Note 17 — INTUITIVE EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS. (continued 5)
Reading edition
To meet the curiosity of the reader, it may be well to say that communications by the pen are either impressional—that is, resulting from the volition of the writer, aided in the matter by the influence of a spirit—or they are automatic; that is, produced by the mechanical action of the spirits on the hand of the medium, entirely independent of the medium’s volition.