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were paralyzed in their presence, just as the unfortunate people who reportedly encountered vampires in central Europe were supposedly frozen in their tracks by some mysterious force or power radiating from the entities. The Manifestations have remained the same throughout Lin. - Oe nan fab ane 2-ennae Loe La---4 history. Only our interpretations of those events have changed. The occult literature asserts that there are several different types of _ peeres Woot wt at elementals. Fire elementals somehow utilize the energy of flames and materialize in burning houses, fireplaces, furnaces. Then there are water elementals, air elementals and elementals that feast upon the energy of plants. (Some fascinating experiments with plants have been under way for several years by various independent researchers. Sensitive lie- detector devices have been hooked up to potted plants and actually respond when other plants in the room are deliberately injured. The device also reacts to human pain, indicating that all living things might somehow be interrelated by undetermined energy forces.) The most interesting elemental type is the humanlike being who materializes at seances. Such beings have actually been photographed and examined by medical doctors. The spiritualists have developed their own jargon to describe and explain these unbelievable materializations, but it does seem that these entities are identical to the ufonauts. In these cases, the medium goes into a trance, his or her metabolism declining almost to the point of death. Then a figure slowly begins to appear in the seance room. (In many cases, the room is fully lighted, and the witnesses completely surround the figure, ruling out mundane trickery.) In the majority of cases, the entity resembles an Indian or an Oriental, with high cheekbones, slanted eyes, and reddish or olive skin. They usually wear robes or Indian garb but have also appeared in the accepted dress of the period. Long hair is a common feature. Both male and female entities have been described. They can speak audibly and carry on conversations with the witnesses. These seance materializations seem to be identical, also, to the Valkyrie types who appear repeatedly before isolated individuals. Sir William Crookes, the famed physicist, attended no less than forty-five materializations of this kind, photographing and physically examining the entities. Here is a rather routine description of a materialization event from the late 1800s, as recounted by Archbishop Thomas Colley in a commentary appended to the 1882 edition of Oahspe, witnessed by a group of doctors and clergymen: “‘A spirit form, eight inches taller than Dr. Monck [Reverend Francis Monck, the medium], grew from him by degrees, and The Cosmic Jokers / 207