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| author = Leymarie, M.; Leymarie, J. | | author = Leymarie, M.; Leymarie, J. | ||
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| source title = Spiritual Scientist | | source title = Spiritual Scientist | ||
| source details = | | source details = v. 4, No. 8, April 27, 1876, p. 93 | ||
| publication date = | | publication date = 1876-04-27 | ||
| original date = 1876-03-31 | | original date = 1876-03-31 | ||
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... | ''To the Editor of the Spiritual Scientist:'' | ||
{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Sir}}:—I beg you to allow me to oppose through the columns of your impartial paper, an absolute contradiction to the malicious falsehoods of the letter inserted by M. Home in the Sunday Herald of March 12, 1876, in which he seeks to injure my husband—M. Leymarie, editor of the Revue Spirite of Paris—by statements that are completely and utterly untrue. | |||
I reaffirm for myself and for my daughter Jeanne Leymarie, what we stated to M. Van Raalte of Amsterdam, namely, that Firman is a medium of much power, and that Jeanne had seen “the little Indian” several times sufficiently materialized to be touched by her, to take her hand, and then to slip quickly back behind the curtain, like a child playing with another child, and addressing her on each occasion as “Little Jeanne.” | |||
I reaffirm for the satisfaction of our brethren in America, that M. Leymarie and I have seen the same spirit, ''not ''as M. Home falsely asserts “in a dark seance” but in a subdued light, sufficiently strong to allow of his being distinctly seen by all present. | |||
After Firman’s Return from Amsterdam, he received several charming letters of thanks and congratulations from the persons who had been present at his seances, in that city; letters, which are still in his possession. M. Van Raalte was I believe, the only one who was not convinced of the reality of the manifestations, because in a seance, which was held in his house, the accordeon, trumpet, bell, &c., used at the seance, were found to have been marked by teeth. But all who are conversant with the subject will doubtless agree with me that such marks are ''not ''a conclusive proof of fraud, for two reasons; 1st, because we are my no means sure that spirits may not as easily use their teeth for such manifestations as their hands ; and 2nd, because it is impossible to prove that such marks may not have been made by the teeth of someone among the company assembled. | |||
But as, even with the best mediums, it is impossible to be too warily on our guard, and in order to insure the utmost precaution in the management of future seances, M. Leymarie inserted in the Revue Spirite of April, 1875, two notices, one by Count de Bullet, affirming the fact of materialization obtained by Firman, the other calling attention to the necessity of prudence and circumspection in regard to reputed phenomena of this character, in order that both opinions might be fairly represented. | |||
When we last saw M. Van Raalte, in Paris, (about the beginning of April, 1875) the trial of Buguet was still in the future. No one, among the friends here, had the faintest idea of what was about to happen; and no one, consequently, could have had any intention to offer pecuniary aid to my husband, as M. Home insinuates in his letter; an insinuation equally gratuitous and ''false.'' | |||
Having replied to the first of the ''falsehoods ''so imprudently put forth by Mr. Home, I now assert that his second statement is equally false; one that Mr. Leymarie never stated to Mr. Van Raalte (as asserted by Home again) in speaking of Firman: “We know nothing of that American fellow. We never saw what he calls his Indian.” There is not one word of truth in the assertions, which are, on the contrary, the opposite of the truth. Both my daughter and myself declare the statements of Mr. Home in regard to the denial he puts into her mouth respecting the “little Indian” to be entirely false and untrue. | |||
I heartily regret that Mr. Home should resort to the use of poisoned weapons in attacking, those who, holding different opinions from his own, are devoted to the great cause to which his remarkable physical mediumship has ''in''''''' '''''''the fast ''done good service. It is evident that he cannot forgive Allan Kardec for having been chosen as the channel of communication for ideas that were not transmitted through him; but even from that point of view, could Mr. Home not find some mode of attacking those ideas, opposed as they are to the views which have taken him over to the Church of Rome, more honorable, more manly, than the dissemination of calumnies against those who differ from him? | |||
The letter to which I am replying has led me to think that there may be truth in the remark which has so frequently been made of late. “Mr. Home ''is''''''' '''''''no longer a''''''' '''''''friend ''to the cause of Spiritualism; since he became a {{Style S-Small capitals|Catholic}} he has become an enemy to the movement with which he was at first identified, and would fain undo his own work.” But it needs not the gift of prophecy to announce to him that the only result of the employment of such weapons as those to which he has recourse will be ''worthy of those weapons and those who use them.'' | |||
I beg to add that I assume for myself the entire responsibility of this reply, which I request you, Mr. Editor, to do me the favor of inserting ''entire ''in your earliest number, and remain, Yours cordially in the great cause, | |||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Marina Leymarie.}} | |||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Jeanne leymarie.}} | |||
Rue de Lille, Paris, France, March 31, 1876. | |||
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spiritual_scientist_v.04_n.08_1876-04-27.pdf|page=9|Spiritual Scientist, v. 4, No. 8, April 27, 1876, p. 93 | |||
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