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<center><small>From the London Spiritualist</small></center> | <center><small>From the London Spiritualist</small></center> | ||
{{Style S-Small capitals|When, of late}} years, within a period most of us can remember, the phenomena of Spiritualism became more widely known, few of the manifestations provoked more popular surprise and incredulity than the sudden loosening of tightly-knotted bonds, and levitation, or the floating of human bodies above the ground. Both have now passed into the common-places of the movement. In a past number of this paper an instance was adduced, showing that the instantaneous untying of cords was known long ago in India ; it is now proposed to bring forward some details showing that in very remote antiquity, centuries before our era, the idea of levitation was a familiar indication and accompaniment of the highest state of spiritual exaltation. | {{Style S-Small capitals|When, of late}} years, within a period most of us can remember, the phenomena of Spiritualism became more widely known, few of the manifestations provoked more popular surprise and incredulity than the sudden loosening of tightly-knotted bonds, and levitation, or the floating of human bodies above the ground. Both have now passed into the common-places of the movement. In a past number of this paper an instance was adduced, showing that the instantaneous untying of cords was known long ago in India ; it is now proposed to bring forward some details showing that in very remote antiquity, centuries before our era, the idea of levitation was a familiar indication and accompaniment of the highest state of spiritual exaltation. | ||