SEANCES AT THE SPIRITUAL LIBRARY. ON Friday, December 3rd, one of the weekly séances was held at the house of Mr. Burn’s, the Progressive Library Southampton-row, Holborn, under the trance mediumship of Mr. Morse. The circle sat punctually at eight p.m., in a well-lighted room, and in a few minutes the medium was influenced by spirits purporting to be his uncle and a friend, who endeavoured to elongate his body in a manner similar to that which has caused so much astonishment and controversy at the séances given by Mr. Home. They failed, and the circle was subse quently informed by the guardian spirit of the medium, that their failure was attributable to the absence of the spirit of Anton Mesmer, who usually superintended the operation. A spirit then entranced Mr. Morse, who did not give his name, but said he had been in life a staunch Wesleyan Methodist, and quoted the text, “If I tell you of earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things ?”. It was a hard task to make such of his earthly friends who had been trained, as he had, to ignore the very idea that spirits could return to earth, as foolish or pre sumptuous, appreciate any narrative from him of what was going on in the spirit world. Such an idea had never been countenanced by his own strict earthly religion, about the truth of the dogmas of which, although of a questioning in tellect, he had never cared to inquire. In the world, there fore, he had never heard of Spiritualism ; if he had, he would have set it down as untrue, or the work of the devil. Nor did he learn, until he had been out of his earthly body for eight years, that it was possible for him to return, and communicate with man. When brought down to earth by kind spirit friends, and shown how he could do so by means of physical manifestations, he was terrified by the mistaken notion that it was evil and wrong, and begged to be taken from the circle. Two years more elapsed before he fully comprehended the value and blessedness of the privilege, after much patient teaching from spirit tutors. He comprehended now what he would have given much to have known in his earthly life that spiritual communication was right and good, and consis tent with the great plan of the Deity. Those people whe knew of, and could appreciate Spiritualism in life, were, or the entry into the next world, far in advance of those who had died ignorant of such a grand truth. Another spirit, who gave us her earthly name, “ Maria Thompson,” but said she was known among her spirit friends as the“ Little Forget-me-Not,” then took up the discourse of the former spirit so quickly, and almost imperceptibly, that the change was only noticed at first by one member of the circle. She stated that the wonder of most spirits was great, when after death, they found that in their new condition the could, under fitting circumstances, not only influence the minds of those left on earth, but also exert forces to convince them that could move common matter. There was much that Spiritualists should learn before they commenced higher experimental investigation. It would be best to study well the subject in its early stages first. It was far better to work upwards from the commencement, and not jump half way over the bridge, and begin in the middle. Gradual develop ment, both for mediums and inquirers, was best. The highly intelligent guardian spirit of the medium, who states that in life, long ago, he was a Chinaman named Tien Sien Tie, then entranced him, and gave a long and eloquent discourse, chiefly on mesmeric and clairvoyant phenomena, to which, in this necessarily short report, we can hardly do jus tice. He said that the diversity of minds on earth required that spirits should manifest themselves there by diversity of phenomena, wide in their range. These various modes all re flected the Divine wisdom, from whence comes universal good The use of the odic force, which is thrown off by human bodies, chiefly from the extremities, is one great agent for producing high results. A person with much of this force could, by his will, influence the body and spirit of another person, throwing the former into profound slumber, and send