Physical manifestations have the purpose of drawing our attention to something and convincing us of the presence of a force that transcends man. The lofty spirits do not engage in this kind of manifestation; they use lower spirits to produce them, as we use servants for rough work, all for the purpose we have just indicated. Once the goal is achieved this time, the material manifestation ceases because it is no longer needed. One example will give you a better understanding of this.
For some time now, various noises began to be heard in the room of one of our friends, which became very tiresome. When the opportunity presented itself to ask the spirit of his father through a writing medium, he found out what was wanted of him, did what he was advised to do, and since then he did not hear anything else. It should be noted that persons who have a more regular and easy means of communicating with spirits have much less frequent manifestations of this kind, which is understandable. Once a regular relationship has been established with them, the knocks are useless and therefore do not take place. The drum stops beating after the awakened soldiers have risen.
Spontaneous manifestations are not always limited to noise and knocking; sometimes they turn into a real rumble and perturbation; furniture and various objects are overturned, all sorts of things thrown out, doors and windows are open and shut by invisible hands, window panes are broken, which cannot be attributed to an illusion.
Tipping furniture and objects is often very effective, but sometimes it only has the appearance of reality. There is a noise in the next room, the clink of dishes that fall and break noisily, the logs roll on the floor; but one has only to enter the room - and everything is lying in its place and in perfect order; then, however, when they leave, the noise and rumble resumes.
Manifestations of this genus are neither rare nor new; there are few local chronicles that do not contain any history of this kind. Fear, no doubt, often exaggerated the facts, which then took catastrophically ridiculous outlines, passing from mouth to mouth; prejudice came to the rescue, and the houses in which these phenomena occurred were recognized as visited by the devil, and hence all kinds of wonderful and strange tales of ghosts.
On the other hand, cunning did not miss such a wonderful opportunity to exploit people's gullibility, doing it mainly in the interests of personal gain. It is possible, however, to understand what impression facts of this kind, even reduced to reality, can make on weak characters predisposed by education to prejudicial ideas. The surest way to prevent the inconveniences that these phenomena may have, since one cannot prevent them from occurring, is to let the truth about them be learned. The simplest things become frightening when the cause is unknown. When people become closely acquainted with the spirits and those to whom they appear, stop believing that they are being pursued by a horde of demons, they will cease to be afraid of them.
Phenomena of this kind often have the character of real persecution. We know six sisters who lived together and who for many years in the morning found their dresses scattered about, hidden all the way to the attic and the roof, torn and cut into pieces, no matter what precautions they took to lock their clothes. It often happened that people who had already gone to bed, but had not yet fallen asleep, saw the curtains swaying, how then furiously tearing off the blankets from them lying on the bed and pulling the pillows from under them, and they themselves were lifted into the air on the mattresses, and sometimes even thrown out of bed.
These facts are more frequent than believed: but those who are their victims, more often than not dare to speak about it for fear of being ridiculed. We know that it was believed to cure some people of what were considered hallucinations by subjecting them to a treatment designed for insane, which made them truly insane. Medicine cannot understand these things, because it admits only a material element in causes, from which often pernicious misunderstandings follow. History over time will tell about some of the methods of treatment adopted in this century, as today they talk about some of the healing methods and techniques of the Middle Ages.
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We fully admit that some facts are a matter of wiles and malice; but if, with all the statements, it remains acknowledged that they are not the work of the hands of people, then we must then agree that they are the work of the hands of the devil, some will say, but we say that they are spirits; but what kind of perfume, that is the question.
The higher spirits, like significant and serious people among us, do not amuse themselves by making noise. We have often summoned lower spirits to ask them about the impulses that lead them to disturb the peace of people in this way. Most of them have no other purpose than to amuse themselves; then the spirits are rather frivolous than evil, who are amused by the fear they cause, and the vain searches they undertake to discover the cause of the turmoil.
Often they persist in the pursuit of one person whom they like to annoy and whom they pursue from dwelling to dwelling; in other cases, they are attached to any room without any motive other than their own whim. Sometimes it is also revenge that they exercise, as we will be able to show. In some cases, their intention is more commendable; they want to pay attention and enter into a relationship, either in order to give a useful warning to the person to whom they are addressing, or in order to ask for something for themselves.
We often saw how some of them ask for prayers, others insistently ask to fulfill on their behalf any promise that they could not or did not have time to fulfill; others, finally, wish, in the interests of their own reassurance, to correct any evil action they committed during their lifetime. In general, people are wrong, being afraid of them; their presence can be annoying, but not dangerous. However, one can understand the desire experienced by people to free themselves from them, but only for this purpose they usually do exactly the opposite of what ought to be done.
If this is the essence of amusing spirits, then the more seriously you take the matter, the more they persist, like mischievous children who bother the more the more they lose patience because of them, and who make cowards fearful. If you made a wise decision to laugh at their bad tricks yourself, then in the end they would get tired of their occupation and they would calm down. We know someone who, instead of being annoyed, encouraged them to defiantly do this or that stupidity, driving them to the point that after a few days they left him alone and never returned.
But, as we have already said, there are those among them whose motivation is not so frivolous. This is why it is always helpful to know what they really want. If they ask for something, you can be sure that they will stop their visits as soon as their desire is satisfied. The best way to become enlightened on this score is to summon the spirit through the medium of a good writing medium; by his answers, you can immediately see who you have to deal with and act accordingly; if it is an unhappy spirit, mercy requires communicating with it with the attention it deserves; if this is a bad joker, then you can not stand on ceremony with him; if he is malicious, then you need to pray to God that he becomes the best.
Regardless of the reason, prayer can always only have a positive result. But the strict seriousness of incantation formulas and exorcisms only makes them laugh, and they do not take them into account at all. If you can enter into communication with them, then do not trust the buffoonery and intimidating qualifications, which they sometimes give themselves in order to amuse themselves with human gullibility.
These phenomena, although performed by lower spirits, are often provoked by spirits of a higher order in order to convince us of the existence of beings incorporeal and superior to humans. The echoes of this, even the horror that it evokes, attracts attention and in the end will open the eyes of the most notorious skeptics ^ These latter find it easier to write off these phenomena at the expense of imagination, which is a very convenient explanation, which also eliminates the need to explain that -or else; however, when objects are overturned or thrown in the face of a skeptic, it would take a very stubborn imagination to assert that such things do not happen when they do.
When an action is detected, the action must have a cause; if cold and calm observation proves to us that this action is independent of any human will and of any material cause, if, moreover, it reveals obvious signs of rationality and free will, which is the most characteristic feature, then we find ourselves forced to attribute it to some occult reason.
What are these mysterious creatures? This is what spiritualistic research allows us to know in the least refutable way through the means they give to communicate with them. These studies, in addition, let us know what is real, false or exaggerated in those phenomena in which we are not aware.
If some strange phenomenon occurs: noise, movement of objects, even the appearance of human forms, then the first thought that should occur to us is that this phenomenon owes its appearance to some completely natural reason, because this reason is the most probable; then it is necessary to seek this reason with the greatest care and allow the intervention of spirits only if there is sufficient reason; that is, a means not to make oneself illusory. One, for example, who, having no one around him, would receive a slap in the face or a blow on the back with a stick, apparently, could not doubt the presence of some rational being.
You should beware not only of stories, which can be at least embellished exaggerations, but also of your own impressions, and not attribute occult origin to everything that you do not understand. The infinity of very simple and very natural causes can produce effects that seem strange at first glance, and it would be a true prejudice to see spirits in everything, busy knocking over furniture, smashing dishes, instigating a thousand and one domestic quarrels, which it is more reasonable to attribute to our own awkwardness.
The explanation given by the motion of inert bodies naturally applies to all spontaneous phenomena that we have just considered. The noises, although they are stronger than knocking inside the table, have the same reason: objects are thrown or moved by the same force that lifts any other object. One circumstance even comes up here to support this theory.
One might ask oneself where the medium is in such cases. The spirits told us that in such circumstances there is always someone whose energy is being transformed without his knowledge. Spontaneous manifestations rarely occur in truly secluded places; they almost always occur in inhabited houses, and only because of the presence of certain persons who unwittingly exert a certain influence; these persons are true mediums, themselves unaware of it, and whom we for this reason call natural mediums; they correlate with other mediums in the same way as natural somnambulists with hypnotic somnambulists, and are equally worthy of careful study.
The voluntary or involuntary intervention of a person gifted with a special ability to produce these phenomena seems to be necessary in most cases, although there are some among them where the spirit seems to act on its own; but then it may turn out that he draws the animal fluid somewhere else, and not from the present person. This explains why the spirits that constantly surround us do not produce momentary perturbations. First, the spirit itself must want this, so that it has a goal, an impulse, without this it will not do anything.
Then he needs to find exactly in the place where he would like to appear, a person capable of assisting him, and this is already a coincidence that is quite rare. As soon as such a face appears, he will immediately use its appearance. But, despite the combination of favorable circumstances, he can still be hindered in this by a superior will, which would not allow him to act at his discretion. He can be allowed to do this only within certain limits and in the event that these manifestations were recognized as useful, even as a means of persuasion or as a test to the person who is their object.
Author: Pavel Geleva