isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

"Skeptics, and even skeptical spiritualists, have often unjustly accused mediums of fraud, when denied what they considered their inalienable right to test the spirits. But where there is one such case, there are fifty in which spiritualists have permitted themselves to be practiced upon by tricksters, while they neglected to appreciate genuine manifestations procured for [...]

Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone...And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion...For All O' God's Children...Everywhere; And Let Us All Make The Sincere Effort...To Reach Those Ones Near Or At A Distance...By Radiating The Ever-Expanding Love And Light...Of Our "Mighty I AM" Presence! When We Are Loving To One [...]

isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

"Professor Pepper, director of the Polytechnic Institute of London, invented a clever apparatus to produce spiritual appearances on the stage, and sold his patent in 1863, in Paris, for the sum of 20,000 francs. The phantoms looked real and were evanescent, being but an effect produced by the reflection of a highly-illuminated object upon the [...]

isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

"Notwithstanding his unfairness in the Algerian affair, Robert Houdin, an authority on the art of prestidigitation, and Moreau-Cinti, another, gave honest testimony in behalf of the French mediums. They both testified, when cross-examined by the Academicians, that none but the "mediums" could possibly produce the phenomena of table-rapping and levitation without a suitable preparation and [...]