The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography — John Shaqi
The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography
Religion
The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography
Spirit photography; Spiritualism
Some years since Mr. Duguid yielded to the strong pressure that was
brought to bear, and took at intervals pictures on which appeared other
forms than those seen by the physical senses. Each effort was not a
success. Again and again have we gone into the developing chamber, only
to find there was but the physical sitter. On all these occasions we took
the utmost care to be able to vouch for the conditions under which they
were taken, so as to meet the naturally critical questions which would be
put. Mr. Andrew Glendinning, of London, who has been on the closest terms
of friendship with Mr. Duguid for over thirty years, used to come down,
and at such times the latter yielded to the request for a sitting.
Mr. Glendinning brought his own plates, took every precaution that they
should not pass out of his sight—not that he suspected anything wrong,
but that he might make his testimony of value. We had on almost every
visit the most marked success. During the process I was often conscious
of the presence of spirit people before they made their appearance on
the plate; people who were known in the flesh and others came in this
mysterious way, and clearly showed that death must be some other thing
than what was made out by popular theologies. As the Rev. John Page Hopps
says, “A future life means persistence of life, means that the spirit
self remains a conscious living self when it sheds the muddy vesture of
clay.... Such a being, acting from the unseen upon the sphere of what is
to us the seen, might, under certain conditions, be able to work what
we call miracles.” It was the good fortune of Mr. Glendinning to get
beside us on one occasion a most exquisite face of a lady, full of each
charm and grace that make up the womanly character. The term angelic
might be applied to it. Such a face the seraphic painters have ofttimes
drawn, a Raphael might have painted it. From somewhere must have come
this form; and Spiritualism demonstrates what Mr. Justice Groves, in _The
Correlation of Physical Forces_, gives as a probable theory, “Myriads of
organised beings may exist imperceptible to our vision, even if we were
among them.”
A legal gentleman of some literary culture, who had become conscious
of the reality and beauty of the spiritual philosophy, wrote several
valuable articles, in which were given the clearest proofs of spirit
identity. He was most anxious to get the picture of a dear boy whom death
had carried away some years before, and whose absence, perhaps, made him
at first inquire as to whether Spiritualism had any joy to give.
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