Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 11:11 pm:

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In digging through some really old material that I obtained recently, I came across a most unusual eyewitness account of an EGW vision, one which lends credence to the theory of demonic activity.

This is a letter from Bro. Hicks, Sept. 3, 1854 (published in the Messenger of Truth vol. 1 no. 3 p. 3, Oct. 19, 1854):

"As concerning Ellen G. White's visions, I have heretofore known but little about them. I once saw her have one, and I once saw a table tip over and then tip back again of its own acord so far as I could discern. Neither the phnomenon of the vision, nor of the table tipping did I understand."

I marked this quote and didn't pay too much attention to it, but 2 days later I was reading the USA Today newspaper, and since it being near Halloween, they had an article on "ghosts". While I usually ignore these, this one was about Dan Aykroyd (the actor) and his family's involvement with seances, so I started reading it. In that article Dan's father witnessed a seance and one of the phenomena he reported seeing was "tipping tables".

I then checked the internet and found that "tipping tables" is a common theme associated with seances. In fact, the online Thesaurus lists "table tipping" as a synonym for a seance.

So, perhaps there was a demonic force present in some of the early visions.

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