153 Vol 10 8214 1 Jan 1856 to 8981 15 Sept 1856 B # 38 & 156 Asheler on the Metaphysical of [ ] Philos THE C R Y S T A L Vol. X 1st Jan. 1856 to 15th Sept. 1856 Evenings with the Indwellers of the S P I R I T W O R L D . Croydon Fred Hockley 1856 Bequest of Harry Houdini April 1927 "Beloved, believe not every Spirit, but try the Spirits whether they are of GOD, because many false prophets are gone out into the World. Hereby know ye the Spirit of GOD, every Spirit b that confesseth b that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of GOD. and every Spirit c that confesseth not d [that] Jesus c [Christ is come in the Flesh] is not of GOD. 1 John III.v 1.2.3. 1 st Jan. of 1856 ------------------------------ 21 Sept. 1882 New Test_Revised Version a "prove" b which c which d e f expunged Croydon. Frederick Hockley Exorcist Emma Louisa Leigh Speculatrix Croydon. 1st Jan 1856 "Where there is life, there also is Spirit In all things created there is life Therefore in all things their exists Spirit" The CA [symbol] 1 Jan. 1856. 7h:15 PM C. A Mirror Invoked the C A The CA is here in white, purple robe, crown, wings as usual. May I request you to continue this Evening your much valued communication contained in your Treatise on Metaphysical & Spiritual philosophy 2170 I will do so 8214 Have you any questions first I have not. &c. 2171 8215 The book will appear now when you have finished one page You must speak and it will turn over. When you have read sufficient I will appear again. 27' to 8. Now the CA's going + the book's come. the CA's gone and the book has opened. Emma commenced reading the Cont.n of page 2. 2172 8216 "And what a perfect spiritual life there exists in Every man &c. down to palliates the offence" This being the bottom of the page. I requested to read page 3. And the leaf appeared to turn of itself slowly over.— this was repeated to pages 299 Vividenborgo. H&H. It hath also been given me to know whence man derives, anxiety, grief of mind, melancholy, there are spirits who are not as yet in conjunction with Hell, because as yet they are in their first state -- There spirits love things indigested and maligning such as one those of filthy meals in the stomach. Wherefore they are present when they can find rich things appealing to man, because those things are delightful to them, and they their discourse with each other from their own evil affection. The affections of their discourse flows - in thence with man - which affection if it be contrary to the mans affection excites melancholy, sadness, and anxiety - but if it be agreeable to the mans affection it excites in him gladness and cheerfulness. -- These spirits appear near the stomach some to the right, some to the left -- nearer their remote -- that hence arises anxiety of mind from cosined of from much experience - I have seen them, have heard them, have been sensible of anxieties occasioned by them. Have discoursed with them - they have been driven away, and the anxiety cleared, they have returned and the anxiety returned. And I perceived it to increase and decrease according to their approximation and removal. -- 2 4&5 _ & yields himself without a question to their power. 1/4 to 10. Invoked the CA. The CA is here. May I &c 8217 2173 do so You Your remark in the treatise we have just read reminds me of a former response I received from you Some time Since, on Swedenborgs Assertion of the same fact & from Certain reasons I &c. _ 2174 I understand you but you are quite wrong 8218 You would not willingly recieve those evil spirits and believe me that unwillingly they cannot come. Natural causes bring about the same results as they do , they seek not the presence of those who have a firm will or the vestige of a true faith Your remark leads me to one that you will pardon me for mentioning even if it pains you. my reason for wishing you to discontinue your Communicatn. with the spirits of Mr Lea's Crystal or Mirror, to keep as much as possible away from him, and him from your house. was for the reason that I am Quite certain one or more of these Spirits are attached to him — that having an impaired digestion as you have, they would strike hard, to gain a mastery over you. but although I have no doubt You would resist them. and I have Also confidence in myself, still I am certain that the struggle. would do you much harm. About 4 years past I mesmerised the wife of a friend and circumstances arose out of it which [*3*] Caused me great anxiety, she is now again ill & wishes to be mesmerised - this I dare not do, may I ask your advice [*2175 8219*] Cannot she be mesmerised professionally I think that mesmerism would do her good even if practised by her husband but on no account whatever would I give my consent to your mesmerising any one again - I insist upon this forcibly because whatever amount of good you do to the party suffering, you do twice as much harm to yourself. This is the evening of the first day of a new year may I be &c. [*2176 8210*] God grant so long as I am able to give you information and instruct'n. either for your temporal or spiritual state it may not be witheld, I desire your happiness in this world and the next I intercede and I pray for you and by the merits of the redeemer may it be available - your happiness in this world I would do all I could towards perfecting and the greatest happiness can only be attained by a fervent faith in God in his Mercy, and his Love, and a faith in things made evident thro' the words of his Son. - and I fervently wish you many happy years of happiness, of pleasure, and of joy The CA's gone 10 past 10 PM. Tue. [?] Jan 1856 8 TM CR Mirror 4 Invoked the CA. 8211 The CA appeared but very indistinctly, the veil appears so thick in front of mirror - the answers to my questions appeared but Emma was totally unable to read them on my palm. The book then appeared in the CA's hands who kindly brought it close up to the front of the mirror but even then Emma could not read any portion of the CA's response underneath I then mentioned that my seer had just met with a great dissappt. as a [journey?] she had contemplated to visit some friends who also suffering from nervous [dull?] ache and I requested the CA to defer the vision in the book until the following Tuesday (15th Jan) as requested I have a vision without reading- Well as he left with the book I [?] requesting a vision There came individually a response and- at the end of it my oval mirror- Emma could not read the response but upon getting the thing and opening it- Emma inspected it without altering her seat. by leaning it against the wall-just under the [Catt??wood?]?]. And presently she said- Here is yourself Coming How are you this evening 8212 he nods his head Why have you come uncalled are you the "Interesting instinctive vision" I requested I am obliged to take an opportunity of appearing- and come when I can you 8213 never ask me. I cannot appear in the other mirror but when there is no vision I can tell you is shown you when you can see me. Was it you then that caused this mirror to appear just not with some reading we could not make out 8214 I caused it to be gone. 5 Can you tell me how it is my seer can send your answers & yet could not read in the other mirror 8215 I suppose because I am not so purely spiritual -ha-ha:- I have received from the CA some valuable spiritual information I hope you also have profited by it [their] 8216 You are a Prodigy If you are as fond of telling others what You tell me and circulate the reports of receiving such wonderful information you are quite entitled to one of those paragraphs in the newspaper headed. "wonderful if true" I am going to publish the book this month, I hope you will be a subscriber and benefit by the contents Can you lend me ten pounds for a month or two. 8217 I could tell you how to get it- at least a friend of mine could He can appear in a bottle of water and have a diamond at the bottom worth a great deal more than that I presume you have got that from my former queries relating to Count St Germaine's obtaining diamonds by the ____ 8218 Well I can tell you the spirit that can do it, and the form for making him do so - at least I can cause you to know it shall I? Yes now hes gone Now he has come back by himself (27' to 9PM) 8219 I wish you to cover up the other [mirror?] I did so 8220 You must request the CA to keep away now you have covered it up No I cannot do that 8221 Whilst he is near I cannot show you what I intended 6 But cannot you appear on any night except Tuesdays - cannot you appear on Fridays [*8222*] I could do it if I chose. Then why don't you choose [*8223*] because you put me off to suit the convenience of others that appear. You know Tuesdays are devoted to my receiving infm 'n and instruction from the CA [*8224*] If you liked you might ask the CA to let me appear in that one I don't like coming in the smallest. You know this is a beautiful mirror I might say faultless -- I have got something in my pocket that [*8225*] Orion gave me to show you but I cannot do so unless I appear in the C A mirror and the CA is absent. It is something very interesting You must be aware that the CA mirror is consecrated to him and entirely under his protecting charge therefore I cannot do it - besides I don't believe your tale about the diamonds- [*8226*] I don't want you to believe me you are the only loser by it I explained [*8227*] Well then if you will remove it from the wall it is against and from the Mirror I will show you what I have in my pocket. Emma then placed the gilt mirror on the table P. inspected it he continuing in the mirror, he had his hand all the time in his side coat pockets - Emma remarked - he looks about so carefully - now he is taking out something like a silk pocket hand'f - rolled up out of his pocket - he's undoing it - There looks like a great black beetle in it - it is such a horrid black thing, it's not a beetle, but so dreadfully [* The bulk of this page is a diagram with astrological symbols and numbers: A box where Width is 2x Height, with a smaller box of the same proportions in the exact middle. There is an X from the corners of the big box and the smaller box hides the intersection point. Additionally, there is a diamond where the points are at the mid-sections of the big box. *] [* on X upper left line *] [* symbol for Leo *] 10 [* on X upper right line *] [* symbol for Leo *] 29.4 [* symbol for conjunction *] [* Symbol for Aries *] 23 [* on X lower left line *] [* Symbol for Mars *] 11.20 [* Symbol for Libra *] 23. [* Symbol for South Node *] 29.4 [* symbol for conjunction? *] [* on X lower right line *] [* Symbol for Aquarius *] 10 [* Symbol for Moon *] 0.10 [* on Diamond upper left line, *] [* Symbol for Virgo *] 6.13 [* Symbol for Cancer *] 7 [* on Diamond upper right line *] [* Symbol for Uranus *] 17.2 [* Symbol for retrograde motion *] [* Symbol for Taurus *] 25 [* Symbol for Pisces *] 27 [* on Diamond lower left line *] [* Symbol for Virgo *] 27 [* Symbol for Scorpio *] 28 [* on Diamond lower right line *] [?] [of] [* Symbol for Sun *] 17.48 [* Symbol for Mercury *] 22.41 [* Symbol for Pisces *] 6.18 [* Symbol for Jupiter *] 2.19 [* Text above small box *] [* Symbol for Gemini *] [* Symbol for Saturn *] 24.56 [* Symbol for retrograde motion *] [* start text in small box *] 1st appeared [* symbol for Mars *] die [* astrological symbol for opposition ? *] I rm. 1856 1/4/0 9 PM [* end text in small box *] [* Text below small box *] [* Symbol for Sagittarius *] [* Symbol for Venus *] 2.51 [?] This is a very A[???]ish figure in regards myself. - the Cusp is Unevenly [?] that of my Horoscope to hansly [?] my 10th [* symbol for Mars *] app body of [* symbol for the Sun *] H in 9th. opposing Sep 8 [* symbols for Pluto, Mercury, & Venus *] & app [* symbol for opposition *] [* Symbol for Saturn *] Radix 7 ugly. he doesn't touch it with his fingers it has got hair all over it - & horns, its come away from the Handkerchif and standing up on two legs in nothing - its got a head like a bat with two horns it stands on two legs & has [?] -- now he has got it out, he's gone further away from it - I wonder if this is what he calls "very interesting" it is still here standing by itself. Is that your interesting black diamond you have got there. 8228 No but I will have him here and from him you can ascertain how to get the real ones. But what may I ask is the Gentlemans name you are learning 8229 He will himself have the pleasure of informing You. Emma said Now you are gone. Will you tell me what name I am to address you by 8230 ----- Of what kind or order of Spirits are you. Now he's getting so much larger he's nearly as large as the Mirror - Can you tell me the formula for obtaining diamonds in [O?] .B. 8231 I can bring them into a Vessel of water if you can send other spirits away that are around. I cannot do that this Evening but if you will appoint another Evening, it can be done - besides I have not got my O [M?] ready this Evening. 8232 There is no time like the present If you have the power you describe, it seems strange such simple things should prevent you. 8233 What are simple things I can only deposit a diamond in water because I belong to Water - but I cannot even do that unless you See Mr. Andersons Relation of "The Bottle Imp" page 33. see page 17 30 8 dispel the influence which now I feel very strong. I cannot do that— I cannot dispel my own Guardian Spirit — 8234 Would you dispel it on another Evening willingly. No. but on another evening you could appear without my having Called him 8235 That is not what I ask. Call or not his Influence is the same and when I am with you that influence is opposed to me. Then I am afraid I must go without my diamond as I would not willingly place myself from under his Care and guidance 8236 Would you if I could point out to you One more powerful and as faithful I could not obtain a more faithful GS. and above all he gives me that knowledge which I covet above all the Diamonds of the Deep. 8237 then if I come as this Antagonist You will receive me willingly No Not as his Antagonist 8238 You will let me appear without exorcism then. Only when I Invoke You What shall be the formula when I call 8239 My name alone will bring me. I am nearly always attached to a friend of yours Will you tell me his name: 8240 Mr. - - - By what means are you attached to him he has no Seer—that can See — and he professes to have no wish to Call Evil spirits.— 8241 You will find me there only when you may call me and plenty of others besides — he's gone 10' past [10] 9 PM See page 17 9 now you are Comback. Well you seem to have a respectable lot of acquaintances Where did you get - - - - from. 8242 Thats my pocket Companion and guide for 1856. He may bring you some "Atmospheric" diamonds but I doubt very much his bringing me real substantial diamonds that will --. have you found out the [Palingeriesin?] of plants yet 8243 I knew it before you did It seems to me strange that these things can only be done by Evil Spirits 8244 They are not Evil What do you then call the Gentleman thats just left. 8245 I call him Good Can you give me any reason why that Spirit is attached to my friend. Now he's turned round & walked off. 1/4 past 9 PM. Action Ended ♂︎die 15 Jan. 1856. C. A mirror Invoked the C.A. 7 PM. May I &c 8246 2177 do so I explained at length our action of last Tuesday Evening 2178 8247 When a spirit appears in your mirror unless You have called him with the proper form. You should use Exorcism. The appearance of the Spirit on last Tuesday Evening must have shown that he was Evil, I would not willingly have Evil appear and I tried to prevent it, but however I rejoice that no Evil has been done although from his own words The Count de St. Germain Count St Germaine played a distinguished part at the Court of Louis XV His real name or birthplace has never been discovered - He was a Rosicrucian & revealed he had the power of drawing diamonds from the earth and pearls from the sea by the force of his incantations He was an Alchymist - & made the Elixir -- & laid claim to having lived several centuries -- He lived in great magnificence & made most costly presents to the Ladies of the Court. The King looked upon him with marked favor was often closeted with him for hours together, and would not suffer any one to speak disparagingly of him. -- How he obtained his vast wealth remains a secret. "There appears no doubt that he possessed the secret of removing spots from Diamonds". He died at Sleswig under the roof of his friend the Prince in the year 1784. See Memoirs of Madame de Hausset. & also & also Chas Mackay's popular delusions - 1852 vol 1 pages. 200 - 206 10 you must have judged his intentions if he were able to gain the ascendancy over you. He stated truly that he was attached to [Mr] [//////] a variety of circumstances have caused it _ _ _ _ _ is the same spirit that procured the diamonds for Count Saint Germaine and Joseph Balsamo. Yet I cannot conceive why _ _ _ _ _ sh'd be attached to my friend [/////] as he professes to have no wish to call Evil Spirits 2179 8248 [/////] has great interest in the lives of those men and of course the spirit clings to the remembrance. I explained and said I could not conceive the reason for my atmospheric double being apparently so much under the influence of those spirits 2180 8249 He is as you were once desirous of magical Information and power unmindful perhaps of spiritual good, but it does not make any difference his actions do no harm to any one for his spiritual life ends without any judgment hereafter I have rec'd the proofs of the answer to Echo but Mr. Chapman has had it printed in such an ugly type that I intend only having half the number printed it will I hope be ready for distribution amongst my friends in about a fortnight or 3 weeks. 2181 8250 What will be the expense of it altogether It has cost 10 pounds at present but if advertised will cost 4 or 5 pounds more. 2182 8251 If you could manage so as not to lose any thing by it. I was aware at first that whatever its cost, it must be so the expense & if it had been printed well I should have been quite satisfied -- will you now kindly favor me with a Continuation of your work on Spiritual Philosophy 2183 8252 I will do so The leaves will turn over if you request 11 them and if you desire me I will appear again. 1/2 past 7 The books here & the CA is leaving Now the book is opening very slowly - the Reading begins at the top of the page. My Seer here observed that the lines of words in the Book appeared most minute yet beautiful but not in English Characters or Language – but that as it appeared in English for her to read the words seemed to encrease in size & Change their form a few words at a time into our modern print & were then read by her The Seer was still suffering from Nervous face ache which was some hindrance to her reading readily Now it has commenced 2184 8253 I have said in all things Created there is life &c - down to Exists in Man himself. Mr [Gen?] Danson of Birm'm is to lecture at Croydon on next Tuesday as I much wish My Seer to hear him, may I ask you to allow me to have the book on another Eveng so that I might not lose an Evening by her going 2185 8254 I am sorry that I cannot appear except on Tuesday until after the end of Feb'y. May I ask as my Seer is still suffering, if we may See Mr. Anderson in our Oval Mirror this Evening 2186 8255 There is no objection to Your calling him I cannot tell whether he will appear. If any &c. 2187 8256 I have not this Evening 1/4 to 9 PM. The CA left. 9 PM. Called Mr. Anderson. Oval Mirror Now hes come black Coat dark trousers he appears very old to what he used to do Good Eveng Mr A. We are indeed pleased to see you 12 I hope you are quite well Yes, thank you. How have you fared Since we last saw You in the mirror 8257 I have been at Bristol since October Then you left the Crimea on "urgent private Business." 8258 O very , its no use being out there in the winter time they are doing nothing Of course if I thought they had been going to fight I should have stopped. I dont want to eat the puddings that have been mauled about by so many so I came home. May I ask how Miss Georgina is 8259 My sister Yes 8260 She is very well, how have you got on with your Crystal & Magical operations 8267 I cant get on very well, I believe I have told you before that mine is a very small Crystal, and when I use a mirror or even a bottle of water I cannot control the spirits when they appear—and when they appear in the Crystal they are very small and I can scarcely read. When they appear in the Mirror Altho I do not desire it they are often Evil and when they are Evil and appear often the consequences are terrible. May I ask who is now your Guardian Spirit 8262 Constantine When Evil Spirits appear why do you not Exorcise 8263 I do use it , and they go away but they come again immediately after when they keep on Appearing in various frightful forms it quite unnerves me. I explained how to get a New Mirror made So as to prevent their Appearing. 13 Should I then be able to keep it to one spirit alone. Yes, &c 8264 but then he would very seldom appear and be unable to give me the information I required. I am going to print a little Pamphlet this month Shall I send you a copy. 8265 What is it called "Echo" what is Truth? in answer to a work on deism entitled "What is Truth." 8266 By an Anonymous author from Maddox [?] Yes 8267 Who is your publisher the same Yes John Chapman. 8268 When will it be published This month 8269 Where can they be had after that time thro any bookseller 8270 Is your address & your name in them. My address is. Have you seen Robert Owen the Philanthropists New Existence & his Correspondence relative to Spiritual manifestations 8271 I have not I had a friend offer to bring me a diamond & leave it in my D.B. but he is an evil Spirit of the Deep. 8272 You never refused did you I do not intend to let him do so tho' 8273 Why not. You have no occasion to have any thing more to do with him after you have received it Why you seem to think evil spirits are like the Giants in Jack the Giant Killer, the bigger the Giant the bigger fool they were . - to suppose they would be duped so Easily. 8274 I think man has more power than Spirits and that by the Exercise of his 14 Well he can separate himself from them yes but they generally require a sacrifice, and altho the object may in itself be [vile] of little estimation. yet we are so ignorant of what constitutes the Vital Principle - that I should hesitate before I deprived any living animal of the life which God has given it - to offer it as a sacrifice to a Spirit of Evil. 8275 Certainly, but there are formulas that only require to be traced or even the name of the Spirit to be written in blood - that is You might prick Yourself and write with that. do you carry your objections so far as to consider that life exists in the blood when that exists in so small a Quantity. Yes, by so doing You of your own free act, give them a power of mobilizing you if I may so term it = and Enable them by - Sympathetic Laws - to produce in you Hypochondriism & then they are entirely your Master [?] and if it is a Sacrifice - its of little consequence whether the quantity is large or small. 8276 The obstacles to spiritual knowledge [is] seems to me insurmountable, even when you seem to know all You find by one little stroke your whole reasons & arguments overthrown and when you are on the road to Spiritual Knowledge there seems to be more impenetrable darkness than when you set out Altho' I once thought I knew something of Spiritual matters. I now find my knowledge is as nothing Shall I progress thro the kind assistance of my GS the CA. 8277 I have no one to help me and I cant fight against so much Evil I would willingly know enough to do good but it seems I only know [?] original 15 sufficient to do a great deal of harm The CA expressed so great a sympathy for you that I am sure he would readily assist you if you really wish to study Spiritualism only for knowledge and good purposes. 8278 Would he appear if I was to call him I will ask him [and] and also for any advice you wish to recive 8279 If you will be kind enough to overcome the difficulty that will be sufficient to what do you allude or do you wish me to use those words. ? 8280 The difficulties altogether attending progress in Spiritualism. do you mean to enable you to receive in one [?] Good Spirits only. 8281 Yes and to prevent Evil from appearing in any - that is positively Evil - I have been studying now and continually inspecting the crystal for ten years and although I have seen many interesting visions and received enough to convince me of the Knowledge of Spirits that have appeared as connected with things and persons on earth, I have not received any thing of real value, any thing that I can preserve and read at another time You surprise me much. Since I have again renewed cyrstal work. I have kept a diary of all my actions with the Spirits, and have received much that to me is deeply interesting & instructive. 8282 Although I do not for a moment envy You your knowledge Yet I wish I had the same Will you then appear next Tuesday. & hear what the CA advises 8283 I will thank you Good bye. Mr A left. 20' to 10 P.M. 16 ♂︎die 22 Jan 1856 C. A Mirror Invoked the C.A. 7.30 PM. Mr Anderson appeared in the Oval mirror last Tuesday Evening he wished me to ask your advice 2188 8284 do so I then explained Mr A's wishes (see page ) 2189 8285 If he dedicated his mirror to his GS. he must keep it for a particular sort of spiritual information I do not think he would be able to do this for although he does not desire Evil he calls so many different visions of people and of places, and of things that he himself has not seen, and mixing them together without exercising any control over them he makes a fine opportunity for evil Spirits to appear. Am I right in advising him to get a new mirror &ded'. it to his GS. and then call alone his GS. to appear or show the req'd visions 2190 8286 You are, if he would do this he would be right but visions and Communications only of Spiritual [interest] (sic) import would not interest him as they do you. His GS. is powerful to keep Evil away, if he entreats him to do so, I have no doubt he will be successful in obtaining the miscellaneous visions without evil appearing unless he in some measure desire it. I intend going on Thursday Ev'g. to my friend Lea's shall I advise him to put by his mirrors &c for 3 or 4 months & change his course of reading &c &c 2191 8287 Your advice would be good and well meant but to him it must seem strange that you should desire him to give up and put [*17*] out of the way, what you use and have sought for as much as he is doing, yourself I explained my motives [*2192 8288*] You are quite right if he will follow your advice he may free himself from the Evil that is hanging over him, [*see page 8*] the very atmosphere around him seems to be impregnated with Evil from the very worst [*8239 & 41*] Sound, I regret it exceedingly, I do not know the cause of it all, but I think it is more through errors made in mistake than wilfully, be that as it may, there is only one way by which he can purify himself, and arm himself against them by turning himself in prayer to the Source from which all good proceeds, and humbly in heart and Spirit entreat sufficient light for discerning the truths of religion sufficient strength to overcome the difficulties attending it and need clear perception of that which is made plain to him. I ret'd thanks & req'd if the C.A. had any advice &c. [*8289 2193*] I have not this Evening I solicited a continuance of his work on Spiritual Philosophy Now the books come & the CA's leaving - [*8290*] 8 PM "The Leaves will turn over when you desire commenced in the order of natures Laws &c down to show that you are a reasonable and responsible being even in the face of destiny. 9.30 PM. 9.35. PM. Oval Mirror Called Mr Anderson Now he's come as before. & his he's [?] to your reply I will now read the CA's advice [*8291*] I thank you, do so I read the CA's responses, & asked if I had made 18 8292 You have and I thank you for the Information, I will get a new mirror and dedicate it to my Guardian Spirit + before Calling any vision I will ask him if it is by his permission, will this be right = I think so, I am myself limited to Tuesday, Evenings unless I specially obtain an'r Seance 8293 I am limited to one hour every Evening or an hour in the morning. I explained my course of action. 8294 I will do so I will get one without loss of time but before doing so I will discharge the others and put them away until I have his permission to use them again if I cannot do right I will not willingly do wrong I should like to hear something that you have received if you are not otherwise occupied It is now so near 10. oclock & my young friend is suffering from Toothache, or else I should have wished to ask if you had seen any thing curious lately 8295 I have received strange things - there is no occasion for me to detain You on Tuesday Evenings, I suppose I can appear on any other. I do not see why I cant Will you appear on Friday Evening, that we may have a longer chat. 8296 Yes What do you think of the Proposals for Peace 8297 Think it is all humbug, but wish it was true You once promised to favor me with your name, have you still an objection to [?] it 8298 Yes I have. Then I wont press it 8299 I must wish you good Evening Heres our friend Selina wants to say a word to you 8300 Glad to see you Miss 19 did you get your promotion in the Army 8301 No I believe I told you that I was thanked for my services and told that promotion having been given me so young I should not be able to have another so quickly after You told me you had your fortune told has it come true. 8302 Not a bit at least not yet, I have neither lost a leg nor got into disgrace exactly though vastly near the latter., I must go now - Good Evening = hes gone 5 to 10 PM. ♂︎ die. 29 Jan 1856 C. A. Mirror Invoked the C. A I mentioned my having been on the Thursday to my friend Mr Lea's & had read the whole of the later Spirit Comm'ns 2194 8303 He can free himself from the Spiritual Influence as I have before told you I will write to him with a copy of the response relat'd to him 2195 8304 do so As our Tuesday Ev's are occupied entirely with your Valued Comm'ts on Spiritual Philosophy may I devote Friday Evenings to calling Mr Anderson. 2196 8305 There is no objection to M Anderson appearing on Friday Evenings if you & himself wish it If &c 2197 8306 Nothing shall appear without my sanction unless you desire it - I have not the least objection to any appearance that is not evil or has no evil tendency You know Evil Spirits from Good and you have no reason to call them. If any advice &c 2198 8307 I have not, if you find my book weary 20 weary you or that which it contains means [?] with what seems to you truth If you tell it to do so, it will immediately leave I mention this not because you have hitherto shown the slightest disregard for it, but for fear that courtesy should make you listen to what from another you would pass over I explained at length 2199 8308 I thank you The leaves will turn over when you desire it 25' past 8 The book came & the CA left., the book slowly opened, the Translation came slowly my seer still suffering much from toothache. which impaired her vision 2200 8309 Commenced at "If man has his own Spiritual life &c down to. great as it was powerful 5' Past 10 Called Mr Anderson Oval Mirror he came immediately = I was unfortunately unable to keep my appointment last Tuesday Evening but I shall be happy to see you next Friday if agreeable to you. [2201] 8310 I will appear on any Friday you may call me for sometime to come. I have got a new mirror, I went about it on Wednesday morning. Do you intend to consecrate it to Constantine [2202] 8311 Yes I do, and shall inspect it for the first time next Sunday, when next I appear I shall be able to tell you how I can get on. Our Evenings on Tuesday are quite taken up receiving the CA's work on Spiritual Philosophy, the rendering it in English takes so long a time, my Seer also suff's much pain - Hurts her Sight [2203] 8312 If it is metaphysical & obliged to be given by a Spirit to you - you must necessarily 21 be slow to comprehend the language that he gives his ideas in, it must be a great trouble for him to make himself understood by you I explained the apparent process of the translation [2204] 8313 Could you understand the work in its original form I have no doubt it would be far more beautiful than being interpreted I must say I have great pleasure in receiving it [2205] 8314 does it treat of religion then. Yes it is, entirely confined to Met'l. & Spiritual Philosophy man's Spiritual being here, and his state hereafter [2206] 8315 What does he say concerning a future state Are the prayers of the living of any use to those that are dead. The prayers of a paid priest cannot be of any avail for the spiritual help of a deceased soul who in life he perhaps never knew., but as the Souls of deceased persons linger for some time after death in the Atmosphere. & still cling to earth. then the Earnest prayers of near or dear friends doubtless assist it, by urging it into the right path. - thro the Atmospheric Spirits being conjoined - have I made myself understood by you. [2207] 8316 You have, it is an objection that I cannot surmount in the Roman Catholic Religion I can believe in their Miracles, and I can have faith in the Virgin Mary as a Mediator between Man and God - but I cannot see how the prayers of the priests, or the festivals, for they are such to help deceased Souls in purgatory can be of any use neither do I believe in the power of the Church to Excommunicate those living If a priest prayed for deceased Souls. for Christ sake only. I could believe in their Efficacy - but when you must first 'tip' them the Almighty dollar - I think it's but a sorry Investment. [2208] 8317 It is as you say, but granted that they 1/a/ Apostolic descent "Measured by the standard of some Prelates he (Dr Stanley) was certainly deficient in Lordly Arrogance; in love of Ease, and rank and money; and in pretensions to Apostolic Succession & priestly domination; he rested his claims to respect and confidence on the Man, rather than on the lawn of the mitre [?] Alexanders Memoir of Ed Stanley DD late Bishop of Norwich. Bishop Stanley says "my greatest Trials arise from those of the Clergy who are loudest in their Cry of 'the Church in danger" but who never do any thing to keep it from danger.' - p. 33. Ibid In 1844 Dr Stanley. was called upon in London to preach the Annual Sermon before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, when he took the opportunity, in stating that he deemed the True Claims of the Church of England, to disavow the doctrine of Apostolic succession. The bishops and the [metropolitan?] Clergy were assembled as usual on that occasion, and before them all he declared that the extravagancies of Tractarianism were traceable to the dogma of Apostolic Succession - a dogma "insupportable by Scripture and History, and leading to no good results in practice" he spoke boldly of the great uncertainty which hangs over the very beginning of this supposed claim of Apostolic descent, declared that it had no authority in the New Testament, and bade his dignified auditory remember that no one has been able yet to disentangle the Confusion in which the Successive links of the so called succession are involved - exhorted his brethren not to press a Claim so liable to excite the contempt of the discriminating portion of the Community - and significantly remind'g them of the purpose to which it may be turned "by men covetous of power, given to intrigue, influenced by ambition & worldly self interested principles." In his diary at the End of 1842. Dr Stanley writes. "God grant that my life may be prolonged until I have effected the great object I had in view, in undertaking the labors imposed upon me, may I live to see the Triumphs of Christian principles in the Church. uncontaminated and undefiled by the [?] sordid and worldly passions connected with what has hitherto been called - so falsely and so fatally for its real interests - Attachment to the Church." they did it for love and not for money what 22 power could they have to rid those gone without their knowledge sinful from the world. I like the Roman Catholic Religion separate from its priesthood The Roman Catholic Religion is doubtless the best in the world to live and die by- if- you could only believe it- but self appointed "mediatorial priests" have ever been the Sermon friends of the Nespohsion - they are soul-crushers themselves and ever ready to [?] the body-crushers- 8318 But you be here in the doctrine of the Church /a/ of England no preached by them So for only as consistent with the kinds of [views?], &tc. I deny their Apostalical Descent & mediational claims 8319 You be here in Jesus Christ as being the only mediator and the Communion offered by the Church as his real flesh and blood. I believe in the DemiGodhead of the Trinity and that Jesus is the mediator-but not in the real presence in the eucharist. 8320 I think that the sacrament should not be received except by those who devote their lives to his purpose - but still it seems to me that of the Son is powerful and one with, the Almighty, the Mother cannot be forgotten. - She must be as great as he-She must have her place near the throne of grace and be able to intercede for those that acknowlege her. I believe in the Virgin Mary being an intercessor for those who pray to her- as the mother of our Lord. but altho the chosen vessel Herself above all women. I cannot consider her created equal to the Creator. & indeed Jesus' own words "women what have I to do with these." [is apt if.] 8321 You do not then, like the Protestant Clergy 23 believe that to have faith in her and to pray to her to intercede for us in sin. or to protect us when we need it, that that faith shall [damn?] us everlastingly No I do not nor do I think the Ch. of highland Clergy view it in that light 8322 but they denounce it in the pulpit I cannot believe otherwise My objection is, that no where in the Gospel, in the words of Jesus or in those of his apostles is the Virgin Mary [directed] held up as an intercessor, indeed the few places in which she is mentioned, is directly opposed to such a view. 8323 I think if you have a religion of your own - if you form opinions and sincerely believe those opinions to be true and act up to them. and have faith in them, that through that faith in the religion you follow. you would be favored Surely it would be better than harrassing your mind with so many conflicting opinions and at last half believing in the religions that you called yours. I believe in some of the doctrines of the Church of England and some of time but I am a member of neither for according to both I find I am beyond their redemption -- It is late now. I am afraid I detain you. -- Good Evening Good night 20' to 11 PM. on turning to the 5th Page of my MS - I found I had made the error mentioned - which I corrected. 24 ♂︎ 3 Feb 1856 CA Mirror Invoked the C A Last Tuesday Evening, The transl'n of the Spiritual Philosophy came extremely slow. probably in consequence of my seer suffering so sadly from Toothache -- I mention it now because I covet obtaining each evening as large a portion as possible in the time devoted to it 2201 8524 I desire to make it as plain as possible I will do all that I can to make it come faster And plainer, before you begin this evening Will you alter one word in the 15th line of the 5th page of your copy the mistake is but slight but it alters the sense of the foregoing Message. Will you kindly put collected instead of Created-- Accept my Thanks I have now altered it, may I for the encrease of my knowledge in Crystal work, ask how you became aware that the error was in the 15th line of the 5th page of my [?] MS. 2202 8325 Where my composition is, that is my Knowledge and Ideas and feelings, these am I attached in some degree, I never lose sight of what passes from me. that book has the same influence as my Seal. May I &c 2203 8326 I have not. If you should desire it I will appear to you when you are ended. 1/4 to 8 Now the books come & the CA's left. 2204 8327 [of all the attributes, down to to them it must be known.] The C A appeared If any &c 2205 8328 I have not this evening 25'. to 10 PM Action ended 25 ♀ die 8 Feb'y 1856. Oval Mirror Called Mr. Anderson Mr. Anderson is here in black but indistinctly Good Ev'g. Can you tell me why we see you so indistinctly 8329 I appear as plain as I can. Very likely you will see me plainer presently Will you oblige me by telling the time by my watch if I place it ag't the mirror 8330 I cannot even see you Mr. Anderson appeared a long way off & very pale & wan I am afraid by your looks you have not recovered the Effects of the Crimea 8331 O Yes I am all right thank you Do you remember my telling you that we formerly often saw and conversed with you as of 1864 & also your little Son. 8332 Yes and I have seen it myself, but I think it is very improbable. Have you any idea who the Mr Hamilton is you & My Seer have seen in my Crystal, & whom we saw in his Trial for Murder. 8333 I know two or 3 Hamiltons but not intimately I know but one that could be any where near the age of the one I have seen The circumstances connected with that transaction were so minute yet strange, & has interested me so much that I have often wished to ask if you could give me any clue to it 8334 It seemed to me as [to be] more likely to be taking place abroad than in England such things so seldom happen here and the language you know might have been made English by the spirit of the [*✔︎*] Crystal, from several things I have seen I conclude it must have related to a trans'n that will take place probably in the South of France about 1862. There will be a Revolution there then 26 then if I have seen truly during the last 2 years, the visions shown in my Mirror have entirely changed their Character, tho not so curious they are of a higher Class, and I think it is only Spirits of a lower Sphere that can show, events about to happen to Mortals, shortly before they take place 8335 It may be so but still there seems one method at least I have found it so, throughout the whole of the Communications with Spirits I think when they first show you a vision they have some end in View and you are led from one to another, for beginning at light Knowledge and that which seems trifling, but which must of course be as important in itself as the highest spiritual vision for the same law must govern both So beginning with lighter matter you are led step after step to seek better Knowledge and to aim at a nobler purpose than that of amusement or light instruction and through all this course of visions it seems to me that those who show them, only show those that work out a particular doctrine of their own, and if they have a power of showing that which they please they can also withhold those that would interfere with their course of action This is probably the case as to Points of doctrine but the visions I allude to are those which show the Trifling every day events of Common life, before they take place. such as occurred on my Crystal some years ago when Mrs. Woodward inspected for me & altho utterly a stranger to me, told me Events all of which have been verified to the letter - 8336 I can see things that are about to take place, and I see many that do not take place & this I cannot account for 27 Sometimes things that I don't want to know any thing about, which [ ] rather not not see come whenever I look into the crystal and there [ ] I am obliged to put it away In other times when I [ ]tenly desire to see what I ask for I have no vision at all that others I am [ ] a vision and I believe it is the one I have no [ ] no circumstances from whom, and I [ ] when the time arrives [ ] to take place that it is perfectly wrong but still there are a great number of things [ ] known to me that I can see and [ ] and them [ ] nice perfectly correct. [ ] never hear any events [ ] And it is best that you do not if you can see my thoughts but I have seen so long and I put such part [ ] spirit[ ] that even when I see [ ] I am off [ ] and length of time [ ] looking again Now I have taken hold of my [ ] hand can you see me. 8337 Very indistinctly Can you see my special[ ] 8339 Yes You need family to see everything about me trying me and my dress. I tell no [ ] the [ ] Can you describe what is on the table now 8340 I can see the room, the air seems so oppresive I should say these who [ ] in the room and I have which it is the case with atmospheric spirits and also with perfect spirits a great objection to [ ]. There is about 4 feet from this mirror a large globe of [ ] with goldfish thing - I am [ ] that it can affect you 28 8341 I feel it tho not so much as to make it unpleasant or prevent my appearing plain but I think there are two kinds of Spirits you might call that it would either attract towards it or immediately dispel, the living bodies in the water, make it of course more like a Sea or river - I have & am now receiving from my Guardian Spirit a work entitled Metaphysical & Spiritual Philosophy in which he gives his views of Spiritual Laws shall I read you a portion - 8342 I should be very much pleased I read 2 or 3 pages & asked if I made myself understood 8343 You have thank you will you read more I read the first seven pages., and asked do you receive such Spiritual information 8344 I do not at such length. it is certainly a lucid, logical & very wild Theory. It makes me desire to hear more it seems so new. I have received about 30 page I hope to read you at an'r time a further extract. 8345 Thank You I never heard before of a spirit who did not believe in Eternal punishments, it is a subject you can rarely get them to speak upon, I have asked the question many times and they replied evasively or not at all. The CA's views are that punishment to the Wicked is lasting - not everlasting - not eternal. 8346 It is very shocking to think that even the worst of men should suffer eternally and there is a conviction in ones own heart, that it is not so, for when we feel particularly conscientious, when even the regard the sufferings of men around us when even we [regain the s] alleviate the pain 29 of a man of earth we feel I think [ ] for it, we feel as it were a ray of light from an applauding source, as though we were rewarded from an simple [ ] of good and of I've have this feeling when the object is so [ ], how much [ ] so [ ] the feelings of perfect goodness be when [ ] on my object important as its now creation. I was much [ ] the other [ ] that it's going his [ ] of the doctrine [ ] by Plato & Aristotle it appeared to the so [ ] 8347 Why singular if the [ ] a spirit that has here been embodied he was in all probability the same 2000 years ago as now, the [ ] intelligince, and proof of the spriits being is memory, and if he has taken a delight in metaphysical and then for [ ] with [ ], it does not seem strange that he should [ ] [ ] the [ ] that are I believe the greatest in the science, indeed Greece has produced in all ages the greatest [ ] I think it is nine clippings, if that the past would [ ] there language. [ ] of you wish read his remarks on plato this [ ] Aristotle. 8348 Do so I should be much [ ] you be kind enough to read the passage which relates to aristotle & plato. I read them. 8349 It is very simply but very unmarketly written. It is very strange - Then if the spirit cannot be enlarged as dimished but exists for his for the [ ] from [ ] sort must out the last day, enter the presence of god, in the form that is shown. 30 Now on Earth, have you asked whether he means that up to that time it retains the form or whether it retains it before + after that time in all Eternity. Your question would have been needless but at your request I have read to you the latter part of the C A's Comm n. leaving out the middle, in which the C A shows that Man eventually loses the human form. - I have skipped 20 pages which I will do my self the pleasure of reading to you at another opportunity 8350 I shall be much gratified how long do you think the book will last unfinished My Seer tells me the book appears to get longer + if it lasts 12 months I shall be more gratified 8351 As he does not seem to enter into [*the*] detail of what he advances I should imagine the subject would soon be exhausted for in many works on mental philosophy you find the same arguments used over and over again only in different words and in the fine language used you almost lose the thread of the doctrine. That is certainly the case with all the Metaphysical works which I have read but the C A's commun n. comes down to the meanest capacity [*1100*] 8352 It does and is really much more to the Purpose. May I ask if you will gratify me with a relation of any thing curious in the Spiritual way that has occured to you since your long absence 8353 I told you the last time that when next I came I would tell you how I got on when inspecting my new mirror. I believe I did not tell you then what day I was going to look. I had not inspected my small Crystal for some time previous to purchasing [*31*] [?] the new mirror but in the evening I had it already & wished to commence, I fetched my crystal and called Constantine, I was not perfectly certain if he remained my Guardian Spirit - instead of his appearing there came something like a Globe stand and the place occupied by the world as is usual was here filled with what appeared to be a vessell of water perfectly round and with a Spirit in it, but of course from the size of the Crystal this Spirit was scarcely visible, and to all my questions I could get no answer, and I could not understand whether it was desired that I should use a vessel of water or whether my GS was changed from Constantine to a Spirit of Water - You will say I am always in difficulties I waited for about half an hour and then I dismissed it and again called Constantine but had a Vision - well then I thought I could do no harm if I ded'd. my mirror to my GS. without naming him and I did it fervently, however humbly, after doing this I removed the Veil from the mirror and inspected it, after looking abt. 10 minutes there appeared to be curtains of thin gauze like silk, falling in folds from the top, sometime longer and these folds straightened & the mirror appeared to be covered on the Silver Side, with a plain transparent tissue, behind this there app'd. the shadow of a figure and the words came before the Veil "The Spirit now in the Mirror will answer your questions." I could not then understand the nature of the Vision and I was somewhat doubtful of its goodness, for I have been so many [*32*] times deceived by the first appearance of beauty, that I could not rely on it without seeing further so I answered, by desiring Constantine to appear plain if he was my Guardian Spirit - The answer merely came "Constantine is not your Guardian Spirit" Well then I asked how long since he had ceased to be and it said Only at the moment you dedicated your mirror to your GS. Well then of course I asked who was my GS. and the answer singular enough was. If we would be known why blind thy Eyes What am I to think? Why did you not exorcise strongly. [*8254*] I immediately exorcised it on hearing this answer and the form remained through the veil but of course I could not tell whether it had changed for if one form had immediately taken the place of the other it would appear the same thro' the veil I explained my views [*8255*] When it would not answer more directly my question, I dismissed it saying that if it would appear without the veil. I sh'd be pleased to see it again and then again I called Constantine. but it did not even get clouded, for half an hour I called and looked, and having no success at all I went back to my old friend the little Crystal and there I saw the same globe I must tell you that before beginning with the mirror I dismissed all visions from the Crystal and it remained dismissed while I was looking but now on taking Capt. Anderson's relation of "The Bottle Imp" see page 8 33 it up it seemed to be there before I looked till my Eyes ached I could get no reading and all I could distinguish of the spirit on the globe. was that it was black and had what appeared to be a large white clothe rolled round its head. I hope you did not use this bottle of water 8356 No I did not, nor I dont mean to do it again did I ever tell You how a spirit escaped from a bottle of water I was using once. No do tell us that 8357 I had been looking in the Crystal one Friday evening for a long time without Seeing any vision before I left off I asked of the Spirit of the Crystal very strongly when I could have a vision for it is so very wearying to look and anticipate and then be disappointed - there immediately came Procure a vessel a foot deep flat- sided and six inches square, fill it with water from a fish pond have the neck of the vessel sufficiently large to admit your three fingers - cut the middle finger of your left hand having put a strip of paper round the outside of the middle of the bottle write with the blood of the finger you have cut the one name. Paste this strip of Paper Round the bottle and then insert the finger you have pricked with the two others into the neck, and from it into the water let a drop of blood flow. - and it said if you do this, You will see and hear of that which will instruct you in spiritual knowledge and aid you [*34*] [*8357*] you in all that you desire appertaining to the world. Although I thought it could not be Good, I did not desire any thing Evil and I thought foolishly that I could have and see and know what they said without allow'g them to influence me, or without for one moment surrendering myself to their possession I would not do it again, it was not the power but the knowledge that I sought - I was at the time in a house with a good many people in it, and fearing that some one might interrupt me I locked the door before I began the preparation, I was obliged to have a glass bottle made the exact size I got the bottle and wrote the name on a vellum band and sealed it on This I placed on the Table and very soon without any call I used nothing more than the name on the bottle. the water began to change to a thick dirty red liquid and from this there formed as the water again became clearer a spirit more like an animal than even a distorted human [being] figure with a tail as long in proportion to its size as that of a mouse and peculiar shaped horns - it increased in size so as to fill the entire bottle the top of the horns coming above the water in the neck of the bottle and the horns to the top of the Neck., When I saw its head coming above the water I thought I should be able to prevent it getting [away] any larger by putting a stopper on the top, I could not find any thing to cover over it at the moment but a book that was on the mantle piece in the instant that I stept across for the book the horns of the [*35*] [*8357*] Spirit were visible to me above the bottle very quickly you may imagine I got back with the book - I am very strong - as strong as I believe most men, I can lift a couple of hundred weight, and now I had occasion to put my strength forth. I tried to press the book on the neck of the bottle. with all my might but I could not move it one inch My hands and the book in them went up as easy as I could have lifted a baby's now I got desperate I tore the band off round the bottle, I used exorcism, there was no fire in the room & no light or I would have immediately burned the band, I could not tear it and I had no means of destroying it - the Spirit all this time was gradually getting out of the bottle - I could not tell what to do I took the bottle up threw it down and broke it the water of course ran all over the carpet and I thought for a moment that I had got rid of the Spirit but I was mistaken for from the water as it lay on the floor he rose again much larger than before, I went to the door but I was afraid then to open it - Then in an instant I thought he might be only visible to me and not to others and if I got with other people he would disappear from me and then I tried the door but I could not unfasten it, I forgot that I had locked it, again I used the power of [?] for Crystal Spirits, and exorcism, but it was of no use, having done this I ventured to ask him, what he wanted - He asked me to Test his power by naming any thing that I desired and if. I found that he gave it me and would [*36*] [*8357*] Promise him obedience he would do the same in all other things - I resolutely told him that I would not that had I knew that he was Evil and could escape from the bottle I would not have called him - still he did not leave and I then felt the place insufferable so oppressive as to be almost suffocating - my eyes seemed to burn, I seemed to be getting giddy and to see instead of the one figure a thousand of all shapes and sizes - I still remained standing with my hand on the lock and the room seemed [?] to grow confined and dark, only for one instant, then all was light again & the Evil Spirit was gone, and I noticed that every drop of water was gone from the surface of the carpet, and that there was on the white ground that surrounded the pattern a single red spot, although I felt frightened when the Spirit was present - I was not the least when it was gone and felt recovered & so thankful that I had got rid of it., and determined to be more careful in future. and was beginning to think how I could account for the mess I had made & was beginning to pick up the pieces of bottle to walk off with when stooping to pick up some of the small pieces that were on this red spot, I saw that round it there was a circle and in the circle words., Even then by an impulse I could not control I was all on fire to know what those words were, before I stopped to decypher them I took up the band that had been round the bottle and the pieces of the bottle themselves and threw the bottle away and This was the same Spirit who appeared in my Oval Mirror and offered me the Diamonds page 7. [*37*] [*8357*] burnt in another room the band that was round it, back I went and down on my knees to try and decypher this reading I mastered it on the band round the red spot were (a) "---- returns blood that is too white for a sacrifice" and the little red spot that had before seemed on the Carpet, rose above it, the words disappeared and there only remained a little piece of cold congealed blood, this I removed very much gratified all traces of the water were gone and that was the last interview I have had with Spirits out of the Crystal. I then showed Mr Anderson the picture of the spirit at page [*3000*] who offered me the diamond and asked if ----- resembled it. [*8358*] Very nearly. I am afraid I have taken you very long I am obliged by your curious & instructive comm'n. I will enquire of the C.A. your best mode of proceeding with your GS. [*8359*] I wish I could ascertain his name I will not detain you longer Good Evening I will enquire on Tuesday & if possible let you know on Tuesday next. - if that will be time enough [*8360*] I shall not use it before then Good Evening Good night. 1/4 to 11 PM. [*This [appointment?] appears to have gone [?] until my [?]*] [*38*] [?] Feb. 12. 1856 C.A. Mirror Invoked the C.A. Before receiving the Continuation of the Spiritual Philosophy I wish to ask some advice relative to my friend Mr Lea [*2206 8361*] Do so but I will first mention that his wife is very desirous of appearing in your mirror this Evening. Mr Lea has informed me by Letter that upon invoking Lero his GS. to appearance. Lero app'd & said that you were desirous of appearing - & that you then appeared in his mirror and advised him to bring his mirror to Croydon, for my Seer to inspect next Tuesday - [*2207 8362*] I am quite willing to appear in his mirror if he brings it here, next Tuesday. May I ask if you so directed him to come [*2208 8363*] Yes I shall then of course be happy to meet your wishes - as under your Guidance I feel sure no harm will arise [*2209 8364*] There are still Evil Spirits attending him but if he desired it, and acts as I have before mentioned he may rid himself of them I have sufficient power to keep them either from his mirror, from himself and from you and yours while he is present with you, otherwise I would not upon any account have advised him to come As to Mr P's letter concerning [S.J.?] [*2210 8365*] As an act of Charity there can be no object'n to it - but you must not do it often for your own good I cannot bear to see you give to others, what would do yourself good. Mr Anderson appeared last Tuesday Evg and we had a long Interview I read him a portion of your work on Spiritual Philosophy and in [relation] return he related a singular Circumstance which occurred between him & -----, who emerged from a bottle of Water - [*39*] [*2211 8366*] ----- Is the same spirit that app'd to you, it is the same that follows Mr L. and it is one of the oldest Evil Spirits existing and although not so powerful as some it is ever ready to profit by the weakness or the sins of those to whom it attaches itself through an advantage offered by them Mr Anderson has processed a new mirror & dedicated it to his GS. & then invoked his G.S. & a spirit appeared behind the vail - & as he was not aware positively who was his his G.S. & could not prevail upon the Spirit to appear plainly - he dismissed it & I said I would ask your advice [*2212 8367*] Constantine is still his GS. It was a good vision that appeared the first time he used the mirror, and if he was not so excessively irritable and impatient he would not have so much difficulty Will you tell him to wait longer after he has exorcised it next time before he dismisses it - And that as he cannot govern the Spirit that appears & make it appear plainer he must wait patiently until it develops itself. If any &c [*2213 8368*] I have not this Evening I think it would be better to look in your box mirror before you close your Evening Communication Do you mean my oval mirror in the case or my [?] Glass. [*8369 2214*] The one you have in your hand Will you now favor us with the book [*8370*] I will Now the books come & the CAs gone [*8371 2215*] (From its Earthly Shape &c down to which as the mind in the body it yielded to & loved) 10 PM. 40 Oval Mirror 10 PM Called Mrs Lea. Now its thick now theres some one coming - its a round crystal its getting longer - it is the Green Crystal & theres some one in it - Its a large face the size of the Crystal - now the Crystal is getting much larger It is Mr Leas face in it quite plain the looks at You [?] theres reading Come 8372 Leas coming to your house next Tuesday isnt he - have you any objection to my coming with him I should like to come very much. There are reasons why I wd rather he came alone 8373 Why I explained - 8374 It would not make any difference about that I could come down + see Mrs. Leigh and Selina besides I want to look in your mirror I dont like it it could not make any difference if I came - I would come down myself first if that was all and Lea could come with you As you are only my friends at Spirit its no use asking the spirit - I shall I hope see you on Thursday in proper person - & then your other self will I have no doubt be satisfied with the [?]. 8375 You come to my house fast enough, but you are pretty shy about asking me back again, and I can tell you that in the body as well as here, I desire to come and if you don't write me - I dont think we shall be such good friends as we have been Are you friend Lea inspecting your crystal 8376 No I aint, do you mean to invite me No I dont. + I am sure your sensible - other self will be satisfied with the reasons [*41*] now Mrs. L's gone stormed round & looked so cross at you. - 1/4 past 10 PM. Called Mr Anderson. immediately - [*8377*] Good Evening I will not detain you long as my Seer is in much pain with her tooth - but I wished to tell you the CA's opinion [*8378*] Thank you I am in no hurry. Can you tell me what will ease her. [*8379*] Have you tried mesmerism No there are many urgent reasons why I should not besides I never intend to mesmerise a Lady again - I thought of trying one of the Electric bands lately invented [*8380*] I know that Galvanism was good, I did not know there was a new way of applying it - 3 of my back teeth are gone & you are only 25 [*8381*] Oh its not the age thats done it I then read the CAs communication (p. 39) & asked if I had made myself understood [*8352*] You have I do control myself as much as I can but it is impossible for me who have such a love of Spiritual Communion & Knowledge to be ever calm and patient when I have such difficulty in obtaining a vision I require and if I do obtain after a long & tedious asking the vision that I have called to find myself disappointed in my expectations or worse, baffled and tormented by Evil Spirits - its easy enough to preach patience but would only one however good placed in my situation be without the same failing Here is your friend [?] solemn wishes to look & try if she can see you. [*8383*] She should look in the Crystal probably Mrs Lea & her husband had been [?] by [?] a 12 for he & as they were [?] and as long my [?] on [?] [?] they Spirit were then the rest [?] was with them bought one See 8397 [*42*] she would see me there - You had a vision before I came I understand Yes [?] Lady friend came or rather went away in a [?] [*8384*] What the Lady that has the smell of cakes raffled for - I always laugh when I think about that and I am not likely to forget it - Earl Stanhopes Crystal Selma took the ES. which I changed for Mr Anderson it became very clouded & she saw a dark line appear but it remained indistinct - Oval Mirror Called Mr Anderson Selma has tried but she cannot see you altho' the Crystal clouded immediately - & you appeared but indistinctly [*8385*] I can[not] well understand how some people cant see when others do - but I cannot make out how it is that some see faintly - if the Spirit was there at all one would imagine they could see it plain Emma had now got some glasses that saves her eyes completely [*8386*] That is an excellent thing for those who strain their eyes to look - it never affects my eyes in the least. It was the CA who told me to get smoked glasses for the purpose - It is surprizing to me how the C.A. could know such things were to be had. I was quite ignorant of it myself [*8387*] Not at all surprizing Why not. [*8388*] Because if you even as a mortal was spoken to on any thing that interested you, would would do all you could [*43*] to gain information about it and would search after any thing connected with the subject and it is not suprizing that a spirit who must have the power if he so will of passing through space and alighting at any place he desires is it surprizing he should obtain inform'n upon a subject you desired to know about and I suppose you first mentioned your difficulty I am not surprized at any thing connected with Spiritualism I have known so many things that seems as incredible as they are unaccountable I have very often asked the CA for a remedy for my seer without success. [*8389*] Will he answer the same questions as regards another No he generally recommends me to advise them to apply to the mesmeric Infirmary [*8390*] It is strange, a simple remedy might have the power of a perfect one, and surely he would have the power of giving you one The C.A. refuses to give me the power of healing because it would injure my own health. [*8391*] I thought I understood you, that you believed the Spiritual Mediums in America acted under Evil influence when they performed their cures Yes. but I thought cures might be performed by Prayer [*8392*] Certainly but its no use arguing about what I at least do not understand but I shall detain you, its getting late Have you seen to it lately [*8283*] No I have not I wish you would send him into the mirror [*8294*] Who am I to ask for Why the Gentleman we have so often seen you with [*44*] that has lost one finger of his left hand - we call him [WH?] [*8395*] What a very profitable speculation I'll call him We shall be obliged [*8396*] then I will have good Evening Will you come another Friday Eve'g if I call [*8397*] I am writing to appear If that Lady should appear again who I believe is slightly inclined to enter [?] you can tell her I am sorry I was not in London last 12th day or I should certainly have had a shillings worth. [*see 8384*] Called WH 11 PM Here's some one coming, its WH. he's got his hands in his pockets - Black frock coat grey trousers shaped down the side, his boot soles about an inch think & his trousers very short Good Ev'g. I hope you are well hes taken one hand out of his pocket and said [*8398*] hi hows Mrs. Beechey [*8399*] I have left them Lodgings Selma wishes to know if you live in the country [*8400*] No I dont She wants to know why you wear such ugly boots then [*8401*] I wear them in London I think I need them this dirty weather, I am sure they look very well Are you in the Law still or have you turned Capt'n in the Militia [*8402*] I am not in the Law now, had a little money left me. independent I suppose [*8403*] No I am't You will want it then Selma says to furnish a house [*8404*] Shant have a house mean to Lodge in a two [?] But that wont do for a young Lady used to the country 45 8405 Then I shant marry a lackadaisical marm. I am afraid your mother didnt spend much on your manners 8406 no she didnt, and a very good job too it w'd have been all thrown away Cant you give us "down among the dead men" to night 8407 No -- left off singing whenever I sing out I get drunk afterwards. You never came to Croydon as you promised 8408 I came one Sunday Come next and we will have some Grog together 8409 Cant next Sunday, why dont you ask that chap down -- who went to live at Carlton Terrace -- very likely footman there -- do you mean our friend Mr Anderson 8410 Yes Have you seen him lately 8411 No but I've heard about him, he's as big a scamp as ever lived hasn't he been in the Crimea 8412 went out there and got sent home A person that I heard from about him told me he was at Bristol Can you tell me his name 8413 I never could pronounce it well spell it 8414 Its Spanish I must go good night Will you come again when I called you he nodded his head towards Selina & left. 1/4 past 11 PM 46 [?] Feb. 1856. C A Mirror 7 30 PM Smoked the C A My friend Mr Lea is now here agreeable to your appoint I have called you in this mirror. first - shall I call Lero into his Mirror before you appear in it [?] you appear in at once. 2216 8415 If you will dismiss Mr Lea's mirror I will immediately appear in it Zeros Mirror tried the Dismissal Now the CA's here, and the readings commenced 8416 "Mr Lea. I was desirous of seeing you this "Evening that I might solemnly propose to you "the question " Cannot you believe in the Divinity "of Christ? 2217 8417 If I address you thus individually instead of generally it is not to upbraid you for want of faith or to denounce you, for your own belief. But I cannot let one opportunity pass however slight a chance there may appear, of teaching you in all humility the means of approaching the Throne of Grace through Love and not through fear - not through fear as taught by the Church, not by making God appear to you worse than human, not by holding him out to you as the Church does as punishing with savageness by the most frightful torments that imagination can form ideas of -. His Creation that he has imbues with His own intelligence and his will not by punishing them forever + ever with those intolerable torments whilst [*47*] [*2217 8417*] he knew and allowed them to do the sins for which he [for which he] punished them now would I have you believe through fear of punishment in God - a Being perfect in his intelligence goodness mercy loving-kindness and justice and powerful as he is good. must shrink from the worship of one who approached him in dread - And if God himself, if the perfection of all goodness [evidence?] exists in the 5th Chapter of [?] John in the words of the Son that he and his father are one, and after telling the Jews this Father has shown him his actions and taught him in His ways that he is the same in every thing as the father He says in the 22nd verse in words that can neither be misunderstood or misused - For the Father judges no man, he leaveth all judgment unto the Son. and at the 27th verse he explains himself further, and the reason why the Judgment of men is given unto him for he says, The judgment is given [unto him] by the Father unto the Son, because he is the Son of Man - how much do these words mean - they undeniably show the careful love and mercy. of the Creator towards the Creation, for to lead men from the darkness and [?] that was on earth at that time it was necessary that a light. should be given them, a special providence should be shown them to direct them to the truth, but not this alone - The Father in his superiority and pure spirit could not be sufficiently near to the ills and the evils of the world and the flesh to know all the errors and wants of men and besides this, it was needful that an example should be shown by one of - [*48*] [*2217 8417*] themselves and to [show] [?] that he was not preaching humility [and] [?] living in affluence it was necessary that he who taught them should rise from the lowest station, he poor and needy, and have sorrows to strengthen those in affliction and to show them that piety and truth were not incompatible with poverty and wretchedness. who could do these offices who could make the word of God intelligible from the Spirit to material unless it was that Spirit incased in the material and made flesh, and the Son came, the Spirit of the Father descended from its place of holy happiness & went through bitter trials, Trials that the flesh shrunk from and the Spirit conquered and when the Holy Mission was fulfilled and the body was no longer needed, he died an ignominious death and was an example even then, for he showed them at the last when the bitter cup was full that he could pray for his destroyers & when dieing he turns his eyes with mercy for those suffering with him upon the cross, Although they were sinful & degraded that they should be with him in Heaven There must exist sufficient evidence to show that he is Divine And thus through being the Son of Man and knowing them well from his intimate companionship, when he returns to the Father that he had left through his merit, and his sacrifice he receives the reward of bestowing judgement on them he has left on Earth. And if he be the Judge who was so faithful upon Earth who cured even the ills of the flesh and was careful of the comfort and happiness of all that [*49*] 2217 8417 surrounded him, he who could come from Heaven to [lead] be a [martyr] weary pilgrim upon earth through life, and a Martyr in death, surely on the Sins of them he so loved he would be a mild judge, but it is necessary that he should be a just one, it would not be just to those who believed in him and were his faithful followers, to give them the same reward + the same happiness at the same time with those who [bl] blasphemed him and have knowingly cast him off, and therefore those who have known him through the records given of his life, those who with intelligence have reasoned and argued upon that life, if they do not believe in him and his union with the father unless they can follow in faith that which seems to them on the deepest consideration where sound and truthful doctrine, those who after having appealed in prayer for enlightenment from God and received from the Holy Spirit within them the conviction of a differing religion those are guilty of the greatest Sin In acknowledging the existence of the Savior of the world it is impossible that you can feel you are wrong, He does not wish to be worshipped openly with form or ceremony but to be recognized in the deep recesses of the heart, to receive a faith greater and better than [the] knowledge, to be turned to when the Spirit sinks under difficulties and the mind fears for the soul, turn to him and he will in no way cast you off. however erroneous my have been the past or however fraught with [*50*] 2217 8417 Sin he tells you in the words which are found in the same [chapter] book that I have spoken of - in speaking to men that he knew were deceiving him Who had worshipped him for the meal of Fishes + bread that he had given, but who were afterwards convinced of his miracle + feared him he says to them - " think not that I will accuse you - The hour is near even in the lives of the Youngest in which they shall see God. - And let me beseech you to think even at the Eleventh hour of the blessings and the peace of mind that would come from a belief and a reliance upon him, turn your thoughts from Earth to Heaven, for if you desire to attain that which is earthly, if you have ambition and obtain the desired [*x end*] and wished for distinction here, of what good will it be to you when every thing earthly is gone - and the Soul at one is punished or rewarded what good is wealth or distinction or Power at a time when the beggar takes precedence of a King. When him who died an ignominious death upon the scaffold for crimes imparted to him - who had repented at the last hour stands before and takes precedence of the judge that condemned him, when it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for the merits of riches or opulence to be noticed in the Kingdom of Heaven, and surely it is not worth shining for, that, which you can only retain for so short a space as life, to lose through it that which shall last you for Eternity - It is not necessary that life [*57*] [*2217 8417*] should be made miserable, that an appearance of martyrdom & depression & self penalty should be gone through in this life to obtain happiness hereafter - it is the reverse - Every pleasure and every joy that man can receive is given by God and it is not until man yields to the temptations offered by the Antagonist of Good, that he sinks into sin - And the influence of the Holy Spirit must ever bring with it calmness sincerity & joy to him who will possess it and its possession is within the pale of all. Turn to a belief of Faith a reliance on God his mercy and his power and the light of his countenance descending upon you, His Holy Spirit illuming your heart shall guide you and bring you safe to his eternal Home Mr Lea returned thanks & asked if the CA would favor him with further advice if requested [*2218 8418*] I will. May I ask if my friends GS. Lero is good & powerful that is sufficiently so to protect him from Evil Spirits attaching themselves to him or his mirror or should he discontinue Invoking at present [*2219 8419*] There is no need to give up communing with Spirits that are good His Guardian Spirit is a good one although not powerful, he would appear willingly and plainly had he those who could see him., but being called & having no means of communication it appears to them, as though they were knowingly called only to be trifled with and they go away, and others appear in their place, whom the seer is unable [*52*] is unable to distinguish from those who have left, for being unable to see clearly one evil brings about another & the whole goes wrong. It is necessary that his GS. should give him a seal the mirror being dedicated to him, and the reliance being put on him of sending that which is good, and giving a seal to the mirror in some degree attaches the spirit to it. Shall I or Mr Lea call Lero. [*2220*] Mr Lea had better call him 1/4 to 9 the CA left. Lero's Mirror Mr Lea. Invoked Lero 12' to 9 It is veiled, Lero is here dressed in black, the same face as before but all in black, fastened round the [waist] neck Pleased to show &c [*8421*] S.S I am Lero Why do you appear in black [*8422*] I am not so high as I was Is that the reason the letters are altered [*8423*] Yes Are you A Spirit of the Sun now [*8424*] Yes I trust there are hopes of your regaining your lost station [*8425*] I have done that which makes me less powerful. If I succeed in obtg. the desired Truth will that assist you [*8426*] Yes Can you give me a seal to enable my seer to see better & prevent evil spirits appearing [*8427*] I cannot at present Are you aware of any Evil Spirit [ends?] to attach itself to me [*8428*] Yes and it is through my not opposing them sufficiently that I have lost some of my power. [*53*] Shall I call you on Tuesdays or Fridays [*8429*] Try Tuesdays If you are not able to be seen will you kindly show any Vision instructing & interesting to assist my Seers Vision [*8430*] I will try to do so If any advice &c [*8431*] No I have not but if you should be convinced of what you have mentioned, and through that I should again have my former power, you would be able, and I should desire it, to dismiss me, from being your Guardian Spirit I am surprized at your remark, being ignorant of Spiritual Laws perhaps you will oblige me with your reason. [*8432*] Another Guardian Spirit would help you to progress further, I might hinder you, but do not dismiss me until your opinions are changed. As I wish to keep my mirror entirely for your appearance will you allow me to have Visions in my [?] Crystal [*8433*] You can have Visions in it, if you are able to see them. On any Evening [*8434*] There is no objection to your calling I wish to leave now Mr Lea returned thanks 9 PM. 26 Feb. 1856. CA Mirror 54 Invoked the CA. The CA is here WHE Ormerod and WW Moseley have this eve favored me with a visit will you kindly answer the questions they may wish to propose [84]35 2221 I will When M. Mosely was last here you stated he would become a seer he wishes to ascertain when he will be able to see 8436 2222 he will be able to see if he tries to develop the faculty. He might buy a mirror if the crystal proved unsuccessful. Can we see PURE Mr. Moseleys GS if we call him in this Mirror [8]437 2223 He will appear in the crystal When Mr. M. is here as indeed with any one in engaged in Spiritualism he feels a wind - or current of air as tho' it were blowing [?] [prism?] Especially his hands.- may I ask if that is occasioned by Spiritual means or [only] to be attributed to Nervous Mutability 8438 No answer have I made myself understood 8439 2224 You have I will answer you at another time Is the Influence good or evil 8440 2225 It is not the influence of any spirits appearing in or connected with this mirror He should exert his will in opposition to it MM uses certain means to become clairvoyant may I ask if those means are in any way prejudicial to his Spiritual or temporal welfare 8441 2226 They do no harm to the spirit, if you exercise control over that with which you communicate. I am not aware of his process may I ask if it really produces Clairvoyance 8442 2227 It does but in all modes of communicating with that which is beyond the absolute [*55*] control of men the greatest care should be taken in avoiding any thing which may seem to the judgment and reason wrong or to have evil influence No matter how much it may gratify to agree with the desires and opinions of those engaged - but if the conviction of right which every man under every circumstance retains - is shocked or repulsed, the action whatever that may be should be discontinued Are the [Globular?] & illuminated or radiant figures I see Spirits or optical illusions - [*2228*] Spirits Of what class. [*2229*] Spirits of all classes. If any &c [*2230*] I will appear again when Pure has left The CA's gone Pure's Crystal (M Moseley's) Invoked Pure. The Crystal's veiled here is some one very small, a Spirit dressed in white, light hair wings band. May I ask &c [*8446*] PURE Please to show &c [*8447*] AA Are you the GS of Mr W Moseley. [*8448*] I am Mr M. has called you about 15 times but his Visions has not yet become developed. Can you favor him with any advice to assist him therein [*8449*] I believe after a longer use of the Crystal he will be able to see Visions If I obtain a Mirror for him like my Oval Mirror & consecrate it to you will you kindly appear therein [*8450*] Yes May I request that you will favor him with any [*56*] advice upon Spiritual or other matters you may deem beneficial to him [*8451*] I think it would be best for him to begin the use of a mirror by calling, or rather asking to see lighter visions, than Spirits - because being unable at first to see clearly, when a Spirit appears after being called and the person inspecting is not able [to see] quite clearly to distinguish his countenance and figure, and is unable to read the answers to the questions asked, the Spirit may disappear and another appear immediately afterwards that he cannot tell from the one just departed so that the one who first appeared may be very good and the second much lower, and it is best when Spirits are called to use the exorcism on every fresh appearance. If I make Mr M. a mirror & consecrate it to you will you kindly appear in it to my Seer when I invoke you. [*8452*] I will appear in it first I ret thanks & Pure left. 25' to 9 PM. 26 Feb 1856 - 20' to 9 PM. Oval Mirror. Invoked Castoria [?] veiled. He is here in white, fastened at the waist. & round the neck with the stone bands - wings brown hair May I ask [*8453*] CASTORIA Please to show &c [*8454*] I AA Are you still the GS. of Mr. O. [*8455*] I am In what way can I best avail myself of your protection [*8456*] By making more sure your religious faith Will you point out the errors in my religious creed [*8457*] You have insufficient faith in the Mercy of God and of his Son, and you the Sont Leekham on Friday [*57*] erroneously believe in everlasting punishment Are my views on the Subject of prayer open to objection [*8458*] The communion of the heart in silence with its matter is the surest and safest way of obtaining his countenance, and the influence of His Holy Spirit - prayer is unavailable for deceased persons - neither is it desired with form or ceremony. Although I cannot for a moment believe in apostolic succession or the offices of "Priests" as such. - Yet is it not necessary that [ministers] there should be ministers of religion amongst the ignorant - & [uneducated?] [*8459*] Ministers of Gods Word are necessary Let them be found not as a class, not to be paid for their offices - not amongst those who in value of their office believe themselves to be elect - Let them teach others who know most themselves. Who feel most faith and at the same time humility in the worship of their God May I ask your view of the doctrine of the preexistence of [the] Human Souls [*8460*] There is one Quantity of human Spirit the same now as at the Creation of the World. That Spirit sent into the body cannot be destroyed, neither is it made for every body that it inhabits, but it is not a soul until the regeneration of the Spirit it is not the Soul until it comes into the presence of GOD after leaving the body - and is rewarded or punished Am I to understand that regeneration of the Spirit never takes place until after death. [*8467*] It does not. The regeneration of the spirit is the losing of all earthly qualities, when every earthly quality is gone from the Spirit [*58*] and it is pure as it came into the body then begins the new life - The second birth is the inhabiting of that spirit as a body of intelligence in the soul. What doctrine of future punishment am I to adopt instead of the doctrine of an Eternal Hell. [*8462*] The argument is this If you allow at the last, that GODs creation which he has endowed with the qualities (?) of himself falls into the hands of his opponent. and becomes his everlastingly. You give unto him more power than unto GOD for you make him triumph Whereas at the last, when the power [?] is no longer necessary to --------- --------- give man the option of choosing as a responsible being between right and wrong - when all men are spiritual and the earth is destroyed then will the powers of Evil be destroyed with it - and God alone will reign at the end as at the beginning - And again if you believe that the Almighty punishes with the most fearful torments forever the creation, that in every thing known He has shown his unbounded Love for - whilst He seeing & knowing all and to whom all hearts are open looks on and allows them to do through human frailty the sins that he afterwards punishes them for Eternally. and if you believe in him through fear of punishment, there cannot be love & reliance offered up to him in prayer. - There is another less objectionable view of Eternal Punishment - opposed to the Orthodox. - which makes it to consist in being thrown back eternally in the scale of progress - may that view be held consistently See original 59 with a faith in GOD's Mercy 8463 You mean that after death the Spirit shall always remain in the atmosphere — that is impossible — because the Spirit must be purified of every thing earthly before it can rise to the presence of GOD. this purification takes place through the Seven spheres , and as all must ascend to him and wait until the termination of all things ,until the last day to be judged for it is not until they all become purely Spiritual — until the last is as spiritual as the first— that the judgment can take place and then when they are all perfect alike the good with the bad — there is either the reward of remaining in his presence in perfect happiness for Ever or of being punished by Committing over again that which on Earth carried the sin and as the spirit has the same sensibility and the same desire for happiness as those who are rewarded — this punishment is the keenest that can be givEn. D. The new that suggested itself to me was this That man by fulfilling his duty in this life would be promoted to a higher life after death, and upon fulfilling his duty in this higher life , to a life still higher after its completion and so on for Ever but that by sin — man forfeited this privilege and could thus be made by the misuse of his Freewill a sufferer forever by losing his promotion. HavE I made myself understood 8464 Yes But Earth is the only place in which man can exercise his free will, and is responsible for his doctrines — before he comes with the world , and there is no lower State than the world for the Spirit of The Seventh[?] [*60*] Man he is not master of himself he is only a part of the existing universal spirit, but when he comes into the flesh and the spirit has greater power than the flesh, the good has more power than the evil - when the good and evil are combined and the good triumphs over its antagonist - then it has done that for which it shall be rewarded - but if the Evil overcomes the Good and the man falls then knowingly he has rejected the means by which he might be saved - but at the end of life the responsibility ceases - but the actions of the life are recorded and kept-. There are only seven spheres between the spirit of God and of Man disembodied - and whilst he Is passing through those seven spheres he is neither doing that which is a good or bad, he is neither lowering himself or raising himself but in the natural course of events he is being purified for the judgment day. Are the other planets inhabited by responsible beings in some degree similar to Man. [*8465*] They are not. They are God's Creation but not in the same position as man. and they are generally the abodes of spirits that have not been embodied. Are the inhabitants of H similar in form to Man [*8466*] They have no form unless they leave their world for another, and being spiritual they have the power of giving sight of form. - they can embody themselves in appearance but not in reality- We are to infer that spirits have the power of rendering themselves recognized by the indwellers of spheres below them. by assuming the forms of the Several Spheres 61 8467 It is so - to Spirit from spiritual - to Man, as a being of Earth, in the Spirit world we know each other as a body of intelligence without matter. - in the material the intelligence must be clothed to be known and recognized by man. Altho' the relative Gravity of H is so much less than that of the Earth., Yet it is material how then Spirits inhabit a Material body 8468 Spirits inhabit the earth and pass thro' water. and if they can pass simply through walls so they can Exist in a complete body of matter. You describe yourself as a Spirit assuming human form to [?] our faculties, may I ask if you belong to any particular planet (Now he shows the letter) 8469 These letters indicate the Sphere to which I belong. May I ask if you, like the C.A. can pass through all the Spheres. 8470 I go from the 1st to the 5th and from the 5th to the Atmosphere. Is the Sun part of the Spheres & are the planets included in the orbits of the 7 Spheres 8471 They cannot pass from the spheres into the Sun or the planets, or from the planets back again to the Spheres they remain permanently in either unless they are degraded from the Spheres and go back into the Sun or unless they are raised from the Sun into the Spheres. Spirits that do not their duty in the Spheres are banished entirely from them., they do not fall from one sphere into that beneath them. Have you been a Spirit of the Sun Yourself 62 8472 I have not Could you give me any Sign that you are my GS it is a so difficult a thing for the mind to grasp 8473 I cannot make myself felt Unless I can bring Conviction to your mind through spiritual means I must remain as I am - still your guardian, Though unrecognized I can perform the same offices Will you tell me what those offices are 8474 In Life I strengthen as much as possible your good endeavors, and I ward off Evil I can do this without your knowledge but at death when you need me and I am at hand when my services are required then I shall be found ready and shall be known. Have you the power to ward off temporal or only Spiritual Evils 8475 The Origin of all Evil is Spiritual May I ask how it is the Doctrine of Guardian Spirits is not insisted upon in the [Xhin?] Revelation 8476 Because it is not necessary It would have a tendency of leading Man to rely upon his GS. when his own efforts alone are to procure him his award. May I ask if you have any advice [?] favor me with before leaving - 8477 I have not now, I would Commune with You again, and I trust as I feel sure that under Divine providence I should be able to bring You to a true view of the one religion - And that a religion on which you could rest with confidence and faith, and not be harrassed by such conflicting opinions See the cam[?] as this [?] My [?] 63 If my crystal is dedicated to you may rely upon you appearing in it to those having the gift of seeing Spirits 8478 You may [?] Thanks 10. PM CA Mirror Invoked the C A the CA is here with the Book. As it is now so late I shall be unable to receive the continuation of your work this Evening, but hope to be favored with it next Tuesday Evg._ May I ask of my &c. I have not this evening 8479 This book would have been finished at one more sitting, and as it is concluded by remarks on spirits aborve man I had wished that Mr. [Ormerod?] sh'd be present. I should be very happy to see Mr. O. here next Tuesday, but if his Engagements will not permit it he can have my first copy to peruse. 8480 Be it so 10 past 10 PM The C A has left. [?] 4 March 1856. CA Mirror 25' to 8 PM Invoked the C.A. The C.A.'s here on Tuesday last regretted to learn that your Book on Metaphysical Spiritual Philosophy- was so near its termination - may I receive the [?] this Evening 8481 I gave you that for yourself-I did not 2231 intent it to be made public- it is the My only Clairvoyance the of and having spirit into the body [*64*] most important parts of the subject it heats of- and if arising from them you should desire further elucidation, I will with pleasure give you my remarks at length The parts that appear most worthy of your notice I would willingly answer your questions upon. As to "altering in some places-the grammar &c In giving you my responses I hope as much as possible to make you acquainted with my meaning, I am aware it is often in imperfect words and you being able to give it to others grammatically still retaining the meaning, it is desirable that you should do so I would rather give it earnestly and simply than in doubtful language however high flown I explained- 2233 I am [?]. then Mr. Moseley [?] here he informed me that Dr. Buder a gent who is clairvoyant in his normal. state- he finished his with a process providing clairvoyance in my humor may I ask your opinion of the process. Mr. Moseley believes that it produces 2234 clairvoyance - but it only arouses the faculty which he has strongly within 8484 him for communication with all kinds of spirits - it would not act in the some way over those who have not the power so that 20 might try it + only one succeed. Clairvoyance_ which is the entering of the spirit into the body_ and the suspension of the spiritual faculties { Atmospheric Spirits The Evil + the good X Spirit of all them [?] on the same plane [*65*] [*8484*] belonging to it - is dangerous to all who cannot control the faculty. In the first place spirits higher than those of the atmosphere cannot possibly enter it - were these alone to do so all would be well as regards spiritual welfare but there are others much lower than those of the atmosphere who have the same power and are ever ready to exert it. - and as they are encouraged by the party without his knowledge of their class - and having once entered it they become the only visitors, for after they have been there those after them are driven away. The Globular illuminated spots that Mr Moseley sees are these spirits undeveloped to his Vision - When he gets the power of seeing them, he will also see in a mirror or crystal. & be in every respect a medium for spiritual communication - When I said that they were spirits of all classes - I did not mean that they were above the atmosphere Mr Moseley when here & I believe generally when with persons engaged in Spiritual Communications feels a current as it were of wind blowing over him particularly his hands - you kindly promised an explanation. [*2235 8485*] It is the influence of Spirits over him - of inferior spirits desiring to make themselves felt and recognized that they may act in opposition to good. Mr Moseley being of an undecided mind & very imperfect The faculty - not to be [?] This had reference to the end times of many a divines [?] known to us [*66*] religious opinions - and very weak will - ought all the more strongly to oppose the influence of any thing upon his body, that may appear Spiritual far better receive what conviction he can from the Arguments laid open to his judgment and reason - but I should strongly advise him not to allow their influence over him in any way whatever. I ret'd thanks I remarked my own failure after so many years study of Spiritualism being unable even in the slightest manner to develop the faculty in myself [*2236 8486*] It is an innate faculty It cannot be given or obtained by any means of man. neither in many cases is it desirable. If any advice &c. [*2237 8487*] Two Tuesdays ago when Mr Lea was present I was rather injured that he did not, & that he never does speak of his religion, either objecting with Argument to what I have said or placing opinions of his own upon the Subject - he has never made any remark. Do you think that he will be seriously brought to believe in the Divinity of Christ - he gives no reason why he cannot do so. I explained on behalf of my friend. [*2238 8488*] I trust that it may be so I pray to God that he may be brought to believe with faith in His Sons redemption - it seems so slight an obstacle to belief - that of the (bad) lives of men however influential If they blaspheme the Doctrine 67 that they preach -- it does not make it less pure, or less reproachful to them for doing so -- and if their actions belie their words why notice either -- when those words can be found without their aid -- or without their ministration. As to going to Mr Lea's on ♃ die 2239 8489 You have but I do not wish you to call any Spirits May I now recieve &c 25 past 8 PM The books come its opened & the C As left - 2240 8490 When the Spirit leaves the body &c, down to the conclusion ---- [Illustration] Crowned Angel of the Seventh Sphere ♂︎die 11 March 1856 7 30 PM CA Mirror The CA is here As I have not got my firm copy of your work on Metaphysics at home, it being at the book binders -- may I ask if it is agreeable to you to continue your remarks on the revelations of St John. 2241 8491 If you have any other questions this Evening I would rather defer this until after you have finished with your remarks on my late work. Explanation of the Vision [?] of my M L - Spirit passing thru matter See A W Vol 2 68 [Upon] May I ask the meaning of the Vision we received of the Spirit man being formed from the Earth. - & if it had any relation to my wish to become a member of the F.R.C. called the Invisibles 2242 8492 It was the existence of Spirit in connection with Material, showing that nothing in creation is too Substantial, too Earthly or too minute for the Creation & the passage through of Spirits one of the Theories of the Rosicrucians is that Spirit spring spontaneously from matter, as animal[?] does into life. - Through this they recognize in great and important things as well as in minute and unnecessary. the existance of Spirit without any great cause, that is without an intelligent law existing to bring by the power of its will the Spirit into action. Now in this vision although the Spirit rose through every kind of material and gathered from each its peculiar properties you could see that an agency was at work that concentrated in the being rising the properties from each instance necessary for the formation of a complete whole, and then having from the multitude of Specs centered in the object the properties required from them. a something is thrown back amongst the useless material I then related the Divisions which took place in the mirror & the various actions in each scene - & asked the meaning of the Images of the Spirit-Man appearing above each. [*69*] [*2243 8493*] This Spirit created from the qualities of the Earth & made perfect after rising to its Surface is seen in the different stages of its existance throughout the Vision These various scenes are those in which this Spirit tries to make his influence felt, and altho it descends to each party in sympathy it does not as you observe seem to touch them, only to be present as a witness of what it desires to effect. It is the Spirit in its first stage mixing with life and receiving knowledge through its yet but partly developd faculty of separating itself, and of being present in different places at the same time. The Spirit in this stage is of the Atmosphere - yet perfectly good & desiring to raise itself amongst better Spirits of a higher order, and yet at the same time appertaining by its sympathy and love to man. The classes of Spirits are very numerous but if any desire good, they cannot but obtain it, if they be not positively belonging to the power of Evil. In the succeeding Vision a Spirit-Man also appeared to be formed from myriads of colored specs floating in the sea - may I ask its meaning [*2244 8494*] The same as the Earth it was to show that the same Spirit can come out of the different Elements & that even if its both be in the centre 70 of all Evil, such as the water. it can by the pure qualities of itself independt of their influence obtain the same Standing as those who receive their being from a better source.- and in the whole showing that the life of Spirits as of Men is not predestined, and that be their origin what it may, or their situations provided they exist between the boundary of the established law between Good and Evil - they are not bound to one course or to one State - but are through their own endeavors, and their own goodness to work their way if they so desire it to the state of those created in perfect Purity. for the descension and not [the rising from the spirit material] from the rising from [the] material of Spirit - that is - to explain it better When Spirit descends it comes from God perfect. but when it ascends it is through His influence us in from gross material and therefore comes away from it with no impurities and is obliged to rise by no Efforts at purification to the state that others are created in at once do you understand me. I thank you - may I now ask the meaning of the Divisions in the mirror in which the Image of the Man Spirit - appeared amongst the actors in the different scenes. 2245 8495 The Spirit in this view was Several Stages higher than in the one you [*71*] first saw it has received the knowledge of its influence in its journeying among better Spirits, and this time its action is observed amongst the people that it descends upon - You see it amongst them - and it is beginning to make felt its good endeavors in attaching itself to them and making itself as an instigator of good, in part their Guardian May I ask if the Visions thus shown of the man-Spirit rising from Earth & Water are Symbolical - or if Spirits of a lower order really rise from the "Spiritual Qualities" in matter as depicted [*2246 8496*] The Spirit of God exists at the foundation of every thing created, of every thing in Nature - and by the action of His Will upon it, it is brought into life but still it does not exist perfect in every minute part if so, it would be a complete Spiritual body. in other Creation as in man and therefore to make that complete Spiritual existence it is necessary, that each part in Nature in which exists different properties belonging to the Spirit should be brought together and and in their union make a complete body - and thus showing different from the doctrine of the Rosicrucians that the Intelligence & the love of GOD must be exercised over every part that is used in the formation of Spirit, for the Spiritual Qualities that exist in all the different sections of material must be brought together [*72*] in proportionate qualities and the same power must be exerted to unite these quantities when in exact proportion and after making from their continuation a spiritual life - to cast back for a fresh supply of the same qualities, the different portions of Material that are no longer required when the Spirit is extracted. Is Spirit then not a simple indivisible quality. but a compound of various qualities [*2247 8497*] Yes. How many Qualities exists in Man to make one Individual Spirit Animation intelligence and life and as I have before said the same Spirit that exists in man, exists disembodied in the whole spiritual world - It is only the flesh that makes the difference and hinders the Communion between the two. Do those Spirits that rise as depicted from the Elements - & are not embodied in man, rise daily or have their Spiritual birth at stated periods [*2248 8498*] They rise sometimes few and sometimes many as they are wanted to take their share in the progression of all things, when men live and it is necessary that they should be governed by peculiar Spirits, these act and it is not until the birth of the individual over whom they have power that their formation takes place. Leesnyenul [*73*] 2249 8499 The mind of Man must judge the [?] of his Fellows to form opinions of them and the books of Jesus are intended to convey the meaning , "Condemn not that Ye may not be condemned" The actions of Louis Napoleon must revolt the Sense of right existing among men, and their judgment on him must therefore be severe, but he should be rather looked upon as a willing Agent in the hands of inferior Spirits for no man unaided by them could surmount all difficulties + pass before the very point of the sword as he has done. - But if these bad Spirits finding him a willing agent for their desp[?]m - have tempted him to act in obedience to them by exalting him to the most eminent position he is responsible for it, for he knows as well as those who judge him, of his infamous conduct, and he is also aware of being under the influence of what he calls Destiny [* ? scratched out ? *] 74 2250 8500 rather, Can you think that those prayers avail themselves with him to whom they are addressed, is it not a mockery of Even the term religion and a blasphemy of the GOD. to which that religion ought to lead - But Still Evil and darkened with Crime as these men are, and hateful as they make the form of the religion they desecrate - does not the Pure faith of true Christianity appear the very brighter in its truthful and simple majesty when unconnected with their mass of Falsehood and Error. It seems to me that it throws back by its own merit & purity their false assumptions. Some time since an At'c Spirit - who Called himself [the] Louis Napoleon. appeared in our Crystal & said that he used a Crystal & Seeress & that his G Spirit was named Jacon. - indeed he often appeared then called was that his At'c Spirit - 2251 8501 It was so I was also informed that whilst Louis Napoleon is under the Protection of that Spirit, he was safe from Fire Arms. - but that he would Eventually lose it. 2252 8502 Probably it will be so for Evil Spirits always, destroy the tools that are no longer necessary or useful to them, they do not give all and receive nothing in return. When as mortals we study the Life of the first Napoleon we find a similar mind - the sole end of his aim & existence Centered in himself - all self-aggrandizement Ej + the Dutch [?]ouiral [*75*] + however much we may be astonished at the universe power of will + mind such men display it is but perjury murder [?] on a large scale. - which make up these "Master Minds" may I ask your view of his charactor 2252 8503 I believe his charactor to be very different from the one who calls himself his Nephew. - He had a very great desire of making himself the ruler of the Civilized World, but to do this he did not sacrifice like the present one Justice and honor. In all his battles he fought vainly - he did not sacrifice wantonly human life - or kill without mercy all that impeded his progress every action of his life shared a great and noble but a sadly misdirected mind - Whilst that of the present Emperor shows indomitable courage and will exercised no matter [?] or on whom, or by what means so that his ambition may be satisfied I say as you are doubtless aware the greatest diference to your opinions so kindly + so freely given to me but I am forced to say that I differ from your totally on Napoleons Merits - That he was one of the most extraordinary men that ever lived - it wd be mere folly to deny.- but his motives were entirely selfish - the very wish to rule all the Civilized World without reference to the wishes of the [?] was [?] but his private letters, the real touchstone of the man show that for his own ends - Murder was as nothing in his eyes.- (see opposite) + plunder his [?] - 2253 8504 I do not for a moment consider Napoleon the 1st 76 him to have been right in any of his Actions — for of all things that I desire and know to be for the best is Equality upon Earth., and I believe that the fact in itself of one man being Above others, causes those below to do more wickedness & Crime from Circumstances than they would from will, but judging Napoleon from his life, I believe him to have acted with more Honor the the present one. truly I can easily grant that he had more honor than one who by no possible logic can be shown to have been other than a perjurer & a murderer. & will so leave it —. About 2 years Since it was intimated to me that Napoleon x wished to appear in My Mirror & Vindicate his Character, Circumstances prevented my allowing this at the time — the Circumstance of this wishing to appear in the Mirror of So obscure an individual as myself -- & for such a purpose has appeared to me to have been some Singular illusion or hallucination 2254 8505 Then you do not believe that after death all distinctions are levelled that he the Great Emperor is as humble and as Lowly as the poorest Soldier killed by his mandate. — for if you believed this , and think that he desires to clear himself of Some acts imputed to him to hi[s]m [memory] on Earth you must know that the means of doing so, is only through Spiritual communication and if the means of this Spiritual Communication is [*77*] limited to so few, why is it strange that one of them, and perhaps the only one, in which he was ever considered of should be chosen by him for that Medium If any &c [*8506*] I have not 10' to 10 PM. [?]die 18 March 1856 8 PM. C A Mirror Invoked the C.A. Having been closely engaged this week with business I have not been able to prepare any questions upon your work on Metaphysical Phil'y. - May I ask some others. [*2255*] I will answer them A Mr. Brown. of Nottingham has recently published a small pamphlet upon Crystal working, he appears only to use the powers given by Peter d'Abano & others, & he states that he has never seen any Spirits expect those of [*2256 8508*] If he invokes Spirits from the forms of the antient Magi and adhereset o their rules - he calls the planetary Spirits and they being called, appear and what they call spheres is the different ranks of Spirits inhabiting the planets. The knowledge of these Spirts are limited to their own station & they conceive theres to be the graduated scale of existences because they know of no other. Yet I observe they appear to be aware of things & events happening on Earth as he states they have predicted events [*78*] of importance which have happened to a friend of his x & predicted also others in connection with an approaching - revolution in this kingdom - may I ask how planetary spirits can do this [*2257 8509*] They see signs upon Earth, they know the future from the present. - for in the Natural course of Events, as one thing follows another, they can see in the first the developing of the next, and in that omens of the future, but it is [?] Spirits of inferior states that know these things, for to know them they must be intimately concerned with the things taking place in the world. - They are acquainted and make themselves intimate with things and forms whilst those of a higher state seek only to Commune with the intelligence - The Spirit [*see 8500*] - This class of Spirits perfectly good will make themselves felt & will connect themselves with material by writing or clapping or even in some cases, by possession They have the power of doing so but the means are open also without the knowledge of those giving them to Spirits of the worst and the lowest orders, and if one of these Good Spirits manifest themselves once, and Evil ones take their place, they never do so again, it is the same with Clairvoyance and with all other Spirit Communication through the body May I ask you the reason why, during the Late Lord Stanhopes lifetime - when he invoking Tercho. in his Crystal & On Sunday Capt. H. Murray [&??] Benton (The [?] visited me at Croydon. In pm requesting the name of this Guardian Spirit from. See the following Note. Sir, I must thank you for your kind note which I received on my return from a visit to Lord Stanhope t& his seer. Yesterday morning - after along sitting my Guardian Spirit was called for and his name appeared clearly. MORO. and he stated he had been my Guardian Spirit for 20 years. There is evidently a sad delusion somewhere. I shall be glad to hear about M Parkyns whenever you have ascertained the information sought. Yours Odediently, H Murray 15 King, St. James [*79*] J. Hunder in mine upon asking the name of the Guardian Spirit of the Hble Captn. Murray, we received two different names [*2258 8510*] Capt Murray has only one GS. but he has 3 attendants, the late Lord Stanhopes Crystal was visited by a Spirit of the same class as Orion, when he exorcised him properly he disappeared but he very seldom did this he generally only said "If you are not the Spirit I called, I command you to depart" he might as well have said nothing I think you still mistake the Answer that I made just now to your Question. When I said these planetary Spirits can enter into Communication with man through Material means, I did not for a moment mean to imply that they were then manifesting themselves at the present time and who began so thickly in [?] they are one and all decidedly Evil I meant rather that these Spirits made themselves known ages ago as well as now to those who sought (without a desire for any earthly reward,) for knowledge of what would have otherwise been beyond their reach and they have rapped and made noises as omens of death, they have been by their actions the foretellers of Important Events to the nations of the Earth and they have interfered through Clairvoyance to dreams in the favor of mortals to whom these "Theory of Pneumatology. - in reply to the question what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning Presentiments Visions & Apparitions - by Dr. Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling - Translated by Samuel Jackson. London Longman 12 [?] 4/10. 1834 Eckartshausen. in the 2nd Edition of his Key to Magic. 1791. page 57 relates that a Scotsman, who had learnt the Art from a Jew - Communicated to Eckhartshausen & also made the experiment with him - He that wishes to raise & see any particular Spirit must prepare himself for it for some days together both Spiritually and physically - a vapour is then produced in a room from certain Materials which he will propriety does not divulge on account of the dangerous abuse which might be made of it - which visibly forms itself into a figure which bears a resemblance to that which the person wishes to see. - E. further says - sometime after the departure of the Stranger I made the experiment for one of my friends He saw as I did and had the same sensations. The observations we made were these As soon as the ingredients are thrown into the Chafing dish a whitish body forms itself that seems to hover above the Chafing dish as large as life It possesses the likeness of the person whom we wished to see, only the visage is of an ashy paleness On approaching the figure one is conscious of a resistance similar to what is felt when going against a strong wind which drives one back If one speaks with it, one remembers no more distinctly what is spoken, and when the appearance vanishes one feels as if awaking from a dream The head is stupified & a contraction is felt in the abdomen - It is also very singular that the same appearance presents itself when one is in the [*80*] appeared danger approaching They are separate and perfectly distinct from the Power of Evil. now so universally felt and they will remain when that as sin has died. Heinrich [Jung?] - called [Jung?] Stilling - in his Theory of Pneumatology relates that a Scotsman gave to Eckhartshausen a powder which being burnt in a Chafing dish - presented the form of a deceased person, desired - I have also among my magical manuscripts, several formulas for like purposes to which I wished at a future time to draw your attention, may I ask if you are aware of the Ingredients of Eckhart'ns Powder [*2259 8571*] I was not aware of the particular instance you mention, but I know the process. - of procuring the appearance of deceased people before they lose their form by ascending from the Atmosphere into the first Sphere. Will you to advance my knowledge of Spiritualism, inform me of that Process. [*2260 8572*] If the body of the deceased is buried three feet below the Surface of the Ground without of course any thing put to preserve it, it wd decay in the same length of time as the Spirit is after death passing through the Atmosphere - This is in ordinary cases It is insisted upon by some Spirits as a rule but there are many exceptions - To tell in which state the Spirit is you must look at the bones, and if they do not upon the air being admitted crumble into dust the Spirit is yet in the atmosphere and knowing this dark, or upon looking upon dark objects - The unpleasantness of this Sensation was the reason why I was unwilling to repeat the Experiment although often urged to do so by many persons. A young [person] Gentleman once came to me and would perforce see the Phenomenon. - . I made the Trial one day after dinner but scarcely had I cast the Quantity of ingredients into the Chafing dish when a figure presented itself. I was however siezed with such a horror that I was obliged to leave the room, I was very ill during 3 hours and thought I saw the figure always before me - towards Evening after inhaling the fumes of Vinegar & drinking it with water I was better again but for 3 weeks afterwards I felt a debility, & even now when I remember the Circumstance and look for some time upon any dark object this Ashy pale figure still presents itself very visibly to my sight - after this I no longer dared to make any experiments with it The same Scotsman gave me another powder and asserted that if it were burnt in a Churchyard during the Night a Multitude of the dead would be seen hovering over the Graves; but as this powder consisted of narcotic Ingredients which were still more potent I never ventured to make the attempt. Ibid page 202. Eckhartshausen says he has known people driven mad with it. (The Ingredients are (8) [violently] Narcotic. Consisting of Cicala - Hyosciani - Circi - [?] - Opi &c &c see [?] Ms. Magical [?] page - ) The 2nd Experiment only consists of 3 ingredients [?] [*81*] You take &c &c. and the form of the Spirit comes from the atmosphere & appears in the smoke arising from it. Does it matter of what ingredts the Perfume is composed or will the incense do [*2267 8573*] Yes or myrrh alone, or indeed any other pure scent - I read Eckarthausens narrative of his trying the Experiment successfully - but with the unpleasant result of always when in the dark or looking at a dark object, having the Phantom present & this after a lapse of years. [*2262 8574*] Indian hemp as in a degree similar effects, the Gentleman that appears in your Crystal and Mirror and calls himself Mr Anderson has used Indian Hemp for this purpose, but I think the appearance is caused through the Effects upon the imagination more than through the appearance of the Spirit in reality, any preparation for receiving Spirits is perfectly useless - but if after preparing for them and thinking strongly about the one appearance that you desire, and believing from the powerful narcotic the object will be seen., the mind is worked almost to a frenzy, and the senses being overpressed by the vapor., the man believes that he is influenced by the Spirit - and the mind of the man - being fixed on the one Spirit he desires, draws that Spirit towards him and by sympathy it makes the Vapor assume its shape without its really appearing at all. for if it really [*82*] appeared and held Communion with him it could not possibly appear always afterwards for that would be making it an attendant on him, instead of a deceased body working in another state for its own advantage. [*2284 8575*] The method that I mentioned [*see also [No.] page 96*] actually brings down to the spot the Spirit of the deceased person, and then without the influence of a narcotic they can hold Communion, and it is of the two the least objectionable, for when that Spirit disappears, it is gone if man desires it for ever - its image is gone and it has no Power except through his will to return - whereas that which exists in his imagination and enters with its influence into him, may haunt a sensitive and nervous person. from its always appearing when alone and in darkness or seeming to follow everlastingly behind - it may haunt him to death - There are many reasons why I should not wish to practice the formula you have kindly given me, the more so as I have so much more agreeable methods of Invoking the dead. - Yet - may I ask judging from Analogy. Could I not by your Formula, cause the Ghost of any small animal Bird &c. to appear. [*2263 8576*] No you must have the Sympathy between the two Intelligences - Because every Creature in Nature is as distinct as Man and the [?] of one particular [*83*] Bird taken from the many that live and die could only act upon the individ'l. of whom existence they formed part. So that that individual one must be selected out from the many forms of them existing above. and brought down to its remains That difficulty occurred to me when I placed the question before you. - may I ask if in the atmospheric world there exist the Spiritual forms of Lions Tigers &c as well as Domestic Animals. [*2264 8577*] They do not exist, those only exist that were connected with man upon the Earth. - and which forms to him his World. I have related the narrative of the Gentleman who saw the Ghost of his dog, that had recently died - from Species Sights & Sounds - [*2265 8578*] It is so, that is not the first animal form that has appeared after death. There is another proof of it, You have seen animals in the Crystal You must be aware the body cannot enter there. But we have many very many times seen in our visions furniture. Crystals - Tables. indeed the whole appurtenances of different mansions - & if forms those things have no Spirits - yet we seen them [*2266 8579*] Yes but there is the distinction between life and motion & that which is inanimate & still. May I ask in Elucidation of our Visions, we have seen for instance Mr Anderson - with his Crystal in his hand with all the Elegant appendages of his Apartments [*84*] to have also seen him + many others in laughable situations - Seen their dialogues = Mr Anderson has also told us, in his Crystal. I of situations he has seen us in + even curcimstances we did not wish known - does then, Our surroundings exist in the atmosphere with our atmospheric Spirits 2267 8520 The same things exist or rather likeness of them in connection with your atmospheric Spirits, and altho they cannot destroy them or keep them from being as you have them they have sufficient will and power of exercising it to alter the things as the appearance at the same time as it is with you Supposing Mr Anderson to be looking Now and desiring to see your atmospheric Spirit which has so many times appeared that Spirit on bearing the Atmosphere would have the option of taking with it the whole or the half or none of the [?] by which you are surrounded, but it could not change them [?] others, altho it might appear with the same things and the same actions belonging to you Yesterday. Will you inform me the Name of a Spirit who will cause the bird-Spirit to appear - according to the formula 2268 8521 You must use the call for deceased persons Substituting the name of the Spirit for the deceased Person + making in addition your request for the appearance of the bid May I ask the name. [Series of symbols drawn at bottom of page] 8522 85 May I ask the English of the Cabalistic Characters you have given 2269 8523 I cannot translate it because it is not letters it is Spiritual Language, it has no meaning that I could make understandable to you You must &c &c. And it answers exactly the Same purpose Any call may be used that has no divine name in it, for although the Spirits using the Authority are not evil, they are not high. The Characters you have just given & also those at the End of Your Work are almost identical with the Characters in Magical MSs. particularly the Clavis Salomonis Reges and Rabbi Solomon - may I ask if your work is written in those characters. 2270 8524 No it is not. If any &c 2271 8525 I have not this Evening 1/4 to 10 PM. Oval Mirror Called Mr Anderson Now hes here in great coat & hat Good Evening M A I hope you are well 8526 Good Evening Sir I thought you were a Gentleman of Your word - You must recollect if I am only an appearance , I have got a Memory, about a month ago or a little more you very politely asked me to Appear and see you on the following Friday - You told me You should be pleased to devote a Friday Evening to [*See Feb [12] 8" p 37 I did as him the follg friday *] 86 my presence, I have tried to appear [many] [times] every Friday Evening since, and have found you - not at home - altho perfectly visible in my Crystal = I explained and asked if when I so appeared I had any conversation with him 8527 You talked a great deal, told me all about the Plum Cake business down at Limehouse Have you used your New Mirror yet. 8528 I have used it, but with very little success the veil still continues over the front., but I think every time it gets more transparent I cant tell the reason why it appears at all if it desires to remain partly invisible I will ask the C A the reason. & let you know, but that does not prevent your dialogue 8529 I cant see the answers. The reading and all appears behind the same veil, I can see the shape of the letters but it seems to me if they were a little darker, they would show thro the transparency, sufficient for me to read I have no doubt they will do so in time, I shall not be very well satisfied if the Veil is not removed entirely, because there can be no possible reason for a Spirit trying to conceal any thing which of there own will they Choose to appear. I explained my views as to the reason, for their not appearing plainer 8530 If the form is not every way suitable why not take another, surely they have the Power of doing that. if they can take 87 one at all, it seems as though they only do it to worry me I do get so irritable, what reason do you think it has for not appearing without the Vail I ment'd as to the difference of Sexes 8531 Yes but why not take another form - I do not think that. - I have ever found there is something in Spiritualism in whatever shape or however beautiful - repulsive to every earthly desire - The other evening I am afraid I drove it away - I could not help it but after earnestly desiring it to appear plain or rather make the answers intelligible, I began to try and exercise my will as strongly as possible over it - I closed my eyes, from a sudden impulse I could not resist I snatched at it, foolishly thinking that the strength of the Effort might remove it - I broke my nail against the glass and when I looked every vestige of it was gone - That was the last time Do you remember once telling me of an Italian in Germany shaming you [from] in a vapor caused by having incense the form of a deceased relative 8532 O yes I recollect, I dont think I shall forget it in a hurry, from the time I saw it till the time I went to the Crimea it was always before my Eyes I read the CA's Communication upon that subject + asked if he had ever used Indian hemp for that purpose. 8533 I have smoked it a great many times & that produces a perfect Spirit World But not I suppose without great injury to the System 88 It must have a very baneful influence but it is most delightful I should like to try it once 8534 You must begin very cautiously, the first time I had about half a german pipeful Afterwards I tried more but it is the same as opium, each succeeding dose has a weaker effect, a strong dose at first would kill any one before the effects could be thrown off. I dont do it now, because I am afraid, I am not so rash as I was When I asked the CA. for the name of the Spirit who would cause the apparition of the Birds - these characters appeared - can you see them 8535 Yes Did you see such in your Crystal 8536 I never have Shall I tell you the formula 8537 Is it by Evil means No 8538 I should like very much to know it, then You can do it without harm I consider so, as the bird only would appear. 8539 Yes, but you are mistaken, a spirit appears too, you will find, you dont use those exorcisms for nothing You wont succeed so. I believe they have not the power of appearing unless influenced by a Spirit - in my opinion you might as well do circle work, better perhaps because you do confine your Spirit and if you are nothing more powerful in the call than its own name - how are you to get [*89*] on with the dismissal - perhaps I am shy because I have been so often duped - but still precautions should in all cases be taken I thank you much, but I cannot think the CA would mislead me - to deal with Evil Spirits [*8540*] I dont say it is evil but if any Spirit, was to visibly appear to you the size of life and remain and you found you could not dismiss it even were it pure as an archangel, you would not desire it - Have you heard our humane-philadelphian - Louis, has got a son. 8541 Yes I have I wish they were all three drowned together, and the race of the Napoleons drowned for ever. - and yet it seems that he is formed by some spiritual means, for he certainly knows events before they take place, his whole life is so strange and I think he must have known when in exile and a prisoner of the events that are now taking place. he formerly use to appear in my Crystal & said he used Crystal work. - he is certainly though our "Noble & Gallant Ally" nothing but a perjured murderer. - 8542 And yet his wildest ambitious dreams have been realized, when he was streaking about London in disgrace, it did not seem possible that so short a space of time should see him Emperor, and the honoured Guest of the Queen of England But perhaps the Pst. would like to try a Coup d'etat here 8543 And then to add one more favour to the many fortune has befriended him - Can a [*90*] Power that is as we believe Almighty look on and allow one man, with the guilt of thousands on his head triumph over every obstacle and obtain the Proudest Eminence in Europe whilst one like Robert Owen can live for his age and not receive even an answer to a single petition to Parliament I alluded to. [*8544*] I think that's humbug, if he does intend it, he will be shot long before he does it - It is now late. I only draw my Conclusions from the Trinity Dinner & the threatened marriage with Eunice [*8545*] It is very probable and one act leads to another, if the Sovereign and the people are alienated the time may not be far distant when England may be a glorious Republic, no one sooner than I would fight against them as I have against my own Country The People will not allow it, the Army are not as in France so completely in favor of the Crown. Yes I will appear Ret [*8546*] Well I am very sorry, I wish I could flatter myself, that I could do instead I cant believe it, If I could I would leave Cheltenham for ever. Good Night Good Night my 1/4 to 11 PM. [*91*] [?]die 25 March 1856 CA Mirror 1/4 to 8 PM Invoked the CA. Mr Anderson wished me to ask why, when he invokes his G.S. in his New Mirror - his GS appears and also the responses behind a thick veil - which hinders their being seen or read [*2272 8547*] Time will develop it, the communications of this Spirit are of a higher class than he has yet been in the habit of receiving, and it is expected he will treat it with deference I am not surprized at this feelings, they are excusable - the veil will not entirely disappear until he has learned to receive the Spirit and its Communications with the strictest sense of their purity and greatness than hitherto I repeated the CA's observation in his work on Met'l. Philo. as to the Spirit, set free by Combustion, of Coals, returning to its original matrix to cause fresh coal to form. & urged at length the Vegetable Origin of Coal. & the belief that once exhausted it will not reform [*2273 8548*] Coal is a part of the Earth and it increases and spreads under the Earth as it is consumed - It is impossible it could be ever or in any way vegetation - the weight of the Earth would make that less - or even if it did not get less. there would not be a sufficient quantity in the Earth provided it did not get longer for the supply of the increasing population and manufactures to the end of the World It has been calculated by Ecologists that we have Coal fields in England sufficient at the present rate of I forget whose authority the 60,000 years Coal is taken from. - but Ecologists like others differ! [?] [*92*] ---- Consumption to last us 60,000 years And the Coal fields in N. America are so numerous that will last for myriads of ages. [*2274 8549*] I believe the Coalfields are not so large as they are [represented] estimated - Even if you allow all this to be vegetation what an immense quantity is required Certainly more than could live on the Earth over the mind According toe the received Mosaic Acct. of the duration of the Earth of 6000 years - it could not be so formed but before the Creation of Light - 1 Gen v 1 & 2. In the beginning God created Heaven & Earth. - & the Earth was void & empty and darkness was upon the face of the Deep, and the Spirit of GOD moved over the face of the Waters." a Sufficient space of time may have elapsed to have allowed [suff] the formation from vegetable matter of the present Coalfields & their different layers [*2275 8550*] but the world did not exist until it was needed for its human inhabitants Not in its present state - but Geology proves that this Earth has undergone a long succession of Changes each requiring millions of years to develop the various species of animal life that once existed on the Earth but now only known to us from their fossil remains [*2276 8551*] You confound the Earth existing in a disordered mass with its present shape on the body of material from which the Earth was Created, there were long Creatures and when that material was moulded by divine will into its present shape the remains of those living Creatures went in with it to [*93*] to help make the solid body of the Earth. peculiar qualities were not selected but the whole taken as it was But all life was destroyed and Vegetation on which those Creatures were supported withered up and with their flesh and other matter Earth was made rich and able to produce in its cultivated state the leaf from the seed. Before the Creation of Adam. did the Chaotic Mass of which the Earth was formed revolve round any other Sun more or less Elliptical [*2277 8552*] No it did not the whole universe was changed, the Sun was made to light the Earth and the Moon. - The mass floated about in unlimited space, but when creation took place it was brought to work upon a perfect system. On Saturday last I bought Carmichael's disquisitions on the Theology & Metaphysics of Scripture - written from a Unitarian point of view & in Vol. 1. Chap 2 he gives the Singular Hypothesis of Mr Bremser on the Creation, which I should like to place before you [*2278 8553*] Do so. "Researches on the formation of our plant, says Mr Bremser have brought the following facts to light - The last ideas see page. 214 where the Hypothesis slightly abridged is placed. - Section 1. - if any remarks - [*2279 8554*] [*see page 214*] But one universal Spirit did not exist before the system of the Universe was complete - Life existed limited or I should rather say a power of motion existed 94 [Quad?] Section 2 2280 In that portion he is quite right, if you recognize simply the government and the action of Spirit over material you can account for all that is yet discovered or may be from the beginning of Creation to 8555 the End of every thing belonging to it animate or inanimate is governed and acted upon and inhabited by Spirits, its workings are visible and may be distinguished as well in produce of the Earth as in the human form, and the power of [?] Spirit as easily known by keeping separate the quantities of the minerals of the Earth as by giving motion and strength and elasticity to the human being. [Quad?] Section 3 2281 The author of that speaks of time elapsing between the different conditions and formations but that is wrong 8536 the whole as it is now existed at once but they existed separate and were brought together at the same time by the Creator to make the Earth at once- [He?] makes the creation of the world by progression through ages to perfection but God made it at once by the effort of His will over existing matter, and of His will being all powerful could bring the matter to its present form it must also be able to place the different quantities of that matter in whatever form he 95 might have desired [Quad?] Section [5] 4 2282 But man is the perfection of flesh and after perfection nothing can exist and he is perfection because he is endowed with a likeness of his God and he is so far superior, so vastly 8557 above everything else in Creation, that the State higher than him, which is the Spirit freed from the flesh mush be a nearer approach to the God that he resembles - therefore I say man being the perfection of Creation - is the end of it. he is that to which all things have progressed because in him [the spirit] the perfect spirit and the perfect body are united and the Divine intelligence exists in the form of Earth. [Quad?] 5. 2283 It does but that can never produce 8558 any thing greater than animal life [Quad?] 6 2284 The author makes no distinction between 8559 the lower and the higher animals and even man - he is quite right as regards the spontaneous existence from matter that was once life was part of the living body but it is only the most [minute?] of animals that come in this way. Nothing longer than worms come spontaneously 96 I read Paragraph 7 2285 8560 There is one error more he only believes in the spontaneous existence of the first of a specie, but if one exists without any cause save the presence of the combined quantities necessary for its body, the whole must do so therefore every one lives in the same way that belong to the same specie, for no kind of thing can give that which it does not receive Am I to understand that Cheese mites, [?] & intestinal worms have not the organs of reproduction furnished them 2286 8561 They have not They may be all destroyed and again from the same matter another lot may spring Can I use the magical Formula you gave me & raise the bird-spirit without any sin 2287 8562 The mere fact of invoking the spirit to bring down the appearance you may desire & of seeing them and being present with them and communing with them - have nothing in them whatever that could be or tend to evil. -- But there are limits to its use [* see No 2260 page 80*] 8563 The best gift, and the best power, may be misapplied and turned into Evil - If from that spirit you demanded & obtained information for Evil purposes - or you did it in connection with him, or desired him to do that which you knew to be wrong it would be a responsible act. The communion is not evil in itself 97 but by its misuse it may be made so Mr Anderson was of opinion that the Spirit evoked would appear as well as the bird - but that would not be the case I presume 2288 8564 The Spirit would be present, whether visible depends on the party invoking he could be visible if they desired it In your former response which gave me the formula I had so long & earnestly desired relative to the Palinginesia of plants. - You stated it could only be done by Evil Spirits - it appears to me in my ignorance strange that so simple a thing as the reproduction of the Spirit or Ghost of the plant should be sinful & [not] that of a man or animal not so - 2289 8565 But you must be perfectly aware that neither the plant, nor the bird can come again into apparent existence unless they are guided and governed by spiritual means, and altho' in themselves they are alike innocent - the Spirit that lives in their form is as powerful, as tho' existing in the Spirit world in his own and as to all things Spirits may attach themselves, so Spirits of a different Class confine their appearance to man in different & separate forms. therefore the one that communicates with man and assumes the form of a bird, may be though inferior - good - those guiding and bringing forth flowers may be totally Evil I presume there can be no harm in my attempting 98 the palingenesia of plants [Chynically?] 2290 Of course not. If any &c. 2291 8566 As you read the work I gave you I wish you would note down either objections or questions that may arise at the time in your mind - I think it is the only way at which you can arrive - if all objections are removed - at opinions on these subjects which have no doubt - I am aware that I may have given some things that may seem through want of a further explanation inconsistent and inaccurate - but I know and have within me the perfect thought that when all connected with it is known it shall be indisputable because it is right --- has Mr Ormerod suggested any thing else in connection with the book you can given him I intend asking him for his Opinion 2282 8567 Do so 1/4 to 10 the CA left - Oval Mirror 20' past 10 PM Called Mr Anderson he is here great Coat hat &c 8568 How are you this Evening I have obtained the CA's Opinion as to your Vision shall I read it 8569 Yes if you please I read the CA's response. [*99*] I have never received any Communication the same as you do on purely spiritual subjects I mean that I never had a spirit that came and devoted his animations solely to those matters. - I have asked questions of those appearing who have also answered the questions relative to any other subject that I have asked I have never made a point of only asking such as related to a particular subject or they of answering me. And I never could obtain thro my Seer any positive information relating any personal affairs [thro] [*8570*] Not if you asked them No. besides Spirits who know any thing relating to this world are necessarily of a very low degree [*8571*] I have thought that Spiritual Knowledge might comprize all things without coming from its station or [?] itself that it might see on through time & space and back through the past and upwards and down if need be into Hell to see the workings of all things [*8572*] Yes but then the Spiritual improvement of Man may depend, and does, upon earthly Actions, and his transactions upon earth. therefore it would seem necessary that a spirit being his Guardian should know all things connected with him that he might guide him concerning them [*100*] because if they only tell you what you are [afte] to do after death, their influence is of no use while you are toiling - it is the evil they should prevent. [*8573*] But they say to them who have not the means of Spiritual Communication, that they invite unto their minds the love of good why not point out the good path and leave man the option of choosing which he would do [*8574*] No I mean that when you call upon them seriously you might have the option of choosing between good and bad - so that you might have an opportunity of distinguishing what was really good and really bad No man does a wrong act without knowing it [*8575*] I think he does, he falls into error and is led on thro' things that appear so slight at first into difficulties from which he cannot extricate himself Have you bought a copy of Echo yet [*8576*] Yes I have as a spiritual work it is certainly extraordinary and although I agree with many things with you, there are some that are so new as to make me quite undecided, you seem to raise objections to an old religion and not to be sufficiently clear to form a new one. I only speak for myself - I think if you had tried you might have made it clearer. I will do so if I ever print it again This was a boyish determinat'n - if I had courage" [*107*] [*8577*] Does it cost that to print so small a book Yes printing pub'g and advertising [*8578*] You can bring out another Edition when you keep your Claret Colored Coach That I am afraid is only in the Spiritual World not here [*8579*] I think different I hope you will prove a true prophet - Miss Selma says you have never spoken to her [*8580*] I was just going to ask what she was doing She is looking in the E.S. Crystal to try and see her fortune Sweetheart [*8581*] I feel flattered - Can you see me Miss She sees something but cannot make it out [*8582*] It must be me, what time do you go to bed At 11. What time is it by you pray [*8583*] havent got a watch. What time is it I take to go to bed early now I go at 1/2 past 12 three times a week, it suits my constitution Selma says when are you going to bring HH. [*8584*] You only want to break my heart talking about a rival. Have you seen our old friend Miss Green lately [*8585*] Not since I came back from the Crimea have you No. Your [four?] friends are easily forgotten have you seen the Italian Lady we once called [*8586*] Josepha Lozzia, she has been dead some time you know That was a most remarkable circumstance you told me concerning her (see Vol [?]) [*8587*] But I believe that many things like it do happen [*102*] The CA told me I could use the end spell, without fear [*8588*] do you intend to try it I think so [*8589*] I shouldn't I am firmly determined never to call any thing out of a vessel or mirror, or Crystal. or some means by wch they can be confined, of course if they appear without my [being] doing so I shall not be able to help it, for that I suppose I am not answerable. Your last remarkable relation, surprized me much, but then I cannot tell whether you did it as your Atmospheric Spirit. [*8590*] I did it in the body and I never shall be able to overcome the dread of Spirits do you know Mr O_____ or Mr WM. [*8591*] No how long has he been in the temple I haven't seen any friends since I came back. I went down to Cheltenham nearly as soon as I came home and I have been to London a few times since but only for a short time. Is your man servant Belton still with you [*8592*] Yes why. he is the one WH. takes for me Selma wants to know who WH is [*8593*] he has told you himself he is in the Law and I really think he has lost a finger, if not its vastly like it No stiff jointed [Make Penance?] of his Principals [*8594*] I dont know its only what he's told me [*103*] in the Crystal, I am not personally acq with the Gentleman. and from his appearance there I am not personally ambitious of it I have got no friends at all now, I live in perfect retirement Wheres Pa, Ma, & dear Georgina [*8595*] Gone home - besides, I never lived with them Why we used to see you all at tea [gether?] & heard your conversation [*8596*] Of course I visited them, I must go now I am so afraid of keeping you up. - I must tear myself away Miss well I can appear any time you know now Good night 5' past 11 PM. [?]die 1 April 1856 CA Mirror 1/4 to 8 PM. Invoked the CA Invoked for a long time but had no vision the mirror not even veiling in the slightest manner. 5 past 8 Oval Mirror Called Mr Anderson Mr A is coming but extremely slow. in Blue frock coat buttoned. no hat on - May I ask why you come so slowly, is it not agreeable to you to be called [*8597*] I cannot think what is the matter there are spirits about decidedly Evil that will scarcely allow me to come at all If I was better than I am I should not be here - [*104*] I have been trying in vain to see the CA - & I am much concerned at my failing - [*8598*] There is a spirit about the same I think if not the same - of the same appearance with the one that escaped from my vessel of water. - have you been calling such a one. No, nor have I any wish to do so - but I am surprized how that could prevent my seeing the C.A. [*8599*] I do not know that they have the power but I have always understood and feel it to be the case, that the pure one cannot approach the evil - If the Evil was here first so as to be between you and the Good. I believe it wd. have the most power. Do you think they are now present in this room [*8600*] I can feel that they are near me Are you aware the Nena was signed on Sunday [*8601*] Yes it is Tuesday Evening with me Have you discharged that mirror (the CA's) No I do not discharge the Mirror until I have closed action so that the C.A. may still be present & keep off these annoyances [*8602*] I am sorry it has happened so, I can scarcely stay here there seems such opposition to it have you seen the spiritual mag. pub by B[?] yet [*8603*] No I have not how long has it been out Is it better than the generality of these publications some of them are sad rubbish Have you seen the Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph pub'd at [Keighley?] [*8604*] No, but I read all the pamphlets [*105*] published in London, and several papers from America, there is nothing new at all nothing half so interesting as I could get myself. I shall be much pleased when you succeed with your new mirror as I expect the responses with much interest [*8605*] So shall I. Have you ever read the "Revelations" of St John. [*8606*] Yes I have The CA is giving me his view - entirely opposed to their divine origin - indeed treating it as well intertwined reveries of a good man - like Behmen & Swedenborg [*8607*] I cannot understand their meaning but I have thought that they cannot be divine for they seem to me to make the religion absurd of which they form a part. There can be no possible good attached to them, for if their meaning is symbolical man cannot in the least understand it But it affords a fine opportunity to our pious divines now it is no longer allowable to roast men & women alive who are opposed to them - to give a good vent to [?] by showing the Pope & the [?] Attendant [?] to be Antichrist & consequently if they cant be burnt here, they are sure of being comfortably damned hereafter. & that eternally. [*8607*] You are sure that cannot be its true meaning - if it has any. I do not look to the Bible for religion because nearly every part in the one contradicts the other Do you mean the Old or the New Testament [*8609*] I mean the old and the new Where then will you seek the Truths of Christianity [*8610*] But is Christianity the Truth - [?] [*106*] will arise that cannot be overcome In a metaphysical subject like religion, doubts necessarily arise in the human mind - because it cannot mathematically demonstrate those truths - which we may yet implicitly believe thro' faith. - By what arguments could I prove to a sceptic - that your appearance here & your responses are not due to any occult property of my or my Seers mind or brain - but that they are derived from a living Spiritual intelligence extraneous & unknown to us both - [*8611*] But as regards religion there is so much reason to doubt, there are so many conflicting opinions each strong on its own side I can believe in God, the immortality of the Soul - in His Mercy - and in the salvation of the world. I have believed that it is to take place through the merits of his Son & of the Virgin Mary - I have had a strange Vision in my small crystal, purely on religion and if it has gone far to shake the faith that I once had, but I do not place sole reliance on it for it may be the means of unsettling my doctrine only to make me decided in favor of a stronger and perhaps better one that may be given or revealed through the spiritual means of the large mirror I explained my view of the State of the World, in a religious sense at the time of JC's Birth & the necessity for his appearing to place Man in the True way. & asked if Mr A could give me the Spirits remarks referred to [*107*] [*8612*] A spirit appeared rather indistinctly but sufficiently plain for me to be sure that it was good. - but it seemed rather as the likeness of a Spirit, than one in reality, it seemed rigid and heavy - it was surrounded by great brightness that increased at its head. I had never seen it before after a short time during which I had exorcised it 3 times very strongly. - it told me without my addressing it, that it was the likeness and the influence of a Spirit that was a Ministering Angel at the time of the Birth of Jesus Christ and that it had come to point out to me, the errors of my Creed and of others partly belonging to the same sect. I did not answer, and it continued at some length if you will just wait a moment I will fetch the notes, I made, of course I could not take all down. I shall be much obliged by your doing so Now hes gone (9' to 9.) now hes coming - (about 3 minutes) he's got some papers in his hand It then said [*8613*] "Why believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the founder of the only true religion - do not the meaning of his own words show that he comes to bring dissension and strife not peace and concord upon Earth and after his appearance - does not there rise conflicting [*108*] [*8613*] Opinions - Spiritual Battles - hatred and disunion where otherwise might have been expected a calm - while have not men greater than he appeared in all ages - and shown by their actions their purity and goodness like meteors across the darkness of ignorance - as one mans life is an exemplification of Crime so may anothers be of goodness and yet neither may be derived from one source either good or evil. Jesus Christ is made perfect by the virtues of his life - more than by his own actions - He had like all other pretenders, those around him that he convinced and made his followers his power over them was sufficiently great to make them faithful to his memory - and if they wrote his life it cannot be expected that they would do other than praise - Yet even this praise is in some measure borrowed for they connect what they write with a book written long before & they make him the fulfillment of Prophecies that were vague and of [theams?] that only existed with the men that uttered them Now Mr A's pulling the papers about as tho' he could hardly read it in some places - Mr A. said [*8614*] You must recollect that I had to read besides, write, he then continues - Was not the religion that existed before [*109*] [*8614*] his time [?] more simple and indisputable to the mind of men, when recognized only as what was known, to the reason and to the heart and to the sympathy existing between the creator and the created - This sympathy is sufficiently powerful to bring them together The undeniable power of a Supreme cause is stamped upon every object that lives and breathes and moves, and the nature of his power is known by the universal intelligence the only intelligence, and that embodied in man & as like follows like and kind seeks [like] kind - through multitudes of objects different from its species - this intelligence in man rises to its source and acknowledges from its own likeness the living GOD, and in this intelligence as there exists knowledge of right and wrong so there is also the knowledge of responsibility [the disembodied intelligence after death] for either action, and for these actions as a responsible being the disembodied intelligence after death is either reward or punished - there is no medium between GOD and man as he made the creation so he best knows how to end it. and how to bring it in the end to His first purpose - Then he said [*8615*] You object to this because you believe the Creator to be a being so vastly superior as not to comprehend the wants and [*110*] the feelings of men - but if the rest of creation so much less important than man is provided for without even an instinct - of any other than their own existence - how much more close to him must be those that are endowed with such special qualities as the knowledge of a Supreme Will - and all nature shows that not one effort made at the beginning serves to keep it, in its perfect state of progress but that efforts are continually made, that an ever watchful, ever acting power is at work to make all come in their due season that one may follow another. that not one thing may be without life and that it may all lend to one great end, by joining man to him and by glorifying him in their sight That is all. I am much obliged by your communication I hope in your new mirror when spirits appear to deliver their views on doctrinal points you will strongly exorcise them [*8616*] I do so, this may be the dawn of light or it may be only the means of shaking my former belief. that I may be more ready to receive new - at all events it does shake opinions - for with me it is impossible to see things - or have them permanently impressed upon me by what appears simple and true must have weight and I cannot help [*111*] placing a reliance on what is so strongly urged and comes from a source apparently good - Even if many come and they are all contradictory - I believe in one partly until the next comes and again changes it - I will if you please read an address delivered by the CA to a friend of mine whose religious opinions are as unsatisfactory & unsettled as yours. I then read the CA's address (page) to Mr. Lea [*8617*] The CA's are beautifully simple You can understand them at once as you proceed, how different in every respect from the one I have received and yet both directed to the same object - I explained and hoped I should hear the responses of the Veiled Spirit in his Mirror [*8618*] You should know all When I appear again and you have time and it is convenient I shall be much pleased to hear more of the Metaphysical Work you have received, and I hope by that time to be able to give you the first communications from the mirror I will leave now Do you think the Evil Spirits - have left the room [*8619*] I think they have. Accept my thanks & good wishes [*8620*] Thank you and accept the same yourself as they always put it in the letters 1/4 to 11 P.M. [*112*] [?8die 8th April 1855 CA mirror Invoked the C The CA is here in white as usual. Purple robe. &c I regretted exceedingly on being unable to receive your comm'ns. last Tuesday Evening. particularly after receiving Mr Andersons statement that it was caused by the presence of Evil Spirits [*2293 8621*] I could not appear because there was an Evil Spirit present between you & me I took the precaution this Ev'g. to exorcise before I commenced [*2294 8622*] There are none present now May I ask if it arises from my having slept 2 nights at my friend HS? [*2295 8623*] It does. The Spirit is attached to him and will continue so until he can receive with [?] and faith the principles of religion revealed to all who will seek it. I cannot conceive how this Spirit [has] attached itself to me as I always exorcise if I think any are near me. [*2296 8624*] It did not attach itself to you but tried to do so, it is gone now and I trust will keep away but I have a power of preventing it from either influencing you or harming you unless you willingly enter into Communion with it - this I am sure you will not do, but from its being present when you are present, it repels me to a distance and obliges me to do - away - that which otherwise I should do when present - Act in all things as I know to be for your good. But against an Invisible Spirit - which may as this did came uncalled - how am I to guard. [*2297 8625*] I must give you another Exorcism for it I will give it you next Tuesday Evening Believe me it is not from the least unkind feeling - or from any desire to leave you. that my appearance is not visible at a time when it seems most needful - present or absent known & recognized - unknown & disbelieved in [*113*] a Guardian Spirit is still the same I am gratified to hear that Mr A. will succeed with his New Mirror. I receive those spiritual instructions from which thro your kindness I have recd so much pleasure & inf[?] [*2298 8626*] He has received the first communication from his Mirror from a pure and good Spirit his Guardian Angel, and his doctrines are those of truth - the only ones held by those of his order or above him. It must have been since Tuesday last [*2299 8627*] he did on Thursday. When he came in on Tuesday Evg. he told me that he had recd. a commn. from a Spirit, which had very much unsettled his previous views - the Spirits doctrine being directed against the Divinity of J.C. [*2300 8628*] That was not a spirit it was an image It was the image of a picture existing upon Earth brought from the Atmosphere not by Evil Spirits nor by his Guardian Spirit and the doctrines it gave are but arguments In what manner or for what purpose could the reflex of our Earthly painting so appear - & apparently give the response he read to me. which however erroneous was a consistent one [*2301 8629*] It was given for a good purpose, that of showing him by the difference of the doctrines given hereafter, the weakness and insufficiency of that. May I ask the name of his GS. [*2302*] Constantine Is that the same Spirit - that was formerly the GS of my Seer Emma - & also. the Spirit of one of my Crystals [*2303*] Yes When formerly I was in the habit of calling many difft. Spirits as [?] [Holo?] & [Mo?] &particularly my GS Hunder - & my faith was so unsettled - why did I not then receive the Doctrines of the True religion [*2304 8632*] The power of communication was not 114 developed, and Hunder is a Spirit of the Sun who could not give you in Language sufficiently expressed for you to understand his knowledge. does not the Change which has taken place in your views seem to tell you that a minister of religion was necessary, that Minister could not be found for you amongst those of Earth—- All men may be guided by direct or indirect means. to the truth if they seek after it , and sincerely desire it — each is open to conviction in his own peculiar way . and is it surprising that the only means open should be used to convince him ,by those who seek only to minister from GOD to man. I returned thanks & observed how desirable it w.d be, if some means Could be devised by which Professor Newman the author of The Phases of Faith — could be convinced of his error. - he appears in that work so sincere a preacher after Faith_ 2305 8633 The same Agency is acting for these invisible as myself, but if they cannot communicate with that agency — and if they would not if they could, how can it make itself seen and felt .— It would need a special Providence to Change their opinions And if the merit of Sincerity deserves such interposition surely Robert Owen would not remain thus long unconvinced There are some passages in that [?] written book. which I should like to place before you & solicit your views 2306 8634 I will give you my opinion of individual Parts but as a whole his opinions are so Entirely opposed to Spiritual knowledge as to seem although a well written book in Every passage and in Every part but a mass of error. Error it seems to me so palpable that no one Even the most 15 ignorant after having sought assistance of the Almighty could for one moment read and believe. I have re-read Professor Blakey's Work on Metaphysical Authors. I find [them] [as] your view of Plato & Aristotle agrees with his. May I ask how you are aware of the arguments & writings of those great men. 2307 8635 They are the greatest Metaphysicians the world has produced - the greatest - considering them to have lived in remote ages and having to struggle with difficulties in Forming Theories which many now only partially copy & make additions to. It was only to illustrate my remarks on the ignorance of even the greatest minds that I spoke of them - of others I should have done the same. You mention in Your Metaphysical Work "Something cannot be created out of nothing, however "great a power may be, that power must have something "to work upon that shall feel its power and be made Subservient to its Will." This is an axiom - clearly distinct for more so than An axiom [?] = & it leads me to ask if you believe that Matter has always existed - has been & Consequently Ever will be Eternal. - 2308 8636 Matter has existed so to say from all Eternity but not in either its quantity or its quality As at the time of the Creation Matter increased until it got sufficient for the purposes of Creation, and then the same power that had caused it to increase - a power of expansion - causes it now to keep in separate bodies, the different portions of material one distinct from the other. - I spoke in the beginning of that book of their being in all things Created life - Life is forever. - active or passive Active because of - superior quality and greater quantity - passive because a See. Mary Somerville's Connection of the Physical Sciences Article Nebula page 421. Laplan supposed "That originally the whole system constituted only one vast mass of nebulous matter being expanded into the thinnest vapor and gas by heat and more than filling the space at present occupied by the plants - This vapor had a revolution from West to East on an axis, as the heat diminished by radiation, the Nebulous matter condensed, & consequently the velocity of rotation increased and an exterior zone of vapor might be detached since the central attraction might not be able to overcome the increased centrifugal force this ring of vapor might sometimes retain its original form as in the case of Saturns ring, but the tendency would be in general to divide into several masses which by coalescing again would form a single mass having a revolution about the Sun [?] its axis. This would constitute a planet in a state of vapor, & by the detachment of successive rings might all the planets be produced - as they went on contracting by the same Law satellites might be formed to each, and the ultimate results would be [*116*] regenerated and diminished - I mean universal life - the same by which man lives and moves and breathes and by which the earth preserves separate and distinct the bodies of the different substances of which it is composed - and yet in both alike it is power and the same on one as in the other - But that which in man joined to his intelligence and Spiritual body makes so perfect a being, as in its lowest state so degenerate, so poor and so weak as scarcely to be known for the same principle I thank you - having adopted the Theory of Laplace that the origin of our Solar System "Which he conceived to be formed by the successive condensations of a nebula who[?] rotation is still maintained in the rotation and revolution of the Sun and all the bodies of the Solar System in the same direction - What there is now presumptive Evidence in the structure and informal heat of the Earth, of its having been at one period in a gaseous state from intensely high temperature" a and altho this gaseous state however subtle is still matter Yet that it may [?] in like [?] been only a [?] State of the [?] - Magnetism Electricity [?]. 2309 8637 No the first particles of Matter existed for ever, as I have before said however mighty the will it cannot Create something out of Nothing - they must have something to centre them. They must have something to form in or confine them. As for their form it is known that a Mass of the same density whose particles mutually gravitate to each other will assume the form of a sphere when at rest. but if the sphere begins to revolve every particle will descate a circle hang its centre in the axis of Revolution - 2310 8638 But to do this there must be an atmosphere The atmosphere was created Solid Planets and Satellites revolving around the Sun in nearly the same plane, and in the same direction and also on their axes. See Edward Hitchcock DD. LLD. Religion of Geology. [page] Lecture 9 page 1235 Character name dist from ⊙ ⊙ Sun ☿ Mercury ♀ Venus ⊕ Earth ☾ Moon ♂ Mars ♃ Jupiter ♄ Saturn [?] Herschel ♆ Neptune 117 after the Earth and the system of the Planets after that. This Earth which we inhabit is part of what we call "our Solar System = Consisting of the Sun - estimated to be 354,936 times larger than our Earth. - & having revolving round it ☿ ♀︎ [Earth symbol] ♂︎ ♃ ♄ ♅ & ♆ & of these planets the [Earth symbol] is the smallest except two. - Now altho' as far as our Solar System is Concerned we may taking [?] for our authority believe that the Entire system was Created [solely] as a secondary object to mans appearance upon the Earth. - but what are we to think of those bodies termed fixed stars & now deemed to be the Suns of other Systems. similar to our own. Yet placed at such an immense distance from us that altho astronimers calculate the aphelion of ♆ to miles distant from the Sun. Yet the place of the nearest fixed star cannot be estimated within an error of millions of miles beyond ♆ which may I ask - allowing that our whole solar system was Created out of the Chaotic Mass by Gods Will = If the fixed stars or Suns of other systems. Were then already in Existence & obeying his Laws - 2311 8639 They were not existing - nothing existed but that from which the world was created - those stars are in the spheres but far above them is the 7th and that is now the same as before the Creation there - is no Evidence of any thing existing [before Spirit] except Spirit But if the highest fixed star is millions of miles from our Sun. - the distance of the farthest is of course beyond any human conception 2312 8640 But you must think that the 7th Sphere is above them because if not you encase even the Supreme being in Space - and however far they may be off - that Space is limited The chief objection to [the] Mans being the sole object of such an immensity of Creative Energy is his [*118*] his comparative insignificance - when even the volume of the earth which he inhabits sinks into a spec compared with the space contained even within the orbit of [?] how small then must it be when it is only a spec in a system which is but a spec in the great systems of the fixed stars, & which judging by Analogy Astronomers suppose to be inhabited by Sentient beings in some measure like ourselves. [*2313 8641*] And do they also believe that the inhabitants of those other worlds are greater than man that is being endowed with superior qualities - because if so, if you judge from size how vastly superior must be the inhabitants of the sun to man. And if so superior you must reject the evidence given of His coming to the little world to save man. When He might have gone to a larger and done good to Man. for all Creation must be the same in the Eyes of Him who made it and all those inhabitants possessing His Spirit must be as deserving of His Mercy - [and] He would not create things without a Cause - He would not create any thing that might not be brought at the end of all things to His presence there to make a perfect whole If you believe that he sends a Son to each world to die for the Sins of each people or to give them the one light which in all cases, could only lead to the one End that of His own glory you utterly destroy that of His own glory you utterly destroy the Evidence because you contradict the assertion - that of Christ being His only Son. But the Inhabitants of those [?] Systems might be Spirits - not inclined to Sin - & consequently not needing a redemption by Sacrifice [*2314 8642*] It is not so - Man must be the The C A's reply as to the [image] [*119*] most perfect in all creation or why should He make Himself - Man - and if Spirits are without sin why should they exist apart from Him - there is room enough in His presence To my limited notions - the fact of man being the ultimate end of the Creation - of such vast systems - is as though. a huge Oak had lived a thousand years to produce only a single acorn - [*2315 8643*] It is so - but if that [single] acorn possessed the Spirit of [its Maker] the Creator - is it not greater than the Substance of the whole tree that bears it. If renew the Subject of the Apocalypse on Tuesday next [*8644 2316*] Yes If any objections to my sleeping at [Linehouse?] [*2317 8645*] I do not wish to influence you in things of no importance I will appear next Tuesday & give you a dismissal expressly for Spirits unconnected with the Crystal or Mirror, or even visible appearance. If I call Mr Anderson [*8646 2318*] Yes 1/2 past 8 PM. Oval Mirror Called Mr Anderson 25' to 10 PM. He is here in blue frock coat. [led?] stripe down the Trousers. no hat Good Evg. Mr A I hope you are well [*8647*] Quite well I thank you I am pleased to hear of your success with your new mirror. Will you favor me with the results [*8648*] Yes. but I must detain [them] you a moment If I go and fetch them. Now hes marched off - he goes out [the] he gets quite small - it looks as tho' he walked upon nothing 120 here he comes, turning the leaves over hes got a small red book - in scarlet cloth. now he says 8649 I began looking at 9 oclock and I sat there till a quarter to 10 before any thing came at all - the mirror began to veil not the usual veiling - generally before the appearance of a Spirit it only appears opaque and cloudy but this was as though a thick curtain of that stuff You lined the Evani Glass with, you remember - falling close against the front and it gradually rose. not dispersed and underneath it the space was quite clear, the light was very dazzling a single figure was there of very large size so large that [I commenced by exorcising] surrounded by excessive light, it was almost startling, I exorcised it rigorously and not until 5' past 10 did it answer my first question - I asked if it was my Guardian Spirit Now he's turned over a leaf 8650 Yes And the name Constantine There was two or three strokes under the name I asked of what order there then came distinctly A A with the I over. the strokes were simply thus [illustration] Well then I asked him (it had the appearance of a male spirit -- & dressed in exceedingly beautiful Robes. with fair hair and a circlet of stones -- purple in his hair the same round his neck and his robe confined with the same at his waist -- not dark enough for what we would call a good amethyst they are the color of 121 8650 The drawing of some stones that I have seen illustrating the Bible -- paler than Amethyst. I asked him if I did right in dedicating the mirror to him and if by that means I could depend on the Communications made from it, as being only those of himself or of any Spirit that he might specially send He said that I might- That is office of Guardian Spirit Consisted in watching over my welfare temporal and spiritual that the ills of one and bad effects upon the other, that being a responsible agent, for every action the Soul must suffer for those actions Committed in the body, and that it was necessary when Evil was to that body at hand. I should be warned of it by him. The duties of his Office to the Spirit Could be performed by him perfectly as well unseen and unknown, as present and visible, but still it was desirable that all who had the means of communicating with spirits should with proper precaution use them. to the greatest of their ability and that though the means of this Communication that might be done for man in life which in other cases must take place after death -- he said how much best it was to have the Aid and Counsel of friends that he could depend upon by being greater in their knowledge and goodness than himself, and although he might not value them in this life, the Necessity of them would be obvious in the next -- that he did not desire to influence me except by the means used from man to man that of making apparent to the reason and intellect the truths of the arguments and admitted from its consistency and inherent goodness This was all he said then I was very much pleased because I think it opens so favorably & auspiciously our intercourse I feel now how much better it is to have no demonstration of their power or to have their influence felt upon the body. You Present [?] was formerly the God of Constantine my Seer -- Is he shall I nok Yes do so I will it was 1/2 past 12 before that came that I have read to you and then it left. Have you noticed what days you are to Invoke No I have not but what days do you think it best to call Tuesdays & Fridays with me do you know whether they will appear in the day time in the large Mirror I will inquire I will now read the Continuation of the [Ca's?] book on Metaphysics -- I read it to the [?d?] It is certainly a beautiful treatise I never have heard of any thing like it coming from such a Source, it is so new, so different from what is [?] by men, even the most learned, but I wonder why he singles out Plato & Aristotle from the philosophers of Old I have always thought Socrates was superior to either in Metaphysics [*123*] But Plato was the pupil of Socrates. [*8656*] That made me think that as from him Plato desired most of his information he would have been spoken of as the source and therefore the greatest. [*As to my changed views - *] I trust that in time I shall receive the same impressions there seems the same prospects of it - The CA has promised me an Exorcism - to prevent the occurrence again as on last Tuesday, & I shall be happy to give it you [*8657*] Thank You I shall call Constantine on [?]die Evening again and then ask him if he prefers any other day and on Tuesday I shall be able to give you his Communication if it is convenient for you to call me. Selma wishes to try if she can regain her Vision, it is [?] that having once seen it should be lost. [*8658*] It does seem strange Will you appear to her in the ES. Crystal [*8659*] Yes I will appear. Selma looked in Earl Stanhope Crystal & Mr Anderson left the Mirror - but she could not see him nor could Emma who looked over her shoulder. Emma then looked in the Oval Mirror & Mr Anderson entered [*8660*] I tried to appear I think that however far advanced the Communications with Spirits we shall never understand them. Have you bought [Bartlaws?] Spiritual Telegraph yet [*8661*] No - I am going to London on Friday very likely shall stay to the following Monday, then I will get it. Cant you run down & see me at Croydon [*8662*] I dont know where to come to You can find me very easily if you come [*124*] [*8663*] I should like to see you in the body I think we shall meet How is our fair friend Mrs. Powell [*8664*] Mrs. & Master Powell are quite well as far as I concerned Is he still the image of his Father - [*8664*] Oh of course - you should see the urchin Next Tuesday you may as well bring him in & show him to us [*8665*] I will Have you got your little dog [Zeno?] & the Newfoundland Bill [*8666*] Gengy has got the little dog in Spain with her. I have got the large one I think about getting married, I am going to London to see some friends, I expect theres a good lot of money. Is the Lady Young not well as Rich [*8667*] Nearly 3 & 30. - about that I dont know exactly, at all events I shall be here on Monday night and you shall hear all about it - I am not at all particular to age, I would have had Miss Green if she would have had me. I suppose its getting late Yes only 10' to 11. [*8668*] Good night Good night Miss (to Selma). Action Ended. [?] die 15 April 1856 C. A. Mirror 8. PM. Invoked the CA. The CA is here not very plain the Mirror is cloudy before him & the Answers. I hope there are no Evil Spirits present which prevents my Seer seeing this Evg distinctly [*2318 8669*] There are not I promised you a dismissal for them I 125 Will give you one Effectual when all others fail. May I ask you to dispel the cloud which renders your answers Indistinct - The CA has a paper in his hand which he is unfolding and there is writing upon it - & the CA says 2319 8670 In the usual form for dismissing Evil Spirits much depends upon the power of the person's Will. - If this be not sufficiently strong it does not in some cases take effect - or it may be evaded by them. But in this dismissal You appeal to God feeling sure that His influence can reach them in whatever shape or place. Now the CA is opening the paper before him taking hold of it at the top - there is written on it 2320 8671 Merciful God dismiss my Enemies, send down the mighty influence of thy Holy Spirit to dispel all Evil - Protect me when the temptations of the powers of Evil are over me through sin Known to me as Sin - but above all save me from them when they would lead me into danger without my Knowledge or my Will - Guide and direct me so to seek All Spiritual Knowledge that may be alone for they Glorification - and thy Sons the Saviour of the World. In the name of God I dismiss all Evil Spirits - I ret'd. thanks 2321 8672 They will never approach you, if You use this prayer - it would be well for Mr Lea to do so. but not unless he can have faith in the words & Spirit of it - Further House Bridge End Lancaster 10 April 1856 Sir You will oblige the subscriber by consulting Your Crystal Angel as to his mission among Men., its character, and its proximity to Success; and you will well serve God by obtaining and diffusing information as to the dispensation of the Paraclete. Written in the name and by the License of one who is Your humble and obedt Servant and who desires to Subscribe himself Now. Goodwyn Barmby. [*Mr F. Hockley ?*] [*124*] I have received this letter from a Gentleman [?] unknown to me. As it doubtless carries out of Your Respones given [?] Mr Owens late work - may I read it to you - I ask your advice as to answering it. 2322 8673 I can see it I do not know who it is from. I read the letter 2323 8674 I do not know him, neither can I [?] how he wishes me to understand his Meaning of Mission Is he a Spiritualist - does he mean a divine Mission - because there is no such thing of Man himself knowing that he has a mission to fulfill between God and his fellowmen. Many are the instruments of Divine Providence, but they are not inspired - neither do they know they are performing more than what they believe to be the right and truthful Way -. From the construction of Mr Barmby's letter it is at first doubtful what his meaning really is, but I think he can only mean - Your Mission- 2324 8675 I think he means his own mission but you can answer it for both ways. 2325 8676 It will be best to say. that you have shown his letter to me. that I have no knowledge of him furthur than that letter contains. and that I cannot rightly understand whether he means his own mission or mine. but in either care to be pure and good as man may, be, and however Christian his doctrine the fact of his being mortal must prevent him from having a Mission on Earth [*127*] 2325 8677 For to have a Mission and to be able to fulfill it Man must be a personificatn of the Almighty, throughout life he must be kept inspired, and must be again God made man even as Jesus Christ -. If it is my Mission, granted that I am a humble instrument by which the knowledge of God may be given to Man - but I am purely Spiritual and as that, free to live a perfect existence - because there is no Sin, no temptation in my state.- or to come among men for the [?] of guiding them. to the source from which I obtain my Spiritual life + Station That the time is at hand when the Communication of Men with Spirits of a high order will be frequent and intimate I have no doubt and I believe they will promulgate the one doctrine whose Echo shall be formed in every heart. And that before the Consummation of all things they will present themselves to men without any Mediums - Even as shining lights in the Air- That the Evidence they bring will dispel all conflicting opinions from the Minds of Men. and that the whole Earth shall be of one opinion + of one Faith - and that made known to them by the true Ministers of Christ. - The Influence of the Holy Spirit over the hearts and minds of Men is felt by all who pray earnestly [*128*] and heartily to GOD for it, and who act consistent with their prayers. Those who with humility yet strong faith believe that He is ever present and watchful, and that He makes the light of his countenance to shine on that which is made by them pleasing in his sight - Sincere prayer will bring unmistakeable Evidence of His existence and power, and that evidence is the working of His Will in its [?] of the Spirit in Man - Mr G. [Gilkes?] who formerly felt great distrust in the Truth of Your Spiritual Apparition - has lately expressed his Convictions are quite changed. he last week attended the deathbed of a young friend & from Circumstances attending his decease he is desirous of ascertaining his friends state of spiritual Welfare & happiness - may I call him by your sanction on Next Tuesday Evg. [*2326 8678*] It is not advisable to call one so lately deceased - If Mir Gilkes is convinced, I am much pleased, for it shows that the influence of good however simple has prevailed at last - and do that strongly & safely - which Evil might do speedily and with destruction I will then defer calling his late friend until you give your sanction. As to Mr Dresser & my Wish not to act uncourteously towards him as at present I must appear to do. [*2327 8679*] I think courtesy a duty among all people, and the surest means of obtaining respect and Esteem. I am aware that you have seemed to [*129*] Violate it as regards Mr Dresser and you may with safety now either write to him or call upon him - he will I am sure readily receive your explanation. It would be better that he should be an acquaintance. than a friend As my Seer sees this Evg with difficulty I will not. trouble you for the Cont'n of your remarks upon the apocalypse - May I ask if any &c [*2328 8680*] You had better use the dismissal I have given you while you are at Mr Leas house - If at present the cause cannot be destroyed, the consequences may be prevented under any circumstances it will prove effectual, and will with the blessings of God bring His peace which indeed passeth all understanding May I mention - that when you have left this Mirror. & I commence calling in my mirrors or crystals, I do not discharge - Your Mirror - because I think your influence is stronger - Mr Anderson the other Evening observed he thought otherwise may I ask you which is best. [*2329 8681*] When I leave this mirror I am no longer present in it - but when visibly present here, I am no nearer you than I am when unseen, therefore it makes not the slightest difference this is only the means of making me visible. The C.A. left. 9 30' PM. Oval Mirror 20 to 10 Called Mr Anderson No Vision Called [?] R [?] [Barton?] 10 to 10 No Vision Action Ended. [*130*] [?]die 22nd April 1856 C A Mirror 1/4 past 8 PM. Invoked the CA. No Vision The Mirror did not vail or Cloud in any way except during the use of the exorcism a streak of light came down the Middle of the Mirror which became very bright and vivid & then disappeared Oval Mirror Called Mr Anderson No Vision The Mirror did not in the least cloud. 9 PM left off action [?]29 April 1856 8 PM C A Mirror Invoked the CA No Vision 8.20 PM Oval Mirror Called Mr Anderson No Vision [?]die 6th May 1856 CA Mirror 8 PM. Invoked the C.A. After a considerable time the Mirror slightly veiled when a bright light appeared in the Middle which passed down to the side where my hand was placed and presently Emma my Seer perceived there was a communication read [*131*] [*2330 - 8682 - *] "The Crowned Angel would willingly hold Communion with you but the means of his doing so, are for the present gone - but remember though not visible he is still your guardian Angel, and attached to you, and will still continue to use all his power for your Spiritual and temporal welfare, and to regain the Communion between you which has now been so long Established, believe me it is not any fault of yours that prevents my appearance. You have done your best in all things - the same sympathy exists between us now as before and though not visibly present I am still spiritually attached to you." - I explained my regret & asked if I could use any other mirrors & Crystals to call Mr Anderson & other At Spirits in only. [*2331 8683*] If your Seer had the power of Vision I should be present now - it is by great and peculiar Effort these few words are made apparent. when that power of Vision returns my Appearance will be the same May I call on the succeeding Tuesdays, to ascertain when her powers of Seership have returned [*2332 8684*] Yes [?]die 13 May 1856 20' past 8 CA Mirror Invoked the CA No Vision 20.9 PM Selma inspected the Japan Crystal & in about a 1/4 of an hour saw a Gentleman - but very small 132 dressed in black with white [velvet] waistcoat & black trousers. afterwards Saw him plain enough to discern moustachios but the figure tho' perfect was only about 1/4 of an inch in length he held out his hand with something in it but Selina could not discern what it was and upon turning the Crystal it left. [Mars symbol] die 20th May Emma ill. [Mars symbol] die 27 May Ill myself. [Mars symbol] die 3rd. June unwell [Mars symbol] die 10th June 1856 CA Mirror 8 PM. Invoked the C.A. The mirror clouded and the Middle of the mirror being the most opaquely clouded reading appeared 2333 8685 "The Crowned Angel will use all his influence—influence never before exerted to appear plainly to you next Tuesday week. He feels anxious that you should not continue in doubt and Anxiety as to the success of each evenings Trial He would willingly appear as usual could he be seen but when he does appear he will Answer you fully any or any number of questions that you may have prepared [?]en original [*133*] until next Tuesday evening week [?] he trusts you will wait patiently as his influence is the same for your benefit and his feelings the same as tho he were willingly present I ret'd thanks 12' past 8 PM Closed Action [?] [?]die 24 June 1856 10' past 8. CA Mirror Invoked the CA The CA is here as usual in white purple robes crown wings &c. Agreeable to your kind promise I have this Evg. Invoked your appearance, but in endeavoring to avail myself of your offer. - I must first ask if as I fear this is to be the last time [*of my Seer seeing it*] of your appearing that I may propose my questions accordingly [*2334 8686*] At one time even as late as last Tuesday week, I was almost certain that she would not - I made that communication to you knowing that you would be anxious and feel deep regret at the apparent loss. I promised you that I would appear this Evening and I then though for the last time knowing that you were about to leave this place for a short time I intended to see you to do all in my power to make an earthly parting less painful and to give you at face such instructions and advice as I might think necessary for your future guidance [*134*] But while I felt all but certain this would be my last visit I still exerted every power in your behalf that we might continue to communicate by the means which we had done, now for so long a time - You will with myself be pleased to hear that they are successful and that after your return from your journey your communication with Spirits will be the same as before, but you will not be able to communicate with them until after the first Tuesday in August. I returned thanks & said that as the Visions were to be continued - my questions (prepared) were rendered unnecessary. [*2335 8687*] I will answer your Questions this Evg. and you must ask all that you will want answered during that time On the my friend Mr Lea sent me this Commn. stating that you had appeared in his Mirror on [?]die 15 April at the same moment that you were also in my mirror I gave him the follg. advice (a) - May I ask if you really so appeared to my friend Lea's wife - or can it be possible that another Spirit assumed your appearance. [*2336 8688*] I have not appeared on Mr Lea's mirror since the time he came to you here neither shall I do so again unless called by you. - A fortnight before he came to you I desired that he should do so since the address given by me to him I have had no Communication with him, tell him this that he may not be further [obsessed] decieved. recs Leen Letter whilst working this 1/4 past 7 [?] 28/6/56 [*135*] May I read his Communication [*8689 2337*] Yes I read the Communication [*2338 8690*] No Spirit can be in two places at once he may go from one to another as quick as thought, but when present in one place he cannot be seen in another [if] that Spirit somewhat resembled me - but it is impossible that it could have had my likeness, my stones and shape of my Crown - it must have been the same that so often appeared to the Earl Stanhope when alive, but you can discover this - On the back of the Stone that fastens my robe the front of which has my order upon it - are the symbols of Angelic faith. The mark of them is known to no man, neither can any other Spirit assume it except those who have risen to their Eminence thro' the merits of their faith the sign of which is here, I will show you this mark provided you do not show it either to Spirits or to those using Crystals or mirrors for the present. but particularly in Mr Lea's case. When that Spirit appears demand, and if he does not appear call him by the title he has assumed ask him without letting Mr Lea know it or any one belonging to him so that their minds may not be occupied - Ask him first to show you the letters [?] on the stone that fastens his Robe - These are mine are I AA [*136*] [*2338 8691*] having done this ask him to turn the Stone, simply say please to turn the Stone" and mentally Command him to do so in the name of the Almighty God - if he does not do so or turns it and any thing Else appears on the back - you must be certain then. - it is the only means of convincing you that it is not me. but be particular in not letting Mr Lea or his Seer. or any one in his house, know any thing at all about it. do not even write it upon the book that you take with you for there are Spirits about as well as mortals Command him to show it Mentally and after you are satisfied tell them no further than that we are not the same. May I ask your opinion as to his Changing his GS. Lero is desirous that he should consent to his discharge - Knowing the great benefit I recd. when I exchanged the Guardianship of Hunder for your own. - I am desirous that my friend should obtain a GS. of a higher order & a purer faith - shall I advise him to do so as I did in Similar Circumstances [*2339 8692*] Lero is much lower than he was formerly at it may be that he desires to get Mr Lea a lower instead of a better guardian Spirit - he must not trust to him The Seal which I have given you will, I am sure show you that he is deceived - and if as I believe it to be - it is Lero's wish to induce him accept a still lower Spirit - that it a ,The Jaspar Crystal, [*137*] [*2339 8692*] Lero's wish to propose that this C.A. resembling me should be his GS. he would be much worse than the present. Your advice is best, and if he can pray earnestly he will find things much changed. But when this Spirit appears representing me you can ask Mrs. Lea to make a drawing of the Stone and bring it away with you it will be best for you to go next Tuesday evening if nothing occurs to prevent it - but do not upon any account call Spirits yourself and whilst you are there use the dismissal for evil Spirits that I gave you sometime since Dr Kenneth R H MacKenzie is desirous of investg. the Occult Laws of Spiritualism & as he is a Gentleman, learned in kindred Subjects I should like with your permission to further his Views by lending my my ES. Crystal & giving him the Necessary Instructions [*2340 8693*] You can do so but give him the Instructions with it - The Calling dismissal and Exorcism As I have not Evoked for sometime the Spirit of this Crystal [*-a-*], may I ask who is now attached to it [*8494 2341*] Constantine If Dr MacKenzie finds a Seer. Will Constantine be willing to show the required visions to them. [*2342 8695*] He will he is a very Kind Spirit and a good one, it would be best But he should call for those first trying, visions of light things 2[1?]43 8696 These talismans were written on Vellum - & were reverified by placing against the M close to the CA's Seal When the Seeress remarked that a ray of intensely bright light descended from the CA. & in a few seconds the CA. replied I have so &c. 138 or people living, things calculated rather to interest than alarm or sadden the person Inspecting, and when the party is found that can see these lighter visions the Spirit himself can be called and after that deceased people. As I am shortly going into the North will you Kindly reanimate my Talismans 2343 8696 I have done so, and earnestly I pray that God will bless you and empower me to protect you from all danger. At the Commence't. of your Work on Metaphysical & Spiritual Philosophy - you give as a Syllogism 2344 8697 "Where there is life, there also is Spirit. "In all things created there is life "Therefore in all things there exists Spirit" May I ask if you included in the 2nd proposition - The Vital principal or Germinating power of Vegetables. 2345 8698 I do, Every thing from the most minute blade of Grass - springing from a particle of Earth. was created by GOD. therefore it has life - Life is Spirit so far that it cannot be destroyed - it is the same existing in or out of the substance In Substance it is Animating Power Out of Substance it is Spirit - That is Invisible Power in the same Quantity & Quality ready to animate the same kind of material. But may I ask if I take a Single Ear of Wheat possessed of its Spiritual or Germinating power & plant it it will produce about 30 times - its number & weight - of grains which also in due course sown will reproduce until several acres may be covered with the produce of that original grain Each possessed, apparently - with the same Vigor & Germinating power. - Life or Spirit - from [?] This Hermetic R.C. doctrine is continually affirmed by the CA. & especially in - the original copy of the CA's manuscript on Met. & Spl. Philosophy - it appeared as a note or Comment, upon my thoughts unexpressed - whilst recg the translation. [*139*] Whence - [whence] does that increase of Spirit-Life Emanate. [*2346 8699*] The increase of Spirit in one Part comes from the decrease in another - the Same Quantity of Spirit exists now as at the beginning - as the Material increases the power of the Spirit within it increases and every ear of Corn has to go thro' the same process as the first, before it can bring forth more. You put the first seed in the ground and the Spirit comes out of that Seed into a certain quantity and no more, one stalk and one Ear and the Spirit of the parent seed increases with the growth. and by the time that it has ripened and falls down again into Seed there is sufficient Spirit to bring forth. from each of those Seeds the like number as at first But you may ask if if Seeds Spring from one and each has the same quantity if Seed it requires at times the amount to make them Equal to the first - it is so - because the great quantity of old Seed that is taken away to be used by Man when it is dry, emits its Spirit and the Spirit that gives out of the Corn that is eaten by Man as food goes by Sympathy back to that which is Germinating in the ground.* But may not the same Argument be used in Respect to Man. = when we consider that the whole human race now about 1000 millions have sprung from a single pair - [*2347 8700*] That is different I have said that it is the same [*140*] Spirit that inhabits all things and that Spirit is the Power of God. but it is far different in quantity & quality in Man, than it is in the rest of Creation for Man is as far above the rest of Creation as GOD is above Man Therefore Man has - besides the Spirit of the Universe - The Emanations of Divinity - a Special Spirit of GOD. Upon this Subject you also say "It is the same &c *a* I read the passage [*2348 8701*] It is so. Does any thing doubtful arise to you from that. If you do not think that the Laws of Nature - GODs Laws - provide a certain amount of Spirit for each portion of Creation and divides that again into Minute Species, how do account for the Invariable of kind producing kind even in what appears the most worthless of Vegetation how is it that when you sow wheat the wild poppy springs up amongst it unknown to Man who sets as he believes all wheat and year after year the ground is turned up and you would imagine all Seed had disappeared If you do not account for it in this way how is it that flowers year after year are of the same sort and the same color. How is it the rose is not blue and the Lilly red there is no more Red in the Root than there is blue from which the blossom springs And does it not show the [*141*] Law that exists, the rule that is laid down by the Almighty for his Creation that the predominant color of [Creation] vegetation is green - because Green is most required to cool with its thick Shade and Calm soothing Color the heat of the Sun. Yes every portion of Creation shows the beneficence of the Creator. [*2349 8702*] And also an Unvaried Law As I have learnt from you. that our Commns. are to be continued after the [?] Tuesday in Augt. The questions I had prepared - are rendered unnecy. May I ask. if we shall then receive the promised explanations of the [?] Antiquities and the Apocalypse of St. John. [*2350 8703*] Yes all will be continued the same I am willing to answer any questions that may [I] arise in your mind Any thing that you may have doubt upon or interest in. I will as far as possible forward. there is no reason for your withdrawing a question because you may deem it trivial and if Mr Mackenzie should wish to ask any questions. I am willing to answer them. I returned thanks [*2351 8704*] You mentioned when I appeared before that Mr Gilkes was desirous of putting some I am willing to answer them. May I ask - if when alone I make certain requests to you. Are you cognizant of them [*2352 8705*] I am aware of them when they are formed in your mind the mirror makes no difference except rendering me visible - Can you afterwards answer those requests in this 142 Mirror [[?]]iwthout their being [up??ted] 2353 [870?] do you mean if you asked questions mentally at one time . I could [?] then at another. No . I can answer them when Asked or I can know them when wished. May I ask if you have had any [Co???ation] with my Atmospheric Spirit— since he brought into my oral [spirit] Mirror the Spirit that offered me the Diamonds. 2354 8707 I have not He will not allow me to Communicate with him , because he is so engaged with his Atmospheric friends and those beneath him. Mr Anderson cannot understand Why you will not communicate with him — he hears that you have been ill and he thinks that is the [?] I think it desirable before you leave London that you should [?] it Dr Elliottson I have more faith in him as a Medical man for some Cases than any other in London and I feel certain that he would relieve You. we will at a future [?reasi?] Call Mr Anderson. but I did not intend to do so this Evening [?8] 2355 She cannot see him this Evening May I ask if you have any advice to [235?] 8709 No further than desiring you to See Dr Elliottson if it be possible and it will be so before you leave London and to do all you can with his advice to preservE your health. My Seer Emma has been [?] Still is very ill may I [?] the [?] if your advice as [*143*] to her health [*2357*] No Answer. [Should I] had I better ask that Information of her GS. [*2358 8710*] You had May I ask who is now her GS. [*2359 8711*] Constantine. If any &cm [*2360 8712*] You will be careful to keep my Seal from any one for the present. but particularly while you are there. I will most carefully [*2361 8713*] Thank you 10 PM. The C.A left [Astrological table] 7 July 1856 8:30 PM 1st Invocation for Miss A [*144*] Monday July 7, 1856. Went by appointment with Dr Mackenzie to Mr. Croslands and took the crystal, there were present Mr. ONeil Mr. and Mrs. Crosland & Miss A self and Mr. About eight oclock I took the crystal from its box and placed it on the table near Miss R on presenting it to her for examination her fingers became rigid and I was obliged to remove it, or she would have certainly passed into the mesmeric state, I distinctly felt while taking the crystal away how rigid her hands had become. It was presently suggested that she should look into it, and although the crystal had not been charged, she saw a vision in it as follows - [*8714*] I see four spirits carrying a canopy the canopy is red, I cannot tell what it means, now there are six spirits, the supports of the canopy are wreathed with flowers, and the spirits are strewing flowers about. I cannot give the exact words as Miss A merely spoke generally, and had not really [convinced?] At, 8.20. P.M. however Mr. Hockley charged the crystal and invoked Constantine to shew a vision and answer any questions which might be put. Miss A the seeress then spoke as follows. [*8715*] I see a large rock rising up; the base of which is washed by a roughe sea. I seem to hear the waters roar, the spirit lands upon a rock and a Scroll which he is unfolding - Mr. can you read it. [*8716*] "The Outer is part of the Inner therefore trust and be not fearful, but trust, Blue. + flame color See p 164. RX 8794 See RX 8798. An explanation by the C. A. of the names assumed by these "Intelligences" ;Blue, [*145*] [*8717*] It is for you. The spirit looked at Mrs. Crosland who had hold of the seers hand. Miss A said that after the word "Inner" there appeared a kind of arabesque or illuminated letter Mr Hockley - Will the spirit be kind enough to tell us its name. [*8718*] Vision indistinct. Will Constantine be pleased to make the writing plainer [*8719*] I am Faithful. Will the spirit show what order he belongs to Show the stone in front of the robe. Asked three times. A scroll appeared of a blue colour with letters of five. [*8720*] Wait. The sun is now shining on the sea, a gleam of light falls upon it, it is increasing very considerably. Repeated the last question. [*8721*] I am of the "order of Intelligences" sent upon earth, since the Ascension of our Saviour as a comforter unto man Are you the G.S. of Mrs. [*8722*] Yes - one. How many others has she. [*8723*] At the present time five. Will Faithful kindly give their names. [*8724*] Integrity, Trust, Firmness, and Comprehensiveness Mr. Hockley took the seers hand. Will Faithful be pleased to communicate. [*8725*] Yes. In blue letters. If he should be developed as a medium. Topaz Pink 146 8726 It is elevating to the spirit, it is reducing to the body, Judge for yourself if the spiritual elevation compensates for the bodily infirmity, judiciously followed you have nothing to fear. Am I adopting the right course to banish the evil influences that have beset me. 8727 In the faith and strength of our Lord Jesus Christ can you stand. What G.S. has Mr. ONeil 8728 Devotion is one - Justice and Nehemiah Is Phreno one of the society which communicates with Mr. ONeil -- and if so which of them. 8729 Yes (in topaz) Under what name. 8730 Elevation. Mr. Hockley if Mrs. C takes the seers hand will she be able to see. 8731 Yes she can see but not now, the brain must gather strength ere it will be healthy for the spiritual literature to open to the physical organ. If I lend Miss A________ my Japan Crystal will you appear in it and prevent evil spirits from appearing in it. 8732 I and Innocence will protect it. there is much more sunshine coming Faithful stands out bolder like a statue, Mr [ONeil] C wishes to know as to wether he is right in mesmerizing the seer. 8733 Yes - (in pink.) How often should he do so, and when, and on what days. 8734 Alternate. How long should Mr. [Croiland?] mesmerize her 8735 Half an hour. [*147*] Mr. Crosland wishes to know if you would kindly tell him how may G.S.s he has and what name's they bear. [*8736*] You have four now - another will shortly attend you, the names are Activity, Gratitude, Feeling and Independence Mr. Hockley - From the novelty of the subject to the seer it is somewhat fatiguing - may I be permitted to ask if Mrs. Crosland inspect, will she be to see. [*8737*] For her spiritual health - I may not at present. The seer being fatigued it is proposed to wait a short time - how long shall we wait. [*8738*] A quarter of an hour will be ample 7 to 9 oclock. 10 past 9 Mr. MacKenzie wishes to know whether he is acting rightly in his behavior towards, and treatment of Spiritualism. [*8739*] The earnest spirit is always right if it act in accordance with the light within Mr. MacKenzie would like to know if he would be able to see in the Crystal. [*8740*] Yes, Constantine can help him. Would his health be affected by the practice. [*8741*] If enthusiastically followed. I what manner would Mr. C. be able to check his irritability of temper. [*8742*] Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall have inward peace. In whose custody would it be best that the Japan Chrystal should remain Miss N or Mr. C - should it no be Mr. C. [*8743*] Yes. [*148*] [*8744*] I see a vision of [muscle?], in wich I look rigid. It means that I could not touch the crystal. Who is the spirit of the Japan crystal now, will Faithful and Inocence be sufficient. [*8745*] We will watch over the seer, the crystal is safe. Will you be kind enough to inform Mr. C when he should use the crystal, what days and hours. [*8746*] Sundays at three, always before the shades of evening. Mr. Hockley returned our thanks and asked Faithful to be so kind as to request Gratitude. on her leaving, to appear in the Crystal. [*8747*] Yes. Please to accept our thanks. [*8748*] Faithful waves her hand. and a shower of light falls down. that is her farewell 20 past. 9. Invoked Gratitude. [*8749*] Gratitude is here in a robe of shineing globular substance joined together, her [?] is blue, and the wreath or crown upon her head is formed of pink and white flowers there is a light from the flowers - she stands on a sort of cloud. Will Gratitude be pleased to inform us to what order she belongs. [*8750*] The spirit has not got a scroll like Faithful, her lips move, wait a moment. I am one of those who minister to man. Mr. wished to know whether he was right. [*149*] in publishing his Theory of Apparitions [*8751*] It is a glimmer of light shining in a dark corner. What do you mean by the dark corner. [*8752*] The dark corner is the final end of the Material condition of the earth. The medium being lived we waited five minutes. Gratitude will you kindly ask Constantine to us after you leave. [*8753*] I will. Please to accept our thanks for appearing. [*8754*] He is gone 1/2 past 9. 9' to 10. Invoked Constantine. I see a figure but it is dime at present The seer inspected for a minute or two and then fell forward in a mesmeric state. the light of Constantine being too powerful. 10, 5. P.M. Invoked Faithful [*8755*] She is here in blue, there is the rock and sea, on her head is a diadem of sapphire and topazes What is the meaning of your appearing to us standing upon a rock. [*8756*] To teach you that if you are faithful the whole world shall not prevail against you. Mr. Hockley I recently invoked Constantine and the seer became mesmerized will you kindly tell us why. [*8757*] Because the Atmosphere is new and powerful to the seer. [*150*] Would it be better if I lent Mr. C- my oval mirror [*8758*] Decidedly no. Will you and Innocence guard the mirror and exclude evil Spirits from it. [*8759*] The seer has no fear and we will protect her. What days and hours shall they use the O.M. [*8760*] Not too frequently. On the alternate days to those on which she is mesmerized. Seven oclock, because the seer should be in bed by nine. Faithful, you answered us in different colours, what is the Typical meaning of those colours in general. [*8761*] Everything seen by the seer is typical of an attribute of the Spirit then manifesting itself.....or the feelings promting the idea In our extreme desire to profit by your communications we have lost a few words of your reply, will you be kind enough to repeat them. [*8762*] Another time. Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie who has hold of my seers hand, wishes to know wether at any time he will be able to see. [*8763*] Yes, but I cannot define the period Mr. K. M. requests you to show a vision of where Mr. G R Gliddon now is. [*8764*] I dont know what Faithful is doing It is not my sphere of ministry Please to accept our thanks. She is gone. 10.17. PM. [*151*] [?]die 12 August 1856 Invoked the CA. 1/4 to 8 PM. CA Mirror The CA is here as usual. in white purple robes &c. I am gratified by your appearance. & trust it will now be for a continuance - accept my tanks &c [*2362 8765*] I am pleased to communicate with you once more, and shall continue to appear on Tuesday Evenings when called as before May I ask the cause of my Seer losing her Vision [*2363 8766*] I cannot tell you now I will do so at another time. In pursuance of your instructions I called the Spirit in Mr Leas Mirror calling himself the CA he at once appeared & declared himself to be my Guardian Spirit - but upon requesting him to shew &c. I found it totally different. [*2364 8767*] I cannot, neither can many other Spirits show the back of that Seal unless it be to those with whom we are nearly Connected and when it is necessary for Identifying us As such a means it is infallible and you must keep it strictly to yourself. for you may want it again That Spirit appearing in Mr. Leas Mirror and so boldly asserting himself to be one with me. must show you the nature of the generality of those with whom [we] Mr Lea communicates & it also shows how guarded and 152 scrupulous in his dealings with Spirits must be the Man who could use only that which is right and for right purposes. I mentioned that when my friend Lea was calling one evg. & a letter of mine laying on his Table Lero mentioned the Contents. [& when I was there] gave him a Remedy for my Spasms — but which I had not used — fearing I might thereby come in some measure under his influence 2365 8768 It proves him to be of a low order but still remedies purely medicinal such as are known to be good for the Complaint they heal of might be taken without harm the remedy coming from that source might be as good as a remedy as tho' it came from a physician, but in all cases they should not be trusted alone — if you know their advice to be harmless , you might take it with benefit—but if they recommended that which seemed to your Judgment strange or ill adapted for the Case. then let no influence that. they can exact move you to do their will I speak generally not in your particular Case. I replied that altho the Remedy was Simple + the ingredients I believed efficacious I did not intend using it for fear of any occult influence 2366 8769 In a case like that it would not be so You would merely use the remedy suggested by them as though it KRHM's note of the 21 Septr 1882 9 30 PM when I was reading opposite Fairies [*2370 8773*] There are not such Spirits as a class, there are none that are confined to flowers or that are really so minute - they have appeared so to men. Spiritual Essence has been presented in the Size of a fly to the appearance before man It has been so for some purpose & has been used as an agent for convincing and impressing him with their existence [*153*] came from a different source, not placing faith in them but in the prescription as a cure for the Complaint It is not until you desire that they should interfere and cure you with their means that you become connected with them, but it is best whenever the means of cure can be obtained from other sources to have it and not until that has failed by their advice. I mentioned to you before that I have formed an acquaintance with Dr K R H Mackenzie. and as he has become a convert to Spiritualism I am going to make him a Magic Mirror for his use - he is desirous of being presence at a Seance - may I with your approval name Tuesday Evg next. [*2367 8770*] I am quite willing to appear I mentioned at length my visit to Mr Croslands at Blackheath. my meeting Miss A. & the tenor of the Communications [?] the E.S Crystal [*2368 8771*] The Spirits that you saw there are of the same kind as Mr. Moseley's Guardian Spirit "Pure" and they were good If I then go to Blackheath on a Tuesday or Friday Evening will you kindly consent to appear. [*8772 2379*] Yes. In most civilized countries there exists Traditions that a Class of Spirits exist - so minute that they revel in & under the blossoms of flowers - & [?] many [?] tales are [connect.?] - Termed in this country Fairies - May I ask if any such Spirits really Exist - see response opposite - [*154*] They do not exist as such in the Spirit World In passing from one Subject to another may I observe that in your work on Metaphysical Philosophy you say "If God is the only Intelligence that is perfect now, the other Spheres being created since Man" Am I to understd. that man was created before Angels & Spirits [*2371 8774*] The Spheres were created after Man because they are the receptacle of his Soul in its passage to that first intelligence, and until those Spheres were created for man, the Heavenly Host which were part of the divinity or rather Emanations of the Divinity, did not descend; until Creation took place - - It was unnecessary that they should do so. - but at the time of Creation when Man was made and the after life was considered and provided for - it was necessary that then Emanations of Divinity should come down as invisible Messengers to and from Him and His great work The Bible tells of the Fall of one of these he was turned out from Paradise & from the present of GOD, and descended to make by his own sin and his own [Images?] by the head of that place to which his followers in Evil should hereafter dwell In descending he lost none [*155*] of his greatness. but his nature was changed - changed by its contact with matter - and then began the War of Power against Power - a war that will continue in Spirit and in Man each against its Kind until the whole shall be again as at the beginning, and the Divinity be found Master of all An apparently [interminable?] Subject for dispute amongst men - "on the Origin of Evil" - suggest my asking you now of it - arising out of your last response. If the "Fallen Angel" was originally an Emanation from the Divinity" he must necessarily have been All-good - tho' not all powerful. how then could a being thus all perfect & a divine Emanation = conceive - origination or become contaminated by Sin = - [to put?] could be the Nature of that. "Original Sun" which has since caused so much Misery to Man. [*2372 8775*] The Divinity was then as now, [Powerful] Perfect as a Whole - Perfect as a body Perfect as the great cause and the Head of all things know and existing - and powerful as it was Perfect. for in its power existed its Perfection and being joined as one body there could be no discussion but when the one body separates & gives out a power - that Emanation is not so powerful as the body from which it comes - it is not all powerful and when it finds itself inferior to 156 another, even be that other of the Same nature, there is if I may so express it a desire - [?] for the same height [?] the as great as the power from which it comes - and with a loss of power comes weakness - That insufficiency and weakness was allowed by the [?] Perfect Divinity - more was caused by him indirectly to become sin for it must be remembered that when this Emanation from himself was descending to do good to his Creation He had power ove rit that he might have con???ed it & kept it in all things the same as himself - But this Creation had an Aim it was not an object without an End. and the soul was not an after thought. So that it was necessary that one of these members of this body should fall away from him and become gradually lost to his qualities - for if it were not so the scheme of Redemption that must then have been known were made useless and [?] May I observe - that if they only suffered who sinned - the justice would be obvious - but every day life shows us - that it is the apparent guiltless who suffer - say children - who suffer hunger. Want. - [?] ???thsome starting [?] The result of the [?] of their parents or Even grandfathers [?] Original, so nearly? [*157*] 2373 8776 The sufferings that you speak of are caused by Man, and originate with him at the very time when the almighty established himself as the perfection of all goodness, and the fallen angel the greatest of all Evil - he places man as a separate and distinct being so nearly [*?x*] between the two good and evil and gives man such an amount of His own good qualities as to make him a reasonable being he gives the judgment of discerning between that above and below him[self] - the knowledge of right and wrong He gives him a free will to act in entire [?] and He makes the spiritual body in man strong enough to surmount all difficulties and to become all mac[?] of Evil if he so desires it, and thou Evils you speak of he [?] upon himself + and upon his race because of that free will he chooses the wrong rather than the right. Were men how to act sufficient[ly] what a different world would this be - Equalize the riches of the Earth remove poverty and you remove the greatest cause, the greatest instigator to [?] - and [?] and want. There is enough for all were it shared alike. It is Man not God that makes one Man ruler of a Kingdom - It is Man not God that sets a priest[?] up to represent him and worship [*158*] their own Idol, and it is Man not GOD that requires blood for blood. Although I pay the greatest deference to your views - yet there are points upon which I must beg [a] further explanations [*2374 8777*] Put to me any question that might arise - I feel, I know, that the Mind cannot be convinced unless it is met with opposition even in the slightest source of distrust whatever may seem to you or to any one the slightest objection to the doctrine that I urge - place it before me. I am aware that GOD in his infinite Power might have created & kept man perfectly innocent & during his stay on Earth. enjoy a paradise and in that Case - [*2375 8778 here the response cut my remark short*] And no need of a Soul at all, because if you made the Earth their paradise or place of perfect happiness, you can remove them to none other and unless they have a perpetual existence and live for Ever they must die out as the lowest creature of the Earth for their would be no aim in changing them from one to another in the same state. I was intending to continue that in that case Although there would be no individual merit & consequently no reward. There would on the other hand be no Eternal punishments [*2376 8779*] The Almighty would seem unjust [?] Original [*159*] to say nothing of Mercy - to His Creation were it supposed that he Contemplated for a moment punisht everlasting - were such the care it wd be indeed too frightful to contemplate the Nature of the Almighty would be at once changed - and even the feelings of a Man must turn with repugnance from a Being that wd destroy it - even as a child from a father whom he knew would be his Murderer - But when you know that this short journey thro' the Earth leads to a life everlasting [*x*] [?] and the Angelic loveliness of which is known not even to the Angels around His throne when you feel certain that all men and all things are in a comparatively short time to be brought to an End and that end the beginning of Eternal bliss that through this short probation of Earth - the Evil is struggling with good - Man is tempted only to overcome - and that the future in the Eyes of God is all but the present you at once change the idea that He is unjust. Yet men on this Earth goes thru many Sad + sore Trials which to him appear [?]n age altho' but a Spec in Eternity 2377 8780 The more weary the Pilgrimage the brighter the Haven of rest - 160 In your response you say it is Man not God that requires blood for blood - how can we deter Men from committing murder. 2378 8781 There are greater punishments than Death Nothing is more repulsive to Pure religion - to Him who [practised it] preached it, than the punishment of death. - However great the Crime and the greatest of all is Murder - it can only be equalled by the Official Murder that follows. do to a man what you will - Imprison him him for life take from him every freedom of which he is possessed but if he has forgotten that he is human, others are not to do the same. If you confine him only leaving him the life that he who gives should alone take. You make him responsible to GOD. - for the actions, for the murder that has deprived him of liberty.- But if you take his life what man can tell at that moment the state of his Inward Spirit - the hopes that he has for his soul - It may be that he dies repentant - and if it be truly sincere it goes home to its source - but if he does not do so if he dies with the Sin on his head it falls heavy on the heads of those who send him to Eternity If ought could render his Crime See previous responses as to the Murderers taking by that act the sins of their victims upon their own Souls - +8783 [*161*] 8781 less in the eyes of His maker, it must be the knowledge that he was sent without the time + the opportunity for repentance unto His presence and may he not be forgiven because he was unable through earthly punishmt to bring his mind to a [?] state for asking His forgiveness. Man knows not what he does when he destroys life, he cannot tell the mysteries of that life himself how much less can he understand the mighty mysteries of the life that goes from it. If he did not hang a murderer = I think a large body of the people would never believe - that Rich Men were really punished [?] + we have [?], hung tom Palmer for poisoning his friend Cooke - tho' there are reasons to fear he was not the only one attended by him 2379 8782 I know of it - I have seen Palmer - a very terrible thing worse than this has happened - So strict a las should be passed that neither Rank or Wealth should break thro' its bounds But on our tender soliatude for the Souls of Murderers, ought we not also to remember - the unprepared state in which the victim is recklessly sent to meet his judge 2380 8783 May we not hope that those who are hurried into Eternity through the act of another, go [?] as a child that the very fact of their so dying causes their sins to descend upon the head of their murderer, leave punishment in the hands of God. 162 No man knoweth how he will act. but because one man commits a crime on which the Eye of the Almighty especially rests other men are not to go and commit the same crime because they in their blindness have established it as a law. Is it not a just retribution [that] when [?] miscreants like Louis Napoleon - who shot down hundreds of men & women for his own political ambition - is "assassinated" as it would be called by a man who had lost a parent a brother or a Child in his murderous outrage. 2381 8784 It is not Are men then to be trampled upon - Men of science and learning to be gagged & politically extingushed by a man supported only by [the] bayonets [of] 2382 8785 No doubtless it would be a great National good if men such as these were destroyed or cut off at once - even if it were by the hand of man. but provisions are made for all things and the soldier who falls fighting on the battlefield does not go as it would seem to some - with his sins upon his head they are forgiven and he is [un] unanswerable because the course of his life has been interfered with that which might have been has been prevented. May I ask &c 2383 8786 I have not Action ended 1/4 past 10 PM Nowhere [*163*] [?]die 19th. August 1856 8 PM. C.A. Mirror Invoked the CA The CA is here as usual. Dr Kenneth R H MacKenzie has favored me this Evening with a visit - Agreeable to your kind permiss'in I beg to ask you some questions on his behalf. [*8787 2384*] I will answer them May I ask if you are aware or will kindly enquire the name of Mr MacKenzies - Guardian Spirit [*2385 8788*] I will enquire when I leave and request him to appear. I presume by your response that you are not aware of what order of Spirits he is. [*2386 8789*] He is the same Kind of Spirit as Pure the Guardian Spirit of Mr Moseley May I ask of what order or Class of Spirits [*2387 8790*] AA Spirits that may become of the highest order - Angels of Hades. - but not ministering angels - not of the Heavenly Host. When I. & Mr M. were at Mr Croslands. & Miss A was the Seeress - the responses she received were given in Various Colors - may I ask if there is any occult or Symbolical meaning in relation thereto [*2388 8791*] Sometime ago I gave you the meaning of Colors as belonging to Spirits It signifies the importance generally of the answers given - you can see on referring to what I gave you their Significance I am free to confess I do not remember the Circumstance attended to - not having yet indexed my MS's I am at a loss to refer to them but will do so [*2389 8792*] You enquired as to the Color of the "It appears I had in my mind confused the colors of the answers - with the [?] & ornaments of the Spirits -" such as - Pansies - blue. & Yellow. in various shades - but no Red. Dahlias - Red. & Yellow. - but not blue. [*164*] Robes. and also as to the Colors that should be used about Crystals and Mirrors it was at the same time you were preparing the one I now appear through. I think you I now remember it tho indistinctly At a sitting at Mr C's - The Spirit Faithful was asked the Signce. of the Colors replied "Every thing seen by the seer is typical of an attribute of the Spirit when Manifesting itself - or the feeling prompting the Idea" May I ask your View [*2390 8793*] It rather signifies the nature and Quality of the Spirit itself - But the same Spirit [not] gave answers in different Colors as Gold red, blue, Violet - Amber &c [*8794 2391*] Not more than two, I think 0 Both Mr M & I were of opinion that some of the Spirits had answered in various Colors. but upon referring to his MS. notes we found the C.A. was Correct. I've mentioned the Circumstance [*2392 8795*] You will find on again referring that those two Colors harmonize are composed of almost the same there are none exactly Opposite except the Violet and Green - Amber Red is near, Blue and Violet In relation to Colors may I observe there exists a Singular Law in the Vegetable Kingdom - [?] that no Species of Flowers contain the 3 [Prismatic?] Colors Red Yellow & Blue - May I ask if you are aware of the fact. [*2393 8796*] The Law of Nature gives to each Specie a separate Color - the Art of Man may mix those and produce through Science a Mixture of Each [*165*] Mr M. wishes to ask if you appeared in his Crystal on Odie 13 July - when he was Calling. [*8797 2394*] I have not done so May I ask if you know any of the Spirits who appear at Mr Croslands & state their names to be "Faithful - Integrity - Trust - Firmness Comprehensiveness - Devotion - Justice - Nehemiah Elevation - Innocence - Activity - Gratitude Feeling - Independence - Power - Accumulation Courage. - Mystery - Affection - Content & The Replenisher" [*2395 8798*] These Spirits are all of one Order but although they come to Man with these significant names it is not the one they bear in the Spirit World. They bring it as a motto. they make it significant of their Character and their desires in Connection with those they visit [*?*] The Dove Angel who has often appeared to you as the harbinger of Peace in the form of a dove. and its purity and its brightness is expressive of its Character - it is perhaps a pleasing but not a powerful way. Here I made some remark & the CA replied I would preach of the Mercy of GOD and of the dependence of Man upon his Mercy and of the Necessity of Faith and a Reliance on his Mercy - but I do not come as the Character of "Mercy." [*166*] because I think it more desirable higher and holier to come only as a Messenger from my own Sphere The Spirits at Mr C's. on being questioned state themselves to be Ministering Angels in various Ways. "Faithful" said I am of the order of Intelligences sent upon Earth. since the Ascension of our Saviour as a comforter unto Man." May I ask if that is correct. [*2396 8799*] It is correct in the letter but not in the Spirit it would lead you to believe that he is the Ministering Angel from the Throne of Grace to the whole race of man whereas he really is the Guardian of a Single Man and as such only is a Ministering Angel The Spirit "Power" said in his response "I am one of the Ministering Spirits sent upon earth to assist in warring against the principle miscalled Evil which is nothing but the principle of antagonism." May we ask your view of that reply [*2397 8800*] The Antagonistic Power is Evil, such as I have mentioned in the work I gave you, it can be nothing else if it is opposition to [GOD] Good. Was not the word Evil misread I suggested to Dr. M that the words might have been "miscalled Devil" & the CA said [*2398 8801*] If it is so it is quite right, the Vulgar Notion of the Antagonistic name is quite wrong At the same sitting Mr M asked Power if "Accumulation" is the name of his GS. in [*167*] consequence of his ever striving to add to his stock of knowledge - to which "Power" replied yes. - Dr M wishes to ask if he is right in his Conjecture that these Spirits are of a lower order entrusted with the care and development of our faculties and the fostering of special qualities & tendencies of our nature. [*2399 8802*] They are not the highest spirits, but they are the Guardians of Men. when those men have more than one. - When they have more than one the Guardianship is divided, but they are not the sole guardians of the lower qualities - They are guardians of body & Soul and he has no other. where there is only one guardian they are either higher or lower than those Spirits more degenerate towards Evil or more exalted towards Good. This morning a little ragged urchin about 10 or 12 years old picked my pocket - I ran after him I took my [Hand?] away from him & let him go - did I do right = because if I had taken him before a Magistrate it might have been the Occasion of his being placed in a reformatory & then he might haved tried & tried honestly, as it is my [?] may only encourage him in Evil [*2400 8803*] Individually you were humane, and humanity is right - You could not have stopped the system by punishing one, and you perhaps harden him with that punishment, for you brand him with a name that would unfit him [*168*] for a good position in respectable society, and you give him in the associates he meets with in his place of Confinement instigators to further Crime. Remove the Cause of these things and the Consequences will disappear It requires Education and punishment to make them good. Torture to the mind is far greater than that to the body - it is a greater punishment when man acts in opposition to moral precept. - to the knowledge he has in him of right. - it is greater punishment to break through the law imposed upon himself - than it is to inflict bodily punishment - when the Conscience approves of it. "Mystery" proposed to Dr M. at his request to discuss passages from Swedenborg with him - would you afterwards favor Dr M with your views upon the argument. [*2401 8804*] I will do so Does the Spirit World recognize a distinction between Ministering Angels, and Guardian Spirits? [*2402 8805*] They are perfectly distinct although one may be a Ministering Spirit and a Guardian Angel at the same time. Guardian Spirits are those who come from any Sphere and who attach themselves to Individuals upon Earth some have them good & bad as those qualities predominate in [*169*] themselves, some have only good and there are cases of those who have so lowered themselves as to be possessed only of Evil. - and there are those who have a Ministering Angel for their Guardian. Not perhaps because they are better than their fellows, but because it is so needed that they should change because they are desirous of truth. and Truth only and yet circumstances rather than faults have led them so irretrievably into Error. that man & all his Arguments. - Spirits with all their difference of opinions only lead more astray. and it is absolutely necessary that if such are brought to the right end. - The way and path of Truth. It must be by a special light - No purpose can be greater than guiding such as these to their home. And that task devolves in the Ministers of Jesus Christ. The preachers and the stedfast followers of his Word. May I observe that believing as I do that Good Spirits do not, will not rap or move tables - I am at a loss to reconcile the fact that the Spirits I have named - both rap & also appear in the Mirror I lent Mr C. at his house. [*8806 2403*] They are not the same who rap and appear, you can test them I will give you the means of doing so before you go there again Good and pure Spirits cannot come Opposition of Crystal & Physical working 170 into so near a contact with matter as to make themselves felt by Material bodies , it must be through the mind the intellect & the reason alone, that they can Communicate with man. Whilst Dr Mackenzie & I were discoursing upon this subject DM being of opinion from what had taken place at Mr C's that the same spirits rapped and appeared the C A remarked. 2404 8807 The Good is not always so powerful As the Evil — it has not the same means of making its power manifest and the Evil knows the action of the Good — the Evil might be waiting in the same room. hearing with you the responses, and might then rap at the right time. but this can be avoided it must be if you would progress rightly. The two methods of holding Communication with the spirit world will never agree they interfere with each other and one upsets the other, by asking or allowing spirits to knock. at the same time you use the other means of Comm'n you give the Evil Spirits the opportunity of working into both. and when once in they cannot easily be expelled. May I ask if you are Aware of Swedenborgs Doctrine as to the Maximus Homo. 2405 2808 I am aware of his Theory I have spoken before of his dreams 171 and his visions and I look upon this as Ideas given to him by spirits which he worked into Theories, wrongly it has no foundation May I ask. When it will be agreeable for you to Continue Your remarks upon the Apocalypse. 2406 8809 Tuesday week I will answer them If my advice &c 2407 8810 It would be best for Mr M. to have a Mirror the same in form as the one you gave Mr Burton. do you mean a Silvered Mirror is a black Mirror 2408 8811 A Black Mirror Will you be kind enough o request & Mr M's Guardian Spirit to appear 2409 8812 I will 1/4 past 9 PM The C. A. left Invoked Mr M's GS. In about two minutes the Mirror veiled & [?] & Emma said It's very small, yet very plain and distinct — no wings light hair. the hair is bound up and does not hang in Curls it has a Silvery robe like very then tissue, which gets Shadowy as it descends towards the feet. — theres a fastening in front something flat.— The dress is in large folds May I ask your name 8813 COURAGE Are you the GS of Mr M. 8814 I am Of what order Now there's an amber Stone in front & two AA Now its gone the fold fo the dress has gone over it [*172*] how long have you been his GS. [*8815*] 23 years What are your offices & duties towards him as his GS. [*8816*] I have power to influence & direct his mind If that is so you possess the power of annulling Man's noblest gift. his Freewill. [*8817*] I do not I only use that power to guide him towards good And although a Power it is limited Can you convey to our Mortal Ideas how a man is thus guided by his GS. [*8818*] I impel him to exertion, give him the desire for investigating, and the Power of perseverance in his mortal Studies Are you aware of that class of Spirits called Atmospheric Spirits -- Spirits who are the double or other Self of us Mortals [*8819*] Of course I am no Spirits can enter the Earth without passing thro' it It is the Mirror of the Earth and the Keeper of Mans Actions. Then you know Mr M's Atmospheric Spirit [*8820*] Yes Do you act upon Mr M thro' his A.S. [*8821*] No They do it by direct influence, nothing separates them. nothing interferes with them. do you know or believe that Mans past actions can be brought & rendered Visible to the Eyes of a Seer in our Magic Mirrors & Crystals [*8822*] They can be brought from the place of [*173*] record where they [are kept] exist to the Eye, if the proper means be used Dr M Will you inform me what at Mr C's "Mystery" appears as my Guardian Spirit and here you appear. [*8823*] You have another - you have three Guardian Spirits Will you tell me their names [*8824*] Do you mean the names they bear in the Spirit World Yes if you please [*8825*] One accumulates Knowledge of Mystery of Science and the other with courage drives away the obstacles and makes the Mystery dissolve. Why has Mr M three Guardian Spirits whilst I have only one. [*8826*] They are of a different class Yours may be more strictly termed Guardian of the Soul. - his are as well of the body as of the Soul. I ex. very strongly and asked if Courage rapped or moved the Table at Mr C's when Mr M. was last there [*8827*] I would rather not be questioned I ex. & again asked [*8828*] I did not. Do you approve of my making Mr M. a Mirror [*8829*] Yes I do Will you or one of his other GS. become guardian of the Mirror to prevent Evil Spirits appearing [*8830*] All three Have you any Instructions to give [?] it shall I line with black [?] or Velvet [*8831*] black Silk. [*174*] [*8832*] I would rather not be in any way connected with rapping Spirits I would rather not that the Mirror should be connect with rapping Spirits I have not the power to act in Opposition to them - sufficient to keep them away if you desired that they should be present. I would rather that the Commn. with the Spirit World should [be] at least be kept separate. Will Mr M be able to develop his faculty of Seeing - which he is said to possess [*8833*] he will In how long a time [*8834*] It seems to me longer than it did once - but it is in a fair way of being developed Are you are of the existence of the Spirit "Orion" [*8835*] Yes He is a very good Spirit, no harm can arise from his being called he possesses a great deal of information & would willingly give it to others. I exd. by the name. I asked if he was truly of that opinion [*8836*] he seems to be so I believe that he has been inferior I sued the [St.?] Ex. and Od. Are you not aware that he is an Evil disposed Wandering Spirit [*8837*] No His appearance is changed, he no longer wears armour, and he dwells in a higher Sphere May I ask if the C.A directed a black mirror [*175*] to be made - for the purpose of better developing Mr. M's sight [*8838*] It is. - It requires a much stronger Vision when the mirror is plated Shall I use the plate I have upstairs. [*8839 Yes Dr M Am I right in the path I am pursuing in developing Spiritualism in the way that I am [*8840*] You are. If you will cease to make use of Rapping as an Agent for Communion. Dr M If I undertake to abstain from all Communicatns. with rapping Spirits, will you develop my sight sooner. [*8841*] I cannot do it more speedily but when obtained it will be better. Dr M. Will you ask Mystery my other GS to appear [*8842*] he cannot appear this Evening. he will do so another Evening if requested on what days shall I use the Mirror [*8843*] Tuesdays in the Evening Am I to be limited to that day [*8844*] I cannot tell If any advice &c [*8845*] I have not. hes gone 10. PM. [*to this*] 176 [?25] Aug. 1856 C. A Mirror Invoked the CA. 8 PM- The C A is here as usual. Will it be agreeable for us to see Mr Anderson. 8846 2410 It will After I have been favored with your views upon the Apocalypse will you inform me when MohamEd Ali will givE me an explanation of the Nineveh Inscriptions 8847 2411 I cannot tell on what day he will appear Are there any Spirits who can givE information or have a knowledge of Subjects that would elucidate the Early history of Man. 2412 8848 There are those who have visited earth from its beginning , but they have visited it as Spirits and their knowledge of the Material is limited You mentioned in a former response (No 8782) that you had seen Palmer — may I ask what was his State when you so saw him 2413 8849 he was in the Atmosphere in the same State as when he left the Earth.— he is there now and will remain so for a long time. 8850 does he in that State Confess his Crimes 2414 Yes Was it here that he also Murdered his Brother & Wife 8857 2415 It was You at the same time said "that worse than than and since happened. — to what did you allude 8852 2415 the Bloodshed in Spain If not the present Convulsed State of the whole world a forEshadowing of the Wars [?] of 177 Wars preceding the promised Millenium 8853 2417 It is so May I now ask if Jesus in addressing the Jews to whom his mission appeared limited spoke according to his knowledge fo the Jewish scriptures acquired in his humanity 2418 8854 From his human knowledge fo their Prophecy. In quoting the Scripture of the Jews the old Testt. did Jesus appeal to them from his own belief in their divine inspiration — or as appealing to the belief of the Jews in their divine Origin — no a proof of his mission. 2418 8855 He knew that they were not divinEly inspired he spoke of them to the Jews because he knew that they had faith in them and he knew that they were the true predictions of his Coming A man may prophecy truly and yet be not inspired — or much Evil and some good may be givEn in his prophecies May I ask why Jesus ' own mission appears to have been solely to the Jews.— and the Conversion of the Gentiles left to the Apostles & disciples 2420 8856 He was born of the Jews and he preached amongst his race. He knew that his words would go forth. to the other inhabitants of the Globe in after yeras and he also knew that the Jews needed more strengthening for they would be more Persecuted. Yet his preaching and actions Converted but a small portion of the Jews, & they exist now as a race scattered over a large portion of the Globe in the midst of Christians — yet unconverted. [*178*] [*2421 8857*] Because they are strongest in their opposing faith, they need greater exertion and counsel to bring them to a belief in Christ He made that exertion for them when he was upon Earth, and he would have all men professing themselves Christians, Christians at heart and in actions to look to their spiritual welfare Do you think that they will as a Nation be restored to Jerusalem & Palestine - it is a favorite Theory of the Apocalyptic Writers. [*8858 2422*] No I do not. It is now nearly two years since I have used my [Exam?] Glass - in consequence of Mr Dressers At Spirit being limited to it - do you thin I may now use it with safety [*8859 2423*] You can if he is not present As I am afraid I must appear to him to have behaved rudely. I should much like to give him another Evenings Seance [*2424 8860*] There is no objection to his Coming on a Tuesday Evening if you do not use any but the Mirror which I now am in. I will then do so, as I should be sorry for him to think I had behaved ill [*2425 8861*] Do so I have the greatest objection to any apparent want of courtesy - which it must seem to him although it could not be avoided if you wished to obtain harmony in your Communion with Spirits As I have lent Mr Crosland my Oval Mirror can I call Mr Anderson in this 179 2426 He will appear in the box [?] do you mean the brain [?] 8861 2427 Yes Should we be able to share [?] in that you [?] 2428 [?] [?] [?] you can then 8863 Ask him if he has any objection [?] [?] [?] he should do in this if he has none I have none. Is this I [?] the [?] than I the one [?] [?] 8864 2429 this the same. I [?] then call him into if 8865 2430 do so. If my [?] 8866 2431 [?] not [?] 180 New Mirror and Your GS. Constantine 8869 You may as well call me in the other. You can [there] see more readings I will then tell you 5 to 9. C A Mirror Called Mr Anderson Now hes walked in — but his coat is buttoned up Close. 8870 I am in Spain now , at home, I have been extremely fortunate with my mirror since I saw you last. I now practice it systematically and find that without any inconvenience or trouble. I receive bettor Communications taht are really more desirable — than spiritual credence given as it was before at all times and in all places now. that I use the Mirror I find that I am limited to it — Confined to that means alone , and I do not desire that it should be otherwise. I am pleased to hear that because I had a finger in the pie.— 8871 I thank you for your kind exertions and I am quite satisfied that you will feel well paid in knowing that anyone had received benefit from them. I was extremely sorry to hear that you had been deprived for a time of Your blessing—but as it has returned at last. it was but a small Evil. Is Constantine Your GS. now 8872 he is. What is Your opinion of O'donnell—&the Amiable Isabella. do you think they will Succeed in 181 their murderous villaines 8873 His party will remain the strongest no doubt for some time - but I have no doubt there will be another insurrection it is a terrible thing, but I take no part in the fight - Shall you return soon. 8874 O yes I am only absent on leave. have you any thing [A????s] in Spiritual Matters to Communicate to me. Since we last met. 8875 I have received nothing but some religious discourse - a spirit or two that Constantine has desired to appear. and a few Atmospheric Spirits of Friends. Have you ever seen LITESMO. in either of your mirrors or Crystals or received his name from any other No - To what order does he belong 8876 AIA That is the highest is it not I wish you would call him at your convenience. I will do so if the CA will give me leave 8877 You can enquire about him first & I think you would find him very pleasing and instructive - he has appeared to me I have the name of another, I think a new one too. Will you tell me that name 8878 I forget how its spelt if you will wait one moment - Now Mr A's gone. (2') Now hes come back & said 182 8879 I have the names of all the Spirits I believe I have not omitted one Since I began these Studies, the one I was speaking of has a strange name SEVENHOMINA It is a long name do you know the meaning of "Seven - homina - " 8880 They told me it was not pronounced liked that as you spoke it. it is Seven - o - mina I read it so 8881 That's right Of what class is he. 8882 I remarked on the name being curious when I was told so expressly the way of pronouncing it. and he said it was "Angels - Stars" and that he was of the A A order and no I (capital i) over. did you call him 8883 No Constantine -- at least not before Constantine had mentioned that his communications were truthful and good and that he recommended Me to commune with him, as one -- "Knowing much, and fearing GOD" I invoked him after that -- whether his title "Angels - Stars" is the same as that of the C A. or whether he has any thing to do [what] with the Celestial bodies, I dont know I have kept the whole of my responses as well as names -- since I have had my present Seer 8884 So have I as near as I can but the names I have on a separate list by way of reference. please to remember 8887 this is our respective "doubles" 183 that I have to do it all I mentioned my seance at Mr Croslands & the Names of the Spirits there - have you had any such spirits 8885 I have not, and did not know that any such existed Selina is looking in the Erani Glass to try & see some one. but her vision does not improve much 8886 I don't think she tries often enough I have seen you several times since I appeared last. I hope I behaved properly 8887 You did - I am very pleased that both your own and my manners have greatly improved. do you remember your Promise about the Lady. you were going to Court. 8888 Oh yes I did go and quite made up my mind to marry a small fortune but when I found out there was a very large appendage - a widow of 40 and three children I returned to Cheltenham much the same as I went. how is our friend Mrs. Powell and her Son who is "so like his father" 8889 I believe they are quite well, dont you recollect the boy was to have appeared a time or two ago. Yes but he never did appear 8890 he would do so he is at Cheltenham now. I had a letter from them a day or two ago - (Selina here laughed) - O you might see it Miss it was only about Mrs. Powells 100 a year that he left me in Charge of 184 Is Miss Pengina married yet 8891 No she is not. (I remarked to Selina how sleepy I feel ) & Mr A said 8892 I am afraid you dont have sleep enough at night — too bad to go to bed so late and rise so early. You remark jut now about your "Atmospheric friends" sounds [d??ll] when you are only the Atmospheric double — yourself. 8893 but I speak of the body and I personify that. it was in the body that I [[?]] received the visions — of all the things I hav mentioned or rather of all the spirits for I have had no scenEs or Events [?] some time past. Can you or your Atmospheric Spirit tell me how You bring into the mirror — your room. pictures Furniture &c as you have done 8894 I do not know I am not the only one that appears so All do it occasionally but I thought in Your At State you would know the Modus operandi 8895 I know no more than you know how you appear in mine in the same way. but you have often Appeared to us to walk on if the Crystal and fetch other persons in whom I have wished to see. 8896 a spirit of the Mirror could show him in Company with me — at least the Spirit of the Crystal has done it, I dont know how it might be now. but you have often left the Crystal. & then walked in Arrm in Arm — that was your doing, not the Spirit of the Crystals' 8897 I left the Crystal, & found him brought 185 there by the Spirit of the Crystal because you desired it and ready to associate with me. Is that how you used to bring in Miss Green & her Nieces 8898 I brought them the same as I Do the tables chairs &c I suppose - because I was associated with them in life Are either of the Miss Greens married yet 8899 There was only one Miss Green. the old Lady - The Nieces are both married When do you think of being in London 8900 The latter part of September. because we intend shortly going to the Theatre & I hope this time the recognition will be mutual 8901 I am not going to be served the same as I was last time This time we will keep our Promise 8902 We'll see Have You received any historical information 8903 Not lately. I often wonder whether your Singular Experiment with the Spirit who escaped from the bottle in your Atmosphere is in the body 8904 Bodily upon Earth I assure you I dont want it to happen again. Do you ever try the [Palingenesia?] now 8905 No I do not. It is a pity these experiments can only be done by Evil Spirits they could be so Convincing to others 8906 They are of course more Convincing because Every one can witness them. but they are [Especally?] for the body. Communications coming a different way or from higher Sources are professedly for the Soul [*186*] have you anything interesting in our Spiritual way you would like to Communicate [*8907*] I have nothing this Evening, but I will appear again on another Evening. I will wish you good night then Good night 10 P.M. [?]die 2 Sept 1856 C A Mirror 1/4 before 8. Invoked the C.A. The CA is here in White Purple Robe as Usual. May I this Evening be favored with the Continuation of your views on the Apocalypse [*8908 2432*] Yes Shall I read the whole or half of the Chapter [*8909 2433*] Read the whole of the 11th. I read Revn. Chapt. 11. [*2434 8910*] That is part vision & part prophecy it cannot be received in a literal sense It is wrong to suppose that things such as he describes will really take place at the last day. The divining rods he mentions were those belonging to himself - by which he exercised power over Earthly & Spiritual things. May I ask if you have any further remarks to make on that Chapter [*2435 8911*] Not unless you have any Questions to ask concerning it. I read Chapter 12. [*2436 8912*] But one does not refer to the end of the world at all - it is symbolical of the beginning of Christianity. 187 The Spirit of GOD coming from Earth — struggles through the EArhtly nature to overcome the spirit of Evil hence arises a warfare between the flesh and what is there termed the Devil — it may be applied to the whole of the time that the Eartha dn man exists in its present state , but it is useless when the [?] is gone or even going — for then the struggle will be over. I read Revelations Ch. 13 2437 8913 It was intended for the Present time it can I think only be applied to the powers of the mighty Antagonist before the close of his Spiritual exisrence — before the Millenium— The last struggles fo the Enemy of Man for the possession of GOD's creation was well known even at that early age to those who could make use of a Power not now so generally used as that of divining and Spirit seeing. he seems to have taken particular notice (for he describes them well ) of Evil Spirits that arose from the waters to the Earth. Their appearnce to the Eyes of a Mortal is as he describes those who have the Power can see them. — their Actions can be known by the struggles about to take place throughout the world even to those who have no spiritual sight. I [?] read v. 18 "Here is wisdom let him that " "hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is" The Rev'd. Alfred [?] Rationale [?] vol 2 p. 5 renders the verse. Here is wisdom, he that hat the mind - let him compute the number of the beast, for it is a mans number; and his number is six hundred and sixty six = and he asserts (v 2 - 123) as "Something almost amounting to Mathematical demonstration" The name to be In Hebrew [Hebrew phrase] Ha-Malcuth Ha-Latinain, " The Kingdom of the [?] In the Greek [Greek phrase] He. Latine Basileia "The Latin Kingdom Hebrew -------- Greek on the assumption that Ha. 5 He 8 "The Beast is a Kingdom m 40 L 30 The name of the Beast is therefore aL 30 a 1 the name of a King-dom c 2 t 300 The Kingdom was to be one of a very u 6 i 10 peculiar character being formed th 400 n 50 by two great powers, the one political e 8 the other ecclesiastical acting in Ha 5 B 2 concert and combining together to L 30 a 1 support each other" page 123 at 9 s 200 i 10 i 10 n 50 L 30 a 1 e 5 i 10 i 10 n 50 a 1 ------- ------- 666 666 Others have conjectured "Lateinos" -- [?] & Ivi-Mede. "Tertan" -- " "The Conqueror" "Gens[?]" "Mahomet" "The Italian Church" "Luther" "An Apostate __________ Faber "DIoCLes AUgUstUs _______ Bossnet. Bishop of Meaux. 1690 "Adonikam" [?] in 1721 The "Roman Popes" & "Papal Christendom" -- Mr Elliott. 188 "the number of a Man; and his number is " "Six hundred three score and six." — May I observe that this by the great body of apocalyptical writers is supposed. to give the name of the Anti Christ and as one half the religious world + especially its priests are Ever ready to damn those who the other half are inclined to deify= it has been supposed to represent "The Roman Catholic Church." The Papacy" divers of the Popes — Lewis 14th. and Napoleon the 1st.—&c &c 2438 8914 it does not mean that, (xn) I do not know now the meaning of it as there placed.— The Anti Christ is not a man. therefore he can have no number. The Anti Christ is the Chief of the Power of Evil — The Spiritual opponent of GOD. — But as the Almighty sent an Emanation of the Divinity upon earth who assumed the material body to convince man of his goodness and his mercy to him , so also the Prince of Evil sends an Emanation from his body to the Earth the more to Secure the Souls of those who are not prepared to defend themselves. with the Shield of Christ The mortal body of the Son of the destroyer is not yet born — his birth shows the last struggle. because it is the greatest Effort of the Evil one, thus to givE temptation as from one man to another. and with the death of this body shall all Evil Case to reign for it will be made manifest that as by flesh. man is so [destroyed] betrayed 189 so by flesh is he [is] redeemed — that even in flesh GOOD triumphs over Evil— I read Rev. Ch. 14. 2439 8915 There you have a picture of the end of the world. in the mortal world as it is in the spiritual.— it is the same as spoken of by Christ in his Parables I cannot see the use of such language When you think that all things will be spiritual that no image of earth will be seen that there will be no mortal sight even — that even the Angels will be shapeless. — and Mount Zion crumbled away and gone. that the bodies of those existing in Earth will be changed in the twinkling of an Eye. it must seem impossible that such as John describes can be really true — and yet those words are full of meaning and quite correct when recieved only as parables., much may there be learned from them I read Rev. Ch 15. 2440 8916 the wrath of GOD is wrongly Given HIs just sentance on those who have transgressed may be carried out by their punishment before the good are recieved by him. may be — but his wrath. can never be felt by Man [now] or caused by Angels. I read Rev. Ch. 16. 2441 8917 The 1st Part of the chapter is relating to the punishment of GOD inflicted 190 upon those who have sinned beyond redemption — there are Seven kinds of punishment there spoken of and it shows that the punishment of the wicked consists in being made to do in the Spirit world over again that which caused their Sin in this that as there may be 7 classes of Sin , so there is a punishment to Each the latter part of the Chapter again refers to the mortal state. I read Rev. Ch. 17 2442 8918 I look at it as Conveying this meaning That the Evil one represents the tempter of Man throughout his race — that she was the first through whom he influence of the beast.— that is the Evil spirit — was felt by Man. and that she will ever remain his greatest organ for tempting man into Sin. That the Princes mentioned are not those who have an earthly Crown are not those men whom their fellows Establish and overthrow. but they are really and truly the princes of the Earth those who through their own merits [and] or demerits are mde remarkable either for good or bad the leaders of mens [??nds] , those possessing influence through their own position Elevated alone by their superior Qualities over mens free actions over his Mind and over his Spirit. 191 read Rev 79. 2443 8919 the Babylon so often described is England the Chapter you have just read speaks more particularly of England's destruction because in her has been the greatest Sin She indeed needs purifying and deserves punishment — for with the means of Grace and with the knowledge of GOD how great has been her Sins This woman I look upon as the person the Earthly form of the whole Sex , and when that is destroyed When the Spirit coming from taht form i[?]s made the same in its nature as Man, when all are of one quality & of one and, in that place where there is no marriage or giving in marriage the greatest temptation to sin will be gone — the fascinating instrument of Evil will be useless — for the Power of Evil aims at the Souls of Men through her because being the most beautiful of GOD's works in Nature and perhaps the most Powerful she forms the greatest object of his ambition — because in gaining her he gains a great step in his battle with good. The [?] or Roman Catholic Version frm which I am now reading - contains the follg. commentary. 2444 8920 I do not [*192*] I read Rev xx 2445 8921 He is quite wrong in his doctrine of two resurrections - the final destruction of Evil does not take place until the resurrection of the whole human race The Almighty does not triumph over all things and proclaim himself the same as at the beginning the only existing perfect power until he has received those in purity equal to the blessed, who have sinned and received punishment - read Rev xxi 2446 8922 The place there described to meet the imagination of Man by all that seems to him of the rarest beauty, is in its peculiar way a correct description of the heaven prepared for the reception of Mens Souls. Well termed by John the Bride of the Man - for that must indeed be the beloved of Christ for which he could suffer + die upon the Cross. read Rev. xxii 2447 8923 When John follows those who would alter his works with his curse - with the desire that they may receive not the blessings of God - he shows that he is not inspired of him - and although from many parts of his [works] work much may be [*193*] Gathered that is instructive and interesting there is none, no not one part of it Essentially Necessary to Man. As I have now read the whole of the Apocalypse May I be allowed to ask of you will on next Tuesday Evening - answer any questions arising from your responses 8924 2448 I will Will it also on that Evening be convenient for Constantine to appear 8925 2449 I do not know If any 8926 2450 I have not this Evening 10 PM. [?] 9h Sept 1856 C A Mirror Smoked the C A 8 PM In continuing the subject of the Apocalypse may I ask how John - one of the disciples of our Lord [came] [to] [be] was permitted to write this book which Emanating from him - Forming in after times a portion of the New Testament is deemed by a vast majority of the Christian world of "divine inspiration - 2457 8927 Although I have said the writings of John are unnecessary to the Spiritual Welfare of Men's Souls - that they are superfluous to the book to which they are not written in a language that should have been used to give a clear + definite idea Thousands of [?] and the [?] of this life as rewarded by the disciples--the only [?]-- "Religion" That which [?] the spirit of man nearest to his God-- 194 of the extraordinary dreams & visions of the writer—Yet there is nothing in them that can do harm — There is nothing but what divested of its imaginary clothing and brought down to the level of mans comprehension and common sense can be reconciled with the Truth as written by the Divine inspiration in the lives of Jesus Christ by his immediate Disciples The only essentially necessary part of the Bible contained in the New Testament are the words of Jesus Christ & the actions of his life as recorded by his disciples They are Truthful and Consistent and they unaided from the basis of religion — When I say religion I mean strictly speaking - that which Elevates the spirit of man nearest to his GOD. May I observe that the majority of Christians, deemi[ng] the book "divinely inspired" [consider it] & consequently a Prophecy . of Events that have or will actually take place — some symbolicaly others absolutely literal — 2452 8928 Such things will never really be seen If you divest these prophecies from the power which they have through being attached to the Divine Inspiration — if you separate them from the scriptures and look upon them merely as the dreams & visions of a man even like [?] No value — not Even sense can be found in the likeness and the figures that are made by John the inhabitants of heaven and the workers upon Earth it is impossible to suppose that the 105 wrath of [God] the Almighty can be as it were "bottled" that when HeavEn and earth has passed away and all things material have gone back to their source — that such materiality can exist as the things , that he mentions from whence the purest of all spirits emanate from taht place where Man with a particlE of his material body. where even the mind whilst inhabiting [?] clinging to that material body cannot approach or Even understand.— And if man with his body endowEd with the likeness of [his] GOD — of all his Creation the nearest to his maker. cnnot approach His presence unless he be divested of every thing Appertaining to the flesh. and the Earth. — how is it possible — how can the reason of man make it possible for things which are created for his most servile use made for him to govern & Command and kill at his pleasure. be found with their shape and their body in that place where he is unfit to approach At my former Sitting I unfortunately omitted reading the 18 Chapter may I read it now that I may to have any hiatus in your remarks 8929 2453 Read it read Rev XVIII 2454 8730 I believe that England is the place meant for destruction — that such Was his prophecy of the things that will take place it may be destroyed suddenly, but not until it is no 196 no longer useful — not until it has givEn up to GOD its precious freight of human souls.— Although the Land , for such a little spot — of the greatest wealth it has the greatest misery , and altho the Land of the greatest sin , for it has the greatest enlightenment — there are many in it of the True Faith. and for the sake of the few shall the many be saved from destruction. Your remarks are singularly opposed to the views of the Reverend [exp???d?s] of this look - they Are almost unanimous in considering England as "the blessed Land" & pour out the whole of their Religious hatred, and holy wrath upon the Pope & especially Rome & the other to Catholic Kingdoms 2455 8931 But Rome is not a City of Merchants Rome is not walled with Strips or depending upon merchandize for such a fast amount of wealth as England. I read Rev XVII v 5. May I observe that EvEn the [?] of the [D???] Mole — [?] in their Gloss = "A Mystery" that is a secret because what follows of the Title and the great harlot is to e taken in a mystical sense — [?] ["Babylon"] "Babylon" Either the City of the Devil in General, or of this place be to be understood [literally] of any particular City, Pagan Rome which then & for 301 Years [and] persecuted the church ; and was the principal sent both of Empire and idolatory— 2456 8932 But the things prophecied have not yet taken place — therefore it must allude to something yet to come . and I believe with all others of my Class that the 197 special city pointed to is London. that the time is not yet arrived for the fulfilment of these things, that when they do come to pass - that it will not be as he understood - that his words are [not] only [mystical] symbolical even of the destruction Will you allow me to ask your view of some portion of the Commentaries of the Douay bible. 2457 8933 I will answer them I read from Ch. 1 v 1. and also VI v 2. see note -a- 2458 8734 That is right but it is John that makes these verses ? symbolical of the destruction read Gloss IX v 1 . note B, 2459 8935 The commentator speaks much of -- The Church -- and seems to consider it the greatest sin & deserving of the greatest punishment for either the members of the Church. to him from it and against it -- or for others not of the Church to rise in opposition against it & try to overthrow it -- now by persons of different Faith, Protestant & Catholic both talking of the "the Church" how is it to be understood my knowledge of [the] -- the Church" is different from theirs May I solicit your view of "The Church" 2460 8936 That Church of which Christ is the head and the Corner stone is in the hearts of those who have faith! Faith to a different extent among the members of every different Religion of every different persuasion -- of every different sect -- may exist in the protestant may exist in the deist it may exist 198 8936 in the worshippers of Idols — In those who have never seen or heard because Circumstances have prevented it — if the Gospel is Christianity — Where the heart is human, there may faith exist — of course in different desires according to the enlightenment of the possessor That faith I believe to be, the belief and the knowledge that passeth all understanding of a being infinitely Greater, and finer, and mightier[s] than man.., existing in unison with the best feelings , the purest sentiments of mans Nature . And that can be approached and pleased and whose Grace can alone be obtained through meritorious actions — And I also most firmly believe that this faith, goes home to its Source. and that where this faith is — there also is the spirit of God the Holy Ghost. And where a GOD is recognized And a son is unknown that son is one in influence with the Father. and he intercedes for the one who worships the Father alone as much as though he knew him — and recognized him as Saviour.— But to have the Knowledge of Jesus Christ and not to believe in him to receive him only with doubt & uncertainty is to want Faith — and the want of that Faith may be found in any 199 Church amongst the strictest followers of any form of religion You have read the Revelations of St John and the remarks upon it by other Men. - in reading it through what opinion have you formed - what had you formed upon it before you read it to me. 2461 8937 Your opinion is right, It is an exaggeration & yet a prophecy. I read Gloss IX.3 2462 8938 And I look upon the Locusts as Evil Spirits - in the form of Spirits never seen bodily - the word Locusts is used only to signify torments. Read Gloss XII.I and XIII.I. 2463 8939 The Commentators on the Revelations seem to think - that him they call the Anti- -Christ shall be at the head of a Kingdom one of the rulers of the Earth must probably born a King, a King thro' 200 the accident of Birth, not through his own powers [and will] it will not be so the means by which the power of Evil shall at last resort to overcome good and by which the last struggle shall take place will not be a monarch, or a Governor of people. May I resume this subject next Tuesday Evening [*8940*] 2464 Yes I received this letter from Robert Owen. - have I your permission to send for his perusal your work on Metaphysics [*8941*] 2465 You have. Mr. JGH. Brown of Nortingham lately Published several small pamphlets on Crystal work & the Revelations he has received may I read an extract [*8942*] 2466 do so Read. - Chap. 16. "Celestial revelation on the Progress and and occupation of the Spirits through the Seven Angelic Aerial orders of the planets - page 94. Part 4. [*8943*] 2467 It is very good The Spirit is correct although the Language sometime differs Mr. Capron in his work on Modern Spiritualism has given the following inscriptions on Spiritual writing performed by Spirits in 1851 at the House of the Revd Dr Phelps - and as the Characters greatly resemble those on the work of "Rabbi Solomon" "Solomon the King" & other Cabalitic Mfs. may I ask their meaning [*8944*] 2468 It is Spiritual language Will you favor me with a Translation, or the ideas intended to be Conveyed. 2469 8945 They are not intended to be conveyed - No Man. can read Spiritual language, they cannot be embodied in his Ideas. It is given by them as a talisman of 201 Power - as a Seal, not as a means of conveying Sentiments or Opinions do they emanate from Good Spirits 2470 8946 No from those that rap. I mentioned the Translations given by persons when in a Mesmeric Clairvoyant State 2471 8947 I think I have before told you that when in the Clairvoyant State, the Spirit speaks through the body of the medium, how easy it is then to make men believe that even these figures may be but a copy of the bible in peculiar Characters. I then read the Translations which were given by two Clairvoyants - & were utterly [opposed] different 2472 8748 Were 6 Clairvoyants Chosen in different Places - six different meanings would be given because each Spirit would have his own design. Have I your permission to request Mr Dresser. to come on next Tuesday week 2473 8749 I shall be pleased to see him & to answer his questions. I any &c 2474 8950 I have not 10 PM. The C A left. 202 [?] 15 Sept 1856 C A mirror 7 [?] 45 PM Invoked the CA May I submit to your notice the following Commentaries upon [?] of the Revelations as givEn by the Roman Catholics in the [?] Translation, their [?] affords a Remarkable Contrast to the Pious [?] which distinguishes the Protestant writers upon this subject both High Church and Evangelical 2475 8957 Yes I read the Gloss — upon Rev. II 26 [?] 2476 8952 It shows a moderate and mild understg. of the language expressed in those verses I believe that John meant Angels when he said Saints for I know taht none save Christ who have ever dwelt upon Earth can intercede for man or receivE his Prayers. May I observe in a former response — you stated that the Virgin Mary was an intercessor for those who believed in her. 2477 8953 I did She has power and influence When I spoke now I omitted to mention her I was answering the Catholics view of their being patron Saints. taht is men who have tried greater than their fellows. and through their holiness and Piety receivEd as a recompense power over those still remaining In this light the Virgin Mary is not one of them — She is not in her present high position as a reward for individual merit on Earth for no particular piety a great worth individually 203 is she made blessed for from her being the instrument and by the almighty to give to the world its Saviour & Redeemer You are right Read XXII v. 10 and the Gloss. 2478 8954 I believe that but very few of the things mentioned by John have taken place That they are pictures of spiritual things which shall take place at the end of the World Allegorically made human better to [?] in his idea the Comprehension of [Man] those who should follow in after years -- I believe him to have been greatly mistaken -- had his language been less exaggerated by Symbols it would have appeared more truthful. 2479 8955 If you wish to read them I will give you my opinions I thank you I will with your kind permission read an analysis of the Writings of Joseph Mede who stands at the head of the English Commentators as given by the Rev'd Alfred Jenner in his Rationale Apocalypticism pages 401 to 408. & his remarks thereon. I read it -- 2480 8956 A Man of deep thought may with careful attention bring many of the 204 Prophecies of St. John to meet the transactions of the world in all ages. but if the fulfillment of these prophecies is so indefinite as only to be bared by one out of many after deep research of what use can they be to the multitude who lead the revelations. 8956 I neither agree with the Comments You have read of St Johns writing, or of those made upon the writers ([?]) writings, for I think that when those things prophecied come to be fulfilled , unmistakeable Evidence will be givEn to all readers , they will be able to know at once rom their similarity when each Event has happEned and I feel certain in opposition to all of them that the destruction of England and Especially London is meant by Babylon. I read the whole of [?] Synopsis of Flemings discourse of the Rise & fall of Papacy. p 408 to 414 2481 8957 It seems to me strange that they should look upon the Pope of rome as being such Authority and of being so important a personage in the fulfillment of these things. surely it is but the hatred of one religion for another — if he is one of the greatest potentates upon Earth. he is mde so by his people not elected by GOD. — If he makes the minds of so many men subservient to his will, it is through their own belief in his infallibility in the sight of GOD he is no higher no better, no more worthy of filling 2481 the Station that he holds than one of the lowest of those who elect him — if the is no greater than these neither is he any worse than those of different religions who would persecute him because of his position I read the Analysis of [Bos?ne?] Bishop. of [Mea?x] Commentary upon the Revelations pub in 1690. [?] 411 to page 414. — and remarked upon the Reviewers objections 2482 Each of the three that you have read differ in their opinions because each makes it the weapon for denouncing the meter of a different faith I believe neither to be right in their Assuming the prophecies to be fulfilled in the facts that they mention , but I think the last one is milder than the first in the doctrine that pervades his comments. I thank you I have read the 3 Chief writes opinions & the multitude of [?] upon the Subject altho following some what in their footsteps — all differ more or less from Each other . The last [?] of any note is Dr [?], but his works are are mere scissors & paste. & Evidently written for the Almighty dollar— may I ask if you havE any further Comments upon the subject. 2483 I do not see in the revelation of Fr John sufficient importance to call the attention and thought and care bestowEd upon them by so many learned writers Their love of solving a mystery and of making the incomprehensible — clear — may perhaps account for their bestowing the powers of 205 mind upon that which is by no means Stamped with important truth and must unwillingly believe that men pretending to a divine calling of whatever denomination use their learning in Elucidating these visions more as a weapon to inflict punishment and to retaliate upon others of a different Creed, by presuming them to be the objects of wrath rather than by Showing out more plainly what is really the moral of the work runing through its whole course. May I ask if you have Ever turned Your attention to the Prophecies of Ezekiel & Daniel 2484 8958 I have , I do not look upon them as inspired, but still believe that their prophecies in some things may be fulfilled. As I havE desired so much pleasure & instruction from your responses I also from Your Work in Spiritual Philosophy — I hope I am not trespassing too much upon your kindness — in requesting to be [?] with a [?] of any other of your Works upon so interesting a Subject 2485 8959 You are not Metaphysics being Spiritual and having to do with Spirits is one of the most Elevating — it may be sublime subjects on which the Attraction of my any can be placed — mind embodied or disembodied , that is ComprehensivE faculty of Whatever degree purely Spiritual or Encased in Material can have no higher Study than in Contemplating its own being 2485 8959 the highest and the most superior, the lowEst and the most uncultivated can find in Metaphysical Stay a world of thought and because the qualities of men as they Approach the qualities of his maker. so as to such a dazzling height the mind in the body is more likely to be in Error indeed cannot attain the Truth as the Spirit out of the body. I have delighted in [[?]] bringing my knowledge of the spirit together. to correct the Errors of those whose opportunities have been uncertain and their knowledge less perfect than my own. This knowledge brought together in Idea into form has been the means of guiding others in their Communion with and guardianship over the mind of man on Earth. and if in giving it to you as a repitition I givE it for the same purpose I do so willingly . Knowing that you recivE it in the Spirit that is [?] I will givE you a Continuation of the work of which you have had part I thank you much. , as I wish on Next Tuesday Evening if it pleases you, to GivE Mr Dresser a Seance. & to devote another Evening for an Explanation of the [?] Antiqiuties by Mohamed Ali. — & shall be favored by your naming the time 2486 8960 I will givE it to you if it so suits You Commencing on the last Tuesday in October between this time and then You can find other questions & the other visions. [*206*] In No. long last "Saturday's Review" a scurrilous article appears mentioning me by name - the principles of the paper - so far as it can be said to have any are "High Church" & as the Edition of a Religious Newspaper are by their own dictum (see No 16.) 16 Feb. 1856 = & extract overleaf. & Consequently. [unworthy?] a moments notice - Yet its publication may cause me some vexation [*2487 8967*] None further than the annoyance of seeing it yourself. I do not complain of being called a believer in Spiritualism that I should not for a moment at any time or place deny. but I am annoyed at the associations they have been Malignant enough to make - I might with as much injustice - Couple the present Bishops of the Protestant Church. with the Bishop of [?] The Revd Mr Cunningham & the host of other [?] who have figured in our police fleets - [*2488 8962*] I mean the Journal has its circulation among a limited number, and those of its Editors Stamp and Class. that there is no fear of any party whom you may know or respect or whose opinion may influence you receiving any influence from it - Can we see Mr Anderson this Evening for 1/2 an hour [*8963 2489*] You can If any &c [*8964 2490*] I have not this Evening 20 to 10 PM. C.A left. Extract from the Saturday Review "Religious [?]" "We have [?] papers, we have unprincipled papers, we have disengenuous papers, and we have imbecile papers, but the full bitterness which the human head is capable of feeling, the full ferocity which it is capable of expressing is to be met with nowhere but in Religious papers. We know of no spectacle more frightful than that of a religious writer raging with [C???ish] spite and laying his generally [?] [?] capacity to put into words the images familiar to a bad heart and a gloomy imagination" Here follows a specimen of priestly [ha??ed] from and article in the previous weeks Tablet (Roman Catholic paper) on [?] land finishing with the following character of "the Evangelical paper the Record "in an Evil hour not only for themselves (the evangelicals) bout for the peace of English Society they have allowed themselves to be represented by a paper, but her false and malignant toan [?] almost incredible. The Record Saturday Review No 16 Feb 16/56. Page 293 207 20' to 10 PM. C. A Mirror Called Mrs Anderson 2' Now he is come black frock coat but toned up in front grey Trousers Good Evening Mr. Anderson I hope you are well 8963 quite well thank you I have been looking in my mirror this EvEning — I have been watching You — a gentleman came in with You who I believe from what eh said to be himself a Seer. whether you know such a one is of course unknown to me but he seems to have been making pretty free with your name and I should think of your Crystal and the form that you have givEn him — and a person with whom he is acquainted seems to have bad influences about him. although belonging to the Church. perhaps you will enquire into it— What was his personal Appearance did he givE his name 8966 He was much shorter than you are and dark — the other who appeared with him was tall pale & fair. I explained my Acquaintance with Mr Kenneth Mackenzie —[?] him my Crystal.— 8967 Men do not be acuqinaten iwht his friend you may depend there is some Evil attached to him. I thank you, have you seen last weeks Saturday Reviews 8968 I have not it was only this EvEning I have had this vision— The Clergyman seemed to be endeavoring to press between this Gentleman and yourself, and behind him and on both sides encircling 208 him like a stream continually running onwards were minute deformities I suppose spirits of all imaginable shapes. — all in different attitudes, some dancing , others apparently playing instruments. Some gesticulating violently and others carring forks |?| and bundles . and military things that are used by us. I mentioned the heads of the article & also the origin of my name having appeared in the book reviewed. 8969 It makes Your higher Communication lose their value of course , when jumbled together with such absurdities which they sem to consider , because mysterious — all Spiritual — I have now great faith in the Communications given me by the Mirror — after you had left the Spirit whose name I have given you. Seven-ho-mina and said that in relation to this — that any clergyman is in his words, that any professor of religion should be avoided in mans working with spiritual agency. as professors of religion — That men holding communion with spirits must divest themselves of all authority — that the Trial of Spirits by the test of their own goodness would ensure failure — he said that he would advise you not to receive with friendship this professor of religion — because as such he was deceitful — and as a man under Evil influence. You will not of Course let what 209 I have told you go further to reach either him or the Gentleman that was with him - I give it you that you alone may take caution and enquire further. before an introduction ripens into intimacy. Shall I read Mr. M's letter 8970 Do I read the letter. And asked if I had made myself understood 8971 You have thank you - It seems to have been an excellent Vision for the first one, and his faculty much [easilier?] developed than any I have before heard of. His Mother appears to have the faculty undevelopd Perhaps it is hereditary 8972 very likely I mentioned the tenor of the C.A's remarks on the Apocalypse & Apocalyptic writers. 8973 I still have a lingering affection for a religion which seems to me purer than any other. I mean when taken alone without its attendant priesthood. Yes Christianity without a priesthood is doubtless the True Religion 8974 But I mean the Roman Catholic View of Christianity rather than the Protestant - But I cannot accept the Doctrine of the Real Presence in the Eucharist 8975 That is a mystery. I have this Evening been promised a Continuation of the C A's work on Metaphysics 8976 That will be indeed interesting I should like when convenient to 210 You to have the CA's opinion on the Sacrament. I think as Miracles have been and still are performed it is no greater one and quite as possible that the wine in its consecration should become blood and the bread have the properties of flesh - than that actual living blood should flow from the wound in the Consecrated likeness of the Savior - I agree with you - and when I believe the one I can have no difficulty in believing the other. but if let me ask. - The miraculous Transformation to his plan or not. - when eaten what becomes of it?. 8977 That the life from this blood & meat diffuses itself through the human body. and makes us one with the body of Christ in Union But this can only take effect through faith, besides it would require daily myriads of continual miracles 8978 Yes but we suppose that the Miracle that transforms the bread and wine continues to abide by it - and that different from the food received for nature. retains its properties as long as life and faith lasts. I am not decided about if I only offer this in the hope of receiving something that will make my faith stronger on a surer ground. I will request the C A's opinion next Tuesday Evening - and let you hear it when you next appear - the C A's already given some responses on the subject but not having completed my Index I cannot readily find them. 212 I thank you 8979 [?] it is now [?] I [?] [?] I [?] it is [?] [?] [?] what [?] is it by your match 8980 I have not one [?] me accept [?] best makes 8981 Will you accept the same [?] [?] 10:20 PM-- the End [?]15 Sept 1856 213 214 Hypothesis of M. Bremser on the Creation translated from "Bremsers Zoological & Physiological Treatise on Intestinal Worms Paris 1824. page 641 See page 93 [?] Sect I "Researches in the formation of our planet" says M. Bremser "have brought the following facts to light: The last bed to which we have been able to penetrate is composed of granite and constitutes the primitive strata., above this are found the transition strata, placed bed upon: and higher still, the secondary strata. besides these we distinguish alluvial and volcanic strata, in the primitive and transition strata we find no traces of beings who have enjoyed life, it is not until the first bed of the secondary strata that we find the remains of organic forms, these for the most part, belong to the crustacea, of aquatic animals of the lowest degree or organization, in beds more recently deposited, and in consequence, higher in the series, we observe the remains of animals which once lived upon the earth, in those more deeply sealed, we discover only the remains of animals, to which the earth, in its present state possesses nothing analogous, at least as to species, and it is only the more recent strata of secondary mountains which furnish the remains of animals like ours, or which have al least some affinity with those which still exist. human bones have never been discovered, even in any secondary statum. This structure of the earth leads us to think 215 that when this planet became a separately existing being in itself. it was in some sort a liquid mass without form, but fivified; that is to say, endowed with the living spirit, or still more simply, the universal life, this last, called by me, living spirit, must not however be confounded with the soul of the world, which according to philosophers has not only created the world, but created itself. but by the 'living spirit' I understand nothing else but that which may equally well be called 'life - 'vital power' in a word, the primitive cause of life in general with which the several worlds, at the moment of their creation, have been endowed or rather animated, by the Being of Beings, God the Creator." "By little and little, a nucleus consisting of our primitive strata developed itself in this liquid and formless mass, the principal cause of the formation of this nucleus, as well as of the successive [strat] precipitations upon that nucleus - that is to say, of the transition strata, and secondary mountains, may be sought in a particular force which may be designated a dead force inherent in matter, as matter, or rather in the spirit which vivifies the substance and preserves it as an entire and separate body The explanation of The formation of the earth and also of organized bodies, will present fewer difficulties, if we seek the principal cause in something of a more elevated nature - that is to say in spirit itself - in the tendency to rule over matter and continually to form, by its connexion with it bodies wholly existing by themselves, as we daily see in the formation of all organized bodies, in this view spirit at first seperates the brute matter and rejects it to the centre of the earth, and thus the primitive strata are formed. perhaps thousands 216 of years were requisite to produce this result, for the formation of these strata apparently arises by little and little, from the operation of crystallization after the greater portion of the matter which was at least favorable to life, that is to say to the life of those isolated bodies, had been crystallized. the spirit could then act with more liberty. it would occasion a revolution, or more properly a fermentation throughout the entire mass, and the transition strata would probably be precipitated on a sudden, however we may presume, from the stratified nature of these deposits that many similar fermentations have contributed to their formation, up to this epoch (the formation of this transition strata) the earth would still posess an universal life, that is to say, a life which had not yet been divided and communicated to distinct and separate bodies, for we do not find either in the primitive or transition formations the trace of any living structure and still less of any animal organization. It was not until after the precipitation of these strata that the spirit was able to avail itself of such and such portions of matter, and form from them isolated bodies endowed with individual life, we find the remains of living bodies in the lower beds of the secondary strata. which to all appearance, were formed like the transition strata, after similar and partial fermentations, the remains of living bodies of ancient date, which we find in the inferior beds of the secondary strata, all belong to aquatic animals: we there find no plants, after the formation of transition strata and before the precipitation of the earliest secondary strata it is to be presumed that no land was yet uncovered and that there was not any atmosphere. just as the moon, a portion more recently detached from the earth, is still actually without one, 217 In process of time a new revolution or fermentation took effect, the first creation was destroyed by the succeeding precipitation, and the earth was peopled anew by animals which were however of species altogether different from the first, we cannot properly determine how many of these revolutions have occurred, followed by [precipitations], involving on each of those occasions, at least vast spaces of the earth. It is only certain that every precipitation was followed by a new creation, and that man is the produce of the last, for as already observed, no human bone has been discovered, even in the superior beds of the secondary strata, and still farther, we only begin to find the bones of the mammyirae in these superior beds, and M. luvier presumes for this reason, that they are a product of the revolution next before this last, of our earth. It is still to be expected, in the suppontion of a future precipitation, that beings much more perfect than those which were the result of the preceding will be created. Spirit in man is to matter in the proportion of 50 to 50, with slight differences more or less, for it is sometimes spirit and sometimes matter which has formed man should not be the last, or ganegation it is apparent will arise, in which the spirit will act with greater freedom, and in the proportion of 45, to 25, it results from this consideration, that man has been formed, such as he is, at the most passive epoch which has occurred in the existence of our earth. Man is, unhappily, a middle term between animal and angel, he aspires to develop things, and he cannot reach them, although our modern philosophers sometimes believe this is not the case, man wishes to fathom the first cause of all that is, but he cannot accomplish it, with lower intellectual faculties he would 218 not have had the presumption to form even a wish for such knowledge, wich would on the contrary be in his possession if he was endowed with a larger spirit, When spirit is about to form, by the commixture of substances, as new individual life, or to preserve that which already exists, it is absolutely necessary that those substances should be in an amorphous state, if according to the supposition which we established at the commencement, the entire of the earth was without form previous to the existence of organized living beings, and if in exual accordance with the same supposition these bodies were developed from the amorphous matter we ought not surely to be astonished, if the same phenomenon is now-a-days still to be witnessed, that is to say, if whatever animalized matter is found without form, it should develop itself in new individual life and new organization, It is true that our infusions do not produce elephants or whales, and our manure heaps only mushrooms, and not oaks and pines, but this is easy to conceive, when we compare the masses thus in a state of fermentation, who knows what would be the production of millions of huge organized bodies submitted at the same time to an equal degree of fermentation. prolonged and kept up with care. All that I have hitherto said, serves to prove that death is never in question throughout the whole of organized nature, death is but a transition to a new life, or new form of life, this is a truth which we find established in all organic nature, bodies deprived of life serve not only to the preservation of life already existing, but it can even develop itslef in new forms of individual life, such as mouldiness, [nost??ks?] mushrooms, the green matter of Priestly, the infusories 219 &c , this is proved by indubitable evidence, The universal life, or rather the eternal action of fermentation, has been in some sort transferred to insulated bodies endowed with life, in every animal organization, exists a continual fermentation, during which new substances are are admitted, precipitated, appropriated, dissolved, decompressed, and excreted, in a word, life consists in a continual decomposition, and new combination of substances, if we reflect on the large quantity of animalized matter without form which is found in every animal body, is it astonishing that there should be formed of the matter which the body does not want for its nutrition, or is even unfit for that purpose, on account of its peculiar composition, a little mass, an entire existing by itself, or rather that an intestinal worm should be formed in this little world from the example of the great world, in which has already been developed so many worms of the earth, this new worm once formed can then multiply its species by producing animals like itself, Thus are compelled to think of the primitive parents of all our known animals, as of animals originally without parents, and, notwithstanding, as endow[ow]ed with the faculty of regenerating their species in a manner altogether different from the mode by which themselves came into existence, and indeed the different modes of generation observed in intestinal worms prove that the march of creative nature, in little, is in every respect like its march in the grand, and that it operates no otherwise in the living animal body, than it did of old in our living globe, in fact we find in intestinal worms, so to say, a repetition of all the modes of generation which exist throughout the series of animal organizations, 220 With men and animals, like produces like, consequently the animals which are developed from them, and in them ought necessarily to resemble each other, we observe however in the microcosmus, in man, as an animal subject to a less dilatory metamorphosis, a difference, or a predominant tendency to the spontaneous formation of such or such a parasite, according to this microcosm as arrived at such or such a degree of development, this adverting only to our worms, theres is produced with children in general -- for there is nothing without an exception in this world -- only ascarides and oxyures, and with adults cestoides and strongles. The certainty, therefore of the primitive formation of intestinal worms is clearly established not only by negative proofs, because intestinal worms cannot arrive in the animal body from without, but it is also deduced from the analogy of the primitive formation of infusoria and mouldiness, and in fine it is demonstrated by the indication drawn from the first probably formation of all living bodies, 221 [?] 27 Nov./71 Mr [Marer?] Japan Crystal Now theres a cave in the water theres a big yellow shape like the stern of a boat floating ab't. theres a woman [flo] [?] on her side at [full lengths?] on the water - naked - & [?] like a Child across her - The Child has disapp theres only the [woman?] I can only see [to] the back of the [?] theres a curious thing like an alter a face on the Centre - there were 3 Eyes but no human fig L. N. - having placed a lace shade over the glass our Vision disapp'd. 222 223 224 225 8855 The Jewish Prophesies & J. C. 8860 .61 Mr Dresser 8863 As to Mr Anderson appearing in the CA Mirror 8878 . 9 Eltesmo & Seven-O-Mina 8908 - 23 The Apocalypse 8927 - 39 Dr. 8927. The Words of J C. the Lone Relig[ion?] 8936 . . The Lone Christian Church -- J. C. 8941 Robert Owen 8942 I.G.H Brown & his work 8945 Caprons Spirit[ual] Characters 8951 - 58 The Apocalyptic Comentators 8958 Eg E Kier to Darnel 8959 C A on Metaphysics & his M & S Work 8960 The C A fixes a date " The last Tuesday in Oct'r 8965 - Mr K N. H M. & Rec'd Mr Mr Andersons opinions 8977 - 8 Mr Anderson exp'l of the R Catholic View of the real presence Rx 8210 The C As address in the new year. 8212 My At. S. and the Spirit of the diamonds 8357 Mr Anderson and the "Bottle Imp" 8417 The C. A address to H Lea 8505 As to Napoleon 1'st wish to Communicate 8509 [?] its writing & Comm'd this [?] Desires 8510 Capt Murray 8572 [Echr?] [?] secret &c x 8520 The Ghosts of Animals - atm Spirits 8533 Hemp see [?] Rx of the CA x 8522 The Spirit Name for the [illustration] formula 8539 Mr A's mem as to the formula 8548 The Spirit of [?] set free by Combustion 8550 & on The CA's views of Creation 8556 Gods will over exist[?] & matter 8553 Man the perfection of Flesh 8566 Queries on the CA's metp'l Spiritual Philosophy 8576 Mr Anderson - having brought "Echo" 8586 ^ [Lorepha?] Loggia. 8596 1/2 Called the CA in vain 8599 Mr And'n view of the spirit of evil prev'es the good. see also 8621 8607 " " his opinion of the Revelations of St. Jam. 8613 Responses of a spirit which appeared to Mr Anderson in his Crystal 8625 [Abrent?] is present the. GA still the same 8632 The CA on my change of belief [?] -- Rob Owen 8635 his views of Plato & Aristotle in the M.S.[?] 8641 Man the great object of the [?] 8649 Mr Anderson & his view of the new Constantine Mirror 8671 The great Dismissal 8673 [?] Barnuly & his responses page 130 22 April - 29 April 6 May - no Visions till 13 May 20. 27'n 3rd June 10 June 17 June 8686 Emma's loss of Vision 8690 The CA's Jewel Cypher -- to 8767 8693 K. R. H. M 8697: 8702 On Spirit -- in relation to the Spiritual Philosophy 8705 The CA. cognizant of my wishes with the Mirror 8714 My Visit to Mr & Mrs Crowlands 8768 9 Lero prescription for my spasms 8773 [?] Angels -- Sprits &c - the Fall. 8775 Original Sin 8776 8781 - All metaphys'l Responces 8782 - 5 " Palmer" murder. &c 8798 Various spirits at Mr Croslands -- Evani to 8805 Guardian Sprits & Ministering Angels BF 1335 .H63 1853 vol. 10 Copy 1 RBSCD 2320 page 80 [Eckhentonices powers?] Read to 82 4 The Spirit & the Diamonds 35 The Bottle Imp 46 [Lero's] The C A's address 67 C As writing Ex Libris Houdini THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 1800 Class Book THE BEQUEST OF HARRY HOUDINI 1927 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.