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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 253
QUESTION No. 127.
Will you kindly explain the use of the planchette? And
state if it is advisable to try to produce the phenomena
among amateurs.
Answer: The planchette is a small board placed upon
wheels with a device for holding a pencil in a vertical
position, so that when the medium's hand is placed upon
the hoard and moved about by the spirits the pencil will
write their messages on a sheet of paper. Like all other
spiritualistic phenomena, planchette writing is produced
by a disembodied spirit through a negative medium.
When an entity has passed out of earth life and entered
the Invisible Beyond, an evolution of a different nature
from ours awaits him in Purgatory and the various
heavens. It is a retrogression when he tries to communi-
cate with us here under ordinary circumstances. There-
fore, all spiritualistic phenomena which bring the disembodied
spirit into contact with the Physical World are to
be deprecated as having a bad effect upon the spirits con-
cerned. The communicating entities are also dangerous
to the negative sitters in a circle, who abandon their will
powers and their bodies to a certain extent.
Of course in planchette writing the whole body may not
be in trance, although it sometimes is; but at least an
arm is abandoned to the control of a discarnate spirit
whom the sitter does not see, and who may or may not
be what it represents. If a tramp came to our door and
tried to persuade us to abandon our house and allow him
to take possession for a little while, we would indignantly
refuse, but when a tramp from the Desire World asks us