Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-01
Written for the Chronicle
The Mysteries of Spiritual
Rappings Disclosed.
Animal Magnetism. Mesmerism
and Spiritual Rapping.

This article l devote TO the inquiring and
rejecting ommunity-devoted to reason and
truth-to bear testimony against delusion and
deception, and directed to them having I'M
plicit faith in the manifestation of spiritual
communion with departed mankind /; also those
that consider the performance of spiritual rap
pings a fraud or slight-of-hand trickery. The
manifestations are wonderful facts, beyond
dispute and controversy; it therefore needs a
proper inquiry and investigation to find out its
real cause. The phenomenon is one of the
most delusive in the domain of natural causes.
All inquiring and searching minds that have
attempted to investigate the mysterious have
failed to disclose facts and become converted
to the faith of spiritualism. l have given the
subject thorough examination and have be-
come satisfied that the manifestations can be
referred to magnetism of the human body, and
that it, in all of its particulars, bears analogy
and a similarity to magnetism OF iron and steel,
and can be transferred or inducted from one
body to another by similar methods as in cleo
| tic and magnetic induction to electrified and
Ihagnetized bodies, known to science. The
/
me full control over the agencies, similar to
that an engineer has over and engine, to call
forth action and stop action, or reverse action
/ by letting steam on or shutting it off from the
engine; or as the electrician closes and breaks
the current of the battery by letting forces on
| or off
! The questions-What is electricity; what is
magnetism; what causes this globe to act as
magnet on all bodies thereon, especially iron
and steel, also on animal and vegetable organ
! ism; what gives property to lodestone, natural
magnet or an artificial magnet, either; or
| what is the essence of that property that
can be transferred from one body to another.
| The learned professors in science have not an
| Syered these questions satisfactorily and never
| fill as long as they hold and stick to the old
| theories, established one hundred or two hun
dred years ago, when science was in its infancy,
shd the physical and mechanical forces were
but imperfectly understood; apractical knowl-
| edge of these forces, for the advancement of
civilization has stepped far in advance of the
| old theories, so they have become worthless in
the Interpretation and explanation of causes :.
though in spite of this the educated professors
holding exclusive privilege to monopolize all
knowledge within their organization and asso-
Citations, upheld by the public, also govern
ment funds, which gives position and Office
and the present system of education. The
professors are prejudiced by school education,
and so hold to them as drowning man to a
straw; they fail to realize facts, and all the
knowlege that comes from other sources. not
| from the school-educated. but from the self
educated, practical men-bold adventurers in
the domain of speculation and investigation
| not limited by conventional ideas, or prejudiced
| by educatiOn but free in their thoughts and
| actions. The history of discovery demonstrates
these facts beyond controversy.
| | will refer the inquiring reader to manu-
script work entitled Discoveries of Errors
and Facts in Theoretical Knowlege." deposited
in the archives of the Smithsonian Institute. to
protect the principles and ideas therein from
plagiarism, also to have the facts therein made
known to the public; this work will give
sufficient light on the subjects in the DEPART
ment of science, and will open up a new path
way to inquiring minds, by which they NAV
obtain correct insight and knowledge of
pysical and mechanical causes.
1t would be too lengthy and tedious to 90
into detail of magnetic property manifest in
minerals and metals
My theories and propositions, though they
rest on positive facts, plain and simple as ma
ture itself, (Which can clearly demonstrate).
must be introduced to the inuIiiring comm1ni,
ty as ssTheories," until they resolve themselves
operation is nowhere as complex and compli
Gated as the theories invented bv man to ex-
plain causes All its working is to direct
purpose of an immediate necessity.
The reader desirous of obtaing a full knoWl-
edge of nv theories and propositions. NAV
consult the Disclosures above named. and
will limit this article to animal magnetism
mesmersm and spiritual rappings: though a
short statement of the fundamental principles
are necessary to guide the rejecting mind.
This globe or earth by its two opposite ele-
ments, the one of the positive generating ocean
waters and the other the negative and con-
densing land, is galvanic on magnetic battery;
an artificial battery is only an imitation thereof
and all vegetable and animal vitality an electro
magnetic phenomenon .........
The exhaling ocean waters, by evaporating
oxygen to the atmosphere is the generator of
forces, as the water in the battery undergoing
decomposition to their original gases, by
chemical action or as the water in steam
boiler converted by heat into steam. thereby
eXerting force of expansion in the atmosphere
under high pressure The negative land. above
sea, is the condenser of ELECTROMAGNETIC forces.
cOndensing and converting the oxygen of the
atmosphere for the various purposes of respir-
alton and eXudation, also condensation to
moisture and rain. All electric and magnetic
manifestations are solely due to the oxygen of
the atmosphere and the arrangement Where
with it surrounds the globe. The atmosphere
is composed of nitrogen and oxygen gas ar
ranged in order and symmetry, whose one
part of oxygen incloses four parts of nitrogen
by forming a netting, that for economical pur
poses, also for the necessity of the the cause.
remains fixed and firm to the globe. as the
MAGNET indicates by its inclination and de-
cIination.
flowing through the openings left in the net
ting. by this arrangement the atmosphere is a
fixed element. INCAPABLE of chance in its
eonivalents. and the oxypen can never exhaust
the ocean waters supnly what is converted and
consumed on the NEGATIVE land as the nettino
is, the connectinp medium TO mite both ele'
ments forming a circle. and this Invisible net.