On Spirit Forms—Materialisation

At one of their sittings (1867), the circle was told by the Spirit controlling [Ruisdal] that if they persevered, they might be able to materialise hands, faces, etc.

I suppose these forms are merely got up by you for the occasion?

Just so. They are so far substantial, for they are to a certain extent material; yet they are not Spirit forms, but the Spirit is in them. Let me try to explain it to you. It is just something similar to a skeleton being covered anew with flesh and sinew. We get the material from the atmosphere around us. 

You appear in your dress to the Medium in trance, and I suppose he would even feel the kind of dress were he to touch you—that must be biological?

Yes; but that cannot be done with those not in trance.

Hafed, Prince of Persia—His Experiences in Earth Life and Spirit Life; being spirit communications received through Mr David Duguid, the Glasgow trance-painting medium; with an appendix, containing communications from the spirit artists, Ruisdal, and Steen. Illustrated by facsimiles of various drawings and writings, the direct work of the spirits; David Duguid, Hay Nisbet; James Burns, London, 1876