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These remarks are elicited by a case which occurred in 1883 in Melbourne, and which should have converted the city as surely as if an angel had walked down Collins Street
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On October 8th we had a seance with Mrs
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Carrying our own candles, and clad in miner's costume we crept along with bent heads until we came suddenly out into a huge circular hall which might have sprung from Dore's imagination
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His companion rallied him on his sudden gravity, and still more upon the cause of it, when it was explained
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In the other cases, however, there are the direct action and advice of a wise spirit control, a deceased physician usually, who has added to his worldly stock of knowledge
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The clairvoyance was good, if genuine, but it offends me to see it turned off and on like a turn at a music hall
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Social gaieties are somewhat out of key with my present train of thought, and I was more in my element next evening at a meeting of the Rescue Circle under Mr
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He was greatly amused at their "sky-pilot," as he called the chaplain, and at his confusion when he found the other world quite different to what he had depicted
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As I am on the subject of psychic experiences I may as well carry on, so that the reader who is out of sympathy may make a single skip of the lot
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Shortly after her arrival in Melbourne she gave us a seance in our private room at the hotel, no one being present save at my invitation
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As a matter of fact he was perfectly right, for after the sitting both my wife and I remembered that I had exchanged a word or two with him as I was coming out of Light office at least a year after the Sheffield meeting
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Every solid spiritualist would, I am sure, agree with me that our whole subject needs regulating, and is in an unsatisfactory condition
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Of course, we spiritualists are ourselves vulnerable upon the subject of the lives of some of our mediums, but we carefully dissociate those lives from the powers which use the physical frame of the medium for their own purposes, just as the religious and insp
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On the other hand, I had many which were splendidly instructive and helpful
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As I could do nothing, it seemed easy money
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I have been looking up all the old books upon the Maoris which I could find, with the special intent of clearing up their history, but while doing so I found in one rather rare volume "Old New Zealand," an account of a Maori seance, which seems to have been in
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A popular young chief had been killed in battle
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He fell into an insidious illness with certain psychic symptoms, and within a few months was reduced to skin and bone
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Stanley returned again through the medium, said that his widow was going to marry again, and that it was with his full approbation
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I succeeded at Christchurch in performing the feat of waking up a Cathedral City, and all the ex-sleepers were protesting loudly against such a disturbing inrush from the outer world
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Thacker, the mayor, for much kind attention whilst in Christchurch
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Reynolds, of Dunedin, I met one of the most powerful clairvoyants and trance mediums whom I have tested
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She then cried, "I see an elderly lady here--she is a beautifully high spirit--her name is Selina." This rather unusual name belonged to my wife's mother, who died nearly two years ago
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Whilst in the Blue Mountains I was forced to reconsider my plans on account of the strike which has paralysed all coastal trade
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It means to me not only disfigurement, but often a sleepless night
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It was as well, for the walk would have been quite beyond her, and yet having once started there is no return, so we should have ended by carrying her through all the subterranean labyrinths
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actite effects, though very wonderful, are not, I think, superior to those which I have seen in Derbyshire, and the caves have none of that historical glamour which is needed in order to link some large natural object to our own comprehension
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Whilst in Sydney I had an opportunity of examining several phases of mediumship which will be of interest to the psychic reader
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On my last evening at Sydney, I attended a third seance with Charles Bailey, the apport medium
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Apart from the actual production in the seance room, which may be disputed, I should like to confront the honest sceptic with the extraordinary nature of the objects which Bailey produces on these occasions
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m, Geley promises to be the greatest male practical psychic researcher, and he has advantages of which Crawford could never boast, since the liberality of Monsieur Jean Meyer has placed him at the head of a splendid establishment with laboratory, photographic
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After my lecture, which covered an hour and a quarter, we were favoured by an extraordinary exhibition from a medium named Aubert
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If she had not been a great pioneer in Science, she might have been a remarkable actress, for it was wonderful how her face took off the various types
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These took the form of materialisations
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Geley's work, he had foreseen that the only answer which any critic, however exacting, could make to the evidence, was that the paraffin hand had been brought in the medium's pocket
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Geley that the experiments in England with the medium Eva had been largely negative, though once or twice the ectoplasmic flow was, as I understand, observed
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I have just had a sitting with Eva, whom I cannot even say that I have seen, for she was under her cloth cabinet when I arrived and still under it when I left, being in trance the whole time
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The particular case which came immediately under my notice was that of a mother whose son had been killed from an aeroplane, in the war
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To-day I heard music which I had known and loved in the happy, careless long ago, and whilst I was lost in a dream of half-forgotten bliss I smelt the fragrance of mimosa flower
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In those days we never heard the word "ghost" mentioned, yet I cannot recollect thinking of "silk dress" as anything but a visitor from the other world
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What may have given rise to the suggestion was the fact that she dressed after the fashion of the Scottish Queen, and was surrounded by "Mary relics." Also, there is no doubt that she had a deeply sympathetic interest in the unfortunate Queen, and had elevated
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The jewels possessed by Lady Caithness were the most gorgeous I have ever seen
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I sat with her through many seances, successful, barren, and indifferent, conducted by mediums of various nationalities
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One night I had a curious experience
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The figure moved softly round the room, it made no sound whatever, and as it came to each sleeper it bent down, as if closely scrutinizing each face
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Such sacramental hours sanctify the variety of our lot, combine the pathos of love and death, and stretch through the corridors of memory into the hush and shadow of the haunted past; where all the mystery of such hours seem gathered for inspiration
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One night, immediately after he had dined, he ran upstairs to his bedroom to fetch something
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When the following autumn came round he found himself again in the North, under exactly similar circumstances
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