Book/Printed Material Behind the scenes with the mediums,
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Image 1 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, Bilft ma m H Sflfl ■on 1 1 IBS lj vf*1 I Hill 1 H nu I m I uyu U8 I
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 4 of Behind the scenes with the mediums,
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 5 of Behind the scenes with the mediums,
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 6 of Behind the scenes with the mediums,
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 7 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE MEDIUMS Br DAVID P. ABBOTT L FOURTH REVISED EDITION CHICAGO THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 8 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, Copyright, by THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. 1907 Bequest Albert Adsit Olemona Aug. 24, 1938 (Not available for exchanflf*^
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 9 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, DEDICATION. TO THOSE AUTHORS OF MY BEING WHOSE IMAGES ARE SACREDLY ENSHRINED WITHIN MY HEART, MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER; AND TO MY SISTER, MRS. ADA ABBOTT HUMPHREY, WHO HAS GIVEN ME…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 10 of Behind the scenes with the mediums,
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 11 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. I. Introduction I II. Washington Irving Bishop s Sealed Letter Reading in a New Dress 5 III. Test Where a Trick Envelope with a…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 12 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, IV 7 --BLE OF COXTZ T ?a:-i XII. Reading Sealed Billets Before a Company in a Room in which Absolute Darkness Reigns. 82 MEDICMISTIC READING OF SEALED WKITTMGS L Introduction. 87 EL…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 13 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, TABLE OF CONTENTS. V PAGE VIII. Slate Trick Requiring Three Slates and a Flap. The Same Used as a Conjuring Trick. Prepara- tion of the Slates 142 IX. Slate Trick Requiring a…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 14 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, VI TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE SOME UNUSUAL MEDIUMISTIC PHENOMENA. Some Strange and Unusual Tests with an Explanation 215 MATERIALIZATION. Additional Information i.35 RELATION OF MEDIUMSHIP TO PALMISTRY, ASTROLOGY, AND FORTUNE-TELLING Tests in…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 15 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. i. IT is probably due to the scientific training of the present age that there are those amongst us who can not accept the promise of immortality on…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 16 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 2 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. of her secret, but to such as these no answer framed in words of hope has ever come. We ask, yet nothing seems to know; We cry…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 17 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 3 ments that which they actualize, that creation which appears as a result of their combination in a special form, that something else which is ourselves vanish utterly…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 18 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 4 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. I thought, as I listened, Is this true, shall we greet again the friends that have gone before? The cold facts of science and philosophy are poor…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 19 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 5 a friend to visit the realm of the supernatural that evening. II. Accordingly, my friend and I, together with some thirty or more other guests, assembled in…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 20 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 6 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. requested to fold the slips in halves with the writing inside. This was done. The manager then collected these questions in a hat and turned them out…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 21 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 7 suddenly. It was entirely unlooked for, and I get the name of Fred. That is for me, remarked a spectator. Do you recognize him? I do. Yes,…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 22 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 8 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. You recognize this thoroughly, do you? asked the medium. I do. She says, Tell mother that nothing could have been done for me/ said the medium. She…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 23 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 9 Yes. There are four of you alive, stated the medium. Only three, corrected the sitter. I get the vibration of four, or rather seven in your family:…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 24 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, IO HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. You are correct, I replied. I was thoroughly convinced that she was reading the questions, and that she was getting her information from the questions asked. I…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 25 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. II experiences. I feel sure that the medium studied the different characters in her room thoroughly while the company was gathering and that she remembered the peculiar looks…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 26 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 12 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. There is thus a strip of the table top some six inches wide easily in the view of the medium. It is also easy to shift a…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 27 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 13 writing side of the papers by feeling, as this side was folded inward in all cases. A few evenings after this seance, I attended her Sunday night…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 28 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 14 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. These tests were in the nature of Blue Book tests, but I do not think this medium has a book of Omaha. I think that she got…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 29 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 1 5 daughter and strongly expressed a desire to communi- cate with you. If I can be of any service to you, you may command me. I remain…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 30 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, l6 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. box of envelopes. He first handed the lady a sheet of paper, and directed her to write a letter which he dic- tated. It read something like…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 31 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. IJ tell at what moment I am looking at you all with my invisible eyes and listening to your voices. I will be waiting to meet you when…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 32 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, l8 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. double front and that the flap really consists of two flaps stuck together neatly. Before fastening the two flaps together the message is prepared and placed in…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 33 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 19 right hand requests the sitter to hold the other end of the envelope. When the medium is ready to produce the message, he tears the end of…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 34 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 20 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. by adroit questions addressed to other citizens, in the course of his stay in the towns. When the medium sends out a circular letter, he immediately prepares…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 35 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 21 what I can learn of them from descriptions given to me by observers, were surely very superior. My informant, an advertising agent for a daily paper, is…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 36 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 22 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. that you will answer their questions without them asking the same. Now I am an unbeliever; and if you can do these things, do so, and I…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 37 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 23 ing him, the medium kept emphasizing his remarks with his right fingers in a manner entirely too vigor- ous for the bodily comfort of the sitter. The…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 38 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 24 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. a. few moments. Meanwhile the medium entertained the sitter properly. What the medium really did when he turned with the slate, was quickly to slip it into…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 39 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. 2$ considerable difficulty, as the letter caught on the cord when the medium attempted to slip it from his palm into the sitter s pocket. For a time,…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912
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Image 40 of Behind the scenes with the mediums, 26 HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS. medium then allowed his person violently to convulse while he conversed with the spirits of the empty air and questioned them. He had great difficulty in hear-…
- Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps)
- Date: 1912