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280 ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCEand words.This experiment being repeated often witli the same success,I have therefore become a medium, though of a secondary degree.1418. ^' Desiring to know whether, in this phenomenon, there might notbe some diabolical agency, in order to satisfy my mind on that subject, Iasked of the occult power, or the spirit that controlled my hand, if it wasthe devil; being answered in the negative, I requested to have proof o:^ it.Scarcely were those words uttered, when my hand, moving with energy,drew a large cross. Seeing this, I put the same questions about J. C.that were put at my table, and the answers, being written, were the same;from which I concluded that the agency in the writing of mediums issame as in moving the tables, which, in my opinion, is not that of thedevil, as already said. However, in order to confirm my assurance of thenon-intervention of tbe devil in the phenomena of mediums, I desiredadd another experiment, which follows :1419. ^^As the devil speaks all languages, according to the ritual, eventhose unknown, to see whether the occult power or spirit which caused meto write possessed this satanic attribute, which, being so,thetowould prove theintervention of the devil in the performance of mediums, I asked theinvisible agent if it would cause the Lord's prayer to be written in severallanguages, and was answered in the affirmative. Yielding my hand witha pen to the motive power, the Pater was written in two ways, which thesame power, also by writing, said was in Yalaque and in Russian.requesting the same to be written in French, Spanish, Italian, andThenLatin,it was immediately done ; when requesting it to be written in English andGerman, was answered it could not be done. Why not ? I inquired.Because you neither speak nor write those two languages, which isnecessary.1420. ''In what languages then, I asked, are you able to make mewrite ? In the languages which I spoke on earth, as the Valaque andRussian, and those which you speak. The Pato; thus written, I had thehonour to present it personally to Monseigneur the Archbishop of Paris,by his request.Having mentioned this, I was advised to request my spiritfriend to write something in Yalaque, and have it submitted to some oneacquainted with that language, in order to determine the fiict of its being;So;which proposal I willingly accepted.1421. ''But, returned to my house, the idea occurred to me to make an•experiment to control my familiar spirit myself. I wrote on a piece ofpaper a phrase in French, and took a separate copy of iton another piece•of paper. I read this phrase to my spirit, and requested him to render it•'in Yalaque. The spirit, having made some lines, told me by writing that•the translation was already made. I requested him to do the same with;it in Spanish, Italian, and Latin, and it was done. Requesting him fur-)ther to write the same in English, he replied it could not be done, as Itdid not speak that language. Allowing a few minutes to pass, I took the