SEANCES AT THE SPIRITUAL LIBRARY. SEEING MEDIUMSHIP—MR. CLEGG OF YORK—SOMNAMBULISM—DISTURBING INFLUENCES AT CIRCLES—PURGATORY—BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT—PR-O GRESSION IN THE ANIMAL WORLD— SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATIONS—AN EARTH-BOUND SPIRIT—EARTHLY IMPEDIMENTS TO DEVELOPMENT—THE FORMATION OF THE SPIRIT WORLDS—GRINDSTONES—AUDIBLE SPIRIT VOICES—DEPARTED FRIENDS. ON Friday evening, Deeember 17th, at eight o’clock, the ordinary weekly séance was held at the Spiritual Library, 15 Southampton-row, High Holborn, W.C., under the medium ship of Mr. J. J. Morse. Rather more than twenty ladies and gentlemen were present. Mr. MORSE, who at times is a seeing medium, suddenly became fixed and rigid, and said that he saw a rough and angry sea, with a steamer coming towards him, which all at once tilted up, and went down. No explanation of the cir cumstanee was given, and the medium said that the sight had made him feel nervous. A spirit then attempted to obtain control of the medium in order to speak, but failed, and then by writing mediumship said that she was Mrs. E. Farnham. Another spirit then obtained control of the medium, who with great gravity and deliberation began rubbing his knees and legs with his hands. He said that when in earth-life he was troubled with rheumaties, and felt them very badly when thus coming back through a medium ; the pains would sub side presently, and then he would speak. Mr. BURNS—Why don't you take a Turkish bath? Accord ing to some people you onght to have plenty of heat to prepare one, in your world. (Laughter). The spirit said that those who thought so had the heat in their own brains; he knew that many people believed that there was plenty of heat in the regions he came from, and as he himself held the same opinions while on the earth, the stone thrown at random by Mr. Burns had hit rather hard. Still, he always thought that he should not go to the hot regions himself, because he had been purified by suffering; now he felt all his pains coming back again, because being in an earthly body again brought back his old ideas, and the thought of the spirit acts upon the instrument it uses. It is on enter ing and leaving the medium that the pains are always worst, but he had been told by old hands at speaking through mediums, that in time such effects would wear off ; he had been in attendance, like many other spirits, at previous séances, anxious to come before public, and this was the first opportunity he had had of doing so ; not that he got anything himself for speaking to them, but he came for the purpose of doing good to those present. He said that when he first woke up after passing through the dying process he found himself neither in heaven, hell, earth, or anywhere else, but passing through space with great velocity, with two spirit gentlemen one on each side of him, supporting him by the arms. He was very mueh startled, but directly afterwards felt “Oh, I’m all right. It’ll be all right presently,” so waited pa tiently to see what would be the end of it. Soon they came in sight of a very beautiful island, with the ocean breaking against its rocks, and taking him to a large house near the shore, they told him that he would have to stop there till his mind became all right. “ Oh !” said he in reply, “then I don’t care how long my mind takes to get right. But when left to himself he began to think differently, and to remember very elearly some awkward little acts in earth-life which he had committed “on the quiet,” for nobody took any notice of what the “rheumaticky old man” said or did. He found that these thoughts gave him great pain, and made him very uncomfortable. Then one of the gentlemen—his teacher and guardian spirit—asked him to come with him to revisit the earth once more. He replied that he would rather stop where His he was, “besides, you know, my mind’s not right yet.' teacher told him that that was precisely why it was necessary for him to return to earth, and added that he could bring his present residence with him. He laughed, and said that “ he must be pretty strong to be able to do that but strange to say, he found the assertion true, and that he brought his residence with him in his mind.* However, he returned with a party of spirits, and found that some of them began to work hard at influencing the minds of individuals upon earth who harboured bad feelings, and in this way they in time undid the evil they themselves had committed. But it is slow and tiresome work—very much against the grain. Although he did not wish it, he felt that he must do the same. He met a friend he had injured, and had to trace out how far the injury extended ; it was astonishing how many people, in addition to the one who directly receives the injury, suffer from it ; a bad act is like a stone dropped into the water, for it throws out circles in all directions, and very hard and slow work it is for spirits to undo the evil they have committed They cannot feel at ease till it is done. The rheumatics were so bad he could not stand it any longer, so must leave the medium. His name was Walter Arthur Clegg. What was your occupation, and where did you live? Mr. CLEGG—He wants to know the occupation of the rheumaticky old man ! (Laughter.) Well, I was a carter at York, and died about nine years ago. Mr. MORSE then woke up, and complained of feeling pains all over his body. The next spirit gave the name of Catherine Plunkett, and said that she died about five years ago, at Lee, in Kent. Her narrative is printed on another page. TIEN SIEN TIE, the guardian spirit of Mr. Morse, took pos session of the medium while the company were speaking about the possibility of somnambulic phenomena being ade quate to explain away the spiritual origin of the manifesta tions. Tien then said that by putting leading questions to somnambulists it is possible to lead them on, and to make them bring out things which are in the mind of the ques tioner, but that where there is an external intelligence at work the plan will fail, although with a weak, imperfectly de-