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“THE SPIRITUALIST” Newspaper. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF WILLIAM BLAKE. Established in 1869. William Blake, whose artistic works are Published Weekly. Price Twopence. 10s..lOd. per annum Post Free within tho limits of the United unrivalled for spirituality and for other-world Kingdom, and within the English and Foreign Postal Union. ideality, was a seeing medium, and curiously EDITED BY WILLIAM II. HARRISON, enough much of his time was spent with mem- Museum-street, London. ( i bers of the Varley family, who then as now The following Ladies and Gentlemen have published their names were imbued with a natural love for the study in connection with their Literary Contributions to of occult subjects. The Spiritualist :— Ills Imperial Highness Ni I’kince Emile de Sayn Witt blake’s earlier visions. cholas of Russia, Duke of genstein (Wiesbaden) Blake was born November 28th, 1757, at 28 Leuehtenberg Baron Von Dirckinck-Holm- TnE Lord Lindsay i-eld (Holstein) Broad Street, Golden Square, London, at a. The Right IIon. tiie Countess J. AV. Edmonds, Esq., Judge of of Caithness the Supreme Court, New York. time when Begent Street had no existence. The Baroness Von Vay, Coun Tiie Count de Bullet He died in 1827. His father was a moder tess Wiirmbrand (Austria) The Hon. J. L. O’Sullivan The Hon. Robert Dale Owen, M. Adelbebth de BouBBON,l''irst ately prosperous hosier, and Blake throughout formerly American Minister at Lieut, of the Dutch Guard to his life was a struggling artist, poet and en- the Court of Naples the King of tho Netherlands The Hon. Alexandre Aksakof, M. L. F. Clavaiboz (Leon graver. Near Dulwich Hill, while quite a St. Petersburg Favre) H child, he had his first vision. Sauntering Sib Charles Isiiam, Bart. William Crookes, Esq., F.R S. Capt. R. F. Burton, F.R.G.S. C. F. Vabley, Esq.C.E., F.R.S. Ialong he saw a tree filled with angels, their Alfred Russel Wallace, Esq., St. Geobge AV. Stock, Esq., bright wings bespangling every bough like F.R.G.S., M.A., (Oxon) C. C. Massey, Esq. R. Fbiese, Esq., Ph.D., Breslau i stars. According to his biographer, Gilchrist, Mr. Serjeant Cox, President of Major-General Maclean the Psychological Society of J. M. Gully, Esq., M.D. \ he related the incident on his return home, Great Britain Ebes Sargent, Esq. J and only through his mother’s intercession Alexander Caldeb, Esq., Pres Hensleigii AVedgwood, Esq., ident of the British National j.r. escaped a thrashing from his honest father for Association of Spiritualists Dr. George Wyld d telling a lie. He soon therefore discovered Colonel H. S. Olcott, President W. Lindesay Richardson, Esq. of the Theosophical Society of M.D., Melbourne that the paths of mediums are not paths of New York J. C. Luxmoobe, Esq., J.P. pleasantness. During his apprenticeship to an Mrs. Makdougall Gregory C. Caster Blake, Esq. Doc. Sei. Gerald Massey, Esq. H. M. Dunphy, Esq. engraver he was sent for a time to West Mrs. Weldon (Miss Treherne) Algernon Joy, Esq., M. Inst. minster Abbey and various old churches, to Captain John James C.E. S. C Hall, Esq., F.S.A. Desmond FitzGerald, Esq., make drawings from the monuments and F. Podmore, Esq., B.A. (Oxon). M.S. Tel. E. ' architectural features, and while engaged in Mrs S. C. Hall J. A. Campbell, Esq., B.A. Eugene Crowell, Esq., M.D., (Cantab) j this quiet and congenial occupation, who can New York D. H. Wilson, Esq., M.A., LL. Stanhope T. Speer, Esq., M.D., M (Cantab) £ j tell what phantom forms of the heroes of long Edinburgh T. P. Barkas, Esq., F.G.S. ago passed before tho eye of tho youthful seer? Robert S. Wyld, Esq., LL.D. J. N. T. Mabtiieze, Esq. The Rev. C. Maurice Davies, Mrs. Showers ■ | In after-life he used to tell that he once had a D.D. William Newton,Esq..F.R.G.S. I vision of Christ and his Apostles, but at the H. D. Jencken, Esq., M.R.I. II. G. Atkinson, Esq., F.G.S. C Blackburn, Esq., Parkfield, John E. Purdon, Esq., M.B., time he probably said little of the experiences Didsbury, near Manchester India p which he had so soon discovered to be likely Mrs. Louisa Lowe William White, Esq. J. T. Markley, Esq. Miss Florence Marryat to subject him to persecution. Herb Christian Reimers Madame Isabel de Steiger — - - BLAKE AND MR. JOHN VARLEY, THE ASTROLOGER. -The Spiritualist-J...------has a OVCUUIIJsteadily risingAIC-AA1J4 VKUUHU4UUCirculation 111in Uliall theV11C English-speaking Countries on the Globe. It is regularly on sale at 33, Museum-street, London; 5, Rue Neuve In later years he was in the habit of draw des Petits Champs, Palais Royal, Paris ; 2. Lindenstrasse, ing the portraits of the spirits he saw, in the pre Leipzig; Signor G. Parisi, Via Della Maltonia, Florence; Signor Bocca, Librario, Via del Corso, Rome ; British Reading Rooms, sence of Mr. John Varley, uncle of the Mr. C. F. 2G7, Riviera di Chiaja, opposite the Villa Nazionale, Naples; Varley so well known to the readers of these 37. Rue Florimont, Liege ; Josefstaad. Erzherzog 23, Alex ander Gasse, Buda-Pesth ; S4, Russell-street-South, Melbourne; pages. John Varley was one of the founders of Messrs. Kelly and Co., Shanghai ; 61 East Twelfth.street, New tho new school of water-colour painting; ho York ; Banner of Light Office, 9, Montgomery-place, Boston, U.S. ; Religio-Thilosopliieal Journal Office, Chicago ; 319, Kear- was a remarkable man, an astrologer, and a ney-street. San Francisco; 325, North Ninth-street, Philadelphia; No. 1010, Seventh-street, Washington. c landscape designer of much delicacy and grace. Advertising terms on application. ; Gilchrist says of him :— 2 THE SPIRITUALIST. Jan. 7, 1881
“ He was the author of more than one ’ sitter before him ; ingenuous Varley, mean memorable nativity and prediction ; memorable, > while, straining wistful eyes into vacancy and that is, for having come true in the sequel. > seeing nothing, though he tried hard, and at And strange stories are told on this head ; such > first expected his faith and patience to bo as that of Collins, the artist, whose death came, > rewarded by a genuine apparition. A ‘ vision ’ to the day, as the stars had appointed. One i had a very different signification with Blake man, to avoid his fate, lay in bed the whole ( to that it had in literal Varley’s mind. day on which an accident had been foretold, ? “ Sometimes Blake had to wait for the vision’s by Varley. Thinking himself safe by the ? appearance ; sometimes it would come at call, evening, he came downstairs, stumbled over a i At others, in the midst of his portrait, he coal-scuttle, sprained his ankle, and fulfilled ( would suddenly leave off, and, in his ordinary the prediction. Scriven, the engraver, was ? quiet tones and with the same matter-ef-fact wont to declare, that certain facts of a personal ) air another might say ‘ It rains,’ would remark, nature, which could bo only known to himself, > ‘ I can’t go on,—it is gone I I must wait till it were nevertheless confided to his ear by Varley ■■ returns; ’ or, ‘ It has moved. The mouth is with every particul^ar. Varley cast the nativ > gone; ’ or, ‘ he frowns ; he is displeased with ities of James Ward, the famous animal / my portrait of him : ’ which seemed as if the painter’s children. So many of his predictions ( Vision tame looking ovor the artist’s shoulder came true, their father, a man of strong though < as walS as eittink I’iOrO-^Br for h’t Tha nmao. T lit peculiar religious opinions,—for he, too, was j den-1 It imsolf would p alhe-’ sit in a ohmr to ‘a character,’—began to think the whole affair > Blnke, and innocmntdy d ihappeno; wHi-cle i’Ki1- a sinful forestalling of God’s will, and de i nig erndnrf one wouidhardiy have anSioihatea stroyed the nativities.” ; Osom Urn fpfri.t of evil, feii;fi his tlleUikhOion John Varley was a genial, kind-hearted man; ; ch oracteo for ’vu ’t wanton mit ihmfi he implicitly believed that Blake saw spirits ; v I n sabar dwyLght, critmioms wne hcoaraev there was a strong intimacy between them, : by tho dryfavr cw ehe character oe -rawm- of and during the last nine years of Blake’s life : thvae oh my o f Ml vSolyno . ‘ Oh, ft! fil they were constant companions. < riglaS!h Blake woulf. calmly rephy’ ‘ fr rn’si
HOW THE LIKENESSES OF THE SPIRITS WERE DRAWN. \ bh rinhs : o saw it oo.’ >t did not signify wliht Gilchrist, in his Life of William Blaloo R bou said; ndthing c ould put him oni: so (Macmillan & Co., 1863) Vol. 1, thus describes ( risuoed was Ok Umi ho, on rather liih ^agina- the conditions under which the spirit portraits ( Hon, was righ^ and ahtt what the latter were drawn :— < rhvrated svas awphcitly to bd relted on,—and “At Varley’s house, and under his own eye, ' Biis wfrhout any appearando of conoetC or m- were drawn those Visionary Heads, or Spiritual $ teus ivaness on Ins part Yut ci^tmcat crienps Portraits, of remarkable characters, whereof < ws^ trace m tU those her^ Bic Blata mted all who have heard of Blake have heard some > and handl —Huo aef ai jmasuaCed to look as Biem from Shm namely that, at the wish of a friend, he could summon > ratioBafiatic pnnt of view. ' before his abstracted gaze any of the familiar “Yt Biteo singulaonoasurnal riftings, BMl01 forms and faces he was asked for. This was ) thus exerutea for Var-ate in tlm latter’13 during the favourable and befitting hours of ) bhl^tetfCC!i somo ttfty oo fifty l^li^tllc pencR night;; from nine or ten in the evening, until \ rketohe^ cf smaB size, o1 Miterics!, hk-^0 one or two, or perhaps three and four e’clock in < rk'->^ll>fl.r and even. typicau pe rsonages, sum the morning; Varley sitting by, ‘sometimes > mrnsed from -.R1 variy Occp r- timt, and ‘ retn slumbering, and sometimes waking.’ Varley > pa virion. buMr. Blake.’ Vu'ley, sviia acoeplcd would say, ‘ Draw me Moses, ’ or David; or ) akl Blake s^fd of lhem, adVell in wrislng ihe would call for a likeness of Julius Ciesar, or ) nam^, and M a few Inseoncoo IOv day and Cassibellaunus, or Edward the Third, or somo K Barn- W’re warn Thp a o i o rosg Yy loo? Be other great historical personage. Blake would K iW0’’ from his s^tee, an io fhe art afytrigrng answer, ‘ There he is ! ’ and paper and pencil | S1 ta^naBihhr'f dramn Oct 3l, 181tit p h. being at hand, he would begin drawing with D o>.Saa On anetOro we oyyd ’ 1 Tho .iVov who the utmost alacrity and composure, looking up , lu'dl lha Pyramfdco Ohl. ani9l fifteen degrees from time to time as though ho had a real ) of 1, Canccr cisccnOitgAnotlier oketth iy 3 Jan. 7, 18S1 to leap from one island to another, he should indorsed as ‘ Richard Cceur de Lion, drawn from his spectre. JV. Blake fecit, Oct. 11, 1819, fall into the sea, he could swim, and should not at quarter-past twelve, midnight? In fact, two be lost. This spirit afterwards appeared to are inscribed ‘ Richard Occur de Lion? and each Blake, and afforded him a view of his whole is different. Which looks as if Varley mis figure; an engraving of which I shall give m construed the seer at times, or as if the spirits this work.” ■were lying spirits, assuming different forms at GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. ■will. Such would doubtless have been Do The same kind of general power seems to Foe’s reading, had he been gravely recording act upon many mental mediums, and to express the fact. to their consciousness the same principles in ~ “ Most of the other Visionary Heads bear date different ways. By writing mediumship, by August, 1820. Nearly all subsequently fell trance, or by clairvoyance as in Blake’s case, into Mr. Linnell’s hands and have remained departed spirits with great names are to the there. ” fore, and seem almost to be at the beck and THE GHOST OF A FLEA. call of the sensitives. In some cases it is cer John Varley, in a curious book long out of tain that the spirits are not the persons they print, and lent us for the purposes of this say they are, for mythological personages be article by Mr. C. F. Varley, describes how lieved by the mediums to have been historical “The Ghost of a Flea” was seen and characters, have been seen in this way. At drawn by Blake. The work is entitled “ A other times true and definite information, pre Treatise on Zodiacal Physiognomy ’’ (London: viously unknown to the mediums, has been Longmans, 1828), and the following is the given through this channel, showing that the paragraph relating to the vision :— phenomena arc not always altogether subjective “ With respect to the vision of the ghost of in their nature. The probability is that Blake’s the Flea, seen by Blake, it agrees in counten visions were due not to one, but to various ance with one class of people under Gemini, causes, the nature of which it will take years which sign is the significator of the Flea; of research in psychology to unravel. With whose brown colour is appropriate to the colour seeing mediums there appears to be but one con of the eyes in some full-toned Gemini persons. trolling spirit; this spirit mesmerises them, and And the neatness, elasticity, and tenseness of what the spirit thinks tho medium sees. Hence the Flea, are significant of the elegant dancing many extraordinary visions. and fencing sign Gemini. This spirit visited ------>------his imagination in such a figure as he never THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF SPIRITUALISM.* anticipated in an insect. As I was anxious BY EI'ESSARGENT. to make the most correct investigation in my Constantly recurring facfs, which have stood power, of the truth of these visions, on hearing the test of more than thirty-three years of ridi of this spiritual apparition of a Flea, I asked cule, denunciation, and antagonism, must be him if he could draw for me the resemblance admitted as having within them some stubborn of what he saw : he instantly said, ‘ I see him elements of vitality, if not of scientific verifica now before me.’ I therefore gave him paper > tion. and a pencil, with which he drew the portrait, What is science but a collection of truths, of which a fac-simile is given in this number. suggestive of an inference ? According to I felt convinced by his mode of proceeding, John Stuart Mill, the language of Science is, that he had a real image before him, for be left “ This is, or This is not; This does, or does off, and began on another part of the paper, to not happen. Science takes cognizance of a make a separate drawing of the mouth of the phenomenon, and endeavours to discover its Flea, which the spirit having opened, he was law.’’ Surely, under this riding Spiritualism prevented from proceeding with the first sketch, has a scientific basis in its proven facts. till he had closed it. During the time occu i>i The man claiming to be scientific, who pied in completing the drawing, the Flea told imagines that he knows all the laws of nature him that all fleas were inhabited by the souls so thoroughly that occurrences like clairvoy of such men as were by nature blood-thirsty li ance and direct writing cannot take place with |> to excess, and were therefore providentially out transcending the boundaries of scientific confined to the size and form of insects ; other recognition, is himself under a hallucination wise, were he himself for instance the size of a * We have received from Mr. Epcs Sargent a copy of his ex cellent new book. The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism, (Boston, horse, he would depopulate a great portion of Mass: Colby & Rich), also proof sheets of the preface, from the country. He added, that if in attempting which tho above article is taken.—Ed. 4 THE SPIRITUALIST. Jan. 7, 1881 more serious tlian any which he affects to an act of superstition, prompted by the same deplore. fanaticism (taking the form of unbelief instead The neglect in all ages of the world to treat of belief) which actuated the proceedings of these and cognate facts with fearless, scientific “ Matthew Hopkins, of Manningtree, Gent.,” scrutiny, has been productive of incalculable the famous English “ witch-finder ” of the year mischief. In ancient times, the assumption 1645. The first scientists of Germany at once that all that comes from the unseen world, exempted Slade from Lankester’s suspicions ; certified by seeming miracle or preter-human and Zollner says, in reference to Slade: “The power, must be from God or from gods, led to physical facts observed by us in his presence all sorts of theosophic impositions, superstitions, negatived on every reasonable ground the sup spurious revelations, and wild delusions. > position that lie, in one solitary case, had taken In medieval times, and during the witch R refuge in imposture. In our eyes, therefore, craft excitement, monstrous cruelties were ■? ho was innocently condemned,—a victim of his practised under the sanction of law through > accuser’s and judge’s limited knowledge.” The the failure to recognize that nothing occurring > recent remarkable occurrences in open church in the realm of nature can be supernatural, R at Knockmoro, in Ireland, where hands and and that all phenomena whatever are subjects R living figures have mysteriously appeared, for cool scientific investigation and analysis. / show how important it is that these phenomena Certain remarkable psychic phenomena were 5 should no longer be evaded. construed as Satanic and unnatural, and an Rationally studied and interpreted, unmixed ancient Hebrew prohibition, founded in ignor- $ with delusions self-generated or imposed by anco, was made the excuse for punishing with > others, Spiritualism is the one safeguard against death innocent persons suspected of producing : all superstitions. It shows that the unseen in others, medially affected, any inexplicable world is as much within the sphere of universal manifestations of abnormal power. nature as our own; it is the solvent of many In our own day, though belief in spirits has I> mysteries that have perplexed philosophers and been repudiated extensively, the credulity of ' stultified historians ; it shows that not spirits, unbelief threatens new dangers. By dismissing but our own misconstructions and unchecked the phenomena as impossible, unnatural, or ■; passions, are what wo have most to fear. That supernatural, specialists in science,—who, how I bad persons have entered its ranks, and that ever eminent in their own departments, are - flighty persons have brought it into ill-repute, ignorant of the first rudiments of the psycho R —that it has been used to deceive or mislead,— physical science, now inchoate,—instead of should make the obligation all the more ob checking superstition by their scornful atti vious to the generous mind to help to sift and tude, are really giving it its excuse for being. I co-ordinate its facts and arrest its abuses. Persons experimentally sure of the phenomena, It is, therefore, with regret that I find so finding that they can get no guidance or light k liberal a champion of truth as R W. Emerson from men of science, qualified by laborious recommending ignorance as the best policy in study and experiment to explain the occur regard to a subject which, in the hands of rences, either put premature constructions on ; fanaticism or imposture, has been the cause of what they witness, or yield a too hasty k such great disasters and mistakes, public aud credence to the assurances of some medium or ) private, as far back as history goes. In a recent medial pretender claiming a divine or high S article on “ Demonology,” this distinguished spiritual inspiration. Even so it was in the - writer remarks : “ There aro many things of old days of oracles, seers, and myths, and so it ; which a wise man might wish to be ignorant, may be again, with variations, unless a science, > and these spiritual phenomena are such. Shun at once searching and liberal, reverent and in ; them as you would the secrets of the under- trepid, shall interpose to prevent such a revi R taker and • the butcher.” Et tu, Brute ? val, and protect the unwary from the frauds This is all wrong, ideally, really, and morally. and delusions to which a little display of ' , Even the comparisons by which the sentiment medial power may lead. R is illustrated are vitiated by unsoundness ; for The attempt made in 1870, in London, by R however our sensibilities may recoil, Professor Lankester, a specialist in physical ' what is it but pusillanimity to ignore “ the science, wedded to the materialistic monism of ) secrets of the undertaker and the butcher ” ? Haeckel, to put a stop to the phenomena > Have we no care as to how the cast-off body through Henry Slade, the medium, and to do K of the beloved one may be disposed of? Aro this by tlio strong arm of the law, was simply > wo indifferent as to what sufferings may be in Jan. 7, 1881 THE SPIRITUALIST. 6 flicted on the poor brute whose life is to minister to our carnivorous appetite? The sentiment has no saving grace; it is hollow THE NEED OF THE nOUR. and spurious. Not by trying to make us shun Sir,—Every Spiritualist, who has, hy dint of circum the truth as something disagreeable will the stances or natural desire, to move in society, will more or less painfully feel estrangement from former philosopher deter any but the timid or weak associations. People who remain chained to the from finding out all that is genuine and de materialistic views of the age, bark like dogs at those monstrable in phenomena foreshadowing a con who are under suspicion of being Spiritualists, and their tinuous life for man. insults denote a change of former friendly relations, which not unfrequently effect a lasting break, but in Contrast the advice with that of Dr. John every case disturb tho enjoyment of sympathy and W. Draper, the well-known professor of fellowship. chemistry and physiology in the University I believe and trust that the formation of a “ Society of New York. Referring to the mysteries of of Spiritual Progressionists,” a title which excludes no sect or creed, would meet with many sympathisers. life,he says: “God has formed our under If Spiritualists of means would band together, and standings to grasp all these things. I have no consult about a club or place of social union for our sympathy with those who say of this or that fraternity, I believe that salutary influences from the physiological problem, ‘ It is above our reason.’ ” other side would probably strengthen the growth. I will not deny tho main difficulty, the harmonious blending And, as if anticipating these supersonsual phe of diverse ranks of society and education, for the nomena, which our Concord sage would have material plane has become so keenly defined in its us shun, the eminent physiologist tells us, that various departments, that the formation of a club is not unlike the task of a child, whose patience is pleasantly the application of exact science to physiology < exercised by tho putting together of the curiously cut is “ bringing into the region of physical de pieces of one wooden picture. Tho result is nice, but monstration the existence and immortality of tho pieces are fixed. Without advocating a muddle of the soul of man, and furnishing conspicuous uncongenial elements, I hold it possible to constitute an association, which would expel impure intrusions by illustrations of the attributes of God.” its own moral worth, and I feel impressed to place my Mark too the language of the venerable suggestion before your readers, in the hope to meet German philosopher, I. H. Fichte, uttered a responses. Christian Reimers. few week before his death in 1879 : “ Notwith London, January 3rd, 1881.
standing my age and my exemption from the MATERIALISATION. controversies of the day, I feel it my duty to Sir,— Your corespondent at Simla seems to desire bear testimony to the great fact of Spiritualism. some theory that would account for the soon made and No one should keep silent.’’ A worthy ut soon scattered bodily forms presented by spirits, and may liko to know of one supplied by J. Bcehme. I terance from the son of the illustrious con cannot find the passage in his works, but I have read temporary of Kant, and the inheritor of his it within the last few days, and am sure of its purport. sire’s splendid endowments! He says that spirits can by astral influences help them selves to simulated bodies for a short time, but that The progress of modern Spiritualism has these are necessarily transient, only lasting so long as been something marvellous. In less than forty the stars remain in the figure in which they stood when years it has gained at least twenty millions of the semblance was produced. It might seem invidious adherents in all parts of the world. Adapting to add that ho speaks here of unblessed spirits; but such is the case, and happier ones are not presumably itself, through its eclectic affinity with all forms what Ignatius callod “ ' icorporoal demons.” of truth, to all nationalities and classes, and As to the greater openness of ignorant or savage repeating its peculiar manifestations every i people to supersonsual impressions, it has always where among persons ignorant of its forms and appeared to mo ono of the strongest proofs of the mediumistic nature of man : so long as the mind is its antecedents, it presents the features of a not fully engaged with a multiplicity of mundane universal truth, the developments of a grand, excitements, people on the other side of the veil can transcendent science, confirming all the tra easily reach it ; but surely we are as little likely to hear the monition of a spirit in the hurry of modern ditions and intuitions of the soul’s immortality, < montal life, as a whisper of a friend in a densely and heralding a dawn before whose light every crowded street. Then again, the habit of stringent self other science, relating to tho nature and destiny control and fixity of purpose which high cultivation of man, must seek to orient itself hereafter. ( necessitates, must make us very impervious to the ------< influence of any spirits except those of whose society Wb have received many communications from dissatisfied < we are unconscious mombers. Congeniality of taste members of the British National Association of Spiritualists. < and identity of purpose make their promptings—which Several are much irritated that they wero asked to promise to no doubt wo often follow—undistinguishable from subscribe during 1881 to save it from death, without being in formed of the attacks to be made upon good workers after their motives of our own. promises were given. One most ungallantly and probably Speaking of theso spiritual societies, which Sweden erroneously says that the tongues of lady managers have been at < borg taught me to believe in, it may interest some the root of recent dissensions, and another sincerely hopes that reader of Mrs. Woodforde’s very interesting paper to be Mr. Campbell’s consignment of the Association will be put in reminded that Swedenborg tells us that “ every society force. 6 THE SPIRITUALIST. Jan. 7, 1881 in heaven appears collectively in a human form ; ” and j ; ■ author that it was a scandal upon his name to that “ an entire angelic society is called an angel, and. i ( ascribe it to him. Michael and Raphael! are angelic societies so named ; from their function.” Ho says also that every society7 i That the independent writing occurring in in heaven lias its opposite in heaven’s spiritual i ) the presence of Dr. Slade often resembles his antipodes. In some plane of spiritual life John King, i ) own, is a feature which has been observed by alias Henry do Morgan may bo an instanco of this £ many investigators ; whileat other times not the collective individuality7. A. J. Penny. £ slightest trace of his penmanship is perceptible. So, also, in the materialisations. I have MISS BURKE’S CONCERT. < seen a hand show itself from underneath the Miss Burke’s Concert will take place on < table, at the opposite end from where Dr. Monday night next, at eight o’clock, in the \ Slade was sitting, his left hand joined with my theatre of the Dilettante Club, 7, Argyll Street, hands on the top of the table, liis right hold- Regent Circus, when it is hoped a large num < ing the slate under the corner of the table, ber will attend. During the period of her ( which, being forty-two inches in length, the secretaryship to one of the spiritual organisa ( impossibility of its being Dr. Slade’s hand was tions Miss Burke made many friends, who pro £ self-evident. Notwithstanding all this, the bably on this occasion, the sole purpose of which hand, wrist, white cuff and end of coat-sleeve is to give her an opportunity of meeting her so exactly resembled Dr. Slade’s that I would friends, will be present. The programme, con have felt sure they were his had he been in a sisting of vocal and instrumental music and position to have rendered it possible. reading, will be novel and attractive. Tickets are issued by consent at 38, Great Bussell Street, London. SPIRIT IDENTITY. At other times, under similar conditions, The following remarks are from the pen of hands have appeared differing in size and Mr. J. Simmons, who has had ■ so much ex shape, from that of a small child to those of perience in the observation of the remarkable immense proportions, the drapery at the wrist < showing appropriate variations. phenomena which took place in Henry Slade’s At the sittings for form materialisations only presence:— M one instanco occurs to me when Dr. Slade In listening to the expression of ideas com $ and the person sitting with him both said a ing from intellectual and well-meaning persons, < face appeared at the aperture in the curtain ; resembling the Doctor in every particular. it is at the same time interesting and surpris ing to notice their widely differing opinions The independent voices occurring in his regarding the phenomena and philosophy of < presence exhibit variations in tone, while at Spiritualism. Some admit the phenomena, but < times the whisperings, so close and penetrat have no settled convictions as to their origin ; ing to one’s ear, are so like his voice as to while others accept the theory of their being make you feel that his organs are being used produced by spirits, entertaining grave doubts to produce the sound, though you know of their being able to establish their identity. positively that neither Dr. Slade nor any other Having had abundant opportunities for I person is at the point from which the voice observation during the last fifteen years, please i proceeds. allow me to submit for the consideration of Subsequently to the discussion referred to your readers the following : > respecting the message signed J. W. Edmonds, About two weeks ago, Mr. H. J. Newton, / the gentleman who raised the point of its of this city, sat alone at the table with Dr. i inferiority came here and had a sitting with Slade, when a message was obtained through s Dr. Slade, at which there was obtained a mes- independent writing, signed J. W. Edmonds. - sage signed by the name of a person, giving Mr. Newton took the slate containing this ■ i his age, name of the street and number of the message to the Spiritualists’ Conference in the > house at which ho had lived. Taking the Harvard Booms, where he exhibited it, ex - slate containing the message, this gentleman plaining the manner in which the writing was went to tho place indicated, where all the produced. ■ statements contained in tho message were In the discussion which followed, this point ; j verified; also tho handwriting was, on com- was raised : That, as a literary production, it u paring it with specimens obtained at tho house, was so far beneath the ability of the reputed P found to bo in tho handwriting of the person purporting to have written the message on tho s slate. H If, in all those phases of the phenomena, that which appears to bo evidence of the 7 THE SPIRITUALIST Jan. 7, 1881 ZXZXZXZ~~ ZX mouths pressed back, and the projecting medium’s individuality is so plainly visible at > skewers showing the points through their times, while at other times it is entirely cheeks. eliminated, is it unreasonable to suppose that CHEWING A LIVE SCORPION. the giving expression to ideas may be similarly < Leaving them in this attitude, the Sheikh affected ? Not until one has given this subject < went again into his room and brought a small much thought, aided by repeated experiments, square box, from which he took a scorpion of can he (or she) by any possibility be in a con unusual size, its vicious tail curling and strik dition to take a philosophical view of the ing its own back as it writhed between his case, nor are his (or her) opinions as a rule fingers. This he handed to another dervish, worthy of serious consideration. who instantly dropped the lively reptile into Therefore I think myself warranted in say his mouth, crunching it with great apparent ing the difficulties pertaining to the question gusto; being as large as an ordinary land of identity are greatly lessened by increasing crab, it was a big mouthful, and seemed to our knowledge, whereby we are able to make whip up into a sort of lather, as ho chewed it due allowance for imperfections, and for with a perfectly impassive countenance. which those possessing little or no experience - Mr. Oliphant now suggested that tho com regard us as being over-credulous.—Banner of pany, being satisfied in regard to the skewers, Light. would feel more comfortable if they were ex tracted ; as it was unpleasant to see two men SPIRITUAL MIRACLES. with their cheeks trussed, and seeming to be MR. LAURENCE OLIHIANt’s NEW BOOK. grinning inanely with their mouths pressed Mr. Laurence Oliphant, in his lately pub lished very interesting and ingenious book back, the Sheikh, after taking long deep inspirations and muttering incantations, jerked entitled “ The Land of Gileadgives at page out the skewers. The points were blood 426, et seq., a curious account of some “ Dervish Miracles” he witnessed last year (1879), at less, and the outside of the cheeks showed only Damascus, “at all times a centre of occult a slight induration like that of a cicatrised knowledge.” wound; there was no redness or inflammation. TIIE FIRE-TEST IN DAMASCUS. INSENSIBILITY TO PHYSICAL PAIN. There is a certain Sheikh Ruslan Aboutou, A brazier of burning charcoal was then who resides in a quarter of Damascus, known brought in, and the charcoal fanned into a as the Maidan, and celebrated for his mystical ; blaze. The Sheikh then went through an powers, which, ho was prevailed upon to ex invocation, and suddenly with his bare feet hibit to Mr. Oliphant and a large party, in ’ jumped upon it and stood there for a minute, cluding some ladies. The Sheikh, a tall hand- the livid flame curling round his feet. The . some man of about fifty, with a bright intel moment he got off, the scorpion-eater and two ligent eye, and decidedly pleasing expression, or three other dervishes rushed forward and received them at the door of his court-yard, filled their mouths with the red-hot charcoal, ' which was already tolerably full of native which was again fanned, the smell of burning spectators and of persons who were to take flesh becoming powerful and sickening as they part in the performances, aud they took their crunched the glowing morsels. The nerves of the seats on a divan in an apartment, on one side lady spectators now began to fail, and when the Sheikh produced a larger iron skewer with a open to the court, while from the other doors c led into the house. After pipes and coffee, heavy iron ball attached to one end, aud the Sheikh went into an inner room, aud re proposed to run it through a man’s throat from appeared with a bundle of long iron skewers ; the front, bringing it out at the nape of the neck, there was a general scream of horror beckoning to a dervish, he made him open his and dismay. The Sheikh in vain protested mouth and proceeded with the utmost coolness that the operation would be absolutely painless to pass a skewer from the inside through each and showed the indurated spots on the sides of cheek so that the points could be plainly seen the man’s neck through which tho instrument ■ protruding. He then performed a like opera had often passed. The repugnance of sonic of tion on a remarkably handsome youth of about the party was not to be overcome. The Sheikh sixteen, his son, whose large clear eyes re then pushed down the man’s waist-cloth a mained calmly fixed, and whose countenance little below the waist and revealed a row of in no line indicated the slightest pain. Not a cicatrices which made a simi-circle extending drop of blood flowed in either case. The two round tho body. He then drew a curved victims stood quite unconcerned with their 8 THE SPIRITUALIST. Jan. ", 1881 z^z-x >z\/\ Z\ . Z\Z\ZVZ>, knife about eight inches long and nearly two A initiatory draught after a rigid mystical pro- broad from a sheath, and proposed to plunge it K bat ion; so that wetting a finger with the to the hilt in the man’s stomach. It had a ? tongue, and pressing it on a wound instantly short wooden handle about four inches in i' stopped effusion of blood and healed it. The length, and there was no possibility of the Sheikh further observed that though these blade slipping back into the handle. But here d practices were not recognised by the Koran, again he was stopped by a cry of horror from d they were permitted for a special purpose, and the ladies; the Sheikh and the man himself, A this was to convince unbelievers that the who seemed to consider his credit at stake, d powers claimed by seers and holy men of old protested, and there was a general look of | were not mere fables, and remarked somewhat dissatisfaction on the part of the native specta I d slyly, “ Where would Christianity be without tors. Mr. Oliphant examined both the scars and A the belief in the possibility of such powers, the knife ; the former were thin beautifully A seeing that it is built upon miracles and healed incisions, and the latter sharp as a A wonderful occurrences received upon the razor and of the finest steel. The party how Ad evidence of the senses of persons, probably ever were determined to see no more, and d more easily deceived than ourselves, who made rather an ignominious exit, leaving the Ad lived ages ago?”* On this Mr. Oliphant Sheikh bewildered and somewhat indignant at i ] remarks with regard to the modern lofty scicn- their pusillanimous conduct. d title scepticism as to the evidence of one’s own TIIE SHEIKIl’s ACCOUNT OF IIIMSELF. A senses and those of others, that there must be The next day the Sheikh visited Mr, j a limit to such scepticism, or one would be Oliphant, and had a long interesting conversa i/ left without any ground for believing in tion with him. He said he was the hereditary d 1 anything. descendant and spiritual chief of the Order of One of the party with Mr. Oliphant sub- Bcdawi, which numbered about 10,000 dervishes. A sequently witnessed a similar performance at These were scattered throughout Islam and in Ad Aleppo, when ho saw the knives plunged all classes of society; he named one of high Ad into the bodies of dervishes, leaving only a rank ; the Order was secret to a great extent, A cicatrix without any effusion of blood, and was though some openly professed membership. dm unable to discover any deception in the matter. Its founder was Sheikh Said Ahmed cl Bedawi, M Mr. Oliphant also met an English medical who lived about 200 years ago, and is buried A man who had lived all his life in the East, and in the Church of the Crusaders at Tantali in :d woo had repeatedly seen, and had abundant Egypt. He had been initiated into these ?d opportunities of examining the piercing the mysteries, but it was not professed that they p throat with the skewer, and the plunging the originated with him, the power to perform Ad knife into the stomach, and told Mr. Oliphant them dating back to an unknown period, and and thrown into the shade by old narratives of day manifest his power there; “ Kill himself, trustworthy men, far separated by time and yet not die.” The fathers accordingly resolved space, and who had assuredly never heard to witness the ceremony, and they describe it thus. On the appointed day, the pilgrims as of one another. semble in the great court of the Lamasery, CHINESE JUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY. Old Ibn. Batuta of Aleppo, the well-known where an altar is raised. The Boktb, who has - Moorish traveller, whose gravity, veracity, and been preparing himself for many days with intelligence are undisputed, and whose wander prayer and fasting, abstaining from all com- q ings iu India, China, and other countries of munication, and observing absolute silence, the far East are still quoted as the best evidence at length appears, seats himself upon the altar, for the manners and customs of the courts in and takes from his girdle a large knife, which |< those countries between about 1340 and 1350 he places upon his knees. At his feet numerous i : Lamas, ranged in a circle, commence invoca a.d, relates that, when at the court of the Viceroy of Khansa in China, he was present at tions ; as they proceed the Bokte begins to an exhibition of jugglers held in the palace tremble in every limb and gradually work courtyard. The performer took a ball, to which himself up into frenzied convulsions. The a long thong was attached, and threw the ball Lamas become more and more excited, and i up in the air so high that it went out of sight their voices at last become a wild confused out cry. Then the Bokte suddenly throws aside altogether, only a little of the end of the thong the scarf which envelopes him, unfastens his remaining in his hand; he then desired one of girdle, and seizing the sacred knife, slits open the boys who assisted him to lay hold of it aud his stomach in one long cut. While the blood mount. He did so, climbing by the thong, and flows in every direction, the multitude prostrate went out of sight also I The performer then themselves, and presently the Lamas resume, called to him three times, and getting no but now calmly and gravely, the recitation of answer, lie snatched up a knife, as if in a great their prayers. The Bokte takes in his right ; rage, laid hold of the thong and disappeared hand blood from his wound, raises it to his also. By-and-bye he threw down one of the mouth, breathes after it, and then throws it boy’s hands, then a foot, then the other baud, into the air. He next passes his hand rapidly then the other foot, then the trunk, and lastly over his wound, closes it, and everything q the head! Then ho came down himself, resumes its pristine condition, no trace remain I putting and panting, with his clothes all bloody, kissed the ground b< ‘ore the Viceroy, and said ing of the diabolical operation. “ These horrible ceremonies,” say the good Fathers, “are of q something to him in Chinese. The Viceroy frequent occurrence in the great Lamaseries of gave some order in reply, and the performer taking the lad’s limbs laid them together and Tartary and Thibet, and we do not believe gave them a kick, then the boy got up and there is any trick or deception about them; q stood before the company. “All this,” says for from all we have seen and heard, we are old Ibn Batuta, “ astonished me beyond persuaded that the devil has a great deal to do measure, and I had an attack of palpitation with the matter.” Only the lower Lamas en like that which overcame me once before in gage in them; the higher ranks, though dis the presence of the Sultan of India when ho approving, do not prohibit them, for much the showed me something of the same kind.” same reasons as those alleged by the Sheikh at AEROSTATIC PERFORMANCES IN BATAVIA. Damascus. Amongst other sie-fa (super Now compare with this the account given by naturalism), tho Lamas also “ break irons red- 1 dward Melton, an Anglo-Dutch traveller, of hot, and lick them with impunity, and make the performance of a Chinese gang of conjurors incisions in various parts of the body, which which he witnessed at Batavia in 1G70. After an instant after leave no trace behind.” * describing very vividly the well-known basket * Travois in Tartary, Thibet and China, by M. Hue. Vol. I. trick, he proceeds, “ But now I am going ehap. ix, English Translation. 10 THE SPIRITUALIST. Jan. 7, 1881 1.ZXZX-. to relate a thing which surpasses all belief, A PUBLIC NEED. and which I should never venture to describe From information received by U3 from many had it not been witnessed by thousands different quarters, it is clear that those Spirit before my own eyes. One of the gang took a ualists who seek for peace and harmony in tho cord, and grasping one end in his hand slung movement would be glad of some reading-room the other up into the air with such force that and meeting-place open daily in London, but its extremity was beyond the reach of our not connected with strife and aggression, and sight. He then immediately climbed up the limited in its action to tho purposes for which cord with indescribable swiftness, and got so public libraries are ordinarily established. high that we could no longer see him. I stood The existence of such a centre under a few full of astonishment, not conceiving what was competent managers, and devoted only to the to come of this, when lo ! a leg came tumbling objects stated above, would not merely be a down out of the air. One of the conjuring most welcome gathering-point for those who company instantly snatched it up and threw it desire peace, but would save very considerable into an open basket standing by. A moment expenditure annually to the movement. For later a hand came down, and immediately on instance, if Miss Burke were to be offered the that another leg. And in short all tho mem post of secretary, thereby preventing the bers of the body came thus successively tum lamentable loss of her public services to Spirit bling from the air, and were cast together into ualism, the total annual expenditure for all the basket. The last fragment we saw tumble purposes would bo but £170, including the down was the head, and no sooner had it use for one year, for a trivial sum, of an already touched the ground, than he who had snatched established library. With but £80 or £90 up all the limbs and put them together into in hand, a start might be made. the basket, turned them all out again topsy If readers of these pages who are willing to turvy. Then straightway we saw with these support such an establishment by donations or eyes all those limbs creep together again, and by becoming members will write to us, their in short, form a man, who at once could stand letters shall bo handed over to some of those and go just as before without showing tho already known to feel the want of such a least damage! Never in my life was I so centre, and who are not connected with The astonished as when I beheld this wonderful Spiritualist newspaper. To promote harmony performance, and I doubted now no longer tho suggested establishment should not be that these misguided men did it by tho help of connected with any existing undertaking, and the Devil.” A quaint old wood-cut accom have no ends to promote but those which panies this account showing the man ascending everybody admits to bo good. the cord and the dismembered limbs falling down. SPIRITUALISM AND TnEOSOPIIY. These narratives, so closely tallying in de BY COLONEL HEN11Y S. OLCOTT, PRESIDENT OF THE THEO tails, were written by men at long intervals of SOPHICAL SOCIETY. time and place, the later writer certainly (Continued'). knowing nothing of the older. THE EDDY BROTHERS1 MANIFESTATIONS. The Emperor Jehaugcr in his Memoirs also The room of the ghosts was a large chamber, describes similar wonders performed in his occupying the whole upper floor of a two-storey presence, and after close scrutiny pronounces wing of tho house. It was perhaps twenty feet them inexplicable. The power for these more wide by forty long—I speak from memory. astounding manifestations seems for the last Below were two rooms—a kitchen and a century or more to have become extinct or pantry. Tho kitchen chimney was in tho dormant in the East. Enough however has gable-end, of courso, and passed through been adduced to justify the presumption that the seance room to tho roof. It projected there are powers latent in humanity unfathomed into the room two feet, and at the right, by tho College of Surgeons or tho Royal between it and tho side of tho house, was a Society. W. plastered closet with a door next to the chim 31st December, 1880. ney. A window, two feet square, had been cut in tho outer wall of the closet to admit Mb. J. G. Coates has done moro than anybody to promote a knowledge of mesmerism in Scotland, during tho past two or air. Running across this end of the large three years. room was a narrow platform, raised about 18 Da. Slade, after several years' travelling round the world, and inches from tho floor, with a step to mount by narrowly escaping an English prison, has settled down again in New York, rejoined by Mr. Simmons. at the extreme left, and a hand rail or baluster 11 Jan. 7, 1881 TSE SPIRITUALIST. along the front edge of the platform. Every < closet again, and drop the shawl before the evening, after the last meal, William Eddy, < hungry gaze of the eyes that watched it. But, a stout-built, square-shouldered, hard-handed < sometimes, the form would last much longer. farmer, would go upstairs, hang a thick wool- ; > Several times I saw come out of the closet an len shawl across the doorway, enter the closet N aged lady clad in the Quaker costume, with and seat himself on a low chair, that stood at < lawn cap and kerchief pinned across her bosom, the extreme end. The visitors, who sometimes grey dress and long housewifely apron, and numbered forty of an evening, were accommo- i calling her son to the platform, seat herself in dated on benches placed within a few feet of - a chair beside him, and after kissing him fondly the platform. Horatio Eddy sat on a chair in talk for some miuutes with him in low tones front, and discoursed doleful music on a fiddle about family matters. All the while she and led the singing—if such it might be called would be absently folding the hem of her apron without causing Mozart to turn in his grave; into tucks, aud smoothing them out again, aud a feeble light was given by a kerosene lamp - so continuing the thing over and over just as placed on the floor at the end of the room ) —her son told me—she was in the habit of farthest from the platform, in an old drum > doing while alive. More than once, just as from which both heads had been removed, j; she was ready to disappear, this gentleman Though the light was certainly very dim yet l would take her arm in his, come to the baluster, it sufficed to enable us to see if any one left b aud say that he was requested by his old his seat, and to distinguish through the gloom j mother, whom we saw there, although she had the height and costumes of the visitors from been dead many years, to certify that it was, the other world. At a first sitting this was indeed, she herself and no deception, and bid difficult, but practice soon accustomed one’s them realize that man lives beyond the grave, eyes to the conditions. and so live here as to ensure happiness then. After an interval of singing and fiddle On Wednesday evening, last week, on the occasion scraping, sometimes of five, sometimes twenty i of the twenty-socond anniversary of the birthday of or thirty miuutes, we could see the shawl his eldest son, Mr. C. F. Varley, F.R.S., and Mrs. stirred, it would be pushed aside, and out upon G Varley entertained at dinner, at Bexley Heath, Kent, the platform would step some figure. It J about a hundred guests, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. William Crookes, and Mr. Harrison ; also Mr. might be a man, woman or child, a decrepit Charles Varley, wiio in his younger days wa3 a juvenile veteran or a babe carried in a woman’s arms. ; friend of William Blake, the painter, whose psycho The figure would have nothing at all of the logical experiences are set forth in this number of supernatural or ghostly about it. A stranger : The Spiritualist. : Spiritual Phenomena in British Columbia:—A entering at the other end of the room would < correspondent writes from Victoria, British Columbia : simply fancy that a living mortal was standing “ As I wrote you. some time ago we were having some there, ready to address an audience. Its dress : i very extraordinary developments, but unfortunately we : I admitted some new element, and from that timo our would be the one it wore in life, its face, hands, : manifestations declinod. Although we have now got feet, gestures, perfectly natural. Sometimes, KI rid of what we considered to be tho cause, still our sit- it would call the name of tho living friend it tings are barren of results, consequently we are ceasing had come to meet. If it were strong the voice ' to take much interest in tho matter. Since Slade was ( here we havo had no modium, and I fear there is not would be of the natural tone; if weak, the : likely to be one soon.” words came in faint whispers; if still more Encouragement for Workers :—It is instructive to feeble there was no voice at all, but the figure mark the treatment of some of those who do a largo would stand leaning against the chimney or amount of public work in Spiritualism. Mr. Joy, who G had laboured hard for one of the organisations, found hand-rail while the audience asked in turn— G himself divorced from his honorary secretaryship. Miss “Is it for me?” and it either bowed its head Kislingbury was next attacked, then Dr. Carter Blake, or caused raps to sound in the wall when the d who had given weeks of gratuitous work to aiding in 9 cataloguing the library, and in conducting seances. right one asked the question. Then the anxious G The next onslaught was upon Mr. Harrison, and the visitor would lean forward, and scan the G last one upon Miss Burke, although nobody has any figure’s appearance in the dim light, and often ;: fault to And with her. Those who initiated all these we would hear the joyful cry, “ Oh ; Mother, I attacks were mostly one small knot of persons, and to what rocord of good works of their own for tho move- Father, Sister, Brother, Son, Daughter,’’ : ment, aro they ablo to point ? or what not, “ I know you.” Then the weird visitor would be seen to bow, or stretch out its hands, and then seeming to gather the last strength that remained to it in its evanescent frame, glide into the iff (krrtsponMnfs. B.—Wo do not desire to insert anonymous letters about a medium being controlled by Gods and Deities, unless he explains himself a nd puts his name and address at the end. H.—Mr. E. D. Rogers, Mr. E. T. Bennet, and Mr. Morell ; Theobald, aro prominent Christian Spiritualists. 12 THE SPIRITUALIST. Jan. 7, 1881 THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF PROFESSOR ZOLLNER'S EXPERIMENTS. LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. FRONTISPIECE :—The room at Leipsio in which most of the PLATE V :—Result of the Experiment on an Enlarged Scale. Experiments were conducted. PLATE VI:—Experiments with Coins in a Secured Box. PLATE I:—Experiments with an Endless String. PLATE VII:—The Representation of Test Circumstances, PLATE II:—Laather Bands Interlinked and Knotted under under which Slate-writing was obtained. Professor Zollner's Hands. PLATE VIII:—Slate-writing Extraordinary. PLATE III :—Experiments with an Endless Bladder-hand PLATE IX:—Slate-writi ng in Five Different Languages. and Wooden Rings. PLATE X : —Details of the Experiment with an Endless band PLATE IV :—Result of the Experiment. and Wooden Rings. PREFACES. Mr. C. C. MASSEY'S PREFACE :—Pooeessor Zbllner and his Career after leaving England—ProOesser Zollner’s Polemic — Works—The Value of Testimony considered—Sources of Fallacy Items relating to tho English Translation. —How can Medial Phenomena be Explained ?—The Value of PROFESSOR ZOLLNER'S PREFACE (Dedication of the Scientific Authority—Mr . A. R. Wallace's answer to Hume's Work to Mr. William Crookes) : —Workers in a New Field of Essay on Miracles—Spiritualism an Aggregation of Proven Facts Research—'Thoroughness of the Labours of Mr. Crookes—The —The Attack upon Henry Slade—Spirit Messages—Slado’s Moral Necessity of tho Strife about Spiritualism—The Immor tality of tho Bost Works of Human Genius. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I:— Gauss's and Kant's Theory of Space—The an Argument against Trickery—A naive Misconception—The practical application of the Theory in Experiments with Henry Moral Responsibility of Mediums—The nature of the Phcnomega Slade—True Knots produced upon a Cord while its ends wero in inconsistent with Trickery—The Limits of Physical Human view and sealed together—The principles involved in the tying Strength—A Force of Tension of 108 cwts. exercised by Psychic of knots in Space of One, Two, Three and Four Dimensions— Power—A Force equal to that of two Horses exercised in Slade’s Berkeley’s Theory of Vision—The Conception of Space derived presence—Catalytic Forces—Galileo on the Perverseness of the from Experience—Kant on Spiritual Existence. Philosophers at Padua. CHAPTER Slade's first visit to Leipsie—PreOessor CHAPTER VIII : — Tho Phenomena suitable for Scientific Fechner’s observations of the movements of a Magnetic Needle Research—Their Reproduction at different Times and Places— n proximity to Madame Ruf, a Mesmeric Sensitive—Professor Dr. Friese's and Professor Wagner's Experiments in Confir Erdmann's observations of the Phenomenon—Tho Experiment mation of the Author's—Experiments with Privato Mediums— repeated with Henry Slade—The Observations of Professors Manifestations observed by Professor Nicolaus Wagner at St. Biaune, Fechner, Weber and Sdieibncr—A Spirit Apology— Petersburg—Blind Faith and Blind Scepticism—Professor Wagner Destruction of a largo Screen by Spirits—Experiments with a on the Fanaticism of Blind Sccpties—Investigatiog of Spiritual Compass—Apparition of a Living Hand—Experiments with a Manifestations in a Private Family—Spiritualism a Foe. to Bell and lighted Candles—Slade and the Grand Duke Constantino Atheism—Form Materialisations through a Privato Medium— —Testimony of the Hon. Alexandre Aksakof—A Test Experi Appearance of tho Spirit of Olga—Effect of strong Manifestations ment in Slate-writing—Importation of Permanent Magnetism to upon a Medium—Repetition of ono of Professor Zollner's Experi an Iron Needle by Medial Power. ments by Professor Wllgeer—Psyehography—Spirit Identity— CHAPTER III: — Permanent Impressions obtained of Tem Impression made by tho Materialised Hand of a Deceased porarily Materialised Hands and Feet—A proposed Chemical Person—Tho Valuo of tho Facts. Experiment—Slade’s Abnormal Vision—Physical Impressions in CHAPTER IX:—Theoretical—The Fourth Dimension of a Closed Space—Enclosed Space of Three Dimensions, open to Space—A Miraclo to Two-Dimensional Beings—The Experiments Four-dimensional Beings—The Muscular Power of a Spirit Hand of Professor Haro— A Ball of Platinum introduced into a Her —A Test with Flour—Experiments with a Pelariscopo—Flight. metically Sealed Glass Tubo by Spirits—An Experiment with of Objects through the Air—A Clue to Research Coins—Several Examples of tho Passage of Solid Matter through CHAPTER IV :—Conditions of Investigation—The Know Solid Mattcr—Clsirveysec
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