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»yls • ■' 1 X Xsquijb nF tig of ifo atI^ JAr* of Xpqiforihnt. No. 483.—VOLUME NINETEEN; NUMBER TWENTY-TWO. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23th, 1881.

“THE SPIRITUALIST” Newspaper. THE INFLUENCE OF SITTERS UPON Established in 1869. Published Weekly. Price Twopence. MANIFESTATIONS. 10s. lOd. per annum Post Free within the limits of the United Kingdom, and within the English and Foreign Postal Union. Years ago some remarkably artistic pictures EDITED BY WILLIAM H. HARRISON, of statuary were produced at dark seances 38, Museum-street, London. through the mediumship of Mrs. Guppy, now The following Authors have published their names in connection with their Literary Contributions to The Spiritualist:— Mrs. Volckman. The designs were worthy of Has Imperial Highness Ni­ Prince Emile de Sayn Witt­ Flaxman, and were produced in white, upon cholas or Russia, Duke of genstein (Wiesbaden) common blue writing-paper. Examination Leuchtenberg Baron Von Dirckinck-Holm- The Lord Lindsay, F.R.S., (Earl feld ^Holstein) proved that white colouring-matter had not of Crawford and Balcarres), J. W. Edmonds, Esq., Judge of President of the Royal Astro­ the Supreme Court, New York. been used, but that the effect had been pro­ nomical Society The Count de Bullet ( duced by discharging the natural blue colour The Right Hon. the Countess The Hon. J. L. O’Sullivan, op Caithness formerly American Minister at of the paper. Mr. Guppy told us that he asked The Hon. Roden Noel the Court of Portugal “ Katie ’’ how this had been done, and she The Baroness Von Vat, Coun­ M. Adelberth de Bourbon, First tess Wiirmbrand (Austria) Lieut, of the Dutch Guard to replied “ With some of your crystals of citric The Hon. Robert Dale Owen, the King of the Netherlands acid.” He denied that any such acid was in formerly American Minister at M. L. F. Clavairoz (Leon the Court of Naples Favre) the house. She responded that he had some The Hon. Alexander Aksakof, William Crookes, Esq., F.R.8. among his photographic chemicals. On search­ St. Petersburg C. F. Varley, Esq.,C.E., F.R.8. Sib Charles Isham, Bart. John E. Purdon, Esq., M.B, ing, hethen found a small bottle of them. We Capt. R. F. Burton, F.R.G.8. Surgeon-Major, A.M.D. were present when some of these beautiful Alfred Russel Wallaoe, Esq., George U. Joad, Esq. F.R.G.S., St. George W. Stock, Esq., pictures were almost instantaneously produced Madame Juliet Heurtley M.A., (Oxon) in the dark, after some responsible sitter bad Benjamin Coleman, Esq. E. Fortescue Ingram, Esq., C. C. Massey, Esq. _ M.R.C.8. marked the corner of each sheet of clean paper Mr. Serjeant Coz, President of Mynheer J. F. A. Cateau van the Psychological Society of Rosevelt, Mem. Privy Coun­ with his initials, but bo rich and varied were Great Britain cil of Dutch Guiana the manifestations of those days as compared Alexander Calder, Esq. R. Fbiese, Esq., Ph.D., Breslau Colonel H. S. Olcott, President J. A. Campbell, Esq., B.A. with the present paucity, that scarcely auyone of the Theosophical Society of (Cantab) took the trouble to preserve them. Mr. Ben­ New York D. H. Wilson, Esq., M. A., LL.M Mrs. Maxdougall Gregory (Cantab) jamin Coleman thoughtfully preserved two or ’ Miss Douglas Major-General Maclean more, which, some time ago, if not at present, G. 0. Ottley, E J. M. Gully, Esq., M.D. Gerald Massey, Epes Sargent, Esq. were on view in a public reading room in Mrs. Weldon Q herne) Mrs. Gordon, (India) London. Captain John James J. C. Luxmoore, Esq., J.P. S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A. J. N. T. Martheze, Esq. The point to which we wish to call attention F.Poomore, Esq., BA.. (Oxon). William Newton,Esq.,F.R.G.8. Mr. thought manifestations Mrs. S. C. Hall H. G. Atkinson, Esq., F.G.S. is, that Guppy that Eugene Crowell, Esq., M.D., C. Carter Blake, Esq. Doc. 8ci. in advance of the natural capacity of the New York H. M. Dunphy, Esq. 8tanhope T. Speer, Esq., M.D. Algernon JoY,Esq.,M.Inst.C.E. medium, were usually obtained when some Miss C. A. Burke John P. Turner, Esq. ono sitter in the circle, not necessarily a Robert S. Wyld, Esq., LL.D. Hensleigh Wedgwood, Esq. The Rev. Maurice Davies, D J). The Rev. W. Whiteab sensitive, had a mind capable of conceiving H. D. Jencken, Esq., M.R.I. Signor Rondi the result, but not that he actually did c onceive C. Blackburn, Esq., Parkfield, Dr. George Wyld Didsbury, near Manchester W. Lindesay Richardson, Esq. it. A great sculptor, Mr. Nicholl, the father Mme. Blavatsky, (India) M.D., Melbourne of Mrs. Guppy, was always present, so Mr. Mrs. Louisa Lowe Desmond FitzGerald, Esq., J. T. Markley, Esq. M.S. Tel. E. Guppy told us, when these pictures of statuary Herr Christian Reinebb T. P. Babkas, Esq., F.G.8. Mrs. Louisa Andrews Mrs. Woodforde came. The statuary at the top of the great Mbs. E. Boucher William White, Esq. hall at Liverpool is a standing monument of Mrs. Nosworthy Miss Corner Mrs. Showers, (India) Miss Florence Marry at Mr. Nicholl’s artistic ability. Robert Cooper, Esq. Madame Isabel de Steiger In this connection it will be remembered Ths Spiritualist has a steadily rising Circulation which has been growing for twelve years in all the English-speaking countries how Mr. O’Sullivan, a good classical scholar, on the Globe. It is regularly on sale at 38, Museum-street, had many Latin messages in Paris through the London; 5, Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, Palais Royal, Paris; 84, Russell-Btreet-8outh, Melbourne; ana at the chief centres of mediumship of a woman who did not under­ Spiritualism in Europe and America. stand that language. And at present, on the Advertising terms or application.

Digitized by VnOOQie THE SPIRITUALIST. November 25, 1881 other aide of the Atlantic, Professor Kiddle is >| independent self-active masculine being, sym- obtaining much classical lore far above the ![ bolised as a Ram. capaoity of Jesse Shepard, his medium. The ■ Secondly as (Ammon) Neith, primary matter spirits at circles sometimes also seem to possibly represented by earth and water mixed. A have the power of putting it into the heads p productive receptive feminine being, endowed of sitters to ask for the production of articles H with a soul. The conceptive power of the they have ready to bring forth, such as si universe, symbolised as aVulture. An inscrip- brooches, cigarette cases, and dead hawks, as d tion at Sais says of her “I am that which suggested in these pages on a previous occasion. >’• always was, is, and shall be, and my veil hath The latest copy of a daily newspaper printed $ no mortal ever raised.” not less than three thousand miles away, is s Thirdly as Ammon Seveoh—Time—an ever always the right thing to ask for on such ? youthful primordial beneficent being—the occasions. ; generative vivifying power of the world, Cannot a new class of experiments be tried s Supposed to be masculine and symbolised as to ascertain the effect of a strong mental at­ s the Crocodile. mosphere on persons unsuspicious of its I Fourthly as Ammon Pascht—Endless gloomy presence, consequently with minds in a state > outspread space, the dark womb of the earth, of passivity in relation thereto ? For instance, > the inexorable, the unrelenting, later called suppose an assemblage of twenty persons while > Destiny, Avenger, Fate. Supposed to be a awaiting the arrival of two others, one of them feminine being and worshipped under the a medium, were to agree to strongly will for >j symbol of the lion-headed sphinx, and also half-an-hour after the arrival of the two ex­ > under that of a Nile fish. pected guests, that they should begin to talk | From this fourfold unembodied spiritual about the Great Fire of London, would that > entity, proceed eight personal embodied Deities, willing cause one or both of them to start that ) called Kabires, signifying Mighty. They are subject, or any other conceivably connected > also called Hores, created gods, through whom with it in the realms of ideality ? the Spiritual Deity manifests Himself; but ------*------they are endowed with immortality. Every­ SPIRITUALISM, ANCIENT AND MODERN. thing in the world proceeds from them, so that No. IV. their origin is the commencement of a portion BY FREDERICA SHOWERS. \ of Creation. They are both masculine and Father of all, in every age, By every name adored, . feminine—each producing only its own sex, By saint, by savage, or by sage; > while in the original Godhead both genders lie Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! > concealed and undistinguished. In union with The most ancient recognisable faith of the £ Kneph, Neith, Sevech and Pascht they form early Egyptians was the worship ofafourfold im­ '> the first—the immortal—race of Divinities. personal entity, termed Amoun (Ammon, A—a, > The Kabires are Menth (or Harseph) the Moun—manifested) or T Amoun {t is the article) >•: manifested, the inner creative spirit; also called the Hidden, the Concealed. Everything that Phan (the Greek Pan). In his union with is, has its beginning, its existence and its end Pascht he becomes Hek, signifying a ruler in this mysterious incomprehensible source, (Greek Hecate). He proceeds from Ammon which is in itself eternal, and all created things '•)i Kneph, and is the independent creative energy having proceeded from the God Head, partake z>! of the world. His symbols are the sparrow in a greater or less degree of the Divine Nature. d and the ram. In the process of creation first the loftiest i Phtah, the God of fire and heat first called spiritual beings and agencies, and then the in­ $i forth from Kneph by Menth. Phtah, the ferior and lower orders proceed, either directly Greek Hephaistos, is represented as a club or indirectly, from the God Head. >i footed dwarf. All gods with the exception of the funda­ ) Pe, the firmament, sprung from the luminous mental Deity, are termed Hor or Horus, : substance of Neith, the Goddess of Heaven; signifying originated, a term which was ap­ p represented as a star-crowned woman, with pended to the proper name of each individual |>i her hands extended over the earth. deity. bi Anuke, the earth, the dark, proceeding from The fourfold Deity manifests Himself, firstly b] the darker substance of Neith. as (Amoun) Knepn, from Nev, breath, the i>i Re, also called That, i.e., the Luminous, the primitive spirit, the creative soul of the pi thrice great (trimegistos) the sun God, the universe; the primeval source of Good. An $ first God of Light, the first born. Symbol, a

Digitized by Google November 25, 1881 255 man with the head of a sparrow, surmounted |) since the Phenician invasion b.c. 2400. Nahal, by the disc of the Sun, also by a winged R Nahar, a stream, Greek Nereus. disc. |$ Ammon Neith manifests under the name of Joh (also Joh That) signifying the luminous, Okeame, the feminine Nile, the mother of life. the twice great (dysmegas) the second God of R Ammon Sevechas Seb, the god of Time (the light, the moon, the ruler of the months, the j> Greek Kronos). As the celestial manifestation source of wisdom; the Deity from whom laws R of Time, he descends to earth. and wisdom proceed, the Jehovah of the R Ammon Pascht is Reto, signifying, ruler Hebrews, by whom he was occasionally grossly R regulator of the Government and order of the worshipped under the symbol of a bull, and ji world, a guardian power, supposed to be even Aaron erected a Jehovah under this form, k feminine. A distinguished writer says “the The altar of the Tabernacle was the altar for $ festivals or mysteries of the Kabires or Cabiris burnt sacrifices, adorned with his image and |< were celebrated with the greatest solemnity. with horns. Perpetual fire was kept burning 1< None but consecrated priests were permitted on it. This was supposed to be holy fire: it |< to enter the temples, but so extensive was the was Jehovah Himself, as Vesta’s fire was j; influence of the Deities that all the ancient Vesta Herself. The original belief in many K heroes and princes were generally imitiated, so Gods (Elohim) ultimately, through the sub- j; that by this solemn act they might reconcile lime teachings of the prophets, oentred in one themselves to Heaven and have their persons God, Jehovah, and later in one only God. “ I p and property protected. Great immorality am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have k sometimes prevailed at the festivals.” Cambyses strange Gods before me.” And David says in j< is said to have entered the temple at Samo- the 81st psalm, “ God hath stood in the con- R thrace, and committed sacrilege by turning gregation of Gods, and being in the midst of B the ceremonies into ridicule. This king, the them He judgeth Gods.” He, Jehovah, mani- B son of Cyrus, took Pelusium, by the stratagem fests Himself to men through angels, who in R of placing at the head of his army, animals the Jewish and Christian religions usurp the R who were held in reverence by the Egyptians, place of the subordinate Deities of other faiths, p as symbolical of their deities. That these ideas Re and Joh proceed from Ammon Sevecb. il of paying divine honours to animals, formed no Sate, the illuminated higher heavenly space, $ part of the original religion but gradually de­ the day ; called also Ehu) Greek Eos, the East, P veloped themselves during a time of moral Symbol a goddess on a papyrus stalk, with a B degeneration, is evident from what has already crown on her head, representing the lower R been set down here on the subject. It is some­ half of the terrestrial globe, the upper half of R what curious that Cambyses died of a very which crowns Pascht. B superficial wound, which he had accidentally in­ Hathor, the darker, lower heavenly space, flicted on himself, in the very spot where he supposed to lie under the earth; the dwelling R had killed the sacred bull, Apis, some years pre­ of the sun god, the night, the judge, the p viously. Now comes the Epiphany, the earthly quickener,the mother of life (Greek Aphrodite), j; manifestation of the Kabires (Greek Epiphaneia, symbol a dog, the guardian of the under world, p appearance, from epi and phaino, to show, from subsequently, probably, the Greek Cerberus, R phao to shine). The Epiphany, in the Christian The fourfold Deity manifests Himself yet faith was the appearance of Christ to the wise further through the Kabires, for from the first b men of the East. race of Gods proceeds a second race, viz., the j> Th^t, the great God of Light, reveals Him­ Deities of earth, supposed to be ever busied R self as the author and institutor of priestly with the affairs of this world. The worship of power. Greek, Hermes. these gods was established during the Phenician B Seph, the wife of That, institutes the art dominion in Egypt. The King Menes, the R of writing and is the patroness of all learning. founder of the monarchy and ancestor of the R That and Seph are delineated on each side of Egyptian kings, instituted their worship. the entrance to the library in the temple of Se- The twelve earthly Deities were thought to p sostris at Thebes (b.c. 1571) and the inscription be Ammon Kneph manifested as Okham (Greek R terms them the institutors of libraries or halls Okeamos). Okham is the earthly intercessor, R of learning, Greek, Mnemosyne. the representative of the Spirit of Good (Greek b Ymuteph, the bestower of wisdom. God of Agatho Daemon) who is supposed to surround R philosophy and medicine, Greek, Esculapius. the world. Okham is also the original Egyptian R Nehimeu goddess of medicine and health, name for the Nile, which was so called only $ Greek, Hygeia,

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Mui, son of Re, god of poetry and song, god 3 dentore, and more formally known as Santa of fire, said to be luminous, Phoebus Apollo. > Maria del Rosario. Outside, over the main Taphne, wife of Mui, the merciful, the gra- ? door of the church, is a large black board, and, cious, goddess of poetry, subsequently the > in white letters, an invitation to all good Greek Daphne. > Christians to pray for the souls of the departed. Pharmuti the god of wisdom and investiga- Round this tablet hangs a wreath of laurel tion, the Greek Prometheus. Me or Tme, the > leaves twined on a black and white ribbon. goddess of justice the Greek Themis, With > Each other door of the church has a similar respect to this goddess it may be remarked that \ garland above it. The sun is setting in a cold she was properly regarded as a twin Deity— ; and cloudless sky, serene and almost hard. In (Themides) as the personification of Truth, that ) the zenith the colour is deep blue, but towards is righteousness in word and thought (Greek < the west a thin film of gold is spread where Alethia); and of justice, or righteousness in act. < the sun is sinking. The wind comes fine and Statuettes of this twin goddess, with images ’ searching, as it so often does on an autumn of Re and Yoh, the gods of light, suspended as ;■ sunset. The broad and rippled waters of the ornaments round the neck, as worn by the • Giudecca Canal seem as hard as the sky they supreme judges of Egypt, are yet to be seen. $ reflect. Inside the church, through the open These were the Urim and the Thummin of the < door where the women troop, pulling their Hebrew priests; Urim, signifying lights, or > shawls up over their heads as they enter, all gods of light, and Thummin the Themides, \ is dark and gloomy, every column, pilaster, justice, righteousness. My English dictionary, ? and architrave draped in black cloth with silver I am pleased to find (for I have only just ) friuges; and wreaths of laurel are twined looked at it) gives the meaning and derivation s round each pillar’s base. The high altar is of the word Urim thus, “ literally lights and $ hidden by a towering cenotaph raised in the perfections, the High Priest’s breast plate ? middle of the nave; against its blackness the amongst the ancient Jews, the nature of which > thin white stripes of the tapers that surround is not distinctly understood. Urim the Hebrew it stand out clear. The people, chiefly women plural of Ur, Or, light, and Thummin plural of < and boys, scuffle and whisper subduedly as Thom, perfection.” ? they kneel in rows. The black-walled, black- roofed church seems to enclose and compress THE FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD. \ them as if in some vast and lugubrious tomb ; The Italians keep their Lemuria, or festival ( and their mutterings sound like the gibbering for the dead, not in May, as their Roman an- ' of ghosts. The sermon begins ; a voice alone, cestors did, but in November. November 2, $ full of inflexion, passion, forcible cadences, All Souls Day, and its octave are more .s speaking out of the darkness. Though the generally observed than any other of the minor ? preaoher is invisible, the mind unoonsciously holy days in the Roman calendar. No festival ? and perforce pictures the action that must ac­ could so unite all classes of people as this, on > company this strong Italian rhetoric. The which each family pays the tribute of memory ’ voice holds the church; and there is silence in to its lost ones, and acknowledges the power 3 the congregation except for the dull thud of the of that great Democrat, Death. Every day > padded doors as some new comers arrive. The throughout the octave the churches of Venice > sermon is not long; only a few rapid passages have a mass said for the souls of those who < and then comes the close. The shuffling and are gone, and implore for them the intercession ♦> whispering begin again; and the sacristans com­ of All Saints, whose festival comes immediately > mence to light the candles. Through the dark­ before the day of the dead. In the evening ness the little yellow tips offire move noiselessly; another service is held, a little after sundown. > touching the tall wax tapers before each altar, There is a sermon; and then begins the light- ? and down the nave, and round the cenotaph in ing of candles all through the church, before > the centre. Presently the church is faintly each altar and round the catafalque in the s illuminated by these warm yellow stars that centre. It is upon the vigil of All Souls, the ( waver to and fro in the gloom, but do not over­ notte dei Morti, as it is called, and at the Church > come it. There is a short hush of silent of the Gesuati upon the Zattere that the > prayer; then the congregation rises and greatest illumination takes place. The Gesuati, s shuffles out down the steps of the church on as the visitor to Venice will remember, is that > to the broad pavement of the Zattere. late Palladian church, built of Istrian stone, > There is one old custom connected with this almost opposite the nobler facade of the Re- 'i festival of the dead which still survives in

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Venice, and recals a Latin or even an earlier i this moment especially valuable, because it superstition. The pious man in Ovid’s j gives the raison d'etre of the alleged powers of “ Fasti ” rises at midnight to fling black beans ■ the Hindoo Brothers, as affirmed by the Theo­ behind his shoulder. Nine times he flung his sophists. Kardec says:—“ The spirit of a beans and then the ghost was laid. The Vene- | person in the flesh, when partially disengaged tian does not fling away his beans; he eats from the body, can show himself just as well them. In Venice this custom of eating beans as that of one who has departed this life, and through the octave of All Souls is extremely with all the appearance of reality; and may ancient. The monks of every cloister in the even, through the means already described, city used to make a gratuitous distribution of acquire momentary tangibility. This is the beans on All Souls Day to any of the poor phenomenon of doubles, that is to say, individuals who chose to come for them. A huge caldron who have been proved to have been simul­ was placed in tbe middle of the courtyard and taneously present in two different places. the food ladled out to the crowd. The gon­ “ St. Alfonso, of Liguori, was canonised doliers did not come with the rest, but had before the lapse of the usual period after his their portion sent down to them at their ferries. death, because he was seen simultaneously in This grace was granted to them in considera­ two different places, whioh was accounted a tion of the fact that all the year round they miracle.’’ rowed the brothers across the canals for M. Kardec then gives the aocount of St. nothing. Indeed, they still do so; and you Anthony of Padua’s “ bi-corpereity; ” and in m.ay often see a brown-cowled friar crossing a answer to his question: “ Can you give an ex­ ferry with no other payment than a pinch of planation of this phenomenon ? ” he obtained the snuff or a benediction. As the Venetians grew j following reply through a medium: “ Yes; a more wealthy true beans became distasteful to I man who, as the result of his moral advanoe- the palates of the luxurious, who were yet un­ j ment, has attained to a certain degree of de­ willing to break through the eustom of eating i materialisation, can show himself in a place them on All Souls Day. The pastrycooks saw ! other than that in whioh his body is, and by their opportunity, and invented a small round the following means. Finding sleep to be puff of pastry, coloured blue or red or yellow, stealing upon him, he asks of God that his and hollow inside; these they called a fave” spirit may be enabled to transport itself to a or beanB, and you may see them at this time given place. If his request is granted, his of the year in all the bakers’ windows.—PaU spirit abandons his fleshy body as soon as the Mall Gazette. latter falls asleep, and, accompanied by a K part of his perispirit, leaves the gross material ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA. : body in a state closely bordering on death. I I find the history of St. Anthony of > say bordering on death, because there still Padua’s double is given in the Mediums' Book, ; * remains in the body a link which cannot be as translated by Miss Blackwell, p. 130. The H defined, but which keeps up its union with the history is mainly as I told it in your Number ;j perispirit and the soul. The perjspirit then of November 18th, how that, while his body ; [ appears in the place where the spirit desires to was in Spain, he appeared at his native place, r j show itself. Padua, and gave evidence that saved his H Question. Your statement does not explain father’s life, ‘‘at the moment when he was ;! our question, as regards the visibility and the about to be executed.’’ I made an error, q tangibility of the perispirit. however, in saying that St. Anthony was H Answer. The spirit finding himself disen- sleeping at the time. The record tells us that q gaged from the bonds of matter, according to he was not sleeping, but “ preaching.” A his degree of elevation, can render himself spirit being questioned by Mr. Kardec on this tangible by a special action on matter.” point, answered thus :—“ The soul can divide ; ------«.______SCBUTATOE. /• ■ itself where it feels itself attracted to a place, Spiritualism in Birmingham:—We have received other than that in which its body is. It may ) | from Professor Barrett a paper containing a report of happen that the body is not asleep when this H a lecture recently delivered in Birmingham, at the •'j Oozell Street Board School, by Mr. George Basnett on takes place, though that is a very rare occur­ u George Dawson versus Spiritualism.” The lecturer rence ; but, on such occasions, the body is ?' did not deny the reality of the phenomena of Spirit­ never in a perfectly normal state, it is always ualism, but argued that little spirituality was connected more or less entranced. ,;j with them; that their ideality was low and disorderly, and not to be compared with the inspired utterances of This subject, as treated by Kardec, seems at great poets and superior men.

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DR. MONOK IN NEW YORK. SPIRITUALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA. A reception was recently given in New York Mr. A. Teague, honorary secretary to the to Dr. Monck, at the residence of Mr. H. J. South African Spiritual Evidence Society, Newton. Professor J. R. Buchanan in the writes to us that the first annual meeting of course of the evening said that he had in his that organisation was held on the 18th October, hands an autograph letter from Prince George at its rooms, 5, Orange Street, Cape Town, of Solms, a relative of Queen Victoria, in which South Africa. The proceedings commenced Prince George spoke of his subscription of with prayer, then various reports were read, $100 to Dr. Monck’s testimonial fund having and officers elected or rather re-elected for the been acknowledged in the spiritual papers as ensuing year. Mr. Marchant was elected pre­ from “Prince G.”— and expressed his wish sident, Mr. Mayor vice-president, Mr. Teague that in order to do honour to Dr. Monck, his secretary, Mr. Dixon treasurer, Mr. Flack subscription should in future issues of those librarian. Committee of management, Messrs. papers be acknowledged opposite his full name. Hodgson, Hazartls and Richards. The position The writer further said: “ I feel for you the of the society was considered to be satisfactory, greatest smypathy, and I know you are not because, with the inclusion of the subscriptions alone ah honest medium but a kind hearted overdue from some of the members, the receipts man for all who suffer. As to your letter I covered the expenses. Mr. Teague adds that thank you very much for it; I like such long no platform work is going on in Cape Town in and explicit letters, as I think you have great connection with Spiritualism, since Mrs. Hodg­ talent for writing, and you should use son has been obliged to take a period of rest. your talents to write your life. Your medium­ ship is so wonderful and so convincing to The higher the wisdom, the more imcomprehensible sceptics because the materialisations take place does it become by ignorance.—Herbert Spencer. in the light, without a cabinet, and visible be­ A conjuror has been imitating spiritual manifesta­ fore the eyes of the witnesses, as I can testify tions at the Alexandra Palace until a few days ago. Infinite Variety in Character :—God never repeats from personal experience.’’ himself in nature ; but from the cedar of Lebanon to Although Dr. Monck has been devoting the lily of the vale, he seeks a fresh evolution and himself chiefly to healing and preaching in efflorescence out of his own grandeur and beauty, that America, he is said to be recovering his power infinite diversity may make up the infinite completeness aud harmony. Just so it is in human character and as a physical medium, and it is stated that a moral attainment. God never repeats himself here. spirit has materialised through his mediumship He gives to each varied experience. We march not in in the light, without a cabinet, in the presence serried numbers to conquer a common foe; but he leads us through separate paths, each one to struggle with of Judge Dailey and others, of Brooklyn. The his own adversary alone, that, when the victory is particulars are to be published. gained and the crown won, each shall have it in a leaf The Philadelphia newspaper, Mind and or a chaplet which is unlike any other, so that al­ Matter, says:—The Bev. Dr. Monck, of Eng­ together may reflect every possible hue of the divine loveliness.—E. H. Sears. land, lectured last Wednesday at Phoenix Hall, ( Brooklyn, when, it is said, spirit raps were Spiritualism and Morals:—An antagonist of Mr. Robert Cooper writes in the Eastbourne Gazette“ Did it plentiful, and heard by the audience. He ever occur to Mr. Cooper that possibly there may be other lectured and publicly healed the sick at New earnest thinkers besides himself, who are not enthusi­ Haven, on Sunday last. He does the same at astic ghostmongers, and who would intelligently pause Worcester, Mass., on next and the following before they took ten Commandments from groaning tables, or imbibed, with seance-room haste, a new Sundays, November 6th and 7th. He gives system of theology from the mouths of floating tubes daily attendance (Thursdays excepted) to heal the in a back parlour ? What about the constant law- sick, at his New York office, 205, East Thirty­ court exposures of deceptive mediums ? the free love Spiritualism ” of America ? the monetary fortune telling sixth street, and on Thursdays at 402, State from locks of hair, etc., advertised in the ghostly news­ street, Brooklyn, N. Y., from 9 a.m to 10 p.m. paper? Will Mr. Cooper place these things before the sweet moral ethics of the religion of Christ ? I am fully Another of Mr. J. A. Campbell’s letters, the first of aware that not a few of the most eminent names in which inculcated a higher tone of religion and morality literature, art, science, and the churches, give this in conection with Spiritualism, is now in the press. Spiritualism great weight, interest, and respectability Dr. Purdon’s Discoveries :—Bad weather at sea has in this and other countries. But it does not follow, as delayed the arrival of the second article of the course Mr. Cooper desires to show, that the rationalistic phi­ by Dr. Purdon, on his most important experimental re­ losophy is an essential element of psychological inquiry. searches. But we give one this week on another Where one person would investigate Spiritualism from subject, written by him. Dr. Purdon is perhaps the the theological and bitter standpoint of Mr. Cooper, most trustworthy authority living, on the subject of hundreds look into the matter with Mr. A. R. Wallace, mediums and mediumship. or such reverend truth-seekers as Canon Wilberforce.”

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DEAN STANLEY’S DREAM. POSTORIPT TO A RECENT CRITICISM. A contributor recently sent the following BY JOHN E. PUBDON, M.B. letter to the editor of St. James' Gazette, The secondary meaning attached by me to London:— the term Mediumism, and to the well-known “ Your article about Dean Stanley led me word from which it is derived, is my chief to turn up an old journal in which I found an justification for attempting to apply a theory entry which I think may give those who had of my own to the practical experience and not the happiness to know the Dean some faint matter of fact of another, in the hope that such notion of the learning, the playful humour and a possible explanation as I could offer would the lightheartedness which made him the be found to reconcile conflicting opinions upon charm of every society in which he appeared. questions of more general import than those The following is the entry:— relating to mere abnormal thermometric in­ 10th May, 1877—Dean Stanley told the dications, however interesting these may be to following dream at------: “ I was made Pope. the pure physician. The Times knew it, but no one else, and I was .The Lancet, of 12th of November, has a to keep it a secret till it was published in the pretty full annotation upon the nature of cases Times. The great question was what name to presenting paradoxical temperatures, and it take. I decided on Paul; but the objection warns physicians to be cautious in offering ex­ occurred that the last Paul was Paul V., and planations where explanations are not called Vlths were always unlucky. I repeated in my for—where, in fact, the presence of trickery dream: Sextus Alexander, Sextus Pius (I puts the existence of a lusus naturae into the have forgotten the end of the line), su# sextis background, if not altogether out of the semper perditia Roma fait. I went to the question. Athenaeum to ask advice. ‘ Are you quite This advice is sound, and I respect it as sure that the last Paul was Paul V ? ’ The coming from an authoritative source, for /: though it never can be proved that the girl Bishop of------•, who always knew everything, ): said : ‘ Why not take Gulielmus ? his own who showed the paradoxical temperatures name. I walked into Rome by the Flaminian practised a deception, from the acknowledged way. As usual in dreams I had no clothes on. fact that her method was never discovered, yet I snatched up a blanket and wrapped myself it would be childish on my part to claim more up in it. It looked rather like the Pope’s for my view of the case, because little of white robe. All the cardinals came out to positive value can be urged in favour of an meet me. I said: ‘ They will know by my entirely opposite one. Therefore, I say that blanket I am a Pope, and what will the Times the real interest of the question raised turns think if they know the secret first ? ’ With not so much upon the actual case introduced,, the agony of great thought I woke.’’ as upon the hypothesis covered by the second­ ary meaning of the word mediumism. This The highest knowledge is a consciousness of igno- ( implies the existence of a vital relationship rance. - Sir William Hamilton. ii<| between the animal body and the space-filling Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our / i of institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with tether, the medium the physicist, in and by them. Like rain-drops from heaven, they may pass $1 which relationship instruments are constructed through the circle of the shining bow and add to its in a reversible process, through the agency of lustre, but when they have sunk in the earth again, which energy may be expended or signs the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously ; transmitted, the same holding naturally and to on.—-James A. Garfield. \ The Ebb and Flow of the Beautiful :—Since the a more limited extent in less complex func­ Egyptians painted a lotus upon the wall, since Job felt h tional activities below consciousness, but ex­ the awful voice of thunder, since Solomon attempted to j H hibited abnormally, or at any rate extraordinarily, love his gardens and to write an essay upon the trees \ and flowers, since the Greek thinkers wore garlands of ; in that retrograde process in which the organ­ green leaves, nature has been working within the spirit \ ism neglects to obliterate the paths over which, of man as though to make it tender as the voice of a h | by a figure of speech, we may say that con­ harp and sensitive enough to believe in the existence |: I sciousness, having passed triumphantly from of God. She withdraws her spring and her summer i > i at the end of six months, not that the insensate fields D ] the lower centres, may be driven back by op­ may rest, but that this flow of the beautiful may be in Ri posing forces, thus on its physical side resolved successive waves, and that the soul in the depths of j $ | into motions, the psychical status of which is winter may think upon the gorgeous scenes that are ; much more degraded than that harmonious gone, and may wonder how many more such blossomings \; • will come between its loving heart and the grave.— j complex which is the normal outcome of a Professor Swing. perfected intellectual product.

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But thia is more or less the theoretical ex- ;< upon the lines originally laid down by Spinoza, planation of hysteria as advanced by one of the but Clifford was too orthodox a physicist to most philosophic of modern physicians, who B limit the possible combinations of the ultimates regards the higher cerebral centres as a neces- of matter and feeling which,when integratedgive sary factor in its manifestation. < the complexes perceived in the external and in­ Generalising, now, from the particular of ? ternal worlds respectively. It is therefore hysterical disturbances, we may say that the ? upon a rigid application of the principles in­ dyssynergia which is the physical side of the J culcated by that clear thinker, that I have here psycho-physical disturbance which I have j and elsewhere attempted to aocount for much called mediumism, (using that word in contrast < of that which a limited experience forced him to and preference to the word mediumship, which ? regard as dependent upon a perversion of Will would imply an accomplishment or gift rather ) with its resultant imposture. than a privation), rests for its simple and ; rational explanation, after the tremendous LUNACY IN FRANCE. labour of working out its details has been ) Mrs. Weldon writes from Gisors that in the Petit accomplished, upon the two main pillars of Journal, 4 November, there is a long article on the statistics of mad houses and mad people (Department modem science, i.e., the philosophy of Spinoza > de la Seine). In 1880 there were 1,258 patients* The on the one hand, and the doctrine of the inter- < principal cause of insanity is hereditary. actions and intercommunications of all formed 5 Drink •...... 822 cases matter from molecules to worlds, through the > Effete de l’&ge (women).. .. 274 „ Nervous system ...... 114 ,, agency of some general space-filling medium s Epilepsy, &c., .. .. . • 162 ,, on the other band; the grand structure erected < Poverty .. . • • • • • 44 „ upon which combination proclaims that every- ? Domestic troubles • • .. 84 „ thing in nature finds there' a place externally i Fright . • . • . • .. 5S » Hard work, or excesses of same kind 44 „ and internally in corresponding terms, pro- s Religion .. • • .. .. 34 „ viding at the same time an explanation for the ( Loss of loved ones • • • • 24 „ abnormal as well as the normal, if only they ) Loss of money .. •• •• 17 „ are derived from the same ultimate elements, i Mrs. Weldon adds—u Not one Spiritualist. Where’s Dr. Winslow ?” But we do not know what may be the variation of form not involving essential \ included under the headings n nervous system,” “Epi­ contradiction. ( lepsy, &c.,” “religion,” and “loss of loved ones.” The valuable contribution to scientifio gen- 1 ------eralizationmadeby thelate Professor W. Kingdon THEOSOPHISTS’ IDEAS AS TO THE NATURE OF Clifford which was really a theory of Mind Stuff SPIRITS. though put forward as an essay on the “ Nature The following are some of the speculations of Things in Themselves,” was brought by me before the readers of this journal some two or 5 printed in the October number of The Theoso­ three years ago, when I hinted that it was a < phist, in an article which was described by us mine of wealth from which all might dig with ? last week as interesting but unscientific ; in profit, as only such a theory would enable us 5 other words it is assertion, assertion, assertion, to face the problem of modern Spiritualism in i all its complexity with any hope of escaping ■ from beginning to end, with no proof:— the entanglement of word-spinning speculation. < In order to understand clearly the view of Since that time his theory of mind stuff has ' the Occultists, it is necessary to glance at the become more fashionable in the psychological j constitution of the living human being. Even literature of the day. Its application is simple < the spiritual theory teaches that man is a when it is once understood. < trinity, composed of (lj a higher spirit, or This theory asserts the fact that the universe j the “ Spiritual Soul ” as ancient philosophers as perceived in terms of feeling, is packed into s designated it; (2) its envelope—the ethereal the human nervous system ; and if Clifford had < form or shadow of the body—called by the only added that provided the limit of functional .. Neoplatonists the “ animal soul j” and (3) the range, when determined, were not transcended, • physical body. the universe as it might be perceived in terms $ Although from one point of view this is of feeling could be made to contain some of those j] broadly correct, yet, according to Occultists, to things that are not usually dreamt of in our phil- j ’ render our conceptions of this truth clearer osophy, he would then have solved many of B and follow successfully the course of man after our problems. K death, it is neccessary to subdivide further Clifford’s whole philosophy was constructed these three entities and resolve them into their

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constituent principles. This analysis being al­ would require a complete exposition of the most wholly unknown to Western nations, it entire philosophy of Occultism to explain fully is difficult in some cases to find any English its course; suffice it to say, now, that it passes words by which to represent the Occult sub­ away (taking with it no fragment of the in­ divisions, but we give them in the least obscure dividual consciousness of the man with which phraseology that we can command. it was temporarily associated) to fulfill its Divisions of the Subdivisions of the mission, still guided and governed by the irre­ Spiritualists. Occultists. sistible cyclic impulse which first projected fl. The Physical body composed I wholly of matter in its grossest and it through the veil of primitive kosmic matter. most tangible form. But if, on the other hand, the tendencies of ! 2. The Vital principle—(or Jiv-aima) 1. The body. the Ego have been towards things spiritual, if ' — a form of force, indestructible, its aspirations have been heavenwards (we use and when disconnected with one set of atoms, becoming attracted a conventional term), if it have, when weighed immediately by others. as it were in the balance, a greater affinity for the spiritual than for the earthly constituents "3. The Astral body (Linga-Sharira) composed of highly etherialized (with their accompanying desires) of the com­ matter ; in its habitual passive bination in which it recently took part, then state, the perfect but very sha­ will it cling to the spirit, and with this pass dowy duplicate of the body ; its activity, consolidation and form de- into the adjoining so-called world of effects, 2. The Animali j| 4 p«uu.iug entirely on %*me Kamakama ru (in reality, a state, and not a place), and there Soul or J 4 The1110 Astral shape (kama rupa) or purified of much of its still remaining material 1 bodv of Habita. a nrinninlA dAfini Perispirit. body of desire, a principle defining the configuration of— taints,evolve out of itself by the spirit’s aidancw 5. The animal or physical intelli­ Ego, to be reborn (after a brief period of free­ gence or consciousness or E^o ana­ dom and enjoyment) in the next higher world logous to, though proportionally of causes, an objective world similar to this higher in degree than, the reason, instinct, memory, imagination, &c., present globe of ours, but higher in the existing in the higher animals. spiritual scale, where matter and material 6. The Higher or Spiritual intelli­ tendencies and desires play a far less important gence or consciousness, or spiritual part thau here. Ego, in which mainly resides the In either case, it is not a matter of Judge­ sense of consciousness in the perfect ment, of Salvation and Damnation, of Heaven 3. The Spiritual man, though the lower dimmer ani­ Soul or spirit. mal consciousness co-exists in No. 5 and Hell, but solely the operation of the Uni­ 7. The Spirit—an emanation from versal Law of Affinity or Attraction, which the absolute; uncreated ; eternal; makes the Ego oling in one case to the more k a state rather than a being. material, in the other to the spiritual compon­ Now the change we call death, only im­ ents of the late, now death-parted, aggregation. mediately affects the first three constituents; Now neither during its gestation in the sub­ the body decomposes to enter into new com­ jective world of effects, nor during its tem­ binations, and the vital force is dissipated to porary period of the enjoyment in its newly help to animate new organisms, and the astral evolved Ego-hood of the fruits of the good human form (Linga Sharira) dies with the deeds, its Karmar on earth, nor after its entry body. on rebirth into the higher objective world of There remain four principles. As a rule causes can the Ego re-enter this present world. (we except the cases of_the higher adepts) one During the first period it is, so to speak, of two things occurs in accordance with the dormant, and can no more issue from the state Universal Law of Affinity. If the spiritual in which it is developing than a child can come Ego has been in life material in its tendencies, out of its mother’s womb to pay a visit before placing its main enjoyment in, and centering the period of pregnancy concludes. During its desires on, material objects and the grati­ the second period, however ethereal and puri­ fication of earthly desires, then at death it con­ fied of gross matter the regenerated Ego may tinues to cling blindly to the lower elements be, it is still subject to the physical and uni­ of its late combination, and the true spirit i/i versal laws of matter. It cannot, even if it i ; severs itself from these and passes away else­ Bl would, span the abyss that separates its state where. To follow its course is beside the Ri from ours. It can be visited in spirit by men, present question since the remaining principles i it cannot descend into our grosser atmosphere in which personal or animal consciousness re­ and reach us. It attracts, it cannot be at­ mains have parted with it for ever, and it tracted, its spiritual polarity presenting an

Digitized by VjOOQle r 262 THE SPIRITUALIST. November 25, 1881 insuperable obstacle. Once reborn into the ascending the circle, step by step, they regain higher world and (independent of the physical on reunion with the universal, the absolute impossibility of any communication between its consciousness, and simultaneously all the indi­ world and ours, to all but the very highest vidual consciousnesses which they have de­ adepts) the new Ego has become a new person; veloped at each stage of their descending and it has lost its old consciousness linked with ascending progress, is one of the the highest earthly experiences and has acquired a new < mysteries. consciousness which, as time rolls on, will be < (To be Continued J. interpenetrated by its experiences in that higher sphere. Th e time will come, no doubt, } OLD AND YOUNG. but many steps higher on the ladder, when $ They soon grow old who grope for gold the Ego will regain its consciousness of all its In marts where all is bought and sold ; < Who live for self, and on some shelf, past stages of existence, but in the next higher j In darkened vaults hoard up their pelf; world of causes, or activity, to our own, the ( Cankered and crusted o’er with mould, new Ego has no more remembrance of its $ For them their youth itself is old. earthly career than we here have of the life •_ They ne’er grow old who gather gold that preceded this present one. ) Where spring awakes and flowers unfold ; < Where suns arise in joyous skies, Therefore, it is that the Occultists maintain J And fill the soul within their eyes. that no spirits of the departed can appear or 2 For them the immortal bards have sung; take part in the phenomena of seance-rooms. < For them old age itself is young. To what can appear and take part in these, the ) —Asri’Jwr. Occultists refuse the name of spirits. < ----- *----- j CATS AT SEA. But it may be said, what is it that can < Certain animals were once thought to provoke storms appear ? ; at sea, and were thus regarded as unlucky by seamen. We reply—merely the animal souls or < A dead hare on board ship has long been thought a perispirits of the deceased. It might appear $ storm-bringer. The hare is unlucky in many folk-lore i< stories. Many people, as Lapps, Finns, and Chinese, from what we have said that while this, accord­ < will not eat it. As an animal supposed to see at night, ing to our previous exposition, would be true $ it was connected with the moon, shining by night, and in the case of the spiritually minded, in that < we have Eastern traditions of the hare in the moon. of the materially minded we should have these < Hence it is, with the moon a weather-maker. The cat ( was still more widely feared as a storm-bringer, and is plus the spiritual Ego or consciousness. But < alway sunlucky on board ship. She “ carries a gale such is not the case. Immediately on the ) in her tail,” and is thought particularly to provoke a severance of the spirit, whether at death, or / storm by playing with a gown or apron, rubbing her < face, licking her fur the wrong way, &c. Provoking a (as we have already hinted is sometimes the ) cat will certainly bring a gale, in sailor belief, and case) before death, the spiritual Ego is dis­ < drowning one will surely raise a tempest. Fielding, in sipated and ceases to exist. It is the result of < a voyage to Lisbon (1775), says, “ The kitten at last the action of spirit on matter, and it might, to £ recovered, to the great joy of the good captain, but to < the great disappointment of some of the sailors, who render the matter more clear, be described as ; asserted that the drowning of a cat was the very surest a combination of spirit and matter, just as r way of raising a favourable wind.” Flaws on the flame is the result of the combination of oxygen < surface of the water are in sailor-loro “ cat’s paws.” with the substance being oxygenised, and • There is a Hungarian proverb that a cat does not die in < water, hence its paws disturb the surface. A large might loosely be described as the combination flurry on the water is a “cat skin.” bo it rains cats of the two. Withdraw the oxygen and the ( and dogs, and the stormy north-west wind in some flame ceases ; withdraw the spirit, and the < parts of England is the “cat’s nose.” In Chinese lore spiritual Ego disappears. The sense of indi­ tigers cause storms, and the Japanese wind-god has / steel claws and a tigerish countenance. In Germany viduality in spirit cannot exist without com­ ( there is a proverb that anyone making a cat his enemy bination with matter. Thus the pure planetary ) will be attended at his funeral by rats and rain. Cats spirits, when first propelled into the circle of < see better at night, are connected with the moon in necessity, have no individual consciousness, < many legends, are witches’ familiars, and hence are / eyed askant by many. The Egyptian goddess of evil, only the absolute consciousness which they ( Pasht, was a cat-headed goddess. Cats were, as we share with all fragments of the spirit hitherto J have seen, used by witches in raising a gale, and are entirely uncombined with matter. As they, ( said to smell a wind, while pigs see it. On shipboard < the malevolent character of tne cat is shown in nautical entering into generation, descend the ladder nomenclature, and the song now popular— and grow gradually more and more hemmed in by matter and isolated from the universal £ “ It was the cat ”— £ is liable to more than a double interpretation. The spirit, so the sense of individuality, the ) cat-o’-nine-tails is not a desirable acquaintance, nor do spiritual Egoship, grows. How finally on re- (i sailors have a love for the miscellaneous gear connected

Digitized by November 25, 1881 THE SPIRITUALIST. 263 with raising the anchor, such as the oat-head, cat-fall, HALLOW-E’EN SUPERSTITIONS. oat-tail, cat-hook, cat-back, &c. The lubber’s-hole, through which it is thought derogatory to the able Can any Channel reader tell me whether seaman to pass, is in French tl Trou de Chat.” Weak li All Hallows ’’ and “ All Souls ’’ are con­ tea is called by sailors u cat-lap.” Freya, the Norse sidered by the Boulogne fisher-folk uncannie goddess, was attended by cats, and thus Friday, her > day, was thought unlucky. A spectral dog “shony” times to be out on the water ? In Dieppe a is said to predict a storm when appearing on the strong feeling exists on the subject. It is Cornish beach.—United Service Gazette. believed that any fisherman venturing out at these times will be accompanied by the devil MOTHER SHIPTON’S ALLEGED PROPHECIES. in the form of a second self, and that nets then The alleged prophetic utterance of Mother cast will come up full of dead men’s bones.

Shipton that the world would come to an end / The famous funeral-car of the Pollet is well- in 1881, was fabricated some few years ago. I known. It comes along under the rocks Last Wednesday afternoon, Sir John Hum­ ( through the town, and past the fish-market, phreys, the Coroner for the Eastern Division < every Hallow-Eve. It is drawn by eight of Middlesex, held an inquiry at the Crooked s white horses, accompanied’ by eight white < Billet, Hoxton Street, Shoreditch, as to the > dogs, and anyone bold enough to face it will death of Kate Weedon, aged ten years, lately i hear the voices of every seaman of the place residing with her parents at 29, Pitfield Street, drowned during the past year. Hoxton, who expired under very remarkable As “ All Souls” falls in the height of the circumstances through fright. It appeared ) herring season, I fancy many curious and in­ that the deceased had read the well-known / teresting bits of 11 folk-lore " must exist, as in propheoies of Mother Shipton, and had con­ < every portion of Europe the fishermen are im­ sequently become very much alarmed, the bued with a strong spirit of superstition. In more especially as the present year was the North of England, and Scotland, I know quickly drawing to a close. She very fre­ Hallow-E’en is especially dreaded, and no quently cried and talked about the world <> honest fisher-lad w.ll put off, be the herring coming to an end in 1881. On Thursday last “ sough ” ever so soft in the sea ; but leaving she went to school in her usual good health, the uncertain spirits of the deep—mermaids and on her return she was weeping bitterly and water kelpios— tossing alone, prefer to and speaking of Mother 8hipton. Her Burn their nuts, and pou their stocks, mother told her it was all nonsense, but this An’ haud their Hallow-E’en had not the least effect upon her, and when with their own warm-blooded lassies.—The she went to bed at half-past ten she was still Channel, (Boulogne). crying and wringing her hands, saying she knew the end of the world would come in the A translation of Mr. D. D. Home’s book, Ths Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism, is about to be published in night. At about half-past three on the follow­ the French language, a lady having provided the ing morning the mother was awakened by necessary funds. ) hearing her cry, and upon proceeding to her Spiritualism in Marylebone :—Next Sunday even­ bed-room found the child in a fit. A doctor ing at seven o’clock, |Mr. MacDonnell will lecture ou “Capital Punishment,” at the Quebec Hall, 25, Great was immediately sent for, but his services Quebec Street, Marylebone. On Monday and Thursday were of no avail, and the child died two hours Mrs. Davenport will give psychopathic treatment to the later.—Dr. Burtonshaw, of New North Road, sick poor, free. Next Tuesday there will be a mixed en­ deposed that death was due to convulsions and tertainment, consisting of a concert, dancing, and other attractions, in aid of the working expenses of the society# shock to the system, brought on by fright.—A Mr. Dale, the honorary secretary, keeps Spiritualism verdict was returned accordingly. before the public in the looality with very small finan­ cial support, and he ought to be adequately backed up Sunday Services at Ladbroke Hall :—Last Sunday in his self-sacrificing work. evening, Mr. Walter Howell, in a trance lecture at the Purpose and Plan :—Dr. Purdon writes “ A mistake Ladbroke Hall, Notting Hill, compared good and evil has occurred in my last article which I wish most par­ to light and darkness; without darkness, he said, some ticularly to have corrected, as otherwise I might be of the functions of life could not be carried on, and the misinterpreted and misjudged. The word place was darkness of night brought into view the countless stars unfortunately substituted for the word plan in that of the heavens. Without the lessons given by evil in paragraph in which a comparison was, as I think truth­ the past, the good of to-day could not have been fully and as I hope reverently, drawn between the brought forth. The best men of the more ancient times physical constitution of our Lord and those of certain represented the innocence of ignorance; the best men of men who have the power of exhibiting extraordinary the future would represent the innocence of the truest manifestations of energy according to design. Purpose knowledge. Mr. Howell will lecture again next Sunday and Plan I hold to be imminent in the universe, and evening, and on the following Sunday Miss Keeves will nowhere are they given more prominence than in the occupy the platform. life of Jesus.”

Digitized by VjOOQle 264 THE 8PIB1TU ALIST. Novbmbbb 25, 1881 THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF PROFESSOR ZOLLNER’S EXPERIMENTS. LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. FRONTISPIECEThe 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:—Leather Bands Interlinked and Knotted under under which Slate-writing was obtained. Professor Zollner’s Hands. PLATE VIII:—Slate-writing Extraordinary. PLATE IU Fixperimenta with an Endless Bladder-band PLATE IX:—Slate*writing 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:—Professor ZOllner and his Career after leaving England—Professor Zollner's Polemic- Worte—The Value of Testimony considered—Sources of Fallacy Items relating to the English Translation. —How can Medial Phenomena be Explained?—The Value of PROFESSOR ZOLLNER’S PREFACE (Dedioation of the Scientific Authority—Mr. A. R. Wallace’s answer to Hume’s Work to Mr. William Crookes):—Workers in a New Field of %***¥ JfirodiM—Spiritualism an Aggregation of Proven Facts Research— Thoroughness of the Labours of Mr. Crookes—The —The Attack upon Henry Slade—Spirit Messages—Slade’s Moral Necessity of the Strife about Spiritualism—The Immor­ tality of the Best 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 Phenomena Slade—True Knots produced upon a Cord while its ends were 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 198 owtB. exercised by Psychic of knots in Spaoe 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 II:—Henry Slade’s first visit to Leipsic—Professor CHAPTER VIII: —The Phenomena suitable for Scientific Fechner’a observations of the movements of a Magnetio Needle Research—Their Reproduction at different Times and Places— n proximit- to Madame Ruf, a Mesmeric Sensitive—Professor Dr. Friese’s and Professor Wagner’s Experiments in Confir­ Erdmann’s observations of tiie Phenomenon—The Experiment mation of the Author’s—Experiments with Private Mediums— repeated with Uenry Slade—The Observations of Professors Manifestations observed by Professor Nicolaus Wagner at St. Braune, Fechner, Weber and Scheibner—A Spirit Apology— Petersburg—Blind Faith and Blind Scepticism—Professor Wagner Destruction of a large Screen by Spirits—Experiments with a on the Fanaticism of Blind Sceptics—Investigation 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 Constantine Atheism—Form Materialisations through a Private Medium— —Testimony of the Hon. Alexandre Aksakof—A Test Experi­ Appearanoe of the Spirit of Olga—Effect of strong Manifestations ment in Slate-writing—Impartation of Permanent Magnetism to upon a Medium—Repetition of one of Professor Zdllneris Experi­ an Icon Needle-by Medial Power. ments by Professor Wagner—Psyohography—Spirit Identity- CHAPTER III:—Permanent Impressions obtained of Tem­ Impression made by the Materialised Hand of a Deceased porarily Materialised Hands and FeCt—A proposed Chemical Person—The Value of the Facts. Ex poriment—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 Miracle to Two-Dimensional Beings—The Experiments Four-dimensional Beings—The Muscular Power of a Spirit Hand of Professor Hare—A Ball of Platinum introduced into a Her­ —A Test with Flour—Experiments with a Polariscope—Flight metically Sealed Glass Tube by Spirits—An Experiment with of Objects through the Air—A Clue to Research Coins—Several Examples of the Passage of 8olid Matter through CHAPTER IV:—Conditions of Investigation—The Know­ Solid Matter—Clairvoyance-The Fourth Dimensional Theory ledge of our Ignorance—Unscientific Men of Scienoe—Herr explains Clairvoyance—The part taken by Slade's Soul in a Virchow’s Precept and practice—41 The Martyrology of Mediums,” Manifestation—The Spatial Widening of the Three Dimensional a book of the Future—Slade’s reply to Professor Barrett—A Circle of Sight to Clairvoyants—Why Bodies gradually become Medium’s enunciation of the First Rules of Experimentation in Transparent to Clairvoyants—Illustration in the case of Andrew Natural Science. Jackson Davis—The Criterion of Objeotivity—The Influence of CHAPTER V:—Production of Knots in an Endless String- one Will upon another—Hansen’s Experiments—The Philosophy Further Experiments—Experiments of the same Nature in Lon­ of Berkeley applied to Spiritual Phenomena. don—A Dining Table Floating in the Air in Daylight—Manifes­ CHAPTER X:—An Experiment for Sceptics—A Wager- tations in the House of a Physician—A Medium in Seclusion— Slade’s Scruples—A Rebuke by the Spirits—An Unexpected The Imposition of d priori Conditions—The Apparition of a Pale Result—Captious Objections—The Experiment of Professor Hand for Three Minutes—The Knotting together of Leather Wash—Example of the Apparent Penetrability of Matter. Bands beneath the Hands of the Author—Professor Weber’s CHAPTER XI:—The Facility with which Material Bodies Experiences with a Spirit Hand—Disappearance and Reappear­ apparently pasB through each other in Slade’s presence—Writing ance of Ponderable Objects—A Book Vanishes and Reappears— through a Table—A Test in Slate-writing conclusively disprov A Table Vanishes; it Reappears in Mid-air. ing Slade’s agency—A Description of the Tranoe State. CHAPTER VI:—Theoretical Considerations—The Axiom of CHAPTER Xtl:—A “ Fault ” in the Cable—Jets of Water- <4*The Conservation of Energy” valid in Four-dimensional Space Remarkable Heating Effects through 81ade’s Mediumship- --Projected Experiments toprove the Fourth Dimension—The Smoke—Sulphurous Vapours—“Fire Everywhere”—A Bluish- Unexpected in Nature and Life—Scientific Passivity—Schopen­ white Light—Abnormal Shadows—A Philosophical Explanation hauer’s 4< Transcendent Fate ’’—Goethe on the Veil of Nature. —A Materialised Spirit Hand—A Luminous Form. CHAPTER VII:—Various Instances of the so-called Passage CHAPTER XIII:—Phenomena Witnessed by other Observers of Matter through Matter—An Unexpected Phenomenon—The than the Author—Manifestations in Bohemia—The Narrative of Heat sometimes produced by the Operation—The Burning Herr Heinrich Gossmann—Spirit Identity—Heavy Stones brought Power of Psychic Force—That Evidence the best whioh can be into the Sconce Room—Extraordinary Manifestations—Spint- Appreciated without tiie Testimony of Experts—Failures at j&mww Writing in Five Languages. APPENDICES APPENDIX A:—The Value of Testimony in Matters Extra­ Belief of Mankind—Obstruction of Truth by Scientific Men— ordinary—The Proportional Strength of Evidence—The Con­ The Testing of Evidence. tradiction of Experience by Alleged Facts—Mr. Starkie’s Treatiee APPENDIX B:—Evidenoe of Samuel Bellachini, Court Con­ on the Law of Evidence—Hume’s Eway on Miracle*—The In­ juror at Berlin. fluence of Preconoeption—Hume's Principle Mathematically APPENDIX C:—Admissions by John Nevil Maskelyne and Refuted by Mr. Babbage—The “Uniformity” of Nature—The other Professional Conjurors—Houdin—Jacoba Lord Lindsay 8 Experiences—Dr. Lockhart Robertson’s Experi­ APPENDIX D:—Plate X--Experiment with Sealed Cords ments—The Cumulative Force of Testimony—The Universal and Endless Bands. Price 12s. 6cL -* Post Fkeb. The Spiritual^ Newspaper Branch Office, 38z Museum Street, London.

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