SCIENCE AND THE "SPIRITS" 469 



once tested. I said immediately to X. : "If you wish to win 

 to your cause an apostle, who will proclaim your principles to 

 the world from the housetop, tell me what I am now think- 

 ing of. ' * X. reddened, and did not tell me my thought. 



Some time previously I had visited Baron Eeichenbach, 

 in Vienna, and I now asked the young lady who sat beside 

 me whether she could see any of the curious things which 

 he describes the light emitted by crystals, for example? 

 Here is the conversation which followed, as extracted from 

 my notes, written on the day following the stance. 



Medium. "Oh, yes; but 1 see light around all bodies." 



/. "Even in perfect darkness?" 



Medium. "Yes; I see luminous atmospheres round all 

 people. The atmosphere which surrounds Mr. E. C. would 

 fill this room with light." 



/. "You are aware of the effects ascribed by Baron 

 Reichenbach to magnets?" 



Medium. "Yes; but a magnet makes me terribly ill." 



/. "Am I to understand that, if this room were per- 

 fectly dark, you could tell whether it contained a magnet, 

 without being informed of the fact?" 



Medium. "I should know of its presence on entering 

 the room." 



/."How?" 



Medium. "I should be rendered instantly ill." 



/."How do you feel to-day?" 



Medium. "Particularly well; I have not been so well 

 for months." 



/. "Then, may I ask you whether there is, at the 

 present moment, a magnet in my possession?" 



The young lady looked at me, blushed, and stammered, 

 "No; I am not en rapport with you." 



