Lives of Alcyone

From this time forth the young Alcyone took a position of
considerable importance in the temple, and addresses and sermons
were not infrequently given through him, tough they were never able
to calculate with certainty whether the communicating entity would
or would not manifest himself on any given occasion. Besides what
may be called public sermons, a great many private messages were
given to persons who came from all parts of the country, to ask
various questions or to beg for boons of different kinds. Some of
these answers were in the usual cryptic style peculiar to oracles, but
on the other hand some were quite definite, and conveyed real
information, which was at times distinctly valuable as enabling
people to recover lost articles, to gain information with regard to
missing relations, and so on.
Although a great deal of public and semi-public work was
done in this way in connection with the temple, Percy and Alcyone
continued, as opportunity offered, what may be called their private
seances, and at these a number of remarkable phenomenon
manifested themselves. On several occasions small objects were
brought to them, which were alleged to have come from great
distances. They had also now and then manifestations of spirit-
lights, and the carrying about of objects. Materialisations were not
common, but still they did occasionally take place, and in this way
they began to know the appearance of several of these spirit-people.
Undesirable as mediumship undoubtedly is, it did not in any way
injure Alcyone’ s health. Their seances and sermons and
psychometrisations continued with varied success for quite a
number of years, and all this time Alcyone was making his position
more secure in the temple.
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