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...ht hand, and thus stood as separate individuals before us, both medium and figure. ...Dr. Monck), and stood at the left side of the first form, even as the male figure stood at the left side of the medium. So the three, which before were one i

...failures, and when the manifestations began, we found they had changed in figure to that of a cone, or flask, the luminosity apparently increasing in intens ...last year, when I chanced to be seated at the table, he described a female figure as standing beside me, the rude outline of which came out strongly on devel

...rmed, By and bye this is severed by a motion of the medium’s hand, and the figure stands apparently, but not really, alone and independent. Not actually inde ...was this vapour which was so agitated from a central point as to form this figure? What was the pabulum? “Briefly—odic, psychic, or vital force. It is th

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...wer over the previous strong manifestations, so could not produce the full figure. The consciousness as well as the vital energy of the medium, was largely d ..., although I have dimly seen faces and beards. Mr. Tapp said that when the figure rose from the floor, while he was holding Miss Cook on a previous occasion,

...sword of David, my Father, and on the fourth series the letter ''He ''(?) figure of the Jewish Shekel. The thirty-six talismans will be a book which will co

...last year, when I chanced to be seated at the table, he described a female figure as standing beside me, the rude outline of which came out strongly on devel ...e centre of which, and separated from the points by a dark border, was the figure of a medallion bust, described as such by the medium.

...a Parisian in manners and education. As nearly all the personages who will figure in this true story are still living, it is but decent that I should withhol ...oking bridge which led across the water to the entrance gate, I saw a tall figure slowly rise from the bench and come toward us. It was my old friend, Gospoj

...d mediums were three feet from the curtains, and we had plenty of light; a figure, clothed in white, appeared between the curtains and put forth her hand whi ...forty persons, with all of whom it shook hands. The medium and the veiled figure were both walking together, and were both unmistakably living.

...el Wheeler, in both soul and body, that his oldest friends assert that the figure is absolutely Samuel Wheeler returned to the flesh. ...e conviction of others, as to the identity, convince me. The fact that the figure is sometimes materialised only to the waist, gives one the idea of an autom

...a Parisian in manners and education. As nearly all the personages who will figure in this true story are still living, it is but decent that I should withhol ...oking bridge which led across the water to the entrance gate, I saw a tall figure slowly rise from the bench and come toward us. It was my old friend, Gospoj

...rasped and held firmly by an individual who thought he had the medium, the figure dematerialized in his arms—actually dissolved into nothingness. Henry Wil

...e girl about three years old materialised at the same time as a full-grown figure, and had seen these two spirits and the medium together. The face of the ch ...try experiments with it.” (Applause). The “hieroglyphics” written by the figure he had described were only scribble—no hieroglyphics at all.

...ies to the figure for the 8th December. Raphael also pronounced the second figure to be very menacing, but augured better of the first.

...rapery covers the sitter’s head or some part of his body. In this case the figure is apart as though supported, as I learn was actually the case.

...coat, black pants, white shirt-bosom and collar. The next was a very short figure, dressed in a dark coat reaching to the knees, black pants, and having an i

...cool wind, so often announcing the approach of spiritual presence, and the figure issuing from a mass of light, as in the case of Mr. Livermore’s spirit-wi

...W-comment|[Underneath H.P.B. pasted a printed picture showing the enormous figure of a native woman. The title is: “Cuzco Costumes—Woman of the Lower Ord

...nd that it might be Fraser dressed up to trick the other servants. But the figure took no notice of my exclamation; it, or she, walked on quietly, not even t ...these feelings I then underwent. At last I moved, moved backwards from the figure. I dared not attempt to ''pass ''her. Yet I could not at first turn away fr

...hen returned to me, and without comment I showed him a drawing of the very figure seen by him, whereupon he told me that he had seen it, and under what circu

...permanent physical form could have deceived us in our recognition of that figure as being the same we had seen appear under strictly test conditions many ti ...struments were lying was placed partially in front of the curtain, and the figure formed beside it, nearer to one end of the front row than to the other.

...measure by the counsels of the crystal spirits. Although he may seem a dim figure to us now, he was no inconsiderable personage in the days of Queen Elizabet ...n, desiring to know what should be the order of proceeding. Then below the figure in the mirror would appear a series of words and sentences (at once written

...te of the circulation of the brain was proved by the circumstance that the figure always became visible when a position was assumed which interfered with the

...in any way to account for it, while persons inside had been looking at the figure, people had been watching the church outside and had seen nothing.

...of course, no one pretended to know; but die wonder lies not in the spirit-figure, but in the fact that my friend's face, arms and body are covered apparentl

...about the child – no question of rag-wrapped legs or fondled pillows. The figure stood too near me, and in too good a light, to admit of such deceptions bei ...Again, there was a great variety in dress; for instance, one large Indian figure followed another at intervals of five to ten minutes, dissimilarly dressed;

...isible in the light proceeding from the luminous object in the hand of the figure. While up there, John called out to us—“Will that do?” ''(Ist es so r

...name. Handwritten remarks by H.P.B. appear on 16 pages. There is only one figure in the whole album. The album also contains 32 unsigned small notices from ...ges, and further, under the dancing gentleman, “''H.S.O.''”, and under the figure of the lady, “''H.P.B.''”.

...leman’s request, he moved quite far along the wall to the right, where his figure was thrown into high relief by the light-coloured paper hangings. His face ...detail of her dress lacking, no lock of her massive suit of hair gone; her figure as plump, her motions as supple, her attitudes as widely statuesque as ever

...the spirit, and I planted it by the point in the circle near me. The human figure then re-appeared, but I felt such a weakness in my limbs, and such exhausti

...aced his hand for a few seconds on the planchette again, when an intricate figure was produced very rapidly. This proved to be a monogram, N. L.; now came a

...the spirit, and I planted it by the point in the circle near me. The human figure then re-appeared, but I felt such a weakness in my limbs, and such exhausti

...st Sunday’s issue I read an article headed “Heroic Women,” and find that I figure therein as the primary heroine. My name is H. P. Blavatsky. I decline the h

...urtain was thrown out at one aide, and some of us could see a low. bending figure, with apparently a night-capped head, seeking recognition. It was however,

...ualised in consciousness, or coming to consciousness in us—is no religious figure of speech, but a veritable metaphysical fact, and that the lower, sensual c

...omething I had never done before, You may, therefore, imagine I cut a fine figure. She then got Mrs. Cleveland and Mr. Hunt and we all danced together; Mr. S

...seen, as was certified by many persons, in the shape of a cadaverous human figure, emitting a brilliant but unearthly light, and hovering above or floating u

...the identification, failed to see the resemblance. In another case, when a figure appeared, a lady asked if it was her grandmother. There being a negative ta

...brow, and speaking aloud, said, “1 am fatigued now, I have but that single figure to complete; I will finish it to-morrow.” I then undressed in haste, and

3. A Goparam is the great pyramidal gateway of the Pagodas, but—by a figure, common enough in all languages—the part is often taken for the whole, an

...perhaps Mme. Huguet spoke the truth when she said that there was only one figure in the cabinet. It may also partially explain what occurred at Serjeant Cox

...you the portrait as it is, with the child not writing, but it contains the figure of the child's grandmother, the famous Regina, who died twenty years ago at

...bt the eleven millions of American Spiritualists exist only as a brilliant figure of rhetoric. Nevertheless, the number of American Spiritualists is much gre

...Again, there was a great variety in dress; for instance, one large Indian figure followed another at intervals of five to ten minutes, dissimilarly dressed;

...bt the eleven millions of American Spiritualists exist only as a brilliant figure of rhetoric. Nevertheless, the number of American Spiritualists is much gre

The figure stood so that I saw him in profile against the wall. He had an aquiline nos

...seance with this medium was on Jan. 30th, 1875, when a youthful, feminine figure, whose weight seemed scarcely more than that of a child of eight years, cam

...of his forms sent, first giving this form his divine virtue four times (a figure four times repeated resembling as much as anything an old fashioned S, with

...e S-Small capitals| Some}} say Eve 8 and Adam 2—a total of 10 only. Now we figure the thing out far different. Eve 8 and Adam 8 also—total, 16. ''Boston Jo

...of abominable fraud, and in whose place the police found a draped'mannikin figure and a vast number of heads prepared to be employed with it. (Nothing suspic

...ery. All at once I stood motionless; I could not withdraw my eyes from the figure of a lovely young woman, who was all alone behind an array of articles of o

...beginning of the seance, and the coming forth of spirit forms in face and figure wholly unlike her, are a series of marvels, which, strange as they may seem

...to state in the very ethereal drapery that veils her exquisitely graceful figure, might be taken for a beautiful houri, but never for a Scriptural angel.

...ets who derive their inspiration from less occult sources. The time of the figure was incorrectly copied by me, and so printed. It should have been Oh. 9 min

...nd individual diversities in each gradation— features, skulls, characters, figure, proportion, strength, moral and intellectual conditions—inexplicable utt

...isible'';” and, at his seance of March 17th, at the Eddy Homestead, when a figure which purported to be that of his wife, appeared, he tells us; “The light

...me out from the group of natives near at hand a lad of 12 or so, slight of figure and pleasant of face, with not an article of dress save his loin cloth and

...d first at the door, and then in the chamber. He turned his head and saw a figure, which he recognized as the one described to him. It was standing beckoning

.... On the way to the cemetery, my grandfather and another attendant saw the figure of the deceased sitting on her coffin, dressed in the same way mentioned, a

...the most illustrious and most valorous Baron Von Palm has been the leading figure, have been under the control of his executor, Colonel H. F. Olcott<ref>So i

...e all between twenty and twenty-eight. Of the postman, I only saw the dark figure, his person was of no importance to me, but his hand and the number of lett

...uptible, — as instanced in Euclid’s Elements represented in Masonry by the figure of the 47th prob. of the {{Style S-Small capitals|ist}} Book. Of such is ev

...bt the eleven millions of American Spiritualists exist only as a brilliant figure of rhetoric. Nevertheless, the number of American Spiritualists is much gre

...e, and encircling with his arm, as if in protection, the slender, childish figure. “The little fellow has seen my Shaman’s double, which roams sometimes

...ugh what startling revolutions of civilization and barbarism, varieties in figure, proportions, and strength, gradations and modifications of moral and intel

...ain; in vain I drew and erased, retouched and altered, it was useless. The figure now designed by my hand was as much out of character with all the rest whic

...there is for the senses what we have learned to call a brown colour, and a figure which we have learned to call round or square. In every perception of the s

...ar Capua. There both Roman consuls had the same dream on the same night; a figure of more than mortal height and majesty presenting itself to each of them, d

...he distinction between the soul and the apparent self, as a mere religious figure of speech, and are able to perceive in it a profound metaphysical truth.

...a young girl, rather tall and slim, but still what would be called a good figure. She has an intelligent countenance, and a pale but clear skin. Her hair is

...master of ceremonies; and in the accomplishment of those marvellous things figure some spirits confessedly of a much higher degree or sphere than himself at

...eenly sensitive. After this exercise of the digits over me, I imagined the figure had placed itself at my head, and in a voice of mellowness blended with pow

...symbolical or allegorical representations are caused to come; or a single figure steps into the field of vision, and displays a scroll upon which letter aft

...with which man should seek the true life and encounter the true light. The figure is supposed to be naked, typifying the utter dependence of man upon his Mak

...st that presented itself. Before she could recall her scattered senses the figure was gone, and her friends resumed their places in the vehicle.

...he affair of the photograph, projected upon the plate, from the album, the figure desired by the mourning editor, thus rendering the actual presence of the d

...to state, in the very ethereal drapery that veils her exquisitely graceful figure, might be taken for a beautiful houri, but never for a Scriptural angel.

Mrs. Bennett-Some thought they saw a figure or two; but [with a poculiar smile] only faces and hands showed. When the s

...ive. Magicians, Invocations, Planetaries, Mirrors, Christals, Fairies, all figure in the romance.

...l extended object is impressed upon the sensibility as you might impress a figure on a sheet of paper. But the paper is not conscious, the percipient is. Wha

...rfect sympathy with each other and their surroundings, it would be no mere figure to say that they were ''one.'' Swedenborg held the belief that societies ar

...ually into the ultramundane world. It is not until we have—to use the bold figure of Lord Lytton—until we have surmounted the presence of the Dweller on th

...e, and encircling with his arm, as if in protection, the slender, childish figure. “The little fellow has seen my Shaman’s double, which roams {{Page asi