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Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that spirits of the deceased exist and are able to communicate with living people. It began to develop in the 1840s and had reached its peak of popularity by the 1920s, particularly in English-speaking countries. “Remarkable Spirit Manifestations” is a 1874 work by William Crookes and C. G. Helleberg on the subject of spirits, looking in detail at interesting and notable cases of spirit contact with reference to contemporary science. This vintage book is highly recommended for those with an interest in spirits and mediumship, and it is not to be missed by collectors of allied literature. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	08 janvier 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528767798
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Remarkable Spirit Manifestations.
BY
PROF. WILLIAM CROOKES, F.R.S.,
Of London, England,
AND
C. G. HELLEBERG,
Of Cincinnati, O., U. S. A.
Copyright 2018 Read Books Ltd. This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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Extracts from Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism
EXTRACTS FROM RESEARCHES
IN THE
PHENOMENA OF SPIRITUALISM
BY
PROF. WILLIAM CROOKES, F. R. S.
O F L ONDON , E NGLAND ,
FEBRUARY, 1874.

Professor Crooks, among learned persons, is acknowledged as one of the most scientific men of the world, but as this pamphlet will come in the hands of many persons not versed in science, a few words may be said of his great achievement: He is a great chemist and discoverer of the new metal thallium; also, of the supra gaseous state in which matter exists in high vacua, and is the deviser of the radiometer.
A. S. F.

This took place in his own home. Medium, Miss Florence Cook, a girl of fifteen years. Before Mr. Crookes relates the immense number of facts he had accumulated, he expresses himself in this way:
My principal object will be to place on record a series of actual occurrences which have taken place in my own home, in presence of trustworthy witnesses, and under as strict test conditions as I could devise. Every fact which I have observed is, moreover, corroborated by the records of independent observers at other times and places. It will be seen that the facts are of the most astounding character, and seem utterly irreconcilable with all known theories of modern science.
Having satisfied myself of their truth, it would be moral cowardice to withhold my testimony because my previous publications were ridiculed by critics and others who knew nothing whatever of the subject, and who were too prejudiced to see and judge for themselves whether or not there was truth in the phenomena.
I shall state simply what I have seen and proved by repeated experiments and tests, and I have yet to learn that it is irrational to endeavor to discover the causes of unexplained phenomena.
At the commencement I must correct one or two errors which have taken firm possession of the public mind. One is, that darkness is essential to the phenomena. This is by no means the case, except where darkness has been a necessary condition, as with some of the phenomena of luminous appearances, and in a few other instances. Every thing recorded has taken place in the light. In the few cases where the phenomena noted have occurred in darkness, I have been very particular to mention the fact. Moreover, some special reason can be shown for the exclusion of light, or the results have been produced under such perfect test condition that the suppression of one of the senses has not really weak-ended the evidence.
Another common error is that the occurrences can be witnessed only at certain times and places-in the rooms of the medium, or at hours previously arranged; and arguing from this erroneous supposition, an analogy has been insisted on between the phenomena called spiritual and the feats of legerdemain by professional conjurors and wizards, exhibited on their own platform and surrounded by all the appliances of their art. To show how far this is from the truth, I need only say that, with very few exceptions, the many hundreds of facts I am prepared to attest-facts which to imitate by known mechanical or physical means would baffle the skill of a Houdin, a Bosco, or an Anderson, backed with all the resources of elaborate machinery and the practice of years-have all taken place in my own house, at times appointed by myself, and under circumstances which absolutely precluded the employment of the very simplest instrumental aids.
A third error is that the medium must select his own circle of friends and associates of a seance; that these friends must be thorough believers in the truth of whatever doctrine the medium enunciates; and that conditions are imposed on any person present of an investigating turn of mind, which entirely preclude the accurate observation and facilitate trickery and deception. In reply to this I can state that (with the exception of the very few cases to which I have alluded in the previous paragraph, where whatever might have been the motive for exclusiveness, it certainly was not the veiling of deception), I have chosen my own circle of friends, have introduced any hard-headed unbeliever whom I pleased, and have generally imposed my own terms, which have been carefully chosen to prevent the possibility of fraud; have gradually ascertained some of the conditions which facilitate the occurrence of the phenomena. My modes of conducting these inquires have generally been attended with equal, and indeed in most cases, with more success than on other occasions where, through mistaken notions of the importance of certain trifling observations, the conditions imposed might render less easy the detection of fraud. I have said that darkness is not essential. It is, however, a well ascertained fact that when the force is weak a bright light exerts an interfering action on some of the phenomena.
The power possessed by Mr. Home is sufficiently strong to withstand this antagonistic influence, consequently he always objects to darkness at his seances; indeed, except on two occasions, when for some particular experiments of my own, light was excluded. Every thing which I have witnessed with him has taken place in the light. I have had many opportunities of testing the action of light or different sources and classes, such as sunlight, diffused daylight, moonlight, gas-light, lamp-light, candle-light, electric light from a vacuum tube, homogeneous yellow light, etc. The interfering rays appear to be those at the extreme end of the spectrum.
After this he relates his experience through different mediums, but in this extract only his last experiment with Miss Cook, when Katie King showed herself for the last time, is copied:
I will, for the present, pass over most of the tests which Spirit Katie King has given me on the many occasions when Miss Cook has favored me with seances at my house, and will only describe one or two which I have recently had. I have for some time past been experimenting with a phosphorus lamp, consisting of a six or eight ounce bottle, containing a little phosphorated oil, tightly corked.

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