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JAINA GAZETTE. [Aug. & Sept. softly and went in, standing just by it. She came in past me and walked to the sofa and stood still there, so I went up to her and asked if I could help her. She moved, and I thought she was going to speak, but she only gave a slight gasp and moved towards the door. Just by the door I spoke to her again, but she seemed as if she were quite unable to speak. She walked into the hall, then by the side door she seemed to disappear as before.”
A gain on July 21st of the same year : “ I went into the drawing-room, where my father and sisters were sitting about nine in the evening, and sat down on a couch close to the bow window. . . . . I saw the figure come in at the door, cross the room and take up a position close behind the couch where I was. · · She stood behind the couch for about half an hour, and then, as usual, walked to the door. I went after her. . . . I spoke to her as she passed the foot of the stairs but she did not answer, although, as before, she stopped and seemed about to speak."
“I also attempted to touch her, but she always eluded me. It was not that there was nothing there to touch, but that she always seemed to be beyond me, and, if followed to a corner, simply disappeared.... I have repeatedly followed it (the figure into a corner, when it disappeared, and have tried to pounce suddenly upon it, but have never succeeded in touching it or getting my hand up to it." : The appearances continued right on up to 1889, but from that time have not been seen.
For a full account of them and of their independent corroboration the reader must refer to Mr. F. W. H. Myers' book on “Human Personality.”
Now, how will any theory of delayed telepathic impressions account for these facts? How will any theory except that the personality of the bodily dead sarvives and has occasionally and in abnormal circumstances tbe power of making itself perceptible to our physical senses ?.
Then, again, there is the first class alluded to above, that of cases in which the wraith conveys accurate information which Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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