Experimental investigation of the spirit manifestations, [electronic ...

94 COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD.the sphere of tbe mcdiumj when natural conditions are complied with,not only to communicate our thoughts and wishes to our friends, but tomove solid, ponderable bodies. By spheres, I mean the particular mentalor physical state, or emanation by which all bodies, orp^anic or inorganic,are immediately surrounded, and the particular electrical relations whichthey sustain to each other, causing repulsions and attractions in man andanimals as well as in chemical reagents.452. When we wish to impress the mind of the medium, by the effortof our magic will, (provided always that he or she is in sympathy withor sustains a negative relation to the operator,) we can dispose and arrangethe magnetic currents of the brain so as to form or fashion them into ideasof our own. Wo can also learn to read the thoughts of another—conditionsbeing favourable—as readily as you can gain a knowledge of thecharacters or symbols of a language foreign to your own.453. Thoughts being motions of the mind, assume specific and definiteforms, and when distinct in themind can be clearly perceived and understoodby any spirit who is in sympathy with the mind in which they aregenerated.454. To influence, mechanically, the hand of a medium to write, wedirect currents of vitalized spiritual electricity on the particular muscleswhich we desire to control.In order to produce the physical manifestations,it is not by any means requisite that the medium should be possessed of agood moral character or well-balanced mind, as an individual of smallmental calibre would answer our purpose equally well ; but an advancedspirit could not directly impress or control the organs of a mind with whichhe is not in affinity, and vice versa.455. We can instantly determine the sphere of a spirit, in or out of thebody, by. theparticular brilliancy and character of the light in which heis enveloped, as well as by the peculiar sensation which his presence creates.456. The raps are produced by vohintarij discharges of the vitalizedspiritual electricity, above mentioned, from the spirit, coii:ing in contactwith the animal electricity emanating from the medium. These dischargeswe can direct at will to any particular locality, thereby producing soundsor concussions.457. The question being often asked, '^ How do you move solid substances?" I would partly answer it by asking, How does a magnet attractand raise from their resting-places certain bodies within whose sphere itisbrought? How does a man move his body and direct it whithersoever itgoeth ? How does God, the almighty cause of all causes, move and keepin perpetual motion the immense systems which revolve in space, and maintaineach in its due relative position ? I answer. By the magnetism of apositive will.458. Wc, ia common with you and all animals, possess an infinitessimalportion of this power, varying in degree in difi"erent classes and in