[63] “Miss Croisdale, who was one of the victims, testified that she had been initiated into the ‘Theocratic Unity,’ the sect which the Jacksons claimed to head, with a rope fastened about her; passes were made over her, she said, with a lamp, water and a saw: Jackson told her that he was Christ re-incarnated. Miss Croisdale then described the oath in which she swore she would allow no one else to hypnotize her and she would keep all the secrets under the penalty of ‘submitting myself to a deadly and hostile current of will set in motion by the Chief of the order, with which I would be slain or paralyzed without visible weapons, as if blasted by lightning.’ Mrs. Jackson (or Diss Debar) looked as if she wished to carry out the threat on the spot. Miss Croisdale further testified that Theodore had outraged her in his wife’s presence. Jackson declared he was physically incapable and demanded a doctor’s examination to prove his statement.”--Dispatch from the _London Times_ in the _New York Sun_, October 11, 1901. [64] _Chicago Daily Tribune_, August 14, 1906. [65] _New York Sun_, October 11, 1901. [66] If alive she is now (1924) seventy-five years old. [67] See Appendix E for Police Record. [68] If the reader cares to look the matter up I would refer him to Podmore’s “Modern Spiritualism,” Vol. II, pages 204 and 221; also to the story of Dr. Slade in the same volume; to the proceedings of the American S. P. R., Vol. II, part I, pages 17, 36–59; to Abbot’s, “Behind the Scenes with Mediums,” pages 114 to 192; to “Revelations of a Spirit Medium,” page 121–157; to “Bottom Facts,” pages 143–159; to the Report of the Seybert Commission; “Spirit Slate Writing,” by Wm. E. Robinson, and newspaper exposures without number. [69] According to “The Medium and Daybreak,” October 6, 1876, Slade “_discovered_” the phenomena of slate-writing while experimenting at the private house of Mr. Gardiner Knapp, New Albany, Indiana, where Slade was visiting. [70] As he reached for the sponge, which had been placed purposely on centre of table, he held slate just below range of vision and with the reaching for sponge, twisted slate around, blank side on top and pretended to wipe off the sentence he had “read”--when in fact he had written something entirely different. [71] In regard to involuntary and subconscious table rapping and tapping: Some people rap and tip table in all seances of table tipping and rapping. I have attended seances where I have caught some one obligingly cheating to relieve the monotony, and the imposition once started is forced to be kept up. [72] Coined by Andrew Jackson Davis, in 1845, and meaning the hereafter. Now used frequently by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [73] See Appendix F.