Twixt Two Worlds the work of Wm Eglinton - New Age Spiritual Mission

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Abd-u-lah
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Abd-u-lah
ll'or/.- in I.ondoii, the /'rovii/ccs, ami .\hioad. K)
ill the Spin/iia/is/ of April 6tli, 1877. At n si'mirr, nt wiiicii wciu picsciit, besides liiniself, Captain
Jnnies, Mr. .). F. Cnllin,-;w..(>(l, V.G.S., Mrs. Lewis, Mr. VV. H. Mawsoii, Mr. W. Culler, Mrs. liiirton
15urt(in, Mrs. 'leiiiiysdii Ker, and Mrs. and Miss Kalkiner, this fact was dearly denumslrated. " The
ni( (liuni, who wore blacU clothes, was placed loose in the cabinet, sitting on a chair, with his face
in a westerly direction. The curtains being closed, and the musical bo.K tinned on, a long white
figure, resembling that known as Abd-u-lah ' ' was
seen at the centre of the curtain within one
niiiHite IVoui the time of the closing of the curtains. After a few more miiuites the form came out
and walked into the middle of the room, eight times in all. Tiic figure termed 'Joey' then appeared,
and stepped to the front of the cabinet, where, after retreating several times, he stooped down to
the ground, and covered his head with a fold of white drapery, lie then rose- up with the black
beard attached to the cheeks (but not chin) of 'Abd-ii-lah,' and stood up to a greater height than
that which the medium hinrself reaches. lie further i)icked up the light round table and held it
at arm's length above his head, trying (abortively) to place it on the top of the cabinet. After
some time, a reciucst was made by a lady and gentleman present that the medium and
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should be shown together. To this request 'joey' acceded; and subsequently the
fulh.wing events took place: Mr. Eglinton sitting as before, the curtains were drawn, showing
the ligurc
' standing up near and in front of the wire screen ;
and two patches of light
whi.h may be reasonably conjectured to have been Mr. Eglinton's face and left band at the level
whieli hJ would have occupied if he had been sitting in the chair. Ihis n,.t being, however,
,H,fe.tl> clear to all, the form 'Abd-u-lah' took a step or two to its own proper right, keeping
l-Hv to face with Eglinton, who rose from his chair, and raised both his hands with what appeared
t,, be convulsive action. This time there was no doubt that it really was Eglinton standing up in
front ol, and about three and-a-half feet outside, the cabinet opposite to a form exceeding himself in
statin-,- and dressed in white. This was clearly seen by all present during an interval of time which
1 estimate as six minutes, and in what has been termed 'quarter gaslight.' Eglinton then sat down
in his
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and the form 'Abd-u-lah' appeared to vanish into Eglint..n, appearing to unite with him
,,„„,. the breast. I then stepped into the cabinet, ascertained that Eglinton was thoroughly asleep,
r,lt,.,l him outside the cabinet, and examined the spot carefully. The voice called that of ' joey'
wis chattering around and about the walls of the cabinet all the time. Eglinton subsequently woke
u,, 1 consider this to have been the most remarkable scancr which 1
have seen in the presence
of Mr Eglinton, and to have been thoroughly conclusive to those present of his non-idcntity with
the form which is called 'Abd-u-lah.' It is the more remarkable, as on a previous occasion
some very slight manifestations took place, though the conditions were similar and .satisfactory."
On April 9th, 1877, Mr. Eglinton was invited by a "Mr. Fleming" to give a sramr at 22,
Finsbury Circus On going there he was surprised to find several priests. 'I hey insisted on
the most absurd conditions, with the result that no phenomena whatever were obtained. It was
afterwards discovered that this sitting had been arranged for the Rev. Canon C.ilbert, who subsequently
made it the subject of an attack upon Spiritualism and Mr. flglinton, in a course of sermons
preached at St Mary's, Moorfields. Not only was he vulgarly abusive as regards Mr. Eghnton
in particular but he thundered forth all the fire of his artillery against Spiritualists and me.hums
in general It would be unprofitable to enter fully into all the details here and now: sulhce ,t to
say that his temper and methods were .so strongly disapproved, ami the opposition to lus diatribes
so pn.nonnced, that several ^ermons which he had annou.iced to deliver in the same couise were