The Spiritualist newspaper > No.134, March 19th 1875

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VOLUME glX. ^Uf^BER TWELVE.
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SPECULATIONS RELATING TO NEW FACTS IN
SPIRITUALISM.
During the past few weeks some new facts of con¬
siderable interest in connection with Spiritualism have
been recorded in these pages, and have been attested by
careful and reliable observers. The letter of Mr. Des¬
mond Fitz-Gerald, the electrician, is of special value,
from the light which it may possibly throw upon a wide
range of physical manifestations. He narrated how a
negro, who was a powerful mesmerist, made passes over
1 a woman on a public platform at a meeting at Black-
heath, and after having freed her spirit from her body,
he “ willed’’ that she should go to her own home and
touch one of the persons then in her kitchen. A depu¬
tation then went from the meeting to the house, and
found the people there in a state of consternation,
because one of them had been “ touched by a ghost.”
Now, in this case, we have first of all an entranced
medium; secondly, we have the spirit of that medium
freed from, the body and endowed with the power of
producing physical effects, for it gave a touch which
was felt; had the person touched been able to see the
spirit, the latter would have had the features of the
individual whose body was in a state of trance in another
place. Here then, so far as external appearances are
concerned, is the same condition of things which ob¬
tains at some spirit circles at which physical manifesta¬
tions 1 are witnessed; in the latter case there is the
sleeping medium, and something with the features of
that medium carrying musical instruments about the
room, or making itself visible as a materialised spirit.
But in this latter example the apparition claims to be
the spirit.of a dead person; in Mr. Fitz-Gerald’s case
it was beyond all doubt the spirit of the medium. The
assumption is, that at spirit circles the medium is mes¬
merised by a spirit out of the body, that the spirit ob¬
tains control of the medium’s organism and of material
conditions, then produces physical objects. In Mr.
Fitz-Gerald’s case a spirit in the>body was the moving
power in the whole. matter; that spirit was a negro,
and both the body and the spirit of the medium were
acting in a slavish manner under his control, a very
serious example of the enormous power of mesmerism.
The spirits assumed to produce materialisation mani¬
festations scarcely ever give any religious or moral
teachings worth recording ; in like manner if the negro
who was the prime actor in the Blackheath experi¬
ments, had attempted to teach anything to elevate
mankind through the medium he was controlling, he
would probably have failed; in fact, it would have
been the duty of the listeners to educate him, so here
again the parallel between the two cases holds good.
The question should be solved whether the same
effects produced in the experiments at Blackheath could
also be effected in the absence of the negro, that is to
say, have any mesmeric sensitives the power of falling
into a mesmeric sleep, of then quitting their bodies and
producing manifestations in accordance with their own