CHAPTER VII
FIRST PETERS SITTING (ANONYMOUS)
MRS.KENNEDY desired Lady Lodge to try with a different and independent medium, and therefore kindly arranged with Mr. A. Vout Peters to come to her house on Monday afternoon and give a trance sitting to 'a friend of hers' not specified. Accordingly, at or about 3 p.m. on Monday, 27 September 1915, Lady Lodge went by herself to Mrs. Kennedy's house, so as not to have to give any name, and awaited the arrival of Peters, who, when he came, said he would prefer to sit in Mrs. Kennedy's own room in which he had sat before, and which he associated with her son Paul. No kind of introduction was made, and Peters was a total stranger to Lady Lodge; though to Mrs. Kennedy he was fairly well known, having several times given her first-rate evidence about her son, who had proved his identity in several striking ways.
When Peters goes into a trance his personality is supposed to change to that of another man, who, we understand, is called 'Moonstone'; much as Mrs. Piper was controlled by apparent personalities calling themselves 'Phinuit' or 'Rector.' When Peters does not go into a trance he has some clairvoyant faculty of his own.
The only other person present on this occasion was Mrs. Kennedy, who kindly took notes.
This is an important sitting, as it was held for a complete stranger, so I propose to report it practically in full.
M. F. A. L. Sitting with A. Vout Peters, in Mrs. Kennedy's
House, on 27 September 1915, at 3.30 p.m.
| Medium | A. Vout Peters. |
| Sitter | Lady Lodge (M. F. A. L.). |
| Recorder | Mrs. Katherine Kennedy (K. K.). |
The record consists of Mrs. Kennedy's notes. Annotations in square
brackets have been added subsequently by O. J. L.
While only partially under control, Peters said: "I feel a lot of force here, Mrs. Kennedy."