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112 THE BEGINNINGS OF SEERSHIP.
were given in the “after-circle,” and one was
announced from the platform as a Visitant who had called on me under the following circum- stances about four days before—
On the night of October to or 11, 1906, | lay in bed thinking, and was not even drowsy. Suddenly I became conscious that I was not alone, I saw a lovely woman enter my room, robed in white glittering garments, something like spangled muslin; in her hand was an ornament, such as is the Arum lily, and on her head was that which looked like a star or diamond. Her face was classical in its beauty. She bent over me and said: “I want you to describe me to a gentleman at the Hall on Sunday. I come to you nowas I cannot come then, because I am attached to a Home where we receive little children in our Sphere and nurse them, and on Sunday next I am ‘in charge’ there.* Take a good look at me, so that you will remember all details.’”—(Of hair, nose, eyes, mouth, age, height, etc., etc.)
I said to myself: ‘‘ Look here, Turvey, you have got Spiritualism on the brain, and it
* I cannot be held responsible for what “ spirits” say to me, or for their wearing apparel. In this book I merely write of that which I have “seen” and ‘theard.” Those whose theories are upset by proved facts will kindly hold we excused.
were given in the “after-circle,” and one was
announced from the platform as a Visitant who had called on me under the following circum- stances about four days before—
On the night of October to or 11, 1906, | lay in bed thinking, and was not even drowsy. Suddenly I became conscious that I was not alone, I saw a lovely woman enter my room, robed in white glittering garments, something like spangled muslin; in her hand was an ornament, such as is the Arum lily, and on her head was that which looked like a star or diamond. Her face was classical in its beauty. She bent over me and said: “I want you to describe me to a gentleman at the Hall on Sunday. I come to you nowas I cannot come then, because I am attached to a Home where we receive little children in our Sphere and nurse them, and on Sunday next I am ‘in charge’ there.* Take a good look at me, so that you will remember all details.’”—(Of hair, nose, eyes, mouth, age, height, etc., etc.)
I said to myself: ‘‘ Look here, Turvey, you have got Spiritualism on the brain, and it
* I cannot be held responsible for what “ spirits” say to me, or for their wearing apparel. In this book I merely write of that which I have “seen” and ‘theard.” Those whose theories are upset by proved facts will kindly hold we excused.
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