The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography
Religion
The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography
Spirit photography; Spiritualism
The picture on page 83 represents Mr. Stainton Moses and a figure unknown
to him. The accomplished Editor of _Light_ is best known to the public
as M.A. Oxon. The Rev. Stainton Moses, a graduate of Oxford University,
was for many years Classical and English master at University College,
London. From his investigations he became convinced of the general truths
of what is vaguely called Spiritualism, and has devoted himself for some
twenty years to making the public familiar with the higher aspects, while
warning them against its ridiculous, dangerous, or degrading tendencies.
The only interest of the photo is that it was taken under all those
strict test conditions which I have alluded to above in this open letter.
The chief professional spirit photographers are M. Buguet, of Paris,
frightened by the priest into a recantation of his spirit photos, which
recantation no one who tested Buguet believes any more than does Buguet
himself; Mr. Hudson, who was, I am told, not always above suspicion, but,
like other mediums, was also successful under rigid test conditions;
Mumler, Beattie, and many others I know nothing about. Mr. Stead is now
occupied in testing spirit photography, and that being the case, we are
soon likely to hear more about it from an abler pen than mine. So great
was the interest shown in the labelled spirit photos and the spirit
drawings by the late Mrs. Watts, daughter of William and Mary Howitt,
exposed in my vestry, St. James’s, Westmoreland Street, Marylebone, that
I kept them up for a second Sunday. There is nothing like publicity as
a means of getting at truth. Let in the light! Sift facts! “Prove all
things; hold fast that which is good.”—1 Thess. v. 21.
[Illustration: MR. STAINTON MOSES (M.A. Oxon) AND THE UNKNOWN GHOST.
(_Lent by the Editor of “The Daily Graphic.”_)]
SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY.
_By_ JAS. ROBERTSON, _Glasgow_.
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