The Spiritualist newspaper > No.142, May 14th 1875

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RECOGNISABLE SPIRITS.
One of the most triumphant proofs of the reality of
spiritual communion which can possibly he conceived
would be the appearance of the departed to their relatives
still living, and holding communion with them in the
presence of 4witnesses, just as when they lived upon
earth. Consequently, when the news first reached
England, some four or five years ago, of the appearance
of materialised spirits of the departed through the
mediumship of Mrs. Andrews, at Moravia, U.S., ex¬
pectations were raised, that similar great results would
speedily be achieved here, because the chief manifesta¬
tions which have first drawn the attention of American
Spiritualists have, in nearly all cases, been subsequently
obtained and verified in this country. At that time
dark circle manifestations, in which musical instru¬
ments were floated about the room, and spirits spoke
with the direct voice independently of the medium
were common, so mediums who already obtained mani¬
festations of this kind began to‘sit for materialised
faces. These soon came, but at first in a dim light only.
As the power grew, it was discovered that the faces
were the duplicates of those of the mediums; conse¬
quently an elaborate system of testing had to be devised
and carried out, to show that the mediums were not
personating materialised spirits bearing their own
external appearance. After it was thus discovered
that these spirits had very much the form and appear¬
ance of their mediums, their mental characteristics
were more closely studied, and it was soon seen that
they knew very little more than their mediums, also
that their knowledge was limited by the mortal instru¬
ment they used. Thus the first effect of materialisa¬
tions was to weaken rather than to strengthen the
theory which attributed the phenomena to the spirits
of the departed; and the question arose whether the
spirit of the medium, or of some deceptive power con¬
trolling the medium, might not be producing wonderful
manifestations, and at the same time pretending to be
the spirit of a departed person.
But of late, further news has come to this country
from America of the appearance there of the veritable
spirits of the departed to their relatives still living, but
these phenomena have not yet been so verified in this
country as to carry weight. The Holmes’s first sat
regularly in public in London for recognisable faces;
these mediums were thoroughly untrustworthy, yet at
times had genuine and wonderful physical manifesta¬
tions. Their sittings for recognisable faces were held
on their own premises; they used a bedroom as a
cabinet, and before every seance there was a complicated
system of searching this bedroom and of gumming
strips of paper over the doors and windows to show
that no outsiders could obtain entrance while the mani¬
festations were in progress; all this might have been
avoided by the simple plan of hanging a curtain across
a corner of the drawing-room and using the space
behind the curtain as a cabinet. This we several times