SPIRIT-IDENTITY

Spirit- Identity

By

(M.A. OxoN.)
Vv\A\o^AA/i 'S)to..\.v\,Vuv\, YWosea
Author
of

r^

"

Psychography,""The

""Spirit Higher Aspectsof Spiritualism," Teachings," etc.

London London
spiritualist
no,

igb^ alliance,
LANE,
W.C.

LmitEt),

ST.

MARTIN'S

The

first

edition

of

Spirit

Idehtity

has

long

been

out

of

print,

but

the

demand

for

it

continues.

The

Rev.

W.

Stainton

Moses

(M.A.

Oxon.),

the

author

of

the

book,
was

the

original

promoter

and

the

first

President

of

the

London

Spiritualist

Alliance,

and

the

Council

of

the

Alliance

issues

this

reprint
as an

affectionate

tribute

to

his
memory.

inettibe

tJjia

CKoIume

to

my

old

friends,

DR.
AND

MRS.

STANHOPE

SPEER,

As

witnesses

from

the

first

of

that

sequence

of

events

of

which

this

record

is

but
a

sample

As

those,

therefore,

who
are

best

able

to

understand

both

what

is

therein

written,

and

what

is

omitted:

And,

lastly,

as

testimony

of

grateful

and

sincere

friendship

and

regard.

UTTERANCES
ON THE

OF

EMINENT OF

MEN SPIRITUALISM.

OF

SCIENCE

SUBJECT

"

Sit

with
up of my it."

you

! mind Agassiz

No

! before

have

resolved
here

to

sit with

no

one.

made
come

coming of

that

nothing

would

"

(Member
to

Investigation

Committee,

Harvard

University)
who of would
to

Mr.

Redman.

"They
witnesses
"

say facts." be them."

a

they

see

these

things

are

not

competent

It

condescension Faraday.

on

my

part

to

pay

any

more

attention

"

"

Spirit
I

is

the

last

thing

will

give
in

in

to."

"

BREWSTER

"

have

settled HERBERT

the

question
SpENSER.

my

own

mind

on

priori

grounds."

"

"Supposing
interest
me.""

the Huxley.

phenomena

to

be

genuine,

they

do

not

"

There

are

people
which who the to will it to

amongst
the

us

who,

it is of

alleged,

can

produce
There and

effects
are men

before of

discoveries

Newton

pale.
have,

science
to

would
for
a.

sell

all

that of

they

give
which

the
are

proceeds
mere
"

poor,
the

glimpse

phenomena

trifles world

Spiritualist."
religion
intellectual of
some

The

have
the

kind,
of

even

though

it

should
"

fly

for

whoredom

Spiritualism."

Professor

Tyndali,.

"

most

mischievous
delusion of

epidemic
the

delusion,

comparable
century."
"

to

the B.

witchcraft Carpenter.

seventeenth

^W.

viii

Utterances

of
its

Eminent

Men.
is

"Spiritualism
"

amongst

more

devout

followers

ligion." Re-

Crookes. connected dis-

"

It

demonstrates from
a

mind material
so

without

brain,
. . .

and It

intelligence
that

body.
many

furnishes
for want many

^TOo/
so

of

future

life which
and A. R.

crave,

and
so

of which in

many

live

die

in

anxious

doubt,

positive

disbelief.""

Wallace.

"

The
to

Spiritualists, beyond
all

doubt,

are

in

the

track

that

has

led
are

advancement

in

physical
of those

science. who have

Their

opponents

the

representatives
"

striven

against

progress."
Asked,
THE USE

DE

Morgan.

What
OF
a

is the
new-born

use

of
BABY

it ? Franklin
.?

replied.

What

is

"

The

testimony
the facts

has
must

been be

so

abundant
to

and
be such

consentaneous,
as are

that
or

either
the be

admitted

ed, report-

possibility
given up."
"

of

certifying

facts Challis.

by

human

testimony

must

PROFESSOR

"

Already

Spiritualism,
effect

conducted

as

it

usually

is, has
in

had the

prodigious
World and which
"

throughout

America,

and from

partly
hardened

Old

also, in materialism,
their

redeeming
proving
of mind

multitudes
to

atheism

them

by

the

positive demonstration
there is
"

cast

requires,
form

that of

another

world
many true."

that

there

is

non-material which

humanity

and
at

that
are

miraculous
"

things
Chambers.

they

had

hitherto

scoffed

Robert

"Even

in if it

the

most
no

cloudless

skies
a

of

scepticism
hand
;

see

rain-

cloud,

be

bigger

than

man's

it is

modern

Spiritualism."

Lord

Brougham.

PREFACE.

This
read

volume
at

has

grown

out

of

paper

originally
National

discussion of

meeting

of held

the

British
their

Association Great
December Russell

Spiritualists,
Street,
1878.
I

at

rooms,

38,
of

London,

on

the

evening

16,
that
paper

In

presented
who have and
I

certain from

evidence

for

the

identity

of

spirits
with
me

time

to

time

municated com-

founded

an

argument

upon

the

evidence

produced.
narrow

Confined

within

limits with of

by

the

exigences
of
the

of

the

occasion,
and
my

dealt

one

phase
was

subject
I

only,

treatment

it

cursory.

have,
as

however,

considered

it

best

to

print
some

the

paper

it

originally
facts,
and

was

delivered,

with its
in

few

additional and sions, omis-

to

supplement
extent, the

imperfections
parts
of

to

some

other

the

book,

especially
I have

in
also

Introduction.
from

reprinted
on

the

Spiritualist
of

certain work

papers

bearing

the

general

subject

this

Preface.
have added in another

and

Appendix
which allusion

cases

of

identity
in the

before

published,
of
my

to

is

made

course

argument. do,
the
outer

Writing, penetrated
assume
a

as

now

for

the

student

who

has

within

ring

of

this

subject,
his

certain

amount

of

knowledge principles,

on

part,
I do

and

certain

acceptance
discuss.

of

which

not

stop
And it

to

is

fair

to

add

that

deduce

from

my

facts

certain

arguments
which

for

the

religious
will

tendency
or

of

Spiritualism,
as

my

readers

modify
have

reject
own

it

pleases
notions

them.

Probably already
but

they
whether

their

religious
facts
are

so

or

not,

the

independent
them.

of

any

theory

that

may

be

built

upon

M.A.

(OxoN.)

London,

Christmas,

1878.

SYLLABUS

OF

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Preface
.

ix
.

Introduction
....

Difficulties

in

the

way of

of

investigation

Divergent
Attitude This

results

investigators
represses
ofthe
to

of

public opinion
also from the

publication
factsthemselves

4 6 8
.

results

nature

The
The The

Intelligent Operator investigator higher

gates
has little

has

be

reckoned
in the
matter

with
.

choice
are

lo

monstration

phenomena by the ajar,

not

susceptible
enters

of

de
.

scientific
a

method crowd

13 16

The
We No

being
the
to

motley
out

in
.

supply

material have

of which
to

this is diabolic

composed
element
.

18

necessity
of

recourse

the the

19
20

Neglect Agencies
Sub-human
These

conditions than
"

proper
those the
more

for of the

investigation

other

departed spiritofthe
to

24 25

spirits
had far

liberated

Psychic
than .26

have
can

attributed
. .

them
.

they

rightly
in

claim

Specialism Religious
Notes of

Spiritualism
of the

.27 .28

aspects
the of age

question
.

.31 33
end op

The The

place

Spiritualism
Operator

in

modern
at

thought
other

Intei"i"igent
The

the

Line.
of
nature

Scope
The What

the

inquiry
of the

-37
.

Intelligence
?

"

39

is the

Intelligence
in the way of

.40

Difficulties
the

accepting
.

the

story
.

told

by
.41 .41
.

Intelligent Operator
of

Assumption
Absence of

great

names

precise
and

statement
.

42

Contradictory

absurd

messages

44

xii

Contents.
PAGE.

Conditions Value
Personal

under

which

good evidence testimony

.

is obtained

45 47 49

of corroborative

experiences
cases

Eleven
II,

occurring consecutively, Jan.

.

to
"

1874

. _

52

A A

spiritrefusing

to

be

misled
love

by

suggestion
.

54

spiritearth-bound

by

of money

56
57 59 61

Influence

of association,
have

especiallyof locality
for
: a

Spiritswho

communicated

long period
timony tes.

communicating Child-spirits
from
a

corroborative
.

second

source

Extremely
A

minute

evidence

given by

two
.

methods
.

65 67

possiblemisconception guarded against

conclusions
. .

General

.69
.70
.

Personal Personal

immortality recognition of
.

and

by friends
. .

71

Religious aspects
Appendix
On I. of

"

1^

the power ibformation II.

some

Spirits to gain
.
.

access
.

to

sources
.

of .77

Appendix On

phases Identity
III. of

of
.

Mediumship
.

bearing
,

on
.

Spirit.89

Appendix
BEE.

Cases
1. 2.

Spirit-Identity
crushed

Man

by

steam-roller
.

107

Abraham Charlotte
rv.

Florentine
.

.110

3.

Buckworth

117

Appendix Evidence
Appendix On Appendix
some

from
V.

spirit-photography

121

diflSculties of
VI.
"

inquirers into Spiritualism

127

Spirit-Identity Evidence

of Dr.

Stanhope Speer

147

SPIRIT-IDENTITY.

INTRODUCTION.

This

volume

differs in this and

;

from

my
:

previous
I write
now

one

on

PSYCHOGRAPHY who have studied

respect
made whereas have
can

for

those with for

on

themselves then
no

familiar
I
wrote

spiritual phenomena
uninstructed

the the

world, beyond
or a

who

knowledge
from in
some
a

subject
conversation

what

be

gained

casual
paper. news-

misleading

paragraph

Then
to

was

careful

to

employ

non-committal and
to

terms,
refrain

state

no

theory
from the the

for
use

acceptance,
of
any

generally
serve

language
wherewith the and of life

that
new

might
truth I
am

to

increase

prejudice
Here,
on

is

always
to

viewed.
the the

contrary,
am

speaking
evidence after
the and

esoteric

body,

propounding
individuality
first

for death

perpetuation
of the with

and

body.

am

leaving

ciples prinIn
so

dealing
must

profounder
on

mysteries.
of those the who

doing,
me,
a

assume,

the

part
with

read

considerable and that

familiarity
some

phenomena
of thought

of
as

Spiritualism,
to

previous
them.

exercise

the

causes

underlie

Spirit-Identity
Speaking
to such

only,

I desire

to clear

the
more

ground
sary neces-

by

few

preliminary considerations,
a

the

because is devoted
to

considerable
exclusive the

portion
argument
"

of

this

work

an

dealing only
return

with
of the

one

side

of

question

the

to I

earth
no

spirits of
to

departed
to

humanity.
any
narrow

have

desire
or

stand

committed of the

definition
any
more

limitation I wish goes

to

Intelligence
the in
a

at

work,
of of he

than that

to

ignore
that

great

weight
number

evidence
cases

show

large

the
to

Intelligent Operator
be,
to
or

is not

the person unfortunate

pretends

else that
out

he

is very

in his

attempts

make

his
as

identity.
I

Speaking,
vast years
"

do, almost
one

on

the
I

threshold

of
some

inquiry, albeit
with
rare

in which

have

spent
an

opportunities for forming

of the
causes

opinion
in

speaking,
themselves
so
so

moreover,

of

things

various, in the methods

in their

of their

tation presenso

protean,
"

perpetual changefulness
as
one averse

perplexing

speaking, too,
a

ing, to theoris-

especiallyon
I desire would
some

subjectso
say
as

fruitful of fanciful
as

thesis, hypoBut it

to

little

possible.
go forth

be

unfair
on

to

let this volume

without than paper

words
to

other
I have

aspects of the

question
in my

those
on

which

given prominence
Operator.

The

Intelligent

DIFPICTJLTIES

IN

THE

WAY

OF

INVESTIGATION.

It must

be

admitted

at the

outset

of the

argument
at

that

many

perplexing questions are

raised

every

in Difficulties

the

Way.
experiences

3
of investigators of and
not
we

step of the investigation. The

are

very

various

"

The

attitude

public
sion discus-

opinion
be

almost
"

precludes
The facts in
many

fair ventilation themselves

cases
: are

of facts:
can

such
have

as

published
with
an are

and

to

reckon and
our

Intelligent Operator frequently

be.
are

whose
reverse

opinion
to what

action
own

the

very

would

The
enters
:
"

gates
we

set

ajar, and
of

motley
of
us

company
care we

know conditions

little of, and

most

less
plicate com-

for, proper
an

investigation ; subject by
I wish
to

and

already perplexing

much

less care-

folly.
It is this line of

thought

that

pursue.

DIVERGENT

RESULTS

OP

INVESTIGATORS.

The called

experiences

of

investigators of
been
even

the

phenomena
than Some that dence evi-

spiritual have
tried for

more

various

those of investigatorsof other

have
years, and

obscure have been with take

and
a a

subjects. nothing
with

seen

satisfies them. that sweeps

Others
away

have doubt have

to

flooded
the world

torrent-rush of trouble
all has
mass

of conviction.
to

Some of

get

means
are

investigation ;
only with
of which much
to
means or

when

been of

done,

confronted

bewildering
can

illusive phenomena which

are

they

make which

nothing,
certainly
about
are
on

may

mean

but little, Others

not

reducible
own

law. of fear

carry

with
not

them

their

investigation,and
of

perplexed

by

any

deceit,

at

least

this

4
aide.
.

Spirit-Identity.
Some

bring

to the

inquiry
from

calm

and

evenlythe

balanced
and
most

mind, free

alike

dogmatic scepticism
gulp
ever

enthusiastic

credulity.

Others without from

down

portentous
conclusions

phenomena
to

thinking of
And

the

be

drawn hear

them. know

others,

yet again, see

and shut

nothing,
the

nothing, through

nothing,
alone

tight
is

avenues

which

knowledge

procurable.

ATTITUDE

OP

OPINION

REPRESSES
OP

PTJBWCATION

FACTS.

No

wonder,

then,

that,

where

experience
It would The

is

so

various, opinion is equally divergent.

more

be

than
too

strange

were

it otherwise. is

gator investistate

frequently
to

compelled
the

by

this

of

general opinion
with
a

approach
and

study of the
If he be

subject
a

mind

befogged by fprejudice.
educated in the
to

man

properly
abstruse recondite will have but

trained

understand

the
more

questions involved
phenomena
spent
most to

study of the

of of
a

psychological science,
his
time in
an

he

atmosphere
of the
he that

little favourable it

candid
very outcome

consideration

question
have read

.involves.
will those
a

The

Jworks
of

will
of in and

be who

the

the

study
interest

insanity by

have

the

strongest
of
no

presenting

one-sided
to presume,

view

the other

question,
view
he him. has will Of

who, it is fair
to their minds.

have
mental

present
have
the

On

true

science

found

no

treatise of

that

will

enlighten

mysteries

spiritand

he spirit-action

every

6 within older.
And this and
so

Spirit-Identity,
the

gates of

his

asylum
if his be

before

he

is much

by

degrees,
will he what of
a

determination
in for
men

survive

opposition, he
will
reserve

driven

upon future

himself,
use,
or run

discovers
when
so

for the
their will when become he

service

later age, hard view

will have

heads have the the

against
ceased scorned
to

facts them

repeatedly
as

that they did have If

:

their

fathers

delusion truth of be

of
the

his

day

will

great
at

succeeding

age.

speaks

all, it will

of elementary

points,

which, though present

endeavoured Hence entire
one

by their fathers, the equally scorned generation has grudgingly accepted, and
to

hide

or

explain
result is
never as are

away.
comes

universal

to

pass.

The
:

cycle of truth
such

only

fragments
Slade

of it

publicly presented forced, by apparent

a

accident, into little, as

matter
a

publicity ;
comes

here
a

little

and

there

to make

specialphenomenon helps
law. the
on

of

notoriety, appeal
coherent
to

and

I,ankester
the

the

work

by

an

persecution by

The

body of
this

evidence

for

central

facts of Spiritualism is
cause

almost

of necessity from
property.
THIS RESULTS ALSO
OF FROM

not

public

THE FACTS.

INHERENT

NATURE

THE

Moreover,

the

attitude
nature

of

opinion, acting
facts
an

from
to

without, finds

in the

of the

allay

The
free

Inherent

Nature
I
am

of
not

the Facts.

7
now

repress the and

mere

publicity.
but

speaking
lie
on

ot

physical phenomena nothing

get tired
the interfere of with

that elusive

the

surface,
of their

have

method If

presentation to
does of
not

publicity.
to

man

replying
outside
you
at
a

the has

fatuous
so

string
at

questions that
'
"

the

world

largely

command

Why

cannot now,

produce
time, in
without

these
my
own a

mena phenoroom,

here, there,
in and
a

any

public hall, with

so, on,

medium, Why

medium,
them
'
"

and

so

on

cannot

produce
a

? if

Why
he

is does

medium

necessary

Why
and
reason

circle ?

not

get tired

of

hearing
is
no

answering
why
of raps,

this

vapid questioning,
should
to
not
a

there
to

attention
or even

be

drawn

phenomena
fact
as

such

demonstrable

Psychography,
the

with

much
But

persistence.
it is different he has

when,

through

adit
the
to

of

these
to

phenomena,
causes

penetrated
them,
them.
or

within rather finds that is

veil the

the

that that

underlie governs

gence intellicases

He

then,
he

in the
to

that with

most

deeply impress him,

evidence the
on

is face

face
or

the

which

rested, rightly
of

wrongly,
"

great, the far-reaching claim

of

ualism, Spiritdeath,
and

demonstration

perpetuated
the world

life after of
matter

and the

of intercourse

between

wojrld of spirit.
the

Sometimes

evidence from
op
none some

will

come

from who has

an

personal im-

source,

instructor

passed
the
come

through
solemnity

the

plane
it will

which the
More

individuality
less

is demonstrable,

but

impress

him

with

of its issues.

frequently

it will

8
from friend and the whose who

Spirit-Identity.
a

affection has
a

survived from the

the other

great
side

change,
to

reaches

hand

help
In and
was

struggling
case,

seeker

after truth. will usually be treasured

either
not

the evidence

up, what him

made with

public property.
the
green
tree

Experience
If the the
ear

of

done

will not

predispose
earthly
of
sense

to
"

any

experiments
raps
"

with

the

dry.
that

things
can

the

and if

the the

noises

distinguish
shall locked

earthly things

be And
are

derided,
so

who
are

tell of the up in the

heavenly
inner

things
and
a

they

recesses,

produced,
sense

if at all,only in outline, and

under that

strong

of

duty,

to

one

who

has

in him

yearning

after truth, makes

divinely implanted and

it

which spirit-nurtured,

imperative
Both and

on

him

that has, to

give.
the
men

from from

the

nature

of of

evidence,
towards

the attittide is

it, the

truth

only partiallymade

public.

THE

INTBI,I.IGKNT

OPERATOR
WITH.

HAS

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RECKONED

There

is another into this the in

or
we

reason

that

imports

much We

tainty uncerare

special investigation.
fixed, which
acts

not

dealing, as
which law
more

astronomer,
itself

for instance, is,with

that
to

is

according
and which

less have
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to

us,

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which

body
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of

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proceed

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way

further observation

and

The

Attitude
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of

the

Operator. Intelligent
is concerned knows of fact
can

periment.
the

astronomer

in observing
to

planet Mars,
he
to

he

where with

turn
to

his the

telescope : changes,
time
to

has

mass :

regard

planet ready
and
come:

his hand

he

predict its position,

certainty for
errors

variations and that

may

with he
can

much
correct

any

in

his

observations conditions his he and the

:

be

caused

by

atmospheric
occurs

and,

finally,if anything
or

to prevent

observation,
can

to

render
what

the
has

planet
heir

visible, in-

tell you

exactly
occurred.

happened
of of in

why

his

failure of

has ages

He
to

is the

knowledge
his
own

past,

and

that

body

science

observations without
any

attach breach

themselves of

orderly
or
'

sequence, rude
severance

continuity

any

of connection. when the

It is far with

otherwise

investigator comes
more

to

deal

science spiritual

in its

esoteric aspects.
and
tain. uncer-

There,

at the

outset, all is
is little in of old
to wrote

shifting, vague,
past that
can

There For
the sages

the

guide

him.
were

for the their

initiated,and
of wisdom.

little inclined their

as

scatter to

pearls
have

If

books

are

open
are

us,

we

lost the

key, and

guides they
The

worthless. practically of others which

are

observations
are

accessible under arrived such

at

to
a are

the

public
of

apparently
that the
to

conducted the results tend

variety

conditions

on "conflicting

surface, and
edification. and

rather

to

derment bewilditions con-

than
are so :

The
exercise is

atmospheric
so

variable

powerful
on one

an

infiuetice of others

the

investigator
form

dependent
and each

the

aid

who

his circle ;

of these

lo

Spirit-Identity.
his
own

imports
:
"

conditions other
on

of

error none

into the

tion investigatabulated

these

and

causes,

of them
of

and

marked render

for him

the

chart of

previous experience,
liable
to

his early

pursuit
of

knowledge

every

fluctuating degree
deterrent

error.

And of these

though increasing experience

influences able
occur :

eliminates finds

many

though ^he
how and he

self himmuch

increasingly
occurs
or

to
:

say

why
may

does

not

though

even

be alone

able
are

to

to"2""aw"f results still he

where

inferior

agencies Operator

concerned,

will always

find himself

at last at the

compelled
end of the

to reckon

with has

the Invisible
not to

line.

He

do

with

fixed

and

changeless subject of investigation,an

the constitution
to

inert substance

and
;

known has

him

but

are partially propertiesof which with an Intelligent Being, who

his ideas,

plans,
is
;

and

projects all
moreover,

unknown of that

to

the

investigator; who at things, which

obtains will not If he
among
swerve us

has,

his way from

a

looking
which

far

different

and the

who, if he be
purpose
set

worthy

Guide,
the

from been
a

before
to
secure

him.
operation co-

have of

fortunate and

enough

worthy

sufficiently powerful spirit,

will
not

who

acts

on

principles of integrity, he
a new

be

fronted con-

by
such
a

problem.
he will find he
must

If he
the

have

secured

guide,

then

investigation beset
for his evidence
is alike

with
on

and difficulty,
sources as

depend

whence

the. supply

precarious,
He will be

and,

second-hand,
to

unsatisfactory.
the

tempted

abandon
some

pursuit,

and

probably
opens
out.

will

do so, unless

unexpected

avenue

The
But

A ttitude
him

of the Intelligent Operator.

to

1 1

assuming

be

in relation and power

to

with
has

spirit

of whose

wisdom, integrity,
as

he

satisfied

himself,
to

it is his sacred th" have and

duty

do

before that this

are

trusting
at

his

keeping
he will

mighty
to

interests

stake,

then has

consider

that
with be
to

intelligence
he
can

his

plans
he

methods,
He

which forced be

only
decide
at the
sent con-

slightly
whether will

interfere. will allow

will

to

evidence

produced
he will

of the
to

controlling spirit:
to

whether
and

remain,

all what

intents is

purposes,
or

the

passive recipient of
he will dictate
to

vouchsafed;

whether

his

own

conditions, prescribe what^he

what in he does
not

wishes

be
so

done, refuse

stand, undersome

and

place
that and
and

himself will bow the

very

relation
to

with
He

lower

who intelligence assured

his will. of
his

may

be well
to

fact the is

being
he

able that
can

command

subjugate
teach
so

intelligence proof
an

should learn has has

guide nothing

him

that

from

complaisant spirit that

whom
he

instructor.

He

driven attracted

away
one

the
over

could
can

elevate, and
it.

lord
so

It is to the

latter
I trace
our

course

having
of the

been

frequently,
If the

adopted
defilement

that of be

much modern
"

disfigurement and
advisedly"
as

Spiritualism.
I
use

vestigat in-

impelled
course :

the

term

to

the

other

if he
of

satisfy himself

to

the and

moral be

consciousness
to

the what

intelligenceat work,
is

content to

accept
and

presented
it is

with

full
in

liberty

examine

try
from
or

it when

placed

evidence, but
the
course

refraining
is
more

dictation

and

ence, interfer-

less clear.

12

Spirit-Identity.
He will find, indeed,
that

he

has
even

no

power
to

to

mand com-

phenomena,
their desires each existence
to to
so.

or

possibly
on

demonstrate he
set to

others The
the
to

occasions

when

most

do

variable circle will

conditions
be found

up

by
an

change
and

in

be

absolute friends has

to
;

barrier
on

frequent
head he between and

admission
soon

of learn

other that he

this

will

take

his

choice

following

his

own

inclinations dictates far

I
more
can

without of the

success,

obeying
does. when show

the

able reason-

Intelligent Operator, who

than he occasion
to

knows

about recall

conditions
many
an

the certain much

most

earnest to

requests for permission

I would and whom have have

facts
to

friends, to whom conviction,

sacrificed would with and

bring
a

it

have

been in

valued

privilegeto
been No

associated

myself again,
to

the

investigation,were
doubt

refused
most

again
of

and
quiesce. ac-

I have

forced, though
each

reluctantly,
such it
a

request
were

kind
so

would
to

be

more

readily granted
under
a

possible
certainty

arrange

conditions
as

which

investigationsare
of wiser
necessary

conducted
success.

to

secure
as

reasonable grow less

No it will
our

doubt be

we

by repeated
to

failure round

less

and

fence of prohibition.
vene, inter-

circles As

by such
so

stringent
causes
"

methods of the
error

it is,
most
"

many

that of
new

the

fruitful of all
must
we

combination

elements it not

be

avoided.
be

Were
to

so,

should

perpetually
to

reduced

the

necessity of going back

like progress would

anything

be

principles; impossible, and we

first

14
his

Spirtt-Identiiy.
not conceptions of life,
as a

matter
as
an

of

threescore

years

and eternal

ten

on

this

earth, but

imperishable
and cultivated and he will ennobled
man,

and
or

to

be

possession,to be utilised and wasted destroyed, will be

If he be in
any
very
sense a

elevated. be
the

true

morally, and
better his and for the

in the

highest religious sense, clearly training. He will see more

are,

what citizen
He

obligations
a a

and in

so

will

be

better

truer

man

all his

social of his

relations.

will have will be

clearer
more

conception
ready
have
to

privileges,
his right. birthhe

and

the he

vindicate

And wills it that he

or

will

learned arbiter of

that, whether
his of
own

not, he
in

is the the

destiny,
world the
nesses mean-

lives he

piercing sight
that

the

of

and spirit,

will

increasingly rise

above

and and life,

our

pettinesses
theology.
than this.

disfigure our conceptions

will find he

modern that

the

anthropomorphic
He

form

modern Far
more

as

goes

on,

that

his

early notions
are

of literal

demonstration He

and will the

scientific analysis
see

becoming impossible.
truths of of

that

the

subtler

spirit
"

or

rather lend
even

higher
to

conceptions
no

spiritual truth
;

"

selves themelude sion expresof

are
tirely en-

such of

methods human

and

that

they
and

the

hard
or

limits

language,

find

(if at all)in the language symbolism and allegory. More frequently they intuitivelyperceived, and elude absolutely and
the And crude methods of human far if he in
a

adumbration

penetrates

expression. enough, he will

his present

find

himself

region

for which

embodied

The
state

Sentiment
:

of

the

Question.
the and
very

15
viduality indi-

unfits is

him

region
and

in the
one

which

merged,
locked

highest
whose

subtlest
emanate

truths from
are

are

not

within

breast, but

representative companies
interblended.

spheres

of life

The the

will of the best

cases

Intelligent Operator
to
causes

in

is added
so as

before
the

enumerated^
dissemination

to

render

free

of truth difficult.
to to

These of
cases,

causes

combine
seem

make

full able

publication
to

which

those

best

judge

to

prove

spirit-identity, well-nigh impossible.

said
:

I have

nothing
the have of
the

of the

sentimental that
a

side number

of the of

argument

of who

impatience
by

vestigat in-

patient waiting
that
such and

obtained
ably reason-

their

results,
"

impatience compelled repeated

circle. of
Nor

feel

at
novo

being
by
the

again
have who

again
of

to

begin
the

de

introduction

fresh
on

elements

into

their

I touched
have

stronger
with

impatience
their

those

course inter-

departed friends, and

sacred

who
at

live, as

in

risen

in that life,

consciousness,
person
or

being
by

interviewed
some

by
earnest to

some

pragmatic
evidence the
or

even

very

but

incompetent

investigator,and
which

being forced
very

produce
for pro

wrings
of
a man

their for
on tremely ex-

inmost

souls

satisfaction
con

whose abstract

convictions

they

care,

except

principles of
little.
It

universal
easy to
say

philanthropy,
that
"to

is

whom

i6
much But is of

Spirit-Identity.
given,
much,
them shall much
as
a

be

required."
not

this is

very

much,

and,

rule, it is

given.
Nor have I touched upon the

extreme,
into the

the

almost

of putting insuperable difficulty cold

syllogisms of
as
a

logic, or
the

even

into

such

exact

statements

hostile critic claims, evidence

more

that the

frequently appeals
and
as

to

heart

than

to

head,

which

is

best

and

safest within
must to

precisely
those

in

proportion
and fast class

it is least

reducible evidence and work the who

hard
to

limits.

Such

appeal
a

another of

of

inquirers,
the

perhaps
of

later age

enquiry,
done

when

rough
of

preparation,the ploughing
soil, has
and the
are

and

harrowing
to

unpromising
are

been

by the pioneers
do in tend it. the
to

hard

enough

persistentenough
difficulties other
to be
causes

But, passing from

inherent that

subject itself,there
make

public evidence
THE GATES BEING

hard

had.

AJAR
RUSHES

A IN.

MOTLEY

CROWD

The
to
are us

world is very

from much

which
like
our

disembodied
own.

spiritreturns
denizens and of it

The

of

varying degrees
for us, who least

of
are

progression ;
least
most

those,

unfortunately

progressive,least
material rush and in when

developed,
the We
our own

spiritual,and
the

earthly, hover
gates
have
are

around
set

confines, and

ajar.
reason

small

to

complain

of

this

It is

option

to seek

intercourse

with the world

of

Motley

Crowd.
best

17
our

spirit ;
up who with
course

and

we

are

certainly doing
and

to

keep
that Of

the

supply

of

unprogressed

undeveloped spirits
our

are

perpetually passing
we

from

state

to

which
we

voluntarily open
what
we

communication.
;

reap

have

sown

that is

an

eternal

law. Our both

criminals, for
in life and

some
"

of whom for
we

we

are

responsible
the best

death,

provide
and

possible conditions
and, when
the
we

for their
measure

production
of their

nurture,
summated, con-

full

iniquity is
criminals

considerately facilitate their departure

the world
us.

from have The make lusts

us

into

of

spirit,
"

our

we

always with
dwellers
a

in

our

lanes

and

alleys, for whom

the victims of of

we our

decent

life

impossible:
whom that
our

and

debaucheries,
the

conditions
are, to

life

drive, like
sin and

poor
:
"

sheep

they

inevitable lisation civiof

the

shame

these

scapegoats
of
we

of

advanced

(the
Roman life it
a

civilisation for whom

the

later

days

Empire), thing
not
even

have

made

spiritual
were

and intelligible,
"

distasteful

even

understood, call, only

care

these

we

have
come

too, answering. the

back
to

first

too

ready

to

the

only

place they
They
who

for. have lived the have

elsewhere

life of incarnation hoarded

:
"

out withtreasure
are

progress

"

they who
no

their
who

here,
to

and

have

^ow^ of

they
chain
no

tied the and earth

earth
"

by

any

the

bonds heaven

that has

down

spirit:
who that

they for whom

find

meaning,
the

would

their

on highest gratification

they

should

have

quitted

for

ever

"

those, in

i8

Spirit-Identity.
we,

short, wliom
methods

by

our

vicious

by all the civilisation,

and power preys
on

whereby
those

worldly wealth
who
are

and
and
we

degrades
material have

the

ministers
;
"

of its lusts those whom

cravings
to

and the of
true

necessities level
the lif^ of

reduced and

mere

physical
the

machines,

robbed and

precious birthright of
:"

spiritual progress ajar and

has
vex

these

find

gates

us.

I sometimes
man a

wonder and
a

where future

those, who
before

believe

that

soul

him, think
If they
some

that he

goes
to
me

when the
or

they lose sight of him.

notion
some

propound

that

the

soul of

is in

state,

antechamber the

purgatorial expectation,awaiting
crack of
to
can

reunion

with

body

that

the

doom
say. meet.

will
We I

miraculously
have
am

recombine,

I have
on

nothing
we

no

common

ground
with scheme those of from
many

which

concerned rational

who

accept and
that

understand awaits the the

the soul

progression
the who

newly released
these of
are

prison-house of
are

body.
by
the

Among vagaries
who,
in

distressed with
are

who spirits

communicate

them, and
inclined action. into the be
any
can

perplexity and
vexed
to

bewilderment,

to

refer the whole

I would
say
a new as

question
do

to diabolic you

such. Why
element
you
even

import
?

argument
a

of disturbance

If there

Devil

such prove,

means

or

postulate, but do not by give any fair evidence for,I

myster3'
anxious
an

understand if I believed

the

whole

of evil ; and
as

should,
not

it,be

very

to

my

future,
fiend

knowing
not

what
to

pranks

such
one

omnipotent
who

might

elect

play

with

habitually meddles

No
with his

Devil.
If I did fiend of the
not

19

domain. spiritual
human
as

believe,
as

as

do, that this very

of Milton
the

is the creation earlier

as we

much of

and

Dante

conceptions
the have

Pentateuch,
of many

I should

find him, fiends

a

appropriate
fully successcause

Prince

embodied
on

that
very

developed
t rouble.

this earth,

present

of

But

is there

not

enough
of it into

embodied

folly,roguery,
our even our own

vice, and iniquity,

the
outcome

sin, the product of

our

sation, civilithe
sequence con-

society,
us

ay,

of what

pleases
the

to

call

religion,
account

perpetually going
for all We We will the
are we are see

world ?

of

spirit to

and

deplore
that he
man

agreed

survives
an

physical death.
being,
done
man

agreeithat
to

is

accountable for the

the

who in in

have

render

account

deeds
same

body.

He
he
was

must,

therefore, be

spiritthat
of

in the flesh, or ? he ? is and what

where

is the

bility possi? is the loose

too

judgment
was

Well, what
"

does

Holy

Writ he

say

He

that

is

unjust

unjust
on

still ; and

that
and
set

filthyis filthy still."

conclusion from with it not establish this of

Carry
We

the argument, have elements

is inevitable. world
ours

day

by

day,

endowed
to
once

perpetuated
only

life and but

energy,

sufficient

make
we

probable

certain
the harass

that,

communication
return to
vex

with
and

disembodied
us,
as we

state,
know

they will they do.

We
are

face to face law.

"

once
a

more
man

with
sows,

the
so

working
will
he

of
also

inevitable

As

20

Spirit-Identity.
We and
are we

reap."
energy, This it is

sowing
reap
a

the

wind

with in due

much
course.

daily

the grave
our

whirlwind
cause

of itself is

of

complication

; and

aggravated

by

own

folly and

neglect

of

reasonable

precautions

in

investigation.

NBGtBCT

OF

CONDITIONS

IN

INVESTIGATING.

Most

of

the

facilities

for

investigation
at

which
are

an

ordinary
as

investigator
to

finds

his for

disposal
the
very

such

seem

be

constructed
one

purpose

of bewildering

who
some,

possesses
I

this

mysterious
to

psychic
its

power

and

fear,who
a

only pretend

advertise possession,

that, for
in

small

remuneration,
with
a

they will place the

of

public
be
to
am

relation

the

world

spirit.
could

This

of itself Far
seem

is, I should
it from
me

hope,
to

transitory
a

state

of affairs.
even

utter

word

that

disparage
conscious be

the
that
;

work

done

by
held

public
in the
as

mediums. estimation from frauds When of the have it is

it is not that it

that

it should

and upon
as

perhaps
by
any
some

much

obloquy brought
discredited

whose
cause.
a sense

it,
as

from
seen

other with it,

discharged,
an

I have

responsibilityand

honest
as

desire

to

bring

to

the

investigator such
is effected.
too

evidence

is

possible,much
:

good
But

often

what
most

happens
of them
;

is this

number

of

persons
any
mere can

assemble,
to
a

densely ignorant of
some

conditions

be few

observed

animated
to
see

by
what
as

curiosity,
be had

by

dumb
source

desire open

through

the

only

to them

23

SpiritIdentity.
tliat the result in conditions much that
set

and
us

up

and

perpetuated by
even

is

discreditable, and

shameful.
In
so

saying, I
brought
not
so

have

in
on

my

mind
cause

many

scandal
;

that and

has
I
am

shame much

the

that blame
must

I advocate the bear trators perpetheir

inclined

to

of the

though iniquity,
as

they

righteous burden,
that make And
even

am

the

folly

and

stupidity

such

scandals circles find

possible.
where
the better conditions may cautions pre-

in
we

be

expected,
that

gravest
has shown

neglect
to

of

experience
that
out
some

be

pensable. indis-

We

know
manner,

of

our

bodies, in
unknown

some

ous mysterito

by
the
means

chemistry by which
the that
way

us,

are

provided
work. prepare have
to

invisible operators

Yet

few

consider in
any

they
for and
a

are

bound

to

themselves

the
a

part
free

they

play.
are

copious
considered hour's

dinner
to

supply
paration predead."
not

of stimulant

be

reasonable with the do

for "an And their desire then "dead" ! Or,

worse

communion because

they

grumble
of
so

they
as

get

high
and

quality

they

would

still, they welcome

embrace the of
"

anything with
dear

hilarious
as

merriment,
were

spirits by
those

"

if they A

the

very

Angels
too
sneer

I/ight.
drawn
us.

melancholy
would be
cast

picture,
a

often upon

who
once

cheap
one

I^et it for
to

painted by
is not the

who

desires

only

point

its

moral.

That

way

to

investigateSpiritualism;

Exoteric
is the
our own

Spiritualism.
to

23
for results

nor

Intelligent Operator
folly produces.
results
"

blame

that

These,

the

alas ! the
as

only results by
of

that
common

the

general public knows

consent

are Spiritualism,

undesirable. between the

means

If
two

the

opening
results the of

cation communi-

worlds
us so

necessarily in
gates
closed
at

this, by
once.

all

let
not

have result
the

That
;

it does

necessity, I hope
that
are now on

to

show

and

I and

trust

that

efforts of

being made,
the for

the

general spread
in

knowledge
at
once

subject, will
ever

result
to

wiping

away

and
out

this bar
avenues

investigation, and
intercourse

in

opening
us

better world
I any
to
vex

for

between

and

the

of

spirit.
to

put it, then,

cause

the

candid

reader, whether

it is

for reasonable
the spirits,

surprise that, having regard

on

those
and

dwellers
and
to

the
on our

threshold side who of deal

who
are

plague
to

us,

those
as

best

known

the

public

exponents
be ?
a

mental experiof
sense non-

Spiritualism, there
and that is

should
name

folly current
and

in its
to

Is any

evidence
such

precise
?

clear

be

expected
to

under

conditions
any

Is any
can

intercourse elevate
and

be

looked

for with
any

spirit that
evolved
in

ennoble
exact

man? ? benefit his

proof

in

orderly
save

and

method

thing, any-

short,
man's

that
and

questionable
follies survive of those

of

proving
and
on

that

vices
no

death,

that

there ?

is

monopoly
from with side

qualities
which

this earth

Let
defile

us our

purge

away

our

these of

blots

communion

the

world

spiritbefore

24
we

spiritIdentity.
charge
with its manifestations the
on a

Devil,
and

or

associate

them

vagaries

of soulless

irresponsible

elementaries.

AGBNCIBS

OTHER

THAN

THOSE

OF

THE

DEPARTED.

Here words

hope
of
me
a

I may

be

pardoned
make
to

if I

append
are

few manded de-

almost from

personal explanation, which

if I would
as

clear
me,

the

position
on

I occupy
every
one

"

duty,

it

seems

incumbent

who for

presumes
me

to

address

the

public.
at

It is not

to

deny that there

other
on

are

work

in

Spiritualismagencies
of
our

than the
I
see

the

departed spirits
of these
to do
so

kind.

If I insist

action need
:

human in order I have

it is because spirits,
to preserve
any

I think

the of

balance

of truth the
or

not

because of

intention

ignoring
of

action of

below spirits the the

doubted unbodied em-

the

plane

of

humanity,

minimising

power

trans-corporeal action, of permitted

opportune,
of attention
almost

human
I may when

spirit.
be
it
to

perhaps
draw

say,

that what

at

time
ray

I considered
to

I did

lay in

power these

the then

investigators to
that

both of

points,

entirely unthought
seemed
to
me our

by

It English Spiritualists.

our

lines

of

investigation were
wide
;
our on

too

cramped,
the

view

not

ficiently sufwas

modern what vexed the

self-complacency
past
had and done it

turning
throw time

its

back
on

to
was

light
to

these
out

problems;
world of

point

that

spiritis

capa-

Other

Agencies
there

than

the

Departed.
something
the
more

25

cious, and
than The
are

that whole

is

room man.

in it for

the

family of
of sub-human

action
to

and spirits,

part they
siastically enthu-

alleged
the

play

in

ably Spiritualism,

and

set forth

by students

of the occult

literature H. and of

of
P.

East, popularised in America

in her

by Madame
Unveil^d,
a

Blavatsky
then

great work
in

Isis

since writers
any

advocated

England
it from of that

by

little band
not
or

hardly less able and

energetic,has
oblivion side of

needed

other have

help
lost

to

secure

neglect. question,
balance
to

I
even

not

sight

the

when

I have

endeavoured attention

to redress to

the

by drawing
an

prominent
more

what
"

I hold

be

infinitely

important spirits.
about
but
so

element
I should

the

action for

of

departed

human
a

apologise
a

introducing
as

word

unimportant
have
no

matter to

my

own

opinions,
any
to

desire which
in
my

be
not

credited taken
I

with

change
seem

of be

thought
one-sided

has

place, or
I may

to

view.

hope
I

disavow
to any

that

suppositionwithout
of
a

laying
of the

myself open
have evidence

charge
forward

egotism.
small

brought
that I
a

portion
return
:

have

collected
reason.

for the It
to

of the
some

departed
time
over

for

plain
has

is this
me

For

past there
a

seemed

to

be

creeping
most

prominent
best

section

of and

the Spiritualists, the

to
as

able, the

informed,
an

most

active
in
a

in

informing others,
I should deals his with call
the

inclination

what

doctor

Specialism. Just
heart
to
some

the

Specialist who
of illness

refers fault

all symptoms in
that

in his

patients

organ,

while

26

Spirit-Identity.
who deals with
comes

neighbour
the root

the

lungs
refer of

finds

in
so

them these that

of all evil that

under
to

his

ken,

Specialistsseemed
has occurred
any

inclined
our

everything
the domain
to

in
cause

experience
except
what of

of
the

spiritto
chief of

I hold human
to

be

all

"

the

action

departed
for

spirits.'
me

That,

the
to

most

potent
lowest
to

factor, seemed

to

be

relegated
Isis

the

place,as,
be

instance, it is in

Unveiled, and

practically ignored, though

admitted
as a

theoretically and
and latent of would

hypothetically
element, by
an

sible pos-

influential

and

active and all

"

body,
of whom

most

whom

would called

call

themselves,
outside

be

by

the

world,

Spiritualists.
My
to set
own

view forth.

was

different, and
In
a

thought

it well
"

it

prolonged by
events

experience
time
so

the

length
as one

of which the

is not

measured which that

properly
crowded
were as

by

rapidity
the them

with
so an

have

upon with
as

other,
;

day and
at

night
least

set

thick and

in
as

experience
of most found

long
arrive

diversified

that

of those abundant

who

at other

conclusions,
action

I have

evidence

for

the

of human of any
not

and spirits, sub-human

comparatively spirits. I
with
am

little for the

aware

action

that I know
on

is spirit that

conterminous
on an

humanity, plane
to

and that

spiritexists
we

inferior
it

which

live.
us,

But

believe

impinges
very

rarely and
little of its
I
"

slightlyon

and

personally
human human

I know

operation.
that the

know

power

of the

will is

great
has

of the

trained

and

developed

will,that

The

Liberated

Spiritof the Psychic.

lost

27
power,

regained by long practice its

I believe the
the

birthright of
known in
the

potency
of

to

be

of unknown is little factor believe

magnitude.
among

But

exercise

Will
as

Western of
very I

nations;
these

and,

tion producbe of the

phenomena,

it to

slightestvalue.
know,
powers

too, that the liberated

with which

spiritof
had

the
a some

Psychic body,
are

has but

as Spiritualists,

slenderly acquainted.

have

derable consiaction
I in

acquaintance
of both spirit, had in my
reason

with
own

this person
to

trans-corporeal
and
the

with

others.

have
our

grave
state

form

opinion that,
an

present

of

ignorance,
;

it is
that

extremely rarely

dangerous
be
very
no

experiment
by

one,

too,
as

is very

successfully practised,inasmuch

natural

giftsmust
of will
I

supplemented
belief the
as

power
any
as an

of concentration Western

rarely attained
that

by

people.

have

this enters

indistinguishable factor phenomena.

it
are

into
cases

production
are

of these
to

Such marked

few and

attributable

well

readily distinguishable.
I
"

profess
action of

once

more

my

belief

that

these

subjects
the
our

the

of inferior incarnated the

human Not

spirits,the
human will
we
"

trans-corporeal spirit, and

worthy
solved of
some,

action

the

potency

of

are

deepest study.
least, of
penetrate
the far
No in

until

have

at
we

mysteries
our

that

beset
the

them,

shall

study of
view

phenomena
embrace of the
may

called the field

can

spiritual.
of afford

one-sided
no causes

will

Spiritualism,and
to

student which

subject
be
so

overlook

in-

28
fluential
as

spirit Identity,
in the

production
like to

of abnormal

phenomena
of the

these.

I,

at

least, should
in
my
own

know

more

powers
that I

inherent
may

and spirit, their

of

the

results

be

produced by
time

development.
to

Therein,
mystery,
on

feel I

convinced,
no as

lies the that

key
can

many

and self-

regard
But

be

spent

such

analysis
in
to

misplaced.
be

I should
; I

doing
be what

what

am

ready
and blind

to

blame
were

others

should
note

one-sided lies

I
me,

neglect
has the

to

immediately
most

before

what in the

been

infinitely the

prominent
I have

factor
r

spiritualphenomena
of the

that the

observed"

action For

spiritsof

departed.
reasons,

these,

among

other additions the

wrote

and the

now

publish,
which

with

and

appendices,

paper

bears

title of

The

Intei.i,igbnt

Operator.
rewgious aspects
reason

of

the
me.

question. It has for

a

One
me

other
some

influenced
us

seemed time

to

that

of with lost

have

been and

long
of

past

so

occupied
we

the

husk

shell

Spiritualism
that
on

that
Now

have

sight

of the

inner

truth. the
a

it is to of

the

last

degree

important
be
no

phenomena
basis

Spiritualism

should and
an

placed pains
who
to
are

of scientific
to

demonstration,
on so

too

great
end

spend

desirable

object.
any

To

this

it is

especially desirable
power and should be

that

possess devote it

psychic

encouraged
of will to the

designedly

by exercise

elaboration

30
of who spirits
we can on

Spirit-Identity.
govern

these
a

manifestations

"

of which
"

all that
on

get is but
the

fragmentary employed
in other

view

to

act

us,

and

religious thought
used
soon

of the
are

age.

In
to

this I presume those that have

the methods been

as

analogous
from the

transition

epochs.
very

Another external
some

is,that

as

we

escape
"

surroundings
however,
way

of

the have other

subject
not

an

escape
"

that
are

persons, in
some
some

yet

made

we

brought

or

into

relation

with

this

plan, or
A third certain the world

phase
who

of it. is
are an

is,that there

impulse
them
no

and

yearning
relation receive that
my

in

persons of

brought
enables has recorded

into

with and

which spirit,
to

to

assimilate should

what it.

others

beauty
elsewhere
truth

they
own

desire

I have

personal experience
new means.

of this ; and been

the

is,that all
some

epochs
They
there have of

have have been their have

introduced
one

by
into

such

dovetailed of

the

other;
men

and

necessity pioneers,often
who

in advance courier after

age,

have it
on

caught
to those

up

the
come

and -fire,

handed

who

them.

And,

lastly,
those

see

in

this

organised
the in inward other old

influence

of

spirit on
world's their the of

who I
can

have
trace
as

preparation
epochs
of the lost when brunt its its have

precisely what

history, when,
when

now,

truths

energy,

they require re-stating,and

who
new

progressive thinkers,
in

always truth,
been

bear
are

the

obloquy
into

introducing
soil that

receiving
for

seeds

mental

has

prepared

germination.

Tendency of History.
He is but
a

31

blind

student

of who

the

history of the
not
see

development

of

religious truth
such

does

this.

All truths,i.e., all human pass

conceptions of
as

essential the

truth,
human

through phases

those

which

body, for instance, undergoes. death, recombination,

the
are

Growth,

vigour, decay,
;
"

and

reconstruction And

these

are

stages of progressive change.

similar
cases.

the of

processes
truth

in respect of the

development
the

in

all

The and in

truth
course

that

has

sufficed has which its

a

wants

of

one

age,

of time

received have

glosses,explanations,
obscured
ginal its oriuse,

and

comments,

simplicity,impaired
and encumbered truth
meet

to daily adaptability

it with fails any of

a

mass

of
to

terated fallacy,this adulwants

or

longer
has

suffice the
age.

the

cravings
Man have which dealt

succeeding
forth
are

The
Pioneers

times of
a

have
new

changed. epoch
with
has

progressed.
charged.
old
as

shadowed

their

ideas, the
Destructive albeit

message

they
with in

criticism
unable
to

the
so

truths, and, they

are

touch

them

far

tary fragmenplenty
of

statements

of eternal in man's

truth, has
and

found

weak

places
so

glosses

additions. new."
;

And
Fashion and

"the

old order

changeth, giving place to

of of

reigns

in the realm
a new

thought
the old
been

as

elsewhere

by degrees
a new

view

truth

is presented,

combination in
a more

has

effected, and

truth

is

presented
in
crave

acceptable guise, and

to

perhaps
natures

fairer

proportions

those

whose

inner

enlightenment. acting throughout

the

This

process,

mighty

chain

32 of sequence Whose various these who

state
on

Spirit-Identity.
from
eye

the is
over

Supreme
all His

Inspirer
works,
whom

and

nator, OrigiHis reaches of

us

through
He those

intermediary agencies, by
lower earth

worlds, and
are

again through
to

prepared
to

receive, assimilate, and

humblest
"

the and

truth, down
receives

the

recipient who
process in the
we

asks

spiritualfood
that in the of the midst
some

this

is

one

speciallyexemplified in
history, such
It is
as

all great crises

world's

of which such

live.
as

only in the
the The
It
was

light

explanation
progress
can

this that

history of
story has
so

world's the

be

grasped.
epochs.
an

been the

same

at to

all great shed

on

when

Christ
the of

came

age

of

midnight
we

darkness
any

strongest
Those and
out

gleam

of

light that
have
new

have
most

record
to

who welcome
as

should the

been

ready
office

receive

truth, whose

pointed them
by
virtue of

its natural

recipients, and
bound
to be its

who,

that forward

office, were
in

foster-fathers,were
Herald.

stifling
who
ever-

its voice

and

crucifyingits
should

Never, perhaps, has it been by their

otherwise.

Those in the

position
of

be

prominent
welcome

pressing work
human

reform, in whatever
last
to

department
what, almost
comes

of of
to

life, are

the

necessity, rises
them of the with
no

outside

of of

their

order, and
It

sanction

orthodoxy.
the voice it is them

is outside
the in

priestly caste,
succession,

beyond
the And within

pale

of

scribed prethe

that

crying
the

wilderness feel the

is first heard.

they only who desire, "the

As
the

need, who

have

prepared heart,"

that catch

its first accents.

Signs of
new

the

Times.
it is assimilated and fitted
to

33
tq

truth dominant
as

is

popularised, when
tone

the

of

thought,
by what

man's

needs,
and bear
It
we
are

it

never

is at first, then

the message is much

spreads,
harder
to

obloquy
"

is succeeded

^prosperity.
does
not

require

much

discernment

to

see

that

in the is

An

age

inception of one of these drawing to its close, and

which
new

great epochs.
a new

epoch
to

is

beginning, in
and ashes
many
an

views

of truth

will Peace well the

prevail,
their
a

old fallacy will have who

as we

expire.
that
we see

We

so

many

can

spare

few.
the The in
a

Those conflict

succeed who
are

us

will the

phases

of

in

thick
new

of it cannot. truth is born

fight will anguish

and

be

prolonged,
and the
a

for all

distress, and

is ushered of

into life amid forces. itself

scene

of it is

contest
over,

battling
will

opposing
to

When

world

awake

find

the possessor One

new

of

new

heritage.
of this
that

of the

earlier methods

presentation

of

truth, I believe, we
known
some as

find, in

tangled, bizarre
so

movement

Modern
so

Spiritualism ; ennobling
by
with
means

sive repulothers
;

in
so

of its aspects,

in

glorious in design, so perversity ;

to
so

marred

man's

ignorance

and

pregnant
use

blessing if man
him
; so
sure

will but

the

of possibilities presented to

fail, as

many

another hardens
; or,
as

plan

for his

benefit

has

failed before, if he

his heart, and

seems

isets his face against the boon

only

too

probable,scofis at and tramples it These feelings have influenced

I
can

underfoot.
me

in

doing
and
c

what
more

to

draw

attention

to

the

higher

34

Spirit Identity.
of
what

strictly religious aspects

have said is but
a

Spiritualism.
I feel
to

What the

I
jected pro-

hint the

of

be

outcome

of pass
or

subject,

if it have

free

course.

It will

probably

through

many

phases

before

it

finally succeeds
But,
leaven and of

fails in its mission. it is

mass

meantime,
on

acting
of who

as

very

wholesome

the

whole
even

contemporary
are

thought,
unconscious

influencing
its power, and

those who

most

would

most

scornfully
resist in many
more

reject

its overt influence.

claims, though
It is
; it is

they

cannot

its silent

liberalising opinion making

men

unlikely
self-reliant,
to

directions
more

brave,
them
to

manly,
noblest which

by

teaching

dare

exercise right birth-

that

of their
none

hereditar5' privileges, that

sell and
not

may

fall into beams

sin"- ^the of the

sun

right
of the

to think

for themselves.

The

spiritare
arctic
or

loosening
climes social those
not many

the

icy

barriers whether

that in it

hem

in

of

thought,
and

politics,
to

religion,
breath that in

life ;

making regions,

possible
to

hyperborean
always
a

and

hope
it is it

it may
on
"

be

night
soul

there.

And that

shedding
the
very

receptive
from
on

light
the is to form

is to

dayspring
of the

high,"
that

herald
come.

and

forerunner What do
or

brighter light
its

modifications
venture
to

external

may

take

not

predict.
is
at

Sufficient
in
our

that, for
midst
a

good

for

evil, there

work the

mighty
man

influence, which

it is if

part

of

the

wise

to

recognise and,

possible, to

control.

THE
"

INTELLIGENT

OPERATOR

AT

THE

OTHER

END

OF

THE

LINE."

38

The

Operator Intelligent
even

at

people's souls,
spirits do managed popularly
without
to not to

nor

go

so

far

as

to

"

assert

that

exist";
live
a

but, for himself,

years
or,
as

"having
what

for

some

without

is
say,

called

soul,"

I should
a

preferto

being
the

conscious soulless

of such
to

possession,he
is will

poses pro-

continue
to

the of

end, which, having

more or

regard
imminent. and

allotted

age

man,

less

Then
I

I doubt
same

not

he

find and

his

soul,

live,

trust, the
he
now

vigorous
do

energetic
that
most

individual

that
my

is.^

Well, I, on
do
are

own

account,
presume,
as as

"

assert

spirits
of
us

exist."

And

further, that
to
our

pretty
we

comfortable
may

soul's condition.

existence,^
I

whatever
not to

be
a

to

their

shall

stay
our

to

debate existence I

question
as a

which
of

is futtdamental

very

body

Spiritualists.
without
are

Furthermore,
another That and

shall
on

re-state,
which
we

argument,

proposition
exists
a

agreed
called

"

viz.:

there

force

conveniently
not
as

Psychic,
called of

(^pace Captain Burton)

inasmuch far
as

conveniently
the

Zoo-electricity,'
men

experiments
the

of

science, so
show

they

prove

anything respecting
worst

its nature,

that

is about electricity

"

Personally,
want

ignore the existence

a

of soul
I within

and
an

ing feelspirit,
I.

no

of

self within

self,
or

an

If it be
to

question
non-ego,

of
or

words,

and

my

e^o,

subject,as

opposed

the
ditions con-

object,or

me others, be called a soul, then soul I have not For some a a soul, but years, proper. without to live I have what is popularly however, managed be hard called a soul ; and it would to find one violently thrust into the recusant Captain Burton body." beforethe B.N.A.S.

which

my differentiates

individuality, the
from

concourse

of

"

Captain

Burton

before

the

B.N.A.S.

the. other End

term
to

of
in

the Line.

39
Still less
as

apply

to

the

force of

question.
force

conveniently Magnetism,^
another And
sense.

is the- action
a

this

described
in

word

already

appropriated
that

quite
dence evi-

yet
that

once

more,

I is

assume

we

have

this

force

governed
cases,

by
some

Intelligence
of which
at

"which, in
shall

many

demonstrable
not

quote, is

that

of

any

person
notice.

present

the

time, of the

experiment
NATURE OF

under

THE

THE

INTEI,I,IGENCE.

Of

what

nature

is the
to

Intelligence ?
I

This
to

is the

precise question
materials
a

which A

shall full of
answer

try

suggest
volve in-

for

an

answer.

would

complete

statement

the

various
to

theories lators, specu-

which

have

commended

themselves

various

I that

should

need

to

give
that

reasons

for

putting

aside

strange

theory
of

the
to

force
the the

itself is

responsible

for all,instead

being

Intelligent Operator
electric
to

merely
enables

the

correlative

of

force, which
his
sage. mes-

the

telegraphic
to

clerk

transmit

I should to

have

discuss

the
and

devil

theory, and
of the

even

inquire

into

the

origin

character

fiend, Arch-

Elementals
and
to

and

elementaries
to

would

claim the

hearing,
extent

should

need
are

investigate
some

exact

which

they
1

responsible for
Burton before

of the

vagaries

Captain

the

B.N.A.S.

40
which
us

The
the

Intelligent Operator
does

at

IntelligentOperator
be forced which
to

undoubtedly

plex per-

with. go lies into

nearer

I should

that

bewildering
and

field

of
how

investigation
far the

home,

inquire
consciously un-

liberated
to

of spirit
can

the

Psychic, acting

himself,
moments

communicate he is

knowledge'
scious uncon-

which

in of

normal

profoundly

possessing.
cannot
mere

All

this I manifestly force

as

do

now.

I shall that for

treat

psychic
shall

the devil

instrument
all

it is. the time

ignore

the

and

his

works the

being.
action

I shall

leave

untouched and spirits,

question
this

of the

of sub-human
are

of the action
on

of those I

spiritsthat
shall
rower

still embodied down

on

earth, and
to
me.

pin myself
issue that

this

occasion

the

nar-^

immediately

lies before

WHAT

IS

THE

INTELLIGENCE?
at

It

is obvious
as

to

note to

starting that, with

the

so

few

exceptions
to

only
The

illustrate

rule, it claims

be

human.
to

a member, Intelligent Operator is, own

according
world
with
an

his

story,

of has

that

great

human into the

men,

family, whereof
of
the

the

majority
they
"

passed
same

spirit,whence
same

still the
same

interests, and

the

affections, with
existence
are
"

unbroken

continuity
with
us,

of

individual who which from

communicate

the

minority,

passing
have

through
done house

the
once

phase

of

incarnation

they
the

with,

they have

emerged

prison-

of the

body.

the
What

other End
is there
as

of
for

the Line.
to

41.

ground
statement

declining
Several
doubt

accept' this,

general
cumstances
cases.

true?
to

suspicious cir-j
upon

combine

throw

particular

ASSUMPTION

OP

GRBAT

NAMES.

The

free
men

use

made is
one

of

names

great

and

honoured

amongst
when
are we

of the most

suspicious ; especially
the
case,

find, as
the

is too

frequently
for

that

they
bastic bom-

made

sponsors

pretentious
twaddle

nonsense,
;

platitude, or
"when the
claims

egregious
put
forward Such

still down

more on

so

break baseless

the

simplest
breed
a

examination.

assumptions
to

spirit of suspicion
and

which

is

apt

generalise imposture.
must, ever, how-

from
This

single instances,
is to

allege universal
extreme.

rush
any

to

another

It this

strike of illiterate

rational

observer
and

that

prevalence highest
present
which is

Shaksperes
names

twaddling Swedenborgs,,
world holds in the their

of scientific

that

the
to

esteem,

who

return

only

demonstrate that

ignorance
they
strong
once

of the

first

principles of
and

science
on

illuminated

adorned

earth,

presumptive
is not, in

evidence
all cases,

that
the

the

Intelligent
he

Operator
to

person

pretends
it to the

be. To what of and of

him
are we

to

attribute

this
on

? the

Is

absence

scientific
to

knowledge
fact
that his that

part of the
is

Psychic,
measure

the

ignorance
can

the

the ?

knowledge
That,
at

be

conveyed
always
the

through

any

rate, is not

42
cas^.' the
Is

The
it

at Operaior Intelligirtt the

seeks

to

mysterious conditions
to
resume

that with
matter
are

beset
our;

spiritwho
cause

relations
error

worid, and
his world in

unintentional ? with Or
us,

in the there

of

communications
of
as spirit

is it that those
to

in the'
to

who

delight

strut

borrowed

plumes,
great and

and

pass themselves
but
sorry

off for stuff

to

something
all ?
access

good, being
as we

after

Can
to

being, spirits,
sources

know,

able

obtain

of human such

information,' get up
of them
as some

their
can

facts

and

give
:

travesty
not

they
show
any

remember
reason,
on

reckoning,
the
or or

without will
to

of

credulity
on so

which

accept

sible plauthe fact

as

story,

their power
to

psychologise
and

vestigat in-

mix

up him

fancy, frauds,
?
must

to

bewilder These
are us.

and
some

perplex
ideas whatever baseless ridicule

that
cause

have it may of be

occurred

to

many

of

To

attributed,
names

the goes

manifestly
far
to cast

assumption
and in certain

great
the

suspicion on
cases.

claims'

of the

Intelligent Operator

ABSENCE

OF

PRECISION

IN

STATEMENT.

Another that is

cause

of found

doubt in

is the

extreme any

difficulty precisely
to

usually

getting
are

facts

given, especially
the

facts the

that

certainly external
There where is
a

knowledge
about
remarkable

of

sitters. messages,

general
is
"

haziness
1

the

there
in the

not

See

narrative

by

Mr.

Barkas

logical Psycho-

Review,"
2

October, 1878.
I.

See

Appendix

the other

End

of

the Line,
made

43
;

positive
extremely

error

in

the
to

statements

and

it is

diificult

get anything
unless

like be

definite insisted
was

and
on

precise facts plainly put,

as a

this

preliminary
I

to
a

further

colloquy.
to

This
to

my any

plan.
converse

used with

for
a

long
facts

time

refuse
I

hold
not
or

spirit from
that

whom
I

could

first that

obtain
carried had

some
on

plain
their

could of

verify,

surface

evidence

probability. I
messages I
came

perplexed
and the doubt

myself

by reading hazy
of
all

in

the works
to

journals
in
to

Spiritualism,until
communicating
what I

identity of

spirits.
but

I found I

great trouble

getting

wanted,

persistently stuck
of will,

my

point until, by
to

determined
to

exercise with

by refusing
declined of
my

have

anything
and, above
enlist
and

do

spiritsthat
the

method,
able
to

all,
operation co-

by

good
of

fortune
a

being
whose

the power

spiritin
alone

integrity
which did in

had

the

perfect

confidence
can

repeated
the

trial and end

long experience
my

give, I

get

proof. Having
got
I
my
was

facts, I found
able I do
not to

them

accurate

in
were

all
at

cases

when
rate

verify them.

They
this

any

true.
as

pretend

that

fact

proves

anything
who

to

the

pretensions
beyond
reason

of the

particular spirit
a

gives them,
of and
the

establishing
to

favourable what
I

presumption.
know up that
retailed

I have

believe, from
facts this
I

spiritaction,
to
me.

that

all such

might
have

be got
to

Against
were so

say
to

facts in

question
were us.

assuredly unknown
got
up,
we

myself:
curious

and, if they

have

very
no

point

before

They

bore, however,

44
appearance
no

The
of

Intelligent Operator
I have

at that argu-*

deceit, and
course

full confidence such been

as

systematic

of

imposture,
have

this

ment

contemplates, controlling agency.

confidence,
to

would

permitted by
more
on

the

This
convey

born than I

of
can

experience, I
impart
tried
outcome But

can

no

others
an

the

reliance
I

the

integrityof
up for intimate in
my

old

and
the

friend of
a

which
year
very

have
year

built of

myself by
association.

after

it is
so

powerful
There has
return
no

factor
cases
are

argument.
of those of
"

And within
my

it is in numberless

outside multitudes how who

knowledge.
"

private
in which before

circles

the

world

notion those

many

evidence is

of the

of

have

gone

presented day by day;

to

through
those who of its true the The

years
are

of intimate

association,
who alone
are

the

minds

of

best,

nay,

fitted to of

judge
that

value.

It is this

reiteration
so

proof

private circle promiscuous

can

furnishes

which

carries
very

conviction. of its

circle, from

the

nature

constitution,
an

hardly

ever

give it,and

then

only in

inferior

degree.

CONTRADICTORY

MESSAGES.

Another

cause

which

has

strengthened
with of

the

inherent
most

feeling of
of
us

antecedent

improbability
mass

which in

start, is the
and the

contradictions

the
very
likely un-

messages,

general
them. with whom

air of It
seems our

unreality that
unreal
converse

frequently pervades
that
a

and
was

friend

that

46
there
occur

The

Intelligent Operator
cases

at

repeated
reasons

in

which the

there

are

the what

Strongest
it
no

for be
"

that believing
many

is spirit
there

pretends
room

to

very

in which
cases,

remains
are

for for and

doubt.

Such

repeat,

too into

sacred

publicity. They
even

do
no

not

find

their way

print ;
such
can a as

if they do, find the favour

coldly precise record,

an

would
to

with

antagonistic critic,
comes

give

him

conviction
or

that

from
to
scenes

'many
long"
the

little turn
or

of

expression,
from

reference
more

past,

possibly
find

nothing
hard
to

tangible
our

than

intuitive
we our

certainty that this is indeed

it
as

friend, thoiigh
some,
even

should
own

prove it to

it

as

in
own

days,

have

found

prove

their

identity.
Under such
our

conditions, where
side
as

sincerity absolutely' theirs,when

both
"

prevailson
taken and the
care

well

as

on

we

have

to

present ourselves
for the "hour's

pure

in heart

sound friends and

in head" gone
we

communion"

with'

before, the
There

spiritualatmosphere,: is
is
an

pure,

feel it.

air of moral

con-'

sciousness, of straightforwardness, that gives reality to

what
are

is
not

done,
the

and

predisposes
of
an

us

to

believe

that of

we

victims

organised System
a

cruel'
years,

imposture, prolonged
and with that and

over

period
the

of

many
as

triflingwith
the could
even

the

most

sacred

subjects
heart.
an

well

as

tenderest
so

feelings of

The

spirit

act, and

yet maintain
must

air of

sincerity
the have
very ho

sublimity in tone,
into
;
an

surely be
of

devil transformed
such
as

angel
which

light.
sheet

fear

as

that

and
come

it is under

circumstances
are

^uch'

these

that

proofs

"andhdrs"' to

the hold

other

End
of

of

the

Line.
that is

47

on

by

in

the

midst

much

shifty and

-uncertain. Under these of

tests

conditions, too,
and

are

given

the

proloagei
existence

series
iA
an

proofs of
once

the

continued
to
us

individuality
forms of is
a

familiar

in the

body,

which

cumulative

argument

of great cogency

in favour There of he

identity. spiritno one

but

notes

in his

intimates

traits

character would look

and for

points
as

of

personal peculiarity that

of

evidence the
:

identity after
which he

long
would
so on

absence.

Such

are

notes

by

would

recognise
be
to

his friend

unnoticed
It

by others, they
is these
little
so

him

proof positive.
to

notes,
to

convincing
paper, that
so come

those

who
to

find

them,
and

hard

put

impossible
in
the

analyse
of

dissect

in

public,
doubt

privacy again

the domestic
a

circle, repeated
until

again simply
dies

and

in many

form,

of inanition.^

VAI,UE

OF

CORROBORATIVE

TESTIMONY.
,

When,
derived

moreover,

in addition
one

to

reiterated similar
is

evidence

through
varied
an

channel,

evidence,
obtained of the is

slightly through
testimony
so

by

varied

conditions, channel,
the

independent
is much be

weight

increased.
as

When,

further, this
on

far

multiplied
intercourse the
human

to

produced
with
the

all occasions

when when

is

sought

world

of

spirit;

instrument's record

fallibilityis corrected
of
II.

"by

the

unimaginative
'

the

photographic

Appendix

48
camera,
a

The
chain of

Intelligent Operator at
of evidence the is

completed

which

onlyto

the

novelty

subject permits prepossession

recorded the
many

ignore.
Such
a a

case

was

by

Mrs.
on

Fitzgerald' in
November

paper

read there

before
are

B.N.A.S.

18,
imitate

1878, and
her

who,

if they would

disinterested from

example,
the

could of

give
their

corroborative
own

testimony
lives.

experience
is

private
to

Evidence

such

as

frequently adduced given through

and

lish estabvarious
over a

spirit-identity ; evidence
channels, by various methods,
;

extending
too,
be it the for

long period
that
reason

of
is

time

evidence,

bered, remem-

usually fragmentary,
who their

obvious renewed
are are

that

those with

enjoy

the

blessing of
friends
nor our

intercourse persons

departed

not

usually of trained
in

legal minds,
a case

they
of

employed
law would of
:

getting
such in
as

up is

for

courts

evidence establish

produced
a

by these

methods

fair minds it not

strong

presumption

were spirit-identity,

for the

inherent
which
as

bability improis due other

to to

which

I have

alluded
as

(and
much

theological errors
and for the which defile

of belief

to

any
cases

cause),
fraud truth.

perpetually
and

recurrent
on

of

bring contempt
to

great

Admitting, however,
considerations, and
classes of mind will

the

full the
as
a

weight of
do, that

these

knowing, give
them

certain

weight quite dispro22,

Nov. Spiritualist,

1878.

the other End

of the
value,
I

Line.

49
entire fact. within which
my

portionate to
about
to

their

real

claim, with
a

confidence, that
am

is spirit-identity
some

proven
are

state

few
I shall

cases

that
to

own

knowledge,
In

and

refer

others

have

already published.
this part of my
not

work
and

must

claim
at

indulgence
in every
of

if I do
case.

give pledge

names

facts the
I

length

myself
I

to

exact

accuracy

every any

statement

make,

and

will
any

gladly satisfy
case,

private inquirer respecting

so.

if I the

can

reasonably do
of
names

But

am

holden in the

from
some

cation publiby
the

and

addresses
of

cases are

knowledge
have
memory

that

friends
I must

departed
their

still
I

surviving, and
no

that
to

respect
the in sacred

feelings.

right
of their

invade
even

privacy
a cause

of the
as

dead,

such

that

of

the

demonstration

of

what

is loosely called

mortality. Im-

PERSONAI,

EXPERIENCES.

It is

now on or

four
this
to

years

since that

my

mind

was

so

greatly satisfy
course interand of
on

vexed

question
abandon
the I

determined

to
at

myself,

any

further of
had

attempt
as

with

world
had
not

spirit
enable I

vague evidence
to

unsatisfying.
it firm
has
mass

sufficient
me

personal identity
a

of

spirits to
No

build

argument.
since of
my

doubt

had
my

had

some,

which the

had

its due

weight

in had

mind, but
been of
an

communications with

impersonal

character,

spirits who

preferred

to

50
rest

The
their claims of

Intelligent Operator at
to

my

attention

on

the

matter
on

and
the

tendency

their
any

messages, however

rather

than that

authority of

name,

great
out

authority sphere
to

might
the

be.

They

had chafed

passed
at

of the recalled

of

individuality, and
on

being

it.

I,

contrary,
that

pined
would
my

for

something
me

definite, some
I
was was

evidence
with the

satisfy
kind.
not

that

dealing
"

of spirits
me.

The attain in
as

Angelic
to

too

high for
For wanted I should
a

I could

it." the evidence

I

long
;

time

I failed

getting
most

and have

if I had abandoned of
mind
to

done

investigators do
gust. disI
was

the
was some

quest in despair or
too

My forced,

state

positive;

and

moreover,

take

personal pains before

Bit

I obtained and that there

a

what

desired.

by bit, here
I do
not

little

little, by steps which

came,

detail here,
to
ceive re-

evidence

and months home

as

my
were

mind

opened
in

it, some daily eftorts

to

six

spent
me

persistent
of the of petuated pertheir ot

bring

to

proof give
of

existence power their

to

of

human with
me

spirits, and
and the

communicate

evidence unbroken

unimpaired individuality,and
of those life
on

continuity of their existence.

Some their their
manner,

who

so

came was

I had

known

during
to

earth, and
but also

able,
to note
or

not

only

verify
of
of

statements,

the

little traits

of diction, peculiarities
that
were

characteristics while in the

mind,
Most

I remembered

in them
to me,

body.'
in

unknown
to

and

came,

always

obedience

the

controlling spirit who

1

arranged

Appendix

II.

the other End

of the

Line.
and

51
go

everything,
.when
some me

to

give
the

their

evidence,
was

their Of and

way

the
came

task from

assigned them
most
no

done. sources,
to

these gave

unlikely

and

my

friends

little trouble

verify their

statements.

Some would

came

at

the

time

of death. it easy
it
can

At
to

that

time, it
its

seem,

the

spirit finds
facts that
Some
came

manifest
are

presence,

and

the

give
been in
scenes
a

readily

capable
as men

of verification.
count

had back
old

long dead,
dazed of and

time, and
to

awkward

fashion and old

revisit,the
a"

earth,
on

cramped
again
But

straitened,
conditions.

it were,

by taking

the

wherever

they
one

came

from,

and

however
them
an were

they
air of selves themof the

communicated,
sincerity and

and

all bore
as

with

earnestness,
with hand.
truth

of those

who

impressed
work

the

deep significance
all, without themselves, Many
of
statements
a

they

had

in the

And about

lonely
far
were

exception,
we

told

so

as

could

verify their
nature
were

story.

from

their

not

capable
minutely
at

proof;
;

vastly
none

greater number

accurate

and

suggested

any

attempt
invisible with
a

deception.
in that
my

mined cross-exa-

these
way,

witnesses

every

able conceiv-

and
to

pertinacity
Many
of
I asked

left

nothing
were

untried

elicit facts.
for I
;
am

queries
able unreason-

unanswered,
by the
most

afraid
I

many their

questions
mistakes. I refer for

but

failed, to

shake

story,
them

or

cunning
evidence

suggestiofalsi to lead

into

of

this

to

my

records,

kept

52

The
all this

Operator at Intelligent
scrupulous regularityday
to

during

period with
in detail
even

by day, minute
and

recording temperature
and

atmospheric
records these

conditions,
another

checked

by Any

independent
circle in which gaps in my
my

kept by
facts
were

member

of the

communicated.
as

own as

narrative, such
I

would in up,
a

be
state

caused of
my
conscious unown

by

being,

frequently
are

was,

trance,
record is checked
to to at

thus

filled

and

by independent observation.
these

Referring
Year's
was

records, I find
ii,

that

from

New time
I

Eve

January

1874, during
Isle of

which the of the

was on

staying Speer,
our we

Shanklin,
had
a

Wight,
chain
on

guest of

Dr.
at

continuous

testimony

daily sittings,all bearing

The

question given
the

of in

the

identity of spirit.
ways, of

evidence raps

various
many

principally through
raps

table,
tact con-

these hands

produced
person

entirely without
present.
on

of the
were

of any direct

Some

facts

given by
; some

writing

previously-marked
; some
a

paper

by
or

automatic clairaudience.
was

writing
In

through
cases roborative cor-

clairvoyance,

few

evidence
sources.

drawn

from

all

these

During
identity
of them and
name,

those
were were

twelve
made

days eleven
out

different
and

cases

of

by

facts

dates. with
any

Three of
us

entirely unconnected
of them
none

of

one or

of

us

had his
name

ever

heard
name,

the his

any

particular.
and

Yet
very

full

place
dates with

of

residence,
birth

the

of his house,
were

of his

and

day
One

of his
was

death,
connected

given
with Dr.

perfectaccuracy.

54
prove

The

Intelligent Operator at
this

identity in
statements,
assent

particularcase.
and

Like

most' Some sessed pos-

general

it is incorrect
to

inexact.

spirits will
of moral And
a

leading questions, and,

a

apparently
the consciousness deal

with

desire

to

please,
say, say

or

scious uncon-

import
in of harm

of what

they

or

without

themselves, will

anything.
the

is done

by quoting
invalidate
once

foolish

utterances
to

of such

spirits, given, usually,

which
say, I

in

response

leading
to
a

questions,
may

the

replies
we

made made and

them. of

for

all, that
at

point
very

not

putting leading questions

cases

all,
out
in

that

many

of

identity were
our

made

by
any

the
way.

invisible

witness

without

intervention

This
I

at spirit,

any

rate, refused
rose

to

assent

to

what
vinced con-

suggested.
that I

certainly
had the been

from
to

the
a

table person

talking

that

desired careful

to to

tell be

truth, and
in
statement.

that
I

was

extremely
all the

exact

verified

facts, and

found this

them
same

exactly given.

During
Mrs.

period
gave

came

three

relatives

of

Speer's, and
of them had

full evidence

of their in and

identity.
way

One
at
a

before manifested
his face

another
a

public circle,showing
hand,
which
was

peculiarly
of him in himself

delicate earth-life.
at

characteristic

Another

had

attempted
had failed
to

to

show

the

same

tinje, but
that

obtain animates
seems
on

tion. recognimany
to

With

strong

desire

which that

spiritsto get recognition, a desire

with each

grow

failure, and
he

to
me;

spur to,

them
a

to

renewed,
at

attempts,

followed

circle

held

the:

the other
house
20,
none

E.nd

of the Line. Gregory

presence among notice
on

55
December

of

Mrs. and

Makdougall
manifested
own

1872,
of
one

his

there, though
the

his knew

friends
or

were

guests.
brief

No

him,
that
away

took
was
a

any

of his

announcement,
who had
at

he

brother
years.
out merest

of Mrs.
I
was

Speer's
scious uncon-

passed
the

thirteen found

time, and

the

fact

of

his
I of

having
was

communicated
over

by

the

accident. of this
on

turning
and

the

manuscript
long accidentallly
that
to

book after
fell

records

Mrs.

Gregory's
my
.

seances, eye

particular
the
name

day,

George
as one

I read
very

he

had

announced
name,

himself and who obtain

had

desirous
as a

give
of

his

recognition
tried before
as failing,

relative
her

Mrs.

Speer's,
This availed home

to

attract

attention.
he

attempt
of

the

first had

done,

himself

the

organised
was

plan

for

bringing
out at

this evidence
and
went

which

being
his
we

carried

Shanklin, done,
more.

there
his gone

established
way,
to

identity.
seen

This
no

he He

and

have
to

him
a

had
to

America

look

after
years

brother
ago, and

who
was

went
never

New wards after-

York

twenty-eight
heard

of.
31,
an

In is

the

Spiritualist of August
to

1877,' reference
lady who
as

made

the

appearance from the

of

old

had

just
had

been been her

to

freed

body,

and

who,

she

said,
to

enabled, bjr prayer

husband,
the

and

loving sympathy,
in the she

raise

long prisoned
state

sphere
had

of

earth,

higher

for

which

fitted

'

Appendix

II.

56
herself.
accompany That
same

The
When

Intelligent Operator at
she

departed
the
two
were

he

was

permitted
during
of
as came

to

her, and
husband

reunited. this

manifested of eleven

his presence

period

days.
which

Each
or

spirit selects,
form

apparently, a special
which
never

rap, knock,
and

signal,
much with
times some-

varies,
as

possesses
He

individuality
the

the

human

voice.

strangest
like
a

and

most

uncomfortable in the

sound,

whizzing
on

air, sometimes

like

harsh of

grating

the

table, each
that

equally suggestive
surrounded the when

unrest.

The

atmosphere
I
was

and spirit, he of
He

of which his

painfully con-scious
was

manifested

presence,

similarly indicative
for prayer. had been bound his

unhappiness,
had
;

and

he

earnestly asked
man :

been he

grasping
lived the words
that and
on

gold
his
the

god
been. cold

and

had
to
no

to

find
where

himself

by
had of the

golden

fetters
I have

earth
to

treasure

describe presence

sensation
nor

discomfort

his

brought,
was

air of gruesome
to
us

grim
told

misery that
him.

conveyed
His

by what
in

was

respecting
WoE. The in That
one

nation desigtold had

at

was spirit-life was

spiritwho
word
was
us

us

this

asked
to
an

to

put

what

brought
once,

him

this state.

word

given
all most what his

with

intensity that
Yet he

impressed
had
not

powerfully :
world On been his when the
calls
an

Greed.

been

the

nor evil-liver,

neglectful of
mechanical in their he
on

duties. he had But time been

contrary,

in his and

hard

way,

punctual

exact

discharge.
awaited earth the had

spirithad been starved, and the simple, loving soul, who

the other End

his

of

the Line.
and

57
infuse
and
some

companion,

should

rejoin him,
into who

spiritual life
existence.

and

vigour
none

his cold witnessed would

cheerless

I think

the

painful
any

reality of
doubt
as

his
to

manifestation

entertain

his

identity.
of

never

quite
words of the

understood

till then Christ

no

the

meaning

those
men

addressed

by

to

highly respectable
were

world, who, business,

the
"

doubt,

punctual
and harlots before

and

exact

in

"The

publicans
of heaven

shall

go

into

dom king-

you."

INFLUENCE

OF

ASSOCIATION,
LOCALITY.

FSPECIAI,r,Y

OP

This and
I

spirit had
had him
not

first manifested his

the grave.

after
was

Dr.
some

Speer
link

visited
and

There

between
I do

last
how

resting-place
or

of his
I have

body.
come,

understand

why,

but
as a

after
cannot

repeated evidence, give

a reason

to

accept
an

fact what

for, that
with
even

earth-bound
the

spirit
home,

is frequently associated
the of

locality,with
grave. if The

place

of death,

or

the

presence the
one

personal friends, especially psychic

power,
or

they

possess

mysterious
who
o r

be
an

accompanied
earth-bound
to

by

does, will frequently attract

even

spirit, sphere
death in the his

recall
was

one case

who

is not
the

tied
man

this lower
met

This

the
crushed

with with
a

who

by being

steam-roller, recorded

of Spiritualist This
was

March
case
1

27, when

1874.^
Dr.

the

Speer
III

and

I, then

on

Appendix

58
an

The
excursion

Operator at Intelligent
Korth
at

in the

of

Irtland, visited
There which
I

an

old in

disused it
some

burying-ground
curious We Runic remained shocked about such
an

Garrison. of

were

crosses,
a

wanted and that result room, bed-

sketches.
were we

considerable skulls and

time,
bones The in
my

greatly
found visit which

at

the

lying
was

in

all directions.
uncanny

of that

noise
Dr.

was

separated
the visit
as

from he

Speer's only by
a

thin

partition, that
of the much that
I
was

I know
to

entertains

lively
He

remembrance describes and

room,
was

that

graveyard.
of

sounds

utterly destructive
to

sleep,
my

aggravated
occurred

find, on

coming

into

slumbering peacefully through during

the these eleven between

it all.

Another which

case

days
the the In

testified the
a

again
I had

to

connection its

spirit and
course

resting-place of
visited it.
a

body.

of had

walk

beautiful
In
an

churchyard,

and
a

wandered

through
body

the

evening
friend much of

came

whose spirit, who

gave

lay there,

old

Mrs.

Speer's,

communicated

with clear and

my

apparent
of her written mind message the I

joy, and
the

particulars (as
was

complete
record
my

identity, though
on

find

from

spot)
some

carefully occupying
of

by

reciting
was

passages
and

Virgil
the

while
on

the

being given,
came

though

table

which
us.

raps
may

was

absolutely
is
a

untouched that
I

by

This,
of my which

here

say,
to

precaution
4;he

habitually took
element

in order
own

eliminate action.
to
me

disturbing
automatic

mental

The
the
many

writing,
of while

has has

brought
been, in

greatest
cases,

weight
executed

evidence,
I
was

very

the other

End

of

the Line.
sometimes of

59
a

occupied
abstruse The
that

in

reading

book,

very

character. last
case

I will notice

during
no one

this

period

was
even

of

person

of

whom
was
one

present had

heard. had been

The

spirit

lately
of

departed.
by
whose

He the

brought,
controlled

for

purposes the

evidence,

who spirit

circle,and

organised
that should

plan
break

for

presenting
my

once

for all evidence

I
am now

down

unbelief
gave

imperfectly
dates
as

recounting.
his

He
went

minute
way.

facts We had

and
some

to

life, and

his

able considerceeded finally suc-

difficulty in verifying the

in

facts, but
from

doing
relative. has

so

by

letter

his

nearest

surviving
This
other
case

been

paralleled
each

in

at

least I
am

twelve certain
to my

instances, respecting
information
was as

of which
was

that
own

given
am

that
to

foreign
of any

mind,

or,

assured,

that

person

present.
The
case

of Abraham
March
as

Florentine,' published in the

19,

of Spiritualist this

1875,

may

be

mentioned

in

connection,
in the

also

that

of Charlotte

Buckworth,^
21,

published

Spiritualistof January

1876.

SPIRITS

WHO

HAVE

COMMUNICATED
PERIOD.

FOR

LONG

I pass

to

case

in which
on

spirit,who
4,

fested first mani-

her
in

presence

September
communication

1872,
with

has
us

mained reever

permanent
1

Appendix

III.

Ibid.

6o
since. of
I

The

Intelligent Operator at
this
case

note

because
to

we

have
us

the

tage advanan

prolonged
as

intercourse

aid

in

forming

opinion
only

to

identity,and
has

because

the her her

spirithas

not

given unequivocal
This that is

proof

of

characteristic
presence
case,

individuality, but
various
ways.
to

evidenced
a

in
as

remarkable

too,

tending
and human

prove that the

life, once

given,
has
once

is indestructible, animated
a

spiritwhich
brief

body, however

its tenure,

lives

on

with

unimpaired
The

identity.^
announced herself said
away
never

spirit in question
a

by raps,
was
a

giving

message

in

French. had old. had

She

she
at

sister of Dr.
an

Speer's, and
seven

passed
I had

Tours, her

infant

of

months her brother and

heard her

mentioned,
for she had company,
had
no

and

forgotten
his
as

ence, existvoyants Clairin

my

lived

died

before
a

birth.

always described
I had wondered

child
at
or

being

and
trace

this, seeing that I

friend. Here
was

of any

such

relation the time

the

explanation.
she
has

From

of her
to

first appearance

remained

attached

the

family, and
in its

her

clear,joyous little rap, perfectly individual

is
a

nature,
It
as
never we

never-failing
we

evidence

of her
once

presence.
as

varies, and
should know

all know
tone

it at
a

surely
She
names

the

of

friend's also her

voice. four he

gave

particulars of herself, and

One
was
new

in full.

to

her
to

brother, and
another and member
were

verified of alike the

un-

it

only

by
Names

reference and

family.
See
some

dates

facts

strikingevidence

on

this

point

in Heaven

Opened

by

F.

J. T.

62
the house
was

The
of Mr.

Operator at Intelligent
sation conver-

Our Cowper Temple, M.P. evidence concerned chiefly with

am now

of

the

"kind

that

summarising.
others, the
was

I
case

recounted of these with

a

-various
three

cases,

and

among

children.

Mrs.

Watts

much in outline

struck
to

the

recital,which

corresponded
which Mr. she and

very

"distressinghistory
the with
a

had

just
Watts from which

heard. had

On dined heard

Monday
an

previous

Mrs.
and

old

friend, Mrs.

Leaf,

her had had

distressing story
relative of
one

of bereavement of Mrs.

befallen
A

the

lycaf's acquaintances.

gentleman

residing

in India wife the

names

had, within
and

brief space Mrs.

of time, lost his young

three

children.

I,eaf entered
did
not

fully into
either
In

melancholy
or

details, but
of the sad

mention

the

place

"occurrence.

reciting the
with

incident
me,

of three
gave

young
names me

"children and the from the

communicating place,
as

the
to to

thej' had
Mrs. Watts

been

furnished

in

messages. Mrs.

undertook of the
very

ascertain she had

I^eaf the
She
were

particulars
so on

case

mentioned. the
names

did the

the

next

day, and

same.

Through acquaintance
with
to
me

the

kindness

of

Mrs.
was

Watts
much

made

the

of Mrs.

Leaf, and

impressed
detail

the

perfect correspondence
the
a

of every

given
day

with
is
not

facts

as

they occurred. that, on

was

It
on

little remarkable

the
Mrs.

very

which

this communication
a

made,

Watts,

who

possesses

very

beautiful
some

gift
been

of in

automatic

"drawing, which
was

had
to

for

time

abeyance,

impelled

draw

three

cherubs'

heads, which,

the other
she in afterwards

End

of

the Line.

63
were

was

informed, spiritually
to

drawn

typical allusion
of the attraction
were

this sad in which

event.

Other

details,
and
of

symbolic
the
ones,

country

it occurred,
her
a

of the

mother's The

to spirit

three
very

little ing strik-

added.
of

drawing
various of

forms

illustration
to spirit at

the

methods mind.
to
me

employed
Mrs.
"

by
"

reach

various

types

Watts

that

time, be it noted, unknown

instructed
in the

had

always by
The inner

been

language
artistic
to

of

symbolism,

poetic simile,
Voice consciousness of exact

and

by

representation.
and
to

appealed

rather
to

Spirit
outer

the

than

the

sense

and

to methods

demonstration.
so

I,
I
was
own

on a

the

contrary,

had

not

progressed
for truth

far. after my

on

material
and
came

plane, craving
hard
her
came

ing seekhard

fashion,
So
to
more. me

logical
symbolic poetry
one.

demonstration.
and

facts,
the

clearly given,

nothing
the

To

indication,
the
incident.

artistic The
source,

delineation,

the
was

of
It
was

however,
to
us

Spirit manifesting
needs.

Truth

according

to

our

several

OTHER

EVIDENCES

OF

IDENTITY.

different times
:

kind

of

evidence

has

come

to

me

several

that, viz., from

no

recalling
conceivable
or

minute

cidents in-

long past which, by

could
I

possibility,
recollection,
a

have
an

been

within

my

knowledge
occurred automatic

append
was

instance.

It

at

time

when and

I
came

much
to
me

occupied
apropos

with of

writing,
The

nothing,

spirit was

64

The

Intelligent Operator at
and seized the

present, I presume,

opportunity
I

ot

approaching
On
to
a a

her

friend.

certain

evening
on

[April
had
to

8,

1874]

was

about

put

question
hand
over new

what

just
or

been

written,
to
move
case

when

the

began
the

draw,
as

rather

aimlessly
when
a

paper,

is

frequently
by
nature

the
a

spirit comes.
of
a

Piece

piece
was

long

communication
out. It must

very

personal
very

written

necessarily lose
I

much
I

of its force
am

from

the

brief abstract, which

was

is all that
a

able

to

print now.
and of the the

staying
also

at

house

in

the
to

country,
the

communicating
house,
me as

was spirit

known
or

lady
had

and
a

to

me

rather
years

she ago.

known

boy, twenty-nine
and then

She

first gave it. the died she her

I

her
not.

full name, She

house

inquired if
said
I
answer

I remembered
a

did

she
was

was

cousin

ot

lady
on

of

the

where
In

staying.
to

She

Maj"^ 15th ult.

that she
name.

my

questions,
I she

said

had

been The

married, and, further, gave

maiden the
a name

maiden

dimly
used

remembered,
to

and

recalled

place

where

live. time

This
and

produced
place
name

record
"

of her

ing includlife, very

of birth

description of the
"

house of her her

a

and

the

of

its present date

a

occupier particulars

married Then trivial

on a

life,and
followed

and
very

place
exact

of death, with
statement

age.

of
I

very

episode
to
were

in

my

boyhood,
In the

when
course

had

gone minute

visit

her

house.

of

this,
facts

incidents which
to

recalled, and

microscopic
which

given
hard

I knew
any

nothing of, and

it is very up.

imagine

personating spiritgetting

the other End

I

of the

Line.
sources,

65
what she

subsequently verified,from
found
every

two

said, and
I

exact. particular literally

inquired, further, whether

to
me.

she
a

had

any

object in given
cast
"

coming
"

Yes of my

; she

wished

message

I lost much

opportunity for
of progress

progress This
come.

through
me

the back.
my

of bodily appetite. gratification

My

course

is yet to from

I find I
,

present life
same.
near

not

very

different I could

yours.

am

nearly the
I cannot I asked
more

I wish

influence

but

get

her." other

for be

any

evidence,

and
as

she she and

was

said

no

could
"

given. Then,
Ask
'no
were

just
D

going
door." trapand
state.

away,

Stay !
I

about what

the
mean,

had

idea

this

might

inquired
"

if she
as

comfortable be She
in

in her state."
I
was

present
I asked

As

happy
found
her
me

may out.

this

how

she
near

came,

told, hovering
she her. could The
municate. com-

friend, and
I

discovered
if I

that

asked
was

could

help
that

usual

request for prayer

I

made. the ask

was

subsequently
about minute
seem

ascertained
I
was

trap-door
another
years

incident of those
ago,

which details
to
me

told to

of
to

daily life of thirty

furnish absurd known
may

which of

about

the

best

evidence
to

identity. The
have been

incident
to any

alluded

could

hardly
The about

except the
when whom with
I

actors

in it.

incident, I
old. the
a

say, occurred

I
was

was

five years recalled

The

person

to

referred

trap-door episode night's thought.

minute evidence
E

and difiiculty, One

more

only after
of

case

extremely

given

66
in detail

The

Operator at Intelligent
the
means

through
this

of raps, and be

corroborated I close.

by automatic
About

writing, must
same

given

before been

time
one

of which
our

I have

ing, speakof

the whole
to
a

of
was

of

seances,

extending nearly
minute able
to

two

hours,

taken

up

by the communication

series of facts, names,

a

dates, and

particulars,
reply
of his
to

from
most

who spirit

was

apparently
The

the

searching
to
were

questions.
his

day

birth,
of

particularsas
his
a

family history, and

at

details Then facts

came were

early life

given

my

request.
as

perfect autobiography, so
and

far
some

salient trivial

concerned,

embracing
fell into All

particulars,
in the
most

which,
natural the

however,
way.

their
were

place

questions

answered

without and
at

faintest hesitation, and The

are

with

perfect clearness
taken down verifjcation

precision.
time, and

particularswere
in and
case

thfe is

all respects, where

accurate.

exact possible,

Even
it is
so
more

if this

stood for
me

alone
to

in

my

experience,
that the what
was

difficult

imagine
was

laboriously and
the

precisely given
fraud of
a

product
the
as

of imposture,
vagary of
an

or deceiving spirit,

errant

brain, than

to

believe,
was

I the

assuredly do, that

man

the

intelligent operator unimpaired

the

[himself,with
undestroyed

memory

and
we

duality indivicall with that of

by

change
on

which
same

Death. other I have evidence.

In

Resting,
facts that not,

as

it does,

the

basis
many

I have

detailed, and
one more

with

it presents

link

in the

chain

addition

to

the

long

series

of facts

thus

com-

the other End

municated which short archaic
way,

of the

Line.
stands in

67
a

by
I used

means

of raps, time

there

book
a

at

this

for

automatic
me,

writing
in
a

letter written

automatically by
in
a

peculiar

handwriting, phrased containing

It is who
a

quaint old-fashioned
of the
in

and

curious with the

piece of old-fashioned
name

Spelling. question,
life on

signed
was a

spirit in
in his
on

man

of mark obtained

the
a

days of his
letter

earth.
an

have old

since

handwriting,
account

yellow

document,
The

preserved
in

of the is
a

autograph.
of

handwriting

my

book and
as

fair imitation

this, the signature

is exact,

the

piece
in
as

of old-fashioned
my
a

spelling occurs
it
was

exactly
posely pur-

it does done

book.

This,

said, was

point

of evidence.

POSSIBI,E

MISCONCEPTION

GUARDED

AGAINST.

refrain

from
my

adducing
records

further contain

evidence
a

of this number

nature,
of other detail.
ceases

though
cases

great

similar is
a

in kind, and

equally precise in
such
I

There
to to

point beyond
and

which that

evidence
seem

be have been

cumulative,
reached. concerned with
I have

point
what

to

myself
I have
to

solely with
an

I consider

be facts connected

elementary

principle of
foundation
and

spiritcommunion.
of

tried to lay the

proof that
certain and
to

man

survives

physical death,
to demonstrate

is able,

under

conditions,
show the

his individuality, interest in

permanence

of his

old
I

associations
must

of his earth-life.

guard myself, however,

against

possible

68

The

Operator Intelligent
There
are

at I know who their

misconception.
full well, who

many

as spirits,

have

passed beyond
lost the power their

this of

plane, and proving

their that

have,

apparently,
of this

recollection and and the have

out
scenes

portion of
have the in

existence.

Earth
gaze, has

of earth
lost them.

faded
vaster

from

been
to

prospect

opened
and

Grander
us
some

interests
warn,

absorb

them,

when
us
:

they revisit
to

it is to

instruct, or
of that

guide
work in the

discharge
been and spirit, work

portion
them.
are

great

which
world

has of

assigned
many

There

is order in that the

engaged
for its
;

great

missionary

which

has

object
to

progressiveenliglitenmentof humanity
of

therevelation able bear those that

higher
;

views

of truth

as

man

grows

them nobler

the and

development
purer learned
no

among

mankind

of

conceptions
in the evidence
;

of the

Supreme

they have
From with such is

progressive
as

life that is theirs.

now

such

I
too

am

concerned their
own

procurable
to

but

they

bring

contribution of moral in the

the

cycle of proof in the

elevation of their that

atmosphere
and with in the

purity and
vaster

accompanies them,,
which

scope

interests trivialities

absence
we
are

of the
so

pettinesses and engrossed.

more

much has

Nothing
of which is to with be such

impressed purity
To
cares
one

me

than and zeal

the

breadth

charity and

love, the

for with

truth,,
them
to
see

spiritsshow.
above
'

commune

raised

the the the that

of

earth, and
needful
'

keener who

insight
ascends

thing
the

: as

the

traveller
on

mountain-side wrap

looks

down him.

the

mists

and

fogs

valley below

70
2.

The
And from
next.

Intelligent Operator
The human
none

at its separation In

spiritafter
He

thebody
the
next

loses
man

of its individuality. will be

other

words,
in the

real

survives. will know He

self him-

state, and
his

and will

appreciate
on

intercourse interests

with

friends.

carry

the

of his life, only under

changed

conditions.

PERSONAI,

IMMORTALITY,

AND

PERSONAL

NITION. RECOG-

These

two

doctrines

of

personal immortality
of that

and

personal recognition, integral parts

revelation which of
we,
seem

divine
as

as

Christians, have
to
me

accepted
is

the Word
illustration

God,
and

to be

receiving practical
what of faith
ring occurare

demonstration
us.

from

all round

From

articles from

they

passing
The and the
the

into

logical deductions
to

experience.
heart of
man,

desire desire

live
to

is strong in the
gone

in the continued far

to

live

exercise make the

of
shine sun-

affections of his

which

have

earthly life is hardly

who it is the
as

less modern

potent days
encumbered

and

universal.

Those when

in

these
to

of

Nihilism,
with
no
as

fashion

be

little faith
and
no

possible, assert
before will
or

that these
a

man

has

soul

future

him,
us our

lightlyuniversal possesses,
:

equipped
has that has
are

skirmishers somehow
to

tell other pages

that
race

impulse, which
been
man,

transferred

the

of Revelation and

and

having figments

fabricated with
own

his God

his heaven, that

amused the

himself

hopes
brain.

of

immortality

of his

the other

End

of

the Line.

71
this sal univerthat
the

We,

who

think
as,

otherwise, who
in itself,a who
some

regard
to

impulse
underlies
man,

witness that

the

truth

it ; we, who offer

to

believe

the

spiritis
as a

and

logical evidence
and assaults
to

ground
"

for

adhering

that

ancient

venerable of
esteem

belief

belief
"

undamaged
we are

by the
not

modern

dulity increthe
to

disposed

lightly
home

testimony
us
on our

that

is

being day by day brought

are

these

points. They
so

to
as

us

the

foundations ourselves.

of

religious belief
do

far

it

respects

They

not, and

they cannot,
carry

stand

alone, for, once

an

recognised, they
of Am
concerns

in

their

train

entire

code

personal religion.
I to
me

live
to

on

after
know

my

body

is dead?
answer are

Then
comes

it

where.

What ?
You

to

me

from
own now. are

the

land

beyond
You
acts

the
as

arbiter
you
are

of your

destiny.
By
the

will
and

live there habits

living
life, you
future pure
out

of your
of

daily
your

preparing
The

for

yourself the place

habitation.
in heart

as filthy is the filthy still,

the

preserves

his

purity.
or

You

are

working
yourself

your

own woe.

salvation,

preparing
ot

for

misery and
And interests what
are

of
so

the

friends up

earth, with
to
sever

whom
them

my

bound

that

would half
the you

be. to

tear

out

the

heart-strings,and
live still, the
and the and
you
same same

destroy the
friends with If

of myself?
same

They

interests,
to

affections.
associate

desire those
you

join them,
can

to on,

yourself with
and

who
must

lead
as

forward
under

upward, pierc-

live

in their

presence,

their

72

The
must

Intelligent Operator at
energise to
them
:

ing

eye

you

lead the
one

the

life that

has

elevated and

and

ennobled

life of who the

tion self-abnegasubdues the

to

as self-discipline,

of

flesh to the the In eternal.

and spirit,

subordinates

temporal
far
ship wor-

short, the
man,

whole

fabric for

of the

religion, so
moment

as

it affects due stimulus

excluding Supreme,
these of the
a

the

to

the

receives which
so

its sanction
are

and

from

doctrines

becoming
of
us.

integral parts
In
on

daily fading
you

life of faith

many

days

when

has

relaxed

its hold has power, ing becomof

mercy to

human

life, or, if
of it,when much and of its less
a

his grasp

man prefer it,when religion,as a binding

lost is

losing
national that

so

vitalisinginfluence, and
factor
in

less

the

formation
the

the of the

character,
whose

we

are

being, by
is
never

God

response

wanting

aspirationsof
the

His
our

creatures, brought
existence. spiritual of
us

face to face with

reality of
are :

There believe

many

who

are

fain to cry,
because
nor

"

Lord, I
of the because

help

Thou
a

mine

unbelief," not

prescription of
of the
faith

time-honoured
our

creed,
have

which and

fathers

handed
a

on

to

us,

sadly battered
destructive of have
any
seen

shattered
;

by

many

blow

from

criticism

still less because

of the but

dogmas
we

ecclesiastical with of
our

corporation
eyes,
dead

because

and

have
men

proven live,
"

by

severe we
"

methods
can

logic,that
their believe company

because
our

argue
we

from
can

perpetuated
that that
we

life to
too

own,
one

because

shall

day
"

join

the

great

has

preceded

us,

and

the other
"because have

End

of
from

the Line.
of them

73
lessons

we

learned

some

reasonable, comprehensible,
which discipline, the

and
we

coherent,
may

of life and

following
life to
come.

fit ourselves

for

progressive

It is this that of

constitutes

for

me

the

moral

beauty

Spiritualism. Apart
as a

from
mere

its

religious aspects,
I it

viewed

question
it with
none

of

psychology,
interest, but

should would

always
possess

regard
for
me

deep

of the

far-reaching significance impress

not me,
me

that it now

has.

Its

phenomena though
they
I
am

with

ever

increasing wonder,
for the the but

always
nor

grateful
for

bewilderment

cause

thankful

prominence assigned
injudicious
The
mind

them

by

some

well-meaning
the

friends

who

mistake that
"

husk

for

the the

kernel.

buffoonery
for
it ;
"

passes the

current

in and

public
that

Spiritualism ;
the unclean of
to

fraud
that

folly

besmirch

things
the
a

get mixed
minds

up that

with
are

it ;
"

the

vagaries things
They
die.
I
are

unbalanced
new

inevitably attracted
;
"

and but

fascinating contemplate
and will live

subject
without their

these

deplore,
Born

dismay.
little life and

ephemeral,
of human will of the

ignorance,

nurtured

by human
and

they folly,
sense

yield to advancing

knowledge
the true among And

increased

when responsibility,

moral
us.

significanceof
dead,

subject is recognised
when them look

when the

they

are

or

men

can

through
much-abused of
our

fog

that
seen

encircles that the

to

the

light
of this

beyond, it will be

moral
on

grandeur
firm

Spiritualismrests
of

the

foundation

knowledge

perpetuated

human

life,whence

74

The

Intelligent

Operator^

"c.

flow

naturally

those

deductions

respecting
for indicated. will be found that been still
our own

our

own

disembodied

future,
I

those before

rules

embodied

life,
These
master

which cardinal

have

Nay,
to

more! be the

principles
of
a

principles
Divine, by

Revelation
it has

approves

itself

though
man,
so

so

sorely

interpreted mis-

grievously

adulterated

by

human
I

glosses
shall
I

and

misconceptions.
if, by

be lead life

content

anything
out

that for

have what

now

said,
his that line."
own

any

one

to

think the

himself

in of

depends

on

ascertained the other

presence

"

Intelligent

Operator

at

end

of

the

APPEND

78
with his

Appendix
mediumship.
his

I.
seen

are I,arge spirit-lights

through
in direct

mediumship,
of that the

and

the direct He

voice spirit

is

theincipientstages
music spirit
"

development.
is to say,
one

also obtains of the sounds there is

room,

spirits
like
no

usually plays, in
a

air, upon instrument,

of mortal

what when make

stringed

musical

musical

instrument
most

in

the

lyike
that

other

mediums,
company
;

this

gentleman
the

finds

uncongenial
to
a

reduces
are

tations manifes-

minimum

they
of and

moderately
when

strong
none
are

in but

ordinary circles, and

intimate the upon friends

great power
no new

influences
in the

present,
manner

harmony spiritual
the

reacting
So

usual is this
municating com-

manifestations.
he has been

strongly by
the

fact

recognised,

that

advised
from

to intelligences to elicit

refrain

all attempts he

phenomena,
The

except in the circle with which

wisdom of this advice
any

habitually sits. by the

to

is shown

fact, repeatedly made

new
as

clear, that
is attended

attempt
failure of

introduce

elements well
as

by

the

phenomena,
consequences

by the
An for

most

serious

cal physiseance

to

himself.
upon that him under

unsuccessful
some

will leave
be

its mark

days.
conditions

It is to it is

greatly regretted
the

these

impossible that
be

results known

of his
to
a

mediumship
great
number

should
who

experimentally
But the

earnestly desire
most

to witness

them. features of his

valuable in the

mediumship
but in and

are

not

seen

physical manifestations,
of
trance

the

higher

developments
Whenever

speaking
been

automatic

writing.

he

has

entranced

Appendix
in of but
our

I.
has

79
been
not

presence,

the

whole

room

in

state

incessant

vibration, which
the vibrations
go

could
on

only be felt,

heard;

steadily during the

never seen

whole

of the

entrancement.

Having
with the the spirits
much-

this other

phenomenon
mediums,
we

in connection

trances

of

asked there

the
was

reason

of it. power

They

replied

that

surplus
method of

during
the

his entrancement.

and the

their

expending
his His

surplus
The

caused

physical vibrations.
obtained the

communications
are

through
value.

writing
handtrols con-

mediumship
him,
and

of with these
men

greatest

"writing changes
and

every

different
are

spiritwho
their from the

who spirits,

chiefly literary
names,

theological
and

of past

ages,

give

the

particulars of
on

their

earth-life,extracts
and search their
at

their British
are

writings,
Museum found
to

enquiry
The

I^ibrary and
be
true.

elsewhere,
medium
own

statements

criticises

and
as

tions ques-

all the
as

results
man

of his

mediumship
do.
come

closely
he is

any

scientific that the

would

He

says

that

assured outside

messages
the

from

individuals and lines of

himself,

facts, arguments,
to

thought being foreign

and

his own, with

and

often
own

strongly

seriously

at

variance

his

opinions,
true

especially on theological matters. the spirits have given about

would make the
a

The their

ticulars par-

earth-lives and
new

small

biographical dictionary;
he
"

although
to

facts stated

felt

sure

to be

quite
and

him, yet, he
that

argued,
not

how

can

I \"" perfectly tain cer-

they

were

once

in my the 22nd

mind,
May,

wards after-

forgotten?"

On

1873, the

8o
medium held the

Appendix

I. with
the
answers

following conversation
the

the

spirits,he
coming
"

writing

questions,
Dr.

and

afterwards

by what

Carpenter
the

would motions

call

unconscious hand"
:
"

cerebration

governing

of

the

THE

READING

OF

BOOKS

BY

SPIRITS.

Can

you

read

No, friend, I cannot,

not

but

Zachary Gray
or

can,

and the

R
.

am

able

to

materialise

myself,
here spirits

to command

elements.

Are

either

of

those

?
I will send
.

I will

bring
told you

one can

by and
read.

by.

R
. .

is here.
a

am

Is that

so

Can

you

read

book

[Spirithandwriting
Will ^neidf Wait.
"

changed.]
me

Yes, friend, with

difficulty.

you

write

for

the

last line

of

the

first book

of

the

Omnibus

errantem

atas" terris,etfluctibus

[This Quite

was

right.]
But

so.

might

have but the

known
one on

it.

Can

you

go

to

the read not

book-case, take
me

the last book

the second

and shelf, ? I have

the

last

paragraph
do not
even

of
know

ninety-fourth page
name.

seen

it,and
will is
a

its
a

"I

curtly prove novelty, and

pure
even

by
has

short

historical
or

narrative, that
grown up since

popery the

gradually arisen
of

primitive and
but
state

time since

Christianity, not
lamentable

only since the

of kirk and

apostolicage,
the

the

union

by Constantine."
book
on

[The
"

examination

proved

to

be to

queer

one

called

an Roger's Antipopopriestian,

attempt

liberate

aud

purify
The
"

Christianity from
extract

Popery, Politikirkalityand
was

Priestrule." word
"

given above
for

accurate,

but

the

narrative

substituted How
I know
came

"account."] pitch upon

friend.
so

I to

appropriate
was

sentence

? The wbrd

not, my

It

by coincidence.

Appendix I,
"was

8r
it

changed by
change.
do you

error.

I knew

it when

was

done, but would by fits and

It is.

not

How starts.
I wrote
a

read

You

wrote

more

slowly,and
I went
as a

what

remembered,
and

and useful

then

for

more.

specialefifbrt to read, right

very

only

test.

Your

friend

was are

last

night
We

; we

can

read, but only

once

when write

conditions and then of that of the Go book page

the show

good.
you

will

read

again, and
is the

impress
school
intellect

of the book:

"Pope
of

last great writer rather

of poetry, the

poetry
the

the

intellect,or
That
same

mingled with
the

fancy."
on

is

truly written. [I took

a

and

take

eleventh

book and

the

shelf.

called
for you.

Poetry,Romance
Take it and
the
over

Rhetoric.^
good
Him

It will open
our

at the and
to

read, and great and

matter. at page not
seen

recognise
God
be there To

power,

permission
you

which

gives us, glory.

was

of

our

power

Amen.

[The
idea

book

opened
I had

145, and

the
;

quotation

perfectly true.
no

the book

before

certainly had

of its

contents.]
are

Here, then,
and of

very

strong proofs of spirit-identity,

very

spiritmessages
of the medium. when conditions

free from As
some

bias due

to

the read

thoughts
books their
not
a a

spiritscan
fact

are

favourable, the
into

brings
may

personal identity again deceiving spirit extract

book,
? certain and

question, for

personal particulars
as

from
himself

give

them

appertaining
the

to

Seeing, then, giving

very

spirits are,
their the

on

whole,

fair

proofs of
Dee

identity and following

ness truthful-

this medium, through! about

as

tion communica-

Dr.
we

is of considerable
a

interest, especially
life of Dr.
"

gave number

brief review of the

of the

Dee

in

recent

: Spiritualist

.82

.Appendix
DR..

I.

deb's

spirit
. .

April igth, 18J3.'

Can
He made

you
was

tdl ine
the loud
was same

about

the

who spirit
has

came

last
you

evening f
before, and has

who spirit

visited
He
a

the
name

and

sharp knock.
Dee. He
was

said of himself
man

truly that
and
arid

his

John
all

of

vast

reseai-ch

great refinement, versed

in the
occult

mysteries
sciencies.
once

of ancient He
on

magic
also

astrology, and
in the

tie

Was

skilled
in the

exact'

sciences, being
He
was

lecturer

Euclid

University of Paris.
and
'

in earth -life a intercourse

spirit, 'progressive
us

versed

in the

subject of

between

and

your

world.

He
Yes.

lived in
He
was

Queen Elizabeth's days, he says.

consulted
as

to

the

voice the

of the

on spirits

the

occasion of
or

of the

Coronation,
I do
a

and
not

fixed know

day
the

at the

instigation
of his birth
VI.

his

spiritguides.
but he
was

year

death,

friend
took occult
he

both

of your

King
in his

Edward

and

of Elizabeth.
of
at

She
on

great interest science,

lived
and

marveiUous him
quently fre-

collection

works

and died.

visited

Mortlake,

where

But Oh
He

he was yes,

abroad, you
He

said.
at

much.

studiedof

Louvain,

and
to

at

Cambridge.

had
a

great power

application,being

able

study eighteen
18 J3.

hours You
He
was

day.

April 2oth,
were

tellingme
He

about

John Dee.
you

is here.
born

will

give

particularsthrough
went at

me.

He

in I"ondon

in 1527. There

He
he
"

fifteen

to

St.

John's
a

College, Cambridge. devoting

travel.
before Paris. He four
went

studied
You

eighteen
about

hours

day,

,only to
to the

sleep.

inquire
after
at

his

foreign

Netherlands
He

taking his degree, and

at

leaving Trinity.
Edward
at

studied

Louvain, and lectured

He

VI.

gave
a

him

Upton'on-Sevem. in,

lived
on

and both

died
the

Mortlake,
and
now.

with

'magnificent library of
He
was

books
,

exact

occult In

sciences. 1551
he

born with

he cannot

remember

associated

himself

Edward

"Appendty^ I.
^elly^in the

83
and
was

pursiiJt'.Q.f astrologjr,magic,
who of Siradia,, took

-what

you

call
on

Spiritualism. The. Palatine

a

in England

visit, patronised him and

him, back
and

to Poland.
were

Growing

tired in

time, he
hidden'
on

gave

them

over,

they
by

pa,tronisedby
Pope's decree, castle, where
'

the Emperor
he
was

Rodolphi
by
the

Banished Count

thence

the

Rosenberg
arts,
as

in
were

his

they carried

their
mean

occult

they

called.

What. do you

by "gave hirti Upton-on-Severn" f

in

Appointed
not

him

priest of that place.: though,

the ?

fact, it

was

for aught but

Was he then

gain that the appointment brought.

in orders
never. mean

No,
What He
of

friend,

do yoru

by Ms

"

lecturing on

Euclid'''' ?
Euclid's
-

gave

mathematical
of which he

lectures, especially on
somewhat

view

geometry,
Who Albert How
In
was

disapproved.
,

Palatine thP. Laski

was

of Siradia?
name.

his to
was

Count

his

title.

has

he

come

me an

?
earnest

earth-life

he

and

advanced
his

cohiinuner

with
to

the aid

spheres, and
those who He he you

ever are was

since

it has
to

been into and You

specialmission
'

willing
a.

seek

the
was

mysteries of
aided

the

spiritland. greatly.
Now he Now bids

great medium,
his

by spirits
of him.

repays
farewell.

debt.

will heir

inbre

One

of

the

most

conclusiye
of the
name

instances

of

an

ligence intel-

existing outside
by
a

jnedium
of

was

furnished

who spirit himself

gave
to

the

Zachary
a

Gray, who
who cleric,

stated
was

have

been in

in earth-life

much Church

concerned and
wast

religious disputation between

He

the

the

Puritans. of St.

lived

at

Cambridge
St. Giles'
was

in 1725,

and

vicar

Peter's

and He

there, and
known Immortal
in

also of
the

Houghton
he

Conquest.
for his himself said.

best
"

Jiterary.world
as

edition This

of

Y^

Hudibras,"

spirit

84
wrote

Appendix
in
a

I.
and
are

most

peculiar handwriting,
extracts

in the

old

English
After

spelling, the
trouble of the

which been

appended.
the be that of
a

much

they have
last,
no

verified, with
of which
could

exception
found
wrote

trace

till the the

reference

was

supplied by
come

the hand
rare

extract.

They
called
"

from

work

John Lydgate's,
copy of which
may
an

The

Lyfe

of

our

Ladye,"

be seen, inner
are we room

under
at

carefullyprescribed
the British
"

restrictions,in

Museum. know of had

Copies
no

of this work
"

extremely
are

scarce

we

other
come

and under

none,

thoroughly assured,
of the medium

ever

the
were

notice

through

whom On follows

the the
:
"

extracts

written.

24th April, 1873, Zachary

Gray

wrote

as

Black His His On

was

his -wede, and

his

habyte also.
hoare

heed
loke

unkempt,
downe
caste

his lokis in token

and
sorrowe

gray, and
wo
:

of

his cheeks bare

the recorde

salte teares of his

lay.

Which

deadly affray.

His
His

robe

stayned
aye

was

with

Romayne
to

bloode

sworde
a

redy whet
most

do vengeaunce,
and

Lyke
In

tyraunt

furyouse

wode

slaughter and
20th

niurdre

set at his

pleausaunce.

On written

the
a

July, 1873, he wrote, having previously

extract

long
we

from

the

"

Lyfe
"Ye

of

our

I,adye,"
"

Friend,

continue

ye excerpe ye

from

Lyfe ofourLadye."

And Of

dryeth up
Aurora,
she

bytter terys
morowe

wete

after ye in wepynge

graye.
oil flowres

That

doth

flete.

APPENDIX

ll.

ON

SOME

PitASES

OF

MEDIUMSHIP

BEARING

ON

SPIRIT-IDENTITY.

The

evidence
creed

for
rests

what upon
and

is

broadly

known each

as

the

Spiritual
its
own

many its of and and what

bases,
own

having
to

special
of

weight,
mind.

adaptability
furnish
to to

special types
different
and what

Phases

mediumship
it is useful

phases
compare
prove,

of

evidence,
these
and
now

late colsee

then,

and

they

to

conclusions

they

point.
The and
two

things,
the
common

be

it observed,

are

very

different,
sumptive preweak

it is to

practice
with
It

of

confounding
much of
our

evidence

proof
is

that

argument

is

due. of
we

extremely
;

difi"cult

to

prove
is possible im-

anything

outside when

mathematics

perhaps
the

it

deal

with
short

the of
We

spirit, and
mathematical
are

unseen,

and there many

not

the
is

future. moral

But,

proof,
certain
we

certainty.
that
to
we

morally
and that
one

of have

things subjected
various
we

cannot

prove,

personal
we

test,

that, for

or

more

of

reasons,
act

cannot
our

demonstrate.
lives. It is this

And

on

this

throughout

position

go
that creed And I conceive of
to

Appendix
be

II.
in

attainable

reference

to

the

Spiritualism.
this

applies

to

that

greatest
is at the

crux same

of

every

which Spiritualist, intelligent

most

time

the

attractive the human

so,

article- in his 'creed*-the

Immortality
own

of

spirit, especiallyof
laxity in
the
can

his

departed
We
cannot
or

friends, and
there is
some

by inference".of himself.
use

Here, again,

of terms.

/rwe; Immortality^f-:TOe
less

only establish

la -mors;

presumption^,of. perpetuated life after And this presumption who physical death. some, ha!^e time forstiiBy and bppoirtunily. not (which"allcanlittle logic in their heads get),and. some (which not got); may all have to! the plane of moralcarry ; as certainty;" It is well for Sfiiritaalism; popularly
strong

understood,
that

that

t3iis is

so

;.

for it must

be- admitted in the selfish'

centres theipopular interest/largely

view;
not

and

if."!me talk
most

could' prove
the

that

hurnan
that

kindvdw

live and
us,

(even
would

nonsense

usually
a

?r

talked) to
say,; "I
as

tum'aside

with

shrug
its
..

and

want

"s)(- dead;; mot

all these the

spirits," -i^just fingers

! "\
to

the

lonely, child, left in

and
'" cries,.

dark, sticks
my
.Ma

into
-

its Syes,

I want

What

light,then,
In
,

has the

mediumship
popular
must

throw

upon

this A of

? qttestion

estimation,, niuchj,
out
on

great deal, however,, enthusiasm,

the

be ruled

th^Jscore ob*

insuflScient .evidence,

imperfect
to

servation, and
the
matter..

likei before
when
will
we

we

get

the .root

of

And that
as a

do, in individual

.cases" should other

get evidence
cherish it

bear

investigation,; we
to

specimen

be

collated

with

Afipejidinc,'!^.: \
"

9J^
ta

and, preserved for irefer^ijeej"; Itiseems sjteciiaens

me:that,anQther

fallacy of poHstMlJ

recurrence'

inAbiS!

'identity is submitted .Ev"ery ca$ja;{)f subject,is this,!;

to

and jealous sifting,,

,

But most; rightly,;,

of
Jas if svn^pr^se,"

case 'eVery,.

is receive^

^ii)x. a

stare
as

it were.
ever

th"t

^rst
come

of

"11"; it?': rape,

the fr-oni.

if no

traveller' Wd

yeb

back

if.this werei "o""'/ri?-^"i!i!"^fi4Vrras'

for the lonely fibenoijtenon, Nowfthi's 'i",.,'a;faj.laeyi!

"\veightof. evidence proves.ljttle;'the'

is.cumulativet,
next, .more,} have
sane

i-The;first

case

;the thjrd'more
made

sttllv-

especiallyif the observers

records.;. So that \Wheri,one

independent
hundred):

and

capable observer
a

Steps forward
cases

.and ;says, "I

called their
,

have
dead

recorded;
have

in whi'ch.those
me

communicateci anjtjt identity,''

"And I too; ";
who

to

evidence

of

perpetuated
says^

^hen, from
and their
a

another another place,,

so
on

thirds,and
own

to

a.

vastinumber,
their
own

give

proofs, and
wheti
conclusion'^-then
to

display
the it is
a

reAsonsfor;
make ,tp'
is
, .

belief ; and for

so
one

alt this, evidence

is found

cumulative
very

weight

great that
One

ignore

serious

fallacy,
publish
iii many,
or

great difiScultyin presenting

evidence

of this^

kind to_ the.' .publicis, that

names,
cases.

it is, impossible to
at

facts,and
The have
-

dates in extensor
to

least

iaptsrefer
The
medium

persons
whose

still

living ;

the
bej.

dead

living friends,

feelings object
to

must

respected.
and would and the be

would

vivisectiorvj

exanjJJjatioij, which: ffiends,tothe/oj^-OTor/";"

held

by

very

rude

I;:have, enquirers,!/.
such
as

now:

agaiu recorded

cases

that

of Abrahart,;
reader

which Florentine* anii .others,,

the curious

wilt

92
find

Appendix
incorporated in
evidence records others
must

II.
that
many
a

Spirit

Teachings,
and
I know
at

present
more

strong
I have

of of

identity ;
have

(I believe)
similar

least

hundred.

Many

records, if their
and

servatio ob-

have

been been
not

carefully kept, fairlylarge.

their the the force lower exclusion

if their

opportunities have
I believe, who do

Most

mediums,
tary elemen-

waste

in the class af
But

phenomena
delight
can

which
to

of

spirits
must

in

producing
evidence

all others,

get such

with

patience.
must

they

wait, and
what
comes.

(in most

cases) they
desire

be content
return
own
"

to take

Earnest

for the

of

ticular par-

individual
this
a

usually defeats
has
to

its

object,and
Expectant
manufacture

your.g
"

observer

learn. does
not

attention the and.

Dr. Carpenter) {J"ace result.

But

desired
a

patience,careful observation,
my

passive

mjnd

do, in

experience, produce
circumstances this train ot of work

Iheir fruit,
I will

record, with

such

precision
led
severe me

as

permit, the
thought.
me
a

facts which An

have

into strain

extraordinary
ago,

left
the
to

month powers
a

it is necessary and used

to

premise, with
so

mental read

jaded
was

out,

that

even

newspaper from

irksome. of London

Consequently
and the of the

moved re-

the whirl life to the

excitement

of its busy
and

peaceful quiet
in the

country,
of

occupied myself
That but is not sheer
rest

busy
in
my

idleness
way,

doing
at

nothing. nothing
and
I

much

and

first still.

inability to began
the
to

think

kept

me

Soon, however,

do

its beneficial sensations

work,

experienced

returning

of mental

94

Appendix
I

II.
not

deadi"
see

said; forgetting that the good lady could

"

her

ghostly visitantr
for the
you

Yes;"-

"

"

And

burled,"
ear.

continued,
but how did the

words
? my
"

sounded Then hostess how ago

near

in my
I

"Yes,
and fainted

know

remembered,
have her her

turned in

for subject, had she

a

would
to

horror

known few hours the

friend
sit

was.i.

Strange!
and which would

and

she

would

by

the bedside

clasp
have

clammy
set at

hand, and

kiss

the
:

lipson
yet she
was

death

already had
screamed
that

the seal of silence friend whose

the

self which
rection resurful care"

by her, minus
cast off.
of the
note

old

and
"

shabby body
I believe
us

it had

That
"

is what has

in the I took the

"

body

brought
in
my

to.

of the
seen

dress, mein, and

the

face the

of

ghost
and,
a

I
as

had

never

original
tallied with

body

occasionwhich
one

served, I elicited from

hostess

tion, descrippeculiar
On the from in her

greatly
The I could

my
a

vision,except in
of

point.
which

ghost
get

wore
no

brooch

make,

descriptionof.
hostess identical her
came

following day, however,

her friend's Her looked house friend with had
at

my

back

the

ornament
as
a

hand. She

left it to
me
"

memento.

puzzled

very;

and she

I
eyes

think
me

she
now

suspects
and
.

something
as one

uncanny,

for
a

again

would of
see

study
that and and
as

phenomenon.
I
was

During

the

whole could
to

day
converse

in this state

of

lucidity,and
were
as

yf]'\\iy persons who voices sounded

as

clear
to

my

eye,
ear,
sense.

whose
any

distinctly

my

that

-impinge"on
was

my

naitural organs

of
me

One

special visitor,
too,

of that

day- impressed

much.

He^

lately dead.

iaiid;! madfe-liis yet his form

those

acqttamtanGe'. thus

.for the

first! time,
asare

andfeatiiresareascleariri

m.ymind
has

of the worthy
to call
an

clergyman
me

who
,

just

done

me

"the honour

upon
hour. I

and
Here

talk conventional
are

pla^^
should

titudes
concern

for half

facts well, him

which

him^;

yet

knowi

full

(his
on

face

was

enough
he

I) that
have

if I had bolted

enlightened
as

Ithe matter and

bably pro-

would
have

from:

Old

Scratchy
to

thought

it necessarj'
.:
.

himself p!uirify

somehow.

During

this"

same

day I
of the

was.

conscious of
a

of

the

sence, preto

rather make
to
me

than

form,

spirit that
is
somd
a

tried

itself
; and

clear, but
I. find go

failed.

This
that

familiar

fact
never

frequently
after

try and

succeed, but nicate

watched two

away
a

fruitless

efforts,or
In this

commttcase

through
the

mediumtspirit.
the
,

efforts' of The
"

spirit

at

intervals

during
I call

days.

atmosphere
presence

""what

shall
a

the

sensation
form it was, ?
"

of

known

without

recognised
I I

of the but did

spirit seemed
hot

familiar,
who it
me was

and

thought
was

know

until
name.
near

told
was

by
that

spirit-friendwho
of
an

gave

the

It

old
her

ladyi
husband
we

connection had been

meet
as a

of

friends

of
to

mine,
our

and

frequeht visitor
Dr.

circle
never

when
was

usedto
very

at

Speer's. The
had

figure
to

clear,

the
was

others made

been,

my
some

eyes,
very

but. the

recognition

complete
made who

by
her.

touching
been
a

conimunications

from had

She
out

had'

loving, simple; soul,

had
as

lived

all her

days, and
a

dfopped
land

from
as

this inno-

material.plane

after

life

blameless

g6
cent

Appendix
in its
to

11^
most

sincerityand
Her

as simplicity

of

us

would
in his

desire

spend.
the

husband
more

had
to

been

other

nature,
and
to

more

material,

given
world.

hoarding wealth,
union,
to

things
the
now

of this
two

The
seems

ever, howbeen
in

between real. union And

natures

have

the

freed

spiritfound
and of earth

its

delight
two

with

her

earthly husband,
the

the

rose
one

together beyond
of them The the
had

atmosphere
so

in which

been

prisoned
are

long.
sacred
very
cases

communications details the

I have

too

to

quote, and
pared com-

scanty
with

g^iven are
realise
me

meagre

reality. In all such

to

experience
It would under the
was

is necessary be

in order

the I

truth.
was

impossible to
in these

convince
cases.

that

cination halluof

should
scorn. an

scout

notion in

personating spiritwith
in especially the subtle
to be

There essential
too

all,

and

last cases,

character
be

of truth, too fixed it

"

analysed,
is
"

to fleeting

in

print,but
ne

which

to

one

who

has

grasped
it

the The

plus

ultra

of conviction.

phase

of

clairvoyance
for had
go
me

gradually passed,
return
to

as

became

necessary

to

work like work

which it

pressed.
and needs

I have

recurrent

phases
the
stern

again
life-

again, but doing.

of this kind

they
We

when

of

shall not until the

get any
possessors

persistentexperience
of the

gift

are
moved re-

isolated, separated from

from

contagious
and treated

influences,
as

worldly

cares,

the ancients

treated those
of the future.

through
But such

whom

they gained their glimpsesmay

much is

b.e done

by careful

servation obthe

when

possible, especially by

'Appendix
medium small

II.

97
eveiy
"

himself

fixing

his

sensations, noting
to be

point^none
exact

is too

small

of

iniport

and

keeping
Above

record

of all.
our
periments. ex-

it is necessarj'-, in the present stage of all,

to

knowledge,

avoid

dictating conditions
may sometimes be

in these done but

so

That
of investigation The
we

in
not

the

the
are

physical phenomena,
so

here..

conditions know
so

delicate,they
observation

are

fugitive,
and

that little, wise

course.

prolonged
we

patient

is the

Anxiety,
;
a

know,

wilt
few

upset the conditions

friends personal
who
come

at

once

hence, possibly,so
Most

return
are

to

medium.
to

of those whom

to

me

strangers iSome
are a

me^persons

never

heard

of.

apparently brought
stubborn

by

iny own

guardians

to convict
are

scepticismof
a

its shallowness
some, to gratified)
some
one

; sotae

attracted

by
a

certain

pathy, sym-

by curiosity, some
be allowed
as

by

desire

(seldom
;

to

get

at their

earthly friends

come,

though they
on an a

were

still in the

flesh,as-

might
because

call

acquaintance.
case, any not

I will record
or

'such

because that it is
"

it is mark
one

peculiar,
it out

it presents

features

for
"

specialattention, but just because where there was no a typical case,

no

of many

expectant

tion," attennO'

scope

for for

"

unconscious

cerebration,"
Some six
or

apparent
years ago,

object
when of

deception.

seven,

I first became

acquainted
had
a

with who

the
was

phenomena engaged in
pg^pers.
would
I

I Spiritualism, work for

the
my
one

friend

press
was

of the

leading
I
never

news-

full of
it with

subject,and
friend.

thought
had
G

discuss

(I

the

98
conversion

Appendix
craze.)
and I did
to

II.

He
not

was

unreceptive
any

and
on

mentative, arguhim of my

make him and

impression
a

other

than

impress
of my rain in
a

with
an

conviction

sincerityand together
we

earnestness

entire

disbelief in the
we were
a

spiritual origin
and took

facts.
came
on.

One

day
To

ing walk-

avoid
at

wetting
and

refuge
away

billiard-room hour with

a

near

hand,

whiled all the

the

rainy
and

game,

discussing
son perin what seemed
a

while.
room,

The

proprietor was
he showed
some some

the only other interest

in the
I
was

saying.
and From from

He

asked than
me

questions,and
He
as was

rather

frightened
gave

otherwise. his card

wine

merchant,
custom.

I left,asking for

time
on

to

time

did
a

purchase
dozen He

some

goods

him, and
some

perhaps
with The

half

occasions

exchanged
me was

words

him.

always asked
I
saw

about and ill,

Spiritualism.
said that he
I
saw

last time

him

he

was no

in the doctor's
more

hands, but
until

was

mending
as

fast.
habit
to

of him

sitting
ing, morn-

alone,
he
about

my

is,in
my

my

study in the
eye.

early
I
was

appeared

clairvoyant
action of

writing
and

transcorporeal

the double, spirit,

much
at this

such

phenomena,
I
never a

and

I wondered for
a

tion. apparithing any-

thought
double
; but
me

moment

that For

it
a

was

but could
not

of the when
as

living man.
he

time
m

he
me

speak
saluted

managed
have which

to

ake in

hear, he

he
,

would
name

done he

the my

flesh, calling me
friend
It
no use a

Mr.
we

heard

while
name

were

together
three

in the billiard-

room.

was
one

used

by him, and
two
or

known,

am

sure,

to

else

except

acquaintances.

Yet

Appendix
tliisspiritused
done

II.
he would
name

99
as

it

quite naturally,
knew

have:
well and
"

in the
I

flesh, thoiighhe

my

real

"nough.
learned
had died

gradually inquired what

"

brought him,
He
Tvas

that he had
some

come

to seeme."

dead

tvyo months
me.

ago

at

place
me

and

address

which
the

he gave

He

likewise

told

his full name, the date of his

of

disease All

which these He

carried facts died

at

him
were

off,and

death.

entirely outside

my

knowledge.
His
were

a.

watering-place
I

far and

away.

full name,

disease
unknown

(a peculiar one),
to
me.

death,
ffiends
Yet
less un-

utterly

and

some

verified them

all,and
no

found

them

exact. literally

he seemed, to have
it He
was

special reason
stone to

for cairn

coming,

to
even

add

his

the

of evidence* the truth

came,

did not

say

tha-t he had
come

discovered
.

"f ipy f^ithiand

and he
same,

had

to

confirm
another
mpre^.

He '\X..
has

went,
I
are^

and, like
seeji

many
no

who

done

the
"

haye

him^ of

These

specimens,
do I

the
go

facts that have

to prove

set

me clusion con-

jnoralising, What
am

thgy

?
them

What

justifiedin drawing intelligence. And

individuality.
seen

from
not

? Briefly,

disembodied

that

only

but,

perpetuated
which
3

Phenomenal
are

facts, of
outside of

I have

shoals,
do
not

in my

mind.
"

"perhaj)s."
any
one.

only

believe

1 know

them;

and
every

number
of

of counterfeits would do

(greatly as nothing
They
have
to

deplore
the
use, form permy

thera)

shake their

weight
which

of

positive evidence.
and gratefully, work.
But to

I admit
valuable

in their

place they
not

they will
be but the

prove

cise.; and

they ought

stepping-stones

100

Appendix
further which

II.
will not is
do

to

knowledge.
is to I know I have
the
to

They
what
;

for my

pose, purIm-

prove them
not

loosely called
not

MORTAXITY.
causes

but

I do

know

what

them.
at

interviewfed of the of

"the

Intelligent (When
I
so

Operator
say I

other
mere

end
cases or

line."

allude
no

physical phenomena
is

when like table

cases

information
where

name

given
were

not

to

cases

Florentine's,
movements

the

facts
I

given through
not

entirely.)
class
on

do

look

to

such it

for the be had and

of

evidence and

I want.

I believe

must

another

higher plane,
It does
not

and
on

after the

patient
fresh
In

laborious is
not

search.
to

lie like

surface, and
sent

be

gathered

up

manna

from

heaven. after whom this evidence

I should

my

quest
many

I must

part

pany com-

with
company
1.

like to find

myself

in

with. I
must

leave

men

like

Professor who
say,

Huxley,

and

the
"

large
don't

number
care

of persons all this.

to

quite sincerely,
not

I don't

about
to

It does these
I

interest
;
or
care

me.

want not

listen

idle live

words

and

really do
Prom much which
to

[care

whether

again
I do

not."
very
to

these about the

to

I must

separate
matter.

in limine.

the

I think

it is the
must

problem

interest
go
on

of all others

yield.

I wdnt

live,

living,working,
I very

learning, in short,
if need be.

energising.
Huxley
I should will
mourn

And live

sincerely hope that Professor

again, in spite of himself,

the extinction of such
"

particleof
unable

the
2.

Divine
I
must

mind." leave the

man

who

finds

himself

X02

Appendix
so

II.
rnake

and

they
else.

remain

till they
are

themselves
nor

thing some-

They
more

neither I leave,

gods
and

devils. is 'those who and

5.

One
me

class

that

beguile
invented

with
;

fantastic

hypotheses, unproven
of curious the of

unprovable

cunning
the facts

devisements

brains,
planation ex-

for of

putpose;
and

ignoring

plain
and

substituting some
unless, proven,
it rests
on

fine-drawn
which I

subtlety which
may

is worthless until

be

left alone
in

solid

basis. be

believe

plain explanations
The
o""^ a

unless thoSe
we

they
who
are

can

dis;

proven;
and I

rests

on

reject them
for

have

firm
or

belief

that

logicallyright
future
exr

in, dismissing,

at least

in

relegating
restioh

aminatioh,

hypotheses
of occult

which

the

airy basis of
a

imagination.
class

Eliphaz I^evi, for instance, i and

writers, tell
individual resolved will
us

tain cer-

;that

the
for

astral
some

spirit will
time the and

maintain
then be

existence

elements, just as into^its

and say, be,
can

physical -body
This astral

moulder

disintegrated
communicate

at last.

they spirit,

for awhile

after bodily death, make

we

itself visible, and

But
no

do, in, effect, what

say

spiritsdo.
will
we

it will be
more

disintegrated
I

soon,

and

you

hear

of it.

Well, this is theory.

have had facts from
some

Why,

may

ask, and when?

and; have

and

statements,
have

verified
hun4and
I

them

too,
in

spiritswho
cases

left this earth of years, from

dreds,
have that the

many

hundreds,
and of years.
I have

had
have
same

similar
gone

statements

facts

spirits
rest
on

thousands

These

authority which

found

faithful I

after

reiterated

proofj

and

therefore, though

cannot

Appendix
verifythe
to
statements

II.

103
I
am
titled en-

from
as

the

lapse of time,
evidence.
at any

produce
to

them

secondary

This
rate

leads
the

me

put aside such

hypotheses,

for

present.
these

Reaving
to to

alone, then, I wish

of which

to

direct

tion atten;

the facts, specimens

characteristics
nature

I have

adduced
;

the

of their

production
"

to

the of
the

cumulative

of the

evidence is here

only
"

one

side
to

which, be it remembered,
conclusions

noticed from

and

logically
in their

deducible and the

them. connection
seem

These with
me

facts, taken
other facts

due
on

natural

bearing
"

subject,

to

to

demonstrate
1. 2.

Unembodied Of
a

intelligence,
that the is human,

character

3. I

Maintaining
must not

individuality of its earth-life.

on

dwell
are

arguments
numerous

further
;

but

I insist

that

the

facts

very

that their

force
ductions de-

is cumulative

; and

while

cheerfully make
in

large

for enthusiasm,
and the like
; and

fraud, looseness
I also admit
at

recording,
that

while
human

and

believe

intelligence not
hold live that after
man

is also in
many

work,

I nevertheless

does

ascertainable
and that

instances in that
embodied dis-

his
state

bodily
he

death,

preserves

his

characteristic

dividual in-

of mind.
I believe
on

that

warrants this, logically,

canon en

me

in

arguing
beyond

to

the

general

of

personal
masse,

existence
I
am

the
to

grave

for mankind

though
the

willing
prove

admit

exceptions (which, by

way,

the

rule).

104
,

Appendix
I

II.

believe

that

the

agencies

concerned

in

Spiritualism
though
lower I

are

principally
believe that caused

departed
some
or

human
of have

beings,
the

also

many

mena phenoreached
most

are

by
of

beings

who

not

yet
I far hold

man's

plane
that
some,

intelligence,
who have and

even

as

surely
do
return

progressed
instruct
I

beyond

it,

to

enlighten
De is
"

him.
that the but

With

Professor

Morgan

admit

spiritual
I

explanation
insist

ponderously
result of and
my

diflScult,"
own

also and

that,
and

as

the after

experience
study,
the

reading,
of evidence

long
to

careful

weight
on

is,

my

mind,

"ponderously"

its

side.

APPENDIX

III.

CASES

OF

SPIRIT-IDENTITY.

I.

"

MAN

CRUSHED

BY

STEAM-

ROtI"ER.*

On

the

evening
met

of

Saturday,
at

February
of
Mrs.

21st,

fe#

friends

together
21,

the

house

Makdougail Square,
included W.

Gregory,
The
Baron

Green

Street,
six the for time in

Grosvehor

party
du
we are

numbered

all,

and
to

the

Potet,

and'

gentleman
the Spirit
to

whose

mediumwhich
columns.

ship
have There

indebted from

Teachings
in
a

appeared
was
no

time

your

intention
were

of

having
of

seance,

and

ordinary
when

topics
in
us

the middle

subject
of
he

conversation,
this

suddenly,

the

dinner,
felta

man gentle-

surprised
near

by

saying
and
or

spirit standing (who

could
not

him

between
;,

himself

the bad
means

Baron

sat

on

his but

right)
the
was

whether
was

good
by

he

tellv
The it

influence also the and

no

pleasant.
Baron,
in of
a

Spirit

perceived

by
that
the
more

the it
was

to state
a

whom of

conveyed distress,
was

impression
that it
was

great
who

spirit
was

person
at

then the

alive.
medium

Nothing
continued

said
a

the

time,
in.-

but

to

feel

disagreeable
by
an

Spiritualist,
of the

March

27th,
' .

1874.

{Contributed
"

eycr
'

witness

stance.)

io8
fluence
was over.

Appendix
near

III,
of it to when

him, and

spoke
the

me

dinner

As

soon

as

we

reached and

drawing-room,
;

he
a

was

impelled
and paper backwards

to

sit down had and been

write

and

when
was

pencil
moved
an

brought,
with
on

his

hand

forwards drawn
to

great
the

and rapidity, which

or bled resem-

object
a

was

roughly

paper

horse

fastened
were

kiiid
to

of cart
more

truck.

Several and then

attempts
the

made

depict it
were

clearly,
:
"
"

following
I killed

sentences

writen

killed medium

myself"

myself to-d'ay^Baker
the

Street-

passed."
as

Here

writing
more

became and his

seat

telligible, uninmore

the
at

medium

grew

agitated, until
state
"

length

he

rose

from in broken

in

of trance,

and Killed
!

exclaimed

sentences
a

"Yes!

yes!
Yes ! yes then

myself

to-day, under
"

roller. steam-

Killedmyself
ceased, but
for
some

blood, blood.blood ! "

medium hours felt the
same

The

control

the

unpleasant
could
In
not

influence

afterwards, and

entirely shake
to

it ofi"for

several
I

days.
may
state

reference

the

communication,
medium had

that,
Baker
one

although
Street in
was

the the
aware

passed
he had

through
nor

afternoon, neither
that
a man

any

present
there
a

committed himself

suicide under

in

the

morning
A

by

throwing
of the in the paper.

steamrroUer. in the
the

brief notice Gazette

occurrence

appeared
none

Pall

Mall
seen

evening,

but

of

party had
on

that

It, is worth

remarking
was

that in

the front Street

may

of the steam-roller
a

which'
in

used

Baker

horse
serv^

is
to

represented
account

brass, and

this, perhaps,

for its

no

Appendix
'
-

III.

2."
"

CASK

OF

ABRAHAM

FLORENTINE.* December
letter the

Sir,
you

In

the

of Spiritualist letter from of

me,
a

nth,
main

1874,-

printed a

portion by it,I

of

which, in view
you
to
ol

the information
:
"

elicited

will ask
In

reproduce
Wight.
He that "We

the month

August last,I
had

was a

staying with
number who
.

Shanklin,
one

Isle of
a

of

Speer and sittings,

his
name

Dr.

at

at
as

of them

spiritcommunicated,
said that he
he

gave been

Abraham

Florentine. of

had

concerned

in

the

war

1812, and
on

had

lately entered
at

at spirit-life

Brooklyn, U.S.A.,
years,
one

August
seventeen

5th,

the

age had and

he

of

eighty-three

month,

and
out

days.
the month

We

some

difficulty
to
on

at first in the age

or

making
to the

whether

days referred
returned

but length of his illness, and

the

following evening
The
manner

cleared
the

up

the

difficulty.
was

in which
We
were

communication
three in
move

made
a

was

most

singular.
table, which

seated,
persons
we are

number, rbund
with the table

heavy looto
rose

two

would

Instead difficulty. commenced

the

of raps, to which

accustomed,

tilt. So eager
some

was

the

communicating
the

that spirit,
was

table
at.

seconds
to mark

before

required letter

arrived

In
a

order
manner

T, it would

rise,quivering with K, and

This
so was

excitement, in
then

perfectly indescribable, about

a

descend

at

T with the and

Mrs.

thump
message

that
was

shook

the

floor.
; but

whole
so

complete
his
in

eager

repeated until the spirit, was

Dr.

impetuous
be
a

in

that replies,
was over

he

bewildered

and
the may
was

Speer completely (I
to
on

deep trance), and

whole
Abraham
to

caused
I

process
venture
a

prolonged
guess,

the say that

sitting. If
meet,
and

I should
man

Florentine that

good soldier, a fighting enough

him
of his old the
to

not

nice

he

retains from burden Will

bod}-,which through
?
"

at his impetuosity to rejoice (if I may guess again)had

a

liberation become
a

painful illness.
copy, and enable
me

the

American
guesses

papers

to A.

verifymy
(OxoN.)

facts and

M.

March Spiritualut,

19,

1875.

Appmdix
,

III.
I

Ill

,jMr.Epes Sargent,
the for
me a

to

whom
was

cated communipri,yately

facts

of the

case,

kind

enough

to

insert

paragraph

in the

Banner
the

of Light
same

of December The of the of

to

I2th, 1874, einbodying

result
most
return
was

inquiry.
c.2X\.%
"

to

elicit what and it has

the

Banner

one

singular
which
a

well-attested been
our

evidences fortune
matter

spirit

good
The

cle chronibest in will the be of

during
be stated

long experience."
the

may

in

words of

used

by

the

writer
It

Banner observed the

of Light
that
"a
a

February

13th, 1875.
as

misconception
and

to

the

meaning
occurs

words

month is the

seventeen

days"
cleared the up,

at

first, but

this
to

subsequently
widow's
i

though,
should ever, how-

according
have been does The the
"

account,
27

age

83
not

years,

month,
case

days.

This,

affect

the

of identity. the from Banner

that
a

original inquiry
is
seance

in

was

this, and
:
"

result

quoted
in

direct

newspaper

At

England
by
whole

lately,
of

cation spiritcommunithe

was

received The

means

tilting
alive, and

of

heavy

table. it
were

table

seemed in

as

though
of
that
at

being
The
one

disintegrated gist
of the

the

very

fibres
was

the the

wood.

communication

spiritwas
N.Y.,

Abraham

Florentine,
He

who he

died
was

Brooklyn,
the
war

August

5th, 1874.
an

said

in
'a

of 1812, and
and
seventeen

then, after days.'

;us whether ? issue of
our

interval, added,
Can
any
ever

month

of

our

Brooklyn
of Abraham
"

friends

inform

they

heard

Florentine had that

No

sooner

paper

found

its

ii2

Appendix
to the

III.

way

public,than

we

received

by due

course
"

of
'

mail

the

following reply, which

"

speaks

for itself

To

the Editor

of

the

'

Banner

of Light:
a

"

'

In the
a

Banner

to-day received
manifested
and

here, is
the

paragraph
of

ing concerna

spiritwho
at
some
a

through

medium
the
name

dininginquirjr
I cannot,

table

place in England,
soldier
ever

gave of

of Abraham make

Florentine,
whether

in

the

war

1812.

You

anyone

heard that

of Abraham

Florentine.

answer specifically some

question, but

having

been

engaged'
soldiers,

fourteen

years

since in of New who

auditing the
I
am

claims' of the

of 1812 records
In those

in the of

State

York,
made the
name

yet in possession of the

for
service

all such

claims

in that

war.

records

appears
and
a

of Abraham of his service of the

I
can

Florentine, of
be of New obtained

Brooklyn, N.Y.,
in the

full record

office of the
No.

Adjutant-General
of 1812.

State

York,^
that

in

claim

11,518,war
for
a

think,
than

however,
that
he

hein.

there

claimed

longer

term

of service
for

gave

England,

his allowance

being

58 dollars. Mii"i,AR, Claim

'Wii,soN

Agent.

'WASBiUGTONtli.C.,
"

December

isth, 18^4.'
of
our

Pursuant addressed for for

to
a

the

advice

legal correspondent,,
however,
the

we

letter to the

Adjutant-General, S.N.Y.,,
giving
any

asking
reason

the
our

facts, without,
request,
:
"

and

received

following,

courteous

reply
"
'

General

Headquarters,

State

of New

York,

Adjutant-General's Qffice, Albany, ya". zjth, 18 J5.

'Sirs,
have
to
"

In

reply to
you

your

communication,

dated
from

Jan. 22nd,
the

furnish

the

following information

records"

of this office :-^Abraham

in Captain Nicole's Florentine, private

New
or

Company,
at

1st

Regiment
York
on

York

teered Militia,Col. Dodge, volunthe 2nd

New

about
was

of

September,

1814,.
He;

served

three

months,

and

honourably

discharged.

Appendix
received

lit.
acres.

11I3
The and
not

Land
from

Warrant the
"

No.

63,365,for forty
sworn

above from

is taken

soldier's

statement,

official records.

^Very respectfully,
Frankwn

Townssnd,

Adj\-Gen.

..

"

Colby and
Montgomery
who

Rich,
Place,
are

No.
"

9,

Boston'.'

Those

acquainted, through experience

the mind of

as

investigators,with
circle,will iiatesis
ever

workings
that

of

the

spiritualistic
giving
of

bear
a

in
matter

the

correct

on diflSculty

the the

part of the
crepancy slightdis-

and, therefore, returning intelligence,

existing
by
the

between and

the

length
But the

of service

given
cord reare

Florentine spirit is

that

embodied main

in the facts under

easily explainable.*
Here

establishedmost manner,
are

is

who spirit and

manifests in the
most

the

peculiar circumstances,
to
a

forcible members
as

circle

in
the

foreign land,
fact that
; a

whose
a

all
ever

stranger') to
trod
an

such

being

self him-

the planet

member that

of that circle asks exists in

through

English
may

paper

proof (if any

to

America)!

be

given
then
one

him
same

as

the

verity of said
us

spirit's assertions, and

the

inquiry reaches
the
we

by

privateletter
heard in
never

we

call upon of whom

public
never

for information before

concerning
; we

have
a

receive

in whose

reply
"

from

legal gentleman
we

Washington,
had leads the
us

acquaintanceship
of

have

pleasure
to

making

"

the

information of the
to

which

address

the

Adjutant-General
a

State of New

York

(who

is also

total stranger

us),
days,

This

refers to

The one misconception. of service. not to length age,

a

is

month,

seventeen

114
and such
are
a

Appendix
assured soldier

III.

from
did
serve

data

existing
war

at

his office that

as

in the

of 1812,

claimed.
as

The

theory

of

collusion

is untenable

here,

the
are

several

parties who
to

have
other.

given
The think

in

the

testimony
of

strangers

each

chain

evidence

is

complete.
occurrence

I,et those
on

who

they

can

explain this
that

any

other

hypothesis
appeared,
to

than

tained main-

by the spiritual philosophy make

When that
was

the
my

attempt."
to

statement

friend, Dr.
obtain I

Crowell,
additional

kind

enough
from

take

steps

verification

Florentine's

widow.

append

his letter,published in the

:"

Banner,

February

2oth, 1875

To

tne Editor

of

the "Banner

oj Light."
the

Sir,
headed

"

^Upon reading in the^a"""*of

"Abraham
my

13th inst. the article

of his found

Florentine"

Verification
there

Message,"
the
name

examined Abraham

Brooklyn

Directory, and
the address and

of

Florentine, with
at themoment at
once

119, Kosciusko in

Street. the

Being

disengaged
sought
the
Mr. the
was

interested and number

an

pursuing

subject, I
my
I

street
met

indicated, and
whom The

application at
"

door

by

elderlylady, of
resided dead."
Mrs.

inquired whether
He I

Abraham

Florentine is
now are

there.

reply was
widow Ans.
? I

did

reside

here, but
you

Ques. May

inquire whether

Florentine,

his

am.

Upon
some

my

here

remarking
about her
our

that late

I would

be

pleased
invited then

to
me

obtain
to
a

information in the

husband,

she
was

seat

parlour, and
I ask

conversation
?

resumed.

Q. May
A. Last
At

when

he

died

August.
time in that month ?

Q.

what

Appendix
A. On the
was

HI.

115

fifth. his age

at time

Q, What
A.

of decease

Eighty-three.
Had Yes he

Q.
A.

passed

his

eighty-thirdyear
on

? the

; his

eighty-third birthday was

in any of 1812.
and ?

previous eighth

of June.

Q.
"

Was Yes Was He Was

he

engaged
war

war

A.

; in the

Q.
A.

he
had

naturally active
a

self-reliant,or
was

the

reverse

will of his own,

and
or

rather

impetuous.
did he

Q.

his last illness of

?

long

short

duration, and

suffer nmch
A.
He
a was

confined

to

his

bed

for

year

or

more,

and

fered suf-

good deal.
here in

I have

given
their

the
exact

questions words,

and

answers

in their
taken Mrs. of about
at

relative
time.

order, and During

who
a

from

notes answer,

the

slight pause
to

foUowingthelast
a

Florentine, sixty-five object in

in the

appeared
of age

be

verv

respectable lady

years

and

of

American when

birth, inquired my
I read
to

asking

these

questions,

her

the

article

Banner, which
I then her entered

evidently puzzled though

into
a

it interested

her, and

full

explanation
fully endorsed
at

of its

purport, greatly to
line of it, and
to

surprise. She

then

every
her

I
a

left,thanking
copy of the

her, and

promising,
of your that

request,

send

her

last number

journal.
the

It will be states

observed
to

while

spirit of
years,

Mr.
one

Florentine

his age

have

been

eighty-three
to

month,
it should

and be of

seventeen

days, according days

he
;
or

his

widow's

account

twenty-seven
notice
As truth of
a
as

but
she

this
may

discrepancy is hardl}' worthy

here

either
case

be

equally

mistaken.

the
was

stood, before

this

additional
a

confirmation

of its

obtained, it certainly was

but
as now

remarkable
it appears

verification
to
me

spirit message,
would add
the

presented

the

evidence
I

is conclusive.

that

I have

some

acquaintance
who

with
the

"M.A.

(Oxon.),"

gentleman

in London

applied in

Spirit-

ji6
ualist for information
your

Appendix
of Abraham readers that is
a

III.
Florentine, and
I
can

asssure

he

occupies

very

and high literaryposition, collusion

and

his character and the

I take

guarantee

against

deception, identityof
M.D.

pleasure in contributing

to establish

the

communicating
N.Y.,

spirit. ^Yours
"

truly.
Eugene

Crowei,!,,

Brookyi,n,

February isth, 1875.

to interesting

To
my
case

me

personally it is extremely
facts.
so
m

find

queries verified by
would
true
was

I any

never

doubted
have

that the

turn

out,

as

others

done,

to to

be
me

but
as

the
to

interesting point
the
correctness
way

of observation the the of

of

deductions
tion communicathe

drew

from
was

the made. the

singular
The

in which

vehemence novel

tilts and

knocks,

(to us) entirely

the in evident

mode of its

cating, of communithe

and its eagerness

earnestness to

and spirit,
were

trying

"have will

say,"
your

very readers

striking.
more,

Doubtless,

what

strike
nature

is the

singularly

conclusive
return
us we us

of the

the

dence evi-

respecting the
Most Abraham America
on

actual of had

of

departed.
heard friends

undoubtedly

none nor

had any
news

ever

of
in

Florentine,
who
nor,

of

us

could if
we

have

given
should

of what

went

there,
us
a a

had, could
we

they have
have felt
that
any

mentioned
no

to

fact

in which
matter

interest.
name

As and
this

plain
facts

of truth, I

repeat
to

both of
own us.

were

entirely unknown
many

And

is

one

among

instances
to

ifi my up and

ences experiin its

which

hope

gather

record

place.
M.A. -March

(OxoN.).

10th, 1875.

ii8

Appendix
A.

III.

Mr.
at

(as

I will

call

him)

mounted
was

chair

to

get

the the

topmost
Annual of

shelf, which

filled
one

with down

volumes amid
as
a

of

Register.
and of in
at

He

took
on

cloud valuable could

dust,
record

commented
events.

the

publication
he

Almost he said

anything,
this the idea there

said,

be
my
to

found mind look The

it.
once

As
most

flashed
was

into

vividly
of

that

the

place
death. and volume The
a

for
event

record would

Charlotte

Buckworth's
create

probably
in the

interest,
which each

so

would contains.

be

found

obituary

impression spoke
to

was

so

strong
sense

"

it seemed
"

as

though
out

voice

my

inner and of

that
I

hunted among which

the

volume

for
a

1773, record
as

there this

found

the

notable made
a a

deaths,
sensation,

occurrence, at
an

had
at

occurring
and with

entertainment suddenness. The

fashionable
were

house, exactly
was

awful

facts The

given.
thickly
covered since with

book
not

dust,

and

had
signed con-

evidently
to

been

disturbed
I

it had that the

been
books had

the

shelf.
five but

remembered before
Mr.
;

had lain
no

been
ever

arranged
since would
;

years

there

they

and

for

A.'s with

antiquarian
them.
as

tastes,

one

have

meddled
was,
as was

The in its

verification

believe,
the

distinctly spiritual

suggestion

communication.

APPENDIX

IV.

EVIDENCE

PROM

SPIRIT

PHOTOGRAPHY.*

The

photograph
the time The
sister

under that little of

;

notice he child lived

was

taken in
Palmer

by

Hudson

during
HoUoway.
is the front
a

Terrace,
of the

in the the

centre

picture
left, in

baby

Dr.

Speer,
the

sitter

on

the in the

foreground
is

and of

shadowy
infant. has its
first

form
I

right
fore be-

the

mother

the

have

related manifested

how
at
our

this circle

child-spirit
almost

persistently
first of

from

formation,
all
to

coming
her
more

with

French She
years

message

suggest
of

identity.
than months

passed
ago Her
at

from

this

sphere
then

life

fifty

Tours,

being

only
"

seven

old.

little
was

joyous
the

message,

Je
we

suis had

heureuse,
of her

trts heureuse"
and
that

first

indication
so

presence,

the
as

little

child,

constantly
me,
was

described this little

to

by

clairvoyants by

standing
round-about Since
is then

near

spirit, who,
get
at

means,

was

trying
left
seances.

her

brother.

she

has

never

us,

and She

her

joyous
lives

tap
the

rarely
as

unheard
much
as

at

our

in

house
;

one

of
to

the

children

of

the

family
"

and

is

as

well

known

"
-

Extracted
"

from

Researches

in

Spiritualism,"

by

M.A.

(OxOn.)

Human

Nature.

122

Appendix
is

IV.
I
; I

me,

just

as

real

as

they
senses

are.

see

her, and
felt her

hear

her and

voice twice

by the inner
have had her

have the

touch,

portrait on
taken I

photographic
strict the
test

plate.
This

particular
Dr.
no

group

was

under

conditions.

Speer
"We

and

followed
I have

plate
tailed de-

throughout, and
was

precaution
never

which lost

before of the

neglected.

sight

plate

from that The

was

the very
no

andean first,

give unhesitatingtestimony presented

on

suspicious element
day following
that
was

itself. the

which I had
was

photograph
the

taken

Sunday,
When

and dinner

joined
nearly
loud

family
I

dinner-party.
became
heard and in
on

finished
were

partially entranced,
the

and The

knocks

dining-table.
was

Dr. which

Speer
we

requested
meet

called, alphabet was to to [the room go

he could would
not
same

usually
him.
He he

and but

find
at
means
a

message find look

for

He
was

went,

once

anything. again, and lying

so

directed

by the

to

eventually discovered
the direct
on

under

not, whatfall

that

rays

of

light did
some

not

upon

it,a piece of paper,

We

which could
to

was

curiousof it
to

looking hieroglyphic.
for
some

make
us

nothing
to
was

time, until it occurred

We

hold
a

it up
message,

the mirror.
written paper
to

then

found

that from rude and

it

from the

right to left,and
top.
every

the
cross

bottom which
even

of the then
now

The

same

accompanied
first way

message,
on

which and the

is
at

frequently used, sight, looks

I

is

the

paper,

message,

unintelligible.Deciphered
run

in

the I

described, it

thus

"

am

Spiritof

l/jve.

"Appendix IV.
cannot
was

123
The
one

communicate,

but

am

near.

photograph
of the
names

of little Pauline." child

;

Pauline
name

was

of the any

her

full

(by

the
out

way,

unknown
answer
"

to
our

of us) was
"

correctly spelled
Pauline and

in

to

request
with

Catharine of birth

Stanhope Speer
Another

together
case

date

death. for Dr.

clear
!

of

unconscious This
was,

cerebration

Carpenter
a room

writing, so
which
to
a

obtained, in
would
a

where
under

nobody
stances circum-

into

nobody

go, and

where mind clue

to do to

play

trick
was

(if it

were

in

anyone's
us

such

thing)

impossible,
I say in the

gave

the

the

identity of the spirit.

there
was no an one

trick

was

possible; imwho

for could
one

house

have who

executed have

such

abstruse of

hieroglyphic, no
so

would
our

dreamed

doing
knew that

; no

one,

except
name
"

immediate The

selves, who
same

the
was

child's
at work
us.

Pauline. the

agency

to

produce
On
a

picture also

authenticated of
the

it to
we

minute

inspection powerful
which A
to

picture
little the

were
so

struck

by

two
a

special points. glass

distinctly, and,
are a

The

figure is
details

perfect
feature

that
most

reveals

of the
the

amongst

others,
of

large eyebrows,
whole what

characteristic
not at
once

family.
is apparent habit

stranger
all who

might
know
return

notice
the

them. from
the
or

Again,
the
land

constant

of those

who

yond beof
In

is to
some

identify themselves
either
a

by

reproduction
demeanour. it is
of the It
a

peculiarity picture glove, which

of dress cap.
on

another loose the

it is

black

Here

large,
her

appears

the hand
to

mother,
was

kneeling figure nearest

the

child.

124 habit
to

Appendix
go about
manner,

IV.

the

house witk
a

arranging
loose

and
on

tidying in
the hand. of her

housewifely
She
was

glove

notably
and I took have
to

careful that
means

about of

the

whiteness it. I shall

hands,
Before other

preserving
chapter
this habit known
to

finished adduce of

this
of
some

have

instances

of identification

by
For the

the

reproduction
I have

peculiarity.
about the

present

more

say

little

child. We with appears

went

about
Parkes

month

ago

to
more

try for

photograph
and she

Mr.

(of
I
sat

whom
at
a

hereafter), table, and

was

again.

little In
my

almost
state
to

immediately
saw

entranced.

clairvoyant by
me

I
my

the

child

standing
'

or

hovering
to

close
near

left table
to

shoulder.
;

She in
as

seemed

be

standing
Dr.

the

and

I tried
soon

vain
the
I

to

call

Speer's
was

attention and I

her. I

As

exposure had
seen,

over,
on

awoke,

stated

what there

and

the the

plate
table where bears

being
a

developed,
child's and of

stands The

apparently

on

little
saw

figure.
it. And

position
.the figure,
was

is exactly which also

felt

traces

family

likeness,
as

immediately
;

claimed

by

the

little

spirit
at

her

picture
of
was

unbounded the
I of

joy

being
So be
my

expressed
was on

the

success so sure

experiment.
what

clear found

my

vision,

would
all

the
on

plate,
the

that

I would

have I
saw

staked it.

possessions

result

before

APPENDIX

V.

ON

SOMB

DIFFICULTIES

OF

INQUIRERS

INTO

SPIRITUALISM.*

In upon

dealing
other

with
sources

an

inquirer's
of For

difficulties, I
than
my

must
own

draw sonal permet

information

experience.
many
a

myself,
I had
at

although
first
no

I have

difficulty since,
in

considerable with
the

trouble of that

making

myself
It is in

acquainted
the

facts facts
to

Spiritualism.
the

explanation
come

of As

perplexing

problems though
to
more

in.
many

the do of dence evirisk of

phenomena
seem

themselves,
find it very
senses,

persons the evidence that in

to
own

difficult and have still

obtain
to

their

believe

when of

they
bewildered which

got

it, I found

myself

being

only

by

the
my

superabundance
attention.

phenomena
MY

challenged
TO

INTRODUCTION

SPIRITUALISM

was

in

this

wise. with

In

the

early
I
was

part
then of it
come

of

the

year

i872i

some

friends,
lyord
Home.

whom book
to

staying,
seances

showed with D. the With

of

me

Adare's
I

of read had
at

records

D.

tried

it,but
ever

seemed
across.

to

me

dreariest
"

twaddle
address

An

delivered
Great

Spiritualists, 38,

Russell

of the meeting London. Street,

Association

128

Appendix
a

V.

many

pish

and

pshaw
of

got through half of it,and

six weeks Dale

then

tossed
my

it aside. hand I
one

About

after,my

friend
with
a

put into

Owen's

books,
with the
was

request that
matters

would

read

it, and
It
was

investigate the
much
luctance re-

with that

which
I

it dealt.
to

ag'reed
not

meddle
me,

with and I

again.
other

It

did

interest

question busy with

had

things.
in my
Mr.

In

however, spite,
or

of this

passive want
no

of

interest

(acHze

dogmatic
found and internal

opposition

place
with

mind),
Owen's

myself greatly impressed

arguments.
From

statements

whatever
or

cause,

whether

spiritualpreparation
found
use

intellectual with

conviction, I
power
to

myself
means were

pelled imof
so

irresistible
the

every

inquiring
I

into
my

alleged phenomena
book that I could

which

startlingto
and devoured
see

mind.
every

procured

lay
I

my

hands

on

them

all with

avidity.
new

inquired
about

where
was a

I could

for myself these

that

phenomena,
was

and
to

informed
seance

Miss

Lottie

Fowler

hold

that Row.

very

evening (April 2, 1872) at

I went,

ampton 15, Southat

and

was

greatly
not

astonished up time

what

saw

and the

heard.

I need of the

take

by
ting sit-

detailing
:

occurrences

first part of the with Much

statements

most

are Spiritualists

familiar

the

usual
sense non-

routine
was

of Miss

Fowler's
many

seances.

hazy

talked, and
to
me

vague
no

made,
as

which of
I

seemed

to

be of

use

whatever

tests

identity. spirit
craved for

was

rapidly becoming
more

nauseated.
on

something
rest
as a

clear, something

which

I could

stable

piece of

evidence.

I in-

j^ppendix

V.
endeavour
was

129
to obtain
once

I might therefore,whether quired, such proof for myself. Leave some

at

given spirit
of

by
who
"

the director controlled You're and

of the circle, and the medium.

I addressed

the

tiringyour
someone

medium,
who

and

making

fun

us.

Go

send medium

is serious."
turned
"

The voice

shivered, and

away,

and

tha.
tO'

came
me.

as

though
I won't

troubled.
go. Me
no

You've

nothing

do with
"

go."
send
some one

Yes, you
more

will.

You'll

go, and

else."

After seemed

colloquy
in if in dread. the

the

medium stood

again shivered,
to

to

be
as

pain, and
voice

rooted

the

spot,

crouching
After
a

time the

came
a

again,
man,

but

utterly
calm and

changed

voice, this time, of

instead of the

very

unimpassioned, baby-jargon.
"You
"

child-voice

speaking-

want

me?" is your
not
name

Yes. I'd

What rather

?" You
can

"

tell you.

ask

me

any

questions."
"

No.
you

Tell
see

me

what
me.

you

see,

or

describe
yes
or

any
no

one

whom more."
"

near

I will

answer

no

see

man,

very

with old, tall,

long

white

beard,

and

long

hair."

"Yes." "The
'?No.
;

beard Goon." has

a

is very

white

indeed."

"He

very

high
Why,

broad

forehead, and
!
"

his

eyes

are

drawn

down.

he's blind

130
"

Appendix
Yes." And his face shuddered ?
...

V.

"

is black

and

blue.

And

(here
that
.

the

medium mouth and

"

violently),oh
. . .

! what's and mud

in his
. .

It's like slime oh! blood."

Yes." It's dark.

, . .

"And
"

I can't

see."

Go He
.

on.

How
on a

is he

dressed blue

"

"

has
.

long
he stand

coat.

No,
I can't

not
see

exactly

coat,
"

something
close
name

long.
?
"

his feet."

Where

does

"

Right opposite ;
Can No. looks
here you He
so

by you."
? ", I go ! think it's money. do
you

"

see seems

his

"

in trouble.

He
me
"

horrible.

I,et

me

Why

keep

"

Go
No.

then.

Do

you

know

me

"

"

(This
not

very

emphatically.)
to

I shall
time

attempt

describe
was

the

scene

during
I

the

that

this
a

conversation full and whole

scene one

being
record

held. written

have
at

quoted

from the

careful is

the

time, and
on

photographed
been still

indelibly
tonished. as-

my

mind.

Every
would what

seemed

petrifiedand
more

They they
in my known
own

have

so,
a

had

with

photographic
was

accuracy

scene

private experience
eyes. It
was,

being
unknown in
a

re-enacted lutely absoas

before

my
to

am

sure,
as

unknown

any It

person
was
a

in the
scene

room,

was

myself.

that

passed
it
was

very

distant
with
a

pait of Great
realistic power

Britain, and
that bore

reproduced it,as

down

before

with

tor-

Appendix
rent-force, all doubt
man

V.
I felt that

131 the the

and
me

hesitation.
; himself

was

there

before
for my

reproducing

story

of his death

conviction.

HOW

BECAME

SPIRITUALIST.
a

That
a.

experience
"

made
a

me

Spiritualist:
"

it gave
amount

nie

faith
this
to

I will

say

knowledge
served

which

no

of

after-experience has
to

to shake.
.

From
I

that time have

seen

have

never

wavered,
much heard that of

though greatly

much
taste.

perplex
that

me,

offends and

good though

Though
the

I have

deception,
see some
reason

I believe

fraud

exists; though I
conclusions
area

to question

all-round
a

of the

Spiritualists,
of
I and
cause

and

to
are

assign

wider
to

to

realm

than

they

disposed

concede;
I cannot,

though
solve,
and

meet

lems prob-

day by day which

which

difficulties
can

only advanced
:

knowledge
of all and

experience
conclusions

fully grasp
that

in

spite

this, the
confirmed
and

of
an

night, supported

by

many

remains after-experience,
FURTHER

firm

unshaken^

INVESTIGATION.

might

detain

you
on

at

length,
steps
to my

which

would

be

tedious, by dwelling
evidence
the
was

the home

by

which

further
I went
to

brought
seances

mind.
and

public
no

held

by Heme

Williams,

and

found

difficulty in obtaining phenomena They

occurred
and

for, observatio
;

in

abundance

but

wanted
The I

more

time of
to

facility for looking into them.

conditions

the

public.circle
for
some

irritated
seances

me,

and

determined

try

private

with

132 Heme and

Appendix
Williams, myself and
The

V. friend

one

being
May
to

the29, 5,

only 1872,
when

observers.
was a

first of
we
an

these, held

total did

failure,and
not enter

adjourned
appearance. made
as
a

June
A

Heme

third

appointment,
for my

for the
was

8th,

was

last

resort,
this We I terval inI

mind

being
I
an

gradually prejudiced by
was

and shilly-shallying,
sat

getting disgusted.
with read
no

for

more

than
to

half

hour
I had

result, and
the which

proposed
conld

withdraw.

(forduring

I had

got every

book that

on

Spiritualism on
persons

lay

my

hands)
I

some

stopped
I

festations, manibe

and such
at
an

I believed

it

possible that
phenomena
ceased.
at

might

offender.
I

retired, and

occurred occurred

once.

returned, and
communications

they

This

thrice

and the

were soon

length obtained
ceased, however,
to

through
and Heme

alphabet. They
and Williams

commenced

jerk,
the

and
true

quiver,
these
was

and

twitch, and
fashion. communicated about the To

wriggle about,
my
to

in

mediumistic

great

horror,
My

I found

jerks
seized

myself.
of the
a

right arm
and

middle and down of

fore-arm,
noise work.
"

dashed

violently up
that

with
at

bling resem-

of

number

paviors
In of

It

was

the

most

tremendous
action
"

exhibition
ever

of

unconscious

muscular it.
I

saw.

vain
the

I tried to

stop
and

distinctly felt the

my arm,

grasp

hand,

soft

firm, round
of my
senses

and

though
was

perfectly possessed
powerless
for
some soon

and
my

volition, I
hand
was

to

fere, inter-

although
the
was

disabled The

days by
found
on

bruising
to

it then the

got.

object we
was

get up

force, for Heme

levitated

to

134
to visit
an

Appendix
old friend
to

V.
health
to
was

whose

failing,and
see

who
once,

had
as

written

beg
was

me

go

and

him

at

he felt his time but

a

growing
to

short.
told that

I iurried he had

to

comply,
away not

arrived short in time in of

to

only
time
to

be

passed
I had

previously,regretting that
see

come

him.
I went

I remained into the

in the
room

house, and
where the

when

due
my
me

time friend
as

body

lay, the
he would hand.
as

spirit-form
have done
I
saw

stepped
life,with
with

forward
a

greet

in him
eye

smile

and
sense

out-stretched
as

clairvoyant
the

really

my
me

natural
;

discerned
not
once

objects
on

that

surrounded

and

that

only, but
I need
not

repeated occasions.
say,

This,

deepened
Many
and but
rests.
a

my stone

faith, and
has since

strengthened
been -has
or

its foundations. that

a

laid reached

on

foundation,
whijch it

the it is

superstructure
none

goodly height,
that
on

too

high

heavy

for

PRIVATE

EXPERIMENTS.

I pass

on

to
our

notice

very

brieflythat
were

rejoined
in usual

my

friend, and family circle.

were

experiments
One

resumed
most
a new

the

by

one

all the
many

mena phenowas

produced,
I have

and had

marvel

added. of

Though
the

extraordinary opportunities
of

witnessing
past six variety of the

the
years,

phenomena
I have
seen

Spiritualism
to

during
to the

nothing equal
the taneity sponoccurred the house

manifestations, and
were

with,which they
at

produced. They
of

all

times, and
out

in

all sorts
no

places, in
seance

and

of

it, with

formal

; at

meals, in

Appendix
-church, in empty
until
we none

V.

135

rooms,
us

here, there, and

as

eversrwhere,

of

could,
any

sane

and the

entertain
nature

doubt

of
more

servers, capable obindependent

as

of the and

intelligence,any
earnest
saw

than,
the

ourselves of the

truthful

inquirers into
any
cause

source

intelligence,we
it

to

doubt

its

cal unequivothat
of
own,

affirmation, solemnly

and

repeatedly made,
and

proceeded
at

from

spirits pure
were

good,
of denizens

some

whom,
and earth.

any

rate,

departed
once

friends

our

all of

whom

had

been

of

this

VARIOUS

INQUIRERS
own

AND

THEIR

DIFFICULTIES.

Such

is my

record taken record of my paper

; and
some

in

dwelling
my

upon

it I

feel that

I have
a

liberty with
But

subject, though
a

for it is not have

no

of difficulties.
own

troubles
on

to

narrate, the have

I have of

large
other
a

acquaintance people.
The

with
years

troubles been the

;

past five

filled with
energy

correspondence large enough

man

to tax

of this

one

withdut

any
to

other the

occupation
and
to

and

has

related and

mainly
of

doubts

theories difficulties, the

opinions,

and

especially

multifarious

desideranda

inquirers.
PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC.

I.

One

class
or

of

correspondents, whom
with with fool
"

I may

call

the
to

scientific

take pseudo-scientific,
some

much

trouble
others with

explain

to

me,

great

courtesy,
and
say
a

with

great pity, some

I
am a

patience,
they
don't

few but

that .asperity,

so,

they

136
inean

Appendix
it
none

V.

the

less

"

for believing in Mediums

on

or

troubling
disce

myself
as

about

these

matters.

they regard
uno

vulgar

rogues,

doubtless

the

ex

omnes

principle; investigators as
because made

shallow the

fools, presumably
scientific
method I

they do
notorious

not

employ
a

in

recent

celebrated
on

instance.

get the full benefit

of discourses

the laws

of nature

to my respondents) corapparently well known on : snapping teiidons, cracking toejoints,expectant attention, unconscious Carpenterianare

(allof which

isms,
This

et hoc genus

omne.

is,perhaps, the weariest

it
serves

and the
so

dreariest dominant

reading
ideas
one

of all ; but

to

show

that

fostered

by this

"science, falsely
to

called," are

great hindrance

the

fair and

free

of investigation

Spiritualism.
THEORISTS.

2.

A
a

second

class
"

are

those

who

have the tell

a

an

idea, a Office,
I do who
to

plan,
and
not
earn

theory

the Trochus

of whom

War tale.

many
mean

other those thanks of

departments, could
who of have all mastered

facts, and
themselves them. of

the

by devoting
of
as

the- task

suggesting explanations of
enduring
who whose their
own

These truth.
matter
'

merit

the

gratitude regard
fact
are

all lovers
a

I refer to those

subsidiary

altogether, and

eyes

filled with

the

fair

proportions of
they
are

idea.

Suggest
with

to them

that do
wave ex-

not

quite acquainted
accord with with much their

facts and

which

not, indeed,
them

theory,

they

aside

dignified complacence,

Appendix
plaining
,'they
I

V.

i.yj

that be

if their

ideas
to

are

properly
and
so

estimated

must

found

be
to

true,

that, since

Nature

works found

according
to

law, the
their this with

facts will, in the One

corres-

end, be

fit into
to
me

place.
his

'pondent
"argument

expounds
in

delightfulpiece
idea that for all.
me

of

connection

sim-

.iiltaneous hallucination
These another

accounts

correspondents
cause

lead does

to not

believe

that in-

why
some

success

attend their

the

of '"yestigations
are

persons,
to

is because the exclusion

minds

hopelessly darkened,
of
a

of all

light,

by the blind

false theory.
THE
IGNORANT.

3. A

third class is the

to

purely ignorant.These
be
so

usually

profess themselves
what is already like the for this

they will
as

even

parade
it were,
an

sufficiently obvious,
and
the

though

beggar's rags
appealing to
these

professional shiver,
will

cuse ex-

public pity. Starting

from
most

platform,

persons
to

propound
and

the

astonishingqueries as
"They
exalted will would ask be unable would

things heavenly simply

make and

spiritual.
an

questions which
to answer,

(I presume)
the

angel archthat
cedent ante-

because

being
They

find

in would

questioner no
a

knowledge
of the
naivete
a

which

gible. reply intellithe

will ask

about

God

creation, and

nature

occupations of eternity, demanding

a

with

much and

biography

of

all

the

heavenly They

host,
will

topographical plan
of

of the about

spheres.

propound
the
nature

simple questions
evil, and

and predestination, other

the

incarnation, ahd

138

Appendix
which
to

V.

theological problems,
become if only all for
as
a

they
the

seem

to

suppose

clear few

as

mud

that spirit

has from

been,
the

poor

years,

emancipated

physical body.
These

impress
some

me

with

belief that

another have
not

cause

of failure in

inquirersis,that they
by gathering antecedent
old
not
so

pared pre-

themselves
and The

knowledge,
new

clearing ground

away

to fallacies,

receive

truth. and

has

been that

ploughed
new

up, harrowed,
may

cleansed
to

of weeds,

seed

have

change

grow.
THE CAPTIOUS
CRITICS.

4. may

Closely
call the such and
;

allied

in

ignorance
those who conditions can't be

are
"

those
want to

whom know
;

I
"

captious ;
such

why
such
a

and
such

are

necessary

why
such

things
there

done be be

in such
at the

and

way

why
;

phenomena
why
a

can't

got
any

stitutio Royal In-

should
not

such

thing
and

as

medium
every
man

or

circle ; why
his
own

abolish
:

them,

let

be
as

medium

in short, why isn't

as

thing every-

is These

it is, and
one

why
would

everything
amend
run

it isn't.
thing every-

persons,

declare, know

how

ought
to
an

to

be, and

could

God's it
on

universe
new

improved

pattern, and
may

entirely
to

principles. They
their

be

recommended
a
"

begin
of

improvements Tyndall's
Institution
room
"

by

making
when

clean

sweep

Professor the the

conditions
; and

in his laboratory at

Royal

they have

abolished ^we will

developing
to

of

the

photographer

begin

talk

with

them.

Appendix
belief that
persons,
"

V.
there who
are

139
some, I fear
own

These "I

lead to the
to say
a

ought

many,

carry

in their

minds
"

captious spirit intolerant, arrogant,

"

and of

dogmatic
truth. the
access
;

^which
have but chevaux

is
not

sure

barrier
not

to the

reception
all

They

merely

swept and

garnished

chamber,
with the Mr.

they have
de

barricaded foolish

points of

frise of
who,

objections, and
the

.strewed
It
was

floor with

torpedoes into
in

bargain.
a

Spurgeon

describing
if the

captious
diately immeand

questioner, declared.of, him,

Orion
were

that

constellation
would

pointed
that

out

to

his

view, he
of
on

suggest
that the stars Such

the be

shape

it
a

was
new

poor,

might

rearranged
are

principle.
of

captious

crities

not

all outside

ualism. Spirit-

SPIRITUALISTS.

5. Lastly, there whose

is the
are

large body engaged

anyone
enter

of

Spiritualists
search
to

questions
"

extremely
"

suggestive.
in
a

Some
their how which
to any

most

of them

are

after know

departed
deeply
interest
one

friends.

If

wants

the
men

affections in this had of

into

the need
my

motives

subject, he
who

only
own

talk

-who minds

has

opportunities like
are

of

seeing the
in the

those

selves interesting themhave

when

Spiritualism.
before find with have
one

Many

who

neglected
there reft is from in it

subject

it attractive who

hope of reunion
them.
on
a

has

been

Many

who

had

desultory
of
mere

interest

scientific

or put principles,

curiosity, find
has in-

deeper

and

keener

inducement

when^death

140
vaded their
so

Appendix
And
many,

V.
I

homes.

fear, finding that

;

all is not laws

plain
the

as

they had
even

hoped
as

that

there
that
"

are

beyond
or

grave, the

here

; and

these
go is
a

preclude
back, mockery,
with

delay

coveted
say

intercourse that

many

and
an

impatiently
affair of

Spiritualism

sub-human

a spirits, dealing

devils.

This and the

one

is, after
to

all, but
us

refined

form

of

selfishness,
in difficulty

suggests
and
sure

another

antecedent
a

inquirers'way,
thing,
a

viz., that

too

eager of the The

desire for

too

positive state
failure.

mind,
mind

are

welL-nigh
be
or

to

produce
best

must

at

peace,

in The

harmonious

balance, and
is
say,
one

not

biassed

excited.
an

attitude
me

of

simple

ceptivity; re-

attitude, let

quite compatible
niost
accurate

with

the

keenest

scrutiny,
of

and

the

observation.

Again,
betray
evidence.
comes
a

the

letters

enthusiastic
understand
on

Spiritualists
the which the
matter

singular inabilityto
There
are

laws

of

many

grounds
have It may been be
craves

viction con-

to the

mind,
who

in especially

of

intercourse and been

some

with
are

those
to
us.

dearly loved,
to
one

who

lost

that

has

vouchsafed
message,
at
once
some

the

proof
heart.

he

for, through
little clue that

privatetest, some
his But
too not to

speaks
occurrence,

to

in

recording
for
same

this

frequentlyalmost
that he and others have that

sacred the

publicity,
means

he

forgets

of

judging
enthusiasm

haSj and

them

his
seem

language
only
as

of
the

exaggerated
of
a

joy
crazy

"over-wrought

utterances

brain.

142
of

Appendix
"

V.
must

Spiritualism
lax, both
who who what should asked for write read
to
uS

many

of the records of observation

read strangely in

in method
too

and

language.
and

We,
some

frequently,sometimes
no

forget that
to

have

antecedent is very

knowledge,
strange
no man as we

that We
to be

is familiar

them.

consciously
to assent

remember

that

ought
pound pro-

to such

facts and
"

truths
new

public acceptance

facts

and

strange,
in
on
some

and
cases,
most

not

only that, but

transcending, and,

reversing previous
exact

experience

"

save
an

the
to

and

complete

evidence.
on

It is

insult

intelligence to expect
the
are

belief
say,

any

other be

basis ; and
so

converts, let
not

me

that

could

obtained

of the while
to

highest
I
am one on

order this

of mind.

And

topic,I

must

ask

your

mission per-

say

word
to

more.

It is not

only inexpedient
and
"

and

wrong
it is not

publish
always wise

inaccurate
to

loose

records, but
recount exact

print

still less to
"

with records
can

all the

emphasis
by such
for
a

of

enthusiasm

even

of very attested

extraordinaryphenomena,
a

unless
as

they
to

be it

weight
mind wise

of

testimony
to

make

impossible
that
are

fair

reject the
too

record.
meat
me on

I believe

it is not
not

to force to

strong Let
I
are

those be

who

prepared
the

digest

it.

not not

mistaken. it wise with of The

the
to

mean

exactly what
belief of those
It

I say. who

do
not

think

tax

familiar

subject.

is all that when the

so

strange,

so

subversive

previous experience,
ancients circle
were

I counsel

cretion. distained main-

wise well
as

they
exoteric. harm

the It

esoteric
my

as

is within

knowledge

that

much

has

Appendix
been
on

V.

143

done

on

many

occasions what and the

by injudiciously
seem

forcing

unprepared

minds

to

them

monstrous
occurrences.

narrationsof The "I

too

unexplained
turns,
stood and
a

inexplicable
bewildered

digestion
could much." remark. made
so.

hearer this is
a

says,

have

little upon

of that,

but is

little in

Depend
The

it, there
must

philosophy
and

that

growth
is
no

be in

gradual,
all The wind.
ways.

should fruit

be

Forcing
it has
not

bad

The

looks

well, but
but it will

flavour. the
turn

plant
The

is luxuriant,

stand

cold sick.

inquirer

so

treated
I

is very

apt

to

have
not

already
said half
now

trespassed
that
to
occurs

beyond
to
me.

my It the
nor

limits,
is
no

and

have
my

part
may

of

business the enforced

point
lie of

out

how
way,

inquirer
to

avoid the the

more

pitfalls that
methods victim

in

his

say

how he
It

investigation
his
I draw

of

which

is is
to

helpless
to

aggravate
now

difficulties.
your

the that

point
many

that the

attention
are

the his

fact
own

of

inquirer's spring,
as

difficulties
I

of
to

making.
from from

They
from

have from
a

tried biassed

show, mind, view,

ignorance,
wilful
a or

arrogance,

unconscious
to

one-sidedness seek for and

one

of

from

fixed

determination

haps (per-

unattainable)
and from
a

end,
lack of

from
calm

excitement and

asm, enthusiand

dispassionate

patient

painstaking

investigation.

APPENDIX

VI.

SPIRIT-

IDENTITY

"

EVIDENCE

OF

DR.

S.

T.

SPEER.*

To
The
"

the

Editor

of the

"

Spiritualist." given
to

Sir,

enclosed of
as a

spirit communications, gentleman

upon of the well known of

through
are so

the
markable re-

mediumship

yourself,
an

bearing
and

question
that my

outside in

dent indepen-

intelligence
them
to

identity,
of the

egotism
may

submitting
possibly
be

the

readers

Spiritualist

pardoned.
The that the upon

singular perhaps
medium
matters

character
upon
no

of

these

communications that of the all could be

lies mentioned information

in

this

single

point

is
as

so

absolutely
musical old
son

devoid

ordinary
here

whilst

details

given

of
to

the have

lives

of

certain my
accurate

ecclesiastical fa boy
in every of

musicians,
are so

purporting
minute,
and

influenced

fourteen),
respect,
in
a

so

solutely ab-

that

no

living
choir,
such

musician,
out with-

albeit

trained
reference

from
to
a

childhood
musical
at

cathedral
afford

could,

biography,
every its

information.

I
our

may circle

add has

that,

present,
for of

manifestation the

occurring
of

in the

apparently question

object

establishment

all-important

identity.
STANHOPE T. ISI,E
OE

Speer,
WIGHT,

M.D.,

Edin.

DUDI,EY

VlLI,A,

SHANKI,IN, 1874..

January

igth,

In

order

to

render

intelligible

the

following
1874.

curious

Spiritualist, January

23,

148
communications,
relate to
a son

Appendix
it is necessary

VI.
to

premise

that

they
From

of Dr.

Speer's, a boy
notice all who
a

of fourteen.

the earliest years

he has

displayed remarkable
from, and
are

musical raised
to

ability,and

has

attracted

the of

highest expectations in,

his

able

judge

compositions.
the medium

So

large
on

number

of communications

having been'given requested

any
to

various

Dr. Speer subjects.

whether ascertain, if possible, concerned

to
as

musical
It
was

spirits
in

were

the the

boy's
joined sub-

glides.

reply
was

this request The

;

that

information
was

given.
medium

information
is
so

given
minute
siderable cona

unknown that

to

the

indeed, it
verified
at

in detail

it could

only be
a

some

trouble

through
be in unknown the

friend

who The

consulted
names

biographical dictionary
are

of music.
to

given
music. of the

such
were

as

would versed

any,

except persons
church

who The

history
the

of

curious
were

point is, that

compositions
by
the

boy

markedly
who be

influenced
was

peculiar style
this
at

of the

composer,
source

declared with here show

from him

dent indepenthe time.

to

concerned those
to

Even
but

more

details than is

printed were
the
tenor

given
of the

enough

quoted

writings.

{April i^th, 1873.J

about C
very
n

Can

you

give
by

me

any

tion informaand
a

C is

's guides ?

principally guided
was

an

earnest

who thoughtful spirit, of that

same

in earth-life
came

ber mem-

family from John

His

which with

Janet Nares
you

Lydgate

and

Lydgate,
name was

whom
Nares.

have

communicated.

James

150
Dr.

Appendix
Salisbury, at
him
as a

VI.
it was
that he
a

York.

There

that

the old
a

man

scorned diflScult

child, and
at

played
note

very

service, although
that
He
;

half

below of

the
seven

pitch,
the

so

he

brought

it into
Dr.

the
as

key

sharps. king
Gates. of To

succeeded also

Green

organist

to

and

filled the
owe

place
the

of his old

master,

him, friend, you

into
?

first introduction

expressive melody
Is he the No Give

church

music.

only guide
are

; there
me

others.

The

Brothers
tests

Lawes.

facts.
facts.

want specially

ofidentity.
of

The

minutest

They
Choral

were

pupils

of old

Caperario ;
were a

sons

Vicarliam, Wil-

of Canterbury
the elder He

they
was

in

earth-life. of young

brother,

friend

King
of for

Charles
and

I.

composed
Henry,
the

fantasias
younger,
wrote

for the viol,songs,

was a
"

masques. and but the

friend
"

Milton

Waller. music
was

Milton lost. Can

the

Comus

him,
/

never

heard

of them.

you

tell

me

where

they

lived ?

[After a
in

pause.

Henry

passed
/ should
have

to

the

spirit land
have the

1662, William

in 1645. like
to

\Septeniber 12th, 1873. J

which scraps of informatio7t, into
a

been

given put lately

in my

connected

shape.
All

The

great question

mind
can

is that

of identity. Any
test. you

minute

points
said
as

which

you
is

give
true.

I will

have

yet

literally
deed In-

We

will
these

give

every

proof
details

that

is in

our

power.
save

minute

are

worthless

for your

Appendix
conviction. be done. Until Therefore the that
we

VI.
little

151
more
can

is established devote

ourselves

to

strating demonunseen,

reality of those
with Cooke
you.

who, themselves

communicate

Benjamin
C He
n,

is

now

greatly
him

concerned

with
taste.

being

attracted

to
was

by similarity of
as a

in the

life of earth
It
was,

early developed
he

cal musithe

genius.
age organ who of of
has

think, before
that

reached upon

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their work.

spirit himself present

he

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reply to give
you

me

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was

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care

born
so

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under

of

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the

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he
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Abbey,
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years

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boys.
a

then

old.

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child
has

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Is he

of with

musical
your

talent, and

therein

great

sympathy of a
from anthem
as

boy.
whose
name name we was

the Dr. The

Cooke

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not

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given.
of Music his formed per-

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obtained

degree good
and

of

Doctor

University
"Behold exercise

Cambridge degree.

in

1775, when
was

how

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