K® »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 Mrs. Volckman. The designs were worthy of with their Literary Contributions to The Spiritualist:— 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 been used, but that the effect had been pro­ President of the Royal Astro­ the Supreme Court, New York. 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.