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Considering the state of feeling with which many persons enter the seance-room, it is not singular that they…

Date of account: Published 1885
Source: Materialized apparitions: if not beings from another life, what are they
Reference: Materialized apparitions: if not beings from another life, what are they · selected passage 103
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Considering the state of feeling with which many persons enter the seance-room, it is not singular that they are sometimes treated to what seems to be deception

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Considering the state of feeling with which many persons enter the seance-room, it is not singular that they are sometimes treated to what seems to be deception. The spirits, perceiving the condition of the minds around them, act very much as they would if they were still on this side of life. Thoughts are things, which appear to them very much as solid substances do to us. If, instead of attempting to remove them, they can accomplish their object by going round them, they feel themselves justified in doing so. They act very much, at times, as children would under similar circumstances; and, until they obtain complete control over the form that encases them, they cannot express themselves with much force.

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