The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-30
Correspondence Of the Register.

New York, July 81, 1851.


count of an interview with what is claimed 10
be spirits, by quite a large circle here, and
the result Of my investigations and enquiries
into the subject But at the start for fear
you may think me carried away by the sub
ject desire not to be understood as bclev.
ing in, or in any icdy accounting Tor The phe-
nomena presented, or claiming that it is not
the result of collision, trick or natural caus-
es.--l will but unrrale what has come under
my own observation, leaving you or others
to draw conclusions or make deductions
from the facts as presented to my senses
will only say, should like to find the person
who will witness what | have, and RAJ
tionally explain the phenomena, on any 9TH
or grounds than those claimed by the be.
/ levers in the possibility of communicating
with the spirits Of the departed That you
may no, be under wrong impression as 10
| the class of persons engaged in. and believ-
ing in, communications Of this character,
will remark That the investigations madc,a and
/ facts presented, which am about 10 relate,
occurred under the supervision Of the most
/ respectable persons, in point of social posi-
/ ton. intelligence and character. in New Yorl,
and Brooklyn, in a strictly Pyicaic rag, in
their own houses, and uncomnccted with any
Of the professional rappers that 20 about
| the country. ] am indebted for admission 10
this circle to relative, who IS one of the
number engaged in these Investigations No
one is admitted but by invitation. and in.
PRODUCTION from some one Of The circle. |
do not deem that | am guilty of any breach
of confidence or propricty in giving you
these details, and using the names Of some
Of the persons engaged in these invesiga-
/ tions-as it is with knowledge of one of them
and his permission.
/ In order that you may understand how
they claim TO hold communication with the
/ spirits OF the departcd-I will state the mode.
The spirits have communicated that they
have been cnleavorng for long period 10
open an intercourse with this world, or make
themselves manifest TO lis inhabitants, and
that they have discovered that they can do
it through electricity. by causing cuncus>
sion Of the atmosphere by their wills and so
producing The rdps or sounds heard. Ger
tain persons OF high degree of mesmeric
susceptibility are dscorned to be "mediams, -
and wherever one or more of such persons
are present, the spirits, through the electric
/ lty which surrounds these persons, are able
to make physical demonstrations such as
moving articles Of furniture. rapping, &c,
and by their (the spirits) influence putting
these mediums into mesmeric sleep or state,
can communicate directly through their
voice, and physical powers, to those present.
But the most common way is by rappng or
spelling out words as the alphabet is called
Off
1t may be well, also, to state here, what
the theory is, which is claimed TO be reveal
ed by the spirits, that the Whole system NAV
be before you. 1t is this: The spirit passes
into the spiritual world or second sphere,
(this world being calico the iirst) an organ
ized man or woman having body of q more
refined bu; Of an equally real, and, to the
appreciation of the spirits, as substantial as
those which we possess here; that spirits are
inspired with all the intellectual QualGca-
tons, affections and appetics which We have
here, exercised in differing modes, accord
ing to their higher nature, that they have
their individual opinions, crccds, character
sites, tastes, occupations, &C., &c; That they
do not find themselves in any literal sense in
the presence Of God, but that they speculate,
| reason, dilcr in sentiment, and progress in
, knowledge, as we do here that there are
, spirits more progressed and less progressed,
and forming thence different circles in the
same sphere, aud 50 Oh to different spheres.
higher and higher, associating or finding
their circles according to mutual attractions
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