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often conceals more than it represents. A chemist who goes SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST. to his labaratory only to investigate, may go to his altar only to PUBLISHED »Y worship. There are doctors of divinity who carry Bacon and 1316 Scientist Publishing Company, 18 Exohange St., Boston, the ologies in one hand and Moses and the prophets in the other, and let not the right hand know what the left hand EVERY THURSDAY. doeth. So the atheism of science consists with no general lack of faith among scientists. In fact, some of these affect m. c» m um r b n o w i t , i d i t o x . surprise at the common talk about the imcompatibility of science with religion. They have never been disturbed by such notions of incongruity between Revelation and Reason Back Numbers of the Scientist can be furnished. as in other minds have caused the diutumal “conflict of ages.” Those are a kind of religious scientists, a rather unique spec­ For the Spiritual Scientist. imen of whom appears as the author of “the Unseen World,” EVOLUTION COMPASSED. an essay lately published m the Atlantic and republished as BY GEORGE STEARNS. the leader of a volume of essays on miscellaneous subjects. The title is pretentious, by intimating the subject-matter of a C H A P . II. book, yet really designating an abortive attempt to defeat Existence in the Mace of Rcientistic Speculation. another and abler attempt to elicit from physical science some a n g u a g e is a system of conventional signs, or symbols of | tangible evidence of “ the Unseen Universe," whose author­ thought, whereby a community of intelligence is estab- j ship is unacknowledged. Of this latter work I know nothing, lishedL and a mutual understanding among persons in society but by report of its said reviewer, who, confessedly knowing is maintained. The symbolism of words is by no means too little of the subject to either affirm or deny the reality of absolute, but variable according to ths differential impressibil­ the Unseen World, labors tealously to overthrow the argu­ ity of mind, the gradations of intellective capacity, and the ment for its existence; not to justify skepticism regarding casual modifications of sense by the fortuitious elements of our future state as pledged by hope, but to discourage all experience. For this reason the diversification of thought ia attempts to solve the problem of existence, by assuring us infinite, and a perfect verbal expression thereof is simply that it is insoluble; the Unseen World being rationally un­ impossible. language, instead of being a vehicle for the in­ seeable and its elements even unthinkable, insomuch that, as terchange of ideas, is that only of intellective suggestions, m subject of discussion, the question of life after death is one the effectiveness of which depends upon the coincident apt­ that science can never touch. This piece of negative infor­ ness of speaker and hearer to turn them to rational account mation would seem to be hardly worth the pains of paralogy It it upon the rareness of this mental qualification for a mu­ requisite to make it assumptive, and the incentive to its as - tual understanding that the practical value of words is to be thorship is found only by inference from those rhetorical indi­ estimated; though to this rule of their valuation words are cations of bias which no naive pen is apt to conceal, la this more or lets amenable in proportion as their symbolism is case it is a phase of affections! belief seeking an apology for more or less versatile; the meaning of some words being faith—that of the latitudinarian stripe—and prompting intel­ simple, fixed and exclusive, as in proper names whereas that lect to make a show of “ Reason in Religion,” as if to repress of others is complex, variable and contextual, as in epithets an ebulient sense of its inconsistency with rational modes of of comparison. That is to say, proximally, words are either thought. This accounts for the writers glib assertion that,— definite or indefinite as to their signification : and this brief explication of the matter is made expressly to enable me to “ There has never been any conflict between religion and science, nor is any reconciliation called for where harmooy say intelligibly that the word science is a verbal sign of tiie has always existed. The real historical conflict which has definite order, embracing exclusively inown truths, and ad­ thus been curiously misnamed, has been the conflict between mitting nothing in the name of opinion, belief or conjecture. the more crude opinions belonging to the science of an earlier But the word scien tist, though etymologically of the same age, and the less crude opinions belonging to the science of a temper as the word scunct, is comparatively indefinite, in later age.” effect of its sectional purport of character. It means a per­ What! efantoms in scum *, crude and more crude? Science son versed in science, at least in one or more of its branches, embraces only things known, and whatever is known it tu of which attribute there is no standard of exact interpreta­ known. This attempt to exalt religion by disparaging science tion. Its ro lt may be coupled in verification with one of is forced and ineffective. It does not appear wherein their genius, say of art or politics or religion. “ All the world’s a conflict has been misnamed, in the course of which “the more stage, and all the men and women in’t are players,” at times crude opinions have been defended in the name of religion, and eke by turns, of diverae parts. The gaib of profession while the lest crude opinions (In the name of science) have 230 SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST.

■ variably woo the victory." It i* vainly intimated thus that | to make it probable that Mind can exist except in connection science hat ever been, or can be, divided against itself; for with a material body." Is it then the abnegation of such a religion is not taken oat of the arena by substituting anotht r world? No. meaning of the word than that which history furnishes, affirm­ "Since our ability to conceive any thing is limited by the ing it to be “ not concerned with opinion, but with the as­ extent of our experience, and since human experience is very piration which leads us to strive after a purer and holier life." far from being infinite, it follows that there may be, and in all This is p it t y , not religion ; a personal and privaie attribute probability is, an immense region of existence In every way as real as the region which we know, yet concerning which wherewith science has never meddled. But is it science, or we cannot form the faintest rudiment of a conception. religion that nourishes the creeds of ecclesiasticism? and is it religion, or intelligence, that proposes their amendment ? And this is Mr. Fiske’s hypothesis, that there m ay be an The Curious misnomer in the case is not that of the writer's I unseen world of which nothing is humanly predicable because I nothing is known or knowable. fancy, but that which he perpetrates in treating as a matter of science what he otherwise describes as ^scientistic speculation. Well, what is the use of such an hypothesis, and why should So palpable a misconception in the beginning of an essay is j one imagine it? Oh, It will make room for religious belief, not prepossessing of rationality in its general drift, which yet, l “a belief not amenable to scientific tests.” It is a grand de­ in the present instance, is open to criticism only as to certain sideratum of old theology to be “placed beyond the need of points of discussion, such as 1 find relevant to the subject of scientific support and beyond the range of scientific criti- this chapter. Of these I shall make some account, dismissing i cism." It will thus become secure from the tacit lampoonry their context as the better part of a well-conceived and deftly- i of such terrifying lay preachers as Tyndall and Darwin. So written piece of literature, such as befits the reputation of its j Mr. Fiske would bring 'aid and comfort to ecclesiaticism. erudite author, John Fiske, who, whatever his theme, always J But bis method is quite inadequate to.-the end proposed; too entertains his readers with striking views and recondite sug­ J equivocal for the temper of orthodoxy, and too stoical to in- gestions. | gratiate the natural heart. What a dagger to Hope is this!— “ Much stress is commonly laid upon the recognition of The items of scientistic speculation here adverted to all friends in a future life; . . ■ yet the recognition of friends in cluster around a single misconceit of spirit and the spiritual a purely spiritual world is something of which we can frame world, making the former Identical with mind or thought. It no conception whatever. We may look with unspeakable is only in this heretical sense that Mr. Fiske believes in an reverence on the features of wife or child, less because of "Unseen World,” coacerning which he makes no attempt to their physical beauty than because of the beauty of soul to enlighten his readers, but diverts and crams their attention which they give expression, but to imagine the perception of soul by soul apart from the material structure and activities with studied suasives to dubitation as to whether or not there in which soul is manifested, is something utterly beyond our be any such world. He therefore discoursea in a constantly power.” equivocal strain, as in the following paragraphs:— How then shall evangelicals find Jesus in the life to come? "A n unseen world consisting of purely psychical or spirit­ How, in a state wherein persons ignore each other, may one’s ual phenomena would accordingly be demacrated bv an abso­ own identity be preserved? Is it possible to believe what is lute gulf from what we call the material universe, but would not necessarily be discontinuous with the psychical phenom­ both “ utterly and hopelessly inconceivable” as well as repug­ ena which we find manifested in connection with the world of nant to the innermost yearnings of human nature? Does not matter. The transfer of matter, or physical energy, or any the hypothesis refute itself? thing else that is quantitatively measurable, into such an un­ 11 fails to serve its purpose, as hinted above. seen world, may be set down as impossible, by reason of the “ The belief that all things are working together for some very definition of such a world. Any hypothesis which > good end (can any appreciable good consist with oblivion of should assume such a transfer would involve a contradiction in terms. But the hypothesis of a survival of present psych the part?) is the most essential expression of religious faith ; icai phenomena in such a world, after being denuded by ma­ | of all intellectual propositions it is the one most closely re­ lated to that emotional yearning for a higher and better life terial conditions, is not in itself absurd or self-contradictory, which is the sum and substance of religion.” though it may be impossible to support it by arguments drawn from the domain of human experience. Such is thi shape But this wholesome attribute, however earned, is not pro which it seems to me that, in the present state of philosophy, I moted by Mr. Fiske’s hypothesis. He adverts to— the hypothesis of a future life must assume. We have noth­ “ The feeling which associates a future life with some solu- ing to say to gross materialistic notions of ghoits and logics 1 tion of the burthensome problem of existence. Had we but ana spirits that upset tablet and whisper to ignorant vulgar faith enough to lighten the burden of this problem. . . Could women the wonderful information that you once had an Aunt i we but know tuat our present lives are working together to Suaan. (Splendid burlesque, only a little too spiteful). The j some good end. . . . To the dog under the knife of the ex­ unseen world imagined in our hypothesis is not connected perimenter, the world is a world of pure evil; yet could the yrith the present material universe by any such inviiible bond, i poor beast but understand the alleviation of human suffering as would allow Bacon and Addison to come to Boston and to which he is contributing, he would be forced to own that write the silliest twaddle in the most ungrammatical English this is not quite true : and if he were also a heroic or Chris­ before a roomful of people who have never learned how to tian dog, the thought would perhaps take away from death its test what they are pleased to call the evidence of their senses. sting. The analogy may be a crude one, but the reasonable- 1 That's good,’ as Mark Twain would say; ‘illagunt,’ Pat would ! ness of the universe is at least as far above our comprehen- call It.) Our hypothesis is expressly framed so as to exclude [ sion as the purposes of man surpass the understanding of the all intercourse whatever between the unseen world of spirit 1 dog. Believing, however, though at a simple act of trust, unconditioned by matter and the present world of spirit con­ that the end will crown the work, we may rise superior to the ditioned by aaatter In which all our experiences have been question which has here concerned us, and exclaim, in the gathered. The hypothesis being framed in such a way, the supreme language of faith, Though He slay me, yet will trust question la, What has philosophy to say to it? Can we, by in H im 1” searching our experiences, find any reason for adopting such an hypothesis? Or, on the other hand, supposing we can find And that is religion. Really, spiritually-minded reader, no sack reason, would the total failure of experimental evi­ 1 don't you wish that you too were a Christian dog, with such a dence justify us in rejecting it?” j trust in Providence as ought to sustain a self-deemed victim Mr. Fiske, in the name of philosophy, elaborates a nega­ i of vivisection! Call that faith? What a daub! It looks tive answer to either side of this two-fold question, which he more like “ suspense of faith," and a caricature of that. I contrives to render intricate by involving it in a cloud of col­ doubt if a ll religion's devotees are sensible of a plight so lateral debtosities. To follow the lead of his pen is not the ! murky. Yet such, in one case at least, is the end of scientis aptcet method of learning its bent, which is rather implied j tic speculation. than expressed, and discoverable only by dissecting his argu Mr. Fiske's hypothesis is not according to the postulate with meat. The properties and bearings of his hypothesis are which he commences his discussion, namely: that “for d e c y suggested by the tone and turns of rhetoric suffusing many a phering the past and predicting the future, no hypotheses are page, whence they are to be gathered by excerption and in­ admissible which are not based upon the actual behaviour of fluence And what is that hypothesis? It concerns "an un­ things in the present." seen world In which material cooditions like those of the This postulate rests upon a universal principle, that of visible world have neither place nor meaning." Does it in. uniformity in Nature, to which it applies as to one consistent dads the supposition that there really i s such a world? O, whole. It is rooted in the same law of Causation as the Per. am "we have not the faintest shadow of evidence wherewith sistencc of Force, co-ordinate with which Is the Perpetuity SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST. 232 of Order; both these truths being deducible from the con- RE LIG IO N E S S E N T IA L TO H UM AM 1TY. ceptive constancy of purpose which appertains to the Infinite o«iiin« oi. p„„h.d u tk. Fr«. ckwU> Ckwck, S«n»As«. «• s«wDr, and Immutable m in d . The oneness of cause determines the J “ * ,s* ‘‘ t* oneness and wholeness of effect. Hence the harmony and BY GEORGE sexton, 1-t- D. uniformity of nature. Therefore the postulate, by virtue o f 1 Letaa. Se.—“O eaIs sulfcl ’ that which renders'it valid, cannot be regarded as applying to C' emi F-M| -R f ationai.istic commentators have been very busy the sensuous sphere. -e of existence alone; it aooliesapplies to both , w,lb ,b'51 ,ext' It has nothing to do with religion, they sat sides of nature, the seen and the unseen, and makes the but refers ' n,ir' 1> 'te m p o ra l things. Our Lord’s purpose, present a criterion of the past and future to any extent that they miinUin’ w« 10 " buke ‘ be anxiety of Martha to furn.sh reason can compass him with a varied repast. He therefore informs her that he ...... did not desire splendor and profusion, and that consequently It is a maxim of science that the known behaviour of matter .. . . , a. . . « t-. , ,.4. • . . , • . Marv showed a better appreciation of his character by sitting under any given condition. is >t. ascertained behavior under h|j {et( and ,isteni ™ hi, instruction,. Every plain aad the same condition, for all time. The same t, true of spirit, sim read„ of (he * ew Teltlment> h o w fw , .ffl that the existenceof wh.ch physical science .gnores, though none * |hi n« dful has a reference to religion, and that the the less a substance conserving the Inherent properties of bttttr par, w\ ich M, had chosen was an eternal one, which matter. The difference i, more apparent than real. Sp.nt cou,d £ ^ uke[> h#r ^ , thal, treat it, and is congenerous with matter, and force is the pith of both. consider, therefore: Their behavior is the work of steadfast mind, whereof there . x . , ..... , ____.. ____ . . . . . , • . .. i I. The thing here referred to as being needful, is no variableness nor shadow of turning. Therefore the lf ...... ♦ . , . . 4 * , II. Why it is called the one thing needful, as though it behavior of mentality, or the issue of finite expressions of ...... g .. • • were the only one. mind, is uniformly one and the same for every distinctive m T ...... ____ _i. \ . 7 , . III. The sense in which religion is essential to humanity organic measure thereof. The anim us of every brain is . T . ... . , , . . . _' . 6 . . . _ ...... 7 . I. The thing here referred to as being needful.—Few per- known by iU conformation. Sense is identical in man and . , »• f -s.w , . 7 . , I, . . sons who have studied the teachings of Christ with a spirit brute,, ’ and reason is homogeneous in all cerebral organs,b ’ of , piety . . and , reverence will...... dispute ®, that .... this referst__ . to religion „ whose differential capacities alone determine all degrees o f 1 . / ...... , . _ • _ , . . , ,6 Jesus invariably puts the things which relate to the soul In intelligence. There cannot be another science than that . . 7 *, .. . .. ____.. . . i the first rank, and attaches to them an importance which be- wbich is borne of sense and reason, nor a philosophy antag- . . ... , .... , . .. _ lt . . , ...... r r . , longs to nothing else. “ What shall it profit a man if he gam on..t.c to ether. 1 here cannot be another world of mmd the*who|e world\ nd lole hi, own -One thing thou wherem two and two make other than four. The anthmenc Tb. in ,he teichinp of o,e Lo^ and logic of this world are those of all worlds ; the ethics : was that he was both the Revealer and the Revelation. He of mankind may be improved, but never discarded ; and even ^ Word of God Hi, buliDM> M earth was to re«al the esthetic, of young humanity are inductive to angelic God ^ mlnkind. Hence the sum total of hU teaching was assimilation, of celestial beauty. Mmd ,s a umt, and the (o ihow mcn no( on, what reli ion but how lh mi ht doing, thereof are mutually consentaneous. What we know, ^ of and jt§ _ the All-Wise may not dispute. what, then, i, religion? This i, a very large question, and It is with no regard to these fundamental truths thatMr. ; onc which has been the source of endless controversies. Fiske remark, : “ Why we are here now is a question of even Ye, lfttr all> probab|y ,he anlwer ,0 j, may b t compressed profounder interest than whether we are to live hereafter. int0 a very sma;i compass. We have it in the two great com- Unfortunately it, solution carries us no less completely be- mandments 0f the Lord. Love to God supremely, and love yond the range of experience." But fortunately the inherent to man as an outcome of the love to God. lf a man does not desire to solve lt provokes reflection and prompts attention love his brother, neither does he love God. The word relig­ to an inner sense of truth whereby alone this and kindred ion is derived from two Latin words, which mean to bind questions may be answered. There were no use of being again; and therefore, signifies the re-binding man to God, here without a hereafter. Mind, the universal cause, cannot from whom he has broken loose. This binding is by cords act without a purpose. We are here to be educated, in fulfil­ of love. The purpose of religion is two-fold. First, that ment of that purpose. Rut how can we be educated by ex­ men should be good; second, that they should give God the perience in this world with practical reference to another glory for their goodness. All religious symptoms that fail of altogether discrete from this and characterized by totally un­ this are deficient in the essential feature of true religion like conditions? It is impossible. Life in the world to come Nor is this rule established by an arbitrary arrangement on the part of God, but flows by an irresistible necessity from must be a continuation of sentient endowments and comple- the constitution of his nature and our own. It is the essence mentive of the mental development initiated here, lt must of love to wish to give something of its own to another. God be the natural sequel of physical experience, insomuch as to is Love, Perfect Love, Infinite Love. Therefore, it is his de­ be unattainable otherwise than through this porch of exist- sire to give of Himself to man. From this Divine desire ence. . man — was created . . at..... first that „ he might receive the Divine n the world of Hope could be reached by another route Love, appropriate it to himself, and hvlive by it as of himself ...... X . ■ * . ...I 'PL.. T A... .A ill A 1/lltA A 9 WAA/tnASS than that which man' seems bound to travel, it woukf be ! T h'5 L o v c's ,be love of. f nd. therefore, in propor- strange that we are here, that the material universe exists. l'° n as a man loses goodness, does he answer the purpose for and that we are made to incur the manifold evils incidentalntal to ) which he was created. The primary purpose of religion is to sublunary life. But when we distinguish mind from spirit,irit a as . , make .. man good ,, Selfishness , . . . is the opposite ,.P of good. Now.... Mr. Fiske does not; when we consider that mind is the In -, *° attribute to^sdf that whuh comes from G,xi is botn seI^nsh finite One; that all forms of mentality arc products of mind ; *nd tThc second purpose of religion, therefore, that every so-called finite mind is either an im press or «n in- niake man acknowledge that he owes all his goodness to God ip ira tio n of mind absolute, neither of which can obtain with- M ^ ancient religions are examined in the lightlight of this out a basis or receptacle, which of course must be distinct Srand truth, it will be seen how utterly deficient they areare, and from mind itself, and therefore not essential, but substantial t10* utter*y deficient they are, and how, while they vaguel) —not of essence, but of substance : then we begin to see that I» int wa> to,th* *]0lriT w consummation which was to mentality without an organism is impossible; that every soul come, they themselves fall far short of the true ideal. This must have a body (not necessarily material, since all animals principle will also form a test to which we can bring the va are not rational and moral, which indicates that human per ' r,ou? Christian sects with a new to ascertain how far they sonality depends upon something spiritual); and that bociies, ,*n ,^55°. ,nce T?1? 1 a tn,e r***^00- however ethereal,hereal, occupy space and can exist only in a world | **• JWhy ^ y is{• it c™called . the ?one nc. thingt*liaf needful, as ** thoqgh it of substantial realities. Such a world, as the future abode of ^ erc on*y °Pe- Clearly in the expression the one thing mankind, must correspond in many respects to that from lhere must be d etp meaning. Many things, therefore, are appreciation of its scenery as in effect of the uniformity of and *» one about whl» “ <>* u necesxity o< hfe, bul tk t ncccnily. I« w that and taste such as already characterize the spiritual constitu- » h,ch »'»nd* »u ?Is* ■“ **>*!*»«• The question that tioa of man. This is not sell evident, but a revelation ol » " « * , how*v*f; >» ooejthing needful, reason through a course of study quite extraneous to that of *• ^ ^ A la rm s? T h in g im L ift . There not king else materialistic thinkers, whose exit from the maze of scientistic ,h»lf »o much importance ; relieioo is man s chief concern speculation into the daylight of existence would subvert all I ** ba* 10 do w,lb bl* eternal welfare. The very life of the the conditions of Mr. Flake's hypothesis. (coimstw o> s » ; 232 SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST.

changed and transfigured into divers forms, as the poet re­ lates of Proteus, Pendemenus, Acheloas, and Merra, the daughter of Erisichthon; so also the companions of Ulysses OCCULT PHILOSOPHY. were transformed, and of old men who tasted of the entrails HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, of the sacrifices of Jupiter Lyczus were transformed into wolves, whkh Pliny says befell a man named Dewarchus. COUNSELLOR TO CHARLES FIFTH, (EllFRAOR OF GERMANY) Augustine was of the same opinion, and relates that while AND JUDGE OF THE PREROGATIVE COURTS. in Italy he heard of sromen that by giving sorceries in cheese N FUIW TW C this cokbratsd work ot Henry Cornelia* A rrip r* to the renders to travelers changed them to working cattle, and when they of the Sjan tad Scientist, 1 hardy think an apology would be tn good taste, yet froae the to p a - f i n of the work, the reader’ s anticipation mar fax exceed the ut- had enough work out of them, changed them to men again, I* e s t po—ibis realisation, as Agrippa distinctlv asserts in his own address. Magic as befell a Father called Preatantius. The Scriptures them ■ he S i A h a il am carries with it an o*«n»helming amount of drift wood, and * k he who can pews’rate the rubbiah and drink the clear waters of J r ® selves testify that Pharaoh's magicians turned their rods into The render___will be wise if he will fallow th* »H.v r at | Agrippw and the . of the bene at " — in Catherine honey (ran el! serpents, water into blood, etc. a of flowera 1. g o o i Uitb Ik , friend of «U lo .cn [ troth and lenyrree, B tD O H e SPIRITUALISM. C H A P . X L V . A son., o( article, re viral lor th. S p ir it u a l S c ib n t i. t from the S. E B een ., Of Cwllyrln. l'n,nonte. Loee tledlrlnei end Their Virtue*. oi Progress, 1867. o r e o v e r , collyria and unguents conveying the virtues of BY J. W. M. ■ thing* natural to our spirit, can multiply, transmute, M a n t h e r e be at / positive evidence of a continued exist transfigure and transform it accordingly, and also so trans­ ence beyond the grave, if it. be,— “ The undiscovered pose their own virtues into it, that it will act not only on its C country from whose bourne no traveler returns ? " Is there own body, but also bodies near it will be affected by the same any analogy in Nature to confirm our faith in immortality? quality by Invisible rays, charms, and by touch. For, as our spirit is the subtle, pure, lucid, tiry and unctuous vapor of We see no organism that carries its identity from one state the blood, so collyria must be made of similar vapors corre- of existence to another; the famous caterpillar argument, so sponding to our spirit in substance, this correspondence hav­ triumphantly referred to by Thomas Paine, as a proof that ing a greater tendency to incite, attract and transform the we m ay have a future existence, shows to what extremity the sprit. The virtues of the spirit have each their respec­ those are driven who try to pfbve immortality from Nature ; tive ointments and other confections. Hence, by the touch, for the caterpillar, in its progress to the butterfly state, passes sickness, poisonings and love is induced, when the hand, through no process of disorganization any more than the bird garment or other things have been anointed. Also by kiss when it breaks through its shell—any more than we do every es, some things being held in the mouth, induces love, as in day. Virgil, we read that Venus prays Cupid : Says Hudson Tuttle : “ I beg the grace. “ The atom which existed yesterday in the ear of corn, to­ But only for a night's ‘ evolving space, day becomes assimilated in the animal, to-morrow may be­ Thyself a boy, assume a boy's dissembled face ; come a part of man, and thereafter originates an idea, whkh, That when, amidst the fervor of the feast. incarnate, may overturn empires and states.” The Tyrian hugs and finds thereon her breast, Thus we are dying and being renewed every day ; and to Thou mayst infuse thy venom in her veins.” is everything around us till the day of dissolution arrives, Now because perception belongs more purely and clearly and then, so far as we can see, its identity passes away. And to the sight than other senses, impressing in us more acutely (if 1 may be pardoned for referring to the Bible), Job and deeply the images of things, it, more than all others, says: agrees with the phantasmal spirit, as is apparent in dream s,1 “ For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will ia which things seen are more often presented than things sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. . * » • • But man dieth and wasteth aw ay; heard, or anything coming under the other senses. yea, man giveth up.the ghost, and where is he ? " Therefore, when collyria transform visual spirits, that spirit We could not tell, unless man, yet retaining his conscious easily affects the issagination, which, indeed, being affected identity, should choose to reveal himself. with divers species and forms, transmits the same by the same spirit to the outward sense of sight, causing a percep­ Said Ckero: tion of such species and forms as if it were moved upon by “ Do you conceive him to have the least skill in natural philosophy who is capable of thinking anything to be ever external objects, so that there seems to be seen terrible im­ lasting that had a beginning ? For what can possibly ever ages and spirits, etc. have been put together whkh cannot be dissolved again ? Dr I know bow to make collyria from the gall of a man, and what is there that had a beginning which will not have an the syes of a black cat and other things, so that immediately en d?” there shall appear in the air or elsewhere, the images of spir­ The term “ eternal progression,” so often used, and more its. especially by Spiritualists, is, I think, a contradiction in The like is also made of the blood of a lapwing, a bat terms. Eternity cannot progress. Whatever is eternal is and a goat, and it is said that if a smooth piece of steel be already perfect. I believe the universe is perfect, because I smeared over with the juice of mugwort and made to fume, believe it eternal; that it has been eternally in motion and it will make iovocated spirits to be seen io it. There are also j evolution ; that everything is continually being formed and suffumugatioos or unguents which cause men to speak or transformed. Cycles, spiral progressions, transformations, walk in their sleep, aad to accomplish things which men transmigrations, resurrections, etc., are all phases of life, as awake cannot or dare not do. There are also some which it has been understood by the adherents of various theo­ cause us to hear horrid or sweet sounds, etc. This is the ries. reason why maniacs and melancholy men believe they sec And if so, we, as organic individuals, cannot miintain an aad hear external things when only their internal imagination everlasting consciousness of identity since the analogies of in affected ; hence, they arc afraid when there ia nothing to Nature declare that everything must dissolve, and be resolved be afraid of, aad fall into wonderful and most unfounded sus­ into its primary state, or into a reunion In more advanced picions, to fly when none pursueth, to be angry and fight organisms. , when no one ia present, and to fear when there Is no The astronomer, with his glass, penetrates the arcana of fear the heavens, and sees there worlds in every stage of being, Sach like passions can be induced by magical confections, from nebulous infancy to age and final disintegration by fire ; tuff emugat ions, collyria, nnguenla, potions, poisons, lamps, we see every organk form on thia earth living, yet perpetu lights, looking glasses, images, enchantments, charms, sounds ally dying, from birth to dissolution, and then, as the spiritual aad mask. Also by divers rites, observations, ceremonies, phenomena seem to teach, passing on to a higher state to religious aad superstitious, all of whkh will be treated in repeat the tame process. If the spirit life be analogous to their proper places. „ - earth life, and governed by similar laws, the time must come These kinds of arts, passions, apparitions end images are when all that we are, spiritually and physically, shall be re­ net only induced, but also things themselves are really solved again into nebluz. as the world Itself shall be. SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST. 233

This is not a pleating idea to those whose motives (or ac­ cal experiments during the past fifty years, prove indubitably, tion are based on a belief in the immortality of the soul; but , that there is an occult connection between all minds—a some- the true philosopher desires truth above all things, even I thing which mind can control, by which one mind can operate ii it should be at the expense of self and of every on another, and that, too, where miles intervene. Now, our hope. common sense tells us, that, in such cases, there must be be­ During the past twenty years, public attention has been tween the minds a connecting link as real, and material too, drawn to a class of phenomena, which seem to indicate that as the wire that conducts the electric spark, which conveys these forms of existence, beside that observed by our ordi­ our messages over land and through seas, from continent to nary senses, phenomena which haye startled many thinking continent- And the mind thus operating must be material, minds, roused many dormant intellects to thought and action ; | too; it may be as much more ethereal in its essence, to the cheered the sorrowing widow and orphan ; and bridged the medium through which it operates, as the lightning is to its chasm between the seen and the unseen—thus bringing into conductor, and yet be no less really material. What we per­ nearer and more perceptible contact the related loves of ceive going on around us, through the operation of the more heaven and earth. ethereal forces of Nature upon the cruder elements, enables To many, even a continued existence is ignored as un- us very readily to conceive of the materiality of spirit, and philosophical; phenomena upon which rest proof as trust­ its inherent power over the lower forms of matter. . Water worthy as that which has established geology, and the Coper- wears the rock ; air moves the water; heat and electricity nican system 'of astronomy, as sciences, is sneeringly called ! agitate the air; and so on, in the “ House-that-Jack-built ” humbug, trickery, illusion, etc., by many who have contented .style, our fancy can carry us through all the more ethereal themselves with sneering instead of investigating. For in­ ] forces, till we reach the prunum m oiilt; and what that may stance, take one of Mrs. ------’s seances. Will some be is beyond our present knowledge, and will, it is likely, re­ clear-headed gentleman, who believes Spiritualism to be based main so till we reach a condition of being that will place us on the trickery of legerdemain performers, constitute himself in more intimate relations with the elements and conditions a committee of investigation, and do the public a service by | of the higher states. exposing the modus optrandt f Can any of the professors of legerdemain, or all of them combined, produce a solitary A MISSOURI PRODIGY. rap—one of those mysterious raps which answer questions ? A MATHEMATICIAN OF THE MOST WONDERFUL CHARACTER. Is it not strange that celebrated professors should put them­ g r e a t d e a l has been said and written about the great selves at the tromble to contrive by machinery, etc., to imi­ mathematical prodigy, “ Keub.” Fields, who lives at tate what simple, uncultivated girls, raised in the backwoods, \Fayetteville, Mo., says the Warrensburg Democrat, and the can do without such aids ? And, after all, the former are but more that is known of him, the greater wonder he becomes imitations, teaching us to be more on our guard against pre­ He does not possess the simple rudiments of a book educa­ tended mediums, who think there is money in mediumship. tion—does not know a letter or figure from sight—and yet It is time that men who pride themselves upon their science, can solve the most intricate problem in an instant, or ca should condescend to examine phenomena which have en­ i perform a calculation in less than a minute that would re gaged the attention and enlisted the faith of millions. It is quire an hour by the ordinary modes. For instance: W too late in the day to put them off with a sneer; they still gave him the day of the month and the year of our birth remain stubborn facts “ that will not down at your bidding.” and he told, in less than half a minute, our age in ' _-iond To treat with indifference the consistent testimony of reliable minutes, days and years. Give him the day of the month and citisens—reliable in business transactions, in every other the year of any event, however remote, and he will instantly affair in life—is certainly very unfair, and reflects but little give the day of the week. credit upon the skeptic ; for it seems to me to require more credulity in rejecting such testimony than is required to re­ | We spent two hours with him last Saturday, and notwith­ ceive the silliest tale which has yet found birth in Spiritual­ standing we have often ulked with him and seen him display ism. his wonderful gifts, yet we always find something new in j him. Is it surprising that thinking minds have scouted the idea of the existence of spirits, when we consider the many curi­ We placed a column of figures upon a paper, equal in ous doctrines respecting them taught by theologians and length to the columns of an ordinary-siied ledger, and calltd metaphysicians ? They hold that God and all other spirit them off to him in rapid succession, and when the last num­ entities are immaterial, having nothing in common with mat­ ber was called, he gave the sum without a moment's hesita­ ter, time or space, and are therefore outside and independent tion. He did not see the paper, and would not have known a of all material or natural law ; thus they lay down most ac­ character on it if he had. One hour later he repeated those commodating premises for belief in marvelous stories of stu­ numbers in the exact order in which we called them to him pendous miracles. One of the old school gravely writes, We then began at the bottom, and would call two or three that a thousand angels could dance on the point of a needle numbers correctly, and then one incorrectly, and he woo 1 and yet hare plenty of room—which beats the animalcule correct us by giving the proper number. entirely out of sight, even with a microscope ; and he could More mysterious than this to us is the fact of his ability to have as readily and as truthfully said a million as a thousand, give correctly the time of the day or night whenever and illustrated the idea of nothingness or immateriality, called upon, without any reforence whatever to a time­ which he wished to convey, much better. To onr naturally piece. materialistic method of thought, no better definition of spirit, In this town the timepieces are all regulated by railroad or God, could be given, by which we would understand that or S t Louis time. If you ask “ Rcub.” the time, he wil neither existed, than that of immateriality, independent of say: “ I am 15 1-4 minutes past 1 ; if you have railroad time and space. Christianity having adopted this idea of time, you have so and so,” giving the exact difference be­ spirit nature, Christians are, as a matter of course, unbeliev­ tween sun time and railroad time. ers in spirit intercourse. Anothei remarkable fact is that be gives the exact t>me o *• How,” say they, “ can immaterial beings come in contact ! his locality. If he is in Washington City, he gives Wash­ with matter, and move it, and make sounds ? ” ington City time ; if in San Francisco, the time tbere. He Their belief in angelic beings is of such a vague, shadowy cannot possibly do these things by any method of calculating character, that, when substantial proofs of their existence, ihe passing time, for he will give time as accurately when through physical demonstration, are presented, they are more waked from sleep at night as if it were daylight and the sun than surprised. This seems astonishing, when we can read,. shining. in the Bible, of “ healthy ghosts,” that could eat veal pot-pie There seems to be nothing too great in numbers for his with Abraham and his wife, carry Habakkuk and Philip mind to grasp, and yet nothing too small, He can tell what through the air, and-roll away the stone from Jesus' sepul­ the Interest of one cent would be in three seconds at the chre. But then, as we have outlived the days of miracles, wc rate of to per cent, per annum as readily and as easily as should not expect these things now ! we could tell the interest on < 1 for one year at the same rate But the revelations obtained by mesmeric and paychologi- per cent. 234 SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST.

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ADVERTISING RATES. all suspicion of complicity,” without being “ snubbed ” Subscription*—TW SnsiTv a l S c i e n t i s t is published e v e r y Thursday by the editor of the Daily Graphic. A large number of b y the S c i e n t i s t P u ^ u s m i n g C o m p a n y , ta d c a n be obtained of any newsdealer ; or w ill be sent at the following rates ; “ clairvoyants” of “ wonderful power” advertise in S t e f l * Copy. On* Yesr, $2.6 0 ; Six Month*, $1.5 0 ; Thr** that paper ; they claim to have the power to “ see clear­ Month*. $1.00. ly ” in cases of this nature— why not test a few of them ? AdT*Ttl**m *nt*.— The S c i e n t i s t » a v e r y good medium f o r Advertise- m ents It has a Urge circulation ; it is preserved for binding, and the advertise­ A gen u in e clairvoyant could give the information re­ ment is ant lost to view amid a mass of others. Advertisements will be inserted at the following rates.— quired. v—-> Inside P*ff*, On* Squsr*. $1.00 first Insertion, and 80 eta. The Daily Graphic can explain a “ most surprising **ch subsequent insertion. Outside page, 20 eta. per line each insertion and inexplicable circumstance;’’ but a few people who POTTespondsnos. -Correspondents who write letters consisting o.* per* are familiar with all the circumstances in the case, have tonal ooinions arc requested not to make them more than a quarter j f a col­ umn in length. Letters confining important facts or interesting news may be already solved the mystery to their own satisfaction.

A il nnm nnairinw for the Editor, books for review. Ac., should be addremed E . G b x b y B bowa, Oftcc of the Spiritual Socntist, 18 Exchange Street, Boston, FRAUDS IN MEDIUMSHIP. Robert Cooper, Esq., of London, in a communication to the Medium and Daybreak, thinks “ the fraud that the Spiritual Scientist charges in mediumship is greatly exaggerated.” In the interest of Spiritualism we wish that it might be so, but, t<- be candid, we fear it has been V ol. IV . JULY* o, 1876. No. ic. under-estimated. The most intelligent investigators are having this truth forced upon them : that many phys­ “ SURPRISING AND INEXPLICABLE.” ical mediums will resort to trickery when the conditions The New York Graphic stands accused by the editor for the manifestation of spirit power are not favorable. of the Bannef of Light and a correspondent of the Why disguise or hide these unpalatable truths? There London Medium, of having obtained, through spirit is no pleasure in repeating them other than the satisfac­ agency, a fac-simile of a letter which it published recently tion of having performed a duty by calling attention to in connection with the professed exposure of Mrs. Anna facts that should receive careful attention. Mr. Cooper Eva Fay. The circumstances in the case are as follows : says that mediums “may be occasionally guilty of indis­ When Mrs. Fay was in Boston a statement was made cretion or even fraud admitting this, who shall say how that Mr. Crookes had expressed doubts of her medium- seldom or how often these frauds or indiscretions are ship. Mrs. Robert Cooper then wrote to Mr. Crookes committed? And if at all, ought not the friends and ad for his opinion >f her, and, in reply, received a letter tes­ herents of Spiritualism to seek for the cause of this tifying to her mediumistic powers. This letter Mr. anomaly? Cooper carried to the Banner of Light for publication, Mr. Cooper calls attention to and denounces another but as this paper was deeply prejudiced against her and j class of people, who advertise in the Boston Herald as had declared that she was not a medium, it took little or j clairvoyants and mediums. The editor of the London no notice of the endorsement of this authority. Medium says the “advertisers quoted above are not rec- Receiving the Daily Graphic one morning, we called ! ognized by Spiritualists or the Spiritual organshut Mr. Cooper's attention to a fac simile of Mr. Crookes' the fact is that some a re recognized by one of the Spiritual letter. Writing to the London Medium, he says . organs, at least, and an advertisement of one of the par­ Judge of my surprise at seeing a fac-simile of the letter in ties named is yet standing in the advertising department the New York Graphic a short time ago. It was published in connection with a professed exposure of Mrs. Far, and of the Banner of Light, and has figured in its editorial the object was to hold Mr. Crookes up to ridicule as the en­ columns. Furthermore, the advertisements in the secu­ dorser of each humbug. I inquired of the editor of the Ban­ lar press are calculated to deceive the public, and many ner whether he had supplied the Graphic people with the original letter, and be answered me he had not, and said, to are attracted to these places by a desire to investigate the best of bis belief, it had never left his office. Various Spiritualism. explanations have been offered. Some think it must have The mission of the Spiritual Scientist is to repudiate been surreptitiously taken from the office, but, as it is a pri­ vate office, and the doors are kept locked, there must be con- all but genuine mediums, and to educate investigators to siderable difficulty in its abstraction; others think Mr. those exact and scientific methods of investigation that Crookes must have supplied a copy, which, of course, is'very will enable them to detect and expose the imposters. improbable ; while others suggest spirit-agency as the means by which it was effected, and, in, a communication, a gentle­ Mr. Cooper is undoubtedly sincere in his position, and man informs me that “ he has twice seen documents dupli­ disposed to do justice to the Scientist, for he says, “of cated before his eyes, in paper, writing and print.” Thus the the honesty of its motives I have no doubt. A good matter stands, sad your readers must take their choice. The affair is still shrouded in mystery, and likely so to remain. purpose will have been answered by its strictures, if it j makes mediums more careful and investigators more On the same subject, the Banner of Light says edito- | discriminating." rta lly ; Concerning the letter of Prof. Crookes, we would say, AN INCONSISTENCY. pamtheticaliv, that though we had the original from the hands of Robert Cooper, to whom it was addressed, and If it can be clearly proved that Miss (or Mrs.) Fay has though it bas never left our office from the time of its first made use of jugglery while she has claimed the sacred gift reception to the present moment, a verbatim transcript of it, of mediumship, and ascribed her deceptions to the same, in Prof. Croakeri handwriting was printed by the new pro­ then we shall, as far as she is concerned, add our endorse­ cess in the New York Graphic, in connection with Bishop’s ment to the action of the Judge above referred to.—Banner of alleged exposure of her seances, and when we (also Mr. L ig h t. Cooaer) wrote to the editor of that journal, asking whence When it was clearly proved that Mrs. Hardy “ had the letter was obtained, in order that we might be freed from made use of jugglery while she claimed the sacred gift of aD suspicion of complicity, that functionary refused to notice our application in the smallest degree. This is, to us, a most mediumship,” the persons preferring the eharges were surprising and inexplicable circumstance. denounced as “ would be exposers a test seance in a It is remarkable that neither of the two mediums em­ defective box was pronounced a crucial test, and Mrs. ployed by the Banner of Light, who are in communion Hardy was declared to be vindicated. Why not treat with the “ band of spirits that direct the paper,” can Mrs. Fay in the same manner ? Why not defend Mrs. give any explanation of this ** surprising andjnexplica- Fay as a medium until she is proved to be a juggler, in ble circumstance,” in order that it "might be freed from accordance with the proposition so often advanced in SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST. 235 the Banner columns—“ that all mediums should be con­ [CONOKUSD rKOM FACS 232. J sidered honest until proved to be impostors ? ” soul depends upon it. As spiritual things precede temporal things, so religion must precede aU else which belongs to the It would be quite interesting to know what the Banner human mind. would consider a clear proof that a medium had made 2. It influences a ll the Rest.—Everything in life takes its use of jugglery. In some cases it needs very little evi­ coloring from religion. Having to do with the spirit, it is dence, for its prejudice decides the question. It said, largely a cause of which much else in life must be viewed as the effect It influences largely the a thoughts, h the words, editorially, last week: c the actions. When Miss (or Mrs.) Fay was in Boston we did not attend 111. The sense in which religion is essential to humanity.— any of her sittings, because we have in the past had a suffi-. At one time, perhaps, this question might have been consid­ cient experience with H. Melville Fay, with whom she is ered superfluous, but it is clearly not so at the present time. associated. Doubt first arose respecting the rationality of religious doc­ trines, then their authority was questioned, oow their effects This admission is a confession in which a prejudice is j are discussed. The question, therefore, in what sense re­ manifested that is clearly unjust to Mrs. Fay. The slur | ligion is needful to humanity is a very important one. of the “ Miss (or Mrs.) ” is ludicrous coming from this ! t. Religion is a Need of Man's Spiritual Nature.—We have spiritual capacities that must be cultivated. The spir­ quarter. The critics and maligners who are so itual nature of man requires food, just as certainly as does busy in a fruitless attempt to undermine and crush the his material frame. This food is only to be found in religion, Spiritual Scientist, will have to wait many a week before because only by religion can both sides of the spiritual na­ ture be satisfied. Truth satisfies the reason, but not the af­ they detect it manifesting a prejudice either for or fections. They must be influenced by love. The religious against a medium. It makes no difference whether the nature of man will sicken if not fed on spiritual things. All medium is Mrs. Hardy or a near relation—we have a systems are false which do not recognize this fact Man is essentially a religious being. In all ages and at all times fixed policy for all cases. We know there is such a thing religions have existed. And these, although frequently mixed as genuine mediumship, and we know that there are with error, were all based upon great truths. Everywhere the genuine mediums—else the Spiritual Scientist would not human soul has aspired after God, as its Father, and Heaven as its home. Atheism never did and never can become gen­ continue in existence twenty-four hours. The time will 1 eral, because it contradicts man’s noblest instincts. The come when Spiritualists will discover which journal is most degrading religious systems will always be preferred be­ the most faithful, the most honest and the most impartial fore Atheism, because man has a religious nature. 2. Religion is necessary fo r a Basts of Morals, and there­ exponent of Spiritualism in America. fore for the proper Government of Society.—There is no true ethical code to be discovered outside of religion. In modern EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. times there appears to be a tendency to accept for a moral guide the so-called Utilitarianism of Bentham, elaborated by A RIVAL of Blind Tom has been found at Blount Springs, J. Stuart Mill, which proclaims the greatest happiness of the Ala., in the person of James Harden, a colored boy from greatest number, and judges of the morality of an act by its Baltimore. He plays the guitar and sings the most difficult tendency to promote this end. This principle is absurd, be­ music exceptionally well, and is also something of a com­ cause it tests the morality of an act by its results, which can­ poser. He has received no instruction, and the secular press not be seen until after the act has been performed. Nor are m speaking of him says, “ he is most emphatically a born the other human guides in morals more satisfactory. They musician.” cannot lead one into the path where virtue, peace and honor W. F. P ec k, who claims to be a medium for mateiializa- ■ lie, for they know it not. Religion which the Infinite Father tions is denounced by a correspondent ot the Santa Barbara sent down from Heaven can atone meet the moral state of (Cal.) Index as an impostor. Peck has been in Santa Barbara man. Study the pages of human philosophy until you be­ and the neighboring cities for the past few months and finally come bewildered in its mazes, and see what you can learn on a committee proposed to furnish the cabinet and a pair of i this question. There is much talk about principle and honor, handcuffs, but Peck refused to sit under these conditions. but the moral laws are vague and most unsatisfactory. Man This action on his part taken in connection with many other is sinful; that fact must not be overlooked. The question is, suspicious circumstances provoked the letter which charges how to be raised out of himself. No philosophy can accom­ him with fraud. plish this. It can be done by religion and by it alone. 3. Religion is necessary to Human Happiness.—This is a bold assertion, but it is nevertheless true. Tnere is no basis for B a l d w i n a d v e r t i s e d in San Francisco that h e would, in a public hall, perform every feat that any spiritualist medium happiness if you take away God. Wealth, power, fame, and did. Schimmons attended, went on the stage, and announced all else that pertain to earth may pass away ; and even where that he would eat ten grains of stry chnine, trusting to spirits they do not, there is the fear that they may. Sorrow comes to prevent the poison from harming him, if Baldwin would to all. How is it to be borne? To teach this lesson was the swallow a similar dose. Baldwin declined. It is b.lieved great aim of ancient philosophy. It was most nearly accom­ that Schimmons is so firm a spiritualist that he believed that plished in Stoicism ; but how miserable and poor is Stoicism spirits would really aid him. when compared with Christianity. In order to understand clearly the effect of Christ's religion on the mind, witness its operation in trouble, affliction, poverty, persecution, Ac. N othing i s more easy than to grow rich. It is only to trust nobody—to befnend none—to get everything, and save There is always hope where there is faith in God. Without all we get—to stint ourselves and everybody belonging to us— God there is no ground for hope. Permission may be true to be the friend of no man, and have no man for our friend— and evil eternal. In human life religion shines like the sun, to heap interest upon interest, cent upon cent—to be mean, shedding its glory around, and dispelling the darkest of miserable and despised, for some twenty or thirty years—and clouds. Then in death, what avails all else. Here is an riches will come as sure as disease and disappointment. And enemy which neither science nor philosophy can grapple with; when pretty nearly enough wealth is collected by a disregard but even he has been conquered by ChnsL "Come,” said of all the charities of the human heart, and at the expense Adddison, "and see how a Christian can die.” of every enjoyment, save that of wallowing in filthy mean­ 4. Religion is indispensable as a Preparation fo r the Here­ ness—death comes to finish the work—the body is buried in a fte r.—The future life is frequently denied nowadays, but it a hole, the heirs dance over it, and the spirit goes—where? is a fact nevertheless. Each one must reap in the future what he has sown in the present. The fact is involved in the na­ ture of things. There can be no preparation for the future W e k n o w of no Spiritualist who fears death bodily; we know of none but what fear the moral death in which, alas! life but by the aid of religion. We hear men talk about tak­ too many souls are found to-day; we know of none but whose ing a leap in the dark, but assuredly this is not wise. The conscience is as a searching fire continually finding out the future life has been revealed, and this much respecting it, is dark corners and places of the mind, and quickened with the certain that our condition there will be what we make it by ever present vigilance and ever-watchful life of the angel our conduct here. The importance of religion, then, is be­ world, consuming all that is unworthy and full of dross. We yond all dispute. It is the best both for this world and for know of no true Spiritualist who does not desire that the that which is to come. Christ's religion is very simple, and angel world shall gate all the time into their souls that are yet all-sufficient. aspiring to a higher and better life. They fail—every one “ Live while you live, the epicure would say. fails—no one achieves what they hope or expect to; but it is And seize the pleasure of the present day; something to try, and by earnest trial all the time, and by Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries. turning the face steadily toward the light, it cannot be but And give to God each moment as it flies. that aloftier purpose and grander excellence will be attained Lord, in my view let both united be 1 in life.— L . V. Tappan. I live in pleasure while 1 live in Thee." 236 SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST.

TESTING PHYSICAL MEDIUMS. they deceived Mr. Robert Dale Owen by means of a tricky x p e r i e n c e has proved that so far as physical manifesta­ cabinet containing a sliding board, about which Mr. Nelson tion* observed at M a n e ts are concerned, it is necessary to Holmes spoke in his private letters to Mrs. White, how much Eobtain them under very strict test conditions whenever it ismore doubtful must have been those alleged manifestations intended to publish the facts. In private circlet this may not which took place when they used a bedroom. In private, be necessary, and in many cases is not desirable. physical mediums may use bedrooms as cabinets as much as Ropes, tapes, and strings have been used for the securing they please, but so far as the public are concerned their best of mediums inside cabinets in such a way that they cannot manifestations under these conditions will carry no weight move. Tying by means of rope should be abolished alto­ whatever, and all the time and work of the spirits and the gether, because rope is usually stiff, and if it be tied about a mediums will be lost. The more experienced English Spirit­ medium to as to bind him in a secure manner, he must al­ ualists have thoroughly made up their minds not to attach most of necessity be hurt by the knots pressing into his flesh. any particular public weight to alleged materialization mani­ Any ordinary tying by means of rope is not secure, for ex­ festations produced in other than properly constructed cabi­ periment has proved that it is not so difficult to slip out of nets. Professional mediums need put themselves to no great rope bonds as might be expected. Tying by means of strong expense in the matter, since the best cabinet of all consists thread is theoretically a secure method of testing, but at the of a cloth nailed diagonally across one corner of a drawing­ dote of the s t a n c t , when everybody is usually in a hurry to room; thus they can have a triangular cabinet easily examined, leave, h is not easy to tell whether the threads have been for it will consist but of curtains hanging in front, with two cut, or otherwise tampered with, for they hang together in a solid brick walls behind. tangled skein when severed from the medium, and it requires Manifestations are most powerful when the medium is some time and patient examination to ascertain whether they thoroughly comfortable and happy; hence there is a tendency are all right Practically and theoretically, narrow red tape is on the part of half-informed novices to advocate the abolition about the best thing to use in binding the hands, feet, and of all test conditions, and they truly obtain advanced mani­ body of a medium. Sound knots can then be tied close to festations in consequence. But it is not true, as we once the skin so that the medium cmnot possibly slip his hand out thought and argued in these pages, that when a small, upright, of a loop round the wrist, and at the same t:me the said loop honorable circle of believers surrounds a physical medium, and knot need not be dose enough to hurt him. When the no evil thing can enter such a spiritual atmospl.ere. Unpro­ stanct is over, supposing the tape to have been severed any­ gressed spirits will even then sometimes find their way in, and where while he was in the cabinet, the circumstance will be at by means of spirit hands and arms impose upon the best once noticed by the spectators, although a cut thread might friends of the medium, at one end of the room, by producing escape observation. There is this danger in the use of tape. that which is not what they state it to be, and all the time the Every now and then a skein, as bought at the shop, will have medium may be in a dead trance at the other end of the a sewed-joint its it to complete the length, one piece of tape apartment. It is also a strange fact that if a physical medium being thus neatly fastened to another; if this should be dis­ resolves to play tricks, there are spirits who will help him. Perhaps in some cases which superficially appear to be of this covered at the dose of a test s t a t ic * , instead of before, the medium might be unjustly blamed for playing tricks. Mr. nature, the spirits produce half the manifestations by their Luxmoore, who in the Katie King manifestations brought the own direct action, and the other half through their insensible securing of mediums by means of tape to great perfection, instrument, who, however, has to take all the responsibility. one night discovered as he was fastening a length of tape It is quite possible that a spirit, in making the “double” of a round the waist of the medium, that there was a sewed joint medium's hand by will-power, may not know at first whether in k. Supposing this had been discovered for the first time, he is moving the actual hand of the medium, or the independ­ ent band he intends to take from it. These problems are at the dote of the s t a t ic t , how very much public contention difficult to solve, and while, on the other hand, they call for might have arisen on the subject, to the detriment of the all kindness and charity to the medium, on the other they de­ medium. The most secure thing of all for the binding of mediums is whip-cord, well covered with cobbler’s wax. mand vigilance of observation when publicity is intended. Double knots tied in well waxed whipcord cannot be undone Ladies and gentlemen of honor and character are nobly bear­ without much difficulty. In all cases the knots should be ing public witness to the truth of Spiritualism, and it is nec­ essary that they and their testimony should be protected from sealed with signet rings, and the seal should be put on in such a way that no accidental strain upon the tape or knots will the baneful effects of the tricks of unprincipled spirits, and of the spiteful jealousy of each other of certain physical brsak the anal. mediums. The spirits who produce materialisation manifestations are for the most part, tricky, they are able to produce genuine a n i e l G . T h o m p s o n well says in the IJhtral Christian- materialisation manifestations if they like. They are also D A great mistake is this identification of theology with able to liberate the medium from bonds in the twinkling of an personal piety. True, a sound theology is an excellent prepa eye, make him act the ghost, and pet him back again at the ration for, and aid in, the spiritual life; but such theology dene of the s t a t u t . Materialisation mediums, then, should must b* apprehended as sound by the individual who is to for their own sakes refuse to sit for manifestations unless receive it; and unless there be allowed that previous question­ they have first been most securely tied and sealed, not by a ing which doubts that it may know and believe, an intelligent personal friend, but by the greatest stranger present in the apprehension is not reached, and no secure basis for the company. Afterwards they cannot well be held responsible spiritual life is laid. A mere ip st-d ix it promulgation of dogma for any thing which takes place, because if the spirits should is utterly valueless except ax the why and the wherefore are exhibit their bodies as materialised spirit forms, the circum­ comprehended. It is not a conclusive argument for an al­ stance of their being found tied at the close of the stanct the leged truth, but only a presumption in its favor, that men in same aa they were at the beginning, will prove that they have years past have supported it. Such evidence is ohly corrob­ bma merely instruments in the hands of a power beyood orative, and can never satisfy the thoughtful mind. The mind their awn oontroL If, however, a medium who had not been must first see the truth, then the argument of antiquity or universality may be applied with force. Discouragement of secured at the beginning of a stanct should be found acting inquiry leads to a suppressed, dwarfed spirituality, palsied and the part of a materialired spirit, the public will naturally deprived of half its power by the feeling that it must accept rnongh charge him with imposture, and listen to no other ex- statements which are not believed, because to question them plaaatiooi eves his irlends will be wholly unable to decide would be sin. God has given to each soul the right to elect whether the charge is a jest one or the reverse. between truth and error, wherever the opportunity of choice is presented. But that it may choose, it must know the true The facts of materialization are of too much importance to from the false, and it cannot determine except by the aid of rest opoo doubtful evidence to far as publication is con­ those faculties of intelligence with which man is provided, to cerned ; hence experienced Spiritualists in this country will be used for just such a purpose. never commit themselves to publicly recognize as genuine any falMoraa manifestations which may be witnessed on the To b e a S piritualist i s t o h o l d c o n s c i o u s i n t e r ­ premises of the aaedimu, in which aa ordinary room is used c o u r s e WITH THE WORLD OP SPIRITS AND TO LIVE A as a cabinet The Helmses' were powerful mediums, yet as SPIRITUAL LITE. SUCH WAS JESUS CHRIST.— F t t h l t S , SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST. 237

T H E FUTURE OF SPIRITUALISM. For some years we have been on our watch-tower, looking (Extract Iron the “ Diving Afflatu*,— a Force in History,” published by the and praying for an influx of living goodness to visit humanity; United Society oi Shirley, Mass). and desire that our loved friends everywhere, who have been hen this mighty movement, Spiritualism, has done its ministered to of divine things, would be with us as one heart W work, and the rising generation somewhat prepared to in this matter; and also pray for those who are without, and receive a divine call, there are grounds of hope that the fourth that this republic may be purged from the counsels and com­ wave of the divine alfiatus will begin to operate; purifying binations of ungodly men, and from all things contrary to ab­ and exalting individual, social, and political action ; elevating solute justice, and be, in peace and otherwise, a model (ov the men and women into an integrity as stern as the Covenanters, nations. and more peacefully divine that the Quaker ever attained to, In conclusion, we freely state that the object of our insti­ and in whom divine light will be radiant in good works. tutions is to gather into one fold all who have risen above tl e The first wave brought forth the Quaker, the Puritan, the power of their propensities, and to develop the higher life in Huguenot, and the Covenanter. The Quaker, spiritually im­ man. " . pressed, and true to inward light, would not take off his hat Man, as already stated, is dual in his nature ; and when he to noble, prince, or king. That was the first “ Declaration ascends from the lower, the procreative life, into the higher, that all men are equal” before God. The Puritan, driven then he becomes the subject of the law of the spirit of the from his home, founded the great republic, coalesced with the diyine life: and not only brings into subjection the propensi­ Quaker: and from the Quaker City went forth the law, the ties, but crucifies the life from whence they come. As the second “ Declaration, All men are equal before each other.” inferior life dies, he can rise with Christ, and have life in him­ The Covenanter gave the common school without which re­ self, as he had. publics are anarchies. The Puritan and the Quaker abolished The mode of operation by which the divine life is attained, human vassalage; or, rather, a series of remarkable events we open to the simple ; having learned it is not well to despise during the great Rebellion aided their action, and accom­ the day of small things. plished that work, and more than was expected. That was I. Give an account of the deeds done in the body. Con­ the third “ Declaration, All men are equal before each other fess your sins, one by one, to those who in the life of Christ and before the law.” do stand. The work of the Puritan and the Quaker is now closed : I. Take up a full cross against the power within, which the end has come! The fourth “ Declaration—All men are leads to sin. equal before God, btfore men, before the law, and have equal J. Right every wrong, and consecrate your all to God. access to all the elements by which property is created and 4. The pomp and fashion of earth's vain shows forego, and physical happiness secured —they are not able to accomplish. with all its hates, and wars, and strifes. Because they and their religions are bound up together, hand J. Live lovingly together, seek no worldly gain, but freely and foot, and prostrate before the god of this world. “ The give of all the good you gather, ac cording to their needs, to love o f self at the expense o f the neighbor.” all who in Pentecostal order stand. Legislatures are bought; legalized robbers possess the pub­ Then a heavenly Mother and Father’s love shall you in- lic laods: individuals and rings, in the face of law and public twine, and from off the altar of your inner life, peace, and sentiment, take to themselves millions of the public money. good will to man, even as incense, shall to the higher spheres Millionaires are in every mart; at will they change the value ascend; and heaven above and heaven below shall thus unite of other men's labor, and tax the consumer, as the monarchs and blend. of Europe tax their subjects. The churches what are they? Painted harlots! They embrace within the folds of their MANIFESTATIONS UNDER TEST CONDITIONS. drapery all the abominations of social, individual, and political nother of the seances held under the auspices of the life. They are utterly powerless to infuse into society any A British National Association is reoorted in the London living elevating element. Spiritualist, from which we extract the following :— From the standpoint of our experience as a people, and The medium. Miss Lottie Fowler, was carefully sewn up in from a knowledge of the past, we feel that an influx of the the green calico bog, her arms being confined behind her divine afflatus is needed now ,—a power which will touch the back by stitches, and then tied with tape as on previous occa­ hearts of millions, and lift them above the demands of their sions. She was then placed in the bag, which was sewn round mere animal instincts, creating them to be a power for good, her neck, and tied to the chair with knots of special tightness, for the present and for future generations. An influx touch­ allowing very slight forward and lateral motion of the medi­ ing andexalting the divine element in trst, causing revivals um’s head, and- no motion whatever of the hands inside the that arrest the sinner in his paths, and imparts to the moral bag. After a short interval a white hand showing fingers atmosphere a healthy integrity, shedding influences down capaljjc of free motion and prehension, was shewn at the through the ages, as past influxes of divine goodness have crevice of the curtains above the level of Miss Fowler's head. done. That there will be such influxes in the future there is Another hand of darker color was shown in the lap of the not the least thing on which to predicate a doubt. At the medium, attempting to pick up a ring and bell which had been present moment the spiritual horizon of the earth-sphere is placed there. Motion of objects then took place inside the illuminated from above. Cavillers, doubters, and investigat­ cabinet; the tambourine, bells, and table were forcibly agi­ ors are either coafounded or converted, while many stand tated, and on two occasions the bell was thrown sot from a ready to be touched with Pentecostal fire. I feel assured, level lower than Miss Fowler’s bead. The tambourine was thatf on the approach of even a slight degree of divine then placed on her lao, and it was seen to be slosrly lifted up warmth, godlike organizations will begin to appear. in a horizontal direction (by a force acting under and within And when the meridian splendor of divine goodness goes the bag) to about six inches from her knees, and appeared to forth in its power, there will be heavenly organizations on the be suspended in the air for a second, when it fell abrupdy one hand, and hellish commctions on the other, of a most With Miss Fowler's consent Mr. Blake then entered the cab­ extraordinary character. So deep and widespread will be the inet, and having ascertained the position of her face, placed divine movement and auxiliary forces, that even modern civ­ his hands on her head, when the same phenomena were e x ­ ilization will stagger and give way, and many of the strong­ hibited by the tambourine as above described. He saw and holds of Satau, which have afflicted humanity (or ages, will felt nothing abnormal in the cabinet, and the medium, who at be levelled in the dust. But even if there were not a cloud other times had been very convulsive and impatient, was per­ the s:ze of a man's hand to be seen, indicative of coming fectly quiescent. Mr. Vernon then eattred the cabinet, when events, the existence of our institutions, organically divine, the same motion of the tambourine eras repeated. Leaving and of a republic now free from the grosser form of human the cabinet, it was announced that a tangible hand would be vassalage, are prophecies that God will again and again visit allowed to be felt through the curtain. The members of Ike the inhabitants of earth with revirala of creative power; circle, then approaching the curtain, fell severally the grasp bringing forth forma of social life in his own likeness, and of a rijht hand, with distinct fingers and thuas, the baize cur cansc the loved republic to bud, blossom, and fill the whole tain intervening between this hand and their owe. The hand earth with its fragrance and with its fruits. appeared larger than that of Miss Fowler, aad the force wfch 238 SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST.

which the finger* o( the spectators were grasped appeared casionally looking back with furtive glances of terror. When greater. A handkerchief was then placed at the crevice of I bad proceeded about twenty or thirty yards, 1 observed the curtains by a lady, and taken into ths cabinet, by a force that the action of its hind quarters was that of a dog receiv­ acting as before, from above Miss Fowler’s head. ing a severe kick from behind. This at once enchained my The Js f i .r was the first at which the door of the room was attention, and on looking quickly around I saw no person kept wide open (with a view to ventilation) throughout the near me from whom the cause of this movement could have evening. Ingress of any person was rendered impossible proceeded. 1 watched closely thereafter its every motion. by one of the circle sitting near the door, and keeping watch. On proceeding a little farther, on the left hand, there was an With Mr. Egiinton as medium at another seance, the tests open carriage-way leading to a comfortable-looking, bnt rather imposed were exceedingly stringent, and the stance was not a old-fashioned, mansion. This seeming dog turned up this successful one. A pair of black gloves were put upon the gateway. 1 quickened my pace, and never lost sight of it. medium’s hands, and sewn together at the wrists; his coat The heuse stood thirty or forty yards from the entrance, and sleeves irere then sewn to his knees, and a tape which was as I had reached half-way to the house I observed the dog fastened round his wrists was held by a gentleman in the leap down a sunken basement window. At the risk of its circle. Mr. Egliolon was fastened to his chair with tapes, being considered obtrusive, I walked straight up to the win­ and placed behind the curtains. dow, and there was no dog there! An incarnate dog could The desire of the sitters was that, under these circum­ not have left the place except by leaping back, because the stances, a white hand should appear at the aperture of the basement windows wer built between the hight of the front curtain. Attempts were made to show something, but only level, and the lower windows wer? all stanchioned. I follow­ one or two near the cabinet, in particular Dr. Carter Blake, ed the thing so quickly and closely that I could not for a mo could discern the form of a hand, which he describes as ment doubt my senses; which, coupled with the seeming / - S t ------. IOI10W1 .— chastisement from an unseen power, gave me no hesitation in When told to look in the cabinet, I saw an indisti net object, believing that I was protected from some malign influence, at s higher level than Mr. Eglinton's head. This body was and that by an unseen but watchufl guardian. more like s hand with moving fingers than anything else with My convtction of that at the time was complete, and will which I can compare it saw Mr. Eglinton’s head after­ 1 never be forgotten. Knowing how incredible such a state wards. C. C a rter B l a k e . ment would appear, I never mentioned the circumstance to The controlling spirit pronounced the sitting a failure, and my nearest friend, and whether the term hallucination be attributed it to the preponderance of sceptical element, there awarded as the solution of the narrative, it matters not, it may being by accident more strangers than usual present that induce others to come forward with similar episodes of life. evening. When thr chief portion of the company had left, the re­ THE SPIRITUAL PRESS. mainder agreed to hold a little dark sitting. The manifesta­ The Revue Spirite of Paris publishes the following list of tions which occurred were powerful and striking. Dr. Blake periodicals which recently appeared the Message! de Liege has furnished the following testimony:— —Germany, Psychic Studies; Austria, Reflexionen aus der During the dark stance I held Mr. Eglinton’s right and Mr. Geisterrvelt; Belgium, Le Messager and De Rots ; France, Colman’s left hand. Mr. Egiinton thrice rose from his chair, Revue Spirite and Fraternite Spirite et Litteraire; Italy, pulling my left arm to its extent; I had then to rise from my Annali dello Spiritismo and La Salute ; England, Th e Spirit­ chair, when his feet were placed on my shoulders in a vertical ualist, Spiritual Magazine, Human Nature, and The Medium position to the axis of his body; and subsequently, in a hori­ and Daybreak ; Spain, El Criterio Espiritista, Revista Espir- zontal position, with the boot soles against my face. He then -itista, El Espiritismo, La Revelacion, La Fraternidad, and El disappeared to my left and behind me. M r. Colman was then brought into collision with a moving object, which I conjec­ Buen Sentidq; Turkey, l’Echo d’ Orient; Egypt, LaVerite-, ture to have been Mr. Colman’s feet, which forcibly struck Australia, The Harbinger of Light; United States, The Ban­ against my right side and back, under the scapula, and which ner of Light, The Spiritual Scientist j The Spiritualist at produced severe pain for twenty-four hours afterwards. My Work, The Little Bouquet, American Spiritual Magazine, lace was touched by hands of three several descriptions, one Religio-Philosophical Journal, The Philadelphia Sun and The of which was like that of a young lady or girl. Dagslyset; Mexico, La lllustracion Espiritista, La Luz en C. C B l a k e . Mejico, La Ley de Amor; Cuba, La Luz de Ultratumba; > Captain James also received some very hard knocks, which Brazil, Revista Espiritista and Echo de Alem Tumulo ; Uru­ be said were given by a hand. After the glass shades had guay, Revista Espiritista; Peru, El Espiritismo j^Chili, El been unscrewed from the gaselier, and placed upon the small Espiritista; in all, thirty-eight journals and reviews. table at which we were sitting, and both mediums had de­ The Philadelphia Sun and The Dagslyset we never see or scended from their aerial flight in opposite corners of the hear of. [E d. S piritu a l S c ie n t is t .] room (one being deposited in the cabinet) the seance was con­ cluded, far more than is here related having occurred within PHENOMENA IN SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. the space of fifteen or sixteen minutes. The San Francisco Figaro says:— The materialization seances, held in the open light, under the marvelous medium SPECTRES OF ANIMALS. ship of Mrs. C. M. Sawyer, are the most wonderful exhibi­ A correspondent of the London Spiritualist saysA tions of Spiritual manifestations ever given in this city. Not letter from Prince Wittgensiein appeared in your journal only Spiritual hands and arms are materialized, but Spiritual last mouth, containing a singularly interesting account of faces of friends or relatives known in life, as to be nearly al­ spectres of dogs and other animals, and I am sure that those ways recognized, called by name and of the identity acknowl edged, facts and dates, names and innumerable other tests, cases related by the Prince's personal acquaintances will are given to prove the truth of the manifestations, and the doubtless obtain a ready credence, sufficient to rescue them truth of the Spiritual theory of the future state of existence irons the realm of superstition; further 1 trust that his able The doubtful, the skeptical, and the general public are ear­ paper may have the effect of inducing others to come forward nestly invited to investigate the phenomena for themselves. with their experiences on the same subject, who, like rayrelf —until the matter was taken up by abler hands—would have T he D aw ning Light, that beautiful Steel Plate Engrav ing, representing the Birthplace of Modern Spiritualism, is shrank from the obloquy incidental to every new phase of mailed postage tree for one dollar, former price two dollars psychological phenomena. India tinted impressions, former price two dollars and fifty The fallowing case came under my own immediate notice. cents, will be used in filling one dollar orders for fifteen to Sows tea years ago, while resident in Manchester, I was re- thirty davs, till the edition is exhausted. Address the pub turning towards Upper Brook-street, after the Sunday morn Ushers, A. H. Curran A C o , z8 School St., Boston.—Actv. lag’s service, walking slowly and la rather a meditative mood. Mr. Daniel F , Beatty, of Washington, N. J , is constantly I waa jast coming to the end of s meadow pathway, before in receipt of the most flattering testimony from all parts of catering the main road, when I observed, at about fifteen the United States and Canada, as to the beauty and excel­ yard’s distance, a hideously ugly dog, looking intently at me. lence of his pianos add organs. Send for catalogue and list It seemed at the largest bulldog species, dark, and grizzly as of testimonials. Address Daniel F. 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