PHOTOGRAPHING DISEMBODIED SPIRITS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2710, 23 November 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

PHOTOGRAPHING DISEMBODIED SPIRITS.

The Standard's correspondent in Paris has been attending the Spiritualist Congross, in tho hope of witnessing the photographing 1 of a disembodied spirit, but he has been disappointed. He has, however, been shown a spirit photograph. On an ordinary photographic card, headed with the words " Materialisation d'uu Esprit," there is the bust of a dorlt figure of a person of distinctly Semitic features, attired in something like a shroud, and holding his chin in his riirbt hand, the hand and «rra beinir concealed by the drapery. Tho photograph ha* not yet been submitted to the congress, and no debate has taken place as to its authenticity. At one sitting, Mr Everitt from London, stated that spiritualism now pervaded the whole of England. There were no public meeetings, he admitted, but there were hundreds of seances in private families. At one of these he I witnessed a curious phenomenon. Tht surface of a table rose up in the shape of a cone, from which Amies broke forth, to the great terror of the ladies present, and then the table returned to its proper shape. Neither he nor his friends could explain this phenomenon, aud the spirits who were present could not help them, Mr Everitt also mentioned an extraordinary case of slate-writing. Two spirits wrote upon n slate at the same time, one commencing at the top and the other at the bottom, Mrs Everitt being the medium. Captain Volpi favoured the meeting with a communication from the spirit of "John William, Earl of Rochester," to a Russian lady, describing spiritualism as the religion of the future, and as calculated to improve man's morals in this world and bring him nearer to God in the next.