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But this idea of progression seems to be at variance with the observations of a writer in the Boston Post, who was astonished at the wonderful precocity of little infants in the spirit world
Read record →The believers in the "harmonial philosophy" have their miracles in attestation of their theory; and so of the Millerites
Read record →We once went to stay over night in a house said to be haunted, the house being empty at the time, the family who had occupied it having actually been frightened away by the noises they had heard
Read record →ast, present, and future events of their lives--whether they are married or single, the number of their children living and dead, age, health, business, letters expected, the whereabout of long-absent friends, &c
Read record →"Invited by a friend who was anxious to convince me more fully, and especially to convert the young lady who was with me at Mr
Read record →She wrote absolutely furiously, but no one but the spirits could read it, and it was passed over to another medium, who announced it a message of such utter unimportance that we have forgotten it
Read record →He had heard of others being magnetized by spirits, and they were happy, very happy
Read record →We have said that no dependence whatever can be placed upon the rapping spirits
Read record →The sounds were made by the finger joints, it was supposed; and perhaps the jaw bone may have contributed its share in the performance
Read record →But on the night of the 22d, though the dog lay in the room as before, yet the candles went out, a number of brickbats fell from the chimney into the room, the dog howled piteously, their bed clothes were all stripped off, and their terror increased
Read record →nces in our day, there will be no necessity for us to attribute them to any supernatural influence, either good or bad; for it is a well-received maxim, that "what man has done man can do." To suppose that the merciful Father of spirits would harass and fright
Read record →As to what is commonly termed good or ill luck, we may be assured that they have no other existence but in the imagination
Read record →We are by no means authorized to say that none of these persons were relieved of pains and diseases by seeking relief in this way
Read record →Cotton Mather, in the time of New England witchcraft, took home one of the possessed damsels, to learn the ways and works of Satan
Read record →It is a lamentable consideration that so much time should be criminally wasted in many families in explaining tricks, relating and expounding dreams, telling fortunes, and in detailing stories of haunted houses, hobgoblins, and spirits of the supposed uneasy d
Read record →Now, there is nothing very remarkable in this affair, for all might have been done by the medium himself, by first pathetizing the persons present, as it might be done without their knowledge, and while in that state could be made to see and hear any thing ima
Read record →We have heard the case of a person who went to a medium and wished to know if he could be put in communication with his father, who had died several years before
Read record →But the whole matter is easily accounted for, without referring it to the supposed agency of spirits
Read record →The individual is first pathetized (another name for mesmerism) by him in a wakeful state, though unconscious, it may be, that he is under such an influence
Read record →"Under an impression that whatever is communicated by a spirit must, of course, be true, many persons are receiving these communications as the truth of God--as a new revelation from the spirit world
Read record →On touching some particular letter, a rap is given, indicating that it is the first letter of the name of your departed friend
Read record →o, in a normal state, are incapable of doing either, as well as many other exploits, at the option or desire of those who are present; inquirers, oftentimes, in such cases, becoming the operators, transferring their own impressions, ideas, sentiments, and know
Read record →"The feats of the ancient jugglers were many of them mere acts of deception
Read record →"These instances are sufficient to prove that the spiritual manifestations of our times, like those of ancient times, are in many instances a sheer deception--a vile trick, palmed off upon a wondering and credulous community, for the sake of money, or for othe
Read record →"Another man, who had been a noted medium, but who was beginning to get his eyes opened as to the character of the proceedings, told his audience one night, 'Now, any one present ask a series of questions, and I pledge myself that the answer shall be, every ti
Read record →It is an admitted fact that these answers coincide very generally with the opinions or wishes of the medium, or of some one present in consultation with him
Read record →When the requisite preparation is made, there is no need of consulting the spirits at all, in order to secure answers
Read record →Samuel Taylor, a respectable physician of Petersham, Massachusetts, whose article on the subject may be found in a late number of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Read record →Taylor comes to the conclusion, that the strange phenomena of which he was the subject were not tricks of his own, neither did they come from the spirit world, but were the result of what he calls detached vitalized electricity
Read record →"We have the testimony of another medium, of the same import with that of Dr
Read record →They are, therefore, deceived; and those who follow them are deceived
Read record →Should any think, by reading what we have offered upon this subject in the preceding pages, that we have imputed guilt and deception to mediums, who are believed to be, many of them, above such trickery, we would merely refer such to page 29 of the Reply of Ve
Read record →"If it could be shown that all these things were really revealed, as they are said to be, we should still think them unworthy of notice
Read record →It is the tendency of ignorance, in every age, to do the same thing
Read record →"Reason determines that, for every phenomenon, there is an agent; but never, without sufficient data, does she determine what that agent is
Read record →I shall therefore only inform you of what I have been an eye-witness to
Read record →About a year after the birth of her child, being laughed at for her superstition, she was thrown into a state of rigid spasm, and became as cold and stiff as a corpse
Read record →She was now induced to take a medicine which made her more calm, but threw her into a deeper trance
Read record →mpling up and down stairs by day and by night to be heard, but no one to be seen, as well as knockings on the walls and in the cellars; but, however suddenly a person flew to the place to try to detect whence the noise proceeded, they could see nothing
Read record →If she chanced to seat herself on a sandstone beach, she was apt to become cataleptic; and once, having been for some time missed, she was at length found at the top of the house, seated on a heap of sand, so rigid, that she was unable to move away from it
Read record →Kerner remarks as follows: "As I had been told by her parents, before her father's death, that, at the period of her early magnetic state, she was able to make herself heard by her friends, as they lay in bed at night, in the same village, in other houses, by
Read record →"On the 30th of the same month, Rev
Read record →In conclusion, it was observed that D
Read record →Tell him he saw snakes, and he would become frightened, and rush with violence over the seats and benches
Read record →The editor of the Spiritual Telegraph says, that "in the biological experiments there is a visible human operator," but, "in the spiritual manifestations, no human operator can be found, or demonstrated to exist." But, pray, what is the "medium," in these mani
Read record →One of his troubles was, that a set of green dressed dancers would enter his drawing room, go through their evolutions, and retire
Read record →A biological mesmerist assures us that he finds no difficulty in raising beds, chairs, and tables; and in the case of Mr
Read record →Whenever a real ghost appears,--by which we mean some man or woman dressed up to frighten another,--if the supernatural character of the apparition has been for a moment believed, the effects on the spectator have always been injurious--sometimes producing con
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