afternoon tresh-

her

early Aftles, whom I will call Mrs D., leaned on the gate of a Northamptonshire feld und eyed with keen interest number of grassy mounds in its midst.

2

Tho munds are all that now remain of one of England's tnost lumous castles, Fotherin- The place where, ly.

more than four centuries

ago, they kapt Mary Queen of Scots a

until that February prisoner morning when she perished at the hands of the headsman.

Mrs B had come a fair way to see this spot. She had pre- valled on her son to bring her here his cur from her home in Essex.

She had left her son 113 the

car and walked ulone to the gule on which she now loaned. And on that wurm Jane after- noon she experienced something which

still vivid In her

inʊmory,

"As

look od at

Before that day Mrs B. had some way she had been linked with the life

uf Mary. This and death

made clear tu her what that bek had been.

IL ako clinchod beyond question hur bolief in the tuality of reincarnation,

'Out Walking ... .' THE enoviel on

A word I had no known won now hummering away ira my head

Subtle Way

Page:7!

WHEN THE CIRCUS FOLDS UP

London.

IKE nomads, the tumblors, trapeze men

and tamera have fold- and the

midgets,

By James Wickenden

now it was a much more sophia- ment of watching a fool lot ed their tents and gone. sombre in dark auita, lay ticated affair, played in, the the humour was more kind.

their wreath.

courtyards of Italian nobles, and Harlequin is a symbol

Circuses are over unt!l the spring when they take to the rond.

As the first of circus folk to appear, so are the clowns the last to be seen.

They are all there, Coco, Butch Reynolds, Percy Hux- ter and the rest, represent- ing the 120 or so clowns in Europe.

There

of much more than fun.

A Symbolism

The "auglisto" began when the famous fun-maker,

most clowns. They are re- nowned for their 'serious- ness when not clowning, and are often depressing com.

pany.

Clannish Lot

Tom Belling, entered the ring and fell flat, on his face. this out, as clowns are u But few strangers find The crowd roared shouting clannish lot. "auruste"

(font!).

Next

their

lain.

They have In fact, all clowning is night Tom painted his nose their own paper and chap- own Clowns Club, They do not all style based on Their final gesture to the themselves "clown."

a symbolism of red

and wore

baggy world is almost surrealistic is a variety of funny men, Middle Ages, clowns

human nature. In

the trousers, and this time The were trippet deliberately. for they collect annually each

Elke all circus people, helpless with their talk is flavoured with

popular jari.

Pentonville.

All There

with

а

different

joker with the

cone

big buttoned jacket

baggy pantaloons.

hat, and

cam"

a previous incarnation in some Egyptian era.

"I want on with my walk. But I was

med the summe girl. about this time in a grave history, and the real circus the "Fools" rather cruel crowd were

yard at St James' Church clown is the white-faced caricatures of the idiot and laughter, and the "auguste" Romany words, such

the hunchback who enter remained 21

Out favourite. tained the artisocracy. of the hunchback Punch. The lower classes He

originated

with by were Batisfled Joseph Grimaldi, Hence the baiting. Funny clown is often called the performing "Joey" after him. But even contributed Grimaldi drew inspiration clrcus. from another type of enter- tainment-the harlequinade. In more

Was

"IT the word reincarna-

tion. When I got book home

"In some

I went straightway up to my room and turned the word up in a dictionary, and found out its meuning.

subtler way My values of life and thought com- pletely changed from that day.

"I

skinned SHW that durk woman again. From inquiries I found she was living in a large house in the keality.

went out there one day and watched her As ge walked in her gamen. But I did not speak to her There seemed to be no necessity.

"In fact I never spoke to her by word of mouth that is although I saw her perhaps hall a dozen times, driving or walk- Ing, before, presently, she left the district.

But on Diose Occasions It segmed that our thoughts were exchanged-something far more Viw and penetrating than the spoken or written word.

"Afing the left the district I all made no move of any kind to

get into touch with her,

ac-

that poses s livert before can, and often

does, come to a man or woman in a Bush, without the possibility

having been given any previņnts thought at all.

Au thơ results can be both far-reachinse and quite unex - pected.

have never seen or heard of her again.

"But that chance encounter

เท

Middlesex country Jane most certainly changed my whole life.

“it brought to me not merely a better in reincarnation, but a farth and ideals I had not up to then even dreamed abouɛt.”

'In Terror'

quote an

for instance, reminded Now let me that cante

case of a

I am, of the

single woman In her thirties who lives with her parents in a Kent town and who served throughout the war with one of the women's ser-

1 will call her Miss E.

perience

ся-

2 10 famous woman novelist some years ago.

"I don't believe in

reinear- she told nation,"

me bluntly the other

But she day.

went

The experience that brought on to describe something queer

ley to a belief in reincarnation that happened to her during a

ocurred some 18 years ago, when she, with her family, was Ilving in Middlesex.

"It was one

day summer's when I was out for a walk with my dog," she told me. "At that time had no interest whatever in reincarnation. I did not, in fact, even know the meaning of

the word.

"So there was 1, this after- noon, walking happily along, thinking of nothing in particular

ond with no troubles at all an my mind.

"I wasn't taking any notice of the cars that passed on the road ur of other walkers who passed me.

"But presently, as I was mov- ing happily along A country those lune,

I become aware that a larger car was coming slowly to- wards me,

mounds," she told me recently, "I suddenly found the air ice cold, so cold that I was shiver-

Ing.

"And them, instead of the mounds I saw the dark wails of the castle us it had been hun- dreds of years ago.

'Our Eyes Met'

"IT

visit to Rome in 1920, something that has been puzzling her ever since.

I was

travelling through to Malta," she said, and got to Rome at six in the morning,

"It was

a sunny April day. and I decided to see a little of Rome before travelling on.

"So I wandered around, and presently came to the Forum. I was feeling extremely happy without a care in the world.

"Then I turned a corner, and I found myself asking mentally, 'Now where have 1 scen this place before?'

"IL was the Colosseum and the question was odd because I had up to this moment not known the Colosseum lay here, just beyond the Forum.

"I decided to go and look at the place. Then one of the guides showed

me where the arena had been, the arena where lions had mangled their victims,

"My feeling of happiness had vanished.

wts dreadfully physically sick, and in terror I can as fast as I could to escape from that spot.

was not so much the car ua its driver that caught "Spellbound, 1 watched the and hold my attention, however, lowerings of draw-bridge. She was a woman of about 40, Then, from inside the dark and as we drew abreast I could walls, emerged a procession.

was tall, had deep-set go see sho eyes and a dark brown com- plexion. "She

'Saw Axe Fall'

"AT

"Nothing would induce me to inside that place again. Nothing would induce me even to 800 a fim depicting the scenes that took place there,

"I have no, theory to explain this aversion. As I say, I do not believe in reincarnation.

looked ns though she must have spent a considerable T the head was a group of time in some Eastern country.

monks, in, black and "She was alone in his car cowled. Then came a farm cart she was driving. As we passed "AЛl know is that what I drawn by a great chestnut horse.

our eyes met. In hers were ro have told you really happened This cart was carrying a coffin fleeted volumes of thought, in- and that the aversion, if that draped in black, and at each tense suffering end the posses- word be strong enough, is still side walked, in slow step, men at slon of unusual knowledge,

there,"

I

YOUR MINK, SIR!

By J. W. TAYLOR

SAY, chaps, have you according to the bulk of the a very vivid one and said he'd

Been the latest in men's wearer. waistcoats. Up in Birming-

For

ham they are really putting means,

MINK, too!

the ordinary

For

wear it at his club that night

in the hope that it would shake

They have come to pay respects at the tomb of Mr Joseph Grimaldi, the father of clowns.

On the grave of him who charmed

delighted und Drury Lane and Sadler's Wells over

WAR

type

of

08

Tober is the circus chaves, dangari and man- the and omie is Still another

ground,

hence toberomie is bear clown, even mare subtle owner; meu and than the rest, is the "char- the circus ground owner to animals

the cifcus folk. thus ley." He is, of course, the to modern descendant of Charley Chap- Circus people have a distant lin--the forlorn little tramp. past going back to the tumblers allghtly sad and often and jugglers who entertained times, ridiculous, but still retaining savage princes even before the

early days of Egypt and China. of the essential human dignity,

In their isolation from the The sadness of Chaplin world, their long history means a

modern the harsh humour This is the pierrot and Middle Ages gave way to ago. harlequin show made popu. the "auguste" type of clown. a century

the fat men, the thin ones lar at the seaside. Originally There was still the amuse- reflects a curious fact about lot to them.

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