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These descriptions, it would seem, ought to be enough to strike terror to any heart at the thought of being a…

Date of account: Published 1896
Source: Modern Spiritualism
Reference: Modern Spiritualism · selected passage 77
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

Record summary

These descriptions, it would seem, ought to be enough to strike terror to any heart at the thought of being a medium

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These descriptions, it would seem, ought to be enough to strike terror to any heart at the thought of being a medium. But there is yet another phase of the subject that should not be passed by. These fallen spirits who are engineering the work of Spiritualism, to maintain their “assumed characters,” and “play their parts” like the aforesaid diakka, represent that disembodied spirits “just over the threshold,” still retain the characteristics they bore in life, such as a disposition to sensuality and licentiousness, love of rum, tobacco, and other vices, and that they can, by causing the medium to plunge excessively into these things, thereby still gratify their own propensities to indulge in them. The following sketch by Hudson Tuttle, a very popular author among Spiritualists, is somewhat lengthy, but the idea could not better be presented than by giving it entire. In “Life in Two Spheres,” pp.

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