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MODERN SPIRITISM
Established Phenomena
Sir William Crookes regards the following as
proved certainties:
1. Heavy
bodies are 'moved without contact. The
force, which is very great, seems to be directed by
spirit intelligence.
2. Sounds produced without visible agency. These
are very common and significant.
3. Heavy bodies move to order, in any way, without
contact.
4. Levitation of articles (of furniture) without
contact.
5. Levitation of human beings. He has seen a lady
sitting on a chair raised eight inches off the ground. *
6. (Rapid) movements of small articles (such as
small musical instruments, toys, flowers, ribbons,
letters, etc., which fly through the air in all directions).
7. Alteration in weight. Sir William Crookes has
seen articles placed on the weighing machine apparently
increase in weight from 8 to 43, 46, and 48 Ibs.
8. Luminous appearances (often intensely vivid).
9. The appearance of human hands (and other
limbs, often very active).
10. Direct writing. In this the pencil moves and
writes of its own accord, no one being within a foot
of the table; and sometimes the bottom sheet of a
packet of notepaper
pencil, f
is written on without visible
* In addition to others recorded in Chapter III.
t In automatic writing the fingers twitch and itch, and you
feel you must put pen to paper, and then "it" writes in a firm,
clear hand, entirely independently of your will. You never