"From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



Differences in the perfection of the features, 

 these being sometimes quite regular, in other 

 cases defective; 



Differences in the degree of materialisation, 

 which was sometimes complete; sometimes 

 incomplete, with rudiments of substance; some- 

 times merely indicated. 



I wish to call attention to the interesting nature, from 

 every point of view, of these rudiments of substance. 

 The importance of rudiments in * metapsychical embry- 

 ology ' is comparable with their importance in normal 

 embryology. They give evidence as to the origin and 

 the genesis of the formations. 



The better materialised the forms were, the more 

 power of self- direction (autonomie) they seemed to have. 

 They evolved round Eva, sometimes at some distance 

 from her. One of these faces appeared first at the opening 

 of the curtain, of natural size, very beautiful and with a 

 remarkably life-like appearance. 



At another stance, through the curtain of the 

 cabinet, I could feel with my hands the contact of a 

 human body which caused the curtain to undulate. 

 (Eva was stretched out in the arm-chair, in full sight, 

 and her hands were held.) 



It is needless to say that the usual precautions 

 were rigorously observed during the seances in my 

 laboratory. On coming into the room where the stances 

 were held, and to which I alone had previous access, 

 the medium was completely undressed in my presence, 

 and dressed in a tight garment, sewn up the back and 

 at the wrists ; the hair, and the cavity of the mouth were 

 examined by me and my collaborators before and after 

 the stances. Eva was walked backwards to the wicker 

 chair in the dark cabinet; her hands were always held 

 in full sight outside the curtains; and the room was 

 always quite well lit during the whole time. I do not 

 merely say, ' There was no trickery * ; I say * There 



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