File:SB-04-112-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Diagram with the letters A–G, two x marks and a star, accompanying George Wyld, M.D., Man as a Spirit; and Spiritual Phenomena as Produced by the Spirits of the Living, in The Spiritualist, vol. XI, no. 24 (whole no. 277), 14 December 1877, printed p. 285 (PDF page 11 of 16). The article begins on printed p. 283 (PDF page 9), where its title and author are printed.

Matches H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, page 112, item 1: the star above G, order and forms of A–G, interrupted vertical stroke at C, horizontal strokes and two x marks agree. The adjacent introductory and explanatory prose also matches. Wyld presents this as a simplification of a diagram used by his late friend Mr. Dove; this is a textual acknowledgement, not a separately established artist or engraver credit. No physical-copy identity or first-publication priority is claimed. The historical argument belongs to the source article.

Source

International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP), publicly available issue PDF:

• Complete issue, diagram on PDF page 11.
• Official periodical index, exact issue link and licence statement.

The printed masthead, date, issue numbers, page 285, complete diagram and article heading on p. 283 were checked against the PDF. Exact physical-copy library/shelfmark and original digitizer are not independently established. PDF: 3096481 bytes, SHA-256 02b2b986df0e1facb8c532c9ef76257ee40714423fc0b8ce90aab51ccc2997a8. Thank you to IAPSOP and the contributing collections for preserving this issue and making it freely accessible.

Rights

The underlying diagram was published in 1877. The official IAPSOP index, checked 5 November 2026, states that IAPSOP materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. IAPSOP is credited above and in the Sources caption. This cropped and slightly aligned copy retains that licence notice; no CC0 or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this scan.

File and processing

Lossless grayscale PNG, 610 × 670 pixels. The embedded source page image is 2715 × 3929 pixels, 1-bit DeviceGray, JBIG2Decode, inside page 11's Form XObject. It was decoded directly at its intrinsic dimensions with PDFium, without applying the page transform or OCR text layer; the resulting grayscale bitmap retains the binary scan's black/white pixels. It is not an enlarged 300-dpi rendering. The scan does not preserve the natural colour of the paper.

One 0.543625506-degree clockwise bicubic rotation on the complete decoded source canvas without expansion, measured from 356 inlier centre points of the horizontal crossbar, excluding the central C. Crop (440, 450)–(1050, 1120), right and bottom exclusive. The entire diagram, all letters, both x marks, star and original incidental marks are retained; surrounding prose is outside the crop and remains in the linked full issue. Source-supported-area mask minimum255 and independent pixel replay were checked. No added canvas, enlargement, tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction.