Spiritual Delusions.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 44, 13 May 1875, Page 7

Spiritual Delusions.

Sanities of ~' spirrtualisni- ahd L its cob-; geners go st^diiprunitbe same courierThere is no obvious: reason why tables j and chairs. shquld;~be selected as thej means of bridging over ihkf gulf be-; tween the quickarid'tHe dead. Rap-! pings, too, are ndfc : the" meftns : bf 'inter- ; cdn^hiuSi'cati^ '.prp&tfce^ ''/and; 1 !^ to; : deceive," ' '^pf ; .^^jfi4tf^;'fer!JW^^s! ■the end ef that the 'trioste distinguished > Etipl shj p^iliisoplievs! 9? 1 :rappMiga ;^nd ', yolMe^tabl^Sv ; ; ; J^eßhj Glanvi* aifamous^atonjei scholfe tellsj how #as haunted ':• by sounds! JwMch Jmifated Joqkers^ andreyen £ept timelto^ a-Uup. Furniture fiew about l ttfe rooto,Va|id| fetruci rjebple;,' but' sOkligbtlpas tm% .toj hurt them. At -the- same time Henryi Mo'tfre,-' a "* learned »••: divine,- was 'busy; with 1 noises? -on o oaten, tables* < which,' says be, "that coneeijbed ypbysician; Paracelsus refers ™to. the Sidereal in-; fluences, as if &rs6otb a^beam of a star; •could? make a noise on a oaken; .-tab W'i The reference to— Paracelsus takes usj Mck fo c the°Deginitfng of ! the "sixteenth! flftntury, and there>'we are leff^in. the! position of a well-kno\vn patriarch when! the effile wjint wt. |> Whaf" is* the! origin of the* Superstition about raps, and pf its w is e - s lF ea s[ existence ever-recurring appearance ? The same rcraestion wi^tbe i askedras c sOrbo.w A the linwgiyßatioftirpro^uceSf the, i^elmgol^a WATTOwSw^B^lfefS'Ms4fel?to^ 1 many^prn'sons^hg^ profess; 'to^l^Sf^^pi^^ea^i^p r ji| iaj :<ea&yr.tOjStry o tKai&-^^oc^i^no^nore, unusuafcfthan would ~ product3rthe-^ensation ? — bnt— tbat-4oes totW^^^Mg^s^fargb^figf^ . .t, fj ra?tj a% §e c . o ™Epanjuu?nt . of unholy. in Scotland,?l^ew!o3©nWtend^o> I |i'raaied ifii'efullaafirate.^ .ineWi soho.ol Q£,fA~ xblg&xjftrt, aJßjpiar^atlyj utte6nsciouslyireprodiiees.; sThisiseeinsl ■'«§ l^^' y i^ {^ikt^^ u m^S forces; obviously^ ha^ao^rteiifctunasceiriainetl %ws}^\VMmomm^M^'Bmiibj l ttesj^eaiiasesti^tioj^^^ like the Christian apologist? <# (Relieve ihquiM'i^cauße ? JtriSiaEetn?a^ sOyi^iDigh^be^thpught, to be invented ) iy n&trar rftmif Tin rrTinßl jrfHi BilMt ß