LORD LINDSAY’S SPIRITULISTIC EXPERIENCES.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 40, 22 November 1871, Page 3

LORD LINDSAY’S SPIRITULISTIC EXPERIENCES.

Lord Lindsay, in a letter to the Spiritual list , relates tho following experiments with Mr Home, which he calls “ Reichenbach’s Magnetic Flames, and the Levitation of the Human Body”: “ The evening of the 11th July, 1 was showing some experiments in my laboratory' to" Lord Adare, Mr llerghein, Mr Home, and my brother-in-law. “ It occurred to me to try if Home could sec a magnet in the dark. This is an experimeut which I believe was made by Rcichenbach, and although, like myself, ho was never able to distinguish the light, yet he found a number of persons who did see it under test conditions. “ I asked Mr Home, and he expressed himself willing to try the experiment. I then took into one of my rooms, which was totally dark, a large permaent magnet , and having removed the armature, I placed it on the floor near the wall, at a considerable distance from the door. “ Mr Home was then brought into the room, and remained standing near tho door for some moments. “ He then said that he saw some kind of light on the floor in a corner of: the room, and immediately said to mo— ‘ Give mo your Land, and I will show you exactly where I sec it., He then led me straight across the room, and without the least hesitation stooped down and placed my hand on the magnet. “ I have been trying for more than two years to get a satisfactory result to this experiment, but hitherto with ouly doubtful success. “ The instrument used was a ln-tge compound magnet, capable of sustaining a Avcight of about 201 b. “ I may mention that on another occasion I was sitting with Mr Home and Lord Adere and a cousin of his. During tho sitting Mr Home went into a trance, and in that state was carried out of the window in the room next to where we were, and was brought in at our -window. The distance between the windows was about 7 feet G inches, and there was not the slightest foothold between them, nor was there more than a 12-incli projection to each window, which served as a ledge to put flowers on. “We heard the window in the next room lifted up, and almost immediately after we saw Home floating in the air outside our window. “ The moon was shining full into tho room ; my back was to the light, and I saw the shadow on the wall of the windowsill, and Home’s feet about 6 inches abovo it. He remained in this position for a few seconds, then raised the window and glided into the room and sat down. “ Lord Adare then went into tho noxt room to look at the window from which he had been carried. It was raised about 18 inches, and he expressed his wonder how Mr Home had been carried through so narrow an aperture. “ Home said (still in a trance), 1 1 will show you ;’ and then, with his back to the window, he leaned back, and was shot out of the aperture head fitst, with the body rigid, and then returned quite quietly. “ The window is about 70 feet from the ground. I very much doubt whether any skilful tight-rope dancer, would like to attempt a feat of this description, where the only means of crossing would be by a perilous leap, or being borne across in such a mauner as I have described, placing the question of the light aside. Lindsay.”