Gate of Remembrance

Collector's Library of the Unknown

by Frederick Bligh Bond

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Genres: Paranormal, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1918

About the author

Frederick Bligh Bond, FRIBA

Reviews

[Kent Clark]

I don't feel right 'rating' a book on a subject I have so little knowledge of. I can only give my impressions. I picked this up on a whim for around 5 dollars at a local used shop. Not because of any personal knowledge of archeology so much as a peripheral interest in 'spooky' stuff. Of which the books mention of 'automatic writing' fit that criteria. Having prefaced all of this, the books content pertaining to the archeological aspect was mildly interesting, bordering on dull. The description of the automatic writing seemed kind of silly to be honest. Although, after thinking about it, I would use sinister rather than silly. The most interesting thing to me was the view of the author that automatic writing was in the same category as 'speaking in tongues' for Christians. I can't say with any certainty that the writer of this was a believer or not but his impression that auto writing was a spiritual gift from God makes me think not. I can't imagine anyone who's at all versed in the Bible would think auto writing one of the 'gifts of the spirit' unless they simply wanted to believe so. The Bible mentions the specific gifts. Of which auto writing is not one. In the Bible, the gifts are used by God for the edification of believers through the Holy Spirit. Not to talk to 'dead monks' about locating the ruins of their abbey. This all leaves me with the unsettling feeling that the writers were probably communing with demonic entities. They were certainly getting information from 'something' and a lot of it was data that no one could possibly know about without having been 'around' at the time.

[Harvey Dias · Rating 1 out of 5]

BORING

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book! I read it accidentally years ago when I found it lying on a library table. I tried to find it again but only recently found it through our inter-library loan system. Wish I would have had it when I visited the abbey:)