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country, she exhibited photographs showing how this aura appeared in different mental states. In health, lines were seen going straight out from the body. In disease, these lines drooped and were entangled in a state of confusion and disorder. In anger, they looked like forked lightning and were of a lurid color. In peace and love, they were gently -undulating and of a soft and beautiful rose color.

These photographs did not actually prove to my mind the existence of the aura, but it seemed reasonable to suppose that there might be something of the kind. Some time afterward there came to me something in the way of proof. It came when I was looking into Spiritualism and it came in this way. I had heard of an excellent medium in New York City, and went with two friends to one of his seances. We were entirely unknown to the medium, and it was the first seance we had ever attended. Including ourselves there were just seventeen persons present and we sat in a semi-circle or a sort of horseshoe, the medium sitting at the open end. In giving his tests the medium designated each person by a number.

He gave test after test, but none to our party, and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was prearranged by the medium and a number of confederates, in order to gather in the credulous, when, to my great surprise, my