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... | {{Style P-No indent|one of the leaves the cabalistic sign of the interlaced triangles, and requested the Spirits to bring it to me at the circle the following evening. I purposely sat at Mrs. Thayer’s righthand, and held her hands, when suddenly I felt something cool and moist drop upon my hand, and when the candle was lit, ''found it to be my marked leaf. I went to the greenhouse, and found that the leaf selected by me had actually been broken off''.”}} | ||
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I need make no apology for preserving testimony of this nature to the facts of mediumship so remarkable as Mrs. Thayer’s. Colonel Olcott afterwards put her in a bag, and otherwise rendered her helpless in her normal state, but still flowers, peaches, and birds were produced. One point further is worth notice. These flowers were of natural growth. Whence did they come?'' ''In a few cases from neighbouring gardens; in most, from an unascertained source. By what means were they severed? Colonel Olcott examined the stalks. “They had been broken off—not short off, but with a thin ribbon of bark at one side; and around the fracture in almost every case was a little ring of black, as though an electrical current had effected some chemical change in the chlorophyl.” This may be significant. I do not know whether any of my readers have examined at any time the flowers which used to come so plentifully through Mrs. Guppy’s mediumship. If so, it would be interesting to know whether they presented a like appearance. | |||
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It seems to me that such records as this, so precise, so well attested, and so remarkably conclusive as to the action of independent Spirit agency, are eminently worth preservation, especially when, as in this case, they were contributed to a non-Spiritualist journal. For the last half century such things have been recorded. It would be a worthy and good work to select the best narratives and bring them again within the scope of public attention. | |||
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< Notes by the Way (continued from page 11-330) >
one of the leaves the cabalistic sign of the interlaced triangles, and requested the Spirits to bring it to me at the circle the following evening. I purposely sat at Mrs. Thayer’s righthand, and held her hands, when suddenly I felt something cool and moist drop upon my hand, and when the candle was lit, found it to be my marked leaf. I went to the greenhouse, and found that the leaf selected by me had actually been broken off.”
I need make no apology for preserving testimony of this nature to the facts of mediumship so remarkable as Mrs. Thayer’s. Colonel Olcott afterwards put her in a bag, and otherwise rendered her helpless in her normal state, but still flowers, peaches, and birds were produced. One point further is worth notice. These flowers were of natural growth. Whence did they come? In a few cases from neighbouring gardens; in most, from an unascertained source. By what means were they severed? Colonel Olcott examined the stalks. “They had been broken off—not short off, but with a thin ribbon of bark at one side; and around the fracture in almost every case was a little ring of black, as though an electrical current had effected some chemical change in the chlorophyl.” This may be significant. I do not know whether any of my readers have examined at any time the flowers which used to come so plentifully through Mrs. Guppy’s mediumship. If so, it would be interesting to know whether they presented a like appearance.
It seems to me that such records as this, so precise, so well attested, and so remarkably conclusive as to the action of independent Spirit agency, are eminently worth preservation, especially when, as in this case, they were contributed to a non-Spiritualist journal. For the last half century such things have been recorded. It would be a worthy and good work to select the best narratives and bring them again within the scope of public attention.
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Editor's notes
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Light, v. 1, No. 52, December 31, 1881, p. 417