Johannes Greber - Catholic Priest | Part 2

Kluski's case were most extraordinary, and surpassed everything I had previously read and heard of such matters.” The preliminaries that usually preceded a séance with the medium Kluski consisted of a minute examination of the room in which the test was held, and of all the articles contained therein. Windows and doors were locked and sealed, and strips of waxed paper, bearing secret marks and signed by the spectators were pasted over the crevices. If so desired and 'when no ladies were present, the medium appeared entirely naked. Almost as soon as the participants had taken their seats at the table and formed a chain, the medium went into a trance, upon which the phenomena usually made themselves evident at once. The chain was formed by hooking the little finger of each hand into that of one's neighbour. This allowed the observers to move the rest of the hand freely, as for writing, or for feeling of or touching objects, without breaking contact. The séanceswere held either in complete darkness or by the light of a red-lantern. In either case, luminous plates were provided on the table. The plates have a surface equivalent to about one square foot and are made of some light wood, having a handle something like that of a hand-mirror. One face of these plates is covered with a luminous composition. It is frequently unnecessary for the observers to turn off the white light, for as soon as the medium falls into a trance the white light goes out of its own accord and the red light is turned on. Habitual attendants relate that the going and coming of the light proceeds slowly and by stages. From personal experience and from first-hand testimony given by perfectly trustworthy observers, I can state it as a fact that the medium Kluski produces the following phenomena: A. Rapping or knocks which are characteristic, and represent something peculiar to themselves. I have often heard them and noted their peculiarity at once, without having my attention called to it by anyone else. I could distinctly hear, or rather feel, that they were not produced on the surface of the table or of the walls, but within the same. I mention this particularly, because I made several attempts to imitate the rapping produced by Kluski, but failed entirely to obtain the tone of the rapping heard at Kluski's Séances. B. Exhibitions of levitation (maintaining the human body in the air without support). I did not witness this personally, but heard that it often occurs at Kluski's séances. Not only has the table been upset and lifted, but the medium himself as well as one or more spectators were raised several feet above the floor. C. "Kluski's specialty is the production of partial, or, more often, of completely formed apparitions or phantoms. The partial materializations usually are those of heads. These materializations appear almost instantly either above or behind the medium, but still oftener behind or among the spectators, who are seated at some distance from him. After a few sharp, distinctly audible raps on the table or the walls, bright stars or sparks appear to rising above the table and floating upward toward the ceiling. These sparks, which have a bluish light, vary in size from that of a pea to that of a hazelnut, and often appear to the number of a dozen. They all move simultaneously and at considerable speed above the seats of the observers, flying in all directions and forming in groups or by twos. Some vanish, while others descend in pairs close to the spectators. Whenever they came within about sixteen inches of me. I could see to my great surprise that they were pairs of human eyes which looked at me. In a few minutes a perfectly formed human head appeared about such a pair of eyes, being clearly visible by the light of a hand which had also been materialized and the palm of

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