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Spirit- Identity
By
(M.A. OxoN.)
Vv\A\o^AA/i 'S)to..\.v\,Vuv\, YWosea
Author
of
r^
"
Psychography,""The
London London
spiritualist
no,
igb^ alliance,
LANE,
W.C.
LmitEt),
ST.
MARTIN'S
The
first
edition
of
Spirit
Idehtity
has
long
been
out
of
print,
but
the
demand
for
it
continues.
The
Rev.
W.
Stainton
Moses
(M.A.
Oxon.),
the
author
of
the
book,
was
the
original
promoter
and
the
first
President
of
the
London
Spiritualist
Alliance,
and
the
Council
of
the
Alliance
issues
this
reprint
as an
affectionate
tribute
to
his
memory.
inettibe
tJjia
CKoIume
to
my
old
friends,
DR.
AND
MRS.
STANHOPE
SPEER,
As
witnesses
from
the
first
of
that
sequence
of
events
of
which
this
record
is
but
a
sample
As
those,
therefore,
who
are
best
able
to
understand
both
what
is
therein
written,
and
what
is
omitted:
And,
lastly,
as
testimony
of
grateful
and
sincere
friendship
and
regard.
UTTERANCES
ON THE
OF
EMINENT OF
MEN SPIRITUALISM.
OF
SCIENCE
SUBJECT
"
Sit
with
up of my it."
you
! mind Agassiz
No
! before
have
resolved
here
to
sit with
no
one.
made
come
coming of
that
nothing
would
"
(Member
to
Investigation
Committee,
Harvard
University)
who of would
to
Mr.
Redman.
"They
witnesses
"
they
see
these
things
are
not
competent
It
condescension Faraday.
on
my
part
to
pay
any
more
attention
"
"
Spirit
I
is
the
last
thing
will
give
in
in
to."
"
BREWSTER
"
have
settled HERBERT
the
question
SpENSER.
my
own
mind
on
priori
grounds."
"
"Supposing
interest
me.""
the Huxley.
phenomena
to
be
genuine,
they
do
not
"
There
are
people
which who the to will it to
amongst
the
us
who,
it is of
alleged,
can
produce
There and
effects
are men
before of
discoveries
Newton
pale.
have,
science
to
would
for
a.
sell
all
that of
they
give
which
the
are
proceeds
mere
"
poor,
the
glimpse
phenomena
trifles world
Spiritualist."
religion
intellectual of
some
The
have
the
kind,
of
even
though
it
should
"
fly
for
whoredom
Spiritualism."
Professor
Tyndali,.
"
most
mischievous
delusion of
epidemic
the
delusion,
comparable
century."
"
to
the B.
witchcraft Carpenter.
seventeenth
^W.
viii
Utterances
of
its
Eminent
Men.
is
"Spiritualism
"
amongst
more
devout
followers
ligion." Re-
"
It
demonstrates from
a
mind material
so
without
brain,
. . .
and It
intelligence
that
body.
many
furnishes
for want many
^TOo/
so
of
future
life which
and A. R.
crave,
and
so
of which in
many
live
die
in
anxious
doubt,
positive
disbelief.""
Wallace.
"
The
to
Spiritualists, beyond
all
doubt,
are
in
the
track
that
has
led
are
advancement
in
physical
of those
Their
opponents
the
representatives
"
striven
against
progress."
Asked,
THE USE
DE
Morgan.
What
OF
a
is the
new-born
use
of
BABY
it ? Franklin
.?
replied.
What
is
"
The
testimony
the facts
has
must
been be
so
abundant
to
and
be such
consentaneous,
as are
that
or
either
the be
admitted
ed, report-
possibility
given up."
"
of
certifying
facts Challis.
by
human
testimony
must
PROFESSOR
"
Already
Spiritualism,
effect
conducted
as
it
usually
is, has
in
had the
prodigious
World and which
"
throughout
America,
and from
partly
hardened
Old
also, in materialism,
their
redeeming
proving
of mind
multitudes
to
atheism
them
by
the
positive demonstration
there is
"
cast
requires,
form
that of
another
world
many true."
that
there
is
non-material which
humanity
and
at
that
are
miraculous
"
things
Chambers.
they
had
hitherto
scoffed
Robert
"Even
in if it
the
most
no
cloudless
skies
a
of
scepticism
hand
;
see
rain-
cloud,
be
bigger
than
man's
it is
modern
Spiritualism."
Lord
Brougham.
PREFACE.
This
read
volume
at
has
grown
out
of
paper
originally
National
discussion of
meeting
of held
the
British
their
Association Great
December Russell
Spiritualists,
Street,
1878.
I
at
rooms,
38,
of
London,
on
the
evening
16,
that
paper
In
presented
who have and
I
certain from
evidence
for
the
identity
of
spirits
with
me
time
to
time
municated com-
founded
an
argument
upon
the
evidence
produced.
narrow
Confined
within
limits with of
by
the
exigences
of
the
of
the
occasion,
and
my
dealt
one
phase
was
subject
I
only,
treatment
it
cursory.
have,
as
however,
considered
it
best
to
print
some
the
paper
it
originally
facts,
and
was
delivered,
with its
in
few
to
supplement
extent, the
imperfections
parts
of
to
some
other
the
book,
especially
I have
in
also
Introduction.
from
reprinted
on
the
Spiritualist
of
certain work
papers
bearing
the
general
subject
this
Preface.
have added in another
and
Appendix
which allusion
cases
of
identity
in the
before
published,
of
my
to
is
made
course
argument. do,
the
outer
Writing, penetrated
assume
a
as
now
for
the
student
who
has
within
ring
of
this
subject,
his
certain
amount
of
knowledge principles,
on
part,
I do
and
certain
acceptance
discuss.
of
which
not
stop
And it
to
is
fair
to
add
that
deduce
from
my
facts
certain
arguments
which
for
the
religious
will
tendency
or
of
Spiritualism,
as
my
readers
modify
have
reject
own
it
pleases
notions
them.
Probably already
but
they
whether
their
religious
facts
are
so
or
not,
the
independent
them.
of
any
theory
that
may
be
built
upon
M.A.
(OxoN.)
London,
Christmas,
1878.
SYLLABUS
OF
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Preface
.
ix
.
Introduction
....
Difficulties
in
the
way of
of
investigation
Divergent
Attitude This
results
investigators
represses
ofthe
to
of
public opinion
also from the
publication
factsthemselves
4 6 8
.
results
nature
The
The The
has
be
reckoned
in the
matter
with
.
choice
are
lo
monstration
not
susceptible
enters
of
de
.
scientific
a
method crowd
13 16
The
We No
being
the
to
motley
out
in
.
supply
material have
of which
to
this is diabolic
composed
element
.
18
necessity
of
recourse
the the
19
20
Neglect Agencies
Sub-human
These
conditions than
"
proper
those the
more
for of the
investigation
other
departed spiritofthe
to
24 25
spirits
had far
liberated
Psychic
than .26
have
can
attributed
. .
them
.
they
rightly
in
claim
Specialism Religious
Notes of
Spiritualism
of the
.27 .28
aspects
the of age
question
.
.31 33
end op
The The
place
Spiritualism
Operator
in
modern
at
thought
other
Intei"i"igent
The
the
Line.
of
nature
Scope
The What
the
inquiry
of the
-37
.
Intelligence
?
"
39
is the
Intelligence
in the way of
.40
Difficulties
the
accepting
.
the
story
.
told
by
.41 .41
.
Intelligent Operator
of
Assumption
Absence of
great
names
precise
and
statement
.
42
Contradictory
absurd
messages
44
xii
Contents.
PAGE.
Conditions Value
Personal
under
which
is obtained
45 47 49
of corroborative
experiences
cases
Eleven
II,
to
"
1874
. _
52
A A
spiritrefusing
to
be
misled
love
by
suggestion
.
54
spiritearth-bound
by
of money
56
57 59 61
Influence
of association,
have
especiallyof locality
for
: a
Spiritswho
communicated
long period
timony tes.
communicating Child-spirits
from
a
corroborative
.
second
source
Extremely
A
minute
evidence
given by
two
.
methods
.
65 67
General
.69
.70
.
Personal Personal
immortality recognition of
.
and
by friends
. .
71
Religious aspects
Appendix
On I. of
"
1^
Spirits to gain
.
.
access
.
to
sources
.
of .77
Appendix On
phases Identity
III. of
of
.
Mediumship
.
bearing
,
on
.
Spirit.89
Appendix
BEE.
Cases
1. 2.
Spirit-Identity
crushed
Man
by
steam-roller
.
107
Abraham Charlotte
rv.
Florentine
.
.110
3.
Buckworth
117
Appendix Evidence
Appendix On Appendix
some
from
V.
spirit-photography
121
diflSculties of
VI.
"
127
Spirit-Identity Evidence
of Dr.
Stanhope Speer
147
SPIRIT-IDENTITY.
INTRODUCTION.
This
volume
from
my
:
previous
I write
now
one
on
respect
made whereas have
can
for
themselves then
no
familiar
I
wrote
spiritual phenomena
uninstructed
the the
world, beyond
or a
who
knowledge
from in
some
a
subject
conversation
what
be
gained
casual
paper. news-
misleading
paragraph
Then
to
was
careful
to
employ
non-committal and
to
terms,
refrain
state
no
theory
from the the
for
use
acceptance,
of
any
generally
serve
language
wherewith the and of life
that
new
might
truth I
am
to
increase
prejudice
Here,
on
is
always
to
viewed.
the the
contrary,
am
speaking
evidence after
the and
esoteric
body,
propounding
individuality
first
for death
perpetuation
of the with
and
body.
am
leaving
ciples prinIn
so
dealing
must
profounder
on
mysteries.
of those the who
doing,
me,
a
assume,
the
part
with
read
familiarity
some
phenomena
of thought
of
as
Spiritualism,
to
previous
them.
exercise
the
causes
underlie
Spirit-Identity
Speaking
to such
only,
I desire
to clear
the
more
ground
sary neces-
by
few
preliminary considerations,
a
the
because is devoted
to
considerable
exclusive the
portion
argument
"
of
this
work
an
dealing only
return
with
of the
one
side
of
question
the
to I
earth
no
spirits of
to
departed
to
humanity.
any
narrow
have
desire
or
stand
committed of the
definition
any
more
Intelligence
the in
a
at
work,
of of he
than that
to
ignore
that
great
weight
number
evidence
cases
show
large
the
to
Intelligent Operator
be,
to
or
is not
pretends
else that
out
he
is very
in his
attempts
make
his
as
identity.
I
Speaking,
vast years
"
do, almost
one
on
the
I
threshold
of
some
inquiry, albeit
with
rare
in which
have
spent
an
opinion
in
speaking,
themselves
so
so
moreover,
of
things
of their
tation presenso
protean,
"
perpetual changefulness
as
one averse
perplexing
speaking, too,
a
ing, to theoris-
especiallyon
I desire would
some
subjectso
say
as
fruitful of fanciful
as
thesis, hypoBut it
to
little
possible.
go forth
be
unfair
on
to
words
to
other
I have
aspects of the
question
in my
those
on
which
given prominence
Operator.
The
Intelligent
DIFPICTJLTIES
IN
THE
WAY
OF
INVESTIGATION.
It must
be
admitted
at the
outset
of the
argument
at
that
many
raised
every
in Difficulties
the
Way.
experiences
3
of investigators of and
not
we
very
various
"
The
attitude
public
sion discus-
opinion
be
almost
"
precludes
The facts in
many
of facts:
can
such
have
as
published
with
an are
and
to
reckon and
our
whose
reverse
opinion
to what
action
own
the
very
would
The
enters
:
"
gates
we
set
ajar, and
of
motley
of
us
company
care we
know conditions
most
less
plicate com-
for, proper
an
investigation ; subject by
I wish
to
and
already perplexing
much
less care-
folly.
It is this line of
thought
that
pursue.
DIVERGENT
RESULTS
OP
INVESTIGATORS.
The called
experiences
of
investigators of
been
even
the
phenomena
than Some that dence evi-
spiritual have
tried for
more
various
subjects. nothing
with
seen
Others
away
flooded
the world
torrent-rush of trouble
all has
mass
of conviction.
to
Some of
get
means
are
investigation ;
only with
of which much
to
means or
when
been of
done,
confronted
bewildering
can
they
make which
nothing,
certainly
about
are
on
may
mean
not
reducible
own
law. of fear
carry
with
not
them
their
investigation,and
of
perplexed
by
any
deceit,
at
least
this
4
aide.
.
Spirit-Identity.
Some
bring
to the
inquiry
from
calm
and
evenlythe
balanced
and
most
mind, free
alike
dogmatic scepticism
gulp
ever
enthusiastic
credulity.
down
portentous
conclusions
phenomena
to
thinking of
And
the
be
drawn hear
them. know
others,
nothing,
the
nothing, through
nothing,
alone
tight
is
avenues
which
knowledge
procurable.
ATTITUDE
OP
OPINION
REPRESSES
OP
PTJBWCATION
FACTS.
No
wonder,
then,
that,
where
experience
It would The
is
so
be
than
too
strange
were
it otherwise. is
gator investistate
frequently
to
compelled
the
by
this
of
general opinion
with
a
approach
and
study of the
If he be
subject
a
mind
befogged by fprejudice.
educated in the
to
man
properly
abstruse recondite will have but
trained
understand
the
more
questions involved
phenomena
spent
most to
study of the
of of
a
psychological science,
his
time in
an
he
atmosphere
of the
he that
little favourable it
candid
very outcome
consideration
question
have read
.involves.
will those
a
The
Jworks
of
will
of in and
be who
the
the
study
interest
insanity by
have
the
strongest
of
no
presenting
one-sided
to presume,
view
the other
question,
view
he him. has will Of
who, it is fair
to their minds.
have
mental
present
have
the
On
true
science
found
no
treatise of
that
will
enlighten
mysteries
spiritand
he spirit-action
every
6 within older.
And this and
so
Spirit-Identity,
the
gates of
his
asylum
if his be
before
he
is much
by
degrees,
will he what of
a
determination
in for
men
survive
opposition, he
will
reserve
driven
upon future
himself,
use,
or run
discovers
when
so
for the
their will when become he
service
will have
against
ceased scorned
to
facts them
repeatedly
as
their
fathers
delusion truth of be
of
the
his
day
will
great
at
succeeding
age.
speaks
all, it will
of elementary
points,
by their fathers, the equally scorned generation has grudgingly accepted, and
to
hide
or
explain
result is
never as are
away.
comes
universal
to
pass.
The
:
cycle of truth
such
only
fragments
Slade
of it
publicity ;
comes
here
a
little
and
there
to make
specialphenomenon helps
law. the
on
of
notoriety, appeal
coherent
to
and
I,ankester
the
the
work
by
an
persecution by
The
body of
this
evidence
for
central
facts of Spiritualism is
cause
almost
of necessity from
property.
THIS RESULTS ALSO
OF FROM
not
public
THE FACTS.
INHERENT
NATURE
THE
Moreover,
the
attitude
nature
of
opinion, acting
facts
an
from
to
without, finds
in the
of the
allay
The
free
Inherent
Nature
I
am
of
not
the Facts.
7
now
publicity.
but
speaking
lie
on
ot
that elusive
the
surface,
of their
have
method If
presentation to
does of
not
publicity.
to
man
replying
outside
you
at
a
the has
fatuous
so
string
at
questions that
'
"
the
world
largely
command
Why
cannot now,
produce
time, in
without
these
my
own a
mena phenoroom,
here, there,
in and
a
any
medium, Why
medium,
them
'
"
and
so
on
cannot
produce
a
? if
Why
he
is does
medium
necessary
Why
and
reason
circle ?
not
get tired
of
hearing
is
no
answering
why
of raps,
this
vapid questioning,
should
to
not
a
there
to
attention
or even
be
drawn
phenomena
fact
as
such
demonstrable
Psychography,
the
with
much
But
persistence.
it is different he has
when,
through
adit
the
to
of
these
to
phenomena,
causes
penetrated
them,
them.
or
veil the
the
that that
underlie governs
gence intellicases
He
then,
he
in the
to
that with
most
is face
face
or
the
which
rested, rightly
of
wrongly,
"
ualism, Spiritdeath,
and
demonstration
perpetuated
the world
life after of
matter
and the
of intercourse
between
wojrld of spirit.
the
Sometimes
evidence from
op
none some
will
come
an
personal im-
source,
instructor
passed
the
come
through
solemnity
the
plane
it will
which the
More
individuality
less
is demonstrable,
but
impress
him
with
of its issues.
frequently
it will
8
from friend and the whose who
Spirit-Identity.
a
affection has
a
the other
great
side
change,
to
reaches
hand
help
In and
was
struggling
case,
seeker
either
not
the evidence
made with
public property.
the
green
tree
Experience
If the the
ear
of
done
will not
predispose
earthly
of
sense
to
"
any
experiments
raps
"
with
the
dry.
that
things
can
the
and if
the the
noises
distinguish
shall locked
earthly things
be And
are
derided,
so
who
are
heavenly
inner
things
and
a
they
recesses,
produced,
sense
under that
strong
of
duty,
to
one
who
has
in him
yearning
which spirit-nurtured,
imperative
Both and
on
him
that has, to
give.
the
men
from from
the
nature
of of
evidence,
towards
the attittide is
it, the
truth
only partiallymade
public.
THE
INTBI,I.IGKNT
OPERATOR
WITH.
HAS
TO
BE
RECKONED
There
reason
that
imports
much We
tainty uncerare
special investigation.
fixed, which
acts
not
dealing, as
which law
more
astronomer,
itself
that
to
is
according
and which
less have
our
clearly known
a
to
us,
which
body
of
of
fact
from
proceed
on
way
further observation
and
The
Attitude
If the
of
the
Operator. Intelligent
is concerned knows of fact
can
periment.
the
astronomer
in observing
to
planet Mars,
he
to
he
where with
turn
to
his the
telescope : changes,
time
to
has
mass :
regard
planet ready
and
come:
his hand
he
with he
can
much
correct
any
in
his
be
caused
by
atmospheric
occurs
and,
finally,if anything
or
to prevent
observation,
can
to
render
what
the
has
planet
heir
visible, in-
tell you
exactly
occurred.
happened
of of in
why
his
failure of
has ages
He
to
is the
knowledge
his
own
past,
and
that
body
science
observations without
any
attach breach
themselves of
orderly
or
'
sequence, rude
severance
continuity
any
It is far with
otherwise
investigator comes
more
to
deal
science spiritual
in its
esoteric aspects.
and
tain. uncer-
There,
at the
outset, all is
is little in of old
to wrote
shifting, vague,
past that
can
There For
the sages
the
guide
him.
were
initiated,and
of wisdom.
scatter to
pearls
have
If
books
are
open
are
us,
we
lost the
key, and
guides they
The
observations
are
to
a are
the
public
of
apparently
that the
to
variety
conditions
on "conflicting
surface, and
edification. and
rather
to
than
are so :
The
exercise is
atmospheric
so
variable
powerful
on one
an
infiuetice of others
the
investigator
form
dependent
and each
the
aid
who
his circle ;
of these
lo
Spirit-Identity.
his
own
imports
:
"
conditions other
on
of
error none
into the
tion investigatabulated
these
and
causes,
of them
of
and
marked render
for him
the
chart of
previous experience,
liable
to
his early
pursuit
of
knowledge
every
fluctuating degree
deterrent
error.
And of these
eliminates finds
many
though ^he
how and he
self himmuch
increasingly
occurs
or
to
:
say
why
may
does
not
though
even
be alone
able
are
to
where
inferior
agencies Operator
concerned,
will always
find himself
at last at the
compelled
end of the
to reckon
with has
the Invisible
not to
line.
He
do
with
fixed
and
inert substance
and
;
known has
him
but
his ideas,
plans,
is
;
and
projects all
moreover,
unknown of that
to
the
has,
looking
which
far
different
and the
who, if he be
purpose
set
worthy
Guide,
the
from been
a
before
to
secure
him.
operation co-
have of
fortunate and
enough
worthy
who
acts
on
principles of integrity, he
a new
be
fronted con-
by
such
a
problem.
he will find he
must
If he
the
have
secured
guide,
then
investigation beset
for his evidence
is alike
with
on
and difficulty,
sources as
depend
whence
the. supply
precarious,
He will be
and,
second-hand,
to
unsatisfactory.
the
tempted
abandon
some
pursuit,
and
probably
opens
out.
will
do so, unless
unexpected
avenue
The
But
A ttitude
him
1 1
assuming
be
with
has
spirit
of whose
wisdom, integrity,
as
he
satisfied
himself,
to
duty
do
trusting
at
his
keeping
he will
mighty
to
interests
stake,
then has
consider
that
with be
to
intelligence
he
can
his
plans
he
methods,
He
which forced be
only
decide
at the
sent con-
slightly
whether will
will
to
evidence
produced
he will
of the
to
controlling spirit:
to
whether
and
remain,
all what
intents is
purposes,
or
the
passive recipient of
he will dictate
to
vouchsafed;
whether
his
own
wishes
be
so
done, refuse
stand, undersome
and
place
that and
and
relation
to
with
He
lower
his will. of
his
may
be well
to
fact the is
being
he
able that
can
command
subjugate
teach
so
intelligence proof
an
guide nothing
him
that
from
instructor.
He
driven attracted
away
one
the
over
could
can
elevate, and
it.
lord
so
It is to the
latter
I trace
our
course
having
of the
been
frequently,
If the
adopted
defilement
that of be
much modern
"
disfigurement and
advisedly"
as
Spiritualism.
I
use
vestigat in-
impelled
course :
the
term
to
the
other
if he
of
satisfy himself
to
the and
moral be
consciousness
to
the what
intelligenceat work,
is
content to
accept
and
presented
it is
with
full
in
liberty
examine
try
from
or
it when
placed
evidence, but
the
course
refraining
is
more
dictation
and
ence, interfer-
less clear.
12
Spirit-Identity.
He will find, indeed,
that
he
has
even
no
power
to
to
mand com-
phenomena,
their desires each existence
to to
so.
or
possibly
on
demonstrate he
set to
others The
the
to
occasions
when
most
do
conditions
be found
up
by
an
change
and
in
be
barrier
on
frequent
head he between and
admission
soon
of learn
other that he
this
will
take
his
choice
following
his
own
without of the
success,
obeying
does. when show
the
able reason-
knows
about recall
conditions
many
an
most
earnest to
facts
to
bring
a
it
have
been in
valued
privilegeto
been No
associated
myself again,
to
the
investigation,were
doubt
refused
most
again
of
and
quiesce. ac-
I have
forced, though
each
reluctantly,
such it
a
request
were
kind
so
would
to
be
more
readily granted
under
a
possible
certainty
arrange
conditions
as
which
investigationsare
of wiser
necessary
conducted
success.
to
secure
as
No it will
our
doubt be
we
by repeated
to
failure round
less
and
fence of prohibition.
vene, inter-
circles As
by such
so
stringent
causes
"
methods of the
error
it is,
most
"
many
that of
new
the
fruitful of all
must
we
combination
elements it not
be
avoided.
be
Were
to
so,
should
perpetually
to
reduced
the
anything
be
first
14
his
Spirtt-Identiiy.
not conceptions of life,
as a
matter
as
an
of
threescore
years
and eternal
ten
on
this
earth, but
imperishable
and cultivated and he will ennobled
man,
and
or
to
be
elevated. be
the
true
morally, and
better his and for the
in the
what citizen
He
obligations
a a
and in
so
will
be
better
truer
man
all his
social of his
relations.
clearer
more
conception
ready
have
to
privileges,
his right. birthhe
and
the he
vindicate
will
learned arbiter of
that, whether
his of
own
not, he
in
is the the
destiny,
world the
nesses mean-
lives he
piercing sight
that
the
of
and spirit,
will
increasingly rise
above
pettinesses
theology.
than this.
modern that
the
anthropomorphic
He
form
modern Far
more
as
goes
on,
that
his
early notions
are
of literal
demonstration He
scientific analysis
see
becoming impossible.
truths of of
that
the
subtler
spirit
"
or
rather lend
even
higher
to
conceptions
no
spiritual truth
;
"
such of
methods human
and
that
they
and
the
hard
or
limits
language,
find
(if at all)in the language symbolism and allegory. More frequently they intuitivelyperceived, and elude absolutely and
the And crude methods of human far if he in
a
adumbration
penetrates
find
himself
region
for which
embodied
The
state
Sentiment
:
of
the
Question.
the and
very
15
viduality indi-
unfits is
him
region
and
in the
one
which
merged,
locked
highest
whose
subtlest
emanate
truths from
are
are
not
within
breast, but
representative companies
interblended.
spheres
of life
The the
Intelligent Operator
to
causes
in
is added
so as
before
the
enumerated^
dissemination
to
render
free
of truth difficult.
to to
These of
cases,
causes
combine
seem
make
full able
publication
to
which
those
best
judge
to
prove
I have
nothing
the have of
the
of the
sentimental that
a
side number
of the of
argument
of who
impatience
by
vestigat in-
patient waiting
that
such and
obtained
ably reason-
their
results,
"
feel
at
novo
being
by
the
again
have who
again
of
to
begin
the
de
introduction
fresh
on
elements
into
their
I touched
have
stronger
with
impatience
their
those
course inter-
who
at
live, as
in
risen
in that life,
consciousness,
person
or
being
by
interviewed
some
by
earnest to
some
pragmatic
evidence the
or
even
very
but
incompetent
investigator,and
which
being forced
very
produce
for pro
wrings
of
a man
their for
on tremely ex-
inmost
souls
satisfaction
con
whose abstract
convictions
they
care,
except
principles of
little.
It
universal
easy to
say
philanthropy,
that
"to
is
whom
i6
much But is of
Spirit-Identity.
given,
much,
them shall much
as
a
be
required."
not
this is
very
much,
and,
rule, it is
given.
Nor have I touched upon the
extreme,
into the
the
almost
syllogisms of
as
a
logic, or
the
even
into
such
exact
statements
that the
frequently appeals
and
as
to
heart
than
to
head,
which
is
best
and
safest within
must to
precisely
those
in
proportion
and fast class
it is least
hard
to
limits.
Such
appeal
a
another of
of
inquirers,
the
perhaps
of
later age
enquiry,
done
when
rough
of
preparation,the ploughing
soil, has
and the
are
and
harrowing
to
unpromising
are
been
by the pioneers
do in tend it. the
to
hard
enough
persistentenough
difficulties other
to be
causes
inherent that
subject itself,there
make
public evidence
THE GATES BEING
hard
had.
AJAR
RUSHES
A IN.
MOTLEY
CROWD
The
to
are us
world is very
from much
which
like
our
disembodied
own.
spiritreturns
denizens and of it
The
of
varying degrees
for us, who least
of
are
progression ;
least
most
those,
unfortunately
progressive,least
material rush and in when
developed,
the We
our own
spiritual,and
the
earthly, hover
gates
have
are
around
set
confines, and
ajar.
reason
small
to
complain
of
this
It is
option
to seek
intercourse
of
Motley
Crowd.
best
17
our
spirit ;
up who with
course
and
we
are
certainly doing
and
to
keep
that Of
the
supply
of
unprogressed
undeveloped spirits
our
are
perpetually passing
we
from
state
to
which
we
voluntarily open
what
we
communication.
;
reap
have
sown
that is
an
eternal
criminals, for
in life and
some
"
of whom for
we
we
are
responsible
the best
death,
provide
and
possible conditions
and, when
the
we
for their
measure
production
of their
nurture,
summated, con-
full
iniquity is
criminals
us
into
of
spirit,
"
our
we
always with
dwellers
a
in
our
lanes
and
we our
decent
life
impossible:
whom that
our
and
debaucheries,
the
conditions
are, to
life
drive, like
sin and
poor
:
"
sheep
they
shame
these
scapegoats
of
we
of
advanced
(the
Roman life it
a
the
later
days
Empire), thing
not
even
have
made
spiritual
were
and intelligible,
"
distasteful
even
these
we
have
come
first
too
ready
to
the
only
place they
They
who
out withtreasure
are
progress
"
they who
no
their
who
here,
to
and
have
^ow^ of
they
chain
no
earth
"
by
any
the
bonds heaven
that has
down
spirit:
who that
meaning,
the
would
their
on highest gratification
they
should
have
quitted
for
ever
"
those, in
i8
Spirit-Identity.
we,
short, wliom
methods
by
our
vicious
whereby
those
worldly wealth
who
are
and
and
we
degrades
material have
the
ministers
;
"
cravings
to
and the of
true
necessities level
the lif^ of
reduced and
mere
physical
the
machines,
robbed and
precious birthright of
:"
these
find
gates
us.
I sometimes
man a
wonder and
a
where future
those, who
before
believe
that
soul
him, think
If they
some
that he
goes
to
me
when the
or
propound
that
the
soul of
is in
state,
antechamber the
purgatorial expectation,awaiting
crack of
to
can
reunion
with
body
that
the
doom
say. meet.
will
We I
miraculously
have
am
recombine,
I have
on
nothing
we
no
common
ground
with scheme those of from
many
which
concerned rational
who
accept and
that
the soul
progression
the who
newly released
these of
are
prison-house of
are
body.
by
the
Among vagaries
who,
in
distressed with
are
who spirits
communicate
them, and
inclined action. into the be
any
can
perplexity and
vexed
to
bewilderment,
to
question
do
to diabolic you
such. Why
element
you
even
import
?
argument
a
of disturbance
If there
Devil
such prove,
means
or
understand if I believed
the
whole
of evil ; and
as
should,
not
it,be
very
to
my
future,
fiend
knowing
not
what
to
pranks
such
one
omnipotent
who
might
elect
play
with
habitually meddles
No
with his
Devil.
If I did fiend of the
not
19
domain. spiritual
human
as
believe,
as
as
much of
and
Dante
conceptions
the have
Pentateuch,
of many
I should
appropriate
fully successcause
Prince
embodied
on
that
very
developed
t rouble.
this earth,
present
of
But
is there
not
enough
of it into
embodied
folly,roguery,
our even our own
sation, civilithe
sequence con-
society,
us
ay,
of what
pleases
the
to
call
religion,
account
perpetually going
for all We We will the
are we are see
world ?
of
spirit to
and
deplore
that he
man
agreed
survives
an
physical death.
being,
done
man
agreeithat
to
is
who in in
have
render
account
deeds
same
body.
He
he
was
must,
therefore, be
spiritthat
of
where
is the
judgment
was
Well, what
"
does
Holy
Writ he
say
He
that
is
unjust
unjust
on
still ; and
that
and
set
Carry
We
is inevitable. world
ours
day
by
day,
endowed
to
once
perpetuated
only
energy,
sufficient
make
we
probable
certain
the harass
that,
communication
return to
vex
with
and
disembodied
us,
as we
state,
know
once
a
more
man
with
sows,
the
so
working
will
he
of
also
inevitable
As
20
Spirit-Identity.
We and
are we
reap."
energy, This it is
sowing
reap
a
the
wind
with in due
much
course.
daily
the grave
our
whirlwind
cause
of itself is
of
complication
; and
aggravated
by
own
folly and
neglect
of
reasonable
precautions
in
investigation.
NBGtBCT
OF
CONDITIONS
IN
INVESTIGATING.
Most
of
the
facilities
for
investigation
at
which
are
an
ordinary
as
investigator
to
finds
his for
disposal
the
very
such
seem
be
constructed
one
purpose
of bewildering
who
some,
possesses
I
this
mysterious
to
psychic
its
power
and
fear,who
a
only pretend
advertise possession,
that, for
in
small
remuneration,
with
a
public
be
to
am
relation
the
world
spirit.
could
This
of itself Far
seem
is, I should
it from
me
hope,
to
transitory
a
state
of affairs.
even
utter
word
that
disparage
conscious be
the
that
;
work
done
by
held
public
in the
as
it is not that it
that
it should
and upon
as
perhaps
by
any
some
much
obloquy brought
discredited
whose
cause.
a sense
it,
as
from
seen
discharged,
an
I have
responsibilityand
honest
as
desire
to
bring
to
the
investigator such
is effected.
too
evidence
is
possible,much
:
good
But
often
what
most
happens
of them
;
is this
number
of
persons
any
mere can
assemble,
to
a
densely ignorant of
some
conditions
be few
observed
animated
to
see
by
what
as
curiosity,
be had
by
dumb
source
desire open
through
the
only
to them
23
SpiritIdentity.
tliat the result in conditions much that
set
and
us
up
and
perpetuated by
even
is
discreditable, and
shameful.
In
so
saying, I
brought
not
so
have
in
on
my
mind
cause
many
scandal
;
that and
has
I
am
shame much
the
that blame
must
inclined
to
of the
though iniquity,
as
they
righteous burden,
that make And
even
am
the
folly
and
stupidity
such
possible.
where
the better conditions may cautions pre-
in
we
be
expected,
that
gravest
has shown
neglect
to
of
experience
that
out
some
be
pensable. indis-
We
know
manner,
of
our
bodies, in
unknown
some
ous mysterito
by
the
means
chemistry by which
the that
way
us,
are
provided
work. prepare have
to
invisible operators
Yet
few
consider in
any
they
for and
a
are
bound
to
themselves
the
a
part
free
they
play.
are
copious
considered hour's
dinner
to
supply
paration predead."
not
of stimulant
be
communion because
they
grumble
of
so
they
as
get
high
and
quality
they
would
anything with
dear
hilarious
as
merriment,
were
spirits by
those
"
if they A
the
very
Angels
too
sneer
I/ight.
drawn
us.
melancholy
would be
cast
picture,
a
often upon
who
once
cheap
one
I^et it for
to
painted by
is not the
who
desires
only
point
its
moral.
That
way
to
investigateSpiritualism;
Exoteric
is the
our own
Spiritualism.
to
23
for results
nor
Intelligent Operator
folly produces.
results
"
blame
that
These,
the
alas ! the
as
only results by
of
that
common
the
are Spiritualism,
If
two
the
opening
results the of
cation communi-
worlds
us so
necessarily in
gates
closed
at
this, by
once.
all
let
not
have result
the
That
;
it does
necessity, I hope
that
are now on
to
show
and
I and
trust
that
efforts of
being made,
the for
the
general spread
in
knowledge
at
once
subject, will
ever
result
to
wiping
away
and
out
this bar
avenues
investigation, and
intercourse
in
opening
us
better world
I any
to
vex
for
between
and
the
of
spirit.
to
the
candid
reader, whether
it is
for reasonable
the spirits,
those
and
dwellers
and
to
the
on our
who
are
plague
to
us,
those
as
best
known
the
public
exponents
be ?
a
mental experiof
sense non-
Spiritualism, there
and that is
should
name
folly current
and
in its
to
Is any
evidence
such
precise
?
clear
be
expected
to
under
conditions
any
Is any
can
intercourse elevate
and
be
looked
for with
any
spirit that
evolved
in
ennoble
exact
proof
in
orderly
save
and
method
thing, any-
short,
man's
that
and
questionable
follies survive of those
of
proving
and
on
that
vices
no
death,
that
there ?
is
monopoly
from with side
qualities
which
this earth
Let
defile
us our
purge
away
our
these of
blots
communion
the
world
spiritbefore
24
we
spiritIdentity.
charge
with its manifestations the
on a
Devil,
and
or
associate
them
vagaries
of soulless
irresponsible
elementaries.
AGBNCIBS
OTHER
THAN
THOSE
OF
THE
DEPARTED.
Here words
hope
of
me
a
I may
be
pardoned
make
to
if I
append
are
almost from
clear
me,
the
position
on
I occupy
every
one
"
duty,
it
seems
incumbent
who for
presumes
me
to
address
the
public.
at
It is not
to
are
work
in
Spiritualismagencies
of
our
than the
I
see
the
departed spirits
of these
to do
so
kind.
If I insist
action need
:
it is because spirits,
to preserve
any
I think
the of
balance
of truth the
or
not
because of
intention
ignoring
of
action of
the
plane
of
humanity,
minimising
power
human
I may when
spirit.
be
it
to
perhaps
draw
say,
that what
at
time
ray
I considered
to
I did
lay in
power these
the then
investigators to
that
both of
points,
entirely unthought
seemed
to
me our
by
It English Spiritualists.
our
lines
of
investigation were
wide
;
our on
too
cramped,
the
view
not
ficiently sufwas
self-complacency
past
had and done it
turning
throw time
its
back
on
to
was
light
to
these
out
problems;
world of
point
that
spiritis
capa-
Other
Agencies
there
than
the
Departed.
something
the
more
25
cious, and
than The
are
that whole
is
room man.
in it for
the
family of
of sub-human
action
to
and spirits,
part they
siastically enthu-
alleged
the
play
in
ably Spiritualism,
and
set forth
by students
of the occult
literature H. and of
of
P.
by Madame
Unveil^d,
a
Blavatsky
then
great work
in
Isis
since writers
any
advocated
England
it from of that
by
little band
not
or
energetic,has
oblivion side of
needed
other have
help
lost
to
secure
neglect. question,
balance
to
I
even
not
sight
the
when
I have
endeavoured attention
to redress to
the
by drawing
an
prominent
more
what
"
I hold
be
infinitely
important spirits.
about
but
so
element
I should
the
action for
of
departed
human
a
apologise
a
introducing
as
word
unimportant
have
no
matter to
my
own
opinions,
any
to
desire which
in
my
be
not
credited taken
I
with
change
seem
of be
thought
one-sided
has
place, or
I may
to
view.
hope
I
disavow
to any
that
suppositionwithout
of
a
laying
of the
myself open
have evidence
charge
forward
egotism.
small
brought
that I
a
portion
return
:
have
collected
reason.
for the It
to
of the
some
departed
time
over
for
plain
has
is this
me
For
past there
a
seemed
to
be
creeping
most
prominent
best
section
of and
able, the
informed,
an
most
active
in
a
in
informing others,
I should deals his with call
the
inclination
what
doctor
Specialism. Just
heart
to
some
the
Specialist who
of illness
refers fault
all symptoms in
that
in his
patients
organ,
while
26
Spirit-Identity.
who deals with
comes
neighbour
the root
the
lungs
refer of
finds
in
so
under
to
his
ken,
Specialistsseemed
has occurred
any
inclined
our
everything
the domain
to
in
cause
experience
except
what of
of
the
spiritto
chief of
I hold human
to
be
all
"
the
action
departed
for
spirits.'
me
That,
the
to
most
potent
lowest
to
factor, seemed
to
be
relegated
Isis
the
place,as,
be
instance, it is in
Unveiled, and
theoretically and
and latent of would
hypothetically
element, by
an
sible pos-
influential
and
body,
of whom
most
whom
would called
call
themselves,
outside
be
by
the
world,
Spiritualists.
My
to set
own
view forth.
was
different, and
In
a
thought
it well
"
it
prolonged by
events
experience
time
so
the
length
as one
of which the
is not
properly
crowded
were as
by
rapidity
the them
with
so an
have
upon with
as
other,
;
day and
at
night
least
set
thick and
in
as
experience
of most found
long
arrive
diversified
that
of those abundant
who
at other
conclusions,
action
I have
evidence
for
the
of human of any
not
comparatively spirits. I
with
am
action
that I know
on
is spirit that
conterminous
on an
humanity, plane
to
and that
spiritexists
we
inferior
it
which
live.
us,
But
believe
impinges
very
rarely and
little of its
I
"
slightlyon
and
personally
human human
I know
operation.
that the
know
power
of the
will is
great
has
of the
trained
and
developed
will,that
The
Liberated
27
power,
birthright of
known in
the
potency
of
to
be
magnitude.
among
But
exercise
Will
as
Western of
very I
nations;
these
and,
phenomena,
it to
slightestvalue.
know,
powers
spiritof
had
the
a some
Psychic body,
are
has but
as Spiritualists,
slenderly acquainted.
have
derable consiaction
I in
acquaintance
of both spirit, had in my
reason
with
own
this person
to
trans-corporeal
and
the
with
others.
have
our
grave
state
form
opinion that,
an
present
of
ignorance,
;
it is
that
extremely rarely
dangerous
be
very
no
experiment
by
one,
too,
as
is very
successfully practised,inasmuch
natural
giftsmust
of will
I
supplemented
belief the
as
power
any
as an
of concentration Western
rarely attained
that
by
people.
have
this enters
into
cases
production
are
of these
to
Such marked
few and
attributable
well
readily distinguishable.
I
"
profess
action of
once
more
my
belief
that
these
subjects
the
our
the
spirits,the
human will
we
"
action
the
potency
of
are
deepest study.
least, of
penetrate
the far
No in
until
have
at
we
mysteries
our
that
beset
the
them,
shall
study of
view
phenomena
embrace of the
may
spiritual.
of afford
one-sided
no causes
will
Spiritualism,and
to
student which
subject
be
so
overlook
in-
28
fluential
as
spirit Identity,
in the
production
like to
of abnormal
phenomena
of the
these.
I,
at
least, should
in
my
own
know
more
powers
that I
inherent
may
of
the
results
be
produced by
time
development.
to
Therein,
mystery,
on
feel I
convinced,
no as
key
can
many
and self-
regard
But
be
spent
such
analysis
in
to
misplaced.
be
I should
; I
doing
be what
what
am
ready
and blind
to
blame
were
others
should
note
one-sided lies
I
me,
neglect
has the
to
immediately
most
before
what in the
been
infinitely the
prominent
I have
factor
r
spiritualphenomena
of the
that the
observed"
action For
spiritsof
departed.
reasons,
these,
among
wrote
and the
now
publish,
which
with
and
appendices,
paper
bears
title of
The
Intei.i,igbnt
Operator.
rewgious aspects
reason
of
the
me.
One
me
other
some
influenced
us
seemed time
to
that
of with lost
have
been and
long
of
past
so
occupied
we
the
husk
shell
Spiritualism
that
on
that
Now
have
sight
of the
inner
truth. the
a
it is to of
the
last
degree
important
be
no
phenomena
basis
Spiritualism
should and
an
placed pains
who
to
are
of scientific
to
demonstration,
on so
too
great
end
spend
desirable
object.
any
To
this
it is
especially desirable
power and should be
that
possess devote it
psychic
encouraged
of will to the
designedly
by exercise
elaboration
30
of who spirits
we can on
Spirit-Identity.
govern
these
a
manifestations
"
of which
"
all that
on
get is but
the
fragmentary employed
in other
view
to
act
us,
and
religious thought
used
soon
of the
are
age.
In
to
analogous
from the
transition
epochs.
very
Another external
some
is,that
as
we
escape
"
surroundings
however,
way
of
subject
not
an
escape
"
that
are
persons, in
some
some
yet
made
we
brought
or
into
relation
with
this
plan, or
A third certain the world
phase
who
of it. is
are an
is,that there
impulse
them
no
and
yearning
relation receive that
my
in
persons of
brought
enables has recorded
into
with and
which spirit,
to
to
assimilate should
what it.
others
beauty
elsewhere
truth
they
own
desire
I have
personal experience
new means.
the
is,that all
some
epochs
They
there have of
introduced
one
by
into
such
dovetailed of
the
other;
men
and
necessity pioneers,often
who
age,
have it
on
caught
to those
up
the
come
and -fire,
handed
who
them.
And,
lastly,
those
see
in
this
organised
the in inward other old
influence
of
spirit on
world's their the of
who I
can
have
trace
as
preparation
epochs
of the lost when brunt its its have
precisely what
history, when,
when
now,
truths
energy,
progressive thinkers,
in
always truth,
been
bear
are
the
obloquy
into
introducing
soil that
receiving
for
seeds
mental
has
prepared
germination.
Tendency of History.
He is but
a
31
blind
student
of who
the
history of the
not
see
development
of
religious truth
such
does
this.
conceptions of
as
essential the
truth,
human
through phases
those
which
Growth,
vigour, decay,
;
"
and
reconstruction And
these
are
the of
processes
truth
in respect of the
development
the
in
all
The and in
truth
course
that
has
wants
of
one
age,
of time
received have
glosses,explanations,
obscured
ginal its oriuse,
and
comments,
simplicity,impaired
and encumbered truth
meet
to daily adaptability
mass
of
to
longer
has
suffice the
age.
the
cravings
Man have which dealt
succeeding
forth
are
The
Pioneers
times of
a
have
new
changed. epoch
with
has
progressed.
charged.
old
as
shadowed
their
ideas, the
Destructive albeit
message
they
with in
criticism
unable
to
the
so
touch
them
far
tary fragmenplenty
of
statements
of eternal in man's
truth, has
and
found
weak
places
so
glosses
additions. new."
;
And
Fashion and
"the
old order
reigns
in the realm
a new
thought
the old
been
as
elsewhere
by degrees
a new
view
truth
is presented,
combination in
a more
has
effected, and
truth
is
presented
in
crave
perhaps
natures
fairer
proportions
those
whose
inner
This
process,
mighty
chain
Spirit-Identity.
from
eye
the is
over
Supreme
all His
Inspirer
works,
whom
and
through
He those
intermediary agencies, by
lower earth
worlds, and
are
again through
to
prepared
to
the and
truth, down
receives
the
recipient who
process in the
we
asks
spiritualfood
that in the of the midst
some
this
is
one
speciallyexemplified in
history, such
It is
as
world's
of which such
live.
as
only in the
the The
It
was
light
explanation
progress
can
this that
history of
story has
so
world's the
be
grasped.
epochs.
an
been the
same
at to
when
Christ
the of
came
age
of
midnight
we
darkness
any
strongest
Those and
out
gleam
of
light that
have
new
have
most
record
to
who welcome
as
should the
been
ready
office
receive
truth, whose
pointed them
by
virtue of
its natural
recipients, and
bound
to be its
who,
that forward
office, were
in
foster-fathers,were
Herald.
stifling
who
ever-
its voice
and
crucifyingits
should
otherwise.
Those in the
position
of
be
prominent
welcome
pressing work
human
reform, in whatever
last
to
department
what, almost
comes
of of
to
life, are
the
necessity, rises
them of the with
no
outside
of of
their
order, and
It
sanction
orthodoxy.
the voice it is them
is outside
the in
priestly caste,
succession,
beyond
the And within
pale
of
scribed prethe
that
crying
the
is first heard.
need, who
have
prepared heart,"
that catch
Signs of
new
the
Times.
it is assimilated and fitted
to
33
tq
truth dominant
as
is
popularised, when
tone
the
of
thought,
by what
man's
needs,
and bear
It
we
are
it
never
is at first, then
spreads,
harder
to
obloquy
"
is succeeded
^prosperity.
does
not
require
much
discernment
to
see
that
in the is
An
age
great epochs.
a new
epoch
to
is
beginning, in
and ashes
many
an
views
of truth
prevail,
their
a
expire.
that
we see
We
so
many
can
spare
few.
the The in
a
Those conflict
succeed who
are
us
will the
phases
of
in
thick
new
be
prolonged,
and the
a
for all
distress, and
is ushered of
scene
of it is
contest
over,
battling
will
opposing
to
When
world
awake
find
of
new
heritage.
of this
that
of the
earlier methods
presentation
of
truth, I believe, we
known
some as
find, in
tangled, bizarre
so
movement
Modern
so
Spiritualism ; ennobling
by
with
means
sive repulothers
;
in
so
of its aspects,
in
marred
man's
ignorance
and
pregnant
use
blessing if man
him
; so
sure
will but
the
of possibilities presented to
fail, as
many
another hardens
; or,
as
plan
for his
benefit
has
failed before, if he
only
too
underfoot.
me
in
doing
and
c
what
more
to
draw
attention
to
the
higher
34
Spirit Identity.
of
what
Spiritualism.
I feel
to
What the
I
jected pro-
hint the
of
be
outcome
of pass
or
subject,
if it have
free
course.
It will
probably
through
many
phases
before
it
finally succeeds
But,
leaven and of
meantime,
on
acting
of who
as
very
wholesome
the
whole
even
contemporary
are
thought,
unconscious
influencing
its power, and
those who
most
would
most
scornfully
resist in many
more
reject
claims, though
It is
; it is
they
cannot
its silent
unlikely
self-reliant,
to
directions
more
brave,
them
to
manly,
noblest which
by
teaching
dare
that
of their
none
may
right
of the
to think
for themselves.
The
spiritare
arctic
or
loosening
climes social those
not many
the
icy
barriers whether
that in it
hem
in
of
thought,
and
politics,
to
religion,
breath that in
life ;
making regions,
possible
to
hyperborean
always
a
and
hope
it is it
it may
on
"
be
night
soul
there.
And that
shedding
the
very
receptive
from
on
light
the is to form
is to
dayspring
of the
high,"
that
herald
come.
and
forerunner What do
or
brighter light
its
modifications
venture
to
external
may
take
not
predict.
is
at
Sufficient
in
our
that, for
midst
a
good
for
evil, there
work the
mighty
man
influence, which
it is if
part
of
the
wise
to
recognise and,
possible, to
control.
THE
"
INTELLIGENT
OPERATOR
AT
THE
OTHER
END
OF
THE
LINE."
38
The
Operator Intelligent
even
at
people's souls,
spirits do managed popularly
without
to not to
nor
go
so
far
as
to
"
assert
that
exist";
live
a
"having
what
for
some
without
is
say,
called
soul,"
I should
a
preferto
being
the
conscious soulless
of such
to
possession,he
is will
poses pro-
continue
to
the of
regard
imminent. and
allotted
age
man,
less
Then
I
I doubt
same
not
he
find and
his
soul,
live,
trust, the
he
now
vigorous
do
energetic
that
most
individual
that
my
is.^
Well, I, on
do
are
own
account,
presume,
as as
"
assert
spirits
of
us
exist."
And
further, that
to
our
pretty
we
comfortable
may
soul's condition.
existence,^
I
whatever
not to
be
a
to
their
shall
stay
our
to
debate existence I
question
as a
which
of
is futtdamental
very
body
Spiritualists.
without
are
Furthermore,
another That and
shall
on
re-state,
which
we
argument,
proposition
exists
a
agreed
called
"
viz.:
there
force
conveniently
not
as
Psychic,
called of
conveniently
the
Zoo-electricity,'
men
experiments
the
of
science, so
show
they
prove
anything respecting
worst
its nature,
that
is about electricity
"
Personally,
want
of soul
I within
and
an
ing feelspirit,
I.
no
of
self within
self,
or
an
If it be
to
question
non-ego,
of
or
words,
and
my
e^o,
subject,as
opposed
the
ditions con-
object,or
me others, be called a soul, then soul I have not For some a a soul, but years, proper. without to live I have what is popularly however, managed be hard called a soul ; and it would to find one violently thrust into the recusant Captain Burton body." beforethe B.N.A.S.
which
my differentiates
individuality, the
from
concourse
of
"
Captain
Burton
before
the
B.N.A.S.
of
in
the Line.
39
Still less
as
apply
to
the
force of
question.
force
conveniently Magnetism,^
another And
sense.
is the- action
a
this
described
in
word
already
appropriated
that
quite
dence evi-
yet
that
once
more,
I is
assume
we
have
this
force
governed
cases,
by
some
Intelligence
of which
at
"which, in
shall
many
demonstrable
not
quote, is
that
of
any
person
notice.
present
the
time, of the
experiment
NATURE OF
under
THE
THE
INTEI,I,IGENCE.
Of
what
nature
is the
to
Intelligence ?
I
This
to
is the
precise question
materials
a
which A
shall full of
answer
try
suggest
volve in-
for
an
answer.
would
complete
statement
the
various
to
which
have
commended
themselves
various
I that
should
need
to
give
that
reasons
for
putting
aside
strange
theory
of
the
to
force
the the
itself is
responsible
for all,instead
being
Intelligent Operator
electric
to
merely
enables
the
correlative
of
force, which
his
sage. mes-
the
telegraphic
to
clerk
transmit
I should to
have
discuss
the
and
devil
theory, and
of the
even
inquire
into
the
origin
character
fiend, Arch-
Elementals
and
to
and
elementaries
to
would
claim the
hearing,
extent
should
need
are
investigate
some
exact
which
they
1
responsible for
Burton before
of the
vagaries
Captain
the
B.N.A.S.
40
which
us
The
the
Intelligent Operator
does
at
IntelligentOperator
be forced which
to
undoubtedly
plex per-
I should
that
bewildering
and
field
of
how
investigation
far the
home,
inquire
consciously un-
liberated
to
of spirit
can
the
Psychic, acting
himself,
moments
communicate he is
knowledge'
scious uncon-
which
in of
normal
profoundly
possessing.
cannot
mere
All
do
now.
treat
psychic
shall
the devil
instrument
all
ignore
the
and
his
works the
being.
action
I shall
leave
question
this
of the
of sub-human
are
of the action
on
of those I
spiritsthat
shall
rower
earth, and
to
me.
pin myself
issue that
this
occasion
the
nar-^
immediately
lies before
WHAT
IS
THE
INTELLIGENCE?
at
It
is obvious
as
to
note to
so
few
exceptions
to
only
The
illustrate
rule, it claims
be
human.
to
according
world
with
an
his
story,
of has
that
great
family, whereof
of
the
the
majority
they
"
passed
same
spirit,whence
same
still the
same
interests, and
the
affections, with
existence
are
"
unbroken
continuity
with
us,
of
communicate
the
minority,
passing
have
through
done house
the
once
phase
of
incarnation
they
the
with,
they have
emerged
prison-
of the
body.
the
What
other End
is there
as
of
for
the Line.
to
41.
ground
statement
declining
Several
doubt
accept' this,
general
cumstances
cases.
true?
to
suspicious cir-j
upon
combine
throw
particular
ASSUMPTION
OP
GRBAT
NAMES.
The
free
men
use
made is
one
of
names
great
and
honoured
amongst
when
are we
of the most
suspicious ; especially
the
case,
find, as
the
is too
frequently
for
that
they
bastic bom-
made
sponsors
pretentious
twaddle
nonsense,
;
platitude, or
"when the
claims
egregious
put
forward Such
still down
more on
so
break baseless
the
simplest
breed
a
examination.
assumptions
to
spirit of suspicion
and
which
is
apt
generalise imposture.
must, ever, how-
from
This
single instances,
is to
allege universal
extreme.
rush
any
to
another
It this
strike of illiterate
rational
observer
and
that
prevalence highest
present
which is
Shaksperes
names
twaddling Swedenborgs,,
world holds in the their
of scientific
that
the
to
esteem,
who
return
only
demonstrate that
ignorance
they
strong
once
of the
first
principles of
and
science
on
illuminated
adorned
earth,
presumptive
is not, in
evidence
all cases,
that
the
the
Intelligent
he
Operator
to
person
pretends
it to the
to
attribute
this
on
? the
Is
absence
scientific
to
knowledge
fact
that his that
part of the
is
Psychic,
measure
the
ignorance
can
the
the ?
knowledge
That,
at
be
conveyed
always
the
through
any
rate, is not
42
cas^.' the
Is
The
it
to
mysterious conditions
to
resume
that with
matter
are
beset
our;
spiritwho
cause
relations
error
worid, and
his world in
unintentional ? with Or
us,
in the there
of
communications
of
as spirit
is it that those
to
in the'
to
who
delight
strut
borrowed
plumes,
great and
and
pass themselves
but
sorry
something
all ?
access
good, being
as we
after
Can
to
being, spirits,
sources
know,
able
obtain
of human such
information,' get up
of them
as some
their
can
facts
and
give
:
travesty
not
they
show
any
remember
reason,
on
reckoning,
the
or or
without will
to
of
credulity
on so
which
accept
story,
their power
to
psychologise
and
vestigat in-
mix
up him
fancy, frauds,
?
must
to
bewilder These
are us.
and
some
perplex
ideas whatever baseless ridicule
that
cause
have it may of be
occurred
to
many
of
To
attributed,
names
the goes
manifestly
far
to cast
assumption
and in certain
great
the
suspicion on
cases.
claims'
of the
Intelligent Operator
ABSENCE
OF
PRECISION
IN
STATEMENT.
Another that is
cause
of found
doubt in
is the
extreme any
difficulty precisely
to
usually
getting
are
facts
given, especially
the
facts the
that
certainly external
There where is
a
knowledge
about
remarkable
of
sitters. messages,
general
is
"
haziness
1
the
there
in the
not
See
narrative
by
Mr.
Barkas
logical Psycho-
Review,"
2
October, 1878.
I.
See
Appendix
the other
End
of
the Line,
made
43
;
positive
extremely
error
in
the
to
statements
and
it is
diificult
get anything
unless
like be
definite insisted
was
and
on
this
preliminary
I
to
a
further
colloquy.
to
This
to
my any
plan.
converse
used with
for
a
long
facts
time
refuse
I
hold
not
or
spirit from
that
whom
I
could
first that
obtain
carried had
some
on
plain
their
could of
verify,
surface
evidence
probability. I
messages I
came
perplexed
and the doubt
myself
by reading hazy
of
all
in
the works
to
journals
in
to
Spiritualism,until
communicating
what I
identity of
spirits.
but
I found I
great trouble
getting
wanted,
persistently stuck
of will,
my
point until, by
to
determined
to
exercise with
by refusing
declined of
my
have
anything
and, above
enlist
and
do
spiritsthat
the
method,
able
to
all,
operation co-
by
good
of
fortune
a
being
whose
the power
spiritin
alone
integrity
which did in
had
the
perfect
confidence
can
repeated
the
long experience
my
give, I
get
proof. Having
got
I
my
was
facts, I found
able I do
not to
them
accurate
in
were
all
at
cases
when
rate
verify them.
They
this
any
true.
as
pretend
that
fact
proves
anything
who
to
the
pretensions
beyond
reason
of the
particular spirit
a
gives them,
of and
the
establishing
to
favourable what
I
presumption.
know up that
retailed
I have
believe, from
facts this
I
spiritaction,
to
me.
that
all such
might
have
be got
to
Against
were so
say
to
facts in
question
were us.
assuredly unknown
got
up,
we
myself:
curious
and, if they
have
very
no
point
before
They
bore, however,
44
appearance
no
The
of
Intelligent Operator
I have
at that argu-*
deceit, and
course
systematic
of
imposture,
have
this
ment
would
permitted by
more
on
the
This
convey
born than I
of
can
experience, I
impart
tried
outcome But
can
no
others
an
the
reliance
I
the
integrityof
up for intimate in
my
old
and
the
friend of
a
which
year
very
have
year
built of
myself by
association.
after
it is
so
powerful
There has
return
no
factor
cases
are
argument.
of those of
"
And within
my
it is in numberless
knowledge.
"
private
in which before
circles
the
world
notion those
many
evidence is
of the
of
have
gone
through
those who of its true the The
years
are
of intimate
association,
who alone
are
the
minds
of
best,
nay,
fitted to of
judge
that
value.
It is this
reiteration
so
proof
furnishes
which
carries
very
conviction. of its
circle, from
the
nature
constitution,
an
hardly
ever
give it,and
then
only in
inferior
degree.
CONTRADICTORY
MESSAGES.
Another
cause
which
has
strengthened
with of
the
inherent
most
feeling of
of
us
antecedent
improbability
mass
which in
start, is the
and the
contradictions
the
very
likely un-
messages,
general
them. with whom
air of It
seems our
unreality that
unreal
converse
frequently pervades
that
a
and
was
friend
that
46
there
occur
The
Intelligent Operator
cases
at
repeated
reasons
in
which the
there
are
the what
Strongest
it
no
for be
"
that believing
many
is spirit
there
pretends
room
to
very
in which
cases,
remains
are
doubt.
Such
repeat,
too into
sacred
publicity. They
even
do
no
not
find
their way
print ;
such
can a as
would
to
with
antagonistic critic,
comes
give
him
conviction
or
that
from
to
scenes
'many
long"
the
little turn
or
of
expression,
from
reference
more
past,
possibly
find
nothing
hard
to
tangible
our
than
intuitive
we our
friend, thoiigh
some,
even
should
own
prove it to
it
as
in
own
days,
have
found
prove
their
identity.
Under such
our
conditions, where
side
as
prevailson
taken and the
care
well
as
on
we
have
to
present ourselves
for the "hour's
pure
in heart
in head" gone
we
communion"
with'
before, the
There
spiritualatmosphere,: is
is
an
pure,
feel it.
air of moral
con-'
is
not
done,
the
and
predisposes
of
an
us
to
believe
that of
we
victims
organised System
a
cruel'
years,
imposture, prolonged
and with that and
over
period
the
of
many
as
triflingwith
the could
even
the
most
sacred
subjects
heart.
an
well
as
tenderest
so
feelings of
The
spirit
act, and
yet maintain
must
air of
sincerity
the have
very ho
sublimity in tone,
into
;
an
surely be
of
devil transformed
such
as
angel
which
light.
sheet
fear
as
that
and
come
it is under
circumstances
are
^uch'
these
that
proofs
"andhdrs"' to
the hold
other
End
of
of
the
Line.
that is
47
on
by
in
the
midst
much
shifty and
conditions, too,
and
are
given
the
proloagei
existence
series
iA
an
proofs of
once
the
continued
to
us
individuality
forms of is
a
familiar
in the
body,
which
cumulative
argument
of great cogency
in favour There of he
but
notes
in his
intimates
traits
and for
points
as
of
evidence the
:
identity after
which he
long
would
so on
absence.
Such
are
notes
by
would
recognise
be
to
his friend
unnoticed
It
by others, they
is these
little
so
him
proof positive.
to
notes,
to
convincing
paper, that
so come
those
who
to
find
them,
and
hard
put
impossible
in
the
analyse
of
dissect
in
public,
doubt
privacy again
the domestic
a
circle, repeated
until
again simply
dies
and
in many
form,
of inanition.^
VAI,UE
OF
CORROBORATIVE
TESTIMONY.
,
When,
derived
moreover,
in addition
one
to
reiterated similar
is
evidence
through
varied
an
channel,
evidence,
obtained of the is
slightly through
testimony
so
by
varied
conditions, channel,
the
independent
is much be
weight
increased.
as
When,
further, this
on
far
multiplied
intercourse the
human
to
produced
with
the
all occasions
when when
is
sought
world
of
spirit;
instrument's record
fallibilityis corrected
of
II.
"by
the
unimaginative
'
the
photographic
Appendix
48
camera,
a
The
chain of
Intelligent Operator at
of evidence the is
completed
which
onlyto
the
novelty
ignore.
Such
a a
case
was
by
Mrs.
on
Fitzgerald' in
November
paper
read there
before
are
B.N.A.S.
18,
imitate
1878, and
her
who,
if they would
disinterested from
example,
the
could of
give
their
corroborative
own
testimony
lives.
experience
is
private
to
Evidence
such
as
lish estabvarious
over a
spirit-identity ; evidence
channels, by various methods,
;
extending
too,
be it the for
long period
that
reason
of
is
time
evidence,
bered, remem-
usually fragmentary,
who their
obvious renewed
are are
that
those with
enjoy
the
blessing of
friends
nor our
intercourse persons
departed
not
usually of trained
in
legal minds,
a case
they
of
employed
law would of
:
getting
such in
as
up is
for
courts
evidence establish
produced
a
by these
methods
strong
presumption
were spirit-identity,
for the
inherent
which
as
to to
which
I have
alluded
as
(and
much
theological errors
and for the which defile
of belief
to
any
cases
cause),
fraud truth.
perpetually
and
recurrent
on
of
bring contempt
to
great
Admitting, however,
considerations, and
classes of mind will
the
full the
as
a
weight of
do, that
these
knowing, give
them
certain
Nov. Spiritualist,
1878.
of the
value,
I
Line.
49
entire fact. within which
my
portionate to
about
to
their
real
claim, with
a
confidence, that
am
is spirit-identity
some
proven
are
state
few
I shall
cases
that
to
own
knowledge,
In
and
refer
others
have
already published.
this part of my
not
work
and
must
claim
at
indulgence
in every
of
if I do
case.
give pledge
names
facts the
I
length
myself
I
to
exact
accuracy
every any
statement
make,
and
will
any
gladly satisfy
case,
if I the
can
reasonably do
of
names
But
am
holden in the
from
some
cation publiby
the
and
addresses
of
cases are
knowledge
have
memory
that
friends
I must
departed
their
still
I
surviving, and
no
that
to
respect
the in sacred
feelings.
right
of their
invade
even
privacy
a cause
of the
as
dead,
such
that
of
the
demonstration
of
what
is loosely called
mortality. Im-
PERSONAI,
EXPERIENCES.
It is
now on or
four
this
to
years
since that
my
mind
was
so
greatly satisfy
course interand of
on
vexed
question
abandon
the I
determined
to
at
myself,
any
further of
had
attempt
as
with
world
had
not
spirit
enable I
vague evidence
to
unsatisfying.
it firm
has
mass
sufficient
me
personal identity
a
of
spirits to
No
build
argument.
since of
my
doubt
had
my
had
some,
which the
had
its due
weight
in had
mind, but
been of
an
communications with
impersonal
character,
spirits who
preferred
to
50
rest
The
their claims of
Intelligent Operator at
to
my
attention
on
the
matter
on
and
the
tendency
their
any
messages, however
rather
than that
authority of
name,
great
out
authority sphere
to
might
the
be.
They
had chafed
passed
at
of the recalled
of
individuality, and
on
being
it.
I,
contrary,
that
pined
would
my
for
something
me
definite, some
I
was was
evidence
with the
satisfy
kind.
not
that
dealing
"
of spirits
me.
The attain in
as
Angelic
to
too
high for
For wanted I should
a
I could
long
;
time
I failed
getting
most
and have
if I had abandoned of
mind
to
done
investigators do
gust. disI
was
the
was some
quest in despair or
too
My forced,
state
positive;
and
moreover,
take
what
desired.
by bit, here
I do
not
little
detail here,
to
ceive re-
evidence
as
my
were
mind
opened
in
six
spent
me
persistent
of the of petuated pertheir ot
bring
to
proof give
of
of
human with
me
spirits, and
and the
communicate
evidence unbroken
unimpaired individuality,and
of those life
on
who
so
came was
I had
known
during
to
earth, and
but also
able,
to note
or
not
only
verify
of
of
statements,
the
little traits
of diction, peculiarities
that
were
mind,
Most
I remembered
in them
to me,
body.'
in
unknown
to
and
came,
always
obedience
the
arranged
Appendix
II.
of the
Line.
and
51
go
everything,
.when
some me
to
give
the
their
evidence,
was
their Of and
way
the
came
task from
assigned them
most
no
done. sources,
to
these gave
unlikely
and
my
friends
little trouble
verify their
statements.
Some would
came
at
the
time
of death. it easy
it
can
At
to
that
time, it
its
seem,
the
spirit finds
facts that
Some
came
manifest
are
presence,
and
the
give
been in
scenes
a
readily
capable
as men
of verification.
count
had back
old
long dead,
dazed of and
time, and
to
awkward
revisit,the
a"
earth,
on
cramped
again
But
straitened,
conditions.
it were,
by taking
the
wherever
they
one
came
from,
and
however
them
an were
they
air of selves themof the
communicated,
sincerity and
and
all bore
as
with
earnestness,
with hand.
truth
of those
who
impressed
work
the
deep significance
all, without themselves, Many
of
statements
a
they
had
in the
And about
lonely
far
were
exception,
we
told
so
as
could
verify their
nature
were
story.
from
their
not
capable
minutely
at
proof;
;
vastly
none
greater number
accurate
and
suggested
any
attempt
invisible with
a
deception.
in that
my
mined cross-exa-
these
way,
witnesses
every
able conceiv-
and
to
pertinacity
Many
of
I asked
left
nothing
were
untried
elicit facts.
for I
;
am
queries
able unreason-
unanswered,
by the
most
afraid
I
many their
questions
mistakes. I refer for
but
failed, to
shake
story,
them
or
cunning
evidence
suggestiofalsi to lead
into
of
this
to
my
records,
kept
52
The
all this
Operator at Intelligent
scrupulous regularityday
to
during
period with
in detail
even
by day, minute
and
recording temperature
and
atmospheric
records these
conditions,
another
checked
by Any
independent
circle in which gaps in my
my
kept by
facts
were
member
of the
communicated.
as
own as
narrative, such
I
would in up,
a
be
state
caused of
my
conscious unown
by
being,
frequently
are
was,
trance,
record is checked
to to at
thus
filled
and
by independent observation.
these
Referring
Year's
was
records, I find
ii,
that
from
New time
I
Eve
January
1874, during
Isle of
staying Speer,
our we
Shanklin,
had
a
Wight,
chain
on
guest of
Dr.
at
continuous
testimony
question given
the
of in
the
identity of spirit.
ways, of
evidence raps
various
many
principally through
raps
table,
tact con-
these hands
produced
person
entirely without
present.
on
of the
were
of any direct
Some
facts
given by
; some
writing
previously-marked
; some
a
paper
by
or
automatic clairaudience.
was
writing
In
through
cases roborative cor-
clairvoyance,
few
evidence
sources.
drawn
from
all
these
During
identity
of them and
name,
those
were were
twelve
made
days eleven
out
different
and
cases
of
by
facts
dates. with
any
Three of
us
entirely unconnected
of them
none
of
one or
of
us
had his
name
ever
heard
name,
the his
any
particular.
and
Yet
very
full
place
dates with
of
residence,
birth
the
of his house,
were
of his
and
day
One
of his
was
death,
connected
given
with Dr.
perfectaccuracy.
54
prove
The
Intelligent Operator at
this
identity in
statements,
assent
particularcase.
and
Like
general
it is incorrect
to
inexact.
spirits will
of moral And
a
apparently
the consciousness deal
with
desire
to
please,
say, say
or
scious uncon-
import
in of harm
of what
they
or
without
themselves, will
anything.
the
is done
by quoting
invalidate
once
foolish
utterances
to
of such
in
response
leading
to
a
questions,
may
the
replies
we
them. of
for
all, that
at
point
very
not
all,
out
in
that
many
of
identity were
our
made
by
any
the
way.
invisible
witness
without
intervention
This
I
at spirit,
any
rate, refused
rose
to
assent
to
what
vinced con-
suggested.
that I
certainly
had the been
from
to
the
a
table person
talking
that
desired careful
to to
tell be
truth, and
in
statement.
that
I
was
extremely
all the
exact
verified
facts, and
found this
them
same
exactly given.
During
Mrs.
period
gave
came
three
relatives
of
Speer's, and
of them had
full evidence
of their in and
identity.
way
One
at
a
before manifested
his face
another
a
public circle,showing
hand,
which
was
peculiarly
of him in himself
delicate earth-life.
at
characteristic
Another
had
attempted
had failed
to
to
show
the
same
tinje, but
that
obtain animates
seems
on
tion. recognimany
to
With
strong
desire
which that
grow
failure, and
he
to
me;
spur to,
them
a
to
renewed,
at
attempts,
followed
circle
held
the:
the other
house
20,
none
E.nd
55
December
of
Mrs. and
Makdougall
manifested
own
1872,
of
one
his
there, though
the
his knew
friends
or
were
guests.
brief
No
him,
that
away
took
was
a
any
of his
announcement,
who had
at
he
brother
years.
out merest
of Mrs.
I
was
Speer's
scious uncon-
passed
the
thirteen found
time, and
the
fact
of
his
I of
having
was
communicated
over
by
the
accident. of this
on
turning
and
the
manuscript
long accidentallly
that
to
book after
fell
records
Mrs.
Gregory's
my
.
seances, eye
particular
the
name
day,
George
as one
I read
very
he
had
announced
name,
desirous
as a
give
of
his
recognition
tried before
as failing,
relative
her
Mrs.
Speer's,
This availed home
to
attract
attention.
he
attempt
of
the
first had
done,
himself
the
organised
was
plan
for
bringing
out at
this evidence
and
went
which
being
his
we
carried
Shanklin, done,
more.
there
his gone
established
way,
to
identity.
seen
This
no
he He
and
have
to
him
a
had
to
America
look
after
years
brother
ago, and
who
was
went
never
York
twenty-eight
heard
of.
31,
an
In is
the
Spiritualist of August
to
1877,' reference
lady who
as
made
the
of
old
had
just
had
freed
body,
and
who,
she
said,
to
and
loving sympathy,
in the she
raise
long prisoned
state
sphere
had
of
earth,
higher
for
which
fitted
'
Appendix
II.
56
herself.
accompany That
same
The
When
Intelligent Operator at
she
departed
the
two
were
he
was
permitted
during
of
as came
to
her, and
husband
reunited. this
manifested of eleven
his presence
period
days.
which
Each
or
spirit selects,
form
apparently, a special
which
never
rap, knock,
and
signal,
much with
times some-
varies,
as
possesses
He
individuality
the
the
human
voice.
strangest
like
a
and
most
uncomfortable in the
sound,
whizzing
on
air, sometimes
like
harsh of
grating
the
table, each
that
equally suggestive
surrounded the when
unrest.
The
atmosphere
I
was
and spirit, he of
He
of which his
painfully con-scious
was
manifested
presence,
similarly indicative
for prayer. had been bound his
unhappiness,
had
;
and
he
earnestly asked
man :
been he
grasping
lived the words
that and
on
gold
his
the
god
been. cold
and
had
to
no
to
find
where
himself
by
had of the
golden
fetters
I have
earth
to
treasure
describe presence
sensation
nor
discomfort
his
brought,
was
air of gruesome
to
us
grim
told
misery that
him.
conveyed
His
by what
in
was
respecting
WoE. The in That
one
spiritwho
word
was
us
us
this
asked
to
an
to
put
what
brought
once,
him
this state.
word
given
all most what his
with
intensity that
Yet he
impressed
had
not
powerfully :
world On been his when the
calls
an
Greed.
been
the
nor evil-liver,
neglectful of
mechanical in their he
on
contrary,
in his and
hard
way,
punctual
exact
discharge.
awaited earth the had
of
the Line.
and
57
infuse
and
some
companion,
should
rejoin him,
into who
spiritual life
existence.
and
vigour
none
cheerless
I think
the
painful
any
reality of
doubt
as
his
to
manifestation
entertain
his
identity.
of
never
quite
words of the
understood
the
meaning
those
men
addressed
by
to
highly respectable
were
doubt,
punctual
and harlots before
and
exact
in
"The
publicans
of heaven
shall
go
into
dom king-
you."
INFLUENCE
OF
ASSOCIATION,
LOCALITY.
FSPECIAI,r,Y
OP
This and
I
spirit had
had him
not
after
was
Dr.
some
Speer
link
visited
and
There
between
I do
last
how
resting-place
or
of his
I have
body.
come,
understand
why,
but
as a
after
cannot
to
accept
an
fact what
for, that
with
even
earth-bound
the
spirit
home,
is frequently associated
the of
locality,with
grave. if The
place
of death,
or
the
presence the
one
they
possess
mysterious
who
o r
be
an
accompanied
earth-bound
to
by
spirit, sphere
death in the his
recall
was
one case
who
is not
the
tied
man
this lower
met
This
the
crushed
with with
a
who
by being
steam-roller, recorded
of Spiritualist This
was
March
case
1
27, when
1874.^
Dr.
the
Speer
III
and
I, then
on
Appendix
58
an
The
excursion
Operator at Intelligent
Korth
at
in the
of
Irtland, visited
There which
I
an
old in
disused it
some
burying-ground
curious We Runic remained shocked about such
an
Garrison. of
were
crosses,
a
sketches.
were we
time,
bones The in
my
greatly
found visit which
at
the
lying
was
in
all directions.
uncanny
of that
noise
Dr.
was
separated
the visit
as
from he
Speer's only by
a
thin
partition, that
of the much that
I
was
I know
to
entertains
lively
He
that
graveyard.
of
sounds
utterly destructive
to
sleep,
my
aggravated
occurred
find, on
coming
into
it all.
Another which
case
days
the the In
testified the
a
again
I had
to
connection its
spirit and
course
resting-place of
visited it.
a
body.
of had
walk
beautiful
In
an
churchyard,
and
a
wandered
through
body
the
evening
friend much of
came
lay there,
old
Mrs.
Speer's,
communicated
apparent
of her written mind message the I
joy, and
the
particulars (as
was
complete
record
my
identity, though
on
find
from
spot)
some
carefully occupying
of
by
reciting
was
passages
and
Virgil
the
while
on
the
being given,
came
though
table
which
us.
raps
may
was
absolutely
is
a
untouched that
I
by
This,
of my which
here
say,
to
precaution
4;he
habitually took
element
in order
own
eliminate action.
to
me
disturbing
automatic
mental
The
the
many
writing,
of while
has has
brought
been, in
greatest
cases,
weight
executed
evidence,
I
was
very
the other
End
of
the Line.
sometimes of
59
a
occupied
abstruse The
that
in
reading
book,
very
character. last
case
I will notice
during
no one
this
period
was
even
of
person
of
whom
was
one
present had
The
spirit
lately
of
departed.
by
whose
He the
brought,
controlled
for
purposes the
evidence,
who spirit
circle,and
organised
that should
plan
break
for
presenting
my
once
down
unbelief
gave
imperfectly
dates
as
recounting.
his
He
went
minute
way.
facts We had
and
some
to
life, and
his
facts, but
from
doing
relative. has
so
by
letter
his
nearest
surviving
This
other
case
been
paralleled
each
in
at
least I
am
twelve certain
to my
instances, respecting
information
was as
of which
was
that
own
given
am
that
to
foreign
of any
mind,
or,
assured,
that
person
present.
The
case
of Abraham
March
as
of Spiritualist this
1875,
may
be
mentioned
in
connection,
in the
also
that
of Charlotte
Buckworth,^
21,
published
Spiritualistof January
1876.
SPIRITS
WHO
HAVE
COMMUNICATED
PERIOD.
FOR
LONG
I pass
to
case
in which
on
spirit,who
4,
her
in
presence
September
communication
1872,
with
has
us
mained reever
permanent
1
Appendix
III.
Ibid.
6o
since. of
I
The
Intelligent Operator at
this
case
note
because
to
we
have
us
the
tage advanan
prolonged
as
intercourse
aid
in
forming
opinion
only
to
identity,and
has
because
spirithas
not
given unequivocal
This that is
proof
of
characteristic
presence
case,
individuality, but
various
ways.
to
evidenced
a
in
as
remarkable
too,
tending
and human
life, once
given,
has
once
is indestructible, animated
a
spiritwhich
brief
body, however
its tenure,
lives
on
with
unimpaired
The
identity.^
announced herself said
away
never
spirit in question
a
by raps,
was
a
giving
message
in
She
she
at
sister of Dr.
an
Speer's, and
seven
passed
I had
Tours, her
infant
of
heard her
mentioned,
for she had company,
had
no
and
forgotten
his
as
lived
died
before
a
birth.
always described
I had wondered
child
at
or
being
and
trace
of any
such
the
explanation.
she
has
From
of her
to
first appearance
remained
attached
the
family, and
in its
her
nature,
It
as
never we
never-failing
we
evidence
of her
once
presence.
as
varies, and
should know
all know
tone
it at
a
surely
She
names
the
of
voice. four he
gave
in full.
to
her
to
brother, and
another and member
were
it
only
by
Names
reference and
family.
See
some
dates
facts
strikingevidence
on
this
point
in Heaven
Opened
by
F.
J. T.
62
the house
was
The
of Mr.
Operator at Intelligent
sation conver-
of
the
"kind
that
summarising.
others, the
was
I
case
-various
three
cases,
and
among
children.
Mrs.
Watts
much in outline
struck
to
the
recital,which
corresponded
which Mr. she and
very
"distressinghistory
the with
a
had
just
Watts from which
heard. had
On dined heard
Monday
an
previous
Mrs.
and
old
friend, Mrs.
Leaf,
distressing story
relative of
one
of bereavement of Mrs.
befallen
A
the
lycaf's acquaintances.
gentleman
residing
had, within
and
three
children.
I,eaf entered
did
not
fully into
either
In
melancholy
or
details, but
of the sad
mention
the
place
"occurrence.
reciting the
with
incident
me,
of three
gave
young
names me
communicating place,
as
the
to to
thej' had
Mrs. Watts
been
furnished
in
messages. Mrs.
undertook of the
very
I^eaf the
She
were
particulars
so on
case
mentioned. the
names
did the
the
next
day, and
same.
Through acquaintance
with
to
me
the
kindness
of
Mrs.
was
Watts
much
made
the
of Mrs.
Leaf, and
impressed
detail
the
perfect correspondence
the
a
of every
given
day
with
is
not
facts
as
It
on
little remarkable
the
Mrs.
very
which
this communication
a
made,
Watts,
who
possesses
very
beautiful
some
gift
been
of in
automatic
"drawing, which
was
had
to
for
time
abeyance,
impelled
draw
three
cherubs'
heads, which,
the other
she in afterwards
End
of
the Line.
63
were
was
informed, spiritually
to
drawn
typical allusion
of the attraction
were
event.
Other
details,
and
of
symbolic
the
ones,
country
it occurred,
her
a
of the
mother's The
to spirit
three
very
added.
of
drawing
various of
forms
illustration
to spirit at
the
methods mind.
to
me
employed
Mrs.
"
by
"
reach
various
types
Watts
that
had
always by
The inner
been
language
artistic
to
of
symbolism,
poetic simile,
Voice consciousness of exact
and
by
representation.
and
to
appealed
rather
to
Spirit
outer
the
than
the
sense
and
to methods
demonstration.
so
I,
I
was
own
on a
the
contrary,
had
not
progressed
for truth
far. after my
on
material
and
came
plane, craving
hard
her
came
ing seekhard
fashion,
So
to
more. me
logical
symbolic poetry
one.
demonstration.
and
facts,
the
clearly given,
nothing
the
To
indication,
the
incident.
artistic The
source,
delineation,
the
was
of
It
was
however,
to
us
Spirit manifesting
needs.
Truth
according
to
our
several
OTHER
EVIDENCES
OF
IDENTITY.
different times
:
kind
of
evidence
has
come
to
me
several
recalling
conceivable
or
minute
cidents in-
possibility,
recollection,
a
have
an
been
within
my
knowledge
occurred automatic
append
was
instance.
It
at
time
when and
I
came
much
to
me
occupied
apropos
with of
writing,
The
nothing,
spirit was
64
The
Intelligent Operator at
and seized the
present, I presume,
opportunity
I
ot
approaching
On
to
a a
her
friend.
certain
evening
on
[April
had
to
8,
1874]
was
about
put
question
hand
over new
what
just
or
been
written,
to
move
case
when
the
began
the
draw,
as
rather
aimlessly
when
a
paper,
is
frequently
by
nature
the
a
spirit comes.
of
a
Piece
piece
was
long
communication
out. It must
very
personal
very
written
necessarily lose
I
much
I
of its force
am
from
the
is all that
a
able
to
print now.
and of the the
staying
also
at
house
in
the
to
country,
the
communicating
house,
me as
was spirit
known
or
lady
had
and
a
to
me
rather
years
she ago.
known
boy, twenty-nine
and then
She
her
not.
inquired if
said
I
answer
I remembered
a
did
she
was
was
cousin
ot
lady
on
of
the
where
In
staying.
to
She
my
questions,
I she
said
had
been The
maiden
dimly
used
remembered,
to
and
recalled
place
where
live. time
This
and
produced
place
name
record
"
of her
of birth
description of the
"
and
the
of
occupier particulars
life,and
followed
and
very
place
exact
of death, with
statement
age.
of
I
very
episode
to
were
in
my
boyhood,
In the
when
course
had
gone minute
visit
her
house.
of
this,
facts
incidents which
to
recalled, and
microscopic
which
given
hard
I knew
any
it is very up.
imagine
personating spiritgetting
of the
Line.
sources,
65
what she
subsequently verified,from
found
every
two
said, and
I
she
a
had
any
object in given
cast
"
coming
"
Yes of my
; she
wished
message
I lost much
opportunity for
of progress
progress This
come.
through
me
the back.
my
My
course
is yet to from
I find I
,
present life
same.
near
not
very
different I could
yours.
am
nearly the
I cannot I asked
more
I wish
influence
but
get
her." other
for be
any
evidence,
and
as
said
no
could
"
given. Then,
Ask
'no
were
just
D
going
door." trapand
state.
away,
Stay !
I
about what
the
mean,
had
idea
this
might
inquired
"
if she
as
comfortable be She
in
in her state."
I
was
present
I asked
As
happy
found
her
me
may out.
this
how
she
near
came,
told, hovering
she her. could The
municate. com-
friend, and
I
discovered
if I
that
asked
was
could
help
that
usual
subsequently
about minute
seem
ascertained
I
was
trap-door
another
years
incident of those
ago,
which details
to
me
told to
of
to
which of
about
the
best
evidence
to
identity. The
have been
incident
to any
alluded
could
hardly
The about
except the
when whom with
I
actors
in it.
incident, I
old. the
a
say, occurred
I
was
was
The
person
to
referred
only after
of
case
extremely
given
66
in detail
The
Operator at Intelligent
the
means
through
this
of raps, and be
corroborated I close.
by automatic
About
writing, must
same
given
before been
time
one
of which
our
I have
ing, speakof
the whole
to
a
of
was
of
seances,
extending nearly
minute able
to
two
hours,
taken
up
by the communication
dates, and
particulars,
reply
of his
to
from
most
who spirit
was
apparently
The
the
searching
to
were
questions.
his
day
birth,
of
particularsas
his
a
early life
given
my
request.
as
perfect autobiography, so
and
far
some
salient trivial
concerned,
embracing
fell into All
particulars,
in the
most
which,
natural the
however,
way.
their
were
place
questions
answered
without and
at
with
perfect clearness
taken down verifjcation
precision.
time, and
particularswere
in and
case
thfe is
exact possible,
Even
it is
so
more
if this
stood for
me
alone
to
in
my
experience,
that the what
was
difficult
imagine
was
laboriously and
the
precisely given
fraud of
a
product
the
as
of imposture,
vagary of
an
or deceiving spirit,
errant
brain, than
to
believe,
was
I the
the
[himself,with
undestroyed
memory
and
we
by
change
on
which
same
Resting,
facts that not,
as
it does,
the
basis
many
I have
detailed, and
one more
with
it presents
link
in the
chain
addition
to
the
long
series
of facts
thus
com-
of the
Line.
stands in
67
a
by
I used
means
of raps, time
there
book
a
at
this
for
automatic
me,
writing
in
a
letter written
automatically by
in
a
peculiar
quaint old-fashioned
of the
in
and
piece of old-fashioned
name
Spelling. question,
life on
signed
was a
spirit in
in his
on
man
of mark obtained
the
a
days of his
letter
earth.
an
have old
since
handwriting,
account
yellow
document,
The
preserved
in
of the is
a
autograph.
of
handwriting
my
book and
as
fair imitation
is exact,
the
piece
in
as
of old-fashioned
my
a
spelling occurs
it
was
exactly
posely pur-
it does done
book.
This,
said, was
point
of evidence.
POSSIBI,E
MISCONCEPTION
GUARDED
AGAINST.
refrain
from
my
adducing
records
further contain
evidence
a
of this number
nature,
of other detail.
ceases
though
cases
great
similar is
a
in kind, and
equally precise in
such
I
There
to to
point beyond
and
which that
evidence
seem
be have been
cumulative,
reached. concerned with
I have
point
what
to
myself
I have
to
solely with
an
I consider
be facts connected
elementary
principle of
foundation
and
spiritcommunion.
of
proof that
certain and
to
man
survives
physical death,
to demonstrate
is able,
under
conditions,
show the
permanence
of his
old
I
associations
must
of his earth-life.
against
possible
68
The
Operator Intelligent
There
are
misconception.
full well, who
many
as spirits,
have
passed beyond
lost the power their
this of
have,
apparently,
of this
portion of
have the in
existence.
Earth
gaze, has
of earth
lost them.
faded
vaster
from
been
to
prospect
opened
and
Grander
us
some
interests
warn,
absorb
them,
when
us
:
they revisit
to
it is to
instruct, or
of that
guide
work in the
discharge
been and spirit, work
portion
them.
are
great
which
world
has of
assigned
many
There
engaged
for its
;
great
missionary
which
has
object
to
progressiveenliglitenmentof humanity
of
higher
;
views
of truth
as
man
grows
them nobler
the and
development
purer learned
no
among
mankind
of
conceptions
in the evidence
;
of the
Supreme
they have
From with such is
progressive
as
such
I
too
am
concerned their
own
procurable
to
but
they
bring
the
atmosphere
and with in the
purity and
vaster
accompanies them,,
which
scope
interests trivialities
absence
we
are
of the
so
much has
Nothing
of which is to with be such
impressed purity
To
cares
one
me
the
breadth
charity and
love, the
for with
truth,,
them
to
see
spiritsshow.
above
'
commune
raised
of
earth, and
needful
'
keener who
insight
ascends
thing
the
: as
the
traveller
on
mountain-side wrap
looks
down him.
the
mists
and
fogs
valley below
70
2.
The
And from
next.
Intelligent Operator
The human
none
at its separation In
spiritafter
He
thebody
the
next
loses
man
other
words,
in the
real
self him-
state, and
his
and will
appreciate
on
intercourse interests
with
friends.
carry
the
changed
conditions.
PERSONAI,
IMMORTALITY,
AND
PERSONAL
NITION. RECOG-
These
two
doctrines
of
personal immortality
of that
and
divine
as
as
Christians, have
to
me
accepted
is
the Word
illustration
God,
and
to be
receiving practical
what of faith
ring occurare
demonstration
us.
from
all round
From
articles from
they
passing
The and the
the
into
logical deductions
to
experience.
heart of
man,
desire desire
live
to
is strong in the
gone
live
of
shine sun-
affections of his
which
have
less modern
potent days
encumbered
and
universal.
Those when
in
these
to
of
Nihilism,
with
no
as
fashion
be
little faith
and
no
possible, assert
before will
or
that these
a
man
has
soul
future
him,
us our
lightlyuniversal possesses,
:
equipped
has that has
are
skirmishers somehow
to
that
race
impulse, which
been
man,
transferred
the
of Revelation and
and
having figments
fabricated with
own
his God
amused the
himself
hopes
brain.
of
immortality
of his
the other
End
of
the Line.
71
this sal univerthat
the
We,
who
think
as,
otherwise, who
in itself,a who
some
regard
to
impulse
underlies
man,
witness that
the
truth
believe
the
spiritis
as a
and
logical evidence
and assaults
to
ground
"
for
adhering
that
ancient
venerable of
esteem
belief
belief
"
undamaged
we are
by the
not
modern
dulity increthe
to
disposed
lightly
home
testimony
us
on our
that
is
these
points. They
so
to
as
us
the
foundations ourselves.
of
religious belief
do
far
it
respects
They
not, and
they cannot,
carry
stand
recognised, they
of Am
concerns
in
their
train
entire
code
personal religion.
I to
me
live
to
on
after
know
my
body
is dead?
answer are
Then
comes
it
where.
What ?
You
to
me
from
own now. are
the
land
beyond
You
acts
the
as
arbiter
you
are
of your
destiny.
By
the
will
and
living
life, you
future pure
out
of your
of
daily
your
preparing
The
for
habitation.
in heart
the
preserves
his
purity.
or
You
are
working
yourself
your
own woe.
salvation,
preparing
ot
for
misery and
And interests what
are
of
so
the
friends up
earth, with
to
sever
whom
them
my
bound
that
would half
the you
be. to
tear
out
the
heart-strings,and
live still, the
and the and
you
same same
destroy the
friends with If
of myself?
same
They
interests,
to
affections.
associate
desire those
you
join them,
can
to on,
yourself with
and
who
must
lead
as
forward
under
upward, pierc-
live
in their
presence,
their
72
The
must
Intelligent Operator at
energise to
them
:
ing
eye
you
lead the
one
the
life that
has
elevated and
and
ennobled
as self-discipline,
of
and spirit,
subordinates
temporal
far
ship wor-
short, the
man,
whole
fabric for
of the
religion, so
moment
as
excluding Supreme,
these of the
a
the
to
the
receives which
so
its sanction
are
and
from
doctrines
becoming
of
us.
integral parts
In
on
daily fading
you
life of faith
many
days
when
has
relaxed
human
life, or, if
of it,when much and of its less
a
his grasp
lost is
losing
national that
so
vitalisinginfluence, and
factor
in
less
the
formation
the
the of the
character,
whose
we
are
being, by
is
never
God
response
wanting
aspirationsof
the
His
our
creatures, brought
existence. spiritual of
us
reality of
are :
There believe
many
who
are
fain to cry,
because
nor
"
Lord, I
of the because
help
Thou
a
mine
unbelief," not
prescription of
of the
faith
time-honoured
our
creed,
have
which and
fathers
handed
a
on
to
us,
sadly battered
destructive of have
any
seen
shattered
;
by
many
blow
from
criticism
of the but
dogmas
we
ecclesiastical with of
our
corporation
eyes,
dead
because
and
have
men
proven live,
"
by
severe we
"
methods
can
logic,that
their believe company
because
our
argue
we
from
can
perpetuated
that that
we
life to
too
own,
one
because
shall
day
"
join
the
great
has
preceded
us,
and
the other
"because have
End
of
from
the Line.
of them
73
lessons
we
learned
some
reasonable, comprehensible,
which discipline, the
and
we
coherent,
may
of life and
following
life to
come.
fit ourselves
for
progressive
It is this that of
constitutes
for
me
the
moral
beauty
Spiritualism. Apart
as a
from
mere
its
religious aspects,
I it
viewed
question
it with
none
of
psychology,
interest, but
should would
always
possess
regard
for
me
deep
of the
that it now
has.
Its
phenomena though
they
I
am
with
ever
increasing wonder,
for the the but
always
nor
grateful
for
bewilderment
cause
thankful
prominence assigned
injudicious
The
mind
them
by
some
well-meaning
the
friends
who
mistake that
"
husk
for
the the
kernel.
buffoonery
for
it ;
"
passes the
current
in and
public
that
Spiritualism ;
the unclean of
to
fraud
that
folly
besmirch
things
the
a
get mixed
minds
up that
with
are
it ;
"
the
vagaries things
They
die.
I
are
unbalanced
new
inevitably attracted
;
"
and but
fascinating contemplate
and will live
subject
without their
these
deplore,
Born
dismay.
little life and
ephemeral,
of human will of the
ignorance,
nurtured
by human
and
they folly,
sense
yield to advancing
knowledge
the true among And
increased
when responsibility,
moral
us.
significanceof
dead,
subject is recognised
when them look
when the
they
are
or
men
can
through
much-abused of
our
fog
that
seen
to
the
light
of this
beyond, it will be
moral
on
grandeur
firm
Spiritualismrests
of
the
foundation
knowledge
perpetuated
human
life,whence
74
The
Intelligent
Operator^
"c.
flow
naturally
those
deductions
respecting
for indicated. will be found that been still
our own
our
own
disembodied
future,
I
those before
rules
embodied
life,
These
master
which cardinal
have
Nay,
to
more! be the
principles
of
a
principles
Divine, by
Revelation
it has
approves
itself
though
man,
so
so
sorely
interpreted mis-
grievously
adulterated
by
human
I
glosses
shall
I
and
misconceptions.
if, by
be lead life
content
anything
out
that for
have what
now
said,
his that line."
own
any
one
to
think the
himself
in of
depends
on
presence
"
Intelligent
Operator
at
end
of
the
APPEND
78
with his
Appendix
mediumship.
his
I.
seen
through
in direct
mediumship,
of that the
and
the direct He
voice spirit
is
theincipientstages
music spirit
"
development.
is to say,
one
spirits
like
no
usually plays, in
a
stringed
musical
musical
instrument
most
in
the
lyike
that
other
mediums,
company
;
this
gentleman
the
finds
uncongenial
to
a
reduces
are
tations manifes-
minimum
they
of and
moderately
when
strong
none
are
in but
great power
no new
influences
in the
present,
manner
harmony spiritual
the
reacting
So
usual is this
municating com-
manifestations.
he has been
strongly by
the
fact
recognised,
that
advised
from
to intelligences to elicit
refrain
all attempts he
phenomena,
The
is shown
clear, that
is attended
attempt
failure of
introduce
elements well
as
by
the
phenomena,
consequences
by the
An for
most
serious
cal physiseance
to
himself.
upon that him under
unsuccessful
some
will leave
be
its mark
days.
conditions
It is to it is
greatly regretted
the
these
impossible that
be
results known
of his
to
a
mediumship
great
number
should
who
experimentally
But the
earnestly desire
most
to witness
valuable in the
mediumship
but in and
are
not
seen
physical manifestations,
of
trance
the
higher
developments
Whenever
speaking
been
automatic
writing.
he
has
entranced
Appendix
in of but
our
I.
has
79
been
not
presence,
the
whole
room
in
state
incessant
vibration, which
the vibrations
go
could
on
only be felt,
heard;
whole
of the
entrancement.
Having
with the the spirits
much-
this other
phenomenon
mediums,
we
in connection
trances
of
asked there
the
was
reason
of it. power
They
replied
that
surplus
method of
during
the
his entrancement.
and the
their
expending
his His
surplus
The
caused
physical vibrations.
obtained the
communications
are
through
value.
writing
handtrols con-
mediumship
him,
and
of with these
men
greatest
"writing changes
and
every
different
are
spiritwho
their from the
who spirits,
chiefly literary
names,
theological
and
of past
ages,
give
the
particulars of
on
their
earth-life,extracts
and search their
at
their British
are
writings,
Museum found
to
enquiry
The
I^ibrary and
be
true.
elsewhere,
medium
own
statements
criticises
and
as
tions ques-
all the
as
results
man
of his
mediumship
do.
come
closely
he is
any
would
He
says
that
assured outside
messages
the
from
himself,
facts, arguments,
to
and
often
own
strongly
seriously
at
variance
his
opinions,
true
The their
ticulars par-
earth-lives and
new
small
biographical dictionary;
he
"
although
to
facts stated
felt
sure
to be
quite
and
him, yet, he
that
argued,
not
how
can
they
were
once
in my the 22nd
mind,
May,
wards after-
forgotten?"
On
1873, the
8o
medium held the
Appendix
I. with
the
answers
following conversation
the
the
spirits,he
coming
"
writing
questions,
Dr.
and
afterwards
by what
Carpenter
the
would motions
call
unconscious hand"
:
"
cerebration
governing
of
the
THE
READING
OF
BOOKS
BY
SPIRITS.
Can
you
read
but
Zachary Gray
or
can,
and the
R
.
am
able
to
materialise
myself,
here spirits
to command
elements.
Are
either
of
those
?
I will send
.
I will
bring
told you
one can
by and
read.
by.
R
. .
is here.
a
am
Is that
so
Can
you
read
book
[Spirithandwriting
Will ^neidf Wait.
"
changed.]
me
difficulty.
you
write
for
the
last line
of
the
first book
of
the
Omnibus
errantem
atas" terris,etfluctibus
[This Quite
was
right.]
But
so.
might
known
one on
it.
Can
you
go
to
book-case, take
me
the second
the
last
paragraph
do not
even
of
know
ninety-fourth page
name.
seen
it,and
will is
a
its
a
"I
by
has
short
historical
or
narrative, that
grown up since
popery the
gradually arisen
of
primitive and
but
state
time since
Christianity, not
lamentable
apostolicage,
the
the
union
by Constantine."
book
on
[The
"
examination
proved
to
be to
queer
one
called
an Roger's Antipopopriestian,
attempt
liberate
aud
purify
The
"
Christianity from
extract
Popery, Politikirkalityand
was
Priestrule." word
"
given above
for
accurate,
but
the
narrative
substituted How
I know
came
I to
appropriate
was
sentence
? The wbrd
not, my
It
by coincidence.
Appendix I,
"was
8r
it
changed by
change.
do you
error.
I knew
it when
was
not
How starts.
I wrote
a
read
You
wrote
more
slowly,and
I went
as a
what
remembered,
and
and useful
then
for
more.
only
test.
Your
friend
was are
last
night
We
; we
can
when write
good.
you
will
read
again, and
is the
impress
school
intellect
of the book:
"Pope
of
of poetry, the
poetry
the
the
intellect,or
That
same
mingled with
the
fancy."
on
is
and
take
eleventh
book and
the
shelf.
called
for you.
Poetry,Romance
Take it and
the
over
Rhetoric.^
good
Him
It will open
our
at the and
to
recognise
God
be there To
power,
permission
you
which
of
our
power
Amen.
[The
idea
book
opened
I had
145, and
the
;
quotation
perfectly true.
no
the book
before
certainly had
of its
contents.]
are
Here, then,
and of
very
spiritmessages
of the medium. when conditions
free from As
some
bias due
to
the read
thoughts
books their
not
a a
spiritscan
fact
are
favourable, the
into
brings
may
question, for
personal particulars
as
from
himself
give
them
appertaining
the
to
spirits are,
their the
on
whole,
fair
proofs of
Dee
ness truthful-
tion communica-
Dr.
we
is of considerable
a
interest, especially
life of Dr.
"
gave number
of the
Dee
in
recent
: Spiritualist
.82
.Appendix
DR..
I.
deb's
spirit
. .
you
was
tdl ine
the loud
was same
about
the
who spirit
has
came
last
you
evening f
before, and has
who spirit
visited
He
a
the
name
and
sharp knock.
Dee. He
was
said of himself
man
truly that
and
arid
his
John
all
of
vast
reseai-ch
in the
occult
mysteries
sciencies.
once
of ancient He
on
magic
also
astrology, and
in the
tie
Was
skilled
in the
exact'
sciences, being
He
was
lecturer
Euclid
University of Paris.
and
'
spirit, 'progressive
us
versed
in the
subject of
between
and
your
world.
He
Yes.
lived in
He
was
to
the
voice the
of the
on spirits
the
occasion of
or
of the
Coronation,
I do
a
and
not
fixed know
day
the
at the
instigation
of his birth
VI.
his
spiritguides.
but he
was
year
death,
friend
took occult
he
both
of your
King
in his
Edward
and
of Elizabeth.
of
at
She
on
marveiUous him
quently fre-
collection
works
and died.
visited
Mortlake,
where
But Oh
He
he was yes,
abroad, you
He
said.
at
much.
studiedof
Louvain,
and
to
at
Cambridge.
had
a
great power
application,being
able
study eighteen
18 J3.
hours You
He
was
day.
April 2oth,
were
tellingme
He
about
John Dee.
you
is here.
born
will
give
particularsthrough
went at
me.
He
in I"ondon
in 1527. There
He
he
"
fifteen
to
St.
John's
a
studied
You
eighteen
about
hours
day,
,only to
to the
sleep.
inquire
after
at
his
foreign
Netherlands
He
leaving Trinity.
Edward
at
studied
VI.
gave
a
him
Upton'on-Sevem. in,
lived
on
and both
died
the
Mortlake,
and
now.
with
'magnificent library of
He
was
books
,
exact
occult In
sciences. 1551
he
born with
he cannot
remember
associated
himself
Edward
"Appendty^ I.
^elly^in the
83
and
was
pursiiJt'.Q.f astrologjr,magic,
who of Siradia,, took
-what
you
call
on
in England
him, back
and
to Poland.
were
Growing
tired in
time, he
hidden'
on
gave
them
over,
they
by
pa,tronisedby
Pope's decree, castle, where
'
the Emperor
he
was
Rodolphi
by
the
Banished Count
thence
the
Rosenberg
arts,
as
in
were
his
they carried
their
mean
occult
they
called.
What. do you
Appointed
not
him
fact, it
was
in orders
never. mean
No,
What He
of
friend,
do yoru
by Ms
"
lecturing on
Euclid'''' ?
Euclid's
-
gave
mathematical
of which he
lectures, especially on
somewhat
view
geometry,
Who Albert How
In
was
disapproved.
,
of Siradia?
name.
his to
was
Count
his
title.
has
he
come
me an
?
earnest
earth-life
he
and
advanced
his
cohiinuner
with
to
the aid
spheres, and
those who He he you
since
it has
to
specialmission
'
willing
a.
seek
the
was
mysteries of
aided
the
spiritland. greatly.
Now he Now bids
great medium,
his
by spirits
of him.
repays
farewell.
debt.
will heir
inbre
One
of
the
most
conclusiye
of the
name
instances
of
an
ligence intel-
existing outside
by
a
jnedium
of
was
furnished
gave
to
the
Zachary
a
Gray, who
who cleric,
stated
was
have
been in
in earth-life
much Church
concerned and
wast
the
the
Puritans. of St.
lived
at
Cambridge
St. Giles'
was
in 1725,
and
vicar
Peter's
and He
there, and
known Immortal
in
also of
the
Houghton
he
Conquest.
for his himself said.
best
"
Jiterary.world
as
edition This
of
Y^
Hudibras,"
spirit
84
wrote
Appendix
in
a
I.
and
are
most
peculiar handwriting,
extracts
in the
old
English
After
spelling, the
trouble of the
which been
appended.
the be that of
a
much
they have
last,
no
verified, with
of which
could
exception
found
wrote
trace
reference
was
supplied by
come
the hand
rare
extract.
They
called
"
from
work
John Lydgate's,
copy of which
may
an
The
Lyfe
of
our
Ladye,"
be seen, inner
are we room
under
at
carefullyprescribed
the British
"
restrictions,in
Copies
no
of this work
"
extremely
are
scarce
we
other
come
and under
none,
thoroughly assured,
of the medium
ever
the
were
notice
through
whom On follows
the the
:
"
extracts
written.
Gray
wrote
as
was
his
habyte also.
hoare
heed
loke
unkempt,
downe
caste
and
sorrowe
gray, and
wo
:
of
the recorde
lay.
Which
deadly affray.
His
His
robe
stayned
aye
was
with
Romayne
to
bloode
sworde
a
redy whet
most
do vengeaunce,
and
Lyke
In
tyraunt
furyouse
wode
slaughter and
20th
niurdre
set at his
pleausaunce.
On written
the
a
long
we
from
the
"
Lyfe
"Ye
of
our
I,adye,"
"
Friend,
continue
ye excerpe ye
from
Lyfe ofourLadye."
And Of
dryeth up
Aurora,
she
bytter terys
morowe
wete
after ye in wepynge
graye.
oil flowres
That
doth
flete.
APPENDIX
ll.
ON
SOME
PitASES
OF
MEDIUMSHIP
BEARING
ON
SPIRIT-IDENTITY.
The
evidence
creed
for
rests
what upon
and
is
broadly
known each
as
the
Spiritual
its
own
bases,
own
having
to
special
of
weight,
mind.
adaptability
furnish
to to
special types
different
and what
Phases
mediumship
it is useful
phases
compare
prove,
of
evidence,
these
and
now
late colsee
then,
and
they
to
conclusions
they
point.
The and
two
things,
the
common
be
it observed,
are
very
different,
sumptive preweak
it is to
practice
with
It
of
confounding
much of
our
evidence
proof
is
that
argument
is
due. of
we
extremely
;
difi"cult
to
prove
is possible im-
anything
outside when
mathematics
perhaps
the
it
deal
with
short
the of
We
spirit, and
mathematical
are
unseen,
the
is
future. moral
But,
proof,
certain
we
certainty.
that
to
we
morally
and that
one
of have
things subjected
various
we
cannot
prove,
personal
we
test,
that, for
or
more
of
reasons,
act
cannot
our
demonstrate.
lives. It is this
And
on
this
throughout
position
go
that creed And I conceive of
to
Appendix
be
II.
in
attainable
reference
to
the
Spiritualism.
this
applies
to
that
greatest
is at the
crux same
of
every
time
the
Immortality
own
of
spirit, especiallyof
laxity in
the
can
his
departed
We
cannot
or
friends, and
there is
some
by inference".of himself.
use
Here, again,
of terms.
/rwe; Immortality^f-:TOe
less
only establish
la -mors;
presumption^,of. perpetuated life after And this presumption who physical death. some, ha!^e time forstiiBy and bppoirtunily. not (which"allcanlittle logic in their heads get),and. some (which not got); may all have to! the plane of moralcarry ; as certainty;" It is well for Sfiiritaalism; popularly
strong
understood,
that
that
t3iis is
so
;.
for it must
view;
not
and
if."!me talk
most
could' prove
the
that
hurnan
that
kindvdw
live and
us,
(even
would
nonsense
usually
a
?r
talked) to
say,; "I
as
tum'aside
with
shrug
its
..
and
want
the
dark, sticks
my
.Ma
into
-
its Syes,
I want
What
light,then,
In
,
has the
mediumship
popular
must
throw
upon
this A of
? qttestion
estimation,, niuchj,
out
on
be ruled
th^Jscore ob*
insuflScient .evidence,
imperfect
to
servation, and
the
matter..
likei before
when
will
we
we
get
the .root
of
And that
as a
do, in individual
get evidence
cherish it
bear
investigation,; we
to
specimen
be
collated
with
Afipejidinc,'!^.: \
"
9J^
ta
me:that,anQther
fallacy of poHstMlJ
recurrence'
inAbiS!
case 'eVery,.
is receive^
^ii)x. a
stare
as
it were.
ever
th"t
^rst
come
of
if no
traveller' Wd
yeb
back
is.cumulativet,
next, .more,} have
sane
i-The;first
case
;the thjrd'more
made
sttllv-
independent
hundred):
and
capable observer
a
Steps forward
cases
have
dead
recorded;
have
in whi'ch.those
me
to
evidence
of
perpetuated
says^
^hen, from
and their
a
thirds,and
own
to
a.
vastinumber,
their
own
give
proofs, and
wheti
conclusion'^-then
to
display
the it is
a
reAsonsfor;
make ,tp'
is
, .
is found
cumulative
very
weight
great that
One
ignore
serious
fallacy,
publish
iii many,
or
evidence
of this^
it is, impossible to
at
facts,and
The have
-
dates in extensor
to
least
iaptsrefer
The
medium
persons
whose
still
living ;
the
bej.
dead
living friends,
feelings object
to
must
respected.
and would and the be
would
vivisectiorvj
by
very
rude
I;:have, enquirers,!/.
such
as
now:
agaiu recorded
cases
that
of Abrahart,;
reader
the curious
wilt
92
find
Appendix
incorporated in
evidence records others
must
II.
that
many
a
Spirit
Teachings,
and
I know
at
present
more
strong
I have
of of
identity ;
have
(I believe)
similar
least
hundred.
Many
records, if their
and
servatio ob-
have
been been
not
if their
opportunities have
I believe, who do
Most
mediums,
tary elemen-
waste
in the class af
But
phenomena
delight
can
which
to
of
spirits
must
in
producing
evidence
all others,
get such
with
patience.
must
they
wait, and
what
comes.
(in most
cases) they
desire
be content
return
own
"
to take
Earnest
for the
of
ticular par-
individual
this
a
usually defeats
has
to
its
object,and
Expectant
manufacture
your.g
"
observer
learn. does
not
desired
a
patience,careful observation,
my
passive
mjnd
do, in
experience, produce
circumstances this train ot of work
Iheir fruit,
I will
record, with
such
precision
led
severe me
as
permit, the
thought.
me
a
facts which An
have
into strain
extraordinary
ago,
left
the
to
month powers
a
to
premise, with
so
mental read
jaded
was
out,
that
even
newspaper from
irksome. of London
Consequently
and the of the
moved re-
excitement
of its busy
and
peaceful quiet
in the
country,
of
occupied myself
That but is not sheer
rest
busy
in
my
idleness
way,
doing
at
nothing. nothing
and
I
much
and
first still.
inability to began
the
to
think
kept
me
Soon, however,
do
work,
experienced
returning
of mental
94
Appendix
I
II.
not
deadi"
see
her
ghostly visitantr
for the
you
Yes;"-
"
"
And
burled,"
ear.
continued,
but how did the
words
? my
"
in my
I
"Yes,
and fainted
know
remembered,
have her her
turned in
would
to
horror
friend
sit
was.i.
Strange!
and which would
and
she
would
by
the bedside
clasp
have
clammy
set at
hand, and
kiss
the
:
lipson
yet she
was
death
already had
screamed
that
the
self which
rection resurful care"
by her, minus
cast off.
of the
note
old
and
"
shabby body
I believe
us
it had
That
"
is what has
body
brought
in
my
to.
of the
seen
face the
of
ghost
and,
a
I
as
had
never
original
tallied with
body
occasionwhich
one
hostess
tion, descrippeculiar
On the from in her
greatly
The I could
my
a
vision,except in
of
point.
which
ghost
get
wore
no
brooch
make,
descriptionof.
hostess identical her
came
my
back
the
ornament
as
a
hand. She
left it to
me
"
memento.
puzzled
very;
and she
I
eyes
think
me
she
now
suspects
and
.
something
as one
uncanny,
for
a
again
would of
see
study
that and and
as
phenomenon.
I
was
During
the
whole could
to
day
converse
in this state
of
lucidity,and
were
as
clear
to
my
eye,
ear,
sense.
whose
any
distinctly
my
that
-impinge"on
was
my
naitural organs
of
me
One
special visitor,
too,
of that
day- impressed
much.
He^
lately dead.
acqttamtanGe'. thus
.for the
first! time,
asare
andfeatiiresareascleariri
m.ymind
has
of the worthy
to call
an
clergyman
me
who
,
just
done
me
"the honour
upon
hour. I
and
Here
talk conventional
are
pla^^
should
titudes
concern
for half
which
him^;
yet
knowi
full
(his
on
face
was
enough
he
I) that
have
if I had bolted
enlightened
as
would
have
from:
Old
Scratchy
to
thought
it necessarj'
.:
.
himself p!uirify
somehow.
During
this"
same
day I
of the
was.
conscious of
a
of
the
sence, preto
rather make
to
me
than
form,
spirit that
is
somd
a
tried
itself
; and
clear, but
I. find go
failed.
This
that
familiar
fact
never
frequently
after
try and
away
a
fruitless
efforts,or
In this
commttcase
through
the
mediumtspirit.
the
,
efforts' of The
"
spirit
at
intervals
during
I call
days.
atmosphere
presence
""what
shall
a
the
sensation
form it was, ?
"
of
known
without
recognised
I I
spirit seemed
hot
familiar,
who it
me was
and
thought
was
know
until
name.
near
told
was
by
that
spirit-friendwho
of
an
gave
the
It
old
her
ladyi
husband
we
of
friends
of
to
mine,
our
and
frequeht visitor
Dr.
circle
never
when
was
usedto
very
at
Speer's. The
had
figure
to
clear,
the
was
others made
been,
my
some
eyes,
very
but. the
recognition
complete
made who
by
her.
touching
been
a
conimunications
from had
She
out
had'
lived
all her
days, and
a
dfopped
land
from
as
this inno-
material.plane
after
life
blameless
g6
cent
Appendix
in its
to
11^
most
sincerityand
Her
as simplicity
of
us
would
in his
desire
spend.
the
husband
more
had
to
been
other
nature,
and
to
more
material,
given
world.
hoarding wealth,
union,
to
things
the
now
of this
two
The
seems
ever, howbeen
in
natures
have
the
freed
spiritfound
and of earth
its
delight
two
with
her
earthly husband,
the
the
rose
one
together beyond
of them The the
had
atmosphere
so
in which
been
prisoned
are
long.
sacred
very
cases
too
to
quote, and
pared com-
scanty
with
g^iven are
realise
me
meagre
experience
It would under the
was
is necessary be
in order
the I
truth.
was
impossible to
in these
convince
cases.
that
cination halluof
should
scorn. an
scout
notion in
personating spiritwith
in especially the subtle
to be
There essential
too
all,
and
last cases,
character
be
analysed,
is
"
to fleeting
in
print,but
ne
which
to
one
who
has
grasped
it
the The
plus
ultra
of conviction.
phase
of
clairvoyance
for had
go
me
gradually passed,
return
to
as
became
necessary
to
which it
pressed.
and needs
I have
recurrent
phases
the
stern
again
life-
they
We
when
of
get any
possessors
persistentexperience
of the
gift
are
moved re-
contagious
and treated
influences,
as
worldly
cares,
the ancients
treated those
of the future.
through
But such
whom
much is
b.e done
by careful
servation obthe
when
possible, especially by
'Appendix
medium small
II.
97
eveiy
"
himself
fixing
his
sensations, noting
to be
point^none
exact
is too
small
of
iniport
and
keeping
Above
record
of all.
our
periments. ex-
knowledge,
avoid
dictating conditions
may sometimes be
That
of investigation The
we
in
not
the
the
are
physical phenomena,
so
here..
conditions know
so
delicate,they
observation
are
fugitive,
and
prolonged
we
patient
is the
Anxiety,
;
a
know,
wilt
few
at
once
hence, possibly,so
Most
return
are
to
medium.
to
of those whom
to
me
strangers iSome
are a
me^persons
never
heard
of.
apparently brought
stubborn
by
iny own
guardians
to convict
are
scepticismof
a
its shallowness
some, to gratified)
some
one
; sotae
attracted
by
a
certain
pathy, sym-
by curiosity, some
be allowed
as
by
desire
(seldom
;
to
get
at their
earthly friends
come,
though they
on an a
were
still in the
flesh,as-
might
because
call
acquaintance.
case, any not
I will record
or
'such
because that it is
"
it is mark
one
peculiar,
it out
it presents
features
for
"
of many
expectant
tion," attennO'
scope
for for
"
unconscious
cerebration,"
Some six
or
apparent
years ago,
object
when of
deception.
seven,
I first became
acquainted
had
a
with who
the
was
phenomena engaged in
pg^pers.
would
I
friend
press
was
of the
leading
I
never
news-
full of
it with
subject,and
friend.
thought
had
G
discuss
(I
the
98
conversion
Appendix
craze.)
and I did
to
II.
He
not
was
unreceptive
any
and
on
mentative, arguhim of my
impression
a
other
than
impress
of my rain in
a
with
an
conviction
sincerityand together
we
earnestness
entire
disbelief in the
we were
a
spiritual origin
and took
facts.
came
on.
One
day
To
ing walk-
avoid
at
wetting
and
refuge
away
near
hand,
the
rainy
and
game,
discussing
son perin what seemed
a
while.
room,
The
proprietor was
he showed
some some
in the
I
was
saying.
and From from
He
asked than
me
questions,and
He
as was
rather
frightened
gave
wine
merchant,
custom.
I left,asking for
time
on
to
time
did
a
purchase
dozen He
some
goods
him, and
some
perhaps
with The
half
occasions
exchanged
me was
words
him.
always asked
I
saw
Spiritualism.
said that he
I
saw
last time
him
he
was no
in the doctor's
more
hands, but
until
was
mending
as
fast.
habit
to
of him
sitting
ing, morn-
alone,
he
about
my
is,in
my
my
study in the
eye.
early
I
was
appeared
clairvoyant
action of
writing
and
transcorporeal
such
phenomena,
I
never a
and
I wondered for
a
thought
double
; but
me
moment
that For
it
a
was
but could
not
of the when
as
living man.
he
time
m
he
me
speak
saluted
managed
have which
to
ake in
hear, he
he
,
would
name
done he
the my
flesh, calling me
friend
It
no use a
Mr.
we
heard
while
name
were
together
three
in the billiard-
room.
was
one
used
by him, and
two
or
known,
am
sure,
to
else
except
acquaintances.
Yet
Appendix
tliisspiritused
done
II.
he would
name
99
as
it
quite naturally,
knew
have:
well and
"
in the
I
flesh, thoiighhe
my
real
"nough.
learned
had died
brought him,
He
Tvas
that he had
some
come
to seeme."
dead
tvyo months
me.
ago
at
place
me
and
address
which
the
he gave
He
likewise
told
disease All
which these He
him
were
off,and
death.
entirely outside
my
knowledge.
His
were
a.
watering-place
I
far and
away.
full name,
disease
unknown
(a peculiar one),
to
me.
death,
ffiends
Yet
less un-
utterly
and
some
verified them
all,and
no
found
them
exact. literally
he seemed, to have
it He
was
special reason
stone to
for cairn
coming,
to
even
add
his
the
did not
say
tha-t he had
come
discovered
.
had
to
confirm
another
mpre^.
He '\X..
has
went,
I
are^
and, like
seeji
many
no
who
done
the
"
haye
him^ of
These
specimens,
do I
the
go
set
me clusion con-
jnoralising, What
am
thgy
?
them
What
from
not
? Briefly,
disembodied
that
only
but,
perpetuated
which
3
Phenomenal
are
facts, of
outside of
I have
shoals,
do
not
in my
mind.
"
"perhaj)s."
any
one.
only
believe
1 know
them;
and
every
number
of
of counterfeits would do
(greatly as nothing
They
have
to
deplore
the
use, form permy
thera)
shake their
weight
which
of
positive evidence.
and gratefully, work.
But to
I admit
valuable
in their
place they
not
they will
be but the
prove
cise.; and
they ought
stepping-stones
100
Appendix
further which
II.
will not is
do
to
knowledge.
is to I know I have
the
to
They
what
;
for my
pose, purIm-
prove them
not
loosely called
not
MORTAXITY.
causes
but
I do
know
what
them.
at
interviewfed of the of
"the
Intelligent (When
I
so
Operator
say I
other
mere
end
cases or
line."
allude
no
physical phenomena
is
information
where
name
given
were
not
to
cases
Florentine's,
movements
the
facts
I
given through
not
entirely.)
class
on
do
look
to
such it
of
evidence and
I want.
I believe
must
another
higher plane,
It does
not
and
on
after the
patient
fresh
In
laborious is
not
search.
to
lie like
surface, and
sent
be
gathered
up
manna
from
my
quest
many
I must
part
pany com-
with
company
1.
like to find
myself
in
with. I
must
leave
men
like
Professor who
say,
Huxley,
and
the
"
large
don't
number
care
quite sincerely,
not
I don't
about
to
It does these
I
interest
;
or
care
me.
want not
listen
idle live
words
and
really do
Prom much which
to
[care
whether
again
I do
not."
very
to
I must
separate
matter.
in limine.
the
I think
it is the
must
problem
interest
go
on
of all others
yield.
I wdnt
live,
living,working,
I very
learning, in short,
if need be.
energising.
Huxley
I should will
mourn
And live
particleof
unable
the
2.
Divine
I
must
who
finds
himself
X02
Appendix
so
II.
rnake
and
they
else.
remain
till they
are
themselves
nor
thing some-
They
more
neither I leave,
gods
and
5.
One
me
class
that
beguile
invented
with
;
fantastic
hypotheses, unproven
of curious the of
unprovable
cunning
the facts
devisements
brains,
planation ex-
for of
putpose;
and
ignoring
plain
and
substituting some
unless, proven,
it rests
on
fine-drawn
which I
subtlety which
may
is worthless until
be
left alone
in
solid
basis. be
believe
plain explanations
The
o""^ a
unless thoSe
we
they
who
are
can
dis;
proven;
and I
rests
on
reject them
for
have
firm
or
belief
that
logicallyright
future
exr
in, dismissing,
at least
in
relegating
restioh
aminatioh,
hypotheses
of occult
which
the
airy basis of
a
imagination.
class
tain cer-
;that
the
for
astral
some
spirit will
time the and
maintain
then be
existence
physical -body
This astral
moulder
disintegrated
communicate
at last.
they spirit,
for awhile
say
spiritsdo.
will
we
it will be
more
disintegrated
I
soon,
and
you
hear
of it.
Why,
may
and
statements,
have
verified
hun4and
I
them
too,
in
spiritswho
cases
dreds,
have that the
many
hundreds,
and of years.
I have
had
have
same
similar
gone
statements
facts
spirits
rest
on
thousands
These
authority which
found
faithful I
after
reiterated
proofj
and
therefore, though
cannot
Appendix
verifythe
to
statements
II.
103
I
am
titled en-
from
as
the
lapse of time,
evidence.
at any
produce
to
them
secondary
This
rate
leads
the
me
hypotheses,
for
present.
these
Reaving
to to
to
direct
tion atten;
I have
adduced
;
the
of their
production
"
to
the of
the
cumulative
of the
evidence is here
only
"
one
side
to
which, be it remembered,
conclusions
noticed from
and
logically
in their
them. connection
seem
These with
me
facts, taken
other facts
due
on
natural
bearing
"
subject,
to
to
demonstrate
1. 2.
Unembodied Of
a
intelligence,
that the is human,
character
3. I
Maintaining
must not
dwell
are
arguments
numerous
further
;
but
I insist
that
the
facts
very
that their
force
ductions de-
is cumulative
; and
while
cheerfully make
in
large
for enthusiasm,
and the like
; and
fraud, looseness
I also admit
at
recording,
that
while
human
and
believe
intelligence not
hold live that after
man
is also in
many
work,
I nevertheless
does
ascertainable
and that
instances in that
embodied dis-
his
state
bodily
he
death,
preserves
his
characteristic
dividual in-
of mind.
I believe
on
that
me
in
arguing
beyond
to
the
general
of
personal
masse,
existence
I
am
the
to
grave
for mankind
though
the
willing
prove
admit
exceptions (which, by
way,
the
rule).
104
,
Appendix
I
II.
believe
that
the
agencies
concerned
in
Spiritualism
though
lower I
are
principally
believe that caused
departed
some
or
human
of have
beings,
the
also
many
mena phenoreached
most
are
by
of
beings
who
not
yet
I far hold
man's
plane
that
some,
intelligence,
who have and
even
as
surely
do
return
progressed
instruct
I
beyond
it,
to
enlighten
De is
"
him.
that the but
With
Professor
Morgan
admit
spiritual
I
explanation
insist
ponderously
result of and
my
diflScult,"
own
also and
that,
and
as
the after
experience
study,
the
reading,
of evidence
long
to
careful
weight
on
is,
my
mind,
"ponderously"
its
side.
APPENDIX
III.
CASES
OF
SPIRIT-IDENTITY.
I.
"
MAN
CRUSHED
BY
STEAM-
ROtI"ER.*
On
the
evening
met
of
Saturday,
at
February
of
Mrs.
21st,
fe#
friends
together
21,
the
house
Makdougail Square,
included W.
Gregory,
The
Baron
Green
Street,
six the for time in
Grosvehor
party
du
we are
numbered
all,
and
to
the
Potet,
and'
gentleman
the Spirit
to
whose
mediumwhich
columns.
ship
have There
indebted from
Teachings
in
a
appeared
was
no
time
your
intention
were
of
having
of
seance,
and
ordinary
when
topics
in
us
the middle
subject
of
he
conversation,
this
suddenly,
the
dinner,
felta
man gentle-
surprised
near
by
saying
and
or
him
between
;,
himself
the bad
means
Baron
sat
on
his but
right)
the
was
whether
was
good
by
he
tellv
The it
no
pleasant.
Baron,
in of
a
Spirit
perceived
by
that
the
more
the it
was
to state
a
whom of
conveyed distress,
was
impression
that it
was
great
who
spirit
was
person
at
then the
alive.
medium
Nothing
continued
said
a
the
time,
in.-
but
to
feel
disagreeable
by
an
Spiritualist,
of the
March
27th,
' .
1874.
{Contributed
"
eycr
'
witness
stance.)
io8
fluence
was over.
Appendix
near
III,
of it to when
him, and
spoke
the
me
dinner
As
soon
as
we
reached and
drawing-room,
;
he
a
was
impelled
and paper backwards
to
write
and
when
was
pencil
moved
an
brought,
with
on
his
hand
forwards drawn
to
great
the
object
a
was
roughly
paper
horse
fastened
were
kiiid
to
of cart
more
truck.
attempts
the
made
depict it
were
clearly,
:
"
"
following
I killed
sentences
writen
killed medium
myself"
myself to-d'ay^Baker
the
Street-
passed."
as
Here
writing
more
telligible, uninmore
the
at
medium
grew
agitated, until
state
"
length
he
rose
from in broken
in
of trance,
and Killed
!
exclaimed
sentences
a
"Yes!
yes!
Yes ! yes then
myself
to-day, under
"
roller. steam-
Killedmyself
ceased, but
for
some
The
control
the
unpleasant
could
In
not
influence
afterwards, and
entirely shake
to
it ofi"for
several
I
days.
may
state
reference
the
communication,
medium had
that,
Baker
one
although
Street in
was
the the
aware
passed
he had
through
nor
afternoon, neither
that
a man
any
present
there
a
committed himself
suicide under
in
the
morning
A
by
throwing
of the in the paper.
steamrroUer. in the
the
occurrence
appeared
none
Pall
Mall
seen
evening,
but
of
party had
on
that
It, is worth
remarking
was
that in
of the steam-roller
a
which'
in
used
Baker
horse
serv^
is
to
represented
account
brass, and
this, perhaps,
for its
no
Appendix
'
-
III.
2."
"
CASK
OF
ABRAHAM
FLORENTINE.* December
letter the
Sir,
you
In
the
nth,
main
1874,-
printed a
portion by it,I
of
which, in view
you
to
ol
the information
:
"
elicited
will ask
In
reproduce
Wight.
He that "We
the month
August last,I
had
was a
staying with
number who
.
Shanklin,
one
Isle of
a
of
Dr.
at
at
as
of them
spiritcommunicated,
said that he
he
gave been
Abraham
Florentine. of
had
concerned
in
the
war
1812, and
on
had
lately entered
at
at spirit-life
Brooklyn, U.S.A.,
years,
one
August
seventeen
5th,
the
of
eighty-three
month,
and
out
days.
the month
We
some
difficulty
to
on
making
to the
whether
days referred
returned
the
following evening
The
manner
cleared
the
up
the
difficulty.
was
in which
We
were
communication
three in
move
made
a
was
most
singular.
table, which
seated,
persons
we are
number, rbund
with the table
heavy looto
rose
two
would
of raps, to which
accustomed,
tilt. So eager
some
was
the
communicating
the
that spirit,
was
table
at.
seconds
to mark
before
required letter
arrived
In
a
order
manner
T, it would
excitement, in
then
descend
at
thump
message
that
was
shook
the
floor.
; but
whole
so
complete
his
in
eager
impetuous
be
a
in
that replies,
was over
he
bewildered
and
the may
was
Speer completely (I
to
on
caused
I
process
venture
a
prolonged
guess,
sitting. If
meet,
and
I should
man
Florentine that
not
nice
he
bod}-,which through
?
"
liberation become
a
painful illness.
copy, and enable
me
the
American
guesses
papers
to A.
verifymy
(OxoN.)
facts and
M.
March Spiritualut,
19,
1875.
Appmdix
,
III.
I
Ill
,jMr.Epes Sargent,
the for
me a
to
whom
was
cated communipri,yately
facts
of the
case,
kind
enough
to
insert
paragraph
in the
Banner
the
of Light
same
inquiry.
c.2X\.%
"
to
the
Banner
one
singular
which
a
well-attested been
our
evidences fortune
matter
spirit
good
The
during
be stated
long experience."
the
may
in
words of
used
by
the
writer
It
of Light
that
"a
a
February
13th, 1875.
as
misconception
and
to
the
meaning
occurs
words
month is the
seventeen
days"
cleared the up,
at
first, but
this
to
subsequently
widow's
i
though,
should ever, how-
according
have been does The the
"
account,
27
age
83
not
years,
month,
case
days.
This,
affect
the
original inquiry
is
seance
in
was
this, and
:
"
result
quoted
in
direct
newspaper
At
England
by
whole
lately,
of
cation spiritcommunithe
was
received The
means
tilting
alive, and
of
heavy
table. it
were
table
seemed in
as
though
of
that
at
being
The
one
disintegrated gist
of the
the
very
fibres
was
the the
wood.
communication
spiritwas
N.Y.,
Abraham
Florentine,
He
who he
died
was
Brooklyn,
the
war
August
5th, 1874.
an
said
in
'a
of 1812, and
and
seventeen
interval, added,
Can
any
ever
month
of
our
Brooklyn
of Abraham
"
friends
inform
they
heard
No
sooner
paper
found
its
ii2
Appendix
to the
III.
way
public,than
we
received
by due
course
"
of
'
the
speaks
for itself
To
the Editor
of
the
'
Banner
of Light:
a
"
'
In the
a
Banner
to-day received
manifested
and
here, is
the
paragraph
of
ing concerna
spiritwho
at
some
a
through
medium
the
name
dininginquirjr
I cannot,
table
place in England,
soldier
ever
gave of
of Abraham make
Florentine,
whether
in
the
war
1812.
You
anyone
heard that
of Abraham
Florentine.
question, but
having
been
engaged'
soldiers,
fourteen
years
auditing the
I
am
claims' of the
of 1812 records
In those
in the of
State
York,
made the
name
all such
claims
in that
war.
records
appears
and
a
Florentine, of
be of New obtained
Brooklyn, N.Y.,
in the
full record
office of the
No.
Adjutant-General
of 1812.
State
York,^
that
in
claim
11,518,war
for
a
think,
than
however,
that
he
hein.
there
claimed
longer
term
of service
for
gave
England,
his allowance
being
'Wii,soN
Agent.
'WASBiUGTONtli.C.,
"
December
isth, 18^4.'
of
our
to
a
the
advice
legal correspondent,,
however,
the
we
letter to the
Adjutant-General, S.N.Y.,,
giving
any
asking
reason
the
our
facts, without,
request,
:
"
and
received
following,
courteous
reply
"
'
General
Headquarters,
State
of New
York,
In
reply to
you
your
communication,
dated
from
Jan. 22nd,
the
furnish
the
following information
records"
Company,
at
1st
Regiment
York
on
York
New
about
was
of
September,
1814,.
He;
served
three
months,
and
honourably
discharged.
Appendix
received
lit.
acres.
11I3
The and
not
Land
from
Warrant the
"
No.
63,365,for forty
sworn
above from
is taken
soldier's
statement,
official records.
^Very respectfully,
Frankwn
Townssnd,
Adj\-Gen.
..
"
Colby and
Montgomery
who
Rich,
Place,
are
No.
"
9,
Boston'.'
Those
as
investigators,with
circle,will iiatesis
ever
workings
that
of
the
spiritualistic
giving
of
bear
a
in
matter
the
correct
on diflSculty
the the
part of the
crepancy slightdis-
existing
by
the
between and
the
length
But the
of service
given
cord reare
Florentine spirit is
that
embodied main
easily explainable.*
Here
establishedmost manner,
are
is
manifests in the
most
the
peculiar circumstances,
to
a
forcible members
as
circle
in
the
foreign land,
fact that
; a
whose
a
all
ever
stranger') to
trod
an
such
being
self him-
the planet
member that
through
English
may
paper
America)!
be
given
then
one
him
same
as
the
verity of said
us
the
inquiry reaches
the
we
by
privateletter
heard in
never
we
public
never
concerning
; we
have
a
receive
in whose
reply
"
from
legal gentleman
we
Washington,
had leads the
us
acquaintanceship
of
have
pleasure
to
making
"
the
information of the
to
which
address
the
Adjutant-General
a
State of New
York
(who
is also
total stranger
us),
days,
This
refers to
is
month,
seventeen
114
and such
are
a
Appendix
assured soldier
III.
from
did
serve
data
existing
war
at
in the
of 1812,
claimed.
as
The
theory
of
collusion
is untenable
here,
the
are
several
parties who
to
have
other.
given
The think
in
the
testimony
of
strangers
each
chain
evidence
is
complete.
occurrence
I,et those
on
who
they
can
explain this
that
any
other
hypothesis
appeared,
to
than
tained main-
the
my
attempt."
to
statement
friend, Dr.
obtain I
Crowell,
additional
kind
enough
from
take
steps
verification
Florentine's
widow.
append
Banner,
February
2oth, 1875
To
tne Editor
of
the "Banner
oj Light."
the
Sir,
headed
"
Florentine"
Verification
there
Message,"
the
name
examined Abraham
Brooklyn
Directory, and
the address and
of
Florentine, with
at themoment at
once
119, Kosciusko in
Street. the
Being
disengaged
sought
the
Mr. the
was
pursuing
subject, I
my
I
street
met
indicated, and
whom The
application at
"
door
by
elderlylady, of
resided dead."
Mrs.
inquired whether
He I
Abraham
Florentine is
now are
there.
reply was
widow Ans.
? I
did
reside
here, but
you
Ques. May
inquire whether
Florentine,
his
am.
Upon
some
my
here
remarking
about her
our
that late
I would
be
pleased
invited then
to
me
obtain
to
a
information in the
husband,
she
was
seat
parlour, and
I ask
conversation
?
resumed.
Q. May
A. Last
At
when
he
died
August.
time in that month ?
Q.
what
Appendix
A. On the
was
HI.
115
Q, What
A.
of decease
Eighty-three.
Had Yes he
Q.
A.
passed
his
eighty-thirdyear
on
? the
; his
previous eighth
of June.
Q.
"
he
engaged
war
war
A.
; in the
Q.
A.
he
had
naturally active
a
self-reliant,or
was
the
reverse
and
or
rather
impetuous.
did he
Q.
long
short
duration, and
suffer nmch
A.
He
a was
confined
to
his
bed
for
year
or
more,
and
fered suf-
good deal.
here in
I have
given
their
the
exact
questions words,
and
answers
in their
taken Mrs. of about
at
relative
time.
from
notes answer,
the
slight pause
to
foUowingthelast
a
appeared
of age
be
verv
respectable lady
years
and
of
American when
birth, inquired my
I read
to
asking
these
questions,
her
the
article
Banner, which
I then her entered
it interested
her, and
full
explanation
fully endorsed
at
of its
purport, greatly to
line of it, and
to
surprise. She
then
every
her
I
a
left,thanking
copy of the
her, and
promising,
of your that
request,
send
her
last number
journal.
the
It will be states
observed
to
while
spirit of
years,
Mr.
one
Florentine
his age
have
been
eighty-three
to
month,
it should
and be of
seventeen
his
widow's
account
twenty-seven
notice
As truth of
a
as
but
she
this
may
either
case
be
equally
mistaken.
the
was
stood, before
this
additional
a
confirmation
of its
remarkable
it appears
verification
to
me
spirit message,
would add
the
presented
the
evidence
I
is conclusive.
that
I have
some
acquaintance
who
with
the
"M.A.
(Oxon.),"
gentleman
in London
applied in
Spirit-
ji6
ualist for information
your
Appendix
of Abraham readers that is
a
III.
Florentine, and
I
can
asssure
he
occupies
very
guarantee
against
deception, identityof
M.D.
pleasure in contributing
to establish
the
communicating
N.Y.,
spirit. ^Yours
"
truly.
Eugene
Crowei,!,,
Brookyi,n,
To
my
case
me
personally it is extremely
facts.
so
m
find
queries verified by
would
true
was
I any
never
doubted
have
that the
turn
out,
as
others
done,
to to
be
me
but
as
the
to
interesting point
the
correctness
way
of
deductions
tion communicathe
drew
from
was
singular
The
in which
vehemence novel
tilts and
knocks,
mode of its
cating, of communithe
earnestness to
and spirit,
were
trying
"have will
say,"
your
very readers
striking.
more,
Doubtless,
what
strike
nature
is the
singularly
conclusive
return
us we us
of the
the
dence evi-
respecting the
Most Abraham America
on
actual of had
of
departed.
heard friends
undoubtedly
none nor
had any
news
ever
of
in
Florentine,
who
nor,
of
us
could if
we
have
given
should
of what
went
there,
us
a a
had, could
we
they have
have felt
that
any
mentioned
no
to
fact
in which
matter
interest.
name
As and
this
plain
facts
of truth, I
repeat
to
both of
own us.
were
entirely unknown
many
And
is
one
among
instances
to
ifi my up and
which
hope
gather
record
place.
M.A. -March
(OxoN.).
10th, 1875.
ii8
Appendix
A.
III.
Mr.
at
(as
I will
call
him)
mounted
was
chair
to
get
the the
topmost
Annual of
shelf, which
filled
one
with down
volumes amid
as
a
of
Register.
and of in
at
He
took
on
dust,
record
commented
events.
the
publication
he
Almost he said
anything,
this the idea there
said,
be
my
to
it.
once
As
most
flashed
was
into
vividly
of
that
the
place
death. and volume The
a
for
event
record would
Charlotte
Buckworth's
create
probably
in the
interest,
which each
so
would contains.
be
found
obituary
impression spoke
to
was
so
strong
sense
"
it seemed
"
as
though
out
voice
my
inner and of
that
I
the
volume
for
a
1773, record
as
there this
found
the
notable made
a a
deaths,
sensation,
occurrence, at
an
had
at
occurring
and with
fashionable
were
house, exactly
was
awful
facts The
given.
thickly
covered since with
book
not
dust,
and
had
signed con-
evidently
to
been
disturbed
I
been
books had
the
shelf.
five but
remembered before
Mr.
;
had lain
no
been
ever
arranged
since would
;
years
there
they
and
for
A.'s with
antiquarian
them.
as
tastes,
one
have
meddled
was,
as was
The in its
verification
believe,
the
distinctly spiritual
suggestion
communication.
APPENDIX
IV.
EVIDENCE
PROM
SPIRIT
PHOTOGRAPHY.*
The
photograph
the time The
sister
was
taken in
Palmer
by
Hudson
during
HoUoway.
is the front
a
Terrace,
of the
in the the
centre
picture
left, in
baby
Dr.
Speer,
the
sitter
on
the in the
foreground
is
and of
shadowy
infant. has its
first
form
I
right
fore be-
the
mother
the
have
related manifested
how
at
our
this circle
child-spirit
almost
persistently
first of
from
formation,
all
to
coming
her
more
with
French She
years
message
suggest
of
identity.
than months
passed
ago Her
at
from
this
sphere
then
life
fifty
Tours,
being
only
"
seven
old.
little
was
joyous
the
message,
Je
we
suis had
heureuse,
of her
trts heureuse"
and
that
first
indication
so
presence,
the
as
little
child,
constantly
me,
was
by
clairvoyants by
standing
round-about Since
is then
near
spirit, who,
get
at
means,
was
trying
left
seances.
her
brother.
she
has
never
us,
and She
her
joyous
lives
tap
the
rarely
as
unheard
much
as
at
our
in
house
;
one
of
to
the
children
of
the
family
"
and
is
as
well
known
"
-
Extracted
"
from
Researches
in
Spiritualism,"
by
M.A.
(OxOn.)
Human
Nature.
122
Appendix
is
IV.
I
; I
me,
just
as
real
as
they
senses
are.
see
her, and
felt her
hear
her and
voice twice
by the inner
have had her
have the
touch,
portrait on
taken I
photographic
strict the
test
plate.
This
particular
Dr.
no
group
was
under
conditions.
Speer
"We
and
followed
I have
plate
tailed de-
throughout, and
was
precaution
never
which lost
before of the
neglected.
sight
plate
the very
no
andean first,
suspicious element
day following
that
was
itself. the
which I had
was
photograph
the
taken
Sunday,
When
and dinner
joined
nearly
loud
family
I
dinner-party.
became
heard and in
on
finished
were
partially entranced,
the
and The
knocks
dining-table.
was
Dr. which
Speer
we
requested
meet
usually
him.
He he
and but
find
at
means
a
for
He
was
went,
once
directed
by the
to
eventually discovered
the direct
on
under
not, whatfall
that
rays
of
light did
some
not
upon
which could
to
was
curiousof it
to
looking hieroglyphic.
for
some
make
us
nothing
to
was
hold
a
it up
message,
the mirror.
written paper
to
then
found
it
from the
right to left,and
top.
every
the
cross
bottom which
even
of the then
now
The
same
accompanied
first way
message,
on
is
at
is
the
paper,
message,
unintelligible.Deciphered
run
in
the I
described, it
thus
"
am
Spiritof
l/jve.
"Appendix IV.
cannot
was
123
The
one
communicate,
but
am
near.
photograph
of the
names
Pauline
name
was
of the any
her
full
(by
the
out
way,
unknown
answer
"
to
our
of us) was
"
correctly spelled
Pauline and
in
to
request
with
Catharine of birth
Stanhope Speer
Another
together
case
date
clear
!
of
unconscious This
was,
cerebration
Carpenter
a room
writing, so
which
to
a
obtained, in
would
a
where
under
nobody
stances circum-
into
nobody
go, and
play
trick
was
(if it
were
in
anyone's
us
such
thing)
impossible,
I say in the
gave
the
the
trick
was
possible; imwho
for could
one
house
have who
executed have
such
abstruse of
hieroglyphic, no
so
would
our
dreamed
doing
knew that
; no
one,
except
name
"
immediate The
selves, who
same
the
was
child's
at work
us.
Pauline. the
agency
to
produce
On
a
picture also
authenticated of
the
it to
we
minute
inspection powerful
which A
to
picture
little the
were
so
struck
by
two
a
The
figure is
details
perfect
feature
that
most
reveals
of the
the
amongst
others,
of
large eyebrows,
whole what
characteristic
not at
once
family.
is apparent habit
stranger
all who
might
know
return
notice
the
them. from
the
or
Again,
the
land
constant
of those
who
yond beof
In
is to
some
identify themselves
either
a
by
reproduction
demeanour. it is
of the It
a
of dress cap.
on
it is
black
Here
large,
her
appears
the hand
to
mother,
was
the
child.
124 habit
to
Appendix
go about
manner,
IV.
the
house witk
a
arranging
loose
and
on
tidying in
the hand. of her
housewifely
She
was
glove
notably
and I took have
to
careful that
means
about of
the
hands,
Before other
preserving
chapter
this habit known
to
finished adduce of
this
of
some
have
instances
of identification
by
For the
the
reproduction
I have
peculiarity.
about the
present
more
say
little
about
Parkes
month
ago
to
more
try for
photograph
and she
Mr.
(of
I
sat
whom
at
a
again.
little In
my
almost
state
to
immediately
saw
entranced.
clairvoyant by
me
I
my
the
child
standing
'
or
hovering
to
close
near
left table
to
shoulder.
;
She in
as
seemed
be
standing
Dr.
the
and
I tried
soon
vain
the
I
to
call
Speer's
was
attention and I
her. I
As
exposure had
seen,
over,
on
awoke,
stated
what there
and
the the
plate
table where bears
being
a
developed,
child's and of
stands The
apparently
on
little
saw
figure.
it. And
position
.the figure,
was
felt
traces
family
likeness,
as
immediately
;
claimed
by
the
little
spirit
at
her
picture
of
was
unbounded the
I of
joy
being
So be
my
expressed
was on
the
success so sure
experiment.
what
clear found
my
vision,
would
all
the
on
plate,
the
that
I would
have I
saw
staked it.
possessions
result
before
APPENDIX
V.
ON
SOMB
DIFFICULTIES
OF
INQUIRERS
INTO
SPIRITUALISM.*
In upon
dealing
other
with
sources
an
inquirer's
of For
difficulties, I
than
my
must
own
information
experience.
many
a
myself,
I had
at
although
first
no
I have
difficulty since,
in
considerable with
the
trouble of that
making
myself
It is in
acquainted
the
facts facts
to
Spiritualism.
the
explanation
come
of As
perplexing
problems though
to
more
in.
many
phenomena
seem
themselves,
find it very
senses,
to
own
obtain
to
their
believe
when of
they
bewildered which
got
it, I found
myself
being
only
by
the
my
superabundance
attention.
phenomena
MY
challenged
TO
INTRODUCTION
SPIRITUALISM
was
in
this
wise. with
In
the
early
I
was
part
then of it
come
of
the
year
i872i
some
friends,
lyord
Home.
whom book
to
staying,
seances
me
Adare's
I
of read had
at
records
D.
tried
it,but
ever
seemed
across.
to
me
dreariest
"
twaddle
address
An
delivered
Great
Spiritualists, 38,
Russell
Association
128
Appendix
a
V.
many
pish
and
pshaw
of
then
tossed
my
it aside. hand I
one
About
after,my
friend
with
a
put into
Owen's
books,
with the
was
request that
matters
would
read
it, and
It
was
investigate the
much
luctance re-
with that
which
I
it dealt.
to
ag'reed
not
meddle
me,
with and I
again.
other
It
did
interest
things.
in my
Mr.
In
however, spite,
or
of this
passive want
no
of
interest
(acHze
dogmatic
found and internal
opposition
place
with
mind),
Owen's
statements
whatever
or
cause,
whether
spiritualpreparation
found
use
intellectual with
conviction, I
power
to
myself
means were
pelled imof
so
irresistible
the
every
inquiring
I
into
my
alleged phenomena
book that I could
which
startlingto
and devoured
see
mind.
every
procured
lay
I
my
hands
on
them
all with
avidity.
new
inquired
about
where
was a
I could
phenomena,
was
and
to
informed
seance
Miss
Lottie
Fowler
hold
that Row.
very
and
was
greatly
not
astonished up time
what
saw
and the
heard.
I need of the
take
by
ting sit-
detailing
:
occurrences
most
are Spiritualists
familiar
the
usual
sense non-
routine
was
of Miss
Fowler's
many
seances.
hazy
talked, and
to
me
vague
no
made,
as
which of
I
seemed
to
be of
use
whatever
tests
identity. spirit
craved for
was
rapidly becoming
more
nauseated.
on
something
rest
as a
clear, something
which
I could
stable
piece of
evidence.
I in-
j^ppendix
V.
endeavour
was
129
to obtain
once
at
given spirit
of
by
who
"
I addressed
the
tiringyour
someone
medium,
who
and
making
fun
us.
Go
send medium
is serious."
turned
"
The voice
shivered, and
away,
and
tha.
tO'
came
me.
as
though
I won't
troubled.
go. Me
no
You've
nothing
do with
"
go."
send
some one
Yes, you
more
will.
You'll
go, and
else."
After seemed
colloquy
in if in dread. the
the
medium stood
again shivered,
to
to
be
as
pain, and
voice
rooted
the
spot,
crouching
After
a
time the
came
a
again,
man,
but
utterly
calm and
changed
very
unimpassioned, baby-jargon.
"You
"
child-voice
speaking-
want
me?" is your
not
name
Yes. I'd
What rather
?" You
can
"
tell you.
ask
me
any
questions."
"
No.
you
Tell
see
me
what
me.
you
see,
or
describe
yes
or
any
no
one
whom more."
"
near
I will
answer
no
see
man,
very
long
white
beard,
and
long
hair."
"Yes." "The
'?No.
;
is very
white
indeed."
"He
very
high
Why,
broad
forehead, and
!
"
his
eyes
are
drawn
down.
he's blind
130
"
Appendix
Yes." And his face shuddered ?
...
V.
"
is black
and
blue.
And
(here
that
.
the
violently),oh
. . .
in his
. .
"And
"
I can't
see."
Go He
.
on.
How
on a
is he
dressed blue
"
"
has
.
long
he stand
coat.
No,
I can't
not
see
exactly
coat,
"
something
close
name
long.
?
"
his feet."
Where
does
"
Right opposite ;
Can No. looks
here you He
so
by you."
? ", I go ! think it's money. do
you
"
see seems
his
"
in trouble.
He
me
"
horrible.
I,et
me
Why
keep
"
Go
No.
then.
Do
you
know
me
"
"
(This
not
very
emphatically.)
to
I shall
time
attempt
describe
was
the
scene
during
I
the
that
this
a
being
record
held. written
have
at
quoted
from the
careful is
the
time, and
on
photographed
been still
indelibly
tonished. as-
my
mind.
Every
would what
seemed
petrifiedand
more
They they
in my known
own
have
so,
a
had
with
photographic
was
accuracy
scene
private experience
eyes. It
was,
being
unknown in
a
before
my
to
am
sure,
as
unknown
any It
person
was
a
in the
scene
room,
was
myself.
that
passed
it
was
very
distant
with
a
pait of Great
realistic power
Britain, and
that bore
reproduced it,as
down
before
with
tor-
Appendix
rent-force, all doubt
man
V.
I felt that
and
me
hesitation.
; himself
was
there
before
for my
reproducing
story
of his death
conviction.
HOW
BECAME
SPIRITUALIST.
a
That
a.
experience
"
made
a
me
Spiritualist:
"
it gave
amount
nie
faith
this
to
I will
say
knowledge
served
which
no
of
after-experience has
to
to shake.
.
From
I
have
never
wavered,
much heard that of
though greatly
much
taste.
perplex
that
me,
offends and
good though
Though
the
I have
deception,
see some
reason
I believe
fraud
exists; though I
conclusions
area
to question
all-round
a
of the
Spiritualists,
of
I and
cause
and
to
are
assign
wider
to
to
realm
than
they
disposed
concede;
I cannot,
though
solve,
and
meet
lems prob-
difficulties
can
only advanced
:
knowledge
of all and
experience
conclusions
fully grasp
that
in
spite
this, the
confirmed
and
of
an
night, supported
by
many
remains after-experience,
FURTHER
firm
unshaken^
INVESTIGATION.
might
detain
you
on
at
length,
steps
to my
which
would
be
tedious, by dwelling
evidence
the
was
the home
by
which
further
I went
to
brought
seances
mind.
and
public
no
held
by Heme
Williams,
and
found
for, observatio
;
in
abundance
but
wanted
The I
more
time of
to
conditions
the
public.circle
for
some
irritated
seances
me,
and
determined
try
private
with
Appendix
Williams, myself and
The
V. friend
one
being
May
to
the29, 5,
only 1872,
when
observers.
was a
first of
we
an
these, held
total did
failure,and
not enter
adjourned
appearance. made
as
a
June
A
Heme
third
appointment,
for my
for the
was
8th,
was
last
resort,
this We I terval inI
mind
being
I
an
gradually prejudiced by
was
and shilly-shallying,
sat
getting disgusted.
with read
no
for
more
than
to
half
hour
I had
result, and
the which
proposed
conld
withdraw.
(forduring
I had
got every
book that
on
Spiritualism on
persons
lay
my
hands)
I
some
stopped
I
festations, manibe
and such
at
an
I believed
it
possible that
phenomena
ceased.
at
might
offender.
I
retired, and
occurred occurred
once.
returned, and
communications
they
This
thrice
and the
were soon
length obtained
ceased, however,
to
through
and Heme
alphabet. They
and Williams
commenced
jerk,
the
and
true
quiver,
these
was
and
twitch, and
fashion. communicated about the To
wriggle about,
my
to
in
mediumistic
great
horror,
My
I found
jerks
seized
myself.
of the
a
right arm
and
fore-arm,
noise work.
"
dashed
violently up
that
with
at
bling resem-
of
number
paviors
In of
It
was
the
most
tremendous
action
"
exhibition
ever
of
unconscious
muscular it.
I
saw.
vain
the
I tried to
stop
and
grasp
hand,
soft
firm, round
of my
senses
and
though
was
perfectly possessed
powerless
for
some soon
and
my
volition, I
hand
was
to
fere, inter-
although
the
was
disabled The
days by
found
on
bruising
to
it then the
got.
object we
was
get up
levitated
to
134
to visit
an
Appendix
old friend
to
V.
health
to
was
whose
failing,and
see
who
once,
had
as
written
beg
was
me
go
and
him
at
growing
to
short.
told that
I iurried he had
to
comply,
away not
only
time
to
be
passed
I had
previously,regretting that
see
come
him.
I went
in the
room
house, and
where the
when
due
my
me
time friend
as
body
lay, the
he would hand.
as
spirit-form
have done
I
saw
stepped
life,with
with
forward
a
greet
in him
eye
smile
and
sense
out-stretched
as
clairvoyant
the
really
my
me
natural
;
discerned
not
once
objects
on
that
surrounded
and
that
only, but
I need
not
repeated occasions.
say,
This,
deepened
Many
and but
rests.
a
my stone
faith, and
has since
strengthened
been -has
or
laid reached
on
foundation,
whijch it
the it is
superstructure
none
goodly height,
that
on
too
high
heavy
for
PRIVATE
EXPERIMENTS.
I pass
on
to
our
notice
very
brieflythat
were
rejoined
in usual
my
experiments
One
resumed
most
a new
the
by
one
all the
many
mena phenowas
produced,
I have
and had
marvel
added. of
Though
the
extraordinary opportunities
of
witnessing
past six variety of the
the
years,
phenomena
I have
seen
Spiritualism
to
during
to the
nothing equal
the taneity sponoccurred the house
manifestations, and
were
with,which they
at
produced. They
of
all
times, and
out
in
all sorts
no
places, in
seance
and
of
it, with
formal
; at
meals, in
Appendix
-church, in empty
until
we none
V.
135
rooms,
us
eversrwhere,
of
could,
any
sane
and the
entertain
nature
doubt
of
more
of the and
intelligence,any
earnest
saw
than,
the
ourselves of the
truthful
inquirers into
any
cause
source
intelligence,we
it
to
doubt
its
cal unequivothat
of
own,
affirmation, solemnly
and
repeatedly made,
and
proceeded
at
from
spirits pure
were
good,
of denizens
some
whom,
and earth.
any
rate,
departed
once
friends
our
all of
whom
had
been
of
this
VARIOUS
INQUIRERS
own
AND
THEIR
DIFFICULTIES.
Such
is my
; and
some
in
dwelling
my
upon
it I
feel that
I have
a
liberty with
But
subject, though
a
of difficulties.
own
troubles
on
to
I have of
large
other
a
acquaintance people.
The
with
years
past five
filled with
energy
to tax
of this
one
withdut
any
to
other the
occupation
and
to
and
has
related and
mainly
of
doubts
opinions,
and
especially
multifarious
desideranda
inquirers.
PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC.
I.
One
class
or
of
correspondents, whom
with with fool
"
I may
call
the
to
scientific
take pseudo-scientific,
some
much
trouble
others with
explain
to
me,
great
courtesy,
and
say
a
with
patience,
they
don't
few but
that .asperity,
so,
they
136
inean
Appendix
it
none
V.
the
less
"
or
troubling
disce
myself
as
about
these
matters.
they regard
uno
vulgar
rogues,
doubtless
the
ex
omnes
principle; investigators as
because made
shallow the
fools, presumably
scientific
method I
they do
notorious
not
employ
a
in
recent
celebrated
on
instance.
of discourses
the laws
of nature
to my respondents) corapparently well known on : snapping teiidons, cracking toejoints,expectant attention, unconscious Carpenterianare
(allof which
isms,
This
et hoc genus
omne.
and the
so
dreariest dominant
reading
ideas
one
of all ; but
to
show
that
fostered
by this
"science, falsely
to
called," are
great hindrance
the
fair and
free
of investigation
Spiritualism.
THEORISTS.
2.
A
a
second
class
"
are
those
who
an
idea, a Office,
I do who
to
plan,
and
not
earn
theory
the Trochus
of whom
War tale.
many
mean
departments, could
who of have all mastered
facts, and
themselves them. of
the
by devoting
of
as
the- task
suggesting explanations of
enduring
who whose their
own
These truth.
matter
'
merit
the
gratitude regard
fact
are
all lovers
a
I refer to those
subsidiary
altogether, and
eyes
filled with
the
fair
proportions of
they
are
idea.
Suggest
with
to them
that do
wave ex-
not
quite acquainted
accord with with much their
facts and
which
not, indeed,
them
theory,
they
aside
dignified complacence,
Appendix
plaining
,'they
I
V.
i.yj
that be
if their
ideas
to
are
properly
and
so
estimated
must
found
be
to
true,
that, since
Nature
works found
according
to
law, the
their this with
end, be
fit into
to
me
place.
his
'pondent
"argument
expounds
in
delightfulpiece
idea that for all.
me
of
connection
sim-
.iiltaneous hallucination
These another
accounts
correspondents
cause
lead does
to not
believe
that in-
why
some
success
attend their
the
of '"yestigations
are
persons,
to
minds
hopelessly darkened,
of
a
of all
light,
by the blind
false theory.
THE
IGNORANT.
3. A
purely ignorant.These
be
so
usually
profess themselves
what is already like the for this
they will
as
even
parade
it were,
an
sufficiently obvious,
and
the
though
beggar's rags
appealing to
these
professional shiver,
will
cuse ex-
from
most
platform,
persons
to
propound
and
the
astonishingqueries as
"They
exalted will would ask be unable would
spiritual.
an
questions which
to answer,
(I presume)
the
angel archthat
cedent ante-
because
being
They
find
in would
questioner no
a
knowledge
of the
naivete
a
which
will ask
about
God
creation, and
nature
with
much and
biography
of
all
the
heavenly They
host,
will
topographical plan
of
of the about
spheres.
propound
the
nature
simple questions
evil, and
the
incarnation, ahd
138
Appendix
which
to
V.
theological problems,
become if only all for
as
a
they
the
seem
to
suppose
clear few
as
mud
that spirit
has from
been,
the
poor
years,
emancipated
physical body.
These
impress
some
me
with
belief that
another have
not
cause
of failure in
inquirersis,that they
by gathering antecedent
old
not
so
pared pre-
themselves
and The
knowledge,
new
clearing ground
away
to fallacies,
receive
truth. and
has
been that
ploughed
new
up, harrowed,
may
cleansed
to
of weeds,
seed
have
change
grow.
THE CAPTIOUS
CRITICS.
4. may
Closely
call the such and
;
allied
in
ignorance
those who conditions can't be
are
"
those
want to
whom know
;
I
"
captious ;
such
why
such
a
and
such
are
necessary
why
such
things
there
done be be
in such
at the
and
way
why
;
phenomena
why
a
can't
got
any
should
not
such
thing
and
as
medium
every
man
or
circle ; why
his
own
abolish
:
them,
let
be
as
medium
thing every-
is These
it is, and
one
why
would
everything
amend
run
it isn't.
thing every-
persons,
declare, know
how
ought
to
an
to
be, and
could
God's it
on
universe
new
improved
pattern, and
may
entirely
to
principles. They
their
be
recommended
a
"
begin
of
improvements Tyndall's
Institution
room
"
by
making
when
clean
sweep
conditions
; and
in his laboratory at
Royal
they have
developing
to
of
the
photographer
begin
talk
with
them.
Appendix
belief that
persons,
"
V.
there who
are
139
some, I fear
own
These "I
lead to the
to say
a
ought
many,
carry
in their
minds
"
and of
dogmatic
truth. the
access
;
^which
have but chevaux
is
not
sure
barrier
not
to the
reception
all
They
merely
swept and
garnished
chamber,
with the Mr.
they have
de
barricaded foolish
points of
frise of
who,
objections, and
the
.strewed
It
was
floor with
torpedoes into
in
bargain.
a
Spurgeon
describing
if the
captious
diately immeand
that
constellation
would
pointed
that
out
to
his
view, he
of
on
suggest
that the stars Such
the be
shape
it
a
was
new
poor,
might
rearranged
are
principle.
of
captious
crities
not
all outside
ualism. Spirit-
SPIRITUALISTS.
is the
are
of
Spiritualists
search
to
questions
"
extremely
"
suggestive.
in
a
Some
their how which
to any
most
of them
are
after know
departed
deeply
interest
one
friends.
If
wants
the
men
into
the need
my
motives
subject, he
who
only
own
talk
-who minds
has
opportunities like
are
of
seeing the
in the
those
Spiritualism.
before find with have
one
Many
who
neglected
there reft is from in it
subject
it attractive who
hope of reunion
them.
on
a
has
been
Many
who
had
desultory
of
mere
interest
scientific
or put principles,
curiosity, find
has in-
deeper
and
keener
inducement
when^death
140
vaded their
so
Appendix
And
many,
V.
I
homes.
plain
the
as
they had
even
hoped
as
that
there
that
"
are
beyond
or
grave, the
here
; and
these
go is
a
preclude
back, mockery,
with
delay
coveted
say
intercourse that
many
and
an
impatiently
affair of
Spiritualism
sub-human
a spirits, dealing
devils.
is, after
to
all, but
us
refined
form
of
selfishness,
in difficulty
suggests
and
sure
another
antecedent
a
inquirers'way,
thing,
a
viz., that
too
desire for
too
positive state
failure.
mind,
mind
are
welL-nigh
be
or
to
produce
best
must
at
peace,
in The
harmonious
balance, and
is
say,
one
not
biassed
excited.
an
attitude
me
of
simple
ceptivity; re-
attitude, let
quite compatible
niost
accurate
with
the
keenest
scrutiny,
of
and
the
observation.
Again,
betray
evidence.
comes
a
the
letters
enthusiastic
understand
on
Spiritualists
the which the
matter
singular inabilityto
There
are
laws
of
many
grounds
have It may been be
craves
viction con-
to the
mind,
who
in especially
of
with
are
those
to
us.
dearly loved,
to
one
who
lost
that
has
vouchsafed
message,
at
once
some
the
proof
heart.
he
for, through
little clue that
privatetest, some
his But
too not to
speaks
occurrence,
to
in
recording
for
same
this
frequentlyalmost
that he and others have that
sacred the
publicity,
means
he
forgets
of
judging
enthusiasm
haSj and
them
his
seem
language
only
as
of
the
exaggerated
of
a
joy
crazy
"over-wrought
utterances
brain.
142
of
Appendix
"
V.
must
Spiritualism
lax, both
who who what should asked for write read
to
uS
many
read strangely in
in method
too
and
language.
and
We,
some
frequently,sometimes
no
forget that
to
have
antecedent is very
knowledge,
strange
no man as we
that We
to be
is familiar
them.
consciously
to assent
remember
that
ought
pound pro-
to such
facts and
"
truths
new
public acceptance
facts
and
strange,
in
on
some
and
cases,
most
not
transcending, and,
reversing previous
exact
experience
"
save
an
the
to
and
complete
evidence.
on
It is
insult
intelligence to expect
the
are
belief
say,
any
other be
basis ; and
so
converts, let
not
me
that
could
obtained
of the while
to
highest
I
am one on
order this
of mind.
And
topic,I
must
ask
your
mission per-
say
word
to
more.
It is not
only inexpedient
and
"
and
wrong
it is not
publish
always wise
inaccurate
to
loose
records, but
recount exact
still less to
"
with records
can
all the
emphasis
by such
for
a
of
enthusiasm
even
of very attested
extraordinaryphenomena,
a
unless
as
they
to
be it
weight
mind wise
of
testimony
to
make
impossible
that
are
fair
reject the
too
record.
meat
me on
I believe
it is not
not
to force to
strong Let
I
are
those be
who
prepared
the
digest
it.
not not
mean
exactly what
belief of those
It
I say. who
do
not
think
tax
familiar
subject.
so
strange,
so
subversive
previous experience,
ancients circle
were
I counsel
wise well
as
they
exoteric. harm
the It
esoteric
my
as
is within
knowledge
that
much
has
Appendix
been
on
V.
143
done
on
many
by injudiciously
seem
forcing
unprepared
minds
to
them
monstrous
occurrences.
unexplained
turns,
stood and
a
inexplicable
bewildered
digestion
could much." remark. made
so.
hearer this is
a
says,
have
little upon
of that,
but is
little in
Depend
The
it, there
must
philosophy
and
that
growth
is
no
be in
gradual,
all The wind.
ways.
should fruit
be
Forcing
it has
not
bad
The
looks
well, but
but it will
flavour. the
turn
plant
The
is luxuriant,
stand
cold sick.
inquirer
so
treated
I
is very
apt
to
have
not
already
said half
now
trespassed
that
to
occurs
beyond
to
me.
my It the
nor
limits,
is
no
and
have
my
part
may
of
point
lie of
out
how
way,
inquirer
to
pitfalls that
methods victim
in
his
say
how he
It
investigation
his
I draw
of
which
is is
to
helpless
to
aggravate
now
difficulties.
your
the that
point
many
that the
attention
are
the his
fact
own
of
inquirer's spring,
as
difficulties
I
of
to
making.
from from
They
from
have from
a
tried biassed
ignorance,
wilful
a or
arrogance,
unconscious
to
of
from
fixed
determination
haps (per-
unattainable)
and from
a
end,
lack of
from
calm
excitement and
asm, enthusiand
dispassionate
patient
painstaking
investigation.
APPENDIX
VI.
SPIRIT-
IDENTITY
"
EVIDENCE
OF
DR.
S.
T.
SPEER.*
To
The
"
the
Editor
of the
"
Spiritualist." given
to
Sir,
enclosed of
as a
through
are so
the
markable re-
mediumship
yourself,
an
bearing
and
question
that my
outside in
dent indepen-
intelligence
them
to
identity,
of the
egotism
may
submitting
possibly
be
the
readers
Spiritualist
pardoned.
The that the upon
singular perhaps
medium
matters
character
upon
no
of
these
in
this
single
point
is
as
so
absolutely
musical old
son
devoid
ordinary
here
whilst
details
given
of
to
the have
lives
of
certain my
accurate
ecclesiastical fa boy
in every of
musicians,
are so
purporting
minute,
and
influenced
fourteen),
respect,
in
a
so
solutely ab-
that
no
living
choir,
such
musician,
out with-
albeit
trained
reference
from
to
a
childhood
musical
at
cathedral
afford
could,
biography,
every its
information.
I
our
may circle
add has
that,
present,
for of
manifestation the
occurring
of
in the
apparently question
object
establishment
all-important
identity.
STANHOPE T. ISI,E
OE
Speer,
WIGHT,
M.D.,
Edin.
DUDI,EY
VlLI,A,
SHANKI,IN, 1874..
January
igth,
In
order
to
render
intelligible
the
following
1874.
curious
Spiritualist, January
23,
148
communications,
relate to
a son
Appendix
it is necessary
VI.
to
premise
that
they
From
of Dr.
Speer's, a boy
notice all who
a
of fourteen.
he has
displayed remarkable
from, and
are
musical raised
to
ability,and
has
attracted
the of
able
judge
compositions.
the medium
So
large
on
number
of communications
various
musical
It
was
spirits
in
were
the the
boy's
joined sub-
glides.
reply
was
that
information
was
given.
medium
information
is
so
given
minute
siderable cona
unknown that
to
the
indeed, it
verified
at
in detail
it could
only be
a
some
trouble
through
be in unknown the
friend
who The
consulted
names
biographical dictionary
are
of music.
to
given
music. of the
such
were
as
would versed
any,
except persons
church
who The
history
the
of
curious
were
compositions
by
the
boy
markedly
who be
influenced
was
peculiar style
this
at
of the
composer,
source
from him
to
concerned those
to
Even
but
more
details than is
printed were
the
tenor
given
of the
enough
quoted
writings.
Can
you
give
by
me
any
tion informaand
a
C is
's guides ?
principally guided
was
an
earnest
in earth-life
came
ber mem-
which with
Janet Nares
you
Lydgate
and
Lydgate,
name was
whom
Nares.
have
communicated.
James
150
Dr.
Appendix
Salisbury, at
him
as a
VI.
it was
that he
a
York.
There
that
the old
a
man
scorned diflScult
child, and
at
played
note
very
service, although
that
He
;
half
below of
the
seven
pitch,
the
so
he
brought
it into
Dr.
the
as
key
sharps. king
Gates. of To
succeeded also
Green
organist
to
and
filled the
owe
place
the
of his old
master,
first introduction
expressive melody
Is he the No Give
church
music.
only guide
are
; there
me
others.
The
Brothers
tests
Lawes.
facts.
facts.
want specially
ofidentity.
of
The
minutest
They
Choral
were
pupils
of old
Caperario ;
were a
sons
Vicarliam, Wil-
of Canterbury
the elder He
they
was
in
earth-life. of young
brother,
friend
King
of for
Charles
and
I.
composed
Henry,
the
fantasias
younger,
wrote
friend
"
Milton
Waller. music
was
the
Comus
him,
/
never
heard
of them.
you
tell
me
where
they
lived ?
[After a
in
pause.
Henry
passed
/ should
have
to
the
spirit land
have the
1662, William
in 1645. like
to
been
connected
shape.
All
The
great question
mind
can
is that
of identity. Any
test. you
minute
points
said
as
which
you
is
give
true.
I will
have
yet
literally
deed In-
We
will
these
give
every
proof
details
that
is in
our
power.
save
minute
are
worthless
for your
Appendix
conviction. be done. Until Therefore the that
we
VI.
little
151
more
can
is established devote
ourselves
to
strating demonunseen,
reality of those
with Cooke
you.
who, themselves
communicate
Benjamin
C He
n,
is
now
greatly
him
concerned
with
taste.
being
attracted
to
was
by similarity of
as a
in the
life of earth
It
was,
early developed
he
cal musithe
genius.
age organ who of of
has
think, before
that
reached upon
fourteen
years
he
performed
Like he
the
Westminster communicated
and
Abbey.
to
James
was
a
Nares,
you,
pupil
of in
Pepusch
Is the
He
of Gates, both
of whom
he
succeeded
their work.
is here.
Will
He
reply to give
you
me
in detail f He
was
will
proofs.
care
born
so
had
was
progressed
his
under
of
Pepusch
Abbey
as
sub-organist
of Westminster
in 1742. of
succeeded
master
Pepusch
Music
;
as
principal
Gates
as a as
Academy
and
of Ancient
the
and well
organist
of the
he
was
lay-clerk of
He
was
Abbey,
32
years
master
boys.
a
then
old.
As
child
has
prodigy
Is he
of with
musical
your
talent, and
therein
great
sympathy of a
from anthem
as
boy.
whose
name name we was
Cooke
found
not
at
the
head
chant. he
Christian the of
given.
of Music his formed per-
Yes;
the
obtained
degree good
and
of
Doctor
University
"Behold exercise
Cambridge degree.
in
1775, when
was
how
joyful"
for his
152
Did
We It
was
Appendix
he write
not
as a
VI.
work
a
any
considerable what
you
do
know secular
call
considerable
he
most
work.
that
shone,
though
CoUins's works. The
He
too
he
was
organist of
He
wrote to the
Church for
was
in-the-fields. "Ode
He
Passions"
at the
longer
passed
over
age
of
63.
other
was
violin, and
is Wellesley, Earl of Mornington. spirit early developed. His father played the the child delighted in the instrument. He
soon as
played
At nine
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