Strange Visitors: A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance stateHorn, Henry J.
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Strange Visitors: A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state
Horn, Henry J.
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“That,” said Poe, “is Miss D. I can control her and will her to reflect
her figure upon the curtain; and that man is T.L. Harris. It is my own
invention,” said he; “I studied it out and applied chemicals to my
canvas till it produced this sensitive surface. All I have to do is to
send my thoughts to them, and will them to appear, and there they are.
Coleridge has a similar curtain, and some few others. But it requires
a peculiar spirit brain to magnetize the subject sufficiently.” He
offered to show me in the same manner any friend of mine with whom he
could come in rapport.
This proposition delighted Morris and I, and we spent an agreeable
evening in seeing certain of our friends on earth thus revealed.
Some were busy eating at the time, the _gourmands_! Others, more
studious, were poring over books and papers, and one, whose name I
shall not mention, was reproduced in the very act of making love!
The, dear old faces awakened such sad memories, and the occupations
in which they were engaged were in the main so ludicrous, that we
were held between tears and laughter till after midnight. But that is
an Irish bull--for you must know that we have no night in the spirit
world. Our diurnal revolutions are so rapid, and the atmosphere so
magnetically luminous, that it is never dark here. But, however,
according to earth’s parlance, it was midnight before we got through.
I will now bid adieu to my friends and readers until we meet again.
MARGARET FULLER
_CITY OF SPRING GARDEN_.
I am at present domiciled with my excellent friend Abraham Lincoln,
in the beautiful city of Spring Garden. This place contains between
sixty and seventy thousand inhabitants, a majority of whom are engaged
in literary and artistic pursuits. It might vie with ancient Athens
for the wealth of mind which is concentrated within its precincts. It
is not compactly built, the city covering about thrice the surface of
ground that would be occupied by one on earth of the same number of
inhabitants. The streets are handsome, the pavements being covered with
a gay enamel which is formed by dampening a certain yellow powder,
which, when hardened, shines like amber. They are laid out in circles,
surrounding a large park of several acres, which forms the centre of
the city. This park is embellished with trees and flowering plants of
every description, and does not differ materially from the extensive
parks to be found on earth, except in its management.
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