Transcendental Physics; An Account of Experimental Investigations from the Scientific Treatises of Johann Carl Friedrich Zllner

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...people at the Edinburgh meeting of scientists seven years ago. Since, however, in the higher world of spirits truth is held as something sacred, with which only lower spirits permit themselves to jest, so by such purport of my slate-writing should I have made myself guilty of an injury to the moral law, which, according to the laws of divine and eternal justice, would bring its own punishment. May not possibly similar considerations have prevailed to hinder Slade's invisible beings from displaying at another place their treasures, which have been shown to us partly here in Leipsic, in such wonderful abundance? Lastly, a circumstance may be briefly noticed which relates not so much to the moral and intellectual qualities of the invisible spirits as to those of the visible mediums, whom those spirits need for their manifestations. It has been alleged as a characteristic of all such mediums that, notwithstanding the most wonderful occurrences in their proximity, they have yet the inclination to deceive, that is, when opportunity offers, to produce 'the desired effect by such operations as they consciously endeavor to hide from observation. Having regard to the great danger of such attempts to the medium, and to the entire disproportion between the effects which can be so produced by an inexperienced trickster and those resultr ing from genuine mediumship, the question arises whether, when this is the case with a medium who has been proved with certainty to be really such, the same consideration does not apply as with persons suffering under so-called kleptomania. It is asserted that a well-known and highly-gifted lady in distinguished circles of Berlin society suffers from this disease. For example, after mak-Thoughts and 3faximst p. 46. tTo make...