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- / Part II "How to Conduct a Seance" \
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- "While learning what there was to learn in the Occult world, I happened upon
- an extremely interesting ritual..... this was the ritual of talking with dead
- or recently deceased. Of the many forms, I have found the one called 'Seance'
- the most reliable as well as informative."
- -Grant Fuller PhD
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- I would like to start off by asking that you don't get the 'Occult' mixed up
- with a 'Cult'. The Occult is the study of the unknown, while a Cult is a group
- of religious radicals.
-
- While I take credit for typing in this file, I did not write it. I am copying
- this word for word out of a book (very small) on the topic. I have used the
- meathods described within, and I have found that they work quite well in
- most instances. While some of the rules are trash, I'll let you decide which
- ones are or aren't........
-
- -WHAT IS A SEANCE?
-
- The Seance or Spirit-Circle is the assembling together of a given number
- of persons for the purpose of seeking communication with the spirits who have
- passed away from earth into the higher world of souls. The chief advantage of
- such an assembly in the mutual imparation and reception of the combined
- magnetisms of the assemblage. These in combination form a force stronger than
- that of the isolate subject: first enabling spirits to commune with great
- power; next, developing latent gifts of mediumship in such members of the
- circle as are thus endowed; and, finally, promoting the harmonious and social
- spirit of fraternal intercouse which is one of the chief aims of the spirits
- mission.
-
- -WHO SHOULD ATTEND A SEANCE?
-
- The persons who compise the circle should be, as far as possible, of
- to oysters and champagne. This little
- recipe depends on the amoritic virtues of vervain or Herbis
- Veneris when used in conjunction with fennel. Both herbs
- may be combined in an infusion; or fennel water, obtainable
- from herbalists, may be used to prepare; but no person suffering from a decidedly chronic
- disease, (Like Sir Arthur's AIDS), or of a very weak physique should be present
- at any circle unless it is formed expressly for healing purposes. The use
- growing out of the association of different temperments is to form a battery on
- the principles of electricity or galvanism, composed of positive and negative
- elements, the sum of which should be unequal. No person of a very strongly
- positive temperment or disposition should be present, as any magnetic
- spheres emanating from the circle will overpower that of the spirits, who
- must always be positive to the circle in order to produce phenomena.
-
- -HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN BE SEATED AT THE SEANCE TABLE?
-
- I would recommend the number of the circle never to be less than three
- nor more than twelve. Also, it is not desirable to have more than two
- already well-developed mediums in a circle; Mediums always absorb the
- magnetism of the rest of the party; hence, when there are too many present,
- the force, being divided, cannot operate successfully with any.
-
- -PROPER ROOM TEMPERATURE FOR A SEANCE.
-
- Never let the aparrtment be overheated, or even close. As an unusual ammount
- of magnetism is liberated at a circle the room is always warmer than ordinary
- and should be very well ventilated.
-
- -PROPER LIGHTING FOR A SEANCE.
-
- Avoid strong light, which, by producing excessive motion in the atmosphere,
- disturbs the manifestations. A very subdued light is the most favorable for
- any manifestations of a magnetic character especially for spiritual
- magnetism.
-
- -POSITIONS TO BE OBSERVED (Who should sit where?).
-
- If the circle is one which meets periodically, and is composed of the same
- persons, let them occupy the same seats (unless changed under spiritual
- direction), and sit (as the most f an infusion of
- vervain. These herbs are native to Britain, and should be
- gathered on a Friday, preferably during the passage of the
- Moon through the first ten degrees of Taurus or Virgo. The
- Moon should also be well aspected with Saturn and Venus.
-
- le as a
- conductor, especially as all tables in household use are more or less charged
- already.
-
- -WHICH ITEMS SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE SEANCE ROOM?
-
- If flowers & fruit are in the room, see that they are freshly gathered.
- Otherwise, remove them. Also avoid sitting in a room with many minerals,
- metals, or glasses. These all injuriously affect sensitives.
-
- -HOW TO BEGIN THE SEANCE.
-
- I recommend the seance to be opened either with prayer or music, vocal
- or instrumental; after which, subdued quiet and harmonizing conversation is
- better than silence, but let the conversation always be directed toward the
- purpose of the gathering, and never sink into discussion, or rise to emphasis.
- Let it be gentle, quiet, and spiritual, until phenomena begin to manifest.
- Always have a slate, pen or pencil, and paper on the table so as not to be
- abliged to rise and procure them. Try to avoid all entering or quitting the
- room, moving about, irrelevant conversation or disturbances within or without
- the circle room, after the seance has commenced.
-
- -THE BEST TIME TO CONDUCT A SEANCE.
-
- The spirits are far more punctual to seasons, faithful to promise, and
- periodical in action than mortals. Endeavor, then, to fix your circle at a
- convenient hour when you will be least interrupted and do not fail in your
- appointments. Do not admit late comers. You should not be disturbed in any way
- after the sitting commences. Nothing but necessity, indisposition, or
- impressions (to be hearafter described) should warrant the least disturbance
- of the sitting.
-
- -HOW LONG SHOULD A SEANCE LAST?
-
- A sitting should NEVER exceed two hours, unless an extention in time be
- solicitated by the spirits. Let the seance ALWAYS extend to one hour, even if
- no results are obtained. It sometimes requires all that time for spirits to
- form their battery of the materials furnished.
-
- -WHY SOME SPIRIT CIRCLES MUST BE BROKEN UP.
-
- Since ALL circles are experimental, no one ahould be discouraged if
- phenomena are not produces after the first few sittings. Stay with the same
- circle for six sittings. If no phenomea are then produced (provided all the
- conditions in the previous text are observed) you may be sure you are rightly
- assimilated to each other, you do not form the requisite combonations, or
- neutralize each other. In that case, break up, and let that circle or members
- meet with other persons; that is, change one, two, or three persons of your
- group for others, and so on until you succeed.
-
- -THE TEST MEDIUM.
-
- A well developed test-medium may sit without injury for any person,
- of any description of character or temperment.
-
- -WHAT TYPES OF PEOPLE MUST BE BANNED?
-
- A circle sitting for mutual development should never admit persons
- addicted to bad habits, criminals, sensualists, strongly positive persons of
- any kind, whether rude, skeptical, violent tempered, or dogmatical. A humble,
- candid, inquiring spirit, unprejudiced, and receptive of truth, is the only
- frame of mind in which to sit for phenomena, the delicate magnetism of which is
- shaped, tempered, and made or marred as much by mental as physical conditions.
-
- -WHEN THE 'SPIRITS'"TAKE OVER"
-
- When once any of the circle can communicate freely and conclusively with
- the spirits, the spirits can and will take charge of and regulate the future
- movements of the circle.
-
- -IMPRESSIONS: WHEN 'OTHER' SPIRITS TALK TO 'OUR' SPIRITS.
-
- Impressions are the voices of spirits speaking to our spirits, or else
- the monitions of the spirit within us, and should always be respected and
- followed out, unless (which is very rare) suggestive of actual wrong in act
- or word. At the opening of the circle, one or more members are often
- impressed to change seats with others; one or more to withdraw, or a strong
- feeling of repulsion to some member of the circle, makes it painful to remain
- there. Let any or all of these impressions be faithfully reguarded, and, at
- commencing, pledge to each other the promise that no offence shall be taken by
- following out impressions. If a strong impression to write, speak, sing, dance,
- or gesticulate, possess any mind present, follow it out faithfully. It has a
- meaning, if you cannot at first realize it. Never feel hurt in your own person,
- or riducule in your neighbors, for any failures to express, or at first
- discover the meaning of the spirit impressing you.
-
- -SPIRIT CONTROL
-
- Spirit control is often deficient, and at first almost always imperfect,
- but by often yielding to it, your organism becomes more flexible, and the
- spirit more experienced; and practice in control is absolutely necessary for
- spirits as well as mortals. If dark and evil-disposed manifest to you, never
- drive them away, but always strive to elevate them, and treat them as you would
- mortals in similar circumstances. Do not always attribute falsehoods to lying
- spirits or decieving mediums. Many mistakes occur in the communion of which you
- cannot always be aware.
-
- -STRIVING FOR TRUTH
-
- Strive in truth, but rebuke error gently; and do not always attribute it
- to design, but rather to mistake in so difficult and experimental a stage of
- the communion as mortals at present enjoy with the spirits. All persons are
- subject to spirit influence and spirit guidence and control, but not all can so
- externalize this power as to use it consciously or be what is significantly
- called a medium. And finally, let it be remembered that except in the case of
- trance-speakers, no medium can ever hope successfully to exercise his/her gift
- in a large or promiscuous assembly, whil trance-speakers, no less than mediums
- for any other gift, can never be influenced by spirits far beyond their own
- normal capacity in the matter of the intelligence rendered. The magnetism of
- the spirit and the spirit-circle being but a quickening fire, which inspires,
- the brain, stimulates the facilities, and, like a hot-house process on plants,
- forces in abnormal prominence dormant or latent powers of the mind, but creates
- nothing. Even in the case of merely automatic speakers, writers, and other
- forms of test mediums, the intelligence or idea of the spirit is always
- measurably shaped by the capacity idiosyncracies of the medium. All spirit
- power is thus limited to expression by organism through which it works; and
- spirits may control, inspire, and influence the human mind, but do not change
- or re-create it.
-
- -SOME FINAL ADVICE.
-
- Unless strictly charged by spirits to do otherwise, DO NOT continue to
- hold sittings with the same parties for more than a twelve month period. After
- that time, if not before, fresh elements of magnetism are absolutely essential.
- Some of the original circle should withdraw and others take their place. This
- is a most important point, and one NOT to be forgotten!
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