COMMUNICATIONS FROM ANIMALS.
Those who believe animals have a
continued spirit existence seek to prove it by the messages received
from some pet animal, while those who disbelieve, present such instances
as absurd, and casting ridicule on all communications. A message,
whatever may be the source claimed for it, proves the existence of an
intelligence receiving and replying to the questioner. If a person
attends a seance, and after receiving answers from departed friends,
asks for replies from a favorite horse or dog, and receives the same, he
may be assured that the same spirit has obligingly answered. If a person
desires to converse with a dog in preference, there are those who will
gratify him. He receives just what he asks for, and in
strict accordance with the laws of
spirit life and control. If the investigator
demands certain spirits, their names
are sure to be given by the one communicating, either from recklessness,
desire to please, or to gain attention. If the spirit of plain John
Smith finds that the investigator will be satisfied only with George
Washington or a ten-thousand-year-old
"Atlantian," then these names are
given, and the messages, whatever name
they bear, may be all from the same
source.
In the delicate conditions of
transmission of communications, the
questioner, the receiving instrument,
is one of many important parts, and it
is possible for this factor to become
dominant and receive back an echo, his own desires. If the transmitting
instrument of a telephone should return just such a message as the
receiving instrument indicated as desirable, it would not disprove the
existence of the telephone, or of the
intelligence sending and receiving the
messages. Rather it would show the
character of the intelligence returning the message.
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