This may better be over in "Beliefs and Doctrines"...but I bet a fair number of you have been to palm-readers, attended seances, etc...so:
w12/15/1893 r.1604
ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM A FAITHFUL WORKER
MY DEAR BROTHER: Yours of recent date duly received, and again I thank you for your kindness in writing me. I have done more thinking on these matters since I read the TOWER than ever before, and think with better understanding.
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What spiritual idea can we get from the ?wonderful feats of the mind-reader, Johnstone? I have witnessed his work, and know there is no humbug about it.
It brings more clearly to my mind how God reads our inmost souls. If that power works between man and man, it is but a little indication of the power of Him who knoweth all. I should be glad if you would write on this subject in the TOWER.
I remain, very humbly yours, --
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About mind-reading: I think the achievements of mind-readers are of great interest to us, as illustrating the possibilities of a perfect human being. Lightning calculators, snake charmers, horse tamers, mind-readers, musical geniuses, etc., are all freaks of nature which permit us to see powers, all of which belong to the perfect man. I would not be surprised if, after the new age has been opened and the capabilities of mankind have became exercised: people could communicate with each other without speech, just as dogs and others of the lower animals now do: though each person will also possess the power of resistance and be able to secrete his thoughts if he choose. (EDITOR)
There are other statements in subsequent WTS literature that specifically support this speculation.
So, what do you think?