Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane: Or, The Dynamic Laws and Relations of Man. Embracing the Natural Philosophy of Phenomena Styled "spiritual Manifestations"J. P. Jewett, 1856 - 336 стор. |
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... side . But this cannot be accomplished by observing a few isolated cases , or the collection of a few phenomena . The inquirer must travel over the whole ground . He must take the facts of the past , of an analogous character , and ...
... side . But this cannot be accomplished by observing a few isolated cases , or the collection of a few phenomena . The inquirer must travel over the whole ground . He must take the facts of the past , of an analogous character , and ...
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... side of the house , which commenced one evening when the family had retired , and continued at short intervals until daylight , when it ceased . " The next evening it commenced at nightfall , when it was ascertained to be mysteriously ...
... side of the house , which commenced one evening when the family had retired , and continued at short intervals until daylight , when it ceased . " The next evening it commenced at nightfall , when it was ascertained to be mysteriously ...
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... side , which alarmed me very much . I stood still some time , looking around with amaze- ment , when I beheld some lumber which lay at the head of the stairs shake considerably . About eight or ten days after , we visited the girl again ...
... side , which alarmed me very much . I stood still some time , looking around with amaze- ment , when I beheld some lumber which lay at the head of the stairs shake considerably . About eight or ten days after , we visited the girl again ...
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... side , and at the head of the stair there was a shaking of the lumber . Third , There was a movement of objects towards or against other persons . Fourth , There seemed to be no intelligence connected with these sounds or movements . 71 ...
... side , and at the head of the stair there was a shaking of the lumber . Third , There was a movement of objects towards or against other persons . Fourth , There seemed to be no intelligence connected with these sounds or movements . 71 ...
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... was bled . The blood , which had hardly congealed , was seen * See New York Sun , April 29 , 1850 . + See Catherine Crowe's Night - side of Nature , page 370 . all at once to spring out of the basin upon PHYSICAL PHENOMENA . 45.
... was bled . The blood , which had hardly congealed , was seen * See New York Sun , April 29 , 1850 . + See Catherine Crowe's Night - side of Nature , page 370 . all at once to spring out of the basin upon PHYSICAL PHENOMENA . 45.
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Сторінка 45 - ... about ten o'clock in the forenoon, as Mrs. Golding was in her parlour, she heard the china and glasses in the back kitchen tumble down and break ; her maid came to her and told her the stone plates were falling from the shelf; Mrs. Golding went into the kitchen and saw them broke. Presently after, a row of plates from the next shelf fell down likewise, while she was there, and nobody near them ; this astonished her much, and while she was thinking about it, other things in different places began...
Сторінка 290 - It was black and blue, and fresh blood seemed running down his cheek upon the hairs. Divers noises were also heard in the room where the corpse lay, as the clattering of chairs and stools, whereof no account could be given.
Сторінка 47 - Golding's, a pail of water, that stood on the floor, boiled like a pot ; a box of candles fell from a shelf in the kitchen to the floor, and they rolled out, but none were broken, and the table in the parlour fell over.
Сторінка 294 - Mr. M., perceiving that it so much persecuted the children, lodged them out at a neighbor's house, taking his eldest daughter, ten years old, into his own chamber, where the sounds had not been for a month before. As soon as she was in bed, the disturbances commenced here again, continuing three weeks, — drumming and other sounds. " It was observed that it would exactly answer, in drumming, anything that was beaten by persons present, or any tune called for.
Сторінка 296 - During the time of the knocking, when many were present, a Gentleman of the Company said, Satan, if the Drummer set thee to work, give three knocks and no more, which it did very distinctly and stopt. Then the Gentleman knockt, to see if it would answer him as it was wont, but it did not. For further trial, he bid it for confirmation, if it were the Drummer, to give five knocks and no more that night, which it did, and left the House quiet all the night after.
Сторінка 274 - Sometime after this, as we were going to bed, — my children and servants being already asleep, — we heard a knocking, as if in the air, over our heads. There were six knocks, at intervals of half a minute. It was a hollow, yet clear sound, soft but distinct. We were certain there was no one near us, nor over us, from whom it could proceed ; and our house stands by itself. On the following evening, when she was asleep, when we had mentioned the knocking to nobody whatever, she asked me whether...
Сторінка 81 - It (the table) was forced against each one of us so powerfully as to move us from our positions — together with the chairs we occupied — in all, several feet.
Сторінка 95 - ... every tremor it excites in any one planet is immediately transmitted to the farthest limits of the system, in oscillations, which correspond in their periods with the cause producing them, like sympathetic notes in music, or vibrations from the deep tones of an organ.
Сторінка 188 - ... spirits. How far influences of this sort extend and characterize spirit manifestations, remains to be ascertained. We can positively identify them in many cases. In some they are known to the parties concerned, and acknowledged to have been consciously and intentionally exerted. In others they may be justly suspected, where no consciousness of them is felt by the Medium, or by any dominant mind.
Сторінка 81 - Wells seated himself on the table, which was rocked to and fro with great violence ; and at length it poised itself on two legs, and remained in this position for some thirty seconds, when no other person was in contact with the table.