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Are they displeased because the ladies keep staying in spite of their mandate to go home?
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The number must have counted by thousands who had by this time witnessed for themselves, not merely the comparatively small sounds of the ordinary rapping near our persons, but sometimes great knockings, as by powerful arms and heavy hammers, on all parts of r
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I will copy the notice as follows: 'We have read this book, and have been pleased with its style, and impressed with the sincerity of its author
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"If all be an imposture, who can measure the depth of that depravity which trifles thus with the holiest affections, aspirations, and sorrows?
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ould most effectually comport with our comfort and desire), by an early departing train from our sister city, whose queenly dignity, in thus aspiring to rob us of our Spiritual flame--the guide of our uncertain steps--we are getting jealous of
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"George Willets and myself went over to see Clara (your housekeeper) yesterday
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A company of twenty or more persons had assembled--the 'three sisters' came into the room--the sounds were heard--and through the medium of the alphabet, they, and about half of the company, were directed to retire to another apartment
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"Afterward the same gentle rapping was heard in the form of a call for the alphabet (five quick successive raps)
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s always manifest between the mere underfoot uniform sounds, yielded by this miserable trick, and the variety of the "knockings" on tables, floors, doors, walls, and ceilings--now faint, now approaching the thunderous--to say nothing of the identification of t
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We advertised through all the papers that, immediately after the Burrs had lectured and entertained the public with their toe-rapping expositions, the Fox family would be forthcoming to give them every opportunity of testing the truth of the real Spirit rappin
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"DEAR MADAM--Great excitement prevails in our quiet little village at this time
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The promises have all been fulfilled
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"The Spirits.--Miss Catharine Fox, the spirit medium, accompanied by a married sister and a female friend, will remain a few days at the Walnut Street House, where they will be pleased to meet those who feel interested in these manifestations, and who desire t
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e my brethren, ye have,' etc.; and also, 'In my father's house there are many mansions;' but the belief I had on this point was always accompanied with a desire for more positive proof of immortality
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A large concourse of personal friends and friends of the cause of Spiritualism attended
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The famous conjurer Anderson, "The Wizard of the North," was exhibiting in New York, I believe in the large building called Tripler Hall, in the rear of a hotel on Broadway, near Bond Street
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It will be seen that that phenomenon actually occurred through my mediumship, though under circumstances and appearances highly suggestive (to our enemies) of trickery on my part, and such as naturally to awaken uneasiness in the minds of friends whom long exp
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We never gave public séances in darkened rooms
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[12] The frequency of the appearance of lights, or luminous appearances, at séances, is suggestive of the idea that Spirits often employ, in their manifestations, phosphorus in some form or condition--phosphorus probably drawn from the atmosphere, or from the
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"The members of the circle are expecting me to see you and have a talk with you respecting the manifestations of lights at Mr
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"After sitting a few moments they were directed to 'break the seal' (which was done by Mr
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"My attention was attracted to a bright light on the floor, when, at the same time, Leah noticed a bright, flashing light, rising from the mantel, and showing the picture over it distinctly
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Great doubt was expressed, in the press editorials of the day, of the honesty of the professors in thus expelling the student without giving him an opportunity to prove his integrity
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Townshend, attentive to whatever passed
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Raps and tipping of the table did not come as they usually do with him; yet he asked those at the table to write the names of deceased friends and roll up the slips
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Have you not the 'slightest hesitation' in setting down persons of character and station as wilful perjurers?--nay, as motiveless perjurers?
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"Inasmuch as my book treats only of spontaneous phenomena, not of those that are evoked, I have therein said nothing of the Foxes, except in connection with the narrative of what, in the olden time, would have been called the 'haunted house' of Hydesville; one
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"Desiring, after twenty years of public life, some more tranquil and philosophical field of labor, I discovered none which appeared to promise more useful results than this
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I judged it to be about four inches long and two and a half inches wide
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Emily--that was the girl's name--had been Mrs
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The figure which had seemed to move away and return, again touched me from behind, drawing me slightly toward it
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"This terminated the sitting for the time; the arm still remaining paralyzed as before
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"I then said, mentally, 'Perhaps I was wrong.' He said, 'No, I was in fault.' I asked him to spell his first name, which he did
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Boynton said that he pretended to be friendly, got communication with his father's Spirit (who was not dead), and then he detected this lady in rapping and charged her with it; and she owned up to him and taught him how to rap, which he was practising
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I will keep it a long time, as a remembrance, and will be again obliged, whenever a repetition of the favor may be experienced without taxing your patience and generosity beyond its friendly bounds
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"We look, not upward nor downward--for those terms are inadmissible in this connection--but outward from our standpoint; and what do we see?
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The communication, in its essentials, was an entire fabrication
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Now, then, why should there be any need of so conducting circles for manifestations as to cause suspicion, or leave the minds of investigators in doubt?
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There are those prone to amuse themselves with a sort of practical joking and false personation; and such Spirits, being in a low plane, are apt to be glad of any opportunity to push themselves forward into the door opened by the presence of the medium, and pl
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For, however genuine, as well as impressive, may be the manifestations of the presence and action of the Spirits which may have occurred in the employment of them, they afford opportunities for deception which dishonest mediums are but too ready to avail thems
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ned the small gate and held it open, supposing the dog would pass through it; but judge of my amazement to see him instead of doing so, scale the great gate with a bound and meet me face to face on the other side, but no longer a dog!
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Wilson, one of the most prominent physicians of New York, was one of my dearest and best of friends
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Will you give me your name?' The alphabet being then called for, the name was given me privately, not by rapping, which Leah would of course have heard, but by touches on my foot, in correspondence to the letters of the alphabet
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"I was," she said, "sitting in the north room at home (in father's house)
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We then went to Amy Post, and told her how we had been deceived and disappointed by the Spirits
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We went and told Joe about it, who made no account of it, regarding Charlie as not in his right mind; but the latter continued so long with the same cries which proved such severe actual suffering, whatever might be the illusion possessing his mind in regard t
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As we huddled together and sat paralyzed, we heard the cheerful voice of our good Quaker friend, Mr
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We took no light with us, as we did not expect to need any
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