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HALF HOURS VITH 11EDIUlvIS. 1. IT is probably due to the scientific training of the present age that there are those amongst us who cal1 not accept the promise of immortality on faith alone. Such as these require something in the nature of a positive proof for any belief which they may entertain. They seem nnconsciously to realize that the chances of any unproven proposition or statement being untrue are vastly in the majority. Such persons seem to feel that if a race of thinking beings were slowly evolved upon a flying ,,,"orld, the majority of ideas which such beings would evolve in their minds, jf unproven, ,voultl not correspond with objective facts; that only those which could be proven in some manner ,,",ould possess a value; that the chances are greatly against the probability of the trllth of unproven ideas of things and existence in general; also that minus which could in a superstitious age evolve and believe in such superstitions as 'vvitchcrait, sorc
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; PACK; HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS; 1 Introduction · ]; n Vashington Irving Bishop's Sealed Letter Reading; in a New Dress 5; III Test Vhere a Trick EnveJope with a Double Front; is used " " 14; IV Test Where the Medium Secretly Filches a Letter; from the Pocket of the Sjtter 20; V TIle Mystic Oracle of the Swinging Pendulums) or; Jllinll over Matter-A Rapping Hand-Light and; I-Ieavy Chest 28; VI Tests Given in a Large Store ROOIn with Curtains; for Partitions, Using Telegraphy, etc 35; VII A DiJlet Test Using a Trick EnveJope-A Spirit; Message Written on a Slate, in the Sitter's Pres-; Clle: ········································· 39; vur Flower Materialization 50; IX The Dark Seance-A DtX:eptive Grip-11ental Tests; -Spirit Voices, Taps, and tights 53; X Materialization - Prevaration of Luminous Costumes,; ~1ethod of l
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1451015224
- ISBN 13 9781451015225
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- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages348
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