Professor Ernest Wood told me the story of his father's visit to an exhibition which marked the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in England. A few weeks after the visit his father was given a message from a supposed spirit whose description exactly tallied with that of a waxworks figure of a man which he had seen at the exhibition. What happened in this case was that the medium had picked up correctly the picture of this figure, but had let his imagination incorrectly construct a message because of his own personal belief in, and bias towards, spiritualism. Thus what began in psychic vision as a truth became adulterated as a mixture of truth and error. The case cited here illustrates the possibility and actuality of mistakes not only on the lower levels of occultism, but also on the higher levels of religious mysticism. Here inspired revelations are sometimes mixed up with personal belief or even interpolated unwittingly with priestly imagination.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 130
