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A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY, PHENOMENA, PHILOSOPHY, AND TEACHINGS OF SPIRITUALISM. [REGISTERED AS A NKW8PAPKR FOR, TRANSMISSION IN TUB UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD.]
No. 205.— VOL. V .] LONDON, MARCH 6 , 1874. [Double Sheet—Price ljd.
EVIL: ITS ORIGIN AND REMEDY. j the theological world than upon any other individual point in reli On the evening of Tuesday, the 24th ult., Mrs. Tappan de gion. Whereas some will have it that the powers of evil are livered the third and last of a course of lectures got up by Mr. always co-equal with those of goodness, and that an identified and J. Haxbv in Milton Hall, Camden Town. Each successive lecture embodied form of evil in the personal Satan or Devil is thoroughly was attended with better results thau the one preceding it, and on and absolutely required, others—and these form by far the majority the evening in question the hall was comfortably full, a fact which at present in Christendom—fancy it relates rather to the principle could not be otherwise than gratifying to the lecturer. Amongst of error prevalent among men than a distinctive personalitv. In the audience we noted some faces invariably to be met with at our opinion—and you must allow us all the scope that not onlv all such gatherings—the habitues of spiritualistic services in Lon religious hut scientific inquiry demands—contemporaneous history don: but the majority appeared to be casual listeners or neophytes. furnishes, in our opinion, an idea of an evil existence or power els Mrs. Tappan was accompanied on to the platform by Mrs. and the opposed to good, as always coeval with the existence of nations, and Misses Maltby, and Messrs. Tebb and Burns, the former of which it occurs in this wise. Among the masses of barbarous and un gentlemen occupied the post of honour. After a short introductory civilised peoples there is always some idea of the worship of a speech, very appropriate to the occasion, in which he briefly called divine being who represents goodness, whose powers are supposed attention to the undoubted marks of progress presented hv Spiri to he propitious, who is favourable to the existence of life : and tualism both in London and throughout England, Mr. Tebb asked whatever is unfavourable to life is supposed by them to he evil. the audience to nominate a committee of five to choose the subject Amongst the most ancient nations of which we have any records— of the lecturers discourse. The following gentlemen were elected the remote Indies, the Chinese, the various regions of Eastern Asia on the committee:—Messrs. Daw, Scannell, Dixon, Elder, and that are now divided into different sections of Brahmicism and Fennel, only one of whom—Mr. Dixon—was a Spiritualist. While Buddhism, in the regions of Mohammedanism, in ancient Persia, these gentlemen were deciding as to the subjects to be presented we find varied powers invariably represented in their religion. to the audience for selection, the Misses Maltby kindly favoured These agree with the powers that control the physical forces among the company with a well-executed duet on the pianoforte, receiving them. The sun—representing light and day and life; also the as their due meed a hearty round of applause. The committee, spring, representing the advent of life and the delightsomeness of after a few moments’ consultation, handed the chairman five themes all that brings vegetation and growth—was the symbol of the from which the audience should select the subject to be treated. powers of good. The Egyptians represented this principle in the A vote being taken on each one in succession, the following, signed form of Osiris; among the Persians his name was Ormudz, or Scannell, carried the majority:— light; and even among the remotest nations there was some sym bolism of the god of day, or sunlight, that typified the Divine The Origin of Evil : it s Int roduct ion int o the World, Mind. Even the Brahmin sees him remotely representing all the and the Remedy sug gest ed by Spir it ua l ism. powers of nature; and the Buddhist distinctly portrays him^ not Before proceeding to the elucidation of this subject (commenced only in all forms of life and light, hut in the soul of man itself. Mrs. Tappan on rising), we will invoke the Author of all Good— Whatever was antagonistic to light the ancient Egyptians attri the divine and perfect Spirit, whose light and influence pervade all buted to the powers of evil; hence there were erected altars, with things; who is the Source and Author of all being; the divine and sacrifices and symbols of darkness, that might propitiate the god of perfect Benefactor of mankind ; the living Soul within whose soul evil. We find in certain ancient records and Mithraic cav es of antique no darkness can abide, and who doth for ever work out Ilis high lore, on certain astrological tablets, the serpent- of the modern signs words and ways through the wondrous purposes of infinite love. of the zodiac. These tables, however, when considered in the^ light of modern science, show that the foundation of the idea of We trust the audience have not selected this subject because of the god of goodness reigning in the world was typified by the time their sympathy with it, since the powers of evil certainly cannot bo when the sun, entering the spring and summer solstice, poured out represented here more than those of good. But it is a most significant his light and radiance upon the earth, giving thereby renewed ltfo fact in modern thought that we are chiefly interested in that which and vigour, supplanting the powers of darkness, which were supp wed seems to have the least basis of existence; while that which con to preside over the winter time. Astronomy teaches us that, stitutes the primal law of life is scarcely heeded. The ills of man accounting for the precession of the equinoxes, the reign of evil must kind, the diversities of human existence, that which men fancy have commenced when the sun entered the Scorpion, the constellation haunts and possesses them—these are everywhere so much more of the Dragon: and hence the typical scorpion or serpent of the considered than the wondrous blessings that are on every hand ancient astrologist- was made to represent the time when the light bestowed. had disappeared or withdrawn from the earth it was supposed to Of course you are all familiar with the account of the origin of have been overcome by the powers of evil, and hence winter, the evil recorded in the Bible. The Olden Testament, forming the dismal darkness of winter-time, prevailed, l'o such an extent did Mosaic law, and at present adopted as a portion of the Christian the ancients believe this myth, that their good offerings were given Bible, gives vou a distinctive account of the origin of evil or sin in to the god of light, while their sacrifices and humiliations were the world. Vet, as this theory seems not to be considered final given to the god of darkness and winter-time. from your question, or as there seems to bo some diversity of You know among the Egyptians there were periods of flood, opinion in the world concerning a suitable interpretation of that lasting for a long time, and when the Nile overflowed it was neces record, and as all books that have been compiled by man and trans sary to put up indices, or figures corresponding to the cross, whereby lated from different and remote languages must necessarily bear a the rising of the tide could be gauged and the people warned to vague and uncertain meaning in modern interpretations—sometimes store up their provisions and treasures. It was then found that a meaning wholly diilerent from that of the original authors and tlm recurrence of these floods corresponded with the risinar of cer compilers—it becomes a serious question to consider whether the tain signs, and these astronomical signs wove the foundati >:i of the absolute record is literal or only of a figurative kind; and upon ancient religions. I he shepherds, and those nations from whom this one point undoubtedly has* arisen more of the controversy of the ancient Hebrews sprang, wore necessarily a people who watched •v u v x|V lit 1 M A N D P A Y B R E A K . March t?, 1374 i 11 r*. -* *•1 L * K
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ivhit'li, wore it always to last, would destroy hope and lil'o it sol f-— to draw awuv this veil. Let the spiritual nature be known ; let it whit'll, however, is aiuenablo to the power of tijjflu and life and be seen that there is no unseen ami antagonistic principle, save goodness: wo treat it as wo do all those negative conditions ol ignorance and error, and mankind will have won ono-half the battle, nature and science that only form the negative side of the picture j The child who is afraid to go into the darkened room, if the parent ol positive lito : wo treat it as wo do death, which, proporli inter is wise, will bo made to go with lighted torch to the very place it preted, is not an evil, hut only a pathway to life: wo treat these | dreaded the most and where its terror was snpp.,sed to lnrlc, and various forms and conditions, that seem to ho so pale and cold, as soon the child will learn that the darknes- holds no evil that the only the stages of infantile growth, whereby, through misery, and light does not hold ; and so with thL shadowy, visionary form that sin, and want, and degradation, man at last learns knowledge, and mankind have dung to. Let it be known that it is merely a thought excellence, and power. 1 lurking in the mind, simply the ignorance of the human family, It is said that when Christ was immured in the sepulchre he siniph the lack of knowledge, and not an evil supreme power, and preached to the spirits in prison. There is a tradition of the goodness ns ill already have taken the place of it ; for men readily Roman Catholic Church that ho mot the power of evil luce to face I follow that which they believe is most potent and most powerlui. and slew him. There may be more in this allegory than you Again, human beings tnv n ,e responsible and are nut made imagine; for since all persons who have sinned or are in ignorance responsible for their antic" . Yow they either are or are not. are in prison, the truth that comes to thorn in that state of bond I And if this ev il is allowed to be near them, tempting them, walking age. either in the form of Christ, or through his chosen messengers, up and down the earth as a personalit v, and there is, n , keeping or through other ways, actually meets and struggles with the good just as near, it is evidently thought by the Divine .Mind ihut adversary in every human spirit. Many of you have witnessed the man must: need- be hnndc d over to tin- powers of evil. If Satan be struggle in your own souls, and may you understand what it means, at every corner tempting man, why not also Jesus to save r If the that the principle of ignorance is slain by the absolute aggressive power of darkness he at your thresholds and bv vour bo- dde-. why light of truth and knowledge ! ; not also the power of light, that it may illumine your pathway"' H e have only to tako the existing condition of the world : it is I ami if you say you have it in the records of Jesus fud in his l i I a fair sample of all nations, ages, and peoples, showing that where j say place your Satan there too, and let him belong to the tee soever the greatest knowledge prevails concerning all the laws j also, ami not alive in your midst tempting you, if there is n s living pertaining ro man's physical and spiritual welfare, there crime is truth to counteract his influence, lessened and sin is lessened. We do not mean in all those con j Bather let us suppose that that power which, in earlv ages of ditions of civilisation that have passed the period of knowledge ; ignorance, was deemed personal, is now only a principle of the and are again immured in corruption and debauchery ; we do not negative kind, as i he sciences show, and that onlightenim-nt, culture, mean those so-called states of civilisation where knowledge is made j the true Spirit of Christ, the power and influence of his love, me merely the hand-maiden of unlawful power; but we mean that ; far more abundant than the power and influence of this evil to lead tree of knowledge that accompanies the spiritual as well as the ! mankind astray, The majority of mankind are more good than physical growth of human beings, and that makes its power mani j evil—prefer goodness to evil. The average of mankind is a:i fest throughout the length and breadth of civilised and Christian average of goodness. Could you take a vote, or the voice, or the lands—the main ingredient in civilisation not called Christian, but outspoken utterance of any assemhlege, its united voice would having something of the same light and knowledge. he in favour ot the good in preference to the evil. Virtue is You have only to refer to those existing conditions to see that respected, morality is admired, heroism is revered, patri .tism is cril as a power itt your midst is neither organised nor personal; nor made sacred, true piety is honoured, and the spirit of truth and has it any other local habitation than the minds that yield to it, and rectitude is more than approved of. But unfortun.-.tely the condi that it directly, in broken fragments, falls away before the advancing tions that beset some men, together with the peculiarity of their tide of philosophy ; that disease is in itself but a form of ignorance ; organisations, render them susceptible to the tempting p..wers of that mental and moral diseases are maladies to be cured, and that materialism, and those laws of the physical nature that are intended the all-prevailing and pervading sense or Spirit of Christ would for man's good, by subversion and corruption, become the true alone free mankind from their sins, that is, from the ignorance and source of evil. The lire, that warms you. and makes you comfortable, other conditions that produce the evil; for He cannot promise when allowed to rage unchecked becomes an unconquerable power freedom and forgiveness unless those conditions cease that produce of destruction: water, the element of life, lays waste wide tracts the sin. with its inundations; the air itself will consume you if there bo t a Nor are we of the opinion that the soul in its essential nature is much oxygen in it, yet you cannot live without i t : so that pride, prouo to sin. A Ye believe it to be of the nature of the Divine Mind that cupidity, that ambition that tempts man to transcend the —made like him, of his likeness, but that, being placed in the limits of individual power, when it becomes awakened and properly material form, with all the powers and attributes of thought with controlled, is seen to give strength and beauty. That appetite which man is endowed, he is held there by this Divine Mind to which supports the body oftentimes destroys him. The organ that work out and struggle with the conflicting elements of his nature, makes him work for the family leads him to do injustice to his since if man were not tempted and were not placed in the condition fellow-men when allowed to run riot. The power that is for your to receive or perceive evil he could not know any more than the protection gives also destruction. Check these powers; make angels what goodness is: so natural is that innocence—that con ambition come within the range of reason : make it only secondary scious ignorance that does not sin because of the lack of know to the good features, and you have a solution of the knotty problems ledge of sin. The man who has triumphed over evil or sin itself that have occupied theologians for centuries to unravel. becomes possessed of greater power, and more absolute strength, The simple fact is, that each human being presents a subject tor and more divine mastery. j the present form of solution, and your question as to the origin ot There was no particular time or epoch of history when sin began. evil you may find within yourselves. In childhood you are irecd Every nation has its Adam, its Eve, its garden of Eden, its Serpent from the particular temptations that belong to your later years. that has tempted. Every human being begins in innocence, like You are permitted to nourish your bodies, and food and eneinng wise in ignorance, grows into manhood and prime, passes into are provided for you. But as you approach manhood ambition the state when the tempter, the voice of unlawful power and steps in ; the love of power is augmented, and those appoutes ambition, is heard, then yields to that for a time, until the saving which were dormant in the child become at last the controlling grace and saving power ot God’slove again calls him to recollection. power; and ovorv human being's experience is another repetition Were we to speak of existing evils, of those that tempt the most, of of the fable of the Garden of Eden, and each soul has to struggle those that are the most absolutely supreme and powerful, we should with the outward causes of discord, ihere is nothing absolutory say that the chief illustration of man's sinfulness to-day is not evil save man’s imperviousness and his ignorance. Remember in simply to he found in the denial of the good, but that the good is ! what we have said there is nothing intended as tniaL ^ It is simply placed so far away, while the evil is so near at hand—and there has the opinion of those who are speaking to you. _ But it our rem.n'ks teen no kindly voice or power to bind them together. But the have not been conclusive from your standpoint, we respect!;:.ly . great problem of the present century is to make the good approach- ! invite questions on the same subject. able, to bring it within the grasp of mankind, to make it near, : and clear, and powerful, and distinct, that that light which is A Skl kotiox from: run Q uest ions Asker axr Answ erer set so far away can illumine you, that that knowledge which is at nu; Cr.osK of tui: L kcterk. beyond your grasp can enlighten you ; to make it known to Q. Does the constitution of man involve the absolute treodom ot the world that their spiritual needs are the subject of scrutiny, the will, and do the angels which you speax ot diner lrom too that it is best to know everything that belongs to the soul, its beings that inhabit this world?—-A. A on know that the controlling tendencies and attributes, and you at once frighten away those spirit of Drotostantism is that man has freedom to judge between demons of discord that have reigned supreme in the human right and wrong; the spirit of the Roman Catholic l hurou is that heart. Teach a child that he or she is inherently sinful, and there man has not, and therefore must be led. A\ e do not pretend to is small encouragement to try to be good. Lot a nurse or parent decide that matter, since we do not know the hidden purposes or reprimand their children as always being the most mischievous, and i the Divine Mind. Man seems to have freedom ot will, but whether they always will be. But teach humanity that there is an innate he can act outside of the infinite \\ ill is a question only toy the principle of good in them; that though they may wander this way Infinite to solve. Concerning the difference ot angels and ordinary and that, that the soul itself is free and pure ; teach them also that souls, it is. we believe, admitted by all theological students, ami it it is best for them, though they stumble and fall a hundred times, is also taught bv modern Spiritualism. that the word angel simply to seek again, climbing the right path ; and this will do more means a messenger; but when Christ was asked concerning than all the denunciations that can be heaped upon their heads. marriage in heaven, he said, " There is no marriage nor giving in It has been a convenient scape-goat in time past to say this marriage, but all are as the angels." It is the complete soul re power or Satan, in a disguised and personal form, was walking up presented by Swedenborg, who says that the truly married on and down the earth, and responsible tor the sins of men. Net only earth make in heaven one angel; showing an advanced condition has it prevented men from striving to be better, but it lias placed j of life not belonging to earthly existence, but only belonging to ft form behind the curtain, a shadowy veil between them and the ; the angelic state of being, and which, of course, you cannot under unseen antagonist, making it impossible l’or them to find out how stand until you arrive there. 148 THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. M arch 0, 1874.
In the Greek mul Roman Churches saints mul angels nvo the flowers praise Thee, whose sweet lips are fraught withfr(u invoked. Can they hear, ilo they pray lor us when asked, and are gnuico, the silent oflbring of light and praise ; oven ns the birfy their prayers ol more avail than ours r Can we help the departed , whoso carollings give forth the joy of life and being, praise l!u:i,. by our prayers in their behalf: A. Christ said to his disciples, even as the solemn, everlasting hills praise Thee in their silcn^ “ If any two agree concerning anything you desire to ho done, it and grandeur, thanking Thee lor being, for existence, ter life; oven shall he done tor you;" showing that. there was more power in as the stars that inarch through space, responsive lo Thy life an,! two than in one. W here two or three are assembled together, breath, keeping time for ever to the music of Tby laws, ami frir there is more power than in one voice; and the voice of prayer over responsive to Thy mind ; even as souls praise Thee, attuned („ augmented by numbers in the same direction undoubtedly influ Thy harmony, and aware of Thy presence—souls that are made glad ences vast numbers of spiritual beings, saints, or angels, and as all and strong in the light of immortal life, risen above sull’ering, above are ministering spirits, the prayer or thought will doubtless set in pain, above transgression, froe and glad and unafraid, praise Tbel3 motion spiritual iulluences that will lead more readily to its answer. m the light of Tby lovingkindness: so would wo praise Thee, 0 Also, it you prav tor souls, in darkness, unquestionably do these Father! As children turn to a kindly and indulgent parent; as all prayers work beneticially for them ; since every additional voice or hearts barn with longing lovo and yearning aspiration lor the divino thought in favour of the unfortunate being is so much more power compassion that shapes our lives; as confiding souls turn with that nun onabh the light to reach him : and if it wore permitted spontaneous ollerings, asking-for health and strength, do we turn for Christ to \i.-it these in prison, it may be also permitted for von to T hee! May our lives he full of praise ! May our deeds be voice* to prav for those in the prison of darkness. of thanksgiving! May our hearts be attuned t.o loving thoughts The following poem was given at the close ot the lecture, the subject so that wo may praise Tliee in loving one another! May all di,. being chosen by the audience ; cord and inharmony give place to Tby light and knowledge and peace, and may the nations of the earth that have waged war FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE. against one another grow stronger in the bonds of lovo and peaceful Then mild and holy light, first-born of heaven, kindness, until war shall be no more ! May the household and tlx- Who lightest us for ever through dark ways, family becomo the living places of Thy presence, whero Thou dost Whose strength and power are still for ever given abide and set up Thy temple for ever ! May each loving heart be To those who s:niggle on through weary days. fraught with Thy power and inspiration, until no mind shall sav O Faith, thou element of power unseen, “ I know not Godbut all shall behold Thee—in the,stars that In which we trust because God's hand is there, glow, in the leaf that glimmers on the tree, in the sparkling And through all ages it has ever been stream, in the thought of man, and in all tokens and signs where- The strong deep voice that answered to our prayer. with Thy presence is made known, for ever ! If lied did not reach downward through the dark, Lesson : 10th chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. And save us lest we stumble on our way, l'ehold how desolate, how drear and stark, “ Can ye not Discern th e Signs op the Times P” Would be all life and earth tilled with dismay; The Egyptians, skilled in the laws that control the material Even as the child does trust the parents’ care, elements, wore accustomed to place along the banks of the river Even as all nature trusts the orbed sun Nile indices and signs, whereby they could tell from the rising of That gives all life and beauty everywhere, the waters when the plain would overflow and inundate the field- Until the spring's rich course is fully run ; that they might then gather their treasures, grain, and families in Even as souls lean to the Infinite, places of safety. The astronomer, by certain known laws in con Still finding newer strength and greater power, nection with his science, is able to predict the appearance and Then art for ever given us, O Faith, recurrence of comets, the various changes that shall take place in To point us to our high and heavenly dower. reference to the planets, determine with certainty what eclipses But Hope, the soft-winged messenger of good, shall occur, and when there will be any transit of the various The guardian of our days, whose light can save, planets connected with the solar system. So unerring is mathe The ligat that meets us half-way on our road, matics that it becomes almost a matter of certainty to determine And strews sweet flowers even o'er the grave. wliat shall take place in any department of science that is governed Fair nope, tby steady, mild, and gentle beam, by its laws. AVith reference to the moral and religious world Lightest the path beyond the silent tomb, alone, and that unknown region of spiritual truth, man is to be Thou leafiest us with thy alluring gleam, left in darkness and ignorance ; there building his views solelv in Tby light doth triumph o’er all ways of gloom. the empire of faith, or discarding altogether any evidence of Bu: in the gloomy, darkened hour of death, spiritual changes that may be going on in the world to-day. Con And when youth's blossoms, fading one by one, sequently, the student of spiritual science is obliged to resort to Fall all around, and dismal is each breath, other means, and to turn inwardly the tide of investigation, that Wl.at light can lure us? what can charm alone? he may discover if possible what signs there arc that portend Thou that dost beacon us unto his rest, changes in the spiritual world of man. Usually that which has N:.v. nearer and more near to God we come ; been denominated the religious nature of man has been held la For lo 1 another star is here, a glory bright, entire subjection to certain formulae, while every other department A higher and a fairer, next his home ; of human intelligence has been going on gradually in stages of For Faith and Hope grow pale beside its light. progression. Science herself has made such rapid strides, and the Twas this that Ailed H':s divinest breast. I laws that pertain to man’s material nature have been so clearlvand 'Twas this that, out of heaven, with swiftest flight, well defined, that the majority of minds, intent upon modem Came down and visited the shades of heath. thought, direct their investigation to material instead of spiritual Lo. Lave i that do usurp all lesser things, science; and it has come to be a fact that the great world of And li:t ;.s highest above human woe, mental agitation to-day, with everything portending change in the Thcu dost tor ever bring, with wondrous might, development of man's mind, has come to relate exclusively to the Tue fountain whose bright waters ever flow. material nature of man. What power save Love can fill the mother's heart, Science, proud of her achievements, and justly so, strong- in her Tuat w u: pulsations soft and tenderest care foundations of law, and unassailable in her primal principles, Lu-; Sue never trom her children doth depart, nevertheless arrogated to herself more rights than she actual!}' But toRows them ever, with patient footsteps, where possesses, and claims not only to dictate to man the essential pro soever tneir wandering feet mav rove, perties and elements that constitute his physical body, but also to Even to the dungeon cell, and there, in tears, bar the door against the investigation of that which belongs to kb Proclaims the triumph of the spell of Love. immaterial nature. Hence to-day, if we glance through the world, Near-:-'. :s this to t ay love, O thou star of peace, we see that among the chiefest minds of the earth, the leading impe -- ■ ■ upon the world, and tbv release, tus of modern thought, that which pervades literature, and in - Transcendent at:d supreme, from human pain, covert way pervades all classes of thinking minds, is the absence j Proves Love snail triumph over everv stain any faith or belief in the portent of spiritual truth. While Of s'.D. for God is Love, and we, beneath Ilia care, other things are prophesied of through a scientific basis; wig With Faith and Hope and Love and earnest praver, other things are noted from the standpoint of stark reason at--' Shall all be gathered to His heart strain. philosophy ; while all other things are marked with change, n is forbidden in this modern school to discover anything, to rev.o- MRS. TAPPAX AT CLEVELAND IIALL. anything, to point out any change, or discern any signs in the s'} Svxday. M arch 1. 1674. c ncerning his spiritual welfare. The result lias been that in church itself the slowly encroaching tire ol materialism is bur nit-’ I n VOCATION'. | out gradually and silently, through dissensions, discussions, Infinite Spirit' our Father and Mother God! Thou Divine division, the moiety of the spiritual life once existing there, orb*5 Source of uf« light! Thou everlasting present--. I Th - tar encircled it and tnclouded it with it- smoke as to make ;b •' supreme and perfect good ! -we praise Thee ! Our hearts are filled . rie.i] fis-eussi n answer the place of religious strength and • W r i n g s . : vour. Nay; the boldness and arrogant assumptions of science •** ■ --I'-- "; ir:t. Ev-n t;s the g with of -uch a nature as to aim defy an answer from those who bW ...... v ...... • . .. .. gee. lr:::gs ;..... _g l i n g s ; 1 L-.-i : sh ply the theories ox religion to answer them with; and th* even as Nature, replete with myriad voices and sounds of har challenge is boldly flung from the materialistic ranks towards mony, radiant and strong with the life of material excellence, praises citadel of spiritual strength and power, saying: •• If there be T withiuam.\-: 11 - : :icings : even as the suiaiie-t at spiritual nature in man, and if there be anything in the revels'! W - ...... - - - • - - - ~ ~ - - - • -. v.'tth - . • r T h e .• ::i of the past, show us something in the present, and prove it ? " th ■ 'lrc cut tf .-.T. mourning through »*.._• - :i briieiic Proof takes the place-of faith, reason takes the place of be-.'-' fioiag. until at last it FparidsB in some central sun of light: even as and the mind, accustomed to dwell upon the conclusions of ir 149 M arch 6 , 1874, THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK.
matios, will not yield itself to the subtle and invisible forms of find it come to them. On the contrary, this voice that is among reasoning that belong to the spiritual nature ; and we have but to men is disintegrating these sects and denominations. It 18 .'y . look abroad in the >world to discover, first, the Church divided that vine which disintegrates and gradually destroys the massive against itself in that which constitutes the essential element of its temples on the islands of the West Indies, working on the most faith ; secondly, to behold state warring against state in that which solid granite, and in silence cleaving the rocks in twain, until the constitutes the rights of religious belief, and the contending fac-, building crumbles to the ground. Tie who expects that the power tions of religion intent upon building up a material power : while ! of tbe Spirit shall descend on an individual nation, or dynasty, or all the spiritual and inspirational of religion is passing away under j individual creed, or individual class, will be disappointed, as he sees the eye of scolling man. Or we have the view of a few that, from the indications of tlie times that these are falling and remaining in sacerdotal robes, still attempt to invoke the presence \ crumbling to ashes. Rome herself, the most ancient mother of of the divine benediction on their labours, while struggling against ] the Church, falls away from the grasp of him who would have this wave of materialism without and within. On the other hand, j material power. But io ! another Romo shall be erected upon its as before stated, a strong tide of materialism stalking in every ashes—the Rome of a new spirit and of a kindling faith. department of life, claiming a hearing on the solid basis of scientific The Church that is abroad in your land looks to the State for fact, and asking that the human reason may he the umpire in sustenance. L o ! it is fast fading away ; and in its stead another all matters between man and nature, between man and the unseen Church, born of the Spirit, and endowed with life and breath and power that is not yet investigated. fervour and religious inspiration, will usurp its place. The last The signs thus portended are most serious, because we are well struggle of the material Church is near at hand. That particular aware that in the history of the past every attempt at progress, | form of worship that seeks to build up the externa], while it every attempt at establishing a new thought or an improvement in j forgets the spirit within—that form which Jesus rebuked when mans material welfare, has unfortunately met with resistance from i he denounced the Pharisees and Sadducees—is being rebuked now the very power that claims supremacy over man's spiritual nature : Iby tbe same Spirit that appears on the earth. unfortunately the truths of science, proven such by their existence | Science herself is one of the flames that is bound to consume this and power, have not been encouraged, lieuce the scieutilic man materialism. That science, so proud in its achievements, and so arro makes bold to say that the truth which he has discovered having ! gant in its assumptions, has taken the place of the sword, and cleit been denied by the Church, lie in turn will deny the truths upon jin twain the strong foundation of the material worship that usurps which the Church is founded. War between these two elements j the place of the Spirit. Science, in her turn, has to be purged and in human society becomes, therefore, only a question of time, purified by a still more searching flame, that shall show her that uuless there shall be some new added force to the power that while she .revealed the temporal attributes of God's kingdom, she connects and unites itself with man's spiritual destiny. Y on cannot has forgotten that greater and spiritual realm, whereby G od's wavs expect the Church in its exclusive capacity to answer distinctive and works are made manifest. This spiritual truth, this spiritual lire, questionings of science. Y'ou cannot expect the Church in its comes to-day in a strange form. It comes in many forms. It present form of organisation either to set at naught or in any comes with many voices and with a thousand tongues. It decree to disprove that which [materialism has said. Except the j comes with indications and signs that betoken tbe presence, not only Church have new faith, new fervour, new forms of inspiration, and ! of a new science, but of a new power and force and fervour in new proofs to offer, it must suffer in this conflict and at last yield. religion; and they who will not see these signs are either wiifuliv The history of wars of religion of the past has proven this; the blind or have no perception of the spiritual atmosphere. The war of the present conflict in the Church at Rome with the temporal astronomer, the chemist, the geologist, the man of historv, if he power of the German empire proves it; the history of your own will not note that which is in the world—if he will not see indi religious wars proves i t ; and the existing state of modern science cations that are-abroad—must then subject himselt to the crime of proves it most successfully. It is within the Church, within the being wilfully blind and inert, because the tokens are in the air. pale of ecclesiastical law, and within the ranks of enlightened and “ In what way P” do you ask. “ What is the manner of these cultured minds that the chief foundations of materialism have indications? What are the signs, that we may look to them and their strongest hold; while within the Church, as we have said, discern their meaning ?" W e answer :—In the very upheaving of this lack of harmony, the various divisions that exist there, and' the Church and State, in the very inharmonies that distract men, the absence of actual spiritual power, give to the enemies of man’s in the very conflict between the material powers, in the very spiritual nature the strength of exclusive power. undermining*of material dynasties and thrones, in the very fervour But there have been those within and without the Church, with which science proceeds to work, as she believes, to tear down within and without [the pale of material science, who have evidently that which the past has huilded up. But she tears down unwisely, expected and have hoped almost against hope for a new form of [ for she believes there shall he no resurrection; she tears down spiritual testimony to be given to the world. There have been blindly, for she believes decayed forms surround it, and that there those who, with the vision of prophecy, have seen that there must | shall] arise no new spiritual empire : she tears down, thinking that come a time when this conflict between Church and State, between i with the extinction of bigotry and superstition religion shall be religion and materiality, shall take the place of all other questions; extinguished, and that there shall no longer be sacred altars and and that then, unless there should he a renewed outpouring of the shrines of spiritual faith. Such is not the case. The destruction Spirit, the material nature and material science would gain the that is going on in the world in material ways betokens the build strongest power upon earth. W ith the eye of prophecy those who ing of the Spirit: the conflict between the material powers denotes the have had these spiritual visions have continued to look forward to presence of the Spirit, a greater soul, a subtle and silent power work some change about this period in the earth's history. They believe ing its way in infinitesimally small ways, slowly but potently— it to be something in connection with their established faith. The betokens to man the presence of a spiritual strength heretofore Children of Israel, wandering up and down in the earth, confidently unknown, but! at pnee answering the demands of materialism and look forward for the coming of a new Christ, that shall assemble rebuking the Unbelief of those who call themselves believers. their scattered peoples and reign over them in regal form ; various We refer to the discovery of the actual proof, of the potent Christian denominations have risen up in late times, each predict evidence, the continual testimonies that are being had of the ex ing a r.ew power and visitation of the Spirit, some in one form and istence of man's spiritual nature, and of the departed spirits of men. some in another: and outside of these sects various philanthropists who hover near the earth. That portion of the Church that denies and philosophers, transcending material science, have looked these manifestations to-day is in reality the anti-Christ oi the age: forward with longing eyes towards heaven to determine if there while those wise ones within the Church, who see these signs and might not he at this epoch of the world some new power of the admit their presence, are performing an act of regeneration in the Spirit visited upon the earth. i Church that shall take the place of a mere formal belief. There Vainly do men call for signs ! vainly do men ask for supernatural are a few within the ecclesiastical body who, shaping their views evidence! vainly seek for the coining of a material kingdom or to the atmosphere of modern thought, and realising the presence established power that shall reveal their especial religion to he ! of this power and fervour of spiritual communion, dare proclaim true! Ye do not look in the right direction! Those who search j their belief in the presence and visitation of disembodied souls, do not search with the eye of the Spirit; they who question do j This fact would not induce scoffing so much if it had not been not question in the proper manner, for the signs are already in I recklessly and;steadfastly denied for the last quarter of a century : existence, and the proofs and powers of this visitation are already ; this l’act would not call forth denunciation so much it_ it had not abroad in the land. Sorno seek for signs in the clouds, with the ! been one of the primal foundations of the Church itself, and would sounding of trumpets and the coming of the temporal kingdom, I not have induced so much denial if. in the places ol those proofs and whose power shall restore the lost power. Some seek for the voice this evideuce, it were merely founded oil imagination ot thought, of an angel and the sound of the trumpet that shall call the dead j But instead of that it becomes not only a form of aspiration and and the living to judgment. Some are seeking for an utter destruc | belief, but a form wherein the worshipper in spirit beholds tion by lire, in which the earth shall be consumed as in a furnace, divine and ministering angels, and holds converse with actual per and wherein the wicked shall he burned, but those which are good sons, whereby the most material mind can be satisfied, and he who shall escape. But though you know it not, the lire is already is the most abject slave to his material senses can have every sense abroad in the land, a consuming flame is upon the earth: the convinced. Marching Spirit who searcheth all hearts is near you: the sky is The Church has no argument to give against science, when it filled with signs; the earth is alive with voices, and the air is savs: “ W e have proven the earth and air; we have analysed the darkened with the changes that are taking place. ! atom, and have planted our telescopes against the dome of heaven, If the temporal Church seeks in these signs the building up of its ! and we find no Spirit and no God." But if out of this voiceless bower, it will not have them. If the poor old man at Rome, whose j air, and out of this very element that the man of science claims to ;a>t days are drawing nigh, seeks for the acquisition of his temporal I have analysed, there comes a positive force, a tangible presence, an power again, he will not get it. If the German Emperor, for the I actual voice, a living apparition, your savan is set at naught, sustenance of his material tyrannical power, seeks to build tip the | his cavilling must cease, and he is compelled to silence. If, temporal power of the Church, he will not get it. If any Church j accompanying these, there also come assurances of distinct to Christendom seeks for a special visitation, that their immediate j spiritual existence, assurances of an atmosphere of spiritual life all °r particular tenets may bo enforced and sustained, they will not j around the earth that is not known to science, nor analysed by its Vf > m ii c, i kihi: m and daybkkak. 160 THE M
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THE ZAND-A-YESTA. sophical, and other considerations. There was, he said, a sympathy A correspondent writes as follows:— between all degrees ot existence, us explained by the so-called co-relation “ 1 see that you have announced an edition of this Sacred Scripture of of forces. From crude matter the degrees of variety ascended through Jrania by a gentleman who is no doubt perfectly competent to edit it, the various organic forms to man's immediate spiritual surroundings. and to whose publication of the work every one will look with interest. These various stages in the development ot matter were sympathetically Rleeck has proved himself wholly incompetent. Allow me, through you, related to each other, ns every person might experience for himself on to call his attention to the following passage in the preface to the ‘ Hook allowing Ids body to be affected by heat, cold, or mechanical action. of Enoch,’ recently published by Trubncr and Co. 1 should also ho glad Under these considerations, it would not he ju.-t to the spirit to subject to know from any of your numerous correspondents whether the revela the dead body to the act of cremation, as it would produce changes in tions made or the inspirations given to any of the mediums, as to the the psychical surroundings of the spirit, and indict a certain degree of transition of the spirit-soul into the other spheres o f existence, at all pain and perturbation, and this would be rendered more clear by con coincide with the view presented to the world by this holy Khohnasthra, sidering the origin of the spirit-body and its relations to physical or Messia Zaratusht. The public arc now at length beginning to feel existence. The spiritual body was composed of the highly refined ele an unusual interest in matters of this high tendency, mid they resort to ments which wore derived from the physical body, and which constituted vou as thebest source of information,— Yours respectfully, the organic clothing of man at death. An intimate sympathy must exist ‘'Elite/, bin Cacs.” between the spiritual and physical body, and death was simply the »..pa- P S.—I enclose one of Zaratnsht'a prayers, taken from the Znnd-a- rat ion of the t wo. Those who had been fully and harmoniously matured Yesta. by age and its experiences retained fmt little sympathy with the body “Praise be to AO-MA, who makes the soul of the poor in greatness after the separation caused by death. If disease and an ab-ence of like that of the richest; who maketh the mind of the lowly so large in spiritual development existed, then the spiritual body would lie starved, greatness, that it soars on high with wisdom. W ho rejoices to pour and cause the spirit to cling to the conditions of material life after from the silver cup into the golden : but. delights not when the golden death. Others, again, were so material that earthly experiences were is emptied into the silver. Who is glad when the spirit divinely ascends the whole of their aspirations. They passed from the body, but con by the way of the bird; but who veils himself in darkness when it de tinued related to it by bonds of sympathy, and if the bodv of such a scends by the pathway of the worm. Who made the golden body of person were burned, there would be a considerable organic reaction, the sun. and tilled the stars and planetary orbs with light that was which would cause mental pain and disquietude to tlie ascended spirit. shadowed forth from the shining choir of his Amsehaspards. Who in The normal process of decomposition went on slowly and naturally, and spires priests to holiness and purity, and warriors to brave and noble viewed in a sanitary light, the incremated body would give off gases daring, and husbandmen to industry and thrift, and artisans to patient which would be injurious. The same was true if the body were placed excellence. 0 Spenta-Arm aui! O Perfect W isdom ! hear our prayers in the ground, but much depended oh tbo state in which gases were with benign ear. O Cao-Santo ! Holy Splendour! hear our language of given off as to whether they would be poisonous or otherwise. Coining thanksgiving and praise. O Aum-Re-Ta, may we place our sole happi through the earth, the gases were qualified by that process, and rendered ness in the joyous hope of Thee. Amen.” in some degree innocuous. The experience of the spirit speaking was From the ‘ Book of Enoch,’ Vol. I. p. 49. that cremation is not the natural method of disposing of the human corpse, nor in harmony with the laws of nature,—that w hich was derived How beautifully Zaratusht, the Fifth Messenger, has described the from the earth ought to be returned thereto. resurrection, may be learned from the following extract (part of a dialogue between him self and the Logos or H oly Spirit) which I cite The spirit then described the sensations experienced by those who were burned alive, as when the Indian widow was con from the true Zand-a-Vesta now lying before me. What a sublime and sumed on the funeral pyre beside the body of her dead Lu-bind. The splendid image it conveys! H ow worthy of the paradise scene where it suffering of the woman being intense, it is certain to be communicated is described, and how wholly in accordance it appears with all that is in part to the spirit of the deceased husband, who is attracted by sym known of God or of the future, either from revelation, reason, or ex pathy to the sphere of his wife. The experience of the martyr burned perience. Contrasted with the resurrection described by Paul, and at the stake was then reviewed. The exquisite tortures first experienced believed by his followers, and the corporeal palingenesis of all the early were soon succeeded by unconsciousness, during which the liberation of Christian fathers, it shines like light from heaven itself; yet this was the spirit took place, and which was cared for by attendant spirits till the well-known faith of all our forefathers in the olden ages, which are consciousness returned, and unless an influence xvere exercised to restrain popularly commiserated as days of sin and darkness, and this is the the spirit., it would be drawn back to the scene of its suffering. On the doctrine itself as it was revealed to all more than four thousand years return of consciousness the pain was great, and the memory of it for some ago, by one of the most divine teachers and philosophers :— time caused much distress. ZARATUSHT. A lady asked whether it would not be equally painful to the spirit for “ O M ihrl* more splendent in thy brightness the body to decompose gradually in the grave rather than rapidly by Than the emerald fiery stars of the wholly shining arch, cremation. The reply was that the two processes were widely different. Answer unto me ; make thou known An allusion was made to the mortification of the members of the living The condition of man’s spirit after death. body, and the effect it might have on the spirit alter death. The" condi Is it dissipated into invisible air, tion of those who perish by accidents was also alluded to, and it was Like the cloud that lately shone so luminous ? stated that a vivid and painful reaction took place after the liberation of Or doth it pass into some other form ? the spirit. A spirit liberated from the body by consumption appeared And if so, whence comes that form? to suffer on its return through a medium. This might occur as a test of MIIIR. individuality, and also as a necessity, for its idea of returning to the “When the pure spirit ascends from earth, physical state was connected with the memory of its existence when in It scents the pertume of odoriferous trees ; the body, which caused the manifestation of disease ill the medium for It feels as if it were still in body ; the time being. A lady asked whether it was not unpleasant for a It knows not that it is free from chains. spirit to have the physical body eaten by maggots. The spirit replied A sweetly-scented wind conveys it that the effect was very different from "burning, as the process was of To the ethereal regions of the upper zone; another kind altogether. A music rich, divine, and pure, The chairman observed that it was probable that in the disintegration Surrounds, salutes, and fills it. of the body by fire a peculiar form of violent molecular vibration was It beholds an image of its own holiness, instituted in certain of the more interior essences of the body related to Like a beautiful virgin budding into bloom, the sphere of the spirit, and thus rendered the spirit conscious of what Sacred, starry-shining, star-crowned, was being done with the body. Mr. Morse's guide said that that was With snow-white wings. To it, it speaks. so, but be had limited the consideration of the question so as to meet Who art thou, O beautiful one ? the requirements of time. A gentleman present observed that the Who art thou, O virgin light of heaven ? Barsees left the bodies of the departed to be eaten by animals. The Never have I seen or dreamed of aught conversation then turned to tho continuance of individuality in the So pure, so lovely, so divine as thou art. spirit-world. It answers thus : In mo thou seest The “ Strolling Player ” then effected his usual control. lie was of An image of tby thoughts, thy life, thine actions ;t the same opinion as his predecessor as to the impropriety of cremation. I am thy conscience symbolised before thee, He was asked whether lie had experienced any sensations Irom his body Beautiful as thy deeds have been. after death. lie said Yes. Occasionally he Veit a peculiar creepy sen Then the pure ascending spirit sation, which ho did not understand till it was explained to him long Passes into this new form of existence. afterwards. Having arrived at mature age he was not very particularly It animates that lieayenly phantom, related to the body. He then recited one of his characteristic " parables,” And ascends, virgin-like, on high.” illustrating the relations between tlio world, religion, free thought, and Spiritualism.
A SPIRIT’S VIEWS ON CREMATION. A lady writes:—" I always loved religion, but Spiritualism has given On Friday evening last Air. Morse resumed his weekly seance at the me a cheerfulness with regard to death that I never ielt before. May Spiritual Institution for a few weeks. There was a good attendance of God speed and prosper you!” highly intellectual people, and great interest was manifested in the pro ceedings. The first control was by “ Tien-Sien-Tie,” the guido of the “A. S.” characterises “ Mrs. Tappan, aided by her spirit-guides,” us medium. After the medium had been entranced, the controlling spirit the “ foremost teacher of the ago, through whom a real, enduring gospel asked if the chairman had any questions to propose for discussion, when of glad tidings is being promulgated to poor, benighted humanity the subject of Cremation was introduced, with a request that the spirit and he regrets that every word of her utterances cannot be fully re would give his opinion as to the expediency of that mode of disposing ported and preserved. lie looks forward to tlie weekly arrival of the of the human body after death, and also in what respect the departed M edium with eagerness. Our correspondent lias “ been converted to spirit is affected by tho manner in which the body is disintegrated. The Spiritualism through tho internal evidence contained in Mrs. Tappan’s spirit replied in an elaborate speech, observing that the question divided lectures,” and lie knows of “ nothing so good and noble, so rational and itself into various heads, under which might bo classed sanitary, philo- natural, as the spirit of these teachings. Would that they could lie read on every Sabbath day from every pulpit in Christendom.” The letter * Milir, according to the learned Orientalist Hyde, signifies love, benevolence, from which we quote contains expressions which might be multiplied by mercy (He lieig. Vet. Pel's., p. lo.i). This is the Greek Eros, or Divine Love; tile hundreds. The work effected by Mrs. Tappan in England is inestimable, -'r.iilmina, or holy Spirit ot Heaven. and we feel thankful that it has been part of our duty to aid in dissem t Tile same idea and truth is conveyed in the ‘ Book of Enoch,’ where tho beauti ful virgin reveals herself to the Second Messenger, and calls herself the spirit ot inating so extensively the spiritual truths which have bceu expressed his spirit (see post chap. i. U). through the lips of our distinguished visitor. M A1U' u (L THV MKOU'M ANP ILNYHUV.AK. 1874. tin' plunder. AY a retorted tW Vo obtained. and ',u'" *,'a'v VtlK Cl KOI'1. AVION OV I'HK MK1UVM. AND t<' a considerable public alread' sustained 1 y;.. up m llio year jus; closed TKKMS OV SVBSORTVTION. | (,,„^ \ awm>r vor\ little more to bo this patronage mid place il m other hands [ho i)\:U lO u\> • \ v. ho nU.'j ,il„.v a mis*al*o *'ii ouv pari, as w ell as setting asid0 , I .■• * * principle. \\ hii'li is tin' great Mltagoiibt of , y ... Ki, ; I arc s ...... » »V< ■ that this t* a;;... associati n 1 i*t| I At .. j , pva, -ti.-ed sanction.'.! persecution nor mij-ropres, ntati u'h i^r oo\. ■t l c , f tho Spiritual Institution, \\ e nev 'V said that i: ha I. At the time it is a notorious fac that the orpin of this propo. ed as. a*. e e\cv its business- inter.inter, -V'is e.a-he.t with ours. ha.- iuui * NUmi v.. lit lit’ v, mi ;,,r eommoti decene.y in the continuance of rs-.iial attacks upon us : and it is e\ en going a little too fM Viti K ' I,' iut tn, k r. \\. 0.; sa\... thatihn "individually''" inimuuuuiv no**« .'tie<’**'■ "*,if that ll" proposed association * -enled tlie Spiritual Institutiona when the letterle of Ja i uion ; U tnu :')1V. - a^vr.;v.*.l ttt'iv t. r Mu* Thornton Hoskins, oil which wo commented last week. i> befM >;:b t.HVAl • k>..V.4»i >XiH she publn'. AN e also received some weeks ago an anon\iin.u, ilv'U :V- tivl t*> tV»l<*T letter. s.L'iied “ The Honorary Secretaries," which aft, rw.c j .nM‘„ ;-,'r. *1V.> a 1 ..union paper, and " e tliink it w as in J antes Th r;.-. , ll.K.ius's hand-writing,but as we ham destroyed it vvecanr. : i ;a n. It would seem, then, that the “ oflioial letter signed ” T.....;, THE MKDll'Jl AND DAYBREAK. Kislin :hurv.“ and w vitten by Air. IV,y ton, is worth nothin*, ever, u>\ denial ; for, it is probable that the post which she assumes h frii' ay. r i ; : : ISM. hi by a number of person* since the " time...... A'that ~~ ‘ the c.mvtrsaii;,- in ouestion took place. The existence of such a machine DSCKH' i'lONS llli srium m IN S I'l IT H O N. excellent way of shirking personal responsibility. AYo mi Hit say a great deal as to the systematical efforts mads w. Cl VO UU't V ire', instalment of aub- bv some persons very intimately connected with this prop .p iwiiiui during '■■■. prosorvt yo.ar. Hie cost of association to not only damage the position of the Spiritual Institu -.g '. .. S ea...i;\l . i.-t at inn lor public purposes and tion, in the estimation of those with whom they come in contact, yai . ns kinds from i'500 to but even to injure the manager's private business .vs a publi iii.ll v. andy ear by year . arger proportion of this amount sher. AA'ere we actuated by the vindictive temper which if oatrtbuted by the pub' ;c. but no: w;; tistauding which manifested in the quarter to which wo allude, wo might say much .. -V.v.v ; r . , c: .. >> . ;-*. - ; incurred bv the manager. The more, having ample materials from which to draw ; but we gTfstly ~rca: advantiiges rendered Spiritualism by the lalkiurs of the dislike controversy of this kind, and only enter upon the subject lnstuution are being moi getn \mslv recognised every dav. and so far as to indicate the kind of policy which Spiritualists m&y t* ■:# ; .•-.livers... practice for all friends of the cause to do prepared to have promulgated amongst them. ... g . . ..- S;c.c. Institution." which has for upwards i AVe have no objection whatever to the establishment of scy ot tec. years dc-no so macn for Soiritualisiu. As the subscriptions number of societies, nor of the multiplication of newspapers, not received daring January and I e hr nary do not come np to the any other form of'speculation : but we most decidedly object to:ite prepor:-.. a required :. rttiat time, our friends will oblige us muchT 111.'1 crime of making such arrangements an excuse lor injuring th by exert.ng teems-. Nes on .... oar behalf. , Amidst... the ,luVh ' ! whose fault it is to have been tirst in the field, and are then:*:; wee.-uv it is more than probable1. - that . .some . Ij an object * • . ot .. envy to their imitators,, and u a *bar _•nor overlooked. If such a tiling is noticed by plishment of ambitious designs. "T > tcscr.ner, w. shall take :t kindly to have the same pointed OUito Uj 1 Atr. J. Swinburne ... 1 o A Friend ...... •2 2 0 MARY REDONE ASSOCIATION EVEN I NO CONCERT Mrs. H ujb,s 1 1 0 Mrs. Klein ...... 1 0 0 The success which attended the evening concert held in a Nt. fl n.aiib ...... 0 1 0 Lieut. Watts...... 1 0 0 the Alarylebone Association on AA’ednesday evening must .. . Af-. H. r*> .re ...... 0 1 0 " R. T.’ ...... 2 0 0 much satisfaction to Mrs. Malt by and tlie other promoters Air. W. A'err.on ...... 1 1 0 i " Inquirer ” (Egvpt) ... 1 0 0 1 concert, and, indeed, to all connected therewith. It was ..... Air. C. Alsop . 1 1 0 ,Rev. A —...... 1 1 0 the Quebec Institute, a handsome hall in Seymour Street. ... Air. r. Gran; ...... 1 1 o I Mr. K. Cameron...... 0 7 li audience was large, and the list of artists was numerous ar... : M-r. R . J a c k s o n ...... 0 10 fi ” Rhender and Tudor ” 0 1 O' varied qualifications. The programme, which was full to repleu.tr,. Captain F aw cett...... 1 (J 0 Mr. Mart hr ze quarterly) 10 0 0 Air. John Robertson ... 0 J o;Mr. 11. Man field...... 1 1 0 was considerably extended by almost every item being enccie- '7 "G. S. M ...... 0 0 ;“ C, I.” ...... 5 0 0 The opening overture by the Misses Maitby at once impress... ;., Captain W’vnne . 1 4 10 1 Mr. AA . AA ilkes ...... 0 5 0 audience favourably in respect to tlie evening's proceedings. AV Air, J. Re.mere 0 10 0 I" Fair Play ”...... 0 5 0 1 need not occupy space in particularising the various ofi’orts. A.:>; o Air. w . Perks ...... 0 fi Mr. P, Re> -c.o'.ds...... 0 1 0 Emily Maitby, Miss Malvina Claxton, Miss Li. .tie Clark. Miss .V r.s. Air. A. K y d ...... 1 0 0 IMr. AA . C lem son ...... 0 1 0 Mrs. Castleden. Mr. Arthur Griffiths, Mr. AA'. ,1. Griffiths, Mr. •• Air. P. K. Harrison 2 tl 0 Air. T. Bickerstaff •) ■> 0 llocker, Mr. Arthur Glacier. Mr. Castleden, Mr. Tinda.il. and Ac V "J. S.” ...... 2 13 Mr. Tbos. Fardon 0 10 0 Caleb Dull, were each received with great enthusiasm ; audit wcv.ii Airs, Ray ...... 1 1 0 Mr. J. Pitt ...... 0 o 0 be difficult to say which bold the highest position in the taveuri Air. A\. kingdom... 1 1 0 OoL Stuart ...... 0 5 <1 their hearers. Between the parts Mr. F. Tindall perfor.ncc. irs -V F rien d ...... 1 0 0 Mr. Petreo ...... 0 1 0 “ Clara Waltz,” and the composer must have been proud of tv Dr. Newton...... 4 0 4 Air. E. H a ll...... 0 2 0 interest which was manifested therein. In the second part oecunv. c.r. * o..noire ...... 0 1 0 Mr. \Y e bs I o r G 1 v n rs 1 1 0 . a new spiritual song, “ 1 await thee.” written and composed by Air. T. Gusman ...... 0 *> 0 -Mr. N. F. D a w s ...... 1 1 0 Airs. li. Milicr ...... 0 :> 0 ” A Peruvian Friend". . 0 10 Mr. F. Tindall, and sung by Mr. AA’. J. Griffiths. It was so higH Air. Cbristopher...... 0 i 0 j Mrs. Edwards . 0 2 l> appreciated that Mr. Griffiths was called back to follow it L Air. Stone 0 i 0 1 ■ My Annual Mile " . . 1 1 0 another song. Misa Itlundal .” ... 0 i 0 ; Mr. Cameron . 0 s 0 The only drawback to enjoyment on such a pleasing occasion >s Al.ss A B lu u d a l...... 0 i 0 : Mr. A. Cross . 0 fi 6 the irrepressible clapping ot a few largo-fisted individuals, wbe d:i. Moses E —...... 0 t t) i L o * d ...... 1 1 0 seem to have their musical sensibilities eliietly developed in C-' A Fnend ...... 11 D 0 Mr. Martin it. Smith ... 1 1 0 palms of their hands. It would not be a bad plan at another sad' Air. S. H ow& rth...... 1 0 0 Mr. X. L. Henly ... .. 0 10 0 o concert to make the charge for admission in proportion to lb.' Air. AV. Cassell ...... 0 Mr. Bnvdish...... 0 10 0 amount of noise thus indicted upon the audience. It is but t'?:: St. Patrick ...... 0 - G Mr. AY. Xcbb .. 1 1 0 that the payment should be in proportion to the degree of mi p Air, James C o c k ...... 0 6 0 ment derived, and also, let ns add. to the extent of discern * h inflicted upon others. Altogether, we heartily congratulate cut EXPLANATIONS llE-EXPLAINED. Alarylebone friends on their success on AA'ednesdav evening, v bit’ AA e have received another communication from the “ AA'efawm rotlects the highest credit upon a society which can muster soma*' K’lyub," and "would you be surprised to hear” that James talent and devotion as was manifested that evening. Thornton lloskins gives ns the. lie with respect to the observations made in connection with his name in our last issue ? AA'e have also M rs. D ickinso n has left London, impressed by her guides that tbt received from Emily lxisliugbury a letter stating that the change was needful for her. She is now located at. No. I'd, G-ermw “ council” of the proposed association had instructed no person Street, Brighton, where letters may be addressed to her. She "ill con to negotiate an alliance. AA’e did not say that Mr. lloskins had been tinue to exercise her faculty of medical clairvoyance, and will Iv glad to J instructed by anyone, b it there is no doubt of the facts stated last receive communications from those who can be benefited b\ her sonic week—that lie suggested the alteration of tone on our part, and, She expects to remain at Brighton for three months. a- an inducement, held out the prospect of money being handed Lkwks.— Although the town was well placarded, only tweifiv i over. It a person takes it upon himself to suggest the employment assembled at Die looture on Tuesday evening, which shows th. of money in this way he is either a plenipotentiary or an impostor, of public interest in the place. There is no person in Lewes and James Thornton lloskins and Ins council may settle the matter with Spiritualism. Mr. Cooper presided, and alluded to his amongst themselves. AA'e do not found our report of what took the same place ten years ago, when he was most violently oppo place in that conversation upon a casual remark, but it formed the Burns's lecture was listened to with eager attention, and after a oasis of considerable discussion, in which wo objected to the hours’ discussion of the subject, tlie audience left the ball reluct, principle of going in with his clique to see how much money might impressed all seemed to be with tlie matter presented to them. ] r,-.\ M arch G, 1 8 7 4 . THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. \
M.K. MORSIi AT QOBWKLL HALL. UftS. OORA b. V. TAPPAN’S SUNDAY EVE^NG INk On Sunday last a crowded audience gathered in the above ball, drawn I Sl’JK VJTOXAI.. IHHL'OCRSES AT HEE\ ELAND JJ.VLL, \ thither by the announcement of un oration by .Mr. Morse. The ebair CLEVELAND STREET, OXFORD STREET. wa3 occupied by Mr. Jobn Collier, of the Midland Spiritual Institute, The coiiirnittc; have arranged for the delivery, every Sunday Birmingham. Tbe proceedings coininenced in t.bc usual way bv - ngiiitf evening up to the fltb April next, of these dUcouwe*? vrhich _ are ahytnn from tbo 'Spiritual Lyre,' alter which Mr. Collier read a cnaptor , for the most p.irt dependent. upon voluntary subscriptions, sinco from tbe ‘ Scots of the Ages' by J. M. I’ooblcs. Tim audience wore titun requested to select a committee of fnr p,-rs ms to choose tbo subject of 1 tbo collection- at the door ar..- not sufficient to cover the expenses, Mr. Morse's discourse. After some little delay, a committee, composed j in cons'- jii'Uice of the number of free ••■at Tickets to he had at of four non-Spiritualists arid one Spiritualist, was formed, and the sub Chappell or Ollivier’n, l! ,nd Street, or Burns' Library, 15, South- ject upon which tbe lecture was to bo founded was banded to Mr. Collier ' ampton How, J In!burn. Subrcriptions and donations may he sent as chairman. Tbo following question was propounded Is there a to the Treasurer, .Mrs. Jfouywood, 52, Warwick Square, Bimltco. life beyond tbe present, and can too fact of any intercommunication Reserved seats, 2 s. and Is. each; b.dy of the hall, free. Doors between tbe two worlds be logically demonstrated Y' immediately upon j open at 0.15, to commence at 7. tbe question being read, Mr. Morse plunged into the subject con amort, In order to prevent interruption, it is requested that no one and for about an hour and a quarter riveted the attention of bis bearers j leave before the conclusion of the service. No admittance after by bis masterly and exhaustive treatment of the subject. He dealt but the discourse has b e g u n . ------little with phenomenal Spiritualism, bis thoughts were deep, philoso phical, and comprehensive, his arguments in favour of an existence here A CHAT IN THE DARK, after being based rather upon the nature of man and us needs. Of i A Sunday evening or two ago, after listening to the inspirational out- course, lie briefly directed bis nudienco to tbe evidences afforded by the i pourings of Mrs. Tappan at Cleveland Hall, we wended our way, under physical manifestations with which Spiritualists aro so familiar, con | the kind guidance of u friend, to No. .'J, Torrington Street, Russell cluding his remarks with a beautiful peroration. This was a good ■Square, in order to make our first acquaintance w.th Mrs. Jloihs and meeting, and every one seemod deeply impressed with the thoughtful ; her mediutnsbip. Although we found the lady somewhat exhausted utterances of Mr. Morse’s spirit-guide. I from having already during the afternoon and evening held two seances, | she, nevertheless, kindly consented to officiate in her mediumistie ea;,a- MRS. TAPP AN AT BRIGHTON. | city once more. We were six in all, counting the medium : three ladies j and three gentlemen. It will be doubtless known to the readers of the The local newspapers give much space to reports of Mrs. Tappan’s : M edium (which, by the way, ought to be dubbed toe Medium Mili- oration at the Royal Pavilion on Friday last. The Daily Mail says | tant”), that at Mrs. Hollis's seances tbe spirit-voice is obtained through that “ the King's apartment was filled almost to overflowing,'1 and j tbo instrumentality of a tube, made of tin and of about two feet in “ amongst those present were Lord Bangor, Viscount Pevensey, Lady L. i length. We six having formed an irregular circle—it was, in fact, a Macgreggor and Dr. Macgreggor, Mr. Templeton, Dr. Itouth, Dr. j kind of rhomboidal circle,—this tube was placed in our midst, the Buchanan, Mr. R. Cooper, and Mr. Gill." Tbe subject selected out of j medium taking her teat opposite to it. The gas was then turned off, many for Mrs. Tappan to discourse upon was, “ Why has tbe advent of j leaving us of course in total darkness. Scarcely three seconds Lad Spiritualism been so long delayed, when suffering humanity required it ; elapsed before a deep and rather gruff voice saluted tbe company with, so much?" Tbe lecture, which is reported at great length, showed J “ Good evening, friends,” immediately afterwards commencing ar.d that Spiritualism had existed in all times. The term was only new and j carrying on, for several minutes, a running fire of humorous sayings recent. | and banter. This the spirit finally brought to an end with the caution: The Daily Kewt also reports the lecture very fully, occupying two “ But I hope you won’t put this in the M edium ” fwe having come pro- columns and a half with the evening’s proceedings. Tbe questions at j vided, and having obtained permission to Fitmanise a few of the quaint tbe close are reported at great length. The poem given was on the j sayings of the control). The spirit then asked if he could be of service "Capture of Coomassie.” The audience are described as being “ mainly to anyone present by answering questions; whereupon our friend—we fashionable and well-to-do people,’’ yet some present bad to be reproved will call him John Knox—said there were several things be should like for levity and misbehaviour, as was tbe case on Mrs. Tappan’s former to talk about, one of which was cremation. visit. Altogether the oration seems to have been a great seccess. What effect, said he, has destruction of the body on the spirit ? None whatever, replied the tubal toics. DISCUSSION BETWEEN DR. SEXTON AND MR. FOOTE. Does the preservation of the body, or the slow decomposition of tbe This discussion, which is to come off at the New Hall of Science, body, tend to the continuation of tue earth associations of tbe spirit? Old Street, City Road, on March 24th and 26tb, is being pushed for No, sir (or rather “ sur ”); the odour of the decomposing body keeps ward with great energy. The combatants are putting on their armour, away the spirit. It would be of very great benefit to tbe earth if all and a hard-fought contest may be expected. The propositions have bodies were burned. already been settled, and are as follows :— [Our notes here have become so inextricably mixed—forming, as it March 24th.—That the spiritualistic hypothesis is scientifically war were, a pictorial representation of a ravelled dandelion-stalk chain— ranted by the phenomena for which it is undertaken to account. To be that it would take a very good “ seer ” to see through them : so that we opened in the affirmative by Dr. Sexton, and in the negative by Mr. must skip a couple of questions and tbe answers thereto.] Foote. The next question was, John Knox still querying: Has a spirit in the March 2Gth.—That the doctrine of a future life is unphilosophical spirit-world got organic development, as we in physical life? If so, of and illusory. To be opened in the affirmative by Mr. Foote, and in tbe wbat use are they ? negative by Dr. Sexton. They have organic development, and they are of the same use as yours here. They eat fruit just the same as you do. Do all spirits, then, require food? query by a lady. Mns. Tappan had an excellent meeting at Shaftesbury Estate, Yes ; food and clothing, and rest, and even Bleep, responded the tubal Wandsworth Road, on Tuesday evening. The oration was in Mrs. voice with considerable emphasis, as if wondering how anyone could ask Tappan's best style, and was much appreciated. such a question. Mit. Morse will only be at tbe Spiritual Institution for two Friday Are there not, however, different degrees of organic existence in the evenings, to-night and Friday next. The seance commences at eight higher life in which these physical necessities are gradually modified? o’clock precisely. Admission, Is. (Knox interrogator.) Oh, yes; in the higher spheres. There tbe essences necessary for the M r . J oiix Collier, of Birmingham, reports that he was present at sustenance of the spirit are held to a great extent in solution in the Mrs. Olive’s seance on Wednesday week last, and was much gratified at atmosphere, and are taken in and incorporated with the body. (A little tbe proceedings. He does not mention that any tests were given, but more of the entangled dandelion chain-work.) In the higher spheres he says that the controls were characteristic, and that he was specially the spirits actually inhale more than they eat. pleased with the remarks of Dr. Forbes, and with the pleasant sayings I want to ask you about that. Then there will be waste matter exhal of “ Sunshine.” Mr. Collier has had a private seance with Mrs. Olive, ing from the body, as in earth life ? with a view to consult the medical spirit as to his present state of health. Yes, sir, the same as now. “ Jonx Kixg ” ix ms D ut ch Dress.—We have received from the You know the Hindoos talk about a higher sphere—Nirwana—where Hague Mr. Kiko's latest work, which ho facetiously recommends us to the spirit has no care and no anxiety and no fear : this has always ap announce under the above title. It is an exhaustive account of the peared to me a state in which physical conditions were overcome ? phenomena which occurred in the presence of Mr. Williams, with such (Knox interrogans.) additional matter as is necessary to give the reader a comprehensive Yes, sir; he has passed into such a state that he is no longer knowledge of the phenomena and principles of Spiritualism. Prefixed influenced by earth. We receive manifestations from these. We have to tbe volume is a portrait of “ John K ing” as it appeared in the spirit-circle3, and they give us answers to questions, and many of these Medium. W e shall allude to this work at greater length on some future answers we transmit to earth. oocasion. Hereupon followed a number of questions and answers of a nature Spir it u a l ism at the West -exd.—Last evening an address on this not sufficiently general and interesting to be reproduced : we therefore subject was delivered before the members of the Yictoria Discussion pass over a couple of pages of notes, when we light upon the Society, at the Cavendish Rooms, Mortimer Street, by Mr. J. Thornton following :— Hoskins, M.A. The chair was taken at eight o’clock by Mrs. Cora I tell you, Mr. Knox, you have not spirit-identity enough. Spirits Tappan, an American lady, and the attendance, which almost entirely very seldom come back among you and identify themselves. consisted of ladies, was numerous. The Victoria Society, of which Miss John Knox: In private circles they do more; but there is a lack of Emily Faithful is tbe energetic secretary, is open for the discussion of that, though a most interesting form of mediutnsbip. all social, scientific, and literary subjects, and it is therefore not to be Of course it is ; but English people show themselves so exclusive that assumed that all theories advocated before them is by them approved. there is no getting at them. This state of things has great effect on the Tbe lady presiding, in introducing the lecturer, made a very graceful spirit-world. Sometimes a spirit comes who would give test after test speech, in which perhaps more strongly than the lecturer himself if tbe sitters would allow it; but they will demand proof, and their first she advocated the cause of modern Spiritualism. A discussion followed, question is: Who are you, and what do you want? That shakes the in which the Rev. Maurice Davies, Mr. Hill, Mr. Shorter, and Mr. Todd spirit more than if a flash of lightning were to pass through it. It is took part. The discussion closed with a speech by the fair president, the same as if somebody, from whom you were expecting spiritual con which exhibited powers of eloquence that many of our senators might solation, were to say: Well, Knox, how are you getting on with your well envy. She held that Spiritualism wa3 a new philosophy in religion, money matters ? That brings you down from your highest flights. I which was to take the place of the old. The proceedings closed with a cannot manifest in England to the best advantage; there is not the warm vote of thanks to the chairwoman and lecturer.—Abridged from atmosphere. Thursday’s Standard, Lady: There ia not inspiration. 154 TIIK M KU!i;M AND DAVIjItKAK. M/.U'.'m
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H » // if*j>o>-»■ *» w.- )r.. v- in y.« w. W ' «rof 'i in i n p n -it wtn)‘ nfi'iuvi I .jmI •/jird*, urn tb«r* not? (\>y Uu\y '• ojij/*..*j» • ,< /.iiw-b Air*. To ) ' r> >|i ' j/.y .-■I : u ; , b '>■ oo) y jiJ<-;.,- ,,, ( Af. J Last evening, while sitting under strict test conditions, a pigeon was In studying thechomistry of the higher life, wefincl thatall these eartlaly brought and presented to my wife by “ Peter,” ho having promised to compounds and matter are but effects from something which before wask bring her a bird at a previous seance. You may imagine our pleasure invisible; that every now structure is being built up from tho, toms, \ and surprise to hear the fluttering of apparently a largo bird coming invisible; ami that now, while I am writing this noto to our fair from the coiling. It is really a beautiful creature, and is highly prized questioner, I lie thoughts aro not in the black marks 1 am making with by its fortunate owner. At two previous seances, flowers were scattered the pen and ink, but aro wholly thrown out into space and upon this with profusion over the table and sitters, the leaves being (|uite wet. paper, so that they oould ho read by a pure and highly clairvoyant with the rain that was then falling. The most surprising feature of person; and should t-his paper bo burnt before such clairvoyant, the this c«90 is. that wo do not. know of any flowers of the kind being in the various forecs liberated would be as clear, when understood, as are the neighbourhood. At my request, “ Peter ” whistled several times, and as forces or elements of matter liberated by means of the blow-pipe. And if desirous of convincing us that it was him, lie whistled simultaneously so with every deed done in the body, if the spirit cannot, withdraw the with Mr. Herne, and also while the medium was coughing (he having a forces from the body at death, it must remain there until it has learnt bad cold). We have also had several tests of a private nature in the to do so. Burning the body would be a means of help to many, very direct voice from friends “ passed away.” “ Peter ” has also spoken many spirits who pass away in great ignorance of the laws of the higher several times without the tube.— 1 remain, faithfully yours, life. Though many of the monasteries are crumbling into dust, the Herne's Oak, South Hackney. ' ’ J. Yoong.edifices still stand entire to the spirits, who still cling to the old faith. They will light.—as spirits only can tight -for tho maintenance of their old creed. The time will come when wo shall have colleges for the A PRIVATE SEANCE IN LIVERPOOL. study of these most difficult subjects ; and when it does come, a great To tho Editor.—Sir,— I herewith scud you particulars of a seance amount of tho mystery will have vanished—nobody will dare cheat. held at my house on Saturday, 14th hist.., the medium being a girl of The medium will bo understood ; no person will dare to personate, as fourteen years old, whose name for tho present. I withhold, as also those the. truth will lie cheaper than a lie.—Very truly yours, of eleven witnesses, the reason being that, her parents do not wisli her Feb. 15th, 1874. Spir it uo so . name to appear in public until she becomes more developed. Anyone wishing to know the names of witnesses enn have them on applying to me. CREMATION. We took our seats at. the table at seven p.m., and commenced by the (From the Brighton Examiner.) medium holding a slate (upon which was placed a piece of pencil) under 2 the Iledditer of the Eggsamincr.—Deer Sir,—Cremation isn't Bad the tabic with one hand, the other resting on her lap, visible to all. We —I mean the Idea isn’t—one mite soon Get used 2 it, A even like it. had a lamp burning, as well as tho full light of the fire. The slate had Sir Henry Thompson deserves Well of his Country for Bringing not. been undor many seconds before we distinctly heard the pencil at Cremation in 2 such Prominent Notis. He must B a man of Grate work, and the gentleman sitting next the medium felt a pressure against Moral Currege and Matter-of-Factness, and his ideas of iKkouoray are his knee, which he described as an elcctrio shook, on hearing the pencil such as wood Eminently fit him for the Oilis of Chancellor of the Eks- fall, and three distinct knocks on the table. We took the slate from cheeker. Cremation is not a Original idea Now, altlio it was many under, when the following communication to myself was read, viz.:— Centurys Ago. Sum of tho Anchunts Practised the Art in tliare Rude “ To my grandson Edward, from his grandfather, Anthony Turner.” Way—but tliare Cremation A Ours wood B Totally Differunt. Thay We then put tho slate under again, when another sitter received a similar did it Themselves—Sience wood do it for us. one from his mother : “ To my son Edward, from his mother, E. J.” But whot is Cremation ? the intelligent Reader may ask. Well, The medium also received one' from her brother: “ To my sister M., Cremation is Nothing More or Less than the. Burning of the Dead ! from her brother, Little Georgie.” Dont B startled, but Think Over the Matter Seriously.—Xbe Eminent The medium afterwards wrote under control, answering questions and Surgeon A Author ennumerated abov, informs us, that an Adult human giving prescriptions ; when she came out of the trance state we were told Body may B operated upon A the Process Compleeted in 34 Hours.— to join hands round the table. The medium then again passed into the Tho Result will B 3.| lbs. of whitish Dust, and the cost 2s. 4d ! A few unconscious state; her chair was removed from the table towards a cor Handfuls of Fine Dust wood B the Residuum of a Man alter Passim* ner of the room, when a phantom hand passed across the face of one of thro the Fiery Ordeal! Sooner or Later the Body lias 2 Return 2 the the circle towards her chair ; a dark form also came from a corner of Dust, A the Sooner the Kwicker. It wood take Nature meny yeers 2 the room behind the medium and rocked her chair very violently. This work the change—Sience wood Do it in as meny minnits.—The end is occurred in the subdued light of a lamp, which was turned low enough the Same. AVhich is the Best means ? to enable us to see all in the room. Cremation may at First grate on our Feelings—it seems So Barbaric I may here state that had we thought of publishing the seance, I and Sackrilijus—so opposed 2 our Relijus Doet.rins A Sentiments—our could have sent you a card on which we had direct writing with a lead Customs, Tradishuns, Ac., but yet Cremation will Bear Favorabel Com pencil, but hope to be able to do so at some future time. You will parison with Our Burial of the Dead. So Long as But a Spark of Life please notice there were no what may he termed confirmed Spiritualists exists in the Body we can look on, but when the Spark has Gon out our present; the company was formed of investigators and sceptics. Feelings Change—wo Turn away from the Corpse with Repugnance and Sir, if you think this worth a place in your paper, you are at liberty dread. The Sight is Loathsome, A oftentimes we cood wish that when to publish it, or make any use you like of it, as a proof of a life beyond tho Spirit took its Flight the body also had disapeerd. Custom compels the grave. E. T urner. us 2 Keep the Corpse in our Home for a period of several Days or 13, Hamilton Hoad, Everton. more—during which Time, perhaps, We are compelled 2 use Powerful Disinfectants 2 Purify the Poisoned Atmosfeer, which we have 2 Live in. At extravagant Cost we then enclose the Corpse in a Box—com ANOTHER EFFORT AT ORGANISATION. monly called a Coffin, A Bury it a few Feet under the Ground—some To the Editor.—Dear Sir,—The people at Lye held a general meeting, where near 2 our Dwellings, so that, in the Coarse of Time, the Rain on the ISfh of this month, to discuss the desirability of organising them percolating threw the Earth shall Percolate threw the Corpse also, selves together to investigate the phenomena called Spiritual, and, after before it Finds its Way in2 the Water Coarses from whence We Draw due consideration, they resolved to start out under the colours of tho Our Aqueous Supplies! Some. Time after Burying our Dead we may Lye Psychological Society. We have established five circles, at which Visit the Grave. We Then think of the body lying therein—How Hor seances are held every night in the week except Thursday, on which rible the Thaut that Putrefaction was thare Doing its Worst.—If we night we intend holding the committee meetings. We also intend hold cood Look in2 that Coffin What a Sickening Sight wood Meet our Gaze ing the first Wednesday in every month as a conversation class, to which —To Awful 2 speak or Even think of. But suppose the Body Had Been every member is invited to attend and to give their opinions in relation to Cremated, We cood then Visit the Tomb and Weep over the Dust of the tho manifestations they have met with during tho month. Departed. The Contemplation of the former is Horrible, but of the Wc also intend to introduce subjects into this class, to be debated by latter Pleasant. the members, our first subject being, “ Is Spiritualism in accordance with Cremation wood come Absurdly Cheep, and wood strongly Apeel 2 the Bible ?” to be introduced by John Hill. We trust that the people at the Student of Ekonomy A 2 the miser. Of coarse the Dust mite be Lye, and surroundings, w ill come and help, either by joining us, or by conveyed 2 its Resting Place with all the Pomp and Vanity of this organising themselves in a similar manner. Our terms of membership Wicked World, by those Who Had Welch on thare side, but thare are are within the reach of all, being but Is. for males, and Gd,, per quarter, meny Amung us who have No Money 2 Spend on Such Pajentry. Thay for females. Applications to be made to the President, Mr. J. Pearson, can grieve with Sincerity A that is all thay Can Afford 2 do. Here is Yice-president, Mr. J. Beddoes, to the secretary, or any of the members. Man in Humbel Circumstances, having Suffered much Affliction himselt Trusting that you will insert this in your valuable paper, I am, dear and in his Family also—Ho is reduced 2 grate Poverty—He dies—his Editor, yours obediently, Wm. S almon, Sec. death Perhaps accelerated By the thaut that- thare is no money in the Attwood Street, The Hayes, Stourbridge, Feb. 2Sth, 1874. House to bury him. In Observance of our Ushul Custutu the W ile [Excellent arrangements, but we warn our good friends not to overdo must then incur Heavy Expense over tho Funeral, 2 do wich she may tilings. Two nights per week is quite enough for any person to sit in have 2 deprive her Children of Part of thare Daily Bread! If that seances. Mix it up with other duties. Man has got only a certain corps cood speak wood it Not Say—“ Dont put yourself 2 such Expense amount of energy and enthusiasm, and if he use it all up the first month, over me— I am not worth it—-Lot this vile Body B reduced 2 dust as he will, of course, sutler afterwards, and so will his cause.—E d . M .] kwickly as Possibel, & at the Least Cost—Let the money procure food for my Children,” Ac. If the dead cood speak, How often shood We Hear the Substance of such words. The Visit of Death 2 a Poor Mans BURN, BURN, BURN! house is oftener Looked upon as a Pecuniary Difficulty than Otherwise. To the Editor.—Sir,—If your lady reader had been a clairvoyante Cremation wood B a Boon 2 tho Honest Poor. It wood enabel them 2 she would have burnt some old material and given me the benefit of her bare thare Illnesses with more Cheerfulness, A Die Happier, knowing experience, so that I might have placed it side by side with others. that thare Surviving Friends wood not B “ hard Driven ” 2 give them When studying chemistry of the earth-life we had to learn that matter was Sepulture. Meny Persons actually continue 2 live, who do so merely 2 divided into three great divisions, viz., solid, liquid, and gaseous, and Save thare Funeral Expenses. We Meet with them Daily. Tuay dread the number of elements of which these were composed were close upon dying Beaus tliav are so Poor. fifty. To analyse a compound, we were taught that the compound must As Sir Henry Thompson has shown us, the Dead mite B made 2 Pay first be dissolved, and that we must first learn qualitative analysis before for Themselves! The Corpses mite B utilised A Turned 2 Profit if need we learnt quantitative. Now the best means then taught bow we must B,—But tharo is No Need for such Cheese paring ekonomy with the find out the simple solid elements was by the use of fire. Burn, burn, Dead.— We cood not use with any Pleshur Pomatum made from a burn, and mark the effects with tho blow-pipe and a flux or two ; we Defunct Fat Friend, or a Tooth-Brush made from a B nicy one. No ! oould do wonders—at least, so we thought—for this class of knowledge we will Never Rob the Dead—it Wood B S.akrilege. The Dead must in those remote days was considered infidelity, and was quizzing into the Ever B Sacred 2 us in whotever state Thay may B in. If wo submit great God’s secrete. them 2 Cremation we shood look after evory Atom of thare Dust & THE MEDIUM AND J>AYJ',REAK. M ah cu 'I, J874. "KXCnA.SOM NO K015IJfifty.” ^Opofit tl»o *Saim‘ in lain C'-mi h ' rii!* d i *Jn■ < A JVif of the Dust v*e M ile IVrliaj»b li diipnftfd li keep, jimI Jluve it ng A TRANCE ADDRESS ON EVIL. MR. MORSE’S APPOINTMENTS. The following report of a franco address by Mr. E. Wood, given at 1 London.—Stnuliiya, Muroh 8 ih, ami lfith, (.ioswell Cioswill Street, Ilollingwood, has been forwarded lo ns for pnbliention. There was a ! K.O.-—Evening at seven o'clock ; admission free. numerous and atlenlive audience, and a subject chosen by a Swedonbor- Wediu’sday, .March I Ith, Hall of Progress, 1)0, Church hired, J uU- gian. •'The Origin of Evil," was assented to unanimously. The inlluenoo dinglon. Evening ut eight. took for its groundwork the Hiblical statement as to the origin of sin, Frithivs, March lilh umt “tllh, Spiritual Institution, 15, Southampton seeking to establish the rose lor the scriptural dogmatists. Then turning Row, M'.G. Evenings at eight; admission Is. round, the control proceeded to show the inconsistency of Biblical Kastuoi i:m .. March l - t li. information on the subject, on which it, threw no light, but' rendered I In- I lit ii .iit on . March l.'ltli, Creator ridiculous by the manner in which the origin of our iirst N i » cast l e.-- Sunday, March “'2nd. anil week following. parents was accounted for. The story of the fall was reviewed and its LivRuroo!.. Sunday', March 2'Jth, Islington Assembly Rooms. After inconsistency shown. The argument was also used that, according to noon at throe, evening at seven ; admission tri e. the scriptural version of the origin of sin, sin came from heaven; for, Tuesday, March 51st, Bohn's Temperance Hotel, evening at eight. “ There was war in heaven, Michael and bis angels," Ac. If sin came Admission is. from heaven then mankind was not responsible for it, for ii was something Mr. Morse is engaged to ho in Liverpool on (ho last Sunday in each he could not help. lle (the spirit) would rather believe, and In- knew month during the present year. of nothing to contradict it, that sin was simply ignorance. Were they Li.anei.i.v. April Till to I Ith. not told that man was formed after Gods own imago? The control Merthyr Tviutl . April l.'tlh. then proceeded to trace the condition of humanity upwards, from the M r. Morec has a lew ■ Lit eg to spare for his summer lour, which e >m- advent of our llrst parents to the present time, lie showed, as ho went luences May .'trd. Societii-s desiring to secure Him are requested to write along, the state of mind at various epochs in the history of the world. at once. Mr. Morse’s address is Warwick Cottage, Old Ford Road, 1J c . v , The ignorance of the Jews was touched upon, and the instance of the London, K. man who was blind from his birth, was brought forward to show the curious notions as to sin that prevailed at that time. " Which hath sinned: this man or his parents?” and the Lord’s reply upon the sub 1)R. SEXTON’S APPOINTMENTS. ject, “ Neither.” B isho p Auc kl and.— A pril 7th. In one portion of the address, where the spirit was dilating upon the Other towns in the north should avail themselves of this opportunity love of God, the Universal bather, ns contrasted with the God ol of securing the Doctor's services. Commence at once, and work up tbo Moses, and the God of Jesus, and the Gods of the different sects, the meetings properly, and they will be a success, and do the cause good. following beautiful sentence occurred :— Address, l)r. Sexton, 17, Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road, London, S.E. “ I cannot believe, nor have I found it. to be so, that that, great and living lleing would for ever condemn his children to eternal punish SPIRITUALISM IN GLASGOW. ment. I cannot believe in a personal Devil or a local hell. 1 be To the Editor.—Dear Sir,—Notwithstanding the renewed vigour so lieve in God being a God of love. I believe we are all God’s. All of recently infused into the cause hero by the repeated visits of Mr) Morse us his children. Each one of you is God’s ohild, and you will all rise to see llim in his glory. Dut Christians don’t believe this. They must and Dr. Sexton, I regret to state that Spiritualism lias already almost become a dead letter in our city. Asa proof of this, the Glasgow Associa have some going up, some going down.” “ I cannot believe,” continued tion of Spiritualists, now of some eightor nine vears' standing, has mean the spirit, " in man having missed his way, never being redeemed. Is God less than man ? Can we cast out an erring child ? I f not us, then time only one meeting a week (on Sunday evening), and even at this how can God? If a ohild put you to pain and travail ever so much, there is the most meagre attendance, from a dozen to a score being about the average, whilst the Glasgow Spiritual Institute, which came into the mother says: ‘ N o .1 no! its my child, its mine after all!’ and site existence only some four months ago, under the most favourable and takes the erring one and forgives it again.” promising auspices, has already ceased to be ; while regretting sincerely After further discourse upon the various suppositions as to the origin of sin, in which the control contended that, man wits placed upon this its untimely decease, let me say one word “ In Memoriam " of an associa tion which promised fair, under judicious guidance, to be not onlv a sphere to develop in knowledge and understanding, and that ultimately thoroughly practical, but an eminently useful instrument in propagating he believed man would get such knowledge and enlightenment, natural and furthering the movement in our midst. The society was formed and spiritual, as to utterly banish ignorance and wickedness, it con for the purpose of practically examining the truths of Spiritualism by cluded thus : “ Because! never could believe we had all gone astray; holding circles composed of its members and accredited friends, and of that we were all born in sin ; because I used my reason ; and because I investigating and testing the phenomena received thereat; with an wouldn’t and couldn’t- believe in the statements that priests had made to annual subscription of os., and a voluntary contribution at each meeting, hinder people from using their reason, I was thrust out of society, looked down upon and contemned by priest and parson, and when I died I was most liberally responded to, within a week or two its membership amounted to nearly 100, while at least seven to ten circles sat in the rooms sent to the bottomless pit, and I suppose I am there now, for I have not found any bottom to it yet. I say to you all, Christians have more charity! each week, and, for a time, all was harmony ; everything went on swim Awaken from your slumbers ! Let the evil and the beam bo cast out of mingly, mediums were plentifully developed, manifestations were abun dant, and “all was well;” by-and-bye, however, one or two turbulent your own eyes, then you can see the mote in the eyes of others.” “ spirits ” (in the llesh, please note), apparently desirous of being allowed In reply to the question,W hat is the name of the spirit,?” this to “ control,” not only the mediums, but the members and the meetings characteristic reply was given, “ W hen on earth I was called, for a time, Mr. Paine, then Thomas Paine, then it got to Tom Paine, ar.d a good many as well, contrived to engender such a general feeling of dissatisfaction, that at a meeting held on Wednesday, 11th itist., a motion being ^with thought that was too good for me.” Many questions were put and satisfactorily answered, almost all of out previous notice) made that, the “ society be then and there dissolved,” it was carried, as against an amendment to the contrary, by a very large them being put by Swedenborgians. Evidently friend “ Tom” doesn’t believe in the teachings of Swedenborg, for his replies didn’t tend to majority. Thus, Mr. Editor, through the personal scheming of one or two individuals, by an untimely blow was cut off, in the prime of its establish that belief. The majority of the audience expressed themselves youth, if not, indeed, in the prime of its manhood, “ The Glasgow highly pleased with the discourse, and by a resolution signified their wish to hear Mr. Wood’s spirit-friends again. A few words addressed Spiritual Institute.”—Rcquieseat. in pace.—Yours, Ac. to the audience by the medium in his normal state, excited much Glasgow, 28th February, 1874. T iec u ms iu e. pleasure and interest, for the remarks were given in a broad Yorkshire dialect, contrasting in a very marked degree with the clear argumenta L iv e r po o l Psychol ogica l Society.—Ajt a members' meeting of this tive and forcible language of the address. society on the 27th February, it was agreed that they should endeavour It will be observed that there is a striking agreement, between the to have a pie-nio in the coming spring at some central place in Lanca principles advanced in the above short report and in the lecture delivered shire ; and wishing to make it. as general as possible, Spiritualists de by Mrs. Toppan at Camden Town. sirous of taking part, in same are invited to communicate (offering any suggestions that may occur to them’) with the Secretary, Air. John Sic k . D amiani.— W o have handed the packet, to Mrs. Dickinson and Davidson, 45, Kensington, Liverpool.—February 28th, 18.4. as soon as we learn the result it will bo communicated to you by post. A rum.to subscription is on foot to raise a sum of money necessary to ereot a suitable monument over the grave of Air. John Sutherland, Jlit. Coo ma x’s Institution.—The paper to bo read on Wednesday late postmaster of Burnley. It. is of interest to Spiritualists to know evening next, at. this institution, 15, St. Peter’s Road. Mile End, will be that, a gentleman who investigated the science should command such by Mr. George Parsons, the subject, being “ Now Testament Inconsis high esteem among his fellow-townsmen. It is one tact showing that tencies.” the friends of Spiritualism are not what the enemies ol the movement S unday Lect ur e Society, S t . G eor ge’s Hall, L angiiam Peace.— would lead the public to suppose. Subscriptions may he sent to Mr. II. Sunday afternoon, March 8 th, 1871, at four o'clock precisely, lecture on Utt.lov, Treasurer, and Air. \V . A. l.eo, SeVretarv, Burnley. “ Funeral Rites and Cremation: shall we lhtry or Burn our Dead?” by Miss Fenwick Miller (of the Ladies' Medical College). I PAliTMENT WANTED.— A Person residing in the country A G host in a Min e .—The sensation at Bingham, and the all-absorb i\ desires to Kent a FPRNISUFP SI ITlAiG-ROOM somewhere in ing topio among the miners, is the Winnmuek ghost. It, has driven the this neighbourhood He will use it for investigating the Spiritual men from their work and taken possession of the rioh mine, which it phenomena with two or three of his friends.- Address, “Investi purposes running to suit its own ghostly self. Its tricks are strange, gator,’’ Spiritual Institution. 15. Southampton Row, llolbom. and past finding oul. bv mortals here below. W hen the honest miners light their caudles lo pursue their work in the dark recesses of the mine, R, 11 KUNE hogs to inform his Friends that he has this strange visitor Hlalks stealthily in, and with one strong whiff ex M RK'n’RNKP to London for a short time. All eommunioations to tinguishes tin' light s and leaves its victims t o grope in darkness or follow be addressed to Herne’s Oak, Reckmead Road, South Hackney. His in the wake of its fleeting form, from which radiates strange lights and health will not permit him to accept F.veiling: engagem ents; he w ill be sulphurous smells. It threw a pick at. Miner Mathews, the other day, glad to give Par Seances or receive his friends at the above address. ami chased him from his labours. Matthews is no believer in the super natural, but ho don’t like picks thrown by ghostlv hands living around 1> WOKTl.F.Y (the well-known Medium), ENDEKTAKEH. his devoted cranium, and swears lie won’t go back till the spook is provides Special Funerals [or Spiritualists in any part-of London, driven from the mine. The miners were talking yesterday about send at moderate terms. Telegrams allowed for. -27, Victoria Pock Road, K, ing lo Salt Lake for Foster to go up ami lay bauds upon this unruly spirit, ami soothe il. into submission or cause it. lo leave its haunts in the mine. u. H. BILLING, M agnetic Phtsiciaii, can ho OON- When that is done, they all agree to return to their work, Halt l.tik THE KENEALY TESTIMONIAL. l!' 1 1 l' l > l " l l l A i l l I'J.'V )WW, Hftl.au u , .Mu o n ,, . ,.. „ : f i i H B i n t e n * 7 ; H i e 7 i c h b o b * 1 I not c Worl< F.I1M1-, i u - l f /'■. M, J i .... , , ! i i "-I J .'"..'ii >' ■ / i. ■ ■ . ; ' . ' : ’ ‘ ‘ ■ i in u' '' ' '' ■ «v* •- wja/mt . 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J„ Ji/nz, J-, If, JJ.J'. !',r Waii.-ha.vJ, ha . t a for Tv,'.- .. *' i I ’ i 11 'I . 'll ‘ i, Mi ' i i ... . i •'. i. t 'i j f I' I j 'i' ‘it. J'n'J J'ou v: •. * i 1 D - - - • ) ( , / i Jill' J. I' ' ' ■!, '<1 '■ I . ' j'K ' '/Ov/. (h'tic A'//y, >7/e'7:tenhv.ryh */o , V'trf/i/oa, Jor.:j- ; ■ 3*.. 1 ' ’ ' • J/--- '• J /.;•-* f »;/,;• (// ; (>;rt I'; M'r-, VV/x M r. JoJin Cjvijd’h, at 2 and 6, p.m . /.-• , ; y and 'J nun n.fcp<-akIn# M< 'i ..m, Mr. JoJm 77//-; MAdA/JlAh: FOR 'I’JUA KKRS. or /,i ':-.v, .v1 Mr. faiiod.t'!*, WaJdron ot/rot, <5 o'clock. XVotJno m '/ ir«'d from f,t.jan;/oj .5, .- • j o -‘i / • r:, at J'rM-ina>.on»’ Old liaJI, V/*:irV, Court, i'i'r;vrf(ato f *. < 11, at OAOJ for 7 p.rn. HUMAN NATURE: J.ivh' aooi., J'liOiO; ; i t)j»: I>.l,'of/ton Aw-rnbly Kooimi, a t 2,20 A Morriii.y JOuiiSAL or* and 7 {>.in, 1 in'-djin/jB from all p;ur-i of K urland, A RTHUR MALT u y f M r . CHARLES E. WILLIAMS, Medium, is at home dailyfc to givo Private Si'm ivs, from 12 to 5 pm . Private Seances tailor and habit maker , ;111• ud.-d at the hmi . * of inve-Ueut'.i-’E Public S. mtuh.-: at 01, Lambs Conduit .Street, on Monday evenings, admi>i n 2s. 6 1.; J hun-day 8, HANOVER PLACE, PARK IiOAD, REGENT'S PARK. evening.--, 5h. ; and .Saturday evenings, lor Spirito liff .-i only, 5s.; at 8 Established 1833. o’clock each evening. Addre.-s a ■. above. Orders executed on tho shortest notice. Workmanship and Fit guaranteed. iu h k r a i. discount ron cash. US, MARY J. HOLLIS, of llv L’niud States, has ju>t M arrived in London, from Pari and i | r.*pan-d to give PHI VA'I E FUSED ALE, T ailo r and Diiai-kr, has a splendid a.-ort- SlG\NClvS (hiring the day, from 12 f ill •» <» < lo< k, terms One Guinea: and I »ark S»:imv~ in the ivuriing, at 8 o'clock, ad mis j.,n Ten Shillings. monf of Autumn and W inter (iocds. An iiuniense variety of At the daylight seanen Direct Writing is given on the slate. In the Scotch and V\ e.-fc of Fnglnnil J WEEDS. A perfect tit. euurantecd evening tin* .spirit-friend.-, of those pn -ent m the circle speak in tho Everythin? on hand. Visitors passing through l.ondon supplied with audible voice.- No. 3, T okuington SrRKi/r, Torrington Square, W.C. goods on the shortest notice, at special prices for cash.—No. 8 , S o u th ampton Row, High Hotb irn. ISS LOTT I L FOWLER, the GREAT AMERICAN SOM- 1 HOME EOR SPIRITUALISTS in London at Mrs. Jack- NAMIU LIST (..'LAJKVOYAN'TK, who-e reputation i swell known JX son’s, ii. Torrinyton Street, Russell Squary, W.C. Vi.-il.urs from Mthroughout Europe and America for Revealing Startling Facts to the the Country will find a “ home from home,” or Apartments with or public, run be co nsulted on eith er M edical or Busine.-- Affair.-; connected, without Board may tie had for a permanency. Vacancies for alow with the Living and Dead. Hours, J2 till 8 . Terms One Guinea.— Boarders ; terms. Seven Guineas per month. Address care of Mr. J. D. Mon-Lon, M.A., Ventilation Villa, 27, Grange Road, Edinburgh. 4 FRENCH GENTLEMAN, holding a Diploma and the highest i\ testimonials for good and quick Teaching, is open to ENGAGE T rance Medium for Te.-t MENTS. and would be glad to translate with his pupils the French RS. OLIVE, Communications works of the late Allan Kardec, the founder of Spiritualism in France. M from Spirit Relatives and Friends; also for tlie Cure of various —Address, LL.D., Scadding’s Library, Belgium Road, S.W. Diseases by Spirit-Magnetism and Prescriptions. Private by a p p o in tm e n t.— 19, lielraont Street, Chalk Farm Itoad, London, N.W. 1IS. J. W. JACKSON is open to receive calls to Lecture A P ublic Sea nce at the above addre.-.s on Tuc :day Evenin'’-: at Seven on Spiritualism in Town or Country.—Address, 3, Torrington o’clock. Admission, 2s. Gd. Square,M W.C. RS. W OO DFO RDE, Trance Medium and Medical The best book for Inquirers.— Second Edition. 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The Haros, or Sibylline Tear A is open to a few more ENGAGEMENTS.—Address, M. E. D., cave 600, 53—72. The Mystic Secret of the Haros and the Apocalypse Belonged to the Greater M ysteries, 73 — 91. Hotes, 95. of Mr. Burns, 15, Southampton Row, Ilolborn, W.C. Book II.—The Splendour and Magnificence of Ancient Art and Science, 117— 133. Knowledge Flowed from a Common Centre, 134—139. Religious Bites of all PUBLIC SEANCE, for Test and Spirit-Communications, Tations proved from their Affinity to have all Emanated from one Primeval Faith, 139—172. The Mythos of the Phoenix Explained, 172—ISO. Biblical will be held every Thursday Evening, at Eight o'clock, at 114, Views of Mythology and the Trinity shown to be False, ISO—1S3. Hotes, 1S4. Wardour Street, Oxford Street, IV. Mediums—Mrs. Kmpson, Mrs Book III.—The Messianic and Cabiric Messengers of God, 197—209. The Bullock, and others. Admission Is. each. Nemesis of Heaven, and the Inevitable Punishment of the Evil, 209—212. Notes, 211. Book IV.—The Common Apocalypse Rejected by most Eminent Theologians R. A. FEGAN-E GERT0 N , th e well-known Trance and of all Ages, 215—232.—Is the most Ancient Work now Existing; and is in reality M Physical Medium, is open to engagements to attend Seances in the the Composition of A dam , the F irst M essenger of God, 233—244. Proofs of this neighbourhood of Liverpool. Fee, One Guinea. Letters to be addressed, drawn from the most Ancient Traditions of Egypt, Iran, Tsabtea, Greece, Palestine, Babylonia, and Mexico, 244—260. Various Mystical References to Adam and his 79, Boundary Lane, West Derby Road. Revelations, with Rabbinical Traditions, 260—276. Proof that the Apocalypse Mr. Egeeton attends a Public Seance at the Caledonia Temperance Existed in Rome, Wales, &c., 276—292. Traditions of the First. Messenger and his Hotel, 0, Stafford Street, Liverpool, every Monday, at S o’clock. Admis Apocalypse, found all over the World, 292—313. How the Original and Perfect sion (by Ticket), 2s. 6 d. each. Copies of the Apocalypse have D isappeared, 313—318. Notes, 321. Book V.—The Authenticity of the Old Testament Doubted by the most Emi nent Divines: 329—312.—Proved Conclusively to be Unreliable, 34: L—363. Utterly RS. EMPSON, Medical Clairvoyante aud Magnetic Healer, Lost for several Centuries, 364—382. Is Written in a Language Modern and undertakes the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases under tho Incorrect; the Work of numerous unknown Writers, 383—105. Proscribed and direction of Spirit-Physicians. Persons at a distance may obtain Destroyed throughout all ages, 405. A List of Lost Hebrew Scriptures. 409. diagnosis and medicines by sending Magnetic-Link and fee of It's. Reasons why a new Copy should be Forged, 410—414. Mistranslations of Old Testament, 419—430. D oubts as to the Hew, 431—439. R epulsive Character Personal Consultations 5s. and upwards.—114, Wardour Street, Oxford of much of the Old Testament, 140—147. Notes, 448. Street, IV. Hours, One to Five o’clock, daily. Book VI.—All Common Chronology Confused, and Baseless as a System, 481— 4S9. The Grand and Majestic Nature of the True Apocalypse, 490—494. Invoca tion of the Suprem e, 495. S um m ary, 497. TurilS. BULLOCK, Trance Medium, is ready to receive The Apo c a l y pse.—G reek Text, with a new Translation into English, 500. ill invitations to Lecture on Spiritualism, in public, or to private The Seven T hunders, 612. N otes to the Apocalypse, 633. In d ex , 639. circles. Address, Mrs. Bcilock, 10, Devonshire Street, Queen Square London: J Burn«, 15, Southampton Kow, W.C W.C. cl ■; •. ' <* v \';; v„ v>n Y x | •* > *“ ~ x TV V " V '- ^ V \ X . V » \ s 12 0 0 ' x * - ‘ ,.v> *. •* ;*s v’ ^ *V' ' " V x • X - ' * 1 ' ; .» % • y - . * • : ‘ ’ i . * * \ * • X - x A V ^ ' '' v " \ \ \ ,' v - 1 >. >» c. \ v.% \ fc'k t v . V -V - x* A.*'*' * a t . V V Vv V V x v • '• ” X ' • ' • :-"‘- V — v -t. / .«, ■ . 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