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I f b y r e s e a r c h t h e p o w e r w h i c h s p i r i t s h a v e , o r h a v e n o t , o f i n f l u e n c i n g n o r m a l h u m a n

b e i n g s , t h a t i s t o s a y , t h o s e w h o a r e n o t m e d i u m s i n t h e o r d i n a r y s e n s e o f t h e w o r d , c o u l d h e d e t e r m i n e d , t h e r e s u l t w o u l d b e o f w o r l d - w i d e i n t e r e s t . Y e t f e w p r o b l e m s a r e m o r e d i f f i c u l t t h a n t h i s o n e , t o a t t e m p t t o s o l v e o r b y d i r e c t k n o w l e d g e o r e x p e r i m e n t .

S o m e y e a r s a g o a t t h e séances o f M r s . Y o l c k m a n ( f o r m e r l y M r s . G u p p y ) w h e n a s m a n y a s t h i r t y g u e s t s w e r e a s s e m b l e d , a n d s e a t e d i n v a r i o u s p a r t s o f a l a r g e d a r k r o o m , i t w a s a c o m m o n t h i n g f o r e a c h t o a s k t h e s p i r i t s i n t u r n f o r s o m e f r u i t o r f l o w e r w h i c h s e i z e d h i s f a n c y a t t h e m o m e n t , a n d t o f e e l i t p l a c e d i n h i s h a n d s t h e v e r y m o m e n t t h e r e q u e s t h a d f a l l e n f r o m h i s l i p s . O n e s u c h séance w e r e c o r d e d a t t h e t i m e , w i t h t h e f u l l n a m e s a n d a d d r e s s e s o f a l l t h e h i g h l y r e s p e c t ­a b l e a n d t r u s t w o r t h y w i t n e s s e s , a c c o m p a n i e d b y t h e s t a t e m e n t o f e a c h a s t o h i s v a r i o u s r e q u e s t s a n d t h e w a y i n w h i c h t h e y h a d b e e n g r a n t e d . O u t o f t h e f r u i t s s u d d e n l y a s k e d f o r t h a t e v e n i n g , s o m e w e r e s o r a r e a s t o m a k e i t u n r e a s o n a b l e t o s u p p o s e i t p r o b a b l e t h e y c o u l d b e o b t a i n e d a n y w h e r e w i t h i n a r a d i u s o f t w o m i l e s o f t h e h o u s e a t H o l l o w a y .

B u t s u p p o s i n g t h a t t h e y h a d b e e n i n t h e h o u s e b e f o r e t h e séance b e g a n , h a d t h e p o w e r ­f u l s p i r i t i n f l u e n c e p r e v a i l i n g o n t h e p r e m i s e s t h e p o w e r m o r e o r l e s s t o s o i n f l u e n c e t h e m i n d s o f n o r m a l i n d i v i d u a l s , a s t o m a k e t h e m a s k f o r a n y t h i n g w h i c h s u i t e d t h e c o n v e n i e n c e o f t h e s p i r i t s a t w o r k ? L i t t l e i s k n o w n o f t h e e x t e n t t o w h i c h t h e u n s p o k e n t h o u g h t s o f o n e e m b o d i e d o r u n e m b o d i e d s p i r i t c a n a c t u p o n a n o t h e r , h u t a l l a r e f a m i l i a r w i t h t h e

p h e n o m e n o n t h a t t w T o f r i e n d s w i t h o u t s p e a k i n g t o e a c h o t h e r w i l l s o m e t i m e s t h i n k o f t h e s a m e s u b j e c t a t t h e s a m e i n s t a n t , a n d t h e e x p e r i e n c e i s c o m m o n t h a t t h e m o m e n t a s u p p o s e d f a r - o f f f r i e n d i s t h o u g h t o f , h e w i l l p u t i n a n a p p e a r a n c e .

H e r e , h o w e v e r , i s a m o r e d e f i n i t e c a s e . S o m e y e a r s a g o , t h e l a t e M r . B e n j a m i n C o l e ­m a n , o f 1 , B e r n a r d V i l l a s , U p p e r N o r w o o d ,

218 T H E S P I R I T U A L I S T . May 7, 1880.

was at a séance at Annandale, tlio residence of a friend in the immediate locality. Mr. and Mrs. Guppy were there, and the hostess asked Mrs. Guppy to request the spirits to bring something. This Mrs. Guppy declined to do, on the ground that uncharitable people would then of course say that it was produced from her pocket, so the company requested Mr. Coleman to select some article to be brought if possible from a distance. u Well, Mr. Guppy,” said Mr. Coleman, “ I wish that the spirits would bring your hawk.” Mr. Guppy had a tame hawk in his house at Holloway, which which was perhaps five or more miles in a direct line from the place of the séance at Upper Norwood. No sooner had the words been spoken than Mrs. Guppy screamed, say­ing that the bird was there and she thought that it was dead. A light was struck, and Mr. Guppy to his consternation saw his pet hawk, dead, and torn, and bleeding.

Next day, on his return to Holloway, he made inquiries at home. Mrs. Parker, the housekeeper, said that the night before she had occasion to unfasten the little chain of the hawk, and it escaped through the partly-opened window in the dark night. Dreading Mr. Guppy’s anger, she then searched around the garden, but saw nothing there but a cat, at ■which she threw a piece of brick. So far as could be ascertained, the times of disappear­ance of the hawk at Holloway and its pro­duction at Upper Norwood, were the same within a few minutes.

In this case it can scarcely bo supposed that the spirits loosened and killed the hawk, merely because Mr. Coleman had asked for its production. The presumption rather is, that Mrs. Guppy’s spirits saw the hawk killed by a cat, and in their concern at the destruction of a family pet, had the power to put the idea into the mind of Mr. Coleman to ask for it. Mr. Coleman was no medium and no fanatic, but a hard-headed city man; the witnesses were intelligent and critical people, and Mr. and Mrs. Guppy were staying in the house as guests.

_ Are then our thoughts less under our own direction than they are supposed to be ? Per­haps some of our readers can furnish details of wTell authenticated incidents bearing upon this problem.

S w e d e n b o r g t a u g h t th a t th e s p i r i t s o f m e n

a n d o f a n g e ls a c t a n d re a c t u p o n e a ch o t h e r a s

u r e ly a s o n e p la n e t a c t s u p o n a n o t h e r i n a c -

o rd a n c e w it h t h e a t t ra c t io n o f g r a v it a t io n ,

n d th a t i f a m a n ’s c o n n e c t io n Av itli th e s p i r i t

jH world could be cut, he would die absolutely and eternally ; it would be a ease of annihila­

is tion.• : ---------------- ■ - -

j ; SPIRITUALISM IN SALT LAKE CITY, j,. To the Editor o f “ The Religio-Philosophical Journal |;| ( Chicago, April \lth.)

i ) i T h i s b r i e f a c c o u n t o f t h e m e d i u m s h i p o f M r s .I M a r g a r e t H u n t o f t h i s c i t y , i s o f f e r e d f o r p u b ­

; ' ; l i c a t i o n a s a m a t t e r o f j u s t i c e a n d g r a t i t u d e t o ­w a r d s a m e d i u m w h o ' h a s b o o n t h e m e a n s o f d o i n g m u c h g o o d b y h e r v a r i o u s p h a s e s o f

? i m e d i u m s h i p ( c o n s i s t i n g o f c l a i r v o y a n c e , c l a i r - ) i a u d i e n c e , i n s p i r a t i o n a n d t r a n c e ) i n t h i s f a r - o f f

A “ C i t y o f t h e S a i n t s . ” T h e f o l l o w i n g a r e s o m e Kj o f t h e t e s t s r e c e n t l y g i v e n b y M r s . H u n t i n h e r ¡ ( 1 w e e k ly séances. T h e s p i r i t o f a l a d y Avas d e - | ( | s c r i b e d b y h e r w h o l a t e l y p a s s e d t o s p i r i t - l i f e a i n A u s t r a l i a . E n t r a n c i n g t h e m e d i u m s h e h o l d Kj a c o n v e r s a t i o n w i t h a g e n t l e m a n p r e s e n t , i d o n t i - d ; f y i n g h e r s e l f u n m i s t a k a b l y b y r e f e r r i n g t o m a t -j ) j ters unknoAvu to the medium, also stating that js| she had manifested herself to a daughter residing j ( j in California, Avhichwas notknoAvn to any person

p r e s e n t a t t h e t i m e , b u t w h i c h avus a f t e r w a r d s K j c o n f i r m e d b y a l e t t e r f r o m s a i d d a u g h t e r . U j T h e s p i r i t o f a l i t t l e g i r l w a s d e s c r i b e d t o a j < ' l a d y A v h o a t t e n d e d t h e c i r c l e f o r t h e f i r s t t i m e , g ; a n d h e r n a m e g i v e n , a n d t h e n a m e o f t h e d o c t o r | > j w h o a t t e n d e d h e r i n h e r l a s t s i c k n e s s . T h e h f a c t A v a s m e n t i o n e d t h a t s h e h a d g a t h e r e d s o m e R w i l d r o s e s s h o r t l y b e f o r e h e r l a s t s i c k n e s s ,! | w h i c h w a s a n e x c e l l e n t t e s t o f i d e n t i t y t o t h e

II mother. Another striking test Avas given to j a gentleman who Avas in business relations i Avith another person whom he supposed to be j alive and ayoII in Colorado. The medium avIio j saw the spirit place his hand on the shoulder i of his friend, told him that he would hear

serious news from Ciucinnati, Avdiich piw ed to be true, for the individual spoken of died very suddenly in Colorado, and avus taken home to his friends in Cincinnati, and from

; there came the news that he had passed to j spirit-life. This Avas a striking test, for neither I the medium nor the person addressed were j cognisant of the facts given, j In testimony of the aboAre AVe subscribe our- j selves on behalf of the members of the circle,

j A lfred W a r d ,j Tuos. C. A rmstrong, Sen.,j ■ John G unn,! L ucy W ard .j Salt Lake City, Utah.

Db. Slade is still in Colorado, and is much pleased with the enthusiasm his visit there has awakened in the public mind. The newspapers are doing justico to his mediumship.

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A THEOSOPHIST’S VIEW OF MAN’S POSITION AND PROSPECTS.41

BY W. F. KIRBY.

Children of Maya, and living in more senses than one in the Kali-Yug, how can we arrive at truth; we who have no knowledge of the absolute, nor any standard by which we can attain to absolute truth ? Only, as it seems to me, by ascertaining from the past and present exactly where we stand.

The famous parable, propounded 1250 years ago, on the occasion of the arrival of some of the earliest Christian missionaries to the English, at the court of King Edwin of Northumberland, is as true now as on the day when it was spoken. “ Truly the life of a man in this world, compared with that life whereof we wot not, is on this wise. It is as when thou, 0 King,art sitting at supper with thine Aldermen and thy Thanes in the time of winter, when the hearth is lighted in the midst, and the hall is warm, but without the rains and the snow are falling and the winds are howling; then corneth a sparrow, and flieth through the house, she corneth in by one door and goctli out by another. While she is in the house, she feeleth not the storm of winter, but yet, when a little moment of rest is passed, she flieth again into the storm, and passeth away from our eyes. So is it with the life of man, it is but for a moment, what goeth afore it, and Avhat cometh after it, Wot we not at all. Wherefore if these strangers can tell us aught, that we may know whence man cometh and whither he goeth, let us hearken to them and follow their law.”

It is doubtful whether the Teutonic tribes brought anything with them from the com­mon home of the Aryaus in Central Asia, except exoteric fragments of some Oriental religion, nor does it appear that they were ever fully initiated, like their predecessors in Europe, and the Christian nations within the limits of the Koman Empire. But before I trace down the growth of our present know­ledge, I would point out that whereas the seeds of many of the greatest advances in knowledge or intellectual development have been sown among the Latins, they have borne no fruit until transplanted to German soil.f I have just said that it is very doubtful whether the Teutonic nations were ever initiated, either before their conversion to Christianity, or afterwards; and therefore they eagerly took

* A paper read before the Theosophical Society, May 2nd, 1880.f The Reformation, the Circulation of the Blood, and Modern

Astronomy may bo mentioned in illustration.

up the great intellectual movement of the Reformation. But the leaders of the Refor­mation shared in the ignorance and bigotry of their age, and endeavoured to bind all succeed­ing ages down to a barren worship of the letter, which has rendered Protestantism, espe­cially in its more extreme forms, the baldest and most exoteric of all religions. Yet, they threw, open the Bible to all, and the light has truly shone amid the darkness, and the dark­ness comprehended it not, for the more or less hidden wisdom which it contains, especially that of the New Testament, has done much to counteract the evil tendency of the theology of the reformers. To digress for a moment, let me say that there are three very distinct meanings jumbled up in the English translation of the Gospels, under the word Heaven. In the synoptic Gospels the word is almost al­ways in the plural, (except where it means the sky) and is evidently used for the Spiritual Worlds. The second meaning, already men­tioned, is the sky. In this case the word is in the singular, and the meaning is obvious from the context. The third meaning is to be found in the Gospel of John. Here the word is in the singular, and usually denotes the state Avhence Christ descended, and to which he was to return, or in plain terms, Nirvana.

But even in physical matters, the horizon of Europeans 300 or 100 years ago was fear­fully contracted. The earth was of very limited extent and duration to them ; yet it was the only important portion of the universe, except Heaven and Hell. Their ideas were even more cramped than those of the Moham- madans, (narrow as is exoteric Mohamma- danisrn), for the Arabs extended their voyages to Spain, India, China, the Aru Islands, Zan­zibar, and Madagascar, and perhaps further; and in addition to their regarding the earth as of vast extent (far exceeding its real di­mensions), they had imported part of theIndian metaphorical greatly enlarged their ideas of the vastness of

cosmogonies, which

the universe.*At length, however, came Galileo and

Columbus, and the real dimensions and character of the earth and the physical universe were discovered.

After this came Rationalism, demanding that all knowledge resting on authority should produce its credentials. Its mission is to sweep away the falsities of the past to prepare for the future, and this work is as yet

!! * See the story of Bulookiya, iu the Arabian Nights,

220 T H E S P I R I T U A L I S T . Mat 1 , 1880,

incomplete. We can afford, however, to look on calmly, for it is not our mission to destroy, but to build up, and the Eationalistic plough only prepares the soil for the good seed of future progress.

Next came Geology, extending our view backwards and forwards, far beyond the 6,000 years of the popular theology. Then came the discovery of the antiquity of man, and of principles of evolution, sweeping away the materialistic interpretation of Genesis. Finally, the discovery of spectrum analysis bas estab­lished the unity of the physical universe, and the rise of Spiritualism has opened before us the vast horizons of the spiritual universe.

Nationally, we have everything to encourage us. We are not a race that has retrograded, and although the earlier civilisations may have risen to a higher level than our own, yet we are a new people, risen within a very few centuries from utter barbarism to the station which we occupy at present.

But we cannot get rid so easily of the con­tracted ideas which prevailed until, as it were, yesterday, respecting space and time. Just as our Christian brethren, without ex­ception, look forward to earn “ Heaven ” by one well-spent life, so are we too liable to look to Nirvana as attainable by the single sustained effort of a single life. We do not consider that we inhabit a very small and very inferior world, and that our arm is still too short to reach the sun, but like blind men restored to sight, we think we can touch any­thing we can see. liven as regards the material universe, I think I am much within the mark in saying that a pea placed in the middle of one of our largest parks - would uot more than represent the proportion borne by our earth to the solar system alone. Beyond the system it would take 200,000 years to count the number of miles to the nearest fixed star.

You will ask me, what of the accomplished union with God, of which the mystics speak ? This, I think I can explain by referring to Swedenborg, who says that in some of the inferior planets, the inhabitants are permitted to worship the angel, (or the society of angels) appointed to rule over them. In another passage, he says that the higher the society, the more it appears to the angels that they act of themselves, but the more certainly they know that they speak and act from the Lord alone ; that is, as I take it, from the society j next above them, through which the divine influx descends to them. Again, there is

|| understood to be perfect communion of thought j and feeling within the higher societies, so that | the thought or act of any member is felt as | the thought or act of all. Hence it would j seem to any man who succeeded in placing | himself temporarily cn rapport with such a j society, that he had become one with God; i and his feelings would be practically incom- | municable to anyone who had had no similar | experience. If this Hew is correct, it will go <| fiu’ to explain such ideas as absorption of

q individuality, which are often used without any d very clear and definite sense being attached to

them.q Again, very few generations separate the jq savage from the sage. The links have existed, jsj hut on looking back through history they j?j shade away. Shall one material existence, $ even on earth, be sufficient for our develop­

ment, if it requires material existence at all ? * q Infinite are the phases of human life, even q here, nor could any two existences be other (i than widely different. Hence a new earthly

existence would be to all intents and purposes ¡(; as new a life as the transfer from one spiritual Id society to another. And there must be a still A greater difference between planet and planet. ); Bet us look rather to slow aud sure steps for • j advancement, than attempt to scale the i Heavens at a bound, and 1 bus repeat the error

of the Christians. The earth is, (as the Arabs d say, speaking of the habitable portion of the <| earth, compared with their idea of what is d uninhabited) as a tent in a desert j and within q the vast limits of the solar system, there <; must be, around and beyond the material j worlds, worlds within worlds of spiritual

<| universes, all which lie before us, as we pass q to and fro, first between the earth and its (j dependent spheres (for I greatly doubt if we q are really in communication with any spirit- (\ ual spheres at all, except those immediately :j dependent on the earth), and then from planet q to planet, our residence in each planet, in­ti eluding residence in its dependent spheres,( till we reach the suns, and thus :; “ From star to star,c From world to luminous world, as far

As the universe stretches its flaming wall.” But beyond the earths, beyond the spheres,<! beyond the sun, beyond Sirius, beyond Alcyone,) lies Nirvana, the state of the pure spirits, far < above any material or even fluidic world, and we $ are told that when a Buddha is about to attain it,( *Dr- Temple has shown us that the development of the race is S ttlB development of the individual, and must not the converse < be true, and the development of the individual be as that of the \ race P

M a t 7, 1880. T H E S P I R I T U A L I S T . 221

h e w o u l d s p u r n f r o m h i m w i t h u t t e r s c o r n t h e o f f e r o f b e c o m i n g t h e k i n g o f a D e v a - L o k a , ( o n e o f t h e h i g h e s t s p i r i t u a l w o r l d s ) , f o r a h u n d r e d m i l l i o n y e a r s ; o r a n y o t h e r c o n ­c e i v a b l e b l e s s e d n e s s , i n e x c h a n g e , a l t h o u g h h i s p o w e r o v e r t h e m a t e r i a l u n i v e r s e h a s b e ­c o m e p r a c t i c a l l y i n f i n i t e ,

“ Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,And multiply each through endless years ;One minute of Heaven is worth them all.”

T r u l y , w e y e t s t a n d l o w , r m r y l o w o n o n e o f t h e r u n g s o f J a c o b ’ s l a d d e r , w i t h i t s f o o t i n t h e p r i m e v a l n e b u l a , a n d i t s h e a d i n N i r v a n a . L e t u s n o t s u p p o s e t h a t o n e g o o d l i f e c a n d e s e r v e N i r v a n a , a n y m o r e t h a n o n e e v i l l i f e

c a n d e s e r v e e t e r n a l s u f f e r i n g .H o w i t t o n c e s c o f f e d a t a v i s i t t o a l l t h e

w o r l d s i n t h e u n i v e r s e a s “ r a t h e r a l o n g j o u r ­n e y . ” G r a n t e d , b u t w h a t m a t t e r s t i m e o r s p a c e t o u s i f avc h a v e a n e t e r n a l e x i s t e n c e

b e f o r e n s ? A l l o u r l i v e s m u s t b e c o n n e c t e d t o g e t h e r ; a n d w h e n w e e n t e r a w o r l d , w e b r i n g o u r c a p a c i t i e s , a n d I d o u b t n o t , o u r f r i e n d s w i t h u s . T h e u n i v e r s e b e i n g h e l d t o ­g e t h e r b y b o n d s o f s y m p a t h y , s h a l l i t n o t b e t h e c a s e w i t h s p i r i t s f r o m l i f e t o l i f e ? B u t I d o u b t i f s p i r i t u a l a f f i n i t y d e p e n d s o n s e x . W i t h o u t c a r i n g t o g o i n t o d e t a i l s , I m a y s a y t h a t a s I i n t e r p r e t w e l l - k n o w n f a c t s o f p h y ­s i o l o g y , s e x i s a m e r e b o d i l y a c c i d e n t , a n d n o t i n h e r e n t i n t h e s p i r i t . H e r e , i n s t a t e s o f s o c i e t y w h e r e t h e s e x e s a r c o n a c o m p a r a t i v e e q u a l i t y , avc r e g a r d t h e d e e p e s t a f f e c t i o n a s c o n j u g a l ; b u t w h e r e t h i s i s n o t t h e c a s e , i n a n c i e n t a n d e s p e c i a l l y i n E a s t e r n c o u n t r i e s , t h e d e e p e s t a f f e c t i o n s w c r e a d o f a r c n o t a l - A y a y s s o . I t i s c l e a r t h a t A c h i l l e s w a s f a r m o r e s i n c e r e l y a t t a c h e d t o P a t r o c l u s t h a n t o B r i s e i s , a n d t h a t D a v i d A v a s f a r m o r e a t t a c h e d t o J o n a t h a n t h a n t o M i c h a l . T h e d e e p e s t a f f e c t i o n , t o o , m a y s o m e t i m e s e x i s t b e t w e e n r e l a t i v e s ; a s i n t h e c u r i o u s i n s t a n c e c i t e d b y M i s s B l a c k w e l l , o f a m o t h e r a n d d a u g h t e r , avIio A v e r e s o d e e p l y a t t a c h e d t h a t A v h c n t h e f o r m e r d i e d , s h e i m m e d i a t e l y s o u g h t a n d o b ­t a i n e d p e r m i s s i o n t o r e i n c a r n a t e h e r s e l f a s h e r d a u g h t e r ’ s c h i l d .

Lot us not be led astray by the contracted horizons and the narroAV ideas of the past, but let us look upon the past and future as be­comes beings Avith infinite possibilities before us, in an infinite universe, if avc will only free ourselves from prejudice, and Avork and wait patiently, Avitkout hoping for or grasping at everything at once.

ADDITIONAL NOTE.I t i s s o m e t i m e s a r g u e d t h a t t h e o t h e r p l a n e t s ,

ii and much more the suns, are too hot or too cold to support life ; but I think it more reasonable to believe that all, or nearly all the planets are inhabited by beings adapted to

I: t h e i r p h y s i c a l c o n d i t i o n . S t i l l l e s s c a n I s u p - | p o s e l i f e t o b e a b s e n t i n t h e s u n s , t h e m s e l v e s ! t h e c e n t r e s o f l i f e t o t h e p l a n e t s a r o u n d t h e m .

! T h e y a r e p r o b a b l y t h e a b o d e e i t h e r o f t h e s p i r i t s c o n t r o l l i n g t h e s y s t e m s , o r o f s p i r i t s

n o t A v h o l l y f r e e f r o m t h e l a s t l i n k b i n d i n g t h e m t o t h e m a t e r i a l i t y o f t h e s y s t e m A v h i c h t h e y a t

i r ! p r e s e n t i n h a b i t . * E v e n t h e p r o s e E d d a t e l l s u s ! > ! t h a t “ t h o s e n o t i n d i g e n o u s t h e r e t o c a n n o t e n ­! ! ! t e r M u s p e l l h c i m . ” O f c o u r s e n o t h i n g m a t e r i a l

a s w e u n d e r s t a n d t h e w o r d c o u l d i n h a b i t e v e n ! v : t h e s u p e r i o r p l a n e t s , m u c h l e s s t h e s u n s .

u; DIVINATION.j . BY HENRY G. ATKINSON, F .G .S ., AUTHOR OF “ LETTERS

TO MISS MARTINEAU.”

) A straw shows the Avay the Avind blows. cl No doubt Sir Walter Scott always tries to ex-

| ! plain psychical matters away, since, if believed ' | in accordance with their seeming import, they j ! Avould, to the apprehension of “ the enlightened

i public,” appear to be superstitious, and as per- I-j haps a weak point in Sir W alter’ s otherwise ;! clear understanding. But whether Scott Avas | sincere always in those explanations, or was

j ) Avriting more in reference to and in deference i | to prevailing ideas is not certain, though I am m surprised that no reference to the matter is j;j to be found in his diary which might throw js! light on the question as to Scott’s real belief, kj His introducing such subject matter in his

writings goes for nothing, any more than his introducing religious fanatics can be regarded

s as any evidence of his OAvn religious convic­tions. HoAvcver, the following entry in the

j> diary was curious.I) It was soon after his failure and total wreck } of all his fortune, and while in the utmost dis- < tress on account of his Avife’s illness, who died < shortly afterwards.S| April 3rd, 1826.(\ “ I liave the extraordinary and gratifying news that

‘ Woodstock’ is sold for £8228,all ready money, a mateh- ji; less sale for less than three months’work. If‘Napoleon’ vj (the life) does as well, or near it, it will put the trust !(: affairs in high flourish. Four or five years of leisure !)| and industry would, with such success, amply replaceI! my losses. I have a curious fancy : I will go and set j two or three acorns, and judge by their success in grow- | ing whether I shall succeed in clearing my way or not.”

| H e r e i s a g r e a t m a n , s o i n t e l l e c t u a l a n d A v i s e , i s u c h a n a c u t e o b s e r v e r o f m e n a n d m a n n e r s ,

a n d o n e w o u l d s a y o f c l e a r a n d s u p r e m e c o m ­m o n s e n s e , y e t a t t h e a d v a n c e d a g e o f 6 3 ,

*

The Gods and their avators are always symbolised by the sun.

222 M a t 7, 1880.THE SPI RI TUALI ST,

a n d w h e n u n d e r t h e i n f l u e n c e o f m o s t d i s t r e s s i n g ; ( d o m e s t i c a n x i e t y a n d o v e r w h e l m e d b y t h e K w e i g h t o f a d v e r s e c i r c u m s t a n c e s — b y r u i n , i n K f a c t — i n d u l g i n g i n s u c h a c h i l d i s h f a n c y , s u c h Í a n e w l y i n v e n t e d t r i a l o f f o r t u n e . W h e t h e r j ) s u c h s u p e r s t i t i o u s a d v e n f u r e s w e r c c o m m o n w i t h j i h i m w ' e a r c n o t t o l d . I s h o u l d t h i n k n o t b y t h e w o r d i n g o f t h e i d e a . H o w e v e r , i f t h e c i r c u m s t a n c e w i l l a i d M r . C a m p b e l l t o e l u c i d a t e t h e a f f a i r c o n c e r n i n g G e o r g e B u l l o c k ’ s d e a t h , a n d t h e c o r r e s p o n d i n g n o i s e s h e a r d b y S c o t t t h e s a m e n i g h t , a t A b b o t s f o r d , o r w i l l e n a b l e h i m b e t t e r t o j u d g e i n r e s p e c t t o S c o t t ’ s p r e ­d i s p o s i t i o n t o w a r d s t h e b e l i e f i n t h e s u p e r ­n a t u r a l o r p r e t e r n a t u r a l , t h e i n c i d e n t a s r e ­c o r d e d i s a t h i s s e r v i c e .

Boulogne-sur-Mer, May 4th, 1S80.------- «-------

S P O N T A N E O U S M A T E R I A L I S A T I O N S .BY W . EGLINTON.

T h e f o l l o w i n g w e l l a u t h e n t i c a t e d n a r r a t i v e s o f s p o n t a n e o u s a p p a r i t i o n s o r m a t e r i a l i s a t i o n s m a y b e o f i n t e r e s t t o y o u r r e a d e r s . I n t h e C a s t l e o f K a m m e r b u r g , a t B c n e s c h a u , i n B o ­

h e m i a , b e l o n g i n g t o P r i n c e K - - - - - - - - - , a r e r e c o r d so f t h e a n c e s t o r s o f t h e p r e s e n t d e s c e n d a n t , w h i c h d a t e b a c k s o m e f i v e h u n d r e d y e a r s . T h e m a n u s c r i p t 1 m s b e e n h a n d e d d o w n f r o m f a t h e r t o s o n , e a c h o n e i n h i s t u r n m a k i n g c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o i t . I n t h e y e a r 1 7 5 0 i s r e ­c o r d e d a j o u r n e y w h i c h t h e g r e a t - g r a n d f a t h e r o f t h e p r e s e n t P r i n c e t o o k t o N a p l e s w h e n a

y o u n g m a n , a n d t h e i n c i d e n t s o c c u r r i n g t o h i m d u r i n g h i s a b s e n c e f r o m h o m e . I t i s m e n t i o n e d t h a t w h i l e a t t e n d i n g t h e c a r n i v a l i n t h e a b o v e - n a m e d c i t y , e v e r y o n e b e i n g i n m a s k , a m a n s t e p p e d u p t o t h e P r i n c e , a n d t o u c h i n g h i m o n t h e s h o u l d e r , s a i d “ G o h o m e : y o u r f a t h e r i s j u s t d e a d . ” B e f o r e t h e P r i n c e c o u l d q u e s t i o n h i m , t h e m a n d i s a p p e a r e d , a n d t h i n k ­i n g s o m e o n e w a s p l a y i n g a j o k e u p o n h i m , t h e P r i n c e t o o k n o m o r e n o t i c e o f t h e m a t t e r , h e h a v i n g l e f t h i s f a t h e r i n g o o d h e a l t h w h e n h e s e t o u t u p o n h i s j o u r n e y . T h e f o l l o w i n g d a y , h o w e v e r , w h e n t h e c a r n i v a l w a s a t i t s h e i g h t , t h e s a m e m a n a p p e a r e d b y h i s s i d e , a n d a g a i n t o u c h i n g h i s s h o u l d e r , r e p e a t e d “ Y o u r f a t h e r i s d e a d , ” a n d d i s a p p e a r e d a s m y s t e r i o u s l y a s b e f o r e . O n t h e t h i r d d a y , t h e m a n a g a i n a p ­p r o a c h e d h i m , m a k i n g h i s f o r m e r s t a t e m e n t : t h a t t h e P r i n c e ’ s f a t h e r w a s d e a d ; w h e r e u p o n i ' j t h e P r i n c e r u s h e d a t t h e m a n a n d t r i e d t o g r a s p ; > ! h i m , b u t h o d i s a p p e a r e d a s o n t h e p r e v i o u s i o c c a s i o n s . A f t e r t h e C a r n i v a l h a d t e r m i n a t e d , t h e P r i n c e w e n t h o m e , h i s f a t h e r ’ s e s t a t e b e i n g R , d i s t a n t f o u r t e e n o r f i f t e e n d a y s ’ j o u r n e y f r o m i < j N a p l e s . U p o n h i s a r r i v a l , h e w a s i n f o r m e d p i t h a t h i s f a t h e r w a s d e a d ; a n d t h e d a t e o f h i s ! > !

d e c e a s e c o i n c i d e d e x a c t l y w i t h t h e f i r s t a p p e a r ­a n c e o f t h e s t r a n g e m a n a t N a p l e s . T h e r e w e r e n o t e l e g r a p h s o r r a i l w a y s i n t h o s e d a y s .

T h e s e c o n d a n d t h i r d i n s t a n c e s o c c u r r e d i n t h e c a s t l e a b o v e n a m e d . T h r e e d a y s a f t e r h i s m a r r i a g e , o n t h e 1 7 t h J u n e , 1 8 7 1 , t h e p r e s e n t P r i n c e t o o k h i s w i f e t h e r e . T h e s a m e d a y , a b o u t m i d n i g h t , t h e P r i n c e s s w a s a l o n e i n h e r

1 b o u d o i r , d r e s s i n g h e r h a i r , w h e n s h e h e a r d I s o m e b o d y e n t e r t h e r o o m ( w h i c h a d j o i n s t h e i c h a p e l o f t h e c a s t l e ) a n d , w a l k i n g u p t o h e r ,

d h e — o r i t — t o u c h e d h e r u p o n t h e s h o u l d e r . : T h i n k i n g i t w a s t h e P r i n c e , h e r h u s b a n d , s h e ; s a i d “ O h , K a r l , w h y d o y o u f r i g h t e n m e ? ”

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n o t h i n g , b u t d i s t i n c t l y h e a r d s o m e o n e l e a v e t h e ' r o o m . H e r s h r i e k s b r o u g h t h e r h u s b a n d a n d

t h e d o m e s t i c s i n t o h e r c h a m b e r , a n d u p o n c o m - J m u n i c a t i n g w h a t s h e h a d h e a r d a n d f e l t , h e h a d : : e v e r y c o r n e r o f t h e c a s t l e s e a r c h e d , e v e n t o t h e

; v a u l t s o f t h e c h a p e l ( i n w h i c h a r e t h e r e m a i n s . j o f t h e a n c e s t o r t o w h o m o c c u r r e d t h e p r e v i o u s j i n c i d e n t ) , b u t w i t h o u t f i n d i n g a n y c l u e t o t h e I p e r s o n w h o h a d e n t e r e d h i s w i f e ’ s r o o m . S o m e

a m o n t h s a f t e r t h i s v i s i t a t i o n , t h e P r i n c e s s h a d ' o c c a s i o n t o g o i n t o h e r b e d - r o o m a t n o o n , a c ­i c o m p a n i e d b y t w o d o g s , o n e a d e e r - h o u n d , t h e

; i o t h e r a k i n g C h a r l e s . A s s o o n a s s h e e n t e r e d ; ; t h e r o o m , b o t h d o g s b e g a n t o h o w l a n d y e l p - j m o s t p i t e o u s l y , a n d t h e i r h a i r s t o o d o n e n d a s : I i f t h e y w e r e i n g r e a t t e r r o r . T h e k i n g C h a r l e s ,

h o w e v e r , r a n u p t o t h e b e d ( w h i c h h a d c u r t a i n s ' r o u n d i t , c o n c e a l i n g t h e i n t e r i o r ) a n d b e g a n t o

; | b a r k v i g o r o u s l y . T h e P r i n c e s s s a w t h e c u r t a i n s ¡1 m o v e , a s i f s o m e o n e w e r e b e h i n d t h e m , a n d

'' t h i n k i n g i t w a s a r o b b e r , s h e r u s h e d f r o m t h e r o o m t o s u m m o n a i d . S h e r e t u r n e d w i t h h e r h u s b a n d a n d t h e s e r v a n t a l m o s t i m m e d i a t e l y ,

J b u t f o u n d n o t h i n g t o a c c o u n t f o r t h e d i s ­t u r b a n c e . T h e o n l y e x i t f r o m t h e r o o m w a s t h e o n e t a k e n b y t h e P r i n c e s s , s o t h a t n o b o d y

< j c o u l d h a v e e s c a p e d w i t h o u t p a s s i n g h e r o r t h e R s e r v a n t s .

T h e s e i n c i d e n t s w e r e r e l a t e d t o m e b y t h eP r i n c e a n d P r i n c e s s K - - - - - - - - - , ( t o w h o m t h e y o c -c u r r c d ) i n t h e p r e s e n c e o f B a r o n H e l l e n b a c l i

a n d P r i n c e H e i n r i c h L i c h t e n s t e i n . A s I h a v e a n i n v i t a t i o n t o v i s i t t h e s c e n e o f t h e s e h a u n t - i u g s , I m a y b e a b l e t o d i s c o v e r t h e c a u s e o f t h e d i s t u r b a n c e s .

Vienna, April 23rd, 1880.

M r . C. R. W illiams, writes that at a Spiritualistic mooting to bo hold at 5, Fiold View, London Fields, next Sunday in the ovoning, experiments will bo performed with some physical and clairvoyant mesmeric sensitives.

M at 7, 1880. T H E S P I R I T U A L I S T . 223

THE NEWCASTLE SPIRITUAL EVIDENCE i( SOCIETY. ;

The quarterly meeting of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne i) Spiritual Evidence Society, was held on Monday even- K ing last woek ; there was a good attendance of members, i; and Mr. John Mould officiated as chairman. The R minutes of the last mooting were read and confirmed. Kj The Corresponding Secretary (Mr. H. A. Korsey) read ;/! the quarterly report, which shewed that there were 151 |<i members who had fully paid up their subscriptions, 15 oi honorary members, and 3 life members. It stated tho [<! loctures havo been held regularly, and consisted of 25 K| tranco and 5 normal addresses. Tho quarter closed j)j with public meetings for trance tests and clairvoyance fij by Mr. F. 0. Matthews, which were probably the last Rj of such meotings held by him bofore his recent im- h i prisonment at Keighley for oxercising well-known Rj mesmeric gifts, which the magistrates held to be a is! broach of the law. The Committee, it added, hadadop- !>! ted a petition to the Homo Secretary, as suggested by Ki Mr. J. W. Fletcher, and at present there are about 90 j > lists in circulation for tho purpose of procuring the R nocessary signatures. The Committoe said that it I yearnestly trustod that Spiritualists would co-operate i)with itin its efforts. Tho phenomena being facts of na- ki turo, had no right to bo mado an offonco against the law. \\\

Tho seances of Miss Wood had boon held regularly 1)1 under tho strictest test conditions; sho had held 35 ki séa n ces at which tho attendance had been 864 as against iy 784 during the provious quarter; the phenomena were Rj good, but not noarly so regular in evolution as those of Rj tho earlier poriod. Ki

Tho Committee has ro-engaged Mr. Morse for another ki twelvemonths, which is his fifth annual engagement kiin succession. jSj

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£80 15 01_ The librarian reported that there were 209 volumes R in tho library, of which 175 had been issued during the R quarter. j (

The report was passed, and after the transaction of R some minor businoss, tho mooting terminated. R

T he R uling Passion Strong in Death.—Paris, March is 27tli.—Padro Ambrogio, a worthy Neapolitan monk, !)■ onjoyod a reputation as a clairvoyant. Ho was bo- K liovod to bo ablo to predict tho winning numbor in iSi lotteries, which aro such an important factor in Italian pj life. _ A month ago Father Ambrogio was waylaid by Ki suspicious characters, who boat him and shut him up ! bocauso he refused to risk a prophocy about tho Naplos i ! lottery. At last, to save his lifo, ho consented. Ho Ki named tho numbers haphazard, which did not win. N His persecutors, boing turious, beat him again, and ' finally loft him dying at the house of a friend, who Ri transferred him to tho hospital. Here he shortly aftor j>! died. Beforo his death ho was consulted by an acquain- ki tanco, who was also dosirous of a "tip” about a lottery. i;i Ambrogio advised him to play 13, G5, 37. At the ki next drawing all tho numbors enmo out. In conse- !<l quenoe tho Naples lottery administration lost about j>i $1,000,000.— 'T oronto G lobe. !>i

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B . A . L o n d o n : C . K o g a n P a u l , 1 8 8 0 . ” I n t h i s m e m o i r I f i n d t h e f o l l o w i n g p a s s a g e i n r e g a r d t o M r . P . P . C a r p e n t e r :

“ N o t l o n g a f t e r h e h e a r d o f t h e d e a t h o f a l i t t l e s o n o f M r . I . M o u l d i n g , w h o s e e m e d f u l l o f h e a l t h a n d h a p p i n e s s w h e n h e h a d v i s i t e d h i m . H e w a s t h u n d e r s t r u c k , a n d f e l t l i k e D a v i d w h e n ‘ h e w a s a s t o n i s h e d f o r a n h o u r . ’ W h e n a f t e r s o m e t i m e , h e w a s a b l e t o w r i t e t o h i s d e a r f r i e n d , h e s a y s 1 A s f o r m e , I h a v e l e f t o f f b e l i e v i n g i n d e a t h s , s o - c a l l e d . T h e s p i r i t u a l w o r l d a p p e a r s t o m e c l o s e a n d n e a r . J e d g i n g f r o m a l l a c c o u n t s , t h e r e a r e o n l y a f e A v h o u r s , o r d a y s a t m o s t , b e f o r e t h e s p i r i t w a k e s u p a g a i n . I b e l i e v e m y d e p r i v a t i o n o f h o m e s y m p a t h i e s h a s m a d e m e l i v e m o r e i n t h e s p i r i t u a l ‘ w o r l d , f r o m w h i c h I f e e l s e p a r a t e d o n l y b y a v e i l o f f l e s h I f e e l a s t h o u g h i t w o u l d n e v e r s u r p r i s e m e t o f i n d t h a t I h a d d i e d a n d w a s t h e r e ; i t o f t e n s e e m s m o r e n a t u ­r a l t h a n t h e p r e s e n t s t a t e . I n o l d t i m e s w h e n I b e l i e v e d i n a n e x t e r n a l h e a v e n , a n d t h o u g h t w e l e f t o f f b e i n g m e n a n d b e c a m e s o m e q u e e r k i n d o f u n d e f i n e d a n g e l s , i t w a s n o t s o . N o w I f e e l i t t o b e a w a k i n g - u p o f t h e s a m e h u m a n ­i t y w i t h o u t t h e h i n d r a n c e s o f f l e s h . . .I n m y i n t e r c o u r s e w i t h t h e S p i r i t u a l i s t s i t i s e v i d e n t t o m e t h a t t h e y d o n o t m o u r n f o r d e a t h l i k e o r t h o d o x C h r i s t i a n s , w h o s e h e a v e n i s m o r e i d e a l t h a n r e a l . T h e y r e a l l y d o b e l i e v e t h a t t h e i r f r i e n d s a r e l i v i n g h a p p i l y a n d h a v e i n t e r c o u r s e w i t h t h e m . A b o u t t h i s m e d i u m w o r k I c a r e v e r y l i t t l e ; i t s p r i n c i p a l u s e i s t o

224 T H E S P I R I T U A L I S T . M ay 7, 1880.

t e a c h , t h e r e a l i t y o f t h i n g s u n s e e n ; a n d i t m u s t h e a V e r y i m p e r f e c t t h i n g , a t b e s t , b e c a u s e i t i s o n l y t h e l o w e s t e l e m e n t s o f t h e i r n a t u r e t h a t c a n c o m m u n i c a t e w i t h t h e h i g h e s t o f o u r s . B u t f o r u s a l l t o l o o k o n t h e n e x t s t a t e a s a n a b s o l u t e c o n t i n u a t i o n o f t h i s , o n l y i n a f a r p u r e r a n d i n e v e r y w a y b e t t e r s p h e r e , i s g o o d f o r u s a l l , a n d e s p e c i a l l y f o r t h o s e A v h o h a v e t r e a s u r e s i n h e a v e n . ”

F r o m t h i s i t w o u l d s e e m t h a t D r . C a r p e n ­t e r ’ s b r o t h e r P h i l i p , e m i n e n t a s a n a t u r a l i s t , a n d o n e o f w h o s e w o r k s i s n o w b e i n g p r i n t e d b y t h e S m i t h s o n i a n I n s t i t u t i o n a t W a s h i n g t o n , w a s a t h o r o u g h S p i r i t u a l i s t ; a n d i f a n y f u r t h e r p r o o f o f i t s h o u l d b e a s k e d f o r , i t m a y b e f o u n d i n t h e f o l l o w i n g f o o t - n o t e , a p p e n d e d t o t h e f o r e g o i n g q u o t a t i o n b y h i s b r o t h e r , t h e e d i t o r o f t h e M em oir :

“ I n t h e s u m m e r h e h a d a t t e n d e d a c i r c l e o f 4 m e d i u m s ’ a t P l y m o u t h , M a s s . , a n d h a d b e e n s u b s e q u e n t l y i n t r o d u c e d t o M r s . U n d e r h i l l , f o r m e r l y o f B o c h e s t e r , t h e n o f H e w Y o r k , b y M r . G a r r i s o n , w i t h w h o m h e s p e n t a n e v e n i n g , o f w h i c h h e g a v e a f u l l a c c o u n t ; h e b e l i e v e d t h a t h e t h e n r e c e i v e d m e s s a g e s f r o m t h e d e ­p a r t e d . ”

I t i s b a r e l y p o s s i b l e t h a t D r . C a r p e n t e r ’ s b r o t h e r P h i l i p , h a v i n g i n v e s t i g a t e d t h e s u b j e c t , m a y h a v e b e e n a s g o o d a u t h o r i t y i n r e g a r d t o i t a s t h e d o c t o r , w h o d i d n o t i n v e s t i g a t e .

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r o o m s o f t h e N e w c a s t l e S p i r i t u a l E v i d e n c e S o c i e t y , w a s s o h i g h l y s a t i s f a c t o r y , t h a t I f e e l c o n s t r a i n e d t o f u r n i s h y o u r r e a d e r s w i t h a n a c c o u n t o f i t . B e f o r e d o i n g s o , I s h o u l d l i k e t o s a y t h a t t h e m o s t c o n t i n u o u s a n d s y s t e m a t i c e n q u i r e r s i n t o t h e s u b j e c t o f m o d e r n S p i r i t u a l i s m w h o m I h a v e m e t , a d m i t t h a t

t h e r e i s n o t r e a l l y a n y t h i n g m o r e w o n d e r f u l i n t h e p h e n o m e n a o b s e r v e d i n t h e seance r o o m t h a n t h o s e w h i c h a r e o b s e r v e d i n t h e r o u t i n e o f d a i l y l i f e . I t i s n o t t h e m o t i o n p e r se o f a t a b l e , n o r a c l a i r v o y a n t ’ s d e l i n e a t i o n o f f a c t s o c c u r r i n g a t a d i s t a n c e w h i c h i s s o i m p r e s s i v e ,

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in consequence of the extra demand always produced by the be­ginning of the London season, but the extent of which rise cannot be foreseen. Copies may be had now, by those who want them, out of a few unsold returned by the retail trade.

A circular has been issued by the Council of the National Association of Spiritualists, saying that at the annual general meeting to be held on the 18th May, it will recommend the dissolution of the present Council, and that a now one of thirty-six members shall be elected. This is in response to a recent memorial intimating that a Council of twenty was amply large enough for any society containing only between three or four hundred members altogether.

Î I Spiritualism in L eith,— At the Leith Young Men’s; Society, held in Duke Street, on Friday evening, the ! 23rd inst, under the presidency of Mr. Robert Hall, ! Junr., a paper was read by a member, Mr. Cuthbertson,

on Spiritualism, giving a brief outline of the phenomena together with a description of several séances he has

) attended in Edinburgh and Glasgow, with such l mediums as Mrs. Mellon, Mr. J. .1. Morse, and Mr. $ Duguid. The subject elicited a fair amount of im­} partial criticism, but it was thought that the essayist j ought not to have loft them in the dark as to his private ) opinions in regard to the source of the phenomena. ( Mr. Rhodes as a non-member, being present by in­S vitation, was requested to give his experience. Having ) done so as briefly as time would permit, he defended ( the essayist for not having given any decided opinion S upon the few séances ho had attended, as many in­) fluential men, including Mr. Crookes, and the late Mr. ( Serjeant Cox, with all their experience, had not con­) sidered themselves j ustified in publicly ascribing the phe- ( nomena—which were undoubtedly genuine—to spirits. ) He also thanked them for the courteous manner in ) which they had received him, the only Spiritualist ( ! present. Mr. Cuthbertson, in reply, stated that he was ) | not prepared to admit himself to be a Spiritualist, nor ri equally so a Materialist; ho invited them to follow the > i rules in The Spiritualist, and study for themselves.j j Sunday L ectures on Spiritualism.—On Sunday last >| Mr. Herbst lectured at Goswell Hall on “ The Organ- >( ization of Spiritualists.” The speaker said that he j I deplored the present want of harmony in Spiritualism ; >! he thought that Spiritualism suffered more from the >j hands of Spiritualists, than from persecution from >j outsiders. Organization was the groat want felt in > j Spiritualism at the present time ; not a bigoted )j and selfish organization, but one so constructed as lo > j suit all lines ; one that would progress according to the ? discovery of new truths. It was no doubt appropriate j some hundreds of years ago for a certain organized sec­> tion to scatter broadcast the doctrine of eternal dam- ( nation, but to-day the public mind was taught to think ) for itself, and reason rejected such monstrous teachings, / so either would that organization have to alter its (j antiquated views regarding a subject or crumble to dust >1 on its own bigoted foundation. He suggested the M formation of secret circles in various places, all acting j i in concord and under a recognized body or council, and > ! that from those circles not only sceptics but also casual (| visitors should be excluded, so that by giving mediums ) j a chance to develops now powers, conditions would be \ \ provided that sooner or later would reward the move- < ! ment with powerful phenomena and indisputable tests. >1 He argued that with strict attention to the foregoing ( plan, and with regularity and punctuality, not only the ) mediums but the sitters would developo mentally or ) physically according to their organizations. Mr.( Herbst next called on Mr. A. T. T. Peterson to say ( something with reference to the subject of the evening.? Mr. Peterson agreed with the observations of Mr.( Herbst and described to the audience his last seance.) Afterwards Mr. Peterson,MessrsReimers,Woi-tlcy, Towns 1 1 and Swindon, were called upon to make a few remarks.( I They all agreed with the sentiments of the lecturer, who > j concluded with thanking both Mr. Rapier and his I choir for their services. On Sunday next, Mr. Reimors

)i will read a paper at Goswell Hall. Subject: “ The b Medium Prosecutions and recent Objectionable Ob- Sj jections.” Sceptics were particularly invited to attend. b\ Mr. Rapier’s choir will officiate every Sunday evening si at Goswell Hall. Mr. Herbst has been asked to take ) | the place of Mr. Stevens (resigned) as secretary to the t i Goswell Hall Committee, and he has consented.

227M a y 7, 1880. T H E S P I R I T U A L I S T .

IRRATIONAL ASCETICISM.BY CHRISTIAN REIMERS.

My admiration is sincere for the remarks of an anonymous correspondent of yours, who recently wrote against ascetic teachings in connection with Spiritualism. It was indeed refreshing, after so many lifts into the upper regions, to he put down in that way to good mother earth ; even the more or less un­musical noises of the farm yard do not grate ou our ears after the luxuries of celestial choruses. With deepest reverence I have read about the heroic gymnastics, the self­torture of those devoted souls, who in develop­ing Spirituality are trying to part with “ natural cravings,” hut I cannot accept this example as one calling for general imitation, unless, as your correspondent justly observes, the creation he not taken as a mistake. In the climax of these reflections, I had a dream, in which I saw an ascetic “ saint ” enter Heaven, evidently expecting a reserved seat among the elect. But an angel gently held him hack, saying: “ Your honest devotion, my son, pleased us, hut we would not have you turn away from the beauties of our dear earth; you have to complete your appreciation of the works of God, by going hack to earth and enjoying the pleasures He intended for all. Stick to my brave servant, Martin Luther, and take note of his inspired proverb, ‘ War nicht hebt Wein , Weib und Gesang , der bleibt ein N arr sem L e b e la n g ” I cannot undertake to trans­late on the spur of the moment these celebrated words to my own satisfaction, still less to that of others, but here is an attempt: “ He who docs not love vine, the fair sex and song, will be a fool his lifetime long.” How if we take “ vine ” as a symbol of cheering recreations in general, and regard our fair companions as messengers of true, pure love, and think of song, as the blending and harmonising of divine arts, we find Three Graces trusted to our loving [care. These cannot be forced out of the garden of earth-life, without offending the Sender of them. If brutish excesses of in» dulgence shock spiritually refined human beings on the road of progress, overstraining in the opposite direction, by acquiring a kind of aristocratic contempt for natural propen­sities, may likewise be out of the way of truth, and at all events will not meet the approbation of the Creator. It will be interesting to watch the course of the warmly advocated theories of “ self-abnegation” in Germany, where these foregoing Three Graces are as yet fondly courted, although here and there some people

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should be kept by the writers. Preference is given to letters which j\ arc not anonymous,] ■ ■ - ■|) SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE SUPERNATURAL.

;> Sir,—I called Terry a London litterateur because itK was in that character mainly that he was known to \) Scott.\) The contrast between him and Morrison consisted in p the one haying lived his life in the society of loungersj) and literati, among the fanes of "Western London, p while the other lived his in the society of sheep andK. shadows, among the wilds of Southern Scotland. That Ip Terry was an actor at the Adelphi, and Morrison a i” simple person who as likely as not had never been pi inside a theatre in his life, would serve only to i strengthen it.b But my business was not with Terry and his “ genius,” ip and only incidentally with his temper and surroundings ; pi neither was it with George Bullock, except in so far as |>; his name is connected with the occurrence in question. |)i My explanatory statement that he made ugly casts for K; Scott’s diningroom is true, and I really cannot help M his having been Mr. Atkinson’s godfather. My Ip business was and is with Scott, in proving that he did p| not doubt, as he is supposed to have doubted, the Ip actuality of certain facts, and this I will do if words |)i have any meaning—would have done it this week had M I not been away from my papers and notes, ip The fact of second sight in the Highlands is as well K established as any other depending for its certitude I' upon human testimony ; if Sir Walter had known much ! about Highlanders or the Highland language, he I; might probably not have written the inimitable con­pi versation alluded to by Mr. Atkinson (and so much ic i pleasure has been lost us); certainly he would not have ip mis-spelt and been followed by Mr. Atkinson in mis- >1 spelling the commonest of Highland names, pi I am a sick man and a busy man, and I don’t want S: to waste words in discussing anything with anybody. >; If Mr. Atkinson desires to see mention made of } Morrison by Scott himself, his desire will be gratified s shortly. J. A. Campbell.y Edinburgh, April 27th. --------- -

)| MRS. ANDREWS AND MR. WALLIS.

)j Sir.—I take the liberty of forwarding part of a)i letter just received.—Truly yours, C. R eimers.<; 47, Mornington Road, London.

i| Dear Mr. Reimers,—Your letter of the 23rd inst.| calls for a response, and I send you two guineas for | the late Mr. Andrews’ widow. Also poor Mr. Wallis | deserves the help of all Spiritualists as a valiant j champion of our cause. I therefore send him also a | subscription of two guineas, as per enclosed cheque.

| Very truly yours, G. Damiani.Naples, April 27th, 1880.

228 T H E S P I E I T U A L I S T . May 7, 1880.

MESMERISM AND ITS PHENOMENA,OB

ANIMAL M A G N E T I S M .

the late W m ,“ G r e g o r y , M .B . , F . K E . , P ro fesso r o f Chem istry a t Edinburgh ' U niversity.

Dedicated by the Author by Permission to His Grace the Duke of Argyll.

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C O N T E N T S .CHAPTER I : —First Effects Produced by Mesmerism—Sensations—Process

for causing Mesmeric Sleep—The Sleep or Mesmeric State—It Occurs Spon­taneously in Sleep-Walkers—Phenomena of the Sleep—Divided Consciousness —Senses affected—Insensibility to Pain.

CHAPTER I I Control Exercised by the Operator over the Subject in Various Ways—Striking Expression of Feelings in the Look and Gesture— Effect of Music—Truthfulness of the Sleeper—Various Degrees of Suscepti­bility—Sleep caused by Silent Will ; and at a Distance—Attraction towards the Operator— Effect in the Waking State of Commands Given in the Sleep.

CHAPTER H I Sympathy—Community of Sensations, of Emotions— Danger of Rash Experiments—Public Exhibitions of Doubtful Advantage— Sympathy with the Bystanders—Thought Reading—Sources of Error—Medical Intuition—Sympathetic Warnings—Sympathies and Antipathies—Existence of a Peculiar Force or Influence.

CHAPTER IV s—Direct Clairvoyance or Lucid Vision, without the Eyes — Vision of Near Object : through Opaque Bodies : at a distance—Sympathy and Clairvoyance in Regard to Absent Persona—Retrovision—Introvision.

CHAPTER V Lucid Prevision—Duration of Sleep, Ac., Predicted—Pre­diction of Changes in the Health or State of the Seer—Prediction of Accidents and of Events Affecting others—Spontaneous Clairvoyance—Striking Case of It—Spontaneous Retrovision and Prevision—Peculiarities of Speech and of Consciousness in Mesmerised Persons—Transference of Senses and of Pain.

CHAPTER V I Mesmerism, Electro-Biology, Electro-Psychology and Hypnotism, essentially the same—Phenomena of Suggestions in the Conscious or Waking State—Dr. Darling’s Method and its Effects—Mr. Lewis’s Method and its Results—The Impressible State—Control Exercised by the Operator— Gazing—Mr. Braid’s Hypnotism—The Author’ s Experience—Importance of Perseverance—The Subject must be Studied.

CHAPTER V II Trance, Natural and Accidental • Mesmeric—Trance Pro­duced at Will by the Subjects—Col. Townsend—Fakeer—Extasis— Extatics not all Imposters—Luminous Emanations—Extasis often Predicted—M. Chagnet’ s Extatics—Visions of the Spiritual World.

CHAPTER V III Phreno-Mesmerism—Progress of Phrenology—Effects of Touching the Head in the Sleep—Variety in the Phenomena—Suggestions— Sympathy—There are Cases in which these Act, and others in which they do not A.ct—Phenomena Described—The Lower Animals Susceptible ot Mesmerism —Fascination Among Animals—Instinctr—Sympathy of Animals—Snail Tele­graph Founded on It.

CHAPTER I S !—Action of Magnets, Crystals, &c., on the Human Frame— Researches of Reichenbach—His Odyle is Identical with the Mesmeric Fluid of Mesmer, or with the Influence which Causes the Mesmeric Phenomena—Odylic or Mesmeric Light—Aurora Borealis Artificially Produced— Mesmerised Water —Useful Applications of Mesmerism—Physiological, Therapeutical, Ac.— Treatment of Insanity, Magic Divination, Witchcraft, &c., explained by Mes­merism and Traced to Natural Causes—Apparitions—Second Sight is Waking Clairvoyance—Predictions of V arious Kinds.

CHAPTER X :—An Explanation of the Phenomena Attempted or Suggested «—A Force (Odyle) Universally Diffused, Certainly Exists, and is Probably the Medium of Sympathy and Lucid Vision—Its Characters—Difficulties of the Subject—Effects of Odyle—Somnambulism—Suggestion—Sympathy—Thought- Reading—Lucid Vision—Odylic Emanations—Odylic Traces followed up by Lucid Subjects—Magic and Witchcraft—The Magic Crystal, and Mirror, &c., Induce Walking Clairvoyance—Universal Sympathy—Lucid Perception of the Future.

CHAPTER XI Interest felt in Mesmerism by Men of Scienee—Due Limitso f Scientific Caution—Practical Hints—Conditions of Success in Experiments— Cause of Failure—Mesmerism a Serious Thing—Cautions to the Student­Opposition to be Expected.

CHAPTER X II s—Phenomena Observed in the Conscious or Waking S tate- Effects of Suggestion oil Persons in an Impressible State—Mr. Lewis’s Experi­ments With and Without Suggestion—Cases—Dr. Darling’ s Experiments— Cases—Conscious or Waking Clairvoyance, Produced by Passes, or by Concen­tration—Major Buckley’ s Method—Cases—The Marie Crystal Induces Waking Lucidity, when Gazed at—Cases—Magic Mirror—Mesmerised Water—Egyptian Magic.

CHAPTER X III t—Production of the Mesmeric Sleep—Cases—Eight out of Nine Persons Recently Tried by the Author Thrown into Mesmeric S leep - Sleep Produced without the knowledge of the Subject—Suggestion in the Sleep —Phreno-Mesmerism in the Sleep—Sympathetic Clairvoyance in the Sleep— Cases—Perception of Time—Cases i Sir J. Franklin, Major Buckley’ s Case of Retrovision,

CHAPTER X IV {—Direct Clairvoyance—Cases—Travelling Clairvoyance- Cases—Singular Vision of Mr. D.—Letters of Two Clergymen, with Cases— Clairvoyance of Alexis—Other Cases.

CHAPTER X V s—Trance—Extasis—Cases—Spontaneous Mesmeric Phe­nomena—Apparitions—Predictions.

CHAPTER X V I {—Curative Agency of Mesmerism—Concluding Remarks tad Summary.

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II. —The Apparition of Scngirecf. By Sophie Aksakof,

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X . —Ode by “ Adamanta.”X I. —Swedenborg on Men and Women. By William

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By C. Carter Blake, Doc. Sci., Lecturer on Compara live Anatomy at Westminster Hospital.

X X V II. —Die Sehnsucht. Translated by EmilyKislingbury from the German of Schiller. ‘

X X V III. —The Relation of Spiritualism to OrthodoxChristianity. Given through the mediumship of “ M.A. Oxon.” 1

X X IX . —A S é a n c e in the Sunshine. By the Rev. C. Mauricu Davies, D.D.

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CONTENTS.P art I.

I*—The Prayer of the Sorrowing—II. The Soug of Truth—III. The Embarkation—IV. Kepler’s Vision— V. Love and Latin—VI. The Song of the North—VII. Ihe Burial ot Webster—V III, The Parting of Sigurd and Gurda—IX . The Meeiing of Sigurd and Guraa,

Part II.X . The Spirit Child—XI. Reconciliation—X II.

nope for the Sorrowing—X III. Compensation—XIV . The Eagle of Freedom—X V . Mistress Glenare—X V I. Little Johnny—X V II. “ Birdie’ s Spirit Song” —X V III. My Spirit Home—X IX . “ I still L ive” —XX. Life—X X I. Love—X X II. “ For a’ that” —X X III. Words of Cheer—X X IV . Resurrexi—X X V . The Prophecy of Vala—XX V I. The Kingdom—X X V II. The Cradle or Coffin—X X V III. The Streets of Balti­more—X X IX . The Mysteries of Godliness—X X X. Farewell to Earth. T h e S p i H t u a l i s t Newspaper

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