July 1892 - The Emma Hardinge Britten Archive

£XTRACTS FROM "GHOSTLAND," VOL. II.;
OR,
RESEARCHES INTO THE REALM OF SPIRITUAL EXISTENCE.
By I the Author of " Art MO{[lc."
Translated and ·Collated by Emma H. Brittm."'"
(All Rights Reserved.)
PART IV.
As my official duties in I ndia only permitted me to
remain a few months in the land of the \Vest, I resolved
to devote the entire of my time to such researches in
Spiritism (or, as my American friends universally designated
theircult-" Spiritualism") as my then present opportunities
permitted.
These were most abundant, especially on the occasion
of my first visit to America. Like my friend Mrs.
Hardinge, and very frequently-in her company-I pur·
sued my investigations in high and low places alike.
Undistinguished media, amongst the rank and file of
society, were to be found in attics and" shanties." Circles
were held in the palatial residences of millionaires, in the
tents of miners, and in the humble lodgings of workpeople.
One eccentric old gentleman, a veritable incarnation of
Shakespeare's apothecary in "Romeo and Juliet," had
fitted up an underground kitchen beneath his botanical
herb shop, and here he invited in, aspirants to the unfoldment
of medial power to attend his afternoon circles,
and receive the benefit of his magnetic passes as a means
·of developing latent spiritual gifts. In any number of
streets, frequented only by humble working men and
women, we climbed uncarpeted stairs to the top floors, to
witness the working of the telegraph between Heaven
" By permission of the author.