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

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160 OP MEDIUMSniP.810. It will be perceived that my <strong>spirit</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r, in reply to <strong>the</strong> queriesput in relation to this mystery, asks,^^Ifov: do you move your limhs— carry<strong>the</strong> hody iclicresocvcr itfjoctJi? how does God cause <strong>the</strong> movements <strong>of</strong> astronomicalorhsf' (457.)811. Evidently some instrument must intervene between <strong>the</strong> divine willand <strong>the</strong> bodies actuated <strong>the</strong>reby, and in humble imitation between <strong>the</strong>human will and <strong>the</strong> limbs. Upon <strong>the</strong> viscera our will has no influence.The heart moves without <strong>the</strong> exercise <strong>of</strong> volition.812. As <strong>the</strong>re is an e<strong>the</strong>real medium by means <strong>of</strong> which light movesthrough space from <strong>the</strong> remotest visible fixed star to <strong>the</strong> eye, at <strong>the</strong>rate <strong>of</strong> two hundred thousand miles per second ; as through an affection<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same e<strong>the</strong>r frictional electricity moves, according to "Whcatstone'sestimate, with a velocity exeeding that <strong>of</strong> light,—so may we not infer that<strong>the</strong> instrument <strong>of</strong> Divine will acts with still greater velocity, and that inmaking man in this respect after his own image, so far as necessary to anavailable existence, gives him one degree <strong>of</strong> power over <strong>the</strong> same elementwhile in <strong>the</strong> mortal state, and ano<strong>the</strong>r higher degree <strong>of</strong> power in <strong>the</strong> <strong>spirit</strong>ualstate.But if <strong>the</strong>re be an clement through which a <strong>spirit</strong> within hismortal frame is capable <strong>of</strong> actuating that frame, may not this element <strong>of</strong>actuation be susceptible <strong>of</strong> becoming an instrument to <strong>the</strong> will <strong>of</strong> ano<strong>the</strong>r<strong>spirit</strong> in <strong>the</strong> immortal state?813. The aura <strong>of</strong> a medium which thus enables an immortal <strong>spirit</strong> to dowithin its scope things which it cannot do o<strong>the</strong>rwise, appears to vary with<strong>the</strong> human being resorted to ;so that only a few are so endowed with thisaura as to be competent as media. Moreover, in those who are so constitutedas to be competent instruments <strong>of</strong> <strong>spirit</strong>ual actuation, this competencyis various. There is a gradation <strong>of</strong> competency, by which <strong>the</strong> nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>instrumentality varies from that which empowers violent loud knockingand <strong>the</strong> moving <strong>of</strong> ponderable bodies without actual contact, to <strong>the</strong> gradewhich confers power to make intellectual communications <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> higherorder without that <strong>of</strong> audible knocking. Fur<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> power to employ<strong>the</strong>se grades <strong>of</strong> mcdiumship varies as <strong>the</strong> sphere <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> <strong>spirit</strong> varies.814. It has been stated that mortals have each a halo perceptible to<strong>spirit</strong>s, by which <strong>the</strong>y are enabled to determine <strong>the</strong> sphere to which anyindividual will go on passing death's portal.Spirits cannot approach effectivelya medium <strong>of</strong> a sphere much above, or below that to which <strong>the</strong>y belong.815. As media, in proportion as <strong>the</strong>y are more capable <strong>of</strong> serving for<strong>the</strong> higher intellectual communication, are less capable <strong>of</strong> serving for mechanicaldemonstration, and as <strong>the</strong>y are more capable <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> latter are lesscompetent for <strong>the</strong> former, <strong>spirit</strong>s likewise have a higher or lower capacityto employ media. It has been mentioned that having made a test apparatus,my <strong>spirit</strong> sister alleged that it could not be actuated by her withoutassistance <strong>of</strong> <strong>spirit</strong>s from a lower sphere. I inquired whe<strong>the</strong>r she couldnot meet me again, accompanied by <strong>the</strong> requisite aid. The reply was in

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