New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-25

Who win stand testing One Of these is in Psris-
Alexis Older; his brother Adoph, Of London Hu-
sein Khan, Turk; child; gri IN London; one
in Florence, Italy, and one IN America. There may
b. others. but never saw them. True. have seen
many good guessers here but actual clarvoyants only
one. The rest are victims 70 the curing mama;
many of them honest, weIn,entioned per-ons-per-
haps clsryoysn,s who don't see, yet ueNeHhcless
reigiously bent on 1nishing disease. on principles
slightly Homeopathic" Now we come 70 spiritual
circles generally and hrst-tte rapping'. Vow, the
result of my observations II, taSt ooncsuIc one
bslf dozen sounds out Oi every 5,ru tnst pass 10Y
spiritual be Ceuuine-tia AZ i, rot made ny the me-
diums foo, sgains, the leg OF table or char or by
some other Juegcry, Il i large per ctn'ase "nsn
invisible musicians play pianos 10 Darn rooms the
bands u the mediums be mitened and held by others,
and the music .t goes on the inference i that they
do not prccuce IT, otherwise should be very skepil-
cal concerning spiritual agency. Writing upside
down Is srt readily obtained after iew week.
private practice. Matches or lump a phosphorus,
make very good limitations OF spirit lights. When
spirits in dark blow horns and talk through
,rumpets. IT, unknown 10 the medium little printers
INK BE- rubbed on the mouth OF the instrument.
beautiful black circle Will when lights are introduced.
generally be- found adorning the mediums abia ap-
pendages. 4 little practice enables almost sny one 10
initiate the saving Of wood, by rubbing he side OF
table leg with he sole Of the shoe spring leather
such as aiorn ladies' heads, can b. easily made 70
pass for spirit b ri in dark room. Ven
irloquism is capital agent in the production oi
"spiut voices" Dark circle. the king hum
bugs of sprtualism generally. Thus indicate ne
direction in which Ia look for, and suggest methods
of detecting mposture. And yet Il Is settled beyond
dispute that msryels, not performed by tue medl-
ms DO occasionally occur in oirces hight AMI DARK
We now pass 10 speaking mediums-2o per cent oi
whom are, In NY opinion, VI ,tms ot deuluudc nuu-
ences y per cent are deliberate imposors, AMI who
can easilv be detected by testing; per cent may be
under healthfu spiritual influences, such as are 10 be
hearted men snd women, laboring under the world
saving fever. who delude themselves and others by
imagining they under the special spiritual ninence
of some doiuuct philosopher, Ieno, Plato AHstote,
Sc. when the fact il there il no trauce IN the case
and no influence save that OF the aforesaid phllan-
thropic mania and spirits in the body. Thus ac-
count for s3 per cent OF s that class ct phenomena
The remaining Il par cent consists oi persons Who
have tie power in themselves although they assign
il To the spirits of inducing at will dreamy sort OF
ecstasy or conscious trance during which they are
frequently rsensbe TO physical pain, and possess the
extraordinary power of mental concentration, being
able to pursue the thread OF an argument trace u
principle. and follow an idea almost inhnltely beyond
their waking capacity. IL IL this kind OF trance that
educates the person, and makes philosophers AMI ora
tors ard not The ghosuduced state. THIS trance can
easily be induced. can enter II at auy tine IN hve
minutes, when | choose to do so. II can also Dc
brought on by the of OZenges made OF sngar ana
the uice Of q psnt that grows wild by the acre IN
Central New York. Generally five OF these ozenges
viii produce Kind ot waking claIrNoyaeee ana men
tai intensity fully equal to the solution of any problem
that can engage the attention. A preparation oil the
common straw and blackberry will DO the same. II IS
in short the highest state of mesmerlSm reached by
shorter safer ard quicker road.
Nopeope in the world deprecate scandal, anu pro-
ftss go great charity, IN 0rds, as tins sort oi spirit
ualists Yet after twenty-five years OF experience
with all shades of faith professors, have seen none
who, as class, are more dogmatc, nto,erahs, W.,
charitable or more eager to cast the fret stone al an
crring brother, than they As class, indeed they
exhibit remarkable peuchaut for the delicious tios
Of scandal of which the modern movement Is so very
prolific. more inconsistent people does hot exist
A. class they claim that nearly all good actions are
rrf,rabls not to the mediums as individuals, but 10
SIN s who them rs proxies; yet let one oil THESE
spirrid untotunates, in the wild dehrlum or deep
insanity to which they ore subject, commit fGut or
error Of Judgment, and forthwith the hue and cry Il
raised Al Sprtuaists with rare and honorable ex-
cepi ons thank God that there are such taOoo nun
or her, and condemn, without hearing, some poor,
insane sinner. This IL not Ike Jesus VINO tOrgaVe
No. 20 great is the love for sps that none eit Tor
errng man but the wrong is evidently shtel rom
the backs Of the dear angels from spirit ana 10 Tue
fesh-and-blood shoulders Of some poor devil whose
errors and tergiyer.atiOns are the result ot MOT
bdlty directly trgceAbe to spiritual intercourse.
The cure of Evil s not to be found IN continuous
harpng on the laws OF sology to peope VINO can
understand them, and, If they did, could not pracuce
them efectually. We cant and won't eat drink,
sleep love and beget our species according TO unsr
mopiaisu or the goddess system OF protean names so
rampant in the world is Inconsistent with ltset-con-
seqnenty unreliable; for, while 1t hnrls its potent
thunder against Authority degrades the Scrip
tures calls eur Holy Bible :" Excellent Soft Bark ~
and blazes away at "theologc bonds, II actually
forges chains still stronger for the human mind, comes
To is IA the Divine Revelations of Mature by ana
through her sel.dubbed " monthpece, Andrew Jack
son Davis private aud confidential secretaIyto tue
Great Positive Mind companion To- STefenborg
Galep. "Tom Harry, Joe, Dick" and the devil for
aught know to the contrary II substitutes, mus
say the Spirits, Gaen, DAVIS, &C., for " mus
saith the Lord" J. for one, have got tired oi the
former and after mature deliberaton, prefer the
latter lIarmoniasm robs God of personality, con-
verts him into rarted gas " many million times
finer than electricity" ~, according 10 DAVIS, ana
! eleyaes Reason TO the throne OF the universe, by
deifying the human intellect. God Nature, Love- Pan
thea rariied gas submsed oxygen AMI ether, are by
this lexicon convertible terms-and essences IL l.
claimed that this ism has done much Tor science dehy
H. and challenge the production 0i s)hthry i.ct OF
nrncple referebe 70 as the original source of dlscoy-
ery Davis pays on the credulty of this nation u an
amusing extent. In 1910 he declare: himself omnls-
cent. in little pamphlet called " CIermatvehess,
in which the reasoning l. clear AZ mud. subsequently
he yhdrays this claim In the Great lfarmOua.
Then he tells us IN the Harmonic that ne was msta-
KEN that the principles were not immutable lie tells
~ that the Unlyerc@lum was one vsst, niShly uhus
Unable exhaustiess ocean Of liquid fire, filling the ut
termos bounds Of space and yet this same boundess
globe Of fire threw of successive series ot rings
from il outsdel Then he tells us that al men are
immortal, even " Niggersi frames an elaborate hiSu-
eut 10 prove il; declares the foundation OF the Whce
superstrcture rests the absolute indestrdctblty
Of natter proves aIl to have souls IN the year
1853 five years later he asserts that IN the City oi
Buffalo he discovered 90 human beings without I'M
mortal souls. Ii the saue average holds gool pro-
portion to population elsewhere there are over 81 O
! non-immortal beings in New-fork State alone,
2CSg, 600 in the Union and 8!,7000 900 in the world
Ii you ask Sprituelists why Ben FranAin tells one
story to-day through medium \, and another tonight
through b. another still through d. all Of which con-
tradic each other they will either deny the identity
In two cases or impute the non-simtude of the doc
trues advanced to undeyelcpment, or cerebral inu-
encs ON revelation There never yet occurred a
M moved id1 riifv The ap III Of Mirabean gave 3