Excerpt from To Daimonion, or the Spiritual Medium: Its Nature; Illustrated by the History of Its Uniform Mysterious Manifestation When Unduly Excited; In Twelve Familiar Letters to an Inquiring Friend
Reader, - Whatever your preconceived opinions as to the subject of which the following familiar letters treat, he your impressions reverence as for something sacred or abhorrence as of sacrilege, be your convictions those of contempt for imposture or of respect for the judgment of honest minds, allow yourself for a passing hour to be addressed by the personal salutation "My Dear Charles."
Thirty years ago the idea developed in these pages was conceived in the college class-room; and nine years later its reasoning was confirmed among the Brahminic magians of Egypt. The historic classifications wrought out in subsequent years took form in works published successively under the titles "To Daimonion" and "Spiritualism Tested;" whose exhausted editions now call for the present reprint, just at the time when another form of universally observed phenomena appears in the "Planchette."
The "Planchette" is, as its name implies, a little table, from four to six inches in diameter, which stands upon three supports, consisting of two wheels under the lobes, and a pencil thrust through an eyelet-hole at the apex. The table moves under the touch of one or more experimenters, and the pencil traces responses for questioners.
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