Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-12

and read these words: at is believed
by many that man may be taught of
the Lord by spirits speaking with him;
but those who believe this, and are
willing to believe it, do not know that
1t Is connected with danger to their
souls. Man so long as he lives in the
world is in the midst of spirits like as
to his spirit. But as soon as
spirits begin to speak with man, they
come out of their spiritual state into
the natural state of man, and join
themselves with the thoughts ofhis af-
fections, and from those thoughts speak
with him; they cannot enter into any,
thing else, for similar affection and
consequent thought conjoins all, and
dissimilar separates. 1t is owing to
this circumstance that the speaking
spirit is the same in principle with the
man to whom he speaks.
Hence it is that no other than enthu-
siastic spirits speak with enthusiasts.
All spirits speaking with man
are no other than such as have been
men in the world, and were then of
such a quality. That this is the case,
hath been given me to know by re-
peated experiments"
These few paragraphs chained us to
that old volume, and we hung to it
until we mastered it's contents. Here
was the knowledge which we had
crazed our brains for years to find, and
had not yet advanced an iota. We
wanted to know something about the
laws that controlled that world-the
state of society-the occupation of the
inhabitants - the appearance of the
mystic land means of enjoyment, etc.
oh hfotn INF of;
of these subjects one day, it was con-
tradicted the next. But in this old
volume it was all explained to our en-
tire satisfaction, provided it was true.
The only thing for us to determine
now, was whether or not the state
ments made by the author of this
work were true. All the statements
made in regard to the communications
of the spirits corresponded as perfectly
with our own experience as possible,
indeed If the author had lived the last
quarter of century, he could not have
written a more accurate history
of the spirit phenomena. This to us
was an evidence of its truth, he had
not only foretold that these manifes-
tations would come, but had given an
accurate history of all their doings,
and especially cautioned manking
against their influence. He says, "it
is one of the wonders of another life
that which scarce any one can believe,
that as soon as any spirit comes to a
man, he instantly knows his thoughts
and affections, and what he had been
doing to that time, thus knowing all his
present state exactly as if he had been
with him ever so long; and such is
the nature of communication" This
gave us to understand how the secrets,
known alone to us and our departed
friend could be so rapidly written out,
and how easy it was for them to i'm
pose upon us. Now we said, If we are
convinced of the truth of this work,
we will have no more experiments.
We should require 8 good sized vol
ume to present all the facts and prin-
ciples brought to bear in his writings,
which clear up and explaing all the
great questions of pneumatology, and
give US a scientific clew to all SINH
Tar phenomena in past times, and un-
lock the principal mysteries of ancient
magic with all the modes of spiritual
intercourse. Suffice it to say we were
convinced beyond doubt.
If the scientists, editors and synods
are really in search of truth, we are
ready to contribute for the benefit of
the world. b. l.. p.