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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birley, who sent Robinson his photograph. That night Drug Clerk Robinson dreamed he saw Birley making mystic motions over a corpse, thought he heard him saying: "This is Psychiana, the power that will bring new life to a spiritually dead world." Next day the drug clerk wrote the cotton broker: "You are to be associated with me in this business. Please send $40,000." Fortnight later, a bank in Spokane, Wash. informed Robinson that $20,000 had been deposited to his account, that Mr. Birley promised $20,000 more the following week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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