Isa Northage was born in the northeastern part of England in 1898. She heard voices speaking to her from an early age which her parents assumed was a childish game. When she was older, she consulted a friend, Canon Jackson, about the voices. He said to her, “Treasure your gifts from God. Someday you will make good use of them.”

In 1916, Isa’s fiancée was serving overseas in World War I. Although she had just received a letter telling her he was coming home and to prepare to be married, she had a vision that indicated otherwise. She had seen a German sniper shoot her fiancée from his horse, causing his death. The following month, she received a letter that he had died just as she had envisioned. Jack Northage, who delivered her fiancée’s possessions, would end up marrying her after the war.

Isa served in the W.R.A.F. after her fiancée’s death. At that time, she was helped by a spirit guide named Dr. Reynolds who spoke to her and directed her to safety at one point. Dr. Reynolds would later visit many of her seances. He materialized and sometimes conducted surgery by inserting a spirit hand into the patient to remove growths in full light. Isa’s other spirit guides included, Chedioack or Sambo, a West African, and Ellen Dawes, a Yorkshire girl.

Allan MacDonald’s book, A Path Prepared, documents many articles that appeared in The Two Worlds that describe seances held by Isa from 1939 to 1949. Her early seances were devoted to different experiments with colors, voices, materializations, ectoplasm and apports. Apports included a silver case, rings, beads, an ivory cross, large vases and porcelain from China, and a carved Russian plate.

One unusual event occurred during a séance on August 6^th, 1941. A French general, Victor De Cazale, came to them from the spirit world. He requested that they help his old comrades who had been taken prisoner by the Germans. They were dirty, wounded and hungry. When asked how they could help, he said “Put five loaves in the center of the séance room.” One of the séance participants went to buy bread while the others waited. When she returned, the bread was placed in the requested location and dematerialized within three minutes.

After the bread vanished, the sitters received a piece of paper apported into the room with two inscriptions. One said,” Sanctuaire. Dieu, et Mon Droit (God and my right). H. Chaunterell.” The other said, “Des Amis du Sanctuaire (Friends of the Sanctuary).”

Further reading:

MacDonald, Allan (2012) A Path Prepared. Saturday Night Press Publications, England. (Reprinted from 1960 edition)

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