, 1877-01-28

room and said, WhAt Is tho u1ntterr On tn
Instant a shower Of frcsh1y-cut flowers, wit
ing her up in the bed.'
"But what purpose Is served BY spirltal mani
testatfons?" was asked after Nine Blavatsk
had related several such incidents.
vt is proved that spirits do exist. And
have known good done in various ways by prl
vate mediums and by mediums in the East,
was The reply. "But it cannot be expected tha
| pure spirits will communicate with us through
such mediums as many Of those are to whom
you can go and pay SO cents or 81, or So or S
science that spirits do not communicate through
| healthy persons. In some way or another
mediums are all imperfect. The epirits which
| are forever seeking body to inhabit seize or
those which are defective, being unable to con.
troll those which are not. So in the East insane
persons are regarded with peculiar yeneration as
| being possessed Of spirits.'
Possessed OF the devil, the Scripture has it, ~
suggested the reporter.
:7No. Daimon is the word in the Scriptures.
It docs not necessarily mean devil. 1t may
mean god. Socrates had a daimon, and he
certainly was not possessed OF t1eyiI.''
. god! Then do you believe in gods?"
According to the Scriptures Jehovah said,
Fear the gods was the indirect reply. "And
whatdo you think the thco]ogians had thu sublime
impulcncc to dos They translated it, :Fcar
the rulers.' But, Us to insane persons. Can any
Of the mcdico-scicntist5 tell the reason for in-
sanityt Can they explain it III any way? They
stop when they come to ANYTHING that requires
natural. So called because nothing can be su-
pcrna.ural The whole universe is filed with
spirits. 1t Is nonsense to suppose that VIC arc
the only Intelligent beings in the world. be-
lievc, almost, III the spirits Of the elements.
in cascs of apparent violation Of these
laws tho appearance comes from
misunderstanding of the laws. In
cases Of certain nervous diseases 1t is recorded
Of some patients that they have been raised from
has been impossible to force them down. In
sucn eases it has been noticed that they float teet
first with any current of air that may be passing
through the room. The wonder of this ceases
when you come to consider that there is no such
thing as the law Of graYitation as it is generally
undcrstood.''
~ don't think catch your meaning, exactly"
said the reporter, family.
No. The law Of gravitation is only to be ra-
tlonally explained in accordance with magnetic
laws, as Newton triea to explain it, but as the
world would not aeceptit. II the earth is, mag
netically speaking, positive, and you can make
yourself positive, you are at once repel1ed. tits
told in fable Of Simon Mac,ls, that he lay aown
on the earth and giving her his breath took hers
and visited tlc stars"
The world il, last coming to know many
things that were known centuries ago and were
discarded through the superstition Of thcologi-
ans,' Sue continued, referring again to Spirit
,lalisnl. j" The Church processes to rcprobate
dlyinatiop, and yet they chose their four canoni-
BY dirination. They took some hundred or So
Of books at the Nicenc Council aad set them |
Up, and those that fell down they set aside US ]
false, and those that stood, being these four,
lucy accepted as true, being unable to decide
}lS members of the Council only two-Euscbtus,
he great fOrgcr, and the Emncror Constantine