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<center>SPIRITUALIST. Jan, 28, 1876.</center>

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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}}, — A belief in the existence of elementary spirits has been held all along by the followers of Allan Kardec ; and the question seems to me to be, not so much whether they are “ spirits other than those of human origin,” as laid down by the modern Occultists, according to your correspondent, an English member of the Theosophical Society; but whether they may not be in one of the phases of the origin of human beings ? In other words, whether we may not have been, once upon a time, elementary spirits ourselves. The three questions, 1st, That of men being “sparks struck off from Deity itself,” as alleged in ‘Spirit Teachings,’ and in other articles of ''The Spiritualist''; 2nd, The question of elementary spirits; and 3rdly, That of the incarnation and reincarnation of spirits. These three questions have all cropped up lately in such quick succession, and in such intimate connection with each other as to give Spiritualists new sources for thought, and perhaps for guidance; just as their perplexities were becoming almost equal to their knowledge and their progress; stupendous as, indeed, were some of the phenomena and scientific results attained by them. But what about these “elementaries” who appear to be, some of them, as inconsequent and as selfish as can be well conceived, and what is more, to all appearance, sometimes utterly unsympathetic, hardhearted and treacherous towards their mediums; like the wolf, of which the poet sings —

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Sir, — Mr. C. C. Massey makes an important omission in his account of our ''séance'' with Dr. H. Slade, in this city, on the evening of October 14th, which I beg to supply. He describes the direct writing obtained when the medium and I held the slate under the edge of the table, and when the pencil was laid upon the table and the slate covered it over, and no one touched it. But we made one other experiment which I regarded as peculiarly satisfactory. I placed the pencil between Mr. Massey’s two new slates, and held them in my own hand, at my right side—away from Dr. Slade and next to Mr. Massey—and the writing was obtained as easily as before. As I have no mediumistic power whatever, and as under the circumstances deception was impossible, it is a fair inference that the force exerted ''by or through'' Slade can operate for the production of written messages independently of his personal contact with the thing to be written upon.  

[[File:Spiritualist, The (London) No.179 1876-01-28.pdf|400px|page=10|The Spiritualist (London), No.179, p.44]]

[[File:Spiritualist, The (London) No.179 1876-01-28.pdf|400px|page=11|The Spiritualist (London), No.179, p.45]]