Phases of Mediumship.

HEALING—PHYSIOLOGICAL TEST.

The hands of magnetic healers are warm. The soft "cushiony" hand, the velvet touch of the healer cannot be imitated, and is of itself its unimpeachable evidence. It is warm because the vital magnetism is directed outward and draws the blood with it. Mediums for truly spiritual manifestations, in all other cases are to be known by cold extremities and an over-heated brain.

Those who receive purely mental manifestations also indicate their condition by slowness of pulse-beat and its softness. In their cases the blood is drawn inward and congested around the ganglia of the spinal cord and in the brain, for the drain is on the nerve-force, which has to be supplied as fast as wasted.

These physiological conditions are more correct and absolute evidences of the genuineness of the medium, than all other tests that ever were or can be applied. They are conditions that cannot be induced to order; which no true medium would object to having carefully noted.