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| source details = No. 276, December 7, 1877, p. 274
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},'''—'''In Mr. Stainton-Moses’s interesting paper, published in your last number, on “Form Manifestations,’’ he speaks of the “pabulum” of spirit manifestations, by which a variety of articles is made (presumably by spirits), and he says
“The drapery that appears in connection with these forms has always been a puzzle. Whence did it come? And when the ''seance'' was over, whither had it gone? And, had a piece been retained, would it have remained the counterpart, more or less exact, of fabrics of the earth?”
To this question, I should say that in some instances—all, I think, which have occurred here—the drapery was manufactured either in Manchester or Nottingham. I possess two pieces—one of calico, which I, and all those present, saw the spirit form cut out of her white skirt, and a piece which another spirit form gave me from her flowing veil—both most certainly fabrics of earth.
The puzzle is how these materials of earth were obtained, and where, on the disappearance of the form, they are concealed and made invisible.
At Mrs. Guppy’s ''seances ''it will be recollected that flowers and fruits of this earth were brought in quantities; some were spirited away again, but most were carried home by those present.
The evidences, however, which have occurred at different times in America are of another character.
The weaving of silk shawls, as witnessed by Madame Blavatsky, Colonel Olcott, and others, was performed apparently on the instant, and no part of the fabric was left in the possession of any one. So, with regard to the manifestations described to me by Mr. Livermore, and published in the ''Spiritual Magazine ''sixteen years ago, flowers, perfect in form and fragrance, were brought to him and the medium; butin no instance did they remain, but dissolved under his eye.
Although I cannot hazard an opinion, or attempt to unravel the mysteries involved in the strange phenomena under discussion, I think it will be admitted by Mr. Stainton-Moses himself that there must be two kinds of ''spirit ''manifestations—the real and the spurious; and this, no doubt, applies equally to the forms which are objectively presented.
I do not quite realise the statement made by Mr. Stainton-Moses that the “vital force” of the medium produces the spirit manifestations, and I ask the question, not to cavil, but for information, whether it is held that there is sufficient vital force to give life and energy to a form which is much taller, and presumably heavier, than the medium’s self?
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Benj. Coleman.}}
Upper Norwood, December 3rd, 1877.
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london_spiritualist_n.276_1877-12-07.pdf|page=12|London Spiritualist, o. 276, December 7, 1877, p. 274
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