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DEVO ZOISTIC SCIENCE; FREE T, SPIRITUALISM AND THE HARMOl PHILOSOPHY. “ Dawn approaches, Error is passing awSXffMen arising shall hail the day."

No. 115. MELBOURNE, MARCH 1st, 1880. PRICE SIXPENCE.

Spiritual 1741*2 the capacity of the will to accomplish many things that Wise Words from Swedenborg...... 1742-3 Communication. . . . 1743 Items from New South Wales...... 1744 Magnetic Healing 1744 A Spiritualistic^Funeral Service...... 1744 are deemed impossible, but in corroboration o f our own Truth versus Error ...... 1745-0 Spirit Photographs... 1746 Rev. Dr. Hughes' Lectures ...... 1747 theory we have had much evidence, whilst of the other The Theosophical Society...... 1747 Freedom o f mind. . . . 1747-8 W hat is ou r nature 7 ...... 1748 we have as yet none. It is argued by the writer that Jottings on Passing Events...... 1748-9 Melbourne Progressive Lyceum ...... 1749in relation to the atomizing and indefinite expansion of The Magnetic Sleep...... 1749 A re all human souls immortal 7... 1749-50 H ealing by laying on o f hands...... 1750-1 the body, Krishna referred not to the Material, but to The Spiritualism of the Bible.... 1767 Visions in the water-glass... 1761 A Spirit's N arra tive...... 1752 Experience M eeting...... 1752 the Astral or soul body, known to modern students of The Present Condition and Outlook o f the Religious W orld ...... 1763 occult phenomena, as the “ Double” being the internal Tiie Theosophist of October and November last contains counterpart of the physical form detachable by the an article on the “ Toga Vidya,” which appears to be the the operation of magnetism, and in some instances by Science of Psychology, as understood and practised by the simple volition o f the individual, and the acceptation the ascetics of Ancient India. This knowledge and its o f this interpretation brings the assertion within the application, though it has suffered a decadence, is not bounds of probability. Those having experience with obsolete, but many of the phenomena pertaining to it, clairvoyant media, know that not only their perceptions, are as generally recognised in India, as other facts per­ but what they believe to be themselves will pass from a taining to sciences of a less esoteric nature. closed room, travel vast distances, dive into and explore Krishna affirmed, amongst other things, the power to the ocean’s depths, enter any material stronghold, and atomize the body, the power to magnify the body, and describe minutely their surroundings. If asked if their the power to neutralize the gravity of the body as perceptions alone grasp these things, they will tell you illustrated in the phenomena of levitation. This latter theifare there, and not till their attention is called to phenomena is o f no uncommon occurrence in the east, the fact that their material body is sitting or reclining and the writer of the article we refer to doubts if the quiescent at the starting place do they realize that they “ phenomena seen by so many reputable persons would have a duplicate form. This form which passes through be seriously denied.” Spiritualistic literature teems the densest matter must be of an exceedingly plastic with evidences of the levitation of ponderable matter nature, and would doubtless be capable of both exten­ and human bodies; we have ourselves witnessed it many sion and contraction, thereby fulfilling at least measur­ times, and on one occasion corroborated our sense of ably the affirmation o f Krishna. Many o f our readers sight by placing our hands on the soles of the shoes of who are inexperienced in magnetism, will doubt the the levitated individual, and quite recently a professional existence of the “ Double,” and our affirmations gentleman of undoubted veracity, related to us instances concerning the power of Clairvoyant Mediums, we of the levitation of his two sons, one of whom had, would refer such to the works of those who have in the presence of witnesses (whilst so levitated) preceded us in Psychological experiments o f this removed a bolt from a lofty ceiling, and brought it with class, and think that in the works o f Denton, Gregory, him to the ground. Our theory for this particular Deleuze, Billot, and Cahagnet, they will find ample manifestation has been the operation of a magnetic evidence of the fact that the individual intelligence, attractive force directed by spiritual energies, by which clothed with a form resembling its physical one, can the gravity, or earth attraction, has been for the time transport itself (under certain conditions) to vast dis­ neutralized, but the writer in question goes further than tances, and that matter offers no obstruction to its this, and affirms on the authority o f Madame Blavatsky, progress. hat the individual has the power innate to “ polarize I t is o f vast importance that the rationale of these his body so as to cause himself to be ‘ light as a flake of phenomena should be more widely known, much of the cotton’ and rise into the air,” and reversing the process prejudice against Spiritualism arises from a prevailing “ make his body abnormally heavy.” Now, we are not impression that the manifestations upon which it relies prepared to deny this assertion, we have great faith in are supernatural, or at variance with natural law. 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can be shown that these manifestations are in harmony perceive, when I come to speak o f the human soul, how with *he laws o f nature, and no more extraordinary in true it is, that in it, God alone is found to the degree He can be at all comprehended. 42. I must now, how­ themselves than many other phenomena of Physical ever, dwell somowhat on the undeniable fact that, 8cionce, it will remove an obstruction from the doors of although God is thus incomprehensible, mankind have the temple which has hitherto prevented vast numbers throughout every period of their history, made the attempt t<>-personate Him, so that their finite intelli­ from entering the vestibule; let it be as widely known gence mi^ht the better grasp the fact o f His existence. as possible, that all truly spiritualistic phenomena admit They were in a measure led to adopt this course, o f philosophical explanation, and that the word super­ through the prevalence of the external sphere demand­ natural is out of place in our vocabulary. ing materialized forms to satisfy the sensuous principle, and it is only in proportion as that sensuous principle becomes subservient to the more interior, or spiritual, WISE WORDS FROM SWEDENBORG. that the form otherwise esteemed necessary, will give place to conceptions of a higher and truer nature. CONTINUED. 43. But it must not be lost sight o f that, even under the many personal representations of the Supreme 37. W e are now to dwell upon such thoughts as have a Deity which have been in vogue among the ancient reference to the Great 8oul of the Universe, otherwise nations and people of the earth, there was a recognized called by men God ; although at different times, and by spiritual essence, which was esteemed so completely different nations, the Incomprehensible Being has been supersensual that man's intellect could not in any degree spoken o f under other designations; strictly speaking, fathom i t ; and thus in nearly every instance, in which he can only be viewed through the medium o f those it was found desirable to formulate the conception of outbirths of Hie Wisdom which constitute the visible Deity into a personality like unto man, the mind Universe. Thus, He, as a 8pirit, is embodied, and itself which contemplated that personality, also recog­ gives forth to His intelligent creatures, those expres­ nized a more diffused and exalted nature than man sions o f His Will which, when understood and oboyed, could ever lay claim to. 44. This practice, however, become to man, the starting point for higher attain­ was but an expedient after all to aid man’s intellectual ments. And as we have already remarked, there is no capacity at a time, when as I have said, the external other wajr in which the advantageous starting point is sphere predominated, and the interior life was to a largo to be attained, than in the study o f those manifestations extent yet unopened to realize the more spiritual o f the Infinite Will which are to be found in Nature, essences of the universe, and thus the Infinite in all His and your own souls. 38. Thus it is a very forcible fact, vast and incomprehensible characteristics. 45. I must that the man who devotes his time to this pursuit, will now dwell upon the attempt, which I also made myself o f necessity, advance to a position in which he can in the same direction, viz., to personate, and localize the better comprehend the so-called secrets of nature, and Supreme Author of all things. When dwelling upon thus of the essential Being of the Supremo. 39. All the many forms which material nature presents, I was of those minute, and yet perfect laws o f nature, which led inevitably to the contemplations o f man himself; are seen to be in operation in the universe, proclaim the and as I recognized in him the very perfection of forms, existence of a presiding and overruling first cause, or I was further led to see as I supposed, in what way Principle, from which, however incomprehensible it may all natural objects led up to man, and thus that the vast be thought, all things havo their origin ; but not to be universe itself did in reality, constitute one Grand Man ; understood, or computed by the finite and fallible and He the Supreme Jehovah, the sum total of all powers which man possesses. The combined mind of things; and from whom all things in their vast varietv the whole created intelligence o f the immortals who and degree proceeded. And having arrived at this fill the spheres of existence, could never serve to reach original conception, I felt that I had at last grasped the the outskirts o f His domain, who, creating all things, truth in reference to G o d ; and thence made it my also controls all things. Descend, if you will, to the endeavour to make all other ideas square with this: a moat minute creature which possesses life; vou may full exposition of which will be found in my True Christian examine the mechanical structure of that creatiiro, even Religion, and also elaborated and illustrated in my though it be of the most minute dimensions requiring other theological writings. 46. To a mind no farther the highest power o f the microscope to reveal its advanced than the plane afforded under the system of organization ; but wheD you come to enquire respecting the Protestant Church, such a conception as that pre­ the principle of life which animates that wondrously sented in my system, is particularly attractive; and beautiful mechanism, then you are at once baffled, quite thus many of the members of that church, have been as much so as you would be when standing before the led from time to time, to adopt my views as a consider­ mystery o f your own being. And if this be so, who by able advance upon those held by themselves; especially searching can find out God, or become cognizant of His when it becomes known that, in place o f a trinity of nature as that nature really exists. ThisJiasFeou ever felt persons, I presented a trinity o f attributes, or opera­ by men who have come in contact with the awful thought • tions : the Father, the Son, and the Divine Proceeding, who and what is G od; and think not that I would now as suitable exhibitions of the One Infinite and Incom­ presume to advance a single thepry which might seem prehensible Being called G o d ; standing in such re­ to have the effect o f throwing light on His Incompre­ lationships to man, His creature, as were most adapted hensible Nature, but which would be after all, but an to man's several wants and necessities. 47. But then, attempted illustration to reflect the Great Unknown having advanced this far, I felt it necessary to take 40. When you can find the centre o f the Universe • another step, and to render more palpable the Deity I when you can declare that you have sounded its awful’ had constructed, by bringing him into still closer re­ depths, and discovered its circumference, and are cog­ lationship with man. Hence arose my doctrine of the nizant of all its deep motives; then will you be in a Lord and the Divine Humanity, with the scheme o f sal­ position to tell mankind who, and what is God. But on vation, built up really on the conception held by the the other hand, when your mind has arrived at that con­ Catholic Churcn, but so far improved as I supposed, as dition of pristine excellence which it may attain to in to render it more comprehensiole to the reason of man. the observance of the laws of your being, and those There are two things which stand out very prominently which are involved in the more palpable physical in the manifested life o f man; first, his yearning desire universe, then shall you be able to say : These are parts for association; and, second, his sense oi dependance on o f His ways, but the thunder o f his power who can some one more powerful than he is himself. This understand, and having accomplished this much, you arises from that essential attribute of his spiritual will eDjoy a soul satisfaction regarding the Existence of nature, which allies him not only with the Infinite One, the Infinite, which shall impart to your existence a but also with his kind throughout the universe, growing charm and a power which will have the effect o f raising up indeed, into this perfect state, through the lower yoa to heights o f usefulness and happiness of which you elementarles o f nature, and manifesting itself there, can now form no conception. 41. From this you will until it assumes importance, and calls for intelligent re- THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT. 1743

cognition in the experience of man himself. 48. Now your growth and progress, ever running parallel with it Ta also felt by man to be essential to his well-being, your own unending being, so that you may be able to that he should be able to grasn tho conception of Deity say with one of old : “ Whom have I in the expanse but in some palpable form. And recognising this fact, I Thee; and there is none on the earth whom I can desire also deemed it necessary to the construction of any beyond Thee.” Thus expressing that deep feeling of theological system, that the prominent and central childlike confidence and unfailing trust, which ever object should be the one above all, on whom men are enables the soul the more fully to realize the constant dependent for life and all things; and who is to them presence o f Him in whom it lives, and moves, and has at onco the oracle to instruct, and tho power to ac­ its being." complish the great ends involved in their existence. Slamiat Meti. 40. In my search for the soul, I failed to find any objec­ Melbourne, January, 1880. H. J. B. tive form ; so also in my more earnest search for the Governor of the Universe. Consequently, having COMMUNICATED AT A CIRCLE IN CASTLE- already in my mind the theological conception of Jesus MAINE. Christ, as set forth in the New Testamont, and for­ mulated b yth e church of my day, I felt that in this I I am, my dearly beloved friendB, the man whom your had a suitable groundwork on which to build up the friend has just introduced to your notice by the name of ever present and recognizable form of a Divine Human, Robert Dale Owen. You have heard of me before I on whom man should bo at all times dependant, and believe, from our distant country, where I resided during from whom he should likewise receive the law to guide my earth life, and since I have left earth life you aro him along the progressive piano o f existence. 50. Tlius aware, I am told, that I have communicated with the I constructed a God whicn I placed in the Christian inhabitants o f earth many times, through different Temple; the idealization so to speak, o f all the com­ mediums, and your friends who are with me to-night, municable attributes o f an Eternal and Incomprehen­ desired me to come and make myself known to you, in sible Being whom I had failed to discover, excopt as the order to give you pleasure, which they tell me, my con­ great Principle underlying all things; giving thorn life, trolling will afford you. Rich indeed is the treasure of regulating tneir movements, and shaping their destiny mediumship, would that it was more valued and according to His sovereign will. And when I had thus, spiritually cultivated, that we higher spirits, who seek by this process, brought God near to man, then I felt light and purity and truth, might the more easily come that all had been done that was needful to fill up the and communicate with mortals, and give them the yearning desire for a suitable support, and an object on intense satisfaction o f knowing that we are all in­ which man’s affections might supremely be fixed. terested in these proceedings on earth; and that by 51. Y ou have, in my doctrine o f the Divine Human, their fitting themselves for our control, we could bring otherwise the Lord Jesus Christ, the Jehovah-Jesus, them help and comfort in manv a difficulty and danger, the groundwork of all which follows in relation to the by which, during the course of their earth life they are Deity. He is the central Sun o f the Universe, the beset. O h ! it would yield them all joy and profit if author o f life and o f salvation, the repository of every men would learn the real true value o f mediumship, blessing, the Alpha and Omega, before whom men must then wrong-doing and vice would cease from tho earth ; bow, and whom men must acknowledge as the Universal happiness and virtue would take their place, and truth King. It is He who manifests His glory before the would be sought after with the earnestness which is now angelic spirits who fill the celestial heavens; and who devoted to gain and self-interest. The good of humanity keeps tho hells in order; opening with the keys of His would be studied in everything, and man would learn to sovereign will, the portals of either to admit the promote the interests, the happiness, and the improve­ creatures who are dependant upon Himself, in accord­ ment o f his brother man.. ance with their ruling love of eithor good or evil. 62. I Now, my dear friend, this is our object in coming to need not dwell here, upon tho mystery o f incarnation you to-night, it is to help your spiritual development which is so prominent a part o f my doctrine of the that you may be a means of doing good unto your Divine Human ; or endeavour to reconcile the innumer­ fellows, and setting a light before their feet whereby able difficulties which I now see to beset my scheme of they may walk in the ways of truth and righteousness, redemption; it will be enough for me to point out, that a path, if thoy once fully understood, they would be the almost blind acceptance of the then prevailing more anxious to follow. And it is for this end we come theological views, led mo to ovorlook inconsistencies in to you, that wo may lead you on, so that others may detail, and thus threw mo off the track o f a more follow in your footsteps, tho way seeming long to you I harmonious delineation of the relation which existed dare say before your development reaches its fruition, between God and man. 53. I freely admit that, it but never mind the length of time, “ It is a long, long accords with the religious sentiment in man, to feel that lane indeed, that has no turning.” his God is so really one with himself; and that he may So my friends hope for your turning soon, and desire thus think of him as a man, with all the attributes of the help o f the highest, best, and purest spirits, that humanity; and that he may, morever, cherish the anti­ you may succeed in that class of development your cipation of seeing Him in His Glory, in due time; but spirit friends desirafto impart unto you. we must not be led away by mere sentiment, but rather The friends who are here to-night are numerous and seek for, and be guided Dy the truth ; for after all, that influential, both as regards mind and spiritual power, so is the only firm basis on which can be built the fabric of that all which is wanted is your own cultivation, human happiness. 54. Consequently, when it is ad­ strength, and further development, to render your mitted, that God is so utterly incomprehensible, and mediumship a perfect and an excellent one, useful and can only be discovered as that great ana awful Principle most needful at the present time, when mediums of the of life which underlies all things in the universe, it then highest class are most important for the carrying out of becomes our paramount duty to seek Him in tho laws the present work. of life which he hath appointed, and to learn clearly to Oh ! spirits are working diligently now and earnestly understand these laws, and live in subjection to them; for the world's good; work ye also diligently and thus realizing the unity and well-being o f the entire earnestly, and nothing can prevent you from succeeding intelligent creation to consist in the harmonious relation in your undertaking. of all the parts, which in an incomprehensible degree, Now friends, the time of your writing I am told has comprises the infinite body, of which Deity is the essential elapsed, and therefore I will not trespass longer, but soul, the life, the mainspring, the inexhaustible reposi- conclude with the hope that my words will be remem­ of happiness, and wno would have His creatures to bered by you, and that they will also give you pleasure, 3 ize more o f Himself in the cultivation o f their own so much so that you will be willing for me to address natures, and thus in the subjection to His manifested you again at a future time, when I may have some more W ill. 66. Y ou will thus find, that this God is not one encouragement to give, as well as praise for your pro­ afar off, but near yo u ; ever around you, and within you ; gress attained,— Yours fraternally and sympathetically, at once your strength and solace; and in whom you may 8 ’ ROBERT DALE OWEN. repose under all the changing circumstances which beset Wednesday, 28th January, 1880. 1744 THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT.

I f a thorough sympathy can be established between the C d iorrcspontinitB. sufferer ana the operator, the minds o f each being withdrawn from all that is external to the object in Communication» fo r intertion in this Journal should be view, then distance is no drawback. It is rare, however, plainly toritten, and as concise as possible. with persons residing on opposite sides of the world that such conditions are practicable. Where the healer ITEMS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. has to project the healing influence to a person not in .th e receptive condition, the force becomes attenuated TO TIIB EDITOR OP THE “ HARBINGER OF LIGHT.” f by distance, and however much ho may be aided by spirits, tho substance which forms the vehicle o f convey­ Sib,—Tho readers of the Harbinger in Victoria will ance and the basis o f the healing power, cannot be con­ bo pleased to hear that the sister colony, New South veyed so efficiently as at close quarters. Moreover, the Wales, is to have an organ dovoted to “ Freethought” in operation would be exhaustive to the medium, much all its phases, conducted by an able writer in the porson energy being dissipated. Tho lock of hair or any object o f Mr. Haviland. Long may it reign! I havo been belonging to the patient is simply a connecting link to busily engaged lately, in replying to a correspondent of them. Whother Drs. Mack or Newton are Psychome­ the Matrimonial Chronicle, who is doing all he can to ters, and capable of tracing and diagnosing by this ¡»rejudice the public mind against Spiritualism. In his meaus, we are not prepared to state; they are largely ast reply to me, he tells his readers that the word gifted with the healing influence, but we opine that “ Spiritualism" means, “ ono ignorant o f tho laws of they can utilise it to the greatest advantage and find nature;" so much for this absurd definition; then ample scope for its employment in their immediate further on, he speaks of some o f tho wisest and cleverest vicinity. There are healers in Victoria, the advertise­ being in our ranks; here is inconsistency, for wise and ment o f one appears in our columns.— Ed. H . o f L t.] clever men know something about natural law. There i s so much n o n s e n s e in this letter that, suffice it to say, I have written an answer to it, and must thank the A SPIRITUALISTIC FUNERAL SERVICE. editor of the Matrimonial Chronicle for publishing my communications in defence o f Spiritualism, which he has A n o v e l and yet impressive burial servico was per­ done, notwithstanding the fact that ho has openly stated formed on Thursday afternoon last, in the Southern in a previous issue, that he is opposed to Deism, Cemetery, Dunedin, over the remains of the infant Atheism, Unitariauism, Ac. In Sydney, wo have now daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Braithwaite. When Messrs. Bright and Tyerman doing good work at the the coffin had been lowered into the grave, Mr. Braith­ theatres. waite delivered the following address;— On the 21st ultimo, Mr. and Mrs. Gellatley, of “ W o have assembled on this spot, friends, to inter Mudgee, paid us a visit. W e had a sitting with good the body o f our infant daughter in its natural homo, to results; loud raps, table keeping time to music, trance ultimately become component parts of mother earth. orations, Ac. However much we wished to keep her here, we recog­ A few days ago I took a trip to Sydney. The Lyceum nise only the loving-kindness of God in thus freeing, by there is in a flourishing state, and a very pleasant morn­ tho ‘ change called death,’ the infantile spirit o f our ing I spent there. This institution deserves the support dear child from the sufferings it underwent, and that by of every true Spiritualist. More labourers in the vine­ His wise, beneficent, and unerring laws, tho freed spirit yard of Spiritualism, and moro Lyceums are sadly re­ ha® entered upon a state o f progressive existence suit­ quired. able to its new condition of life, to be tended and cared „ , F. E. S. HEW ISON. for by earnest and willing friends gone before. W e are Bathurst, February 11th, 1880. at this time impressed with the sublime and deeply suggestive words attributed to Jesus Christ— ‘ Suffer MAGNETIC HEALING. littlo children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom o f heaven.’ ’ ’ TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ HARBINGER OF LIGHT.” Mr. Braithwaite then road with much feeling and expression the following beautiful lines by John Pier- Sib,—-I have taken great interest in the various accounts point, the well known American poet:— that have been published from time to time relative to Drs. Mack and Newton’s wonderful curing powers bv I know her fair face is hid, laying on o f hands, especially those relating to cures at Under tho coffin lid ; a distance. Now, I want to know if you, or any of Closed are her eyes, cold is her forehead fair; My hand that marble felt, thereto^6™' C°Uld **** ^ 8°m° ,nformat,on re,at>ng O’er it in prayer I knelt; First, is there any known limit to the distance at which Y et my heart whispers that she is not there. such cures can be performed ? Secondly, if there is N ot there! where then is she? not, could a person, say here or any other equally dis- The form I used to see tant place, be cured by sending'home a lock o f their Was but the raiment that she used to wear • L-Irnt 0 e r o{ tlie above-namcd D octors? And The grave that now doth press thirdly, if there is a lim iy could Dr. Mack or Dr. New- Upon that cast-off dress, ton tell whether a diseiee was curable on receiving a Is but her wardrobe lock’d— she is not there. lock o f the patient’s hair, so that he might g o home to them if he wished ? She lives ! in all the past She lives! nor to the last, The reason that I ask these apparently extraordinary O f seeing her again, will I despair; qneehons is because in most o f the accounts published In dreams I see her now, the risible appearance o f the controlling spirit accom And on her angel brow pames the cure, and I inferred that probably the spirit would hare as much power in a place remote as one I see it written— “ Thou shalt see me there." adjacent to the curing medium. Yes, we all live to G od; Hoping you will satisfy my thirst for information, Father, thy chastening rod, you will greatly oblige ’ So help us, thine afflicted ones, to bear, Yours truly, That in the Spirit Land, February 28rd. INQUIRER. Meeting at Thy right hand, ‘Twill be our heaven to find that she is there. [The gift of healing is possessed by many persons in Tho speaker then concluded as follows depee, and may be cultivated by application and study o f the laws pertaining to its successful use. The heal­ “ W e now visibly consign her body to the earth. ‘ dust ing influence is peculiar to the individual, but is sup­ to dust, and resign her spirit with confidence to the plemented to a greater or lesser degree by power drawn mercy, justice, and immutable laws o f the Great Father o f us all. Farewell! Invisibly her spirit will be ever from spiritual sources, sometimes from individual spirits. present.—Saturday Advertiser, Dunedin. THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT. 1745

TRUTH VERSUS ERROR. win«, that their Bible is tfiritm lly inspired, and that the spirit is willing, but tho flesh is weak Their incon- BT A. TIMBRELL. sietency and prejudice are equally transparent, for, Words are like things ; and a small drop of ink while they preach the doctrine o f repentance for sin •'ailing, like dew, upon a thought, produces thoy are so uncharitable as to consign to eternal torment That v•liich makes thou rands, perhaps millions, think. the soul o f a transgressor who travels along the journey of life with a mind impressed with an opinion, or a V o l t a ir e >nco said to i b e d e b i c k t h e G r e a t , " I t is hard belief, at variance with their irrational dogmas. Tho to...... „ argu rith a man of many legions,” a remark that religious intolerance o f tho sixteenth century would be Has both censorious and truthful. The present age, as cruel and persecuting now m formerly, if the Car­ however, is gradually t becoming tolerant o f Freethought, dinals o f Home, the Prelates of England, the colonial and liberty o f conscience is now conceded by the laws bishops, and dignitaries of foreign churches, could only of England, as the birthright o f British subjects, at all have their own way I abhor pedantry, and would not events under the British flag. In 1828, the first Duke wish for a moment that my object in the compilation of o f Wellington bccamo Prime Minister, and at an early these articles should be misconstrued, but I ask tho period o f his new and remarkable career, for rarely reader to excuse me while I pause to introduce, what I united are the qualities o f the warrior and the states, conceive to bo, an appropriate quotation from one o f G. man, he repealed the Test and Corporation Acts, which w i , a . !V°.rk? “ Recollect," said Father wero impediments to religious freedom; and, on February Willand to Maréchal de Bnssac, there are many sorts 5th, 1829, a further assertion o f the claims of justice of right in this world. What is right for tho lion is not appeared, in its being declared in the King's speech that right for the lamb. You do not put a bottle of the time was come for the entrauco of Homan Catholics Avignon claret into an earthen pitcher. What suite into the British legislature, and in the speedy passing Briseac will not suit Cceur-de-Leon ; so don't make up of a bill for their relief. But, notwithstanding this your mind, as most men do, to think everybody in the concession to our Homan Catholic fellow subjects, there wrong that is not pleased with what pleases you. 1 succeeded the date o f their emancipation an acrimonious commend the sentiment of that passage to the reverend hostility from other denominational sources, and the minister o f Christ's Gospel, who, on October 8th, 1870, Protestant churches, originating with Henry the Eighth, had the ecclesiastical impertinence to say to me, “ there about the year 1530, and by law established, manifested is nothing like chipping the stone to make it fit its their malignity by vigorous opposition, and undisguised place in tho building," and when I modestly remarked contumely. After the premature death of Edward the that It was quite possible to chip away at a stone until Sixth, 1553, in the sixteenth year o f his age, and the it was chipped all to pieces, the Ancient exclaimed seventh o f his reign, Lady Jane Grey assumed the sententiously, * Not if ho is a wise chisoler !” I wish I crown of England for ten days, and was beheaded by could discover tho “ wise chiseler.” All tho harm I wish her successful rival, Queen Mary, who, in attempting him is, that if ever some mischievous spirits got into his the destruction o f Protestantism, and the restoration kitchen, they may run off with his gridiron and slippers. o f Popery, caused several hundreds o f the so-called But, as Voltaire once said to Frederick the Great, “ It heretics to perish in the flames. Upon her death in hard to argue with a man o f many legions." Fanaticism 1558, Elizabeth became Queen o f England, when a ..ill cause its votaries to act like lunatics. The Hon. change occurred from bigoted Popery to a system of E g b e r t C u r z o s , in his work upon the monasteries o f the Protestanism, scarcely less bigoted; and, during her Levant, describes a monk in the convent of Simopetra reigu, the Huguenots iu France suffered cruelly, while on on Mount Athos, who could not remember his mother! St. Bartholomew's Evo, 1572, a dreadful carnage took and never saw a woman in his life ! Happy man ' place in Paris, when five hundred Protestants o f rank Probably, he coincided with Joe Carter's opinion, that and ten thousand o f inferior order, wero slain in one tho world would get on better without any women in it night by the maddened people. The Tudor line o f the at all ! Some people might consider the recluse to be a British sovereigns terminated with the death of Eliza­ fanatic, but he believed ho was right, and so I will leave beth, on March 31st, 1603,when the unfortunate House him where ho was found. Spiritualism, however, teach»s of Stuarts succeeded to tho throne. James the First of differently. It does not require that its disciples should Engjand, but Sixth o f Scotland, avowed at a Conference immure themselves in caves and cells, but on tho con­ held at Hampton Court, his attachment to Episcopacy trary, it impels them to go abroad among mankind, and and shortly afterwards, Percy and Catesby, two to do whatever good they can ; or if incapable o f doim> Catholic gentlemen, concerted the gunpowder plot. All any good, it counsels us not to do any harm. I f Mr” this originated in the fanaticism o f an impure theology • C b b z o s ' s monk was superstitious, Joe Carter was an and crimes o f the blackest magnitude have been per­ ass; unless it be possiblo as P a r a c e l s u s declared it petrated in tho dishonored name o f religion. At this was, to create a race o f human beings out o f chemistry. day a similar spirit is observable. It is only within the I leave that on open question to bo discussed by the last few months that the Swedenborgians at Vienna were Social Science Congress, which is appointed to sit whon prohibited from worshipping God according to con­ our International Exhibition is opened. On August science ; and, it was not until tho English members of 30th, 187Qpa lady asked me if I had ever had any com­ that denomination threatened to represent their munications from tho spirits of departod friends, and I grievance to Lord Salisbury, as Secretary for Foreign replied that I believed I had been mysteriously in­ Affairs, that the Austrian police withdrew their in­ fluenced by some invisible and irresistible Presence, terdict. It was only recently that the Law Officers of although I am unable to recognise the identity. Now, the Crown in Victoria prohibited the Spiritualists from I bave read some o f Swedenborg's writings, and, if I charging for admission to public lectures delivered remember correctly, he describes spirit-communion as under their auspices in Melbourne, and sectarian bitter­ coming through tho medium o f Thought ; and, he also ness continues to pervade the denominational churches informs his readers that, in the Future Life, we shall with a malignity strangely in contrast with their reli­ have our minds and principles, our passions and pro­ gious professions. Although the church has been pensities, revealed by our aspects and appearances. In divorced from the State, there still exists, among all earth life, unfortunately for tho dearest interests of the sects, a latent disposition, if not an avowed desire, society, we are all liable to be deceived by hypercritical tor temporalities and influence. This is not as it should pretensions, and plausible exteriors; thus practically h e; for, pure religion and undefiled before God and confirming the poet's description o f the shrew, as ■nan, is essentially spiritual in its principles and aspira­ pourtrayed by . . . . “ An artist, skill'd to trace tions. The best religion is that which discards outward A demon's person with an angel's face.” and pompous ceremonies, and inclines society to a more And I recollect a very beautiful medium, when under practical recognition of the proprieties o f life. A mere control, at a Circle-meeting in Melbourne, on November prcfeum w l system must be odious to our God, and of 20th, 1879, saying, “ Here they do not communicate iu no avad to our humanity. It is strange that the words; they speak by thought," and I instantly re­ orthodox party should ridicule and denounce the teach­ cognised in that assertion a corroboration of Sweden­ ings o f Spiritualism, when they admit that God is a borg's revelation. When I told my lady friend on 1746 THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT.

August 30th, 1879, that I believed I had been out of sight are not far o ff; nay, there are times when mysteriously impressed by some occult and potent I imagine they are close to me, but so shadowy, trans­ influence, 1 was simply telling tho truth; for I solemnly parent, and immaterial, as to bo almost imperceptible. confess that latterly my mind has become imbued with I have read in Roman history that the spirit o f tho — what shall 1 term them—reflections? Where is the murdered Caisar visited the patriotic Brutus in his tent, man, or woman either, who is iu any way acquainted and told him it would see him again at Philippi. I have •with my previous career, and would ever think me read in the poet's lines that— capable of reflection at all ? What is the causeiso of ththis- . . . . The buried prophet extraordinary change? I walk about the room—some­ Answered to the hag of Endor, And that the Spartan monarch times on a little footpath in front of my residence— Drew, from the Byzantine maid's thinking upon different things, when suddenly, like an Unsleeping spirit, her answer, electric flash, an idea— an embryo thought, so to speak, And his destiny. —drives mo to my writing desk, and pulling paper I find recorded in the pages of the Bible numerous towards me, I seize a pen, and begin to note down my instances o f supernatural intervention, and several cases impressions! Who ever knew me to do such a thing o f direct spirit communication ; and, it appears to me a as that beforo? I acknowledge that, during my event­ singular inconsistency on the part o f the Denomina­ ful life, I have written much for the public press ; but, tional priesthood, that, although they profess to believe then, my compositions were merely professional, and the Bible, they yet aflect to ignore Spiritualism. All sometimes irksome but compulsory ; whereas no»’, the spirits are not mediumistic, so I am told, all events, and ojjlatus is intermittent and irrepressible, and takes a all people are not equally receptive. But what o f that ? direction totally at variance with previous impulses. In Our ultimate depends, not upon what we see or hear, but former years I was paid for writing, so had a personal upon how we think and act, and while I claim for object to gratify; whereas now, my contributions are myself the prerogative of Freethought, I concedo the voluntary and gratuitous, and, at the samo time irre­ same privilege to my neighbour. Conscience is our pressible. I sit down to write under tho instantaneous Monitor,lor, although Colonel Levison Rich told his impulse o f what I feel to be good and pure impressions; nephew that ho had “ never heard of such a thing!’’ suddenly, and with an electrical velocity. I feel my My opinion is that our God is a God of Love, and not thoughts travel away from the pure, and glide into an of malignity. I believe that ho has created us all free opposite channel. I strive to repel tho influx, and tho agents, and endowed us with reason to guide us to a very effort of resistance restores—what?—The spiritual choice between good and evil. The trespass in the. equilibrium ? I hope so. But it is a desperate struggle. Garden o f Eden is a beautiful allegory ; for it indicates Remember that I am nearly fifty-nine years of age, and a retribution for transgression, while it likewise holds yet, am scarcely moro than twelvemonths a convert— I out a promise of future beatitude for the repentant dare not say, to Spiritualism, but certaiuly from Ortho­ offender as well as the strictest Puritan. doxy. I was never vory remarkable for religious impres­ sions, although I was baptised in what is known ns the SO-CALLED SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHS. Church o f Eneland, was “ confirmed" bv the Bishop of London, in 1838, previous to my embarkation for India T he Rochester Union is puzzled by the claims o f “ Spirit in the September of that year, have occasionally attended Photography.” It says:—“ It may not be generally to the ordinances, and joined in tho responses; but, it known that for the past two years spirit photographs seemed to me that, notwithstanding all, I gradually grew have been taken in this city, some of them being cer­ worse, instead of bettor. The fact is, I became sensible tainly extraordinary productions. The power granted o f a vacuum somewhere. I wanted something that tho by the inhabitants of the unseen world to reproduce church appeared unable to bestow. I became dissatis­ their features on a camera is not given to every one, fied, because the ministers attempted " t o cram words and in this section, so far, Miss Hedley, who runs a into mine ears against the stomach of my sense,” and, photograph gallery on State-street, has a monopoly of for the life of mo, 1 could not believo one half o f whgt what is likely to turn out a most lucrative business. they preached. Tebtcllian was credulous enough to Hearing o f Miss Hedley's gift in this line, a citizen, believo in impossibilities, but I can't. My incredulity being o f a curious turn of mind, determined to see what may arise from obtuseness, I cannot help it; and, if you there was of it. Visiting the gallery, lie told tho pro­ ore disposed to ridicule this revelation or confession, or prietress that ho understood she took spirit photo­ whatever else you like to call it, then I should like to graphs, and he wished to teBt her skill. know who made you a judge over Israel ? Mind your ‘ I am not certain I can succeed,' was Miss Hedley's own business, and leave me to look after my ultimate. response ; ‘ but we can try.’ It was said of Btbon, that he preferred being con­ ‘ Would you allow me to pass my handkerchief over sidered a determined libertine, rather than assume an tho glass before you prepare it for the camera ? ' equivocal character o f sanctity. He abhorred dissimu­ ' Ob, cortainly, as many times as you wish.’ lation and hypocrisy. Now, what are termed religious The visitor carefully rubbed the glass on both sides, professions go for nothing. Conduct is the crucial test. after which ho stood while the collodion was put on, and As to principles, a man jnay' deceive society, but ho when tho glass was put in the camera he took his seat. cannot deceive himsolf, and he alone, is responsible for Tho cop o f the instrument was removed, and in a few his own Future. Y o u > a y be a Catholic or a Protestant, minutes the picture was taken. On the negative being a Mahometan or a .¿Materialist— it has nothing to do taken out and held up to tho light, some faint forms with mo. You arenas much entitled to your opinion as were visible. I am to mine. X e t me finish what I have to say. ‘ What are those marks on the glass ? ’ asked the Although, up to the present time, I have not been an citizen. eye-witness o f spiritual manifestations, such as have ‘ Those are faces o f some persons you will no doubt occurred within the experiences of Mr. Home, and Dr. recognise when printed plain.’ Slade, I am not disposed to discredit the possibility of 4 Well, when can I obtain a proof of the picture ? such phenomena. A great deal depends upon the * Oh, by to-morrow.’ mediumistic powers of the operator, and much upon * No ; I intend to have a proof while I wait, as I do the surrounding conditions. But, believing as I do not intend there shall be any humbug in this matter.' believe, that Thought is a magnetic tractor, I am per­ After waiting about two hours the proof was taken, suaded, from my interior and intuitive impressions that toned, and placed on a card. It was then that he recog­ we are all susceptible, in a greater and modified degree, nised in the most distinct manner the faces of his sister o f spiritualistic influences. Affiuity and Disposition and child, who had died some time previous. N ot wish­ have much to do with this. But, the moment that there ing to be made the victim of an optical delusion, he put arises a detestation of evil, and a yearning after what is the card in his pocket, and on going home, showed it to good, the spirit begins to emerge from bondage to free­ his wile, without saying a word. She immediately dom, and from darkness into light. Spirit communion recognised the faces on the print, and her husband then is aa old as the creation ; and, to myself, it is an un­ told her how it was taken. It was shown to friends of speakable consolation, that my departed friends, though the family, who recognised them. —Photographic News. THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT. 1747

DB. HUGHES' TEMPERANCE HALL Guzerati Poot than under his own name. Colonel LECTURES. Ulcotts address was an eloquent review of the Society’s work before and since the arrival of his party in India, Db. H uohks commenced a series o f lectures at the and was received with great applause. He disclosed Temperance Hall, on Sunday, February 8th, a- id met the important fact that the plan of the Society embraced with a good reception. His discourse on th> 15th, good honest work for the improvement of the material entitled, “ Looking Beyond,” was one o f the fir eat ho condition of his adopted countrymen, the Hindus, quite has given in Melbourne. Tho following is a brief as distinctly as Oriental research and the rovival of synopsisopsis ofot hisins theme:—Alltneme:— All nature he said •peaks of Aryan mystical science. They had not only founded a God, particularly those operations and effec JCtl in which journal to e vo as an organ for the dissemination of tho man nad no hand; leaving the crowded . leaving tho crowded cities, and fruits of Hii idu scholarship, but also a workshop with entering the sylvan glades, man drew near tho Creator machinos of various kinds, in which to manufacture through his works. Tho earth was on the eve o f a great Indian goods for export. The invitation card of the change; the truth was spreading, not only among evening,. . _ who . 0 equal could not be turned out from anv Spiritualists and Freethinkers, but in the churches, and existing lithographic press of Bombay, Calcutta or men were “ looking beyond.” In support of this he Madras, had to a large degreo been printed by a young quoted authorities in the Anglican Church, whose views Parsee, taught by his colleague, Mr. Edward Wimbridge, were beyond their creeds. The question o f the age he within the past sir weeks. Adopting, as ho—Colonel said was not, is there a God ? but is the Bible God, or Olcott had— India as his country and her people as his Nature’s God the true one? people, it was his sacred duty to do all that lay withiu An English Bishop has aecerta; d by enquiry, that his power to promote tho physical welfare of the teemiun ninety-nine per cent, o f scientific men discredited the millions of ibis peninsula, no less than to humbly socond orthodox ecliome of religion. Man had a want, a desire the efforts o f that great Aryan of our times, Swdmi for immortality ; nature responded to that want, and gave Dyanund Saraswati, for the revival o f Vedic monotheism promise o f its fulfilment. Love, he said, was tho only and the study o f Yoga. The address will be printed. power to raise man. An Universal religion must be Colonel Olcott (the President) gave a sketch o f the eclectic. Step by step, looking beyond towards the rise and progress of the Socioty, and defined its objects, goal, man must work out his own salvation. He which, besides the study of Psychology, and the revival criticised the irrational idea of man leaping at one o f Aryan religion, included the study o f Sanscrit; he bound from the ordinary oarthly condition to the also announced the intention of the Society to commence angelic. There was no death but transition, and the a course of weekly lectures on Mesmerism, and other translated spirit, met by its friends on the other side, was branches of occult science. helped by their sympathy to higher conditions. He dilated on the comforting doctrine of Spiritualism, and FREEDOM OF MIND. tho superiority of knowledge over faith, concluding with aan appropriate poem. I k no ago recorded in the pages o f history woro our credenda subject to such severe criticism as in tho pre­ THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. sent. From the time when religion freed from mysterious oracles first made its appearance, a sceptical element T iie fourth anniversary o f tho Theosophical Society was has prevailed and pervaded its atmosphere to keep as it held at Bombay, on the 29th November, and is reported wero in check the tendency to subvert the reasoning by tho Allahabad Pionetr as follows:—The Theosophists faculty as having no part in its economy. ’Tis true, held high carnival last evening at their Girgaum head- that if revelation supply the place of reason, tho quarters. Several hundreds o f the most influential function of reason is at once displaced by the superior natives o f the city—bankers, merchants, mill-owners, tone of revelation; but when the severe analysis to pandits, pleaders, &c.— crowded their compound, and which revelation is subject, reveals chaos where wo had attentively watched the proceedings. The occasion for expected order, it is a sure sign that revelation is in a the gathering was to celebrate tho Theosophical Society’s sense defective, and thus reason must assume her offico fourth anniversary, the opening of its new library, and and guide the spiritual or intellectual nature o f man to the foundation of the Theosophist. Gorgeous cards, the altitude designed by a superior power. The mind is artistically printed in gold and black— both design and refle .11 the subtle elements that constitute its sur- execution very creditable to the Society— had bidden roundii •8 are imbibed, and made to suit its require- the guests to tho meeting; there was a profusion of ------.ts. Step by step back has the mind gono; step by lamps, Chinese lanterns and flags, a great arch o f gas step forward, gathering tho experiences of the past, jets, on which the word “ Welcomo” appeared in letters mown’ ig the chaff from the wheat, and by its applica- of fire, and a seven-pointed star blazed above its crown, tion to t ¡¡Bting needs has produced some most wonderful high in the air. From a concealed place not far away iults, which are destined to achieve higher and yet came the musical strains of a military band of twenty higher ones. The philosophy o f mind has endowed man pieces. The whole compound was carpeted and filled with wonderful power and energy. It has built cities; with chairs, the front row being reserved for the more it has sqBiected nature; it has subverted antagonistic- important personages. The verandah of the library forces ; it has idealized, and the reality has assumed its bungalow served as a sort o f private box o f the speakers shape ; and now it is applying its force to the moral of the evening and gentlemen accompanied by their nature o f man to find out as it were the sympathy wives. A more motley audience could scarcely be existing in his composition with the religious element. imagined, so varied the races, complexions and costumes. To subvert reason in this searching analysis is destruc­ The Parsee and Brahmin, the Jain and Mussulman, the tive to the first law of man’s being, “ Choose ye between Christian and Heathen side by side, and Vishnavite and the evil and the good.” It is undeniable that the moral Sivaito observing for the time a benevolent neutrality. nature of man opens up to the influence of religious The scene was, in short, a picturesque and interesting elements, but tho channels through which these one, and indicated that the busy TheosophistB have elements have flown have become corrupted by tho already created a wide interest in their doings. enervating influences of the arrogant and unphilosophic, Tho evening’s programme embraced the three features who, by the credentials o f mystery, have assumed the of addresses, a display o f working models o f machinery exclusive right1 to dispense the Alpha and Omega of by native mechanics, and an exhibition o f native indus­ spiritual laws and being. Themselves ignorant thereof, trial products in the library hall. The speakers were and'unsuited to the task, have corrupted and emasculated Colonel H. S. Olcott, President of the Society; Rao the transcendant essences of True Religion. Man find­ Bahadur Gopalrao Uurri Deshmuk, late Joint Judgo at ing this out for himself will assume the office o f his own Poona; Mr. Nowrozjl Furdoonji, Municipal Councillor pnest, till the pure stream is no longer polluted. o f Bombay ; Kashinath Trimbuk Telang, M.A., L.L.B., Hence the mind must act by the pure process of thought the Orientalist; and Shantaram Nayaren, Esq., Pleader. till this state is reached, and man freed from cares and A fine poem in Guzerati, written for the occasion, was troubles that tend to enervate hi« beings, will calmly read by the author, who is known more widely as “ The review the surrounding scene, and as calmly await his 1748 THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT.

transition to the higher plane. Till this desirable end universe. N o spiritual Cbristlike kingdom will ever be is attained, ho must assiduously attend to the progress established or maintained by such pagan influences as o f bis mind ; must war against the corrupting influences might against right, or the secular sword despotically o flm own nature in connexion with the process, and wielded by sovereign power and selfish policy. Religion carefully guard against the prostitution of reason. must prove true to itself by doing good to all men. The highest attitude to which the mind has reached Mr. James Thornley, of Water-street, presided, and in is surpassing in its grandeur ; it overwhelms us with its moving a cordial vote of thanks to the learned doctor force, and man is its possessor; how marvellous that he" for bis eloquent and beautiful oration, said that it has so blinded his spiritual nature as to obscure fiis deserved to tie classed amongst tho best expositions of power to perceive its tendency. The potent power human nature yet published on the side of universal enveloped in it tending to immortalize his own being. science and religion. A similar compliment was paid to Gifted with pure reasou which has placed him so in­ the chairman, and tho interesting proceedings termi­ finitely above the brute (which often surpasses him in nated by a warm acclamation o f approval from the physical power), but which is his passport to the higher whole audience.—Liverpool Mercury, Dec. 3rd, 1879. plunes. Leaving all nature, which lor the time has served his purposo behind, to ascend its native hills, JOTTINGS ON PASSING EVENTS. breathe the atmosphere o f freedom, penetrate the deep wells o f wisdom, measure and guage the attributes of T jif. R e v . F . H a y d n W il l i a m s , an English minister Beity, and combine to minister to his own deification. belonging to tbe Independent connection, must bo a What a glorious position does the mind occupy ! And bold man. From a London journal I learn that at a yet to meet our sordid ends we play the harlot with it. late meeting of the Congregational Union, Mr. W il­ But retribution is at hand to punish with duo severity liams, in referring to the hard-handed and dirty-faced all such. Beware lest wo fall among the number. sons o f toil who daily throng out of the gatos of Wool­ Yesterday has come and gone with all its experiences wich Arsenal, made the following statement:— "T h e and lessons; taught us howto act in futurity; sunk men said, what do you expect us to believe? You into oblivion; all its mistakes buried with it, but bring us tho Bible ; what arc we to bolieve of it? Do indelibly marked on the memory o f Time. Tho mind you expect us to believo that people used to live seven, o f yesterday has ascended, embodied in the physical, it eight, or nine hundred years ? He would say to such has learnt nature’s lessons. It is from its sphere drink­ men, you may read that statement with a grain of salt. ing deep o f the eternal spring of wisdom. It moves, it If the men asked, do you think there were giants in acts, it descends in dove-like attitude to teach its those days ; that tho sons o f God saw the daughters of lessons, and tell its experiences. The affinity o f the men that they were fair, and thus arose a raco of tre­ physical attracts it still to earth. It descends and rests mendous heroes? he would reply, that is simply heroic on the aspiring soul. Touch tho perennial springe, and poetry ; you are to read that as mythical aud legendary. thcro flows the inspiring stream which uplifts ttruggling I f he were asked, do you believo that the sun stood stili humanity, encased within tho earthly cerement. The at the command o f Joshua, while he slaughtered his recipient unfolding his nature to its balmy influences enemies? he could only say ho should be sorry to be­ speak* its thoughts and recites its experiences, but tho lieve it. But was it not written in the Book o f Jashor ? worldly and unthinking cry crucify him ! N ot so, the Well, who wrote the Book of Jasher, and where was it spiritual nature. Divest it o f its unnatural garb, aud to be got? I f it could be found it would be seen that the aggregate mind opens itself to the influences o f the it was simply a piece o f heroic poetry. He supposed higher planes, and relegating its fanaticisms, its bigotry, that there were very few who would believe, even if it its usurpations, and its intolerance adopts the universal were w ritten in fo rty Books of Jasher, such an egregious creed, God our Father, and man our brother; and aud atrocious statement as that! Then, with regard to drinking deep o f the wells which the mind enfolds frees tho Song of Solomon, which was said to represent itself from tho thraldom o f superstition; mounting on tho love of Christ for His Church------engleB wings surveys the universe, and returning adapts A t this point, says my authority, the chairman rose all phenomena to ibo requirements o f tho times, with to order. It is not stated what the chairman ordered , e®!°> " Stop not here, but advance higher and but it is to be hoped that iced-water suggested itself to still higher. For the mind knows no stationary state him as being the nectar best suited to allay the pertur but revolving and revolving around, nature’s plan bations, mental, spiritual, or otherwise, o f himself and ■ees there its plane, its haven and itself. confreres. EMMA. There are ministers in the Victorian Church whose WHAT IS OUR NATURE ? scepticism on many points o f Biblical " history” is quite as emphatic as that o f the Rev. F. Haydn Williams • Du. W illiam H itchmak, lectured the other but i f they are not »0 outspoken as he, it is Decaux evening on the above subject in Woollen Mechanics' they have suffered their boldness to be tempered bv T^hItrtto !I’g'IW'n g TD , ^ « ^ emPor'> 7 absence o f Mr. discretion. Men like Bishop Moorhouee — and his Kobert Gladstone, J.P /whose place he kindly filled on liberality by no means exceeds I hat of some o f his the occasion. 1 ho doctor gave a scientific and religious clerical brethren— are doing better work for the dls out o f nature, contending that the spiritual semination ot genome Freethought than they could evolution of man’d future body as a clothing for his possibly accomplish »ere they to quit the church The present soul was as truly demonstrated by science and spread o f religious liberalism must be gradual Growth religion as the protoplasm, or first visible particle o f our o f any description, to be healthy and effectual, needs to physical constitution, and that God still acts through bo natural. Process is everywhere essential to true ministering spirits," alike in natural phenomena aid development; the student does not at one stride become the • »»«•. o f daily life. The cberufeic symbols, he the scholar, nor does tbe mortal instantaneously grow said, placed in the tabernacle now may bo faithful into the aogel— " First the blade, then the ear, after hieroglyphicsof the good man's angelic nature, as when that the full corn in the ear." Some o f our iconoclasts sunnounted by a blaze of glory in the Hebrew church need reminding o f this, and to such I would further o f the wilderness. A theists, Positivists, and Secularist, commend the following sentiment from the eminent whose noise and smoke affect tho purblind, are doctors' Head Master of tbe City o f London School- “ AH for the healthy only, and not for tho sorrows o f the widely prevalent illusions contain some truth aud to soul, or,the aspirations o f the loving heart, and the reveal the inclosed truth is generally the best way to spintually sick unto death" throughout tbe world. dissipate the inclosing illusion.*” J Willing or unwilling, people must believe in "the ‘ 3 off * e « P ^ 'i ’ 80 I f g as they cannot measure a A chronicle o f “ Passing Events " would be very in­ bushel o f thoughts, a peck o f ideas, or a yard o f feel­ complete without some reference to the approaching ing, and roll out bundles o f emotions, demonstrate the departure-.f that isn't a contradiction in term, f chemistry of suffering, the physic, of joy, and bring to don t know what i . - o f the Key, Thomas Jones, of Col- mortal view all the elements and forces of the unseen • “ Oxford Sermons.'' By tho Bov. E. A, Abbott, A.M , D.D. THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT. 1749

lins-street Independent Church ; for Mr. Jones, if not ARE ALL HUMAN SOULS IMMORTAL ? an event, is uphenomenon, and like the celestial stranger who has lately been puzzling the learnod folk at our AN OPEN LETTEB TO UCD80N TUTTLE. Observatory, has a good deal of the comet—or comic, if

you prefer that orthography— about him. His depar­ H u d s o n T u t t l e , E s q .— My Dear Brother,— Y«»u may ture, as in the case of the sky-moth, is a matter no less have noticed my letter some time ago in the Eeligio- of public notoriety than of public concern, and I too Philosophical Journal, entitled, “ Are all humau souls cannot help feeling sorry, though personally no great immortal?" in which I take the negative. J. B. admirer of the rev. gentleman, that he is going to leave Crocker replied to me, and in a late journal I pre­ u s; for Mr. Jones, despite his faults, was a liberal-minded sented him a few questions to answer. It is an impor­ man, who set conscience before creed, duty before tant subject, and as it seems to mo the first to bo dogma, and before proclaiming the value of intellectual determined in reducing Spiritualism to a science, propositions of belief, preferred to preach " the beauty because upon this conclusion hinges almost everything o f holiness." . else in counection with the great subject. It seems to me that continued individuality must, in the after-life, The Sydney liberals have set us a good example iu depend upon obedienco to law. W e must infer this their public recognition of Francis William Newman’s from what we know o f the operation o f God’s laws in veteran offices in the causo of Freethought. After the this life. W e know that to come in conflict with the many undeserved testimonials so readily accorded to laws governing our physical body, and if this opposition men for the most indifferent services, this endeavour on is persistently continued, it will produce death. Ignor­ the part of our neighbours to show their appreciation ance or want of sufficient intelligence to conform to the o f a true worker is as refreshing as a good wholesome laws, produces tho same effect as wilful violation. thunderstorm after the miserable attempts of our Supposing that the laws governing our spiritual Corporation employes to lay the dust in this city. The natures operate similar to those governing the physical, simile is perhaps weak— certainly it is a watery one— we must naturally infer that tho spiritual part o f all but is familiar, at least to my Melbourne readers. The forms o f life may be by those laws disintegrated. Tho testimonial has taken the form of a handsome silver object of God’s laws are to euforce obedience, and if a inkstand—an appropriate emblem o f the field wherein spirit of an animal has not the intelligence to obey, and the recipient's great achievements have been wrought. the spirit of a man wilfully disobey, will not tho law I thought o f writing a brief sketch o f Professor ovcntually destroy such spirits ? Right here comes in Newman's life and work, but as I don’ t want to causo the vital point. I f obedience to law alone confers any variation in my editor’s customary serenity by con­ immortality, then all spirits of animal and vegetable suming more o f his space, you are politely referred to life, if left without the fostering care of a superior intel­ some good dictionary oi biography, where you will find ligence, will become disintegrated through ignorance a notice of the distinguished scholar, thinker, and of the law, and wilful disobedient human spirits will author—now in his seventy-fifth year. destroy their individuality through disobedience of law. I f the position I have taken is the correct one, it is MELBOURNE PROGRESSIVE LYCEUM. the all-important fact to know, and o f necessity becomes the corner-stone upon which the great spiritual science T jie Nomination o f Officers for the ensuing sjx will be builded. months took place last Sunday, when the following The sentimental notion that all the disobedient, wan­ officers were elected:— dering, lying, deceitful “ diakka" o f the other world are finally to bo redeemed, I do not believe, since they have Conductor—Mr. W. H. T ebby. no aspiration fof anything that is good, but glory in Guardians— Messrs. Daws, Cackett, and V evebs. wickedness and persistent violation of law must inevitably Teasurer— Mr. H . Moobe. ultimate in annihilation. I f this is a truth, it is an all- Secretary—Mr. C i i e b b t . important truth to know, since it would exercise a Watchman— Mr. P. J o s k e . wholesome influence upon us in this life. Librarian— Miss II aseldkn. I write you these thoughts, and request that you give Musical Conductor— L. W e ic h a b d t . your own convictions upon the subject, through the Editor “ Lyceum Miniature"— Miss B b o t iie b t o n . Journal. Business Manager "d o ."— Mr. V a n A i.k e m a d e . Your brother, searching for truth, Leaders— Messrs. Denkin, Joske, Lees, Hooglimmer. J. M u b u a y C a s e . McLoughlin, Lumley, Cook, Veevers, and Parrant; Columbus, 0 . >losdame8 Moore and Wilson. There were two nominations for the Vice-Conductor- REPLY BY HUDSON TUTTLE. ship, viz., Mr. Lumiev and Mr. E. Joske, and a ballot The question propounded by Bro. Case is by no means was appointed for Sunday, February 29th. a new one to me, for years ago it was a subject of my deepest imnressional investigation. The dying animal THE MAGNETIC SLEEP. and the dying human being were both presented to my clairvoyant vision, and I saw in both the same processes I t is deemed incredible that people in magnetic sleep occur in the illumination o f their spiritual boings. That can describe objects at a distanco, and scones which they of the animal floated above the dead body like a thin never looked upon while waking; yet nobody doubts cloud, and while I was expecting it to take form and the common form of somnambulism, called sleep-walking. identity, it dissolved, and disappeared just as a cloud You may singe the eye-lashes o f a sleep-walker with a would do in a summer sky. The spirit of the human candle, and he will perceive neither you nor tho light. being arose like a cloud in the sarno manner, took form His oyes have no expression ; they are like those o f a and identity, and became a counterpart of the body it corpse. Y et he will walk out in the dense darkness, had left. Then I learned that between these extremes avoiding chairs, tables, and all other obstructions; he were all degrees, and that even individual existence will tread the ridge-pole of a roof, far more securely after the death of the body by no moans proved immor­ than ho could in a natural stato, at midday; he will tality ; only continuity of existence. This view briefly harness horses, pack wood, make shoes, etc., all in the expressed as it was, called out many sharp criticisms, darkness o f midnight. Can you tell Bio with what eyes and was presented in a distorted form. As a seeming ho sees to do these things P and what light directs him ? contradiction to other impressions I had published, and I f you cannot, be humble enough to acknowledge that as I regarded it as in a degree speculative and of little God governs the universo by many laws incomprehen­ practical value at that stage of Spiritualism, I did not sible to you ; and be wise enough to conclude that these enter into its lengthy discussion. phenomena are not deviations from the divine order of So early as 1864, I published in the second volume things, but occasional manifestations of principles o f "Arcana of Nature," the following impressional para­ always at work iu the great scale of being, made visible graph on this subject: "Animals as well as man have at times, by causes as yet unrevealed.— Voice o f Angels. spirits, but they are not immortal, for even in such 1750 THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT

ultimated elements harmony cannot be maintained after HEALING BY LAYING ON OP HANDS— death of the body. To illustrate this idea, an arch may REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF ITS SUCCESS. be built never so perfectly, but if the keystone is not put in place the whole will fall into ruins as soon as the W e havo several times o f lato taken occasion to bear staging is removed ; but lay that single stone in place witness to the value o f the gift of magnetic healing and the whole stands firm as a rock. So with the spirit which is possessed by Dr. Webber, of 8 j Montgomery! of the animal; it is an imperfect arch, which s^aeon as place, Boston ; and desiro at present to adduce addi­ the body which supports it is removed, falls/ But the tional evidence in this direction—not for the purposo spirit of man is a perfect arch, standing find after the merely of augmenting the Doctor’s remedial reputation, removal of the body. But as the animal merges through and therefore tho extent o f his practice, but for tho intermediate forms into man, and the infant knows less broader purposo ef emphasising the fact that “ healing than the perfect animal, the line of demarcation before by laying on o f hands” docs actually exist in tho world alluded to apparently is drawn with difficulty. N ot so, to-day—and is efficaciously exorcised by numerous ladies however ; a certain dgree o f refinement is absolutely and gentlemen who have the power developed within essential, below which is nonentity, above which is their organisms—and that the instances we now put on immortality—not sharply drawn, however. A spirit is record are potent reasons, among a multitude of others, not necessarily immortal, but can bo gradually extin- as to why tho utmost liberty of action in the field of shed, as a lamp burning for an indefinite time and medical practice should be allowed, and that no efforts En going out. Such is the condition o f the lowest races of mankind. Their spirits exist after death, but should be made, either by tho imposing o f social or in them is no progress, no desire for the immortal state, legislative restrictions or penalties, to deter either the and slowly, atom by atom, they are absorbed into tho free-thinkers in medicine or tho angel-gifted clarvoyants, bosom of the universal spirit essence, as the spirit of or healing mediums from ministering as thev may the animal is immediately after death. It may bo asked desire—and be desired—to the suffering and health­ at what age does man become immortal ? No certain seeking in the community wherever found:— time can bo given, as no sharp line exists; the time The first case of which we shall speak may be summed varies according to the infant’s development. The idiot up, as to its details, as follows— The little son (aged — >s he immortal? This is an inaccurate question, for eevon years) of Mr. William Boyce, of 52 Rutland the answer depends on circumstances of degree and Square, Boston, while engaged in play had a fall, on a cause of idiocy. I f destitute o f a ray of intellect, a Tuesday evening recently, the result being a shock to voiceless, thoughtless idiot, tho inference is not cheer­ the system which in effect paralysed and rendered to­ ing ; for if existence be preserved after death, it will tally inactive the abdominal intestines. Violent fever probably be absorbed in a short time, as the Hindoo set in. and from Wednesday morning following the acci­ would eny, “ into the bosom ot Brahm.’ ’ dent to ten o’clock on Saturday night o f the week in Men like Dr. Peebles, who set out with the theory of which tho trouble arose, the patient continued to grow pre-*existence of spirits, o f course are driven to the con­ worse— his symptoms increasing in their unpromising clusion that every embryotic life is immortal, and the character till ho became delirious; his pulse was at a lowest and most idiotic o f human beings have this birth­ hundred and forty, and ho was apparently sinking under right. The spirit is in its nature the same, thoy bolieve, the pressure of his malady. and its manifestations are impeded by tho flesh. Those During all this timo the little sufferer was closely who regard pre-existenco as only a theory, opposed to and anxiously attended by a medical gentleman, who the received doctrine of creation by law, against which Mr. Boyce assured our reporter— who called upon him it brings the unreceivable necessity of miracle in the to obtain the facts in the case—was one o f the most advent of every human being, regard immortality as the erudite and skilful physicians in Boston ; but the patient product of a progressive development. “ Man is tho experienced no perceptible relief from his proscriptions, greatest fact o f the universe, and spirit is tho greatest and finally the stomach o f tho boy reached a state of fact of man." As there can be no line drawn between sensitiveness wherein it refused to retain any remedy the mortal and immortal, do more than between a hill whatever. The physician decided that nothing could and valley. W e know both exist, but where does tho save the lad but the inducing of a state of perspiration ; valley leave off and the hill begin ? On this wavering but found the line of procedure usually successful in line spiritual existence may bo limited by an hour, a pis practice in producing this condition to fail utterly year, a thousand years, and yet expire. in the present instance. J Mr. Case has made an interesting presentation of tho It was then at the critical moment, when death subject, yet I think he errs in the causes he assigns seemed to stand by tho bed o f the little sufferer, that for the entity short of spiritual existence. He places the father determined to avail himself o f the services of it on moral grounds. With him the moral character, Dr Webber—of whose powers as a magnetic healer he desires, and aspirations individualise tho spirit. Kathor had beard previous mention. A t ten o’clock on the as an outgrowth or development, as an entirety, is Saturday evening above referrod to he sent for Dr. it not dependent? JThe human being, after a certaiu Webber, and in five minutes following the first treat­ stage of mental'growth, cannot annul its charter to ment by him—by laying on o f hands— the boy began to immortal life,.and must accept it with all its infinite show signs of tho needed condition o f perspiration conseouencej/and responsibilities. which the attendant physician had declared all-impor­ Such are l the teachings I have received from my tant, and which no known means existed in the then spirit guides, and being in accordance with scienco and state of the patient o f inducing. A marked improve­ the most plausible theory o f creation, I have accepted ment was soon apparent in his case, and after a few them, not as a finality, for there is none, but true as visits paid subsequently by Dr. Webber, the boy was far as they go into the mystic realm. able to bo about again ; aud is reported by his father Religio Philosophical Journal. to be steadily regaining his strength and spirits. There is overy reason to decide that the exercise o f the mag­ THE GOOD TIME COMING. netic gift possessed by Dr. Webber was the instru- mentahty which greatly assisted in saving the life o f the The world rests not with a careless ease afflicted lad. On the wisdom o f the past; From Moses, and Plato, and Socrates, The wonderful success attending his treatment of the It is onward advancing fast; boy caused the wife of Mr. Boyce to consider the And the words o f Jesus, and John, and Paul feasibility of employing Dr. Webber’s services in restor­ Stand out from the lettered page, ’ ing a lameness in one o f her feet which was at the time And the living present claims them all. ¡¡S E R v rK8Kre?t yi. 8omeJ our weeks before the In the spirit that moves the age. accident which bofel her son, Mrs. Boyce had as she Great, earnest souls, by the truth made free supposed, sprained an ankle— the hurt proving'to be of No longer in blindness bow ; a more serious nature as time went on, and her efforts And the good time coming— the yet to be— to obtain medical relief seeming to be fruitless o f bene­ Is embraced i n the good time d o w . f i t at lhe tl,me ° i her ?0Q’8 80vere illness she, filled with maternal solicitude, had painfully THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT. 1751

dragged herself about to minister to his wants as only discover what is truth In your conversation wo saw a mother can do. Her lameness attracted the attention the two sides of it, and we viewed it from your staud- ol Dr. Webber, who on being Bnally ashed to treat the it and ------urs, —and J -we...... must • say truth • Uy on both injured member, felt an answering certainty o f impres- P' sides.. . 4 We have now said all upon this particular sion that ho could relieve it. After giving the first jubject we should say at this time; and we hope treatment ho was informed by his medical spirit-guide tnat, in the future, with small matters, when a term that tho trouble was really in the foot, a small boue in — ly is in dispute, you will leave it alone. W o have which had been forced from its place by the shock to spoken this mu order to put your mindt . which it had been subjected, and that during the nest t rest with regard to »bjective and subjective phen treatment he (the spirit) would find this bone, and smena viewed from our stand-point.” [Then followed ; cause tho D octor's hands to close in upon and re-set it ■ long rsonal commun cation to me, which cannot be pub- in place. This promise the guides faithfully discharged Ehod.] the nest time the patient was visited— she (without having been informed of what tho spirit had said) quickly affirming that she esporienccd the sensation o f some­ VISIONS IN THE WATER-GLASS. thing moving in her foot, much as i f a displaced bone was sliding back into its proper position. Under the Bx Adei.ua you Vat. effective treatment o f Dr. W ebber this lady has been Mi permanently relieved o f what, under other circum­ J. Lorimer, of Ballarat, kindly forwarded the stances, and without the aid o f spirit-vision and tho following extract from a letter received by him from the Baroness power o f the impressional magnetic healer, would in all V a y i - probability have become a permanent trouble. A n e w gift of mediumship d. eloped itself in me during These cases, as herein set forth, are supported by the the autumn o f 1867, viz., V: ♦ions in the Water-glass. endorsement of the principals and the witnesses o f tho Our spirit-guides advised me >f i t ; they declared to me cures as well (all resident in Boston), who can be con­ ono day I had the gift of seei ig spirits without being in a state of somnambulism. I sulted by anyone wishing to know at first-hand concern­ to take a glass filled ing them.— Banner o f Light. with water and look into it, and I would see pictures tho fluid-spiritual representations would bo shown to me. The very first time I saw a lot of different THE SPIRITUALISM OP THE BIBLE. objects in tho water-glass; the first I saw was a rail- way, a dog, then forms resembling the humau; it T h e following is from Mr. Curtis's Spiritualism o f the seemed to mo at first that tho water was moving, then Bible identical with Modern Spiritualism there appeared little clouds, small dots and small spots, On the evening o f September 5 , 1879, I was dis­ then it seemed to me again as if tho water formed cussing witb;a friend the objective and subjective phases in waves, till all these things by degrees took form and connection with the phenomena o f Spiritualism, when developed themselves into differeut objects. 1 was, at the following message caine in writing from my special the time in a perfectly normal state, s'. e., fully conscious spirit friend and guide of what I saw, and o f what was spoken and done around “ Bo not unwilling to accept any theory which carries m o; aud still I always seemod to be in sympathy with with it the force o f reason. But provided you set up what I saw, in joy or pain, in sorrow or in mirth, in theories for yourselves, they should be well examined, comfort or in discomfort, in bliss, in dislike, and anger. and reasoned well upon, prior to your adopting them. The appearance o f higher aud purer spirits gave me a Do not dogmatise upon pet theories, whatever they may feeling of happiness, whereas bad spirits, which would bo. W e do not come to force our convictions u pon you. reate aversion, made me angry. I even seemed to have W e have already told you that thought itself is material.’ tho sense 'of smell, o f cold, and warmth. Sometimes ‘ hen, if thought is material, in what way do you think my eyes would be filled with tears, at other times I it impossible for us to handle that— to us, mind you— would laugh heartily over tho pictures which I saw. material something, and reproduce it upon glass, the I had tho impression as if the pictures seemed to ii lffiPer’ 0r “ Dy oth®r ' ubstaDce ? You . might ax follow each other slowly; as if one developed itself out well affirm that shadow is not real but subjective; yet o f the other, the same as dissolving views. Sometimes jou r photographers can uso it, and cause the shadow they appeared a great deal bigger than the surface of rcllccted upon a sensitized plate to become objective the water-glass could have allowed. These representa­ and permanent. W e havo an impression that ultimately tions appeared like photos; then again like brilliant tho many scientific minds we have in our great world light and shade pictures— light blue, yellow, golden, will very shortly discover the laws regulating tho action reddish, lilac, grey, etc., etc.; all these colours I saw. ot thought so thoroughly that we will be able to give The Baroness Von Vay’s guides (Laurentius and our own mediums, whom wo use, a plan for tho produc- Buddhu) gave the following planation o f theso appear- tion of photographs o f them. Should wo succeed, will auces that be a subjective proof, or will it be an objective one, “ The gift of vision or prophecy is as old as mankind that thought is real ? We have listened to your conver­ itseltt tho latter shows itself amongst all nations, in all sation ; and as it interested some o f tho scientific intel­ degrees of society; it is a universal gift which, however, ligences who accompanied me, they havo thought fit to uotil now has been little studied and oxplored, and only w y a few words on the subject. You, my friends, havo exceptionally exercised. Somo see these spiritual pic­ all much to learn. W e have much work to do prior to tures in vacuum, others on the wall, others in the fire, oemg able Jo convince all classes o f minds of our being others in an empty or filled glass. In ordor to be able a power in the midst o f society, who, though not present to see these spiritual things it is necessary that the m an objective sense, have still individualities as human spirit allows itself to be concentrated upon some strongjy human and personal as any of you, even object, i.e., it must firmly draw its attention to some although we have laid aside the former garmenti object; brain and eye must not be wandering, but must Mesh, and covered ourselves with the more endui bo collected, quiet and fully conscious without somnam­ garments of the spirit. You cannot tell what deep bulism or ecstacy, for these again are quite different truths often lie hid in many idle sayings, or, as you states; for these pictures wo intend showing to tho would say, the extravagant fancies or overworked seeing medium wo only require a quiet eye, collection, brains. Y et you must always reason well upon any and capability. This capability lies m magnetic power; imormation wo may voluntarily givo you. Do not por- in the dogree o f warmth of the medium, and shows nnt any o f our sayings to be accepted as true with­ in the organs of thought and feeling ; it is a capability out pondering well upon them ; and should you at any which, like all other kinds of mediumship, has nothing »m e adopt our ideas, do not dogmatise upon our to do with the will o f the medium. The medium will ords because we have said so and so, and because not often be able to see all he would like, or what she you have been led to our way o f thinking. What would like, for here the will o f the Spirit who prepares may appear right to us to-day may appear wrong the pictures comes into action.” when we get more light. Truth is absolute when you “ Words and sentences come in gold, blue, black, bave discovered it, but in mere terms it is difficult to green, red, or yellow letters,” etc., eVc. 1752 THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT.

COMMUNICATION. A SPIRIT'S NARRATIVE. JU8T about two centuries ago I crossed tho narrow M y d e a r F riend,—I am now about to give you my boundary that separates the two worlds—tho material ideas o f tho signs of the times. Peoplo are talking from the spiritual. This time has not been idly spent, about the comet being tho sign of evil things, the end for ever active as I was in the form, still more active o f the world,— the World about to bo burned up by have I been since 1 left it. With intense pleasure I the nearness of this comet, etc. There is no suçh inten* come to bestow a little of what I possess ; not that I tion on the part o f the comet; it is a harmless mes­ would give grudgingly, but with discretion. Two cen­ senger, sent to bring tidings of a change in tho struc­ turies of your time is a long period which cannot be ture of Heavenly things ; it tells of tho change in the bridged over in an instant. Be coutent to follow step by arrangements o f human afTairs, and renders tho place step, that you may have the pleasure o f the wholejourney. through which it sweeps, cloar and pure from evil. It On crossing over I was almost dazed with the glory is a sign o f purification and improvement. Things are that I beheld ; for, having weaned myself from worldly ever progressing, and tho comets have their work to do things, I was prepared, so to speak, to enter upon among the heavenly bodies to renew their vitality and things spiritual. Lovely as earth is in a lovely season, increase their strength. Tho earth needs her strength with its purling streams, its painted flowers, its song­ and vitality to bo renewed and improved, and the comet sters in the woods; glorious as are the hours of sunrise has this effect upon the earth, which will show itself in and of sunset; magnificent as is tho dome of heaven the fresh impetus given to the magnetic influences of bespangled with its millions of worlds; all the sweet the earth. The magnetic influences of all the voices of naturo in its various moods—all these are as heavenly bodies, require to bo improved and nought to tho spiritual glories which met my enrap- augmented. This is the comet's work, and when it has tured gazo! Still I felt that I wns part and parcel of passed beyond the reach of the earth’s attraction, the tho scone, for my own body was so much more glorious earth will be in a position to utilise the fresh magnetism than the poor shell that I had left behind. N or was I she has thus absorbed into her system, and will be made alone, for faces once familiar and beloved, surrounded more fit to undertake tho struggle that is before her, me and gave me welcome. Oh ! tho happiness of such both in her terrestrial atmosphere and the spiritual aura a meeting. And then, too, I found that I had a home — which is pouring upon her from the higher sphere of a house already prepared for me; no strange homo light and wisdom. Her struggle will be a strong one, either, for all seemed familiar, having, according to a and a thorough unrooting of former dispensations and wonderful law, been evolved with my spiritual growth. ancient ideas ; and consequently the world will undergo Thus, you soe, thoso leaving earth spiritually unde­ a great change in al! tho departments o f her being ; veloped nro homeless. Now, too, I found that all my physically there will be a change, and all tho inhabit­ yearnings after knowledge, spiritual and intellectual, ants will be affected by this change, both in their mental could be gratified far more readily than when on earth, and spiritual characteristics. The force o f nature will being no longer encumbered by tho flesh. Did I long partake of the improvement which has been going on for information on any subject ? Straightway my desiro within, and will develope more beauteous forms, that in brought to me those who wore in affinity with the time will exterminate tho old, and thoroughly rid the thought, and who could instruct me. Thus havo I earth of noisome things. The fable of the earth being gono on ever acquiring, and in my turn bestowing about to be burned up, has originated from the great uso knowledge. the teachers in ancient times made of fire in their teach­ Life in the spirit-world is as natural as life on tho ing ; that boirig in their eyes the best means o f illus­ oarth planet, only far more perfect, for on earth it is trating the great lesson of purification and thorough often difficult to gratify the higher aspirations. In cleansing, nothing evil ever remaining after the fire had spirit-life these are gratified to the fullest extent. Here been applied to it ; all that was dross or rubbish would too the painter and the musician can carry out their burn up. but whatever was lasting and consequently ideal. l ie who on earth had longed to pour forth his good and pure would romaiu ; and thus the allegory has soul in song can gratify that soul's ambition; and so on been taken literally by the modern teachers, who could with overy capacity of the mind, lie who on earth had not understand the more natural minds o f the ancients, longed to excel in any direction can in spirit-life accom­ who loved to teach from nature, and took the sun as plish his unfulfilled desires. ’Tie here that Galileo and their best representative o f life, and heat, and power. Copernicus study to their heart’s delight. Tho genius Hence fire, as a familiar illustration, being an earthly that on earth had to lie dormant for want o f oppor­ representative o f the Great Sun God, they have used it tunity, here germinates and bears fruit in abundance. mostly in their spiritual instruction. Would not this knowledge alone make many a one long A. G. for the hour of separation from the material body? Castlemaine. Having been a man of versatile talent I had many longings to gratify ; hence I have not been idle. Next EXPERIENCE MEETING. to tho pleasure o f acquiring, has been my delight in tho bestowing of this knowledge. It has been truly said. “ Nothing have we that hath not been bestowed.” A n interesting meeting was held at tho Masonic Hall, The bookworm sits poring over his books, but a higher on Wednesday, February 4th, at which Mr. John spirit or. intelligence is near, pointing out tho meaning Carson related his experiences with the " Eddy Family," to his intelligence. Even so in spirit-life. W e are all tbrough^whose mediumistic powers ho obtained most receivers from those above. W hat folly, then, to boast satisfactory phenomena. At the first sitting, a number o f what wo acquire! One o f the hardest things, I of musical instruments were placed on a bed in a small think, is the tearing away of false notions and opinions brick chamber, having no outlet but the door in the — the tearing up by the roots of that which cost us so entrance to which tho medium sat, the visitors facing much labour to plant. Henoe, those who enter spirit- her. In a few minutes the instruments tuned up and life unprejudiced on all points have great advantage ; performed music which would have done credit to first- but those who enter spirit-life, having benefited by class professionals. The room was examined both spiritual teachings, have the greatest advantage of all. before and immediately after the concert, but tho per­ (To be continued.) formers were invisible. On another occasion, the fire bursting suddenly into a flame, broke the conditions, A Social Gathering of members and friends of the Vic­ and the instruments fell in a shower amongst the torian Association of Spiritualists was held in theMasonic investigators. Materialisations o f a most satisfactory Hall last Wednesday evening. An excellent musical nature occured through the mediumship o f William programme was presented and well carried out by the Eddy, at Ancora, some of the forms being distinctly ladies and gentlemen o f the choir, after which a quadrille recognised by Mr. Carson and his son. In answer to a party wasfermed and about two hours devoted to dancing. question, Mr. Carson stated that the same materialised An enjoyable evening was spent and a very general form had appeared to him, through different media, desire expressed for a repetition of the meeting at an residing far apart from each other. early date. THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT, 1358 THE PRESENT CONDITION AND OUTLOOK OF THE RELIGIOUS WORLD. fifteen htmdred_years._ What is the moral and religious B r J. Tt e b x Sk. R n ssi o 0 f o‘ France, Italy, Austria, - H l i V u ,nnanJ» Spam, Belgium, and other nations in {Continued from hut number, p. 1787.) which it has had the most favourable opportunities for I , have already pointed out that as Christianity makesdemonstrating its boasted efficacy as the world’s only extraordinary professions wo are justified in trying it hope? Is the condition of those highly privileged by a severer standard than would be applied to any countries what might reasonably have been expected, if admittedly human system ; and have shown that it has their controlling religion had been what it is said to be? signally failed in two parts o f ita boasted mission—to 1 do not think the most ardent believer in that religion establish universal peace, and unite mankind in the can honestly draw a very flattering picture of tho moral bonds of true brothorhood. It may next be asked state of thoso parts of the world. The political atmos­ whether it has effected that moral regeneration o f society phere in most of them is by no means pure, nor are which it claims to be alone able to bring about ? This either the social or religious departments in a satisfac­ is declared to be its principal objoct, to attain which it tory condition. Whore are more commercial frauds is said to be in every way admirably adapted ; and if it perpetrated than in some of the most thoroughly Chris­ but accomplished this, other parts of its mission would tian countries ? In what part o f the world does intem­ bo easily realised as a natural consequence. It con­ perance, with its untold evils, prevail to a greater extent, demns all other systems as being inadequate to the P,ro“tltut'on count more unhappy victims? t work of the world's moral and spiritual trunc­ Whither shall we look for more domestic strife, sadder C ation, its redemption from sin and sorrow, and ita instances o f unfilial conduct on the part o f children, or elevation to that purity and happiness its Creator deeper poverty, squalor, and misery among the masses ? designed it for. Some o f them may lop a few twigs or In short, whore shall we find more dishonesty, hypo­ a branch or two off the treo o f human depravity, it crisy, falsehood, immorality, injustice, cruelty, and all alono can root it up and destroy i t ; they may throw a tho sms and vices that afflict mankind, than flourish few crumbs to souls that are spiritually famishing, it under the very shadow of this so-chllod Divine system? alone can spread before them the bread of life in suffi­ O f course it will bo said that Christianity does not sanc­ cient abundance to satisfy their wants, and make them tion these evils; that on tho contrary it emphatically healthy and strong; they may cast a gleam of light condemns them, and aims at their complete and univer­ athwart the darkness that envelops the world, it alone sal extermination, and that it has in somo measure can dispel that darkness, and illuminate man’s pathway succeeded in its mission. But this is precisely what to a blissful immortality; in a word, they may render may be said o f all other religions over which it affects some little auxiliary aid in working out the salvation of the so much superiority. And if it does not succeed any better than at least some of them do ; nay, if in some race, italonecan satisfactorilyachieve that, being special­ ly devised and set on foot by God himself for thatpurpose. parts of the world it does not succeed so well—as I How far it has succeeded in its avowed mission, and think an impartial comparison of certain parts of thus justified its exceptional claims, let the present Pagandom with certain parts of Christendom will prove condition o f the world decide. As a matter o f fact, it it does not— what warrant is there for the lofty airs it " “S yet unknown to the great majority o f the human assumes, and on what grounds can it claim a Divine family. It has never been able to penetrate to hundreds origin for itself, and treat all other systems as only of millions o f so-called heathens. And even among human inventions ? The comparatively little success those to whom it has been introduced, how few have this religion has had in its efforts to regenerate society, been led to embrace it 1 The great mass of them have whore circumstances havo been most favourable to it, Been nothing either in ita doctrines, or ceremonies, or is strong evidence that there is something fatally erro­ the lives of those of ita professors they were acquainted neous in its theory of human nature, and o f the best witb.l or its effects in countries where it has reigned means of elevating it ; and that, therefore, it cannot have emanated from Infinite Wisdom. supreme for centuries, to induce them to exchange for it the laith o f their fathers. They have continued to In estimating the claims of Christianity to be the think that their own religion was more reasonable in only religion that can save the world, wo are naturally its teachings, and more beneficial in its influence than led to consider the timo it had for the experiment, and the one they were asked to accept in its stead ; and, the conditions under which it has been made. That it therefore, Christianity, with all its supposed evidences has not yet fulfilled this part o f its professed mission ot a Divine origin, and its vaunted peculiar fitness for the present state o f the world abundantly proves. Can its professed God-given mission, has not commended it be pleaded in its behalf that it has not had time itself to thorn. The barren results of missionary enter­ enough, or that circumstances have always been unfavor­ prises, when compared with the money, talent, and able to it ? It has been over eighteen hundred years in the field— a long enough period, surely, to test its capa­ labour employed to convert the pagan world, gives full bilities in this direction ; and during the most of that demonstration o f this. And all the efforts of interested sectarians to explain this fact away, or rob it o f its time it had a considerable portion o f the world all to itself to experiment upon. At tho present time tens of torce, on the theory o f human depravity, have failed to thousands of men, who have been specially trained for eitect its real significance. People as a rule have intel­ the p ilo s e , are devoting themselves exclusively to tho ligence and penetration enough to distinguish a really work of pressing its claims, unfolding its beauties, and superior from an inferior article; and if the religious demonstrating its axact adaptation to man’s moral and article in question had so far transcended all others in spiritual requirements. Many other agencies are in M it is alleged to do, I am satisfied operation with the same object in view. Millions of that the average heathen intellect would have perceived money are annually expended in the furtherance o f its it. Ihe fact that tliiB has not been the case is strong interests. And, of course, on the theory o f its Divine evidence that no such superiority as is claimed for it origin, God must tax his infinito wisdom, and exercise exists 1 and, o f course, as a necessary inference from his omnipotent powers on its behalf, that it may unfail­ S a r * » “ would seem to be a becoming and ingly accomplish the end for which he established it fadnfe f X “ 8 for our Christian friends to admit this among men. And yet, with all those advantages as to c W r . „ r l lr, “iS,8m’ and abandon their unfounded time, opportunities, and means, it scorns as far from li??“ ® “ • hohsif' I can hardly expect such a humi- attaining its desired object as ever it was. Nay, it is m m S i 1®!0“ t0 be made' Jot- aa tho futur0 S''®0 actually losing ground in those very countries where it n L £d fl. f gre? ter aucce8s than th° P“«t has wit- has flourished the longest, and has had the best oppor­ nesMd. the sooner it were made the better. tunities for justifying its pretensions. Various forms w u T . t . 11'a 18 tta caaa aa regards the Pagan world, o f opposition to it, under the general name of Infidelity, Uhri., j “V M 10 the success of this religion in are spreading rapidly, and in many cases it has to con­ ? do“ Ita? >f l H i t could make so little Spres- tent itself-U .u with »I.x.p.jsimply taking banii>£ up a ucimdefensive nim position.pUBlllUU. en™, o f „ « T 811 ia,nd^ because o f the antagonistic influ. For these reasons, then, I am compelled to hold that Z Z a “S erA nd olde,r '•eligion., at least it ought to the presentresent wuuiuuucondition ovi f the mo worldnunu doesuuco notuui> justifyjimmy the me countries^ en

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