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April 1927

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to those who read it, and it is so with the Bible -

[?] 411  1711  The same faith should not be given to the
Old as to the New Testament, [one]  The old Testam [is] was written by men
with all human weaknesses and with all those errors
that are inseparable from the mind of man.--  It
was but the prophecy and the forerunner of the great
event which redeemed mankind --

[?]412  1712  It is mentioned by the author of "What is 
Faith" that it is noticed by all who read the Old
Testament how often "this saith the Lord of Hosts" [*page 10*]
is applied to any passage that may seem suspicious
for its truth  -  But can we believe that these passages were [not] received direct
from God as [the[y] [would] writers would lead those who read them to
believe [?] either that they are copied from other parts - thus -  when The
Almighty in the early copy of [?] wuld [makes] make [a] communications to [one] man containing
many passages concerning different things, that book
[is] was written complete, and [the next] succeeding & scribes [prophet] picked out
those communications that best suits them, and without
absolutely altering them, [he] put[s] them to a different
purpose than what they were intended for --  there
are many now who would do the same thing --
did Henry of Exeter wish to enforce upon the minds
of his congregation that a subscription was necessary
for the relief of the Poor and the particular benefit
of himself he would not scruple to say, Thus saith the Lord "Blessed
are those who give for unto them shall it be given"
but it is very different in the New Testament,  that
is sufficiently clear and Truthful -- It is given
from the Almighty to man through his chosen
servants.  to be received by them, as the only [true]
basis upon which [any] the true religion can be formed.

[?]413   1713  The Author of that book [?], that
the antiquity of the scriptures does not add to its

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value, but it does -- no book could be preserved
by its own merits with as much interest for "1800 years  [*page 2*]
as the [Bible] New Testament  -- travelled through the four quarters of
the Globe -- translated into every language, although
written by uneducated men -- when even the art of
writing was not prevalent -- it passes through
Rebellions & Revolutions of the Church & State -- it
stands out in the 19th Century with more believers 
in the religion of which it is the foundation than
any other existing Idol. -- God is not even 
worshipped through Nature as He is through that 
book -- and why  ?   because he has ordained that
those two shall agree -- His nature -- and His
Book -- one is incomplete without the other.

[?]414  1714   Man believing in God only through 
Nature as the author of "What is Faith" seems to do   [*17*]
must ever be in error -- he must even feel that there
is something wanting to complete the knowledge   [*p 49*]
he has gained by studying the works alone without
the Intelligence displayed by the Creator. -- In nature
he can have no knowledge beyond his sight, but turning
to the book which that creator has given him, to hold
communion with himself, he knows the origin of
that creation and the end for which it has been made [*50*]
it furnishes him with a hope beyond the Grave ---  [*pages 2
                                                                                           39 ・ 58*]
[?]415   1715  The author then Treats of the "Religious  [*65  64*]
obligation of belief" -- if man is merely obliged to
believe that which his reason revolts at  he wears only  [*[?]!*]
a mask of hypocrisy to deceive the world.  whatever
a man may believe  must be spontaneous,  pure
and to him True. --  believing other than this is not
to him belief -- a mans belief may be changed
because the errors of one belief, may be made apparent


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to him, he may then be made to believe what is opposed
to it - or he may be trained - educated in one belief 
and that belief may be error -but until he is fully
convinced of it, it is to him True.

1716 
[?]416  It is a sad thing that my man on a 
subject so fraught with happiness or with danger as 
Religion should seen to be that which he is not 
because were they religionists at all,  they must know 
that unto god all hearts are open, and they cannot
hope for his mercy when they know that they are
disguising under a cloak of hypocrisy their real
feelings and their belief from their fellow men 
    Religious obligation [therefore] of belief therefore cannot
exist - He likens those who offer homage to Almighty
God as a supreme being formed according to their
won judgment as the highest and holiest being they  [*page 3*]
can conceive -- as "pots worshipping the Potter that   [*9*]
made them" and He who delights in the love and
faith of his children, as an operative potter delighting
in the worship of his own pots -- [?]  The accomplished
Author of "What is Truth" would do well to reserve his
Sarcastic comparisons for a more fitting occasion
in many places throughout his book he uses a
tone of levity ill becoming so serious a work - he
says that man the creature creates God after
his own image, he is wrong, man must worship
that which he can embody, even if spiritual if
must have form, and even although he cannot
comprehend the three persons in one God.  he still
believes that they exist -- so before he can have that
faith and trust that he reposes on his Creator.

1717
[?]417   The Author alludes to Jesus Christ as
quickening only whom he will and damning those  [*page. 5*]

1718  That God gave his Son to be the [?]pitration for our Sins
is a sufficient answer to the objection which represents the
Evangelical doctrine as dishonorable to the benevolent
character of GOD.  for this is the highest expression of that
benevolence that has Ever been recorded --
      "That He beheld more  He beheld the manifestation
of his won Love,  He beheld the working out of his own purpose
he beheld the harmonious acting of his own righteousness
as a ruler with his own compassion as a Father -- He
delighted in his Son who stooped so low; who presented
himself as a man; who did all that a man ought to do;
who bore in his own person the Chastisement of Sin which he
had not committed, that those who believe in him might
for his sake be entitled to the Eternal Life which they had
forfeited                                 Ec. Rev  p 705  dec 1851

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he will not quicken - of calling many and choosing   [*page 5*]
few - but at the same time he does not remark 
that the means of being chosen, and of being quickened 
are opened unto all mankind. that it remains 
with themselves, whether they will be the chosen 
few, and few indeed are all those created in the eyes 
of the Almighty who are saved to eternal happiness - 
it is to those alone that Jesus refers who will not be 
saved, who will act in entire opposition to the laws 
which he has ordained, who will rush into crime 
and wickedness when they know how to avoid it 
that he threatens with that punishment - "Those 
who believe in me shall be saved," are words that 
cannot be misunderstood - Those who will not 
shall receive punishment is also as plain - For 
those who have not the means of believing in me 
for those who being Sinners are repentant. - do I 
die upon the Cross 
          This in Substance was the whole tenor 
of his life - [The Aut]

1718   The author of this book tells us that 
the idea of innocence being sacrificed for guilt     [*page 15*]
that the idea - the bare idea of a father suffering      [* "  16*] 
his own Son to die an ignominious death for beings,  [*p. 56*] 
so much lower than himself is revolting to all             [*page 16*] 
sense of Justice Truth and Divine goodness. - he 
is wrong - it was necessary - Christian Men can 
fully understand this - for the Almighty to descend 
upon the Earth in the form of Man, to understand 
the wants and the Necessities of those in life, to 
teach unto them that which would be comprehensible 
coming from a being the same as themselves, and 
not only to do this, but to found for future generations

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a religion of Truth. -- that being done the aim of
that existence was complete, and he then offered
himself a living sacrifice - for the sins of those he
loved so well - while his spirit ascended to his father
to intercede for those below - he lays before him, his
knowledge if humanity and they being now one spirit
send an emanation from themselves over the world
- an all pervading influence  to be in the hearts of
 those who will faithfully receive it. 


♂︎die. 6th. June 1855  C. A Mirror
               Invoked the C. A
The C A is here in white, no black edging,
Is it agreeable for you to give me your further
opinions

1719
[?]419  I will give you the answer to the 2nd Chapter

I read the 2nd letter, may I ask if I have made myself
understood

Chapter 2

7420 1720 It seems to me a very weak doctrine of GR's 
that man should be created perfect - when he made [*page 4.*] 
that assertion he could not have duly considered - 
for w[h]ere man made perfect, there would be no sin 
no temptation, no need of an hereafter, no need even 
of death, for all being perfect upon earth, that 
earth would be a paradise - no - The perfection [*page 8*] 
of man is left to himself, - and to his fellow men. - 
God gives the materials, He sends that into the 
world which will grow if well exercised, well clothed 
and well fed, into a fully developed man - and in 
that casket he sends a Stone that polished can be 
made a Gem. - he gives him intelligence & reason 
but it must be brought forth by circumstances 
by training and by Education, were man left 
perfectly to himself, he would be unable to make 
even a sound intelligible to those around him 
how then can this man be perfect - the work does 
fall imperfect from the Almighty's hands, and 
the means are given unto man, by which he can 
make perfect that imperfect work -

7421 1721 Allowing this of all generations since 
the fall of Adam. - he could not have been created 
perfect - he was in the natural form perfect in 
intelligence - in reason - and in Knowledge but not 
perfect in good principles - In truth, or in faith - 
He sinned, and for that sin he was [?] with 
death - to enter a new life in a perfect state, a state 
purely spiritual - and in that state there can be no 
Sin - from the very cause of his being perfect - 
But - can man be perfect upon earth, perfect 
in Truth, and sincerity, and Justice & Mercy, perfect 
in faith, and in religion - it is a question of mighty

the part in parenthesis was given whilst I was looking
thro the Testament to find the passage






As the reading vanished before I could write it all down the
words underlined were  repeated at my request

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importance - the answer given by many would 
be that he cannot - but I am sure that he can - 
not that he can pass through life so, that is 
impossible, but at the last before his death, when 
he is yet acting and moving among men - he may 
be perfect as a Spirit of righteousness - Jesus Christ 
himself tells man, that he may be so, after having 
shewn them the means of being truly righteous 
he, exhorts them saying - Be ye therefore perfect 
even as your Father which is in Heaven. (you will 
find this in the New Testament it is immediately after the 
Sermon on the Mount)

The Author of "What is Truth" speaks of 
that inherent sense of right in man which 
harmonizes with or revolts at those things received by 
his reason and understanding - He speaks of that 
instinct as mans endowment from Natures God - 
- Granted. that it is so - but it is only one of the 
many [that] he recieves, and it is the weakest of 
them all. - but are not his other qualities, his 
mind, his understanding, his reason, his intellect, 
his thought, his will, and his judgment, special 
endowments from Nature's Creator. and his God? 
then why should he resist the evidence recieved 
by these faculties, because the Animal instinct - 
that which is felt in Common by all creation 
rejects them.

7422 1722 It is said that Knowledge comes from 
the Brain - feeling from the heart - it is true - 
when that Knowledge fails, then may feeling guide 
man aright, but the evidence from the heart should 
not be recieved in favor of the Superior intelligence of 
the brain - the heart is the seat of softer emotions 
perhaps of power sentiments, nothing but truth

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exists in the feelings, that it emits, but it often errs, 
therefore I should say believe in that which is 
made evident to the intelligence - not to the feelings -

7423 1723 If man knows that he must face 
death in a battle, his heart would shrink from 
it - would yearn towards other objects - peace 
Country, Home, it would be almost childish in its 
feelings - but still his reason would tell him that 
he must go forward, he would be called Coward, 
the world would upbraid him, and ever after he 
would live in misery - therefore he follows the 
dictates of his reason, goes on to the battle and is 
Killed - which is most right - which gains him 
the greatest reward.

7424 1724 There is another assertion I should wish 
to contradict - he treats faith beyond Knowledge 
with contempt. - If man believes only that 
which he sees, that which he knows & understands 
what a weak low unhappy creature he must be. 
- All men have faith in thing which they 
do not see, or [of] have evidence of. Man comparatively 
speaking understands nothing that he believes, and 
having faith in those things which occur every day 
beyond his Knowledge, why cannot he extend 
that faith beyond Knowledge, to the works of God? 
Many men do so & how much more elevated 
and exalted they are than those who will not believe 
in that, which cannot be made manifest to their 
Senses. - Men believe they have a soul, but they 
do not know it. they cannot see that soul, they 
cannot feel it - they have no evidence of is 
existance, other than a strong hope - a faith beyond 
the Grave - that that Soul is embodied in bliss -

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and if he believes this, [for] that his Soul is immortal 
with nothing but hope for a base for that belief - 
why cannot he believe that of which there is 
evidence to show, why cannot he believe those 
doctrines of Christianity, in their finest form as 
preached from the New Testament? They lead to 
the same conclusion with his own hopes - the immortality 
and the reward of the Soul. - [I think it absurd 
to say the least of it]

7425 1725 I think it absurd to say the least of it 
for any man writing an English book to 
disfigure it with quotations from a foreign work if that 
book is written with the intention of being useful to the 
lowly as well as high to be generally circulated amongst 
all that are willing to receive it, it ought to be 
published at a low price written as plain as man 
can write it, in terms that cannot be misunderstood 
and it may be so and yet the language preserve Elegance 
and learning, and written throughout in one tongue & 
if it should be desired that another Nation should see it 
let it be translated, I admire good writing, to carry 
conviction with it and to have weight even with the 
uneducated it must be written fluently & grammatically 
but at the same time it should be easy & unostentatious 
no tone of Levity or of Sarcasm should creep out when 
the tenor of the book is intended to be serious give 
your opinion at once and decidedly without being 
tucked up and polished up so that it may appear 
that it really is not. after you have given your opin'ns 
then use your illustration for your argument but 
above all dont put in Quotations from foreign authors 
I believe there are plenty of English ones quite as fluent 
and quite as learned for any subject whatever

[?] thanks shall I continue next Tuesday Evening

7426 1726 Yes

I have received this letter from Mr Mowell informing me 
that Dr Ashburner had sent him a Copy of Mr Owens 
book & particularly recommending for his perusal my letter 
to the Harmonial Society - has my answer your approval

7427 1727 You have. I think it shows that Dr Ashburner 
now entertains a doubt of their goodness

[?] &c

7428 1728 I have nothing more to say this Evening

5' to 10 P

[?]die 12 June. C.A Mirror

Invoked the C.A

May I &c

7429 1729 do so 
I do not mind appearing when any one wishes 
me to do so but I do not like others being present 
who ridicule these things with contempt I have 
but one means of communicating with man 
that he may reasonably understand me 
I am ever willing to use that means for his 
benefit, and you must feel that it is painful 
to me when that communication is received with 
derision

I wish to go with my Seer to Mr Patterson's on Friday 
will you kindly permit us to have the Visions we wish

7430 1730 Yes

Will you on that Evening kindly appear in my oval 
mirror

7431 1731 I will

I will now proceed with the 3rd letter (read it

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Chap. 3

1732
7432   I think with the author of what is 
Truth,  that Truth is the paramount object to which 
 all things should be subjected,  but I do not 
believe with him that there is only one way of 
arriving at this great religious Truth,  and that way 
through nature.

1733
7433   Nature is the servant of man  was created 
for his purposes, not for his director to his God.  
Man is between nature and his Maker, and all 
the smaller productions of God created in his use 
must be subservient to mans will - and although 
Nature gives evidence of a living and all powerful 
existence, it cannot satisfy man as to the nature 
of that existence - by looking at the universe the 
[str] moon the stars, the earth or even the grass 
for that is itself a miracle, he could not imagine 
the power that made them - he could not feel 
himself in unison both a being so great, and 
therefore nature is insufficient to connect man 
with God. - He knew this and He gives them 
sufficient evidence through the coming down of 
his spirit upon earth and furnishing the 
groundwork of Christianity -  of his power, & of his 
goodness--

1734
7434   It seems to me that life without a belief 
in Jesus Christ, and through him a knowledge of 
God and of Salvation must be like a man 
walking over a precipice impelled there by some 
unknown power, and unable to save himself 
from falling into the gulf below. --  without 
offending the [clergy] priests of any denomination, [for] 
I believe that in all ages there has been nothing [is sufficiently] too infamous for 
some of them to transact. - I still believe there

1735 "The painful truth becomes too clear to be suppressed
that when men are leagued in support of a system, they
will resort to craft and dishonestly in defence of it, that they
will feel acts of this kind, not sins, but duties: that
the habt and rule of their life will have more & more tendency
to become one of untruth in proportion as they feel more
distinctly that truth and the system are identical'
Professor Maurice (prayerbook pp 124).

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must have been some among them (men) truly convinced 
of the Doctrine they preached - and [?] there 
the whole body of the protestant [?], do they 
believe against their reason? do they appear to man 
under a disguise of hypocrisy and blaspheme the 
Almighty by an avowal of a religion which is 
Contrary to that entertained in their hearts? because 
they will not break through the shallow sands of 
Conventional religion, This is what the Author 
of What is Truth calls the "Obligation of belief" 
If these thousands of men who bow in daily 
and sincere reverence of the Holy Trinity believe 
what is right and true to them why should they 
profess to man to believe different - they do not do so - 

7435 1735 The [?] religion as practiced by an 
from forms and rites prepared by the [?] Churches [cannot be?] 
[not] correct - but out of that and with the New 
Testament solely for its foundation and with the 
life of Jesus Christ for its standard without 
priests and without clergy - The true religion 
might be formed a religion that from its 
very simplicity and its clearness, and its purity 
would convert the heathen and convince the 
Sceptic. but this religion must be formed solely 
for the Spirit of Man, nothing worldly, nothing 
fleshly must have influence on it. and I think 
that if men in their character as Clergy were not 
allowed to take part, avarice, selfishness & envy 
would be excluded.

7436 1736 The Author of what is Truth seems 
to believe himself. not only a Judge of his fellow 
men in the most secret workings of their Soul

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but also to judge the Almighty - he states in one 
place that it is the pleasure of the Almighty 
to keep his works a Secret from his people 
and he submissively declines the Knowledge 
as being unnecessary to man - and in another 
place he calls him a demon for Sacrificing 
the innocence & purity of his son for the guilt 
and crimes of men.

7437 1737 I think it would be more fit for him 
or any other man either to receive the Knowledge 
which the Almighty has given man of himself 
through any means whatever, and study it 
to the utmost of his comprehension - put that 
evidence together, and draw from it his conclusions 
(there can be nothing wrong in this) or else 
leave it without a remark acknowledging his 
incapability of forming any idea of a Supreme 
Being, or of his works. - and his belief that 
it is unnecessary to the essential part of his 
belief - by doing either of these he would show 
himself to be a true [Man?] - the simplest and 
the least among men could belong to the latter 
whilst the most researching, the most learned 
and the wisest would find in the former 
sufficient food for the most intense study.

7438 1738

You can find through the writings of 
GR. that he has a firm will and a true heart 
but a sadly misdirected mind, I would entreat 
him before going further in a cause which must 
eventually entail misery upon himself & others 
for by publishing his opinions strongly - he certainly 
obtains followers - to earnestly pray to the one God

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of Nature to endow him with his holy influence and 
I firmly believe that no other production the Same as 
the enquiry into Truth will ever come from his hands

7439 1739 He reasons in that book solely from his 
own Strength and not in obedience to any power 
greater than his own. - He perverts the lines taken 
from Dante's Inferno. to meet his own views., they 
might be justly altered as a warning to the readers 
of his book placed upon the [Cover?] of that

"Let those who believe in this leave hope beyond" 
for assumedly our hopes of Salvation can ever enter 
the hearts of those who are led by him to question 
even the immortality of Souls. - 

May I ask if you will kindly continue next [?].

7440 1740 I will do so

May I ask &c.

7441 1741 A moment it was my intention when I 
made the beginning of my remarks upon the 
book now before for you that they should be 
but suggestions for you to fill in, that 
you might later the words if you so found 
it necessary still adhering to the sense 
I feel that I cannot meet every 
argument that might arise from 
man, and that knowing him better 
you would be able to place those views 
so that they might be more readily 
received

I explained that if it was necessary I would do so 
under his guidance

7442 1742 I wish that you would do so

1/4 to 11 PM.

I asked a question (now unknown)

7443 1743 I will answer it at some length another Evening

I then read the 4th letter I asked if I had made myself 
understood

7444 1744 You have.

A [Romanism?]

"Here also, we exclaim is a case of Superstition, that has had 
an existence, and a fearfully appalling one, too, when viewed in the 
results that have attended it, for the best part of 2000 years; a Superstition 
'introduced by a degenerate race' and for selfish and sinister end, that 
spreads itself age after age until 'the huge [?] of [snow?]' put out all 
the lights in the firmament, and involved in utter darkness the [whole] 
entire face of Europe; a superstition that has [ministered?] corruption to 
the priesthood of a better religion than that of [?], and bondage - 
physical, moral, spiritual, to whole nations of men; a superstition 
that in the name of religion, and during the entire course of its history 
has been the death of millions - men, fathers, wives, & children; a 
superstition that still exists, although modified through causes 
foreign to itself, and for which therefore no credit can be taken to itself, 
decrepit through age but still breathing out threatenings & slaughter, 
and growling out vengeance from those gloomy [?] to which any 
advancing light has driven it - need we say that we refer to the 
Superstition which has permitted the force of human authority 
and of the temporal power to meddle with matters pertaining to 
conscience and religion - From the days of Constantine until 
now has this great evil grown up along with the nominal 
advancement of the Religion of Christ and his Apostles, corrupting 
and emasculating its doctrines, formalizing its worship, rendering 
its Clergy the [?] functionaries of the Evil power, doing its 
best to stifle the voice of Truth and free inquiry, giving exclusive 
privileges to such as [?] fall into the Ranks of a 
State appointed and state paid hierarchy, excommunicating all 
who think for themselves, and worship God according to the dictates 
of their

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Chap. 4

[?]die 19 June 1855 1/2 past 8. Invoked the CA.

read. Letter 4.

1745 [I think with] The author of what is truth 
seems to think himself the only creature upon Earth 
who can act and think alone [?] & unprejudiced 
and solely relying on those innate faculties which he 
believes exist[s] in man - the Image of God which 
he argues that all men (excepting of course himself) 
are the Stars of System. - and that education 
implants in their mind a form of religion that 
must be adhered to by them. through life - even when 
they have the opportunity and the will to believe 
otherwise - but it is not so - granted that Education 
forms a mans principles and gives him a faith 
upon which he may rely, circumstances & after 
convictions can change that belief, and there are 
circumstances in every mans life that offer 
opportunity for him to be convicted from one faith 
to another. -

7446 1746 Surely Amongst all those who believe 
in the Christian religion and are firmly convinced 
of its truth - there are those who have examined its 
Truths - there are some who believe in the book of God 
and the death of is Son from Conviction & love 
instead of reason fear and youthful Education - 
are not all those who are convicted from the 
[*a*] Roman Catholic Creed - the Jews - and the 
worshippers of Idols made to feel the Conviction of 
the Sincere truth of the Holy book of God, before 
they receive it, instead of the Religion in which 
they have been Educated.

7447 1747 Passing over this part he next quotes 
St. Hilary for an authority who expresses his views 
on the presumption of man in trying to elucidate

of their own consciences [excommunicating all who think for themselves] 
coercing the people into submission, wherever they have not been 
strong enough to conduct an effectual resistance, using the [axe] 
Rack, the Screw, the Axe, the stake, the dungeon and the sword
to effectuate its selfish and despotic Ends. - We call for 
Witnesses to the truth of our Allegations, and from 10 thousand 
places, and issuing from every age during which this superstition 
has existed the Cry is 'we come! we come! Scarce a spot in 
Europe that is not hallowed by the dust of martyrs, not self-immolated 
as in the case of the Suttee, but compelled to suffer 
under this tremendous Evil, the so-called heretics and Cathari 
of an early period the Vaudois, Waldenses, and Albigenses, the 
Leonistae, Patarini, and Turpelini, the Picards, Lombards, and 
Beghards, The Paulicians and Lollards, the Wickliffites and 
Hussites, the victims of the inquisition in Rome, Spain & Portugal 
the Huguenots of France, the Puritans, and Nonconformists of 
England - These are but a portion of those who rise at our 
Invocation to Testify to the injustice misery and woe which 
this Superstition has engendered - and yet we are not without 
hope, that it will not be undermined and destroyed by the 
very weapons of Truth and reason that abolished the Sacrifice 
of Suttee in India. -

Ed. of Eclectic Review Vol 1. 1852 
page 4.

1749 'What is nature'? - 'What is mind?' - We who live
amidst the one, and possess the other can give no answer - 
We know no more of either than if they were not -

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those things which are but partly explained to him
he would make Man believe that he commits a
crime in using those mighty powers with which
he is endowed to further his belief and purify
his views,   and exalt his mind above the things 
of Earth by bringing it in unison through thought
and study with his Superior Image in heaven

1748   7448  The Almighty has not given man
knowledge of himself, because it is not essentially
necessary that man should know it — In all
that he has revealed to man the good of the
human race has been his sole object — Himself
he has allowed to remain as mysterious; as he
is great.    but he has never forbidden  man to
seek a knowledge of himself as far as human
understanding, and human mind can attain
— far different from this — he has given him the
very ground work on which to raise all his
ideas by declaring that man is made in his 
Image — and although he must ever remain
to man a being too great for his finite
comprehension, he can strive to attain knowledge
of him, and by so doing he can attain
perfection — more — he can obtain grace —

1749   7449   The author makes  no distinction 
between nature and God -- he believes one to be
inseparable from the other -- This doctrine
may rivet the attention of its readers, written as it
is there and backed by seeming proofs [?] in the old Test of crimes
and injustice, it may raise doubts in the minds
of even it Christian readers. -- But although
it does arrest their attention - their hearts can

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never receive from a belief in Nature that sure and 
Certain hope which a belief in God as revealed thro' 
the Scriptures calls forth from the very soul of man 
However devoutly he may believe in Nature being 
God.  that belief must always be confined to Nature and 
therefore to the Earth - He cannot pass thro this life 
with a sincere faith, and Knowledge through that faith 
of a life of Everlasting bliss beyond - Death must have 
induced terrors when it is looked forward to as the 
yawning gulf of eternal oblivion
     How different from this is sincere 
belief in those glad tidings of great joy which 
assure to all, eternal bliss that man knoweth not 
of in the presence of the God who made the Earth 
who made man to dwell upon the Earth, and who 
is now preparing that future, which shall recieve 
him for his merits while thereon.

1750   7450   The Author mentions successively extracting
from the Old Testament which he has selected to 
prove that the Jews being the worst of the human 
race - have recieved the greatest favor from God 
He must remember that the Jews have always 
been a persecuted race - much Evil has been assigned 
to them by their Enemies - which was never done by 
them - and that the relation of the mediation of 
God in their behalf on earth as recorded by themselves 
is not written by Inspiration.

1757  7457   He is Emphatically named God of 
the Jews several times but it is not in distinction 
of his Favor towards that race any more than 
another - He is the same God to the Jew, the 
Gentile and the Heathen so called by those who

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persecute them - and if He shows more love and
more mercy towards one race than another, it is
because they are more in [?] & more danger and 
therefore more worthy to be redeemed.

7452
1752   The author asserts that the coming of
Jesus Christ upon earth for the teaching of Man   [*/15*]
and his death upon the Cross for the sins of Man
is but a questionable favor because -- "he quickens"
only which he will - and damn those he will not quicken"
He artfully keeps back the knowledge that Christ
will quicken all those who believe in him - that he
gives them all the means of believing - and promises
Salvation unto all who do not deny him.

7453
1753    In a remark made shortly before the
Conclusion of the 4th letter we have unmistakable [*page 31*]
Evidence that the author doubts the existence of a
Spiritual life - Can that religion be firm and
the faith in Gods wisdom and Mercy sincere that
doubts this the greatest of All -  was man then
created only to Live the short hour of his Existance
to be withered up and die as the grass? - did he
recieve the Mind to comprehend and the memory
to retain the Knowledge he can recieve by all his
wonderful faculties - did he recieve the feelings
of the Mind and the passions of the heart for no
other purpose than to give happiness or misery at
Intervals to a life they could not keep. - Did
He show man his undying love for him by making
all the rest of his Creation Subservient to his will
that he might use it and abuse it - without being
called to account - and having Served his pleasure
So far as fancy and want desired - All creation
might with him die the death that knows no Waking!

[?] What is Truth,

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♀︎die 22 June 1855.       Oval Mirror
/ at Mr Patterson's/
                            Invoked the CA.
May I &c

1754  7454  Yes

I have received this letter from a Mr [Cale?], have I your 
permission to comply with his request.

1755  7455  I have pleasure to welcome him to our Meetings 
I have more than usual interest in communicat'g
with him

As to.

1756  7456  believing that no ordinary good will arise 
from it and knowing him to be a kind 
honorable and humane Gentleman.

As to Mrs. Pattersons wishes in reference to a matter 
of business

1757  7457   The partnership would be favorable to 
him, it would secure advantages for 
the future which at present would not 
be felt

Will Mrs. P. be able to see or develop the faculty

1758   7458  She would be able to see indistinctly 
in a Crystal but not in a Mirror

As to Mr Fred'k Patterson in America

1759   7459  I do not know where he is but I could 
enquire of his G S. 

Can we see him at a future time if called

1760  7460   You could

Mrs. P's little boy suffers under a sad malady of 
the Eyes   can you tell me anything to benefit them

1761  7461   If they could not be materially benefited 
they might be strengthened & preserved 
by the use of strong blue glasses, with

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a spot or small object upon each to 
attract the Eye. and keep it in one 
particular position

At what age ought these glasses to be commenced

1762  7457  The Second month of the New year

Will the Child be able to see Spiritual Visions in a
Crystal.

1763  7463  I believe that he will  that very defect
in the eyesight being one of the 
greatest reasons for seeing
   The Seer of a nobleman lately deceased
has the same defect.

Is the defect a natural one that is born with him
or has it fallen upon since birth

1764  7464  It is a natural defect.

Can we see Mr Anderson this evening

1765  7464   he cannot appear this Evening

Mrs. P's present belief is Unitarian  may I ask
you to favor her with your views upon that subject

1766  7466  I wish you to give your friend a
copy of your answer to what is Truth
when complete
     I cannot enter now at the required 
length upon a doctrine of such vast
importance  I can only say that if one
part of the New Testament is recieved
with reverence and respect as emanating
from the inspiration of God, the whole
must be recieved the same.  and if
those who cannot recieve this in its
divine Truth, they must be Naturalists
and to them I would appeal, do they
feel the foundation of the belief to be

As to Calling Miss  I am nothing ill (Mrs. P's sister inhales)
        I think it would be best do do so then
                                                    (next meeting)

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Sufficiently strong on which to rest
a sure and certain hope of Eternal
Salvation, through the mercy of the 
one God, who has only in nature
placed that before them which shall
supply their wants upon earth

May I observe that Mrs. P's views are not of material
or Irreverent but arising from an inability to conceive
& consequently to believe in the Doctrine of the Family
of the Godhead

1767
7467   But man is the work of his own
hand, the Image of himself,  He
would not make that Creation so fair
and so beautiful to cast it away from 
him without notice - No - this
Supreme greatness and his mercy
render him nearer and more thoughtful 
to them who sincerely worship him
and it was from that very  inability
to appreciate the wants of man
that he sent his Son upon earth
to live in flesh and to teach the only
doctrine that was acceptable 
him.

Are you still of opinion that the allies will
be successful on their operations ag't Sebastopol.

1768
7468  I am

May I ask your views as to my writing to Keightry
upon the subject of the spirit manfestatons these
taking place

1769
7469  I think that your opinions have been
sufficiantly expressed upon that subject
any thing furthur would be superflous
25'  to 10 PM.

The Eye thru Electricity - acting as 
the mesmeral Eye does with the patient's 
eye forcing his his emitted light back 
& the mesmeral emitted light follows it 
he is then [?] over the patient

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♂︎die  26 June 1855       CA Mirror 
            Invoked the CA.
As to my going to the North

1770 
7470   Altho in that time I shall no be able 
to communicate with you I shall be still 
near
     I shall be glad when you return 
that these Communications may continue 
as hitherto - I will appear on any 
Evening before you depart, if you may 
wish to call me   I wish most earnestly 
and believe me it is for your own benefit 
that you should not travel upon water 
I am perfectly convinced there is great 
danger in it to you

Shall I now read the 5th Letter.

1771 
7471  A moment first, I am much gratified 
to be able to give you this evening a remedy 
for the Effects of these Visions upon your 
Seers Eyes -
     My appearance here, not my 
presence is occasioned by a great body of 
Electricity by which I am surrounded 
this electricity is forced forward against 
the Eyes of the Seer -
     The human Eye is a conductor of 
light as well as an Emittor, now whether 
this Electrical current can send the 
natural light back into the Eye or not 
depends the Vision, then this 
Electric light has operated upon the Eyes

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1771
7471
for many successive times , it leaves the
natural sight less able to resist it, and
thus forcing itself upon the  eye externally
it drives the sight of the eye inwardly
and the strength of that collects a film
that works upon the brain, and thus
the pressure and straining sensation which
usually arises but the pain is not so
much felt until the Electricity goes
away with the vision and the sight
forces itself back to its natural position
The Effect and feeling on the Eye is 
precisely the same as a stroke of
lightning catching the Eye directly, the
only remedy for this is to have common
glass Spectacles set in Steel wire the
coarser the better, glass being a conductor
and steel also , they will draw the Electy
and focus it upon themselves without the
least influence upon the natural sight
but these glasses must be smoked so
that the light being attracted towards
them should not be blinding

May I observe you mention glass as a conductor
it is generally supposed to be a non-Conductor
1772
7472
Glass is a powerful Conductor, it attracts
the heat and light from the Sun but
while it conducts the whole force of
heat and light it preserves the human
body especially, from the Sulphur for by
no other earthly name can I call it,
that has such baneful Effects upon all that

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it strikes against

Dr Ashburner in his long article upon Light or his 
Notes to Reichenbach - evinces so much interest in all 
connected with the Subject, I should like with your 
sanction to send him your observations

1773 
7473  You can if you so wish it, I gave it 
only with the intention of benefitting 
yourselves.

I explained

1774 
7474  You can 
Light Electricity & their unlimited 
powers over creation may indeed form a 
deep and interesting study to man 
different from the Author of what is 
Truth. I would most willingly encourage 
and applaud all those who strive to 
attain the Knowledge of those boundless 
powers & wonderful mechanism which 
the ignorant and the blinded believe are 
unattainable, those mighty Spiritual powers 
which begin with the smallest atom 
of Gods Creation, and leads man through 
a Seemingly impracticable labyrinth 
which dissolves before his earnest gaze 
through the whole of Creation, and 
at last to God himself

I returned thanks

1775 
7475  I wish you to read the two Chapters 
in the short one that now follows there 
is nothing that I have not answered 
before, I would therefore make my 
answer to that and the next without 
interruption -

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1776 
7476  To go further than this, when the human 
race is extinct and the End of the world is Come 
for to the Almighty Time is as nothing would he 
create another world on the same principle 
and without any cause - and so go on for all 
Eternity - killing what he creates - destroying that 
which he gives so fair a promise of life, by 
making the opening on Earth so beautiful - No 
it is blasphemy to believe it - In creating those 
magnificent works he had a purpose worthy 
of himself - all other inhabited bodies besides 
the Earth blend in union towards one Eternal life 
and when at the last day  The Truth  is known to all 
how woefully will those find themselves decieved, who 
have relied upon their own strength in discovering the 
Truth - I would liken him to a boat without 
a rudder and without oars after being driven. about 
by conflicting Storms driven against a City on which 
he finds no port 

10' past 10 PM

[?]  the C A then said

1777  
7477   Will you read that over to me which I have given
 you before I continue this Evening

As my seer suffers so much tonight from her eyes - may I
request you continue Your views on another Evening

1778
7478   If this agreeable try on either tomorrow or Thursday
I will appear and finish it, I have a long
answer to the 2nd Chapter you have read.

On Thursday will suit me best & I will on that Evening
use a piece of Smoked glass

1779
7479  I did not wish this remedy to tried until
You returned from the country
1/2 past 9 PM.

♃ die 28.h  June 1855
7 ' past  7 PM by day light.
       Invoked the C. A. 
I read the 5th chapter again.

1780
7480  I will commence my answer at once.
of those &c. 

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Read to the CA. Chap. 5 & 6

have I made myself understood

7481 1781 You have 
Men are not all base hypocrites and     [*p. 57 40*] 
Cringing Cowards as the author would have his 
reader believe, such do exist it is true but they 
are exceptions to a rule of nature. and I believe 
that circumstances and influences over him which 
he cannot control make him bad as he is. to those 
who have honest minds and clear & truthful hearts 
I would address myself - When they are convinced 
and there are many [thousands] mIllions of them who are 
by reason and Knowledge. and faith beyond Knowledge 
of the Truth of the Scriptures and have faith in 
the Trinity and not by wild enthusiasm for 
that which is mysterious and unknown.. and 
wilful ignorance of that which is intelligible 
and clear. - (See opposite) of those with a clear heart and 
Free will I would ask this question.

7482 1782   Do they feel from that innate 
Conviction which the author professes to believe 
can never lead man wrong, that the prayers 
and thanksgivings which they devoutly offer 
up to the Throne of Grace are rejected as being 
unworthy of hearing because he who addresses 
them cannot wholly understand the being he 
addresses, does one morally convinced of the 
Truth of the scriptures ever feel that his prayers 
are unheeded or denied — They do not — and 
must not that religion be better & more truthful 
which gives him a hold upon Eternal life 
and perfect confidence and Trust in one Eternal 
Energy working for his good then that religion 
if it may be so called, which he who believes in

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it professes to know not whether it exists in one 
Eternal life always acting, or whether it is but the 
Consequences of one great cause - a faith, which leaves 
man in utter ignorance as to every thing beyond 
the possession of the day, and yet that same man 
tells you, that it is the height of wisdom to confess 
ignorance of al those things, which because they 
are not indelibly worked upon Creation or written 
in his own heart are unnecessary for him to learn   [*34*]

1783   7483   It is in this as in many other things 
men cannot recieve any thing with belief unless 
it is felt by them through their Senses, they 
cannot recieve that which is only apparent to 
their Mind - The Author denies that revealed 
religion can[not] agree[s] with Natural Religion, in 
his words to believe one is to blaspheme the other, 
but it is not so looking at them aught they 
both agree - one indeed is part of the other, and 
recieving one truly you cannot reject the other, for 
looking back to the beginning of Creation the 
necessity of a living God., the necessity of a 
Saviour must be obvious to all, For the expulsion 
of that Satanic influence, which began in the 
garden of Eden. it was necessary that an acting 
power should exist, that power must have been 
good to relieve man of the Evil that he had 
brought upon himself and to remove him to a 
place where he should not be tempted again, 
     And if, as the author states the prayers of Man 
are received by Him, as from creatures grovelling 
in he dust, why should he use his influence 
direct to save man when his Aid was unmasked 
and if he gave his Aid in the time of sore distress

"Whatever encroachments my have been attempted on the 
Rights or the Dignity of the Sovereign, and whatever Legislative 
measures may have been necessary for the maintenance of 
those rights and that dignity, it should always be carefully 
borne in mind - That each man's religious persuasion 
must be defended, and can only be defended by himself 
As his faith cannot be wrested from him against his will 
by the act of another so neither can it be maintained in 
its purity by [its] Legal enactments
                                            Arch Bishop Whately
                                                   Charge to his Clergy at Dublin 
                                                                                          1851.

1784. "Men are beginning to be convinced, that if religion had only the 
Devices & tricks of Statesmen & Priests to rest upon, it could not have stood 
at all; for that these are very weak things indeed, which when they 
are left to themselves, a popular tempest must carry utterly away.  if
they have lasted a single day it must have been because they had 
something better, truer than themselves to sustain them - 
This better, truer thing it leaves to be allowed must be that very Faith 
in mens hearts upon which so many disparaging Epithets were 
Cast & which it was supposed, could [no] produce no fruits that were 
not Evil & hurtful - Faith it is now submitted has been the most 
patent instrument of Good to the World - has given to it nearly 
all which it can call precious"
                                                Professor Maurice - Boyle Lecture 
                                                                               -1848-

1786 - In 8 dioceses 502 benefices worth less than £100. a year 
and no less than 85 Clergymen whose Incomes were under 
50£ a year or less than 3 Shillings a day., Eight of the 
Number recieving as little as thirteen pence and one actually 
but Six pence half penny a day.!
                                  Mr Horsmans speech in reference to the 
                                            Ecclesiastical Commission in 1847

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to one who had acted directly contrary to his commands
how much less would he withold it from those who
humbly ask ---

1784  7484   He states that no honest mind
can totally agree with any code of Religion -- He
can with the religion but not with the dogmas
that priestly craft have placed around  it  [he] man gets
confined when he enters a labyrynth in which
appears so many contradictory turnings -- In
choosing a religion man should not trust to other
men, were they all to act with unbiassed 
Judgment  and choose that, even if it were parts
from all the different religions upon the Earth,.
which he could fully understand & believe, and
not agree with one form because some of the
features of that form met his own.

1785  7485   Thus he might believe in the 
Divinity of Christ as given in the New Testament
without rushing headlong into it and believing
without connection that every word of the Old
Testament was inspired  when his Mind tells
him, his Knowledge of Truth tells him that
the one does not agree with the other.  and that
there is much in it  Omnipotence, purity and
Judgment would Condemn.

1786  7486  The author here treats the Old Test't
the same as the New, and although he loudly
denounces the old he gives an illustration of
a passage in the old Testament which he treats
as exactly on the same footing with the life of
Jesus Christ -- All those personages [?]
in the old Testament and they are very numerous

"Let us again, instance the state Church, among[st] us: how many
"Mute Millons" and "inglorious" Paleys verge the year long towards
Starvation on miserable Curacies of £80 per anum: while
Lord Noodle's youngest Son  the Hon'ble Mr. Putzbrains who never
in his life had an idea [un]worthy of a tad in a British School
whose Biblical Lore [next] never extends beyond the Diatessaron
and the 39 articles - except perhaps to Fragments of Jewel, or
Hooker, or Jeremy Taylor - who hunts every season, Crickets
is great at Billiards & comes [right] out mightily at Bowls.
When the shooting season is gone by - who abhors Dissent
and Baptist Noel - and who buys his weekly sermon of
Hatchard or of Darling - or employs some needy nonconformist
to write it for him -- This Hon Mr. Putzbrains fattens & preaches
in a [fat] rich living on the Fens, which his wealthy Father
bought for him -- no, the Presentation to which his father
bought for him:
                                             Eclectic Review 1851 -- p. 168.

'Bishops'
       "The past month has been a terrible time for the Bishops
it will be long remembered by members of the Episcopal Bench
and ought to cover them with humiliation & shame. ---
       What we complain of is that a system should be elaborated
which renders it almost impossible for a man to retain his
virtue in connection with a Mitre. --
       The temporalities of the Church are sacred, for the Laity
to which them is sacrilege; they are consecrated to a Divine
End, and cannot be abreviated without impiety. -- Such are
the views broached by our Churchmen - and yet it is ever
proved beyond all doubt;  that the Dignitaries of the Church
& the Bishops especially - have been recklessly and without
shame enriching themselves at the Cost of the Church --
there has been a perfect scramble after wealth, money has
been the God of their Idolatry --
       The words used by Mr Horsman on the 17th. may have
been indiscreet, but they were true, the wisdom of uttering them
may be doubted, but the description they give is strictly
correct, the picture is a revolting one, it is nevertheless
lifelike. ---

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he seems to expect although human & living upon
Earth are true and good as their Creator - but the
Same Sin that is now among men, the Same
Sin that will make a Bishop pocket 14 or 15000 a year [Clergyman] of the Church of
England or Clergymen pocket 14 or 1500[0] every year and give
out of it a poor [slave of a] Curate 40 or 50 £ a year
to do the drudgery of his work - and yet call themselves
[a] Ministers and a Chosen ones of God. - would make
in centuries gone by a poor Son of a persecuted race
take from sheer want the treasure of another & that
was very small - and then lie to make that treasure
more Secure. - The lie was not altogether wilful
for having taken the treasure belonging to his brother
it appeared to him that he was under the influence
of a more than human power - every thing
seemed to prosper with him after this Sinful
Act and although he could not know that it
was the Almighty that supported him - he cheated
himself with the belief that it was So. - But
treating this only as the True record & history
of the times, of things right and wrong, that
were happening amongst men, and amongst them
who were prophets and Diviners, and those who
Sought Knowledge of the Future - it does not
in any way involve the Almighty.

7487
1287 After this and as he believes showing
that Christ and the Jewish prophets were equally untrue
equally deceitful, equally unmerciful & unjust
he gives the Words of Christ - when he says "Agree
with your adversary [equally] quickly lest you be
cast into prison.    but may we not [?] that

7488 1788 Jesus Christ gave that, with the

                                                           (M Housman for B Hall /
Few are aware of the labor involved in these enquiries. the
malpractices of a Bishop cannot be exposed without raising
the anger of many, and few terms are too opprobrious [to such]
to be applied to such as have sufficient courage to undertake
the task. --
     The eyes of the Nation are upon them their wrong
doing is known to all;  the veneration in which they were
formerly held is gone; Superstitious reverence for Episcopal
functions is known only to Church wardens & old Ladies.
                                         Eclectic Review Aug 1851 251

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Same meaning as "Judge not that Ye be not judged"
his meaning was. [That] when men advanced opinions
at which yours were at [war] variance, when they obstinately
stood in them and you saw no ways of convincing
them otherways - when they were powerful, And
you were weak You should be silent. And if
they believed that that silince gave Consent, it
would make men at peace with you  that would
otherwise be your Enemies - he gives nothing here
but what is disinheritedly for mans good and 
which can be complied with by him with truth
and [wit] propriety & save a [?] [aimless?] charity home

1789   7489   The Author says that the highest,
the finest and the best of Mans Aspirations
are for Earth and that whenever his thoughts or
his wishes are turned to the world beyond, they
are centered upon himself and he argues as this
"what shall it profit a Man if he gains the
whole world and loses his own Soul - does he
consider how insignificant his life is to eternity
how brief the moment of his existence when
compared to the long eternity that has no End
could he in a thing which involves such mighty
interest  Sacrifice his own Soul to save anothers
Man dare not do this - [the present is his own]
the present is his own in that time he can
Strive to do for others as much as is in Mans
power he then can teach other men the principle
he himself acts upon and believes to be right
All his Corporeal faculties - All his Mind
and all his Strength he can exert to do good
to other Men - but the fortune is Gods and the

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Soul of Man is in his keeping - and the first
and greatest object in mans life must be to make
that keeping safe -.  to preserve his soul in the
hands of the almighty and make himself
worthy of receiving happiness which has
no End.

May I ask &c

1790  7490   I have not
25' to 9 PM.

♀︎die  29th June.
                          C A Mirror
                   Invoked the CA.
Will you please to favor me with the Continuation of
Your Views

7491  1791  I will do so

Shall I read the 7 & 8 letters together or Separate

7492  1792  Read one first

I read the 7th.
Have I made myself understood

1793  7493  Yes

1795.
The honest confessions of all the parties who had contributed 
to bring the Vulgate to its state at that era including Jerome
Alcunius and the Clementine Editors were substantially
expressed in the words of Bellarmine
      --' Some things have been deliberately changed; so also
other that seemed to require change have been designedly
left unchanged; as well because St Jerome has more than
once recommended that it should be so done, to avoid 
giving offense to the people &c. "
     "  and again
        I beg you to understand that the Vulgate has
not been corrected by us with perfect accuracy, for we
have purposely passed over many things that seemed
to require correction" ---

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                                   Chap. 7
7494
1794  [*?*]    There is nothing mentioned [in this 
chapter] more than he has before touched upon but in 
different words.

7495
1795   I do not seek to palliate the offences of 
those he has mentioned in this chapter, for however 
painful and degrading and blasphemous to Almighty 
purity and Truth the written lives of those men may 
be when it is divested of all mystery, of all pretence 
to the knowledge and direction of God, and looked 
upon solely as the Record of the times -  as solely 
the works of men having power on Earth - of Sovereigns 
existing when their will was the only known Law -- 
of advisers - and pretended divines - the first to commit 
the Sin, the second to advise, and the third to pardon 
and absolve -  looked upon solely in this light 
[that book] More men have many rivals in the present [day] time. [*38*]
[Solomon & David], Isaac & Jacob,  David & Solomon have many    [*46*]
counterparts at this day. --  I think these passages 
alone must raise an objection in the mind of an 
honest and candid enquirer as to the Truth of the 
Old Testament being written by Inspiration of being 
a relation of persons and things guided & governed 
by Gods purity and Truth.

7496
1796   Yet There does not seem much wisdom in the 
remark that men have only the Credulity of the nursery   [*45*]
in regard to Religion - it is from the very reason of 
men having labored so much that they have required 
so little - how many men have read the scriptures 
dissected them - written volumes on volumes upon 
them - stretched every faculty of the mind, have spent 
their whole lifetime in trying to discover their meaning

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and merit, and yet have passed over the simple truth
that is indelibly engraved upon every page of the New
Testament, because they have not recieved it, in the Spirit
that it is intended - they have not when beginning that 
book sought assistance from where that assistance could 
be alone [well] found  -  they have not placed reliance in the
God of Nature, and the God of Man.  to open the Secret
Springs of the heart. ,  that that might recieve the
Divine teachings and inculcations written therein and
reject the Mortal [weaknesses and cares] weaknesses
and errors of which the book alone has many.

I then read Chapter 8.
have I made myself understood

1797  You have.
7497

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Chap 8

7498
1798 In this 8th chapter more than in any other [he] GR
shows us how weak and how shadowy his belief [*page 55*]
must be, how unsatisfying his religion based only on [*52*]
the creator of Nature, and [on] not on the living God of [*53*]
man. - when that religion even does not give him the
hopes of a Faith in the Life beyond

7499
1799 Can he believe that the Almighty created
Nature with only life and motion, and then made Man
[with] the image of himself, with the light of his own
being in him - gave mind and every faculty of the
brain, and of the heart, and of the Soul to appreciate
and to understand the rest of Creation - that the God
who gave him Free will and discretion and Judgment
over his own actions, and of right and wrong, would
destine him to a premature decay, after passing
through a life that to no man is happiness - would
he give him a desire for immortality - without satisfying
the desire he himself had created - why make Man
above the rest of Creation if a higher destiny does not
await him, would it not be more just and more
merciful to make him insensible to all beyond mere
Animal enjoyment, if he had intended that he should
wither up and die only to give place to others of the
Same Kind - The Knowledge of a Soul lives in the
human heart.

May I ask if you intend that to conclude your
remarks in the 8th Chapter

1800
7500
I think it all that is necessary, if you
ask an answer to any other particular
point I am willing to give it

28 1/2
I will answer any question , or repeat any
part which . you may deem not sufficiently
plain — either as you proceed or at
the End.

Have I your permission to send these 2 Vols, of your
communications to Mr. J..C.
1801 7501 You have.

May I also say that if on any evening he should be
able to be at Croydon. You would appear at my
request  to answer his questions
7502
1802
Yes do so

As I am going on Wednesday next to [?]
will you oblige me by Impregnating this Seal
You so kindly gavE me.
1803 
7503
I havE.
Remember my instructions regarding
travellling by Water, I will not ask
you again to drink sparingly for
I feel assured after what I have
before said that it is unnecessary
be careful of your bodily + spiritual
interest
I shall be happy to again
hold an intelligible communion with
You when you return but unseen
as well as Visible I am ever near
you , and now we part.
May the peace of God which
now rests between us be with you
and the influence of his holy Spirit
shield you from all danger
20' to 9 PM.

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♃ die  31 July       C. A Mirror
                  Invoked the C A.
The C A is here in white

1804   7504 I thank God that I can welcome you
 again in safety
     I ask answer you questions

I present on     Ev'g  at Mr Robert Owens meeting for
the announcement of his belief in spiritual manifestations
At his request Mrs.           a friend of ours read your 
communication to him. 

1805  7505  I wish that to be made public which
I know to be true I   am therefore grateful
to Mr Owen for the steps he has taken.

When at Mr. Owens meeting Mrs. Hall a friend of Mr.
Owens gave me a sad acct of an unaccountable malady
which has afflicted her son now abt 14 or 15 years old
for the past 2 years.  she has sent me the writings
& drawings of his which I will place ag't the
mirror,  can you kindly tell me what treatment
would be beneficial to him.

1806  7506   I believe mesmerism would be [?]
if properly applied - strong [mesmerick?]
[?] should be first given to him, and
that continually and resolutely, paying
no attention to his liking or disliking 
it. -- if he continues to scream as is
possible when this is administered
let him to do so until he is exhausted
then mesmerism should be tried
strongly upon him while in this
weak state  and should be continued
the will acting powerfully upon him
until he again revives by this means

he will be gradually brought under the will
of the operator
The mesmeriser must be a man.

how long before he is mesmerised should the mesmerised
water be given to him to drink

1807  7509  So long as he will take it willingly when
he shows violence at it, meserism must be
tried upon him.

My friend Mr H D Lea informs me of his continued
ill success, may I again beg your kind advice

1808  7508  Mr Lea will never be able to have satisfacting
Visions  his wife is not able to see, and
even could she do so  I much doubt whether
Spirits whose information was of my value
would appear to one who in these matters
has no control either over his words or [?]

1809  7509  You spoke to me some time since of a
Gentleman that I much respect wishing to
be present when you receive my communication
I am willing to receive him when it is
convenient to you, I will give you an [?]
to the Chapter  which you can now read
in What is Truth
     It is desirable it should be finished
as speedily as possible

I read letter 9.

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                     Chapter 9
7510
1810 How can the author of what is truth
believe that [where] were Christian Doctrines the only 
true religion there would be no dissention or opposition
throughout the world, when minds as antagonistic
and Spirits as obstinately proud as his own
exist in every part __ Christ showed men the 
way to salvation,  He did more he pleaded for
them to the author of his existence, he died by
the hands of his Enemies, those to whom he would 
have given immortality refused him even their
criminal life -- but although they had done this
he still entreated that they might be numbered 
among the blessed "Father forgive them, for they
know not what they do."

1811
7571   His enemies exist now as then, it is
not his fault that men deny him & place
themselves without the pale of his mercy, It
rests with man himself whether he will be of
the Chosen few the receivers of Immortal life.

7572 
1812   Christ gave the means of Salvation
to all men and of        glad tidings of great        [*?*]
Joy.  none were cast aside as unworthy because
they did not agree with inward connections, blind 
self reliance and heathen pride, is it the fault 
of Christ or of man -- can it be expected that those
who will not acknowledge his merits who blaspheme
him or who only appear to believe in him to suit
their own interests -- those who are "obliged to believe"
can it be expected that those will be received at the

1844
     The only thing which can be pleasing to God, and can
consiliate his love, is moral excellence, if the sufferings 
of Christ in themselves were not the object of Divine complacency,
yet the meek and gentle, and holy spirit of the sufferer
must have been well pleasing in the sight of his Holy Father
      With what complacency must God have looked upon
that self  devoted,  self sacrificing spirit, which induced
the Saviour to submit to "so great a death," "to become obed't
to death  even  to the death of the Cross!"  with what approb'n
must [the Father] God have heard the submissive voice of
Jesus  when he said in his agony "not my will but thine
be done"!                                Rob. Halley  DD.
                                          Congregational Lecture  Part 2.  1857
                                                          p 219

That

throne of Grace the same as those who through 
faith have been made whole.

7573
1813 He died to save the sinner, but before 
that death could be effectual, the sinner must
repent of his sins, although he quickens only
whom he will, he has told man unmistakeably
that all who believe in him shall be saved, and
therefore he will quicken all his followers and
those who will not believe, those who require
Knowledge and have no faith, those in justice
to the true believers must be cast back. for if
the prize is not worthy of being attained, why
should man strive for it, and it would be no
prize to those who had been the faithful
followers of Christ through the conflicts & battle
of Life, if they were to receive salvation in the
same manner and on the same terms as those
who had died in Sin without repentance

7574
1814 The Author must remember that when
Jesus Christ was on Earth he was in the flesh
that he had all the feelings of Man, that he had
Strongly to guard against its weakness & its sin
that in the flesh he was sorely tried. that he
was subject to all temptation, that in battling
against Sin and in praying for courage
to undergo his bodily trials sweat of blood
rolled from his brow. at these times he was
allowed to be tempted that he might show his
mighty power in overcoming it.

1815
7575 When he went up into the exceeding

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high mountain to pray it may be presumed he was not spoken to
as [was] [?] supposed, by an infernal Spirit
by the prince of Darkness -- it was his mind
communing with itself, when he knew that the hour
of danger approached, that he was persecuted &
hated by many men, his mind Suggested 
the idea of fleeing from it. of turning his face
from his Father, and of becoming a man of Sin
but the inspiration he had received from his Father
overcame it -- The still small voice rose in 
rebellion against the Evil suggestion & with pride
in his [innocense ?] and reliance upon Heaven he
exclaimed "Get thee behind me Satan for it is
written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God
and him only shalt thou serve.

1816  7516  This feeling [which he had at this time]
has been experienced by almost every man
particularly by those who have committed a first
sin of any magnitude, they ave felt a
reluctance to commit it because it was wrong
but too often the Evil has triumphed over the
good -- Well [it] would it be for man were 
the example of the Saviour at such times in
mind

May I &c

1817   7517  I have nothing this Evening
10 PM.

♂︎die  7 Aug.  8 PM.  Invoked the C A
Mr Cate will be here on [Wedn]  Friday week

1818  7518  I will appear

Shall I read Chapter 10

1819   7519    do so

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I read    Chapter 10

9820
7520  That chapter must be passed over  it contains
nothing more than I have made remarks upon
in others.

read Chapter 11. 

7521
1821  God Condemns Jesus Christ at the
end of [that  C   /  Chapter] letter for the same boast, the 
same feeling of self sufficiency and of pride in
his own strength., wrongfully, that he prides himself
upon having in the beginning

1822
7522  He is proud of being able to stand
alone, to throw off all prejudices, all early impressions
All teaching from Superior and Elevating sources, and
relies soley upon his own innate sense of right
and wrong. upon his own wisdom and his own
reason, and having elevated himself to this
commanding position of Recieving Truth only through
his own senses, he looks without even human Charity
upon the whole of the human Creation as not only
the degraded creatures of an offended God. not only
as grovelling blasthemers in the Sight of Almighty
[?] - but as men all and each denying to
each other their real sentiments, and hiding under
the most diabolical cloak of hypocrisy their real
feelings both to God & man. -  This he calls "the
obligation of belief="

7523
1523  Before he can arrive at the truth
he so much covets he must lower his standard of
self importance and look with human benevolence
upon the Multitude.  and he will find amongst
the ignorant and the Cultivated mind, the refined
and the Vulgar. , the Aristocrat & the peasant, the
same Holy Spirit of Light, the same undying

1824.  I offer no apology for those expressions in our Ordination
of priests, when the Bishop lays his hands upon the head of a 
weak youth and says "Recieve the Holy Ghost for the office 
of a priest Christs Church".   I say Boldly that 
youth ought to believe that he is endowed with this
power; else he will not do Christs work, or feel his own
nothingness, or be the helper and deliverer of his Brethren
                                Professor Maurice 'Church or Family
                                                   1850 p.169. 
-- Boldly --  If a weak youth ought to believe that he is endowed
                    with this power, else he will not do Christs work
                    are we to infer that if he does believe He will
                    do Christs work . --
                     Now as plundering nay downright robbing the
                     poorer members of the Church, as Mr Horsman has
                     proved the Bishop of Durham & other Bishops to 
                     have done which is essentially opposed to Christs work 
                     what are we to consider them  Believers or
                     disbelievers in the Apostolic laying on of hands.
1824  Apostolical Bishops!
     At the decease of the political Bishop Bathurst    Dr Stanley found
the See in a deplorable state
     "Non residence, pluralities, one instead of two Services, once a
week, or sometimes once a fortnight -- an abuse which had reached
such a pitch as to have produced one instance in which fifteen
churches were served by three brothers; !  carelessness in admission
to holy orders; imperfect administration of the rites of Baptism
and burial. -- page 30 -- [Addresses & Charges of] Ed. Stanley D D.
                          late Bishop of Norwich ! [with] [?] by John Alexander
                          [A P Stanley M A.] -- London 1851.
1824  Political Priests.
     "When pressed by the son of Bishop Bathurst for the Vacant
bishoprick of Kellalve in reward for his Fathers political services
Lord Melborne refused, but accompanied his refusal with the


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conviction of Truth.  which that spirit must always
carry with it, the same fearless belief in the
Divinity and the Glorification of Christ. -- and this
without craven fear of priests or their forms & Ceremonies

1824   7524   Minds such as these are not found
in absorbed attention to the inspired tones of a 
Bishop rising from a pulpit -- they are not
found at stated intervals assembled together in
one place for the same purpose of repeating the
same words in a form of prayer which they have
the Knowledge and even intention of [breaking?]
during the interval of another Ceremony. --
The prayers only acceptable to God are those rising
spontaneously from an overcharged heart, and
there the workings of His Holy Spirit are found

1825   7525   It is one of the greatest errors fallen
into by man of rushing from one extreme to another
they mostly believe and judge one another by
[that] the belief that a man must either be a great
sinner or a great saint, to be the latter he must
conform to all religious ceremonies, he must
show every outward sign of Grace.  that is
quite sufficient -- They have not the Charity
to believe that truth and goodness can exist
without Show. -- They have not the faith beyond
knowledge which is "so necessary" even in their
fellow creatures motives -----  If man requires
this faith beyond knowledge to justify others actions
in this world -- and it is required in the Commonest
events of life, how much more does he require
it when his own welfare spiritually is concerned

1834 Apostolic Bishops
the offer of the Archbishopric of Dublin to the father - that father
being so incapacitated at the very time as scarcely to understand
the communication of the premier, if indeed which we doubt, it
was ever made known to him  = 
                                                 Ec. Rev. 1852. Lon. 33

34

How vastly of more consequence that faith beyond
Knowledge must be if through it he gains the 
Kingdom of Heaven - and Man gives this 
faith beyond Knowledge in life every moment
and under every circumstance it is required. If
he gives it when the Sun sets at night what
gives him a certainty that it will rise on the 
morrow. his Knowledge only extends to the fact
of its setting - his faith makes him sure that
it will rise, and if faith Can be given to the 
second rising of the Sun that illumes this Earth
why not extend that faith beyond Knowledge 
to the Son of Light rising on the World to Come

Have I your permission to read the 12th letter

7526
1826 You have
 
I read Chapter 12

7527
1827  My remarks on this will be in 
Continuation of my last.

35
                            Chapter 12the.
7528
1828     The Author believes that no knowledge 
can exist in man of his own soul. -- The knowledge
of the Human Soul -- from what does it arise? 
Those innate principles which G.R so much
relies upon seem now at fault, for the knowledge
of the Human Soul is felt by every human
created being, if they can rightly understand and
interpret their own feelings -- they [are] know
that they are superior to all other creation, they 
feel a closer affinity to a power above than
below them -- that superiority consists in the 
mind. The power of Comprehension, of memory
of Eloquence, of Language, of Reason, and of
thought. -- The mind with its wonderful endowments
and manifold changes. -- Man feels that it 
is something within him superior to Earth.
Superior even to the body that contains it,
that it is purely Spiritual, and that over it
he has but a limited control, and feeling that
it is Spiritual -- Knowing that it is Spiritual
for he knows not even it habitation in his own
body -- can he think that his spirit dies.
     If he calls that reason into action, can he
not tell that a Spiritual body is immortal,
and the mind his Spiritual body in this Earth
shall be his Spiritual body in the next world
and thus the Evidence of a Soul lies within
him 

7529
1829  If there is any other particular point
you wished remarked upon I will do so

I do not wish to appear to ignore his allusions to

to the Old Testament, I will therefore repeat the last
part of Chapter 12.
7530 1830 do so.
I reread it.
7531 1831 You are right
I would not &c  [?]

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7532
1832   [?]  I would not have it thought 
by any that may open this book that
those points were passed over that could
not be answered, but in a former place 
treated on the same subject, I have professed
plainly that I have no faith in the Old
Testament, that I believe it inconsistent 
with the New -- The Father, the Son and
The Holy Ghost are not to be considered one
with the God of Abraham   the God of Isaac
and the God of Jacob. The old testament
contains but a record of the Times in which
it was written, it was not written under 
inspiration and is therefore unnecessary as a 
guide to Man.

7533 1833  The Old Testament and what the
Author terms Revealed Religion and Obligatory
belief make a mystery that the Red Supporters
of [the Church of England] State Churches can be paid to dissolve
after their own fashion

May I &c.

7534 1834  I have not this Evening
9.45 PM.

♂︎die  14  Aug. 1855. 1/4 to 8 PM.
                Invoked the C A.
Mr. Cate will be here on  ♀︎die next - Mr. Ormerod has also called
upon me. 

7535 1835  I have before ment'd that I should have
great pleasure on his acquaintance 

I explained, as to Mr Ormerod & Mr Cate

7536 1836 I spoke of Mr. Cate when I appeared at
your friends home. Twice then I have
alluded to this one.

Religious Love amongst Christian Communities
                     "Love one Another"
"Add to this circumstance the belief- very possibly quite
sincere - of the infinite significance of the questions
at issue, and there will no longer be any cause for
surprize at the frightful vehemence, and constant
disregard of truth which are indissolubly associated
in our minds with the words "religious newspaper"
     We have vulgar papers, we have unprincipled
papers, we have disingenous papers; but the full
bitterness which the human heart is capable of
feeling, the full ferocity it is capable of expressing
is to be met with no where but in religious papers --
we know no spectacle more frightful than that
of a "religious" writer raging with [?] spite
and taxing his generally very narrow capacity
to put into words the images familiar to a sad
heart and a gloomy imagination -- We know
of no more awful responsibility than that of
being a permanent scandal & stumbling block
to those who wish to love & serve their Maker
& a perpetual occasion to the enemies of religion to
[?]. -- Sometimes in the midst of such
displays, it is hardly possible to repress a
smile at a blundering ferocity which is at once
amusing and disgusting,  take for example the
following extracts (slightly compressed)  from an
article in last weeks Tablet on Crime in England
    "The Devil accordg to [?] any [?] &c &c
following this the Record "Evanjelical" is [?]
down as "a paper as bitter as the Tablet, but less
able and more totally unscrupulous."           Saturday [?]
                                                                                  Feb 16  1856

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I then read.  Chapter 13th

1837   7537   Much of [this Chapter] his 13th letter is but a repetition
of the preceding ones but I must again mentione one
of the authors greatest errors -- believing in the
sufficiency of the Divinity within him,  placing
sole reliance upon his innate sense of right & wrong
to teach him the whole Truth.

1838   7538   Granted that there is a Divinity within
all those who seek to do right, that the Image of
[its?] will is implanted in the human soul, what
disclosures does it make that man can rely upon
-- it brings with [him] it no knowledge -- the author
himself admits this for he is even doubtful of an
hereafter. - It gives him no hope -  It gives him 
no trust in the mercy of God towards himself -- it
teaches him nothing more than he can see with
his outward Eyes, that there is a creation and
that there must be an unaccountable, impetuous &
mighty power to create it and to rule it with such
nice precision -- this much he sees. - and this 
much only does that image implanted in his soul
reveal to him -- Other sentiments arise from
human conceptions ----------------------------------
-------------------- He boasts of a Charity which few very
few human beings can possible have -- that of
doing unto others as he would they should do
unto him -- of giving up all for the sake of
mankind -- he treats of mans own Salvation as
indifferent and his wish for it as selfish - that his
hopes of hereafter should not be personal - but for
the whole human race -- that he should do everything
that man can do, for man or for God, and this

(1840 )
The Carriage of my Lord the Bishop rolls through the 
city and the poor are sprinkled with the mud its wheels do
scatter.  All men are alike in the Eye of God; He knows
but the good and Evil, they are his sole distinctions, says
Christianity-   the practice and the feeling of social 
England say, as clearly as action can speak it - a man
as a man is nothing - he is - in proportion as he has
Cash or Birth - when you are [smitten?] [?] not again
says Christianity, for Peace is its vital essence- a peace man
is almost a term of contempt in Society; the pulpit is
the best support of the wan spirit: and Bishops Bless the
colors that are to be steeped in the blood of man and the
Tears of Orphanage and widowhood-"
            J S Smiths  Social Aspects   p 210.


,1840, 
A minister of the Establishment better acquainted with the
statistics of his own Church  than any other living man assured
me lately [30] that there were at least 3000 of his Brethren who
sympathized more or less with the Tractarian Heresy."
               Present Aspects of protestantism in Great Britain
                     by John Morrision  DD.  LLD.  page 10 -- 1851
The Ed. of the Eclectic Review adds
   "Our own inquiries on the subject [of] have led us to form
      the opinion, that the number of such Clergymen does not
      exceed 2000' --  (p 103.  1851)

2 or 3000 "Protestant Divines"  more or less on the Highway
to Rome -- preaching protestantism with their mouths --having
Romanism in their hearts. - & pocketing the Tin

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without hope of reward in this world or the next. -
that he should go through life distressing himself
for the wants of others - and die with the cold
sad conviction that he was uncared for & forgotten -
     Man cannot do this -- a living Angel could not
do it -.  The author of what is truth cannot do it --
to be perfect upon earth - perfect as the Son of 
God.  and that perfection is attainable unto all
men.  Man must have a knowledge of and a
reliance upon God -- and if he is able to do
these woks of Charity & Love - the same divine
inspiration under which he acts gives him the
Fine and certain hopes of his future reward.

1839  7539  Does it seem reasonable that without a
knowledge of God   without a trust in His mercy
man can possibly have the Image of this still
implanted in his soul and act under His guidance
for surely he must do so, to meet the scorn contempt
and selfishness of man with feelings purely of
Charity & Love.

1840  7540  The author [of] having spoken of the policy
of the Country as well as the religion   I may be
allowed to do the same - assuredly in many
respects - in almost all - and especially in Religion
men teach what they do not act.  those in High
places do this more than those in low, and I
firmly believe that Truth, Unity & Concord can
never reign amongst men whilst there is so
much difference in their social position --
only make men free, give them equal right with
their fellows -- give them an honorable calling &

"A truth seeker finds the influence of the prelates derived
not from piety or personal worth, but from its Cash and the
adjuncts which their Ecclesiastical dignity bestows. Take away
from a Bishop his income, his princely habitation, and his seat
in the assembly of the peers, and the respect, reverence and adulation
he receives, go also with him. Let him be as pious as Paulinus -
but rob him of these and he sinks into quiet obscurity upon
the instant - I do not seek to Join in the wide mouthed
Vulgar cry against Bishops, but surely to the Sincere Churchman
this matter is worthy to be studied
                                     
 John Storer Smith "Social Aspects 12mo. 1851
                                                   page 139.

"In no public or Social department which we know of has
money a more directly evil influence than in the Anglican Church
From the Grand Old House at Lambeth down to the humble
lodgings of the Chaplain of the workhouse the monetary
calculation is universal -- if we meet with a worthy Curate
toiling among his schools & his paupers doing as much
good as "his System" will allow him, and if we ask him
why he with his 13 children is after 30 years service is 
only a Curate the answer we invariably receive is 
" I have been without influence" - that is, being interpreted
"Neither I nor my family had money" -
                                 Eclectic Mag. 1851 page 169.  v 1

"The reader may Judge for himself, how far the Clergy even
have been, or ever will be, the bulwark to protect the great
masses of the population against any tyranny of theirs
|the Middle Classes of Society |it is true indeed that in the 
days of the Monasteries, the Clergy were an intervening Estate
between the lay Aristocracy & the poor, But this was for 
a purpose of their own, they only interposed to deliver them
from the serfdom of the Soil, in order to make them the 
Still more ignorant and abject Serfs of the Church.
The two despotisms were the players, and the million
were the Stake.
                                Eclec Review 1. 1851. p.91

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and Crimes, Sin, injustice and ingratitude 
are swept from the Land. I would have Clergy  Bishops 
[Clergy] Aristocracy & Royalty [& aristocracy] things unknown. - I 
would have education given to all, through the 
Means of those who had most. and then the paths 
of life open to all who by their own merits could 
obtain them - the same situations might remain 
the same professions and the same governments, but 
let every man being educated have a chance of
obtaining distinction through his own merits - it 
would stimulate those to exertion who are now idle 
it would remove crime, because crime would be 
unnecessary, and would only be an act of 
Justice from one man to another throughout the 
Land. 

7541
1841  Heavy is it on the Shoulders of the 
High for while they preach goodness, they are 
withholding the means of attaining it - The 
Almighty did not intend that one class of men 
should take all the wealth, and the Rank and 
crush other men beneath them because they had 
not that wealth and rank. - When he created 
Adam & Eve in the garden of paradise, when he 
made them without pride and without pomp
children of nature living upon his richest gift 
and that gift the same to all their descendants 
- His own bounteous Creation

Shall I read letter 14

7542 1842  Do so

May I ask if you have any Comments

7542 1843  I wd answer them both together

Read Chapter 15.

La 1840"     "The right Divine to Govern Wrong"
The greatest curses any age has known
Have issued from the Temple or the Throne.
Extent of ill from Kings at first begins,
But priests must aid and consecrate their sins.
The tortured subject might be heard complain,
When sinking under a new weight of chain,
Or more rebellious, might perhaps repine,
When laced to dower or titled concubine,
But the priest christens all a right Divine.
When at the altar a new monarch kneels
What confined awe upon the people steals,
The chosen He adores the precious oil,
Meekly recieves the solemn charm, and while
the Priest some blessed nothings mutters o'er,
Such in the sacred grease at every pore;
He seems at once to shed his mortal skin,
And feels divinity manifested within
The trembling vulgar dread the Royal nod
And worship God's anointed more than God.
Such sanction gives the prelates to such Kings
So mischief from such hallowed fountains springs.
But lend your eyes to yonder harrassed plains
Where King and priest [to] in one united reigns!
See fair Italia mourn her holy state,
And droop oppressed beneath a papal weight;
Where fat celibacy usurps the soil,
And sacred sloth consumes the peasant's toil:
The holy drones monopolize the sky
And plunder by a vow of poverty;
The Christian cause their lewd profession taints
Unlearned, unchaste, uncharitable saints,"
             Eliot Warburton's Memoirs of Horace Walpole
                [?] Lond. 1851   Vol. 1  p. 277.  

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7544
1844 I will now conclude my Remarks to 
the author of what is Truth.
7545
1845 I have paid the greatest attention to
every part of your work, and I regret to say that 
I found in it nothing but error -- injustice to God
and to man -- and blasphemy of His Holy Word
7546
1846 You do not act upon the Same System
you would have others do -- and you do evil to the
Cause while you seem to do good - That of Truth -
before utterly denouncing a religion that showers
the greatest blessings on mankind -- You should
have sought deeply and enquired much -- Had
you prayed to the God, the only one that you
recognize, this book would never have been
written -- but with artful ignorance of any but
your own Strength, you make that superior intent
and understanding that you possess, and which
you must feel a part of the spiritual body
called the Soul to lead others to the destruction of
which you seem so heedless Yourself
7547
1847  When you feel that you have nothing
to support the arguments that you hold out and
the opinions which you adhere to as absolute truth
but your own slender Conviction without knowledge
and feeling without faith -- when you had nothing
to rely upon but a weak inward feeling, that
you [are] were right you would have done well to have
kept those opinions from the world.  to have kept
them within yourself and whether right or wrong
to have been yourself only responsible for their Truth.


1850  It is not here implied that the true religion is based [upon]
primarily upon the New Testament - it being obvious that
the preaching & practice of Christ & his apostles - their facts
& doctrines established & maintained.  the true religion many years before a word of the New Testament was written --.
indeed it is ancient  that it was the extension of Christianity
that occasioned the necessity for documentary Evidence
it was therefore not believed because it was written but written
because it was believed --

41

7548 1848   Surely the Inward Convictions of one man 
is not sufficient guide for a thousand, through 
life - and death - and Immortality. - then why 
send them forth into the world without more mature 
deliberation - but it is not now too late to atone 
for the Evil that you have done. You can yet give 
the means of a New life to those who through 
your efforts are dead. - You can yet be convinced 
and point out to others the brightness and the 
goodness and the Divinity of Jesus Christ - as 
well as the errors of his preceders, as well as the 
slight earthly weaknesses of himself - God grant 
that you may do this - in doing so you will 
find your inward convictions altered, and then 
from the workings of His holy Spirit within you 
you will truly have his Image implanted in your 
Soul and the power, and the faith to do the 
teachings of His will.

7549 1849 I have answered your book, not with 
a display of talent [perhaps] equal to your own 
but with human [learning] knowledge of learning 
to a desire to shine in letters - In whatever light 
it may be taken or however recieved it is solely 
the Truth and in answer to your last question I 
will again give you though briefly the same 
Answer.

7550 1850   True religion and the only True religion 
is Contained in the New Testament - given by God to 
Man for his instruction and Enlightenment to the 
good of the World.

7551 1851  True religion is a belief in the Divinity

Priests

     Neither are we surprised that the Officials of the Churches 
should so far forget the proper ministerial character as to imagine 
that they stood nearer to God than their fellow [men] worshipers. 
and to liken themselves or permit themselves to be likened by their 
brethren to their Priests whom they had seen at Heathen Altars 
or in the Jewish Temple offering sacrifice, and interceding on behalf 
of the Common people, antient indeed is this notion embodied 
in [this] institutions of a human mediation visibly acting with 
God for many. -
     But the True and only mediation between Man as 
Man, and God as God. in the worship which the only God. 
recieves from sinning man was already exhibited in "The 
Great Hight Priest' of the Human Race. The Apostles trusted 
Him, and they preached Him as the only Sacrificer, the only 
advocate., but when the Apostles fell asleep, there were men 
whose coming they had foretold, who instead of preaching 
Christ assumed his office, established a fearful mimicry 
of his awful work, and professedly became to the people 
that which it is not possible for any but Jesus Christ, to 
be and so it continues to this day.
                                         Electic Review 1857 1/232

"The Church Unions of the Kingdom are forward in 
manifesting their zeal for Clerical power; and in demonstrating 
to the Common sense of the Nation, the necessity of strengthening 
rather than otherwise, the restraints under which it is held 
It is painfully illustrative of the Low morality of the Clergy 
that while they fiercely contend about their orders - they 
are silent as the grave, respecting Ecclesiastical Enormities
recently brought to Light - priestism is surely [on its 
last legs] in its last Stage when it babbles furiously about 
"mint, anise & cummin' but is indifferent to the weightier 
Matter of the Law
                                                                       Ibid 2/648.

42
and the Death of Christ for the Good of Man Kind
and a faith in the mercy & justice of God through
the merits of that [?] for the reward beyond
all price for following in his footsteps - and this
true religion brings with it goodwill & Charity
towards all mankind - You are able to give unto
them what you feel and know God has in 
store for you - Love and Justice - This is
The Truth.

1852
7552  It is sufficiently simple for the most
ignorant to follow and sufficiently great for the
most learned to find study in, and as generation 
succeeds generation this fine religion will become  [*?*]
developd so that at the last [when] are the created
world shall dissolve - those remaining on it
shall be of one faith - that Truth will be beyond
Knowledge - yet nevertheless sure - and at the 2nd
coming of the Son of Man He will find Unity
peace and concord reigning upon Earth. And
that through the Sacrfice which he in the first
made for man - All then will have their reward
And may the Almighty Godin his love for
His own Creation - this undying love for his 
blessed Son - I am the first generation of Mankind
and bless them with Immortal happiness though
his Merits and the last generation through
their own goodness. - And in the many mansions
of our Fathers house may your repentant
sinner find an everlasting  home.  

43

 ♀︎die Aug. 1855. C.A Mirror 8PM
present Mr. Rich'd Cale
                         Invoked the C.A.
Mr Cale has favored me this Evening with his Comp'y. 
May I ask some questions on his behalf

[?]553 1853 Do so

Will it be conducive to his Spiritual & temporal 
Welfare if Mr Cale investigates the Subject of Crystal 
Working

[?]554 1854 It will

Will Mr Cale or any other member of his Family 
be able to See

[?]555 1855 His wife would be able to see were her 
faculty developed.

Mrs. Cale is unfortunately of delicate health. & exceed'y. 
Nervous. - might it not prove hurtful to her

[?]556 1856 I believe it would be beneficial to her 
If. at a future time I have the opportunity of calling 
for her will you kindly appear 

[?]557 1857 I will

If Mrs. Cales objections prove insurmountable will it be 
advisable for Mr C. to employ the person he has in his 
mind at present

[?]558 1858 I should not advise any other than 
one of his own family

As Mr Cale has not yet a Crystal, If I lend him 
an [OB.?]  will that do.

[?]559 1859  It would do to commence with 

Has Mr Cale the faculty of seeing

[?]560 1860 He has not

Will you tell me the name of his G.S.

[?]561 1861 The name of his Guardian Spirit is 
OSMO

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of what order of Spirits is Osmo

1862
7562  A I A   An angel of Hades

[*MC*]:  Shall I  ever have it in my power to benefit my
fellow men.

1863
7563  One man can do but little towards
benefitting the Human Race, but he can
endeavor to do that little in the way
which seems to him best and lies open
before him.

[*MC*]  Will my temporal circumstances be greatly improved
during the next year

1864
7564  They will remain much the same

[*MC*]  Can you favor Mr Cale with any advice how to
surmount his wifes aversion & nervousness

1864
7565  Calm perseverance and reliance upon
his G.S will overcome this difficulty

[*MC*]  Will the Spirit of my deceased mother be pleased
to make itself visible in this Mirror

1866
7566  She will do so if called when I leave

As I have had this seance solely for Mr Cale may
I ask if you have any advice to give him concerning
his studies on this subject

1867
7567  The instructions that I gave you on a 
former occasion are the same that I
should give now.

When you leave shall I call Osmo or Mrs Cale
First

1868
7568  The Spirit of his mother will appear First

1/2 past 8 PM  Called Mrs Jane Addison Cale
Now the mirror is very thick, now there is a
white form, it is one of the Spirit forms.  


(note: this page is a horoscope)
(center box)
Invoked 1st time
OSMO
(Venus) die 17 Aug 1855
8.45 PM
(transcribing horoscope starting at top right of page and proceeding clockwise)
(diagonal line)Capricorn 6
(diagonal line) Sagittarius 17
(diagonal line) Scorpio 26
Moon 19 degrees 52 minutes
(diagonal line) Libra 15 degrees 56 minutes
Venus 6 degrees 39 minutes
(symbol for Virgo)
Sun 24 degrees 20 minutes
(diagonal line) Leo 22
Mercury 15 degrees 11minutes
(diagonal line) Cancer 25 degrees
Mars 20 degrees 24 minutes
(diagonal line) Cancer 6 degrees
Saturn 20 degrees 24 minutes
(diagonal line) Gemini 18
Earth 10 degrees 53 minutes
Uranus 20 degrees 57 minutes
(diagonal line) Taurus 26
Moon ascending node 7 degrees 23 minutes
(diagonal line) Ares 15 degrees 36 minutes
Sign for Pisces
Jupiter 28 degrees 8 minutes Retrograde
(diagonal line) Pisces 22 degrees
(diagonal line) Capricorn 25 degrees

45
May I ask if you are in a state of happiness

7569  I am.

In what sphere are you dwelling

7576  The Seventh.

Is it not unusual for a mortal so soon to attain
the Seventh Sphere

7571  It is

Can you make your appearance visible or sensible
to your son in a vision or dream or by touch.

7572  I can never make him sensible of
my presence bodily

Will you favor him by appearing to him or his wife
in the O B.  I am going to lead him

7573  I will appear again spiritually to
him and then stay longer.

May I ask the meaning of "appearing spiritually"

7574  He shall be made sensible of my
presence in this mirror or Crystal by
the aid of his wife.
I would appear to her.

Can you appear to her in any other form than
you appear to my wife

7575  I cannot.

Will you request Osmo to appear
Shes gone

1/4 to 9 PM.  Invoked Osmo.
theres a figure in white Robes, no wings, a belt
of stones round the waist, light hair, not very
young
Will you tell me your name

7576  OSMO

Are you the G S. of Mr R J Cale

7577  Yes


46
how long have you been so

7578  45 years

Were you ever embodied or dwelt upon this Earth

7579  I have not

Will you prevent any evil appearances in the 
OB.  I am going to lend Mr Cale

7580  I will prevent Evil Spirits from
appearing, and also that relating to
human affairs that would alarm her

He is gone.

♂︎die  21 Aug.  1855.  C. A Mirror
               Invoked the C.A
The C A is here and theres some reading coming

1869
7581  I am much gratified to find that
you have procured such excellent glasses

May I ask &c

1870
7581  I will answer them

I read my intended Title & quotations

1871
7582  You did will on selecting it
None would be more appropriate

I read G R's preface

1872
7583  I wish you would make the preface
yourself but I would give you one hint
In using the word Christianity it
would seem to many of your readers
to imply the religion of the present
church.
The [?] say that they perceive
the dawning of a faith greater and
more humane. than any now
established
Let the dawning of that Faith be

47

in your book, not in his 
ay that you believe that Faith to 
unite the humanity of Earth with the 
Trust and the Glory of Heaven.

I read G R's last leaf or Summary

7584 1873 I think it would be best that you 
should close it with a few words.

I will do so next Tuesday Evening for your appl.

7585 1874 Do so have you read it through 
since it has been altogether.

I explained

7586 187 That was my reason for mentioning it 
I tried to avoid as much as possible 
any allusion to Spiritualism

As there will be no name or initials - I presume 
there will be no objection to dating it C. -

7587 1876 There would not 
You will let your publisher know 
your name I think it is desirable 
so that if the author should wish 
for any thing further he might 
receive it.

I thought of writing to Mr Chapman. to publish 
it, and place bout a [?] - or less if possible

7588 1877 I agree with You as to publishing it 
at the same place.

I explained

7589 1888 I do not wish you to lose any thing 
by publishing this Book. 
I know that, it is kind of you but 
still there are other Considerations 
when you have spoken to the publisher 
will you communicate it to me -

48

As to dedicating it to Robert Owen

7590 1889 I would not dedicate it to him but 
I would certainly send him a copy

[?] thanks 
It is now close upon September., and the At Spirit 
of my friend Mr Dresser has been confined to 
my box mirror & has not annoyed me but once 
since, may I ask if I shall now be freed 
from his apparition - & can I communicate with 
Mr Dresser again

7591 1890 You will, no further annoyance, 
will be given you in this way through 
him - still I think it advisable 
that you should not recommence 
either a correspondence or an acquante. 
with Mr Dresser upon these subjects

have I your permission to write to him & explain 
the circumstances to him

7592 1891 Certainly you have I would not under 
any circumstances have you act 
otherwise than courtesy dictates

Can we see Mr Anderson at a future evening

7593 1892 You can

Can we also see Count Cagliostro -

7594 1893 He is at rest now and cannot 
appear again

He informed me he would give me the history of 
his life, can I receive that on some future 
evening in this or one of my other mirrors or crystals

7595 1894 In a short time I will tell you 
next Tuesday the exact time.

May I ask if you are aware of the existence 
of the Book of Enoch, which I was occasioned to 
much discussion amongst Theologians & they

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May I ask your views of that book & the date when 
it was written

1895   7596  It was written at the time of Enoch 
[and] but not by him

If at a future time I make some extracts from it 
will you favor me with your opinion

1896   7597   I will

As to the vision ☨

1897   7598   I will give it you in the other mirror
on another evening

Can you tell me if Miss Andrews has commenced 
calling

1898   7599   I do not know

The other Ev'g Mrs. Cale who has been dead only 
3 years informed us she was in the 7th Sphere. 
is it possible she can have so speedily attained 
that.

1899   7600    She has just entered the 7th Sphere 
but it takes a greater length of time 
to pass from the lower to the upper 
part of the 7th Sphere than it does 
from the 1st to the 6th.

Are the 7 spheres between the orbits of [Earth symbol] & ♂︎
or do they extend into space

1900   7601   The planets and the Stars are in the 
Spheres they pass up beyond light 
of Moon or Stars
When I was called this Evening I 
was further beyond the Sun than 
the Sun is beyond the Earth

Have the other planets as ♃ and ♂︎ Spheres where 
their inhabitants - dwell after death.

1901  7602   No they have not. The inhabitants

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of other world are unlike those of
the earth in every respect.

May we at some future time see the likeness
of the inhabitants of ♃ and♂︎

1902  
7603  I can do so
Some are mortal but not immortal
Some spiritual but have no souls

Dr Whenell & Sir David Brewster, have both
written works upon the subject of more worlds
than one  I will buy the works & then request
your opinions

1903
7604  I will answer them

I am not this evening prepared with any quest.ns
and I am afraid of asking you questions twice
over.

1904
7605  If I have answered your question
before and it seems unnecessary for
me to answer it again   I can always
mention it

If any advice &c

1905
7606  If you lend Mr Cale a Glass bottle
for [?], for his use,  I should like
you to use it yourself first to get his
G S. to appear.

I will next Tuesday Evening

1906
7607  do so

If any further advice

1907
7608  I have not

The C A left  9 PM.

51

9h.5' PM Called Mr Anderson

Now heres someone Coming, it is him, he is so 
Altered   he has his Crystal in his hand. he looks 
so tall and thin no hat on, & his hair quite 
straight

Good Evening Mr Anderson we rejoice to see you again 
alive, tho not quite so well as we could wish 
he has looked at you a minute & turned his head away

7609   I am pleased to see you again

he has got hold of his Crystal and looks down at it 
I explained the Cause of my Calling him.

7610   I am again before Sebastopol, 
I have been ill, I wish that I was 
dead, I have got my Crystal here 
I have seen you in it several times 
I have seen your guardian Spirit in 
it.   I have seen my own, he has 
told me very painful things, not only 
to me but to the whole Company could 
they be brought to believe it 
I use this Crystal as a relief after 
my work., I see so much death 
so much mortality, that I return 
with relief to that. which gives me 
a knowledge of Spirits and a hope 
and faith in immortality

7611   I was told that there are those now 
in the English Cabinet the private friends 
of Russia who are determined not only 
to make a peace - dishonorable to the 
English nation  but to make it at the 
Cost of their own men, that orders 
will be given to the Commanders on the

52

Crimea to stop their operations when 
they have all but seized Sebastopol 
that at the same time information 
will be sent to the Russian Commanders 
that they may take advantage of our 
position and either remove their army 
safely by a way that will be pointed 
out to them or else have the greatest 
chance of gaining a victory should a 
battle ensue.

May I ask what date it is now with you

7612   The 16th August 
I cannot stay long this Evening

have you heard of the Total destruction of Linsborg

7613 Yes 
I will appear next Tuesday Evening

1/2 past 9 PM.  hes gone.

♂︎die 28th Aug. 1855    CA Mirror
5' to 8.       Invoked the CA
immediately hes' here.

I have reperused the MS. & wish to make a few 
alterations

1908  7614   do so, It was my intention at first 
to give you a skeleton of a book 
which you might clothe in Language 
you thought best suited to meet 
opposition
     I should be pleased at your making 
any alteration

I read the altered passages

1909   7615   They are quite right
They are what I ought to have given

53
I spoke from personal knowledge
instead of what should be general
feeling
I think it would be best if you could
do so to make the preface, there
must be some difference in your
introduction and mine but still if
you would rather that I should
do it I would appear on Friday
night for that purpose. I am quite
willing to do so — I can appear on
Friday.
I thank you. If I call Osmo into this OB
will it be c[onve]nient for him to appear.
1910
7616
He will appear in it this Evening
May I give you a word of advice
unasked.
I explained
1911
7617
The greatest drawback and I find
it in nearly all when they begin to
hold communion with Spirits is their
haste in Desiring to have some
special manifestation of their power
they want some proof given. that
this spirit in communion with them
could only give by making them at
once sensible of a Spiritual presence
but to attain any degree of
perfection in the communion with Spirits
the greatest patience + perseverance is
necessary.
If you do not at first feel Confidence
in the Superiority and Knowledge. of
the Spirit you call , if you greatly

54

Want that knowledge will assuredly 
come, but never by other than those 
means used in the beginning
     No good spirit will ever 
communicate with Man other than by 
his intellectual faculties
     In asking as others beside 
Mr Cale have done for a decided proof 
of the Spiritual presence and Superior 
Knowledge of a Spirit they do themselves 
harm, were they to give such a proof 
it would Clearly prove to those well 
versed in Spirit calling, that they were 
decidedly and undeniably Evil, and 
more I do not think man himself 
after having recieved this proof could 
possibly be so well satisfied of the 
Intelligence and the goodness of the 
Spirit as though he were gradually 
made Confident in him by the intelligence 
and consistent truthfulness of his 
Communications and the Clearness and 
pureness of his doctrines.
     I think that you must feel the 
Same had I given you or Earl Stanhope 
the first time I appeared a proof 
of my power  you would not now 
have felt the Confidence in me, you do 
having told you so often my Opinion

I explained

1912   7618   It is desirable it is necessary that a 
Complete Confidence should exist 
between those seeking the Knowledge 
and those seeing, a strong feeling of

55
of Truth and of interest must exist and
[therefore] therefore it is absolutely necessary 
that in seeking a seer those only sh'd
be chosen who can do it through Love and
interest not payment and servitude

May I again ask if the names of Spirits as
given to us have any spiritual signification - as
Ormu, Osmond, Osmo, Octavius, or if like Hebrew
proper names they have a certain meaning - are
Spirits as low.   Harnder  Hirschiel & others known
by those names in the Spirit World, or are they
only assumed upon their entering into Communion
& intercourse with man.

1913
7619   All Spirits are named from the 
highest to the lowest, they are known
to each other by those names, When
Inquring for a spirit to find him, You
must know his name, this is easily
done, I can scarcely explain to you
the Spiritual meaning of communicating 
with each other. but I can give you
a slight idea of how the names of all
Spirits are known to each other  
     There are a stated number of Spiritual
Sounds - that is not Sounds as heard 
by Man with the Ears, but distinctions

/ Now the C A. looks at you as tho puzzled /

1914 
7620  of peculiar actions, These actions
have so many vibrations, answered
different and Each vibration is a set
of names in some way corresponding 
     You have again to go through these
and you can distinguish the Spirit

56

You want by the stoppage of the 
sound if I may so call it at the 
particular name

The formation of the name tells you 
were they belong - when they have 
risen to that state, their merits in so 
doing and their means of Communicatn. 
with other Spirits at al times, you 
can then find them

You once informed me that many Spirits were 
known by such names as Evans Constantine 
[Osmond?], Mohamed Ali - & others may I ask 
how they [desired?] those names.

7621 1915 Those names belong to deceased mortals 
those given by spirits or angels never 
embodied are the same to themselves 
as to man that is of the same 
meaning

I have Commented with Joseph 
Balsamo and he has informed me 
that he is willing to place before you 
accounts of him existing upon earth 
any time after the beginning of October

Mohamed Ali will appear at 
any time not interfering with his 
peculiar views and feelings on religion

As Mohamed Alis' peculiar views are necessarily 
unknown to me I must request him to fix 
the times, most agreeable to him.

1916 7622 He will never appear to you from 
Sunset on Wednesday till Sunrise 
on Saturday.

I can then call him without interfering with 
your more valued visits should I call him

57
in any Oval mirror

1917
7623  Yes.
he has very peculiar and very firm
views on some religious points they
have kept him back,  when he might
have risen, they are wrong but they
proceed from ignorance of the right
not from any thing ill, I can 
recommend him to you in confidence
of his sincerity and truth.

I ret Thanks
1/4 past 9. PM.
                        In OB
abt 3'    Invoked Osmo
Now he's come in white, no wings, rather short
hair parted down the Middle, coming down just
below the ears and [burns?] under.  light brown
hair - girdle and stones round the collar or
neckband of his dress, rather thin face & no
whiskers
Will you [?] &c

7624  A I A

I explained my motive in Calling & asked if he
would appear in the OB.  until Mr Cale obtained
a Crystal.

7625  This one is good for it
I am willing to appear to any that
can see me.

As Mrs Cale is very nervous, will you kindly
endeavor to develop her faculty of seeing

7626  I will appear as plain as I 
possibly can.
I can do no more.  

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Do you wish to be called at any particular time

7627 I prefer Tuesdays at 8 o Clock.

When the sitting is over how had he best dispose 
of the Water.

7628 It does not signify what you do with 
the water when the spirits have 
disappeared

Would a hazel rod held in her hand assist her

7629 No.

What are your duties in relation to Mr Cale as his GS.

7630 They are many and various, they all 
tend to his benefit

do you hold the same views of the N.T. as my GS.

7631 I have but one belief, it arises from 
Knowledge, through Jesus Christ 
and through his intercession alone are 
mankind redeemed

Have you any advice that I may give fr you to Mr C.

7632 He must use the same form as you 
do. I have no advice

Now he's going 

Will you request Mr Anderson to appear.

7633 It is too late for him to appear to 
Night.

1/2 past 9.

In OB

Called Mr Anderson

Now he's Come, he's dressed in blue Military Coat 
buttoned up tight and belt round, stripes down 
his Trousers, & [?] Cap

7634 Good Evening Sir. These are my very 
best cloathes -

[?] very good tho' rather old

he turns up the sleeves & Elbow -

On the Friday following I [?] [?]o [?] Hill.

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Osmo sd. it was too late for you to appear but I 
ventured to call you - what did I tell you when 
I appeared in your Crystal

7635 You very Civilly answered all my 
questions - do you intend inspecting 
on Tuesday Evening

Yes if it is agreeable to my Seer

7636 I think I had better appear then 
& stay longer as it is now so late

he turned round on his heel and was out of sight in a 
moment. - 5'

[?]die Sept. 1855

Invoked the CA.

I mentioned how unwell I had been & was & asked 
If I should try Homeopathy or go to Dr Elliotson

1918 7637 Dr Elliotson I have desired you to go 
there before I think it still more 
desirable now

I trust you will soon be restored to health

1919 7639 I will make one remark before leaving 
which it is unnecessary you should 
trouble to take down.

1920 7639 You have many time spoken to me of 
the bad vision of Mr Leas Wife, I am 
certain that it will never get any 
better and I think that through being 
often called and no one present being 
able to see and from several other 
things Connected with it, the spirits 
that would have otherwise appeared 
have forsaken his mirror, I am

60
unwilling that any chance should go
by of aiding any one who would
seek Communication by this means
therefore I would willingly appear
myself again in his mirror to ans.r
any questions that he might wish
and also to give his niece the Chance
of Seeing --
     After this I think all will have
been done that can aid him, and
therefore I do not wish you to invoke
any spirits at all at his house, I do
not wish you to mix yourself at all
with him in Spiritual Affairs.

I explained that our many years friendship had
induced me to do all I could to aid him in these
matters.

1921
7640  Yes, but after this I hope you will
not again invoke for him.

I returned thanks
If any &c

1922
7641  I have not this evening
I will if you wish it give you the
preface next Tuesday, It is not at all
desirable that you should study when
you are so unwell.

The CA left.  13' to 9.


(a) Though better, I was still very unwell & the responses came
extremely slow. & some reading came here and vanished
again immediately -- the CA still standing there.

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[Mars symbol] die 11 Sept 1855   C.A Mirror
1/4 to 8 PM   Invoked the C.A
5'
I went on Sunday to Dr Elliotson but found he would
not be at home for 3 weeks.— I will go when he returns

1923  
7642
do so, I am anxious that you should
have his advice

As to the letter received from Miss [Andrews?]
1924
7643
If she uses the discharge for Spirits
She would Clear it of all that have
hitherto appeared
She had best then call her own guard'n
Spirit and on his appearance strongly
exorcise him she can then get his
promise that nothing Evil shall appear
being able to see herself calling for
her GS. will be sufficient strongly
desiring to see him without using
any name.

As to GR's preface & the review which I read.
1925
7644
The publication of a book entitled
"What is Faith. has called forth
the attention o a deeply anxious &
enquiring mind — The author of the
following pages is is Convinced that the
[d???ing] faith is a greater or more
stable religion than that founded on
Nature or relied on by the Church
(a)
Feeling of deep regret for the misery
of those who are led by GR to believe
as he believes for misery indeed
must it be when even hope of obtaining
happiness is denied—and a faith

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beyond knowledge, but in the hands
of God the weakest endeavors are
successful where Truth & Sincerity
are the only motives, has induced me
to become an. Author that would havE
otherwise remained obscure.

May I ask the Cause of the responses coming so slow
7645 1926 No answer.

As to going to Mr Lea's on Friday
1927 7646 I am willing to appear in his mirror
It is my wish to do so, once more
I am anxious to do this for the reason
that the spirits which Mr Lea [show]
desires should appear, perhaps without
your knowledge will when you are
invoking others in his mirror appear
there is no one there sufficiently well
Able to see their appearance, or to read
what they may say — They are able
to follow you and mix themselves with
the visions that appear[s] in your
Mirrors + Crystals —
It is almost needless for me to
say that this must be avoided, to do
so you must after my appearance in
his mirror givE up all spiritual
investigation with him
I know of something connected
with Mr Lea and spiritual investigating
that makes me afraid unless he can
procure some one who can plainly
distinguish the visions that do appear
in his Mirror when Called or Else
givE ovEr invocating any other than

Mr Ormerod & Mr Moseley

63
his Guardian Spirit - that Guardian
Spirit will leave him, and instead of 
having a good one he will have one
decidedly Evil
     Knowing him as you do  so well do
you think that I should tell him when 
I appear that I know this to be the 
case.

I explained

1928   7647   I did not mean that he would willingly 
harm others, but he will harm himself 
As I know that he uses his Mirror
to say the least very indiscreetly, I
shall tell him that he must only use 
it to obtain knowledge of Truth and
good

If any

1929   7648  I have not

The C A left  10' to 9.

♂︎die  18th Sept. 1855    C. A Mirror
8PM                   Invoked the C A.
Mr H E Ormerod and friend have done me the favor of 
being present  this evening, as investigators of 
this recondite subject it is desirable they should 
be placed at the outset in the one coveted path
that of truth,  may I ask some questions in
their behalve.

1930   7649   I will answer them. 

Will Mr. H.E.O. be able to see in the Crystal, or
if he has the faculty latent will he be able 
to develop it 

1931   7950   His friend present will be able to 
see   /              see but not himself.

64

May I ask the name of Mr. O's Gaurdian 
Spirit

7657 1932 Castoria

of what order or sphere

7652 1933 He is a spirit of the sun

was Castoria ever embodied or has he 
dwelt on this earth.

7653 1934 He has not

Will Castoria be pleased to appear this 
evening

7634 1935 He will

Will you please to inform me the name
of Mr. M Morely's Gaurdian Spirit

7655 1936 I will enquire

When will you give me his name

7656 1937 Next Tuesday evening

Will Mr. M. be both able to call and see also

7657 1938 He will

As in the reply to "What is truth" I 
have stated my opinion that the same 
faith cannot be given to the old as to the 
New Testement may I at some future 
evening ask your views of those books seriatim

7658 1939 I have several times given my 
opinion upon the whole 
I think it unnecessary to [?] 
it individually.

I will then place my question another 
way, the 4 books written by the evangelists 
containing the actual words of our Saviour 
altho' written by unlearned men, yet those 
men were the immediate conpanions 
and disciples of our Lord and their writings 
are therefore to be received unreservedly

65

as inspired writings - but a great portion 
of the new Testement consists of the writings 
of St Paul who was not only a Jew deeply 
versed in [blank] Learning but also strongly 
imbued with the platonic philosophy 
of his time, and consequently differ in 
many points from the doctrines given 
in the gospels - now as in all human 
probabily Paul never even saw Jesus in 
the flesh, are his writings and the 
doctrines contained therein to be 
recieved as equally inspired and equally 
authentic with the gospels.

1940 7659 They are not

Jesus Christ above is the founder 
of the divine religion none 
others are entirely pure and 
true.

Your answer gives me reason for asking 
your views of the Canonical Books of the Old 
Testement individually because when 
we take the book of the Law as given by 
Moses and find in it so many things 
utterly repugnent to our feelings - and 
to our ideas of the God of purity and 
truth, so opposed to the doctrine taught 
in the new Testement we are led to 
doubt its divine inspiration the more 
so and indeed chiefly - because we 
find that the Law which is given with 
such singular minuteness even upon 
repulsive subjects - by Moses can be traced 
from what we know Zabaism or Sabianism 
to be merely rites and ceremonys as

66

nearly as possible opposed to the rites and 
ceremonies of the idolatrous nations 
around them - so that we may pretty 
clearly ascertain the formula of Zabiasm 
by a [contraiely?] to those found in the 
Law of moses, thus giving a reason 
for presuming the Law was a human 
not a divine code.

1941 7660 There is no part of the Old 
Testament written under 
divine inspiration 
some part was written by 
Prophets and wise men, 
but not even the Law which 
Moses lays down was recieved 
from God.

May I ask if you then can tell me why, 
Roman and Protestant Catholic priests 
should so strenuously believe the Plenary 
Inspiration of the old Testement when 
the Jewish priests reverance their Mislina 
German or Talmud more highly than 
even the Old Testement.

1942 7661 Men will not [evestigate?] Religion 
in the same manner as they 
do other subjects. If they receive 
one communication it is not 
because they have dissected 
it and find that they can 
believe in every part, but 
they receive the whole as 
a belief - when in truth they 
have only faith in some 
part. 

1943     
It is so with the bible, men educated to believe in that book at all and especially those whose education is to become a profession take it unreservedly and entirely, and believe that if one part is removed one stone misplaced the whole [?] of their Faith [?] fall.
W,, O, Is it wrong or sinful under any circumstance to compel a mirror or Crystal for information for solely good purposes. 
1944
There is not
No harm can come of that where Arrily towards man is untended and obedience to Almighty God as the only giver of all good is sincerely acknowledged.
W,, O, should I do well apply for help when in religious difficulties on point of faith.
1945
When he has had with [?] I and feels a reliance on him it would be well that he should trust him with all his troubles and misgivings in all religious subjects. He will be aided by his guardian [?] through doing this, in his researches after religious


66

Truth

FH, May I here ask if Hunder had continued 
my GS I should have recieved 
the same views of Christianity as I have 
through your being my GS.

1946 7665 He would have either done 
so or pointed out to you the 
means of obtaining conviction 
other than by his means.

Mr. O. Has the G S you mention always 
been my G S.

1947 7666 He has, if you desire it he 
will appear himself this 
evening or any other evening 
he will be able to tell you 
more of himself than I should

Mr. O, Is a persons G S always devoted 
to his best interests

1948 7667 Spiritualy the intersts of 
the man are the interests 
of the G S, for after the death 
of the mortal, the Gaurdian 
Spirit and the soul make 
the immortal body, 
therefore it is his sold object 
to procure for that mortal 
happiness hereafter 
He also desires that happiness 
and goodness should reside 
with his charge on earth, 
to obtain this he watches and 
prays, and gives him if he 
cannot do so by outward 
directions, by inward conviction

69

and the promtings of his heart his 
advice and counsel.

W. O, Am I right in supposing from 
what you have told me that the 
suggestions of conscience correspond 
with the inward advice of our GP.

1949 7668 It does

The innate sense of right and 
wrong which man in every 
capacity and under every 
circumstance feels, may be 
relied on, and if he acts only 
from his innate sense of right 
and truth, then he fulfills 
the wishes the desires, the 
promtings of his GP.

Mr. W. M, - A lady friend of Mr Moselys 
having inspected an unconscerated 
crystal belonging to him, has been ever 
since much annoyed by noises and 
rappings, can you tell him how to 
remedy it.

1950 7669 The Crystal must be discharged 
strongly discharged.

If Mr. M. lets me have the crystal shall 
I discharge it, and will you give me a 
Talisman for her to wear.

1951 7670 I will do both, I will discharge 
the crystal, and if she is 
desirous that the sounds 
cease, I will send her a form 
by which she can dismiss them

Mr. O. Are the spirits who disturb her good 
or evil.

70

1952
7671  Rapping is caused solely by
evil spirits or by those wandering
upon the earth.

She imagines it is caused by a person
who had magnetized her, was she under
his influence.

1953
7672  She was not if that person was
still living.

Mr. Mosely has unfortunately left his
crystal, in the hands of a very young
person, and he is afraid now that some
harm may arise to her, can you inform
me how to prevent it.

1954
7673  In investigating these subjects
the greatest caution should 
be taken.  no good can ever
from any crystal, or from
any mode of communication 
with spirits where man only 
relies upon himself and
the spirit he has to deal with
He must first consecrate it,
and then faith and trust
must be put in the Almighty
that no evil should come 
of it.

If Mr. Mosely this evening when alone
repeats earnestly the discharge will
that dispel them.

1955
7674  That may prevent harm from
happening, but it is not
sufficient to prevent visions

Mr. Moseley wishes to ask to what end
are these spiritual manifestations.

71

premitted now so universally to develop 
themselves upon earth.

1956 7675 I can only refer you to the 
new Testement, it there 
says that in the latter days 
before the one God shall be 
worshipped with his son and 
the Holy Ghost, great wonders 
shall arise, before the fallen 
angel is in bondage for a 
thousand years, he would 
seem to have greater power, 
and I trust as I am certain 
that this manifestation so 
universally of his power is 
only the last spark of his 
expiring greatness.

Many of these spirits appear to preach the 
doctrine and divinity of Christ ([?] Mr. 
Harris) can these be the doctrines of evil 
spirits, or are some good and some evil

1957 7676 There are none good, the means 
which are used to make man 
evil, are not those always 
which seem to him the 
worst, and by leading him 
on to believe in his own 
goodness, he makes him 
worse than he would other 
wise have been.

Many of the Spirits who comunicate 
with Mr. Harris, preach the fall of man 
and [?] Salvation through Jesus 
Christ - what spirits are these.

72

1958   7677  They are there who would afterward
preach of their own power to 
do that which they begin 
by asserting God alone can
do.

We were here debating the subject amongst
ourselves when there appeared in the 
mirror 

1959   7678  I think that you misunderstand
me, I mean that those are
unlively evil spirits who communicate
by material means  those 
who make man sensible thr'u
his corporeal faculties of thier 
presence, shore who appear to 
him and communicate with 
him and only convince him
through his mind and his 
intellect, those are good and
truthful,

I returned thanks,

1960   7679  Should Mr. Ormerod be
to again attend I should be
pleased to communicate with 
him on any subject that 
he may desire,  his friends
Guardian Spirit a bill appear
next Tuesday - his own when 
I leave. .

The C A left.
20' to 10 PM.    Invoked Castoria
2'  Its cloudy theres someone coming  the robes
are white with pale pink border, wings, there

(note: this is a horoscope -  Transcribed going clockwise.  Note that the houses are not given in order.)
(starting at the middle top of the page) line says 20 degrees Aquarius.  Below that is Jupiter at 24 degrees 15 minutes and Retrograde
Next diagonal reads Scorpio 29 (degrees)
Next diagonal reads Capricorn 12 degrees
Moon at 7 degrees 11 minutes
Diagonal: 25 Sagittarius 48 minutes
Moon descending node (the weird U symbol) at 5 degrees 39 minutes
Diagonal reading Scorpio 7 degrees
Bottom right is Venus in Libra 14 degrees 9 minutes
Sun in Virgo 25 degrees 24 minutes
Diagonal is 20 degrees Virgo
Mercury at 13 degrees 19 minutes 
Earth at 17 degrees 25 minutes
Diagonal 20 degrees Leo
Mars at 10 degrees 59 minutes
Diagonal 29 degrees Cancer
Diagonal 12 degrees Cancer
Saturn at 29 degrees 31 minutes
Diagonal Gemini 25 degrees 48 minutes
Uranus 20 degrees 41 minutes (Retrograde)
Diagonal Taurus 7 degrees
Moon ascending node 5 degrees 39 minutes
Sign for Aries 
Diagonal Pisces 20 degrees.
INFORMATION INSIDE THE SQUARE
Imoted
Castoria
1 time
20'1 oro PM
12 Sept. 1855

73

A pink shade over it all,  light hair rather long 
wavy but does not curl, looks very young, has 
a girdle of Stones round the waist, very pale, the 
Eyes are closed  nothing on its head, and the wings 
are very much smaller than I ever saw before 
exorcised thrice

please to tell me Your name

7680  Astoria

Now theres a Capital C, come, Castoria 
please to show &c

7681 SS
I only remain a Spirit of the Sun 
for a short time and then go to a 
higher Sphere

MO. Are you my Guardian Spirit

7682  I am

Will you[r] remain[ing] my GS. when you have passed 
into a higher sphere

7683  I shall do so and I trust through 
that you will be placed right and 
improved in many ways

I have in my possession a Crystal in which 
some Extraordinary Visions have been seen  Can 
you tell me if I can rely upon their genuiness

7684  Being your Guardian Spirit, I 
should wish that Crystal dedicated 
to me and henceforth you can rely 
upon the Truthfulness and the goodness 
of the Visions if you invoke it 
rightly and exorcise all those who 
appear.

Shall I have any difficulty in obtaining a 
Medium

7685  I can tell you the next time I

[*74.*]
appear whether you can obtain the
immediately
Are you at present acquainted with my religious
opinions
[*7686*] I am acquainted with the tenor of your
thoughts
I will appear again [next?] Tuesday
that you may mention I will then
stay longer
10. PM.
[?] 25 Sept. 1855 Ca[?]
Invoked the [?]
I [?] if possible going to Mr Lea's  on Friday with
my Seer. Will you then kindly appear
[*7687*] [*1961*] I will appear in his Mirror when called
[?] to losing my Telesm[?] -
[*7688*] [*1962*] I will do so Certainly
Mr Morely has sent me his crystal, shall I
or will you discharge the Spirits [from?] it
[*7689*] [*1963*] Place it against the Seal
Held it then 2 or 3 minutes
[*7690*] [*1964*] It is done
The Guardian spirit of Mr Morley whose
name is pure must be called upon
first to appear in [it?] - It must be
dedicated to him and his and asked
to make those appearances after him
if good so plain and visible that
they may be understood by those
seeing them, this done and the
party invoking only with the desire
for such knowledge as is consistent

75
with his belief of goodness and his
knowledge of truth with a firm
invocation and strong exorcism, and a 
careful discharge cannot fail of success
When will it be convenient for PURE to appear
[7691*] [*1965*] He will appear this Evening
Is the name Pure of one or two syllables
[*1966*] It is pronounced as it is spelled
To those who are natives of England
[*7692*] Spirits speak solely in their own
language and to other nations the
same.
There lives in Paris a Gentleman called the
Baron du Potet[?] he is well known as a mesmimer
& I believe lays claim with True French Vanity - 
to having rediscovered the mysteries of Antient Magic
he takes pupils & has [?] a work at a very high
Price which he states contains important secrets
May I ask if you are aware of the Tenor of his
Studies & your opinion of them
[*1967*] I am aware of them, I have heard
Spirits in the Lower Spheres commcate
[*7695*] things to each other that have taken
place concerning him. he has power
with Spirits and he uses that power
as a means of profit to himself
He enters into Commcation with Spirits
that I have before mentioned beyond
those who travel upon the Earth and
bring h[?]ting knowledge from any
distant parts, from antient books in 
almost hidden stores to the party
who commcates with them [?] by
these Spirits means this Frenchman

[*76*]

Imposter brings forward as new things 
that are really existing in other parts 
at the same time

For his power over other men Mes'm. 
explains it, by this and something 
yet more simple Electro-Biology he 
influences mens mind, and makes 
those who enter into his system and 
place themselves under his Tutelage 
he makes them the means of obtaining 
his dishonest [Circlihood?]

Mr O. remarks that the Baron draws Magic Circles 
on the Earth. in different Colored Chalks. & Mr O 
wishes to know if he does this according to art, or merely 
to delude his pupils

[*1968 7694*] Circle magic is a very powerful means 
of detaining spirits when called 
for this purpose it is sometimes used 
by him, but the forms & figures which 
he sometimes makes use of are only 
a means of blinding those around 
him were one really present who 
understood the whole of magic by 
circle work they would easily detect 
his own ignorance of what he uses

As to calling the Barons A S. at some future 
time

[*7695 1969*] He will appear

Mr O. Is there any truth in the popular notion of 
the Devil, that is as a Superior Evil ruler over 
all other Evil Spirits

[*7696 1970*] There is an Evil power Existing the 
Antagonist of good, this Evil power is 
caused by the Fallen Angel 
There is not one Superior to the rest

77

Mr O. is there any truth in the popular belief, that
a mortal can bargain & sell his Soul to the Devil

1971  7697   Man may become so evil that even
while on earth, he is the same as Evil
Spirits and being the same he has the 
same power
     But there is no sin that cannot be
retrieved, the fallen Angel has not the
power to take away that which the 
Sole Almighty can give
     Allowing that he could do so it w'd
be giving to him greater power than
Man gives to God, because however
Evil man may become,  how perfectly
reckless and abandoned it is possible
for him to become, the Almighty has
the power to redeem him to Send
in his Mercy, his all pervading
Influence, His Holy Spirit, into
that Evil Mans heart that he might
become repentant and Live

1/2 past 9  I ret'd  thanks
If any advice &c.

1972  7698    I am very desirous that Mr Ormerod
should continue to investigate the
Mystery of these Subjects, being
certain that he denies only Truth
I feel certain that in Time these
Subjects will be so fully developd
to him that they will do him and 
through him, others great  & lasting
benefit
     If he too is [?] of continuing
his Investigations under the guidance

[Illustration]

Consecrated Crystal
to PURE
♂︎die 25th Sept. 1855
9 44 PM

78
of his own Guardian Spirit, it would be
well that he, Mr Ormerod , should
invoke  his GS. or any other that he
might desire   in one of your mirrors
I am perfectly certain that his
doing this he could not get mixed up
with any thing that is Evil, which
he might do were he to begin by using
a mirror or Crystal, the purport of 
whose previous use had been doubtful
     If Mr Ormerod wishes to invoke
his GS or other spirits here, it would
be best to devote any Friday Evening
for that purpose
     He can then put his own questions
and receive replies direct from them
I shall be very pleased to fall in with your suggestions
If agreeable to Mr O & my Seer

[*7699*] [*1973*] It is agreeable to all.
20 to 10 The CA left

16' to 10 PM  Consecrated Mr N Moseleys Crystal to
his Guardian Spirit PURE
                           Pine's Crystal
                       Invoked  PURE
4'  Theres something come in white with Wings
looks very young indeed,  I can see the feet
the hands and part of the arms are bare
very light hair Curls - rather a pale face
band of stones round the neck & round the
Wrist, a very pleasing Countenance, the 
eyes closed -- it is like marble

79
Please [?]o tell me your name

7700 Pure

please to show to

7701  A•A

Were you ever Embodied or dwell on this Earth

7702 I was not

To what sphere do you belong

7703 The Seventh Sphere

Will you please to preserve this Crystal consecrated
to you from all Evil apparitions

7704 I will do all that my power will
permit me to aid him

On what days do you wish to be called 

7705 I should like best to appear on 
Wednesday + Saturdays, this subject
requires to be guided by systematic
rules.

does it matter at what hour

7706 It does not.

do you know Mr Ormerods Guardian Spirit

7707 I am acquainted with his Existence

Have you any advice you may wish me to convey
to Mr Moseley on these subjects when I write to him

7708 Patience + Perseverance, a Strong Free will
and an Earnest desire for the object
he seeks are all that is required
to make him sensible of the advantages
that must arise from Spiritual
Investigation -

Wd it be advisable for him at first to call only 
Atmospheric spirits of his Friends

7709 He will not be able to see others until
he has seen me

At Limehouse
not in my rough MS vol 6
but entered up from the loose papers
at Mr Lea's

80

Have you any objection to appear in my mirror
If I request you
7700 I have not
If any further advice
7701 I have not
Pine left. 5' past 10 PM.

♀ die 28th Sept 1855, at Mr Lea's Limehouse
                                Lero's Mirror
7h.15            Invoked the C.A.
Agreeable to your kind permission we are now at
my friend Mr Lea's and I have called you in
this mirror dedicated to Lero. May I ask you
the questions he has prepared, or shall he ask
them himself
7712   1974 He had best ask them himself
Mr Lea took hold of my Seers hand & asked the 
following questions
Is there any means by which I could become a
Seer, if so and it is not unlawful in the eyes of
the Almighty - I earnestly wish to do so
1975   7713   All man'd can hold communion with
spirits - but seeing them depends
upon the brain being able to receive an
immense amount of Electricity, there
are few who have this power sufficient
to understand it,  You have it not -
that cannot be developed which is
not latent in you - you will never
see any thing, that is not visible
to the outward Eye.
Can you give me any instructions to know when a
person has the faculty of Seeing, so that I

Crystal Gems by
then temperment & Combine

[*81*]

might not uselessly call any good Spirit when there is 
no one to see them

[*1976 7714*] You can tell it by a persons temperament & if 
you are apply [cognoms?] by their countenance

[D Lea] Is it possible for me to strengthen my will so as to 
be able to surmount the difficulties, but here to I fear 
I have been too impatient & anxious.

[*1977 7715*] To surmount the difficulties that must 
attend Spiritualism to man on Earth. 
It is necessary to have a firm free will 
a firm reliance - and a persevering Courage 
with the unknown & mysterious bodies 
that you put yourself in Contact with 
No blind reliance on their power but a 
desire of Conviction of their Truth. of 
their goodness & their purity, through 
the greatest of mans blessing his 
reason and his intellect -

[D Lea] Is my Call sufficiently powerful or adapted 
for the purpose.

[*1978 7716*] The form of invocating that is used 
for myself is the best, none is good 
unless it calls upon the Spirit appearing 
in the name of the most High.

[D Lea] Is there any peculiar Efficacy in sitting due North 
& South when Invocating

[*1979 7717*] There is not, a moments reflection and 
it must seem to you, to be only made 
by those who wish to Envelop those 
magical formulas in mystery 
Time or Space habitation or position 
is nothing to the Spirit world from 
the Highest to the Lowest [who] have 
a seer's face buried in the ground I

[*82*]

I could appear perfectly as plain 
did I so desire it as in this mirror

If Mr Leas Niece [Matilda?] Might - places her hand 
in my Seers, will to inform me if she possesses 
the faculty of seeing - or has the faculty latent 
and capable of being developed

[*1980 7718*] I will remain while she inspects it 
I will also appear plainer than I 
otherwise do

Miss Might took hold of my Seer Miss Leigh's hand 
The C A became too dazzlingly luminous for 
Emma to look at steadily - the C A was in his 
purple Robes and it appeared to sweep in such 
immense folds that it appeared almost black 
& his Crown flashed with light, It looked like 
a pile of Gold Balls polished beautifully. - the 
Stones in the front of the robe - are as large as 
[oval drawing] - & when I asked if Miss Might would 
be able to See if she inspected a Crystal 
or ORB first the CA said

[*1981 7719*] She will never be able to communicate 
with Spirits had she been able to 
do so she would now see a very great 
change in the Mirror

Can it be ascertained if her Sister Elizabeth can 
See - without her being present

[*1982 7720*] It cannot

Now the C.As getting smaller

I explained how anxious I was that my friend 
Lea who like myself had been so many years 
devoted to Occult Science might obtain a 
Seer requested the CA to advise, the best 
means of Conducting this Enquiry

[*83*]

[*1983 7721*] I am sure that when a man desires 
to become master of these studies and 
cannot do so the interest becomes 
painful - It is also painful to those 
spirits whom he  calls when the 
mind of those desirous to see & commune 
with them are strained to the utmost 
and then he is obliged to leave without 
either having attained the desired object 
I have enquired amongst those At'c 
Spirits who are acquainted with Mrs. 
Lea and I find with regret that there 
seems no possibility of his being able 
amongst any of his present aquaint'es 
to find a Seer

[*1984 7722*] Still I am desirous that all 
those wishing to investigate, that which 
when received in Sincerity I trust, must 
make every man better more happy 
in this world and better prepared for 
the next - should have every means 
of obtaining Communion with Spirits 
I think it would be therefore best 
to confine his Invocations to this 
mirror and in trying to develop any 
persons faculty to call instead of 
his Guardian Spirit or the Spirit 
of any living or deceased person 
first locate Views of any thing 
he may wish such as a desire 
to see any distant place, any thing 
long past or far distant any thing 
known to himself & unknown to the 
person looking - and by this means

[*84*]

he will ascertain their power and at 
the same time furnish himself with a 
source of Interest & pleasure

I explained the difficulty Seers had in first losing 
sight of their own Image in a mirror & asked if 
the Crystal or OB would not be best for the purpose

[*1985 7723*] The mirror would be best for this reason 
When a party looks into a Crystal 
or Bottle of Water, they strain their Eyes 
for the desired object which makes them 
so tired and painful that it is 
impossible for them to inspect it long 
and they leave off just at the time 
that they would be beginning to see, 
Now in looking for Visions of a light 
and amusing Character, persons and 
Especially Ladies do not get tired of 
looking in Mirrors

In seeking to obtain the Visions here ment'd. is it 
desirable to use the Call in full or merely request 
the Spirit of the Mirror to allow a Vision &c

[*7724 1986*] That is sufficient

As to Mr Leas Legacy

[*7725 1987*] Could he buy an annuity with it. 
There are very few if any businesses 
in which money can be Embanked 
other than on Speculation

I think it would be best to ask 
his GS. this question, You can do so 
at your home.

Is it advisable that Mr Lea should be present

[*7726 1988*] It is of no consequence

1989. 
     Every man bears an Alter in his own heart, upon which
wherever he invokes it, in purity enthusiasm & Love. the
Truth of God descends. Conscience is sacred, it is free, But
Truth is one; and Truth may anticipate the time when
from the free conscience of enlightened men, beneath the
Truth of God shall be given forth a religious harmony
more mighty, more potent in Love & life, than any to
which humanity is yet leant Ear. --
                         Joseph Mazzini, The pope in The 19th Cent.y
                                                  London 1851.

“A man really feeling himself the Steward of Gods gifts will
be in a condition to meet the different perplexing questions of our
day honestly, earnestly, hopefully; ready to recieve all hints
respecting the best means of doing that which he is bound to
do, never dreaming that the means which were fittest for one
time must be fittest for any other, or that there is is any sense
in merely following the most admirable precedents.
                      Professor F D Maurice  MA.
                           'The Prayer book,' 19 Sermons in Lincoln's Inn
                                 1849.  p 242.

[*85*]

Myself & Mr Lea were discussing religious Subjects 
when the C.A. said (in the mirror) to Mr Lea

[*1989 7727*] You are anxious upon Religious matters 
Can you be Convinced of Truth. - 
Simple Earnest Truth by other means 
than your own Guardian Spirit will 
you receive with a Mind open to Conviction 
doctrines of Faith opposed to that 
you have before believed in, if you 
can do this, I can offer you a book 
Simple and plain, and yet in it 
is contained the Foundation of a 
Religion, the dawn of a happier 
day than has ever yet risen on 
mankind for in it is Contained the 
Religion preached by Christ, the 
doctrine approved of and sanctioned 
by himself, His Father & the Holy Spirit 
Combined, without priestly Craft 
without hypocrisy, without Idolatrous 
forms & Ceremonies, without any 
obligation of belief - The Heart of 
Man can offer that adoration and 
prayer to his Maker which is only 
acceptable to his sight - Will you 
read the answer to what is Truth 
and Seriously study it - You must 
be convinced that the only object in 
giving it is a desire to set before 
Man, the means of his attaining 
happiness, I have no other object 
in giving it will you do so

The CA's communication having ceased & he leaving our

[*86*]

discussion Emma said here is [?] reading Come

[*1990 7728*] If you believe in Jesus Christ you believe 
in the Godhead - the three persons in 
one God are inseparable - If you believe in 
Almighty God alone as one being, You 
cannot look up to him with a feeling 
of love or reliance upon his charity 
which you can do if you believe that 
he is so far interested in your welfare 
so actively engaged for your Eternal 
happiness that he sends his own 
Spirit part of his own being upon Earth 
to do that for you, to teach you 
immediately those doctrines, which he 
in his Mighty position above all could 
not seem to the mind of man to do 
In sending his Son upon Earth he 
gives man something tangible something 
real to hold to, whereas if he Closed 
himself in Mystery above mans Comprehension 
man could not know him, and feel 
his loving kindness as he would thro' 
the Almighty acting for him by 
being amongst him in his own form 
to minister to his Earthly Wants.

We have commenced our discourse & presently there appeared

[*1991 7729*] Man goes round the Subject he makes 
difficulties where they really do not 
exist - What can be more simple 
than the True Religion - if man 
would Calmly with a Calm mind 
and an Earnest desire or feeling of

[*87*]

Reverence & humility ask of the One 
Almighty God - his God - the Creator 
of the universe for men even in their 
double recognize one being superior 
to the [blank] when looking on the 
commonest things around them 
Pray to him, let your heart pour 
out its feelings - but not in Church 
not before other men - not thro the 
aid of priest - and as that prayer 
rises to your Maker, you will 
feel that you converse with him 
in his Glory, and having prayed to 
him for the aid of His [?] light 
for the promptings of his Holy Spirit 
seek then for wisdom upon earth 
And keeping him in view as the Sole 
object you are trying to obtain make 
those innate faculties within you 
the ones that are nearest to God. that 
make you above all other Creations 
your reason, your intellect, your 
power of Comprehension & your memory 
make these still in Subservience to 
[you] his will - the receptacle for all 
Religious Doctrines and you will 
find even if you glance over Every 
Religion of the Earth. The Idolatrous 
as well as the Civilized Countries, You 
will find that the only religion, the 
only belief that your heart will recieve 
and your innate Conviction of right 
Comprehend will be the redemption

[*88*]

of man through Jesus Christ, his Unity 
with the Father and their Spirit in 
your heart - You will then feel the 
force of the Words of Jesus Christ 
I and my Father are one - He that 
believeth in me shall be saved, You 
will have the Sure and Certain hope 
beyond all Knowledge of a life an 
immortal life of Eternal happiness 
beyond the Grave - You will look 
forward to that Grave as the beginning 
of a life that is indeed beyond mans 
finite Comprehension. [H?]

If any further advice

[*7730 1992*] I have not.

10' to 9 PM.

[?]die 2nd Oct 185. C.A mirror

Invoked the CA

9 PM.

I rel'd thanks for the C.A's appearance at Mr Lea's - & asked if 
I sh'd read the preface

[*7731 1993*] do so

I read it & asked if it met the CA's approval

[*7732 1994*] It does

You mentioned on [?]die that Seers could be told by 
their Temperament & their Physiognomy - as there 
exists so much diversity in Tempt. & Physiognomy in 
those whom I personally know possess the faculty 
may I request your further elucidation

[*7733 1995*] All who have the power of Seeing have 
a similar expression of the Eyes 
By Temperament I meant their Negative 
Electricity

[*89*]

As to a shorter mode of Electro-Biologizing

[*7734 1996*] No Answer

Repeated the question

No Answer

I explained

[*7735 1997*] I understand your question 
I know of that which you ask for but 
I cannot answer it 
I wish that you would make another 
Seal. that I might impregnate it with 
my influence 
Electro Biology is at all times very 
objectionable 
To be able to control a person's mind 
instantly would be even more so.

I gave a further explanation

[*1998 7736*] I do not desire to convince those people 
who without understanding any thing 
strenuously oppose it. 
Were you to Electro Biologize her (Mrs. Clemson) 
she would feel herself under the influence 
of it for a short time, then she would begin 
to doubt it - and she would End by 
being as obstinately incredulous as before 
If you did Convince her no possible 
good could come from it.

As to the method of Crossing Nervous [?] [?] doloreux 
Toothache &c

[*1999 7737*] Mesmerism used solely as a creative 
agent is a great blessing 
Electro-Biology cannot have the same 
effect in curing pain 
I have given you my answer to the same 
question often before - you have desired

90
to serve others when suffering, but I say
that it is not necessary , that it is not
desirous — it is even dangerous that you
should do so.
There are other remedies as Effectual
as those you Could offer to your [?]
and should mesmerism to any extent
be needed there are places, where that
mesmerism can be givEn by those Competent
to do so.
By troubling yourself as you do
so needlessly about others, you worry
and agitate your mind, and make 
yourself anxious and ill in trying to do
others good
I am thankful that I havE at
least the Chance of presenting your
doing Yourself harm for the imaginary good
of others. and being your guardian
I have only the desire of your good
here and hereafter.
As to the Continuation of The Vision
2000
7738
If you desire it you can do s next
Tuesday Evening
I shall have pleasure in Showing it.
AS to speaking to us addressing any one to the vision
2001
7739
do not address it while it is present
You can ask any question after it is gone
May I ask if [?] will appear this [?] if Called
[774?]
2002
She will appear
When I may receive the rest of Balsamos' Life
2003
7741
It is Convenient for you to havE it
Now as soon as you desire to Call it

[*91*]

Will the memoir be placed before us in English

[*7742 2004*] Yes, it would be useless in any other

Can we see Mr Anderson this Evening

[*7743 2005*] You can call him probably he will 
Appear.

Since I last ment'd the Subject of the War, the 
Allies have taken Sebastopol. notwithstanding 
your former responses to which I pay great respect 
& deference, I cannot alter my opinion that this War 
is a Curse entailed upon Mankind by Kings & priests 
[?] of freedom [?] despotism - but of balance 
of Power - It seems to be [inconcernable?] - the - priests of 
each state are Ever ready to hound them on. [Even?] 
[forecast?] in making the Symbol of Peace - "The banner 
under which Madmen assemble to glut the Earth 
with blood" - it has been Estimated that 500,000- 
men have been sacrificed -

[*7744 2006*] Since the Sun last rose a deep gloom 
a sadness we cannot dispell has 
passed over the Spirit world. - 

We have received 10,000 men 
murdered for it is nothing Else with 
the hands of their fellow mortals 
[with the hands of their fellow m]

Although to them, many of them 
who died in Ignorance & Crime, this 
untimely death tho' so frightful is a 
blessing for through the mercy of God 
it saves them from punishment 
from misery that they might otherwise 
have suffered - still it seems very 
very frightful to those, who pure 
in Spirit - Knowing only Love and 

92

7744    Charity, desiring only peace, truth and 
Goodness - and to instil the same 
principles into the heart of man 
It seems to them very frightful that 
men cannot receive the bounties of Creation 
shed alike all over the Earth. without 
warfare and strife -
     That he who begins the quarrel 
in an unjust cause should be defeated 
is necessary to the Strength & Welfare 
of those who would otherwise be peaceable 
but for the aggressor to believe that he 
is fighting for a right and his Enemy 
also to believe the same and to individualy 
call upon the Almighty to aid them 
one against the other is Blasphemy
     But not only this how repulsive 
it is to Almighty God that either when 
they have done the most harm, when 
they have slaughtered the greatest 
number of their Enemies, offer up 
thanksgivings to him, believing that 
he has fought for them. that he 
has strengthened their arm, and 
that his angels have fought in their 
ranks -
     They not only themselves exult in 
their Butchery, their bloodshed of 
thousands of those opposed to them and 
it is the same on [the] either side 
they absolutely thank the Almighty 
for his interposition in their behalf
     Surely man is blind in his 
ignorance - the Church and its whole

93
body of attendant living [?] have
not even the decency to show a Charity
towards mankind which they pretend
to have -- for they not only offend God
by thanking him for his Especial
favor, but rejoice among themselves, they 
dance and feast and ring their bells
when they hear that thousands of 
their Enemies  men have been cut off
at a moments notice from the life
that they enjoy. --

2007
7745  It is in the power of the Almighty
to at once stop this war by a special
providence - but it is not his will to
do so - there is so slight a difference
between the aggressed and the aggressor
that a decided victory on either side
would be unfair, but although he does
not stop it by his especial command
it is no more pleasing in his sight
He allows it, but he does not [?] it --
and allowing it he makes a recompence
to those -  poor people, who suffer by
it without distinction as to what
nation or religion they belong by taking
them to himself
     But will it be the same with those
who began this war and who in
their proud tyranny uphold it now 
one against the other.
     It weighs with a heavy sadness 
upon us. --


94

1/2 past 9              C A Mirror
                     Invoked Lero
Lero is here as before ( - Ex'd )
Mr Leas wife has unfortunately lost the faculty of 
seeing in the Mirror, do you know the Cause of it

7746   I do
She will never regain it

I regret to hear it, but if as the C.A informs me it is 
a physical property I cannot concieve how she Can 
irretrievably have lost it -

7747    No answer

Are you still the GS of Mr Lea

7748     I am

As to the Legacy.

7749   The sum being too small for him to 
make any certain gain by it at present 
it would be best that he should put 
it in Secure Keeping where a little interest 
would accumulate.
     In all probability his profession 
will give him a good living for many 
years to come, should he live -
      Should that then fail him he 
would be able to have recourse to this 
money - I think it therefore advisable 
that instead of using it in any way 
he should put it in the Bank

Can you give him any advice as to his Spiritual 
Manifestations in his Mirror or Crystal

7750    I cannot 
I will do all I can to aid him

have you any advice you wish me to convey to him

7751   I have not

95

May I ask you to favor me with a Seal for him 
to place ag't his Mirror when Invoking, such 
as he one he C A favored me with

7752   I have no Seal Now.

If I have occasion to call you on my friend's 
behalf at any future time, will you kindly appear

7753    I will

1/4 to 10   Called Mr Anderson
                    No Vision

♂︎die 9th Oct 1855.          The C A Mirror
                           Invoked the C A.
1/4 past 7 PM.
I have made another Telesm.  will you animate 
it according to your kind promise

2008   7754   I will do so if you put it against the 
Glass

The C A placed his hand upon it

2009   7755    It is done.

When will it be Convenient for us to have the continuat'n 
of the Vision

2010   7756    It will appear when I leave.

As very much confusion arises in argument from 
the different latitude given to the meaning of certain 
Terms which ought at the outset to be well 
defined - may I ask you for a definition of your 
View, of the strict meaning of the Words Inspired 
and Inspiration as applied in the Scriptures

2011   7757    When I say men wrote by Inspiration 
I mean under the Sole influence 
and guidance of Almighty God
     Not mans [?] Ideas and 
the Almightys Suggestions combined

96
but man being powerless is the instrument 
by which He speaks or writes

Then every word so written or uttered would be 
Perfect.  Truthful and Divine

2012   7758   If a man is inspired at all it is not 
partially, he is wholly and entirely 
at the time being the Instrument of 
Gods Communion with other men. - 
therefore if he is Inspired at all, that 
[information] inspiration is GOD's and is 
perfect.

7759   But there is another Class 
There are those who act and write under 
Spiritual Influence - this must in no 
way be confounded with Inspiration 
     This is an Influence [over him] with 
man not a power over him and the 
Spiritual suggestions are mixed with 
his own Ideas and formed in his own 
Words and it mixes things which are 
perfectly right with those which coming 
from man alone are Erroneous.
     Now this Influence does not come 
from God but from his attending Angel 
and it is so ordered that man in his 
intercourse with them while he recieves 
their suggestions and their Influence 
does not yield his own reason and 
his own power as he does to Gods.

One is Spiritual Influence the other 
Divine Inspiration

[*97*]

I explained at length, my limited Time had prevented 
my completing my Fair Copy of my MS. & consequently 
the Index - which rendered me liable to ask or rather 
repeat questions which I had before proposed &c

[*2013 7760*] You have, I would not willingly ans'r. 
at greater length any question that you 
have asked, without being satisfied -

If you ask other questions which I 
have before answered in the same way 
as I must do again, then I have always 
& will continue to tell you that I have 
answered them before.

Was alphabetic writing - that is the art of connecting 
and recording [the] Ideas by letters. a Spiritual 
gift or discovered and Invented by man & perfected 
thro' a long series of years - Is there in the 
Spiritual World - sufficient knowledge of the past 
& present actions of Man - to ans'r. that question

[*2014 7767*] There is a Knowledge of all the Concerns 
of Man.

A Knowledge of the Art of Writing is 
proved even by this Appearance but 
it was invented by Man.

It must have began almost in the 
beginning for man naturally desires a 
means of communication with others 
Adam communicated by his fingers, he 
made sounds & with them Gesticulations 
to distinguish one from the other

Having made these figures with his 
hands to denote his sounds he 
represented them by shadows on leaves 
and then [?] them out - and thus 
the first man communicated with his

2015
     The Babylonish Talmudists, with Jerome & Origen [?]
the change in the Hebrew letters to Ezra; but neither in the
Book of Ezra nor in Josephus do we find any mention of
such a transaction --
     It is probable that the most antient books of the old
Testament were originally composed in the old phonician
alphabet of which vestiges have been found in various parts
of Western Asia & Northern Africa & which in some respects
resembled the inscriptions upon the [?] of the Asmonean
Princes --                  J. S.  Porter  principles of Textual
                                           Criticism

In whatever way we explain the Legend [?]  Ezra after the return
of the Jews from Captivity [?] out the Old Test:  in the Chaldea
Character, its truth cannot be maintained --
                                   Dandions Lectures  p 306.  

[*98*]

descendants - From these leaves figures 
began to be just [born?] & afterwards cut 
from skins and then from [men?] and 
then Stained with Colors.

May I ask if Moses wrote his first 5 Works in 
Characters in some degree resembling the present 
Hebrew or Chaldee.

[*2015 7762*] He did

The Hebrew Language has not undergone 
So many Changes in the generations 
that it has passed through as others

In Genesis 2nd. verses 19 & 20 Moses records that Adam 
named Every beast. of the Field & Every Fowl of the 
Air - and whatsoever he called them that was their 
Name - how Hebrew names signify also their 
peculiarities and this would show a profound 
Knowledge of Language. in Adam Eve he had 
Even a helpmate to speak to.

[*2016 7763*] It is wrong

It shows its Error on the face of it, 
It would be impossible for any man 
at the present time [?Emliged] as he is 
with a Knowledge of Every variation 
of Sounds in the Language to give 
names Successively to as many 
Creatures as there are living upon 
the Earth.

How much less then could Adam 
do it, who had only just been Created 
just awakened to Life - without any 
power any Knowledge, Even of the 
things existing around him

And it could not be the Almighty 
that uttered the names of his creation

[*99*]

through Adam, for why should he 
Ask Adam to do it, himself being 
the only listener. - if Adams words 
were only to be his own will.

Am I then to conclude that some portions of the 
Books of Moses - were already composed, others merely 
oral Traditions handed down during the lengthened 
lives of the Patriarchs - and that Moses collected 
arranged & wrote under Spiritual influence

[*7764 2017*] It is so.

Notwithstanding your kind & Esteemed Communications 
my Knowledge of Spiritualism is indeed as 
nought. - having seen in our mirrors & Crystals not 
only our present Roman print - various autographs 
of individuals - French German. Hebrew and 
Hindoo [?] - may I ask if there exists in the 
Spirit World - a Correct Copy of the Gospels as 
written by the Evangelists - or is there only 
a Spiritual Knowledge

[*2018 7765*] There does - Every spirit has a 
Knowledge of the life of Christ - his 
teachings - his words upon Earth 
and his inspiration over others & 
through them his words again

This is all that is important 
to know and this alone makes the 
Bible a holy book. - it is with that 
as with the City

Jesus Christ was asked whether 
[that?] a whole City would be saved 
if in that City only one believed and he 
said -

For the sake of that one the whole 
shall flourish and for the sake of

[*100*]

of the Sons Life and Counsel is the 
whole book Countenanced by God

May I read to you the first 13 verses of the 
1 John 5 to see if they agree so far as translation 
will admit [do so] with the original

[*7766 2019*] do so

I read them

[*2020 7767*] The sense is the same 
It is a beautiful Chapter and on 
that alone might be founded a 
Religion greater than any ever yet 
recognized by Man.

I have selected these verses because they Contain in 
verse seven. a passage the Originality of which 
has been vehemently disputed so much so that 
a Bishop of the Church of England in his 
Lectures on the Integrity of the New Testament after 
bringing forth all the Arguments which his great 
learning & [attainments?] enabled him to do, says 
If that verse is genuine all his Arguments fall 
to the ground. - may I ask if these words 
are the Genuine or an interpolation accidental 
or otherwise -

"For there are those that bear record in 
Heaven, The Father, the Word and The Holy Ghost, 
and then three are one - "

[*2021 7763*] In the Original it was The Father 
the Son and the Holy Ghost.

I may then consider the Verse Virtually Correct

[*7764 2022*] It is

May I ask your View of the Quotations from 
the Old Testament which appear in the New 
the great Body of Christians arguing from that 
existence in the New Testament. - that they are alone

107
Sufficient [??idence] of the Divine [I????ation]
of the Old Testament.
2023
7770
In many places where parts of the
New Testament have ben found to
Agree with those in the Old , Notes
havE been made by those studying it
and it is their remark which is often
mistaken—for those who wrote the
New Testament without knowing that
the Old Existed, or rather knowing that
it existed without knowing all the
Doctrines that it contained.
and what ought to have been "see Isaiah"
as a marginal note is put
"as written by the Prophet Isaiah".
I was much [?] [a] the other Evening at my
two friends undecided views about the devil
altho' educated at Oxford the hotbed of Orthodox
Theology. may I ask your [?] of it =
2024
7771
There are few young men that havE firm
opinions on religious subjects — but
their opinions are known to their 
Guardian Spirits
I am really desirous that Mr [?]
should be [?] of the Truth
firmly Convinced of it, because I am
certain that being Candid + honest
he will in afterlife when he can boldly
proclaim his opinions have much
opportunity of doing good
His friend has been while too
Young under very bad guidance
his nerves havE been dreadfully
shattered — his mind wEakened — and


[*102*]

his whole existence deprived of Energy 
and strength through the Juggling 
of that French Impostor.

I intend the first spare time I can get, to write 
to him upon the Subject - to soothe his over excited 
passion for these Subjects - Can you give me any 
advice that wd be beneficial to him

[*2025 7772*] I think the only remedy that can 
be given, will be given him by his 
Guardian Spirit 
did he struggle with it he might in 
a great measure overcome it.

As I do not wish in any way to interrupt your 
valued Communications on Tuesdays can I receive 
the Memoirs of Balsamo on a Friday

[*2026 7773*] It can be given on a Tuesday Evening 
after I leave.

I explained my wishes

[*7774 2027*] I will enquire

If any advice

[*2028 7775*] I have not this Evening, I heartily 
wish you well until next Tuesday 
Evening 
I shall then have a Communication 
to make with you with increased 
pleasure

before I see you again I shall have entered an 
another year of my Life.

[*7776 2029*] I had intended then to speak on it

I returned thanks

10'. to 9 PM.

103

♂︎die  9'h  Oct. 1855. 6' to 9 PM.
                  The Vision Continued

7777
Now there seems like water coming - yes its all water 
I see it more, I dont see the surface I look thro' 
it as as tho it filled the whole mirror - I appear to see a 
great way, It was rather thick, now is getting clearer 
Now I can see the bottom., sand pebbles shells 
Now the water beautifully clear, theres little long 
specs all [falling] - colours darting about; they 
appear to dart up and down & right across as fast 
as possible they dont look alive they are like 
specks of Colored sand darting about, some yellow 
violet, pink, green, grey - .
     Now a few of the pink ones have come 
together in the middle and make one large one 
some more pink ones come round it, making 
it larger now all the pink ones are are there. it seems 
to draw all the pink ones from amongst the 
Rest,
     Now the Green ones are going round 
the Pink, outside the pink, they dont mix but 
cover the pink all round, like a coating all over 
All the green ones are gone to it - & surround it.
     Now the Grey Specs are going - now 
all the Grey Specs are going they are all round
     Now the Yellow Specs are going - 
they are gathering all round & its all Yellow 
It is an oval - & all yellow.
     Now. theres thick white Streaks 
going up the Water, towards it. the streaks went 
about, and spread. out larger & then Smaller 
the yellow ball moves about. the white streaks 
seem to blow it about, it gets nearer the top

and the white streaks get longer, it looks like                  104
[loud?] blowing it up as like foam its getting nearer
the top - the white now looks like froth. Now
I don't know whether its the water going down
or the ball and the froth going up, but I can't see
the bottom now. I think its the water going
down.
Now the water's changing color its
getting quite a green tinge on it now there's the 
Top of the water, and the waves, rough waves
Still the white froth seems pushing the
yellow ball along - blowing it upwards, as the
ball gets nearer the top it begins to change
its get[s] longer & smaller nearer the top. it begins
to change - larger in some parts than it is in
others towards one end it gets quite small
[toward one end it gets] and then there's a round
ball and at the other end it tapers gradually.
The white foam plays over it and in some places
seems to stick to it, it seems gradually getting
into a human shape, and the white stuff - 
makes the dress - I can see the hands and
arms now. All the white stuff! gone up &
now it comes down over the figure - it's rising
out of the water gradually getting upright.
Now the feet are on the top of the water and
its standing upright, I can begin to see
the features, these white things still seem to
group and the figure stands in front of the
froth., theres hair now on it's head the white
dress is fastened at the waist with [Hues?]
as though the pink specs had come out again
it has a beautiful face, blue eyes light lovely
hair the lightest of the yellow specks are

[*105*]

are the color of the hair, and the dress is 
the white Foam theres something coming in 
front of it - Oh its the Cross - it seemed to come 
out of it - its the grey Specks, its a grey Cross 
its getting larger - the feet are getting above 
the water, its more Transparent. like [them?] [steam?] 
its going right away, farther off, its getting 
smaller & smaller, theres the three Streaks of 
white one thats not but of the water & the moat 
top. its going away I can scarcely see them 
its gone out of the mirror - Its all [?].

The Vision lasted a 1/2 an hour.

[?]die 16th. Oct. 1855. C.A Mirror

Invoked the C.A

1/2 past 7 PM The C is here in white as usual.

[*2030 
7778*] I sincerely congratulate you on having 
entered another year of your life 
I trust that you will spend many in 
Peace of mind and happiness

I thank you may I ask some further questions

[*7779 2031*] do so

I have received this letter from Mr Ormerod which 
also contains some remarks bearing upon the Subject 
of my Questions.

[*7780 2032*] Read the letter

I read it.

[*7781 2033*] Before making any remarks upon 
his [letter] opinions. I will answer 
your questions. - 
The words of Jesus Christ that he 
brings to bear upon the Subject as

106
an Argument against your doctrine, he
seems to misunderstand
Jesus Christ fulfills the Law of the
Prophets—I have said that the Old
Testament , some portions of it are written
by men having the power of Prophecy
I do not mean to imply as did
Jesus Christ in that speech , that men
because they are prophets , must be
divine — if a man prophesy truly that
prophecy must be fulfilled
The prophets in the Old Testament
foretold that a Christ would Come.
Christ knew this prophecy and
he mentions it truth in that passage
Your responses has answered my first question may I
Remark.
2034
7782
He did not need divine inspiration being
himself part of God. and therefore part
of the divinity
He was not inspired as others are
I have before said that Inspiration was
Solely God writing or acting thro' a man.
May I ask you to define what constituted the Law
If it was not the 10 Commandments as given by Moses
2035
7783
Jesus Christ does not mean the Law
which Moses said he recieved on Tablets
of Stone.
He means the Law of God
If Jesus in these words alluded to the Law of the
Prophets. — and not the Commandments—did the
Jews his hearers so understand it.
2036
7784
Some understood it to be the Son of

[*107*]

Moses, Those who had immediate 
Communion with him. Knew that he 
meant the Law of God.

The Law which had been prophesied of 
and which was then laid down by 
himself

He says that he is come to fulfill the 
Law and the prophets - or rather he 
means that he came to fulfill the 
prophecy of the Law for no man could
prophecy of the Law of Moses for that 
had been given before the prophets 
lived.

Then my Inference is that the Prophets prophesied 
the coming of a Messiah & a new Divine Law, that 
Jesus was that Messiah and his doctrine the 
Law., which prophecy he fulfilled

[*7785 2037*] That is right

[Many] divines appeal to Matt. XXII 32 & 32 & Mark 12 [*XII*] 24 [*26*] 28 [*27*] 
As an indisputable Testimony of Jesus himself to the 
Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures.

[*7786 2038*] I cannot see that those words could 
lead any one to believe in the Divine 
inspiration of Moses. - he relates the 
fact that the Lord spoke out of a bush 
and Jesus Christ again mentions that 
fact and mentions with it that it is 
related by Moses

My remark more immediately - applies to the Declaration 
I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the 
God of Jacob"

[*7787 2039*] I misunderstood you, I thought 
that you spoke more of the fact 
of the Voice having spoken from 
the Bush.

108
2039
7788
Jesus Christ does there contradict the
assertion that his Father, one of the
Holy Trinity is the God of Abraham of Isaac
or of Jacob.

He and his father and Holy Ghost
are the God of the Living

Because all those dead for the time
being are dead unto them. they have no
need then of the Power of God or the
Influence of his Son,  until the time
again comes that they are answerable
for their earthly actions.

May I ask your view then of Luke 24/36 to 44

2040
7789
the Word ["Moses"] was not in the Original
To be a prophet it needs no inspiration
and I may here remark , that it is not
to the priesthood and the clergy or to
them who humbly call themselves
Divines that the answer to what is
Truth is addressed.

It is to those who by them have been
misled, I am perfectly certain that
they will persist in their doctrine were
all the angels in Heaven to war against
it— because by it they can bind men
by fear and lead them by Subjection
to their own great advantage

These men will argue & cavil and 
hold on by a straw to their darling
dogmas — forms & ceremonies. however
great may be the strength of the opposition

There is but one True doctrine of
Religion — All those who have passed
away from Earth know this, I know

109
it—and although the Arguments for &
against. they are nearly equal all the
different creeds may appear weighty to
Man and leave him in doubt at last
It is not so with me every Argument
given , even seeming proof against the
doctrine I have preached cannot in the
least shake my Knowledge of the Truth
and when I say there is but one True
religion , that religion is contained in
the answer to what is Faith. And is
Acknowledged by all who have passed
the boundary of Life — I feel that in all
Sincerity I have done my all.
I explained at length. may I ask your opinion &c
[?790]
2041
do so
Jno. Ch. 5-39. & 45=6-7
2042
7791
Jesus does not there make any Assertion
that Moses is in any way equal to
himself , he only there alludes to him
as a prophet , a man great with man
and noticed by God.
If you will dissect those passages
You will find that in none does he
Assert that Moses is greater than a
prophet.
Jno. 10. v 34.35
2043
7792
He alludes to those by whom he was
immediately surrounded, not those in
Ages gone before — The scripture he
Calls the record of his life
Matthew. 14
2044
7793
A Little word has there been put in
I am sent unto the Lost Sheep

[*110*]

of the House of Israel., it does not 
mean exclusively for them. this cannot 
have any weight against so many other 
passages, when he is declared to be the 
regeneration of mankind - The Saviour 
of all who believe in him, the son of 
God sent into the world to preach 
the Doctrine of Everlasting life, the 
Mediator between God & Man. He who 
promises that those who believe in 
him shall be cleansed and purified, 
even if their sins be as [?] they 
shall be as wool.

May I remark that in saying "the Necessity of a 
Saviour must be obvious to all. - It is objected by 
Mr Ormerod that it was not evident to the Antient 
[?] Philos'r. and was probably [not?] even to the Jews

[*7794 2045*] I meant that remark for persons 
now living

It has been observed that there are no hopes held 
out by Jews to those who have not the means. the possibility 
of believing, that they shall be saved, indeed it is 
one of the valued items of the stock in Trade of 
Itinerant Missionaries & their advocates. that the 
Souls of the Heathens are perishing

[*7795 2046*] They are no where denounced by him 
and if you believe that God is a 
God of Mercy, and of Justice & that 
he is allso all powerful can you at 
the same time believe that He has 
not made some provision for all 
those who have not been able to 
receive the Words of his Son.

It is with them as with those 
in far distant Lands where the Light

[*111*]

of Knowledge had never yet shone 
heated by God, and allowed by him to 
remain in ignorance they are recieved by 
him as sinless -

I returned thanks & while doing so Emma said here is 
more reading come

[*2047 
7796*] Mr Ormerod speaks of the indefinite 
form of Truth. Now it strikes me that 
many men ready to receive the true 
Religion, and feeling convinced of what 
is given in your book, may yet be 
unable to form a longer & definite 
form of belief from it.

Now instead of the one used by 
the Church of England, I would have 
another Substituted for it -

May I ask if you will favor us with it, now or next 
Tuesday Evening

[*7797 2048*] I will give it you now I have been 
led to this remark by Mr Ormerods 
that he does not think you have 
given sufficiently your opinions, Your 
belief that ha[s] led to so Null a View 
of the Truth.

[*7798 2049*] - There is one God - the Embodiment 
of all goodness, all Charity, all love 
the Creator of the Human race - 
Emanating from Him are His Divine 
Qualities - His influence, His Holy 
Spirit and His Son.

God has Angels in His 
Presence - perfect as himself in purity 
in Goodness, & in Truth. but unlike 
himself - neither All mighty, All knowing 
or All powerful - their Capacities are

Priests.
     “In the Church of Christ there is but one Supremacy,
but one sacrifice, but one priest; and he who believes this
antient, apostolic, Catholic, unchangeable tradition, is 
free of the Universe  calls no man master in religion 
and spurns away from him,.  calmly & courteously, yet
with bold and brave determination, any man that
would stand between him and his redeemer in the
Solemnities of his worship, and in the communion of 
his soul with GOD."
                   Eclectic Review 1851, 1/233

[*2049*]                                                                                                                         [*112*]
[*7799*]

are limited, his are boundless.

There exists an antagonist to all this 
Good in the shape of an Angel fallen 
from this High degree; He is the power 
of Evil, always at Enmity with God 
Always striving(?) to rule His Creation 
by gaining man, the greatest of 
Acquisitions over to him & Subservient 
to his Will.

This power of Evil becoming so 
strong it [is] was necessary that God should 
send into the World His Son to arm 
Man with a weapon by which he 
might defeat the power of Evil.

This weapon is his Word given 
by his son to Man in the New 
Testament - Having given that Word 
to Man as a sure passport in all 
after ages to Eternal happiness, he 
gives to man his mortal body 
returning as pure in Spirit as when 
he descended from God.

The two are again one and that 
Holy Spirit is still the [humain?] 
influence that is felt in the hearts 
of those who are willing to be 
Christian Men.

Through the intercession of His 
Son God saves those who believe in 
Him - but through his own Love 
and Charity to His Creation the Human 
Race, He saves others. -

[*113*]

[*2049 
7799*]

It is evident from his Word that I 
He never intended, for the Creation of 
Man was not an Afterthought. to 
allow his Creation to get so far 
under the influence of Evil as to be 
Everlastingly damned - He will 
punish those who have lived with 
utter disregard to Him as the Almighty 
Those who have acted wrong, when 
they might have acted right, those 
who knew they were doing wrong, 
those who were Conscious of their Sin. 
at the time of Committing it. These 
are punished, many lastingly but 
under no Circumstance whatever will 
everlasting punishment take place. 
The Almighty will show the power 
of good over Evil by taking at the 
last the whole of His Creation and 
gathering them[self] to himself as at 
the beginning - The World will be 
destroyed and with it the Tempters 
the Power[s] of Evil and all will 
know that Christ is

I ret Thanks

10 past 10 PM.

[To?]die 23rd Oct. 1855 CA Mirror
 
Invoked the C.A.

7.45 PM

I mentioned my Interview with Mr John 
[Anapaman?] as to [pubs?] "Echo"

[*2050 
8000*] You have 
I am desirous that it should be 
published, and I think you cannot 
do better than let him have it.

do you think it would be best to publish it as 
at present or as remarked by Mr Ormerod in

[*114*]

his letter "State my own Creed"

[*2051 8001*] The author of what is Truth repeats 
that [letter] question at the end of his 
book. I think it would be well in 
yours to furnish with that simple 
doctrine. it would at least leave no 
doubt of your opinions in the minds 
of those who read it.

Yesterday died Sir William [Mobigarth?] one of Her 
Majesty's Ministers & Secretary for the Colonies - in Early 
life he edited the Works of Hobbes, the father he 
might almost be termed of English Deism & of the 
Modern German [Phase?] of Faith - & latterly became a 
Convert to Spiritualism & Spirit Rapping May I 
Ask if we could see him in our Crystal at some future 
Evening, that is if agreeable to him.

[*2052 
8002*] He can appear willingly soon after 
death, it is advisable not to call 
him - indeed it is of little use when 
he has been deceased a long time.

I am aware of his death and I regret 
it, because he was a man of talent 
and he might have been a Christian

When will it be agreeable for us to see him.

[*8003 2053*] He can appear this evening

I will with Your &c call him in the ES. Crystal

[*8004 2054*] do so

May I ask if we can be favored with the continuation 
of the Vision

[*8005 2055*] I think there will not be time this 
Evening

In Aug't. 1829 Robert Taylor. a Clergyman of the 
Church of England. (or as he styled himself. "The 
Devils Chaplain" was confined in Oakham Gaol 
for publishing works opposed to Christian Doctirne 
that most probably [long?] [deemed?] the Easiest way

In consequence of the Revd Robt Taylor in 1826 publishing a paper 
entitled "Manifesto of the Christian [Evidence?] Society". Dr John [?] 
Smith at the request of the Socy for promotion of Christian 
Instruction published an Answer.

2057.

"If the Scriptures had been from God they would 
always have been preserved in their primitive 
purity" Lord Bolingbroke.

If the great end proposed to be accomplished could be attained 
by that degree of accuracy which has been preserved. 
then there could be no absolute necessity for that higher 
degree which Lord Bolingbroke here demands.

The leaving of the Originals to the custody of 
fallible mortals, may for all that any man can show. 
Subserve the Evidence of their inspiration quite as 
naturally and satisfactorily as a supernatural preservn. 
of them. which his Lordship makes a condition of 
his belief -

To say that the Scriptures must exhibit a literation 
and punctuation accuracy through all their transcriptions 
and versions or they cannot be accepted as inspired 
& then there are only two methods of fulfilling this regimen:

Either GOD must by his own hand produce every 
Copy, or if men are to by Copyists & translators from age to 
age & from nation to nation then in the very nature of 
things, errors could not be prevented but by a perpetual 
and universal miracle. which could be a far greater 
miracle than the production of the sacred books at first -

But GOD does not lavish miracles even for 
the sake of preserving his own word immaculate 
Having given it to man he leaves [it to] him to conserve 
it in its primitive state according to the measure of

[*115*]
of defending "The Truths of Christianity - he about that   
time published The Diegesis - a book which I have
here in my hands, some thought irresistible - I
now think differently - that there are assertions in the
book he knew to be untrue. Still there is much in
its suggestions - especially in ambiguity into the
authenticity of the rescued text of the New Testament
I believe that he is yet living
I can only say that his [nears?] are so
totally opposed to my own knowledge
of the Truth, that to me they seem
undeniably wrong.
[*2056 8006*]
To Indwellers of the spirit world, who do no harm, but
know [intrinirsty] Truth from falsehood, there can
necessarily be no argument, no difference of opinion
but [to] us mortals, whose belief - comes from [beginning?]
on evidence  brought before us - are [?] be able to be led
into [?] [?] [on?] oldest existing [map?] of the New
Testament more not written until [5 n b?] [features?] at
least after the death of their [uprooted?] anything [?]
therefore has been [inferred?] to many alterings, is there
any possibility of obtaining the [?] as they were
originally [given?]
[*2057 8007*]
[*The book 
thats the N.T.*]
No earthly means can do it, but
it must be convincing to mean that
the Bible from its widespread
circulation, it's wonderful power, it's
difference from all other books in the
[conviction?] it carries with it of being
something more than mans ideas
on knowledge  - that the Bible is of
Holy origin, and being of holy
origin they cannot doubt it is
preserved by the same influence that
made it, through ignorant men, legible
to those that follow nineteenth hundred

the reverence he feels for it - Men are thus put upon
a fair and reasonable exercise of their responsibility -
High indeed it is but in perfect analogy with its exercise
in all other departments, what Divine Gift to Man
is not liable to abuse - it is surely enought that
God has provided the means & the materials whereby
Men may assure themselves and their fellows that
they possess in the main, though[t] at so great a
distance of time the words of Divine Verity -
It is a just Cause of triumph & Confidence
to the believer that after examining, with the utmost -
care this whole question of errors, he may legitimately
reach the Conclusion that neither lapse of time nor
human infirmity has availed to rob him of one
doctrine, one precept, or one promise -
Eclectic Review Nov 1851. [?] 553

116
Years afterwards, and if it is perceived   
so that man may understand if now
it is inconsistent not to believe that the
power of the almighty has kept it
from being materially altered.
In your response you use the term "Bible" Christians
use that term to include the Old and New Testament
may I ask your definition
2058 8008
I mean the life of Christ and his
doctrines preached by his disciples 
I recognize no other as "the Bible"

If the New Testament is to be the standard of our
Faith & Truth need fear no amount of [misogenation?]
is it not imperative on men to subject the existing
MSS. of the scriptures to the same rigid scrutiny as
they would a contemporary book of a classic author
to see that new "Commentary" of some conflicting sort has
merged with the text and this leads me to ask
how it was with the Text on so much power a state
than one can possibly be - there arose in the first 3
centuries after the death of JC. so many and so ranging
sects of Christians animated with the most deadly
feelings of Theological hatred towards each other
2059 8009
As the time when Jesus Christ was
born men were at great variance
with each other on points of Faith
and it seemed likely that the
majority would fall from a belief
in the God of the Jews, to no belief
at all, Jesus Christ was then a
man upon earth, He was not known
or believed to be of divine origin, His
first talking to the Jews when he
was scarcely 14 years of age, so
decisively of right and wrong made
them wonder, and they believed

[*117*]

[*2059*]   
[*8009*] 
him to be something more than they 
could understand, and then when
he healed the sick and performed
Miracles, and preached a doctrine that
was quite new to them, they said no
man could do this and they pointedly
asked him "who art thou" - and he
said

"I am that I am" that is the
Same with God,  the one governing
Power of Creation -

After doing these marvellous works
and showing himself to be possessed
of an extraordinary power, it necessarily
caused great discussion amongst the
multitudes who followed him about 
-- some worshipped him, some thought
him an imposter, persecuted him &
denied him, this of course caused
much dissention and much cavil and
opinions and beliefs sprang up
that were (?mediums?) between his
worshippers and his revilers.

Your response leads again to the point as to the
accuracy of the New Test Text - if in the infancy
of Christianity such differences arose is it not probable
that the Text in the hands of such men whom Charity
compels us to own, may have been well intentioned, may
have been altered, warped as it were  If their peculiar
view & [?this?]  - whilst copies only existed in MS - when
we perceive that, Taking the same MSs for a basis
the Roman Catholic - the Protestant Catholic and the
Unitarian  -  have produced, such different versions
& advocate such widely different doctrines as in the
3 Translations now before us. May I ask you
what was the Inscription placed by Pilate

Matt  XXVII  37  "This is Jesus the King of the Jews"
Mark XV       26  "The King of the Jews."
Luke XXIII    38  "This is the King of the Jews"
John XIX       19  "Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews"
      Matthew & Mark only state the accusation - [?]
      Luke & John states three, in Hebrew  Latin & Greek 


Hebrews ch. XI     Note to "Echo"
When perusing the 11th Chapter of St Pauls Epistle to the Hebrews
It must be remembered that Paul was in descent and Education
wholly a Jew.

acts XXII  .3   "I am verily a man, a Jew born in Tarsis in Cilicia
                        yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel
                        taught according to the perfect manner of the Law
                        of the Fathers.

That in this Epistle to the Jews on "the Efficacy of Faith" he
quotes from their History, their sacred writ. the display of
individual faith as therin recorded and  by them believed 
with equal faith. - it would have been useles to have sought
for evidence to the Jews from any other source.--
     Paul himself distinctly says that he suited his Arguments
to his hearers

1 Corr  Ix 20
                 21   "And unto the Jew I became as a Jew, that I might
                         gain the Jew, and to them that are under
                         the Law, as under the law that I  might gain
                         them that are under the Law" 

                                                                          Turn over

118
upon the Cross of J. C.

2060
8010  The only inscription was the mockery
of his name.
     "Jesus God of the Jews"
and the rabble shouted to him if you
are whom you profess to be, show your
power by coming down from the Cross
and saving yourself --

May I observe how completely your answer is a Case
in point -- Your response differs from the Evangelists &
they all differ from each other.  their versions are / read them /

2061
8011  There is the slightest possible difference
in either --
    The word King was not used because
it was in mockery of his saying, that
he was greater than King.

Your answer would appear  the most probable one as
Jesus laid Claim to being the Son of God, & consequently
the God of the Jews,  but not their King -- and Pilate
Evidently placed the inscription to annoy the Jews.
more than the followers of Christ.

2062
8012  It is so
The whole of the sentence has in it such
studied mockery & such bitter hatred
as only those can use who disagree and
persecute each other about religion

Mr Ormerod at my request made such remarks as
on perusal suggested themselves to him,  in his reading the
answer to what is Truth -- I amongst others  in opposition
to any Views of the Old Test. worthies - remarked "How different
an Estimate did the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews
form of the Character of the Saints of the Old Testament
see Chapter Xi."  to which I replied as opposite - may I
ask your view

2063
8013  You are right.
[Because by Faith they retain]  / Sic / Because by

1 Corr IX. 22   

"To the weak, became I as weak, that I might 
gain the weak, I am made all things to 
all men that I might by all means save 
some"

Hence I think this Chapter (Heb. XI) does not prove 
the individuals therein mentioned Saints or that 
Paul - then deemed them to be so - but rather that 
had Paul been desirous of showing the disastrous 
consequences of a "Want of Faith" he would have quoted
the same persons in support.

Thus "Abraham who through faith had offered up 
his son" by want of Faith - Abraham passed off his 
handsome wife Sarah - as his sister upon Pharoah 
for which the innocent Pharoah got "plagued with 
great plagues" Gen XII. v17

Thus "Sarah who through Faith received strength 
to conceive seed & was delivered of a child when passed 
age " By want of Faith compelled Abraham to 
commit the detestable crime of turning Hagar & his own 
Child into the wilderness  to starve upon a loaf and a 
bottle of water - so affectingly described in Gen. XXI. 14. 15. 16

Thus "by Faith Isaac blessed Jacob & Esau
concerning things to come".  and by "Want of Faith 
blessed the wrong Son first - Gen XXVII.

&c &c &c  ? ( te te te? or +c +c +c)

"Saints" -  Heb VI. 10 -  Romans 1 .7. VIII. 27 - Jude 14 - also - Psal XVI. 3  Deut XXXIII. 2

The use of the Epithet Saint as a distinctive title prefixed to
the names of a particular class or member of Christs followers.
has no warrant whatever in Scripture"

E O, Ash. MD.  Notes on the New Test't
p. 26

"The lateral term is Holy one #  in Deut. & Jude it probably means Angels
as there can be no absolute certainty respecting the real Character of Men
in the Sight of God, All human decision as to who are to be regarded
or heeded as saints must be fallacious -- Doctor Eadie Bib  Cyclo:

119

2063    
8013  Faith they gain an especial favor or
blessing, it is not to be considered that 
their whole lives are good, or that their 
faith can triumph over all things. 
     St Paul did not mean this, He only 
meant to show that one act pleasing 
in the sight of the Lord, met its reward
     That Faith was acceptable to him 
and he recited those particular instances 
to show that  that Faith was openly 
rewarded while on Earth, it was the same 
then as now. 
    If you know that a man has 
done many bad actions, that he is 
no better than any of the rest of men 
and at the same time you know that 
he has done one good and praiseworthy 
action, if you are unprejudiced & 
truthful you will acknowledge that 
one action when heating of the subject 
to which it relates as though the 
whole tenor of his life was of the same 
same stamp.

I thank you, may I observe that the subject of the
Pure Test -- of the New Testament - is of such vital
importance - that I wish at some future Evening to
again bring it before you.

2064
8014   I am desirous that you should know
all that you require.

I ret'd thanks -- may I now call Sir WM into the E.S.

2065
8015   You can

If any advice to

2066
8016  I wish you to bear in mind that you
must not invoke spirits in Mr Leas' Mirror
do not under any pretext allow him
to prevail upon you to do so.

10' past 9

9 h 15' PM           E.S. Crystal                                      page 120
                              Called Sir Tom M.  
2' [?] thick, here something come -- Black frock Coat--
Grey Trousers, waistcoat grey too but a little lighter, satin
scarf round the neck, not quite black, he looks very
Male indeed, tall and Slim, not thin, looks very blue
Round his mouth and Eyes -- quite light hair
May I ask your name when on this Earth
8017              W                  M
Are you agreeable to being Called into this Crystal
8018                I have no objection to it.
did you know in your lifetime DA 
8019                I did
I am much perplexed to find by the papers your age
May I ask how old you were when you edited 
Hobbes' works
802                   about 25
do you remember receiving from me at that time
The Horoscope to the particulars relating to "that
great thinker".
8021                I do remember it now, I remember 
                        Every thing that has passed from 
                        my birth to my death.
As at the time you edited Hobbes, I may presume
You believed in the truthfulness of his views & Since 
has become [adherent?] to Spiritualism philosophy
May I for edification ask your altered views
8022                 I changed my belief but I was in
                          greater [?] than before
                          Had I died a Deist or an
                          Atheist, the Mercy of God might have
                          Saved me, but to believe in Spirits
                          and yet deny the Spirit of God the
                          governing power of all spirits seems to
                          me now unpardonable but I have 
                          a hope that it is not so.

At the moment of death when the 
Whole [wents?] of a life of many Sins
passed before me like a phantasma going
through my brain. I felt in the 
inmost recesses of my soul the light 
by which the darkness of all good deeds 
might be dispersed, but even  then
I could not recognize this light as
the redeeming power of Jesus  Christ and 
 I died wavering or  rather before my death
 I wavered for my last thought was
given to Earth
Although I felt the influence of the Son of God in my heart. I
could not recognize it I could not 
believe it because my reason was
at war with my heart
[I felt that I knew] (sic) I thought 
that I knew the Sons of Christianity,
the [disp???] and Controversies about it 
sufficient to make me acclaim that 
Jesus Christ was not one with God
And the mind being singularly Clear 
of pressing when it is about to be 
obliterated forever, I went back to the 
beginning and I only saw in the Son
of God, the Child of Shame and a
 living wonder - had my last thought
been given to Heaven instead of Earth 
I am certain, that in that moment
I should have been Convinced against 
reason that my Salvation could 
only be obtained by one means.
My [?] if you are [?] that you are now
Communicating with [?] [animals?] still living on the Earth.
I can. I here still your feelings

122
? Your conception of earthly things, a longing
once more to be in contact with Earth
to be back again with those that I
have left - For this seems a dull cold
void - and yet I have power greater
then I had on Earth.  For I know
that things exist, that when there I
repudiated with scorn

I explained the CA [i?] view of the one [?] way.
8024 I have sinned, I do believe the truth
and that solely I know of Gods mercy
and his love but is it not now too late

I regretted that [   ] were not likely to have
directed his attention at the last moments - rightly
They were not
8025  
[?] next to being led aright myself
and securing happiness from that source
When alone it can be obtained, I derive
nothing more than that those I have
left behind me should while upon
earth be placed in the right path
they must be so far happier, so much
stronger at the last if they can die
in Faith and belief of the Trinity and
of the Divinity of Christ.

Even if one gains happiness at
last it is a dreadful process to it, and
I think the happiness must be
much greater if you receive it at once
as a reward - rather than secure it
as a boon granted from Mercy after
long suffering in patient endurance.

May I ask if you left a wife or children surviving you
8026 I will not say a wife now - I have
left friends - she ought to have
guided me aright at the last. She

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might have done it -- she professes
to believe in the Christian Faith.
 As to Dr A's writing under the spiritual guidance of
his Father -- & any proof -- or discourse.--
8027 It is not true the whole rapping
throughout (?) is but a conspiracy of evil
spirits.
 I could give no proofs for I am
powerless as are all those deceased 
persons whom the rapping spirits
pretend to represent, had they the
power they would not allow it.
I could not give it you.
I expressed my surprize & named an instance,
8028 I remember it all, but I am not to
be the means of bringing Dr A to
believe in the evil that surrounds him.
I explained if any comm.n to any one
8029 Not now, I can appear again
When will it be agreeable
8030 This day W[?]

10 PM.
[symbol] 6 Nov. 1855 CA Mirror
Invoked the CA
My seer having unfortunately been too unwell to inspect
I was not able to invoke last Tuesday. May I [?]
8031 2067 do so 
If Adam when in paradise had not sinned would
the encrease of the human race have taken place
8032 2068 Yes
Would Adam then & his descendants lived for ever
8033 2069 they would all have lived until the
Earth was changed, but it was foreseen
that they could not exist without sin
and the hereafter was anticipated

In Romans V Verse 12 it is written "wherefore as by one man
Sin entered into the World, and death by Sin; and so
death passed upon all Men, for that all have Sinned"
If death was thus the effects of Adams Sin, did it
also fall on the ? Creation, or would the animal 
world also lived forever.
2070                    Men's Sin makes no difference to the rest
8034                    of Creation, one would have passed away
                            as now to give place to another.
May I observe that I cannot Conceive how such corporeal
forms as [we?] now possess ( even if disease was unknown)
Could possibly last 1000 years. -- even the human form
? to the fall different from its present ?
2071                     They were the Same
                              It was known to God when he Created the 
8035                      World all that should happen unto the 
                               End -- therefore he knew that Adam
                               & Eve would Sin -- although they might have
                               remained free.
Ethnologists divide the existing human Race into 
Several Classes -- & when we compare the Caucasian or 
European with the N. American Indians or the [Mexicans?/Mulattos?]
with the Negroes, it seems almost impossibly that
Climate alone should make the difference, seeing
for instance that the Children of the Dutch inhabitants
of the Cape after Years [Iroquois?] are as white at
Birth as though born in Europe.
2072                        The Immediate descendants of Adam 
8036                        were born of Various Colors, so that they
                                 might form distinct Races.
Did that take place before or after the Deluge.
8037 2073                Before
Was the flood Universal ie all over this Earth
8038 2074 It was not
Am I then to Conclude that the Colored Races are 
the descendants of those born before the Deluge and 
not part of the [Nordic?] Family

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2075 
8039  The colored races were derived from the 5th
and 6th generation after Adam
The flood did not totally destroy them
the centre of the earth was flooded but
not the remote parts - all was destroyed
for many thousand miles round Noahs
Ark and from him are descended the
inhabitants of the South.

Are you aware that our Earth is a sphere, nearly
Globular & not a plain

2076
8040  I am aware of it, there are great undulations
in that part were the Mountains rise the
flood did not reach, but the plains of
the land and a large portion of the Sea
was much above the present heighth.

I am aware by the action of the Tides that it is
possible for the water at [determed?] periods rising
higher on one portion of the Earth. & falling lower at
its antipodes, & that this may have occurred at the 
deluge for a longer period & greater heighth than
ever since known. but may I remark that now &
for many Centuries past the fair Races inhabit the
North & as they get more South they vary until
quite black

2077
8041  Noahs Ark was not pitched on the 
Land, it was  in the greatest part of
the flood on the Sea.

May I now make an observation, with great deference
to you [?] - That your answers to Metaphysical
Questions are so admirable & prompt.  Whilst your
answers to Physical Enquiries are so often opposed
to what as Mortals we know to be correct.

2078
8042   There is a difference 
that which belongs to the mind or the
Spirit, or to the Spirit world Ive know
immediately & at once, it is part of our
own being.
That which belongs to the Earth

126

8042  and to man Physically, we only underst'd
through him, as he does  the Spirit World
through us. -- But I must say we know
all the Laws of Nature and we understand
creation as it comes from the hand of 
GOD, but we cannot quite rightly underst'd
the names and the forms which man
assigns to it.

Accept my thanks  I hope you do not feel offence at
my having so placed this observation before you

2079    8043  Can you think me spiritual & pure &
Yet think that I shall be offended

I mean that I hope you doubt image  I placed
it before you doubtingly =  I have the highest respect
& esteem for your obliging responses

2080  8044  I do not doubt it, altho I cannot
entirely comprehend the body, I can
fully understand the mind & all its 
workings
     Spirits can feel sorrow for Man
and pity but they can never feel other
than love for the whole human Race.

On Tuesday Week I called Sir N'm.  M. - his responses
gave rise to many serious thoughts, but as he
could not give me any proof convincing to others, I
do not desire to Call him again unless he has a
wish to appear.

2081  8045  he has no particular wish to appear
but there is no harm in his doing so.

As Emma is still unwell, could we have the
continuation of the Vision this evening, it would perhaps
ease her.

2082  8046  You cannot have it this Evening

Can we have it next Tuesday Evening

2083  8047  You Can

Should we continue it on the Tuesday after that or
shall I then Call J. Balsamo for his Memoirs


127

2084   8048  You can see the whole of the Vision first
or you can communicate with him before
it is finished

Can we see Mr Anderson this Evening

2085  8049  You can

Can you explain to me why Mr Anderson's At. Spirit
even when he appears serious & candid never tells me
truly the names of persons, places, streets &c

2086   8050  His atmosphere Spirit is but the Shadow
and the Echo of his Body: He would
tell you just the same in reality

but may I observe I never could get my own A.S.
to answer me rationally or seriously on the Contrary
he always behaved most frivolously

2087  8051  At. Spirits are not always the same as 
their representatives upon earth.
He might not behave the same now if
you called him -
  It is when communicating with you that
they lose their power. When they are 
acting by themselves spiritually one with
another, they are generally the same as
Man.

Shall I call my A.S. before us after Mr A.
before.

2088  8052  before

May I &c.

2089  8053   [Whatever your Guardian Spirit] (Sic)
Whatever your Atmospheric Spirit may
say to you in the mirror, you must not
believe him under the influence of Your
Guardian Spirit - I cannot control his
Moods.
     I will see that he appears I will
have you to deal with him
     His fancies & belief are not my
opinion & knowledge 

does my [?] as to [?] "Echo" meet your app'l

2090   8054  It does

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12'  to 9 PM.  C A. Mirror
      Called my A S.  Fred Hockley
Now there's someone coming, its you Coming, yes quite
plain & dressed as you are at present.
Good Evening my other self  may I ask you some quest'ns
this Evening

8055  What are they

When I formerly called you, Your behavior was so extremely
silly & frivolous, that I was equally vexed & astounded
as I naturally concluded you would endeavor to aid
me in acquiring Spiritual knowledge.

8056  I never behaved worse than any other
Spirit, there's your friend Mr Dresser
You huffed him, because he didn't
trump up some fine thing to tell you.

have you in the spirit world had any communication
with Lieut  R F Burton

8057  No he is just as far from me as he is from you

do you know if he ever used the mirror  or Crystal I gave
him with success

8058   I know nothing about him.

do you know Mr Anderson

8059  yes

do you know where he now is

8060  with the Army in the East

You now appear in the same clothes as I have on.  have
you the same things in your waistcoat pocket.

8061  It seems rather impertinent to ask so
many questions

May I ask you to show my Seer what you have
in your Waistcoat pocket

8002   I shall not.

I will not ask any more questions that you may deem
frivolous, but I will ask if you have Changed Your
Religious opinions -- are they the same as mine

8063  I know yours but I dont believe it right

May I ask what reason you can give against my
believing in the atonement through J. C.  



129

8064  I am a Unitarian & So would you be
in a few days time were you not persuaded
otherwise.

I cannot conceive how you entertain a different
Opinion from me of you are my  AS.

8065  I entertain the opinion you would do
were you not blindly led in the dark

Can you give me any reasons against the belief
in the Doctrine of the Atonement 

8066  If you throw off all bondage & make
your mind perfectly free, you will see
nothing to support the belief of a 
Son. - There is a written testimony
but is that testimony true.
     Of the Creative power I have no Doubt
of His Universal Spirit I have no
doubt - because they must exist to keep
the world in unison & Harmony. but
there is no evidence to show that by the
life and death of one man the world
is redeemed.

The Doctrine of Sacrifices is necessarily an abstruse
one yet it undoubtedly forms the most antient & most
Universal rite ever practised - & when we look at the
Religious state of the world at the time of Christs 
appearance - notwithstanding it had produced [?]
[?] Zoroaster Pythagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle 
Euclid & so many others. Yet the great Bulk of
Mankind was steeped in abject ignorance. believers
in Polytheism Sabaism & Idolatory. & only the Jews
had made any approach to a publicly recieved
Rational Religion  it seems to me to have been absolutely 
necessary that some Divine Missionary should
be sent into the world to place Man in the Path
of Truth.- that Mission was fulfilled by Jesus 
& when at the Crucifixion his Spirit reascended to GOD
the body was accepted as a sacrifice for Sinners

130
8067
No amount of argument can bring me the
least connection, I have told you my
belief, I do not wish, I do not intend to
Change it. if its wrong it will not hurt
me, one thing I am certain of. If you
had, had Orion for your Guardian Spirit
as I wished you before you would have been
a great deal better off.
Are you then devoted to the Same Occult Studies as
I am here
8068
I am, and my friend Orion, assists me
to [?] he is not quite so high as he
was. but he is worthy of a better post
has he taught you any thing curious in Magic Science
which you would like to inform me of.
8069
I cannot practice Magic as you do, being
Spiritual, I am using it all but Orion
has Shown me many Curious things
interesting things , very interesting
I went with him but a very short
time ago into where all the Dreadful
bad people that leave the Earth are
Confined , I saw a Bishop although
he had been dead many years was
Still Counting out his money , although
through Doing it so long & so often Every
vestige of flesh was gone from his hands
The inordinate thirst for Gold is [?] a
[?] Vice— that pastime may do for a Spiritual
bishop, but on this Earth they prefer to be with
[?] & Good [?] lined — Give [?] & Balls. + act
the Gentlest the [?] — what Else did Orion do.
8070
He Entertained me very much by showing
me how to bring the Spirits of that place
into the Atmosphere and also by showing
me how to resist those wandering Spirits
on the Earth to any particular mortal of
Course I did not intend to do it. Still

131

I was much pleased with the idea

Have you any objection to tell me how those spirits
were brought into the atmosphere.

8071  By visiting them & making them believe
we had in the atmosphere that for which
they particularly longed -- that for
which they had sinned

Can you tell me the Formula for fixing certain
wandering spirits upon any person.

8072   You'd be doing that besides  You'd be 
telling Mr Lea. about it, and he's deep
enough in already.

do you know my friend Lea's At Spirit

8073   Yes very well
How does he get on in the Spirit World with his Hardies

8074  No better than he does at Limehouse.

I cannot conceive the reason.  Can you.

8075  He was never cut out for it, he does not
go about it rightly.

but i cannot conceive how his wife lost the power
of Seeing, after she had seen so well

8076   I should have been very much surprised
if she had retained it, that's the difference
     Theres on Old Gentleman wishes to see
you in this mirror, hes writing now.

May I ask you his name.

8077   He is an old man and has got a trumpet
in his ear  You know him very well
and I believe this will be the last time
that you will see him.

Is it Robert Owen the philantropist.

8078  no answer

May I advise you to change not only Your Religion 
but your Company or at the last you may wish
to catch hold of the skirts of my coat but as Momma
says I will fling you all & wear a spencer.

8079   You have given me your very kind advice 
in return my I say a word

132

8080  Which is worst.  to learn what you are
and to acknowledge what you do as Orion
does - leaving you to find out that he is
much better than he really seems to be
Or - [?] the guise of being much better
than you are Conceal a traitor, a hypocrite
and a destroyer. glossed over with a too
simple and Confiding Veil - as some
one who enters into Communion with man.

I hope at another opportunity you will appear if
you have no objection

8081  I have not, if you have no objection Orion
would like to appear., I have wished him
to do so - he would entertain you give
Your instructions and advice and be a
very kind companion not only in the
Mirror but out of it , at all times will
he attend you.

I can only allow spirits to appear in this Mirror
who can withstand Exorcism --
Now he's going
20 ' to 10 PM.

I said          If Mr. Robert Owen we shall be happy
                    to see him but him only
Here is someone coming  it is Mr Owen  Black frock coat
black velvet skull cap.  - no trumpet.
Good Evening Mr Owen we are pleased to see you in the
Mirror. I hope you are well

8082  He shakes his head

May I ask if you can hear me Speak to you

8083 I am getting very feeble

I am sorry indeed to hear that. have you published
part 7. of your life yet.
He looks at you very hard his beard under the chin
is very white - he shakes his head - now hes going, hes
turned round nodded his head smiled & gone.
14' to 10 PM.

Seepage 13[?]

AZIEL

I command
and conjure
you by
AZIEL
and by the power
of this Seal

You shall influence
[all?hou]
with whom he is
in any way connected
so that they may
as I command
Love him or hate him
or feel any
of the strongest
Emotion
that you can
command

go
you
must
obey me.


The portion of reading I have transcribed above
is not a quarter of the Original

133
[?]13 Nov. 1855
C.A. Mirror
Invoked the CA.
The C A is here
I have received this letter from Mr [?] may I read
it to you
209[0]1
8084
[?]You can do so, but I am in some
part aware of its contents from its
influence over your mind
I read the letter, havE I made my self understood
2092
You have
8085
He rejects Spiritualism on religious
grounds — You will see him shortly
and your opinions are sufficiently
Wrong to be Expressed on the Subject
he first mentions
But as regards Spiritualism
and its accordance with the Laws
of God, I should wish you to remain
at that meeting as neutral as
You can , receive his Argument
against it and givE it me as nearly
as you can against next Tuesday
Evening
It is my Cause to refute it
I will use all my power to share
[my] the objection that he holds, if
my answer does not agree with
your opinions in some measure
or you should wish to introduce
more you can alter it and then
givE it him as your own opinions
I do not wish you to say much
before for fear that not Knowing
all you may appear contradictory
I will not upon your advice
8086
2093
If I can help you more I am willing
on Last Tuesday Evening I was much concerned to
find that my at Spirit continues his Connexion


134
with Orion and so [?] adheres to his former
proposal for me to have him for a guardian Spirit
I cannot concieve the cause.

2094   8087  Orion is continually in the Atmosphere
and he communicates with him
He would willingly appear to you if
he could

I will never call him  without our previous Sanction

2095  8088  If you see him it must be in the
Crystal, I shall not allow him to 
appear in this mirror

May I ask as I am not prepared with Queries
If we can have the continuation of the vision & also
commences with the promised memoirs of Cagliostro

2096  8089  You can.

If any &c

2097   8090   I have not
Your At Spirit desires to appear
he observes you requested him to do so

I hope my seeing him will not hinder my rec'g
the Vision or memoirs

2098  8091  It will not  -- 

The  C A's gone
5' past 8 PM      Called my A S. Fred Hockley
Good Evening

8092  Will you do me a favor

Yes if its one I can do with the consent of the C. A.

8093  Its too slight to need the consent
of any but yourself
     I wish you to look in the Crystal
or your other mirror for 5 minutes

I am anxious to receive this Evening a communication
I have long waited for.  and have not the time now
to spare.

8094  It will not detain you long now,
I wish you particularly to look

I have a great wish  You would defer it till next
Tuesday

8095  I cannot defer it

135

Shall my Seer turn round & inspect the Oval 
MIrror

8096  Yes

12' past 8. Nemy so urgently requested I very reluct'tly 
consented & Emma inspected the Oval mirror

Its very thick  heres something silvery coming, now 
its all black.  It looks like part of a mans cloak 
now I can see the legs, it is a cloak now I can 
see the head coming , a dark man, black curly 
hair.  Moustachios  beard underneath the chin 
black velvet cloak coming down to the knees fastened
in the front & at the neck with a chain, a very large
heavy Cloak.
May I ask you Name

8097          ORION

May I ask why you have been pleased thus to appear

8098   I was desired to do so by your 
atmospheric spirit he asked me 
to communicate with you.

Have you then any thing you wish to communicate to 
me.
Emma here said now his black coat's gone & he is in
armour.

8099  I have that to Communicate for which he 
sent me

May I request you to inform me what that is

8100   Your At spirit told me you were
desirous of having a formula by
which you might fix the wandering
spirits of the earth upon any
particular human being.

that is so are you willing to tell me how it is done

8101  Yes
You have to use these words at
the same time fixing your mind
firmly on the object you desire
     You must think some time

See a portion of the Seal & Spell as copied
from memory -- the words are the remainder
of the original spell which was not burnt.
       opposite page 133

136
before of the person you wish them
to join
     You must first write these
words in the blood of a Lamb or
a sheep  thus making it a
sacrifice to those who give the 
power and then inwardly and
earnestly repeat as if reading from 
that you have written. -

Emma said now heres a Circle Come all white with
Red figures in it -- she then made an accurate
copy (of which some resemblance is placed opposite)
She then said here is short lines or reading all
Round it beginning at the top,  upon her attempting
to read -- the Seal turned round so as to bring the
words direct under Eye. - and she read the inscription
which consisted of a Conjuration & Command by the
Power of [Azril] &c & the Seal, to attach him or
themselves [at?] (the party) -- divided into 3 equal
divisions by red spots. -- this occupied a very 
long time & I became exceedingly fearful the C A
would take offence & not give us the vision or
Memoirs =
     When the first Seal & the Invocation was
Completed  there came -

8102  "There is a seal made to Correspond
with this which you place above
it.
[Illustration]
they fit exactly over the Red holes
in the last and so connect the
two seals.

I then said it is now 9 oClock may I ask you
to give me the further instructions another time

8103  I cannot another time

137

I was never very anxious that the vision should cease
as I wanted to continue my Seance' with the CA
mirror & said
May I request you to leave that I may continue
my vision in the other mirror

8104  Will you dismiss me then before
I finish my communication

My At Spirit said,  you would only occupy 5 minutes
It has now occupied more than an hour.  besides
Your Communication can only be used for base
purposes -

8105   Then you should have said at first 
that you would not have received it
Your atmospheric Spirit is urging
me to stay.

I exorcised & dismissed Orion
3[81?]

                               C. A Mirror
                                   Invoked the C A.
Emma said you are here again
Why have you again appeared uncalled

[2099]  8106    I wish to say a few words
I must trust to the very slight Courtesy
you seem to possess to hear me
     I should not have believed you
to be the counter part of myself, either
from your treatment of me or my
friend Orion  who appeared at my 
request.
     You requested me last Tuesday
evening to appear.  I did so
     I answered your questions  I gave
you advice that you might have
benefitted from.
     Your pride I suppose is too great
to receive any information that you

138

8107  believe inferior to your own judgment
you requested me to appear again
I did so.
     You requested me to give you
the Charm by which the wandering
spirits of the Earth and Air are
made to prey upon a mortal
     I requested Orion who is more
competent to do so  to give it you
     When he came for that purpose
and you had received as much as
your curiosity induced you to long
for --  you are not particular to
enquire if its Evil until then. -
Your goodness & purity becomes
alarmed, and you fly off to 
something else, to satisfy another
longing for the marvellous.
     I do not blame you for this
but I think that Common Courtesy
ought to be observed in your dealings
with all.
     You should not make the 
distinction of flattering and praising
one for what you dont want and
tell the other that what he has given
you is evil although you longed to
know it.

It is your own fault -- You said it would only occupy
5 minutes & I have lost an hour & a half.

8108  It was your fault being
detained an hour, it was [?] thing
at once  you might have done if
in 3 minutes.  


139

I wish I could induce you to give up your [??nexion]
with Orion

8109  As to giving up Orion  I shall not
do it any more than you giving
up your acquaintance however
bad or good.  and there are many
even upon earth as Evil as Orion
but a human form can hide it
human deceit can clothe a serpent

I do not wish to hold any further communication
with you.  You well know the troubled life I have
led, and I do not wish now to recieve knowledge
in Black Magic - applicable only to base purposes
I know too much of that already.

8110  If cant and hypocrisy are the only
roads by which your heart and 
mind are open  there are others
You can communicate with who will
soon lead the too Easy Way.

hes gone
22' past 9 PM.
                   Invoked the CA to appear
Now you are come back
Why have you again appeared

8110   You might have wished me Good night

Good night and let me beg you to give up your
dealings with Black Magic

8112  You are afraid You have done thing
in recuring that Seal at all and
now you wish to lay it upon my 
shoulders.

hes gone
1/2 past 9
                   Invoked the CA
Now you are Come back again and I said

8113  You seem to have a fickle fancy
and a changeable mind

Now you are gone.

140

Ex: the Mirror
                      Invoked the CA.

2099  8144  "The CA will appear at ten o Clock."

10 PM.          Invoked the CA
The CA is here
I explained the transaction which had taken place 
and that I had burnt the Seal & formula

2100   8115  If you can help it, it must not 
happen again - Orion is Evil when 
you have once entered into Communicat'n 
with Evil it is not so Easily Shaken 
off - whilst the slightest influence 
of his was remaining either on the 
Seal or in the Mirror, and your 
Atmospheric Spirit so earnestly 
desiring him to remain   I could 
not allow any other vision to 
appear for as I vouch for [all] the 
goodness of all that I show I 
must be doubly careful of preserving 
it pure.
I am Sorry that it has happened 
this Evening

I hope it will not make any difference or hinder 
the Visions appearing on another Evening

2101  8116   The Seals were very powerful that 
Orion gave you, with them you 
cannot only Command one of the 
wandering Spirits but a whole tribe
     You could have kept the copy 
in Ink, without any harm as it 
is ineffectual unless written as he 
told You.

I explained my reasons - If any &c

2102   8117   Your motives & wishes are quite right
I have not

Action Ended

141

♂︎die  20' past 7 PM - 20th Nov. 1855.   C A Mirror
                                Invoked the C. A
May we have the cont'n of the Vision & commence with
the Memoirs of JO Balsamo  this Evening

2103  8118  You can

May I ask if there is any formula by which Good Spirits
can be attached to Man as in ☍ (opposition) to the spell given me by
Orion

2104   8119  Good spirits can only be attached to men
by their desire for them

I have seen Mr Ormerod, he will on some future Tuesday
Evening attend and state personally his objections as to
Spirit Calling, will that meet your wishes

2105   8120  Yes
I can only say the same as I would now,
that after a few earnest enquiries every religious
objection vanishes
If a man objects to spiritualism because 
it mystifies him, and he cannot control it -
or if he is afraid of its having undue influence
over him -- that is a sufficient individual
reason for his withdrawing from the search
but when he attacks it on so wide a ground
as religion, he makes the cause a Universal
objection, only sought after by those who
have no care for the goodness and truth
of what they seek.

May I ask if you are aware of the different indeed opposite
views held by Roman & Protestant Catholics upon
the institution of the Lord's Supper
     In the Romish Church the priest professes to offer
in the Consecrated Wafer, the real body & blood of JC

The Lords Supper

"Scripture says nothing of an Administrator, Justin mentions
a President, to whom the head and wine were brought, and who offered
thanksgivings and praises to God - In a subsequent age we find a
remarkable contrast, instead of thanksgiving we have Consecration;
and instead of praise we have an oblation.  Tertullian like [?] 
Justin speaks of a president, but we soon find the Consecrat.n
restricted to the Bishop, called Chief Priest if he were present
or in his absence, to a priest without whom the rite could
not be celebrated. 
                        Dr. R Halley   "The Sacraments
                                   London  1851   pp 212    

142

as a Sacrifice for the partakers Sins
     Protestants especially dissenters view it not as a
Sacrifice, but as a Commemoration of the one Sacrifice
by Christ himself for the Sins of the World.
May I solicit your views

2106  8121  It is almost unnecessary for me to say
that no bread can be the flesh,
no wine the blood.
     It is revolting that such a system sh'd
exist, the words of Jesus Christ "do this
in remembrance of me" clearly show that
he intended it as a custom to be kept in
commemoration of his last meal with 
the whole of his followers.

There are many "religious" persons who in actual life
almost appear to leave their souls at church along with
their prayer books &  hussocks, to be used when wanted who
make no scruple of taking the Sacrament regularly and
there are others who not thinking themselves worthy
never partake-- may I ask if it is religiously speaking
compulsory.

2107  8122   It is not compulsory.  I think it ought
not to be taken by many now in the
world who make it a practise, neither do
I consider those unworthy of it who
have sinned.
     Taken in its finest sense that of rec'g
the meat and drink of Jesus Christ blessed
by him in Commemoration of his death
to me implies that you intend & devoutly
wish to follow in his footsteps
     That you take him as he was upon

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2107   8122  Earth as you guide and call upon him 
by the signs he left to watch you from his 
divine home
     Viewing it in this light only to be recieved 
by those who are individual followers of 
himself it seems to me a mockery publicly 
to practice it -
     Why should man recieve it from 
the hands of a priest as from Christ 
himself - is not the very act as desecrating 
to him as the Commemoration is pleasing 
I believe that a man is always nearer 
to God and therefore to Christ when he 
is communing with him through his own 
heart - than when he is praising him thro' 
the mouth of a Priest.
     Although men should not receive 
the Communication of Christ with the Knowledge 
and intention of doing wrong in afterlife 
& of Crime they must as far as humanity 
can do determine to devote the remainder 
to holy purposes still it is a very mistaken
notion that you ought not to take it 
because you feel unworthy, it is the very 
penitence and humility that make it 
acceptable.
     If you feel sufficiently strong & good 
to resist every temptation and lead a holy 
life by the strength of that goodness, 
why call upon Jesus Christ through the 
sign which he gave of his humanity to aid 
and assist you

144

One word more
I should strongly advise all those to 
recieve the Sacrament who feel their 
end is drawing near.  it is then most
Essentially necessary.

If any Advice as to the Vision or Memoirs

2108  8123   You will see part of the Vision I will 
defer any explanation until it is all
over. --
     That which Joseph Balsamo will show
You, you will understand
     If you had wished to have kept the
diagram of the seal  Orion showed you 
there could be no harm in that if you 
had destroyed the instructions as to making
it for the other is entirely useless.  unless
offered as a sacrifice in blood

Is it possible that I could have the Seal restored
without applying to Orion for it

2109  8124  You cannot have that back unless
Orion gives it you  but I mentioned this
not so much in reference to that as with
others that you might hereafter recieve.
     If the instructions how to make them
are destroyed the Seals are ineffectual
therefore you Confine to yourself the Knowledge

I ret'd thanks
25' past 8 PM.

145
                         C. A Mirror
1/2 past 8 PM.
8125       The Vision
Now theres something come it looks like an iron bedst'd.
Very low down in the mirror it only looks like the frame
work - its very shadowy - there seems something laying
on it coming - its very like Mr Owen with a black
velvet cap - his face this way, dressed in black, boots
& all on - now its plainer its crimson He's laying on & his
head on a Crimson pillow, its like a sofa with a top
to it, his eyes are shut and he looks very pale, I
don't see any thing else
     Now theres something coming a long
way off behind, something white, its the figure I
last saw come out of the water, he has got the
Cross before him and has got wings   he looks very
high & its coming nearer now.  the old gentleman
laying down is very close, the figures come nearly
to the old gentleman and then went away as quick as
possible now he's stopped again
     Now he's come up again quite close this
time the old gentleman opens his eyes, he's put
his hand across his Eyes, his body seemed to heave
up quick and then sink lower on the bed than before
     Now the Spirits going nearer to him
hes put his hand out and touched the old gentlemans
chest and theres something like smoke no, not
smoke more like steam  come out of the old gent'ns
mouth & conts round - theres some words in it
but they are so small I cannot read them - I
can see ---------- immortality ------- the vapor
goes round and round towards the spirit & gives over

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over the Old Gentlemans Shoulder as he lies on his
side with his face this way. - his lips move again
but the words on the paper are so small I can
scarcely read them  I can see - The Lord ---
saved -- through - Jesus Christ " now the bedstead
couch is all going down out of Sight.  but the 
white vapor still keeps in to the Spirit it came up
[like a] spirally but now its spread thick in the 
middle  the couch is quite out of Sight.
              Now the Spirit has turned sideways and
the vapor has assumed just the same outline as
the Spirit only no wings   it looks like the shadow
of the Spirit but its so thin and quite flat
now turned round  the thin vapory form is full
front this way and the Spirit behind it and you
can see though a space as it were cut through it
the Vapor is only on this side, it makes one side
of the Spirit look round and the other flat -- the
flat side is the Spirits left side.
                Now its moving upwards  it is strange
the spirit has transparent white robes which
are wrapt round and round so that you cannot
see any feet and Round the vapor so as to hide
the feet   They are going upwards fast or rather
its the space around them going down, Now
theres something dark coming on the top of the
mirror  its clouds  some white & fleecy some dark
& patches of blue it it  just like the Clouds passing
thru the sky
            They seem going up into them or papery
through them - that is the clouds one coming down
Now its clear again theres a tinge of yellow

[Illustration]

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Coming ovEr it like a Yellow mist now
its getting like Gold & brighter still towards
thE top — Now theres a number of figures
Coming with wings they seem to come
down through all this Golden Color they
[?] all dressed in White , most beautifully
white and transparent — the yellow looks
likes a Golden light over them, they being
so very White Although the angels all
here (No[?]) and the others at 2. they look
An immense distance off , there a great many
theres 12 here altogether. & [?] theres 12
on the side. they are forming themselves
on both sides in a circle & [?] they
make 2 sides of a Circle [?] an
opening at the top & bottom (31 Now
this ones gone up and got into the
Circle at the lower part and they hav#
[?] up ,4) theres a very great diffce.
between the Angel that Came out of the
Water & the other angels, I cannot tell
Why it looks more substantial — its [?]
which looked Snow White alone now looks
[?] a dull leash Color Compared to the
white of the other Angles and its form
is more rigid & Caorser
Now I can see another form
Coming its thick White but of no shape (5)
its Coming in at the top opening its
Coming into the middle [5] & come up
to the [?] if the Spirit to which the
Vapor is [?n], just as the vapor did

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8125   Now the last white form and the vapor
seems both to get longer than the Spirit
in the middle & widen & now they
completely meet and cover the spirit all
over  but you can see it thro because they
are so thin but there seems a great
Change the Spirit in the middle seems
melting away then transparency seems
to be going right through him, I cannot
explain it - now its transparent all
through and becoming a beautiful shape
like the others the wings are getting
beautifully transparent - its changing
into one of the Angels, You cannot see
the vapor outside now.
     now its quite like one of the 12
theres no difference its a single figure
lighter & more beautiful & the same tinge
of Gold over it.  
     Those of the 12 that are on the other
side of the Circle are spreading out in
one straight line   now the whole 24
are straight in a line & the one is in 
front of them - the one goes first by
himself - now they all go behind me
they are going gradually up & away
its very shadowy  I only see their
outlines - its veiling - its gone its Clear

25'. past 9 PM

149

1/2 past 9 PM            Oval Mirror
             To receive the Memoirs of
             Joseph Balsamo - Commonly Called
             Count Cagliostro

8126
Its thick now theres a book come such a nasty
dirty little book - bound in dirty dark brown leather
& lighter on patches as though something had been
spilled on it - its very thin there's no letters on the 
outside now the top covers opened & theres a
good deal of Writing, it's a title page, it's getting larger
it's in MS. 

8127

            A Key
      to the Tables of
         Le Roto
or the winning numbers of
       the Lotteries
or games of Chance
           J. C
    Rue  St Antony

That is all on that page and now it's turned over
on to the cover there's no writing in ink on the back
of the Title but its covered with figures in pencil

Emma then described the table & having no
knowledge of the astrological figures caused
me much delay in attempting to describe the
diagram &c on paper - which occupied me
until 1/2 past 10 -.  The diagram is shown
as far as we could - on the other side but
there are a great many figures in the outside

150

as well as in the Circle to recieve --

8128    [large illustration of a circular astrological table]



As it is now nearly 1/2 past 10 & my Seer is fatigued may
I ask if we can have this figure again to copy next Tuesday
Evening --

8129   Yes

May I ask if you have any observation to make before
I close action this Evening

8130  No

1/2 past 10 PM

151

♂︎die 27  Nov'r   1855.      CA Mirror
1/4 to 8 PM         Invoked the C.A
My Seer has suffered much for some days from pain in the 
Nerves of the face, I am afraid without your permission to 
Mesmerise her., may I ask if you can give me any advice 
to relieve her

8131  No answer

Asked again - & mentally

8132   No answer

May I ask when it will be agreeable to you for us to 
receive the cont'n of the Vision we had last Tuesday

2110  8133  You can have it next Tuesday Evening

Last Tuesday - instead of receiving the memories of 
Balsamo's life when on Earth we had a MS entitled 
"A Key to Le Rolo  or games of Chance &c.  this appears 
to be a reference to my MS Copies of Cagliostros 
famous MS. called the Tables of Rotalo - may I ask 
why that which appears to consist of Cabbalistic Tables 
appeared instead of the Memoirs

2111  8134   Joseph Balsamo promised you copies of 
works which he had upon earth so 
that by them you might gather suff't. 
materials to form a knowledge of his 
Life  and also of his means of acting 
in the singular manner that he did
     The book of which you have only 
seen the first leaf. is not a book of 
Tables, it is a MS. written by himself 
for his own use
     I believe that it is the most 
curious that he had - It is not 
what he learnt others but what he 
learnt from.

May I ask if the Oval Mirror is under any Spirit 
or under your surveillance only. - or by whom is 
the vision shown

8135  2112   The author of the MS shows it and 
he has power over it.

When by the means of my Seer I copy the MS

152

Can I ask any question without causing the Vision
to disappear

2113    8136   You can

Can I continue it this Evening

2114  8137   You can

The Apocalypse or Book of Revelations has caused
perpaps more speculative controversy among Protestant
& dissenting Scholars than any other of the New Test'ts
books - and as Theologians are ever ready to wage war
to the Knife against those who differ from them and
may say that no two of them agree.  You may concieve
how difficult it is for one like myself to form a consistent
view of the scope & meaning of the work.  may I ask
when it will be agreeable to you to furnish me with
Your views of the Apolalyptic book.

2115  8138  You can commence it as soon as you 
wish -- I am quite willing to answer
any question on any subject but
more especially on that which is of
much importance   for altho simple
of itself  it is with difficulty understood
-- ---   because the language in [my
opinion] in which it is written is so
different from that in my opinion
it ought to be
    Altho the Origin of is was
a revelation from God -- visions given
to Saint John, it is not written by
inspiration - and he knowing that
 it would be given to the different nations
and in different ages  should not 
have written it in so complicated a
style.

May I ask if i shall read it   a few verses at a time
or a Chapter at once.  & then recieve your views

2116  8139   By a whole Chapter,  I can make
my remarks at the end.



153

Shall I read the first Chapter now.

2117   8140   
Yes

I have before me the Protestant Received translation
The Douay Roman Catholic - and the Unitarian
which shall I read

2118  8141  
The roman Catholic is the most correct
translation but it matters little 
my opinion on all three is the same

I read the first Chapter

2119  8142  
John says he saw this in the spirit
-- It was a dream -- that which
he calls the Angel - was the influence
of God.  His holy spirit through that
he saw the Vision on the sabbath
day.
     He speaks of the Vision of J. C.
as having feet of brass  eyes of fire
hair like white wool from his mouth
a two edged sword -- of Seven Candlesticks
& of 7 stars
     Now the vision of Jesus Christ  [*JC*] as 
so revealed to him was radiant with
light and brightness, a Golden light
fell dazzlingly upon him -- but it
was not like brass or Gold
     John meant that he shone in
exceeding brightness and he likened
it unto brass, and the voice of
Jesus Christ strong & powerful  Yet
low and soft he likens unto many
waters & to a two edged sword.
     The Light which surrounded him 
looked artificial like expiring lamps
and he calls them candlesticks,
whereas the lights in his hands into

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were radiant & bright he likens unto 
stars.
[*skip a line*]
[I read again verses 19 & 20 remarked]  It appears in v 19 & 20
[here as tho]  that Jesus [Christ] himself called the Lights,  Stars 
& candlesticks 

2120  8143 [*skip*]  The Vice speaks twice   it tells him 
to write what we has seen and send 
it to the Seven Churches - 
               that is his own description between

[Shall I now read the 2nd Chapter]

2121  8144  [Yes]

[I read Chapter II.]                 Chapter 2

2122  8145  It is there written as tho the Spirit 
that appeared to John and gave 
him the advice and Counsel to send 
to the Churches - began his address 
to them by describing himself, but 
it was not so.
      John gives the description of him 
who gives the Counsel.

May I ask your view of those two strange verses 6 & 15 
and what the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes were.

2123  8146  They believed in the Unity not Trinity 
But the words of the vision were 
not put down by John.  when he 
recieved them, and as no man can 
recollect even an hour, afterwards every 
word in a conversation - John rememb'd. 
it less perfectly when he wrote from 
the dream. - Although it is in substance
what he recieved.
     In expressing it afterwards he 
pervades it with the sentiments of a 
Man. -
     Thus it is impossible for any 
Spirit of Purity & goodness removed

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from Earth to experience any earthly 
feeling - but he says hate.

I ret'd thanks                                       [*// p 167*]
As next Tuesday I am to have the cont'n of the Vision 
& Cagliostro's Memoirs may I continue the Apocalypse 
on Tuesday Week

2124  8147  You can.

If any advice - & mentally as to my Seer

2125  8148  I have a few words to say
Sometime ago, I appeared in Mr. 
Lea's mirror at Limehouse,  I then 
said for the last time, but I have 
reason to believe that what I have 
said about religion made an impression 
upon his mind  that nothing else 
perhaps would do - do you think so

I explained that I felt sure that as my friend Lea 
knew & believed per force, things appertaining to Spiritualism 
which was quite opposed to his reason, or to mathematical 
demonstrations - & yet were True - so he might soon be 
convinced to recieve thro faith that belief which his reason 
would never give him.

2126  8149  It is more acceptable to God when one 
man neither great in faith, in truth 
or in Charity is brought through Jesus 
Christ to a firm belief in him and 
in his holy Spirit - Even at the eleventh 
hour. than it is to receive those who 
living in him have died in him. - 
     He rejoices to recieve a lost sheep 
more than the counted ones in his 
fold.  and knowing this, I would 
willingly place Mr Lea on a surer 
ground than he is at present. feeling 
that I have made an impression on 
his mind, I earnestly wish to communicate 
with him again - because I now

156

8149  certain by the Grace of God, that by 
knocking down the old temple of his 
worship I could                      by faith
     There are appeals that go more
to the heart of man simple yet 
truthful as they are than all books 
written or words penned
     If I could make this appeal 
to his heart by striking at that point 
where his [faith] (sic) belief wavers. I 
fear not my success in making him 
[believe] (sic) walk by faith and not 
by sight - and making him firmly 
assured by the reason of the Soul 
of that Souls Salvation only through 
the death of Christ.

I hope to see him on Friday next & will with your 
permission make an appointment for him to be here 
on Friday week

2127  8150   I would much rather appear in his 
mirror for that purpose.

I had much difficulty to get my Seer to go last time 
to Mr Lea's and as I promised not to ask her to go again 
I am at a loss how to manage it - As Mrs. Lea 
can no longer see - but he could bring his mirror here if 
that would do.

2128   8157  I do not wish him to come here on 
account of the Guardian Spirit that 
attends him.

I do not know how to get over the difficulty unless 
you can open Mrs Leas Spiritual Eyes

2129 8152  I have no power over things, had 
I so, I might make him by force 
believe what I would try to do by 
conviction
had I that power I would not use it

I do not then know how I can arrange it

2130  8153  You can ask her Guardian Spirit 
to give her the power of Seeing but

157

You must do mentally.
but he careful above all things 
that you do not ask him to show 
her any other vision and that you
do not call any. 
Simply desire my appearance &
if that fails do not persist in it
once will be sufficient 
when you are ready to receive the 
Vision put your hand on the 
mirror
     Mentally ask Lero to enable 
Mrs. Lea to see the Vision that you
desire - then ask her inspect
the mirror without having told her
what you have done.

I returned thanks 
25' to 10 PM. 

                             Oval Mirror
              Requested J B to show the Book we
              last saw & continue the Comm'n
8154  2'
Heres the book again  its opening at the same place
Its quite plain
May I request you to turn the book so that my Seer
may copy the 2nd quarter of the book
Emma said the wheel in the Centre has turned round
on the little pivot
She then gives me the figures & signs & I completed
the other three sides - & at each quarter upon requesting
it the wheel turned round to enable her to read it
this occupied us an hour ---
10 30 PM  Action Ended. --
                see the wheel page 150

158

♂︎die  30 Nov.  1855, 8 PM.
                   Lero's Mirror
At Limehouse Mrs Charlotte Lea Spex.
I invoked agreeable to the CA's instruction, for half
an hour strongly & earnestly.  at the end of that
time  the mirror altho veiled -- had no vision
I requested Lero to inform me if we could have a 
Vision -

8155  In half an hour
You will I think regain your Vision
You will not see till then.

1/2 past 8
[9] PM.
                 Invoked again
After a lengthened & earnest mental Invocation
     The mirror veiled a beautiful light
appears.  Now the two top corners are very bright
its all gone thick  now there a figure but so
distant I can hardly see it -- there is some
reading  I cannot make it out  I can see the
figure has a bright light round the waist but
cannot see the face -- after some time Mrs.
Lea said       

8156     "God in his good time ----

but could not read the remd'r of the sentence
It remained a Considerable time & upon my
requesting the CA to appear plainer  the light
around the C. A become dazzlingly painful
The CA then left at the top side -
9:15 PM.

159

♂die  4 dec. 1855      C. A Mirror
                    Invoked the C. A.
I explained to the C A our want of success at Mr Lea's
on Friday evening

2131
8157  I wished, earnestly wished, to have given
Mr Lea instructions and advice for his
future welfare.
    Unless I could do so to himself it w.d
be of little use
    Mrs Lea will not regain her power of
Vision 

Mrs Lea has a niece   a Child about 11 Years old who
partially  Sees. Could Mrs Lea direct her faculty

2132
8158  I cannot tell unless I was near her.

May I "call" for Mr Lea next Friday week to see if
the child can see.

2133
8159   I have before said I shall more urgently
wish it now  - that you should not call
any more spirits in his mirror
     He has quite as much power for calling
them for visions of trial as you have.
I do not think it probable that he will
succeed for a long time neither do I
wish it so far as more visions are concerned
that excite curiosity, make amusement
or lend only to what is much worse
interest and ill gotten health. but
at the same time I earnestly pray
and am desirous of doing all that is
possible for the spiritual welfare of
Mr Lea.
I am desirous that one at
least should try first believe in
things far greater than this world

160

8159  can afford. and knowing as I do that 
in Gods Grace He makes the most 
inscrutable agency the means of enlightenment 
and guidance to his beloved 
people,  I have looked upon these things 
as the end by which he would be made 
a faithful follower of Christ.
     If I had accomplished this I 
should have left him, never to have 
appeared again or to have held Comm'n. 
with him in this world, for it is not 
his body or his mind as a man of earth 
that I love. but the immortal and the 
precious treasure within.

I explained at length my more than 20 years friendship 
with Mr Lea. - and asked if there was any harm in 
his Calling for his Young Seer to improve her vision

2134  8160  There is not

As to Calling or constraining

2135   8161  No It does not
I do not wish to be called on Tuesday W[?] 
but his Calling does not oblige me to 
appear.
I do so of my free Will.

I explained that my Seer declined going before that 
she had done so to please me, & that I could not 
ask her to go again - if the C.A had any method 
to propose

2136  8162  I have not I much wish to appear 
to him

I do not know any way than his bringing his 
mirror to Croydon. of getting over the difficulty

2137  8163   He must not come here

I do not know how to surmount the difficulty

161

2138   8164  You will do me the Justice of believing
that I only wish to appear  for his benefit 

I ret Thanks
If any &c.

2139   8165   When you next write to Robert Owen
tell him that I entertain the deepest 
respect for him, that I feel great 
sympathy for him and for his 
noble endevors [f]upon Earth - and 
that in sorrow I pray for his soul 
send him when published  a copy
of What is Truth.  tell him I trust
that he will see[t] in the simple
doctrine that it contains a later &
finer anchor of hope than the 
                  of one unknown God.

I ret'd thanks & explained as to the vision on        of
which I intended sending Mr Owen a copy

2140   8166  You are right

If I may &c

2141  8167  I have not this Evening.

Will you then please to favor me with the Vision

2142  8168  I will do so
May God bless you.

27' past 8 PM.
8169                      The Vision
     Now its veiled theres something coming all over it
it appears like fluted pillars white glossy looking pillars
covering the whole mirror but not straight up  but standing
like a timber roof only  so indistinct & so very White
Now its rising & getting more like an arch,
there seems to be such a dazzling light behind
it as rises, its very bright it seems to come from
a point at the back which is intensely bright

162

Now it has got to the top it is a perfect arch and 
the brightness of the light seems to come down as 
though above and beyond it, it looks so beautiful -
     There is a figure coming in at the top [*a*], its the 
Spirit which formed out of the water, I can tell 
it by the Cross before it, its much whiter and 
brighter than when it came out of the water. it 
is coming from where the light is brightest - it 
looks so sorrowful - it keeps on looking all 
round it, its put its right hand up to its head 
its dropped its hand. and turned right round 
with its back this way., the wing's towards 
us and the face towards the light - (this is 
the first time the back of a Spirit has ever being 
seen by Emma) Now theres some more figures 
coming in the light - the Spirit is coming nearer 
to you [*b*] & the other figures have come down (to A) 
they seem to come down in a shadowy cloud 
that hides the lower part of them, they dont 
seem to walk or fly as it were but to come 
down supported by the clouds, their wings 
are quite still - the Spirit raises his head 
& hands as though he was entreating them 
now they come nearer. but when they come 
together there is such a difference, the Spirit 
of the water who looked so beautiful by itself 
seems now so coarse in the form & dress to what 
the others do.
     It looks like the C.A coming down 
Yes it is the CA. he has got some thing carrying 
in his hand the CA has his crown & 
purple robes on - The CA's face is so white 
that your paper (this) looks almost black 
compared to it. its a book he has got in

163

his hand a large square one but very thin 
and the[y] covers are not stiff. they bend over 
as though it was only a paper cover its a very 
thin book, its leaves fly a very little way apart 
theres reading on the covers and although so 
small its beautifully printed so clear & distinct 
Now the water Spirit is taking it from the C.A. 
they are as far apart as ever they can be, to 
reach the book  the CA has hold of the book 
at the top. at arms length and the other 
hold of the bottom at arms length. now he 
has taken it away from the C.A. theres a little 
ring through the back at the top of the back 
and he has hung it on a little hook at the 
front of the Cross. If the printing was the right 
way upwards I could read it.
     Now the CA's going up towards 
the light behind the arch - now they are gone 
& the Spirit has turned this way - the book hangs 
straight before him - the reading is.

8170 
                               Metaphysical And Spiritual Philosophy 
                                                       Or The 
                                  Connection With And Influence Over 
                                                   Material Bodies 
                                                            By 
                                                          Spirit.

The cover is white like the whitest of white vellum 
the letters are black and all the words begin with 
capital letters - It is a beautiful clear white 
book. no gelding - the Spirits face is this way 
and the space around him is going up so as 
to make him look coming down - The arch

164
is gone out of Sight, its get darker & darker
now theres something coming at the bottom
a little peaked place like the top of a hill or
Mountain and the Spirit is going towards it
its folded its wings close together at its back
and sat down upon this peak.- its unhooked
the book from the Cross and turned it round
opened it and put it on its knees., its put its
hand to its head & the elbow just on the Edge
of the knee and pulled the book more this way
it sits sideways to me.   its all going - its 
quite Clear.
20' past 9 PM.

                      Oval Mirror
9 30. Called J. B to show the Continuation of
                    his Communication

Now the books Come  its open, theres sums in pencil
& ink all round the wheel.     7 . 726 . 713 . 7                                                      
Is it necessary to copy these
pencil figures 

8171  They are of no use being Calculations
of the separate people who were
engaged in it

Is it necessary then that I should have the
Horoscopes. which surround it

8172    It is necessary to put round the Wheel
the Horoscope of the persons who are
engaged in the games of Chance by
this you tell who will lose & win and
What will be the amount

Can you tell me the dates for which they are Calculated

[Illustration -- numbers advance clockwise from the dark red line on the left]
7
17
27
37
47
57
67
74 Magical Number
87
97
107
1000 . 7
2000 . 7
3000 . 7 
4000 . 7
5000 . 7
6000 . 7
7000 . 7 M
8000 . 7
9000 . 7
10000 . 7
1 - - - - 5
10 - - - -15
20 - - - - 25
30 - - - - 35
40 - - - - 45
50 - - - - 55
60 - - - - 65
70 - - - - 75
80 - - - - 85
90 - - - - 95
100
10 . . . 20
10 . . . 30
10 . . . 40
10 . . . 50
10 . . . 60
10 . . . 70
10 . . . 80
10 . . . 90
200 . . . --------
20 - - - 40
20 . . . 50
20 . . . 60
20 . . . 70 
20 . . . 80
20 . . . 90
300
30 . . . 50
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
100 . . . 10
100 . . . 20
100 . . . 30
100 . . . 40
100 . . . 50
100 . . . 60
100 . . . 70
100 . . . 80
100 . . . 90
2000
200 . . . 50
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
9000
10,000

70

165

and then I can[not] compute them at my leisure
as my Seer is not acquainted with Astrological 
Signs - 

8173   This is a copy of Joseph Balsamos
he calculated before the times, but
the names of the parties engaged
will answer the same purpose.

Emma then furnished me with all the outer
figures  Actually belonging to the Wheel as on
the opposite side - when finished I said
will you turn over the leaf unless you wish to
give me any information first.
     Now theres another leaf turned over
Theres pictures of dice theres 4 dice theres a
red line curled round the page - at the bottom
theres a glass bowl. with a red liquor in it
1/2 way up., theres a line or cone drawn through
it and a dice in the middle - the half of the
dice in the liquor looks like pearl the other half
like Ivony. 

8174   Theres 4 more dice at the top
(see the drawing at the back).
they are 1. 4. 2. 3. - they have reading under
them.

8175 "  The lowest number must be put in the
solution that will make your
opponent lose - 
the lowest number being heavy of course
cannot turn up.

Theres a pack of Cards in the Middle, theres 
two hands under the cards got hold of them
as it were -

8176   "This is for winning unfairly in throwing

[Illustration]

The lowest number must be put in 
the solution, that will make your 
opponent lose - the lowest number 
being heavy of course cannot turn
up.

166

dice you can throw any number you 
please by making the reverse side of 
the dice heavy, and that without ever 
being in any way discovered

Now the book's short is gone clear
Have you any further observation to make

8177 No

Will you continue next Tuesday

8178  Yes

20' past 10 PM   Ended.

                 ♂︎die 11th. Dec'r. 1855. C.A. Mirror
8 PM                 Invoked the C.A.

May I ask if there is any objection to my calling 
Orion & other spirits into my other mirrors & crystals & 
receiving information from them.

2143  8179   No harm arises from your [doing] seeing him 
or recieving his communications
     But harm would arise from it if you 
allowed yourself to be influenced by his 
opinions and advice
     He is little better than an Evil 
Spirit he mixes with them himself and 
delights in leading others into their 
company but his principles & opinions 
are too dearly expressed and too much 
opposed to all sense of right and truth 
that must exist in the hearts of all 
who would not willingly err, to obtain 
reliance or trust.

I explained

2144  8180   I do not wish you to call one Spirit 
exclusively when you have a chance of 
calling and seeing others of every grade 
In Spirts as in Man you can only

167

judge from their appearance, their 
actions and their communications and 
if the whole is consistent and perfect 
to your standard of excellence, then 
you do them as with man only justice 
in believing them good
     I will answer your questions 
concerning the revelations of St. John

I read the 3rd Chapter.

2145  8181 //  John makes the same mistake here 
as in the former ones, his whole 
description of Christ speaking is written 
as though it were the description of 
Christ given by himself to be transferred 
to the Church.
     I think myself the doctrines 
in those Chapters is quite spoiled by 
the manner in which it is given
     The whole of the revelation is 
written the same and I look upon it 
the same as the dreams of Swedenborg 
A good man holding communication 
with Christ by means which in a 
waking state he cannot fully 
understand or rather the impression 
being perfect on his mind he cannot 
make those understand to whom he 
would give it                                           //

I read the 4th Chapter

2146  8182   The description is very peculiar 
it is inconceivable that a door sh'd 
open in the Heavens where space is 
without limit without division or 
without restraint - It is also impossible

168

that living creatures in the likeness of 
monsters, worse than any animals 
created in nature should be in the very 
presence of God because if this is taken 
with faith - you cannot consistently deny 
the existence of Souls in Animals, for 
without a Soul there would be nothing 
saved, and if at the end of all things 
in a place where the greatest of souls 
would be seen, Animals are there 
saved and placed it must be by the 
intercession of Jesus for their Souls
     Or if in another light these animals 
are considered as symbolical signs 
for what purpose could the maker 
and commander of every thing beautiful 
have monsters in his presence such 
as the description given by John - 
that they really exist there it is absurd 
to believe.

I read the 5th Chapter

2147  8183  That Chapter is a perfect transcription [*?*] 
of Johns writing and in the beginning 
of it there is an error which cannot 
be passed over -
     On the book being produced with 
7 seals he states that he wept 
because there was no man found 
worthy of opening it.
     Now in a spiritual world where 
he is the only mortal - and he says 
that he went in spirit - in a place 
where no Soul even could enter unless 
redeemed, and cleansed & purified 
a book is produced in the very hands 
of the Almighty God, and no man 
is found worthy of opening it.

169

It implies that the book could not 
be opened by God himself and that 
by some means a trial was made 
among men.  for if no trial was 
made how could it be found that they 
were unable to open it - and if man 
in his mortal state - and the mortal 
state is man - could not be as a 
man in the presence of his maker 
and in the Spirit World, - then that 
book must have been sent to man 
on Earth, and he being unable to 
open it - Man the image of his 
Maker with the Divine Spirit within 
him and the influence of God over 
him being found unworthy of opening 
the book, - the task devolves on one 
much beneath the state of man 
one of the Animals -
          Do you see the Error

I explained re-read Verse 13.

2147  8184   It is the truthful dreams of a Man 
I cannot see the good of publishing 
them - More than this I cannot 
see the sense of believing them for 
in the last verse that you mention 
there is another great inconsistency
     John being in heaven & in the 
presence of the Spirits - hears, (that is 
a mortal faculty) - the living creatures 
on the Earth the fishes, and the birds, 
and the Insects proclaim the praise 
of God. - Now this is utterly 
impossible and must seem so to a 
Mortal - And if you pass over 
that - and believe that he heard the

[*170*] Spirits of these Animals & fishes speak 
you not only allow that they have 
a spiritual existence, but that they 
have reason, and not only reason 
but a soul - and faith in one 
particular Creed, by which that soul 
can be everlastingly saved by 
recognizing with praise and worshipp'g 
God they must condemn [*?*] by reason 
other idols and worship him because 
they find him more powerful, more 
truthful, and the true God.

I read Chapter 6.

[*8185 2149*] I do not wonder at Controversy for 
who can understand that which 
does not exist.

John calls that a book which 
on the Seals being opened - sends 
forth - not tokens of peace and 
good will among men, but death 
destruction.

Recollecting that this comes 
from the highest source of all, that 
it is to take place at the last when 
the world is again void and the 
human soul is made divine

Can it be possible that these 
pictures from a book, should have 
an influence that the [?] God 
has not, - that Chapter contains 
within itself that which levels it 
with the Earth, - it seems to me 
more like the wanderings of an 
insane mind, than the real description 
of even a vision of things that will 
not exist until the world ends

And then how far different

[*171*]

from that which he describes

In one thing in that Chapter 
he alone is right - Spiritual books 
exist - they have done so from the 
beginning and will continue to the 
End. [*page 178*]

I ret'd. thanks

If any &c.

[*8186 2150*] You will see the end of the vision 
if you desire it tonight, that has 
been continued for some time.

We will with your kind permission do so and 
defer our Communication from Balsamo till next 
Tuesday Evening.

[*8187 2151*] The book which you have seen in 
the hands of the Spirit is mine.

Having been ordained through 
his own merits into the higher order 
of Spirits he returns with a mission 
to Earth, that is, to be the guardian 
& protector of Men, and good purposes 
and to exercise a pure and holy 
influence over those willing to receive 
the word of God, but the task was 
a difficult one and on entering upon 
his duties, he found apparently the 
same insurmountable obstacles 
that a man would do on first 
entering into Communication with the 
Spirit World, and it was necessary 
for his Guidance and instruction 
that he should have an explanation 
of the Connection between Mind & 
Matter. - Material & Spirit - Body 
and Soul, before he could perfectly 
discharge his duties to those above 
or below him

I have loved to contemplate

172

that subject in all its different bearings
and connections, my knowledge & conclusions
I placed together and gave him
I believe  that to others besides
himself it would be instructive and
interesting. - If you desire it at a 
future time you can see it.

I explained my wishes at length.
 
2152  8188  I believe it is best to finish one
subject before you begin another
The Vision  You can see concluded
tonight.
You can then continue the memoirs
of Balsamo and when I have
given a further explanation of the
Vision I will then show you the
contents of the book. --

1/4 to  10 PM.  The C A left. 

                 The Vision
8189  Now its thick  theres the peak of the mountain
come and the spirit sitting on it with the book
open.  in white,  his wings folded up, now he's closing
the book, he shut it up, I can see the cover
it seems so strange that all the words begin with
Capital letters, now he is standing up with his
wings unfolded, now he's going off the mountain
is going up  he appears as tho coming down,  now
I can see the tops of some trees -- now its come
steady  its sand and gravel under his feet
and all the trees round -- now the trees are
going (from left to right)  the spirit does not
seem to tread on the Earth  it keeps passing
like a [lashy?] wind sometimes wider and then
narrower  they look like fir trees & some with

[*173*]

tall thin stems with a few very large leaves at 
the top

Now it has stopped still theres a 
very large round sandy place all bare, no trees 
the trees are at a distance the Spirit stands in the 
middle theres something coming from him all 
over his head and all round him like a vapor 
now theres little images of himself coming not like 
him with the cross they come out in all directions 
like little images theres two or three out of his 
head and others in different parts in the vapor 
theres 4 round the lower part - 5 on the wings 
side, 3 round his arm, 3 in front of him 
theres 2 in his neck 4 round the head he is 
standing sideways, I cannot see what are on 
the other side they are very little images, he 
has still got the Book in the front of the Cross 
the Images have all come down to one place 
in front of him & facing the Cross they are going 
a double [?], now theres some coming from the 
other side Theres 6 more that makes 27 they 
are in two rows

The Cross on the Spirit comes from the 
band round the neck, to a little below the girdle 
of stones round the waist - The Spirit appears 
about a foot long and the Images ab't 4 inches 
they keep moving the trees keep going back. 
Now they are spreading out in different direct'ns 
and as they spread out he gets higher up 
hes gone right up above them they keep quite 
level, he rises above them going over their heads 
he goes slanting & head first now hes quite 
laying down (horizontal) as tho flying his wings 
are spread out, his dress and the clouds and 
all keep going onwards, he's getting a great 
way above them, he has almost got to the 
top of the glass - and the place where the 
images are is getting thick I can scarcely see

[*174*]

them, it is quite clear where the spirit is now 
I cant see them at all, the Spirit is at the top 
of the glass as though flying with his face 
down, in the thick mist below there's some 
lines coming across just like those I saw at first

(see opposite)

[*No 1. 8190*] In the first is a very large building 
something like Saint Pauls, it has a 
dome. theres a sheet close against it 
I can see all the little people carts & 
carriages., theres steps go up to the door 
and a good many people come down 
the steps and in among the people 
theres one of the little images, he came 
so curious in amongst them and from 
the Spirit above there comes a little 
line of white like a stream or line of 
fluid - its round & all the way the same 
size. - it goes from the Spirit down 
to the little image

[*No 2. 8191*] Theres the Sea all blue waves, green 
waves, no blue waves, all white foam 
on the top of each wave its dreadful 
rough. theres such a pretty little 
ship toppling about it - its so 
dark all round it - Oh it lightens 
in the dark cloud - & then you see the 
Ship so plain, it looks so pretty 
you can see the reflection of the 
lighting on the water. - it looks so nice 
now theres a little image come with 
the red cross., hes popped in from the 
top of the Ship - right on the highest 
part & stopped as it went down the 
side of the woodwork (the mast) I 
can see him standing on the Shipboard 
& he has a ray or line from

[*175*]

the Spirit at the top, now the sea 
is getting so much calmer, theres no 
lightning, the ship seems to have 
got steady. - that is all there is 
there -

[*No 3 8192*] I dont know what that is, it is 
such a dark hole a lot of men in it 
its not a room, because it has got 
a round rough top - it dont look as 
tho it was built, theres such strange 
things on the wall, swords crossed 
2 or 3 pairs - little holes in the 
walls and things in them as though 
they were stuffed in - & put out. 
2 or 3 little old duty flags, terribly 
torn right at the end theres a 
picture hangs up in a very handsome 
carved wood frame thats the only 
tidy thing in the place. theres one 
man sitting just under the picture 
with his cloak under him, he's 
got a long grey beard; black gown 
on, black velvet cap. - theres another 
standing at the side leaning against 
the wall, hes dressed something like 
an Englishman his hands in his 
trousers pocket his legs crossed & his 
back against the wall - a very long 
waistcoat on split up at the sides 
he's got a black velvet cap on. no 
beard or moustachios a little man 
with such a sharp nose & piercing 
little eyes, just over his head is 
a skull nailed or stuck to the 
wall. - then theres a little piece 
of something in the middle for 
the Table, its no shape theres -

[*176*]

Something on it - the table and the 
seats round look as though cut 
out of the rock. the table in the 
middle has a flat top theres two 
men sitting against it - the seats 
seem part of the rock or cave.

The picture over the old mans 
head has painted on it - (see opposite) 
theres reading at the bottom, it begins 
with R ---- its only one word I 
cannot make it out -

Its changing there's a little 
man coming on the top of the 
Table and such lots of little lights 
glimmer out of him and a line 
of fluid comes down - I can see it 
come down as it were

[*No 4 8193*] Theres one man sitting at a table 
in a glass room, the shape of a bell 
he's got a table, and a great many 
books on the floor, and piled up 
round him, he's got little holes 
out of the house and telescopes 
go through it - theres 3 Globes a 
large one a middling sized one & a small 
one he sits there, theres a little 
man comes down on to the table 
right into the books & a little pipe 
is come down to him.

[*No 5 8194*] Theres a room hung with black 
and a black Coffin on Tressels 
and Silver plats on it - theres candles 
coming, and the little man sitting 
on the top of the Coffin his wings 
foled up & his hands crossed 
before him -

[*177*]

[*No 6 8195*] Theres six children, one quite a 
baby the biggest is a good sized 
girl they dont look as though 
they belonged to each other, one is 
so dirty and ragged and another 
so smart - the baby is so pretty 
with a coral and a laced cap.

Theres a poor half starved boy 
so cold and ragged and dirty the 
biggest boy has a gold watch, in his 
dirty hands, & dirty greasy cap on, 
he is making all sorts of antics, 
his face looks swollen. he has got 
a scar or cut on his face. and the 
next is a boy in little jacket and 
trousers and white waistcoat with 
big hat on his head and a little 
bunch of flowers in his button hole 
and theres the little man - & the 
[?] a line & all the little lights 
dart out to each child

Its all gone

10' to 11 PM

[?]de 18th. Dec. 1855. C A Mirror

7h.15 PM. Invoked the C A

In white purple robe - crown &c.

As next Tuesday Evening is Christmas day may I ask 
if it will be agreeable to you to appear - the Evening before 
or the Evening after

[*8196 2153*] I will tell you before I leave.

As my friend Henry Lea is so unfortunate in these 
mysteries may I ask if it would be advisable for 
him to change his Guardian Spirit & if so &c.

[*8197 2154*] From the unsettled & undecided state 
he is in at present. I think no higher 
Spirit would adhere to him.

[*178*]

The Spirit who shows the visions of the 
remains of Joseph Balsamo's life wishes 
you to know that he will continue them 
on any Evening you may wish he being 
unable to do so this Evening

Knowing this and knowing also 
that a time of rejoicing is at hand, I 
will give you something by which you 
might bear in mind my sincere wishes 
for your welfare and happiness - Your 
instruction and advancement in knowledge 
I feel I cannot do any thing you will 
receive more kindly, than to give you 
this -

The C.A. has  the book in his hand. 
I ret'd thanks

[*8198 2155*] I will give it you this Evening after I have 
answered your questions & on another 
Evening I will finish it -

Shall I then postpone the reading of the Apocalypse. & receive 
your esteemed communication

[*8199 2156*] there is time for both

I read Revelations Chapter 7.

[*8200 2157*] It is perfectly impossible to take it in a 
literal sense, and it is even more 
impossible to receive it only as a figurative 
speech - All those who read it must 
surely recognize in it only the wanderings 
and dreams of a mind wrought to a 
state of - (?) by religious conjectures

If you look upon it in this 
light the only one in which it can 
reasonably be received - it is easily accounted 
for. - there are [more] no people more 
truly insane than religious fanatics 
on every other subject they may be reasonable 
& open to conviction

[*179*]

[*8200*] But if once a man is persuaded of 
one particular dogma in religion, no 
matter how absurd or how utterly 
inconsistent with truth as a whole he 
clings to it with his whole strength & 
from it he builds a giant creed - he 
forms fancies without foundation, on 
the most intricate subjects, and he 
dreams until those Ideas become 
unto him realities of things utterly 
impossible - putting such faith in 
his own convictions & those convictions 
arising in his own mind without any 
relation to the views of any other men 
or any written record, he naturally 
believes himself to be superior to them 
to look upon himself as a prophet 
and as one having a power that they 
cannot command. -

And so Saint John dreamt 
and so have men dreamt since & 
yet these are good men, men true & 
sane on any other subject, than the 
one ruling them. - 

Surely Religion is powerful in its 
simplicity to cause such dissension 
among men.

May I observe that my seer sees this evening with 
difficulty - does it arise from [possibly?] the position of 
the mirror

[*8201 2158*] They appear as plain as they have done

I read Chapter 8.

[*8202 2159*] That chapter is supposed to describe 
the end of the world. how [holy/hardly?] 
different that scene will be

[*8202*] John makes it a scene of torture & of [*180*]
suffering, and of horrors--
Is it not for God to believe
that he could torture those remaining
on Earth at the last day in the manner
described. There is no doubt that the
Second Coming of the Son of God will
take place without notice long before
to men. The signs of his coming will
be subtle only as his progress is made
and the [Colon?] and happy influence of
his [love?] will not make those then existing
upon Earth. suffer death by flames
or death in a sea of blood - neither
will they be scorched and dried up by
fire without even their knowledge. Without
there being able in the least even to ask
for Salvation their souls will be harried
before a tribunal as with Justice could
only punish their guilt.
Taking the meaning of that Chapter
in its mildest sense it would seem
that God is desirous to catch man in 
their wickedness that they might be
punished for it - that he is watching
to destroy them.  For in recognizing him
as all seeing, you must believe him
to be aware what is existing among
his Creation - at the time he chooses
to destroy them. And if he takes
them without notice and destroys them
in the state he finds them in 
of what use is the Second Coming of 
the Son.
No the God of [?] is not
watching to destroy his people but to
save them - and when he sees that 
the time is come that those on Earth

[*181*] 

have among them the true light of the 
Gospel - for the sake of his Son - for 
the sake of the ten who have preached 
his word, shall the million be saved

And again John makes the angel 
of God the messenger of Terror - he makes 
them do that by visible process, and 
that process revolting - the same thing 
the invisible hand of God could accomplish 
calmly & unseen. the Transformation 
of the Earth.

Is it not more consistent to believe 
that his Angels are in his presence. 
[waiting with him] waiting with him to 
recieve those that his Son shall make 
acceptable, and that at the same time 
he through his own power, the same 
power that created the Earth. should 
return it to the Void from which he 
brought it -

May I &c

[*8203 2160*] Yes

I read Chapter 9.

[*8204 2161*] Do you not think that that Chapter 
is too revolting to be one of the same 
record in which Jesus Christ when 
dieing upon the Cross with his last 
breath. prays

"Father forgive them for they know not 
what they do." - ?

Passing over the slighter errors for I 
cannot conceive how John after describing 
the being which he does of many

182
forms as coming from the bottomless
spirit - can call it a locust - surely
there is no likeness between that
Animal and his description - this is
a trifle compared to the tenor of the
whole.
I will call your attention to the
part in which he speaks of these
forces of Evil tormenting the human
beings whom God has let fall into
their hands knowingly for five
months.
If any thing can justify
the assertion of all clergyman that
many millions is too small a
Calculation for the number of the
Everlastingly damned this is it.

If &c

2162
8205
If you wish to read another Chapter
I will answer it.

I read Chapter 10

2163
8206
This Chapter seems almost absurd
The part which John assigns to
himself during all these proceedings
is a very prominent one. - In the
Character of a Mortal he cannot be
on Earth and in heaven - Speaking
to those about the throne - and Eating
(this shows he must have been in 
the mortal state.) The book presenting
to him by the Angel standing on the 
Sea & Earth. For what use could he
swallow the book - or how could he
taste it both sour & bitter - and if
he did eat if for what possible use
could it have been done.

"Spirit is universal life and from that springs every thousand quality"
I said my Seer is not able to read the following  words will you
please to render them plainer

2165  [?] &c.

It cannot for a moment be received as [* 183*]
                       an account of what will actually take 
                       place - to believe in it you must deny
                        entirely every principle of true religion
                        And if you do deny consistency and truth
                        for the dark and uncertain men of 
                        imagination what do you gain by 
                        the exchange. probably nothing
                        for in the whole course of that revelation 
                         there is nothing that man can receive
                          no foundation for reasonable faith
                          there is no way provided out even if
                          leading him to the distinction of being
                          one of those marked by the Angel
                          to escape the Destroyer.
I ret a thanks.
many [?] solicit the [form?] of receiving the contents
of the Book. [?]  by you to the Spirit in the Vision 
entitled Metaphysical Spiritual Philosophy.

Now the Ca has opened the book - it is very small 
as yet - it is printed in very small yet beautiful
type - only the [?]  from [?]  there is no fly leaf
the writing begins a little below the middle it is 
beautifully printed , no moment but so distinct
Clear and such white paper on the top is three lines.

[*21/14 8207*]    "Where there is life there also is Spirit --
                                In all things created there is Life
                                Therefore in all things created there is Spirit
                                
                                 Acknowledging &etc. &etc
[?]  a read the first page. and the leaf then was [lined?]
[?] .- [?] the 2nd page-- then her vision becoming
indistinct  the  [?] 
[*8208 2165*] She is not able to read any more
will you kindly continue the Comm. n at your next
apparition
[*8209 2166*]  I will do so

As next Tuesday is Christmas day may I ask which 
day will be agreeable to you to appear.

[*8210 2167*] I cannot appear before the Tuesday 
following

Shall I then defer recieving the memoirs of Balsamo

[*8211 2168*] No it will make no difference 
about your recieving that.

If any &c

[*8212 2169*] I have not this evening

1/2 past 9 PM

The C A left. Action ended.

[?] 18 Dec'r. 1855

7466.7  Unitarian doctrines  18b
7471     The Action on the eyes of the Seer =  by the CA's appearance
              --- Glasses.
7470     not to [?] on the orater
7474     Dr Ashburner in light
7601     the C A distance from us when called
7617     As to important manifestations
7619     Spirits names show their office & powers
7660     The Old Test't -- & full [?] Rx
7713     Seeing in the crystal.
7715     Teachings in d o
7723     Crystal seeing
[*x*]  7727  What is Faith -- 7728  prayer
7729     redemption  thro  J. C.   The [Trinity?]
7737     As to my mesmerising.
7759     writing the [?ship]
7767     I  John v 7.  see Rx 419
7777-8   Jesus quotes moses  7789
7780     "What is truth"
8008     The words "The Bible" defined as the N. T. alone
8053     My A.S. and his opinions
8097     The Evil spell.   to 8110
8121.2  The sacrament
8027     [?] [?] the Key to Rosalo
8192     the possible P. C

BF1335
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