THE EQUINOX
Persons impressed by the magnetism of Mr. Home feel a
sort of indisposition; it seems to them that the room turns
round, and the temperature seems to them to grow rapidly
lower.
The miracles are more successful in the presence of a few
people chosen by the medium himself.
In a meeting of several persons, it may be that all will see
the miracles—with the exception of one, who will see absolutely
nothing.
Among the persons who do see, all do not see the same
thing.
Thus, for example:
One evening, at Mme. de B——’s, the medium made appear
a child which that lady had lost. Mme. de B alone saw
the child; Count de M—— sawa little whitish vapour, in the
shape of a pyramid; the others saw nothing.
Everybody knows that certain substances, hashish, for
example, intoxicate without taking away the use of reason,
and cause to be seen with an astonishing vividness things
which do not exist.
A great part of the phenomena of Mr. Home belong to a
natural influence similar to that of hashish.
This is the reason why the medium refuses to operate
except before a small number of persons chosen by him-
self.
The rest of these phenomena should be attributed to
magnetic power.
To see anything at Mr. Home's séawces is not a reassuring
index of the health of him who sees.
And even if his health should be in other ways excellent,
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