CONSTITUCIÓN DE LA GARANTÍA DEFINITIVA

Spirit Communications

Would you like to be able to apparently bring forth spirit messages from the unknown? With this miracle effect you can do it. In the exhibition, you pass for inspection a sealed bottle. Inside of the bottle, hanging suspended, is a weight. Placing the bottle in the center of a table, you rest your fingers lightly on the table's surface as you seem to enter a trance.

Soon the pendulum within the bottle will be noted to mysteriously begin to swing. Its swing increases to such an extent that it strikes the bottle's side, producing a distinct bell-like ring.

You request your observers to gather about the table and ask questions of "The Spirit-Controlled Swinging Pendulum."

Instantly, the answers come in the accepted spiritualistic code of one ring for "yes," two rings for "no," and three rings for "_maybe."

Thus all questions are answered by this miraculous device that seems positively motivated by unseen forces from beyond the pale.

The Miracle Method:

Secure a large wine bottle. In the bottom of its cork fasten a small screweye. Next, tie a lead fishing weight (use a ½" to 3/4"

size splitshot weight) and suspend it from the eyelet in the cork to such a length that it will dangle about two inches from the bottom of the bottle. Experiment a little in adjusting the length of this string within the bottle; work with it until the pendulum swings and will strike under the most delicate pressure. All set, push home the cork and seal it in position with sealing wax. You now have a tightly sealed bottle inside of which a pendulum is suspended.

Pass this "pendulum bottle" for critical inspection to your ob- servers. Then place it in the center of a bare-topped table. In placing the bottle on the table, be sure it is set so the screweye in the cork is edgewise to you in operating. Request the spectators to circle in close about the table, as you place your hands lightly upon its surface. As your fingers rest on the table, push forward a bit, causing the wood of the table's top to be slightly under tension. A rather small table with a top about twenty inches square works best for this experiment. If possible, use a table that, while not rickety or creaky, is not more solid than is the usual table of this type. It should have a little "give" to it. The top of a table of this style can usually be displaced a half inch or so by a slight pressure of the hands. You will experience no difficulty in locating such a suitable table, since it is 'a common item in almost every home.

Now look intently at the pendulum within the bottle and think

of it swinging. Amazingly, even to yourself, almost immediately it will start to swing and will soon strike the inside of the bottle, making a clear, ringing sound. Its action seems almost motivated from out- side of yourself.

Explain to your observers the meaning of the "spirit code": one ring of the pendulum signifying "yes," two rings "no," and three rings "maybe or uncertain." Explain to the group that they may ask

whatever questions they wish of the device, and it—under guidance of

"

spirit control" will ring out the answers to their questions in the code.

It will perform perfectly; to make it swing all you have to do isthink "swing," and merely let it swing until it has struck the inside

of the sealed bottle the required number of times ringing out the answers. When you want it to stop, just think "stop swinging," and

its movements will cease.

In this manner, in direct response to your thoughts, the pendulum apparently controlled by the spirits will swing and answer all questions as desired.

MIRACLE EFFECTS IN SPIRITISM • 67 66 • HOW TO PRODUCE MIRACLES

To get the knack of performing this experiment, it is well to first try it in private and deliberately push the table a little to learn the vibration rate of your pendulum. At this practice, go ahead and make the pendulum swing by actual pushes with your hands as they rest on the table's top.

Having experimented a little along these lines, you will soon find that you can cease making conscious movement with your hands, and allow your thoughts alone to activate the pendulum. By "

thoughts alone" is meant unconscious movements imparted through your hands as the result of your thoughts of the pendulum swinging.

These unconscious movements, imparted to the table, are so slight as to be entirely imperceptible to all observers. In fact, even to you, in operating the pendulum via this modus operandi, its movements will soon seem the direct manifestation of your mind upon it. Its action is mysterious, and you explain the cause of the phenomena in this miracle effect to the spectators as spirit communication.

After you have demonstrated the working of what we might well call "The Spirit Pendulum" by answering a few questions, ask one of your observers to place his hands on the table while you rest your hands lightly on top of them. Again the pendulum will swing in response to your thoughts, and the volunteer will be entirely un- able to detect any pressure of movement on your part, as the questions continue to be answered. In working in this manner with a spectator, be sure the person is directed to keep his attention fixed upon the pendulum within the bottle at all times. This operation is extremely subtle.

As to the correctness of the answers to the questions, this is specula- tive. However, if you will apply this procedure to the interrogations, the correctness of the responses will prove surprising, viz.:

(a) Never try to guess at an answer to the question asked. (b) Never form an opinion of any kind with regard to the question asked.

(c) Simply listen to the question, and then think the pendulum

to motion. Let the pendulum strike of its own accord.

By using this approach when you present this demonstration, it will amaze you how the answers to the questions appear to develop seemingly without any conscious effort on your part to make the pendulum start, strike, or stop. Possibly it might be described as a type of extra sensory perception or a form of intuition that motivates the impulses you unconsciously impart to "The Spirit Pendulum" that renders it truly miracle.

Ectoplasmic Lights

A popular manifestation of the dark seance chamber is the pro- duction of luminous spirit excrescence known as ectoplasm. In this experiment, you produce such phenomena.

After you are placed under careful control with an observer on both sides of your body holding your hands, the lights in the room are turned out.

Shortly, within the confines of that inky room, miniature lights are seen floating about in space; they flit here and there, vanishing and reappearing like "will-o-the-wisps," images of elusive and me- andering spirits.

The room lights are again turned on. You appear entranced, and there is no evidence in any form to account for this bewildering phenomenon.

Next, while standing against the far end of the room, you announce that you will attempt to produce an even more spectacular demonstra- tion of spirit manifestation. The lights are once more extinguished, and seen directly in front of the spot where you were standing is a large circle of spirit light. The luminous circle is at least eight feet in diameter and it seems beyond the credible that it could be produced by any means other than spirit powers.

Slowly the circle diminishes until it fades away to nothing. The room lights are turned on, and you are seen leaning against the wall in a daze. As for the "spirit circle of light," it could well have been a dream.

You will find these seance chamber demonstrations extremely provocative.

This experiment makes use of luminous paint, which may be bought from most paint companies. Always remember that in using luminous articles, they must be exposed to light shortly before using them. To do this, simply place the luminously painted item so an electric lamp can shine directly on it. The paint will quickly absorb the light rays, and will glow brightly for a considerable period in the dark. In this miracle effect, the use of luminous paint is applied in a clever way. Paint a one-inch circle of this paint on the bottom of each of your shoes. Place the spot of paint well back in the in-step just in front of the heel.