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made me a bust of this uncle, after a plaster-cast taken by my husband. Now this bust stands in my room. I often speak to it as if I were speaking to my dear uncle, and I very often feel it to be like a living being. My uncle wrote through me that as the cast was taken from his body there were inherent perisprit molecules in the bust, and he could make it move and speak if I strongly wished it. The warnings that Mrs. Blavatsky gives to all physical mediums are wise. Such phenomena, and the laws which govern them, still remain unexplained, and Spiritualists are too often contented with superficial explanations. For myself, I have a personal dislike to all physical manifestations, not from fear, but because they make me feel ill. I look upon a good spirit as something too high and godly to play guitars and to fetter and unfetter mediums. Still, God sends us these signs. Often they come unasked; so, surely they are designed for some good purpose.
It is singular that my guides never allowed me to evoke spirits. They always said: “Leave those who will not come, in peace. Those who have something to say will come unasked.” And so it was. I never evoked a spirit; but often received spontaneous messages of the most convincing nature from departed spirits. Thus, being consulted by a Russian gentleman, I wrote automatically in characters I had wever seen before. I sent the writing to the gentleman, and he wrote me that it was Old Russian, which is now seldom used.
Though I feel myself to be surrounded by good, loving spirits, I do not appear to have much physical force in me, for I never could get one rap or make a table turn. Several mesmerists have tried to put me to sleep, but have never succeeded in doing so. Still, by holding a mountain crystal in my hand, I go into a sort of half trance, when I see the spirit of my angel sister, Elizabeth, who says that she lives with me and speaks through me as my double. In my visions I have often seen elementaries, but they were almost always beautiful and kind. Sometimes, but very seldom, I have seen little red gnomes with long beards.
During the twelve years that I have been curing diseases, I have found obsession to be the affliction most easy to abolish. Often amulets, with prayers, are sent to the patients, and these, with daily prayer, raise, as it were, a wall between the patient and the obsessing spirit, and bring about the final cure.
Mrs. Blavatsky’s book should be read and studied. It contains the history of magic up to the present time. Her studies must have been immense. I know of no woman who has written such a deep, scientific book, and with so much sense and wit. She unites the wisdom of a man with Turn over the leaflet on the left hand page. the tact of a woman. But, in reading her book, and also the works of Jacolliot (which I much admire), I am always sorry they will rob us of our Messiah, Jesus Christ, when, in the meantime, they believe in the Buddha and Christos of India. If a Messiah lived in those remote times, why could not a new sending of God’s Son have taken place through Jesus Christ? Why take away our Christos? I do not see the use of so doing. Jesus came. He is an historical personage; the founder of Christianity. If Buddha and Christna were godly spirits, sons of God, why not Jesus? Has He not, by His life and by His teachings of purity and love, proved Himself to be as good and perfect a spirit as any? As the Buddhists adhere to Buddha, let us then, as Christians, adhere to our Christ.
Gonobitz, Hungary, Jan. 1st, 1878.
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