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
“In the interim, however, our anxiety as to the child’s face
on the four negatives led us to attempt to print off an
impression on some prepared paper we had left in the house
from the last futile experiment. Accordingly, my second eldest
daughter, who has had some experience in amateur photography,
took the four plates I have above referred to, and put them
to be printed at one of the windows. On examining the four
impressions as they were printed off, we were gratified to
find, on each of the four photographs or copies so printed,
a clear and well-defined likeness of our departed son, not
with a ‘shadowy’ or ‘filmy’ face, like some spirit photographs
I have seen, but quite ‘human-looking,’ although a sweeter
and more spiritual expression pervades the countenance than
when in earth life. The portrait of our boy is as clear and
distinct as the one we possess of Professor Sandringham, which
is admitted, by every one who has seen it, to be a splendidly
distinct spirit photograph. The first of the negatives which
was printed off disclosed our boy sitting up in bed, just in
the place where he died, and although, as I have said, his face
is more spiritualised, and not so chubby as when in earth life
three years ago, yet there is not the least doubt in our minds
that it is our loved and lost one as he is now on the other
side. The second photograph discloses him as clothed in a boy’s
suit, and sitting on his mother’s knee. Here also the face is
quite human-looking, and just our son as he looked about the
close of his sharp and severe illness. The likeness in all the
photographs is essentially the same. Over the figure in each
photograph is a beautiful star, and the whole experiment has
been a phenomenal success in spirit photography, besides being
a source of great joy to us all.
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