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In all the experiments which precede, we gave our attention principally to a careful inspection of the position of the hands and the feet of the medium; and, in this respect, we believe we can say that they were safe from all criticism
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On this evening it was remarked that a little before the levitation, Eusapia's skirt was inflated on the left side until it touched the foot of the nearest table
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These phenomena were observed several times during our seances
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In order to assure ourselves that we were not the victims of a trick, we tied the hands of the medium by a string to those of her two neighbors, in such a way that the movements of the four hands would reciprocally control each other
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A little bell was placed upon a chair behind her
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They had quivered and wavered around us, giving us pet names, sweet sacred things, the intimate talk of the olden time
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My own experiences were limited and inconclusive, so that it was the evidence of others which I quoted
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However this is digression, and when the digressions are taken out of this book there will not be much left
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I employed the time by running down to Devonshire to give addresses at Exeter and Torquay, with admirable audiences at both
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There, however, the proof ends, nor will they go further than the proof extends, as otherwise their original principles would be gone
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I have a number of good psychic photographs with me, some of them of my own taking, and all of them guaranteed, and I find these valuable as making folk realise that my words do in truth represent realities
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It begins with my electric fan whizzing over my head
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Which leads my thoughts to the question of the torpedoing of merchant vessels by submarines
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All these Australian boys agree that the matter will burn itself out, and that it will end in an immense massacre of Jews which may involve the whole seven millions now in Russia
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A doctor came up to me in the hotel and told me that he was practising there, and had come recently from England
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After a time he asks each of the circle what he or she can see, and has many correct answers
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I showed them the record of miracle after miracle, some of them done under my very eyes, one guaranteed by Russell Wallace, three by Sir William Crookes, one of the Geley series from Paris, two of Dr
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Of His own personality we know extraordinarily little, considering the supreme part that He played in the world
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Their chief agent had been the Argus, a solid, stodgy paper, which amply fulfilled the material needs of the public, but was not given to spiritual vision
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The details he gave me were almost the same as those given by Mr
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That is blasphemy!" The Chinese control said, "He stupid man
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He conveys to me that his name is Roberts
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Hughes was good enough to ask me to meet the members of the Federal Government at lunch, and the experience was an interesting one, for here round one small table were those who were shaping the course of this young giant among the nations
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I have been interested in the medium Bailey, who was said to have been exposed in France in 1910
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Reading the alleged exposure, one is struck, as so often in such cases, with its unsatisfactory nature
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I had a sitting in my room at the hotel to which I invited ten guests, but the results were not impressive
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I have been reading Bailey's record, however, and I cannot doubt that he has been a great apport medium
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I was wrong, however, for there was no luminosity at all
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To return to this particular seance, it was unequal
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If you ask the way or any other information, strangers will take trouble to put you right
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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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