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C R E A T IO N S , SUB VERSIO N S, R E D E M PT IO N S , A N D H A R M O N IE S .

TIIE III RELATION'S TO EACH OTIIEJL

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TH E PROGRESS OF CREATIONS.[continued .]

81. When these infinite activities have reached so near the end o f the transition passage, or fourth senes o f progression, as to be perceived as light, proceeding at the average rate o f say two hundred thousand miles per second, or ninety-six millions of miles in eight minutes, the straight lines have be­come so spirals, as that the ingenuity o f man iu some of its elevated states, has been able to perceive its spirals. As it proceeds toward crea­tions, its volocities become less rapid, and its spi- rality greater, until, to all finite perception, it ap­pears to rest in what we call the “ footstool,”“ earth,” or material substances of creation. (See No. 35, 111. j , 3, -1, Ac.)

82. Thus has the Infinite proceeded by His In­finite Activity, down to infinite finitencss, or the in- iinitely numerous inilnitessimal mat citi J aubstnnccs, which are His own life, form and subitane, stand­ing outermost, both as respects Himself and as re­spects finite creations. This is the point iu which both the Creator and creation meet, and is the Incesi o f all tilings* Upon this creation is reared, it being a descent from the Creator's high­est, to llis lowest, through or by wisdom, power and activity, all of which are impressed upon this intermediate substanco called matter, which Is in­finite as by itself, and as a tiling as o f itself, and infinitely numerous, as to finite parta. Hero ¡3 where the Infinite and thcjLifrc cohere or reside in one and the same tiling, and upon the form of which is indelibly stamped botli the infinite in the num­ber of parts in the wholo, and the finite in the parts singly considered. Matter is a universal infinite substratum or basis, consisting of infinitely numer­ous parts, or o f intinitessimal particles, so to speak. It may be seen, also, that every function from the primary Love or desire o f use, is stamped upon, or resides in, matter, agreeably to proposition O'J and III. Tims Love, wisdom, power and activity, all meet in the bases called matter. (No. 4, 111. e.)

80. The unceasing change that is going on in everything, that is known to man, even in the cen­tre of the earth, the rocks, Ac., is proved by the continued exhalations o f odors, magnetism, &c., from them. This proves that in every created tiling, there is still that infinite life, and certainly shows that even what, is called dead material sub­stances, there is still the activity or life of the L i­gnite left in them. What the orbits, mentioned in No. 35, 111. 4, above, lack o f being perfect circles, are the analogies of the life o f the Infinite still re­siding iii them. (No. &n.) This life or activity of the Infinite that resides in the material substances, (see No. 35, Ill.y, 0,) lias in it the nature or quali­ty o f the love of the Infinite, which proceeds by straight lines towards its object. (No. 72.) This is in its potency, in the material substance itself, which has never been, neither can ever be reduced to a state of perfect death, which perfect death does not exist. This life, as far as it is in potency, in material substances, inclines by straight lines to­wards every material finite object in creation, which as we are now considering it, consists wholly o f an infinite member o f infimtcssimal particles o f mate­rial substances. This endeavor, or desire towards the object, which is, to give all the good itself pos­sesses to tho object, (which is the love o f the In-

■ finite, No. 31,) is, in material substances, called the attraction o f gravitation. This gravitation is in fact, a desire in every particle to get at, .and to bless, each and all other particles with all it pos­sesses, being one and the same in essence with that love which bestows all blessings from the infinite fountain o f all good, upon all creations, according to their infinitely numerous and variously diverse differences o f states of reception.

84. That gravity is weakened in force, agreeably as the squares o f the distances increase, is by vir­tue of the satisfactions derived to all finite loves, the energies and forces o f which become spent and weakened, when divided among multifarious ob­jects and dissimilarities o f conditions. Distances in spaces are analogous to differences of states, qualities and conditions. By these, the intensity of finite love is influenced, and among material sub­stances, which admit of the measurement o f spaces, distances have the same effect as their analogies. The intensity o f light, and tho effects o f heat, are both measured by the squares of tho distances, and that of life or love above the centre o f this transitional series, by similarities and dissimilarities, whi«h are Spiritual distances.

Illustration. Supposing two straight lines or rays of light to diverge from a point, until they are two

feet apart. Then suppose two more straight lines of light, heat, or gravity, to diverge from the same point, until they, at the same rate of divergence, are two feet from each other, and also two feet from the other pair. These fines then, form the corners of a square pyramid, with its apex in the starting point, and base at a given distance from it This base is two feet square. Multiply two feet or one side of the base, b}‘ itself or by another side of the ba#e, and the product is four square or super­ficial feet. This is called the superfices of the base o f that pyramid. Suppose, then, tho same lines were continued twice the distance from the starting point or apex o f the pyramid, it is evident the pyr­amid is now twice as high as at first, and the sides o f the base four feet long instead o f two, as in the first caso. Multiply the side (four feet) by itself or by another side, and the product is now sixteen feet, or four limes the size o f the first base. Then the force of gravity, or intensity o f light and heat, at twice tlie distance, is but one-fourth as strong as it was at the first distance from the starting point, because the same light, heat or gravity, in this case, spreads over four times the surface it did when it had proceeded only half the distance. Or, as the squares of the distances increase, the force o f light, heat and gravity are weakened, and this is inverse­ly, when more or greater, requires less or smaller.

85. Among material substances, that life, love, count its, endeavor, (No. 4, 111. c,) that is hound down and cannot effect its object o f going to, and bless­ing the object, appears as attraction or gravity, (No. 83,) hut that which does actually escape in never-ceasing changes of the low, the finite things, (No. 83,) appears as force, because it carries with it the power o f Omnipotence. (Sec again No. 35, 111. j , 4 and 0.) It is, in this state, called repulsion or antipathy, and when hindred or confined in its egress, until it is greatly excited, it manifests great force.

Illustration, 1. The power of steam, the explo­sion o f gunpowder, the swelling o f heated solids, and o f dry wood, udou the application of moisture, by which great rocks ina}- be burst asunder, are evidences of this repulsive force set free, hut which escapes our attention unless externally hindered in its passage, and becomes greatly excited and bursts from its prison house.

2. That attractions are unsatisfied loves, while re­pulsions and antipathies are satisfied, finite loves, may be seen in all movements o f minds o f low de­gree. Satiate a child’s attraction or desire for can­dy, fully, and lie will repel it. Satiate any impure love, or desire or attraction, to the full, and this is the effect. The antipathy o f Amnon for Tamar, (2 Samuel xiii, 15,) was almost equal to an explosion of gunpowder! As minds are elevated toward the Infinite, the satisfactions of their loves produce less and less of repulsion or antipathy, until i t is not felt in tile least, in the satisfaction o f elevated loves. As minds ascend toward the Infinite, this repulsion is changed to tho opposite, so that in the doing of really honest and truly benevolent deeds the love is increased, heightened and elevated, bj- its satis­factions, even to great felicity.

8G. Material substances, as was stated, are the point of contact between the Infinite and the finite, the Creator and the created, because they in the com­plex, contain both Infinite and finite. Or an infinite substance, divisible into infinitely numerous finite parts, and in eacli part, as a soul in a body, exists the impress o f the inmost or highest principles o f the Infinite, that is Love, TYisdom, Power and Activity, conibinwd. These substances, therefore, are the low­est or outermost o f botli the Creator and the created ; for toward them, from tlie highest, pro­gression descends, until it rests, and from this rest­ing point it rises toward tlie Infinite in more and more perfect life-forms and substances forever, without ever being able to reach the Infinite, be­cause there is no proportion or ratio between finite and infinite, because Unites forever multiplied would not reach Infinity ! This renders the com­pleto return' to infinity or Divinity impossible to finite existences.

Illustration. Any one may make seven figures or digits thus, 1 1 I 1 1 1 1, in less than two seconds of time. They amount by numeration to one million one hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and eleven, which would take a person a full month to count one by one at a moderate rate. Add one stroke more and the sum would take ten months in counting! Add one more, and over eiyht years woald be required! Tho sum is now beyond finite conception in tlie work o f two seconds; but still add another stroke and eighty-three years would he required! One more, and eight hundred and thirty- thru years are necessary! ! ! Then suppose to be added to this work o f two seconds, stroke after stroke for ten thousand times ten thousand years, still to tliis vast sum every stroke or digit that might be added, would make tlie sum one more than ten limes what it was before, and yet so far would tlie sum bo from infinity that each stroke would increase tlie whole number ten times more rapidly than tlie preceding.

87. T lie death-like appearance o f material sub­stances is only an appearance to finite eyes. These substances are only relatively dead. Every portion, part and particle o f material substance has within it, or with it, or o f it, life from the Infinite in rela­tive composure, in respect to the greater active ex­citement that appears to exist in light. The whole theatre of created existences, exist and subsist in a soa or ocean o f life, that encompasses or lives with­in those existences on all sides. W ere this not tho case, wore there even tho smallest vacuum o f life, the activity o f life would flow or rush into it with the most powerful pressure, inconceivably above the force o f gunpowder explosions. W ere there any considerable vacuity in this ocean of life, th'

activity o f the most apparently dead substances near by would rush into it, until they would lose their identities.

88. It it the disturbance of the equilibrated pres­sure o f this sea or ocean o f life which causes all winds, waves, currents, movements and motions of all sorts, both Spiritual and physical. It is the un­satisfied desires of that Love or inmost life, which causes tlie first movement towards creation, from, in or ly by Infinite, and it is still tlie same equili­brated by tlie satisfactions derived from creations, that holds steadily, leeps up, and sustains all things by motions, movements, checks, balances, and ac­tivities, intended to supply all deficencies, correct all defects, fill all vacuums, and obliterate all va­cances.

89. Creations were most wisely based upon, or furnished with, a universal material substance, em­bodying tlie life o f the Infinite, or tlie desire o f in­finite good to others, and thus endeavoring to draw all others to itself, together with the perception of all forms in itself marked, and included, as the statue in the marble quarry. (See No. 26.) A ll things were thus ready for tlie action o f tlie power of separating those forms. Thus the universal mass was broken or curdled, into the most general or common o f all forms, the globular. Thus were developed systems o f worlds and universes of universes without end or limit. This is a prepara­tion necessary to tlie further development, by the discriminating perception o f the qualities o f forms, when the affinity o f like for like shall predominate over tho force o f gravity.

DO. As has before been alleged, (No. 33,) this is the state in which “ the earth,” Gen. i, 2, that is, tlie material universe was “ void, empty, without form or unfinished,” for it was, as it were, in the womb, or egg, in prmgjcct only, until “ the Spirit of God brooded over the liquid mass,” as the univer­sal material substances were very properly called. This mass was then by a “ foreshadowing o f affini­ty,” (No. 28, LI. li, 4,) broken into partitions, which .breaking was the. prepnrntinner J--1 ¿11.4 .o f brilliancy being established as could, by such oyes as creation is furnished with, he dietinguised from, (by being contrasted with,) parts less bright, or comparative darkness. (No. 35, 111. j , 1.)

91. It lias also been said that the development o f the material universe er external creation, went on with the development o f tho Spiritual universe, or internal creation. (See No. 44, 111. k ) The dif­ference between the two may be seen thus: the Spiritual or internal universe proceeded from the Infinite God, as Fundamental, who is a Spirit, John iv, 24 ;• while the material creation, or the material forms o f creation, commenced from material sub­stances as fundamental, or with tho breaking down o f material substances from its universal, into its partial developments, which in its most general character effected tlie formation o f globes of earth. (No. 28.) This is the first series o f the material creation or tlie development o f material forms. (No. 40.) While gravity, which was the Spiritual or internal cause o f tlie curvilinear formations of globes. The surfaces o f globes (theoretically) are equi-distant from their centres. They are in the fifth development or series from tho Spiritual sub­stances or principles, which stand in this order:1 Love, 2 Wisdom, 3 Power, 4 Activity, 5 Gravity. This fifth is the first o f creation and o f the Spirit­ual in creation, in connection with the fourth, the active, o f which it is a lower degree ; for creation strictly commenced in tlie fourth, the active or tran­sition series o f developments; but actually or dis­tinctly with the formation o f globes o f material substances. In every particlo o f which material substances resides the life, or activity o f the Infinite, and of course, in the complex or whole, for every­thing is what all tlie parts taken together make it to be, and neither more nor less. Tlius every par­ticle and ail the earth together lias one gravity.

92. The formation o f globes o f earth from tlie material substances was the furnishing o f tho basis or foundation o f creation, or habitations for sensi­tive existences and the law o f forces, by whioh globes exist, is gravity, or the inclination of mate­rial substances to congregate (all o f them) into one mass throughout the whole universal creation, with­out respect to quality, respecting only quantities and distances. I t is analogous to that universal straight-lined lovo of the Infinite, described in No. 79, and to that love which tho* sexes feel for each other, without respect to whom or what the object or desire is, other than that tlie sex is different This is the basis o f the formation o f man, as the globes o f earth are tho bases o f creation, without respect to what kind o f earth gravity might bring together in tlie formation, except that the particles attracting each other were not the same, but other particles, as tho parties loving eacli other, were only considered as the other and not the same’ in sex. As also in the straight-lined love o f the In­finite, there is no consideration, except that the ob­ject is finite and can receive. (No. 75.) These analogies commence here because creation exists, or was made in order that man might exist, he the crown or creation, progress and enjoy the blessings o f the Infinite forever, agreeably to the original de­sire. (No. 61.) This was the prime object of creative wisdom. W e speak o f these as analogous because they are not actualities, for no beings are presumed yet to exist, in which such a universal love o f the sexes, for each other, could reside.

98. A ll elevation is attained by adding success­ively good things from above, without losing what is good, but only tho unsuitable. (No. 57, and Di.) So now, for croation to be elovated abovo tho mere globular state, it is necessary, not that it part with its material substance and its gravitating tenden­cies, but that something from above be added, that would, bj its operation, effect a separation of the

unsuitable from so much as might be thus elevated. Thil is the very power now to be given, or that Spir­itual oneration which addresses itself most especially to the ,'iitable, omitting the unsuitable. This is the second law o f creation, and is called affinity. (No. 29.) The material forms produced by this law, are called minerals, and this series, thus governed, is called the mineral kingdom. This might also be called the kingdom o f harmonies, based upon dis­criminating wisdom-seeiDg and wisdom-feeling con­trasts between the suitable and the unsuitable.

94. Gravity is the law o f subversions, while affin­ity is the law o f redemptions. From the universal desire o f good, was produced a universal substance called matter, with its universal and everywhere present attractions or gravities, indifferent to things suitable, unsuitable or neutral. (No. 79.) This is the lowest of progression from the highest, tlie con­tact o f extremes. It is from that highest love or desire o f giving good and good only, without the least respect to the state, quality or condition o f that to which good might be done. From and by this lowest, globes o f matter were and are formed, self- respecting and concentrating all material things into their individual selves, without respect to the qual­ity or condition o f the matter attracted. B y the force o f gravity, globes, globular masses, and spher­ules are ibrmed. I t is easy to be seen that in this universal, levelling condition o f creation, all the in­finitely multitudinous forms in harmonious varie­ties and diversities, contemplated by the wisdom of the Infinite, and upon the scanning and contrasting o f which, infinite wisdom exists, are defaced and brought to nought in this one self-satisfying incli­nation o f gravity. I t is to he observed further, tliat the formation o f separate globes, globular masses,- and spherules o f material substances by a foreshadowing o f affinity, (No. S3,) is a progression from the lowest That this is above the universal material point of contact between the Infinite Crea­tor and the creation, composed of finite things, is clear! (No. 82.)—- y5.-In tliU»-formation of-globes, globular masses and spherules o f matter, gravity largely predomi­nates over tho foreshadowed affinity. (No. 33.) It is, therefore, the material kingdom governed by gravity, yet not solely, (see No. 28, 111. d, also No. 38,) hut with a very inceptive power o f affinity, or the power bj- which this universally indifferent ma­terial state begins to he elevated out o f its state of indifference to that o f discrimination. This is in an­alogy with any individual who is in the love o f the sex generally, and is so far elevated as to begin to discriminate between the different qualities o f fe­male«, but not into the next above, the complete kingdom o f affinity, so as to choose a real partner suitable for him, “ a help meet for him.” This must be done by tlie law o f harmony, which in science is called affinity.

90. This law o f affinity, harmony or redemption, is based upon the discrimination o f the divine wis­dom o f the Infinite, (the second,) discerning the suitable, by contrasting it with the unsuitable. And by activity, the fourth in order, separating them. I t is that law which respects qualities and not quantities. (No. 29.) I t produces all forms, mental, physical, and scientific. A ll thoughts con­gregated in an essay; all beds of ores in the earth, “ expanses,” “ seas,” islands, continents, upon the earth. Vegetable forms that spring out o f the earth. (Nos. S8, S4.) Nations o f men upon the face o f the earth; societies o f men; schools; flocks and herds among fish, fowl and cattle; and litters

land broods among the young o f animals and fowls. It is tlie basis o f the families ,of the earth, and the union o f husband and wife, and by it arc associated all numbers, principles, and parts in science and machinery. These are all produced by the one law of'affinity, which discriminates between the suitable and tlie unsuitable, the true and the false, the real and the apparent, the precious and the vile, the pure and the impure, the holy and the un­holy. It distinguishes the righteous from the un­righteous, assimilates the inhabitants o f the differ­ent spheres iu Spirit life, bringing together into harmony that and those among whom the best af­finities exist, and o f course the most useful forms, and the most exalted felicities o f sensitive exis­tences. These all have then basis in that which is two, (wisdom) o f the Infinite or the second Spirit­ual degree o f the order o f creation, affinity. This is six in the order o f the purely Spiritual from the two, the second which is the wisdom, two multiplied by three, the power o f the Divinity. Thus affinity, the law o f redemptions, is the power o f discriminat­ing wisdom. (Study well Nos. 39 and 40.)

97. W e have now arrived at the sixth series of Spiritual order. First, Universal paternal Love. Second, Omniscience or infinite wisdom, or that which emanates from or is next in order to Univer­sal love. Tliis discriminating, separating wisdom, which, iu its greater strength, harmonizes and re­deems or remakes after it subverts or breaks asun- dor, as food is first broken by 'digestion, so as to mako more suitable arrangements. This emanating function is sometimes ealled the “ Son,” because it emanates from love, as a son emanates from a father. The divine Love could never effect forms upon which to bestow its munificence, without this emanation o f discrimination, so that varieties might exist that could variously receive. Third, The Om­nipotence, or all power, without which the great de­signing love, and a well-arranging wisdom, (the son- ship,) could do nothing. These qualities o f the Divine are finitely received into the human form. love is received into man’s will, tho fundamental of his desires, intentions and motives; Wisdom into his understanding, or tho basis o f all he knows, and by which he discriminates; and Power into his body, by which ho acts from his knowledge, im­pelled by his desires. Man is thus a full man, an

image o f his Cretor, for three degrees are always required to make an identity. (No. 4.) The fourth or activity is required in everything, in order to its being exhibited in usefulness. This fourth is, in man, actions, and in the beginning, primary or fun­damental mind is Infinite activity, as in His third is infinite power or energy. ■

98. Then in the next series begin the creations, as respects the Creator, and works, as respects man. The first series o f which, in creation or art, is the preparation o f forms preparatory to the bringing o f creation or work to its destiny or de­signed usefulness. The formation o f globes in creation, and the preparation o f materials by man to begin his works o f art. The second is the choice o f the suitable and tlie refusing o f the unsuitable in the mineral forms. The formation o f globes is first as respects creation, and o f minerals the second, while gravity and affinity, the laws governing these formations, are fifth and sixth in the progress of Spiritual internal universe.

99. W e have one principle o f the Divinity yet to speak of. It flows as a consequence from the re­deeming, harmonizing, affinitizing principle, which is that o f the all-creating principle. By the affini­tizing law^or principle, as before said, flocks, herds, litters, broods, societies, nations, &c., exist as a consequence. Hence, new identities spring into existence, when the affinitizing law, that brings iron to iron, to form a bed o f ore, wood to wood, to form the body o f a tree, £c., (No. 29,) or cattle and men together, to form a herd or society. Here then the herd, society, family, bed o f ore, &c., are new identities, formed by this affinitizing principle, as an effect from its cause. These arc forms that existed not before, hut were propagated by the very power that brings like to lik e ; or when bride­groom and bride are married, there is a new identi­ty formed (the family) that includes both within it­self. These new formations are regularly proceed­ing effects from that harmonizing principle as a cause, and hence this principle, in its infinite appli­cation, must institute propagation. From the for­mation o f a globe to that o f a tree, or a society, it is a_proces« o f propagation. So, then, that these new identities may he continued to eternity, that nothing may be temporal in its effects, this propaga­tion must continue to eternity (No. 59) in its effects. This is the foundation or basis o f the “ seeding seed” principle, or the vegetative procreating law, that distinguishes this-kingdom, which we call vegetable, from the purely affinitizing, or law that primarily governs - the mineral kingdom. So much is tlie vegetable the effect o f the mineral, or the propaga­ting, the effect o f the affinitizing, discriminating, re­deeming principle, that the complete divisions of “ land from the waters ” is placed under the third state ( “ d a y ”) o f creation. Gen. i. C. Hence the power o f propagation, the seven o f Spiritual order, is but a degree of the six, the affinitizing, harmon­izing power o f redemptions, as exhibited in the mineral kingdom called affinity.

100. W e have now arrived at the “ seven Spirits, or active principles of God.” 1st, The All-loving. 2d, The All-knowing. 3d, The All-energetic. 4th, The All-active. 5th, The All-pervading. 6th, The All-harmonizing. 7th, The All-creating. The seven analogous states in men are : 1 st, w il l ; 2 d, understanding; 3d, ability; 4th, action; 5th, in­discriminate love o f the sexes; 6th, love o f the most suitable one o f the sex, or the most suitable among companions, by the use o f aharmonizing dis­crimination ; and seventh, semination in marriage, and the making o f suitable preparations in society. The analogous seven as respects the mineral forms o f creation, beginning with the fifth above, are : 1 st, globes ; 2 d, expanses and minerals, including veg­etable forms; 3d, seeds; 4th, animalcuke; 5th, fish and fowls; 6th, the bodies o f men; 7th, the minds o f men, or the eternally propagating, pro­gressive principle. (See No. 47 above.) Here you see as in the case o f the seventh before, we have progressed into a principle, from material forms, for the law o f propagation is not the seeds, they belong to mineral formations by the law o f af­finity o f suitable for suitable, as well as rocks, ores, stems o f plants, and the bones o f a man’s body. The seventh is the All-creating attribute o f the In­finite, and in creation the propagating, procreating, and true principle o f progression. Thus the sevc-ns, the propagating, the mental and the rational, are all principles or Spiritual.

101. The Creator in His seven active principles, ( “ Spirits o f God,” ) having descended to the low­est, the material, and in creation, up to the intro­duction o f the propagating principle or law o f the vegetable, has not yet accomplished one end desir­ed. This is all the progress o f preparation merely, for the existence o f forms to be blessed out o f Him­self, as far as they perceive the separate appearance o f their own existences, but actually within Him­self, because He fills all things, and all things “ live, moTe and have their being in Him.”

102. The Infinite having thus completed the pre­paration by bestowing upon creation His own seventh attribute, the All-creating or propagating, so that creation could, as it were, continue by its own powers, now desists or “ rests” from His labors of preparation. He could go no farther in this direc­tion. The materials were all prepared, and on the ground, tools in abundance, and in first rate order. He now commences to propagate, first, spontane­ously, such forms as could have a consciousness o f their own existence, and o f course o f the exist­ence o f other things, because a consciousness o f self-existence is but a reflex o f the consciousness o f the existence o f other things. (No. 80, 1.)

103. Upon such identities as can he conscious of existence, the Infinite could bestow such blessings as He had in store for them, and desired to give, but upon unconscious things He could not The

principles o f life in all unconscious objects in créa tion is the proper life o f the Infinite in them, and is not proper to them as separate identities. (See Corollary 1 .) Hence it is, that up to the point where seif-consciousness begins, ail life is o f the In­finite. Thus we call, 1 love, 2 wisdom,. 3 omnipo­tence, 4 the All-active, 5 the omnipresence express­ed by gravity, 6 thé All-harmonizing affinity, and 7th, the All-creating or propagating principles, “ the seven Spirits o f God ” for nothing in these series is presumed to exist, which could be in possession o f a Spirit properly its own.

104. Tlie sensitive series in creation is four, which includes active forms called sensitives or aniinalculæ, some o f the largest o f which can be seen with the assistance o f good microscopes, and in analogy with the conjunctive vivified serum o f humanity before conception. The interna] or Spir­itual o f these are sensation, and is eight in Spiritual order, or the duplicate o f four, the wisdom o f the active, or two multiplied by four.

105. Here, after ample preparation, the identity has its own propter Spirit. Is self-conscious, can he blessed by the Infinite, as a being separate from Him. The smallest o f these organic forms o f life, inceptive as they may be, with all orders, diversi­ties and varieties, that are more perfect, even up to the rational and eternal progressive man, can, in finited life, revel in the life o f the Infinite, and he blessed by Him, agreeably to His fundamenta desire o f blessing others out of, o r ^ s it were, sep­arate from Himself, by the eternal satisfactions im­parted through their own proper Spirits or loves o f receiving, and keeping, and thus, by the powers o f procreating, and sustaining their own identities, he blessed and happy forever, during the eternal du­ration o f effects. (No. 59.)

106. I t may thus be seen that creation progress­es by omitting to retain the unnecessary and the unsuitable, the relatively low, the coarse, by putting on that which is higher and more suitable. Thus creation was, is, and will be developed and pro­gresses ; and, that it is by the eternal duration o f effects that it becomes fixed, and forever abiding, so that the satisfactions o f creation are the satisfac­tions o f the Infinite, mutually and reciprocally blended and incorporated into each other. It is thus that creation exists from the unchangeable substance o f the Infinite, subsists by His continued and everlasting propagations, after being harmon­ized by His law o f eternal affinities and redemp­tions, from the crude and discordant states o f the materials.

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GOD SEEN IN A LL HIS WOEKS.In that beautiful part o f Germany which borders

on the Rhine, there is a noble castle, which, as you travel on tlie western banks o f the river, you may see lifting its ancient towers on the opposite side, above the grove o f trees about as old as itself

About forty years ago there lived in that castle a noble gentleman, whom we shall call Baron.— The baron had only one son, who was not only a comfort to his father but a blessing to all who lived on his father’s land.

I t happened upon a certain occasion that this young man being from home, there came a French gentleman to see the baron. As soon as this gentle­man came into the castle, he began to talk o f his Heaventy Father in terms that chilled the old man’s biood, on which the baron reproved him, say­ing, “ Are you not afraid o f offending God, who reigns above, by speaking in such a manner V” The gentleman said he knew nothing about God, for he had never seen him. The baron did not notice at this time what the gentleman said, but the next morning took him about his castle grounds, and took occasion first to show him a very beautiful pic­ture that hung upon tlie wall. The gentleman ad­mired the picture very much, and said, “ Whoever drew this picture, knows very well how to use his pencil.”

“ My son drew that picture,” said the baron.— “ Then your son is a very clever man,” replied the gentleman.

The baron went with his visitor into tlie garden, and showed him many beautiful flowers and plan­tations o f forest trees.

“ Who has the ordering o f this garden V” asked the gentleman.

“ My son,” replied the baron, “ lie knows every plant, I may say, from the cedar o f Labanon to the hyssop on the wail.”

“ Indeed,” said the gentleman,” I shall thinkvery highly o f him soon.”

The baron then took him into the village and showed him a small, neat cottage, where his son had established a small school, and where he caused all young children who had lost their parents to be ̂ re­ceived and nourished at his own expense. The children in the house looked so innocent and so hap­py, that tlie gentleman was very much pleased, and when he returned to the castle, he said to the baron, “ What a happy man you are to have so good a son ?”

“ How do j’ ou know I have so good a son f ”“ Beacuse I have seen his works, and I know he

must be good and clever, i f he has done all that you have showed me.” .

“ But, you have never seen him.”“No, but I know him very well, because I judge

o f him by his works.”“ True,” replied the baron, “ and this is tlie way

I judge o f the character o f our Heavenly Father.— I know from His works that He is a being o f infinite wisdom, and power, and goodness.”

The Frenchman felt the force o f tlie reproof, and was careful not to offend the good baron any more by his remarks.

The velvet moss grows on the sterile rock, the mistletoe flourishes on the naked branches, the ivy clings to the mouldering ruins, the pine and cedar remain fresh and fadeloss amid the vegetations o f the preceding yea r: and, Heaven be praised, some­thing beautiful to see and grateful to the soul, will in the darkest hour o f fate, still twine its tendrils around the crumb'i.Ag altars and broken arches o f the desolate temples1 “ the human heart

__ Sincerity is to speak as we think, to dowhat we profess, to perform- what we promise, and really to be what we would appear and seem to be, be, i

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So long as M en are Honest, so long w i l l Success follow in the Footsteps of their Labors.

N E W YORK, SATU RD AY, JUNE 17, 1854.

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ORGANIZATION OF SPIRITUALISM.Tho minds o f believers in all parts o f the country have now

for some time been intent on some form o f organiaation, which might concentrate their efforts and give fonn and comeliness to their action. Under the influence of such feelings, several of tho friends from diflerent parts o f the country have been for several days engaged in this city in devising a plan o f organiza­tion, and wo have now tho pleasure o f laying before our read­ers the result o f their deliberations. W e give their Constitu­tion, their Address to the people o f the United States, their list o f Officers, and the letter o f Gov. Tallmadge, accepting the Pre­sidency o f the Society. Their Bye-laws are too long for inser­tion In our columns, but they, together with the foregoing mat­ters and a Circular from those engaged iu the movement, will In ft short time be published in pamphlet form and freely dis­tributed.

W o rejoice at this action, L r now v : have a hope o f order and system, where all has heretofore been like the disjointed matter in space awaiting the voice of God to speak it into active and useful existence.

C h a r t e r o f T l i c .Society l o r ll&c X > i f i i : * ion o f .S p i r i t u a l K n o w l e d g e ,

The undersigned, being o f full age. citizens of the United • States, and a majority of whom beiug citizens of the State of

N ew -Y o r k , and being desirous ■ to associate themselves for be­nevolent, charitable and missionary purpose.“, have made, signed

. and acknowledged the following certillcato in writing, pursuaut to tho statute passed April 12, ls4>.

The undersigned therefore certify.—i'trb t. That tho name or title by which the Society shall be

known in law, shall be “ The Society for the Diffusion o f Spir­itual Knowledge.*1

¿Secondly. ri bat* the business and objects o f the Society shall be,—

1 . The diffusion of tho kuowledgc ol the phenomena and prin­ciples o f Spiritualism.

2. Tho defence and protection of believers and inquirers in tho freedom o f thought and inquiry against all opposition and oppression.'

JJ. The relief o f tho suffering, the distressed, and the erring, so far as to enable them to lead upright and pure lives. “

Th ird ly , The number of Trustees shall bo tw elve; and N a t h a n ie l P. T allm ad ge , I I okate II. D a y ,E uWAKD l’\ IfuLLARP, GKoUOe T. DEXTKE.J oshua F. L am ing , Stephen M. A lle n .O w en G. W arr en , John W . E dmonds,Charles C. W oodman, G i:oi:c;e II. »Jones,N a t h a n ie l E. W ood, G ilber t S weet,

Shall be the Trustees for the first year.A ll which we do hereby certify» pursuant to the statute in

such caso made and provided.N . P . T A L L M A D G E , E. F. B U L L A ED,N A T H A N IE L E. WOOD. J. W . EDMONDS.

G E O U G E T . D E X T E K ,New-York, June 10, lsA4.

men in high places, the learned o f your universi­ties, the eloquent o f your pulpits, have dealt in them long enough. And what results have they achieved ? The theories which the universities sent forth to account for the alleged phenomena, as they wereapleased to term them, have not only rendered their authors, but the universities, ridiculous in the minds o f intelligent men. A ll the theories which they reared have crumbled to the dust, and their authors cannot shake that dust from off their clothing. It will cling to them so long as they stand upon this earth, and longer still.

Your pulpits— and we speak kindly when we speak o f them, for they have a holy office, whether they perform that office or no ;— your pulpits have launched forth invectives. The cry o f delusion and chicanery has been heard all over the land. But that was some time ago. I t produced no effect, except upon the churches themselves; and that course was abandoned. Policy was now adopted— another plan was accepted as the true one for accounting for the Spiritual manifestations, and which has been promulgated not only from the pulpits, but by the religious press o f this coun­try, namely, that evil Spirits have visited the earth, still further to delude deluded mortals. What pity 1 what pity ! They have ascert' ined that 1 Their sermons, their published communications, contain that assertion from their high dignitaries. It is very strange, if the}' believe this thing— that evil Spirits can come to do evil on this earth— that good Spirits will not be permitted by the good God also to come upon this earth to effect good purposes 1 W c profess to believe both these prop­ositions. W e leave you to examine the subject for yourselves. And we can tell you, one and all, i f you will render your minds receptive to the truth, and will engage in the investigation of this subject, it will appear as clear as light in the noonday, that Spirits both good and evil do come here upon the earth, among then- friends and relatives, and acquaintances, and affinities, and teach them good tilings and bad; for this is true. W c say, then reflect, ponder on these things; investigate, and as you shall decide, so shall be your progress here and your everlasting progress hereafter.

A 1) D R E S SUK TUB

SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE

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CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.

But a few short years ago, in an obscure locality, and under circumstances which seemed to warrant the belief in an earl}' termination o f the so-called dream, Spiritualism in its present form was born. Its few advocates, in the early days of its life, were looked upon ns lunatic— were despised for their faith; and men of respectability and standing in society could hardly be found who were willing to examine into the facts connected with the alleged phenomena, for fear o f the reproach o f the entire unbelieving community. .Since that period, Spirit­ualism has extended with a rapidity unprecedented in tho annals of the world— until, to-day, it lias be- como ft reHpcctftblc poTrcr in society-. AIuu, \\ liutit* education and whose genius have litted them for occupying the highest stations, cither in politics or in the church, have sacrificed all positions of earth­ly aggrandizement for the sake of what they be­lieve to be the enjoyment of high and holy truth. Connected with that movement to-day, arc many hundreds and thousands of men who are respected by their neighbors for their integrity and worth— esteemed and loved by their friends for their many amiable qualities. The subject has arrested the attention o f the learned all over this land, and in many other lands. It has produced books, for and against. Many of the publications on both sides of the question, are marked by ability and strength.

Within the last two years, Spiritualism has in­creased in strength and stature with a growth un­precedented in the history of mental giants. I f it be a lie, there is every prospect o f its enveloping this world, and, by its weight, sinking this world one degree lower in the depth of degradation. I f it be a lie, it lias come in so lovely a garb that men will seek it unless they be warned by a strong voice ; men will flee to it as.though it were an an­gel sent from Heaven— will become enveloped in its false light, and will be borne down to death by the weight of its false glory. I f it be a-lie, yc men o f America, who have one thought toward the good o f your fellows, it is your duty to come forward as one man, to tear the veil from the face of the lie, and expose it in all its hidcousness. AYe challenge you, as men— as earnest men, as men desiring the good of your fellows— to come forth and meet us in the fight, expose our errors, draw the'shroud away, and enable the world to see us as we are. W e challenge you to conic and do that thing.

W e believe that Spirituality is a Ileaven-born truth. W e profess to know that angels from Hea­ven— that the Spirits o f good men progressing to­ward perfection— have eoine here upon the earth we stand on, and talked with us, face to face, and uttered words to us bearing the impress o f their divine origin. W e sincerely believe this. AYe are respectable men ; we do not believe ourselves to be insane. AY e ask you to come and meet us, and discuss the question witli us; to examine these facts which we allege, and to prove, i f you are able, either that these facts never did occur or that their origin is other than that which it pur­ports to be.

AYe come before you in this present shape to show you to what a height the giant has attained. AYe come to you in this present shape to show you who are Spiritualists— who arc the madmen in this world, who believe themselves to be the really clear-minded and sane men o f this world. In this movement which we have commenced, we believe we arc the humble instruments in the hands of higher powers, for the production o f great results. W e are proud of the posts we occupy. W e are not ashamed to present our names for your consid­eration. W e are not ashamed to meet you on an equal platform, as men, and talk with you concern­ing this subject.

Citizens o f the United States— we feel authority for saying that the day for raising the cry o f hum­bug, chicanery, delusion, has passed away forever.You know— all of you who have reflective minds__that the application o f these * ms to this subject can no longer produce re- fits; but that rather these invectives, launched at your supposed ene­mies, will rebound upopYyourselves, and cover you With weakness. Your professed teachers, your

President.Guv. N A T H A N IE L i\ T A L L M A D G E , ’Wiseuusin.

Vice-President*.Chief Justice Joseph “W il l ia m s , Iowa.Judge W il l ie I*. F ow ler , Kentucky.Judge II. I\ Sp a u l d in g , Ohio.Judge Charles II. L a rk ab ee , Wisconsin.H orace II . D a y , New-York.Hon. "Wa r r e n Chase , Wisconsin.Dr. D a v id Cory*, Illinois. .Gen. E dw ard F. D u lla r d , New-York.Hon. R ickar d D. D a v is , New-York.Dr. G eorge T . D exter , New-York.Maj. G eorge W . R aines , U. S. A . • •E. W . B ailey*, Pennsylvania.I ’hineas E. G a y . Massachusetts.

* &:cref<iries.O w en G. W ar r e n , Architect, New-York.Selau G. F brk in s , M. D., Vermont.Charles C. W oodman, Editor, New-York.

Treasurer.N a t h a n ie l E. W ood, Chemist, New-York. .

H oa rd o f Trustees.']N a t h a n ie l IV T a llm a d g e , Counsellor-at-Law, Wisconsin.J ohn W . E dmonds, Counsullor-at-Law, New-York.H orace II. D ay*, Merchant, New-York.E d w ard F. B u lla r d , Cousellor-at-Law, New-York.G eorge T. D exter , Physician, New-York. *Joshua F. 3/a n in g , Merchant, Penn.Stephen 'M. A l l in , Merchant, Mass.O wen G. W a r r e n , Architect, New-York.Charles C. W oodman, Editor, N ew York.G eorge II . J ones, Merchant, New-York.N a t h a n ie l E. W ood, Chemist, New-York .G ilber t Sw eet , Merchant, New-York.

H oard o f Aduiaors.H arrison* B liss, Merchant, Mass.L ym a n L. Curtis*, Merchant, New-York.C. C. B ristol, Editor, New-York.

E. A . K in g , Postmaster, Ohio.B enjam in U p.ner , Merchant, Ohio.A ddison Sm ith , Merchant, Ohio.A. M iltenbergep-, Merchant, MissomLP. E. B l a n d , Counsellor-at-Law, Missouri • 'G eorge H aske ll , M. D., Illinois.John I I o w a r t ii, Merchant, Mass.A mos B ogers, Manufacturer, New-York. .John W . F o w ler , Professor, New-York.Cranstoun L a u r ie , City o f Washington.J ohn J. V iele , Counsellor-at-Law, New-York.E lish a W aters , Merchant, New-York.J. T a n n e r , Physician, Maryland.

The following is the letter o f Gov. Tallmadge, accepting the Presidency o f the Society:—

2»e w -Y oek , June 10, I S » .Sir.: I have received your note o f this date, informing me of

m y election to tho office of President o f “ The Society for the D if­fusion o f Spiritual Knowledge/ 1 I am duly sensible o f the honor conferred by this appointment, and accept it with pleas­ure. From my earliest investigation o f Spiritualism, I have en­deavored to avoid public observation, content with being an humble and silentsecker alter truth. But circumstances, beyond my control, have brought iny name before the public, and I have thus with others been exposed to the denunciations and ridicule o f the Pulpit and the Press, as well as o f those in high civil positions. I t is not in m y nature to bo silent or inactive under these assaults o f bigotry and ignorance. I nm therefore ready to gird on the armor o f truth, and manfully do battle for the great cause o f c ivil and religious progress in which you are engaged. *

Knowing the solid foundation on which ** The Society fur the Diffusion o f Spiritual Knowledge” is based, and that those en­gaged in it intend to spare no pains nur means to advance the great objects for which it was instituted, I cannot fail to foresee and appreciate the grand results o f Its operations. I .have ap­proved and watched w.th interest the movements o f the Am eri­can Bible Society, and o f the American, Foreign and Horn© Missionary Societies; but rest assured that the progress o f “ Th* Society lor the Diffusion of Spiritual Knowledge’’ will be in a geometrical ratio compared with those. Your Society is the nucleus o f mighty movements which will in due time be fally developed. There are causes now operating which, with Spirit­ualism as the fulcrum, will, like the lever o f Archimedes, move the world.

Wishing you “ God-speed" in your noble endeavors, J remain, with sentiments o f the highest respect and esteem,

Your obdt. servt., N . P . T allm ad g e .To Stephen M. Allen, Esq., Secretary, Ac.

At the first meeting in which the above organi­zation was completed, the following prayer was written through the hand of Judge Edmonds :—

“ 0 thou Great First Cause, Beneficent Father and Creator of all. we bless Thee for Th y mercy and loving kindness to ua. W c thunk Thee for the privileges Thou hast cast upon us in suf­fering T h y holy Spirits to minister to us. Accept the grateful offerings o f our thanks and praise, and enable us to know that our P.edoemer still liv#tli, that in every human heart slumbers the Spirit o f God as our Savior; to feel that l ie orders all things well, and to say liis w ill bo doue.’ ’ .

THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY.A t a regular Meeting o f the Society for the Diffusion o f Spir­

itual Knowledge, the following communication from the Spirit o f a distinguished American Patriot—spoken through a mem­ber o f tbp Society,—was received as the lesson o f the day.

Sly friends, one week ago I endeavored, so far as I was able, to lay before you a sketch o f the history o f the Bible, in order that you might the better understand its present condition and its present value. I think those remarks have produced some effect And that thought induces me to believe that the remarks which I shall offer you to-day will also produce as good an effect I have said all I desire to say at present upon the Bible and its condition. I now wish to draw your attention to. an abstract o f the history o f Christianity, to show how it has changed, has degenerated from its birth, almost until the present time. I cannot better in­troduce this subject than by repeating to you once more the parable c f the Prodigal Son; for in this will be found correspondents with many things in mental and physical philosophy.

The story goes— and it is a story which will answer for many realities in this world— that the child, when come to manhood, disdained his de­pendence upon his father, and said, give me my share o f your goods and chattels, and let me go forth and seek fortune for myself, independent of all control. And the father gave the son’liis share o f the goods and chattels, and he went forth and labored for himself, free, without land and without dependence. And he squandered his goods and chattels, day by day, and week after week. His condition became worse and worse, until, at last, he was compelled to feed the swine for a foicigu despot, and he began to feel that his independence cost too much. He was clothed in rags and tatters, and he became hungry, and there was nought to eat; he was starving, and he robbed the swine of

Hundreds and thousands and tens o f thousands believed that Christ, the man and God, still walked the earth, and that his mantle rested upon the shoulders o f his representatives, the ~ Popes o f the City o f the Seven Hills. Corrupt, wretched, mis­erable, was the world at this time. But it had not reached its lowest depth o f degradation. Poor, ignorant men knew nothing either o f heaven or hell or earth. . They looked always to those above for guidance. They never looked to God except through a mediator— that mediator vile and cor­rupt But it had not reached its lowest depth. There was one demon more which should take possession o f the church. That demon was go ld ; and after some hundreds o f years had passed by, the desire o f the entire church seemed to be to ac­cumulate wealth, that it might secure its power over the nations with chains o f gold. And in or­der to this accumulation, the slavish labor o f the poor was laid under contribution to fill the coffers o f the rich and great

Now it had reached its lowest depth. Now Christianity was obliged to eat the husks which the swine refused. But it said, I will no longer dwell here in a foreign land; I will return to my Father, and be happy once more. And it made a struggle to free itself from its chains ; it arose in its native might. It declared itself an enemy to the church. It commenced a battle, which was long and bloody; but it had a leader who was strong and brave, who feared neither man nor devil. A great reformer rose in the land, and he launched his thunderbolts o f accusation at the corruptions of the church. He told the lie, when he saw it, that it was a lie ; corruption that it was corruption; lie told the devil whom he met that he was a devil; and with his right arm, strong in faith, in depend­ence upon God, whose justice would crush that

their husks. How much better had it been, had ! devil .lo |hc carth- , That man was carncstt feeling he still continued under his father’s roof. lie had j dle d' ° n^A’ ° f man d nature. He knew there was plenty to eat and to drink, clothing to wear. How ! a ab °vc ab> and be btid n0 fear ° f Inan. He much better had he acknowledged his dependence | M ieved his ,Father’s kindly care would protect upon h im ; and he said, I will no longer eat the j . .husks which the swine refuse, hut I will return i d 'v‘d !10'v “ 'vc - ou td:c ~ubstonce o f another unto mv father. ' ; communication you have received, which will ex­

Such is the story— and a deep lesson does that j p!ain to -V0U more lullA" the course which Luther story teach. There is a principle of dependence* in i Pm'sued- Ue camc int0 aic ' vorld, be S ^ w up in the soul o f every man. That principle proves bv I thc bosom o f the Church 1 be believed substan- its existence that without there is something on i dadA' *n tbo loncts o f that Church. He was like which to depend. That something is God. i the rest o f mankind, and he lived as other men cannot bo anything else; it must be the came of j bvcd- He knew not that the whole world was

a ll; for the effect— the principle of dependence— I evil> and that lle was to be the instrument o f its depends upon a cause;— that cause is God. In

o f Christ, the province o f Nature or revelation; but I mean those men who have taken one- step to­wards throwing o ff their chains. You call them by various names— all o f which signify a more en­larged belief in the unity and love o f God. These men only differ from the rest o f the world, inas­much as they have taken one step farther towards their Father’s mansion. I mean in their professed belief •

Spirituality is the last and greatest step that has been made; is a living faith and belief that God exists— that in the Father’s house are many man­sions, and that the children who go forth as with one accord seeking that Father’s presence,— ac­knowledging their dedendence upon Him, and be­lieving that the highest happiness and independence is to do as that Father wishes, will find that the ab­sence o f restraint is anarchy, and that a proper sense o f that dependence ensures a true liberty, and that is doing the will o f God.

So much have I to say to-day upon the history o f Christianity. As the Prodigal Son, the Church, day by day, made the distance between itself and the Father’s house greater and greater; for fifteen hundred years'and more. Since that time it has been going back— been^eeking its Father’s house; and we hope that soon, very soon, thc Church will again occupy the stand which Christ himself as­cribed to it, and be able to progress from that point That this result may he brought about, look for­ward, not backward; look to Christ and Christ’s teachings ; seek always to reach the platform which he occupied. Then you may commence progres­sion ; then you may go on from that point toward the appreciation o f higher doctrines and higher truths ; towards a more intimate acquaintance with the spheres, more entire dependence upon God, more unity with your fellow men— more harmony with them, and, more harmony with the God o f all.

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the individual soul, the application o f this parable may be easily found ; and whatever pertains to the individual o f a man pertains lo the universal soul o f mankind.

But I would bring this parable and tins principle to bear upon the liistoiy o f Christianity. I would show how Christianity left its Father's roof; how it wandered, day after day, year alter vear, ccnturv after century, until brought to that state o f degra­dation when it was obliged to eat the husks which the swine refused. And then I would show you how it arose from its degradation and stalled on the march for its Father’s mansion, which it had long ago deserted, preferring a happy dependence to a miserable, wretched independence.

Eighteen hundred years ago, tho civilized worldwas all bound together under one Spiritual head__one controlling power ; that power was Home. The City o f the Seven Ilills sent forth her messengers, her governors, her soldiers, and all tlic world looked up to Rome as the fountain-head of all power and wisdom. A ll the rest of the world was dependent upon that central power. It was in a wretched condition, miserable and degraded ; for the govern- incDOWer was corrupt— full nf j-ottwuiess and filthand all kinds o f deviltry, and licentiousness, and acted lies, and miserable, hideous wickedness. Men kneeled down to imaginary deities. The worst form o f idolatry that has ever appeared upon the earth was practiced by the people with faith. No one for a moment can suppose that a revelation from God was not necessary. A revelation was necessary, and it came. Christ appeared in an ob­scure locality. Had he appeared in high places, he could not have succeeded. Those in power had nothing in their souls which cried for food from heaven; they had food enough upon the earth. Christ appeared where his appearance would pro­duce the most durable effects— in an obscure place, by the side o f an obscure lake. He selected men from the vast multitude; men who would listen to the words which fell from liis lips, would select those words which bore thc impress o f truth upon them, and would take them home to their souls, would prize them ever, and would reverence their author. A few, a very few in all the world, could Christ select who would follow his lead. Those few were pure, strong, earnest men, believing in Christ and in his Father— God. And with those few, he was more strong than the mighty empire of Rome itself. During Christ’s life, Christianity was pure ; it dwelt m its Father’s mansion ; had food and clothing, and it was happy.

Christ went to his Father. He left behind him men— not perfect men. Men, no longer restrained by his presence, undertook to think for themselves, argue for themselves; and, as almost always occurs in philosophy and argument and logical reasoning, they disdained their dependence ; they set up their own authority ; they took from their Father their goods and chattels, and went out to seek their for­tunes in a new field, proud in their independence Year after year went b y ; Christianity extended in its independence, made itself respectable, occupied high places, became corrupt and foul and sick. Had it not the very vital principle within itself it must have died; hut, as the prodigal son had within his own soul, though concealed, the love for his Father, the proper dependence upon his author­ity, which preserved his life, Christianity had within itself that vital spark— had the true de­

regeneration. When manhood came, a light broke upon his Spirit. He looked abroad upon the world and saw the river o f Time. He saw that river as it should flow, coming down from its eter­nal source. He saw not at first that its stream was obstructed, for his vision was blind; but when he looked again u]ion the river, he saw, stretched from hank to hank, a bridge— the bridge o f the Church. It had been built there strong at firs t; it was made of sound timbers at first. But age after age the rushing waters had made those timbers rotten and corrupt. l ie saw that this river o f Time had brought upon its bed huge heaps o f rubbish; llie bridge o f the Church had caught - that rubbish in its course; that the waters were kept back by this huge mass o f corruption; that they could not reach the ocean o f eternity, which was far beyond. He saw all this ; and, as lie looked out upon that bridge, lie saw that those corrupt and rotten tim­bers were creaking by the weight which pressed upon them. And then the whole truth flashed upon Liu .mind : I am tlic nnly man in nil this world who sees th is; I am the chosen instrument of Heaven to cut away those corrupt timbers and give the waters vent, and let this mass o f iniquity thut has diseased all the world, flow down on the bosom o f the river until its own gravity should sink it to its native hell. He hewed away at the corrupt timbers, and, crash 1 the whole fabric went down—just as it should. God never meant that such a barrier as that should' be stretched across the stream ol Time. He always meant that it should flow uninterruptedly, with a clear sky above, a great depth beneath, where the world could sail in happiness and peace. This bridge was crushed— went down— bore with it the whole fabric of church-government; it never could be re­paired. Ih e arms o f the Church had become powerless; its fate was settled. And here the mission of Luther ended; here he should have stopped ; he had accomplished his work ; nothing more was left for him to do. But he was not sat­isfied. He looked abroad and saw the ruin he had made, the great work his arm had accomplished: and he said within himself: I f I can tear down, I can rebuild. He never was appointed to thatwork; tiiat was the suggestion o f his own soul__not the suggestion ol God. Because he was stromr iic w £is able to stretch another bridge across the stream of Time, which went on, accumulating conniption, just as thc old one. He mistook his office, and, like all reformers that have ever torn down, he attempted to build up. But you draw a lesson from these facts. Let the stream of Time flow in its own course. Do not you attempt to build new bridges, to accumulate new corrup­tions, which shall at some future time peril the lives o f those who go over, and with whom the rotten and corrupt timbers in that mass may fall. My friends, i f you succeed in tearing down, be content with that. Form no creed, make no bridge across the stream; for the resistless waters which are continually flowing, may one day tear that bridge away, and make all your labors vain.

Luther mistook his office; he rebuilt the fabric which he had destroyed. He was alone at first, a strong man; he stood and faced thc world. He told the world o f its errors, and o f its lies. He said the strong medicine would be likely to cure those diseases, and Ijjs prophecy was true. Luther lived and died; and blood like water flowed all over Christendom. That was thc medicine which

ORGANIZATIONS AMONG ISTS.

EETTER FROM T. L. HAEM S.

The Spiritualists o f to-day may be classed into almost as many schools o f opinion as there are sects in tho religious world. Uniting in the accept­ance o f the fact that Spirits may and do communi­cate, upon all other questions o f Theology, they widely disagree.

A ll forms o f thought flow into visible organiza­tions. The ideal embodies itself in the actual, the invisible in the visible. Spiritualism is a form of thought; as such, it organizes for itself a Spiritual class, party, or division in society. I f to have a creed be to have a definite idea, the acceptance of which makes tlic acceptor a member o f a party, then all Spiritualists have a creed,— namely, that there is such a fact as Spiritual communications.

But Spiritualists are subdivided into minor par­ties. One division o f Spiritualists have adopted the general system o f doctrine known as the “ Harmonial Philosophy.” A ll are Harmonialists who accept this system o f opinion. I t is as definite in its leading doctrines, and therefore as absolutely a system o f belief as in Calvinism. I f a creed he a system o f doctrines, then Harmonialism is as ab­solutely a creed as is that o f Athanasius.

Harmonialists are therefore a sect among Spirit­ualists. There are thousands of Spiritualists who are “ Harmonialists,” thousands also who are op- posers o f this theory. But Harmonialists are the first sect extensively organized among the great mass o f believers in modern Spiritual manifesto- ■¿ions. T lm ir iD iiv o m o n k tone! tn t l ie -C jjtnbllcliiiinnt

o f a sect among Spiritualists. Their growth is sec­tarian extension.

There is nothing censurable in this. I f Spirits

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S T AYe would draw attention to the first chapter of the translation of Cahagnct’s great work on magic, etc., to be found on thc fourth page o f this paper. To some readers these preliminary chapters, devoted to historical accounts and definitions, will seem dry and uninteresting, but from a somewhat attentive examination of the original, we arc enabl­ed to promise a rich intellectual feast in the conti­nuation.

M. Cabagnct is already known to Spiritualists through his work entitled Arcana, published in this country by Kedfield, under the title o f the “ Ccles- tial Telegraph.” AA'ith thc close study and untir­ing p crseverance for which the French Scientfic writers arc remarkable, M. Cahagnet lias entered upon all the detoils of his very comprehensive sub­ject, and has founded his reasoning upon those cu­rious though well authenticated facts, which are scattered all through the mental history o f mankind.

AYe can promise those o f our friend^ who enter upon thc study of this work that they will become acquainted with nearly all that is worth knowing concerning the so-called occult sciences.

pendencc retained there all the time, and it lived ; ! the world needed in order to its regeneration, and it passed that ordeal. Those dignitaries o f the ! make it living once again. He had coadjutors in land, those men and women who professed to he- ! his labors— men almost as strong as he ; but those lieve in the teachings o f Christ, ignored, in ever}- j men committed similar errors. AYhen they had no act, and almost every word, the principles o f those j longer thc fear o f the gyves which in youth bound doctrines. The vt orld, after Christ appeared, was his mental arms, before them, they as corrupt as before. Thc name o f Christ was used as the tool o f corruption.

The Roman Empire dwindled down and died and in its place aruse»a combination o f nations. Nations united under one belief—in Christ and in his mission. A ll tHose nations bent their eyes to one point, to the most corrupt point— the City of Rome. On the throne o f the Ctssars— a temporal throne— arose the Spiritual throne o f the Popes. This was a step lower still. Men, filled with worldly ambition, whose position was such as to enable them to control all those having less ad­vantages o f education, exerted their mental power and bound their fellows with chains, bade them go in paths which they selected, and cursed them with the curse o f eternal damnation i f they stepped aside from those paths. . AYas not this another step downward ? Men bad become more worldly than before, the church more corrupt than any church that has appeared upon this earth for thou­sands of years. So was Christianity at that time.

became guilty o f errors which made the new almost as had as thc old. They thought themselves free, though they were confined. Luther had many strong sol­diers in his army. After he had left the world, and gone to his Father, his words, the truth which he uttered, remained; and Christianity had taken one step backward toward the pure Source from whence it started. After he died, other men came forth and modified the fabric which he built ; and since liis day, every modification which has been made, has been for the better ;— for every step which Christianity lias taken has been backward towards the Father’s mansion— has been

out o f the body see fit to consecrate Mr. Davis, Air. Finney,-Mr. Ambler, and hundreds o f others, to the functions o f Spiritual teachers, and if such me­dia, acting under interior direction, sec fit to oppose any o f the doctrines taught among Christians, and to disseminate the cardinal teachings o f the system which they style “ Harmonialism ” they have a perfect civil right so to do. I f they honestly be­lieve that the prevalent opionions concerning Christ are false and injurious, they are humanly justified in seeking to overthrow them. And if in process o f time, and as a result o f the teachings o f Spirits, media and disciples, thc Harmonial Philosophy be­comes the faith o f a large body o f Spiritualists, and has its organizations, its solemn rites and festivals, disbelievers have no right, because it is a sectorism, to say that it shall not exist. Free men have adopt­ed it in the exercise o f that freedom which is guar­anteed by law.

In fact, such an organism, such teachings, such solemnities, inevitably grow out o f the fact o f Spir­itual communications. A vast multitude o f Spirits substantially teach “ Harmonialism,” and thev in­duce among mortals cooperative effort and associa­tion, for the purpose o f indoctrinating all men in

j their favorite ideas. Ib is external association is j the outgrowth o f a corresponding association in the

may Spirit-AA'orld. ’AYhere a man’s interiors are opened, he by de­

grees comes into full and conscious association with that society o f Spirits to which he is affiliated from a corresponding quality o f affections. As the efflux from that sphere pervades him, he puts off’ his external ideas, and imbibes the ruling senti­ments of those Spirits to whom he is conjoined. I t is easy to see, therefore, how inevitable the re­ceiver of “ Harmonialism ” is led, in pursuance of his chosen inspirations, to act in concert with his fellow believers, for the extension o f the society to which, as to his interiors, he belongs. Spiritualists generally, o f the Christian class, have witnessed the effort o f Spirits, through scores and even hun dreds o f media, to organize “ Harmonial circles ’ ’ to disseminate their peculiar sentiments, and to subvert some o f their most cherished religious views; and while honestly opposing such views, have never disputed the rights o f Spiritualists to form any hypothesis, or to carry out any conviction, however in antagonism to their own desires.

The Christians among Spiritualists have not sought to suppress the liberty o f speech or action, and if their views have been attacked, they have simply sought the privilege which they accord as a right to all. They simply claim that thc rule o f liberty should be recognized by Spiritualists as valid, not alone when applied to harmonial circles i hut when applied to Christian associations. i

A ll Spirits in the invisible world are not the re- '■ cipients o f Harmonial Philosophy. It is well known that a vast organization o f Spirits exists in the im­mortal realm who believe that C h r is t is L o r d o f

a l l . That society believe that uplifting, purifying, I harmonizing and regenerating influences flow down I

where two or three on earth are united in the ac­knowledgment o f our Lord, that they should sol­emnly form themselves into a Church, to be the nucleus o f a visible temple, the depository o f Di­vine influences, the ministrator o f heavenly inspi­rations. To unite men on earth on a new platform o f belief and life, faith in the Lord and obedience to His example, to harmonize them together, to in­spire them to follow Christ, to cooperate for ¿he theoretical and practical triumph o f this faith, is their constant work. They believe themselves to be acting under a Divine influence, and to be alike the sincere lovers o f God and man. Already they have begun the work o f organizing among Spirit­ualists, not “ Harmonial circles, hut churches o f the one True and Living God.” This movement is called “ Sectarian;” hut Spiritualists should recol­lect that in the sense o f definite formulas o f opin­ion, concert with Spirits and organized effort for the indoctrination o f men, the Harmonial faith is also sectarian. Both o f these movements have their fountain head in thc Invisible. Emanating as these movements both do, from Spiritual societies, they will both grow till one Society or' the other begins to decline. They are the outposts o f oppos­ite spheres, and arc dependant in their fortunes.

Spiritualists, who, as to their interiors, believe that Christ is the Divine Spirit manifest in the flesh, will inevitably find in this belief a strong bond o f sympathy, and out of this faith will grow in time a religious organization as universal as thc race. Tho effect o f this doctrine is to produce unity. How great are its capacities to fuse the" heart into a glow­ing flood o f love, to exalt, to quicken, to transfigure the inner man, none can know but those who feel its influences. As the various sects o f the day de­cline and are resolved into their elements, a new Christian Church will arise from out its ruins. Multitudes o f Spirits are already actively engaged in efforts for this consummation.

TYhile these two movements flow on, nuemrous others will also he developed. 1 1 is well known that Shakerism, Mormouism, Romanism, and Or­thodox Protestantism, arc taught by circles o f Spirits. Each sect in the Natural world has its in­spiring society in thc Spirit-realm. For a time, therefore, or as long as these diversities o f opinion exist among Spirits who inspire minds in the flesh, we must witness a corresponding state o f affairs in the external. Only as opinions and organizations die out among Spirits, can they perisii here.

The only course left for Spiritualists is to follow their highest convictions o f duty. Those who be­lieve the Harmonial Philosophy will act in concert under Spiritual influence for its promulgation. Those who believe that Christ is Lord, drawn by that great faith into unity, will cooperate for such a diffusion o f Christian truth as they are inspired to do. This is not to be avoided. Any attempt to suppress these differences o f opinion will only in­crease the excitement consequent upon their ulti­mate discussion.

Spiritualists should, therefore, recognize the fact o f this difference o f opinion, and, while they should cooperate, irrespective o f these differences, to spread abroad thc knowledge o f those truths on which they agree, they should leave each other in entire freedom to disseminate opinions on which they dif­fer. I f Harmonialists choose to form Harmonial circles, and to listen to discourses against the Di­vinity o f Christ, or any other doctrine dear to Christians, let their right he respected; I f Chris­tian disciples are led to form organizations for pub­lic worship and instruction, they, loo, are to be re­spected. I f Spirits who deny the genuineness o f thc Christian religion choose to consecrate by im­posing rites, such mediums as Air. Ambler, Mr. Da­vis, and others, and recognize them as capable ex­ponents o f their views, no one has a right to ob­ject. If, on the other hand, men o f opposite views, under influences emanating from Christian socie­ties in the Heavens, are recognized as public expo­nents o f a diverse school o f ideas, this also must not be objected to. Each school, o f Spiritualists has a perfect right to form such organizations as it deems bhst calculated to promote the purposes which it has in view.

I have been led to these remarks, Air. Editor, by noticing an article in your paper, adverting to thc fact that the Spiritualists in New Orleans, who be­lieve in the Divine Humanity o f our Lord, formed themselves into a religious society during m y re­cent visit to that city. The Harmonial Spiritualists appear to find in this a serious evil. I have been placed to-day in an interior condition, by a deputa­tion from the society o f Spirits who advised this organization. As a man, I had no share in the work. I was simply used as a medium, and am certain that m y own mind had no agency. That Church has no creed, other than a common ac­knowledgment o f thc Divine Humanity o f our Lord, and a common covenant on thc part o f its members to obey those laws which l ie in his AYord has given. -Its members arc my dear friends, just, exemplary and conscientious men and women, and they are well aware, for they have other sources o f Spiritual communication, that I acted only as a medium for thc Spirits by whom for over a year they have been impressed. So fur from desiring to form churches among Spiritualists, I have made it a general rule, when spoken to upon the subject, to advise my brethren to remain in connection with thc various religious societies to . which they arc conjoined. I dare not form a Church. That is the work o f m y Alaster and his angels, not thc work o f man.

Mrs. Thomas, a speaking medium o f a superior order, is now holding (fiances in this city, and answering the questions o f those who resort to her for instruction on philosophical and re- iy o n s subjects. Elie claims to he under thc guidance o f a class RU ‘ .I?lrits, ""ho, winlo in tho flesh, dwelt in all parts o f the world, and who have now forsaken former errors and attained to

un:; celestial truth. _ The object o f the communications git en tnrougli her are to rationalize religion and Spiritualize phi- losophv : and they are to be commended for their high degree o! intelligence ami their eminently pure and exalted practical tendency.— S j i t r i lu a l T ile g ra p h . 1 “

Mrs. Thomas has fur some time rast been holding circles at the Loom s o f the Society for the Diffusion o f Spiritual K n ow l­edge, and w ill continue so doing during the coming week, sit- tin? dully at 3 uud S T. M. *

Mrs. Thomas designs postponing her contemplated visit to Boston until tlic coming autumn, and in tlic meantime would accept a call to any o f thc country towns in Mow Kngland.

Letters for Mrs. T . may until further notice be addressed to this ofUce.

. Mr. A inhlcr has been delivering a Course o f Lectures the past Yvoek iu Baltimora.

Mrs. French is in Baltimore. She w ill ho in N ew Y o rk at tho Booms o f this Society, on thc £2d iust, and w ill remain ten days.

N E W M USIC.from Him, as light from thc sun, and that all o f ■ muric displays the follow ing new and choice

those who enthrone Hint in thc affections as the !e an ac- Supreme Good, and who seek to receive the plena-

knowledgmcnt of its dependence upon God, and ry fullness o f His Spirit in the purified inter;not upon man, and has raised it one step in the plane o f progress. So niuch for that.

Now let me say that many o f you are mistaken in looking upon the steps which Christianity has made. There are many thousands whom you call infidels, who have token one step farther than yourselves. I do not mean those men who deny the doctrines

_ riors ofhis conscience, that their lives may be ordered thereby, are— as by no other process is attainable — the receivers o f the Divine. They believe that a “ New Church ” is now descending from Heaven to earth, b y the outflowing o f these influences,' the church o f God with man.

.They desire,—and oh, how earnestly,—that even

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Persuadingas sho sings,— Scattering o'er your shaded earth

Sweet incense from l i e wings.

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[F o r the Christian Spiritualist] L O V E O F P R A IS E .

Thou w ily, mean, seductive thing, - T h y subtle snares, thy baneful sting

Invade each human breast;W e hate thy form, detest thy art,Y e t safely lodge thee in our heart,

A secret, welcome guest

W * spurn thy name, yet lovo thy 6mile, "When thou invitest to go nmile,

Unasked, we follow twain;W e cravo yet hate, repulse, embrace; Disdain yet seek thy smiling face;

Refuse, yet entertain.

W hen thou hast tried each other form, And we resist the nectored storm;

Vain that we’re not vain,W e smile at indirect applause, Extracting thence the tick’ling straws,

That flat’ry we disdain.

’T is said each man w ill have his price— Some high, some low, obscure or nice,

B y which he can be bought.’T is quite as true that thon canst spread A net o f coarse or finer thread

B y which each man is caught. II.

A P O S T U O P I I i : T O T i n : S T A R S .

Y e stellar lights, born o f the whirl o f world, 'Y e t how calm in your manhood, with slow tread

Beating Earth’s soundless night-time, save when hurled, Some recreant leaps from his aerial ted,A nd ere we hear the crash, the light is sped'!

Ye , the lar fadeless, on Mue burning wings,Surveying lleaveir fo r the forgiven dead,

A ifil fixing each Ids home—wlmt splendor springs A long 3'ottr trackless path, in those lone wanderings !

Y e stars, who knew no youth, but mantel’d all In grace, sprang to subiinn-st manhood,—ye

Who, kindling, saw the sackcloth and the pall,Rolled from her face, and the bond Earth set free,And mountains take their place in majesty,

Each summit one high, holy, burning hymn,Earth’s holocaust to God, who bade it be. *

Y e nameless ! hat your olforings to Him,For eyes that never faint, Beauty that may not d im !

Whence are ye. mystic workers o f our fate,And whither when your wanderings are done!'

Love, mercy, madness on your marchings waif,And human hearts hush ‘noatli your orison.L o ! the}* are on us, for *tis set o f sun,

And Beauty's brilliants belt night's beaming world ;What name on earth whose worship ye ’ vo not won ?

Once the throtu-aiver scuff'd. when love •was hurled,Anti 0 ! how mean the spot where his life’ s Hag was furled !

Homes o f the dead ’. on whom the chrism did rest In that last rending, dark all pitiless hour,

When weary, faint, we sank 'neath that behest,And felt the quenching life-chords round us lower.O ! on us now, bend with sereiicr pow er!

And as ye burn, from your all fadeless eye?.Into this heart, now but a crumbling tower,

W ithin, without, worn dim with dismal cries,Shine once, once more, though only once, ere Mature dies!

Affection, love, lew feel though most assume;For this I ’m wean* grown, and wait the grave.

Fling round me, God, Death's deep and sunless gloom ; Even these siknt stars seem each a grave,So voiceless, cold, so impotent to save !

N o sympathy, no love the}* give, no burning tear«,These must be mine or death, ’ tis all I crave,

O ! I must blend this breath with hers, those hopes and fears. Weep, smile, give love for love, Passion must have her years!

S a n F ra n cis co . < \if. S. H . G.

• [F o r the Christian Spiritualist.] P E A C E I A B E L I E V I M b

Oh! how blissful that enjoyment,. Where life's angry billows cease,— Oh! bow happy our employment

When the world w ill be at peace.

On yon delightful mountain,Where the glorious myriads dwell,

Thero we’ll sip the crystal fountain,— A nd its beauties who can tell ?

But, w e’re taught by the good Spirits W ho have journeyed there before,

W ho that heavenly land inherit,That we there shall sin no more.

I would quickly change this being For a state where joy prevails,

And m y cherish'd, lov ’d companion?, N ot one pain or grief assails—

But I ’ll still abide Ills pleasure,W ho commanded me to wait,

F o r that rich and blissful treasure,In m y promised, blest estate,—

Though I may encounter trials W hile I wait and linger here,

Through the bright returning seasons, O f each swift declining year.

[F o r tlio Christian Spiritualist.]

Beanty comes and beauty goes W ith the light it wears;

Glitters now the dew y rose,N ow pales with being's cares.

Sheen that on tbe morning’s brow Gladdens every heart.

In the hasty noontide glow* Cannot bear apart: ’

Y e t the morning and the noon, And the evening’s rest,

Each brings forth its private boon, T o make the true heart blest.

Then with cheerful labor fill Each hast’niog moment up,

And contentment’s cheerful rill Shall brim your being's cup.

[From the Northern Advocate.] - S P I R I T C O M F O R T E R S .

When the world seems «lark and dreary, And the tear-drop dims the eye ;

W hen the heart is lone and weary,And for re^two sadly sigh,

Loving ones oft seem to cheer us.Those, who*vo passed from earth away,

Come, an<l while they linger near us, * U\t the heart have gentle sway.

Foaceful words of jo y and comfort,Speak they to the inner soul, ’

Soon dispelling grief and sadness,Which like ocean billows roll; •

Words tlu-y breathe of realms supernal, Where the “ crystal fountains” play,

Where the «on! in bliss eternal, * Basks in light o f endless day.

And they fain would joyful guide ti»To those heavenly regions fair,

And, though ills o f ‘ life betid us, ’Tlu-y would hid us calmly bear;

For ther whi-per, woes were sent us.Holy love and laith to give,

That this mortal life was lent us,For to teach us how to live*. "

Iliadi and holy is their mission, .Cheering weary ones of earth,

Leaditig them to irlad fruition,And to bliss o f heavenly birth.

Le t us heed the teachings given,B y the Spirit voices true.

And be guid ed to that Jleavcn Where are joys forever new.

The Spirits in Cuba.N e w Y obs , June, 1S54.

I Ma. E d it o r : Having passed the last W inter in the island o f | Cuba, I can give you some idea o f the progress in Spiritualism 1 there. About tbe first of December was the first that was seen | o f it on the Island as far as I could hear, except one circle held

by Judge Edmonds on bis passing visit tbe W inter previous. V ery soon circles were formed extensively throughout the city o f Havana, both among the American residents as w ell as the native Cubans.

I think at this day, at least one-fourth o f the adult population o f Havana are believers in the truth that Spirits can and do

I communicate with their friends in the form. Probably at pre- • sent they do not receive as high a class o f communications as j has been received by some in your city. A t first I could not

it occurred to me that there were many prime reasons therefor.Am ong the Protestant portion o f the population there Is more

freedom o f thought npon religious questions, because there are no dogmatists to cry out infidel, devil, and the like. Th ey see in the Church merely the Land o f human ambition and selfish­ness, ye t they feel in their hearts more or less o f true humanity or the religious clement. Hence they are left free to commune with their Spirit friends, and call about them as high an order of angels as the purity o f their own hearts w ill receive as congenial beings. Am ong the Catholic population many have felt a yearn­ing alter the true Spiritual truth, and hare looked in vain to their Priests to be elevated therein. A majority o f their Priests, as long as they are well fed, do not stop to think or care for the opinions or thoughts o f tlio masses, lienee the latter are left unwatched to examine the subject, which naturally makes them think, and thought generally brings about improvement of the individual. You w ill not, therefore, be surprised to hear o f the rapid growth o f spiritual truth among the whole population o f that island.

Discreet judges gave it as their opinion, that if »Tudgo Ed­monds’ work was trauslated into Spanish, five thousand copies could be sold in that island alone, within a short period.

Our friends in the cause o f humanity have great cause, there­fore, to rejoice that the glad tiding o f great jo y arc fast encom­passing the whole earth. Yours, Ac.

CheLsea , June 13,1554.M r D e a e B r o th e r : I have read w ith much satisfaction the

article on the “ Ilarmouial Philosophy and its Relation to the Bible.” It is expressive o f m y own views, aud will be reco. nized as truth by every honest, sincere inind.

You r paper is well received here. I feel in regard to it as does a leading clergyman o f the popular Church with whom I am acquainted, who said, •*! wish the Chris tian Sp irttuaU + i could fall into the hands o f every church member in our land, in such a way that they would be uninformed o f its origin.'

This is what w e want. They sneer at “ Spiritualism” and think Mediums deluded or deludcrs. But give them the philo­sophic truths that come from this “ Spiritualism ’ ’ through their “ Mediums,” in a way that shall throw* them off their guard, aud allay nil suspicion o f their origin, and they will rejoice and consider the light that dawns upon them ns the result o f a “ Spe­cial Providence.” IIow* those self-important, nil-wise person­ages o f old shrugged their shoulders and drew their robes closer around them, as they uttered the contemptuous words in regard to Christ and his acts, “ ,Can any good come out o f Nazareth So in this, our day, the popular Church clings closer to its altars, hugs closer its rrceds, snuffs with more zest the effluvia o f mould­ering relics, and exclaims, “ Can any good come from these Rap­pers ?”

They know not o f what they speak. They think there is nothing in Spiritualism but raps and tips and dancing tables. They know* not o f the deep, fathomless tide o f life and jo y that far from behind all these, fiowa out to the soul o f man.

W ell, it is some satisfaction tdknow that the cause will take caro o f itself. That the sun shines without our aid, and that it w ill continue to shine whether we believe that it does or not I t is some satisfaction to know* that the Truth exists, and will ex ist whether we recognize its existence or n o t Gud reigns. Truth is immortal and cannot die. Error is mortal and cannot live. J ou.n S. A dams.

A nd answering mortal yearnings satisfied,Bring blessings in their train, to peace allied,

From their pure homes above.

Alone, alone— methinks their angel eyes Survey m y yearning thoughts with glad surprise,

•4 nd stoop to know them a ll ;Encourged by etberial confidence, - *I tnne m y harp to wander with them thence,

Bevgnd’s earth’s darkening palL

Alone, alone—though each impassioned strain Re-echoes still those earth-born words so vain.

M y heart is not a ll lone;M y Spirit, touched by kindred moving-springs,Mounts upward, clears the space on seraph wings.

And kindred joys are known.

Several years ago, a tie o f affinity bound me to a ;enial soul. The enjoyment o f social intercourse

promised to be lasting; there was no prospect ofaccount for the rapid spread o f the cause, where the Priesthoodhad each complete sway. Upon more observation and reflectioit^Ugparat;0n ],ut my friend had a presentiment that

we were to part soon. Original tokens o f remem­brance were exchanged before our separation, which happened soon after, unexpectedly to us both. The one written by my friend is subjoined; it is, in my opinion, too rare a gem to be longer

S. C. M.

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INSPIRATION-NO. 2.E V S . 31 . P E T E R S .

Leaving the subject o f poetry for a brief space, I proceed to define Inspiration, as I comprehend it, by interior perception. Outflowing from the vor­tex o f the Infinite Mind, a creative, expansive, in­fluence, permeates through all matter to the ut­most extent of the Universe. In the vegetable kingdom, it is the unfolding principle ; in the ani­mal, it is instinct; in the human, it is intelligence. M a t te r vC ItS C lf |ius2cssc3 wio in te l l ig e n c e , ■’TTTCT’ Or i

motion. Intcdligunce, then, o f a necessity, is de­rived from the source o f all knowledge, which is Deity. And to meet the constantly increasing wants o f every new form that receives an individ­ualization, it becomes an indispensable necessity that Inspiration should exist as a perpetual fact.

God works by means. Ilis revelations are suit­ed to tlie capacity of the receiving mind o f the in­dividual, or the age. To deny this, is to deny the watchful care of an “ overruling Providence.” In­spiration, to reach this earth, would necessarily' pass through the different gradations of spheres to the lowestjundcveloped degree of mind ; each and every sphere constituting a medium for those above and below it. The inhabitants o f the first sphere o f the Spirit-world would be our teachers and guardians, and thus would the ministry* o f an­gels be realized. This theory in some shape is em­bodied in the creeds o f the various Christian sects; in fact, it constitutes the most beautiful element in the religious belief o f all ages and nations. It is the corner-stone o f human faith— the life of reli­gion, and the soul o f poetiy. I say it is a univer­sal belief that the .Spirits o f departed friends revisit those who were the companions o f their earth-life. Without this belief, the world would be a dreary waste. I f this is a delusion, then the highest and holiest aspirations o f our natures are but the wild vagaries o f a distempered dream.

Harmonized in a higher degree with the govern­ing principles o f creation, the inhabitants o f the next sphere would conform, comparatively speak­ing, to the language o f Xaturc, which is poetry. And wherever an affinity existed between a disem­bodied mind and one still in the form, a mingling o f essences would admit o f a transmission o f senti­ment and speech corresponding in degree to the conditions o f the connection. True poetry is ever characterized by simplicity o f diction, by chaste sentiment, and by a musical blending o f its several parts. I f written by impression, it may be easily distinguished from mere verse, which can be framed by a person possessing a retentive memory and a copious flow o f words. But in all hnpressional verse, the characteristics o f the medium are identi­fied with the purer warhlings o f the Spirit-land. The productions o f the best poets, though teeming with Spiritual rubies, are too often stained with slight dashes o f human passion. This is more plainly discoverable in the writings o f male, than female poets. Woman's nature is more refined, and her mind contains more of the unadulterated Spiritual clement than man’s. There are in the cir­cle o f my acquaintance, several persons endowed

Yet, as was said in the first number, the exercise o f these gifts depends upon certain harmonic conditions of- mind. A lady friend, who perhaps would scout the idea of Spirit- assistance, still endorses the fact in the most o f her effusions. I here append a specimen o f her style, which was once published under a fictitious name. Like the morning-glory, she loves the shade.

ALONE.Alone, alone— tlio bright stars soon to raze,"With their magnificent and distant ray?,

From the expanso above;And forms etberial from those rolling bphcrcs,Seem chanting notes unknown to mortal cars, •

W here all is light and love.

Alone, alone—imagination’s flights Would fain explore those vast and wondrous height«,

W here glories ever shine;And catch a new enthusiastic fire.Transmitting to m y Iow-toncd earthly lyre,

Sweet chords made thus divine. *

Alone, alone— bright messengers o f truth Seem floating near, renewing hopes o f youth.

* A nd whispering words o f lo r e ;

T O K E N .I can never forget thee, though miles should intervene Our separate paths, and mountains and waters lie between Our minds, like rivers hastening on,—T o the same great ocean tending, then blending into one.

I never can forget thee— the happiness complete, [sweet;In hours which flew so swiftl}- by in friendship's pleasures When conning deep poetic lore,W hich foil in flow ing numbers, like music’s strains o f yore.

I never can forget thee— I would not i f I could;I ’ll hear thy voice .upon the lawn and in the tangled wood,Through all life's sunshine and its shades,Beside the rippling rivulets and rushing, w ild cascades.

I never can forget thee— w hy should I? who can tell?Though something often conjures up a long and last farewell;W hy should Spirits e'er forget [met.The kindled thoughts which made theta one, ere Lhev had ever

I never can forget thee— and even in death thy name W ill linger on m y trembling lips, with wishes for thy fimie,And happiness continued long,In thine own world o f fitiry-like and Spirit-breathing song.

It will be seen that tbe Spiritual idea enters large- Iy into the poems 1 have quoted. Whence, then, the origin o f the emotions that gave birth to these lines V Is it mere fancy ? I f so, all o f hope and immortality may be delusion. I f the spontaneous i o f the important subject o f

Education.— The education o f the paupers and vagrants to any purpose is probably too much to require o f thi> generation. The prevention o f pau­perism and crime is an idea not yet fully grown in the heads o f the present race o f lawmakers. The promoting vice and then punishing it is more in their line.

This subject would seem to be o f too great im­portance to have received so little attention. Much has been done to furnish public schools for the poor: nothing has been done to urge their atten­dance. The very ones for whom the schools are maintained at great expense, are those who will not go. It is the idle, the vicious and depraved who' need the schooling, and they will not go to school i f they can help it. They become vagrants or thieves, and no efficient system is devised to save them from the gallows, and the public from the nuisance.

I t would be an immense step in the reformation o f the world i f all the vagrants could be taken, and washed, and clothed, set to work, and properly- educated. They would soon grow up to he the most useful class o f our citizens. Is there no wealthy philanthropist who will win an immortalty o f fame, and, what is better, the approval o f his

. | own heart, by devising a plan to rescue from de­struction so large a number o f the rising genera­tion ?

L o d g in g H o u s e s .— I f the community cannot af­ford to rescue vagrants from their course o f life, and make them good and useful citizens, capitalists

! might find it profitable to build lodging houses for the poorest class o f the community.' They would thus make their philanthropy a pecuniary benefit to themselves. I t has been satisfactorily demon­strated that twenty per cent, per annum can be ob­tained from an investment in first-class lodging houses, and yet rent rooms at a price below the average.

W ith a proper construction o f the building, and a due regard to sanitary arrangements, the condi­tion o f the extremely poor would he much melio­rated. This leads us directly to the consideration

out-gush o f the inner life is delusion, life itself may be only a dream.

From the Sacred Circle.

NEEDED REFORKS.Beffimi is needed in even- department of the i

j V e n t il a t io n .— I f lodgings were properly yenti- ! latcd, any number o f persons might sleep iu them J without injury to their health. I f one slept in a I barrel or coffin, and there were plenty o f fresh air ! all the time passing through it, he would not find it

economy o f human life ; but progression is gener­ally o f so slow a growth that patience will be re- j £ ^ C ' quired o f all who have the welfare o f mankind a t ; heart. It is something to feel that we do progress a little, that we are not retrograding. W e pro­pose to draw attention to a few particulars on this subject, not intending to discuss the matter fully, but rather to elicit more elaborate articles from oth­ers who may be specially qualified for the task.

V a g r a n c y .— Reform is needed in that depart­ment o f our municipal government which has for its duty the preventing vagrancy and mendicancy— almost synonymous terms in large cities. W c see the streets filled upon occasions with crowds of boys, generally in rags, hatless and shoeless, and filthy in the extreme. The external too often indi­cates the internal. Their minds and their moral characters are very likdly to be us debased as their habits o f living. There is no necessity that these thousands o f incipient men should be trained to vicious indulgences, made familiar with crime, and taught theft and obscenity. There is a way in which every one o f them may be put on the road to industry and to wealth. Occvjmtwn is the first greaT_ wanq'Ior'ah'TdIc brain' is the devil’s work- hop. Since the publication o f what arc known as

penny papers, which began in this city about eighteen 3-ears ago, employment has been given to a large number o f hoys, who make a good living if frugal, and in any case rarely suffer from want.But it is not certain that the command o f money which the selling'of papers gives them, is benefi­cial to their morals. They arc improvident, often intemperate, and soon learn the most vicious cour­ses. This is a much needed reform, and a little well directed philanthropy would accomplish it

A still worse vagrancy is that o f girls. The city swarms with petty thieves, who cany little baskets under the presence o f se ling fruit or nuts, and thus penetrate into every office and store, and not rarely find opportunity to pilfer. There is a still worse result. The}- offer a read}- temptation to_yictrm its worst form— initiating and training boys to a career o f vicious indulgence and crime. Few know the extent o f this evil. Iu this city, to which the depraved o f every nation come in swarms, it is deplorably great. It is a wide field for the efforts o f the philanthropist, and it is to be hoped that la­borers will not long be wanting.

P u b l ic B a t h s .— AmoDg the best means o f re­forming the community is that o f washing them. External and internal impurity are apt to go to­gether. I f the vagrants o f both sexes who swarm in our streets could be made to wash themselves daily, it would he but a short step for them to be­gin to think o f wearing clean clothing, and then it would naturally follow that they should think of putting on good behavior. Xo vagrant, however vicious or filthy, could resist the effect o f a change in his wearing apparel. Let him bathe, dress clean­ly and well, and eat a comfortable meal, and he will assume a pride that will lift him above vagran­cy, and turn his face toward a better course of life. .

M e have no public baths in this country, or so few that it amounts to nothing. There arc low priced baths, but it is only a small number o f the poor who can be induced to wash themselves, even if baths were free, and the number is necessarily much smaller when they must pay for the privi­lege out o f their small earnings.

Should the city proceed to build extensive hath houses and make them free to all, the cost of them would be more than saved out o f the expenses of the Alms House department. It would save the health o f thousands per annum, and hundreds of lives, and in many ways promote the sanitary and moral condition o f the city.

M e n d ic a n c y .— It must have been observed by ail who walk the streets, that beggars arc multi-' plying in a rapid ratio. Every arrival o f immi­grants adds to the numbers, and in consequence this city is growing more and more European in its appearance and character.

M hat it would be best to do with them is a sub­ject for consideration. The humanitarian side of the question would urge that they should be cared for, so that they should have an opportunity to grow up in usefulness and morality. The police side o f tiie question generally urges that they shall either be let alone to infest the streets and grow up to thieves and vagabonds, or he huddled together in a fit place where they can school each other in vice and concoct future viilany.

The duty o f the cit}- in this case is clearly to ar­rest every beggar, ascertain his or her home and parents, and deliver to them the beggar, with a suitable admonition, and when arrested a second time, take them to some house o f correction, where they may be taught a trade and made to pay their way.

! close or oppressive, nor would the air become im-I f one person sleeps in a middiing-sized

room all night without ventilation, the air will be­come impure and unhealthy; and a long course of such breathing o f putrid air will result in disease, and a consequent shortening o f life. Persons who breathe bad air, whether that o f a marsh or that o f a bed-room, will suffer in consequence. JIalaria kills many thousands per annum, but the'foul air of unvcntilatcd bed-rooms kills many millions every year. Those who thus expose themselves do not die at once. They rise in the morning with pale cheeks and a debilitated body— they are not re­freshed, and they have no appetite. I f there be smail-pox in the city, they are in condition to take it. I f it be typhus fever or cholera, they are ready to take it I f there he influenza about, they will certainly have i t I f they wet their feet or sit in a draught, thev will certainly take cold and have a cough. I f they take disease, they are likely to die, because they have prepared their system to sink under the first attack.

The time when one is sleeping is the time which Xaturc takes to recuperate. The exhausted vital 'energy is -restored, tbe oxygerrated blood Carries vigor to every part o f the system, and the sleeper should awake prepared to withstand whatever may befall him through the day. I f he breathe a pure air during the night, this will be the ease. He will then rise with an appetite, with renewed strength, and he may defy the attack o f an epidemic. .

In lodgings intended to be low-priced, the rooms should be small. I f ventilated, no matter how small. Our ideas of the sizes appropriate to rooms are modelled upon old ideas, when the amount ■ of air shut into a room at going to bed must serve to supply the occupants till they choose to rise and let in more. The largest room in that case would not be so healthy as the smallest room that would hold a cot bed, i f ventilated on Smolinski’s system. Therefore make rooms small, so that they can be rented at a very low price, and give them a con­tinual change o f air brought from above the roof, and the building will pay twice as much interest on the investment as a house for the rich would pay.

But people say they will not build tenement houses, for they are a nuisence. Some very phil­anthropic capitalists refuse to‘build houses for the poor because they fear they will have to oppress them to get their rent, or lose i t They prefer to oppress them by compelling them to ledge in the streets; or, by not making enough houses for them, they create an undue demand for them, and thus keep up their rents. I t is true that it is ne­cessary to he rigorous in exacting rent o f the very poor, else perhaps they would not pay. It is there­fore demanded in advance, and is the prime neces­sity ; for i f the rent he not paid, the tenant must go into the street W e know o f a block o f two hundred tenements, built in a substantial style under one roof, that have been occupied three or four years. They are always occupied, and the rent always paid in advance. X ot a dollar has been lost in the whole time. The system is rigor­ous. They pay down, or they go out. This pro­perty pays twenty per cent on the investment over insurance, taxes, assessments, repairs, water rents, and commissions for collections.

I t is hard to oppress the poor ; it is sinful, but it should not be considered an oppression to make them pay rent. W ere the tenements we have de­scribed to be destroyed, some two hundred fami­lies would have to seek room s; and i f they got them, would have to pay higher rent for them. The con­clusion is evident, that the duty o f the philanthro­pist would he to provide as many tenements as could he occupied, and charge a remunerating rent for them, and, we would add, make the tenants pay i t I f any other course he pursued, then the in­dustrious and frugal would have their burdens in­creased to make up for losses from the non-paying class.

The difficulty has always been, that tenants could not get little enough room for their means- Rooms are made so large that the price must be high, and yet being without ventilation, they are not half large enough. A complete ventilation, on Smolinski’s system, for every room (the only way we have ever seen that is effectual,) for every room, and a compact arrangement, would make half the room better for the tenant, and he would not be obliged to pay all his earnings for a shelter.

This is a much needed reform. Let philanthro­pic capitalists (and there are such people) think how they can serve the cause o f humanity, and make a perfectly safe and profitable investment o f their money, by building model lodging houses. I f they say they shrink from anything to do with so many small tenants, let them remember that there are house agents who for a small commission will take the whole business o ff their hands, and on

; the first of every mon̂ h bring them their rent in

advance, and not a tenant need ever to know who is the proprietor.

I n t e m p e r a n c e .— The evils o f drinking intoxica­ting liquors we need not enlarge upon here. The free license which our municipal authorities give to dram drinking, is the most fruitful source o f beg­gary and crime. In the hope that something may yet be done to redeem the community from this all- pervading curse, we pass to other matters, with which the public mind is not so familiar.

B r e a d .— I t is a well known fact that the bread which the poor get out o f the rum groceries is an inferior article, generally made from damaged flour, chemically restored to its sweetness, and by exces­sive raising made to appear large.

This evil is one very difficult to reach, yet the Board o f Health might, under their sanitary regu­lations, prohibt the sale o f bread from damaged flour.

The size o f loaves decreases as the price o f flour rises, and does not always wait for that event Let the news reach the city that flour is up in Europe, and the next batch o f bread will be o f extra small sized loaves, (however small they have been before) and when by the arrival o f the next steamer it is found that flour is down again, the bakers are en­tirely oblivious o f that circumstance, and the loaves continue for a long time o f the smallest size, appa­rently waiting for another rise in breadstuff's on the other side o f the Atlantic. This difficulty admits o f remedy. Let the corporation pass an ordinance, and enforce it, that every loaf shall have stamped upon it its weight, and be made of certain prescribed sizes, and the name or initials o f the baker also upon the loaf, and all will be well. Flour may rise and th^ value o f hroad increase, but the public will then have some means o f judging what profits they are paying. There will then be less induce­ment to take the life out o f the bread by excessive expansion or raising. There will be competition in the cheapness of loaves, and bakers, when they are obliged to subscribe their names to their work, will be prompted by their pride to do it well.

IYe have little hopes o f seeing this reform dur­ing our lifetime. It has been often proposed, but the interest o f the bakers is too strongly represent­ed in the government o f the city to allow o f their being curtailed o f any o f their fat privileges.

7Ye have not completed the catalogue o f the re­forms which the condition o f society loudly de­mands. AYe have endeavored only to call atten­tion to a few matters which were pressed upon our minds, and we shall resume the subject at a con­venient opportunity. Meanwhile there is work enough for reformers. They will not have to go far, nor look long, for opportunity to benefit the so­cial. condition o f those around them. AJ1 that is wanted is the heart to desire and the will to exe­cute. The means are rarely wanting to those who ardently desire to meliorate the condition o f those beneath them. Wealth it does not require, nor is every philanthropist expected to expend his money. I f all who claim to he philanthropic were in earn­est, the world would soon have all its needed re­forms. w.

PROGRESS OE SPIRITUALISM.In answer to numerous inquiries as to the pre­

sent condition o f Spiritualism in the United States, we will mention the following facts.

The number o f public journals devoted exclu­sively to Spiritualism is eight, v iz .:

Spiritual Telegraph, 300 Broadway, Xew York. Christian Spiritualist, 553 Broadway, Xcw York. Sacred Circle, 300 Broadway, Xew York.The Era, Boston.Spiritual Era, Ripley, Ohio. ■Spiritual Universe, Cleveland, Ohio.S p ir i t -A-clvoco-tvy- JZoclMoz*^ X llinoio .

The Crisis, Grand Rapids, Michigan.An idea may be formed o f the degree o f popu­

lar attention directed to the subject, by reference to the accompanying list o f publications, most of which have met with an extensive sale. This list comprises only those works published by our en­terprising neighbors, Messrs. Partridge & Brittan, o f the Telegraph.

The publication house o f Messrs. P. & B. bids fair to rival in. the future time, the monster estab­lishments o f the Harpers and the Appletons.

AYe wish the most complete success to our neigh­bors, and hope soon to see their list o f publications *0 extended that the volumes may be counted by hundreds and thousands, rather than by tens. ■

Here is a list o f the works already published, any or all o f which may be procured by address­ing the publishers, Messrs. Partridge & Brittan, Spiritual Telegraph office, Xo. 300 Broadway, New Yorx.

The Shekinah. Vole. 1, I I , and I I I . Edited by S. B. Brittan. Natures L i vine Bevelation, Ac. B y A . J. Davis, the Clair-

VOjODt. .The Great Harmouia, Vol. I. The Physican. B y A . J. Davis. The Great Harmonia, Yo l. I L The Teacher. B y A . J. Davis. The Great Harmonia, Y oL I I I . The Seer. B y A . J. Davis. The Philosophy o f Spiritual Intercourse. B y A . J. Davis.The Philosophy o f Special Providence, A ”\ ision. B y A . J.

Davis. •The Celestial Telegraph.Fam iliar Spirits.N igh t Side o f Nature. Ghosts and Ghost Seers. B y Catha­

rine Crowe. •The Macrocosm and Microcosm ; or, The Universe w ithout

and the Universe W ithin. B y ’William Fishbough.Phvsico-Pbysiological Researches in the Dynamics o f Mag­

netism, Electricity, Heat, L ight, Crystallization, and Chemism, in their relations to Y ita l Force. B y Baron Charles Yon Reich- eDbach. . „ . _

Arrest, Trial, and Acquittal o f A b b y ’Warner for Spirit-Rap­ping. B y Dr. A . Underhill. _

Spirit-Manifestations. Being an Exposition o f Facts, Princi­ples, Ac. B y R ev. Ad in Ballou.

Spiritual Instructor. Containing the Facts and Philosophy o f Spiritual Intercourse. , ^ «

The Spiritual Teacher. B y Spirits o f the Sixth Circle. R . P. Ambler, Medium. _ . .

L igh t from the Spirit-World. Being written by the control of Spirits. Rev. Charles Hammond, Medium. ^

The Pilgrim age o f Thomas Paine. W ritten by the Spirit of Thomas Paine, through C. Hammond, Medium.

Elements o f Spiritual Philosophy. R . P . Ambler, Medium. Stilling's Pneumatology.Yoices from the Spirit-World. Isaac Post, Medium. Fascination; or the Philosophy o f Charming. B y John B.

Newman, M. D.Shadow-Land; or the Seer. B y Mrs. E . Oakes Smith. Messages from the Superior State. Communicated by John

Murray, through J. M. Spear.Seeress o f Prevorst. A book o f Facts and Revelations con­

cerning tbe Inner L ife o f Man and a W orld o f Spirits. B y Jua- tinus Kerner. _ _ .

Philosophy o f Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane; or, the Dynamic Laws and Revelations o f Man. B y E. C. Rogers.

Tbe Science o f the Soul. B y Haddock.Sorcery and Magic. B y W right.The Clairvoyant Fam ily Philosophy. B y Mrs. Tuttle. Answers to Seventeen Objections against Spiritual Inter­

course. B y John S. Adams.The Approaching Crisis. Being a R ev iew o f Dr. BushnelTs

Lectures on Spiritualism.’ B y A . J. Davis.Spirit-MinstreL A collection o f N inety familiar Tunes and

Hymns, appropriate to meetings for Spiritual Intercourse.Spirit-Voices— Odes. Dictated by Spirits for the use o f C ir­

cles. B y E. C. Henck, Medium.Philosophy o f the Spirit-W orld. B y R ev . Charles Hammond

Medium.Beecher’s Report on the Spiritual Manifestations, to the Con­

gregational Associations o f N ew York .and Brooklyn.The Present A ge and the Inner L ife. Being a Sequel to Spir­

itual Intercourse. B y A . J. Davis.Rep ly to a Discourse o f Rev. S. W . Lind, D . D ., President

Western Baptist Theological Institute, Covington, Kentucky, by P . E. Bland, A . M., St. Louis.

The Harmonial M an ; or, Thoughts for the A ge. B y Andrew Jackson Davis.

The M inistry o f Angels Roalizcd. B y A . E. Newton, Boston. R ev iew o f Beecher's Report. R ev iew o f R ev. Charles Beech-

er*6 opinion o f the Spirit Manifestations, by John S. Adams.Amaranth Blooms. A collection o f embodied Poetical

Thoughts. B y Mrs. 6 . S. Smith.Biography o f Mrs. Semantha Mettler, and an account o f tho

Wonderful Cures performed by her. B y Francis H . Green.The Spiritual Telegraph. A ol. LA Chart, exhibiting an Outline o f the Progressive H istory and

Approaching Destiny o f tho Race. • B y A . J. Davis.Discourses from the Spirit-World, dictated by Stephen Olin,

through R ev. R . P . Wilson, writing medium.Spirit-Works Real, but not Miraculous. A lecture, read at

the C ity Hall, In Roxbury, Mass., by Allan Putnam.Brittan's R ev iew o f Beecher s ReporL wherein the conclu­

sions o f the latter are carefully examined and tested by a com- -parison with his premises, w ith reason, and with facts.^B rittan and Richmond’s Discussion.

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