The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-26
sPIRITUALTSh.
A Visit to q Materializine 2
Seance.
WHAT MIR. ANDERSON THINKS
"a Observations at Circle in Denver
RecentIy-SOme Remarkable
Statements.
Editors Herald:

siderable attention TO the STUDY Oh tile
occult and the mystical, during which
period much phenomena OF q remark
able character has come under my OBJ
serYation, and as some of the results OF
nv investigations may be. of interest to
your readers, 1 should like, with your
permission, to lay before them some
facts bearing on the special question OF
the possibility of the temperance of
the so-called dead" in a visible and
more or less substantial physical form.
as witnessed by myself and family, and
ttSf1t 6thhr persons, at Denver, Col, IN
August of lastyear. The materializlng
medium in this case was the noted Mrs,
Miller, of Tennessee. The seance was
held in a room, every part of which was
omen to inspection, even to the Moor,
which was perfectly bare. The e
we're only two doors to the
room. b tn of which. were care
fully locked by ourselves before the
sitting began. These doors we're both
situated behind the spectators at the
back part of the room, SO that any
person attempting te enter the room
Tor the purpose Of aiding In the
have had to pass by all the visitors pre-
sent before they could reach the ma
FERTILIZATION cabinet for suchVa pur-
pose, a thing utterly impossible 10 have
been done in this case, as. the light was
ample to haveTevealed the presence OF
such persons, TO any one Of dozen or
30 of scrutiniziRg Investigators present.
The cabinet itself, which was about
4x5 feet in size, was constructed simply
of some blankets temporarily hung IN
one corner of the room, where there
we're no doors, windows or other opep-
ings, through which anything could
have been brought into the room to ald
in the fraudulent imitation OF material
lied forms.
After a elese examination Of the
walls and floors of the room, Mrs,
Miller entered the cabinet, when, by re-
quest OF the audience, another person
and myself tied her securely in her
chair with ropes, which will here re-
mark were all found intact at the close
Of the seance. I'D
Now, the peculiar fact which followed
was, that out of this primitive enclos-
ure. (denominated Heabinet" by
courtesy the whole of which
vas under 5-our observance, and
into which we know that no one in
addition to the medium could gain &C
cess, from twelve to fourteen male and
female personages emerged one after
another. They were OF every variety %
age and size, from thatoi school girls
to full grown matrons. Most OF these
spirit forms came out singly, but In one
case. as a complete and final demon
stration that the medium took no part
in the imitation of these varied lndl
Yidualities, while one spirit form was
nanifesting its presence outside the
cabinet among the audience, another
was seen standing at the entrance to the
cabinet"
In addition to these evidences of the
Bon-complicity of the medium in the
production of these forms" l per
sonally entered the cabinet while &
spirit form was not only visible but
talking to myself, and felt the medium
and found here to be still sitting i'll he
chair as when we first left her.
A number of the personages which
came out of the cabinet were recognized
by persons present as their veritable de
parted friends. Several of them re
Quested the members of the audienci
to come to the front and talk with anC
handle them. conversed, myself, witt
several of both male and female
In 6ne case, to test the question whethe
the naterialiZed form was really sub
staRtial, placed my arm around tn
body.of q spirit lady and found it to b
10 allappearance as solid as my own
Before leaving me this lady requested
me, for some purpose, which did no
at the time understand, to take hold o
her-hands when in front of all present
and while still keeping hold of m
hands, she commenced to dematerialize
\
after her as she went, until she ertirel
disappeared, her hands vanishing out O
my grasp and leaving nothing behind
Other spirits who came out of the cab
net after this requested any other PEI
son to come forward and repeat tn
experiment for themselves, which sey
erar of them did. including my wife
who went into the cabinet with one G
these spirit personages, and there cor
versed for a longer period than an
other person present. This spirit toll
her that the time would come whe
similar manifestation would, be give
in Salt Lake City, - q
The most REMARKABLE manifestation
was, however, yet to come. One of tn
forms came out of the cabinet and LITE
nay little seven year old daughter in he
arms, and CARRIED her round for 4 shoI
time among the audience. Then placin
herself, stiif holding the little child i
her arms. in front of the circle, she CON
menced TO dematerialize, sinking slowl
to the floor carrying my little girl dow
with her as she went, and finally de
posting her uninjured on the floor
while she herself vanished out of sight
All of whichwas done in the preSenc
Of q light sufficient to reveal ever
minute of the process to all present.
This peculiar experiment of retaining
sufficient power by materialized form
to sustain the burden of weight equa
TO that of my little child, while engage
In the very, process of5disSolution. wa
perhaps never before, witnessed at
naturalization circle, and could only b
accounted for by the supposition of
combination of unusually favorabl
conditions.
During the sitting, very interesting
incident occurred which ought to b
mentioned. 4 little spirit child abou
the age of my own came out of tn
cabinet. She was Immediately. recog
nized by ex-Judge Cassidy, o
Denver, as his little granddaughter
Tho Judge asked her if sh
came to talk with him. She saiC
mo" she wanted to "tald witk Oracle;