nothing but natural laws. We know that upon earth there will again be greater men than Jesus of Nazareth, and why will men keep on saying that he is higher than others? Why ignore the prophets before Him, and the martyrs after Him, who also laid down their lives for the truth ? Is Jesus God? The SPIRIT—No. Is He the principal representative of God? The SPIRIT—No. God is so grand that He needs no form like that of man to represent Himself ; He has stamped Him self and His divinity in His laws. God is not the Trinity which man, for His own purposes, has set Him forth to be. Do you consider the Bible to be accurate history? The SPIRIT—Yes, it is true. It is the prophecy of the past, the present, and the future, but it is not Divine. Take from it whatever will do you good. What is the difference between soul and spirit? The SPIRIT—If your spirit or vital spark once left your earthly body, it would never return, but the soul might go carrying some of your brain power with it, and could then even move a table at a spirit circle ; this is “the double” as known to you Spiritualists. In such cases the body of the person who thus acts at a distance, is always in a state of sleep or stupor. But while I have been awake I have manifested at a circle. The SPIRIT—I, as a spirit, cannot take what you say as a truth. Another may have been using your name, or you must have been unconscious. Mrs. Hardinge has often manifested at circles. The SPIRIT—Yes. We know Mrs. Hardinge well. She is never in her normal state when she is lecturing, and while the spirits are speaking to English audiences through her bodily organs, she may be moving tables in America. Is not Theodore Parker one of her guardian spirits? The SPIRIT—Yes, he is almost always with her, and another of her guardians is Pierpoint. In a general conversation that followed the name of Andrew Jackson Davis was mentioned. The SPIRIT said: Andrew Jackson Davis is a great favourite with the spirits, but all is not truth he tells ; there is some thing of the medium in every communication you receive from us. Give fifty pieces of linen to fifty work-girls, let the linen and the thread be exactly the same, yet every girl will leave her own impression on her work. So with every medium. While I talk to you now you have my words but the mode of language of the medium ; I cannot take away the identity of the girl. Where are you yourself now? The SPIRIT—I am in the medium. Her vital spark is here [pointing to the space between the right shoulder and the ear.] Her soul is at home with her babe, but in an instant I can call back the soul or “double,” and all will be right again. Does this tire the medium? The SPIRIT—No. I could talk to you all night, and in the morning she would think that she had had a good night’s rest. The conversation again turned upon the Trinity, and the spirit said that people would do well to imitate the purity, innocence, and truth of Jesus. He died upon the cross. The SPIRIT said that he did do so, but martyrs after him when brought face to face with the pile refused to be saved from this worse death, yet Jesus asked that the cup might be passed from him. Joan of Arc never asked for life. The cross is not so bad as subjection to the thumbscrew and the torture, and being allowed to recover to be tortured and re tortured. Spirits know, and doctors perhaps can bear witness that when a certain quantity of blood has left the body, either on the cross or elsewhere, all pain ceases, and torture may be defied. In the new Testament times a priesthood ruled the people ; an Intelligent Mind saw how priestcraft was deluding its dupes, and tried to persuade the people not to pin their faith to another man’s elbow, but to serve God freely and alone. When the priests saw that their craft was being exposed by the Nazarene, they thought it time to stop him. When in their power, he would not deny the truth within him—he had to lie or to die—so, as a man of truth, he died. Still he very naturally wished to live, and to go on in his noble work till he had grown grey in the scrvice of his Great Creator. Will our bodies rise again? The SPIRIT—Not your physical frame. Your bones will never come together again. Your clay body will manure the earth, and the trumpet will never wake it up again ; the earth wants what it lent you for a time. The body may go to feed the fishes. The SPIRIT—Well, that is not a pleasant thought for those who eat fish. Are ignorant and wise people equal after death? The SPIRIT—For a time ignorant people will be cramped in the next world, till they outgrow the narrow minds you give your children. Have deformities of the earthly body an injurious effect upon the spirit body? The SPIRIT—Those who have deformed bodies here, at first have undeveloped spirit bodies in the spirit world. Then comes the question, “ Who will suffer most—the giver or the receiver?" Parents, by their habits, hand down injuries to their children, and great will be their remorse hereafter. God has made His laws perfect ; and after planting the tree of humanity, left man with sufficient freedom to perfect himself ; if you do not act up to the laws of reason in bringing forth children, that is your fault. If you pollute yourselves, you cannot possibly have good children. Some low spirits say they come from spheres lower than this earth. Is it true? The SPIRIT—They tell you that, because you in the circle form a sphere of your own, which looks beautiful to such spirits, because you are higher than they. When very low spirits quit the body, they go prowling about the earth, and they are not good. The drunkard would go to his old haunts, and act and talk as he did before, though these things would be to the spirit imaginary. When such spirits wish to rise, there are plenty to help them. What do you think of capital punishment? The SPIRIT—Let your criminals live, but let him not go at large again who has imbued his hands in his brother’s blood. Let every compassion be about him, but no reproof or chas tisement, and let man, innocent, pure, and noble, and woman, loving and gentle, hesitate not to call him “ brother,” and he will repent. Killing him is an awful crime under the name of justice—it is a most awful crime on the part of the man who condemns his brother; yes, ten times more black in the sight of angels than the act of the wretched criminal. And I will tell you the reason. The man who did it, must, in a degree, have been insane, or fired by passion, and not altogether in his normal state ; but the judge who condemns him, does it in cold blood ; and he is completely without excuse when he goes above.