| The Victorian
medium and author, Robert James Lees, is
accredited by some as the sensitive whose
messages helped the British police to arrest a
suspect in the infamous 'Jack The Ripper'
case in Whitechapel in Victorian London. Sceptics claim that the entire
story about Lees's involvement in the Ripper case
is nothing more than an American journalist's
invention, and that there's no hard evidence to
verify the story. It may be significant that
Robert James Lees, himself, never denied or
verified his alleged role in the hunt for 'Jack'.
It's claimed that Robert
became involved with the inquiry after
clairvoyantly 'seeing' the murders of some of the
East End prostitutes and also 'seeing' the
murderer's face. But when he visited the police
at Scotland Yard, they initially considered him
to be 'a madman and a fool'.
However, some of the
newspapers of the day reported his psychic
visions and it was claimed that 'Jack' himself
learned of Lees' involvement in the case, when in
one of the famous 'Dear Boss' letters (which were
sent to the authorities apparently by the killer)
it's said that Robert's name was mentioned:
"You have not
caught me yet you see, with all your cunning,
with all your 'Lees', with all your Blue
Bottles!"
But another
interpretation of the difficult-to-read, scrawny
writing is that the word 'Lees' could be read as 'Tecs', which is a slang term
for 'Detectives'.
Lees is then said to
have co-operated with Inspector Abberline, the
leader of the investigation, who listened
carefully to his psychic impressions and then
followed him as they walked from the last crime
scene into London's wealthy West End, and up to a
building that belonged to a renowned surgeon of
the day.
It's then alleged that
this surgeon's wife incriminated her husband with
a testimony about his vicious attacks on her and
about blood being found on his clothes, and the
police arrested the doctor. Following a medical
court of enquiry, it's claimed that the doctor
was committed to a London asylum in Islington,
but under a pseudonym.
As a mark of gratitude
and respect, tradition then records that Robert
received a life pension from the Privy Purse, and
that his great granddaughter was said to have
kept in her possession a gold cross that was
given to him as a gift from many of the grateful
East End prostitutes.
But how much of the
above version of the 'Jack the Ripper' story is
based on fact, and how much of it has been
created by urban myth, is difficult to decipher.
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Robert James
Lees' diary, in which he alludes to a few of the
above points, is currently held at the
headquarters of The Spiritualists' National Union in Stansted Hall in Essex. ___________________
In his earlier years
it's also alleged that Lees was summoned to
appear before Queen Victoria after the death of
her husband Prince Albert. She and Lees are
alleged to have had a long and interesting
discussion about 'matters of a psychic nature',
which could well be true because Victoria was
known to be interested in spirit phenomena.
Queen
Victoria in her later years
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A Trilogy of Psychic
Books
by RJ Lees
Through
the Mists is a
psychic autobiographical account of an ordinary
man whom we follow as he is killed in an accident
and he then enters into a new life in the spirit
world.
The sequel to this book
is The Life
Elysian, which
records more experiences of this Soul in
Paradise, continuing the narrative of this man,
now known as Aphraar, and recounting his life
spent in the company of his spirit mother in the
first embrace of whom he says, "I tasted
something of the sweetness to be - found in the
compensation heaven bestows on those whose
happiness has been deferred."
The Gate of Heaven, is the last in the trilogy and
it records the progress of Aphraar through the
region often thought of as 'Purgatory' and into
the Gateway of the Second Birth.
Robert Lees disclaimed
personal responsibility for all of his inspired
narratives, which he maintained he'd received
through direct spirit agency. He said that he
merely played the role of a recorder on behalf of
invisible spirit guests who told him their life
stories.
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Books by Robert
James Lees:
Through the Mists
The Life Elysian
The Gate of Heaven
The Heretic
The Car of Phoebus
The Astral Bridegroom
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