Materialized Apparitions If Not Beings from Another Life What Are They |
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| Author:
| Brackett, Edward A. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4936-4756-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $4.95 |
Book Description:
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Noted sculptor Edward A. Brackett endeavors to discover the truth about the afterlife by attending a series of seances in which several loved ones attempt to contact him from the other side. Join him on this journey from skeptic to psychic, first published in 1908.
"It has been heretofore stated that everything known as Spiritualism is due to pure Magnetism. Magnetism may be classed under three heads: Terrestrial, Aerial, and Ethereal or Spiritual Magnetism. These are only...
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Noted sculptor Edward A. Brackett endeavors to discover the truth about the afterlife by attending a series of seances in which several loved ones attempt to contact him from the other side. Join him on this journey from skeptic to psychic, first published in 1908.
"It has been heretofore stated that everything known as Spiritualism is due to pure Magnetism. Magnetism may be classed under three heads: Terrestrial, Aerial, and Ethereal or Spiritual Magnetism. These are only different modes or grades of expression of the same thing; and may be compared, in their order, to earth, air and ether;--heat, force, and light;--or root, stock, and flower in plants.
"Ethereal Magnetism is the medium of thought, as is clearly proved by what is sometimes called telepathy, or mind-reading, and by well attested facts of communication between persons widely separated. It is also known to Mesmerizers that, when they have established magnetic relations between themselves and their subjects, they can often control them without reference to distance.
"Outside of the domain of this subtle fluid, there can be no connection between the seen and the unseen worlds, or between any of the individual forms of life. More attenuated than Electricity, it holds the same relation to life that Terrestrial Magnetism holds to the grosser particles of matter. It enables what we call intellectual force to command and control all forms.
"Through it, Thought, which is the Principle of everything, builds and unbuilds; clothing itself in material garments, and filling the earth with countless millions of individual beings, made visible to our outward senses.
"I have witnessed the processes of materialization and of dematerialization in the middle of the room, several feet from the cabinet,--have taken hold of the hands of these beings, and gone down with them to the floor, until the last things that disappeared were the hands that were in mine."
"To abandon these spiritual phenomena to credulity, is to commit a treason against human reason. Nevertheless, we see them always rejected and always reappearing. They date not their advent from yesterday." -VICTOR HUGO
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Part I. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION OF FORMS AND OBJECTS.
I. MY FIRST S#65533;ANCE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT II. PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM, OR MATERIALIZED FORMS III. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION OF OBJECTS IV. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION UNDER TEST CONDITIONS V. AN UNEXPECTED S#65533;ANCE VI. S#65533;ANCE WITH MRS. CARRIE M. SAWYER VII. S#65533;ANCES WITH MRS. FAIRCHILD VIII. S#65533;ANCE WITH MISS HELEN BERRY AT ONSET IX. S#65533;ANCE AT THE BERRY SISTERS' IN BOSTON X. MATERIALIZED FORMS--HOW SHALL WE MEET THEM?
Part II. OPINIONS AND THEORIES.
I. A GLANCE BEHIND THE CURTAIN II. EXPOSURES OF MEDIUMS III. PUBLIC S#65533;ANCES IV. THE ATTITUDE OF SCIENTISTS V. PUBLIC OPINION VI. CONCLUSION