SPIRIT GREETINGS SOME very interesting spirit communications from Swedenborg and Lord Bacon were received in the course of the years 1853 and 1854, at Judge Edmonds circle in New York. These communications were after wards published in a work on Spiritualism, in two volumes, by Judge Edmonds, Mr. G. T. Dexter, M.D. and the Governor of Wisconsin. The messages de scribed much of the life and habits of tbe spirits in the condition of life incidental to the two spirits who com municated, and the opening greetings of the spirits every evening before the real work began were of a very pleasing nature. On the evening of May 1, 1850, Swedenborg said: "With feelings of affection and love to you all, and with my spirit gushing forth with joy for the opportu nitics I enjoy in communicating with you, I again most sincerely greet you in God’s most holy name." On April 24, 1853, he said:— “In our circle, where the spirits of those we love most do congregate, are gathered together once more, weekly, this number, and we celebrate what to us is the Sabbath-day. It is indeed a beautiful thought to you, dear friends, that we live and act almost as you do, that we cherish a thousand associations which on earth were most dear. With all my feelings alive to the affectionate remembrances of life with my friends and eternity with my spirit companions too, I this night greet you cordially, heartily, and truthfully, in the name of our heavenly Father." On May 8, 1853, he said:— “ The night is dark and stormy, and the air should be chill and uncomfortable. You draw near your fire sides and sit conversing with one another, and opening your hearts to the genial influence of social connections. With us, we do not feel the effects of storm or cold when approaching your earth, and our spirits are not clothed with such garments as hide the true purposes of our hearts. We converse with one another, but our mean ing is perceived without the expression of thought; and the farther we progress the more is our spirit manifest through all the developments of its covering. But to night, in spite of rain and chill, I meet warm hearts and strong desires to excel, and I give you a response founded on the very basis of our creation—a response o love and truth, and greet you in the name of God." On May 19, 1853, he said: “There are to-night with me many spirits of your friends, who have met accidentally, but who delegate me to say that their affection surrounds you, and their love is a part of your existence, as through it you may receive many impressions for good, and by it you are supported to endure many of the troubles and ills of life. Cordially, heartily, and affectionately they, witl me, greet you to-night." On May 22, 1853, he said “ While we are listening to thoughts from the spirit land, and wonder at the developments made of what have been mysteries, have we, when our hearts have been filled with joy at the description of the beautiful abodes of the just, and the happiness diffused like air through all the higher sphercs of the spirits’ dwelling  place, have we ever asked ourselves the question, for what purpose are these teachings? Why have spirits left their homes, their pursuits, their affections, their upward flight towards the ultimate point of their exist Why have they come to us, and why have they ence? taught us the higher truths of spirit-revelation? Why have they selected us as the recipients of spirit-bounty? “ Is it not that your own natures should be made to correspond with the pure and holy existences of those good spirits whose habits, life, and progress we have de scribed? Is it not that you should struggle to elevate your own internal natures, and divest yourselves of those charactcristics which mark you as still bound in the fetters of error? "How hard have you struggled? How much have you succeeded? And how long will it be before you shall have cast off all that cloaks your true feelings, and manifest the true condition and action of your life? How long will you battle with causes which you suffer to influence you, and not purge yourselves of all un righteousness? “ These are grave and important inquiries, which should be put to every heart, and earnestly too, sinccrely too, in the spirit of truth, of love, and of strong desire to answer truly the respouses of our own hearts, before our friends who know and the God who made us. “ In a spirit, to-night, of affection that brings you near my soul, and with a love that brings me to you for the high object of doing you good, do I greet you in the name of God." On June 16, 1853, Swedenborg said: “ My friends, could you but know the great joy there is among us, could you see the unspeakable happiness which animates every countenance at the spread of the glorious truths which are being revealed to man, and could you know the dcep earnest faith we have in those selected to give to the world the first revelations of the higher spirits to man, you would then realise the emo tions of spirit in the spheres, the emotion of unmixed love at the dawningof truth. Our blessings with each and all.”