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| subtitle =Form Manifestations
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| source title = Spiritualist, The
| source title = London Spiritualist
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| source details = No. 275, November 30, 1877, pp. 254-5
| publication date = 1877-11-30
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Last}} Monday night, at the ordinary fortnightly meeting of the British National Association of Spiritualists, Mr. Desmond Fitz-Gerald, M.S.Tel.E., presided. There was a large attendance.
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The Rev. W. Stainton-Moses, M.A., then read the following paper:—“It is now nearly a year* since Miss Kislingbury read a paper in this place on the subject of “Form Manifestations,” in which she pointed out that the term covered a wide area, and might apply to very diverse kinds of phenomena. The choice of that term (erroneously attributed in her recent book by Madame Blavatsky to myself) seemed to me very felicitous, as did the paper in which Miss Kislingbury developed her views with regard to the various phenomena embraced under it.
Nearly six months afterwards† I submitted to this society a paper on the same subject, in which I endeavoured to particularise what had been done in the way of accumulating exact knowledge, and to point out what still remained to be desired. Exact knowledge, when accounts were thoroughly sifted, there was very little. Some fortunate experimenters had, indeed, been in a position to give positive testimony as to the production of a human form which they had seen, and of the existence of which they had assured themselves while the medium was in their sight. But these were conspicuously the exceptions which only served to prove the rule.
“In most cases—practically in all save a tiny percentage—the scientific result was ''nil. ''A medium was secluded from view, and certain forms were more or less visibly perceived to issue from the cabinet in which he {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |4-98}}
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Spiritualist'', Dec. 22, 1876.
† ''Spiritualist'', May 18, 1877.
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london_spiritualist_n.275_1877-11-30.pdf|page=4|London Spiritualist, No. 275, November 30, 1877, pp. 254-5
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