SPIRIT DRAWINGS: A Personal Narrative. BY W. M. WILKINSON. LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. MDCCCLVIII. 265.c.78. SPIRIT DRAWINGS. INTRODUCTION. "I did not say it was possible; I only said it was true." In presenting a short account of what has happened within my family, my only object is to give an extended knowledge of the occurrence of mental phenomena which until the last few years have been generally considered as entirely new, though, as to their absolute novelty, some remarks will further on be offered for consideration. My narrative will be confined as nearly as possible to a simple statement of what occurred, and as nearly as possible in the order of its occurrence; and I purpose afterwards to treat of some questions which, as it seemed to us, arose naturally out of the facts narrated. To us who know them as facts, they are pregnant with meaning, and any one who admits them must necessarily be led to many conclusions, which before he did not see. But here, in this first place, I may as well say that what to us and to many others is well known as a fact, will, I doubt B |