Angels, Fairies, Demons, and the Elementals

His first “reading,” as they were called, would be numbered 294-1,

When he was twenty-one, he developed a paralysis of the throat muscles that caused him to lose his voice.

At the age of six, he told his parents that he could see and talk with “visions,” sometimes of relatives who had recently died, and on occasion he saw angels.

As a child, he displayed unusual powers of perception.