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288 ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCEtion slic gave of him, I thouglit I recognised a Capucliin friar, who. interrogatedby my brother, confirmed what he had said,1454. *^ Having never heard the name of Father Mario, as I had leftAlicant thirty years before, I requested some particulars of his countryand family, and was told he belonged to St. Vincent du Respect, one leaguefrom Alicant, kc, and I put the following questions to my sister,by letter:Was your brother Joseph visited in his sickness by a priest named FatherMario, having a sister at St. Vineent du Respect ? and do you know ifthis Father Mario is dead ? Following is the answer :1455. "^As to Father Mario, he left this country several years since,and it is not known if he is in France or America. He did not visit ourbrother in his last sickness, because he had left some years before. liehas two sisters, one was in Algeria, and the other went with him.' Theletters written by me to my sister on this subject, and her replies, withother details, were published in the third volume of the Arcana. Theoriginals arc at the disposal of M. de Gasparin, and I would desire to askthat gentleman one question :established by the letters of my sister,Whether the apparition of Father Mario, asconfirming the existence of FatherMario, is not a positive fact, and not an hallucination ? Whether, as thismonk had never been seen nor known by me, his image could possiblyhave been perceived by the clairvoyant through any impression madeupon my mind ? Of course, it could not have been the devil who personatedFather Mario, if M. de Gasparin correctly repudiates the interventionof Satan in spiritual manifestations.1456. '' Can M. de Gasparin explain to me the appearance of FatherMario consistently with his P^ycliolofjical hypothesis in General. Theseare the facts which I have at present to oppose to the Psychological Rationaleof M. de Gasparin, At a future time I shall be prepared to saymore to him as well as to M. de Mirville, both on mesmerism and tableturning,as well as in regard to mediums.1457. ^'If the marquis and count do not respond to my call, theirsilence will do great injury to the cause of truth, science, and religion.is, then, in order not to act against interests so sacred,in hoping that these gentlemen will comply with my wishes."Itthat I take pleasureMechanical Movements without Contact. By Mr. Isaac Phen, Presidentof th e Ha rm on ia I Soc iety of Ph ila delph ia .*1458. Among the most distinguished and eloquent advocates of Spiritualismin Philadelphia, is Mr. Isaac Rehn, President of the IlarmonialSociety. It is said that a good countenance is a constant letter of* This communication, as well as those immediately preceding and following it, wouldhave been inserted under the head of Corroborative Evidence, page 55,