Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism: In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry SeybertUniversity of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism
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Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism: In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert
University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism
Parapsychology -- Investigation; Spiritualism
(In a neat and precise feminine hand.)
There stands by thy chair a venerable man who had passed through many
years of work in his profession on the earth plane he is one that doth
influence and impress thee to do many things when in the body was a
phisician of the homeopathic school he sayeth that he doth feel the same
interest in the progruss of the medical fraternity as when in the body.
appeareth to be one of strict integrity and ranked high as a thinker
thou hast many years to stay in the form and through thee a work will be
completed that none other can do
L MOTT
(In a small, rather indistinct feminine hand.)
I dont think the doctors knew what my trouble was. I know if doctor
Hering or Raue had treated my case I would still be in my body but its
no difference as far as I am concerned I have found this life far the
best leaving my mother was hard, but now I know how to get back to her I
am content
CS
Clara Swencke
(In a plain masculine hand.)
if you prepare a slate the doctor will give you a message on it in his
own handwrite and one characteristic of him
ESW
(In a small, rather illegible hand.)
My friend Tiedemann made a mistake in the medicine he prepared for me he
never for a moment thought it would prove anything but a help but it had
the effect of sending me to the higher life
W MORWITZER
(In a large, generous, open hand.)
Yea if thee dost fix a slate so as to satisfy thyself thy friend will
write on it and give thee a description of his birth into everlasting
life
ELIAS HICKS
(In a very indistinct feminine hand.)
cannot say wether we can procure the presence of any one just now that
can write music were it possible to have any one conversant with it they
could not only write one but many notes for you
(Signature indistinct.)
(In a small, cramped hand of almost microscopic fineness supposed to be
Charlotte Bronté, and occupying but very little more space than on this
printed page.)
The future holds much for you of success, the later portion of this and
the whole of the next will be filled with prosperity you have a band of
the more advanced spirits about you and were you to follow your first
impressions you would never fail in your judgment
CB
(In a clear scholarly hand.)
a man of few words when in the body I still have the same peculiarities
will with your permission become one of your guiding band
ABERNETHY
(In a bold masculine hand).
Sit for ten or fifteen minuets two evenings in the week and thus help
perfect the powerful gifts you have, through them you can do much good
both for others and yourself
TN
(In the same hand as a preceding communication signed TL)
Be patient; the party that wrote on the slate before is trying to do it
over we sometimes have a difficulty in doing this
T LISTER
(In a slow, labored, uncouth hand.)
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