Nigel Carrington

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3,086 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Through the Looking Glass · Aleriel or A Voyage to Other Worlds - Wladislaw Lach-Szyrma · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

If I had time, I should wish to stay a day or two here.

It reminds me of

He paused.

and did not finish the sentence.

At any rate, stay the night, I said.

You really are not doing justice to the city, and I should like to introduce you to some friends.

I had indeed asked some of the reading set to which I belonged, all quiet studious men going in for honours to my rooms to coffee after dinner.

Priscilla consented to stay another day with me and dine with me.

My friends were warm in their reception of me and full of questions about my adventures in the siege.

I soon noticed, however, that my strange companion attracted their attention.

Quiet, unassuming and retiring, though he was, there certainly was something so singular in his manner, appearance, and mode of speech that one could not help observing him.

Hilbert, a Merton man, with whom I was very intimate, and who had joined our party, was especially fascinated by him.

Hilbert was an eccentric man who was chaffed a good deal for his credulity in mesmerism and spiritualism.

He and Priscilla were greatly drawn to each other, and were soon on Hilbert's favourite topic, the occult sciences and

I am convinced, said Hilbert, that there are two ruling forces in this world at the present day: money and psychic force.

Of these I am by no means sure that the latter, and least accepted, is not really the most potent.

For the man possessed of psychic force can compel those under his influence to give their money as he wishes by willpower.

Many of the great men of history have been so, not so much by reason of their mental endowments, as by reason of this psychic force.

See Napoleon I, how marvellous, almost supernatural was his career, and a great deal of it was due to his willpower over men.

In destroying authority and in weakening the power of kings and priests, we have given these two forces money and psychic power unbounded range.

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