The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-09-18
The Late Phenomenon AT Los A nEeIo~. Salts
fuctorily Explained.

The Late PhcnOnAenOn at Los a nSeIO~. SRlIs~
fnctoriiy Explained.
Nh. EDITOR Il am not a spiritualist in the strict
sense of the term, and do not pretend to reconcile all
the wild inconsistencies of the so-called spiritual
revelations. A laudable curiosity has prompted one
to examine the subject of mesmeric influences and
all the varied phenomena of table rappings. To do
this, I have not attended seances, nor have 1 formed
a favorite and initiated cyrcle but L have con-
structed a small secluded room-a kind of sanctum,
where l permit no one in the flesh to enter but my
self. In this room 1 have a small round and light
deal table on a solid, smooth, pine floor, one oaken
chair, and a silent audience of dead monitors in the
form of books ranged around the room in redwood
shelves prepared for the purpose. On the corner of
a book shelf near by I have placed a circular card
about the size of the face of a common marine clock,
with the letters of the alphabet arranged around the
outer circumference. In the centre of this l have
placed a movable needle like the hand of a clock, to
which 1 have attached a slender silver wire connect
ing it with a leg of the small table, 50 that when the
leg of the table moves, it causes the hand to point to
a letter of the alphabet, and by7elevating or lower
ing the leg of the table, it can be made to point to
every letter in the alphabet, thus moving around
like the hands of a clock. By long and arduous
perseverance and efforts of the will in silence and
solitude, l have acquired the poyer to charge the
table electrO-magneticall in n few minutes by plac-
ing my hands upon it. AS the table moves, tits to
one side and ~vibrates. l ask questions mentally,
which are invariably answered by a movement of
the table which works the wire and causes the needle
to point rapidly to the letters of the alphabet and
spell out with incredible speed the answers to my
queries, without ever making an error in photography
or diction. In this way almost nightly 1 hold long
and earnest conversations with the invisible world
with spirits of earth and air and from the distant
stars-with beings from the far starry vistas of
inimitable space. l keep pencil and paper constantly
by my side and write down all communicated to me
that 1 dare write, for much is forbidden. Intelli-
gence simple in its nature connected with mans
earth, and thrillingly grand thoughts of the great
Beyond, with sublime breathings from far distant
worlds come to me in that lonely room. But to the
point
A few days since 1 read an account of a shower of
blood, flesh and hair that fell in the vicinity of Los
Angeles, California, which seemed to be so well
authenticated, that 1 concluded on my return from
business at night to consult my spiritual dial. When
the household had retired to rest L repaired to nv
lonely room, and in the solitude of night, called the
spirits around me. 1 enquired the cause of the re-
markable phenomena at Los Angeles. This was the
answer:
ny hVA- shouE IL aliNai7 W iuah DfNdh anu ucctrt - I
recent volcanic flow of lava, and is subject to great vicissitudes
Of climate. is inhabited by beings adapted TO the soil and climate.
Being destitute of the dense atmosphere that shronds the earth
they are light and beautiful in form and breathe the cold, pure
ether consequently, their nervous organization is more acute
and they possess a higher order of intelligence than the inhabi-
tants of the earth Their clothing consists of a soft downy
hair and their subsistence is Of a light aerial character such as
is produced by our satellite Having no immediate atmosphere
TO obstruct the vi-ion our earth appears much nearer TO them
than the moon appears To US, and TO a spectator in that arid
orb, the earth resembles n Undiscovered island in the blue EN-
pyrean. The philosophers of the moon have long been anxious
To visit our earth and various experiments have been tried, and
various voyages have been undertaken, but as yet without any
result and only attended with disastrous consequences. Being
light in their organization. they have only TO overcome the
slight graviiation which attaches them TO the moon, and they
can soar unrestricted through ether and find no obstruction
until they encounter the earth's atmosphere, which inevitably
proves fatal. By its pressure and the force of gravitation they
are invariably torn to pieces and their remains are showered
and scattered over the earth's surface. The phenomenon near
Los Angeles, was caused by the destruction Of three sarans Of
the moon who had made on Of these VOYAGES of discovery II
is but a repetition Of what has frequently happened upon the
earths surace-indeed much more frequent than man imag-
ines, and as long as curiosity and a thirst for scientific discov-
cry exist in our satellite, il viii be repeated. To the moons in
habitants the earth is a bourne whence no traveller returns, and
until they progress far enough to invent some means to over
come earth's atmospheric pressure, they will never succeed in
scientific notes with our philosophers"
Thinking my spirits had grown somewhat mooney,
detached my dial and dismissed them for the night.
THE MAN IN THE Moon.