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Page 27
... held it out , that it was entirely clean . Instantly there was a sound as of the grating of a pencil , and in less than ten seconds there was a rap , apparently on the slate . I uncovered it , and there was the name of a departed friend ...
... held it out , that it was entirely clean . Instantly there was a sound as of the grating of a pencil , and in less than ten seconds there was a rap , apparently on the slate . I uncovered it , and there was the name of a departed friend ...
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... the sight of any one of the nine persons who watched them . The writing was not done , as was Slade's in London and at Leipsic , on slates held under a table . 3. The utmost care was taken by all the observers AN INFERENCE OF SCIENCE . 31.
... the sight of any one of the nine persons who watched them . The writing was not done , as was Slade's in London and at Leipsic , on slates held under a table . 3. The utmost care was taken by all the observers AN INFERENCE OF SCIENCE . 31.
Page 34
... held the slates a few seconds , and watched both them and the psychic . He appeared to be making no par- ticular effort of will . When the slates were opened , these words were found written on one of their surfaces , in a feminine hand ...
... held the slates a few seconds , and watched both them and the psychic . He appeared to be making no par- ticular effort of will . When the slates were opened , these words were found written on one of their surfaces , in a feminine hand ...
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... held our hands clasped around the edges of the two slates . The hands of Mr. Watkins , the psychic , also clasped the slates . In this position we all distinctly heard the pencil moving , and on opening the slates found an intelligent ...
... held our hands clasped around the edges of the two slates . The hands of Mr. Watkins , the psychic , also clasped the slates . In this position we all distinctly heard the pencil moving , and on opening the slates found an intelligent ...
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... held their place , and some one in the company might not have been in a trance , and would have known what happened . On the whole , the unsatisfactory points did not appear to outweigh the satisfactory ones . In spite of the former ...
... held their place , and some one in the company might not have been in a trance , and would have known what happened . On the whole , the unsatisfactory points did not appear to outweigh the satisfactory ones . In spite of the former ...
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Page 44 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Page 328 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry.
Page 265 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 303 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 165 - For, that we are to live hereafter, is just as reconcilable with the scheme of atheism, and as well to be accounted for by it, as that we are now alive, is : and therefore nothing can be more absurd than to argue from that scheme, that there can be no future state.
Page 303 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 174 - And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them.
Page 50 - And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand : the tables were written on both their sides ; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Page 274 - Though the senses were thus deadened, not so the mind ; its activity seemed to be invigorated, in a ratio which defies all description — for thought rose after thought with a rapidity of succession that is not only indescribable, but probably inconceivable, by any one who has not himself been in a similar situation.
Page 97 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both, of the Old and New Testament: and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.