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the manifestations that I have seen in psychological and physiological language. The fact is that the phenomena are all of so peculiar a character, so capricious, and so incongruous with any precedents within the domain of science, that any conjecture or discussion about this question seems at present premature ; our hypothesis must of necessity be totally unsatisfactory. One thing at least seems certain–all these phenomena present us the evidences of a psychic activity in the persons composing the spiritual circle, and especially of the medium himself. | {{Style P-No indent|the manifestations that I have seen in psychological and physiological language. The fact is that the phenomena are all of so peculiar a character, so capricious, and so incongruous with any precedents within the domain of science, that any conjecture or discussion about this question seems at present premature ; our hypothesis must of necessity be totally unsatisfactory. One thing at least seems certain–all these phenomena present us the evidences of a psychic activity in the persons composing the spiritual circle, and especially of the medium himself.}} | ||
I will turn now to a description of the phenomenal manifestations that I witnessed personally at spiritual seances, winch in our case were formed quite differently from what they usually are. | I will turn now to a description of the phenomenal manifestations that I witnessed personally at spiritual seances, winch in our case were formed quite differently from what they usually are. | ||
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The crisis was reached, in Madame Blavatsky’s illness, at midnight on Thursday last, and the patient is happily now convalescent. Her recovery is among the most remarkable. For several hours her attendants thought her dead, as she lay as cold, pulseless, and rigid as a corpse ; her injured limb had swollen to twice the natural size, and had turned black, as though mortification had already set in. Her physician gave her up as dead; but within a few hours the swelling had subsided, the symptoms of dissolution had passed off, and she revived. And so, thinks to the spirits, this noble life is squared to the cause which needs now, more than ever before, the aid of her wisdom, enthusiasm, devotion, and powers, {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|2-20}} | The crisis was reached, in Madame Blavatsky’s illness, at midnight on Thursday last, and the patient is happily now convalescent. Her recovery is among the most remarkable. For several hours her attendants thought her dead, as she lay as cold, pulseless, and rigid as a corpse ; her injured limb had swollen to twice the natural size, and had turned black, as though mortification had already set in. Her physician gave her up as dead; but within a few hours the swelling had subsided, the symptoms of dissolution had passed off, and she revived. And so, thinks to the spirits, this noble life is squared to the cause which needs now, more than ever before, the aid of her wisdom, enthusiasm, devotion, and powers, {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|2-20}} | ||
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