Quant aux raisons et au but des premières persécutions diaboliques qu’elle subit pendant dix-neuf ans et dont elle fut délivrée par les exorcismes officiels, ils sont restés inconnus. _Une Possédée Contemporaine_ (1834-1914), pp. 171-2. [86] A fragment of the soutane of this most holy Pontiff was taken to Hélène and during one of her fits placed upon her forehead. At the contact she cried out: “Le Pape est un saint, oui un grand saint.” (The Pope is a Saint, truly a great Saint!) [87] Pour y être admis, il faut apporter une ou plusiers hosties consacrées, les remettre au démon qui, sous forme corporelle ou visible, préside l’assemblée. Il faut les profaner d’une manière horrible, adorer le démon lui-même et commettre avec lui et les autres sociétaires les actes d’impudicité les plus révoltants. Trois villes: Paris, Rome, et Tours sont les sièges de cette société infernale. [88] La seconde possession fut plus terrible que la première. 1ᵉ: Par la durée; la première fut de treize mois, la seconde de cinq ans. 2ᵉ: La première fut adoucie par de nombreuses consolations surnaturelles; la seconde très peu. 3ᵉ: Les dévices abondèrent dans la première; dans la seconde les avanies morales l’emportèrent de beaucoup sur les avanies physiques. _Une Possédée Contemporaine_ (1834-1914), p. 405. [89] _Spirit Possession_, Henry M. Hugunin, published in Sycamore, Ill., U.S.A. [90] One should note the implication that science and faith are opposed. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell pointedly comments: “This question seems inept. To me the terms are not in antithesis, i.e. logical _v._ spiritual.” [91] Edited by Huntly Carter. Fisher Unwin, 1920. [92] Whose contribution, _From Non-Religion to Religion_, opens with the following ineptitude: “I think that the renewal of Spiritualism is mainly due to a real increase in our knowledge of psychical facts.” This phrase could only have been written by one wholly ignorant of mystical theology, and, it would seem, of historical Christianity. [93] _Spiritualism, Its Present-Day Meaning_, p. 258. [94] _Idem_, p. 269. [95] _Idem_, pp. 270-1. [96] _Idem_, p. 245. [97] _Idem_, p. 206. [98] _Idem_, pp. 206-7. [99] _Idem_, p. 205. The words are those of Father Bernard Vaughan. [100] “Seventeen Elementary Facts concerning Spiritualism.” _Light_, 21 February, 1925. Here we also have the frank avowal: “Modern Spiritualism is only a revival of phenomena and experiences that were well known in ancient times.” It should be remarked that similar phenomena, believed to be a genuine case of haunting, occurred at the house of Mr. Samuel Wesley, at Epworth, Lincolnshire, in 1716, and attracted universal attention. It is said that the knockings at the house of Parsons, Cock Lane, West Smithfield, in 1760, were proved to be fraud, but I do not know that the case has ever been candidly studied. [101] She took part in a séance on 25 October, 1860, but this seems to have been exceptional.