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OF TIIK KXISTKNCE OF «1'1111TS. 287graph, being one day put (o sleep by lii.s mother at my liouse, I used theopportunity to request the subject to invoke the spirit of Joseph Moral.Scarcely had two minutes elapsed, when the young clairvoyant announcedthe pn'sence of a person, whom she described. Having never seen thesaid Joseph Moral, and therefore not able to say any thing about him, Iwas limited to writing down a faithful account of him as given by theclairvoyant.1440. ^' The meeting ended, I sought the person who had furnished thename, and reading the description, and much surprised to find it correct,she said to me, ^IIow, sir,were you able to give such an exact descriptionof M. Joseph Moral, whom you never knew and have never seen ?'1450. '* This fact was for me a positive conviction that clairvoyants, intheir communion with the dead, do not simply see the image of thedeceased in the memory of the consulting party, but that they see theveritable souls of the departed, as the witch of Endor saw the soul ofSamuel, according to our creed, called the Holy Spirit of the Ecclesiastic.And should M, de Gasparin desire to know the person who gave me thename of M. Joseph Moral, it will give me pleasure to wait on him to herhouse.1451. ^'Ilere is another fact like the preceding, but still more interesting.M. de Sarrio, of Alicant, in Spain, a cavalier of Malta, gave to mybrother Joseph, of whom I have already spoken, fifteen thousand francs, tobe distributed among the poor; for which sum my brother aforesaid gavea receipt to the benevolent donor. At the death of M. de Sarrio, his brother,the Marquis of Algolfa, becoming his heir, found this receipt amongthe papers of the deceased. At the death of my brother, the Marquisdesiring to know if all the amount had been disbursed, addressed mysister, who became his heir, on the subject. But my sister, being unacquaintedwith his affairs, not having lived with him, submitted to themarquis the schedule of the deceased ; which, showing only the distributionof half the amount, the other half was claimed by thefinally made the subject of a lawsuit.marquis, and1452. "" My sister, much aggrieved, made me a party to her troubles, ina letter from Alicant. Discomforted by what had happened to my sister, Ivisited ray young clairvoyant and demanded the presence of my brother,who, as she had said, had several times been with her. He was reportedpresent, and I questioned him in relation to the money received from M. deSarrio, reproaching him in regard to the reversion of the said balance, andthe pain he had caused my sister.1453. " My brother, astounded at my language, said, that he owed nothingto anybody;and as to the amount referred to, he had given it to FatherMario before dying, to be distributed to the poor; to prove which it would benecessary to call Father Mario. Scarcely had my brother said this, whenthe clairvoyant said she saw a man with my brother, and from the descrip-