After Death--What?: Spiritistic Phenomena and Their Interpretation by Cesare Lombroso

Author:Cesare Lombroso [Lombroso, Cesare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spiritualism
ISBN: 9781112475603
Amazon: 1112475605
Publisher: Cornell University Library
Published: 2009-09-21T23:00:00+00:00

exerted on them by the medium (Aberden), and always moving from one point to another in equal times and in a true intentional direction, as at Berbenno and at Quargenta (Arch, di Psich., xviii. 266-422).

To these phenomena must be added the fact of the reproduction in the dark of phantasmal markings and figures, such as the Count de Boul-let obtained with the medium Firman, and Reiners also with Firman. This has been confirmed anew by recent experiments at Turin in the presence of Eusapia. A photographic plate covered with three sheets of dark paper was held by Drs. Her-litzka and Foa above the head of the meditmi in front of the curtain of the cabinet in order to photograph a phantasm that had appeared there. But the operation was obstructed by a formidable hand that did not belong to any one present, including the medium, and which tried hard to snatch the plate from the hands of Foa for the purpose of breaking it, as it had already done in the case of other plates (and this also proves the presence at the seances of energetic wills opposed to those of the medium and the experimenters). Foa stoutly resisted three assaults, and, after the third one, withdrew the plate, which did not show a reproduction of the face of the phantasm, but four huge fingers unlike those of Eusapia and of Foa.

This experiment, which should perhaps be con-

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nected with that mentioned above, of the impression left by the hand of Eusapia on a photographic plate, is indeed one of extraordinary value, because, leaving out of the account the radio-activity of Dr. Foa,^ and that of the medium, because she was at a distance and her hand is entirely different, there remains the sole hypothesis that the radiations came directly from the incarnated body the image of which had been presented before, in the same way that imprints were previously obtained from similar phantasmal beings in paraffine and gypsum, — imprints that bore no resemblance to the limbs or features of the medium.

This is an experiment which brings us into very intimate relations, experimentally, with the phenomena, or, as I should rather say, with the so-called spiritistic organism, with those transitory and evanescent representatives of the life beyond of whose existence people wish, and do not wish, to admit the existence. It turns out, as I had already publicly stated some years ago, that those phantasmal bodies belong to some other state of matter, the radiant state, — a statement which

* The radio-activity of Foa is excluded because he, being an amateur photographer, has never noted the results of any action whatever of his fingers on hundreds of plates handled by him. It is a possible thing that during the s^nce with Madame Paladino his hand might have b^me radio-active. But then during the entire stance he had (and held long) in his hand three other plates upon none of which was to be seen the image of fingers.

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